Chapter 3
'K, it's official, people love me! (That sounded a little conceited, no? Lol). Actually, let me be slightly more specific, people love my story (And I have now deflated my ego :( ). So here's chapter 3!
SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!THEY JUST ANNOUNCED A NEW POKEMON GAME!!!! POKEMON BLACK AND WHITE!!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE (And there goes any dignity I had out the proverbial window,....hmmm wonder if I can pre-order it...)
*Ow! Pikachu, your butt's in my face! Stop wiggling around! Ow!* Buizel complained as Pikachu accidentially stepped on his face, squishing his nose.
*Well soorry! I can't exactly stay on the bottom can I? You'll smush me!* Pikachu yelled back.
"If you guys don't shut your traps, I swear I'll--" Meowth threatened.
The three pokemon were standing on top of each other shoulders, Buizel on bottom, then Pikachu, and Meowth on top of him. A large trench coat covered the three, along with a fedora and a mask on Meowth for good measure. Although the little cadre couldn't tell, people were giving them odd looks as they wobbled precariously through the street of Cerulean City. The majority of the citizens thought they were drunk.
"'K, this has got to be the most insane plan you have ever thought of, Pikachu." Meowth muttered quietly to the mouse.
*Why thank you, I'll take that as a compliment coming from you.* Pikachu replied, almost cheerfully, in a sarcastic way.
In order to get out of town to buy the flowers for Misty, the pokemon managed to make Gyarados freak out and cause the gym's pool to leak. (Who knew that Gyaradoses were so jumpy? But that's another story, mostly involving Charizard and pokeimmunizations...). Amidst the chaos, mostly Misty and Ash bickering nonstop, Pikachu and Buizel managed to sneak out of the gym, with Ash's wallet, and met up with Meowth. After grabbing a trench coat, mask and fedora from Jesse and Jame's costume supply, they set out on their journey to find the nearest flower shop.
"Hey I found a flower shop you guys!" Meowth pointed at a little flower shop which was near the gym. They pushed in the door, nearly falling over in the process, and wobbled up to the counter.
" Hello sir!" The lady at the counter greeted cheerfully, her Hoppip echoing the greeting as well.
"What can I do to help you today?"
"Uh, yeah, I need to buy a bouquet of flowers," Meowth stammered. "How about, that one?" He pointed to a nice looking bunch.
"Okay, then sir." She grabbed the bouquet from its resting place and placed it on the counter. "Would you like me to write something on the card?" She asked.
"Oh crap," Meowth thought. They didn't think of this! "Um, yeah, how about, 'To the twerpioette,--" he said softly. Pikachu nudged him sharply. "I mean, 'To Misty, from your secret admirer." The last part was much louder
"Alright. It's cute, but you might not get anything back."
"What d you mean by that?"
"Giving flowers to the gym leader. She has a lot of admirers, but she never returns their affections. There's a rumor that she has a crush on someone and is waiting for them."
"Oh, well, this is for a fiend. He was too nervous to come here himself, so he asked me to do it for them."
"Actually, it's more like too dense to do it." Pikachu thought.
"Here you go. That will be $19.84."
Pikachu handed him the twenty he found in Ash's wallet. *Here,* he whispered to Meowth.
Meowth handed the woman the twenty and got the change, stuffing it in the trench coat pocket before Pikachu and Buizel could notice.
The woman handed Meowth the bouquet. "Have a wonderful day." They staggered out of the store, nearly falling over again (Buizel's leg had fallen asleep)
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* I still don't see the point of the flowers.* Charizard said. Corsola was sneezing constantly.
*It's the human's sign of affection.* Pikachu explained, as if he were telling it to a two year old. Pikachu and Buizel managed to sneak back into the gym without anyone's notice. Currently, they had Misty's Psyduck holding the bouquet, a blank look on its face. Politoed then sneaked into Misty's sister's room to steal a large blue bow (They're still completely baffled why her sister's would have such a large bow in the first place), which the yellow duck was now wearing like a bow tie.
*That bow looks absolutely hideous on Psyduck.* Corsola said in between sneezes.
*Since when are you the expert of fashion?* Politoed asked.
*Okay, that's enough from you guys,* Staraptor interrupted. She gave Psyduck down the hall towards Misty. * Go do your stuff!*
*Psy?* The duck looked absolutely confused and shortly ran into a wall. The bouquet looked relatively undamaged
The pokemon, who hid behind a corner, snickered. *Well, that's just brilliant.* Charizard chuckled, struggling to keep himself from bursting out in laughter. *Even Azurill has more common sense than that.*
*Ssh! I wanna see what happens!* Pikachu hushed them.
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Misty sighed. This was not going to be a good day. This was the third time this year that the gym's pool leaked. Then there was Ash complaining about his missing wallet, and on top of that, her sisters promptly decided to go have a spa day.
"As if this day couldn't get any worse."Then Psyduck, whom she didn't really notice until now, fell into the mostly empty pool.
*Psy, ai,ai!* it squealed, drowning in two feet of water.
"Oh jeez Psyduck," She gently scolded, retrieving the poor yellow duck. "You really need to learn how to-- what's this?" She noticed the bouquet, which was now soggy but intact. Misty read the words on the card. " 'To Misty, from Your Secret Admirer.' Well that's really sweet, but that blue bow is hideous." She wondered who it was from, though she had a nagging suspicion it was Ash. "Only Ash would have used Psyduck and dressed him up in that hideous blue bow." She said softly, a warm, fuzzy feeling growing inside her.
Meanwhile, Ash, unnoticed by Misty, saw the whole incident from the doorway entering the gym. "I wonder who would send her flowers. I bet it was that trainer who came around the other day practically gawking at Misty instead of battling." An unfamiliar feeling boiled up. He stalked off, still looking for his AWOL wallet.
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*Congratulations, Pikachu,* Charizard scoffed. *He isn't jealous, nor is he confessing his undying love for her.*
*Oh shut it you big lizard,* Politoed said.
*Told you that bow looked absolutely awful on Psyduck.* Corsola said, a slight 'I told you so' tone in her voice.
* Are all of you guys daft?* Pikachu asked. *Did you not notice the steam that was practically coming out of his ears! He's soo jealous! *
*I didn't see any steam.* Gible, who was now considerably less chatty, said.
*Not in the literal sense, you dolt.*
*Charizard...,* Staraptor warned.
*Well, that didn't work out exactly as planned,* Pikavhu admitted. *Time for Plan 'B'. *
*Which is?--* Buizel asked.
*We write letters to each of them, saying that they want to meet up. And the letter will be from the opposite person. So like Ash's letter will be from Misty and vice versa.*
*Then there's that problem of having no thumbs again.* Charizard pointed out.
*Well I got a solution to that too.* They all groaned.
Pikachu's losing his sanity! Of course, I wouldn't exactly blame him, he hangs out with these guys... And remember kiddies, press that little green button that says 'review'. I swear I have cookies this time... Anora! Stop pigging out in the cookie dough bowl!... Well, looks like I'm gonna have to bake another batch... curse my dragon pokemon... I WILL have cookies by the time I'm done with this fic!
So with the trench coat scene, When I originally wrote this, I totally forgot the 'Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends' episode where Mac and Bloo dress up in the costume and call themselves 'Orlando Bloo' then after writing it,I remembered XD. I miss Foster's... :( But I still have a hoodie with them on it from Hot Topic. :)