A/N Hey guys! I am sooo sorry for the wait. I went to a Halloween party on Friday, ate more candy than should be allowed, and got completely sugar rushed. Now I'm having an allergy attack from pollen(Pollen in November? Seriously universe?). My nose is stuffier than Percy Weasley during HBP, and I've been resting for the past few days. I've gotta get better by tomorrow, because it's my parents anniversary! We're going to an Italian restaurant, and I really want some Lasagna and garlic bread. But I'm not going to bore you with my life right now...
I got a lot of OC submissions last time, so it's time to use 'em! Also, I forgot to give people credit for the OCs in the last two chapters, so I'm gonna do it now.
Matthias Salizem belongs to GuestiAm
Briar Victoria belongs to Ultima-Owner
Constantine Grey belongs to 765mkoijn
Also thanks to 765mkoijn for applying for the proofreading job! Now... I need two more, so I can have a rounded opinion of the book I'm writing, so I'll take two more applicants by PM. If your a guest... Then review an application and I'll check it out. Thanks.
There will be shipping in this story! Per my brother's request(Yes, I do have a brother... Alex, Jakob, and Michael are based on them...) Jakob will be shipped with Misty... And I'll be shipped with Brock... And poor Ash and Michael will have to find someone else. I always did like Advanceshipping... And maybe Michael can have Dawn... I don't really know yet. I'll take suggestions, though.
I'm also planning on continuing my other story, Red Lightning! Yes, that's right, after a 6 month or so Hiatus, I'm back in business!
Also, just to clear up some confusion, this is set around the time that Misty gets Psyduck... And I'll blame any paradoxes or... Black worm holes ripping up time and space to plot holes.
I'm gonna try to make it to 5000 words this time... I want my chapters to be longer. Probably won't make it. Bear with me, as the various plot bunnies filling my head escape.
Now, on to the story!
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"Ee! Vui!"
"Hi Eevee."
Alex absentmindedly pet Eevee's soft brown fur as she browsed her new Pokedex. As that salesman from Pallet, Mr. Grey, had promised, Flygon's entry was in here, along with a picture... Strangely enough, it was the exact same picture she had seen a few months ago on Bulbapedia...
She had also scanned her friends Pokemon. Right now, she was browsing Brock's Vulpix's entry. The little fire fox Pokemon had a pretty good move-set for the level it was at.
The bus they were on gave a sudden jolt, and screeched to a rickety stop as steam billowed from the breaks. This old bus seemed unsafe... Possibly even deadly, even though Ash had assured them that it was safe.
"Cinnabar Port," The bus' electronic voice drawled from the crackly speakers. Alex sighed in defeat, slinking down in the leather seat. Pewter City was the last stop on this darn bus... And they were on the second out of eight. Why would this bus go all the way to the other side of freakin' Kanto before the next town? Why couldn't they just have walked?
Behind her, Jakob gave a yell of indignation. Ash was fighting with him about something, while Brock desperately tried to stop them before they made a scene.
Misty was discussing the advantage of electric types over water types, and how to win a battle like that. Alex already pretty much knew. Use a Corsola, it saves time and hassle.
"Alex... Which is better in a battle? Water or electric?" Misty asked, snapping Alex out of her bored daze. She repositioned Eevee in her lap so she could face Misty, and thought for a second.
"Well, it depends on move-set and level, and most of all which Pokemon you use. If I'm using, say, a Corsola, its secondary rock typing is resistant to electric, and it'd know rock type moves to beat an electric type. But if someone used a Chinchou against my Corsola, then it's be different because Chinchou has water and electric types, so the rock type side would be weak to water, and the water type side would be weak against electric. It all depends." She rambled. Michael looked annoyed; he knew all this. Misty, meanwhile...
"Wow! You sure know a lot about Pokemon. How'd you learn all that? And what's a Corsola?" She asked. Alex laughed; she'd know soon enough.
"A little bird named Google Search Bar told me..." Michael laughed. "Here... That's a Corsola." She pointed to her Pokedex, which had a picture of the Johto dual-type on its screen.
"It's cute! Where can I get one?" She gushed. Alex answered quickly.
"Johto." At Misty's confused expression, she continued to explain. "It's another region, and, seeing as it does have a League and gyms and all that, Ash will probably want to go. Maybe you'll go with him?" Alex smirked slightly, knowing the answer full well... But Tracey came first...
Misty chuckled. "If there's a League... He'll be there. And I'll have to go along. He'll get lost any other way." She sighed.
"But won't Brock be there?" Jakob asked, hanging his head between the girls, brown hair hanging in Alex's lap. Alex twisted her head around; he was standing tip-toe on the seat to eavesdrop. Ash got up too.
"I don't get lost that easily!" He retorted, glaring indignantly at Misty. She laughed in his face.
"Yes, yes you actually do..." She sighed. Jakob gave a yelp as Ash flopped back down onto his seat, and plunged forward into Misty's lap. Brock burst out laughing as Jakob turned beet red, and jumped up from the seat as though Misty had porcupine quills.
Alex clapped a hand on her brother's shoulder. "Smooth, man. She'll surely go out with you now..." She dissolved into laughter. Jakob hit her over the head with his own mallet(where did he get that?) and turned even redder, if that was even possible. Misty turned red as her hair.
Michael shushed them. Alex was about to retort when she saw his face. It was ashen.
"Michael?" She asked. He put a finger to his lips.
"Those people over there... They're watching us." He gestured to an elderly couple over in the corner. It was a woman, with gray hair in a very familiar fashion... The man had similarly familiar hair, and in between them was a kid. He(assuming it WAS a he) had bright blond hair and an egg shaped face.
"It's Team Rocket." She said calmly. She wasn't scared of them at all... In fact...
She got up, despite Michael's requests, and approached them. Their eyes widened as she got closer, and they began scrambling to leave the bus, though they were halfway to between Cerulean and Pewter and the bus wouldn't stop.
"Those people are Team Rocket!" She declared loudly. They stopped scrambling, and Jessie straightened up.
"Oh! Hello Dearie! What did you say?" She said, disguising her voice with a croaky old lady voice, like Alex had seen her do a few times in the Anime.
"I said, you're Team Rocket." She accused again. Heads were turning in their direction, people shocked at the young teen accusing the nice old people, but she didn't waver.
"Oh, you must be mistaken, Dearie." James said, picking up Meowth to make it look like he was a beloved Grandson or something. Alex stepped forward, and smirked. She had watched enough episodes to know their weakness.
"Double Trouble." She snarled. They wavered for a moment, and then Jessie seemed to bend to her temptation.
"Prepare for Trouble!" She yelled. Everyone on the bus except for Jakob and Michael gasped in shock, including Ash, Misty, and Brock. Some people never learn...
Team Rocket did the motto, throwing their clothes off with a flourish. They somehow pulled off their old-timey clothes, glasses, hair dye, shoes, and makeup and replace it with their uniforms in one second... Alex had always wondered how they did that.
"Alright, so you got us! So what?" Jessie said calmly. Meowth stepped forward, pulling out a big red button, and slammed his whole fist into it. A beeping noise resounded through the bus, and a net shot out, trapping Alex inside.
"H-hey! What's this for?!" She yelled. They cackled evilly.
"Ha! It's a net, twerp!" Jessie laughed.
"Duh!" James said.
"Now for da finale!" Meowth smirked as he pulled out another remote. He pressed the button, and a huge vacuum thingy erupted from the handle.
"What is that?" Jakob yelled over the machines whirring motor, one hand gripping Diglett's Pokeball.
"Oh, nothin' really. Just a special vacuum dat'll suck up any Pokeballs within 10 miles!" Meowth cackled, soon joined by Jessie and James as the Pokeballs of everyone in the old bus got sucked into the vacuum tube.
"Eevee!" Alex cried as her beloved Pokemon was sucked past her. She tried to reach out for it, but the net electrocuted her.
"Ouch! EEVEE!" She yelled. Team Rocket began laughing harder, more evilly.
"Hey! Flare!" A man yelled from behind. Alex turned, and saw a man, around 20, grasping desperately around him as a Pokeball zoomed away from him.
"That's it!" Alex cried. She hated seeing all these poor people worried about their Pokemon. She whipped out her Pokedex, and pressed a button. Now she was really glad she had downloaded that phone app.
"Help! We're on a bus between Cerulean and Pewter and Team Rocket is stealing all our Pokemon! They've got me in an electric net!" She cried into the Dex as Pikachu shot past, screaming for Ash.
After she hung up, distant sirens could already be heard. Wow, fast cops.
"It's too late! I've called the cops!" Alex called out to Team Rocket, ignoring the now sappy, lovey-dovey look on Brock's face.
"Oh no! We only have... 200 Pokemon now, right? We're doomed!" James yelled sarcastically.
"Not for long!" Michael yelled, charging forward towards Alex. Getting the idea, the others charged as well.
Michael began to pull at the net trapping Alex. She joined in, gritting her teeth against the electric shock coursing through her body. Soon enough, all 6 were pulling against the rope, and it was slowly weakening.
"Ha ha h-HEY! JAMES, THEY'RE GETTING OUT!" Jessie shrieked. James lunged, trying to get them to stop, but, being James, he missed, crashing into an old lady in the back. She promptly began to hit him with her iron purse, yelling "Bad Kitty!".
The rope began to break, strands of fiber falling off at a very quick pace. Finally, one of the strands broke completely, and Alex was able to crawl out.
She quickly glanced over at Meowth. He was trying to get James away from the old lady's clutches, and the vacuum was discarded at his feet. Man, this was sometimes too easy.
She lunged for it, but Jessie got there first.
"No way you're getting these that easy!" She laughed, snatching up the vacuum.
"Oh yeah?" Alex laughed as she charged Jessie, taking the female Rocket by surprise. The vacuum tube got knocked out of her hand, and went rolling across the bus floor. Ash caught it, and hit the reverse button. Pokeballs went shooting everywhere, and Pikachu and Eevee came out unharmed. Well, maybe a bit disgruntled.
"Hey! How dare you get your filthy twerpyness on me?" Jessie gasped, trying to get out from underneath Alex, who was trying to keep her pinned in turn. James screamed in pain from somewhere behind her. Apparently the old lady was giving him more trouble than he could have doubled in a lifetime.
Alex could hear battles breaking out behind her, despite the fact that the bus was seriously to small for that. She heard Meowth screaming a battle cry, and Jakob's Diglett sending out a sand attack. Adding to the noise, the once-distant sirens were getting louder by the second, and she could hear the growling of an Arcanine behind her. This was getting out of hand...
"I'm going to let you up now. If you try to get away before Officer Jenny comes..." Alex ignored the fact that Brock's ears perked up suddenly. "I will personally have Eevee bite that hair off your head." Alex threatened. Jessie's gloved hand impulsively grabbed her magenta hair, and she nodded fearfully.
Alex rolled off her, and allowed her to get up. A sudden cry from behind caused her to turn suddenly.
"Weedle! String shot!" A girl yelled, flicking her dirty blond hair out of her eyes. Her bug type(Misty was shrieking and climbing up Brock, while Jakob hid behind a chair) complied happily, shooting sticky string at Jessie until she was tied up considerably well. She grunted in frustration, struggling against her new webby bonds.
"Thanks..." Alex trailed off as she saw Michael's Oddish struck down by Meowth. She dodged around the girl, calling for Eevee to use sand-attack on the scratch cat Pokemon.
Meowth was blown back by the grains of sand hitting his face, and Michael gave her a quick thanks before rushing back in to help Jakob, spraying a borrowed potion onto Oddish.
"Hey! Let me help!" The girl gasped. She gestured to the multiple Pokeballs hanging off her belt.
"OK, fine. Send out as many Pokemon as you can, we need to stop the battles. They're mostly caused by Meowth... James is getting a concussion over there, he's not really doing anything... Some people are even battling each other, you try to stop them." Alex instructed her.
"I'm Abby, by the way." She said before rushing off towards the back of the bus, releasing a Trapinch and a Treeko from her Pokeballs.
"Alright, Eevee, let's try to maintain some control here." Alex stood up on the front seat.
"Eevee! Can you use screech?" Eevee shook her head sadly. "Hmm... Alright then. LISTEN UP!" She yelled to the various trainers on board. "STOP FIGHTING! WE HAVE TO STOP! THE POLICE ARE COMING!" Brock sank to his knees in joy... Until Misty grabbed him violently by the ear and dragged him back to his feet.
"ALRIGHT! EVERYONE WHO HAS LOST A POKEMON, GO TO JAKOB OVER IN THE CORNER. EVERYONE ELSE, SIT THE HECK DOWN." Alex yelled, sinking back into the seat. People could be so annoying sometimes...
Abby sunk into the seat next to her. Now that the turmoil was done, she got a better look at her. She had a dirty blond pixie cut, with her bangs swept to one side. Her eyes were bright green, and she was wearing a graphic tee with a Meowth on it. The Meowth had a mustache, and it said, in rainbow letters, "Meowth-stache". Her Treeko lept into her lap.
"So, you've got a Treeko, and a Trapinch... You lived in Hoenn?" Alex asked. "I'm Alex." She added quickly as an afterthought.
"Yup! I wanted to come to Kanto though... I just love Psyduck and I needed to catch one." She gushed. Alex smiled.
"Hey Misty!" She yelled. The red-head turned, leaving Brock laying on the floor with one ear unnaturally long.
"Yeah?" She asked. Alex immediately requested to see Psyduck. Confused, Misty released the Dopey Duck Pokemon. Abby grinned happily as Psyduck materialized, calling out its name and holding its head with its stubby paws-er-flippers.
"It's so cute!" She squealed. It almost blocked out James' squeal of pain as the purse collided with his head, making a dull thump sound.
She picked up Psyduck, squeezing it happily. Psyduck replied with his usual grunt of confusion, holding its little head in its hands.
Jakob approached the group of girls, leading a man wearing very simple clothes towards them. Just a white tee, blue-jeans, and a brown jacket. He looked mildly confused.
"Hey... Alex, this man says he lost an Arcanine, named Flare. I can't find it anywhere." Jakob leaned in closer. "He's blind, he can't find anything." Alex nodded, but the man seemed to have heard them.
"Hey! I may not see, but there is nothing wrong with my hearing!" He said, crossing his arms in front of his chest. Alex nodded again.
"Sorry, Sir. I heard an Arcanine earlier when I was pinning Jessie to the ground. I don't know where it went." She shrugged. "We should go ask around, maybe someone's seen it." She threw a suspicious look at Meowth, who was being backed into a corner by Abby's Trapinch and someone's Koffing.
"I saw one! I saw it!" Abby gasped suddenly. Alex whipped around.
"Where?" She asked. Abby's face fell.
"I saw it... I saw it walk out of the door over there..." She sighed. "Sorry..."
Great, so the Arcanine was gone. Now what?
"It couldn't have gone that far, let's go look." Misty suggested. Alex nodded, and, with Eevee on her shoulder, walked out of the double doors.
It was immediately obvious what had happened. The Arcanine had gone to alert the police to where they were, and had succeeded, judging by the rapidly growing figures of motorcycles on the horizon, led by a proud Arcanine.
"There it is!" Alex sighed in relief. She didn't want anyone to lose their Pokemon.
"Sir, your Arcanine is right there. Want me to lead you to it?" Jakob asked kindly. The man stared at the area where Jakob's voice had been heard from. He shook his head no.
"I can find my own way to Flare, thank you very much." He sucked in a bit of air. "Flare! C'mere girl!" He yelled out to the road. The Arcanine perked up immediately, and began to bound towards him.
It got to him with surprising speed, and immediately took up a post beside him. It seemed to be trained to help him, and well at that.
"Good girl." He praised her, patting her gently on the head. She barked happily; she liked being pet.
"What's going on? Where's Team Rocket?" Officer Jenny asked, parking her cop-motorcycle. The metal side of the bus next to her warped and melted, and Brock jumped through, smoothing his hair and swaggering towards Jenny. Alex knocked him violently out of the way, approaching the cop.
"Everything's fine. I got one tied up, on is being taken care of by... An old lady, and one is trapped by two Pokemon. We got them." Alex said proudly, gesturing to the bus, where James' screams were audibly heard.
Alex led the cop into the bus, and showed her Team Rocket. It seemed the old lady had gotten bored of James, as he was slumped on the floor with Starmies flying around his head.
"Good work. How did you do it?" Jenny asked, slightly awed. A beginner trainer fighting off two fully grown trainers and their talking Pokemon, while all of the Pokemon were caught and trapped? How was that possible.
"Well, it was mostly Michael." She pointed to her youngest brother, who blushed and mumbled something inaudible. "He told everyone to help get me out of the net I was trapped in, and then I tackled Jessie, and Ash let all the Pokemon out. Then Abby had her Weedle string shot Jessie, James got first degree pursed, and Meowth got trapped by the Trapinch and the Koffing. After that we just got everyone their Pokemon back, then we found you guys, thanks to this guys Arcanine." Alex rushed. Jenny nodded.
"Great job. And we wouldn't have found the bus without the Arcanine. Who's it's owner?" Jenny asked. Alex pointed to the man.
"Thank you sir. Your Arcanine is very well trained." She praised. Arcanine puffed up proudly.
"My name is Robert. Robert Sight." He said, nodding at the praise the Officer was giving him.
"Thanks Mr. Sight." Jenny said. She turned to Alex. "We should get Team Rocket into the truck. Can you handle getting Jessie?" She asked.
"Sure! All you've really gotta do is threaten her hair. Then she'll do anything, she loves that stuff." Jenny nodded, then set off to get James.
Alex approached Jessie, who snarled. "What do you want now, twerp? Come to gloat?" She asked, glaring daggers. If looks could kill...
"Nope! I'm here to bring you to jail!" She answered brightly. "Now don't move, or Eevee will bite the hair off your head." Jessie nodded fearfully. "Alright, Eevee, bite!" Jessie flinched, trying, and failing, to block her hair, but Eevee bit the string shot off her torso instead. Sh relaxed one she realized her limb-like hair was still intact.
"Eevee, stand ready. I may need you to bite." Alex ordered her Pokemon. Eevee nodded, getting into an offensive stance, snarling. "Alright, into the truck." She ordered, pointing at the jail cell-like truck. Jessie glared and climbed out of the bus and into it.
James was led in soon after, mumbling something about how he had always known that purses were evil, and Meowth climbed in after.
The door was slammed shut by a deputy, and the truck drove off. A signature yell was carried away by the air. "We're carted off again!"
"Thank you for leading us to them. We've been looking for these two for a while now. Take this as a reward." She handed Alex a sack. Upon closer inspection, she found that is was filled with Poke-dollars. Gasping in surprise, Alex thanked Jenny profusely, who said that it was nothing.
"Her kindness, so wonderful, so beautiful! A beauty like that can only belong to the wonderful, the amazing, the stunning, the aw- Not the EAR!" Misty dragged Brock away from the stunned Officer, mumbling about regretting leaving her mallet in Cerulean.
"What was that about...? Do I even want to know?" Jenny asked, staring at the spot Brock had been standing on. Alex sighed.
"He's... Uh... Just a tad bit obsessed, and let's leave it at that." She sighed again, face-palming. Seriously, if she had a nickel for every time she had seen Brock do this on the anime, she would be the richest girl alive. Seriously, her and Jakob had even begun to call it Brocksportation, the way he somehow teleported to pretty girls, because calling it "The way that Brock somehow teleports to pretty girls like an Alakazam" was a bit too much of a mouthful.
"Alex! That's Pewter!" Jakob yelled, pointing at the distant view of buildings on the horizon. Leave it to him, the rock enthusiast, to find the rock type city.
Alex smiled. "Cool! Let's go, I want my Boulder Badge!" She pumped her fist, running off towards the city, and yelling a hasty goodbye to Jenny. The rest of the kids ran after her, joined by Abby, and Misty shook her head while she was running.
"Just like Ash..." She smirked.
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A/N So, I guess I didn't make it to 5000... Darn. Ah well, maybe next time then. 3827 is pretty good too. Well, more than that now that I'm writing this note...
Anyway, I just had to have James say Dearie. God, I'm so obsessed with Once Upon a Time, I can't help it. Dearie is going to be showing up in a LOT of chapters now... I'm hopelessly obsessed!
I'm going to try to update The Sorting next... Then The Switch. Also, I need some votes... I'm not sure how to do a poll on my profile... So which one do you guys want? A Hinny(Harry x Ginny) story, A Rumbelle one-shot, or a TF fic. I've got ideas for all three. Here's some descriptions.
1- Love Knows no Bounds-
After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Ginny have a small talk in the Room of Requirement. HUGE amounts of fluff, and possibly ending in a marriage proposal. Rated T for Troll
2- Trust in Me-
Rumple told Belle he trusted her completely, and that's why he gave her the Dagger. Now Belle wants to give it back. Rumple has to convince her that he trusts her completely, but she doesn't trust herself! How could she, after what she did to him? Rumple needs to help her, but how? A little magic, of course! Rated T because just in case.
3- Troubles of an Eevee-
There are a whole lotta things that can make a day bad. Unmanageable hair? That's in the top five. Tripping in front of your crush? That's at least four. But being turned into an Eevee, and being sent to the world of the show you thought didn't exist? That's number two. One? Being caught by the one person you thought you'd never meet. Brock. Rated T just in case.
So which one should I write. I'll write all three eventually, but which one do you guys want first. I personally like the Eevee one, but the Rumbelle one is a close second.
Oh yeah! Robert Sight belongs to Tabos, Abby belongs to girloffewwords, and the old lady belongs to my friend Cecilia. She has never watched the show(I know! Le gasp!) but said she wanted to be in one of my fanfictions as an old person who had violence tendencies. I just watched Madagascar again, and I got this idea. Hope you liked how I used your OCs, guys!
Next chapter I use the last OCs. I'll take a few more submissions if anyone has any, but after that, no more, unless I choose to go against my own words. I already have one for next time, from 765mkoijn.
Also, updates may be a bit slow from now on(yes, I know they have already been slow...) but I'll try to keep up. After this week it should be back to normal, though. I have to plan a party for my friend.
Alright, I guess that's it. Tell me which one you want using PM, or if you're a guest, review, and I'll write them as fast as possible. So until next time! Read and review!