The Storm, the Traitors, and the Idol
Chapter 11: The Wages of Evil
My friends and I all shook tails with Storm. I could sense her excitement. She had been made the new head 'Chu of the herd!
"I owe it all to you Pikachu!" she said.
I shook my head, "No, you did great. You helped defeat Bolt and you held the herd together. You were meant to lead. I can tell. You're gonna be a great head 'Chu." I then added with a whisper, "And… I'll always be with you."
Storm then kissed me on the cheek. Lucky for me, Brock didn't see it.
After we were far enough away, my friends returned to their clothed human forms. I looked back, touched my face where Storm kissed me, and thought, "I may go back there one day, but for now…"
Ash suddenly scooped me up and said, "Come on Pikachu, there's a wide world spread out before us!"
I laughed happily, not at all minding that the language barrier was back. He and I would have our adventures just as we always had.
Meanwhile, a tunneling machine plowed through the ground, revealing the exhausted form of Lightning. Jessie, James, and Meowth hopped out in front of her. "Please help me!" she said.
Meowth smiled and said, "Ah- ah –ah! Not so fast. We saw everything that happened here. The evil plan and the idol and Arbok, and we don't like it! We may be evil, but we're not that evil. We want to 'protect the world from devastation'. Therefore, I think it's only right to teach you how to behave! And who better to do the job than…"
"…Jessie's mother and sister!" Meowth concluded as Team Rocket brought the caged Pikachu into the house. Jessie's mother and sister rushed in to meet their new Pokémon. They got a call form Jessie earlier, so they had plenty of time to whip up a bunch of outfits for poor Lightning. They had a camera set up and everything.
Flash! Lightning was a cowgirl holding a gun.
Flash! Then she was a cheerleader holding pompoms and a bull horn.
Flash! Then she was a maid with a black dress, a white apron, a white hat, and stockings.
Flash! She was a wicked witch with a black pointed hat and a broom.
Flash! She was a hula dancer wearing a Hawaiian flower-chain necklace a hula skirt.
Flash! She was a little girl wearing a blue dress and a wig with pig tails and was holding a basket with a toy dog inside.
Flash! Lightning was a criminal wearing a prison uniform complete with hat, and was holding a metal cup to clang against prison bars with.
As Team Rocket and Jessie's sister and mother laughed, Lightning muttered one thing in a very depressed tone, "Pi- Pika- Pika- Chu."
In human, this would be, "This can't be happening."
Meanwhile, Sparkette sits in the dark cave with the boulder still on her tail. The temptress shivers and shakes with fear as she lies down and curls up into a ball, muttering insanely to herself. As the darkness closes in, her eyes, filled with terror, are the only things that shine in the darkness.
The End