It was harsh, crashing into the ground from such a huge height. I landed right by a river, and the others landed quite close.
We groaned in pain as we sat up slowly. "Damn those twerps!" Jessie hissed.
I saw the poor Weezing laying on the ground, knocked out. "You need to take better care of your Pokémon!" I said.
"You can't talk, you lost yours!" James growled.
"Dis was all your fault!" Meowth said, pointing at me.
"My fault!?"
"If you hadn't of been in da way, d'ose twerps wouldn'ta seen us!"
"Well, if you would have given my things back, I wouldn't be in your way!"
"We don't have no Pokémon o' yours!"
"Then who the hell has them?!"
We heard a scream nearby, which caught our attention. "What was that?" James asked.
"Over there!" I pointed towards two people running with their arms flailing in the air, they were wearing black uniforms, with the same red R on them as Team Rocket. They were being chased by an angry Rapidash.
"Oh, not them!" Jessie gushed.
"Who are they?"
"Out of our way!" The man shouted, running in our direction.
"Don't bring it over here!" James shouted. I side stepped while Team Rocket started running as well. I took one glance at the Rapidash, and almost instantly recognised it. It looked just like my Rapidash, Calida!
"Calida?" I called out. The Rapidash's ears shot up as it stopped running.
"Nnhn?" It looked back towards me, and it's eyes lit up with excitement. "Eiinn!"
"Calida!" I ran to her, and wrapped my arms around her neck, hugging her tightly. She moved about excitedly. "Its you! It really is!1 I'm so glad to see you're okay!"
"Nnngh!"
"What the hell that Rapidash is psychotic! How the hell did you tame it so quickly?!" The green-haired guy shouted.
"Calida is my Rapidash! What the hell were you guys doing with her!?" I saw my bag hanging over his shoulder. "That's my bag!"
"What? This? Ha! You can't have it, it has strong Pokémon inside of it, which we'll give to the boss!" He said.
"Strong Pokémon?" James asked, trying to peer into the bag.
"My Pokémon!" I said. Calida stamped on the ground, and made an intimidating noise, which scared them all. "Give it back!"
The blonde female started laughing, and placed her hand on her hip. "What makes you think we'd do that?"
"Rrgh! There's no way we're letting you get ahead of us!" Jessie snarled as she tried to snatch the bag. The male narrowed his eyes and pulled back on it. It became a match of tug-o-war. James helped Jessie, and the blonde woman helped the other guy.
"Don't you dare break my bag!" I hissed. "Calida, Flamethrower!"
Calida built up the attack, and unleashed an intense Flamethrower onto all four of them.
"Good girl!" I walked over, picked up my bag, and looked inside it. 'Wallet, Hyper Potions, SS Anne II Ticket receipts, Bottle of Water... wait..' "Where's my other Pokémon?!" I questioned.
The two Team Rocket people stood up. "We already handed them to the boss!" The woman laughed. "And we're going to take that Rapidash next!"
"Lets recite our motto."
'No, please no.' I thought.
"Prepare for trouble." She started.
"And make it double!"
"To infect the world with devastation!"
"To blight all people in every nation!"
"To denounce the goodness of truth and love!"
"To extend our wrath to the stars above!"
"Cassidy!"
"And Butch, of course!"
"We're Team Rocket, circling Earth all day and all night!"
"Surrender to us now, or you will surely lose the fight!"
"That sounds so wrong." I said.
"What did you say!?" Cassidy questioned. I looked at Jessie and James.
"Well, at least it sounds different to theirs."
"That's because they don't recite it properly!"
Jessie rose to her feet, and started to bicker with them about the motto, James soon joined in.
I turned to Calida. "Well, if they really did give the others to their leader, then we'd better go get them, hm?"
She shook her head, then hinted towards the green-haired guy. "Oi, you, Boone. Calida said you have my Pokémon."
He clenched a fist, and glared at me. "It's Butch! And I don't have them!"
Calida stepped over, and bit him on the butt, causing him to squeal. I saw the Pokéballs attached to his belt, so I grabbed them and threw them to summon the Pokémon. A Primeape, Muk, Ampharos, and Hitmontop came out.
"Ah! Atropine, Ampharos!" I called out happily. The Muk and Ampharos ran to me, the others covered their noses from the strong scent of Muk. But it didn't affect me. I cuddled them both, particularly Atropine (Muk) because he was always very highly emotional, he'll either be very happy, or very sad. Judging by how tight he was trying to hug me, Atropine was in a happy mood. "I'm so glad you guys are okay! I thought I lost you!"
"Argh! Butch, we can't let her get away!" Cassidy hissed.
"You're right! Primeape! Thrash attack, now!"
"Ugh, really? Calida, go, Bounce attack!" I commanded. Calida obeyed and jumped high up into the sky, before falling back down and stamping right onto Primeape, giving it a 1-Hit KO.
"Th-that Rapidash is strong!"
"Of course.. I have been a trainer for six years after all. I know how to raise my Pokémon." I mentioned, perhaps bragging the slightest bit. Jessie and James were muttering to each other, so I ignored them for now.
"That means nothing! Go, Raticate!" Cassidy sent out her Raticate. "Hyper Fang!"
"Hitmontop! Rolling Kick!"
Both Pokémon came charging towards us. "Two on one? That's against the rules!"
"We don't play by the rules, girly!" Butch grinned.
"Fine.. then neither will I! Atropine, Sludge Bomb that Raticate, Ampharos, Signal Beam it, Calida, Flamethrower!"
All three obeyed me, and attacked, winning. Butch and Cassidy returned their Pokémon, and made a run for it. I turned to Jessie and James.
"You two.." Their narrowed their eyes at me. "What's with the sudden- oh. Okay, I'm sorry for accusing you guys.. but really, how can you blame me?"
"So you should be!" Jessie snorted.
"... But I still don't forgive you for the boat incident."
"Would you drop that already!?"
We argued for a good 20 minutes, before we became so off topic that we were arguing about the taste of pears.
"Enough!" Meowth spoke up. "Get dat Muk away, dat horrifying smell is driving me insane!"
"M.. Muk..." Tears began streaming down Atropine's face.
"Why would you say that!?" I pulled Muk into a comforting hug. "Don't be so mean! Don't listen to them, Atropine, they don't know what they're saying. You don't smell at all!" I said.
Atropine sobbed as he clung to me.
"There's indeed something wrong with you, if you can't smell that!" Jessie said. I glared up at them.
"No! Atropine is beautiful! He doesn't smell! Not at all!"
The thing was, I had lost my sense of smell a few years ago, when I first captured and started training Atropine. The odour he released was too strong for my nose, especially with all the cuddling over the years, so my sense of smell was destroyed. But I don't mind.