Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon—but it would be SO cool if I did.

Chapter 9: Be careful who you anger

~The next morning~

Piper and Eevee were sleeping peacefully nuzzled under the covers on the top bunk in Brocks room, oblivious to the world around them. Pikachu, who had not been awake very long, was sitting on Brocks desk and looking out the window; waiting for his trainer to wake up. His ears perked and he turned toward the door.

Suddenly the door burst open with a bang causing the yellow mouse pokemon glare at the noisy intruder. Logan had just entered the room and he didn't look very happy as he strode over to Piper's still sleeping form.

He jerked the blankets off her, which seemed to do nothing more than make her frown and roll onto her stomach with her arms under her for warmth. "Would you wake up already? It's 7 O'clock!"

"Five more minutes mommy." She signed.

Logan's eyebrow twitched. "Do I look like your mother to you!?" he yelled irritated, wanting this day to be over.

"No, but you kind of sound like her." Came a voice from the door, Logan looked over his shoulder to see Brock. "You're also going about it the wrong way."

Logan growled. "Then how would you do it?"

"Easy the same thing I do to Ash, watch." He walked over to the bed and climbed up beside Piper before leaning down to her ear and shouted at the top of his lunges. "PIPER WAKE UP!" Piper and Eevee both jumped at least a foot in the air then promptly fell out of bed and onto the floor at Logan's feet. Brock hoped down. "Pikachu's thunder shock, or a water gun attack work good to." He looked down at Piper. "Good your up, get dressed and come down stairs for breakfast. Mom's done left for Mt. Moon, dads disappeared, and my brothers and sisters have already left for trainer school. So after breakfast we'll have to clean up." Not waiting for a response he smiled at them and left knowing that with the mention of food Piper wouldn't go back to sleep.

Sure enough once he left Piper climbed slowly, and painfully, to her feet.

"Man I hate when he does that." She groaned rubbing her lower back. Eevee who had landed on top of her simply stretched and followed Pikachu as he ran out the door.

"Well if you didn't sleep like a Snorlax maybe it wouldn't be necessary."

"I do not sleep like a Snorlax!" she yelled.

"Yeah right, the whole house was shacking last night with your snores." He smiled and left her to stow in her anger.

"I do not snore!"

She dressed quickly, grabbed her poke'balls, and raced down to the kitchen. Brock, Logan, Pikachu, and Eevee along with all the other pokemon were already eating. Piper quickly released Pidgeotto before sitting down by Brock more than ready to dig in. Logan set across from her and she stuck her tongue out at him when he wasn't looking. Brock chuckled at her childish behavior but said nothing.

~Time Skip~

Once they were done eating they returned all their pokemon to their poke'balls with the exception of Eevee and Pikachu, and left for the training spot that Logan had in mind.

The training spot in question was a little ways down route 3 and was surrounded by rocking cliffs, there was a small batch of trees off to one side and the rest was a wide field with a small pond. Perfect for their training.

"This place will be perfect for your training." Brock said glancing around at the deserted enclosed area before turning to Piper. "Where do you want to start?"

"Well I don't think my pokemon were lacking anything in our battle, but more like I wasn't prepared. I came up with a couple of strategies and to make them work Eevee is going to battle Omanyte and Pikachu will battle Kabutops."

"Are you sure that's wise? Your Pikachu couldn't even handle Omanyte last time and Kabutops is an evolved pokemon." Logan all but sneered as he and Pikachu glared at each other, sparks coming out of their eyes and Pikachu's cheeks.

'They don't seem to like each other much.' Pause. 'Well they don't really like anyone.' Piper shook her head already exhausted with dealing with their lack of social skills.

She shook it off. "I'm positive." She spoke full of determination. "This training is mostly going to center around teaching Pikachu a new move."

"What move?" Brock asked interested.

"Iron tail." She said simply. "I figured that it would be really effective, give us the element of surprise, and it would be a good move to have around long term."

"Well if that's the case we had better be getting started. The first thing we will need to do is build some straight up in that tail."

Pikachu looked back at its tail in thought and whipped it sharply in the air a couple of times.

"Ready Pikachu?" Piper asked smiling down at him.

"Pika." Pikachu nodded and surprisingly smiled back determinedly. The thought of getting stronger seeming to have drove his dislike of Piper out of his mind. For the moment at least.

And so the long day of training began.

~Time Skip 1:00~

"Why don't we break for lunch?" Brock suggested as Pikachu's tail sagged under the weight of the two pound rocks that had been tied to it.

They had started their training by throwing little rocks and twigs at Pikachu so that he could beat them away with his tail, this was to help him get more used to using his tail. After a couple of hours of that they moved on to doing tail lefts with the rocks. They started off with very small rocks that barely weighted 2oz and worked their way up to heavier rocks as Pikachu got used to the weight. Piper, not one to be left out, had been right beside Pikachu the whole time doing sit ups with ½ pound weights tied to her ankles and wrist as her own form of training while Brock and Logan watched off to the side.

"Good idea." Piper fell back panting. Pikachu's tail dropped so that the rocks rested on the ground and Piper quickly untied it.

Brock had laid out a blanket with a plate full of berry sandwiches (You know sliced up berries on bread), 3 bottles of water, and bowls of pokemon food and water for all the pokemon. They had made a little progress in strengthening Pikachu's tail but she didn't expect much progress when they had really just started or him to learn the move right away ether.

"You're not going to be able to learn iron tail in one day you know." Brock pointed out as they all began to eat. "It's going to take some time."

"I know."

"So do you still plan on taking on the gym once Lola gets back tomorrow?" Logan asked his mind already forming strategies around iron tail in the off chance her Pikachu did learn the move.

"Yeah; I know we won't have the move perfected by then—not by a long shot—but I don't see any point in putting it off ether. I learn from my mistakes and I know this time the outcome will be different." She tried her best to explain as she finished off her first sandwich and reached for another.

"If you say so."

She turned to Brock ignoring Logan's doubtful tone of voice. "What do you plan on doing now Brock? Are you going to continue your journey?"

"After I finish what I came here to do I've thought about tracking down Ash and joining him on his journey again. I've learned a lot while traveling with him and I want to meet more Pokemon that I've never seen before."

"That's cool Hoenn seems like a very interesting region, I'm sure he'll be glad to see you again." She paused for a moment to eat, and thought about how jealous and sad she was when Ash and Gary both started their journey and had to leave her behind. Not that she blamed them, she would have done the same thing if she was in their place, and she had been too young. It had just been had because they had been her only friends growing up in the small town of Pallet, and once they left she really had nothing better to do other than to study up on her Pokemon knowledge, which know she was very thankful for.

She sighed, she wished she was a seasoned trainer like them. "I talked to Ash last night and it seems like Jessie and James of Team Rocket have been causing trouble for him again. Pikachu got hurt this time, but Ash said he would be ok." She rushed the last part out when Brock stiffened up.

He sighed. "That's a relief, those two can cause some serious problems when they're not even trying to."

"Jessie and James?" Logan integrated already finished eating.

"They are a team of two inside Team Rocket; most of the time their harmless but they can also cause a lot more trouble than their worth. They've been trying to steal Ash's Pikachu from way back when he first started his pokemon journey."

"They're both morons really." Piper deadpanned seriously.

~Far away in Hoenn~

"Aachoo—." two people sneezed in unison. They looked at each other.

"Someone must be talking about us James." Said the long red haired female in excitement. She was dressed in a white version of the girl Team Rocket uniform with Black boots and gloves.

"I think you might be right Jessie." Said the blue haired male equally excited, dressed similarly but in the boy's uniform.

"Well I think you're both a couple of lame brains. It's probably allergies, I mean who would want to talk about you two?" came the sarcastic voice of the cat pokemon Meowth from behind them.

They both turned and glared before, with a well-deserved punch to the Pokémon's head, they shouted. "WHO ASKED YOU?!"

Meowth laid slumped at their feet with two twin size knots on his head and swirling's for eyes.

~Back with Piper and gang~

"Lunch was wonderful Brock, thanks." Piper said as she stood and stretched.

"I'm glad you liked it." Brock said smiling as he gathered up their plates. "Why don't you continue training while I get things cleaned up."

"You're sure?" she relaxed her body and looked unsure. After all Brock made the food it didn't seem fair for him to do the cleaning to.

"Of course just focus on your training."

"Well ok, thanks Brock." She turned to Pikachu. "Come on Pikachu lets work on hitting an actual target." Pikachu sighed before running to catch up to Piper who was headed to a small clump of trees at the edge of the simi-enclosed area.

"What does she mean target? What's she planning to use?" Logan asked looking after them.

"Well if her training is anything like Ash's than most likely herself." Brock said as he gathered the Pokémon's food bowls.

The pokemon had all made their way to a small part of the field just within hearing distance. Logan's Pidgeotto and Nidorino were sleeping while his Mankey was practicing his fighting moves with an invisible opponent. Brocks Fortress was rolling around and being playfully chased by Piper's Eevee; while Pipers Pidgeotto was watching, sometimes sneaking a peak at Logan's Pidgeotto. Brock smiled, the smell of love was in the air.

"She wouldn't really be that stupid would she?" To say the he was shocked would be an understatement, to his knowledge no one in their right mind would go that far when training their pokemon.

Brock turned to look at Logan before looking behind him to where Piper and Pikachu were training. "You never know, but it looks like you have nothing to worry about."

"Huh?" he said in confusion.

"She's using a tree at the moment."

Logan looked over at Piper and Pikachu, who was thankfully using a tree as a target. He was running full speed at the tree before jumping and flipping just the right way so that his tail would hit it. So far he was doing little more than bouncing off the tree.

When he looked back to Brock he was by the pond washing their plates, and Brocks earlier comment finally seemed to reach his brain.

"Hey who said I was worried?!" he shouted, flushed out of anger or embarrassment he didn't know.

Brock chuckled at Logan's cluelessness, the boy was a lot like Ash when it came to girls. He decided to ignore Logan's last comment.

~Unknown location in Kanto~

A man was led by a women dressed in a black business suit into a room that held nothing other than a large TV that took up all of one wall. The women left, shutting the door behind her. How he wished she would come back. She wouldn't have been any real protection, but maybe the boss's temper wouldn't get the better of him with a girl present, though it wasn't likely.

"Report,"

The sudden rough, demanding voice startled the man and he immediately knelt down in front of the TV where a man dressed in a red suit, and half hidden in shadows had appeared petting a Persian.

"Well you see boss—." He wanted to explain everything, but he wasn't sure how to continue without getting fired . . . . Or worse. How did one tell the boss of Team Rocket that they had been bested by a kid, a girl no less, and that some of their members had been captured? True they hadn't been anyone of real importance, but the boss had a lot of pride that this would not sit well with him.

"I'm waiting." The bosses' voice sounded clam, but his impatiens showed.

"We were able to gather a lot of artifacts and a few fossils, sir, before we were interrupted."

"What do you mean 'interrupted'? By who?"

"Well the new gym leader got a hold of the Viridian city police and most of us got away—."

"What do you mean most of you?" the boss interrupted starting to get angry.

"A few of the newer members on the mission were captured because as they were making their escape they fell into a trap that a trainer set for them." He waited not sure if he should really go into too much detail regarding the trainer.

"Go on."

"The trainer had their pokemon dig a ditch underground that was strong enough to hold our weight when we walked across it, but when we went to drive away the truck sank like a rock. Afterwards we tried to escape on foot. She stopped us by using her Pikachu to shock us, this paralyzed most of us till Officer Jenny arrived."

"She?" he growled. "Are you telling me that a little girl beat Team Rocket?"

"W-well s-sir I wouldn't say b-beat," the grunt stammered. "w-we d-did get what w-we needed so—."

The boss slammed his fist down. "Imbecile! How do you think this looks on Team Rocker!? To be beaten by a little girl!?"

"I'm very sorry sir." He said after he thought he could talk without stammering and bowed his head in shame.

"Pitiful. I don't want your 'sorry' or excuses. Leave a description of the girl with executive Petrel and have him send it to me and the other bases. If this trainer becomes a problem I want everyone ready to take care of her."

"Yes sir!" Once given the ok to leave the grunt high tailed it out of there. If it wasn't for the fact that the girl had cause him so many problem, one of which was walking all the way back to headquarters, than he might have felt sorry for her.

Hey everyone I know it's been a while, sadly there have been a lot of health problems in my family in the last two years and there still going.

I worked a few hours without taking a break so that I could have this chapter finished and uploaded before school starts back up (Which will be on Monday).

I took a big part of the end of this chapter out because it was going to make the chapter to long and it wouldn't have ended at a good point, so the beginning of ch.10 is pretty much started.

To everyone that's reading this and also likes my story Island Fox: I have a few pages of Ch.6 done I'm just trying to work out a few story line details, because unlike this story I don't have things planed out for each individual chapter.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please don't give up on me because of slow updates.

I finished this chapter at 1:37pm on 8/15/2014 (Personal note for myself)