Part 8: Hometown of Ash.
Next morning, after couple of Thunder Shocks, everybody is up and ready to go. Luckily, Pikachu did not shock Togepie.
“Where are we going?” Misty said, yawning, she didn’t get a good night sleep after that talk with Kelly.
“To my house, it is Christmas and all. Mom should be real happy.” Ash replies.
The road was quiet. No wild Pokemon running around, no Team Rockets blasting off, and no battle for Ash or Kelly.
They walk quietly, no one was talking. Misty is thinking what she heard from Kelly, Kelly is thinking about Ash, and Ash is thinking, well, he always thinks about Pokemon.
After a couple of hours, they reaches the gateway of Viridian, they see a huge sign reads Viridian, the road to Indigo Plateau. Ash ignores it and continues, but Kelly stops him, “Ash, the Team Rocket HG is in Viridian City, would it be smart to go around and not attract any attention to ourselves?”
“I am not scare of Team Rocket, why do we have to go around.” Ash wines.
Misty shots Kelly a look, she doesn’t want Ash to get suspicious, so she yell in Ash’s face, “Because if you don’t, you will taste the pain of my mallet! You got that?”
“Let’s go around the city.” Ash said quickly.
It is almost lunchtime and Ash’s stomach is growling, again. But Ash just keeps walking toward Pallet Town. Suddenly, a Magby jumps out of a grassy area.
“Alright! I am going to catch it!” Kelly yells with excitement.
“This one is mine, Pikachu, ThunderBolt!” Ash yells, but before Pikachu could send out any electricity, Magby’s eyes send out a wave of blue energy, and Pikachu’s eyes changes into heart shape and he walks slow toward Magby.
“What kind of attack is that?” Ash gets his Pokedex out, “Attract, an attack only works on the opposite sex of a Pokemon, it makes the defender treat the user Pokemon with love and hospitality.”
“So the Magby must be a girl.” Ash said.
“My turn.” Kelly said confidently, “Fearow, go!”
“Is your Fearow a girl?” Misty asks.
“Nope, but it’ll do.” Kelly said.
The Magby sends out Attract, but Kelly reacts real fast, “Fearow, Mirror Move!” The wave of energy bounce off from the invisible screen and it zooms across the air, straight back to Magby. Now Magby is the one with heart shape eyes.
“Poke-Ball, go!” Kelly throws a Poke-Ball, without any effort, Magby is caught.
“Kelly, you are a genius!”
“I don’t get it.” Ash said.
“Grow up, Ash.” Misty said.
“Why don’t you.”
“I am older than you.”
“Oh yeah, I am better-”
“Cut it out you two, now I understand why Brock left.” Kelly jokes. Misty laughs.
“I don’t get it.” Ash said.
They travel for a while, than Ash can see Professor Oak’s Lab, it’s pretty tall. He runs straight toward his house, Mr. Mime is mowing the lawn. “Mr. Mime.” It greets
Ash goes up the steps and ring the door bell, when her mom opens the door, he shouts, “Merry Christmas, mom!”
“OH MY BABY HAS COME HOME! YOU HAVE GROWN! HI PIKACHU! HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING.” Mrs. Ketchum explodes with joy, while she hugs the air out of Ash.
“Mom! You are coking me!” Ash fights to get lose from Mrs. Ketchum’s arms.
Mrs. Ketchum finally let Ash breath for a moment and she goes to greet Misty and Kelly, “Hi Misty, you have grown, and Brock…how did you turn into a girl?”
“Mom, she is not Brock, she’s Kelly, Brock went back to Pewter.” Ash said, embarrassed.
“Hi, Mrs. Ketchum” Kelly and Misty said in unison.
“Mom, can Misty and Kelly stay during the Christmas?”
“Hi girls, sure, as long as they want to.” Mrs. Ketchum said.
Ash said to the two, “Come on, let me show you guys to the guest room.”
Misty and Kelly follow Ash up the stair, pass Ash’s room, pass the bathroom, and turn left, “Kelly, this is your room, Misty gets mine and I’ll sleep in the living room on the couch.” Ash said, trying to be a gentleman.
“Back in the hotel, I thought that you said you would have a soft bed when you get home” Kelly said.
“Well, guess I lied.”
“How about this, we’ll take turns taking the bed and the couch.” Said Misty.
“You aren’t just saying that so you will get a better Christmas present would you?” Ash teases.
“Maybe.”
“Pika Chu Pi Pikachu?” (Where do I sleep?)
“In my room with Togepi.” Ash tells him.
After several minutes, they finished unpacking their stuff and goes to the living room, Mrs. Ketchum is watching T.V. “Did you kids ate lunch yet?”
“Nope, and I could use a fest.” Ash said, patting his stomach.
“Well, if you want a fest, you have to help, I got to pick up the Christmas tree down the Garden Conventional Center.” Mrs. Ketchum said.
“Me and Misty will gladly help you make lunch.” Kelly offers.
“We will?” Misty asks.
Kelly elbows Misty.
“Yeah, sure, we will!”
“I will help too.” Ash said.
“Thank you kids.” Mrs. Ketchum said.
After one and half hours, the lunch is ready to serve. It would normally take Mrs. Ketchum half hour to make lunch, but Ash keep spilling Mrs. Ketchum’s soup, and when Pikachu came to help to clean the mess, he Thunder Shock everybody except Mrs. Ketchum because the lunch is taking too long.
“I can wait to eat, I am hungry.” Mrs. Ketchum said cheerfully.
“I lost my appetite.” Ash said in smoke.
“I am with you at that.” Misty said, also in smoke.
“Me too.” Kelly said, also in smoke.
Half an hour later or so, Mrs. Ketchum is pulling out of the driveway.
“What do we do, I am so bored.” Kelly said.
“Have you ever been to the Pallet Town Mall?” Misty asks, Ash start to tiptoeing away from the living room.
“No, why?” Kelly asks.”
“Because I am going to take you there, and Ash is going to help us carrying shopping bags.” Misty said.
“Aw, man!” Ash wines.
Kelly shivers as they are walking back from the mall, “I should of bring my jacket along, it’s darn cold out here.”
“It’s lucky you have a jacket.” Misty said shivering.
Ash, who’s also shivering from the cold, is almost buried under the heavy shopping bags. He couldn’t hear what Misty and Kelly are saying, but he could see it is snowing.
Pikachu, on the other hand, has fur. He is walking in front of the gang, smiling like spring just came. Out of nowhere, a net catches Pikachu, and he is pulled upward.
“Prepare for trouble, we dropped our net”
“Make it double, let’s see what we get”
“To protect the world from devastation”
“To unit all people within our nation”
“To denounce the evils of truth and love”
“To extend our reach to the stars above”
“Jessie”
“James”
“Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light”
“Surrender now, or prepare to fight”
“Meowth, that’s right”
“This Pikachu should make a nice Christmas present for the boss, he will be delighted.” Jessie said.
“Good idea, Jess.” James said.
“Come on, let’s make our get away.” Meowth hustles.
“Not so fast, Staryu, cut that net.” Misty points at the net with Pikachu.
Staryu flew like a boomerang, in blink of eye, Pikachu is free.
“Pikachu, you know the drill.” Ash is panting from the weight of the shopping bags.
Pikachu knew the drill very well; electricity is sparkling from his face.
“I guess we’ll go out with a boom.” Meowth said.
And he was right, “Team Rocket is blasting off again!”
“Who will make the call to the boss this time.” Meowth asks.
“It’s always you making the call, so why not you make it this time.” James said.
Meowth is dialing collect call to his boss, “Holiday greetings, Boss. We are sorry to inform you that we have failed to capture the Pikachu, again. I promise you we will capture it next time.” Then Meowth didn’t speak for a long time, “I understand, boss. We will work together, bye.” Then he hangs up.
“What’s that all about?” Jessie asks.
“The boss told the Team Rocket Elite to train us to become better Team Rocket members, and the TR Elites is going to help us capture all the twerps’ Pokemon.” Meowth explains.
To Be Continuted
Is this the same Team Rocket Elites that killed Kelly's parents? If so, what will they do to our unsespecting heroes? Will the holiday spirits bring out love, or tragic?
Please review, and thanks for those who reivew last time, I'll try to get part 9: Rocket Trap done ASAP.
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