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Pokemon Crystal series

Ep. 67

Now that Crystal has earned her sixth badge from the Pewter City gym and has experienced the joy of watching the big magical wedding proposal of those two horny nutballs, Brock and Janelle, it's time to spread the news to everyone that cares. And that includes one that was very much absent from the festivities being one Ash Ketchum whom we see Justin speaking to along with Sandshrew and Pikachu on the videophone while Cris-tal and Misty are together doing girl things like painting their nails and shaving their legs since they have to look good for the WB and everything. But what difficulties will the threesome run into financial (hint) and otherwise? And wait till you see who crawls out of the woodwork from the series past this time, even if he or she wasn't part of the real anime series.

"So I guess you've heard the big news", Justin asks him and Ash tells him that why, he was one of the first that got called once the big ceremony happened. Well gosh golly! "That's great, you better put on your best tux, it's gonna be quite a day for all of us", Justin tells him. "Tux?", asks the mentally devoid Mr. Ketchum who's grown up too white trash to ever dress so formally. "You know, a tuxedo! You're gonna make it, right? Brock's counting on you to be one of honored guests. I'm gonna be the best man but with the way you know Brock and how maturely you've handled your recovery, I don't know, you may end up arriving as the better man", comments Justin as we see a brief image of Ash out of character pimping it up in a tuxedo plus top hat, winking for the camera as he strolls along the plush red carpet into somewhere swanky as he's got a few brides maids dressed up around him. "Oh yeah... don't worry! Whatever it takes, I'll be there", quips Ash with a dumb laugh.

"By the way, Justin, what are you doing now?", wonders Ash. And Justin replies, "I'm just killing some time here while the girls freshen up. We're sure lucky that we don't have to do some of the things that they have to do. It has been taking them awhile to take care of everything." Justin and Ash then watch them by the creek of this nearby park as they wash and fix their hair and bodies like all fems do. A brief pause later and Justin finally snaps, "...THIS IS TAKING FOREVEEEERRR! CAN'T YOU TWO HURRY IT ALONG?!" "Hey, come back to me when you appreciate how delicate you have to be when painting toenails", retorts Crystal. Ash, not getting it as always, wonders, "I don't get it, why do you have to do all that extra washing and cleaning and garbage, it's not like anyone's gonna notice." "Any guy without taste that is, which apparently includes the two of you!", adds Misty as she wraps a towel over her head to dry her hair which Seadra (behind her in the water) must have showered.

But genius Ash tells him not to worry about it since he claims that Misty was always spending more time fixing herself up like other girls than she was training. "Pi-kaah", sighs Pikachu getting hopeless over the teasing. "Is that so?", responds Misty sternly, "Well at least we ladies know how to take care of our bodies and wear clean clothes everyday." "Me-gahh megah!", adds Meganium coming into the picture to agree with the fellow females as Justin and Ash show sweatdrops of nervousness. "Umm okay, whatever you guys say", quips Ash sheepishly. Justin then wraps up his little convo with Ash telling him that they'll all be seeing him soon and that they all wish him to keep up the good work. "Thanks, you guys. See ya later. Take care, Pikachu... you too, Sandshrew", states Ash before Pikachu shouts back and they disconnect.

Justin then gets hungry saying, "Ohhh... I don't know about you two, Pikachu and Sandshrew, but I'm gettin' hungry." "Shrew shrrrrrew!", agrees Sandshrew as Justin reaches into his wallet hoping to get out the money necessary to eat something good but pulls up just pennies. "Aw no, I'm out of cash. Hey Cris, Misty, do you guys have any money for lunch? I'm all out!", he asks. "Huh? Lunch money?", wonders Crystal as she looks through her backpack finding nothing but lint and responding, "Uh oh... I'm all out, as well. Misty?" Misty dejectedly says, "Nothing in my stuff either", before she anxiously jokes, "I guess I spent the last of my money on our face cleanser and hair care." "I feared as much", anxiously quips Justin with another sweatdrop as Pikachu moans over the fact that it can't get any fatter. "Well what are we gonna do, we have no money", says Crystal. Misty proposes the most obvious suggestion of getting cash from their sugar daddy, Old Man Oak. But Crystal must be behind in her... ahem... shipments... to him because she tosses that idea worrying, "Again? But we've asked him so many times and I asked him for help again just this past weekend. It wouldn't be right to ask him again." So the threesome ends up sitting there at the small little creekside park wondering how they're ever going to eat or get money. The Ash Ketchum brain not needed scheme would be just to freeload off any cotton pickin Pokemon Center or loser side character, but since freeloading doesn't come so easily for Cris-tal and Sandshrew, they come to the realization that the threesome may actually have to...... GASP!!!.... FIND SOME WORK!

OH NO... THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH!

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Later on, bellies growl as the threesome picks what looks like the worst place to walk down with empty stomachs, a main road with every possible restaurant and fast food joint imaginable. "Ohhh... look at all the places that we can't afford to eat at", moans Crystal. "I guess we're going to have to starve until we drag ourselves to the Pokemon Center outside Mt. Moon", adds Misty. "Pii-kaaah", groans the hungry-ass Pikachu along with a moaning Sandshrew walking side by side. So they walk by all the fast food places and have a bunch of trucks with food advertisements (and likely carrying immigrant workers) whirl right on by them as the chorus of Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike" plays during their walk to throw in more insult. Then they get into a rural area with some mountains in the distance making Justin quip that he's never visualized food so much even though the ground the past mile has been desolate.

"Hang on, what's that up there? It looks like a farm", Crystal tells them seeing the farmland and crops in the distance. "Maybe they can get us some food", hopes Misty as Sandshrew picks up a scent and happily runs toward it with the rest of the twerps following them. When they reach the outside of the farm area, Justin notices, "Those crops look like they harvest some kind of nut." But then Misty points out the huge sign that says 'HELP WANTED: INQUIRE INSIDE THE BARN' and she states, "They're looking for workers. Maybe we can earn some money here." "That way, we won't starve anymore", Justin says as Pikachu replies optimistically. Crystal then wonders where the barn is before Sandshrew points it out to them standing out in the middle of the acreage and sea of crops.

"Hello? Is anybody home?", shouts Crystal wondering if anybody made their home in the barn. And apparently, it looks like a lone Furret perhaps has as it emerges from the shadows wonder who's trespassing its place. It then spots the threesome and approaches them curiously and alertly just like a squirrel. "Cool! A Furret!", says Cris-tal as she gets out her pokedex.

Furret - the, Long Body Pokemon - Furret's, usually make nests to suit, its long and skinny body. The nest is impossible, for other pokemon to, enter.

"Hello Furret", greets Justin as Sandshrew and Pikachu also greet it. Furret responds back sharply and curiously as a man's voice tells them, "Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realize I had visitors cuz I was around back." And the twerps turn to see a short young man with brown hair, brown eyes, in somewhat of a bowl cut looking fairly skinny, polite, and rather cute and dreamy.

Certainly not the type of person that would be a part of a evil and sinister group of cutthroats and lowlives such as Team Rocket, the international pokemon crime group.

"Don't worry about it, sir", grins Cris-tal, "We just saw your sign in the front and see you needed some help." "We're here to take the job", adds Misty politely as her little tummy rumbles impolitely making her adds with a chuckly, "...and hopefully get a snack." "Well, you've come to the right place", boasts the young man as Furret scampers over to him, "The problem is that the time has come to harvest the crops I have planted here at my farm. But with the many acres of cropland my farm has, there's no way I could do it myself. I have many different kinds of crops ranging from corn to wheat and even rye. But about 85% of my farmland supports the growing of peanuts." "Peanuts? Why peanuts?", wonders Crystal as Pikachu and Sandshrew look out for peanuts sprouting from the crops. The farmer lad explains that the soil where they are best supports the growth of peanuts and so they can grow really well there adding that all of the crops they're looking at around their place are peanut crops.

"That's strange, I don't see any peanuts", wonders Misty as Justin gives her our science lesson of the day saying that he believes that the peanuts lie underground as part of the roots. "That's correct. Here! I'll show you", says the young guy and demonstrates the process by digging into the dirt with his gloves uprooting one of the crops including the roots. He shows them the peanuts attached to the roots stating, "See? There's the peanuts. (the girls go 'ahhh') All you have to do is dig 'em out and pluck 'em off into the baskets I'll give you here at the barn. For every basket of peanuts you harvest and bring back to the barn, I'll give you $10." The guy then presents them with three laundry-sized wicker baskets to hold their nuts in (GETCHA MIND OUTTA DA GUTTA!) and that's not all... to take extra care to satisfy his employees, the guy gives them overalls like the cute ones he's wearing as well as long gloves so they don't have to get their arms dirty. "Wow! Thanks a lot", reply the two girls. "Yeah, seriously", adds Justin before whispering to Mondo, "They spend hours washing their hands."

That concludes Pokemon Crystal Science Lesson #368

The cute young man then makes his first suggestive dodgy line here smiling and telling Justin in a buddy-buddy manner, "A ha ha haa, you're such a kidder." He then tells them, "But anyway, I'll leave you to your work but not on an empty stomach. Just so you can fill up, I have a basket of peanuts for each of you to snack on... even a basket for your two pokemon here", bringing out more big baskets, these ones filled with peanuts to eat. Their eyes drool on what they see as a sumptuous feast while Misty proclaims in a trance, "Snack? I think I'm about to make a meal out of these peanuts." Crystal agrees and thus, the threesome rudely begins to pig out on their respective baskets of nuts, breaking the shells and eating the nutty interior.

I dunno... something about this is gonna SCREAM of a Dr. Laura protest. Just have that kinda feelin'.

The farmer then informs them that just in case there's something that they need while harvesting the crops, they can have Furret relay messages back to him so he care take care of whatever problem they may have and that if they need him, his name is Mondo.

Mondo... now there's a name I know no one's ever heard of in the Pokemon anime series. So there's no way he can be familiar, right?

"You're so welcome", replies a grateful Cris-tal chewing her food in the process as they introduce themselves to the kind, polite Mondo. "I'm glad that you all stopped by", Mondo tells them. "Shrew shrew!", says Sandshrew as Pikachu's face is too stuffed to add anything. Moments later, we see the threesome all stuffed from the basket of peanuts they ate. And ate they certainly did! Out of the basketful of peanuts they each had, 3/4 of the basket were GONE!! DAMN, THEY WIZ HUNGY! Misty then sighs in somewhat of a fantasy trance, "That Mondo was such a nice and polite young man, I just wish there were more people like him in the world." "Absolutely, he went the extra mile to make sure he covered everything. And now we gotta go an extra mile to get all these peanuts and crops harvested, but we'll get the job done with everyone harvesting together. Plus, Sandshrew's digging ability can help me round up the crops way faster." "Saaaanshrew", utters Sandshrew giving us the peace symbol standing next to Crystal.

"Oh yeah, that's a great idea, Cris. But don't think Sandshrew going to help you finish way ahead of us. Raticate, I choose you!", Justin replies calling out his enormously bucktoothed pokemon. "RAAATTICAAATE!", exclaims Raticate glad to make a rare appearance out of its ball as Justin tells them that Raticate is going to help him dig through the crops just like Sandshrew can. Misty then states, "And Wooper can also use dig. Come on out, Wooper!" "Woo-PAAAH!", says Wooper as Misty greets it and asks her if it can help her dig up some of the crops out there. "Woo-pah WOO-PAAH!", replies l'il Wooper as Crystal fawns over the little thing saying that it's really cute. "Yeah.. Wooper is every bit as cute as it is tough", adds Misty as she smiles at Crystal and Wooper simultaneously. Pikachu and Furret smile at the young new Wooper before conferring about its coolness with each other. "Alright ladies, let's scoop up some peanuts!", then declares Justin as they get to the actual task.

And thus, we see the twerps gathering the peanut crop to the tune of 'Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't...' with their special helper pokemon digging out some peanut plants. But as they're filling their baskets with nuts, good ol' Team Rocket is watching their nut gathering habits through their trusty binoculars. "What are those twerps doing to those plants?", wonders Jessie. "Hmmm... maybe... just maaaaybe our little twoips have become little trespassin' boigluhs", says Meowth who then sniffles, "I always knew dey had it in 'em." "They are certainly dressed for it", quips James who'd know a thing or two about burglary fashion. "Hang on a second, those little twerps are too goody-goody to actually be robbing anything. Besides, who would take the time to rob such ugly plants, and what's that they're gathering anyway?", wonders Jessie still looking through her binoculars as James is also looking through his. "It looks like some kind of nut that they're putting into their baskets." Thus, Meowth deduces that they must be working at a nut farm.

But if that's the case according to Jessie, then they must have a huge stash of nuts somewhere for them to stuff themselves with. So Meowth suggests the barn off in the distance where we saw Mondo greet the twerps since it should have plenty of nuts and probably other food as well. "Sounds yummy to me!", replies James so Jessie tells them to get going but to also be quiet and lay low so nobody spots them. And thus, TR dashes down the hillside tip-toeing between hiding spots. They then cross the street and get down into the sea of peanut crops. They crawl along the ground trying to stay as quiet as possible beneath the crops. "Shhhhhhhhhhhh!", shushes Jessie turning back to Meowth. "Shhhhhhhh!", shushes Meowth turning back to James. "Shhhhhhhhhh!", shushes James turning back and then up to his shock realizing that Wobbuffet is behind them standing up loud and proud. "WOOOOOOOOOOOBBBUUUHHFFET!", shouts the patiently pleased one though no one else seems to pick up on it off in the distance before TR knocks it down. "STAY QUIET!", Jessie softly yells at her patient blue blob. "Woooooobbuuhh wooooob", obliges Wobbuffet going down into crawling position between all the crops.

They eventually make it to the barn and the three of them get in to look for food. "See anything James?", wonders Jessie as James takes a closer look at the darkened barn not seeing anything significant as of yet. So they walk into the barn as Meowth wonders what is in the musty old place. "Hmm... eeeeee! Look at that!", points out James as TR simultaneously rejoices that it's a basket of farm fresh Grade A peanuts. So TR immediately cracks the peanuts open and begins munching away on the nuts.... and y'know what that means. Dodgy food item plus dodgy villains equals double meanings galore... goochie! Jessie chews on some peanuts and says joyously, "Mmmmm..... salty goodness!" Oh yeah? Well listen to James gleefully tell the everyone, "I like to eat 'em two at a time!"

But then again, tell us something we don't know about James.

"Woooooobbuuhh wooooobbuuuhhffet!", politely eating them with the shells on. And once the small basket is all eaten, TR feels a bit more satisfied with their stuffed faces. "Ahhh... that was a nice snack", says a more relaxed Jessie as Wobbuffet seems to agree with her. Meowth then points out a stairway to them as James figures that maybe the main course might be lying somewhere up there. "Well, let's see!", says Jessie and thus the three of them make their way up the stairs because Wobbuffet can't really climb stairs so it goes back to its pokeball. They make their way into a dimly lit corridor leading to a few rooms. "Do you think one of these rooms is the kitchen?", wonders James as Jessie suggests that maybe they can get a better vantage point to spy on the twerps. Just then, Mondo walks out after hearing the noise making TR freeze in fear initially until they all realize who everyone is. And that leads to a very touching TR reunion scene.... awww.

Mondo initially tells them, "I'm sorry, but the job openings are already filled. <gasp> Oh my! Jessie, is that you?" Jessie goes, "Uuuuuhhh", while James asks him if they can help him sounding perplexed. Mondo then gasps even louder as he recognizes James and Meowth and shouting proudly, "It really is you three!" Jessie and James then gasp as Meowth blabbers, "No way!" "I don't believe it!! Could it really be?", says James. "It IS you.... it's Mondo", shouts Jessie proclaiming, "I can't believe we have found our old buddy again." "I.... I DON'T BELIEVE THIS! MY OLD TEAM ROCKET CRIME BUDDIES HAVE COME BACK!", shouts Mondo excitedly like a young kid. He then says to Jessie, "Jessie, I've missed you so!", and then he and Jessie have a nice warm reunion hug. "Oh Mondo, I can't even remember the last time I saw you", replies back Jessie sounding warm and fuzzy.

Mondo then moves onto James as the two of them get all giddy about meeting each other again and yes, they too hug each other reunion style. "James, look at how you've grown", Mondo tells him nostalgically as James can only laugh as only he can holding the back of his head going 'ohh... well.. uhh.. ehh... ooh'. "And Meowth, I hope you've been taking care of these two really well since I've left", Mondo tells him. "Oh absolutely, dey've been so lost witout you dat I dunno what level dey'd be on witout me", Meowth tells him. "Woooooobbuuhhffeet", says Wobbuffet introducing itself with a salute. "Hello there, you nice little Wobbuffet", replies Mondo rubbing its bald blue head before asking TR where they got such a cool pokemon. "Oh I'm not even shore.... one day it just popped up wit us", Meowth tells him. "My Wobbuffet is some parts cool, but also some parts cheerful, some parts fashionable, and many, many parts annoying", adds Jessie ending with an angry tone on the annoyed part. "WOOOOOOOOBBBUUHHFFET!", adds Wobbuffet kind of endorsing Jessie's description of the patiently pleased blue pokemon to Mondo. "So Mondo, please tell us! What have you been doing all this time since you've been away from us", James asks him sheepishly. "Are ya still in Team Rocket?", Meowth then asks. "Yeah, I'm still as evil a Team Rocket villain as you can ever find. I only do Team Rocket criminal activity part time, though. Right now, I'm even on the computer working on an eBay scam", says Mondo showing TR the PC he's working on with the eBay site on the screen. Most of the time I've devoted to just laying back and growing crops on my farm which I set up a couple of years ago", Mondo tells them.

Jessie says that it sounds like a great life and Mondo replies, "Oh it's gone very well. I can relax and not worry about the day to day stress of being chased while still being evil enough to be active in Team Rocket. Though I have to admit, it's not quite the same without the three of you being around. How have you guys been? I can imagine all of the fun you've had and trouble you've caused and ingenious schemes that you've pulled off on unsuspecting trainers. Please tell me what you've been through." Unfortunately, our heroes have experienced nothing but pain and insults from both goody-goody sets of twerps foiling all of their plans. So with nothing to tell them, it's up to TR to force out a response, favorable or not, and Jessie just eeks out that they've caused more mischief than he could imagine. "Yeah... huh huh.. you uhh, couldn't imagine da types uh pokemon we've brought in tuuuhh... da boss, yeah", Meowth mutters. But Mondo knows his friends too well and suspects a problem saying, "Umm, are you guys okay, something must be the matter." But James tells him, "Ohh.. no matter at all", as he's sweating bullets. "Aw, what's wrong? You guys can tell me, we're buddies! Remember?", Mondo gently tells them with the utmost compassion.

Jessie then saunter and figures that she guesses that they can't fool him and admits the past few years have not been that fun and have been full of nothing but failure. "I don't understand? How could you three have such a hard time with stealing?", wonders Mondo. "But it's not our fault.... rrrrgh... the twerps!", states Jessie. "Twerps? What twerps?", wonders Mondo. "There is this group of twerps that keep getting in our way and ruining our evil plans, even if it's none of their business", James proclaims. "Da names en faces have changed a little bit, but da twoipiness remains da same", adds Meowth. "But why do they keep on ruining your plans?", wonders Mondo as Jessie tells them about why they keep losing telling him about the extraordinary Pikachu and Sandshrew that they have. They also explain that they keep trying to capture the pokemon pair but everytime they do, either the twerps get them, a loser friend of theirs get them, or bad luck. And throughout their complaints we see the twerps electrifying and blasting sand on TR as they show the pain on their faces. "Ohh, I'm really sorry that I couldn't be there at all to help you guys", says Mondo showing his sympathy. "It's okay, you is way bettuh off witout us livin in peace instead of fightin' cuz we can't beat dem twoips", Meowth snivels.

Mondo then tries to cheer them up by inviting them to follow him to his house so he can chat with them some more and they can enjoy some more food since he really wants to talk more about their past. So they're all sitting in his living room of his quite luxurious house as James and Meowth enjoy the comfy couch they're both sitting on. The living room is decorated as if Martha Stewart did it herself on her millionaire budget "Mondo, you're house is absolutely exquisite. I haven't been in a place this nice since I've left home", James squeals bringing out the inner James. "En I haven't experienced a house like dis since we tried tuh sneak intuh MTV studios", Meowth adds. Mondo then tells them that this experience is reminding them of the first time they met as Team Rocket members as he serves them all wine glasses with orange stuff in it (an anime signal for alcoholic beverage if you're uneducated in anime) and little sandwiches on a silver platter.

But it's all justifiable cuz Mondo did look up to James after all.... so you'd figure sh*t like this would happen in this circumstance, as all you James fans would know.

"I remember that, too", says Jessie as they go into flashback mode. (Note: This may not be the exact accurate story of Mondo, but I don't know too much about him. So bear with me, damnit!) She remembers that they just dropped out of Pokemon Tech and first joined Team Rocket. They were making team assignments according to Jessie, putting rookie groups together to go out and do the boss's bidding. We see a younger Jessie and James (when they were actually 17) in what looks like a meeting room with other rookie rockets and what looks like a teacher or instructor behind a big desk. And if you look really closely, you may just see a youthful looking Cassidy and Butch... young Butch seems so cute with his buzzed green hair. "Are you Jessie? And are you James?", asks the old teacher lady. "U-uhh why yes", laughs 17 year old Jessie with the flatter chest and thinner frame. "You two scored terribly on your Team Rocket entrance exams, but you still did well enough to pass. But I'm still worried about the two of you, so I'm going to pair you up with one of our most successful class participants", says the old TR human resources coordinator bringing in the skinny young brown-haired kid to meet them. "Hi, my name's Mondo. I guess I'm gonna be your partner", young Mondo tells them. "Uhh... pleased to meet you", Jessie tells them. "Me too", smiles James enjoying the company of a young lad his age.

.........

......... AW NO YOU DON'T, I ain't goin' there!

James then narrates saying that poor Mondo didn't seem to fit in with our heroic duo at first, but then he really proved himself and earned their trust. "Come back here with that jewelry!", shouts Officer Jenny in another flashback as the three of them try to get away in their ol' school plain red balloon. "Oh nooo... I think they're going to get us. We're not going fast enough", whines James as Mondo just looks around nervously. Jenny then sends her Growlithe to burn up the balloon. Then at the last moment, Mondo declares to his then teammates, "Don't worry Jessie. Don't worry James. I'll get us out of this. Go Dittooo!" He then brings out his Ditto who squeals, "Deeet-to!" "Ditto! Transform into Growlithe and use a flamethrower to block Growlithe's attack." And thus, we see his Ditto transform into Growlithe and their two flamethrowers collide in midair causing the attack to block each other out saving the balloon and helping them get away from the lazy arm of the law. "I don't believe it... you did it, Mondo. You actually saved us and helped us get away", compliments proud Jessie. Mondo then laughs and gives Jessie and James credit saying it was their crazy ideas that helped them steal the museum diamonds successfully. "Aw shucks Mondo", says buddy James as he pats young Mondo's shoulder.

"You guys were like the ones with all the guts and boldness, coming up with all those crazy ideas for evil schemes and keeping us evil. I was just there to help out with the ideas I had and the brains that I could lend in times of action", Mondo says as we see flashbacks of Jessie and James stealing random valuables and pokemon while then seeing Mondo make calculations, setting up escapes, and throwing out his pokemon. "Oh, but when the three of us were together, it was such a grand time with all the trouble we caused", states James as we see more shots of them causing their usual trouble as younger chaps. Obviously, Jessie couldn't boss two people around as easily as one fruity James. "I hoid all uhbout when ya all came in en gave da boss everyting ya guys stole. Dat wuz when he wuz really impressed with yas en all da junk ya brought 'em back in da oily (early) days", Meowth tells them as we see another image of Giovanni clenching his fingers at the hoards of riches that young Jessie, James, and Mondo were once bringing him, including the gold and jewelry that they presented. This was probably before J & J rescue Meowth from that Meowth gang in Hollywood as we don't see Meowth with the three of them. "At one point, we even became the hottest young Team Rocket group on the boss's radar screen", says Jessie as we see Jessie smiling brightly before the boss as they were actually succeeding as the boss's henchmen.

Out of the flashback for a moment, "But looking at you now, Mondo, I still can't forget about that one tragic night where you ended up saving my life. It still burns in my mind to this day." Mondo looks down in a bit of sadness before coming up to James and telling him with a sorrowful expression on his face, "I know James, it's not something any of us would like to remember." "Yeah", says James feeling bad about it. And then we go to another flashback to see Jessie, James, and Mondo digging one of their patented hole traps which are second nature to TR by now as they are inside some kind of cavern. We see James digging in the hole as Jessie sighs, "I'm so glad we finally got rid of that huge rock that was clogging up our this hole. Hey Mondo, are you sure about this hole trap scheme? I don't mean anything negative but, it just looks so simple and lame." "I understand, poor Jessie", says Mondo being a real gal pal to her, "But if my estimations are right, it'll trap those hiking pokemon trainers and they'll have no way out."

And thus, a favorite anti-hero passion was born.

"I don't even see how I'm gonna get out after I'm done digging", says James as he spikes his shovel into the soil causing the edge of the pitfall to buckle and the big 7 foot wide, 3 foot tall rock to come crashing down onto poor James. "OH NO!", fears Mondo standing at the edge of the cliff seeing the rock about to land on James. "AAAAHHHHHH!", yells James in the utmost campy horror. "Get out of there, James!", shouts Mondo, and fearing for his big buddy's life, he races down the slope of the ditch and pushes away James who's frozen in fear just before the rock can crush poor James to bits. Unfortunately, Mondo himself is unable to escape the boulder and we see the first signs of the rock landing on his cute self making James shout, "Eeeee... Mondo, look oooouuutt!" And then we hear a loud thud and a painful grunt from Mondo making Jessie gasp, "OH NO!"

<cue commercial> Who's that pokemon?? (The original squirrel/turtle comboed, frat brotha homophobe, bad ass, shade wearin', water spewing, ass-kickin' tough guy on down the road!)

It's Squirtle!!!......................................... "Squirtlllle!"

"Oh NOOO!", gasps James still in the flashback as we see Mondo's legs pinned underneath the rock in the flashback as he complains about the pain in them. "Mondo, are you okay. Don't just stand there, James. Help me push this rock off him!", Jessie says rushing down and then shouting at James. "Roger", obliges James deepening the James/Roger mystery as he lends whatever little help he can to Jessie as she uses all her might to slowly get the rock off of Mondo's legs. "My leg.... I think it's broken", shouts young Mondo in the utmost pain. "Don't worry Mondo... we'll get you to a hospital as soon as we can", pledges James. "...and get incarcerated just for turning in a patient? Are you mad, James? The cops are all over searching for us! We'll be caught for sure if we approach the hospital", Jessie proclaims. "Eeeee... this is gone horribly wrong", frets James. "Well it wouldn't have happened if you hadn't been so aimless with your digging!", scolds Jessie. "It's alright you guys", eeks out Mondo as he writhes from the pain, "I can hold out till you get me back to headquarters." TR huh's as James then asks him if he's absolutely sure not wanting Mondo to suffer any more than he needs to and Mondo insists that he's fine.

"I suffered that severely broken leg. It changed my life and my role with Team Rocket forever", reminisces Mondo. "Soon after the boss sent you away on other assignments while I recovered, it saddened me that I never found you guys again", Mondo says with a heavy heart as we see Jessie, James, and Meowth leave his hospital room. "So when did ya start up dis little peanut gallery here?", asks Meowth. "Well Meowth, when I finally recovered, I did more office work for TR at headquarters. The pay wasn't bad but I was still sad because I wasn't with you guys. But after a few months, I saved up enough to buy this farm land right near Mt. Moon and Pewter City. I was able to get out of the office duty and work in TR's cybercrime dept. part time. That way, I could tend to my farm while staying in touch with Team Rocket. It was a nice change, but I still missed all the fun I had with you guys", narrates Mondo as we see all the images of everything he said. The flashback then ends as Mondo returns to being joyous and without a broken leg as he proclaims, "But now after all these years.... I can't believe it! We've met again."

"<sniff> You guys had it really good back in da old days I guess", sniffs Meowth after crying about hearing all the good times the three of them had before he came into the picture. "WOOOOOOBBUUUHHFFEET!", says Wobbuffet popping up ever so handily with a hanky for Meowth to use. "Jessie, James, and I had the time of our lives together, Meowth", Mondo tells them narrating that they had so much fun whether they went to the teen clubs or hit the town shopping <snicker>. And the three Rockets look pretty as they hit the town in another image of their younger days. "Boy, dat sounds radically different from da time I've had puttin' up wit dese two", says Meowth humbly, looking sad that he doesn't enjoy the company of J & J as much as Mondo did. James tries to cheer his ol' pu... kitty up saying, "Awww come on, we've had fun together, too." "I wish I had been around when you were there Meowth", Mondo tells him as Jessie suggests that maybe he can. "Yeah Mondo, you're a pretty rotten guy to know. You could come with us once again. We don't have much money or as much food, but you're always a welcome rocket in our bandwagon", argues James. "Woooobbuuhh wooobbuuhhffeeeet", punctuates Wobbuffet as they cordially invite him to join the terrifically dodgy trio.

But Mondo replies with great yearning in his eyes, "I would love to join you and be as fun, evil, and rotten as you three. But still, I just can't abandon the life I have now. I like the peace and quiet of living on my own farm rather than being caught up in the stress of evading the law and running around from place to place doing the bidding of the boss when I can do that right from the comfort of my own confines." "Well, I really can't blame you", admits James as Jessie tells him to trust her that he does not want to be shocked, swept away, and blasted off as nearly as many times as they have. "Dose twoips are rough", insists Meowth. "Are these.. 'twerps', as you call them, really that tough to steal from?", wonders Mondo. "We really have come up with every scheme possible that we could think of. But they overcome even our most rotten schemes to keep us empty handed and often embarrassed with the other Team Rocket members", Jessie tells him.

"Hmm... no wonder why I haven't heard much about you from Team Rocket since we parted", figures cute young Mondo. "I tink all da electricity from dat Pikachu en sandstorms from dat Sanshrew must've scrambled our brains and kept 'em from woikin right... at least dese twos", quips Meowth alluding to Jessie and James. "Man, I really wish I could help you take on these twerps", says Mondo. Jessie then realizes that maybe he can since they just saw the twerps not too far away. Evil music starts to play as Mondo declares sounding wilier, "Well don't worry, if we find those twerps around. I promise you guys, I will give them a huge surprise, ha ha ha ha haaaa. In the meantime, may I treat you to some of my farm fresh peanuts?" "OOOOOOOOH! That sounds wonderful Mondo!", says James in instant reaction. "I can't wait tuh pick up some Plantuhs (as in the brand name)", adds Meowth. "Woooooobbuuuhhffeeet!", says Wobbuffet holding out his arms to imply that it wants peanuts too, and then goes back to saluting.

Ooooh... Mondo's dark side...

"Saashrew!", shouts Sandshrew abruptly as it then goes and dives around the peanut plant in a circle to get the roots out. "Alright Sandshrew", compliments Crystal as she and Pikachu pluck the peanuts off the roots to fill up their now full basket. "Raaaticaate!", shrieks Raticate as Justin compliments it as he walks by Crystal carrying his full basket of peanuts and bragging that this is his third basket of peanuts that he and Raticate have completed. "Ah really, we'll we're done with our third basket, too", brags Crystal. "Pikachuuu!", shouts Pikachu snuggling in with Sandshrew in the now raw and cloudy weather. "Hah, not so fast! We just finished OUR third basket of peanuts and my hair's still as bouncy as it was when we left town", brags Misty as she comes into the picture, though her mulleted red hairstyle doesn't match her farming outfit. "Woo-paaah", agrees her Wooper as Misty admits that they owe their cleanliness to Mondo for if it wasn't for the gloves and aprons they provided each of them, including Justin <snicker>, then they wouldn't look as beautiful while uprooting the peanut plants. Crystal agrees and says that Mondo is awesome and then suggests that they bring their baskets back to the barn and get their pay. "Pika-chuu", says Pikachu who's now talking with the Furret attending to them. "Furret furrret!", replies Furret as Sandshrew also tells it something. "You guys comin?", asks Cris-tal as the threesome starts to walk off towards the barn. They get trailed by Wooper, Raticate, and then the three chatting pokemon.

They come back into the barn and start looking for Mondo to try and collect what they've made so far for gathering all the crops. "Mondooo? Hellooo?", asks Crystal as they all look around for signs of him. They drop off their latest baskets of peanuts and then Furret tells the other pokemon, "Furret furret. FUUUURRREEET!" "Pikaaah piiiikachuu", replies Pikachu. Sandshrew then alerts Crystal, "Saaaaashrew shrew shrew! Sanshrew." "What's going on, Cris?", wonders Justin as Crystal replies that Furret probably knows where Mondo is and will lead them to him. "Is that right, Furret?", asks Misty and Furret nods and cries out. "Alright then Furret, lead the way!", shouts Crystal and Furret rushes off towards his posh house so that the threesome can find the TR Mondo. "Whoooooaaa! Take it easy, Furret", shouts Justin getting winded as the pokemon, including his Raticate start to race ahead of the pathetically slow humans.

When they approach the house, Mondo sees them on his porch and waves out to them. "Oh hey you guys!", yells Mondo without TR at the moment. "HEEEEY MONDO!", cheerfully shouts Crystal who starts to slow down. "We just wanted to let you know about our progress thus far. We've finished nine baskets of peanuts thus far", Misty tells him as they slow down and approach him. "ALREADY?! Man, you guys must really work well with your pokemon", Mondo replies. "Absolutely, we couldn't be happier with the way our pokemon have worked with us", says Justin. "Raaticaaate", screeches Raticate in what one can only assume to be agreement though it never looks anything other than pissed off. "I'll give you the money that you guys have made so far", says Mondo and he gives them $90 for their work without even checking to see the baskets themselves. Crystal flips through all the bills with the utmost expertise as she thanks Mondo. Meanwhile, Jessie and James get set to join Mondo outside when the sight of the twerps scares them away from direct view.

"I don't believe it! That was the twerps out there!", gasps Jessie. "They must be helping out Mondo with his farm", says James. "Really? Wow, dey may be gatherin' peanuts but dey ain't gettin' paid peanuts", says Meowth peering out the slide door to see the twerps do business with Mondo. Wobbuffet then looks out the window saluting and shouting, "Wooobbuuuhh wooobbbuuuhhffeet!" "Get away from the window, do you want them to see us and get suspicious?", shouts Jessie pulling the two of them back. "I'm guessing that you're going to stay and gather the rest of the crops, are you?", Mondo asks the threesome. "We could do that", agrees Crystal. "That's great!", replies Mondo adding that before they resume that they bring a basket of peanuts over to the house since he's entertaining some friends... friends that happen to be entertainment experts. "Yeah sure, no prob", says Crystal getting slang-y with Mondo and thus, they go back to the barn to retrieve a basket of peanuts for him. "Fuuurrret. Furret", says Furret who goes off with Pikachu and Sandshrew.

Once the twerps are gone, Mondo comes back in to see Jessie and James. "Uhh... those workers.. of yours", Jessie tells him half-laughing. "Yeah? What about them?", asks Mondo. "Dose are da twoips dat we've been tellin ya uhbout!", Meowth yells. "The twerps that shatter all our dreams... our beautiful dreams", whines James. "Are you serious?! Those kids out there are the twerps that have been causing you trouble?", asks a shocked Mondo gasping at the situation suddenly brought to light for him. "... and causing it double", mopes James. "Wooooobbuuuhhffeeeet", adds Wobbuffet as Jessie wonders if he has a plan to deal with them. "Uuuuumm... oh boy. Well don't worry you guys, they may be the most meddlesome bunch on the planet, but we're all back together again and I'm sure we can snatch their pokemon.... together", Mondo declares. "He's right, for far too long it's been 3 on 2! But now that you're with us Mondo, things are finally evened up. Uwa hah hah hah hah hah haaaaaahh!", cackles Jessie. "Eeeeey! What uhbout me? Don't I count fuh anyting anymore?", complains Meowth. "No because you're just a pokemon", James tells him. "That's right, Meowth. But stop complaining, for once we're going to give the twerps a big phat L and send them packing without their Pikachu and Sandshrew. A-hah hah haaaaah, they'll never know what they got themselves into", schemes Jessie. Hooray for TR getting confident and evening the score.

We then see Pikachu and Sandshrew patting each other's back as they smile at one another. A loud yell then permeates the air around the threesome and their pokemon shouting, "HEEEEELP! I've been taken captive." Furret picks up the sound and knows its Mondo and the twerps all gasp, obviously, as Misty says to the rest, "That sounded like Mondo!" "We'd better hurry!", replies Crystal and they start running towards Mondo's house with Justin carrying the basket of peanuts. When they get there, they are horrified to see Mondo stood up and tied to a lounge chair. "HEEELP!", shouts Mondo. "MONDO!", shouts Crystal as Sandshrew cries out in horror, "... who did this to you?" "Uggh... the most evil group in the world... TEAM ROCKET!", says Mondo. "AAHHHH!", shouts the threesome. TR then begins to cackle as the threesome are unknowingly being set up for sure.

"Prepare for trouble, we've landed on the farm", says Jessie leaping out behind the twerps from under the crops to the left.
"And make it double cuz we're here to cause some harm", as James leaps out from the crops to the right.

We then see Mondo grinning with delight at being able to witness J & J doing their motto after missing it for all these years saying to himself, "OH BOY! They're doing the motto, I'm so glad to see it again after all these years." And then we resume their motto.

"To protect the world from devastation"
"To unite all peoples 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, fight, fight"
"Meeeeeowth, that's right!", shouts Meowth shoving a pawful of peanuts into his huge mouth.

"WHY ARE YOU DOIN' THIS TO MONDO?", shouts Crystal as Pikachu also chides them for their evil. "Furret furret!", chirps Furret worried about its trainer. Mondo whispers to Furret, "Don't worry, I'm fine. Just come over here and bring Sandshrew and Pikachu!" Furret then calls upon Sandshrew and Pikachu to help them free Mondo as they get up to Mondo bound to the lounge chair which is stood up against the wall of the house so Mondo is more standing up than he is lying down. Meanwhile, James responds to the threesome's rage answering, "... to do some pitiful things to old Farmer Jack. But it's not as pitiful as the things we'll do to you, twerps!" "We've already brought down the head honcho so why don't we bring down the entire house now?", Jessie asks her partners in crime. "Will do!", obliges Meowth obeying Jessie.

"That's not happening, Team Rocket!", says Mondo as the pokemon help to free him from his lounge chair. "Oh no, Farmer Jack got free", points out James. Meowth then nonchalantly proclaims, "I don't like the looks of this." "I couldn't agree more", says Mondo getting out a couple of hypodermic needles from the pockets of his overall. And then in a scene sure to creep the kiddies out, especially those that are about to get immunization shots, Mondo injects the needles into Sandshrew and Pikachu which must contain some kind of toxin (no, not Botox!) into their bloodstream.
"PIKAAAAHHHH!"
"SAAAAAANSHREW SHREEEEEEEWWW!"
Both pokemon shout in agony as Furret looks around confused. The threesome turns around and Crystal sees the shocking needlework of Mondo. "What's going on?", gasps Crystal. "Buuuhh... uhh... I don't get it. Why are you doing this Mondo?", shouts Misty. "Piiiiikaaaah", slurs Pikachu weakly stumbling over to Crystal along with Sandshrew as Crystal takes a look at them and through her medical skills determines that the two of them have been poisoned.

"What's the meaning of this?!", again shouts Misty as Mondo tells them not to be ignorant, he knows that Sandshrew and Pikachu are the reason that they keep defeating his friends, Jessie, James, and Meowth. "I don't understand", says Crystal looking worried as she tends to Pikachu and Sandshrew. "Long lost partners are together again after all these years!", shouts Mondo as he rips off his farmer's outfit to show his white TR uniform, just like Jessie and James. "Aaaahh! You mean to tell me that Jessie, James, and Meowth are actually your friends?!!", gasps Cris-tal. "Well there's a first", quips Misty in persecution of their rivals. "This is disgusting! This whole thing was nothing more than a setup!", states Justin. "Woo-paaaah", sounds Misty's Wooper looking a little confused and bewildered. "I can't believe that such a nice and caring young man could be associated with Team Rocket", says Misty as it sounds like she's losing her underlying lust for Mondo. "Sorry that I had to do all this to you, but I have a duty to Team Rocket just like I have one to my farm", Mondo says as we see the secret druggery of Cris-tal as she pulls out a couple of pills from her mysterious green backpack while Mondo tells Jessie and James, "By the way, you're doing your motto better than ever these days." "Oh... well...", laughs an embarrassed Jessie, "... we do get to practice it quite a bit. But in any event, with your precious pair of pokemon poisoned, we're now primed to pick off Pikachu and its pudgy partner."

Well what can I say but... brilliant use of 'pee' XD...

"Perfectly put, Jessie", laughs Mondo. "She does have a clever way with words", comments James as Jessie sends Arbok out to get the twerps and James soon follows with Weezing. "CHAAAAAAAAHH-BOK!", cries Arbok lunging for the twerps when it's cut off by a suddenly healthy Sandshrew taking the purple serpent down. "What happened? I just poisoned that Sandshrew!", gasps Mondo as the others look shocked as well. "Luckily, I happened to be carrying a couple of poison antidote pills with me to neutralize the effects of your little sneak attacks. They’re NOT going to work, Team Rocket!", defiantly states Crystal. "Very well, but you still can't beat the three of us together", replies Mondo. Jessie agrees and then has Arbok use tackle attack which Sandshrew evades and then James has Weezing use smog attack on Sandshrew which blankets the sandy rodent in Weezing's gross exhaust. "Sandshrew!", shouts Crystal in concern. "Alright Wooper we're gonna help them. Use your bubble attack to clear the smog away", shouts Misty and Wooper jumps out and its bubble attack clears the smog and also punishes Weezing.

Misty then has Wooper use its slam attack to beat up Weezing some more. "Good job, Misty", compliments Crystal and Misty accepts it. Wooper then gets wrapped up by Arbok as it constricts on the little blue thing with antennas. But then Crystal and Sandshrew help them out as he slashes Arbok making it release Wooper. With Weezing being so worthless as to not put up any more resistance, Misty then has Wooper use water gun to push Arbok and Weezing back into Jessie, James, and Meowth and then Sandshrew uses sandstorm to cover them with sand and wind spinning TR out leaving them in pain and a LOT of discomfort from the sand plus the water. "Ohhhhh", is the only sound we hear from James looking very uncomfortable in a GAS. "Jessie! James! Meowth! Are you alright?", wonders Mondo. "Ohhh.... never better", moans a delirious Jessie as she drops her face into the ground.

"Great job you guys", shouts Crystal complimenting Sandshrew and Wooper. "Pi-pikaaahh", adds Pikachu before the threesome then set their pissed off sites on Mondo standing beside the fallen teammates. "Well, I guess you've really shown your true colors", comments Crystal. "Yeah, a Team Rocket loser is a Team Rocket loser", adds Misty as Mondo is very displeased over seeing the TR teammates he adores lying in pain on the ground. "Hmmph. You want to hurt MY friends?", shouts Mondo, "Well then maybe I should hurt YOU. Ditto... GO!" "Deee-to!", squeals Ditto coming out of its pokeball as Mondo sends forth Furret to battle as well. Furret says sharply, "Furret!", as Crystal insists that they aren't scared of him and then has Pikachu battle this round. "Alright Pikachu, use your thunderbolt!", says Pikachu. "Pikaaa... Piiiiii-KAAAAHHHH-CHUUUUUUUU!", grunts Pikachu aiming to zap Ditto. "Ditto, transform.... into that Sandshrew!", says Mondo giving the Sandshrew transformation order at the very last second. Thus, Ditto transforms into Sandshrew just in time to absorb Pikachu's electricity making Crystal gasp, "AAAAHHH!" Sandshrew.... the Ditto Sandshrew... then smashed into Pikachu with a take down attack turning it into a Sandshrew vs. Pikachu battle. GASP.... THE SACRILEDGE!!! "Mondo knows what he's doing", says Misty sounding as impressed as she can get for Team Rocket, "He had Ditto transform into Sandshrew instead of Pikachu so it can take Pikachu's thunderbolt attack."

"Furret! Get that Pikachu!", shouts Mondo. "Furret??", wonders Furret getting confused and not willing to attack the friend it's been with for hours now. "You think Furret is willing to battle Pikachu after it got along so well with all of these pokemon. They've been together in the field you know", replies Crystal..... make of that line what you will. "Furret......", says Furret as it just stands there looking even more bewildered and then it confirms its looniness looking left and right as if it was doped up and then goes, "Furrrrrret furret."

Cris-tal..... what did you and your pokeymon do to poor young innocent Furret, you drug pusher!??

Mondo then has Ditto use a sand attack on Pikachu when Justin sends Raticate to help out Pikachu and use its super fang attack. Pikachu then shakes off the sand as Raticate poses to look all tough and hardcore like it wants to be perceived as... you can just tell by its face. This leads Raticate to get pounced on from behind by Furret making Misty say, "I don't understand, did Furret not get along with Raticate?" "I think Furret had an amnesia attack", says Justin as Crystal repeats wondering, "An amnesia attack?" "It's an attack that Furret's have been known to possess, the effects of the attack are somewhat mysterious though", explains Justin just so the dumb people out there can understand what the hell's going on. Furret then splits up into many Furrets and they all surround Raticate. "Now Furret is using double team! I guess the amnesia made Furret forget about the friendship it made with Sandshrew and Pikachu", points out Crystal alertly as Sandshrew sighs at that news.

"You have no shot of beating my pokemon now, especially with my Furret's double team working at full speed", Mondo directs towards Justin. Justin responds, "If you think you're gonna beat me that easily Mondo, you're out of your mind. You have absolutely no idea who you're dealing with." "Hmmph, alright Furret use your slam attack", shouts Mondo as Justin then has Raticate escape underground. "Furret", squeals Furret lunging for the pokemon with ungroomed fur that would horrify Jessie and James but Raticate just makes it underground. Mondo then has Ditto use a rock slide attack as the guise of Sandshrew. "Sanshrew!", squeals Ditto with a higher pitch than Crystal's Sandshrew as it magical produces rocks to hurl at Pikachu. "Pikachu, dodge 'em!", shouts Crystal as Pikachu zig-zags between falling rocks as Crystal then orders, "Now use your iron tail attack!", and Pikachu hits Ditto with its brightened up lightning style tail.

Furret then tries to use its fury swipes on Pikachu as Pikachu looks worried turning around to see Furret attempting to slice up the rodent. "Alright Raticate, NOW!", shouts Justin cueing Raticate to rise out from the safety of the underground to cut off Furret from fury swiping Pikachu. "Ditto... use earthquake!", shouts Mondo and the Sandshrew form of Ditto unleashes an earthquake which splits the ground as the resulting energy strikes Raticate making Justin gasp. "Raticate, are you alright?", wonders Justin fearing that it may have succumb. But Raticate is too grizzled, too ghetto, and too hardcore to be beaten yet and thus it stays up grunting, "Rrraaaticcaaate." "Alright, Raticate's still in the game", says Crystal as she then turns to Justin saying, "Let's team up." "Right", agrees Justin as they both shout,
"Pikachu..."
"Raticate..."
"QUICK ATTACK!", they both yell as the two of them zip along the ground and then tag team takedown Ditto and Furret. Ditto is finished and reverts back to its blobby pink form, but Furret is still trying to stay in it to the shock of Crystal and Pikachu. "Raticate quickly, get it with a hyper fang attack", shouts Justin as thus, Raticate bites into Furret to the fear of Mondo before Furret and Ditto are flung back at Mondo knocking them all to the ground along with the rest of Team Rocket.

"Alright Pikachu, NOW use your thunderbolt", says Crystal. And the little mustard yellow rodent is now more liberal with its attacks since the Furret it quickly became friends with is now in the midst of the TR pile-up. And as was the case with shocking Ash multiple times in the earlier years, shocking one friend is worth it if you get to shock many more enemies. Thus, Pikachu zaps Team Rocket triggering that always mysterious random explosion that sends them all away. "Well Mondo, now you've gotten a taste of what life is like on the streets fighting those twerps", quips Jessie soaring into the sky. "It's a taste I wish I could spit out", moans Mondo still smoldering from the thunderbolt as he spits out a burnt peanut.

"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaaaain" "...with Mondoooooooooo!"

Later on that evening, we see Officer Jenny and a horde of other cops at the place confiscating a bunch of Mondo's stuff from his house and his barn. She then thanks the threesome for alerting them about the secret TR operations going on there. The threesome once again did the cops' work after all... She adds, "It appears that this farm and a lot of the business that was going on here was used to fund and support Team Rocket's mischievous schemes. It was probably one of many secret Team Rocket benefitters. It's just a shame that the owner got away." "Well at least nobody has to worry about this farm for awhile", comments Crystal who then thanks Misty, Justin, and their pokemon for their help since the recent battle was a close one. "Yeah, but Crystal, now we'll never get any money for the rest of the peanuts we were supposed to harvest", Misty informs her. But Justin tells her not to worry because the only reason they came there to work was to get enough money to hold them over until the next time they received some more..... from Old Man Oak's drug shipments.

"Oh yeah... I'm sure we'll be okay now", says Crystal as she then says that they'd better find a Pokemon Center so Nurse Joy can look at the wounds of Sandshrew and Pikachu caused by Mondo's needle stabbing. Officer Jenny then informs them that the nearest Pokemon Center is just ahead up the path on the foot of Mt. Moon and that the Nurse Joy up there is great adding that she make sure her pokemon get the right treatment. "That sounds good", says Cris-tal as Justin declares that they go to the Mt. Moon pokemon center.... and no doubt, that's where we'll see them next..... those poor dancing Clefairies, predatory nerd scientists, and.............. and... that's about all I can think of for now.

<cue commercial> Who's that pokemon?? (This fuglier form of Horsea type pokemon has pencil thin snout, jagged scale, aerodynamic wings....... oh damn huh huh.... I really wish I didn't say fuglier ***gets whooped***.)

It's Kingdra!! .......................... "Draaaaaaaah!"

As for poor TR and their long lost partner, Mondo, they found some good luck catching a nice cool breeze. The bad luck.... everything else! They're all zapped out from Sandshrew and Pikachu while stuck at the top of giant oak tree on a steep slope near Mt. Moon. "So they were pokemon league trainers, huh? N-No wonder why they were much tougher than I thought... uuunnngghh", moans Mondo stooped over one branch to the right of James. Ditto looks like a glop of pink jelly on Mondo's uniform back while poor Furret, caught in the middle of it all, clings to his leg. "I suhpose ya coitanly ain't interested in comin' wit us en huntin' down dose twoips now, is ya?", groans Meowth slumped down on its belly with his head resting on Jessie's back below a strung out Arbok. "Ohh, that's alright. Besides, I will get my farm back...... eventually. And then soon I can rebuild all the accommodations I had.... ohhhh", says Mondo downtrodden.

"WOOOOOOOBBUUUHHFFEET!", shouts Wobbuffet popping out and saluting from behind the main trunk during Mondo's statement. "Don't worry, Mondo, I can assure you that we'll stay on the twerps tail through every thunderbolt and sandstorm", moans Jessie monotonously. "<sigh> Alright.... well, you guys are free to drop in and visit me anytime at my farm. That is, once I'm living there again.... and once I've paid off my debt to the boss.... and once my crops grow so I can make money again", Mondo replies. "That's the thing with those twerps, young Mondo. They're always like a weed in your garden that destroys everything, every idea, and every scheme you grow", says James with Weezing resting on the branch below James doing nothing but look fugly. "Woooooooobbuuh", adds Wobbuffet.

Down below all this where the tree grows of the side of the hill, something pushes on one of the roots very hard again and again trying to come out lifting the root instead of doing the logical thing and going around it. "Ummm... say, do you guys hear something down below?", wonders Jessie as the others go, "Huh?" Then, whatever is trying to surface does turning out to be a couple of Sentrets which just happen to be pre-evolved Furrets but you pokemaniacs don't need me to tell you that sh*t, right? But anyway, they manage to lift one of the tree's main roots which is just enough for the tree to start to fall over downhill with TR on the top. "AAAAHHHHH!", TR all shouts as Mondo whines, "But I'm not ready to come down." "Well", panics Jessie, "I guess that no matter whether Team Rocket is 3 or 4 strong." Then they all chime in finishing, "When the twerps come around, things always go WROOOOOOOOOONNGG!" And then they fall with the tree...... but man, does that Mondo have instant chemistry with Jessie and James which leaves me to ask the Pokemon anime people over in Japan one little request. Whether it be for an extended stay or just one brief episode appearance.... BRING US MONDO!