"Here you go, miss!" James said as he passed Eleanor the menu. "Thanks!" Eleanor said. James walked back in to the kitchen with a little smile on his face.
"Raichu rai rai raichu. Rai rai raichu?"(I don't like him. Or that lady?) Raichu muttered. "Don't be silly Raichu. They look perfectly fine to me." Said Eleanor. Raichu muttered something and returned to its menu. Eleanor wondered is something really was wrong.
James came back. "What do you want to eat and drink?" he said. Raichu pointed to a glass of water and a ham sandwich. "I'll have the same as Raichu please." Eleanor said. James returned to the kitchen. "Meowth!" James whispered. "Have you got Plan A ready?" he said. "You bet I have!" said Meowth. He appeared with a brown bottle. "Jimmy boy! All we gotta do is make dat girl drink the stuff in dis bottle and she'll be dizzy in five minutes. Then we can grab da Raichu and run!" Meowth said.
Later, Jessie arrived with their lunch. "Enjoy!" she said. "We will!" said Eleanor. Eleanor gulped the "water" down. "Ahh, that's better." Eleanor said. Jessie walked happily into the kitchen.
"Perfect!" she said to James. "The kid drank it all in one gulp!" James laughed. "Meowth!" he said. "Go and wait until the kid leaves and then call us." Meowth nodded and went to watch. Five minutes later the "water" kicked in. "Ohhh?..my head?" Eleanor complained. "Um..Raichu? I'll be back in a couple of minute's ok?" Raichu watched Eleanor run in to the ladies.  Meowth put a paw in his mouth and made a loud whistling sound. Jessie and James came running into the room and both had something behind their backs. Raichu stood up, knowing something was wrong. "Rai?"(Hey?) it said. James quickly whipped out a net from behind him and threw it on Raichu. "Raichu!"(Eleanor!) It cried.
Eleanor came running out, now feeling much better. "What's going on!?!" she said. Then she noticed the net with Raichu under it. She stared at the trio. "You let Raichu go right now!" she said. Team Rocket laughed. Jessie held a button in her hand. "See you around, kid!" she said. She pushed the button and a lot of smoke filled the room. Eleanor coughed trying not to breathe the smoke in. It was no use she couldn't see anything. When the smoke cleared, nobody was there. "Raichu!" she cried. She ran out the door.
Up in the sky was a balloon in the shape of a Meowth. There was laughing coming from it. James was holding a glass jar with Raichu in it. Raichu was trying to use thunder attacks to get out but it wasn't working. It was only making it weaker.
Eleanor thought quickly. She grabbed a pokeball from her bag. "Pidgeot, I choose you!" she said. There was a flash and a big Pidgeot appeared. Eleanor clambered on to its back. "Find the balloon!" she said. Pidgeot obeyed and flew into the sky.
Meanwhile, Jessie and James were celebrating that they had finally caught a pokémon. "Ha! That was so much easier than trying to get that Pikachu from the twerps!" said James. "I can't believe that kid fell for it!" Jessie said. Raichu banged on the glass of the jar it was in. "Rai rai Raichu!!!"(Let me go!!!) It said. Meowth just laughed.
He looked out of the basket. The smile that was on his face soon dropped. "Er?guys? I think dat kid is following us?"he said. Jessie and James turned around. "Uh-oh?" they both said. Pidgeot landed on top of the balloon. "You know what to do?" Eleanor said with a little smile on her face. "Pidgeot!" the pokémon cried before pushing its beak straight into the balloon.
Loads of wind started to pour out of the balloon. The trio in the basket screamed. James dropped the jar that Raichu was in and it smashed. "James you idiot!!!" Jessie said. She tried to grab Raichu but it jumped out the way. Pidgeot came down a bit. "That'll teach you to steal my friend!" Eleanor said to Team Rocket.
She opened her arms so Raichu could jump from the basket to safety. Raichu leaped off the balloon basket but at the same time, Meowth tried to grab Raichu's leg. As he did, he fell of the edge of the basket and was left clinging on to Raichu's leg. "Help! Help!" Meowth cried. It was no use because the balloon was starting to fall now. "Meowth!" Jessie and James yelled.
Raichu wanted Meowth off his leg as it was really starting to hurt. Without thinking, Raichu thunder shocked Meowth. It shocked Meowth but it shocked Eleanor too!
Meowth and Eleanor both let go of Raichu from sheer shock and both of the pokémon started tumbling down towards a forest below. "Raichu!" Eleanor screamed. "Meowth!" Jessie and James screamed. Team Rockets balloon was now out of control and it fell quickly. Yelling could be heard coming from the balloon. Soon it was out of sight.
"Pidgeot! Dive! Quickly! Get Raichu!" Eleanor said. Pidgeot flew down as quick as it could trying to catch up with Raichu but it was unsuccessful. Raichu and Meowth were soon out of sight too.
"NO!" Eleanor cried. Soon Pidgeot and Eleanor were in the forest. Pidgeot landed. Raichu and Meowth were no where to be seen.
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Raichu was unconscious on the ground and Meowth was stuck up in a tree.  "Hey! A little help up here!" Meowth yelled to Raichu. Raichu woke up. And then panicked!"Rai!?"(Eleanor!?) It cried. "She ain't here! Will you quit it and get me down from here!?!?" Meowth yelled to Raichu.
Raichu didn't like the way Meowth talked to it. But, it did like to help others so it just thunder shocked Meowth out of the tree. "Ouch!!!!" Meowth yelled as he fell out of the tree and hit the ground. Raichu ignored Meowth and started calling for Eleanor. "Hey! Jessie? James? Where are you guys?" Meowth called out. His voice echoed in the forest. There was a low rumbling sound. "Raichu! Rai raichu rai rai!? (Meowth! What have you done!?) Raichu shouted to Meowth.
Meowth had yelled a bit too loud and woken up a wild Nidoking. It didn't appreciate it. It appeared in front of the two pokémon and gave a loud growl. "Uh oh?" Meowth said. "Heh heh?nice Nidoking?" Meowth said quietly. The Nidoking wasn't in the best of moods. "NIDO!!!" the Nidoking yelled.  Raichu and Meowth quickly glanced at each other before turning and running for their lives.
The Nidoking charged after them, angry and wanting revenge for loosing it's sleeping time. Meowth and Raichu kept running. "What are we gonna do?!" Meowth shouted to Raichu. "Raichu!"(Oh no!) Raichu said. They had reached the edge of a cliff. Below was a big lake.
Meowth and Raichu turned around. The Nidoking roared with triumph. Why me was on both pokémon's minds. "Raichu rai raichu!"(Get ready to jump!) Raichu said. "Are you out of your mind!?" Meowth said in shock. "Rai."(Yes.) Raichu said. The Nidoking was about to bodyslam the two but Raichu pushed Meowth off the cliff and then it jumped off too.
Above, Nidoking could be heard yelling madly at the two. Below also, yelling could be heard. But only from Meowth. "Kid! You're as nuts as a Pikachu I know!" he said. Raichu ignored Meowth, staying calm and getting ready to land in the water.
The was a great big splash as the two pokémon hit the waters surface. Meowth appeared on the surface, gasping for air. He started to swim to an area that had a path, which led into another part of the forest, but he noticed Raichu hadn't appeared. He paused for a moment, wondering whether to see if Raichu was all right. Then, Raichu appeared, and swam over to Meowth.
The two swam to shore, not saying anything. When the reached it, they both looked up at the cliff. The Nidoking was still there, yelling its head off.
Raichu started to laugh at the pokémon. Then, Meowth joined in. Then they realised they were laughing together and stopped. They started to walk down the path. "Why did you push my off da cliff, Raichu? I mean, why didn't ya just save yourself?" Meowth asked. "Raichu rai raichu."(I would have done it for anybody.) Raichu replied. "Oh. I see." Meowth replied. Why can't Jessie and James be like dat? Meowth thought to himself. Well, I guess it's is because we meant to be evil?
The two kept walking and calling for their humans but they didn't succeed. It was getting dark now and Meowth and Raichu were getting hungry. "I'm hungry!" Meowth complained. Raichu nodded. That meant it was hungry too. It waved at Meowth and ran off. "Hey! Where you going?" Meowth yelled. It was too late, Raichu had gone. "I guess not even other pokémon can put up with Meowth?"he said sadly. He sighed and sat down beneath a large tree.
It was a little later and there was a rustling sound in the bushes. "Jessie? James? Dat you?" Meowth said hopefully. He got up. Then Raichu appeared. And it had lots of apples and berries in its arms. Raichu walked over to the tree Meowth had been under and laid out the food on the ground. It looked up.
"Rai?"(You eating?) It said. "Your gonna share dat food with me?" Meowth said, in shock. Raichu nodded and bit into an apple. Meowth smiled at Raichu and sat down. He started eating and then remembered what it was like trying to eat a fair share of food with Jessie and James. Normally, Jessie got the most, her being the tough one of the group. When they had both finished they sat under the tree, gazing at the night sky. It was filled with sparkling stars and a beautiful silver moon.
"Raichu rai rai?"(What's Team rocket like?) Raichu said. "Raichu?"(Scary?) it continued. "Its real tough." Meowth said. "We try to get dis Pikachu most of da time. It's neva worked though." Meowth continued. "An it's hard, having to travel with Jessie and James. James, he's cool, but he's a bit of a Spearow brain!" he said. Raichu and Meowth laughed. "An Jessie, well, she a bit full of herself. Oh, an ya don't mess wit her. She real tough and gets angry if ya say somethin she don't like." He said.
"Raichu rai Raichu?" (Your trainers aren't very nice are they?) Raichu said rather surprised. "For a start, kid! They ain't my trainers! Nobody owns Meowth! And, yeah? they can get pretty nasty. But somehow, we always seem to stick together?"Meowth said. "Raichu raichu." (It's called the power of friendship.) Raichu said. "Yeah?" Meowth said. "Friendship?"
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Eleanor sat at the entrance of a cave she and her Aridos had found. She watched all her pokémon eating. She knew she wouldn't be able to sleep that night. Eleanor was too worried about Raichu.
Oh Raichu?where are you? She thought. "Free!" her Butterfree, said. It flew to her and tried to hand her some of its food. "It's ok Butterfree, I'm not hungry." "Free?." The pokémon said sadly. It knew that Eleanor wasn't the same without Raichu. Or if any of her other pokémon she wouldn't be the same either. It flew back to the log it had been siting on and started chatting to Dragonite.
Eleanor sighed. Raichu had been the first ever pokémon she had met. It was really her uncles but when Eleanor was 10 years old, her uncle had let her have it for her pokémon journey. She kicked the cave wall in anger and sadness. She walked deeper into the cave. "I'm going to sleep now guys." She said. "Don't stay up too late?"
Feraligatr, Pidgeot, Dragonite, Aridos and Butterfree sat in a circle and watched Eleanor until she was out of sight. "Drag?"(Poor kid?) Dragonite said. It looked down at the ground, making pictures out of the dust with it's tail. "Gatr fer!" (I wish there were something we could do!) Feraligatr. "Aridos, ari ari aridos!" (There's nothing, we just have to wait and hope.) Aridos said. "Free?." "Pidgeot?."(Come back to us Raichu?) Both said.
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Jessie and James sat back to back, exhausted from searching for Meowth and Raichu. "Why did we have to do that stupid restaurant plan!" Jessie moaned. "But Jessie, it was your idea in the first place!" James said. "You said it was a good idea!" Jessie shouted. "So did Meowth!" James shouted back.
Jessie sighed. "You know what, James?" she said. "I actually miss him?" She said. She looked down, wondering where Meowth was. "Yeah. Me too." James said. He turned around and looked at Jessie.
"You really mean it don't you." James said. Jessie looked up. "Yeah?I really do?" she said. James placed his hands on her shoulders. "Don't worry Jess. We will find him. I promise!" he said. A determined look was on his face. "And the Raichu?" Jessie said. "And the Raichu too!" James said.
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"So Raichu. I told ya what my life is like, so tell me about yours!" Meowth said. "Raichu rai rai raichu."(We have been best friends since she was 10 years old.) Raichu said. "Rai raichu."(We travel a lot too.) it continued. "Rai raichu rai. Rai raichu rai."(We stick together. Through thick and thin.) "Rai raichu."(I want it to stay that way.) Raichu finished.
"You two really are true friends ain't ya?" Meowth said. Raichu nodded. "I wish my life could be like yours sometimes." Meowth said. "Raichu rai Raichu?"(So why be in Team Rocket?) Raichu asked. "I guess Meowth is in it for da money." He said. "Rai raichu?"(But is money so important?) Raichu said. "I really don't know anymore?" Meowth said.

  
Wow! That's the longest part of any story I ever made! Look out for part 3 coming soon! Any comments or nastys will be taken by the raichu!