Disclaimer: Yes! I do not own Pokemon! I do not own Nintendo! I do own Rocket, 
for whatever he’s worth. (about thirty cents I’m guessing) And I also own 
Smellinose, the wonderful evolution of Lickitung! 

Story rating: PG, for some mild pokemon violence.

			Togepi’s Bad Day 


	Jessie and James walked through the forest. They had just suffered another
humiliating defeat at the hands of Ash and his Pickachu of doom. The
pokemon Meowth, of course , was complaining bitterly. 

	“Youse guys failed again!" he screamed. "I’ve joust about given up hope to 
be Top Cat.” "Well Meowth", Jessie snarled, "You built the stupid machine!" Just 
then a sound like distant thunder was heard. Suddenly, hundreds of wild pokemon
began to run straight toward Jessie James, and Meowth, so fast that Team Rocket 
could just barely see the look of absolute terror in their eyes. The rumbling 
grew louder and they started to see trees being knocked down. 

	"What is it!?" screamed Jessie. "Maybe it's Jessiebelle!" screamed James.
Jessie took a moment out of her terror to hit James over the head with her
amazingly compact mallet. "youse guys are both wrong!" yelped Meowth.
"It's worse then that!" "It's the Team Rocket Mail Truck!" "Run!" Jessie
screeched. "It almost ran over Arbok last time!" Team Rocket fled in terror. 
Meowth was fastest, due to his ability to duck under most branches,
but behind him her heard Jessie and James gasping for breath. He turned
around to help them, but as soon as he reached them, he saw the headlights
of the machine that was following them. He tried to push his teammates out of 
the way, but the machine was now apon them.

	 With a horrendous screeching of brakes, the six-wheeled monstrosity 
totaled three more trees, spun in a 360 degree circle, and came to a stop just 
inches where team Rocket lay shivering.  A dense smoke started to pour from 
pipes on the vehicles roof. Two indistink figures got out in the fog. "Prepare 
for a letter!" The taller figure said "We deliver 'em better" said the squatter 
figure. 

"To defend the world from global stagnation!" 
"To deliver all packages within our nation" 
"To denounce the evils of E-Mail and Phones"
"To steal mail from all mailboxes in Homes!"

(At this point the fog was blown away by a rapidly fluttering Venomoth,
revealing a teenager with brown hair and a pink lickitung wearing a
tie) 

"Rocket!" 
"lickitung" 
"Blast off at the speed of the UPS!" 
"Surrender now or prepare to mess!" 
"Lickitung !" "Accept nothing less!" 

	Jessie pulled herself out from under the "I don't break for growlithes" 
bumper sticker and yelled  "Who else is going to steal our motto!" "Ar, we 
didn't steal it, we just modified it!" said the lickitung. "And we didn’t steal 
it from you, we stole it from two sorry members named Butch and Cassidy..." said 
the teenager. "They stole it from us!" screamed Jessie. "Does this mean we have 
to make up a new motto?" said the lickitung. 

	"Quiet" screamed Jessie. "What kind of name is Rocket anyway?" "I have no 
idea how I got stuck with that name said the teenager. "It seems every little 
pokemon master wanna-be calls me that, so now Geovanni does too." "Enough with 
the monologue!" yelled Jessie "Give us our mail and get it over with!" 
"Er..O.K.” said Rocket. "You two are Jessie and James, right?" "I’ve 
got a box of gourmet donuts, a letter from a Mr. P. Ersian, and a personal 
letter from the boss for you." "Dat's us!" said Meowth, scrabbling for the mail. 

	"By the way?" said Jessie, "What happened to the mailman we had last 
time?" "You’re new to the post, aren't you?" "Yes, he was caught by an officer 
Jenny, the one in pallet town." Rocket replied . "Oh", said Jessie, that's to 
bad. "The losers in our organization are caught pretty quick!" 
"Then how come were still here?" asked James. Jessie gave him a glare that would 
have terrified anyone halfway intelligent. Luckily for James, he wasn’t. "Well, 
I better be leaving" said Rocket as he started to look at his list of remaining 
mail. 

"Hey guys!" called out Meowth. "Come read the boss's letter!" Jessie and
James hurried over and Jessie grabbed the letter and read aloud to James: 

Dear Morons, 
I trained you three to be the best of my organization, and is it right
that I hear that you three are trying to catch a pikachu? I have plenty
of them! They’re a dime a dozen in Viridian forest. I want you to capture
the girl's pokemon, the togapi. That is the one rare pokemon their group
has. And since you don’t seem to working well as your are now, take Rocket
with you to help. Mabye then you’ll have half a brain to share amongst 
yourselves. 

             With Love,
                         Giovanni 

	Rocket dropped the box of letters he was loading into the truck on his
foot. "I can't go with you!"" I have a schedule to keep!" "We have one to!"
yelled Jessie. "And we need you to do it!" The last image Rocket saw was
Jessie's mallet descending toward his head. 

	"We have to capture that topegi" said Jessie as she started to drag him
into the truck. "Hey!" said the lickitung. "You can't do this!" "Watch me"
said Jessie laughing. "You seem to have a pretty stupid name too." "I mean,
Gruesome is not exactly flattering" "James, Meowth, get in here"
"Alright you scurvy dogs," said Gruesome the lickitung. "I know every
battle move there is to know, and I'm not afraid to use any of them!"
"I'll use blizzard!" A bag of ice cubes smacked Jessie in the back of her
head and knocked her onto the ground. "Jessie!" yelled James. "I'll save
you!" "Weezing, go!" The two headed pokemon floated in toward the battle.
"I'll use psybeam!" snarled Gruesome. He started throwing a steady stream of
bent spoons. For some reason Weezing did not seem to be overly affected. In
fact, it appeared to be getting angry. 

	"Ummm" said Gruesome "double team!" It pulled out a cardboard replica of
itself out from somewhere and stuck it in front of it. Weezing just smashed 
through it. "Er" said Gruesome. "Flamethr…ulp!" Weezing knocked into Gruesome 
just as he was pulling out a tank of propane and the battle was over. Good job 
Weezing" laughed James. "Lets go get my gourmet donuts". "Meowth!" said "Meowth. 
"I actually got a letter too!" From Mr. P. Ersian." "He sounds like a real 
important member of the Team." "He must be congratulating me for my hard work!" 

	With a groan, both Jessie and Rocket came out of unconsiesness. "James!"
screamed Jessie. "Stop trying to open that package and come over here and
help me up!" "What happened to Gruesome!?" yelled Rocket. "Aaaaaarg!"
screamed Meowth. "This is just a picture of that stupid Persion making a
face!" "Where is that stupid ball of slime!" said Gruesome getting up. "I want a 
rematch!" James just sat there trying to ride out the stream of chaos. He just 
wanted to eat his donuts in peace. He opened the box to find just a sticky mess 
of what looked like saliva and donut crumbs. "Aaaaarg!" yelled James. "Who stole 
my donuts!?" "Oh!" said Gruesome. "Those were yours?" "Sorry, but I was getting 
kind of hungry on the way here, and I thought I'd just take one, but then, ya 
know, you never can have just one." He broke off as James started toward him
with murder in his eyes. 

	"Fine!" said Jessie to Rocket just then. "We'll work together to steal
that stupid Togepi, just as long as you give up our motto and keep that…
that…thing away from me" she said, pointing at Gruesome. "You did hear that,
didn't you James?" "She turned around to see James trying to get a choke
hold on Gruesome. "They were just donuts!" screamed Gruesome. "No one
steals my donuts!" snarled James. Since it was getting dark, Jessie decided
to ignore everyone and just go to sleep. Eventually, chaos would play
itself out. She got her sleeping bag and went to sleep, despite all the
strange screaming noises Gruesome was making. 

	Dawn broke and Jessie woke up to the delightful smell of scrambled eggs.
Arbok and Gruesome were making breakfast, it appeared, and Jessie did not
ask where they got the eggs, or how Arbok managed to hold the frying pan without 
arms. She helped herself to the whole pan, leaving Arbok and Gruesome
staring after her. "We made those especially for ourselves" wailed
Gruesome. He turned to Arbok. "Think we should tell her that those are
pidgy eggs?" "Char" "Your right, she'll find out soon enough when she
tastes their distinctive flavor." "Bok" "But then again, I'm hungry."
James and Rocket woke up soon afterwards, and soon all were eating
breakfast. 

	"According to your files, you keep a constant eye on this "Ash Ketchum"
person and his friends." said Rocket. "Does that mean you can find a way
to intercept them so we can get this over with?" "We were already lying in
wait" said Jessie proudly, not bothering to ask how Rocket had got into
her files. James and her exploits were already legendary in the whole of
Team Rocket. She lifted a helping of eggs to her mouth, but just then there
was a pink flash and the eggs on her fork were replaced with globs of
saliva. She whipped around and glared at Gruesome, who whistled
nonchalantly. Jessie pulled out her mallet and kept it ready as James and
Rocket discussed a plan "We'll dig a big hole, then we'll let the brats
fall into it!" said James. "It's perfect!" "That plan lacks a bit of zip
to it" said Rocket dryly. "Where are the poisoned stakes at the bottom?"
"The bait to lure them to the trap?" 

	Just then, as Jessie was lifting her second forkful of eggs to her mouth,
she saw out of the corner of her eye a long, pink tongue slowly curling
toward her eggs. With a flash she brought her mallet out of hiding and
slammed it down on the tongue. There was a yelping noise and the tongue
retreated under the table. This was followed by a voice going "ah ung, ah
oor, oor, ung" and the sound of Arbok laughing. Jessie finally took a bite
of the eggs she had saved, and then decided they weren't worth saving. 

					       *****

	Pickachu was not happy. He was a strange creature, a pokemon twisted in
body and mind, a malicious little animal that enjoyed causing pain to other
living things. He had trouble finding a couple of trainers stupid enough to
keep him, but then he had found Ash, Misty, and Brock. Ever since that
momentous day Pikachu was able to shock Ash and his friends, other pokemon,
and Team Rocket all in one, at assorted times of the day. Soon, with
careful manipulation of Ash, he would control the world. Just then Pickachu
heard the sound of Team Rocket talking up ahead with someone else. He
tugged on Ash's pants. 

	"Pika pi" ("Come slave, let us torture Team Rocket. Ha ha ha ha!") "Oh
look" said Ash "Pickachu is telling us how pretty the forest is" "I don't
think so" said Misty" "he looks like he is telling Togepi a story!"
Pickachu sighed. There were disadvantages to having stupid slaves. For
one, the lack of intelligent conversation. He decided to show what he meant
by electrocuting part of the forest in front of then, destroying several
endanged species of plants and animals and revealing Team Rocket. 
"It's the brats!" yelled Jessie. "I ah oo?" said Gruesome. "Pika Pika!"
("Die infidels!") "Do you guys have any donuts?" asked James. 

	"It appears Gruesome is suffering from a speech impediment today" said 
Rocket. "I suggest you two say your motto. "We were going to anyway" snarled 
Jessie. "Prepare for trou’’…zzzzzzzzt! Jessie was hit by a lightning bolt from
Pikachu, who had gotten bored waiting. "Weezing, go!" said James. "Use your
sludge attack!" A thick glob of liquid cascaded over Pikachu, making him
gasp for air. He sent a bolt of lighting into Koffing for retaliation.
Koffing crashed to the ground with a thud.

 	"Quick James!" yelled Rocket. "Use this!" "It's my most powerful pokemon, 
concussion!" "Throw it directly at pikachu!" James grabbed the thrown pokeball, 
and gasped as he caught it. It was the heaviest pokeball he had ever felt. He 
hefted it and threw it straight at Pikachu. Pikachu sat waiting as the ball flew 
toward him.

	"Pika!" ("Bring it on you blue -haired freak of nature.""I spit apon you
and all you insignificant race." " Long live the species of rodents!") He
charged up, waiting to electrocute whatever pokemon came out of the ball.
Just as the ball was three feet away from Pikachu, both James and Pikachu
realized it wasn't going to open. It smacked into Pikachu's head. All he
had to say before he collapsed was "pi pi pika!"(No translation due to the
fact that there may be younger readers reading this) 

"Pikachu!" cried Ash. He ran over to the prone rodent. He picked up the
pokeball James had thrown and thumbed the switch. It opened up to reveal a
lead paperweight. "Hey!" cried Ash, dropping Pikachu on the ground with a
thud. "Knocking out a pokemon with a pokeball is not allowed in any
tournament." "I'll report you to officer Jenny!" he whined. He started to cry. 
"It's illegal!" he sniffed. "So is stealing Pokemon you twerp!" yelled Jessie, 
having recovered completely from her 5,000 volt zap. Ash grabbed pikachu and ran 
off with Brock and Misty into the forest. 

	Rocket could only stare at Jessie. "How did you do
it?" he asked Jessie. "Do what!" "You’rE supposed to be stealing Togepi!"
Jessie yelled, "not talking to me!" "your hair" exclaimed Rocket in
wonder. "You just got electrocuted and it isn't sticking straight up in the
air from static charge!" "You idiot!" screamed Jessie. "We’ve been electrocuted 
so many times  were almost immune now!" Just then James walked up and asked 
"Anybody know where that stupid lickitung is?" "He was supposed to buy me some 
donuts, but he seems to have gone 
somewhere..." 

						*****

	Misty listened as Ash whined about how Team Rocket was going to pay for
smacking his Pikachu. She would have left Ash several times by now, but she
was hoping Ash would eventually realize how much she liked him. She walked
behind him and Brock, feeling completely bored and wishing she had someone
to appreciate her. Just as she had this thought, she felt something thick,
gooey, and wet touch her hand. She screamed and whirled around to see a
lickitung wearing a tie right behind her. She screamed again. Ash and Brock
turned around and Ash stood there gape jawed.

 "Could it be?" said Ash. "Is that a pokemon" He whipped out Dexter and pointed 
it at Gruesome, but before dexter could even say "lickitung" Gruesome had 
whipped it's tongue around, grabbed dexter, and swallowed it. "Hey" yelled Ash. 
"Why did you do that!" "Eeeeeeer’. Because I am Misty's betrothed MUMBLED 
Gruesome quickly. "Oh" said Ash. "Ash, you moron, he's a pokemon!" Screamed 
Misty. "It's a lickitung you fool!" shouted Brock. "Ha guys", you must think 
your going to pull a fast one over me" said Ash. "He talks and Dextor had no 
information on him so he must be a person!" "Ash he has a tail and a tongue 
twice the length of his body!" screamed Misty. "Don't make fun of your future 
husband" chided Ash. "Though I must admit you have bad taste." 

"In fact" said Gruesome happily," Misty and I want to have our wedding
today!" "His eyes sparkled as he looked at Misty. "She is so gorgeous"
he thought, but her tongue is a little too small’…

	"I AM NOT MARRYING YOU" yelled Misty. "You’re disgusting.!" She wiped of
Gruesome’s tongue which had somehow found it's way to her shoulder. "You'll
learn to love me" said Gruesome. "Let's kiss and make up!" "No" moaned
Misty. "Get away from me….what are you doing with that tongue?” “Blech!”

	Back at Team rocket's camp. Jessie, James, and Rocket were packing up
their supplies in the mail truck. James wondered why Rocket did not seem
worried at all about Gruesome. He even seemed to be enjoying himself. He
asked him why. "It's because he does this all the time" said Rocket.
"Whenever were near a city, he always wanders off to try and buy posters of
this Cerulean Gym leader named Misty. In fact, that Misty looks just like
the one we met earlier when we were fighting Ash" "Rocket, said James,
that's because that Misty is the Misty that runs cerulean city gym!" "I feel 
real sorry for that girl then" Rocket replied. "But what about our egg catching 
plan?" 

	"We do have a building we were going to use to lure Ash and his friends
to" said James proudly. "It's in the town of Sasparilla, which is where Ash
is sure to be headed, since he must win the Glass Badge" "Oh James" said
Jessie. "You’re brilliant!" If we hurry in the mail truck we can get there
before him!" "Excellent idea" said Rocket, "get in and I'll start up the
engine." 

	Jessie had never before seen the inside of a Team Rocket Mail Truck
before. Built by their owners , they were each unique, except that all had
compartments for contraband, overhauled motors, and plenty of decoys and
evasion devices. The truck was wide enough for four people, so Meowth even
had a place to sit. This truck did not have a steering wheel, only a
joystick, which may have been the cause of the terrible driving she had
seen earlier. Rocket pulled the ignition switch down and the vehicle
roared to life, He then set the course for Sasparila, and totaled half a
dozen trees turning the vehicle around. 

	Meowth was screaming, Jessie was sitting ridged with her hands clenched,
and James seemed to have fainted. The truck roared out of the forest and
out into a field. Far ahead they saw the city of Sassparilla, but Jessie
doubted they would ever get there. The ride was smoother now, but there were
still funny bumps as the truck rolled over pokemon. James seemed to have 
recovered, and was playing "who’s that Pokemon" with the bumps. The game went as 
follows: 
"Jigglyp...whump.”
James: "it’s metapod!"
"Chari...splat.”
James: "it’s metapod!"
"Metap...crunch.”
James: "It’s... umm... weedle!" 

	The ride finally ended with Rocket parking the truck in the side of a 
building (brakes were broken, he said). Team rocket opened up the doors, fell to 
the ground, and started kissing the ground. "Come on" said Rocket. "My driving 
isn’t that bad." Jessie glared at him. Meowth went somewhere to hack up a 
hairball. James was checking the wheels of the truck to see how many 
pokemon he had guessed correctly, but after getting run over all the different 
kinds kind of pokemon had melded into one uniform shape and color. 

"What we need now is a plan that puts all our other plans to shame" said 
Jessie. "A very big hole?" asked James. Jessie whipped out her mallet and 
knocked James several inches into the ground. "We have this whole building 
here" said Jessie. "We have to lure the brats here. "And I do think”, 
interjected Rocket, we know enough about them to do it." Later that day 
Sasparilla Gym suffered a funny mishap. Part of it just exploded in a mushroom 
cloud of dust, leaving nothing behind. Witnesses reported that they had seen 
three people and a pokemon caught in the blast, and that they had heard "Looks 
like Team Rocket’s blasting off again!", but these reports were unfounded. Later 
that day a rich couple volunteered their building as a temporary Gym, with the 
promise that the originally Gym leader would let them control the 
challenges a little while. The Gym leader agreed. 

	The "rich couple" looked at the outside of their building. Plastered 
across it were three posters. One was bright red, and showed a Charizard biting 
the head off a blastoise. It said "Trainers, do you have what it takes to earn 
Sasparilla’s Glass badge? Come into our arena of death and find 
out!" The next poster featured a full length picture of nurse Joy. It said "Also 
today, nurse joy will be giving a lecture on pokemon breeding!" And finally, the 
last one showed a picture of a very stern looking judge. It said "Having 
problems with that overeager boy friend?" "Talk to marital counciler Matt and 
he’ll get rid of him for you!" 

	"Rocket did well" said Jessie. Now all we have to do is persuade him to 
wear his disguise" She and James entered the building. There were three doors 
set in a circular room next to a reception desk, with one of the posters above 
each door. Rocket sat in the reception desk’s chair glaring at a dress with a 
tiny icon of the glass badge imprinted on it. "Come on", said Jessie. "You have 
to wear your disguise, otherwise our plan won’t work." "You expect me to wear 
that!?" yelled Rocket "My motto is nether rain nor growlithes or officer Jenny 
will stop me from completing my job, but it mentions nothing about wearing a 
dress as a disguise!" 

	"Have you contacted all of Gruesome’s relatives at least?" asked Jessie. 
"Yes" Rocket muttered. ‘Found a priest?" "yes" "Are you going to 
wear the dress?" "No!" Rocket yelled glaring. "Let’s just say this", said 
Jessie. "You wear the dress our I’ll use the mallet!" Rocket grabbed the dress 
and went to the changing room. "Now", said Jessie to James, " 
all we need now is Gruesome." 

	Ash, and Brock were walking with Pikachu when Ash first saw the gym. "Look 
Misty" he yelled. "I’m going to win another badge." He turned around. Misty was 
running around screaming with Gruesome close behind. Ash thought Misty must be 
having a wonderful time. "Are you ready for battle?" Ash asked Pikachu?" "Pika 
Pi Pi!"("We’ll destroy all opposition and show them all to know and fear the 
might of me, Pikachu!" "Bra ha ha ha!") "I knew you’d see things my way!" yelled 
Ash. Brock took on look at the Nurse Joy poster on the gym and wandered in the 
door in a kind of daze. Misty took a moment out of her lickitung induced terror 
to see the other poster on the gym, and ran into the gym. Ash then followed her 
with pikachu. Gruesome tried to follow Misty, but just as he started to enter 
the door he felt someone grip his shoulder. He heard two voices he knew: "We 
need you for our plan!" and "It’s metapod!" Gruesome shivered. 

	Ash and his friends looked around at the inside of the gym. There was a 
very unhappy looking receptionist at the front desk. Ash and his friends went up 
to her. "Do you know what door I take to fight in the gym?" Ash asked. "It’s the 
door with the Gym poster over it dummy!" said the receptionist. "Geesh" said Ash 
to Pickachu as he entered into the door. "What’s biting her?" "It’s 
service with a snarl." "Brock and Misty were intelligent enough to find there 
own respective doors. Finally only the receptionist was left in the room. 
"Finally!" she exclaimed. "This stupid dress itches intorably" "She walked of 
into the bathroom to change. 

	Brock looked around at the hallway he had entered. "Nurse Joy!" he called 
out. "Where are you?" His voice bounded and echoed around the empty hallway. 
Suddenly doors slammed down on both sides of the hallway, locking Brock in. 
Water started pouring in through vents of the hall. Soon Brock was treading 
water, luckily for him it was a very tall hallway so he could breath. 
Suddenly the ceiling split in two and a rubber raft with Jessie and Meowth in it 
plopped into the water.

	 "Prepare for trouble" "Meowth, dat’s right!" said Meowth. "Arbok, go!" 
Jessie hurled the snake pokemon out of the boat and into the water. "I think 
not" said Brock. "Geodude, go!" he tossed out his pokemon. It had time for one 
"Geo" before it sank under water. "Ummm..." said Brock. "Go, Onix!" If anything, 
Onix sank even faster than Geodude. No bubbles even came out 
from underneath the water. 

	Brock only had one pokemon left. "Vulpix, go!" The fire fox pokemon hopped 
out of it’s pokeball into the water, and promptly exploded into a puff of steam. 
Arbok finally looped around Brock, squeezing him into unconsciousness. Brocks 
last thought before he sank into unconsciousness was why Nurse Joy hadn’t shown 
up. A few minutes later, Jessie and Meowth dumped Brock’s 
prone body out the back of the building into a dumpster. 

	Misty ran as fast as she could in the hallway toward her destination. She 
had to get away from that lickitung! As she rounded a curve, she was suddenly 
pitched into darkness. Seconds later someone grabbed onto her arm. Misty was to 
scared to move. Suddenly the room was brightly lit with the glow of a thousand 
candles. Their light revealed a church, with each and every pew 
filled with a dozen likitungs apiece. She looked at her side and saw Gruesome 
wearing a black tux to go wit his usual tie. She shrieked and looked up at the 
front of the alter. There was a priest standing there, who looked suspiciously 
like Marital Counciler Matt. The priest cleared his throat. "Ehem, would the 
groom like to bring the bride forward?" Misty screamed and passed 
out. 

	Her backpack fell on to the floor, and Togepi rolled out with a 
"Briiiiii!" Meowth scooped it up. "Good work!" said Jessie. "Now all we have to 
do is get to Rocket and James and neutralize Ash and pikachu!" She grabbed Misty 
and dumped her into the dumpster chute with Brock, much to Gruesome’s dismay. 
She then turned and left. The priest watched her go, but then felt a tugging 
on his sleeve. He looked down to see Gruesome. "Er Matt, said Gruesome. "I know 
it’s against your religion, but if I slip you a $20 will you continue with the 
wedding?"....... 

	Ash ran through the long hallway. It seemed it was made just for the sole 
purpose of slowing him down. He turned a corner to find Team Rocket waiting for 
him in a room. They seemed to be wearing very strange suits. Ash was sick of 
their motto, so he didn’t even wait. Instead he yelled "Pikachu, thunderstorm!" 
Pikachu powered up for his most powerful attack, then blasted thousands of bolts 
at Team Rocket. They just stood there. "Their rubber suits" said Jessie 
smiling. Ash threw out Bulbasuar "Razor leaf bulbasuar!" Thousands of sharp 
leaves flew directly a Team Rocket. They seemed unhurt. "Suits with Grabgrass 
control" said James. 

	Ash realized that Team Rocket was getting closer to him, and he noticed 
that Jessie was hefting her mallet dangerously. He only had one resource left. 
He hated to use it but..... "Charizard go!" The giant fire lizard appeared from 
its pokeball, looked around, and saw the stupid trainer who had by some twist of 
fate come to control him. Charizard blasted a fireball the size of the 
Goodyear blimp and the whole building went up in flames. Charizard sniggered, 
then flew off to bother Tokyo. 

	".....And finally," said Rocket, "suits made with the finest asbestos." 
Team rocket dumped Ash into the dumpster, which by some twist of fate survived 
the inferno. "Ha ha!" we actually pulled through with a plan!" laughed Meowth. 
"I just might get to be top cat!" Jessie hugged James. And Rocket dug under the 
burning rubble into he found a very well done pikachu. "Bonus for the 
boss" he explained. The whole team looked up as they heard sirens in the 
distance. "We better go said James. Rocket tossed Pickachu and Togepi in the 
back of the truck, and got into the drivers side of the van. Jessie called out 
to Arbok and Gruesome. "You two!" "Get in back and see to it that the Easter egg 
and electric rat don’t get into any trouble. She picked up both of them by their 
necks and tossed them into the truck. 

	Then Jessie crossed herself, said a quick prayer, and got into her seat of 
the truck. Rocket powered up the vehicle, destroyed a lawn mower and a stray 
oddish, and sped out of the city toward the nearest TR base. Jessie stuck her 
head out of the window as the left the city and saw four squad cars with officer 
Jenny on a motorcycle leading the pack. "James, Rocket, I may be being a nag, 
but I don’t think the boss would be pleased if we brought officer Jenny right to 
his hideout." "Officer Jenny!" said Rocket. "Where!" He stuck his head out the 
window and waved to officer Jenny..... with both arms. Jessie swatted him with 
her mallet. "Idiot!" "Keep your hands on the..er....joystick!" 

	James looked out the sunroof. "They appear to be gaining!" said James. 
"Then operate the safety measures!" yelled Rocket. "There’re on the red panel 
with the big skull and crossbones symbol." James pressed a very large grey 
button with the words "Very large instant roadblock" The mail 
truck shuddered, and a pokeball in the rear of the truck flashed to life. 
Meowth, who was now watching out the sunroof, saw a snorlax appear right in 
front of the sqaud cars. With a crash a car exploded into flames. The other 
three cars and officer Jenny swerved to avoid the sleeping giant. 
"There’s still three more!" screeched Meowth. 

	Stinky the jigglypuff walked out to his favorite snack place, the dumpster 
in Sasparilla city. He hopped in and found to his joy his favorite: moldy, 
greasy cardboard from a sardine and pineapple pizza. Her heard a grunt, and 
turned around to find three people apparently enjoying lunch with him, except 
they were asleep. Stinky was a kindhearted Jigglypuff, and he knew that 
all the other Jigglypuffs would soon steal all the good food here, and these 
three sleeping people wouldn’t have any. So with the greatest care, Stinky 
selected several of his favorites and placed 
them into the three people’s mouths. 

	The patrol cars continued to dog Team Rocket. Two more had been totaled, 
one by a sandslash spike strip to the tires, and another by a blast of fire, a 
weapon Rocket and James swore hadn’t been in the truck. Meowth said he had heard 
a snigger from somewhere high above them, but Jessie just smacked him in the 
head. But officer Jenny and a police car were still following them. 
"There’s no buttons left!" screamed James. "Then it’s time for dirty tricks" 
said Rocket. He leaned out the window and Jessie was ready to bop him with her 
mallet, but before she could, Rocket blew a kiss to officer Jenny. Her eyes got 
huge and she plowed into a tree. The car following her swerved to avoid her and 
fell into a pond of magicarp. 

	Inside the truck Gruesome and Arbok stared at the thing they were 
guarding, The stupid egg thing was just to cute to be alive, Gruesome thought. 
Just then, he smelled something heavenly. He turned to Arbok. "Do you smell what 
I smell!" "Bok!" "Yes!" "I knew it!" It smells like the most heavenly smell in 
the world!" "Fresh eggs!" "Both Arbok and Gruesome turned to Togepi, who was now 
shivering in terror. "Arbok" said Gruesome. "See if Jessie put one of her spare 
frying pans back here............." 

	Jessie, James, Meowth, and Rocket pulled directly into the building of TR 
headquarters. Giovanni came out to meet them. Jessie bounced up and down 
excitably. "We actually stole not one, but two pokemon!" she said to Giovanni. 
"Here they are!" She threw open the back of the truck. Giovanni looked in apon a 
lickitung in a tux and a purple snake spooning the last forkfuls of scrambled 
eggs into their mouths. His gaze turned toward the floor and he saw a crispy 
black pikachu. Giovanni stared at Gruesome and Arbok. Then he said in a soft, 
low , disbelieving voice "You ate my Togepi?" Gruesome belched and Arbok hissed 
something that sounded suspiciously like 
"my compliments to the chef!" 

	"Aaaaaaargggggggg!" yelled Giovanni. He grabbed pikachu. "The first job 
you actually manage to pull through, and my pokemon gets eaten, and all I get is 
this worthless electric hamster!" He dropped kicked pikachu straight over the 
wall and into a tree. "You idiots!" "But boss" said Jessie. "Don’t but boss me!" 
Giovanni pulled a stuffed oddish doll from a pocket and started 
hugging it. "Oh Mr. Leafy" he said. "I try to be the best kingpin there is, but 
everyone in my organization seems to hate me!" He started crying. 

	James turned around and caught Gruesome’s eye. "I better be going now, 
cheerio!" he ran off as James dove for a choke hold. Gruesome trampled the 
bosses’s Persian as he ran out the back. Jessie sighed. It was like this all the 
time. The boss would eventually recover, and James and her 
would get a new assignment. But then again she’d be with James... 
					           

	With a groan, Ash, Misty and Brock woke up in the dumpster. Misty hacked 
out a piece of rotten fish out of her mouth, Brock burped out a slice of rancid 
watermelon, and Ash spit out a piece of molding crab Rangoon. All three were 
promptly sick. Just as Misty thought it couldn’t get any worse, she saw a very 
familiar tongue slide over the dumpster edge. Gruesome peered down at 
her. "My, what a lovely perfume your wearing!" "How about a French kiss baby!" 
And Misty screamed. 

The End 
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