Aaah, what a beautiful day. The sun is shining, the Pidgey are chirping, the Rattata are fighting to the death over an old scrap of meat, small insects are gnawing away at my ankles, and the narrator is babbling like an idiot! No, not me, the OTHER narrator. The one at the start of each episode. Yeah, that guy.

Ash, Misty, and Brock are headed towards Mt. Silver. What new adventures await them on this...

"Hey, I stepped on something!"

Crunch! Squish! "Aaaah, my spleen!" Ash had stepped on a girl asleep on the road. She was mumbling strange things in her sleep. "Why, YES, officer, I WAS speeding. You got a problem with that? Huh? HUH?!!! Bleh...more tea, Mr. Moo Cow..."

"Whoa, what should we do?"

"Well, we can't just leave her here..."

"DON'T TOUCH HER!!!!!" A loud voice screamed at them. Over the hill a Meowth ran towards the sleeping girl. The female Meowth, who, oddly enough, wore a dress, came to the girl's side. "Stand back, I'm going to shock her." They stood back, expecting her to use something medical-like. "...All the world's refined sugar has been stolen! Your head is on fire! Small children wet their pants!!!"

"NOOOOOOO!" The girl sat up with a terrified look on her face. "Hwuh? Where am I, Tapenga?"

"You passed out in the middle of the road again. I told you not to eat so much ramen!"

"Oh, yeah."

Suddenly, Brock shoved the Meowth Tapenga out of the way. "I'm so glad to see that you're okay, Miss. Tell me, what's your name?"

"Megami Sasaki-Kojiro. And you..."

"I'm Brock! B is for..."

"Buffoon." Misty dragged him away by the ear.

"Aaaaw, you're no fun..."

"Well, whoever you are, thanks for not assuming I was dead." At the same time she was thinking, Dude, that guy has no eyeballs!

"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE!!!" Tapenga yelled at them. "C'mon, we have places to be, Mega."

"I DON'T WANNA GO TO MT. SILVER SO SHUT THE NOISE TUBE, TAPENGA!!!"

"You're headed to Mt. Silver too? Maybe we can go together." Ash offered to join them with the usual friendly smile. He is so sweet and cuddly.

"Yeah...sure, Tapenga knows a shortcut..." She blushed and smiled at Ash. It's hard not to like that sweet, kinda clueless, determined little guy. Well, not so little, he's about fifteen in this story.

"Hey, nobody asked me..." Tapenga grumbled. Tapenga is neither sweet nor cuddly. Tapenga is surly.

Later that night, the group gathered around a campfire. Megami told them her story. "My parents left me with my aunt and uncle when I was very small. My cousin was my only friend but he ran away when I was little. I'm trying to find him. Tomorrow is our birthday, we're 8 years apart but born on the same day. I really want to see him again."

"Oh, sure, tell these total strangers your life story. Real smart, Mega." Tapenga snapped. Surly again.

"SHUT THE NOISE TUBE BEFORE I RIP IT OUT!!!" Those two are very dysfunctional, don't ya think?

"You're a real piece of work, you know that?!" The two started to argue.

They argued a bit until Pikachu went off into some nearby bushes. "Pi, pika pika!"

"'Kay, whatever." Megami said back.

"You can understand that?" Ash stared at Megami in awe.

"Sure, all he said was that he's going to find a place to pee."

"Oh."

"Pika! Pika pikachuuuu!" She ran to him, for this means 'help me,' more or less. Pikachu was being dragged away by some sort of robotic, gloved hands. These were attatched to a remote control held by...Meowth of Team Rocket.

"Mwahahahaha!" Jesse did an evil laugh. Picking up Pikachu triumphantly over her head, she sang. "We got Pikachu! We got Pikachu! We...got...pi?" At this point, Pikachu tinkled on her head. "Yaaaaah! Gross!" She threw the Pikachu, who went back to the bushes to finish his business.

"So that's why they call them pee-kachus!"

"Yeah, you've got pi, all right!" Everyone, friend or foe, started to laugh.

"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUTUP SHUTUPSHUTUP! James, make them pay!"

"Why me?" James whined in his typical whiny way.

"BECAUSE I SAID SO!!!" Jesse whipped out her mallet and started smacking him. Ouchies.

Wait a minute...his hair, his eyes, the way he whines... "J-chan!" Megami ran to James, hugged him, and clung to him.

"Eeee! Don't hurt me!" He started to panic. Having a medium-sized human creature clinging to one's leg is very scary to some people.

"Hey, don't you dare say you don't remember me!" She stared up at him with an angry face.

He looked down at the shorter, younger girl. Her messy brown hair covered bits of a determined, angry face and equally angry brown eyes. It's hard to forget those angry eyes. "...Mi-kun?" She smiled. He lifted her up and spun her around. "Megami-kun, it's you!"

"Of course it's me, James!"

"Did I miss something?" Jesse, her head drenched in Pika-schmoo, stared at the scene. Pika-water is dripping off her head, which smells funny. I wish I had a camera.

Soon they were all gathered around one big campfire, friend and foe alike, as 'Mi-kun and J-chan' yammered on about stuff. (Actually, Ash and Jesse were having a staring contest from opposite sides of the fire, for neither trusted the other.)

"I haven't seen him in 11 years..."

"...Because I ran away from home..."

"...But we've written letters to each other up until recently."

"And tomorrow's our birthday. It's a real special thing."

"Whadja get me, J-chan? Can I see?"

"Hey, don't spoil the surprise! Mi-kun, stand up for a second." She stood up and spun around. "You were only three feet tall when I last saw you. You're all grown up now."

Doo doo doo doo! Doo doo DOO DOO!!! The background music played and a giant, shiny red 'R' magically found it's way into the background.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"And make it double!"

"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!"

"Jesse!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"

"Meowth, that's right!"

Megami was shocked, partially because her big cousin J-chan was babbling on and posing and such like a demented mime, but also because old memories were coming back. Memories of a Nurse Joy's sympathetic face. Memories of the words that nearly killed her. "I'm sorry, but he won't make it through the night."

"NOOOOOOOO!" She ran off into the woods, tears streaming from her eyes."

"Now look what you've done!" Tapenga yelled at them. "For the first time in four years she was happy, and now you've ruined it." She followed her distressed friend, grumbling all the way. "Oh, boy, how do I fix this one? Geez..."

"Whoa...what's with her?" [Author's note- Sweet lil' Ash is clueless as usual. Cute like a Psyduck.]

"Something is wrong." [Author's note- Gee, you think? You think that maybe something's wrong, since the star of the story has run away in tears? You think something could possibly be wrong? Misty, you're a freaking genius, you idiot! I shriek sarcasm in your general direction! SHWAAAH!]

"Hey! She ate all my soup!" [Author's note- Awww, and you worked so hard on it too, didn't you, Brock? Sorry about that.]

"Can I wash my hair now?" [Author's note- No, Jesse, I hate you and you must suffer. SUFFER!!!]

"She went berserk when she heard 'Team Rocket.'" [Author's note- Thank you, Meowth, for saying something intelligent. I appreciate it.]

"Mi-kun, come back...I thought you'd be impressed..." [Author's note- James, I don't even want to talk to you. You're a clueless jerk, you know that?] "The author is mad at me..." [Author's note- NO SCHMOO I'M MAD AT YOU!!! ...Ahem.] "What'd I do?" [Author's note- No, no, I'm not talking to you.] "But..." [Author's note- LA LA LA LA LA, I AM NOT LISTENING!!!] "Uh..." [Author's note- To be continued!] "Hey..."