Chapter 2!

Disclaimer: If I owned pokemon, I would own Morty, Will, Bugsy, Falkner, Ash, Lance, Gary, Danny, Koga, Giovanni… *Goes down a long list of bishonen with the occasional bishoujo* As you can see, they aren’t mine, so I don’t own pokemon…

Air Sylph – thank you

Takuya – I try, there’s something called writer’s block. *Sighs*

Twilight Dragoon Fighter – can’t help that, I don’t do emotion-loaded stories, at least I don’t think I do.

SS2 Megami-sama – hai…and yes, I have updated for you. ^-^

PokeMasterEmmy – did I mention evil? Oh well, it’s not written yet.

Jarzard – maybe connected but no is sure yet.

Luccamajere26 – you know, I have no idea! I just dislike Oak.

Link Masters – maybe Lance is here, I wouldn’t know as it isn’t written yet though.

Golden Lunar Eclipse – hold on… I believe Misty and some other characters will show up in later chapters. Don’t think Ash has a pikachu, so no. I don’t like it much. And J&J are good, yes.

Charm65 – confused….

Star’s Dreams – I have no clue whether or not anyone will pop up.

Tmp – I think the dye is gone. *hehehe*

Aragorn the Ranger – sorry, can’t always do action. You might want to check some other ficcies for that.

Incomplete13 – I don’t think Gary is evil here, just kind of ignorant.

Chapter 2: Cut out to be parents?

*Crack, crack, crack*

“They’re hatching!” Ash called. Charlotte was sitting in the front room, watching people pass by the windows.

“Oh, they are?” She quickly ran inside. They popped open the freezer and stared as the eggs slowly opened. Two tiny blue baby birds hopped out.

Mommy? Daddy?

Daddy! One said, jumping into Ash’s arms.

The other one landed on his head. Daddy!

Ash blinked. And blinked again. * What’s going on? * He pulled out his Rocketdex and pointed it at himself.

“When baby pokemon are first hatched, the first person they see they will consider their parent.” The Rocketdex beeped.

Ash got all starry-eyed. “Wow!” He hugged both birds tightly.

Charlotte nodded. “It’s cool, but now we can’t give them to Giovanni.”

“Oh well… we can find some other pokemon to steal then. We need something by the end of this week.”

“That’s tomorrow.”

“Doesn’t matter. This town is full of hotshot trainers.” Ash said. “Let’s go.” He put the two baby Articunos in two poke balls, handed Charlotte one, and changed into blue jeans and a red t-shirt. “Let’s go look.”

“Right with you.” Charlotte said. She pulled a collapsible two-person bike out of her backpack and set it up. Then, they hopped on and began pedaling.

“Aha!” Gary said. “A new trainer.” He walked up. “Hi! I’m Gary Oak and I challenge you to a battle!”

Ash looked at Charlotte and made a motion to indicate that he would take this one. Charlotte nodded and hopped off the bike, scanning for other pokemon trainers. There were none around.

She smiled and put down her binoculars. * Great! *

“I accept!” Ash said.

“Then let’s settle this with a two on two battle! Go, Nidoking!”

“Sneasal, I choose you!” Ash said.

The dark cat pokemon stretched and opened its slitted eyes, focusing on its opponent.

“Hah! That tiny thing? Nidoking, use Horn Drill!”

“Sneasal, show that Nidoking that you don’t need to be big to win! Protect now!”

Sneasal nodded and blocked Nidoking’s horn drill with its paws. Gary’s jaw dropped.

“What?! Nidoking, use Toxic!”

“Poison-type move…” Ash said. “Sneasal, Icy Wind!”

Gary stared as Sneasal hit Nidoking with a sheet of ice and froze it to the floor. He also noticed that his feet were frozen as well.

“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?! Arcanine, go!”

Ash did a back flip and threw off his disguise. “Did I forget to introduce myself?”

“Prepare for trouble!” Charlotte said, jumping out of a tree.

“And make it double!” Ash said.

“To protect the world from devastation!”

“To unite all peoples within our nation!”

“To pronounce the evils of truth and love!”

“To extend our reach to the stars above!”

“Charlotte!”

“Ash!”

‘Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!”

“Surrender now, or prepare to fight!”

“Chikorita!”

“Charizard!”

“Ha! You think you’re going to steal my pokemon? Arcanine, use Tackle!”

“Sneasal, use Surf!” Ash said, smiling.

“WHAT?!”

Sneasal smirked and drenched Arcanine. Suckers!

“Charizard, use Fire Spin!” Gary gulped as the flames closed in around him. * Oh shoot what do I do now? I shouldn’t have let Alakazam forget Teleport. Wait! *

“Alakazam, go! Disable!”

Sneasal jumped in front of Alakazam and let off a Screech that froze it in its tracks. Then, it used Faint Attack.

Alakazam, with its bad defense and weakness to dark type attacks, fainted.

Gary’s jaw dropped.

“Now… my turn.” Charlotte said. “Bellossem, use Sweet Scent!”

Gary gagged and passed out, with swirls for eyes.

The flames died down, as the two walked over and collected Gary’s poke balls, recalling Arcanine, Nidoking, and Alakazam.

“Not bad. He was carrying eight pokemon.” Charlotte said.

“We can call the boss now, and tell him of our achievement.”

Ash picked up their phone. *Ring, ring! *

“Hello?” Giovanni asked, picking it up. “Ah, Team Chikorita. What do you have to report?”

“Sir, we have eight pokemon loaded and ready for transport.”

“Excellent. What are they?” Giovanni asked, activating the poke ball transfer system.

“Nidoking, Arcanine, Alakazam, Exeggutor, Electabuzz, Rhydon, Gyrados, and Pidgeot.” Ash said.

“Not bad, you two.” Giovanni said. The poke balls appeared one by one, in his office. He scanned them all and verified that they were what they said they were.

“Very well. I’ll be expecting something next week. Out.” Giovanni said, closing the communications.

“Do you think he knows that we have Articunos?”

“No.” Ash said. “If he did, he’d want them.”

“Okay.”

“Let’s go take a break now.” The two changed into trainer clothes and headed off into the woods.

“Tag, you’re it!”

Chikorita bounded after the fleeing Mysdreavus. You won’t escape!

The trainers and pokemon were engaged in a rousing game of freeze tag.

Charizard peeked out from behind a strand of trees, darted out, and unfroze Articuno.

Thank you! The male Articuno said, flying out of the way as Chikorita ran past again. * I’m safe! *

Ash peeked out of a tree. * Nobody’s seen me yet… Hehehe… *

Charlotte tried not to move. She had been frozen for five minutes. Suddenly, she felt a light tap on the leg. She looked down and saw Arcanine grinning.

She quickly jumped on its back and they dashed off.

The sun had already set when the two tired agents recalled their pokemon and headed back to their apartments.

Ash collapsed on his bed. * We got a lot done today. *

Charlotte fixed microwave dinners for both of them, and then they spent the evening reading and playing computer games, respectively.

“Do you think we should continue operating in this area?”

“Well, the Boss doesn’t seem to have us on the rotational schedule.”

“So maybe we should stay here.”

“But we have to be careful.”

Ash nodded. “Let’s see… our Rocketdexes have been changed to show our Civilian ID’s, right?”

“Right. We’re pokemon trainers from the Emerald Islands.”

“That’s so far away that nobody will bother to check.”

Ash suddenly heard the rhythmic chirping of the Articunos. * Oh no… *

“It’s time to feed the birds again.”

“Lucky we found out that they can eat regular birdseed mixed with poke food and some ice cubes.” Charlotte said.

“But they have to be fed every six hours.”

“That means you have to get up in the morning.”

“It’s your turn to feed them now!”
Charlotte got up and went to the freezer, and the cabinets, where she mixed birdseed with poke chow and threw in some ice cubes. “Okay, kids, dinner’s on!”

Yay!

Thank you, Mommy!

I’m so hungry!

Yum, yum!

The trainers couldn’t help smiling in spite of themselves. The baby birds were so cute! And since they were Articunos, they’d be very powerful when they grew up.

End Chapter 2!

C&CC are good. Flames will be used to toast hot dogs.