The Incredible Poke-Odyssey chapter 24 Wall Fall Down Cameron and his friends had finally freed Ash from the evil Mewtwo and they were taking him and his loyal followers back to his home town of Pallet to free it from Team Rocket once and for all. When they finally got there, Ash became shocked and hurt at the sight he saw. A giant electric wall was surrounding his dear hometown. "I can't believe Jessie and James could do this!" moaned Ash. "We couldn't believe it either", said Brock. "I guess you never know what evil can be capable of sometimes." "I tell you", shouted Ash. "If those rotten jerks have harmed a hair on my Mom and Pikachu, I'll..." and he started to charge at the wall until Misty tackled him. "No Ash!" she cried. "You'll become dead if you set one finger on that wall!" "Who cares!" cried Ash. "At least I'll be dead and inside the town. Let me through! Let me through!" Misty quickly calmed Ash down by slapping him hard. "Thanks Misty", said Ash embarrassed. "I needed that." "Anytime", smiled Misty. "I guess this is the time your Electabuzz is supposed to save the day Cameron", said Bill. "That's right", said Cameron as he took out Buzz's ball. "The Vermilion soldier said that Buzz would be able to take down that wall." "But what about all those bad Growlithes and Arcanines that are always guarding that wall?" said Stella. "If we take it away, they're sure to attack us." "Not unless we get 'em with an army of water Pokemon", said Misty as she released Staryu, Starmie, Seaking, Seadra, Poliwag, and her newly evolved Golduck. Cameron released Slowking, Ash his Blastoise, Brock his Omanyte, Stella her Kabuto, Jenny her Kabutops, Seymour his Wartortle and Omastar, and all of the other members of Ash's cavalry had released their water Pokemon as well. Including Ash's second in command Ryan who just released his Lapras. "And now to release Buzz", said Cameron as he took another ball from his belt. "Wait Cameron", said Seymour. "Before you release Buzz, I have something I want to say to Jenny." "What is it Seymour?" she asked. "Just in case we don't make it, I want you to hear this poem I wrote especially for you", said Seymour shyly blushing. "Oh really?" smiled Jenny who was also blushing as Seymour started his poem. "There are ladies called Jennies who are long arms of the law. They're pretty, tough as nails and are quick on the draw. They protect our hometowns from evil and fear. We are so thankful to have them near. But the Pallet Town Jenny I think is the best of course. She's the most special one they've got on the force. She's brave, strong, lovely, and smart. Though she's no thief, she's already stolen my heart." "Oh Seymour!" cried Jenny with tears in her eyes. "Oh will you look at what you did to me?! You've made an officer of the law cry!" "Uh, sorry Jenny", said Seymour nervously. "Don't be my sweet scientist", smiled a tear filled Jenny and started reciting her own poem. "I use to be serious, no-nonsense and gruff. I had no time for that mushy romance stuff. Until the day I met you my funny science man. You've touched me in ways no other man can. You like what I like and you want to please me. You show me neat things and never ever tease me. Now I can release the girl that's hidden under this blue. I can just be a civilian whenever I'm near you." "Jenny, I.. I don't know what to say!" said Seymour with tears of joy in his eyes as well. "You have the right to remain silent", smiled Jenny as she silenced him by kissing him long and good. Everyone stood there smiling at the happy sight. "Don't we all have an electric wall to take down?!" said Jenny as she broke off the kiss and stared angrily at all the spectators. "Oh yes", said Cameron blushing as he released his Electabuzz. "Buzz, can you help us remove this huge wall?" "BUZZZZZZZ!" whispered Buzz as he gazed at the huge 80 foot wall made of delicious electricity. He slowly started to approach the wall. "No Buzz, you can't touch it!" cried Cameron as he tried to hold him back. Buzz just gave his master a tiny zap knocking him down. Then Buzz took a deep breath and started to suck up some of the electricity that was radiating from the wall. "There's no way a little guy like him can eat that whole wall", said Misty. "Then why is that wall suddenly shrinking?" asked Brock as he pointed to the top. Sure enough the wall started to shrink, then grow back a little, and then shrink some more. Everyone became amazed at the big appetite that little Electabuzz had. "Wow!" said Cameron as he got back up. "I wonder how many times a day Lt. Surge fed it?!" "He probably rarely fed it", said Seymour. "That's why Buzz's hunger is so large." "I wonder if Pikachu could get that ability", said Ash. "Don't worry Pikachu, I'll soon be on my way to you." He thought as he watched the wall shrink some more. * * * * * * Back at the palace, Jessie and James were still mercilessly torturing poor Reiko and having a good time with her. They were laughing evily while Reiko was laughing too. Mainly because they had her shackled to a tickle bed. Electronic feather dusters were tickling under her arms, robot hands were pinching her knees and little Growlithe's were slurping her bare feet. "Don't you just hate us?!" James snickered. "Now are you going to tell us where your little boytoy and his band of rebels are?" demanded Jessie. "HA HA HEE HEE HEE!" laughed Reiko. "NO! I still will not betray Cameron-san! HA HA HA!" "If only you were still loyal like this to me", sighed Jessie. "Oh well!" She touched the dial on the bed and was about to increase the tickle power to sudden death until Meowth called out. "Hey guys, I'd think you'd better come look at this!" "What is it Meowth?" said Jessie annoyed. "Can't you see I'm about to end someone's life through wonderful laughter?!" "I think you should look at this Jess", said James as he pointed to the monitor Meowth was near. Jessie approached it and saw a disturbing scene. Their beautiful electric wall they were so proud of was shrinking rapidly. "MY WALL!" screamed Jessie. "What's happening to it?! Who is responsible?!" "Guess who", said Meowth as he aimed the cursor at a kid and enlarged the picture. "FUSTERMAN!!" growled Jessie as she saw her little nemesis with his trusty Electabuzz who was sucking up the huge wall. "Cameron-san?!" cried Reiko who was finally able to open her eyes after all that painful tickling and saw the joyous sight on the monitor. "I can't believe this!" shouted Jessie. "That little twerp's even worse than that first twerp!" "Speaking of that first twerp", said James. "Check out that guy who's next to him." They looked and saw a teen with black hair and a very familiar looking hat. Jessie enlarged the picture again until all you could see was the teen's face. "KETCHUM!!" growled Jessie in an ever bigger growl. "Wow, he's certainly grown up over the years", said James. "He look's so different." "I can't tell", said Meowth. "All you humans look the same to me." "Who cares what he looks like or how old he is now!" shouted Jessie. "Just look at the muscles on that former twerp! No doubt he's gonna bust in here and take back his Pikachu! We've gotta stop all of them!" and she quickly turned on the intercom. "Listen up every last one of you Rockets!" she shouted. "We've got some unwelcome intruders who're about to break into our town and take it away from us. So I want all of you to take out any dirty rebel you first see and I don't mean take them out on dates either! Now get out there and defend your beloved monarchs!" * * * * * * Meanwhile, the electric wall was finally no more. Cameron looked down at his Electabuzz who had an extremely bloated stomach and a big staticky smile on his face. "Nice work Buzz", praised Cameron. "But are you all right?" Buzz replied with a shocking belch that caused Cameron's hair to stick up. "So this is what those rotten Rockets did to my town", said Ash quietly as he stared at his once beautiful town which was now covered with smog, no green grass or trees, and most of the familiar houses replaced with ugly factories. "We're sorry this happened Ash", said Misty hugging his arm. "It was a nightmare for all of us too." "Well I'm here to wake everyone up from this nightmare!" growled Ash as he started slamming his fist into his hand many times. "Come my loyal followers. Let's win back my town!" "Which may not be as easy as it sounds", said Bill as he hid behind Cameron's legs and pointed to the town. Everyone looked in fear at what they saw. A whole pack of Growlithes and Arcanines were charging while breathing out fire. "Just as I predicted", said Stella while hiding behind her Kabuto. "Which is why we got water power on our side", smiled Misty. "Right guys?" All the water Pokemon that had just been released complied by using their water gun, bubble, bubblebeam, surf, waterfall, and hydro pump attacks at the charging dogs. They were able to take out the small Growlithes but the giant sized Arcanines were another story. The Arcanines had used their fire blast attacks to turn all the water attacks into steam. "Surfs up dudes!" called out a voice. Everyone immediately got out of the way for a huge wave started coming their way. And riding on top of it was Lapras and on top of Lapras was Ryan. "That's the biggest surf attack I've ever seen!" said Bill amazed. And it was true. That huge wave splashed on all those giant dogs putting out their fiery breath and knocking them out. Ryan and Lapras smiled as they watched all their friends holding up cards that say 10 and 9.5 on them. * * * * * * Misty and Brock were now leading our heroes to an open manhole cover. "Will this hole lead us to my Mom?" asked Ash. "Yes Ash", said Brock. "Over the years your Mom, Prof. Oak, Misty, Stella and I have started an underground resistance force where we help out poor citizens who've been tormented by Rockets." "Oh how I'd like to break each and every one of those Rockets' necks!" grumbled Ash. "Well it looks like you'll get your chance right now", said Cameron as he pointed to the army of Rockets that suddenly appeared right in front of them. "Greetings all you happy little rebels", said the Rocket leader. "We'd really love it if you'd surrender so we won't have to beat you all up and sweat like crazy." And they all pulled out their guns, clubs, and crossbows. "Bring it on!" shouted Ash. "I'll take on all of you all by myself!" "WHAT?!!!" shouted Misty. "That should be interesting", smiled the leader. "No Ash!" called out Lulu who jumped right in front of him. "Let me and my darlings handle them!" and she released her 3 Weedles right in front of the army who just laughed out loud. "Can you believe this?!" laughed the leader. "This girl has nothing but 3 little Weedles who're gonna defeat all 100 of us. What're they gonna do, cute us to death?!" "Weedle, give 'em your string shot", smiled Lulu. The Weedles complied by firing large amounts of silk at the army. Suddenly, they immediately stopped laughing for they were trapped in a ball of silk that was strong as steel. "Nice work you guys", smiled Lulu as she put down her arm and let her Weedles crawl up it and cuddle it. "Bleahhh!" groaned Misty as she saw those bugs on Lulu's arm. "Though I'm grateful for what those Weedles did, I still hate bugs!" "I hope you don't mind that I defeated those Rockets for you Ash", said Lulu. "No, not at all", smiled Ash. "You probably saved me from getting seriously beat up." "Allow me to remove that ball of trouble", smiled Ryan. "Be my guest pal", smiled Ash. "Hitmonchan, mega punch now!" commanded Ryan as he released a Pokemon with huge boxing gloves. It made a glowing fist and socked the ball of tangled up Rockets out of sight. "Nice work H.C.", smiled Ryan as he raised its arm up in victory. "CHAN!" said H.C." proudly. * * * * * * When they all got down into the sewers and came to their secret camp. They found that it was empty. Not a human nor Pokemon was in sight. "Where is everyone?!" asked Cameron. "Mom, where are you?" called out Ash. "Prof. Oak?" asked Brock. "Girls?" asked Stella calling out for her circus staff. "Togepi?" stuttered Misty nervously. "PI!" called out a sad little voice. Misty quickly turned around and found her Togepi slowly walking up to its mother with tears in its eyes. "Oh Togepi!" cried Misty as she was about to pick up her egg until her Pokeballs started flickering. "Misty", said Brock. "You can only carry six Pokemon with you. You'll have to send one of your Pokemon back to your special storage place if you want to get back Togepi." "Oh yes, that's right", said Misty as she collected her balls. "My storage place is back at the Cerulean gym but which Pokemon should I send back?" Then Staryu popped out of its ball and spoke to Misty in its Staryu language. "You'll volunteer to go back Staryu?" asked Misty. "HA!" replied Staryu with a smile. Although no one could see it since it didn't have a face. "Thank you my dear Staryu", said Misty as she hugged Staryu, put it back into its ball, pushed the button on the ball and it teleported away. Then Misty picked up Togepi and hugged it tightly. "Misty, I think you'd better go easy on Togepi unless you want to crack it and end up with egg on your face", said Ash. "Oops, sorry Togepi", said Misty blushing while Togepi cooed happily. It had been many months since she left her Togepi behind and now she was reunited with it at last. "Togepi, you've been living down here all alone?" asked Misty worriedly. "What happened to Mrs. Ketchum and the others?" "Pi", cried Togepi as it jumped out of Misty's arms and wanted everyone to follow it. Togepi had led them to another part of the sewers where they found a teenage boy lying on the ground all beaten up and depressed. "Gary?" gasped Ash as he went over and helped him up. "Loser boy, uh, I mean Ash! Is that you?" asked Gary in a weak voice. "Why you little.." grumbled Ash as he was about to strangle his long lost rival until Misty stopped him. "It's great to see you again Ash", said Gary as Cameron and Brock helped him back onto his feet. "And I'm sorry I called you the L word just now. It was just an old reflex. You're not the loser. I am!" and he started to cry. "This is certainly a side of you I've never seen before", said Ash as he handed Gary a tissue. "It's true!" sobbed Gary as he blew his nose. "Just today those Rockets had finally found our hidden base and they came and apprehended all the rebels, even poor Grandpa! I tried to stop them, but those Rockets' great number of Pokemon were no match against mine! I became so shattered that I took Togepi and ran away into the darkness where the Rockets couldn't find us! I failed you Grandpa! Please forgive me!" "Hey, don't worry about it Gary", said Ash. "You did all you could do. At least you've managed to escape so you could tell us what's going on." "And you've protected my Togepi as well", smiled Misty. "Thank you Gary and Togepi thanks you too." "Pi", smiled Togepi as it blew a kiss to the now smiling Gary. "Thank's guys", said Gary sobbing. "Ash, you truly are a great guy. I'm just sorry to tell you that those Rockets even took your Mom too." "MOM!" cried Ash. "No, who knows what those devils are doing to her right now! Come on everyone, let's storm their castle!" "But we just can't come charging at that impenetrable fortress without a plan of action", said Jenny. "No doubt that they'll shoot us with everything they've got the minute we set foot on their so-called royal welcome mat!" "If only we have some way to get in there undetected", said Brock. "Like teleporting." "Gary, you have an Alakazam, don't you?" asked Cameron. "Maybe it can teleport us all into the castle." "Didn't you ever think that if I had an Alakazam, I could teleport us all out of this trapped town?!" cried out Gary. I've taught my Alakazam so many powerful attacks that I made it forget its own original teleportation powers. What a dummy I am!" "Wait a minute", smiled Seymour. "I just remembered. I think I may have something that might help." And he reached into his labcoat and pulled out a TM that read TM 30. "That's a teleport TM", said Cameron amazed. "Exactly", smiled Seymour. "This'll help your Alakazam relearn teleport so we can get into the palace." "What do you say Gary?" asked Ash. "Teleport may not do any damage to enemies, but at least we'll be able to get in and save your Grandpa." "Okay", smiled Gary as he released Alakazam. "Zammy", he said. "You're about to learn teleport again. But in order to do this, I'm gonna have to remove your confusion attack. Is that okay with you?" "KAZAM!" replied Zammy while clanking the two spoons it was holding together. * * * * * * A few minutes later, somewhere in the Rocketville palace, a whole crowd of rebels had materialized magically. "Great job Zammy", smiled Gary as he pulled the proud Alakazam back into its Pokeball. "We'd better be on our guard and be extra quiet everyone", whispered Jenny. "You never know where a Rocket will pop out in this huge place." "We should know it's huge", moaned Stella. "We were forced to build it." Remembering that first horrible day when all the citizens were forced to build the entire palace like slaves. "Don't look now", whispered Bill. "But I've spotted two Rockets around the corner." The Rockets known as Knuckles and Bruiser were guarding a whole wall of locked doors. Actually Knuckles was playing with a paddleball while Bruiser was reading an anime version of Penthouse. "Oh, doesn't that catgirl look good when she's licking her fur?" said Brusier while drooling. "Probably", said Knuckles who was concentrating on his paddleball. "Hey, I think I'm finally about to reach a thousand on this thing! 994, 995, 996...." Just then a cloud of blue pollen covered the two thugs making them sleepy. "998, YAWN!, 999, ZZZZZZZ!" snored Knuckles as he dropped the paddleball and fell asleep in his chair. "Aw shoot", yawned Bruiser. "You almost made it. Well there's always next guard duty." And he went right to sleep too. "Nice work VP", said Cameron as he patted his blushing Vileplume. Then our heroes rushed over to the sleeping Rockets and gazed at the hallway of many doors. "Just look at all these locked doors", said Cameron. "And it looks like we'll need some kind of card key to open all of them." "And I think I've found one", said Jenny as she handcuffed the sleeping Rockets and pulled out Knuckles's card key. Jenny approached the first door, slid the card key through it, and cautiously opened the door. To her delight, she saw about 20 girls that looked like her wearing ragged old police uniforms and eating bland prison food. "Pallet Jenny?" asked one of the Jennies who had gray hair instead of blue. She was definitely the eldest of the Jennies. "MOM!" cried Pallet Jenny as she hugged the woman tightly. "Oh my child", cried The Elder Jenny. "I knew you'd find a way to get to us. We all never doubted you for a second these past five years. Isn't that right my children?" "YEAH!" cried all the Jennies as they all got together and hugged a tear filled Pallet Jenny. Once all the hugs were done, Pallet Jenny then put the card key through the rest of the doors and released all the imprisoned rebels. Stella was happy to be reunited with her circus staff, but as for Gary's cheerleading squad, that was a different story. "Gary, Gary, that cowardly wreck. When trouble comes, he runs like heck!" grumbled the girls as they looked angrily at the red headed teen for deserting them when they got captured. "Yes, you're right", moaned Gary as he hung his head down in shame. "I'm a flop as a rebel leader and even something unmentionable as a Pokemon master and friend." "Oh Gary!" cried Prof. Oak happily as he walked out of his cell and hugged his grandson. "You've finally learned some humility! I couldn't be happier!" "Grandpa", said Gary surprised. "You're not disappointed that I couldn't defeat the Rockets and I ran away and abandoned all of you?" "You were no match for that strong horde of Rockets", smiled Prof. Oak. "I was just happy knowing that you and Togepi have gotten away safely. I'm very proud of you Grandson." "Thanks Gramps", said Gary with happy tears. As they hugged. Prof. Oak looked at the other teen that was smiling at them. "Ash, is that you?!" the Professor gasped as he saw how much that little boy who left Pallet many years ago had grown. "Hi Professor", smiled Ash. "It's good to see you again." "And it's really great to see you alive and looking well", smiled the Prof. "And I'm sure someone else here will be happy to see you too. Oh, Mrs. Ketchum!" "Mom?" asked Ash nervously. Out of another open door stepped Mrs. Ketchum with sadness in her eyes. "Ash?" she asked. "OH, ASH!" she screamed as she hugged her long lost son as tight as she could. "OH MOM!" cried Ash who hugged her tight as well. Then released each other so they could get some air. "Mom, I thought I'd never see you again!" cried Ash. "Did those mean Rockets hurt you? If they did, I'll...." "Will you excuse me please?" cried Mrs. Ketchum as she ran back into her cell. Everyone became puzzled while Ash stepped in as well. Ash found his Mom on the stone floor crying her eyes out. "Please don't cry Mom", said Ash as he placed his hands on her shoulders. "Everything'll be all right. I'm home now." "It's not that!" sobbed Mrs. Ketchum, "It's just that I can't face you anymore. I don't deserve to be a mother at all!" "Don't say that Mom", pleaded Ash. "You're the best Mom in the entire world." "No I'm not!" cried Mrs. Ketchum. "The day you were captured by Team Rocket, I told your friends not to worry about it. I invited them home for lunch thinking Team Rocket would either let you go or you could get out of it yourself. What a horrible mistake I made! I should've gone with them to help free you. And now it's over five years and just look what happened. I'm a terrible mother!" and she started crying again. "Please Mom", smiled Ash while wiping her tears away, "I want you to stop blaming yourself. After all, I guess it was kind of my fault too. All my life, I asked you to stop babying me and fussing over me all the time. I guess you finally gave me my request. But that's all in the past. I'm back here with you and I get to tell you how much I love you!" and he kissed his Mom. "Oh Ash!" cried Mrs. Ketchum as she hugged her boy. "I'm never going to let you go again!" "Thanks Mom", said Ash gasping for air. "But could you just let me loose a little right now?" Mrs. Ketchum blushed and released her son from her powerful hug. "My little boy has really grown up!" smiled Mrs. Ketchum. "And just look at you. You should be wearing a warm shirt over that tank top. You might catch a flu bug! And that ponytail! Don't they have barbers at wherever you've been all this time?! And have you also been changing your you-know-whats? I hope you haven't been wearing the same ones all these years!" "Aw, Mom", laughed Ash while everyone laughed as well. "If only Pikachu could see us now. That's right, we've gotta find Pikachu!" "And my Mr. Mime!" said Stella. "And my Clefairy family!" said Seymour. "Where could they be?" "They might be right behind that huge door", said Mrs. Ketchum. "While I was in my cell, I saw those awful Rockets take the rebel's Pokemon through it. And I saw tons of Pokemon locked in cages before the door closed." "There's only one way to find out", said Jenny as she took the Rockets' card key and slid it through. The door opened and sure enough, there were tons of Pokemon locked in cages of all sizes either in groups or in solitary. They were all the Pokemon that the Rockets had taken from the citizens and the captured rebels. All the rebels saw the Pokemon they recognized and they opened the cages and released them. Seymour then grew tears at the sight he saw. A whole family of Clefairies and Clefables locked up in one big cage. "My family!" cried Seymour as he released his own Clefairy and Clefable from their Pokeballs and they ran up and unlocked the cage. All the Clefairies and Clefables cheered as they hugged the long lost members of their clan. Even their adopted member as they piled on top of Seymour while he was laughing happily. "Is this young man your boyfriend Jenny?" The Elder Jenny asked her daughter while smiling. Pallet Jenny just shyly nodded. Stella looked around all the cages desperately trying to find her Mr. Mime, until one of her circus girls called out. "Hey Stella, over here!" Stella rushed over to where her girls were and found that they had released a Ponyta, Rapidash, Machoke, Dodrio, and six little Exeggcutes. "It's all the Pokemon from my circus!" cried Stella as she hugged each and every one of them. "But where's Mr. Mime?" and she looked around in panic. Ash was also storming around the cages trying to find his Pikachu but with no luck. Suddenly, he heard a familiar sound. "KRAB, KRAB!" it said. Ash turned around and smiled as he saw a cute little crab locked in a small cage. "Krabby!" he cried as he released it. "It's so good to see you again!" "KRABBY!" it wailed as it patted Ash on the shoulder with its claw. "MUK!" called out another familiar voice. Ash turned around again and found a huge pile of living sludge sealed up in a glass cage. "Muk! Is that you?!" smiled Ash as he put Krabby down and opened Muk's cage. Ash was preparing to hug his Muk not caring how slimy and smelly it was. But instead it slithered past Ash and tackled Prof. Oak for it missed its caretaker very much. "Yes, I'm glad to see you too Muk!" groaned the Professor as he tried to climb out of the messy muck. "It's a good thing I lived in the sewers for five years, because your smell doesn't bother me anymore!" "MUK!" laughed Muk as it kept hugging the Professor almost breaking his back. Ash smiled at the loving but yucky scene until he heard a bunch of loud MOOOS! He turned around and found another memorable group of Pokemon that he once caught in the Safari Zone and sent back to Prof. Oak. "Hey all you Tauros!" smiled Ash as he saw over 20 of them locked in the huge cage. "You should all be roaming free in wide open spaces. Not in a cramped cage indoors!" and he quickly released them and then noticed something on all the Tauros's butts. They had the letter R branded on all of them. "OH! Those Rockets!" shouted Ash thinking of 1001 uses for two dead Rockets and a dead Meowth. Cameron went around freeing every imprisoned Pokemon he saw until he came across a huge tank that contained two very familiar Pokemon. "Tentacruel and Kingler?" asked Cameron. "But why aren't you with Reiko?" Tentacruel and Kingler started to wail very loudly while their tears floated around in the water. Cameron quickly undid the latch on the tank door and the two Pokemon climbed out telling Cameron their sad story about their beloved master in their own languages. "I can't understand what you're both saying", said Cameron nervously. "But I just know that something terrible has happened to Reiko! Did the Rockets find out she wanted to defect?!" Tentacruel and Kingler nodded a sad yes. "Oh no!" cried Cameron. "Who knows what they'll do to her!" and he ran up to the group and told them the news. "This is terrible!" said Misty. "If the Rockets like to mistreat innocent civilians, who knows what they could do to a traitor!" "Not only that!" cried Ash. "I can't find Pikachu anywhere in this room! What have they done to my Pikachu?!!!" "Ash, calm down", said Misty. "Pikachu must be around here somewhere. Jessie and James were after him for many years so someone valuable as him must be hidden in a special place." "And what about my Mr. Mime!" cried Stella. "Did they put him in a special place too? Or since he was so disobedient, did those Rockets k.. k.... Kill him?!!" "No, don't say that Stella", said Brock holding her tight. "You believed for five long years that your Mime would be all right, so don't lose that hope now!" "All right, thank you Brock", said Stella wiping the tears from her eyes. "And we have to find my DNA chamber too!" said Bill. "It may not be alive, but it's important to me and to my Rattata too!" "And don't forget all the Clefairies and Clefables' Moonstones", added Seymour. "And Reiko", said Cameron. "We gotta find her before it might be too late!" "All right everyone", said Pallet Jenny. "It looks like we'll have to search this entire palace until we find all of our treasures along with apprehending the Rocket Trio. But first, we have to get all these people and their Pokemon out of here." "I'll lead everyone out of the palace", said The Elder Jenny. "While you and your little squadron continue with your own missions." "Thank you Mother", said Pallet Jenny as she gathered around Ash, Misty, Brock, Stella, Seymour, Bill, and Cameron. "Let all my Tauros lead the way", said Ash. "In case any Rockets jump out in front of you." "Thank you young citizen", said The Elder Jenny as she saluted him and the group he was with. "Good luck honey", said Mrs. Ketchum as she kissed Ash. "Stay safe." "I will Mom", smiled Ash kissing her back. "Don't worry." Then all the Tauros started to charge out of the hallway while the Jennies, Gary, Prof. Oak, Mrs. Ketchum, Ash's squadron, and the rest of the rebels and their Pokemon followed behind them. "All right, there's no time to lose", said Ash in a serious voice. "We gotta turn this rotten palace from top to bottom until we find our loved ones!" "Maybe you two can help us", said Cameron as he looked at Tentacruel and Kingler. The two Pokemon nodded, headed over to the other side of the hallway and waved at our heroes wanting them to follow. * * * * * * Meowth had just stepped out of the little kitten's room using James's boxer shorts to wipe his hands. "I wondered what humans used these things for", he said as he tossed them on the floor leaving dirty paw prints on the bottoms. Just then, he saw a small dustcloud coming from the hallway. "Is that maid service?" Meowth wondered. But it wasn't "MEOWTH!!" cried Meowth as he dropped his jaw at what he saw. A whole herd of Tauros were charging right at him. He tried to get out of the way but the Tauros trampled over the poor cat. Then a group of people trampled over him as well. And finally a whole bunch of Pokemon. When Meowth got up, he was completely covered with footprints, pawprints, horseshoe prints, fin prints, and all sorts of other prints. Including sludge prints from Muk. He became shocked again at what he saw. That charging mob had busted down the front doors of the palace. "Jessie'll probably blame me for this", Meowth said worried as he ran to find her and James. The now insane Giovanni found the palace doors open once the chaos had cleared. He quickly stepped in and ran through the hallway. "I hope I can find my dear ex-employes", he giggled. "And I hoped I'm dressed properly too." And he tucked his undershirt tail into his underpants. * * * * * * Tentacrurel and Kingler had led our heroes to another big door with a metal sign next to it. Cameron read it out loud. "Caution. In this room is the source of our valued electric wall. Only professional Rocket scientists (NO PUN INTENDED) are allowed in this room. If you're a Rocket with a low I.Q, get the BLANK away from it! And if you're a rebel spy, please forget you ever read this." "Jessie, James, and Meowth definitely must've wrote this", sighed Misty. "Let's see if this thing will work again", said Jenny as she slipped the card key through the door, but it still stayed locked. "I guess the Rocket that owned this key was one of the low I.Q. ones", she sighed. "Can you use crabhammer to knock it down Kingler?" asked Cameron. "KING!" smiled Kingler as it started shaking its huge claw around and then whacked at the steel door causing it to fall on the floor. "Nice job Kingler", smiled Cameron. "Reiko would be proud of you." "KING!" said Kingler smiling while blushing. As they all walked into the room, Cameron looked down at the metal door and asked. "Is anyone under there?" For he knew that usually sometimes happens in cartoons. He looked up and joined everyone at an amazing sight, especially for Seymour and Bill. It was Bill's DNA chamber being powered by a big pile of Moonstones. "So this is what those awful Rockets have been using the Clefairy Clan's sacred Moonstones for", said Seymour sadly. "To power up the DNA chamber to create that electric wall. Oh, the humanity!" "But my DNA chamber's only function is to combine two life forms into one", said Bill. "How did they ever make it into an electric wall generator?" "Maybe we'll find out when we look at what's behind these two doors", said Brock as he pushed the button to chamber 1. The door slid open and out stumbled a jester-like Pokemon who fell to the floor and made a mournful, "MIME!" "MR. MIME!" cried Stella as she ran over and hugged her long lost Pokemon to death. "Oh Mr. Mime!" she cried. "It must've been terrible for you being trapped in that cramped chamber for over 5 years! And I know how clausterphobic you get too!" "Mime?" asked Mr. Mime. Seymour went over and examined Mr. Mime thoroughly. "I'm afraid he doesn't remember a thing Stella", explained Seymour. "What do you mean?" asked Stella. "It's seems like Mr. Mime was put in suspended animation these past five years making him unaged. And releasing him from the chamber woke him up." "Oh Mr. Mime!" cried Stella again. "I'm sorry for all those times I whipped you, yelled at you, and trained you many hours of the night when I still had my circus! Losing you for 5 and a half long years really taught me a lesson. Can you ever forgive me and accept me as your master again?!" "Mime, mime!" smiled Mr. Mime as he wiped the tears from Stella's eyes and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you Mr. Mime", cried Stella with joy. "And to show you that I'll keep my promise..." She took out her whip and a pair of clippers, cut the whip into tiny harmful pieces and threw them out the nearby window. Mr. Mime became so happy that he started doing a happy mime dance. Our heroes smiled as they watched Stella and Mr. Mime hug each other happily. Everyone except Ash though. "I just wish I could do the same thing to my Pikachu!" he sighed. "We've gotta find him now!" "Isn't it obvious my still clueless-as-usual friend?" smiled Misty as she pushed the button on chamber 2. The door opened and there sitting in the darkness was Ash's long lost best friend. "PIKACHU!" cried Ash in his deep teenage voice as he picked up Pikachu who looked like he was asleep. "Pika?" asked Pikachu as he woke up from his 5 and a half year long sleep and looked at the strange teenage boy who was holding him. "Hi Pikachu", he said with tears in his eyes. "PIKACHU!" cried Pikachu in fear as he thundershocked the teen causing Ash to drop him onto the floor and then run into a corner shaking. "Pikachu, it's me Ash", he pleaded. "I may look different to you, but I am still your master and best friend. Just in an older body. Please Pikachu! You've got to recognize me! I've missed you for 5 and a half long years!" "Pika, Pi?" said Pikachu as he cautiously looked into the familiar eyes of the stranger. He slowly approached Ash and gave him a little sniff. "PIKACHU!" shouted a happy Pikachu as he jumped back into Ash's hands and thundershocked him. This time as a sign of affection. "Oh, how I missed your shocking ways", cried Ash as he hugged Pikachu for many minutes. "Pika, Pi!" cried Pikachu for the dynamic duo had finally been reunited. "Now things'll definitely be like the show once again", thought Cameron now that he saw Ash and his Pikachu back together again. "I told you Pikachu was probably in that chamber", said Misty also smiling with joy. "Yes, it looks like Pikachu's been in suspended animation also", said Seymour as he studied Pikachu. "He hasn't aged a bit either." "How could those @#$!% Rockets put Pikachu in that horrible contraption?!" cried Ash. "Hey, I invented that contraption!" protested Bill. "And the Rockets were the ones that made it horrible!" He leapt up onto the control panel and studied it. "It seems like those Rockets had programmed my invention to harness Pikachu's electricity and Mr. Mime's barrier power to create that electric wall!" "I can't believe those fiends would use my poor Mime for an evil scheme to harm an entire innocent town", moaned Stella. "It's okay babe", said Brock massaging her shoulders. "You're reunited with your Mime and that's all that matters right now." "Thank you Brock", sighed Stella as she hugged her Mr. Mime along with her boyfriend. "There we go", said Bill as he finished making some adjustments on the control panel, jumped off of it and stepped into chamber 1. "I need one of you to close this chamber door and activate the big red button on the control panel. That way I can become human again at last. Who would like to do the honor?" "Why don't you do it Cameron?" asked Brock. "It's because of you we've all gotten this far." "Okay", said Cameron blushing as he closed the chamber that Bill was in and pushed the red button. Suddenly, lights started flashing all over the machine while sparks started to fly out of it like mad. "I bet Buzz would love this sight", thought Cameron but then remembered that Buzz had way too much to eat today. An entire electric wall was about a year of square meals. Once the sparks had stopped, Cameron opened the door to chamber 1. Everyone waited for the humanized Bill to come out. But instead, more smoke came out and the same Rattata form crawled out of it all dizzy and drowsy. "Oh no, it didn't work", cried Misty as she picked up the rat. "I'm sorry Bill." "Rattata!" said the Rattata in a squeaky voice. Misty became surprised and then looked into its red eyes. The natural eye-color all Rattatas are supposed to have. "You're not Bill", said Misty. "No Bill's suffocating in this chamber right now!" called out Bill's voice from chamber 2. "And is it just me or has this chamber suddenly gotten cramped?!" Cameron quickly approached chamber 2, pushed the button and the door slid open. Out came more smoke along with a dark green-haired man wearing a fancy suit. "Bill?" asked everyone. "I can't believe it!" smiled a tear filled Bill as he looked at his furless human hands. "I got 10 digits again!" He quickly pulled off his shoes and counted his toes. "And the same goes for my toes! And I got a smooth bottom again!" he said as he felt no tail on his butt. "YAHOO! HOORAY! GRAY SKIES ARE GONNA CLEAR UP!!!" he sang as he danced around like crazy while everyone smiled. "I'm no longer in that horrible Rattata's body!" "RATTATA!" shouted the angry Rattata who leapt out of Misty's arms and shook its fist at Bill. "Oh sorry Rattie", said Bill blushing as he picked it up. "I didn't mean you were horrible, I meant the horrible experience of what we both went through. I bet it was a nightmare for you having me be the dominant brain of your own body. I'm just glad you're safe and we're finally separated but still together again." "Rattata!" cried Rattie for it was just happy to be its own Pokemon again. "Congratulations Bill", said Cameron. "We're all so happy for you." "AYE!" they all smiled at once. "Thank you my friends", said Bill. "I'm just glad we're all reunited with the people, Pokemon, and the things we love." "Not quite yet", said Cameron. "We still haven't found Reiko!" "CRUEL, KING!" agreed both Tentacruel and Kingler. "You're right", said Jenny. "And the Rocket Trio is still loose somewhere in this palace. Who knows what they're planning?!" "Well then let's get searching for them!" shouted Ash. "I bet you'd love to shock them to death Pikachu." "PIKACHU!" growled Pikachu as he made a tough-guy face, charged himself up, and sped out of the room while everyone followed. When everyone had left the room, Giovanni had come in. He saw the DNA chamber that was left on my mistake. Gio took out a Pokeball while making the biggest sinister smile in cartoon history. * * * * * * Our heroes were now running all over the place trying to find the Rocket Trio. "Now where would 3 fake monarchs hang out in a place like this?" asked Stella. "Cameron, you fell into Meowth's bedroom when you first came to our world", said Brock. "Maybe you might know where it is." "I can't really remember", said Cameron. "I was too scared being wrapped up in Arbok's coils to notice where I was being taken." Just then, a strange looking vacuum tube started to drop down from the ceiling. Everyone stopped in fright as the large tube started sniffing our heroes. "What is that thing?!" cried Misty who just jumped into Ash's arms. Ash just blushed but then came back down to Earth. "I don't know, but it's messing with the wrong guys. Pikachu, take care of that worm with a thunderbolt!" "PIKACHU!" shouted Pikachu as he sent a current of electricity through the tube but didn't affect it at all. "That tube's made of rubber Ash!" said Seymour nervously. "Electricity can't affect it!" Then the tube stopped as it sniffed Cameron. It made a great big smile and started up its vacuum power sucking the boy into it. "CAMERON!" our heroes all shouted as the tube slid back up the ceiling. Cameron then found himself sliding down and getting pulled up through all sorts of crazy glass tubes until he finally landed on what looked like a gym floor. He found his glasses lying on the floor and put them on. "It's amazing", he thought. "Ever since I got here, I've been falling on my face, getting beaten up, and drowning to death and my glasses still remain unbroken. Maybe it's a cartoon thing." He then looked around and saw that he was in a huge gym where a smoke bomb went off and 3 figures were standing in the darkness. When they cleared, Cameron saw a very unwelcome sight. "Welcome to Troubleland!" called out Jessie. "Make it Doubleland!" called out James. Jessie: "To protect our kingdom from twerpy boys!" James: "To silence them from their rebellious noise!" Jessie: "To denounce the evils of freedom and peace!" James: "To keep our crowns and this palace's lease!" Jessie: "Queen Jessie!" James: "King James!" Jessie: "Roayl Rockets blasting off at the speed of light, light, light!" James: "Don't bother surrendering, cause we're challenging you to a fight!" "That's right!" shouted Meowth as he appeared in a referee's uniform and whistle. "What have you done to Reiko?!" shouted Cameron angrily. "You'll find out when we feel like showing you", laughed Jessie wickedly. "So we meet again, you bothersome little twerp. And we saw how you brought back the original twerp too!" "You've really made our happy life of tyranny a living heck!" said Meowth. "Well anyway", said Jessie. "We brought you here alone to make you a little proposition." "What kind?" asked Cameron. "We've noticed while you were traveling, you were making stops at Pokemon gyms collecting badges", said James. "And we just know you would love to get your boney little fingers on this!" smiled Jessie as she held up a badge that was in the shape of a green feather. "An EarthBadge!" gasped Cameron. "It has a brain" said Meowth with a pretend surprised look. "Yes Mr. Fusterman", said Jessie evily. "We managed to save up an extra EarthBadge just before our old Viridian Gym exploded and we haven't found anyone worthy enough to give it to. But that all has changed since we met you." "Yes", said James. "You've certainly made our dull lives of ruling very exciting. Painful, but still exciting. And we're gonna let you have it!" "Really?" said Cameron not liking where all this might lead. "All you have to do is beat us in a 6 against 6 Pokemon match and the badge is yours and we'll leave this town forever!" said Jessie. "But if you lose, you'll have to join Team Rocket and become our new personal intern", said Meowth. "And my litter box hasn't been changed in over 10 months!" "And this will be the uniform you'll wear from now on!" laughed James as he held up a black tutu with an R on it. Cameron gulped and said. "What if I refuse?" "I was hoping you'd ask that", laughed Jessie as she pressed a button on a remote and the wall on the left slide slid open. Cameron became shocked and frightened at what he saw. It was the world's largest paper shredder and hanging above it from a hook was Reiko tied up and gagged. "REIKO!" cried Cameron. "MGMLFL!" mumbled Reiko. "That's right twerp", laughed Jessie. "One of the first rules of being our intern is to never doublecross us. Just like poor misguided Reiko up there." "Now we'll have to terminate her employment form along with her", said James as he started up the shredder, threw Reiko's form in there while poor Reiko herself was being lowered down slowly into the spinning blades. "NO STOP!" pleaded Cameron. "Okay, I'll battle you! Just don't hurt her!" "MRGLMF!" mumbled Reiko with tears in her eyes at what Cameron was about to go through. "Excellent", smiled Jessie evily. "Now get up on that podium over there and we'll begin what might be the most crucial battle in your entire insignificant life!" Cameron slowly walked up onto the huge podium on one side while the trio went to their podium on the other side. Reiko was mumbling like crazy begging Cameron not to do this. "I'm sorry Reiko", said Cameron sadly. "I just can't let you die. But I am gonna win this one for you!" "GMDLMKMS", mumbled Reiko which meant, "Good luck Cameron-san!" TO BE CONTINUED AUTHOR'S NOTE: Uh oh! It looks like this is no mere Gameboy battle for Cameron. This time it's a life or death battle! Who will win, but most importantly, who will survive?! Stay tuned to find out. It's gonna be big!