(Author's Rantings)------------------------------------------- HERE IT IS!!! THE BIG ONE!!! WOOOHOOOO!!! ^_^ Oh, by the way, this one has ANOTHER request that you've been waiting for ever since Delet's appearance! Hehehe... read on, gentle fans! ^_~ (Delet, quit rubbing up against my leg! Would you cut that out? Delet!) Narrator: HEY! I have a LOT of lines in this one!!! Author: Uh... yeah... what's your point? Narrator: I GET TO TALK!!!! YAAAAAHOOOOO!!! Author: Uh... good for you... Narrator: By the way... Delet's snuggling against your leg again. Author: I know... (Sigh.) - -; (Beginning of Story)------------------------------------------ Episode Seventeen: Dodging Redarto's Fire Narrator: It's time for another cliffhanging fanfic... I mean episode of Pokémon! Heh, sorry. Aaaanyway, if you remember, Teem convinced James to go back home to receive his inherit- ance, partly for his own greedy purposes. Teem: (Pops up defiantly.) Hey! I'm not greedy! I just realize good financial opportunity when I see it! Narrator: Sure, Teem! (Teem rolls his eyes and goes back to whatever it was he was doing, namely picking someone's pocket.) Anyway, Mr. and Mrs. Roquét, James' parents, have allowed James to marry Jessie instead of Jessebelle. Jessebelle couldn't care less now that she has someone ELSE to control, though... (Jessebelle and Brock walk by.) Jessebelle: (Holding Brock's hand.) Brock, dea'h, as darling as that cute li'l squint is, it's very bad for your eyes. Brock: (In his usual girl-crazy tone.) Beh heh heh heh... Okay, Jessebelle, I'll try to work on it! =^_^= Narrator: (Sarcastic tone.) Is that cute or what? The relationship between the ex-Rockets and the heroes seems a little better now, well, Jessie and Ash still have their disputes... (Jessie, Pikachu, Ash, Misty, and Psyduck are watching TV.) Jessie: (She points at the screen.) See, Ash? That's why we were more popular! The stylish disguises! Ash: Eck... No way, Jessie. Your disguises were dumb-looking! Misty: Well, some of them were nice... Ash: What do you know, Misty? Misty: I'm a girl, it's my fashion sense... Pikachu: Pikachu pi kachu chuka pikahu. Ka, Pika? {Pokémon have fashion sense too. Right, Psyduck?} Psyduck: (He nods intellectually.) Oh, of course! How do you think we have such marvellous coloring? Everyone loves my DARLING yellow color! (Everyone blinks at him in a surprised way.) Oh! I uh... I mean... Psy-yi-yi!?!?!?! (He squawks loudly and holds his head in imitated pain.) Ash: Anyway, we were always better! Oh... by the way, Jess... What was with that cross-dressing thing? James isn't... funny, is he? Jessie: (She gasps.) WHAT? NO! Of course not! Misty: Ash! Don't talk about her fiancé like that! Ash: (Somewhat apologetically.) Well... he acts weird and wore girl clothes a lot... I just wondered... Narrator: Ehhhhh yeah, hehehe... And as the wedding day nears, our friends rush to prepare... (Teem and Ash are seen talking on two telephones each.) Ash: Yeah, Mom! Jessie and James! Mom... Mom... Mom, stop saying "Awww, how cute!" Anyway, they wanted to know if you'd come... Okay... Yes, Pikachu is doing fine... Yes, I'm wearing clean underwear - -; Teem: Yeah, Jessie and James! Isn't that cute? Mondo... Mon... Mond... YO! Mondo! I know you had a crush on her, but get over it, I did too! Mondo... STOP CRYING! Ash: Come on, Gary, be nice for once... Well, your grampa's going... Teem: (He sighs.) Yes, Jolteon, there WILL be cake... I don't know what KIND! Geeze! Can I talk to Abra again? You and Alex are dumb on the phone! (The scene changes to James getting fitted for a tuxedo.) Ash: Hey! Cool! You'll look like Tuxedo Mask! Pikachu: Pika! Cha pikacha! {Yeah! He's cool!} Brock: (Sighs.) Ash, you still watch Sailor Moon? Ash: Yeah, so? (Meowth starts giggling at Ash.) Meowth: Grow up, kid! James: FATHER! This tie is too tight!!! (He starts whining pathetically.) Mr. Roquèt: James, boy, stop whining like that! You'll only wear it for one day! Teem: ::blinkblink:: I still say you should get a purple tux with ruffles like Austin Powers, so you can say "YEEEAAAHH, Baby!" (Everyone looks at him in another state of culture-clash.) Everyone: What? Teem: Oh, nevermind. - -; (The scene changes again to Jessie getting fitted for a dress.) Mrs. Roquét: Oh, Jessie, dear, you look gorgeous! Misty: Yeah, Jess! You're gonna' be a knockout! Jessie: Thanks, Misty. Ash will probably think you're a cute bride's maid, too, hehehe... (Misty grumbles at the hint of her and Ash together, after all, it's soooooo ridiculous... right?) Delet: Delet del let let del delet. {No wonder James prefers you over What's-Her-Name.} Jessebelle: That's JESSEBELLE! (She screams with a fiery background.) (They all look up for a second.) Jessie: Did you hear something? (They all blink and shrug.) Narrator: And now, the big day arrives! (Everyone is dressed for the wedding. Teem's giggling annoy- ingly and trying to make lighthearted comments [Being serious makes him nervous sometimes.]) Teem: Hehehe... well... James has Jessie, Brock has Jessebelle, Ash has Misty, and Mr. Roquét has Mrs. Roquét. Guess I'm the only one without a "date," hehehe... (Everyone rolls their eyes and tells Teem in their own way to shut up.) Delet: (She taps Teem's leg.) Del... Delet... {Wait... Hold on...} (She smiles and dashes off, then runs back wearing a dress, but it's obviously too big for her.) Everyone: Awwwwww!!! How cuuuuuute! (Delet uses her transformation trick and turns into a beautiful, blue Saiyan girl [oh yeah, the dress fits then, I know it's weird, but it's just a story.] Brock, Teem, and Ash's jaws drop. Everyone else just looks normally surprised [except Jessebelle, who kisses Brock quickly to get his attention again.]) Teem: WOW! ::blinkblink:: Ash: Beh heh heh heh... Narrator: That's new! Delet: (She grins and takes Teem's hand.) Well, what are we waiting for? (She points to Jessie and James.) You guys have a wedding! ^_~ (The scene then flips forward a bit to just before the wedding begins. The guests are all talking amongst each other.) Abra: Teem! Teem: Abra! (They run up to each other and shake hands like old buddies.) Abra: How have you been, you goof? Teem: Just fine! ^_^ How about you and Alex, huh? I mean... Giovanni and all... Abra: He's more lenient now... I think he got creeped out by that thing you did. You should use your powers more, you know that? They could have made you a good thief! Teem: Heh, so you and Alex getting married next? Hehehehe. (He nudges her shoulder.) Huh? Huh? Nudge nudge wink wink? Abra: (Angry blush.) Teem, cut it out. (Delet and Alex rush up.) Alex: Hey, Abra, I... oh... (Coldly.) Hi, Teem... EW! Who's that? Another blue freak! GROSS!!! Teem: That's Delet, Alex... Delet: (Gets mad and zaps at Alex with her first and second fingers.) DON'T call me a freak, you jerk! Alex: ACK! (He leaps in Abra's arms.) (Bry walks up to Ash.) Ash: Hey, Bry. I don't remember you being on the list... Bry: That's because I'm doing the wedding! I'm gonna' be... THE WORLD'S GREATEST WEDDING MINISTER! (He does the triumphant pose again.) Ash: I thought you were a Rocket now... and the world's great- est exorcist? Bry: Huh? ::blinkblink:: Ash: Oh... Sorry... nevermind. (The scene time-jumps again [gettin' time-sick? Hehe].) Bry: I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride. (As James and Jessie kiss, a familiar voice is heard in the back of the church.) Red Guy: (In a jail uniform, ball and chain around his leg.) Oh! That's... that's so PRECIOUS!!! (He starts crying like crazy.) Don't... Don't mind me... I always cry at weeeddiiiings... (Sniff.) (One more time change, hahaha. After the wedding, back at the Roquét estate, everyone is packing up to return on their journey.) Mrs. Roquét: Are you sure you won't stay? Mr. Roquét: Don't you think it's time to settle down? James: I'm sorry, but I'm going with them. I still want to be a Pokémon Master, but I promise that Jessie and I will come back once it's over... (Growly whines and nudges at him.) No, Growly, you can't come too. You need to take care of Mother and Father, and Hopkins too, hehe, you know what a hazard he is! Teem: (Packs up his old TR uniforms.) I don't care what anyone says. Even if we're not in TR anymore, I wanna' keep my uni- forms, hehe. ^_^ Well, Del, you gonna' turn back to normal now? Delet: Actually, Teem... I'd like to stay like this for a while... Teem: Why, buddy? We could understand you before, even when you didn't speak English. Hehe. Delet: Because, Teem... I... (She looks at him as if not knowing how to say something.) I... (She bursts into tears.) I love you, Teem! (She hugs Teem and kisses him.) Teem: Whoa! ::blinkblink:: That was unexpected! Narrator: Er... actually, no it wasn't. Jessebelle: (Holding Brock's hand.) Don't leave, Brock, dea'h! What'll A'h do without ya'll? Brock: Don't worry, Jessebelle, I'll be back after this is all over... Maybe... (He hugs her and gets up to follow Ash and the gang.) Jessebelle: (Evilly.) Ya'll betta'h be... (She starts messing with the whip again.) Narrator: And so our friends return to their pokémon journey. (Cut to the group waving goodbye to the family. James is smiling with tears in his eyes. Jessie grabs his free hand comfortingly.) James and Jessie plan to return after their journey ends to raise a family. Brock hopes to return possibly... if he doesn't find ANOTHER girl somewhere... Jessebelle: What?!? Narrator: And Teem has learned something about his best friend that he never would have guessed... (Delet turns and hugs Teem again.) Who knows how else this day has changed our friends' lives? (The scene fades and comes back on the gang walking along a path to another city.) James: You know... it's funny how you can know your family for your whole life... but you never really KNOW them until you come back home... Jessie: (Hugs James closely. She smiles with a few tears in her eyes and speaks quietly.) I finally have a family again... (Meanwhile, Meowth is conversing with the least-observant member of the pack.) Meowth: Geeze, Teem! You mean ta' tell us ya' didn't KNOW dat Delet had a crush on ya'? Teem: What? You guys knew about it? Brock: Ch'yeah! We knew! We thought you did too! Teem: ::blinkblink:: Well, motorized shoes on pickled pigs' feet! I had NO idea that's how she felt! Narrator: No offense, Teem, but you're not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you? Teem: HEY! BUTT OUT! Misty: Yeah! I was going to say that to him! Narrator: Oh, okay, fine! I see how it is! Give the Narrator his ONE episode where he gets a lot of lines, then insult him! Be that way! I'm leaving! (He storms off.) Misty: Uh... Teem: Er... Ash: Oh, good move, guys, now we don't have a NARRATOR! (Bry rushes in and waves to Misty, who blushes and waves back to him shyly.) Bry: Hey, guys! Don't worry! Because the WORLD'S GREATEST ANIMé NARRATOR is here! YEAH!!! (Triumphant pose.) Delet: Hey, what happened to the Wedding Minister act? Pikachu: Ka? Bry: Eh, Red Guy stole it from me... - -; (The scene instantly changes to Red Guy, dressed as the pope, standing in front of a bride and groom.) Red Guy: (Looks back at us.) Oh, it's true! IT'S TRUUUUE! ^_^ (Change back to Bry.) Bry: Anyway, stay tuned for the next exciting episode... of Pokémon! The End (The Last Word)----------------------------------------------- Yes, the title WAS completely stupid just to catch you off- guard! Hehehe! Did it work? (Giggles stupidly.) Hehe, sorry, it's 11:07pm and I probably need to go to bed now... (Giggle.) Redarto's Fire. Heheheheh... Mr. Redarto... hehehe...