A Strange Team Rocket Story - Chapter Two
After a few minutes, I came out in the Team Rocket uniform. It seemed comfortable to me. "Very good, Brock. It fits you. Now, I have called down your partner, and she seemed, uh, a bit... shall I say... excited." Excited? Over me? Ha. I sat there for a few minutes in silence, until there was a knock at the door. "Yes?" Giovanni asked. "It's me, sir!" a woman's voice said from the other side of the door. "Good. Come in." She walked in. It was all I could do but not get those goofy eyes and tell her how pretty she looked. This is Team Rocket, I can't be doing that anymore. I figured the general approach would work best. "Hi. I'm Brock." I shook her hand. She smiled. "Hi! It's nice to meet you. My name is Tanya," she said, shaking back. "Good. There will be no problems, then. Now, for your first mission, I want you two to go to the Kareoke Club. You have to try to recruit new members. We need as many as we can get. Tanya will explain Team Orenji to you, Brock, on your way there. They are why we need more members. We must be stronger than them," Giovanni said, and pointed to the door. "Now, go on."
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We walked down the dirt road, on our way to the Club in Cerulean. "You don't have to tell me, I already know about Team Orenji," I said, trying to make some sort of conversation. "You do? How did you find out?" she asked, eyeing me a bit. "Someone told me. I don't what to get her into trouble so I'm not going to name names." She nodded. "I understand. But why did she tell you?" There wasn't any way of getting out of this one, so I just told her the truth. "I asked her," I replied. "Oh. Hey, can I ask you a question?" she asked. "Sure, ask away." "What color are your eyes? They're never open, so I can't tell!" I laughed. "Of course they're open! But, if you really want to know, they're brown." Then she laughed, and said, "Oh... okay... I didn't know that! To tell you the truth, I know this girl that calls you Squinty." Squinty? That sounds like... "Her name's Sora." Ha! I was right. That was exactly who I was thinking of, Sora the Rock-Skipper and all around odd girl. I've heard she has a crush on James, Butch, and me, plus she likes her little boyfriend she's always following around. But, at last, we were finally at the club. We walked inside.
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Of all people to be there, Sora and Matt were sitting at a table near the front. And, of all people to be singing, it was Misty. She was singing "Lesson In Leavin'," for whatever reason. I found it a bit odd, but sat down with Tanya at a table near Sora and Matt anyways. "Aren't we supposed to be finding new members?" I asked Tanya. "Yeah, but we can have a little fun first! We have a whole week for this mission. If it bugs you that much, we'll start tomorrow. But today we are going to have fun, and that's final!" she replied, then laughed a little, "You *know* you want to have fun, Brock. Just for today, I promise." I gave in. I suppose a day of fun couldn't hurt. By now Misty was done, and Sora went up, and sung "How Do I Live." I turned to Matt. "Why exactly is she singing that song?" I asked.. "She's singing it cuz it's her favorite song... er, second favorite song. Trust me I know," he said. "Hmm... well, c-ya Matt." I chuckled, and turned around before he could make any more remarks, or ask how I knew his name. When she came down, and walked past me, I lightly grabbed her arm, and she turned and looked at me. "Hey, were you singing that for your boyfriend over there?" I asked, looking at some random guy. "He's NOT my boyfriend! I don't have a boyfriend! And I was singing it because it is my favorite song!" I laughed again. "Just like your friend," I said, and let go of her arm. She rubbed it and walked away. "Brock... you shouldn't be so mean to those two! Lucky that you're wearing a sweater, if they saw the R on your shirt they'd turn you in to the police I'm sure," Tanya scolded. "Sorry, but it's funny!" I said. She just shook her head. We stayed a little bit longer, then went and got a hotel.
***
I was laying on my bed, watching a show on the decresing number of Eevee
on Pokèmon Planet, when my cell phone rang. I promptly answered
it. "Hello?" I asked. "Hello, Brock. This is the Boss. I have a new mission
for you and your partner. You must go get Team Meowth and Team Sundance
out of jail. They all recovered, and are now in Lavender Town Jail." "What?
Are you sure we can do this, sir?" I asked. "Of course I'm sure! Oh yes,
and you guys need a team name. I don't normally let teams choose thier
own names, but I can think of nothing. Think about that." And with that
he hung up. 'That was weird...' I thought. "What was that all about?" Tanya
asked me. "That was the boss. He want us to go get Jess, James, Meowth,
Butch, and Cassidy out of jail. Plus he wants us to think up a team name,"
I said. "Oh. We'll start planning in the morning, then. I'm tired, we should
get some sleep."
