A loud blast shook The Irregular Penguin. Team Rocket woke up. As they threw on their clothes, James pushed a large orange button on the wall. As they left the room, Colby the purple, hyperactive robot pulled up in his little orange flying cart.
"YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAW you kids had a fun night didn't ya!" Colby giggled.
"YOU WERE SPYING?!" Team Rocket shouted in unison.
"Not me I heard it from a patrol-bot who was so where to y'all?" Colby chirped quickly.
"To wherever Bob is." Muttered Jessie as she and James hopped into the cart.
The cart sped quickly down corridor after corridor until it stopped at a room that looked exactly like the control room from Star Trek. Bob was hunched over a monitor swearing loudly at the screen.
"What's going on?" Jessie asked.
"So, you're finally up. Did you two have fun?" Bob snickered.
"Who told you?" Both Rockets snapped.
"The whole ship knows about last night. Anyway, that blast was from those damn sheep." Bob grumbled.
"Sheep?" James asked.
"Yeah, you know those wooly things from your planet. For some reason, they're attacking us. I can't figure out why. The translation rings can't interpret "baa"." Bob explained.
"You mean Mareep? Or Flaffy?" Jessie asked.
"NO! Not a Pokemon, sheep. You know the animal." Bob sighed.
James was about to respond when he collapsed on the floor and began to twitch, muttering something about oranges. In fact, Jessie did the same, except that she was singing the theme to Card Captor Sakura. Bob shook his head sighed. Why was it that humans were so pitiful when passing through a time hole? James awoke to screaming sirens and red flashing lights.
"What's going on?" he asked, "Hey, the Earth's back."
"No, the Earth is there for now, look." Said Bob, gesturing towards a screen.
A large black ship was hovering above the Earth, but its current focus was The Irregular Penguin. Another blast shook the ship, and Team Rocket sprang into another fear hug.
"We're going to die!" Jessie screamed.
"We're to good looking to die!" James wailed.
"Oh Jessie!"
"Oh James!"
"BAAAAAA!" boomed a voice over the ship's intercom.
"Baa?" Jessie asked.
"Baa." James confirmed.
"It's the sheep. They want to kill us for interfering I suppose. So that's how they did it. They used an illegal time hole to travel back in time to destroy the world. If the Earth just disappeared in the present, there would be no witnesses. That's why the sheep's warship was hanging around where the Earth had been. They wanted to make sure no one discovered the time hole before it closed. Fortunately, we found it before they had a chance to destroy us." Bob explained.
"But they're going to destroy us now?" James squeaked.
"Yeah, I guess." Bob replied.
"Oh Jessie!"
"Oh James!"
"Ugh, not again. If you two can keep your hands off of each other for two minutes, maybe we can get them first." Bob said.
Bob showed Jessie and James to two chairs, each with a monitor and a number of buttons. Bob explained the weapons to them quickly, and rushed over to the ship's main controls to move them into position. But as Bob was about to give the word to open fire, another blast shook the ship.
"Damn, the engine's been hit! We're going down. What are you waiting for, open fire! Take 'em down with us!" Bob shouted.
Jessie and James punched buttons furiously, and were quite pleased when the sheep's black warship exploded in a ball of flame. The two Rockets rushed towards each other and celebrated with a victory hug.
"Oh Jessie!"
"Oh James!"
"Come on, you stupid humans, we have to get to the escape ship or we'll crash and die. Come on." Bob sighed.
"Die!" Team Rocket squealed.
"Oh Jessie!"
"Oh James!"
Bob dragged the two Rockets to the escape ship, and flew it away from The Irregular Penguin and watched as it crashed onto the surface of the Earth. Bob then piloted the small escape ship down to where The Irregular Penguin lay in a wreck.
"Hmmm…not too bad. I might be able to have it running in a couple of weeks." Said Bob as he inspected the damage.
"But the engine. You said it was hit." Jessie reminded.
"Hit? Yes. Broken? Yes. Fixable? Yeah, probably. You kids go off and find somewhere to spend he next couple of weeks. This is gonna take awhile."
"Maybe we can help." James offered.
"Two stupid humans who don't know the first thing about space ships? Yeah, about as much help as a cactus to a duck." Bob muttered
"A what?" Both Rockets said in unison.
"Just come back in a couple of weeks." Bob snapped.
So Team Rocket set off. They continued to walk straight until they came to the sandy beach of an enormous lake. By the lake, there was a cave and a bush with raspberries growing on it. Deciding it would make a good home for the time being they gathered up some of the berries and had a completely unfulfilling dinner.
"I want a doughnut!" James whined.
Jessie slammed a mallet over his head.
"Don't whine James, pretend it's the filling of a jelly doughnut." Jessie suggested.
Then James started to laugh, which made Jessie start laughing. It was the first time they had laughed in a long time. Maybe it was Jessie's comment. Maybe they had just lost their minds for a moment, but for whatever reason, they were happy.
That night, as Jessie slept, her head in James's lap, James kept watch. Slowly his eyes began to close. Suddenly, something poked him with a spear and woke him up.
"Baaa!" it growled as it poked him again.
James screamed like a 2-year-old girl as he sat upright. Jessie sat up too, and they went into a fear hug as the sheep made threatening gestures with its spear.
"That sheep is going to kill us!" Jessie sobbed.
"We're going to die!" James moaned.
"Oh Jessie!"
"Oh James!"