The Incredible Poke-Odyssey chapter 19

Poke-Karaoke

Our heroes were driving their RV through an open countryside.  Everyone 
just loved the RV that was given to them by the not-so-bad Kingston 
Silph.  Jenny was driving while the others were doing fun stuff in 
great luxury.  Jenny looked at the control panel and noticed that the 
power level was almost low.

"That's odd", she said, "It seemed to be very high this morning.  I 
wonder what's causing the power to suddenly drop?" 

Cameron was using the microwave to pop some popcorn for him and Sandy, 
Misty was using her hot comb to get her one pigtail just perfect, Brock 
and Stella were watching the semi-blockbuster hit, Pokemon in Love, on 
their big screen TV.  Bill was mixing a variety of cheeses and crackers 
in a food processor, and Seymour was in the kitchen trying to make a 
romantic lunch for his beloved Jenny.  Suddenly, the motor stopped and 
all the power went out in the RV making everything dark.

"Hey, what happened?" asked Cameron.

"I believe this is what I call a blackout", said Seymour.

"No, this can't be happening!" wailed Misty. "I haven't completed 
fixing up my hair!  Now I'll look hideous!"

"Relax Misty", said Bill, "I don't think anyone will be looking at you 
in this darkness."

"And we were just about to watch the juiciest part of the movie too!" 
whined Stella.

"Maybe we can make our own juicy movie", said Brock, "And this darkness 
is the perfect mood for it!"

"All right!" called out an angry Jenny, "Which one of you has wasted 
all the power?!  Somebody answer me or I'll.. sniff, sniff.  Hey, is 
that enchiladas stuffed with wild cherries I smell?"

"Uh, yes it is", said Seymour nervously, "It is our all time favorite 
food.  Isn't it?"

"Yes, that's it Seymour", whispered Misty, "Put Jenny in a good mood 
so you can take all the blame."

"Well, it was sweet of you to make my favorite meal for me", said 
Jenny, "But next time, don't use so much power when making it in an RV. 
Okay my special scientist?" and she kissed him.

Seymour started to blush incredibly making his red face light up the 
room, but then said, "Wait a minute.  I don't think I felt your kiss."

"But I did!" moaned Misty as she started to wipe her lips clean.

"Let's all sit down to a nice cherry enchilada lunch and then we'll try 
to fix the power", said Jenny now happy.  Everyone found the table and 
sat down.  Most of them were thankful that they didn't have to look at 
the gross combination of food Seymour made. But then Seymour lit some 
candles to make it romantic for him and Jenny while everyone secretly 
groaned now that they had to look at what they're eating.

*      *      *      *      *      *

After everyone, except Seymour and Jenny, were over their queasiness, 
they all stepped out of the RV to get it fixed.  Jenny popped open the 
hood and took out some jumper cables. "If only a passing car would 
come by here, we can ask the driver to pull over and help us charge up 
our RV", said Jenny.

Everyone looked down the road and found no cars coming at all. "Traffic 
jams never come when you really need them", sighed Stella.

"Wait a minute", said Cameron, "We don't need another car.  We got our 
own power source right here!" and he released Electabuzz. "Buzz, we 
need some of your power to charge up our RV", said Cameron, "Can you 
spare some please?"

"BUZZ, EL BUZZ!" said Buzz while saluting which meant yes.  Jenny 
hooked the cables to Buzz's antennas and hooked them to the engine. 
"Okay Buzz", said Jenny, "Let loose your juice!"

"BUUUUZZZZZ!" said Buzz as he let his electricity flow through the 
cables and into the engine. "I think it's working!" smiled Jenny as she 
watched the lights on the engine starting to charge up.  Just then, 
sparks started to fly out of the engine while water burst out of the 
radiator like a fountain and the headlights started to burst. 

"That's enough Buzz!" shouted Cameron, "You're giving it too much 
power!  Stop please!  That's an order!" But Buzz wasn't listening for 
he was too busy concentrating on his power trip.  Nuts and bolts 
started popping out of the engine while the windshield wipers were 
dancing like crazy.

"We gotta do something!" cried Seymour, "Before Buzz blows up the RV 
along with himself!"

"V.P., I choose you!" shouted Cameron as he released his Vileplume. 
"Quick V.P." shouted Cameron. "Put Buzz to sleep before it's too late!"

"VILE!" shouted V.P. as it saw the damage its teammate was doing.  It 
quickly covered Buzz with sleep powder making him lie down and start 
snoozing while the electric power ceased.

"That was a brilliant idea Electric boy", grumbled Misty. "And why 
don't you have your Donphan just sit on top of the RV too so he can 
crush us to death?!"

"I'm sorry everyone", sighed Cameron as he pulled the sleeping Buzz 
back into his ball.

"Hey, don't feel bad Cameron", said Brock, "At least you tried to think 
of something."

"Now the next thing we have to think about is where to get ourselves 
another vehicle", said Jenny. "This thing has gone to RV Heaven."

"Hey, look at this!" said Cameron as he saw a flyer stuck to a tree.

"Pokemon Karaoke contest happing today at the Crimson Café in Crimson 
City.  If your Pokemon is a great singer or can play a cool instrument, 
please enter and let it perform.  First prize is a brand new RV."

"So are you saying that we should let one of our Pokemon get on stage 
and do a musical number hoping that one will be the winner?" asked 
Misty.

"That's a great idea!" smiled Stella with stars in her eyes. "I get to 
be part of the theatre once again!"

"Let's each enter one Pokemon", said Brock, "That way we'll have a 
seven way chance of winning."

"I was quite the karaoke singer during my younger days", said Bill. 
"I think I'll enter myself."

"Perhaps the world's only singing Rattata would make you the winner", 
said Seymour.

"I think I'll enter my Seadra", said Misty, "I've heard they know the 
song of the sirens."

"I wonder which Pokemon should I enter?" said Cameron. "Sandy, can you 
carry a good tune?"

"Shrew, Shrew Sandshrew, SHHHHRRRREEEEWWWW!!!" Sandy sang out loud 
while everyone covered their ears.

"Uh, that was a nice try Sandy", said an almost deaf Cameron, "But I 
bet if you keep practicing for a while, you'll be even better."

"Shrew!" said Sandy agreeing with Cameron for he didn't like the sound 
of his Sandshrew singing either. 

Just then, Cameron heard some really cool trumpet playing from one of 
his Pokeballs.  He took the green one and out popped Donphan happily 
trumpeting a wonderful tune. "Why Donnie", smiled Cameron, "That was 
beautiful.  You should play in a high school marching band!"

"Phan!" said Donnie while blushing and curling up his trunk.

"Or better yet, you could enter him in the Karaoke contest", said Brock.

"You think I should?" asked Cameron.

"Yes, you should", said Seymour who went into poem mode.

"Oh, there's nothing like the sound of a Donphan's nose.
No other sound on Earth can ever come close.
With a toot and a trumpet and that's strong and loud.
You've got a Pokemon that'll make the music world proud.
So Cameron, enter your Donphan and then you'll realize,
With him on your side, you're sure to win the prize!"

"Okay Seymour, you talked, er, poetried me into it", smiled Cameron for 
he couldn't say no to a guy who just made a strange poem about him and 
his Pokemon.

"PHHAAAANNN!" trumpeted an eager Donnie.

*      *      *      *      *      *

In another part of the forest, we see Team Rocket's balloon totally 
destroyed and hanging from a tall tree while Team Rocket were on the 
ground with three human shaped holes in the grass for that was where 
they've landed. "Of all the stupid things you ever done, you've just 
had to push yourself to the limit!" screamed Jessie as she was 
strangling James.

"Hey, I thought taking a shortcut through the world's tallest cactus 
farm was a good idea", said James gasping for breath while Jessie was 
strangling him even harder.

"Uh, my Queen", said Reiko stepping between them, "I really hate to 
interrupt your stress relieving, but shouldn't we try to fix our 
balloon so we can get back into the sky?"

"Yes, you're right", said Jessie as she dropped James onto the ground 
and straightened out her gloves and then looked at the balloon. "But 
you're also wrong.  That balloon is totally 100% damaged for us to fix.  
I'll just phone Meowth and have him send us another balloon." And she 
took out her portable vidphone and dialed the number to the Rocketville 
Palace.

"Hello Meowth", said Jessie but got no response and no picture. 
"Meowth, why aren't you answering me?!  Are you even there?! 
ANSWER ME NOW!!!"

"Please calm down my Queen", said Reiko, "Maybe Meowth's on the litter 
box right now and he can't come to the phone."

*      *      *      *      *      *

But what they didn't know was that Meowth was too busy to answer the 
phone.  In fact, he had the receiver off the hook.  He was too busy 
throwing the wildest Pokemon party ever.  He had released all the 
Rocket owned Pokemon from their balls and they were all shouting, 
singing, dancing, eating, drinking, and making a huge mess in the 
throne room.  Meowth was wearing a pair of white briefs and was dancing 
around in his litter box playing a huge powerful electric guitar.

"Ah, this is the life", shouted Meowth, "I should get Jessie and James 
out of the palace more often!" and he left his box and jumped into an 
indoor swimming pool filled with milk. 

*      *      *      *      *      *

"I'm gonna skin that cat if we ever do get back to the palace!" 
grumbled Jessie as she cracked the phone in two with her bare hand.

"I guess this means we'll have to go on foot after those rebels", 
whined James, "Why did I have to bring my new designer shoes with me?!  
They'll be ruined!"

Reiko smiled on the inside for she now had hopes that they'd never be 
able to catch Cameron while on foot. "Wait a minute, what's that?" 
asked Jessie as she saw a flyer on one of the trees.  She ripped it off 
and read it out loud. "Pokemon Karaoke contest happing today at the 
Crimson Café in Crimson City.  If your Pokemon is a great singer or can 
play a cool instrument, please enter and let it perform.  First prize 
is a brand new RV."

"James", smiled Jessie, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I think so Jess", said James as he took the flyer and made it into a 
paper hat and put it on his head. "Aren't I loaded with talent?" he 
said proudly.  An annoyed Jessie just whacked James with her fan 
causing the hat to go flat along with his head.

"I believe her royal highness is suggesting that we enter this Karaoke 
contest and try to win that RV so we can have a vehicle again", said 
Reiko emotionlessly.

"That is correct my smart little ninja", smiled Jessie. "And I've got 
just the Pokemon to enter.  A Pokemon who can pitch out really big 
notes with its world's biggest tongue!" and she released her Lickitung. 
"Go on Lickie", smiled Jessie, "Let loose your golden voice"

"LICCCKKKIIIIEEEE!!!!" screeched Lickitung while its tongue started 
curling up in horrible knots while Team Rocket fell to the floor all 
curled up in knots too cringing at the horrible sound.

"I think your Lickitung's a little flat", cried James.

"No, you're the one who'll be flat if you insult my poor Lickitung like 
that again!" growled Jessie as she got up and took a can of gold paint 
out from the balloon. "Here Lickie", smiled Jessie, "Stick your tongue 
into this gold paint, but don't swallow it."

"Lickie!" said Lickitung as it dipped its tongue into the gold paint 
and then brought it out all pretty and golden. "There we go", smiled 
Jessie, "Now try singing with that golden tongue of yours."

"Lick, lick, lickie, lick, lick, lick, lick, lick!" sang Lickitung 
singing a song from the opera Carmen in its Lickitung language. "It's 
so beautiful!" cried James with tears in his eyes.

"Very wise my Queen", said Reiko.

"Thank you", smiled Jessie as she hugged Lickitung, "You'll knock 'em 
dead for sure, isn't that right Lickie!"

"Lickie!" shouted Lickitung as it gave Jessie a grateful slurp knocking 
her down and getting gold paint on her face.

"Hey Jessie", asked James, "Since when did you get gold teeth?"

*      *      *      *      *      *

Our heroes were now in the Crimson Café sitting at a table right at the 
very front of the stage.  There were almost a hundred people there 
seated at tables. "It looks like everyone wants to win an RV here", 
said Cameron while holding Sandy in his lap.

"Let's just hope at least one of our Pokemon will be able to win", said 
Jenny.

"Which one of your Pokemon will you be entering Jen?" asked Seymour.

"You'll see", Jenny smiled as she winked at Seymour. 

Just then, two people dressed in 70's style clothes suddenly stepped 
onto the stage.  One was a girl with long blonde hair with flowers in 
it and the other was a guy with blue hair and a beard and wearing 
sunglasses. "Hello all you groovy people out there", said the girl in a 
mellow voice. 

"Welcome to the Pokemon Karaoke contest at the Crimson Cafe all you 
hip dudes", said the guy whose voice sounded like a frog.  Cameron 
wondered where he heard that voice before.

"As you swingers have already heard", said the girl, "The winner of 
this way out contest will win a brand new RV" and the curtain opened 
and revealed the object the girl was talking about.  The RV looked 
almost like the one Kingston gave our heroes, only it was bigger and 
shinier. 

"Our first swinging act will be a group of singing Pidgeys", said the 
guy looking at the sheet that all the contestants had signed.  A man at 
one of the tables stood up and released six Pokeballs.  Out came six 
Pidgeys that flew up on stage and started chirping the tune of Rockin' 
Robins.  

Our heroes watched as different Pokemon sang and performed for them in 
a lot of weird but interesting ways.  They saw a Seel blowing four 
horns of different lengths playing When the Saints Come Marcing In.  
They saw a Dugtrio with each of its three heads wearing bow ties and 
black wigs and singing like The 3 Tenors in a loud varieties of Trio 
Trio Trios.  They even saw a Hitmonchan and a Hitmonlee doing their 
version of the musical Stomp buy kicking and punching a bunch of pots, 
pans, and metal cans around.

"Wasn't that something?" said the guy, "Next we have a Cubone that's 
gonna play for you a song from his head."

"That's me", said Jenny as she released her Cubone. "All right Cubone", 
smiled Jenny, "Just play like you normally do for me."

"Cubone", said Cubone as it walked up on stage.

"I didn't now you had a musical Cubone", said Seymour.

"I didn't know until last night", smiled Jenny, "I was outside the RV 
while you were all asleep taking care and getting to know all of my new 
Pokemon.  That's when Cubone started playing music for me."

"Does it sing or play a musical instrument?" asked Cameron.

"You'll see", winked Jenny.  Then Cubone took out two small bones and 
started beating its skull shaped helmet making a cool melody of click-
clacking sounds.

"That's so beautiful Jen", smiled Seymour.

"But doesn't that hurt Cubone?" asked Cameron.

"At first I thought it did", said Jenny, "But when I tried to take the 
bones away from Cubone.  It started crying.  So I gave them back to it 
and it started to happily make music again."

"I guess music can take away your misery and pain sometimes", said 
Cameron as he watched Cubone beat its head even harder while still 
looking happy.

Next, Brock released his Graveler and Onix on stage.  Onix laid itself 
flat on the stage while Graveler started to roll around on its rocky 
bumpy coils creating a whole new neat sound.

"Wow, that's amazing Brock!" said Stella. "You've given a new meaning 
to the words rock and roll!"

"Thanks Babe", said Brock blushing.

Next, Stella's Persian was on stage sitting on a huge fence meowing a 
moonlight song while holding a bottle of milk.

"If only I had some shoes with me", thought Bill wishing he could throw 
them at that cat.

Then Seymour released his Doduo on stage and both heads started 
chirping a beautiful love song.

"Why that sounds like my all time favorite love song!" said Jenny 
delighted.

"I was hoping you'd like it", said Seymour shyly brushing his hair back.  
Just then, one of the Doduo heads started to squawk out a wrong note.  
The other head got mad and started squawking angrily at its partner.  
Then the Doduo started to have a wrestling match with itself.

"Yeah, this is way better than karaoke!" shouted a guy in the audience 
who was obviously a wrestling fan.  An embarrassed Seymour just sucked 
Doduo back into its ball and hung his head down in shame while Jenny 
patted his arm. "It was a nice in the beginning", she whispered to 
Seymour and then kissed him.

"Thanks Jen", said Seymour feeling a little better.

"Don't worry Seymour", said Misty, "My Seadra is sure to win this 
contest for you and all of us." 

"And now", said the girl as she and the guy pushed out a small tank. 
"Next we'll be hearing a Seadra sing its famous song of the sirens."

"Okay Seadra, you're on!" said Misty.  But instead, Psyduck popped out 
of Misty's backpack and just floated there in the tank.

"This Seadra looks more like a Psyduck to me", said the girl, "Let's 
just hope it can sing much better than it looks."

"Psyduck!" shouted Misty, "I wanted Seadra to perform, not you!"

"Psyduck?" asked the duck while scratching his head.

"As long as you're up there, just sing something", sighed Misty.  
Psyduck started to think for a moment and was about to open his bill.  
Just then he realized that he was in a tank of water and couldn't swim.

"PSY-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI-YAI!" shouted Psyduck as he was 
splashing around in a panic.  Misty was imagining the booby-prize 
trophy they were gonna hand her until they heard the crowd cheering and 
clapping.  They actually thought Psyduck was singing a new kind of song.

"That's a great song your Psyduck's singing", said a lady at a table 
right next to theirs. "What do you call it?"

"I call it No-Brainer", sighed Misty while smiling and thinking about 
her unpredictable Psyduck.

Then Bill came on stage wearing an old sea captain's uniform.  He was 
proudly standing on stage singing a collection of songs from Gilbert 
and Sullivan.

"He's not actually doing this is he?" said Stella while our heroes were 
shocked as well.  Even the audience couldn't believe that they were 
actually hearing a Rattata singing in human English.

"I've got this contest in the bag", thought Bill while continuing 
singing.

"Hey!" shouted a fat man from a table in the middle. "No Pokemon can 
sing in English!  I bet its just trained to lip sync whenever a tape 
recorder's playing!  BOOOO!" Everyone agreed and started booing and 
throwing tomatoes and cheese at Bill.

"Poor Bill", said Cameron, "Besides being changed into a Rattata, this 
must be the second worst day of his life!"

"I wouldn't say that", smiled Bill as he was back with the group eating 
a delicious stack of tomato slices and cheese. "I may not win an RV, 
but I did come out a winner in the end in my eyes and my tastebuds too.  
BURP!!!"
 
"All right Donnie, you're up", said Cameron the minute the hosts 
announced Donphan's name.  Donnie appeared on the stage and he started 
trumpeting the tune of The Baby Elephant Walk while marching around.  
Everyone sat there silently smiling and clapping along while Sandy was 
snapping its claws to the beat.

"That Donphan sure is something, isn't it Butch?", said the girl host 
from backstage.

"You said it Cass", said the guy, "But wait till they all get a blast 
from our main star!" and they looked into a dressing room where a round 
figure was at a mirror making itself beautiful. "Jiggly", it sang.

*      *      *      *      *      *

Team Rocket had entered the café wearing brown trenchcoats, hats, and 
sunglasses. "I don't know why we have to wear these things", whined 
James, "They completely hide my figure."

"Haven't you forgotten that our faces are on every wanted poster in 
every building?" said Jessie, "They even have them here!"

James looked up at the bulletin board and found a wanted poster with 
him and Jessie on them. "They still can't get my good side!" he sighed.

"There's an empty table right there in the back", said Reiko, "Let's be 
like the Growlithes that mark their territory so no one else will dare 
claim it."

"Uh, sure.  Whatever you say my dear", said Jessie who was starting to 
find her favorite intern's metaphors kind of annoying.  They approached 
the very back table with no idea that the rebels were way over at the 
front table.  As the Rockets sat down, they watched a huge Snorlax 
sleeping while snoring the tune of Mr. Sandman.

"I wonder how its master taught it to sing while it is sleeping?" asked 
Reiko.

"Maybe it listens to subliminal message tapes while its sleeping", said 
James, "That's how my parents got me to love and respect roses instead 
of stomping all over them", and he took out one of his trademark roses 
and sniffed it.

"Well, however that Snorlax learned to sing, my Lickitung'll stomp its 
dreams flat!" smiled Jessie as she polished her Pokeball.

*      *      *      *      *      *

"Next we have 3 groovy last minute entries", said the girl host, "First 
up is a Lickitung that'll tickle you with its golden tongue!"

"A Lickitung?!" gasped Cameron, "Could it be?  No, I'd better not worry 
about it right now.  I bet there're a lot of trainers in this world 
that own Lickitungs besides Jessie." Lickitung suddenly materialized 
onto the stage, stuck out its long golden tongue, and started to sing 
its beautiful opera song.

"I've never seen a Lickitung with a golden tongue that can sing 
beautiful operettas", said Bill.

"Neither have I", said Seymour as he adjusted his glasses. "That looks 
like gold paint on that poor Lickitung's tongue."

"Who would do such a cruel thing to their Pokemon?" asked Misty.

"I probably know who", whispered Cameron, "And I sure hope she isn't 
here in this café!"

While Team Rocket was happily listening to Lickitung's singing.  
Lickitung suddenly spotted a man sitting at a table eating Buffalo 
wings.  It quickly stuck out its long tongue and scooped up all the 
wings from the basket.

"No Lickie!" grumbled Jessie. "This is no time to be eating, you have 
a song to finish!"

"And besides", said James, "They're not boneless!  You could choke!" 
But Lickie didn't choke, instead its mouth caught on fire for that man 
ordered his wings ultra-HOT!  Lickie ran around the café spouting fire 
while everyone laughed.  Jessie took a huge pitcher of cola and dumped 
it into Lickie's mouth the minute it came to their table.

"Lickie!" said Lickie and showed its gratitude by uncurling its tongue 
and giving Jessie the bones letting them drop all wet and slobbery onto 
her hand.

"Ugggh, your welcome", said a disappointed Jessie as she stuffed the 
bones into James's pocket while he wasn't looking.

"Don't worry my fellow Rockets", said James proudly, "My Weezing's up 
next.  Its powerful windpipes are sure to win us that RV!"

*      *      *      *      *      *

"So much for that supposedly cool Lickitung", said the guy host, "Next 
we have a way out Weezing who's gonna sing for us something good, 
hopefully." And Weezing materialized on stage floating around in a pink 
dress and ribbons on both of its heads and lipstick on both of its 
mouths.

"A Lickitung and a Weezing?!" Cameron whispered to everyone. "You know 
what that means?!"

"Team Rocket definitely must be here", said Jenny seriously.

"Who else but James would dress up a Pokemon in pink", said Misty.

"Should we escape before they spot us?" asked Bill.

"But I have a feeling we just might win that RV" said Stella, "Please, 
let's all stay just in case we actually win it.  And if we do, we can 
easily escape from Team Rocket in our new RV!"

"What do you say everyone?" Brock asked the group.

"Oh okay", sighed everyone while Stella smiled.

"But let's just keep our heads down so that Team Rocket won't spot us", 
said Jenny as she took off her police hat and made Cameron take off his 
hat too.

"Look, Weezing's about to sing", said Seymour.  But when Weezing opened 
up its mouths, instead of sweet notes, out came smelly smog.  Everyone 
in the room started coughing while the guy host came out with a fire 
extinguisher and filled up Weezing with extinguishing cream until it 
looked like a huge rotten Twinkie.

"Weezing, return", said a disappointed James as he sucked the poor 
Weezing back into its ball.

"James, I thought you said your Weezing could sing beautifully?!" 
shouted an angry Jessie.

"It can!" whined James, "If you can overlook the smog spewing." Jessie 
just whacked James's head until it went straight down his trenchcoat.  
James unbuttoned his coat and said, "This is a whole new perspective 
for me!" 

"Reiko, it's up to you to save the day", said Jessie, "Yeccch, I can't 
believe a powerful villain like me said those 3 horrid words!  Save the 
Day!  Yecch, I said it again!"

"Relax my Queen", smiled Reiko as she waited for her announcement and 
sent her Pokemon on stage.  It was Kingler.  It was wearing a Spanish 
hat with a rose in its mouth.  And it was snapping both its claws like 
castanets to a beautiful Spanish song.

"Reiko sure is a talented trainer", smiled Cameron who was enjoying 
Kingler's performance while trying to keep a low profile as well.  When 
Kingler was done, everyone started applauding and shouting, " OLE!"  
Kingler blushed while bowing, even Reiko couldn't help doing the same 
thing.

"Way to go Reiko", said James.

"You're sure to win us that RV!" smiled Jessie. "That way, we'll have 
room for all those rebels when we take them back as our prisoners!"

"Thank you your majesty", said Reiko smiling but wishing that she 
wouldn't win it.
 
"Didn't we have such a great hip show?" asked the girl host, "But 
before we announce the winner, we have yet another last minute entry!"

"So put your swinging hands together for our final act", said the guy, 
"The soft and soothing tones of Jigglypuff!"

"Jigglypuff?" thought Cameron. "I wondered if Jigglypuff would show up 
in our adventure."

"JIGGLYPUFF?!!" cried Misty and Brock while holding each other in fear.

"JIGGLYPUFF?!!" cried Jessie and James doing the same thing with Reiko 
wondering why they were both so nervous.

Out came a cute little pink balloon like Pokemon with huge friendly 
eyes. "Aw, it's so cute", smiled Stella, "Why are you both so afraid of 
it?"

"You don't understand", said Brock while shaking, "That Jigglypuff's 
big trouble!"

"Yeah!" shouted Misty, "We've gotta get out of here fast!" But it was 
too late.  Just as Misty and Brock were about to get up. Jigglypuff had 
taken out her trusty microphone and started singing her beautiful and 
relaxing song.

"Jigglypuff, Jig-gl-yyyyy-puff, Jigglypuff, Jig-gl-yyyy", sang 
Jigglypuff happily.  Cameron looked around as saw all his friends about 
to fall asleep.

"This sure brings back some sweet memories", yawned Misty as she and 
the others fell right asleep.  Cameron looked around and saw the entire 
audience dropping their heads down on the tables one by one, even Sandy 
fell asleep in his arms.  

Jessie and James leapt out of their seats dragging Reiko with them and 
started to head on out the door. "Why are we leaving?" she asked while 
yawning. "That music isn't bad, it's kind of relaxing. YAWN!!!" and she 
fell right to sleep while Jessie and James fell asleep too before they 
could reach the door.

Jigglypuff saw the entire audience had fallen asleep during her singing 
and became very angry.  She took apart her mike revealing a magic 
marker.  She then hopped over to each table and started scribbling 
funny designs on everyone's faces. "Just like on the TV show", thought 
Cameron while smiling a little.  He then realized that he didn't fall 
asleep at all. "Hmmm", thought Cameron, "Maybe after watching 
Jigglypuff sing so many times in the cartoon, I've become immune to her 
sleep effects." He predicted as he watched Jiggly continuing with her 
scribbling.

"Here's something I bet Jigglypuff longs to hear", thought Cameron as 
he started clapping his hands. "Bravo Jigglypuff!" shouted Cameron. 
"You're an excellent singer!"

Jiggly looked up surprised at the first person who didn't fall asleep 
during her singing. "JIGGLY!!" cried Jiggly with a smile on her face 
and tears in her eyes as she bounced of a table and into Cameron's arms 
hugging him gratefully.

"You deserve it", smiled Cameron happy that he made one of his favorite 
character's day.  Just then, they saw two shadows approaching.  Cameron 
and Jiggly hid underneath a table and saw it was the two hosts.

"Excellent", said the guy who took some earplugs out of his ears, 
"They're out like burned Magnemites!"

"And now we get to steal some musically talented Pokemon", said the 
girl taking out her earplugs too, "We're sure to get on Letterman 
tonight with an all Pokemon band!"

"But first let's get out of these dumb retro get-ups", said the guy as 
they both removed their host clothes revealing Rocket uniforms.  The 
girl fixed her blonde hair into two long pigtails and the guy removed 
his fake beard.  Cameron suddenly recognized the two.

"Butch and Cassidy!" gasped Cameron. "I remember those two from that 
breeding center episode!  They tried to open up a phoney breeding 
center so they could steal Pokemon for Giovanni and make Jessie and 
James look bad!"

"Jiggly?" asked Jiggly wondering what Cameron was talking about.

"Come on Butch, let's bag some Pokeballs before they awaken", smiled 
Cassidy as they both took out some large sacks and started stealing all 
the Pokeballs from the sleeping audience along with the Pokemon that 
were out of their balls.

"Hey Cass, come over here!" said Butch as he pointed to the figures of 
Jessie, James, and Reiko sleeping on the floor.

"It's my old nemesis Jessie along with that stupid partner of hers", 
said Cassidy.

"The last I heard of them, they took over some town and made themselves 
the rulers", said Butch. "I wonder why they'd be hanging out in a dump 
like this?"

"Who cares?" said Cassidy evily, "But I've got a great idea.  Let's 
bump them off and disguise ourselves as them.  Then we can head back 
to their kingdom and become the new King and Queen!"

"Great idea Cass", smiled Butch, "But what should we do with this cute 
chick that's hanging out with them?" he asked as he gazed at the 
sleeping Reiko with lusty eyes.

"Just do whatever you want with her", said Cassidy knowing that Butch 
would do just that.

"It'll be my pleasure, believe me!" said Butch with drool in his mouth.  
He undid Reiko's trenchcoat and was about to undo more of her clothing 
until a voice shouted out. "YOU LEAVE HER ALONE!!!"

Butch and Cassidy looked up and found an angry Cameron standing there.  
And boy was he mad. "It's bad enough you were gonna steal everyone's 
Pokemon, but I won't stand here and let you take advantage of this poor 
sleeping girl!"

The two Rockets were surprised that this boy hadn't fallen asleep like 
the rest of them. "Why didn't Jigglypuff's singing knock you out?!" 
demanded Butch.

"Well it's a good thing it didn't", smiled Cassidy, "Because we now get 
the pleasure of giving this kid trouble!"

"Double Trouble that is", said Butch.

Cassidy: "To infect the world with devastation!"
Butch:  "To blight all peoples within our nation!"
Cassidy: "To denounce the goodness of truth and love!"
Butch: "To extend our wrath to the stars above!"
Cassidy: "Cassidy!"
Butch: "Butch!"
Cassidy: "Team Rocket circling the Earth both day and night!"
Butch: "Surrender now or you'll surely lose the fight!"

"RATICATE!" said a huge round rat that jumped right in between them.

"So this whole Karaoke contest was nothing but a trick to steal Pokemon, 
wasn't it?" demanded Cameron.

"You're one bright boy", smiled Cassidy. "And we owe all our success 
to all you gullible trainers and to our even dumber Jigglypuff!"

"Yeah!" said Butch, "When we first heard about that Jigglypuff, we knew 
it had the power to put people to sleep with its singing.  So we set up 
this little Karaoke contest and invited it to be the final act so it 
can sing everyone to sleep and we come in and start poaching Pokemon!  
What a little airhead that Jigglypuff was!"

"JIGGLY!" grumbled Jiggly listening to the conversation from under a 
table.

"Well, I'm not gonna let you take all these innocent people's Pokemon 
as long as my Pokemon and I are still awake!" shouted Cameron as he 
released a Pokeball. "Sandy, I choose you!" and out popped Sandy still 
asleep from Jiggly's singing. "Uh oh!" said Cameron nervously.

"What was that you were saying about your Pokemon being still awake?" 
cackled Cassidy. "Raticate, hyper fang now!"

"RATICATE!!!" shouted Raticate as it opened its huge mouth ready to put 
a painful bite on the sleeping Sandy.  Cameron quickly pulled Sandy 
back into his ball just in time and then released another Pokemon.  
Raticate suddenly broke its fangs for it tried to bite onto the tough 
hard skin of Donphan.

"RAATTT!" cried Raticate as it was holding its broken fangs in its 
hands.  Donnie took one look at the Raticate and he screamed and jumped 
into Cameron's arms squashing him onto the floor.

"Will you look at that?" laughed Butch, "The big bulky longnose is 
scared of a small little rodent!  What a joke!"

"And Raticate's defenseless too!" laughed Cassidy also.  Then stopped 
and looked at her poor hurt Raticate and pulled it back into its ball. 
"Don't worry Rattie", she said soothingly, "A little crazy glue will 
fix your teeth right up.  As soon as we teach this brat and his fraidy 
Pokemon some manners!"

Donphan, who no longer saw the scary Raticate got off of Cameron, 
helped him up with his trunk, and jumped right in front of Butch and 
Cassidy ready to defend his master.

"And I got just the Pokemon", smiled Butch, "Go Drowzee!" and he 
released a Pokemon that looked like a small tapir with a sleepy look 
on its face.

"A Drowzee?!" gasped Cameron as he aimed his Pokedex at it.

"DROWZEE, the hypnosis Pokemon", replied Dexeena, "Puts enemies to 
sleep and eats their dreams.  Occasionally gets sick from eating bad 
dreams."

"I remember how tough Drowzee's were in my game", Cameron whispered to 
Donnie, "Maybe we can knock Drowzee out before it uses its psychic 
powers.  Give it your tackle attack!"

"PHAN!" said Donnie as it stampeded over to the sleepy Drowzee.

"Drowzee, give it your hypnosis attack", said Butch.  Before Donnie 
could lay an inch on Drowzee, its eyes started to glow and Donnie was 
immediately put to sleep.

"No Donnie!" cried Cameron as he saw his Donphan snoring while a bubble 
formed in his trunk.

"Nice work Drowzee!" smiled Butch, "No one can get past your evil eyes!"

"Drowzee!" said Drowzee as it yawned proudly.

"All right then, I choose you Buzz!" said Cameron as he released Buzz.

"Quick Buzz, use your flash attack to blind Drowzee!" commanded Cameron.

"BUZZZZZ" said Buzz while saluting, but Buzz's flash attack wasn't fast 
enough for Drowzee managed to put him to sleep too.  Cameron 
desperately sent out Vileplume, then Zubat, and finally Slowking.  But 
Drowzee managed to put them all to sleep.  There was just no stopping 
this sleepytime foe.

"Looks like its lights out for you too kid!" laughed Butch. "Drowzee, 
give all these sleeping beauties your dream eater attack."

"Drowzee!" said Drowzee as it released some funky waves at all of 
Cameron's sleeping Pokemon.  They all got up and approached Cameron and 
it looked like they were getting ready to attack him.

"Guys, what are you doing?!" cried Cameron as Slowking started 
squirting water at him while Buzz was shooting thundershocks. "It's me, 
Cameron.  I'm your trainer, sergeant, friend, and Mamma!"

"Mamma?!" wondered Cassidy.

"Save your breath brat!" laughed Butch, "Cause once a Drowzee eats your 
dreams, it'll have you under its control.  Just like your loving 
Pokemon over here."

"I can't wait to see the looks on these poor Pokemon's faces when they 
find out that they've killed their beloved master!" laughed Cassidy.

Cameron backed up in a corner as his own Pokemon slowly moved in for 
the kill.  He wanted to release Sandy, but he was afraid Drowzee would 
put him under its control too and he couldn't bear to see that happen.  
Just then Jigglypuff jumped right in front of Cameron and used her 
disable attack on the Pokemon making them completely paralyzed.

"Thank you Jiggly", smiled Cameron as he took out his Pokeballs and 
sucked all his Pokemon back in.

"Jigglypuff", said Jiggly bowing to him.  Just then she was grabbed by 
the curly hair by an angry Cassidy. "Just what do you think you're 
doing you stupid puffball?!" she shouted.

"Yeah, you're supposed to be on our side!" shouted Butch as he grabbed 
her by the feet.  But Jiggly started puffing up like a balloon and 
started body slamming the two Rockets until they hit the floor.

"You'll pay for that!" shouted Butch, "Drowzee, give it your poison gas 
attack!"

"Drowzee!" said Drowzee as it opened its mouth and sprayed poison gas 
at Jiggly and Cameron.  But Jiggly raised her hands up and created a 
glass box around them protecting them from the gas.

"Nice reflect attack", smiled Cameron while Jiggly blushed.

"That little glass house won't protect you from Drowzee's ultimate 
attack!" shouted Butch, "Give 'em your metronome now!"

"Drowzee", said Drowzee as it started to wiggle its fingers around. 
"Wait a minute Butch", said Cassidy, "What if Drowzee ends up launching 
a weak attack like tail whip"

"Don't worry Cass", smiled Butch, "I've trained this Drowzee to only 
metronome up powerful non-wussy attacks.  Just you wait and see!"

"Did you hear that Jiggly?" said Cameron, "Can you increase your 
reflect attack so Drowzee can't harm us?"

"Jigglypuff!" said Jiggly as she started wiggling her hands as hard as 
she could creating an even bigger glass house that looked really fancy.

"Wow", said Cameron impressed, "Not only are you a great singer and 
sketcher, but you're talented in all kinds of arts!"

"Jiggly", said Jiggly blushing ever redder than before.

"Too bad Drowzee's gonna destroy your masterpiece", laughed Butch, 
"Because here comes its attack!" But unfortunately for the Rockets, 
Drowzee released an explosion attack.  The huge boom caused an entire 
wall of the café to go down while Cameron and Jiggly were protected in 
their glass house.  

"Jiggly", said Jiggly pointing to the open sky.  Cameron looked up and 
saw Butch, Cassidy, and Drowzee flying up in the air and dropping the 
sacks of stolen Pokemon at his feet.

"Oh sure", shouted Cassidy, "You would have to teach Drowzee to 
metronome an explosion attack!  The most dangerous attack that could 
wipe out itself and its trainer!  What do you have to say for 
yourself?!"

"I always wondered what it's like whenever I see Jessie and James fly 
up in the air like this", said a dazed Butch.

"Looks like this Team Rocket's blasting off for the first time!" they 
both shouted as they flew off into the sky and landed through the roof 
of a local jail.

*      *      *      *      *      *

When everyone in the café had awoken, Cameron explained to them all 
that this contest was all a hoax to steal their Pokemon. "I remember 
Cassidy and Butch!" growled Misty remembering how they mistreated her 
Psyduck when she left him at that fake breeding center of theirs. "Just 
wait till I get my hands on them!"

"Wait a minute", he soon realized, "I have to see if all my Pokemon are 
free from Drowzee's control!" and he nervously took all of his 
Pokeballs and released his six Pokemon.

"Are you all still my friend?" asked Cameron.  And they all replied by 
smiling, running over to him, and hugging every part of his body 
shouting "SHREW, VILE, BAT, SLOW, BUZZ, PHAAAANNN!"

"Thank you my friends!" smiled a teary Cameron as he hugged his Pokemon 
back.  Everyone in the room started to cheer for Cameron and his 
Pokemon family for saving their Pokemon from Team Rocket.

Stella then saw the RV still standing on the stage. "That reminds me", 
she said, "Who's supposed to win that RV?"

Brock got on stage and touched the RV and it collapsed on the floor. 
"It's nothing but a cardboard cut-out!" he said disgusted.  Everyone 
moaned and complained and were about to leave.  Until a voice called 
out, "Cheer up everyone!" 

There stood a chubby man with a white shirt, red vest, black bow tie, 
and a brown mustache. "I'm the owner of the Crimson Café.  First of 
all, I want to apologize to all of you for letting those horrible 
Rockets trick me into having a fake contest and a fake prize here.  And 
since I'm the owner, I want to declare who I think is the winner." And 
he approached Donphan.

"Cameron", he said, "Not only did you try to save all my loyal 
customers' Pokemon, but your Donphan sure can play a mean nose.  It 
reminds me of my days as a blues singer.  And I want to declare you and 
your Donphan the winner, what do you say everyone?"

"AYE!!!" agreed everyone in the café while both Cameron and Donnie 
blushed.

"I'm sorry that I can't give you an RV" said the owner, "But I'd like 
to reward you and your friends a slightly used orange van with only 
180,000 miles on it.  It's the least I can offer you.  What do you say?"

"Thank you sir", said Cameron and then he turned to his friends. "Sorry 
I couldn't win you a new RV", he said, "But I hope another van is just 
as good."

"Hey, no problem", smiled Brock, "We don't care what we have just as 
long as we get back on the road."

"Speak for yourself", thought Misty wondering where she could plug a 
hot comb in a van.

"Say, where is Jigglypuff?" asked Bill looking around the place.

"And what happened to Jessie, James, and Reiko?" wondered Cameron who 
found them gone as well.

*      *      *      *      *      *

Later that night, Jessie, James, and Reiko had taken refuge in a 
flophouse in another nearby town.  They had just scrubbed off 
Jigglypuff's artwork from their faces and were getting into their beds.

"I thought I'd never had to scrub hard this perfect face again", wailed 
Jessie looking at her red scrubbed face in the mirror."

"You were right my Queen", said Reiko, "That Jigglypuff was dangerous.  
I am grateful we woke up and got out of that café before it started 
singing again."
 
"But now we don't have an RV to go after those rebels", sighed James.

"Don't worry James", said Jessie, "I'll call up Meowth again tomorrow.  
And he'd better answer this time if he values all of his nine precious 
lives!  Right now let's all just get some sleep."

"But I don't feel the tiniest bit sleepy", whined James, "If only 
someone here could sing me to sleep." Then James had his wish come true 
for Jigglypuff stepped in and sang her soothing song putting him, 
Jessie, and Reiko to sleep.

Jigglypuff had accepted a job at the flophouse putting wide-awake 
customers to sleep.  She didn't mind that her singing kept putting 
people to sleep anymore.  She was just happy that one person had stayed 
awake through her whole song. "Jiggly!" sighed Jiggly as she took out 
her marker and started scribbling Cameron's name all over the Rockets' 
faces.

TO BE CONTINUED