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Soundfinder::retrieve(*appropriate) ➞ ➞ $A45
New Scene()
Narrator: Massive disaster averted! And we’re now on our way into Lavaridge. Just what kind of mayhem awaits or allies here?
Appearing wiped out, Ash and company climb down the steps to Lavaridge.
New Scene(Lavaridge Town Edge)
Ash and company look out over Lavaridge Town, and May spies the hot springs in the distance. They begin, one by one to walk down the steps on the side of Mount Chimney. Brock takes out a book on the gyms of Hoenn and begins to read.
Brock: According to this the Lavaridge gym leader is someone named Mr. Moore.
New Scene(Lavaridge Town)
Ash and company begin to walk into town. Walking through suburbia, Max points out the Pokémon Center, nestled between two buildings. Everyone goes inside to rest.
Inside the pokémon center, Ash asks Nurse Joy about the gym while she heals all the pokémon, save for Max’s Jirachi. Before Nurse Joy can reply to Ash’s question, Max requests that he calm down as they just got there. May wants to go right to the hot springs, but Ash uses Max’s logic. May calls Ash a "spoilsport," but Benjy points out that it is getting late, and they can go to the hot springs the next day.
Ash: What about my gym battle?
Benjy: I was thinking that it would be more towards midday, we could go to the hot springs afterwards.
As Benjy’s plan becomes more clear, that the hot springs were planned for the next evening, Brock asks why not today, as May also gets on his case.
Benjy: Good things come to those who wait.
Benjy smiles, then curls up into a ball on the couch-bench, and everyone else reluctantly gets out their sleeping bags.
New Scene(@Temporal=Morning)
May: Come on Benjy, wake up. Are you going to sleep all day?
Benjy: What?
Max: What time is it?
Brock: Eight in the morning…
Benjy yawns and sits up on the couch-bench.
Brock: You’re up early today.
May: Huh?
Benjy now stands up.
Benjy: Let’s not have a repeat of that again.
May and Max stare at Benjy in confusion, prompting Benjy to dismiss his comment with a wave of his hand.
Max: You’re not the one with the battle today.
May: Are you saying I couldn’t beat the gym leader here?
Brock: The gym leader here uses fire-type pokémon.
May: Which I know all about! I have one after all.
At this moment, Skitty emerges from the poké ball on May’s belt.
May: Not that one!
Max: You’d be better off with a water-type pokémon.
May pauses to evaluate her brother’s words.
Brock: That’s going to end badly…
May: Are you implying that…
Benjy: Suppose you beat the Gym Leader. Then we’re going to have to wait here in Lavaridge until the leader’s pokémon are healed enough for Ash to take them on.
May: Which means more time in the hot springs!
Yami Benjy: She’s smarter than she looks.
Benjy: Careful, that could be taken as an insult.
Yami Benjy: Unless of course the gym leader is strong enough to take the two of them on at once…
At this point, Ash wakes up, startled that everyone is already awake. Max asks Ash if he’s ready, and Ash nervously states that he is. No one mentions May’s scheme to Ash to stay longer in Lavaridge.
New Scene()
Ash and company are wandering down the streets of Lavaridge Town.
Max: Suppose May actually goes through with this and wins. Then it would be her second badge… And her first won the usual way.
Max giggles at this thought, and accidentally bumps into Ash in front of him who has stopped to sniff the air.
Ash: Smell that?
Brock responds that he smells it, while May, Max, and Benjy have a harder time smelling whatever it is, with Benjy barely smelling it at all. As they continue down the road, they stop by a bakery which Brock concludes the smell is coming from. Brock and Ash enter first, then May, then Max and Benjy.
Immediately upon entry they discover that the bakery’s shelves are bare, and the baker (who’s gender is unclear) is standing in a state of shock.
Brock: What’s wrong?
Baker: All my lava cookies! They’re gone!
May: Lava cookies?
Baker: All of them!
Brock: Calm down, what happened?
Baker: Well, I was cooking as I usually do… And all of a sudden the cookies on the stove started to burn, releasing an amount of smoke that I’ve never seen before, and suddenly…
Ash: When the smoke cleared all the cookies were gone?
Baker: And everything else too! Even the vegan stuff! And nobody even likes those!
Benjy sniffs the air.
Benjy: Smells like Team Rocket…
Baker: But what would Team Rocket want with pastries?
Ash: Maybe they were hungry…?
Baker: Makes just as much sense as my theory…
Brock: What was that?
Narrator: At this point, if this were the original Pokémon show, we’d be hearing a sob story about a rival bakery or something like that right about now. But since it’s not, here’s our answer:
Baker: Aliens!!!
Ash: And what makes you think it was–
Baker: They also took my tinfoil hat!
New Scene()
Ash and company are walking down the street, once again with the bakery behind them.
Max: Man, that guy was nuts…
Brock: Probably was doing something he shouldn’t have been.
#Brock is subliminally referring to drugs.
May: He probably just misplaced them…
Benjy: I don’t think it’s possible to be nuts enough to misplace that many cookies. But lets keep our eyes out for this gym-thingy…
Brock casts a nervous look in Benjy’s direction.
New Scene()
In the background, Team Rocket’s balloon floats in the sky, as Ash and company approach the gym.
Max: The pokénav says we’re right nearby, but I don’t see it anywhere…
Brock: Look up…
Max: Huh?
Max looks up to see the gym right in front of him.
Max: That’s the gym?
Brock: Not as impressive as some, but yup.
Ash shivers slightly, which goes unobserved by May and Brock. Max now approaches Ash’s sleeve.
Max: You okay?
Ash: Me? I’m fine…
Jirachi now pokes its head out of Max’s backpack, and Ash turns back towards the gym.
Ash: This weird feeling…
The Millennium Gameboy Advance glows slightly.
Yami Benjy: PSTD much?
Ash: Huh?
Max: Huh?
Yami Benjy: Post-traumatic stress. Once you get back into the swing of things you’ll feel better.
Ash nods, and starts walking across the gym’s lawn towards the door.
Max: Wait, May, didn’t you want to challenge him too?
May: What?!
Ash: Huh?
May and Max stare at each other for a split second.
May: Oh, right, right! I forgot!
May turns to Ash.
May: Coming with you!
May runs up to Ash as he makes his way across the lawn with Max behind her. Brock and Yami Benjy wait by the fence. Upon reaching the door, Max rings the doorbell, but after a few seconds, no one has answered.
Ash: That’s odd.
Max: I don’t even hear anyone in there…
May: Maybe, you know, old people sleep late…
Ash: Maybe…
Ash is cut off as Max rings the doorbell again. No one replies, so Max rings the doorbell again, and again.
May: Cut it out Max, there’s no one home!
May grabs her brother, but not before Max has run the doorbell a fifth time.
May: Max!
Max: It’s a gym May! It’s their duty to answer challenges!
Pikachu’s ears perk up from where it’s riding on Ash’s shoulder.
Pikachu: Pika?
From inside the gym come footsteps, followed by a crash. May and Max back away from the door as a girl’s voice calls out:
Flannery: Coming!
Ash steps back from the door now as the footsteps grow louder. Suddenly, the door swings open nearly missing Ash, and a red-haired girl (Flannery) emerges wrapped in a towel.
Note that Flannery is significantly more well-endowed than in the original pokémon series. Her towel covers her to the point where only the top ~30% of her cleavage is shown. Back at the fence, Brock shivers.
May: Hey, we’re looking for the gym leader, Mr. Moore.
Ash: Is he awake?
Flannery: That’s my grandfather. He’s out of town at the moment.
Ash: Uh…
Flannery: Sorry to disappoint you…
Flannery tosses her hair.
Flannery: …but I’m the gym leader now!
Flannery doesn’t seem to notice as her towel starts to slip. The only one who notices is Brock, back at the fence, and blood falls from his nose onto the ground. Yami Benjy looks at him nervously.
Ash: Okay then! I’ve come to challenge you to earn the heatbadge.
Flannery: Another challenge?
Max: And my sister wants to test herself against you, too!
Flannery fidgets with her hair and her cleavage becomes more exposed, now nearing 45% as the towel continues to slip. (From this point until the end of the scene, QST.camera only shows Flannery’s face and the very top of her chest when showing her)
Flannery: Heh. I’ll take you two on as a tag battle then!
Flannery looks over Ash and company quickly.
Flannery: Just give me a few minutes to get ready, Okay?
Ash agrees to this, and Flannery steps back inside and closes the door after herself.
Max: She’s really out of it…
Ash: What makes you say that?
Max: Well, she left her towel behind.
Ash takes a step back to see Flannery’s towel lying on the doorstep.
Yami Benjy: Ash!
Ash, May, and Max turn around to see Yami Benjy bending over Brock, who is lying on the ground bleeding.
Ash: Aaah! What happened?!
Yami Benjy: All of a sudden… He started hemorrhaging from his nose, then he just collapsed. I’m going to bring him back to the pokémon center.
Ash: We’re coming with you!
Max: What about your battle…
Ash: Um…
Yami Benjy: Ash, I’ll make sure he’s okay.
Yami Benjy takes out Satolite’s capsule, and instructs Satolite to use tractor beam on Brock.
Yami Benjy: Just focus on winning the heatbadge.
Ash: …got it…
Ash flinches as Yami Benjy takes off with Satolite carrying Brock. Max announces that he’s going too and tells Ash and May, again, to focus on their battle.
May: But Max!
Max: I’ll make sure Brock’s okay!
After this, Max is out of earshot and May sighs, nervously.
Ash: Just what happened to Brock?
Ash stares after Max and Yami Benjy…
May: I’m not a doctor but…
Ash: ?
May: …doesn’t look good… Are you sure we should go through with this?!
Ash: If there’s one thing I’ve learned from being a pokémon trainer, it’s that you don’t back down from a challenge. Especially if you’re the one who offered it…
May: But I’m sure she’ll understand…
Ash sighs and looks back at the gym building…
May: …Please be alright…
May swallows silently.
Suddenly from inside the house, a crash is heard, and Ash and May both flinch as other crashes follow. May expresses worry about Flannery as well, and Ash acknowledges the validity of her concern… Suddenly another crash–followed by a shriek is heard from inside the gym/house, and May rushes towards the door.
Ash: May, wait!
May doesn’t wait as she opens the unlocked door and rushes inside. Ash hesitantly follows to where he discovers where the shriek came from. Half-dressed (in her underwear and a shirt), Flannery has tripped over a coat rack at the bottom of the staircase and gone sprawling, crushing the coatrack and causing a wire vase to fall on top of her. In front of her, a Slugma is observing curiously.
Upon approaching Flannery, May fixes the vase then starts to help Flannery to her feet.
May: Are you okay!?
Flannery: I’m all right… Let me get some pants and I’ll meet you out in the yard, okay?
May nods, and Flannery goes off to the side of the stairs (to the laundry room), showing no embarrassment from being in her underwear in front of Ash, much less being in her underwear in front of the open door. As Flannery goes to get her pants, May and Ash wonder what to do with the broken coat stand.
May: If we put the coats on the back of the sofa…
Ash: And we could put the stand over by the wall so she doesn’t trip on it again…
Old lady in the doorway: Eh, just throw it away at this point…
Ash turns around, startled, and stares at the old lady in the doorway. On her sleeve, she wears a tiny green cross.
Ash: Who are you?
Old lady in the doorway: Flannery didn’t tell you? While Moore left Flannery in charge of the gym, he left me in charge of Flannery!
May: Oh…
Ash: Um…
The old lady hands Ash a bottle, which he reluctantly accepts.
May: Why are you…
Old lady in the doorway: I’m Lavaridge’s pharmacist, and I’m expecting that Flannery will be a bit more scatterbrained than usual due to the transition. These herbs are a tad bitter, but they’ll help improve her concentration.
Ash nods, and the old lady turns and heads back down the path. As she does, Flannery emerges from the laundry room.
Flannery: What was I looking for again?
May: Your pants…
Ash: Um… The local pharmacist dropped this off…
Ash presents the bottle to Flannery.
New Scene()
Benjy helps Blissey situate Brock in a hospital bed in the pokémon center. Blissey now goes about preparing an IV.
Benjy: You feeling okay?
Brock nods groggily.
Brock: I don’t think that’s necessary…
Benjy turns to Brock who’s talking to Blissey, ready to insert the IV.
Benjy: They said you had low blood pressure. I hate IVs just as much as the next guy, but…
Blissey looks nervously at Brock.
Benjy: You could trip and fall and hit your head. I sound like my mom right now, but it happens…
Blissey very carefully inserts the IV into Brock’s arm.
Brock: …Like Lady Benjamina…
Benjy: Who?
Brock: She was a warrior I read about that lived over three hundred years ago. Despite surviving hundreds of battles, she died when she tripped over a pebble and hit her head.
Benjy shutters.
Brock: She was one hundred and five years old…
With this, Brock closes his eyes and goes to sleep. Shortly after Max enters the room.
Max: Is he okay?
Benjy nods.
Benjy: Go tell Ash and May that he’s fine, just needs rest. No need to report back.
QST.camera now follows Max out of the room, where Satolite is waiting. Max and Satolite then take off from the pokémon center.
New Scene()
Flannery is now fully dressed, and she, Ash, and May are now observing the battlefield.
May: This is… it?
Flannery: Yup, the Lavaridge gym’s battlefield.
Ash: Where’s the referee?
Flannery: Referee?
Ash: Gym battles usually have a referee, you know…
Flannery: What’s a referee?
Ash and May both stare dumbfounded at this question.
Ash: You know, the person who oversees the battle…
Max: Declares pokémon unable to battle…
Ash and May both jump to see that Max has arrived.
May: I thought you were with Benjy and Brock…
Max: Benjy sent me to tell you that Brock’s fine. He’s getting some rest right now.
Ash nods, slightly relieved.
Flannery: This referee thing seems like what I know as a moderator.
Max: I’ve never heard that term used for the job…
Flannery: And he’s not the right person today.
Ash: What do you mean?
Flannery: He has dissociative identity disorder. Sort of understandable because he’s a Ditto, but still… we haven’t used a moderator in years…
Max: What’s dissociative identity disorder…?
Max absentmindedly takes a step forwards and for some reason the dirt under his foot collapses, causing Max to fall forwards, almost hitting his head, but he catches himself at the last second. May quickly rushes over to help Max out of the hole. Flannery rushes over too, but May has gotten Max out of the hole by the time she arrives.
May: What was that?
Max: It’s a hole, May. Are you okay?
May: But how did it get there?
Flannery ponders this.
Flannery: Lets see, the last people who came here liked to use dig a lot.
Max: That makes sense, you use fire types and it’s a ground-type move.
Move Camera()
In the bushes, Team Rocket spies on Ash and company through binoculars and munching on lava cookies. Their eyes look slightly bloodshot.
James: What are they doing?
Meowth: Just doing the same thing they always do. Standing there and yapping at each other.
Jessie: It looks like the little one fell in a hole.
James: Was that our hole?
Jessie: We haven’t even dug a hole yet!
James: And yet they’re still falling in them!
Meowth: You know what they say, when life gives you holes–
James: Summon Traptrix monsters?
Meowth: Um, what?
Jessie: I have something too, but I don’t think it would make it past the censors.
Meowth: Here’s the thing. We don’t have to dig a hole this time, all we have to do is wait for Pikachu to fall in, then we sneak in and grab it!
Jessie: You know, these cookies we stole really go well with the other thing this town is famous for.
James and Meowth nod in agreement.
Narrator: Why do I get the feeling that they aren’t talking about hot springs?
New Scene()
Ash, May, Max, and Flannery stand around and stare at a pile of soil on the side of the battlefield. May wonders if this was the dirt that was displaced in the previous battle, and Flannery confirms that it was.
May: And I suppose we have to put that all back?
Flannery: If you can… I tried but–
Flannery now walks to the side of the pile, and pulls out a shattered industrial-strength shovel.
Ash: What the…
Pikachu: Pika?
Max: It can’t be that hard…
With this, Max punches the dirt, but the dirt fails to buckle even a bit and Max yelps holding his hurt hand.
Ash: Hold on…
Taking the broken shovel from Flannery, Ash strikes the mound of dirt, but the shovel’s metal handle breaks and the remains of the shovel part fly over Ash’s head, leaving him with a confused expression.
May: Maybe all the heat dried it out?
Ash: Maybe–
Getting an idea, Ash calls on Corphish to use bubblebeam on the pile of dirt. Corphish’s bubblebeam doesn’t do much, at least immediately.
Max: Any idea of how it got that hard?
Flannery: Not really. My Slugma were playing in it the other day, but otherwise…
Flannery’s two Slugma now come sliding towards them.
May: Slugma, huh?
May takes out her pokédex and point it at the Slugma.
May’s Pokédex: Slugma. It’s name is a portmanteau of the words slug and magma.
Max: Tell us something we don’t know.
May’s Pokédex: Slugma is officially known as the Lava pokémon, and unofficially known as the "is it hot in here or is it just me" pokémon. Their body temperature is over nine thousand degrees fahrenheit.
Max now looks up to see that Corphish’s bubblebeam hasn’t done anything to the dirt, except wash a way a layer of dust on the outside of what appears to be a large black rock.
Max: Ash, I think we’re going to need more water power.
Flannery: We have a fire hose…
Ash: I’ll get that.
Carefully, Ash walks along the side of the house to avoid potentially falling in a hole in the arena. As Ash walks around the the side of the yard, Max polishes the dust off of the rock.
Max: Somehow I think it’s going to take more than a fire hose to break this…
Max wonders how the rock got covered in dust, then notices that there are black flakes of dust all over them. Max wonders what this is, and Flannery informs them that it’s soot blowing in from Mount Chimney. Max now realizes that this is how the shiny black rock got it’s coating of dirt.
On the other side of the arena, Ash cries out as the ground gives way underneath him, and he crashes into a pit about five feet deep.
May: Ash!
May and Flannery start to run over to where Ash fell, but they fall into another pit, as the soot becomes thicker.
Max: Hold on. That’s not soot…
Max’s backpack pulses with energy as Jirachi floats out of it, creating a barrier around him. Suddenly voices are heard through the smog:
Jessie: Prepare for trouble…
James: And make it double…
May: It’s Team Rocket! Does that mean that Benjy’s theory about who stole the cookies was–
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation;
James: To unite all peoples within our nation;
Jessie: To denounce the evils of truth and love;
James: To extend our reach to the stars above;
The smog suddenly starts to swirl.
Jessie: Jessie!
James: James!
The fog explodes away from Jessie and James revealing themselves.
Jessie: Team Rocket, blasts off at the speed of light!
James: So surrender now or prepare to fight!
Meowth now emerges from the smog.
Meowth: Meowth, that’s right!
As the fog continues to clear, James is revealed to have caught Pikachu in a glass dome.
Max: Jirachi, psychic!
Jessie, James, and Meowth all stare at Max in surprise for a split second before Jirachi’s psychic sends them flying backwards in a heap. James barely manages to hold onto the sphere holding Pikachu.
Narrator: I always wondered what would happen if he had a pokémon…
QST.StartMusic($A45 (???))
James: Don’t tell me–
Meowth: They caught Jirachi?!
Jessie: I won’t let that stop us! Go, Dustox!
Jessie throws her pokéball, expecting Dustox.
Max: Use confusion!
Dustox fails to emerge from the ball, and instead Wobbuffet comes out. Without instruction, Wobbuffet uses mirror coat, smashing Max and Jirachi into the rock, Max collapses to a sitting position, holding his head.
From the hole, Ash sends out Treecko, and May and Flannery as they climb out call on Beautifly and Torkoal respectively. Beautifly and Torkoal both attack Team Rocket directly; Jessie has Wobbuffet intervene with mirror coat, redirecting their attacks back at them. Beautifly and Torkoal jump aside from the blast, while May and Flannery dive deeper into their hole to avoid the blast. The wave strikes the building, but the building emerges entirely undamaged.
Meanwhile Treecko rushes James, sends Cacnea at it. Treecko takes some heavy blows from needle arm, before pounding Cacnea out of the way and striking James directly. Cacnea now rushes Treecko, but the latter jumps out of the way, leaving Cacnea to land a needle arm on James’s stomach. This causes James to let go of Pikachu’s container over the battlefield, where it falls into a hole.
Jessie immediately sends Seviper to retrieve it, but this is blocked by flamethrowers from both of Flannery’s Slugma. Jessie tells Wobbuffet to use mirror coat, but this proves useless as Seviper is in front of Wobbuffet.
From where James is, in a sitting position, he orders Cacnea to use pin missile on the Slugma. This hits them square on, although the Slugma don’t even seem to notice. Regaining focus now, Max tells Jirachi to knock them away with confusion, however confusion sends them into mirror coat, and now back at Max. Jirachi then teleports both of them (itself and Max) away before the attack can hit them.
In the middle of the hole-ridden field, Treecko now strikes Seviper to knock it away from Pikachu’s hole. Flannery has Torkoal use flamethrower on Wobbuffet in an attempt to break through mirror coat. At first this doesn’t look like it will be successful, but Flannery disregards May’s worries. Seviper is assaulted by both Treecko and Corphish, but knocks both backwards. Both sides are now joined by Dustox and Beautifly, respectively.
Ash has now managed to climb out of the hole, and coordinates a powerful attack on Seviper, forcing it back behind the safety of Wobbuffet’s mirror coat. James has Cacnea attack Jirachi, but Jirachi knocks James and Cacnea backwards into Wobbuffet with a psychic attack. The jolt causes mirror coat to weaken slightly. Flannery notices this, and has both her Slugma attack it again with flamethrower.
Wobbuffet now noticing the heat, turns and starts to run/waddle backwards towards Team Rocket. Not wanting this, Jessie turns it around and forces it to charge forwards towards the hole that Pikachu fell in.
Jessie: We’re going to get that Pikachu, and nothing’s going to stop us!
As Jessie says this, she falls into a hole right underneath her, which apparently goes down farther than the others, as she disappears completely. When she hits the ground a split-second later, smoke or steam (it’s hard to tell) starts pouring out of the hole.
Ash: What’s going on?
James: Jessie, are you okay!?
Cutscene {
At the bottom of a nearby hole Pikachu sparks frantically. QST.camera then moves to the next hole over where Jessie thinks she found Pikachu underneath them. As she fiddles trying to extract Pikachu, she recalls Wobbuffet, and then attempts to dislodge what’s underneath her.
}
Ash runs as far as he can towards Pikachu’s hole along the side of the building, and then starts to see if he can find a way to get to the hole quickly and safely. This endeavor is cut short when a massive rumbling rushes through the ground, like an earthquake, except with geysers of sand shooting out of the ground. Something suddenly sparks…
New Scene()
QST.camera zooms out as the entire Lavaridge Gym’s battlefield EXPLODES with a deafening BANG!
Revert Scene()
Less than a second before being incinerated, Ash, May, Flannery, and their pokémon are teleported to the other side of the building, and when the battlefield explodes behind them, Ash and May are thrown off their feet and crash face-first (May) and shoulder-first (Ash) in the grass. Flannery turns around and stares in the direction of the blast, completely speechless.
Ash quickly scrambles to his feet and looks around.
Ash: Where’s Pikachu?!
May and Max also turn and look, but they don’t see Pikachu anywhere, much to their horror.
New Scene()
Team Rocket is sailing through the air.
Meowth: …And we’re blasting off again…
James: What did you do down there, Jess?
Jessie: I thought I found Pikachu…
Meowth: Ya didn’t…
James: Speaking of which, isn’t that Pikachu?
Jessie and Meowth turn to see Pikachu in it’s plastic ball sailing through the air.
Jessie: Hah, I told you!
James: It’s our lucky day!
Pikachu’s tail starts to glow as James reaches for it, and suddenly Pikachu shatters the weakened sphere with iron tail. Angrily, it faces Team Rocket crackling with electricity…
James: We spoke to soon–
Pikachu: Pika–
Before Pikachu can shock them, something moving too fast to be seen whisks it away as Team Rocket blink in surprise.
Jessie: So now it’s just like before…
{Jessie, James, Meowth}: We’re blasting off again!
As Team Rocket vanishes in a sparkle of light, something makes a large arc in the sky, making a u-turn for the ground. Satolite now appears on QST.camera holding Pikachu in it’s tractor beam. Pikachu calls out to Ash on the ground, who looks up relieved to see that it’s safe.
New Scene(@Temporal = Evening)
Ash, May, Max, and Flannery have been joined by Benjy. They are talking to Officer Jenny and the Herbal Pharmacist in front of the Gym.
Herbal Pharmacist: So those thieves who robbed me also hit the bakery and then…
Officer Jenny: They hit the gas main…
Herbal Pharmacist: Though it’s hard to believe that Team Rocket’s in Hoenn…
Officer Jenny: There are some rouge rocket units that operate in strange locations. Eccentrics is what the Star Guard calls them.
Ash: That sure sums them up nicely.
Officer Jenny: They were probably blown to the high kingdom when the main exploded, I wouldn’t expect to see them again.
Ash and company flinch.
Benjy: I wouldn’t underestimate their resilience.
Officer Jenny: If you kids hadn’t been teleported out of there when you were, you’d probably be pushing up daisies right now…
May: Huh?
Officer Jenny: But thanks for the news.
Officer Jenny and the Herbal Pharmacist now take off together, with the Herbal Pharmacist mumbling under her breath:
Herbal Pharmacist: And there’s another Edwin Award nominee…
Ash: Benjy, how’s Brock getting on?
Benjy: Nurse Joy said she wanted him to stay there overnight just in case, but he seems all better.
Ash: And now the authorities will handle that crater…
Max: Sheesh…
…///To Be Continued///…
©February 28, 2007 - August 1, 2014 by Benjy Strauss