Another Typical Day for our heroes - As Ash is off with Misty and Max exploring the next town... May and Brock are shopping for supplies... Or should be, anyway.

Brock soon finds a pretty girl and decides to follow her. May doesn’t even notice he left...

“Ooh! This will look great on me, I know it! and this, and this, and..”, May exclaims as she runs around the store, grabbing things without looking at the price.

The Cashier sweatdrops, as May grabs at least one of everything in the store.

Of course, Brock was nowhere near, as he had fallen in love with yet another pretty girl.  He followed her in almost looked to be a drunken stupor.

Soon, she noticed him and turned around.  "Um...can I...help you?" she asked, puzzled.

"Where have you been all my life, oh beautiful one?" Brock asked her with glazed eyes.

"Well, I was just in aisle 5..." The lady responded, confused.

Brock quickly took her hands.  "You are the prettiest rose in the garden, but you must be provided for, and I would love to be your sunny day!"            (if you don't get that...every flower needs some sunlight.)

"Well, I..." the lady responded nervously.

"Broooock!" May suddenly appeared to Brock's side, grabbing his ear and pulling him away, to the cashier.  "I need you to pay for what I picked out, c'mon!"

Meanwhile...
Ash & Misty were in the middle of argument #215. Max was beginning to question why Ash missed her so much during the earlier part of their journey. A Shock from Pikachu brought the cute couple (Ash/Misty *same time*: Misty/Ash and I are hardly friends!) back to their senses.

“Umm, Pikachu,” asked the youngest member of the group, “are they always like that?”

Pikachu nodded.

“Oww... Sorry, Pikachu... Huh, I didn’t realize it was getting this late,” Misty said.

“Shouldn’t have Brock and May came back yet?”, inquired the trainer from Pallet.

“Well, May’ll probably try to buy everything in sight until Brock stops her,” Max pointed out.

Ash, Misty, and Pikachu sweatdropped.

“Which means, if Brock runs into a Pretty Girl on the way...”, Ash began.

“...That we’re going to be out of money by the end of the day,” Misty concluded.

The trio looked at each other, and ran straight for the Mall. (Pikachu: Piiikaaachuuuuuuuuuu! *ZAP!*) Sorry, the four... @_@ (Pikachu: Chu. ^-^)

When the Four Intreped Travellers finally got to the mall, they skidded to a stop with their eyes wide open, seeing how much May had bought at the various stores... Apparently, their fears were realized...

“Piiiikaaa.....”, Pikachu said, as he looked up.

“Umm... May, how much of our money did you spend?”, Max asked his sister.

May sweatdropped, “Umm... Almost all of it?”

Everyone but Brock and May facefalled.

Misty couldn’t believe this girl. She’s worse than Ash used to be! “How... How Could you!?!?”

May felt insulted, “Well, at least I shop, like a girl, rather than going out exploring like some boy!”

Misty growled back, “At least I’m not a bimbo!”

Brock ran inbetween the girls to try to break them up, but all that got broken was the sidewalk.

“Ow...”

“You stay out of this!”, both girls screamed.

Max winced at the scream. He didn’t know anyone could yell that loud that long.

“Wait, wait, Misty...”, Ash said, “How much do we have enough to buy now Brock?”

“Well, we have enough to buy supplies for-- Two People.”

Everyone sweatdropped.

“TWO People? What about the--”, Max began - he was going to ask about the Pokémon...

“Remember, we already bought food and things for the Pokémon before May decided to shop,” Brock reminded the young child.

“Oh yeah.”

Misty sighed, “Knowing how Ash and Max eat, they aren’t counted in the ‘two people’ that we have enough money for.”

Both boys were offended, “HEY!”

May frowned.  "All these clothes are very cute and important!  I need every one of them!  I'm not returning them!"

"She's right." Brock admitted.

"WHAT?!" all but May and Brock said together.

Brock pointed to the store behind them, which had already closed - and now had an 'Out of business' sign up.

"Well, then what are we going to do about food?" Ash asked.

"Even if everybody shared, there wouldn't really enough for anybody.  And I'm getting really hungry too!" Max groaned.  "Lucky Pokémon...we have PLENTY of food for them."

"Pikapi." Pikachu answered contentedly.

"Hmm.  It's a shame that humans can't eat Pokéfood, or we may have our problem solved."  Brock pondered.

"Ew!  I'd never touch that stuff anyways!" Misty exclaimed.

"I suppose we should go to a restaurant, at least." Brock answered.  "We'll decide on who gets what once we're there."

Later at the resturaunt...

“...Say Brock, why don’t you just eat Pokémon food. You ate it at Proffessor Ivy’s...”, Misty stated, forgetting what happens when ‘that name’ is mentioned...

Brock curled into a ball in the corner, and started to talk in a paralyzed tone, “That---name....”

Max and May sweatdropped.

“Oops. I forgot about that.”

An explanation and recouperation later...

Brock finally answered Misty’s question, “I-- I don’t do that anymore. It brings the bad memories of...”

“Okay, okay, we get it,” Misty interuppted before he could go into the trance again.

Ash sighed, “Too bad we don’t have Lily’s Magic. Remember?”

Misty grinned, “You just miss being able to goof off all day Ash.”

“Do not!”

“Do too!”

“Do not!”

“Do too!”

“Do not!”

“Pikaaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”, shouted Pikachu, causing a large bolt of lightning to shock them out of their argument.

The other customers stared a bit, until Brock spoke up.

“Don’t worry people, this happens to them all the time.”

The other patrons shrugged and returned to their eating.

Brock smirked inside, and thought - That isn’t a bad idea tho...

Pikachu could tell that something was going on, but he wasn’t quite sure what...

After many heated battles of rock-paper-scissors, the victors, Brock and May, were rewarded...well, dinner, while the losers went outside to sulk.

"He cheated!  I swear he was about to pull a scissors and changed it to paper after his saw my rock!" Misty shouted angrily.

"Well, he WAS the rock-type gym master.  He probably can interpret a rock better than any else." Ash chuckled.

"THAT'S ROCK-TYPE POKÉMON, NOT ROCKS!" Misty shouted, even angrier.

"Well how do YOU know he doesn't know his rocks?  Have you ever asked him about it?" Ash challenged.

"Hey, would you guys stop fighting?" Max sighed.  "Our hunger's getting the best of us."

"I'll agree to that." Ash said as his stomach rumbled.  "Wish there was SOMETHING we could..."

Ash looked over to Max, who was drooling slightly and looking at Pikachu.

"Pi....ka?" Pikachu sweatdropped.

"Max!  Stop that!" Misty exclaimed.

"Huh?" Max said, snapping out of it.  "Oh...s-sorry."

Ash sighed.  "I wish there was some free food or something we could eat..."

"Did somebody mention free food?"

The trio turned to see a blue-haired man, red-haired woman, and a Meowth all dressed in cook clothing.

"We come from a famous restaurant!" the man exclaimed.

"Yes!  And every day we come out here to feed the poor and hungry!" the woman explained.

"Hey, we're both of that!" Max noted.

"Well, dig in!" the Meowth suggested.  With that, the three 'cooks' revealed behind them a cart full of food.

The 3 trainers were about to pounce at the cart when the man held out a hand.  "Na-ah-ah!"

"You don't want to eat out here on the street!" the lady exclaimed.  "Please, come into our restaurant."

With that, she motioned to an open door.

...Part of Ash and friends were screaming at them that it was a trap-- as was Pikachu, but that’s not the point here -- but the three of them were too hungry to listen.

The three trainers hurried through the open door, followed by the 'cooks'.

"Hey, this doesn't look much like a restaurant." Ash inquired.

"How right you are!" the red-haired woman replied, laughing evily.

"And we're not cooks either!" the blue-haired man added.

"What?!" Max glared.  "Then who are you?"

"Why, we're..." the lady grinned, and the 'cooks' threw off their outer attire, revealing their white and black clothing, a large red 'R' on the front of their shirts.  "Team Rocket!"

Ash groaned.  "Not again..."

"Prepare for trouble, no food for you!"

"And make it double, unless you hand over Pikachu!"

"To protect the world from starvation!"

"To unite all food within our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth, love and hunger!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above and longer!"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket, all filled up at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or you'll starve in this fight!"

"Meowth! Dat's right!"

"Wobbafett!"

And once again an epic battle between good and evil erupted...well, not so epic, as Team Rocket was soon blasted through the roof and into the sky.

Misty groaned, “You’d think that even they’d learn by now.”

Ash’s stomach growled loudly, “And now, I’m twice as hungry as before.”

By then, May and Brock had finished eating, so, the group met up in front of the resturaunt.

“What happened to you guys?”, May asked.

“Who do you think happened to us?”, Max said coldly.

“Ah, them again. You know, I think I may have the answer to our problem,” Brock said.

The other three were excited, “Really!?”

“Yeah... I have to go in alone to get it tho.”

“Oh? How could something you have to get alone--?”, Ash began to Ask.

May interrupted, “It doesn’t matter Ash, it’ll solve your problem, that’s all.”

Ash and Misty were quite confused by how the two were acting.

May gave a gasp before they got to their destination, “I forgot about the Pokémon Contest! I have to go get prepared for it. I’ll meet you all at the Pokémon Center, okay?”

The others nodded, “Okay, May. See ya.”

As May walked off, she grinned to herself about something...

The rest of the group made it to a very creepy house on the outskirts of town.

Misty blinked, “This is where you have to go?”

Brock nodded, “Yep. I’ll see you in a sec.”

With that, 'The Rock' entered the cheap knock off of Pokemon Tower without even flinching. The remaining members of the party knew something was up, they all remembered their previous encounters with Ghost pokemon and their hang outs, and none of them went in alone after Ash's out of body experience.

Well, Misty wondered, Pikachu cocked his head, Ash was left dumb founded, and Max was wondering about the debate on weather Ghost pocket monsters were really spirits or alien visitors who just happened to share the many traits of ghosts.
A couple minutes past, but for a meal at this point, the group was willing to wait. At least since May had had her fill they didn't have to listen to her whining. Of course, it wasn't long before Ash and Misty thought of something else to argue about.

“This place reminds me of Pokémon Tower . . .” Misty shivered.

Max’s eyes brightened. “Pokémon Tower?! You’ve been there?! Did you see the ghost of the mother Marrowack!?”

“Er . . . no.” Misty said. “Instead I got picked up by this creepy ghost!”

Ash and Pikachu both giggled.

“What’s so funny?!”

“Er . .  nothing . . .” Ash was a horrible liar.

“No such thing as nothing! So spill!”

Ash sweated. “Er . . .”

“Speak boy! Or get turned into a pan cake!” Misty took out of her mallet ready for use.

“Iwastheghost!”

“What!!!”

“Me and Pikachu!”

“You?! You did that to me?!” Misty swung the mallet result in a headache for Ash.

“You weren't hurt! I knew Brock would catch you.”

“How could Ash be a ghost?!” Max asked, but the two teens ignored him.

“You . . . you . .”

Everyone was so fixated on Ash and Misty’s latest squabble that no one noticed the cloud of black smoke that creep out of from under the decrepitude house towards the group.

“It was because of Haunter! He pulled me and Pikachu out of our bodies!”

“So he made you pull that stupid prank on me!?” Misty snapped not believing it.

“Pikapi, Pikachupi!” Said the mouse trying to get their attention and failing miserably.

“I was a ghost at the time, it was my nature to pull jokes like that.”

“Maybe we should test that theory!”

Max's yelp of surprise was drowned out by their petty bickering. The smoke had finally gotten his attention when it silently went above his head. Max felt dizzy as the gas entered his system and brought a paw to his forehead to steady himself, the scent of the smoke was bizarre yet familiar. Maxyena was at first afraid but the dizziness seemed to be already wearing off and he didn’t feel any different. Calmly getting off just his rear legs and landing on his forelegs Poochyena scratched himself behind his ear with his rear claws.

“Ha!” Scoffed Ash. “You could never beat me and you still can’t!”

“You got it!”

That was the smoke reached their height as well, Pikachu’s sense of smell and direction having been fowled up the smoke long before it had reached Max.

“What's going on!” Misty said. “Yena already beat Team Rocket today!”

“Yena! But mighty yena came for yena punishment!” Ash replied.

Mistyena grunted. “Might yena! Yena would have yena their stupid mighty ye nana.”

Ashyena barked. “Yena . . . Might yenana mina smoke?”

“Yee-naa.” Mightyena ♀ shrugged. Maybe that lovesick human had tripped up some make shift cooking. But it didn’t smell like that kind of smoke. The Mightyena both got off their hind legs and used Odor Sleuth to cancel out the smoke's effect to find their way out. Not that it mattered. The smoke dispersed on it’s own a few seconds later.

Mightyena ♂ was just happy the smoke had taken his mate’s mind off another fight, beating her repeatedly got boring after a while.

A yip got Mightyena ♂ and Mightyena ♀'s attention and they say Poochyena looking ready to pounce on Pikachu, the electric mouse made a few spark and Poochyena used Run Away to escape from the fight and hide behind Mightyena ♀. When would the pup learn the rodent was part of the pack and not food?

Mightyena ♂ and Mightyena ♀ had also noticed that the other members of the pack have gotten themselves trapped in those stupid red and white balls again. Walking up to each of them, they released Treecko, Corphish, Phanpy, Taillow, Staryu, Horsea, Corsela, Gyrados, Politod and even that annoying Psyduck. Poochyena calmy placed himself between the Alphas wagging his tail attentively.

Mightyena ♀ was just glad her mate had left Bayleef at the nest, as the plant-type never could understand that the Dark-Type was the Alpha Female. However, The Mightyena and Poochyena were noticing that the rest of their pack were giving them strange looks. Poochyena really didn’t care, but the Mightyena were wondering why the pack was looking at them so strange... It's not like they haven’t ever seen them before, right?

Treeko rubbed one eye before putting his stick in his mouth. [Look. I don’t care if it's my turn to fight, I was in the middle of the most wonderful -- WHAT THE GROUNDON!?!!]  Using that ability pokemon have to tell each other apart where humans failed told Treeko exactly who he was looking at. He just couldn't bring himself to believe it!!!

[Psy? Psy-yi-yi? You look different.]

The Alphas looked at each other, they didn’t look any different. Mightyena ♀ shook her head, what was she thinking taking anything that dumb duck said seriously?

[Pikapi! Are you alright?!]

Mightyena ♂ replied. [Why wouldn’t I be?]

Taillow told himself. [I have got to be dreaming!]

Corsola added to herself. [Then why are we having the same dream?]

[Mistress!] Said Gyrados lowering himself to Mightyena ♀’s level. [What has become of you?]

Staryu and Horsea just looked at each other. At least she could have become a water type.

Phanpy, tackled foreword. [PHAN-PY! You're more like me now! I knew you were my papa!]

Pikachu just thought one thing after hearing his trainer’s responce, I have a very, very, very bad feeling about this.

Mightyena ♂ and Mightyena ♀ were beginning to serious suspect that smoke had driven the rest of their pack crazy.

Poochyena glared at Phanpy, [No, he’s MY Dad. You’re not even a Dark-Type, let alone a Poochyena!]

Phanpy started to cry into his daddy’s front leg.

Mightyena ♀ glared at Poochyena, [Poochyena! He’s as much our son as you are, you know.]

Poochyena snorted, [You mean like Togetic was?]

Mightyena ♀ glared at her son. He was just so stubborn! He must have gotten it from his father’s side of the family. And how DARE he speak about his older brothers in such a way? Especially considering they’re much more sensitive than he is.

“Pikaaaaa?!” Pikachu yelped. Now he KNEW something was very wrong here!

“Mighty-ya?” Mightyena ♂ glared at his companion more interested in comforting his son over Poochyena's selfish attack than humoring clear insanity.

[Since when is Pika your son? I know PuChu thinks of you like that, and so did Pichupi, but Pika?!!?]

[Since he was born of course.] Mightyena’s ♂ patence was wearing thin.

[Pikapi . .  you’re sick . . . that smoke turned into a Mightyena!]

[You’re the one whose crazy! How could Poochyena be one and Mightyena ♀ be one if I wasn’t one?!]

[They weren’t until just now!]

[You’ve lost it!]

[Ask the rest of the team, they’ll say the same thing! How could we all have the same delusion?!]

[How could Poochyena, my mate, and I have the same delusion?!]

Pikachu had to admit he was stuck there. Whoever thought that because you were right you’d win the argument was an idiot!

Ignoring Pikachu and Mightyena ♂, Mightyena ♀ looked at Poochyena and barked sternly. [Apologize to your brother. Right now.]

Poochyena walked the short distance between himself and his pack mate and said in a reluctant tone. [I’m sorry. He is as much my dad as yours.]

[And mean it,] She amended.

[I’m sorry.] He said in a realistic tone of growling.

Phanpy seemed satisfied with this and slowly stopped crying.

Pikachu noticed the Badge Case of Ash’s which was on the ground, and brought it to Mightyena ♂’s attention, [Pikapi, don’t you remember what this is?]

Mightyena ♂ thought for a moment. It did look familiar...

Mightyena ♂ then responded, [I think it’s a Badge Case.]

Pikachu smiled for a moment, but then Mightyena ♂ continued, [I guess a human must have dropped it on their way through here]

Pikachu was frustrated. It’s like the Smoke reprogrammed their brains as well as their bodies! Pikachu frantically looked around to see if there was anything else of the humans’ that survived the transformation. That’s when he spotted Dexter and the PokéNav.

Aha!, Pikachu thought, as he ran to collect the two devices.

Pikachu dragged along both items to the confused dark types. He flipped Dexter open and it gave the profile on Mightyena and then Poochyena.

[See?] Mightyena ♂ barked.

Pikachu wished this was the old version of Dexter, he knew how to work the index on that one, this was a new model from the one he had seen Prof. Oak use day in and day out in his lab just before meeting Pikapi. As it was Pikachu could not bring up any other of the device's function. Pikachu considered asking Ash about Dexter but knew he'd get the same result. He tried to talk about how the poke Navi was his, but the pup adamently refused to believe it. After all, how could he operate it with his paws?

Agh! Would it have killed Pikapi to keep ONE telepath in the party?  . . . Pipikapipi!

Pikachu called out to the simple minded duck and told him to share his memories with Misty. Then the duck asked what Pikachu was talking about. Save the darks and Psy everyone did an anime fall over. Pikachu forgot the moron only remembered his had psyhic powers when his headache got in the extreme, and only long enough to deliever divine wrath upon the power fools that had given it to him.

Pikachu had learned that the painful way himself.

Maybe twenty questions could still work. Pikachu asked how they met and Pikapi said he had broken him out of a human's pokemon lab . . . Oh father Zapdos given me strength.

[What were the rest of the team doing in poke balls then?]

[You tell us how you got in them.]

[Because you're a trainer and you act as the carrier for the rest.]

[I know I let you ride me a lot but I don't know about the rest.]

[Stop trying to mess with Mightyena ♂'s head Pikachu!], Shouted Mightyena ♀.

[You remember Lugia right?]

[Of course, I was his Chosen One.], Mightyena ♂ replied, with great honor and dignity.

[Then how can you be a pokemon?]

[Where the heck did it say in the prophecy the Chosen One was a human?]

Pikachu had to admit, it didn't. [How'd you met Pikachupi?]

[We were running from some Spearows . . . and Mightyena ♀ pulled me out holding onto you thinking we were free food. And she asked about you since you were cuter and I thought she meant me and over reacted-]

[I did NOT overreact! You were insenitive.], Mightyena ♀ complained.

[My foreleg was sentive after you bit me!]

Pikachu asked about the bike. [What bike?] They said together.

[The Bike you owed Pikachupi after he trashed it to get me to the pokemon center!]

[ . . .  Now you're just making stuff up.] Mightyena ♂ whinned (equel to sigh) [She came along because the spearow were
dragging behind her cost her meal for the day. Though it did seem a rather stupid excuse.]

Mightyena ♀ blushed.

[When's Pooch coming with the food?] Poochyena moaned. [What's taking him so long?]

Poochyena did have a point, Mightyena ♂ thought. And maybe Might could help put things straight with the rest of the pack.

Pikachu was thinking the exact same thing. What was keeping the walking hormone so long?! He could solve this problem instantly since he wasn't near the gas Pikapi couldn't rationalize it like the rest.

To Be Continued...