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The Exile Special Edition	By : Yarid Category: Pokemon > General Views: 11351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter Six

“Furret! Rollout attack!”
Jessie watched confidently as the ferret-like pokémon curled
into a ball before hurling itself at the Oddish. The Oddish fell to
the ground stunned, so Jessie flung a PokéBall at it. She
bounced slightly as the ball clicked once, then twice, then chimed as
the third time passed. She shouted joyfully before picking up her new
Oddish.
“Congratulations, Jessie!” Ash shouted,
running up to her. Jessie felt her face turn red at the praise from
the boy.
“Thanks,” she said, holding an arm out for
Furret. The pokémon leaped onto her arm and perched daintily
on her shoulder. She nodded at a chittered request and pulled a small
piece of dried apple from her pocket. Furret ate it noisily,
muttering to itself in between bites.
“That's the first time
you've managed to catch a pokémon,” Ash reminded her.
“You're getting better.” He checked his watch. “We
should be getting back to town. We've got to get some sleep; it's a
long way from Goldenrod to New Bark Town.”
Jessie hoped
they'd never get there.

***

“Hello,” Nurse Joy said
cheerfully. “Welcome to our Pokémon Center!”
“Hello,”
Jessie responded. Furret clambered down her arm onto the counter.
Jessie placed the PokéBall containing her new Oddish next to
her mascot, grinning at Joy. “Can you heal them for me,
please?”
Off to the side, Ash and Pikachu stood watching
their friend. It was rather startling to see such a contrast between
the Jessie they used to know, from Team Rocket, and their traveling
companion. She was polite, cheerful, considerate, and sweet. She
hadn't even tried to steal Pikachu once! And another thing Ash was
slowly coming to see: she was beautiful. He hadn't noticed the first
day that she'd changed her hair style, but had realized it some time
later.
He hadn't yet felt the storm of passions that racked Jessie
so often. He was also too dense to realize what Jessie's constant
blushing might indicate. He was, however, bright enough to realize
that if Brock were around, they'd never get him to shut up. He'd be
too busy fawning over Jessie.
More startling than that, however,
was the fact that she genuinely seemed to enjoy catching and training
pokémon. While he had seen her laugh many times as a member of
Team Rocket, he never seen her smile. Now, she smiled almost
constantly. And she and Furret were almost inseparable, eating,
sleeping, and (he assumed) even bathing together.
That threw his
pubescent mind onto another train of thought, one he quickly
derailed. He was not quite sure why he kept thinking these things
about Jessie, but with typical Ash logic, he simply assumed that if
it was important, he'd deal with it eventually.
“Thanks,”
Jessie said to Nurse Joy, retrieving her pokémon. Furret did a
few sample rolls on the floor before leaping onto Jessie's
outstretched arm. Watching Jessie grin at him, Ash self-consciously
fiddled with something in his pocket. He'd had Professor Oak send him
it from his collection and he hoped she'd like it. Pulling it out, he
handed it to Jessie.
“It's a leaf stone,” he said, in
response to her questioning look. “When Oddish evolves to
Gloom, you can use this to evolve her to Vileplume.” Jessie
took it, and, pulling a handkerchief from her pocket, wrapped the
stone up in it. She pocketed the treasure carefully, a broad smile on
her face. Turning back to Ash, she bent slightly, kissing him on the
cheek.
“Thanks, Ash,” she said softly, before walking
over to talk to some other trainers.
“Pikachu?” Ash
said, cupping his cheek. The rodent glanced up at him with shocked
eyes before turning back to watch Jessie. Ash understood the feeling;
he was rather confused himself. There were a couple of feelings
brought to mind by the kiss he'd just received. One was the fact that
Jessie made him feel safe. It wasn't a “Well, she'll protect
me,” safe. That was the safe he felt around Pikachu. No, the
safe he felt was rather like he felt when he woke up from a bad dream
with his mother's arms around him. The other feeling was one he was
unfamiliar with. It was an attraction of sorts, but one that
intensified when Jessie bent over or put an arm around his shoulders
or, indeed, touched him in any way.
Baffled he trailed after
Jessie, who, concluding her conversation with the other trainers, had
exited the building.
Jessie, for her part, was unaware of the
feelings she'd invoked in the young boy, although if she had known
she would not have been at all displeased. Instead her mind was on a
similar vein of thought from Ash's. Why did she enjoy being a real
trainer so much? She thought for a moment before answering her own
question. Arbok had never really liked her. In fact, from
conversations with Meowth, she gathered that the only reason Arbok
stayed with her was the fact that he'd never had any other trainer.
It wasn't like James's Victreebell; that plant was with James because
it wanted to be. Even Meowth and Weezing seemed fond of James as a
trainer. But Furret was devoted to her, and she had reason to suspect
that soon Oddish would be, too.
“I vow,” she said
quietly, her teeth clenched, “that I'm going to get Arbok and
Wobbuffet back. And then I'll train you guys right!”

***

“There it is!” Ash said
excitedly. He pointed ahead and Jessie saw a sign.
“New Bark
Town; the place where the winds of new beginnings blow,” she
read aloud. She turned to smile at Ash only to discover that he was
already legging it down the road. Receptive to its trainer's
feelings, Furret sighed. Jessie put a hand to her belt as she
followed slowly after her young friend. She'd caught one more pokémon
since Goldenrod: Mareep. She was particularly proud of that
achievement; more so after Dexter informed her that with work it
would eventually evolve into Ampharos.
She glanced around as she
entered the small town of New Bark, taking the time she'd not had the
last time she was here.
“Jessie! Over here!” Ash was
waiting impatiently by the largish building she recognized as
Professor Elm's laboratory. Jessie hurried over to him. With a heave
of the door, Ash went inside.
“What are we doing, Ash?”
Jessie asked. Ash put a finger to his lips before calling
out.
“Professor Elm!”
As if by magic, the
absent-minded professor came bolting around the corner.
“Oh,
my! Is it time for the new trainers already? I've got to get things
ready!” Jessie put out an arm as Elm tripped in his haste. He
glanced up at her, and around at Ash.
“Oh, it's you.”
He steadied himself.
“Is it ready, Professor?” Ash
asked. He turned to Jessie quickly. “Professor Oak asked me to
come get something for him from Professor Elm. He said it was really
important.”
“It is!” Elm said hastily. “And
it's ready. Let me go get it.” He returned a few minutes
bearing a small egg in a carry-case.
“This was given to me
by a couple that run a Daycare facility near Goldenrod. Three days
ago... or was it weeks... they dropped this off, saying the trainer
it belonged to couldn't take care of it.”
“That's so
sad,” Jessie said, taking the egg from him carefully. Elm
nodded sagely.
“Nurse Joy told me that I couldn't take care
of it, either. She seemed to think I'd forget about it.”
“You
probably would,” Ash admitted. “Don't worry, professor,
we'll take it to Professor Oak. He'll take good care of it.”
“Thanks,
Ash,” Elm said with evident relief. He turned to go, but Ash
caught his arm. “Have my friends Misty or Brock been by yet?”
Elm paused.
“Describe this Misty person,” he
requested.
“Sorta tall red hair, nasty temper,” Ash
said candidly.
“Yes! That's her!” Elm looked relieved.
“She and another guy came by, and said to tell you, if you came
by, to check the Pokémon Center. They said that they had left
you a message, but that they couldn't stay in town any longer.”
“How
long ago was that?”
“About... five days... Or was it
five weeks?” Muttering to himself, Elm wandered away,
apparently forgetting Ash and Jessie were even there.
“Let's
go, Jessie!” Ash shouted, bolting out the door. Steadying the
egg in her arms, Jessie followed, albeit at a much slower pace. She
glanced at her burden before turning to look at Furret.
“What
do you suppose it's going to be?” she asked it. Furret did an
admirable impression of a shrug, studying the egg carefully. It
gestured with a paw at itself, a questioning look on its face.
“No,
I don't think it's going to be another Furret,” Jessie laughed.
“But I hope Professor Oak tells Ash what it is when it
hatches.”
They walked into the Center. Furret, being the
vain creature that it was, hoped right onto the counter in front of
Nurse Joy. Jessie set her other PokéBalls down next to it,
balancing the egg precariously in one arm as she used the other to
fish out a piece of candy for Furret.
“Can you take care of
them for a few minutes?” she asked Joy, noting the crestfallen
look on Ash's face. Nurse Joy followed her gaze to the young trainer,
then nodded at Jessie. Jessie walked over to Ash, peering at the
piece of paper he held in his hands.
“They went to a pokémon
tournament without me,” Ash said, handing her the piece of
paper. Pikachu patted his leg comfortingly.
Jessie read the paper
aloud.
“Attention all Gym Leaders. Qualification matches
required for all gym leaders are being held in Viridian City now.
Hosted by Professor Guisseppe, illustrious owner of the Hologram Gym!
Test your might and suitability as a gym leader.” A small
warning bell went of in Jessie's mind, so she reread it silently. The
warning bell became a fire alarm.
“Come on,” she said,
grabbing Ash's hand. Ash looked at her with confusion.
“Where?”
he asked. Jessie retrieved her pokémon from Nurse Joy,
thanking her with a small bow, before leading her friend out the
door.
“To Viridian City.”
“Alright!”
Ash cheered. Pikachu leaped onto his trainer's shoulder before
echoing the cheer.
Jessie was less cheerful about the prospect. A
sinking feeling in her stomach told the story.
Giovanni held a PhD
from Pokémon Tech. His last name was Guisseppe. And Team
Rocket's main base was in Viridian City. This did not bode well for
Ash or his friends. And she didn't even want to think about what
Giovanni would do to her for acting against Team Rocket.
On the
other hand (and here she began to grin evilly), if she got a chance
to get inside Team Rocket's base, she could get her pokémon
back. And maybe if she helped rescue Misty and Brock, Ash would be
more friendly to her.
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