Pipian quickly made his way
through Route 9 battling just a few trainers
on the way. He stopped at the Pokécenter and quickly
healed his pokemon.
He was about to go through Rock Tunnel when he saw a sign
(Shabbily written,
mind you). It said:
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|Shortcut to Lavender Town.|
| Quicker than Rock Tunnel |
| This way
---> |
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"What the heck! I'm not in any rush
anyway... Hmm... this looks like
one of the TR paths that we... I mean they travel
by..."
Pipian took the path.
FARTHER UP THE PATH:
"Jessie, are you sure it's OK to trick
people into using this backway
path? It does seem a little, err... treacherous..."
said James as he looked
down the 1,000 ft. high cliff that lie on either side of the
path.
"Quit complaining!" yelled
Jessie. "It gives me a headache."
"Yeah. Remember, we're here to
capture trainers' pokemon by cornering
them on this path somewhere," replied Meowth.
"Well... OK..."
They quickly found places to hide on the path
and waited.
MEANWHILE:
Pipian was having some difficulty traversing
the path...
"I'm not quite so sure how this is
quicker and easier than Rock
Tunnel... Oh, well."
He managed to make his way up to where the
three bumbling members of
Team Rocket lay. They popped out.
"Prepare for trouble!"
"And make it double!"
"Jessie, James, Meowth, shut up, will
ya?" said Pipian.
"Wai... How do you know our
names?" asked Jessie.
Pipian thought for a moment...
"It's not everyday that another Rocket
gets to meet such esteemed
personages of Team Rocket."
"Hey! Thanks for the
complimen... Hey! If you're Team Rocket, where's
your official clothing?"
"It should be... Right
here." Pipian opened his backpack and pulled
out his old TR clothing. <I knew bringing this would come in
handy...> he
thought.
"Why aren't you wearing it?"
"Undercover..."
"Ah..."
"Now if you'll excuse me, you foo... I
mean fellow members, I must make
haste to Lavender, direct orders from the boss."
"Oh, OK."
Pipian rushed by them, and in the process,
accidentally knocked the
three of them off the cliff.
"Waugh!" said Jessie, James, and
Meowth as they tumbled down the cliff.
As Pipian hurried on, he thought he heard them
say "MONDO! Come here!"
He made good headway on slightly more solid
ground. Soon, he stumbled
upon an Electabuzz that had apparently escaped from the power
plant. Of
course, he LITERALLY stumbled upon it, so it was fairly mad...
"Go... Kadabra! Use
Psychic!"
Unfortunately, the attack missed, and the
Electabuzz successfully landed
a Thundershock on the unsuspecting psychic pokemon.
"Psywave it!"
This managed to hit, only slightly damaging
the pokemon. It
Thundershocked back.
"Try one more time."
This time, the Kadabra managed to hit the
Electabuzz in... Oh... Let's
just say a critical place and managed to weaken it enough.
"Pokéball! Go!"
Pipian's pokéball hit the pokemon. It
shook... And shook... And
shook... And the Electabuzz escaped.
"OK... Let's try a Great
Ball!"
This time, the Electabuzz was caught.
"Cool! I caught an
Electabuzz!" said Pipian.
By this time, it was getting dark, so he
hurried on and managed to reach
Lavender by nightfall...