togepi_rocket1

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of these characters in this story except Chelsea and Shelly, all the Pok�mon characters are owned by Nintendo and Game Freak and probably lots more people richer than me.
AUTHOUR'S NOTES: I thought of this story after watching the friends episode where Chandler and Monica get married. So I decided to ignore that whole rocketshippy ending of the manga and make up my own story. I hope you like it. ^_^ "Anti-rocketshippers beware: very shippy story"
ROCKET WEDDING
By Togepi

It had been 4 years since Ash had started his Johto league journey; everyone had grown up fast and now had their own lives to lead, but made sure they kept in contact as much as they could. Brock worked in a breeding centre in Pewter City so he could be close to his father and siblings, Misty now ran the cerulean gym after her sisters left to do water shows around the world, Ash was a Pok�mon master and ran the Viridian city gym, while Tracey was...still professor Oak's assistant.

The biggest changes though came to Team Rocket members Jesse, James and Meowth. While travelling around after Ash four years ago, Jesse and James had begun to except the fact that they were in love with each other and slowly began to build a relationship, but when Giovanni found out he gave them two choices...stop the relationship or be fired, the two of them chose love over their job so were fired from Team Rocket.
For the next two years, Jesse, James and Meowth found life hard, they had barley no money, they lived in a shabby small apartment with no heating and no clean running water and no one would hire them for jobs because of their Team Rocket past, but eventually everything began to sort themselves out. Jesse got a job in a restaurant and James was excepted to work as Nurse Joys assistant in the Viridian City Pok�mon Centre, even Meowth was determined to make money although all he did was get a guitar and tried busking on the streets.
Eventually the three saved enough money to move into a bigger apartment, which had everything they ever wanted, finally things were looking up for the trio and for Jesse and James things were about to get better...

Jesse walked through the dark snow covered streets of Viridian City at night, travelling home from the restaurant she worked at. As she walked her long red curly hair got caught in the slight breeze and floated in the air. It was late February, but felt more like late December. Snow had been falling all day, but Jesse didn't really mind, she loved the snow, even when she was a child she loved nothing more but to go outside build snowmen. As she travelled she saw a group of children throwing snowballs at each other, which made her smile, one day, she hoped to watch her own children doing that.

Eventually she got to the apartment building that she lived at with James and Meowth. As soon as she got through the buildings doors she shook the snow off her coat and began to walk up the stairs. Soon enough she arrived at her apartment, number 23. She smiled as she opened the door, but her expression changed to a shocked look as she entered the apartment. The whole living room was covered with red roses. The only thing that lit the room was candles, which were scattered about the room. Jesse slowly closed the door then took off her coat. As she hung it up James wondered out of their bedroom and looked at her.

"Welcome home" he said to her gently. Jesse just looked at him with a puzzled look on her face, James just smiled walked over to her and kissed her passionately. Jesse just looked at him and frowned.

"What's all this for?" she asked him.

"You'll see," replied James, as he led her into the kitchen. The kitchen, too, was covered with red roses and the two candles that stood in the middle of the table lit the room dimly. Also on the table were two plates with all kinds of delicious looking food on it, James had obviously gone to a lot of trouble for something.

James pulled out a chair from the table and let Jesse sit down on it then he sat down in a chair across from her.

"Okay I just want to know something..." Jesse began. "...how much did you pay for all these roses?"

"Does it matter?" came James' replay.

"I guess not"

Throughout the whole dinner, Jesse hoped to find any hints to tell her what James was up to but James wasn't letting on to anything, so she decided to forget about it.

"So where's Meowth?" she asked James.

"Oh I convinced him to go over to Mondo's" James told her. "Tonight I just want it to be you and me"

Jesse smiled, she liked it when it was just him and her all alone, they barley ever got privacy with that sneaky feline around who often made fun out of them, but she had the love that cat, he often made even the most unbearable times seem like fun.

"Well let's hope he's having fun," Jesse said to James, as she carried on eating.

Meanwhile, across town, Mondo, Ditto and Meowth were sat in the living room of Mondo's apartment. Mondo was now about 19 and he still worked for Team Rocket, he didn't really have any regrets about working there at all.

Mondo and Ditto were trying to figure out a crossword puzzle they were doing while Meowth sat beside them looking extremely bored.

"Okay we need a nine letter word for Disgusting, extremely distasteful or offensive" Mondo announced.

"How about Your boring" snapped Meowth sarcastically.

"No that's ten letters"

Meowth just rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Ditto, ditto ditto!"

Mondo looked at his Ditto then at the puzzle.

"Hummmm...Repulsive...yay that fits, well done ditto. Your getting really good at these"

Ditto just blushed and rubbed it's head. "Ditto!"

Again Meowth rolled his eyes then looked out of the window next to him, watching the snowflakes drift gently past him. "I hope whatever Jimmy wanted to do with Jesse turned out okay"

Later on, after dinner, Jesse and James were sat silently on the sofa in the living room just watching the flames on the candles dance about. Jesse rested her head on James' shoulder and closed her eyes. James began to kiss her head gently as he ran his fingers through her hair, Jesse let out a pleasurable hum to tell him that she liked it as she snuggled up closer to him. Suddenly James stood up. Jesse watched him as he walked around the room blowing out the candles, after he had done that he stood before Jesse and held out his hand. Jesse took it so James could pull her up off the sofa, he then lead her into the bedroom.

The bedroom too was covered with roses; Jesse just developed a sweatdrop on her head.

"Something tells me you went a tiny bit overboard with the roses," she said as she looked around the room, roses were everywhere, even on the bed. James didn't respond, he just walked up to her and kissed her, Jesse responded and put her arms around him, not even a nuclear warhead could spoil this moment. They moved closer to the bed and fell onto it followed by Jesse screaming "Ouch!"

"What?" asked James, sounding concerned. Jesse reached under her back and pulled out one of the roses.

"This one has thorns," she told him. James just giggled playfully, he then continued to kiss her but Jesse stopped him.

"Okay I want to know what's going on now," she said. "Is there a reason behind all this or were you just feeling extra romantic today?"

James smiled and sat up; Jesse sat up too and looked at James waiting for his reply.

"Yes there is a reason" he told her, he began to search for something in his pockets, but he couldn't find it.

"Damn it where's it gone!" he murmured to himself as he leaned over the edge of the bed to look underneath it.

"What are you looking for?" Jesse asked him.

"It's a small black box with a piece of paper"

While James continued to look under the bed, Jesse glanced around the room and something caught her eye on the bedside cabinet.

"Is this it?" she asked as she reached out and picked up a small black box with a small slip of paper on top of it. James sat up and looked at her.

"Erm...yeah...could you like...give it me"

James reached out to grab it but Jesse moved it away from him.

"No! I want to see what you've been planning for myself"

James just backed off and sat quietly on the bed, shaking slightly with fear. Jesse opened up the folded piece of paper and read out loud what was written on it.

"Jesse, I've enjoyed every day, minute and second I've spent with you, but these last four years have been the best, you've been my best friend, my lover and you were always there when I needed you. We've gotten through the worst and the best times together and I couldn't imagine not being with you. Jesse will you..." Jesse paused before the last two words on the paper and looked up at James. "...marry me" Not a lot made Jesse cry, but this was over whelming, tears built up in her eyes as she looked at the black box. She carefully opened it to reveal a beautiful gold ring with diamonds that sparkled from the moonlight that poured through the window. Jesse just gasped and held her hand to her mouth; she then looked back at James who just smiled.

"Oh my God" she whispered to herself, James stayed silent as he watched her look at the ring again then looked at him for the third time. Jesse tried her best not too cry, but she couldn't stop the tears from falling from her eyes onto the bed.

"So...?" asked James nervously. Jesse just smiled at James and nodded. The two of them just threw their arms around each other and sobbed happily, James kissed her forehead then took the black box from her hands. He took the ring from it and gently placed it onto her finger. Jesse looked at it and admired it as it continued to shimmer in the moonlight, she never thought she would see the day when someone proposed to her, she was often convinced that she would grow old all alone, but as she looked deeply into James' emerald green eyes she knew that would never happen.

The two of them kissed passionately again then laid down gently on the bed, this had to be the best night either of them had ever known and they knew they'd never forget it.

The next morning, Meowth was walking up the corridor to the apartment murmuring to himself.

"If I have to ever spend another night at mondo's doing crossword puzzles I'm gonna jump off a cliff"

He reached the apartment door and opened it, but stopped dead when he saw all the roses.

"Oh I don't wanna know" he sighed as he walked in and shut the door.

In the bedroom, James woke up to a bright sunny morning; he yawned then looked at Jesse who was still asleep beside him. He smiled as he gently kissed her on her forehead; Jesse stirred and woke up slowly.

"Hi" she said to James. "What time is it?" She looked over to the clock to see the time; it was about eight o' clock, Jesse just moaned as she rested her head on James' bare chest.

"I'll have to go to work soon" she told him, sleepily, as she closed her eyes again.

"Yeah me too" James replied. The two laid there in silence for a while; just enjoying being in each other's presence then James sat up.

"Well I'll do us some breakfast" he said.

After he had gotten dressed he walked out of the bedroom to see Meowth dozing on top of the sofa.

"What time did you get back?" he asked the cat Pok�mon. The feline just opened one eye to see James looking at him, he yawned then stretched before he answered.

"Bout ten minutes ago"

James nodded slightly then walked into the kitchen, followed by meowth. As James rummaged about in the fridge for breakfast the cat jumped up onto the kitchen table and watched him.

"So how did it go?" he suddenly asked him.

"How'd what go?"

"Whatever you wanted to do wit Jesse!"

James gave the cat a big friendly warm smile and just said,

"She agreed to marry me"

Meowth's mouth fell wide open in shock.

"Dat's what you wanted to do, ask her to marry you?"

James nodded, "Oh Meowth I've never been so happy, I'm gonna marry the girl of my dreams. I can't believe she said yes, I really can't and now were gonna spend the rest of our lives together. If this is a dream I never want it to end"

Meowth just frowned as he watched James happily prance around he kitchen, "Dis guy needs 'elp," he just said to himself as he shook his head in disbelief. Unaware to both of them, Jesse was stood at the doorway to the kitchen, watching them closely through the slightly open door, she just smiled as she watched James pick Meowth up off the table and began dancing with him, ignoring the cat pok�mon's desperate yells to put him down.

A few hours later James was at work in the Viridian city Pok�mon centre. All day he could think of nothing else but Jesse, he couldn't wait to go home and see her again. Nurse Joy noticed something up with him as she watched him prance about humming happily to himself, as he gave all the sick Pok�mon in the back their medication.

Just then they both heard a bell sound, indicating that someone had walked through the door.

"Would you deal with that James" Nurse Joy said kindly.

"Sure" replied James, as he put down the bottles of medication and walked out to the front. As he walked behind the desk he noticed that the person who had walked in was none other than Misty.

"Hi James" she said happily, as James walked up to her.

"Hi Misty" James replied. "What can I do for you?"

"I want to leave some of my pok�mon here to be healed," she answered as she brought out four Pok�balls from her bag. James took them from her and placed them behind the desk.

"Okay come back in about two hours they should be all healed," he told her. Misty thanked him and was about to walk away when she suddenly noticed something.

"You seem different today," she told him, James smiled, he was glad someone noticed.

"Well that's probably because I proposed to Jesse last night and she said yes!"

Misty just couldn't contain her happiness, she yelled out in pure delight that brought Nurse Joy running to them.

"Awwwwwwww...I can't believe it congratulations"

"Can't believe what?" asked Nurse Joy.

"James and Jesse are gonna get married" screamed misty. Nurse joy turned to James.

"Really?" James nodded.

"And don't worry your invited" he told Nurse Joy.

"What about me?" asked Misty. James looked at her and thought. Misty had grown up a lot from that scrawny 12 year old he knew all those years ago, he didn't see any harm in inviting her or her friends since they weren't really rivals anymore.

"Sure!" James told her. "And bring whoever you want"

Honestly, James probably would of invited Dracula himself if he walked in and asked, James was so happy he didn't care who came, in fact he wished he could invite the whole world to witness the happy event.

Two months later the wedding plans had begun, Jesse and James had already decided on having Mondo as the best man, but still weren't too sure on who to have as bridesmaids. They had so much to do, book the place they were holding the wedding at, order the flowers, the food, everything and the wedding was just less than a month away.

Jesse and James had decided to take a walk into Viridian city's shopping mall to try and find a store that did garments for wedding's...but they found it wasn't going to be as easy as they thought.

"Coffee shop, gift shop, cafe, sports store..." James said to himself as he and Jesse walked through the mall. "You'd think they'd have one wedding shop, they have everything else"

Suddenly Jesse stopped walking and stood still holding her stomach, James looked at her concerned.

"Jess, what's wrong?" he asked her.

"Nothing" she replied. "I just need to sit down for a minute"

Just then she stumbled but James was able to catch her. He helped her walk over to outside one of the shops so he could sit her down. She rested her head against the window breathing deeply as James sat beside her. He put his arm around her and began stroking her hair as she rested her head on his shoulder. James looked down at her; Jesse's skin had gone so pale and clammy.

"Maybe you should go and see a doctor" James told her.

"No, I'll be fine" came Jesse's reply. "It's probably just nerves from the wedding being so close or something"

"I don't call throwing up every morning nerves, Jess" James sighed; he knew that arguing with Jesse wouldn't do anything. "Just promise me that you'll think about going, okay?"

Jesse nodded as she cuddled up closer to James; he just continued to run his hand through her hair and kissed her head. "I love you so much, Jess"

As soon as Jesse felt better, the two continued their search for a Wedding shop and eventually found one. Jesse gazed at a wedding dress in the window with delight, it was so beautiful. James had to agree with her, that dress would look perfect on her. Suddenly James' stomach rumbled, he just looked at Jesse and blushed.

"Guess I'm a little hungry" He told her.

"I'm hungry too" replied Jesse.

"Okay I'll go and get something to eat. Will you be okay?"

Jesse just smiled at James. "I'll be fine, stop worrying"

With that James kissed her and headed off to the nearest fast food restaurant. Jesse sat down on a small bench and continued to stare at the dress in the window with a huge smile on her face. Suddenly she heard a voice behind her, she just shuddered as she heard it.

"Why if it isn't Jesse"

Jesse turned around to see Cassidy stood behind her with a sly sarcastic smile on her face.

"Oh, hi Cassidy" Jesse said unenthusiastically as Cassidy walked over to her and sat down.

"I almost didn't recognise you Jess, I haven't seen you since you got fired from team Rocket all those years ago"

Jesse just giggled nervously. "Er...yeah"

Cassidy looked at the wedding shop then at the ring on Jesse's finger, which sparkled, in the florescent lights of the mall.

"You engaged?" She asked her. Jesse just nodded. "Well I hope I'm invited to the big day"

Jesse rolled her eyes, it was just like Cassidy to invite herself, but Jesse couldn't say no to her now.

"Sure you're invited" Jesse said reluctantly, Cassidy just gave her an evil smirk, as she stood up.

"She ya then...Jess"

With that she walked away, giving James a strange glare as she passed him. James just watched her walk past then carried on towards Jesse.

"Was that Cassidy?" he asked her as he sat down.

"Yep" replied Jesse, as she took her food from James. "And guess what? She went and invited herself to OUR wedding"

James couldn't help but laugh, Jesse just hit him playfully.

"It's not funny James," she snapped. "Cassidy will probably find some way to destroy the day"

"Well it could of been worse" James said. "You could of invited Hannibal lector"

Jesse just shot her partner a warning look. "Well at least I didn't invite the twerps"

"I thought you wouldn't mind" James just smiled as he put his arm around Jesse and looked at the dress in the shop window. "Jess, no amount of Cassidy's and twerps could spoil this day"

"I hope your right James"

That night while Jesse was at work at the restaurant James decided to have Mondo over to the apartment to have a kind of "Guys night in" with just them and Meowth. All they could talk about was the wedding; Mondo could tell that James couldn't wait for the big day. Meowth just sighed and curled up by the fire to sleep, he was pretty tired of hearing about weddings and anything related to them, he hated all this mushy stuff.

At the Viridian City restaurant, Jesse too, was talking about the wedding to the girls she worked with. One of her best friends, Shelly, was even more excited than her.

"So how long now Jess?" She asked her as she flicked back her long black hair.

"Less than a month to go now" Jesse replied. Shelly just started screaming and jumping up and down, then stopped when she noticed everyone in the restaurant was looking at her. She laughed nervously and blushed. "I got over excited again, didn't I?" Jesse nodded.

"So who ya having as bridesmaids?" asked another girl named Chelsea.

"Well I was thinking of having you and Shelly" Jesse announced. With that both Chelsea and Shelly began jumping and screaming, Jesse just hit both of them.

"Will you stop doing that?"

Just then Jesse's boss walked up to her and handed her two plates of food.

"Give those to the people on table 16 if you have anytime Jesse" she snapped sternly before she walked away. Jesse just pulled a face behind her back. She then began to make her way over too table 16 with Shelly.

"Well she's defiantly not getting an invitation" Jesse said as she put the food down on the table.

"I don't blame ya," replied Shelly, as they walked back. "She would know fun if she landed in a pool of it"

Just then Jesse stopped walking, Shelly looked at her and noticed how worried she looked.

"What's wrong Jess?" asked Shelly, trying to cover up the worried tone in her voice with a small giggle. "Forget to order the flowers or something?"

"No...I don't feel...all that..."

Suddenly Jesse lost consciousness and fell to the floor, hitting her head on the side of the table as she did. Shelly quickly kneeled beside her and checked her pulse and breathing as Chelsea ran to the nearest phone to contact an ambulance. Shelly gave out a huge sigh when she found that Jesse was still alive, she then checked the gash Jesse had got on the left side of her head, it was bleeding quite badly. Shelly glanced around the restaurant and saw a clean cloth on the counter, she ran to get it then returned to Jesse. She pressed the cloth against her wound and held it there.

"Come on Jess be alright," She whispered desperately to her friend, as she stared down at Jesse's pastel white complexion. "Be alright"

About 20 minutes later Shelly ran over to Jesse and James' apartment as fast as she could. As soon as she got to the door she began to franticly began to bang on it.

"Be in, be in, be in" she repeated as she banged louder. Suddenly the door swung open and James stepped out looking pretty angry but once he saw Shelly his look turned to fear.

"What's wrong?" he asked her, his voice shaking. "Shelly what is it? Is Jesse okay?"

Shelly swallowed hard and began to tell James everything,

"James she collapsed at work..."

"WHAT? Is she okay? Where is she?"

"Calm down James!" snapped Shelly, James didn't want to all he wanted to do was see Jesse, but he forced himself to calm down. "Look I think she's alright. She came too by the time the ambulance came but they decided to take her to the hospital to check her over"

Quickly James grabbed his coat and the keys to his car. He franticly ran out of the apartment followed by Shelly, Mondo and Meowth. All four of them ran down the stairs quickly and piled into the blue car outside. Mondo got into the passenger seat while Shelly and Meowth got in the back, James wasn't gonna wait for anything as he quickly turned the key and started the engine, he then sped off down the road ignoring Meowth's yells to slow down.

Soon enough they arrived at the Viridian city hospital, James immediately went over to the receptionist to ask about Jesse as Shelly, mondo and Meowth went to sit in the waiting area with Chelsea, who had travelled there with Jesse.

"I'm sorry sir, I can't really tell you anything at the moment" the receptionist told James. "Once the doctor's have finished they'll come out to get you okay sir"

James nodded and reluctantly joined the others in the waiting area. As soon as he sat down he berried his face in his hands and began to weep into them, Mondo put a reassuring hand on his back and Meowth snuggled up close to him, which made James look at the feline.

"Thankyou" he said, Meowth didn't speak he just purred a little bit as he continued to nuzzle James' side.

"It's all my fault," he said in between sobs. "I knew something was wrong, I knew she wasn't well, I should of made her go to the doctor, but she didn't want to see one, she was convinced she was alright..."

"Come on James" Mondo said, interrupting him. "She'll be alright"

"Yeah" added on Meowth. "Whatever's wrong wit her she'll get through it, not a lot defeats Jesse and gets away wit it"

James just smiled at the cat and scratched his head; Meowth closed his eyes fully enjoying it.

"Yeah your both right" said James. "She'll be okay"

Just then a doctor approached them and coughed to let them know of his presence, James quickly stood up and looked at the doctor.

"Is she okay?" he asked desperately, the doctor just smirked.

"I take it your James, Jesse has told me a lot about you" He paused then turned around to walk away. "Follow me"

James followed the doctor with Shelly, Chelsea, Meowth and Mondo close behind. Soon enough they got to a room where Jesse was sat in the hospital bed talking to one of the nurses, the doctor pointed into the room and stood aside so James could walk inside. Jesse looked up at him and smiled. James carefully walked up to her and pulled up a chair so he could sit down. The others walked in too but stayed at the door. Carefully James looked Jesse over with his eyes, she seemed fine all except the gash on her head that had been stitched up.

"Jess...are you okay? There's nothing wrong with you is there?" Asked James, Jesse just shook her head,

"I'm fine"

James hugged her tightly, then kissed her forehead. "I'm so glad"

As he continued to hold her, he noticed something was wrong, he pulled away from her and frowned.

"Something is wrong," he said to her. "You're not telling me something"

Jesse drew in a deep breath then let out a huge sigh.

"Okay. The doctor did find something..."

James swallowed hard as he felt a lump form in his throat.

"What...?" he stuttered. Jesse looked away from him and began fiddling about with the blue sheet that covered her legs; James held her hands, which made her look up at him.

"Whatever it is, you can tell me"

Again Jesse sighed as she looked into James' tear filled eyes, it took her a few minutes to build up enough courage to tell him, but she knew she had too, but she was so scared to what James would say. With that she simply gave him a weak smile and said nervously,

"I'm pregnant"

At first James looked at her a bit shocked as the words took some time to sink in, then a huge grin grew across his face, which no amount of bad news could destroy. He gently stroked her hair, as he smiled at his beautiful future wife. Suddenly Jesse broke down crying and buried her face into his chest, James wrapped his arms around her and rocked her gently.

"It's okay, it's okay" he whispered to her. "You don't need to cry" He looked up at the nurse and frowned, "She is gonna be alright, isn't she?"

"Don't worry" the nurse replied, "She's just a little shocked herself just let her cry it off"

James nodded as he continued to hold Jesse in his arms; he looked nervously at her as he began to think whether they were ready for a child, especially Jesse.

As he tried to comfort her, all of his friends at the door watched, they too were shocked at the news but were happy for them.

"Dey gonna have a kid, dat's so buuuuutiful" cried Meowth with tears streaming from his eyes.

"Pregnant? How the hell did she manage that?" snapped Chelsea, who obviously hadn't got the point of anything.

"Want me to draw you a picture or something!" joked Mondo, sarcastically. Chelsea just rolled her eyes and sighed, as she looked back at James and Jesse.

Jesse eventually clamed down and gradually fell asleep in the arms of her partner uttering the words "I'm sorry James" James wasn't too sure what she was apologizing for, whether it was for being pregnant or just for crying. He looked at her sleeping peacefully in his arms and smiled.

"It's okay," he told her quietly as he laid her down onto the bed, pulled the blue sheet over her and kissed her forehead. He watched her for a while; just sleeping soundly, only the occasional whimper came from her. Eventually the doctor approached James and touched his shoulder, which made him turn round.

"Let her rest now" he told him. "You can take her home in a few hours"

James nodded slightly as he reluctantly stood up and walked out of the room with his friends following.

Later that night, James and Meowth returned back to the apartment, with Jesse who James was carrying in his arms. As quietly as they could they entered their apartment, so not to wake Jesse who had fallen asleep again.

"I'm gonna put Jesse to bed" James whispered to Meowth, Meowth just nodded as James walked into the bedroom. Carefully he threw back the covers and placed Jesse onto the bed, she stirred and opened her eyes as James put the covers over her.

"Are you angry with me?" she asked him, James just looked at her puzzled.

"Why should I be angry with you" he replied.

"I don't know. I just have this feeling that you should be"

James just smiled at her. "I'm not, trust me, I couldn't be happier. Now get some rest, okay"

James was about to leave the room but Jesse's weak, tired voice stopped him.

"Will you stay with me?"

James looked back at her. "Sure"

He walked over to the bed and climbed into it. He grabbed the covers and wrapped them around the both of them, then they both laid down onto the pillows. For a while the two of them just stayed awake just listening to each other breath. Finally James kissed Jesse on her cheek and whispered into her ear,

"Our child's gonna be beautiful"

Jesse smiled as James settled down to sleep beside her. "Yeah, I know" she replied before she too closed her eyes and drifted silently off to sleep.

The month went by so fast and most of Jesse and James' spare time was taken up by trying to finalise everything for the wedding, but before they knew it, it was the night before the wedding...

Everyone had decided to have a normal traditional guys/girls night out, but while the guys went out to a bar somewhere the girls decided to stay at Jesse and James' apartment. Brock, Mondo, James and Butch (Who had somehow gotten invited) left the apartment at about seven and headed for the nearest bar in town.

"So where is it your taking us?" James asked Butch as they travelled through the streets of Viridian.

"It's called the Raticate drinking hole, it's where me and Cassidy go all the time" Butch replied in his croaky voice.

"This isn't going to be anywhere...rough is it?" said Brock, nervously.

"Nah!" came Butch's reply. "This place is great and don't worry Brock there's plenty of girls to hit on"

With that Brock's eyes lit up and began to walk faster along side Butch, somehow James and Mondo doubted that the place would be perfect.

Meanwhile at the apartment, Jesse, Cassidy and misty sat in silence together in the living room. Ash and Tracey were also there but they were sat in the kitchen. Ash was there because he didn't want to leave Pikachu on it's own and Tracey was there because none of the guys wanted him going with them. Pikachu, Misty's Togetic and Meowth had decided to occupy the spare bedroom during this time, as they didn't want to get in the way of the humans celebrations.

"So this is it," said Cassidy, she then turned to Jesse. "When does the party start Jess?"

"Erm...it has started"

Cassidy just sighed and stood up.

"I can tell I'll be needing alcohol to get me through this night, I hope you have some for your sake"

With that she stormed into the kitchen. Jesse and Misty watched her leave then looked at each other.

"And how did she get invited again?" asked Misty.

"Just don't ask" replied Jesse.

In the kitchen, Ash and Tracey watched with interest as Cassidy rummaged through the whole kitchen looking for anything even the slightest bit alcoholic. Eventually she found a massive bottle of wine.

"This will have to do" she sneered as she opened it and poured some into a glass. She drank it straight down much to the surprise of Ash and Tracey; she pored some more out then noticed the two guys staring at her.

"What's your problem" she spat, Ash and Tracey just shook their heads and told her that nothing was wrong. Cassidy just glared at them evilly as she drank down another glass. sweatdrops formed on the foreheads of Ash and Tracey, they could tell this was going to be a long night!

Down at the Raticate Drinking hole, James and Mondo were sat at a table near a window, they had been there only half an hour and Brock was already tipsy. Although seeing him hit on very girl there was quite humorous to say the least.

While Brock was at the bar with Butch he noticed that he was standing next to a beautiful busty blonde woman with big bright blue eyes and was wearing the reddest lipstick you ever did see.

"How you doin?" Brock asked the girl in an amorous tone.

"Ewwwwwww...go away!" sneered the woman as she slapped him around the face before quickly storming off.