Neo Team Rocket was only a few steps behind our heroes, and had reached the same cliff. They looked around and finally ended up looking far above at the summit of the cliff.

"Well, I'm not going to climb it!" Jared stated.

"I can't. I got my nails down last week." she said looking at her gloves, not realizing that the excuse wasn't a good one.

Jared sighed, "Well, are pokémon can't get up there... Wait! I've got an idea!" he reached in his pants' pocket and pulled out a small cellphone. He dialed and held it up to his ear. Jannie looked on puzzingly.

"Oh, I'm calling my guardians," he whispered, "Oh! Is Cass there? This is Jared." he stood and waited, taking in the scenery, "Hi Cassidy! Um, me and Jannie are stuck on this cliff by Coral City. Can you send in a 'copter? Yeah, that's great! You're the best. I love you! Bye!" he smiled and put the phone back in it's place.

"What now Jared?" Jannie asked sitting down on a medium-sized rock.

"Well, it should take about 30 minutes or so, so... we wait!"

"Oh... Hey! I've got an idea!" she leaped up off the rock in excitement.

"What? You!" he asked.

She nodded.

"Let's throw a party! It's your first real idea! I'm so proud of you!" he was so happy he hopped up and down and gave her a geniune hug, "So, what's the big idea?"

"Let's let our pokémon out of their pokéballs!" she squealed with even more enthusiasm than Jared.

"That's it? That's the 'great' idea?" he asked, disappointed.

"Ja-air-red! I never said it was a 'great' idea, I just said it WAS one. YOU made the big deal over it!"

"Well, it's not great, but at least we won't be bored. Good job, Jannie. You ought to think more often."

"I THINK I will. Sandy go!"

"Shrew!" Sandy popped out from behind her.

"There you are, my cutie!" Jannie cooed.

Jared sighed, "Implauso come on out!" Implauso, the now leek-less Farfetch'd rolled out of his pokéball as it hit the ground. He moaned, sat up and began to wail again. Sandy walked over to him and plopped down beside him.

"Shrew?" she asked softly.

"FARRRRR!!" he cried, holding out his wing where he used to keep his onion and gestured with his other wing that it was gone.

"Shrew... sand...sand..." she said, patting him on the back, "Sand! Shrew sand shrew!" she suggested happily.

"Fetch'd?" he asked.

"Sand-SHREW!" she replied.

"Far, far far fetch'd! Fetch'd fetch'd far!" he gave her a big hug, still sobbing a bit.

Jannie and Jared looked on at the touching scene, "I can't believe your stupid Farfetch'd lost again!" Jannie rudely commented, "You're losing your touch, you know? You used to be soooooo good! Now look at you, you and that loser pokémon!"

"Implauso is NOT a loser. How would you like it if I left you on this cliff?"

"Then you'd just be an even bigger jerk! I'm your girlfriend, and you're supposed to treat me special, like a princess!"

"What?! Princess my FOOT!" he yelled, poking her in the shoulder.

"Don't 'poké' me!" she squealed stepping on his foot. He pushed some dirt on her shoe. She hissed and she pinched his nose. They proceeded to chase each other around the small area. Sandy and Implauso looked on and rolled their eyes, still clutching each other.

A puff of smoke appeared beside Implauso. They jumped back and soon found themselves staring at an intruder. It was a wild pokémon! "Shrew!!" Sandy called, "Sand-Shrew!!"

"What, Sandy?" Jannie stopped picking on Jared and Jared looked on at the pokémon.

"Wow! A wild pokémon!" Jared exclaimed.

"Where?" Jannie looked wildly around until she spotted it, "OH! It's a... a... I'll check my pokédex!" she dug madly in her pockets, but came back empty-handed, "Oh! I forgot I gave it to my nosy little brother for Christmas last year!! GRR!"

"I don't need no stupid pokédex! I know what it is... it's a... you know... one of... those... yeah!"

"You don't know either so bleh!" she stuck out her tongue.

"Of course I know, it's a hypno!"

"No, it's not! That's the thing with the ee-ee-ee-ee thing!" she answered, waving her hand back and forth like a pendulum. He looked scared, "You know, the thing that, like, puts you to sleep and stuff!"

"Oh, yeah, so this must be an..." he thought hard, "-an ABRA!!! I'm sure this time."

"AB-RA!" it cried in a scratchy record voice.

"It reminds me of Butch, my guardian," he sighed, "I hope they get here soon."

Implauso examined the strange pokémon that sat beside him. The abra suddenly came to life, reached out a finger, and poked him in the eye, which caused Implauso to return to a state of depression. He cried loudly. Jared became even more angry, "Implauso, don't take that, beat him up!"

"Sand!Sand!Sand!" Sandy scolded, waving a claw at the abra. The abra looked at Sandy, or so it seemed. (Who can tell? It has 'Brock' eyes.)

Sandy then punched it in the gut! It fell over and then leaped up, ready to fight!

"BRA! Aaaah!! Aaaah-BRA!" it yelled viciously, it then used a Rest attack, (Which isn't really an attack, more like a defensive manuever.) and fell fast asleep.

"Sand!" Sandy cried, perching on top of it and beating its head in victory, "Shrew Sand-Shrew!" she made a peace sign and posed.

"FARRR!! Fetch'd fetch'd fetch'd!!" Implauso cheered.

"Ooh! I'm gonna catch it!" Jared decided, pulling out a pokéball and throwing it. It hit the abra's head and it was sucked into the ball, dropping Sandy, still perched on it, onto the ground. The pokéball wiggled a few times, and shut down, indicating the pokémon was caught.

"But Jared!!! That was my pokémon!"

"It didn't have your name on it!" he explained, picking up the ball and placing it in his pocket.

"But Sandy, MY Sandy weakened it! So I should get it!"

"Jannie," Jared started, "You and I know that you couldn't catch a pokémon if it was handed to you in a paper bag!"

"Hmph!" Jannie turned away in disgust.

Just then, Jared spotted the helicopter. It came closer and he waved his arms, and leaped up and down.

Soon it was hovering above them and they had to hang on to the pokémon so they wouldn't blow away. Butch waved from the helicopter and lowered a rope ladder.

"Hi!" he called.

"Finally!" Jared said, as he called back Implauso to his pokéball, and scurried up the ladder. Jannie grabbed Sandy and shoved her on the ladder and pushed her up. She leaped on and followed her. When they climbed into the helicopter they settled in and Jared began to converse with two of his favorite people, Butch and Cassidy.

"And I caught the abra all by myself too! Isn't that awesome?"

"That's great!" Butch replied from the front, in his usual raspy voice.

"You know," Cassidy started, "We were starting to get worried. We didn't know you had left Viridian. You should have called at least!"

"I know..." he said apologetically.

"If Giovanni knew we lost you..."

"I know, I know, I'm sorry..."

Jannie saw a whole new side of Jared, that had buried itself from her until now. She kinda liked it. If only he felt that way towards me, she thought. That would be more like a real boyfriend.

"Hey Jared, Whose your girlfriend?" Butch asked smiling.

"Uh, this is Jannie."

"Jannie," Butch contemplated, "That's a pretty name, for a pretty girl." Cassidy eyed Butch, and he grimaced.

"Do we know you?" Cassidy asked, "It's as if I've seen you somewhere before, but no. I never forget a face. Especially one as sweet as yours."

"Well, here we are," Cassidy commented, "Looks like there is a gym down there."

"That's that all-bird gym," Butch replied.

"Bird Gym?" Jannie repeated.

"You guys should check it out," Cassidy suggested, "I just wish we could stay longer... Just be sure to call from now on Jared. You know we worry..."

"I will," he promised.

"Good luck kid! We'll be watching out for ya!" Butch said, as the helicopter set down a few hundred feet from the front steps of the gym, "If you need anything, just give us a call!"

"Alright! Bye!" he said.

"Bye, kiss-kiss!" Cassidy called.

They jumped off the helicopter and waved as the helicopter left the ground and flew away almost as quickly as it had come.

End of Chapter Three
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