Jared and Jannie watched our heroes leave the gym. A little agitated Jared commented, "I still can't believe I worked side-by-side with that BRAT... It makes my blood boil just saying that..."

He wanted to leave the gym as fast as he could, but not without taking a souvenir first. He expressed this silently to Jannie, and he hoped she understood what he was going to do. At least, he knew she would be quiet. Sandy followed obediently behind her.

They slowly made their way over to Gail, and snuck past her. Creeping about in a strange manner, it's surprising no one noticed them. They bent over a nest and Jared quickly snatched up a pidgey, and Jannie picked up the empty nest and set it on top of a pile of empty ones. Sandy pushed the rest of the nests together, so it didn't look like one was missing. Jared then handed the pidgey to Sandy who cuddled it like a doll. She walked between Jannie and Jared, so no one would see her holding the baby pidgey.

They found their way out of the gym and once safely out of range of it, they looked at their small prize. It was a boy named Little Goliath; obviously Jannie had named it.

"Kinda scrawny for a pidgey," Jared said, looking it over, "But I suppose with the right training by someone of my skill, it could become great!"

"Your training? I want to train it! You just got a new pokémon. One that was SUPPOSED to be MINE. I want this one!" Jannie complained.

"You can't handle a pidgey!" he retailiated.

"But you said we don't need no stinkin' pidgey!" she said.

"When did I say that?"

"I don't know, maybe it was on a movie?" she suggested, shrugging.

"UGH! Sometimes Jannie I wonder how I put up with you..." he put his hand to his forehead in digust.

"But you gotta be nice to me cause I'm your girlfriend!!! Why don't you give me Goliath as a present, because I'm so beautiful?"

"Because of selfish comments like that, I don't think you should have it! Prove to me you can care for it and I MIGHT let you have it," he proposed, knowing she couldn't even if she tried.

While the two of them were bickering, Sandy had been playing peek-a-boo with Goliath who chirped happily from the attention she gave him. He was sitting on her lap and he appeared to be very content to stay there.

"Oh well," Jared sighed, "Anyways, we need to figure out our next move," he sat down on a rock to think about it.

"I think we need more members in NEO Team Rocket! Quantity is much better than quality anyday. Or is it the other way around?"

"It's the other way around," Jared said bluntly.

"Shut up Jared! Don't contradict me!" she said, adding emphasis on the 'big' word.

"You don't even know what 'contradict' means Jannie!" Jared pointed out.

"Yes I do, I looked it up in the thesaurus!" she stated proudly.

"Don't you mean dictionary?" he asked.

"Whatever...Shut-up Jared!" she whined, "Anyway, people can't ignore a dozen trained Team Rocket members!"

Jannie did have a point. They could get some more done with a few more members. It would feel good to have someone knew to boss around. Most of his "flunkies" lived back in Viridian, so he'd have to find some more. How would they do that anyway?

"How do you suggest we get these new members? It's not like we could hold some sort of broadway audition to find them!" Jared said to Jannie.

"But that's what I thought we COULD do! I just know it would work! I could make pretty posters and then you could hang them up all over the place. Then we'd have tons of people coming!" Jannie squealed with delight.

"All right, I guess it's worth a shot. Seeing as how we have lots of time on our hands. I just want to get back at ... her..." Jared growled again at the mere thought of Krystal.

"Yippee! I'll get started making the posters as soon as we get to the next town. Sandy can help!" Jannie was having one of her extremely excited moods now.

"We'd better get going now, while it's still light outside," Jared said, following the path that Krystal, Bram and Jacen had taken. Jannie and Sandy followed close behind, with Little Goliath riding on Sandy's back.

End of Chapter Eight

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