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Brock's Point of View
I was woken by the sound of the phone ringing from the next room, I slipped outof bed careful not to wake May. She moaned softly in her sleep but didn't wake.I crept out of the room and into the living room where the phone was andanswered it.
"Hello" I said, wondering who could be calling me this early in the morning,certainly not Ash or Misty they never got up this early.
"Hi, I need to speak to Brock Stonewell, it's urgent." The voice was strangely familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. All I couldtell was that it was male.
"Speaking, who is please?" I asked.
"James." the other person replied, and I nearly dropped the phone I was sosurprised. He wasn't someone I'd been expecting to phone me.
"James," I said, keeping my voice neutral, I hadn't seen the guy in three yearsso I wasn't sure what his motive was, "How can I help you? You said it was urgent?"
"It is, me and Jess we're in trouble."
"What sort of trouble? Not the law I hope?" He laughed before answering, but it sounded strained,
"We're Team Rocket, we're always in trouble with the law, but that isn't the problem right now. The Boss tried to have us killed." I stared at the phone for a couple of seconds unsure if I'd heard him right before replaying.
"What happened?"
"He sent Butch and Cassidy to kill us, but they let us go." I could detect ahint of panic in his voice and I knew what he was going to ask, so I got infirst.
"You can come stay with me for a while if you like, May won't mind and I can always use an extra couple of hands round the place."
"You sure?" I could sense the relief in his voice.
"Yep, come on over." I replied
"Um, one other thing, I've no idea where I am." I sighed and said,
"What does the place look like."
"Well like any other Pokecenter really, but the sign outside has green and redlettering. If that's any help." Of course it was, I prided myself in knowing where all the Pokecentres were,although not for the same reason as when I was younger.
"You're about five miles from where we are in Pallet Town." I answered.
"OK," he replied, " We'll be there by tonight hopefully and thanks for helpingus out like this, I really appreciate it. I don't know what I would have done if you'd said get lost."
"You saved my life once, it's about time I repaid that debt." He laughed again, this time sounding more like the James I remembered.
"Well thanks again, see ya soon." With that he put the receiver down, I put my one back down too. Before sitting down on the couch, as I began to think of the past. Things hadn't worked out between me and Professor Ivy, so I'd phoned Professor Oak to find out where Ash had gone , he'd told me that Ash was collecting Orange league badges and then going on to compete in the tournament. I decided I would meet up with Ash at the tournament headquarters, I took my leave from Ivy's and hired a boat in which I would travel.
Unfortunately for me,I forgot to check out the boat before setting out. About three days into the journey, the boat sprung a leak, I patched it up as best I could but before long the boat was leaking again. I knew I was in trouble as I had no water pokemon, I mean I could swim a little but not nearly enough toreach land from where I was. So I desperately started to bail the water out of the bottom of the boat in a vain attempt to keep it a float. This went on for a few hours, but I was fighting a losing battle and the boatsoon filled with water and sunk. I could see land in the distance and I startedto swim towards it, my arms aching from all that bailing. I swam as far and asfast as I could but I knew I wasn't going to make it. I could feel myself slipping away into blackness.
The next thing I knew I was laying in the bottom of a boat, looking up into a pair of concern filled bright green eyes. I shook my head unsure of what I was seeing, wondering if I was dead and all this was a dream. Then he grinned at me and explained he had been outhere fishing, trying to catch something for him and Jessie for dinner when he had spotted me going under water. He'd dived in and dragged me up and into theboat.
I was shocked, unsure of what to say so I just said thanks. He had grinned again and rowed us back to shore, He'd asked what I was doingout here and explained that I was going to met up with Ash again. He laughed and told me exactly where Ash was at the time. I wasn't surprised he had known, they always seemed to know where we were. I thanked him for saving me, and for the info and then I did something that really surprised me. I gave him the number of the Pewter gym, he took it and looked really surprised.
I grinned and said that if he ever needed my help to phone that number and my father would pass him on to me. He had pocketed the number, said thanks and we eaded off in separatedirections. I never saw or heard from him again until today. I sighed and stoodup, thinking that I'd better wake May up and let her know that we were going to have guests. I just hoped she wouldn't be too mad.