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"Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again!" our favorite anime villains shrieked, tumbling away toward the horizon. After a while, gravity took over, and after crashing through some trees and bushes, Jessie and James landed painfully on the ground.
"OOOW, that really really hurt!" James whined, picking himself up and rubbing his behind, which had taken most of the force of the fall.
"Oh, be quiet, James," Jessie snapped, brushing twigs out of her hair. "It was your fault the stupid plan didn't work anyway. They would have fallen into our hole this time if you hadn't blown our cover by kicking that Machop out of the way!"
"How was I supposed to know it would evolve into a Machoke and kick us sky-high?" James whined again. "It not MY fault we're the villains, and we always have to lose!"
"Well, at least we have our looks," Jessie huffed, pulling out her compact and inspecting her face, which, unfortunately, had been scraped in their fall.
"AAAAA!" Jessie shrieked. "My beautiful FACE!" Angered beyond normal human capacity, Jessie's face got all red and fire appeared in her eyes. "Someone's gonna pay for hurting my face!" Unfortunately for James, he was the nearest someone. Jessie grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and shook him. "Do you see what happened to my face?!?" James' eyes got all swirly.
Suddenly, there was a noise from one of the bushes behind them. "Did you hear that, James?" Jessie whispered, pausing in her shaking of James. James shook the swirlies out of his eyes and listened. Sure enough, there was a moaning sound coming from one of the bushes.
Instantly the two Rockets were in each other's arms, shaking, sweatdropping and staring at the bushes. "Oh no, I hope it's not that Machoke come to get us again!" Jessie wailed, holding tight to James.
Suddenly, something came rolling out of the bushes in a tan blur. Jessie and James shrieked and held onto each other for dear life.
"If youse two got any closer togeda, you'd be Siamese twins!" a familiar voice laughed from behind them. Jessie got up the courage to turn and see who had spoken.
"MEOWTH?" she gasped.
"Dat's right!" Meowth smiled.
"You mean, you were the one making the noises in the bushes?" James said, loosening his hold on Jessie considerably.
"Yeah, I was makin noises. How would you like to be trapped in a bush while your "teammates" hug and make kissy-face?"
"WE WERE NOT!!!" Jessie shrieked, beating Meowth over the head with a paper fan she had seemingly pulled out of the sky. "I'm gonna beat you into pudding, you stupid cat!!"
At the mention of pudding, James' stomach growled. "Speaking of food, I'm hungry!" he announced, and Jessie stopped her beating of Meowth to consider the prospect of food.
"I'm hungry too, but all our cooking gear is probably lost in the woods somewhere."
James' eyes got all tear-filled and wobbly. "B-but I'm hungry!!" he wailed, crying those white anime tears.
Jessie sighed. "FINE. You stay here and cry, Meowth and I will go look for supplies."
"Speak for yourself, lady! I'm hungry too!" Jessie looked at Meowth and saw that he was crying the same way James was.
Jessie didn't waste time on words. She just whacked him with her mallet. It was a convincing argument, and Meowth grudgingly got up and followed her into the woods to go find their supplies. Before long, they had found most of their pots and utensils, and a few cans of food.
"Well, that wasn't too hard!" Jessie giggled. "Now let's find James and start cookin'!"
"Yeah, I know you wanna get back to your lover boy as soon as possible!" Meowth sniggered.
Jessie would have whacked him again, but her arms were full of food and supplies, rendering it impossible. She settled on a kick to his rear.
"Shut it, cat!"
"Well, if you two aren't an item, why are you always grabbin onto each other and holdin hands and stuff?"
"Well, we have known each other forever. Even a fleabag like you can't begrudge really good friends a few impulsive handholds."
A FEW? Meowth thought to himself. "And what about when we were in that sunken ship, and you promised you'd help him cross that pit and that you'd never leave him behind? That was AWFULLY nice. And when that ghost almost got him at Maiden's Peak, you sure acted awfully jealous. And you acted even more jealous of that Jessiebell, James' fiancie. I mean, what's a cat supposed to think?"
During this monologue, Jessie's face had been getting redder and redder. Finally, she just exploded. "WOULD YOU SHUT UP!!! You want me to admit I like him? FINE! I DO LIKE HIM!!" she exploded. "Now will you DROP IT???"
Unbeknownst to Jessie, she had shouted so loud, James had heard her through the woods. Of course, all he had heard was "I DO LIKE HIM!", so he didn't know that she had been talking about him, just that Jessie liked someone. So when Jessie appeared back at camp, James lost no time.
"Who do you like, Jessie? Huh? Huh? Tell me tell me!"
Jessie got a HUGE sweatdrop, but tried to play it cool. "What are you talking about, James?"
"I heard you talking through the woods. You said you liked someone. Who is it, huh? Huh huh huh? You can tell me! I won't laugh!" James squealed, acting like a schoolgirl wanting to know a piece of gossip, and generally making a fool of himself.
"Hush up and get a fire going; I found most of our supplies," Jessie said, trying to change the subject.
But the prospect of teasing Jessie was even more alluring than the prospect of food, if that can be imagined. "Jessie and someone sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" James sang, dancing in circles around Jessie.
"Stop it, James! I'm warning you!"
"First come love-" James continued, and Meowth joined in.
"Shut up!"
"Then comes marriage-"
"Quit it!"
"Then comes Arbok in a baby carriage!"
Through an astounding trick of animation, Jessie grew to about ten times her normal height, and flames appeared behind her. "I SAID SHUT UP!! It's YOU, all right? I like YOU! In fact, I probably LOVE you! Now if you don't stop singing that stupid song, I'm gonna beat you!" Jessie finished, shrinking back to her normal size and holding her mallet above her head.
Meowth had been blown back into the bushes by her tirade, but James just stared at her for a moment. Suddenly, he burst out laughing.
"Oh man! This is so funny! Ah ha ha!" he squealed with laughter, falling to the ground and rolling back and forth.
Jessie recovered from the initial shock of being laughed at by James, and got even angrier, holding her mallet like a baseball bat. "Before I end your life, James dear, would you care to tell me what's so funny?"
James wiped tears of laughter from his eyes, and fought to catch his breath. "You- you see, Jess- all this time- you loved me- and- hee hee hee- I didn't know it- but- giggle- all this time- I've known that- oh man- I love you too!" James spat out, trying to keep his giggles under control.
Laughter, of course, is highly contagious, and Jessie began to smile. She was about to start laughing too, when a thought crossed her mind, and she grew angry again. Whacking her giggling love-interest with her mallet, she shrieked "If you love me so much, WHY DON'T YOU SHUT UP AND KISS ME ALREADY?!?"
So he did.