Disclaimers:
I don't own Pokémon in any way!! I don't own Formula One!! What do I own? Take a wild guess. It consists of one American, a Canadian father and daughter, a Frenchman, a drunk Russian and a new gun loving American chick. You probably know by now, but if you're new readers, just remember that.
Mario Alvarado's Notes:
Okay... where to begin. First off, I want to apologize for the delay in getting this chapter out. I was busy working on some other of my fanfics and I almost forgot about this fic that got me started here in FF.net. Sorry about that.
In the last part, during the FIA test with the non-British teams at the home of the French Grand Prix, Magny-Cours, Ash gets an emergency phone call from Brock, telling him that his Mother, Delia Ketchum is ill and he needs to return to Pallet fast. While Ash is en route to Japan, the British based teams have their test in Silverstone and at the same time with the teams in France, conduct the first ever Formula One night test!! When Ash makes it back to Pallet, he's shocked to find his Mom in perfect health! Wondering why Brock would lie to him, Ash heads off to Pewter City and ends up being ambushed by the Pokémon League, gym leaders, Team Rocket and an Officer Jenny army, all wanting to get a piece of Ash!! While that was going down, a rocket informer meets up with Ralf Schumacher to discuss overthrowing the FIA when they both in for a shock. McLaren #2 driver Giancarlo Fisichella and McLaren boss Ron Dennis have something in common. They both hate Ash Ketchum!! Team Rocket's influence has even gotten to not only Ralf Schumacher, but another driver and one of the most powerful team owners in Formula One!!
Today, Ash is in his toughest pickle yet. No Formula One driver has escaped The Elite Four, the Kanto and Johto Gym Leaders, Team Rocket and 50 Officer Jennys armed with machine guns. Will Ash get out alive and in one piece to find Brock? Will Ash really meet his maker? Can anybody save Ash? Will Ash finally be defeated by his hated rival, Gary? Or will Formula One's most popular driver be saved because of the F1 drivers' pact with the luck gods? There's only one way to figure this one out. Read on!!
Ash Ketchum: Formula One Driver
Chapter 33: Ash Vs. Gary: F1 Vs. Pokémon League
"So, what is this plan of yours, Lance?"
"You see, Will. Slate and Ketchum have been best friends for years. What I plan to do is force Brock to call Ash's cell phone and tell him that his Mother is ill and he needs to come home A.S.A.P."
"How will you get Brock to cooperate? His friendship with Ketchum is very strong and he would never betray him."
"That's why I have teamed up with Team Rocket to make sure he obeys us. I heard he's got a girlfriend and if he doesn't do what we say, Team Rocket might have to harm her."
"That's cold hearted, Lance. Why must you do this?"
"Because I want those F1 guys to come and help Ash. Then, we'll kill them all!! But, leave Keith Terrell for me. That American is mine!!"
The discussion between Lance and Will, all about Lance's plan to draw Ash Ketchum to Kanto with Brock as a pawn in the plan.
Ash Ketchum looked all around and saw many familiar faces that were literally ready to beat the living crap out of him at a moment's notice. Right now, Ash wanted answers to where Brock was. If anything happed to his best friend, there would be hell to pay. All Meowth and Pikachu could do was stay inside Ash's Celica while Ash went to face off with everybody. Pikachu was eager to jump out of the car and shock everybody, but Meowth was the wiser one and kept Pikachu in the car and out of sight.
"Where's Brock Slate?" Ash asked, directing his question to Gary. Instead, he got Lance's attention.
"Don't worry about the Pewter City Gym Leader. He's in a "safe" place, Mr. Ketchum." Lance answered. This made Ash very uneasy. Who knows what Lance meant by that.
"Why Gary? Why did you and the Pokémon League join forces with Team Rocket?" Ash asked, hoping to get some answers from the Pokémon Master.
"One reason. To finish you off, Ash. You and your little F1 friends have been a thorn in our fight against Team Rocket. Lance had a master plan to end this war, but you morons had to interfere with us." Gary answered,
"A thorn? We're the only ones who got the balls big enough to take on Team Rocket the way we did!! They killed three of our fellow drivers!!! This wouldn't have happened if Team Rocket didn't kill them and the Pokémon League and those keystone cop Jennys got off their asses and did something about Team Rocket!!!" Ash yelled out angrily. They didn't have the right to pin this problem on the FIA. It was the Pokémon League's fault for letting Team Rocket grow in stature to where Giovanni's plan is to overthrow the United States Government.
"NO!! None of this shit would have happened if you didn't meet that German guy 4 years ago!!" Gary yelled out,
"So, you're blaming Michael for rescuing me after I was shot by James?!! This wouldn't be happening if those bastards didn't shoot me that night!!!" Ash screamed. Nobody would dare say another word for a good while. For the people who have known Ash Ketchum during his Pokémon Journey, he would never get this angry. "You know what will happen if Bernie or Michael hear about this. History will repeat itself and we will destroy the League." Ash said,
"Let them come. We'll take them out this time and history will not repeat itself. And don't even think about calling your buddies." A woman's voice said out loud from inside the giant mob. The woman came out of the Team Rocket crowd and was not surprised to see Cassidy appear. She and Butch have hated the F1 crowd for a long time. Cassidy secretly wished Mark Webber was with Ash right now, because she has a vendetta against him for all the times he lifted her in the air and threw her right at his opponents.
"And why not?" Ash asked,
"That's simple, Ash. Silph Co. actually got a hold of your cell phone's frequency the last time you were here and developed a jamming device to prevent you from calling out to your F1 buddies with your own cell phone!" Another voice called out from the Rocket crowd. This time, the person who appeared from the Rockets mob was Butch, Cassidy's partner. His arm was nearly healed up from the time Keith broke it a few months ago and he got rid of the arm sling. Butch secretly wished that Terrell did come by, so he could break Keith's arm as retribution.
Oh, man. He's right. That's why I couldn't get through to the team in France. How am I going to get out of this and find Brock? Ash though to himself, knowing full well he's going to have to fight his way out of this situation.
Maybe... if I sang a song, that will distract everybody and I can make my escape. Didn't Ralf try that and he got his ass beat last time? I better not then. And I can't call out because of that thing to get help. Oh, shit. This might be it. Ash thought to himself as he continued the stare down with Gary and the others. Ash decided to himself that if he's going to die right there, he's going to take as many people with him.
"Don't just sing it, bring it!!!" And with that, Ash leapt at Gary and another chapter in the fight between the Pokémon League and Formula One began. Right now, Ash is outnumbered big time.
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As soon as Ash nailed him, Gary grabbed a fistful of Ash's shirt and with his legs, hoisted Ash and threw him right at a department store display. Ash's body crashed right through the window display and landed hard into the store. Gary started to cheer for himself when he saw Ash go right through the window. His cheering would stop as Ash dusted himself off and climbed through the broken window and back onto the street. Ash didn't have a scratch on him after that.
"Big mistake, dickhead." Ash said as he walked slowly towards Gary. This time, Ash waited for Gary to make the first move. The current Pokémon Master tried the same leap move that Ash did, but the Formula One driver countered by doing a spinning leap kick in the air and slammed Gary to the pavement. Gary leapt back onto his feet and took out a small switchblade knife from one of his back pockets. He tried to slash Ash, but the F1 driver kicked the weapon out of Gary's hand. Ash then kicked Gary right in the stomach, knocking the wind out of Gary. Ash picked up two trashcan lids off the street and used them as cymbals and crashed the two lids on Gary's head. The Pokémon Master fell face first to the pavement as Ash went to sit on a hood of a parked car, just waiting for Gary to get back up. The mob watched in disbelief as Ash had his way with Gary. They thought the F1 driver didn't care that around 200 people were there, waiting to beat the crap out of him. His focus was just on beating Gary to hell. In the Rocket Mob, two new members of Team Rocket watched in horror. They prayed they didn't have to face off with Ash.
"This can't be. Ketchum wasn't this strong. He was just a puny kid back then!!" The new male Rocket said as Gary kicked Ash in the chest to give him a slight advantage in battle,
"Puny? Try driving a F1 car for 3 years and see if you're still puny." His female counterpart added as Ash dodged a few punches from Gary and knocked him on his ass once again with a left cross. Ash actually heard what the two Rockets were saying and he turned to face them.
"You two are next, once I had my way with him." Ash said menacingly to the two new Rockets as Gary finally got back to his feet. Ash walked up to Gary, kneeled down to face him and punched him right in the face. Ash also forgot about the 50 Officer Jennys on the rooftops. Each of them were armed with either sniper rifles or machine guns, all of them aimed at Ash. All of the Officers were just praying to fire off just one shot to finish Ketchum off, but in the back of their minds, there was the lingering fact that the F1 guys will get their revenge, like the way they did 2 years ago. Down in the mob, three older Jennys were watching the fight go on when one Jenny had her radio go off. It was a Jenny from Cerulean City.
"This is Jenny from Cerulean City, come in!! We just received a phone call that a trainer has just spotted Keith Terrell in town and is making his way to Saffron!!" The Cerulean Jenny said, causing the three to nearly do a double take.
"Terrell?!! That American that Lance wants killed?!!!" The first Jenny asked,
"I'm not kidding!! This kid said he's spotted him making a run for Saffron!!" The Cerulean Jenny said hastily,
"Come on, girls!! Let's get him!!! If Ketchum does beat Oak, Team Rocket can have the leftovers!!!" A third Officer Jenny said as she reached for her radio to contact the Jennys on the rooftops overlooking the fight. Suddenly, all 50 officers left their stations overlooking the fight and sprinted to awaiting police cars for a date with Keith in Saffron. Or so they thought...
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Only a few minutes after the call, the police force sped past a 7-Eleven on route 4 at the Cerulean City/Pewter City line, (Yes, they do have 7-Elevens in Kanto and Johto.) Brock's girlfriend Suzie was standing next to a near perfect replica of a FIA World Rally Championship Subaru Impreza WRX, which is owned by Ash's good friend and look alike, Richie. He hung up the receiver on a payphone and started to crack up laughing as the police sped by. These two were together because of a phone call from a girl just an hour ago, concerning Brock and Ash.
"I can't believe they fell for it!! What morons!! They should know that Terrell is in France, testing that car of his." Richie laughed as he watched a few more police cars speed by into Cerulean,
"I'm still unsure about this. I was worried when Brock didn't show up at the shop yesterday. And this phone call I got from this girl hasn't made me feel better." Suzie said, more worried about what has happened to her boyfriend.
"Whatever plan this girl has in store, she'll make sure Brock is just fine and out of there. On the other hand, there's the giant battle between Gary and Ash going on. The girls said that help for him will arrive soon." Richie answered. Suddenly, this white sports car came speeding by the two, heading right for Pewter City.
"Richie, is that the help for Ash you're talking about?" Suzie asked as she pointed to the car that was now making a hard left,
"I don't think it was. I got in touch with the head member of the new Ash Ketchum fan club. She told me that she has a plan to help Ash and get Brock out. Maybe she found somebody else to help Ash." Richie answered,
"Anyway, let's head over to the Viridian City Central Park and hide out of sight until Ash gets there. At least that's what the girl who called us told us to do." Suzie said,
"Are you sure your friend won't flip out when he hears what happened to Brock?" Richie asked as he got into his prized World Rally Car,
"Nah. Zane is off with Ninetails on another one of his "breeder journeys" of his in Hoenn. He won't return until the last Formula One race here in Japan. Now, let's get going." Suzie answered as she got into the World Rally Car as Richie started it up. Moments later, they were off and speeding away. Almost all of the Jennys were racing towards Cerulean City, completely forgetting about their past assignment. Three Officers were left behind inside a newly completed apartment building and they were guarding somebody down in the cellar. And that somebody was Ash's good friend, Brock. He was inside a nearly completed room tied to a chair while the 3 Jennys kept watch by his door.
"I'll give Ketchum credit. Those years in Formula One has made him into a fighting machine." The first Jenny said as she and her counterparts watched the fight from a cellar window,
"I still say Gary will pull it out of his misery. He has the edge." The second Jenny said,
"It's too bad Gary's beating the crap out of Ketchum. I think Ash is cute." The third Jenny added as Gary kicked Ash South of the border to stop Ash from getting a second wind. Then, some Team Rocket members tackled Ash to the ground. As the three Officers watched on, a fourth Officer Jenny quietly walked down the steps to the cellar. She peeked around the corner and spotted the three officers watching the fight and noticed a door with a lock on it.
"Well, girlfriend. Time to put your skills to the ultimate test." The Officer said to herself as she was ready to enter the room. All of a sudden, a canister that looks like a soda can was rolling its way into the room from out of nowhere. The can clacking on the floor snapped the Jennys out of their trance of watching the fight.
"What's this? A soda can?" The first Jenny asked as she picked up the can. Suddenly, the can burst open and this smoke started to spew out of it. The officers started coughing and suddenly, they fell to the ground. The 4th Jenny dived into another nearly completed room and covered her mouth with a handkerchief avoid breathing in the smoke. Next, the sound a footsteps coming down the stairs were heard and the breathing of a gas mask followed it.
"Morons. I knew this knock out gas works. Thank god I met up with that FBI dude." The man said in a British accent through the gas mask. He kneeled down to the second fallen Jenny and picked up the key to the door lock. The man then went to turn on an air machine to push away the gas from the cellar. Brock was wondering what the hell is going on outside. He heard the can and heard the Jenny ask what was that. Then, the three officers started coughing before they fell to the ground. Next, he heard this voice and the door was unlocked. Suddenly, this man dressed in normal street clothes, wearing an old Jordan Ford cap and wearing a high-grade gas mask entered the room.
"Huh? Who are you?!!" Brock asked as the man took off the gas mask. To Brock, he didn't know who this guy was, but this man with the Jordan cap was former F1 driver Ralph Firman, one of Eddie Jordan's drivers from 2004.
"Let's just say I raced against your friend, who's getting his ass kicked right now. Come on! He needs some assistance." Firman said as he untied Brock from the chair. Once that was done, he picked up the unconscious Jenny's M-16 and took the spare ammo magazines from the others.
Huh? How is that guy? I've never seen him before. Looks like he saved me a lot of trouble. But, I better follow them. The 4th Officer Jenny thought before she hid around a corner and Brock and the man ran past her and up the stairs. Both guys didn't notice her as they exited the building and made a beeline for the fight.
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Back at the fight, Gary was having his way with Ash, after a few Rockets beat the shit out of him a few times to level the playing field. Ash was trying to get up next to a car when Gary opened up the car door and slammed it against Ash's face, sending the F1 driver to the ground. Everything now looked to go Gary's way as he took a piece of rope and looped it around Ash's neck to choke the life out of the Toyota driver. Ash was starting to black out as he couldn't get any air to breath. It looked like it was all over for Ash. Suddenly, a person appeared from behind the car and he used a glass bottle to smash it against the back of Gary's head, shattering it into a million pieces. A dazed Gary let go of Ash's neck and stumbled around, confused by the hit of the bottle and Gary fell to the ground. Ash gasped for air as the crowd gasped in horror. He looked up and noticed the man who aided him. And it took him a while to figure out who it was, but the Jordan cap gave it away.
"Ralph Firman? What the hell are you doing here?!!" Ash gasped,
"I was in the neighborhood." Firman answered as he looked down at Gary for a second before looking around at the angry Pokémon League mob Lance has set. He could see the Champion nearly blow a blood vessel when Firman arrived to help Ash.
Not again!! Those damn F1 drivers are lucky!!! Why do all of my plans always fail against those morons?!!! Lance thought to himself angrily. He looked at Gary, who was now trying to get up. Ash was using this distraction from Ralph to catch a second wind and recover some energy.
"Ow... what was that?" Gary muttered to himself as he tried to get back up on his feet, but then was hit hard in the chest with a 2x4 piece of wood. Gary gasped for air as he went down to the ground yet again. He looked up and saw Brock holding the weapon. Firman walked over to Gary and dragged the Pokémon Master up onto his feet.
"Help me get his ass onto the roof of this car." Firman said as he and Brock picked up Gary's battered body and placed him on top of a parked car. Lance couldn't stand seeing Brock freed and helping this man place Gary onto a car.
"SLATE?!!! You are a traitor!! I will have your ass for this!!!!" Lance yelled out as he charged at Brock, ready for some blood to spill.
"Son of a bitch!!!! Ash Ketchum is my friend!!!" Brock snarled angrily as he cocked his right fist back and delivered one hell of a haymaker punch at Lance's face. "Nobody does that to me and gets away with it!" Then all of a sudden, the girls of Ash Ketchum's fan club mysteriously arrived from out of nowhere and were actually beating up Gary's posse and Team Rocket by kicking the males hard in the nuts and starting bitchslap fights with the female members. All hell broke loose in more ways than one. Elite Four member Will just watched on as Ash Ketchum's fangirls made this into one giant fight!!! Suddenly, he spotted one of his own using some kind of secret powers to knock away a Team Rocket member into the sky. There was only one person he knew that could chuck a person into the air by just looking at them. And it was Sabrina, the Saffron City Gym Leader, who was wearing a Toyota F1 team jacket.
"Sabrina, my psychic comrade. Why are you Ketchum's fan?" Will asked, pointing out the Toyota jacket that she was wearing that Ash signed personally. To Will, seeing Sabrina wear something that is associated with F1 was a betrayal.
"I like guys who wear red and white. And since I'm his fan, I can't let you go near him." Sabrina said calmly. Her eyes were admitting this weird discoloration, meaning that she was about to kick some psychic ass!
"Can't we talk about this?!!" Will asked as he backed away from Sabrina. It didn't work because Sabrina used her mysterious psychic powers to freeze Will in his tracks and make him her punching bag.
"Now, prepare for a beating of a lifetime, Will." Sabrina said as she ran up to Will and started beating the living crap out of him with a ton of punches. Since Will can't even more himself, he's defenseless. Ash finally has gotten his second wind and he saw World War 3 play out right in the street!!! Upon close inspection of a group of girls beating up some Team Rocket members, he noticed that the girls fighting Team Rocket were all wearing official Toyota F1 gear. Apparently, he's seeing the Ash Ketchum fan club Richie told him about a few weeks ago for the first time.
"Ash, are you all right?" A female voice called out from behind. Ash quickly turned around and saw a group of girls that he thought he would never see again. Right in front of him were Celadon City Gym Leader Erika, she wore a Toyota F1 team cap and matching Toyota team jacket. Next to her was Goldenrod City Gym Leader Whitney, who was wearing one of Ash's driver jackets that had his autograph on it. Finally, there was Lara Laramie, the girl who Ash helped win a Pokémon race with one of her Ponyta 7 years ago. All of the girls were wearing official Toyota gear with Ash's car number and signature on them, showing their support for the Toyota driver.
"Am I seeing things or are you girls wearing official Toyota merchandise?" Ash asked as he pointed to the Toyota hats, shirts and jackets,
"We're members of your big fan club, Ash. I thought you knew about this fan club by now?" Erika said. Ash just shook his head no. He only heard about it during the Italian GP weekend.
"Sabrina, the Saffron City Gym Leader is here also. She's busy using Will of the Elite Four as a punching bag." Lara said,
"Even Sabrina?!! Jeez, I must be that popular here." Ash said as he smoothed back some of his black hair from his eyes. He looked at Whitney and saw that she was wearing a Toyota jacket that Ash gave away to some lucky girl. "That jacket looks familiar, Whitney. Did I sign that and gave it to some girl during the autograph session I had in Pallet?" Ash asked,
"Sure did. When I heard that you were here and were world famous, I had to get your autograph. I was surprised that you gave me your jacket and you didn't even recognize me!!" Whitney said. She hasn't seen Ash Ketchum since the time he battled her for the Plain badge in Goldenrod City 4 years ago. Secretly, she was amazed on how mature Ash has become. Those days he spent in F1 had changed him for the better.
"Well, I do forget some people. Sorry about that." Ash said,
"No biggie. I mean, it has been a long time since the time I lost to you. For some reason, I just can't seem to forget about you." Whitney said,
"It's probably because we see you on all of the news channels with footage of your races all the time." Lara said,
"Yeah, I think so too." Ash added,
"Ketchum!! Stop flirting and finish off Oak!!!" Firman yelled out before he was sent crashing to the ground from a kick to the chest from one of the Pokémon league officials. Ash saw Gary lying on top of the roof of a car and he knew what to do next. Ash leapt onto the hood of a car and then leapt onto a moving van that was parked close to the car where Gary was lying on. It was a 7-foot drop from where Ash was at to where Gary was lying and it was going to hurt.
"You can do it, Ash!! Go and finish him off!!!" Erika said as Lara and Whitney, along with a few other girls chanted Ash's name as he got ready to lay the Smackdown on Gary's ass.
"Fuck you, Gary!!!!!" Ash yelled out as he leapt off the truck and landed hard on Gary like a ton of bricks!!! Sure, Gary has worked out every now and then to keep up with the rigorous physical demands of being a Pokémon trainer, but that is nowhere near Ash's workout regimen, where he works out 5 times a week to strengthen up his body for the physical demands of being a driver on the F1 circuit. As Ash slammed his body into Gary's, the force of Ash's weight from the jump, the metal car hood, the loss of blood from the gash he got when Ralph Firman bashed a glass bottle in the back of Gary's head and Brock bashing a 2x4 piece of wood right into his midsection was more than enough to knock the wind out of Gary and he was knocked unconscious. Ash Ketchum was beaten Gary Oak in a street fight, with an assist from Brock, Firman and his fangirls. Ash got up off of the roof of the car and jumped back to the street. He dusted off his clothes of any glass that was broken when he landed on Gary.
"Way to go, Ash!!!" Brock said, causing Ash to do a double take, seeing his friend standing next to Firman.
"Brock? How?!! Where?!! When?!!!" Ash asked surprised,
"I bailed him out. There were only three cops and I took them all out with a gas grenade!! Now let's get the fuck out of here!!!" Firman said as he made a beeline for his car, punching out a few lone Rockets along the way.
"Come on, Brock!! I don't want to be here any longer!!" Ash said,
"I double that." Brock added as he and Ash ran for the Celica World Rally Car. As Firman reached his Honda NSX, he spotted an Officer Jenny hiding out in out of the alleys. Something in his mind clicked and he snuck up on the unsuspecting officer and grabbed her by the shoulders. The officer cried out when she felt Firman grab her and started to drag her to the car.
"Ralph?!! Why are you taking that Jenny?!!!" Ash yelled out,
"Insurance!! Let's drive!!!" Firman said as he dragged Jenny to his Honda NSX. Ash and Brock got in the Celica and got the hell out of there!! The officer was struggling to have Ralph let go of her, but he wasn't letting go anytime soon.
"Let me go!!" The Officer ordered as she tried to struggle out of Ralph's grip, but it wasn't working.
"Shut up and get in the car!! You're our ticket to freedom, bitch!!" Firman said as he roughly threw Jenny into his Honda NSX, got in and sped off after Ash's Celica. Moments later, the girls of Ash's fan club realized that he was long gone. Just after that, Giselle appeared out of nowhere with her Natu in her arms.
"I missed the fight. I guess Ash and Brock got away." Giselle said to herself as she recalled her Natu and spotted Erika, Whitney, Sabrina and Lara looking at the carnage of the street war.
"I sure hope Lance isn't going to kill us for letting Ash escape." Erika said, concerned about what Lance might do as punishment to the four of them.
"He won't. I can just use my psychic powers to get all of us off the hook." Sabrina said as she appeared next to the other Ash fans after her shlacking of Will,
"On the other hand, I am glad that Ash beat Gary to a bloody pulp and got his friend out of there. I'm just glad I got to see him again after I haven't seen him since he raced my Ponyta 7 years ago." Lara added,
"I feel so bad now. I know that we helped Ash beat Gary and saw Brock Slate be saved by that man, but... I wanted to get another autograph from him." Erika said sadly. Giselle then walked up to the group to console Erika. Ash's fangirls were now waiting to hear with Giselle, the leader of the Ash Ketchum fan club, had planned next.
"Don't worry, Erika. We can use our Pokémon that have Fly or Teleport to transport us to the Pewter Pokémon Center. That Jenny that man took hostage, probably told them to go to the park next to the Pokémon Center." Giselle said as she put her arm around Erika to reassure her,
"Giselle, does that mean we'll have another big autograph session with Ash Ketchum?" Whitney asked excitedly,
"Yes it does, Whitney. All right, Ash Ketchum fan club!! Let's head to the Pokémon Center here in Pewter!!!" Giselle said to the girls of the fan club. They all cheered and took out their Flying and Psychic Pokémon to get to the Pokémon Center. A minute later, the members of Team Rocket and the Pokémon League were finally getting up after the giant fight with the Ash Ketchum fan club, which they lost big time.
"Goddammit!! Ketchum, that other guy and all those F1 morons must have made a pact with the luck gods!! Every time we set up a trap, which is perfectly foolproof and can't go wrong, they get away!!" Lance yelled out in frustration as he pounded the pavement with his fist, trying to get out the anger he had built up. As for the 50 Jennys who were responding to the call that Keith Terrell was in the Cerulean area, finally realized that it has been a prank phone call from a 7-Eleven in Cerulean.
"Who was the guy's name that called us?!!" The senior Jenny in charge asked one of the Cerulean City dispatchers through the radio. And she didn't like the answer. "A guy by the name of Jim Bean? At a 7-Eleven pay phone?!!!" The senior ranking Jenny yelled out as she smashed her hand radio on the ground in anger.
"That's the name of a drink from America!!! Dammit!! We're been shafted!!! Lance is going to shoot us!!!!" One of the younger Jennys said as she held onto one of her counterparts in a fear hug, afraid to think what Lance might do to her and the others. This was a major victory for Ash and F1 and he dodged one hell of a bullet.
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After making their escape from the biggest trap the Pokémon League has set, Ash and Ralph Firman came to a stop at the newly opened Viridian City Central Park, which was totally empty for today. A perfect place to take a breather and remember what the hell just happened. Ash's Celica and Firman's NSX came to a stop by a picnic area and the two F1 drivers got out of the cars. Ralph immediately got the M-16 he stole from an Officer Jenny and pointed it at his hostage, telling her to get out. Ash could see that Firman was losing his mind at the moment.
"Jesus, Ralph. Calm down. Nobody's going to shoot you." Ash said,
"I'm more worried about the bitch here!! She might have one of those trackers on her!! And if they come, we might have to make a sacrifice to the racing gods." Firman said as he pointed the rifle to Jenny's head.
"Since we are talking about the racing gods, can you tell them to give Jos Verstappen some luck?" Ash asked,
"Forget Jos, Ketchum. That Ronin Vertigo guy needs luck if he's driving for Arrows." Firman said. The Officer Jenny Firman had the gun pointed to wasn't scared anymore. In fact, she was happy for some off reason.
"Wow. That was probably the best Officer Jenny impersonation I have ever done. I can't believe all of you and everybody else fell for it!!" The officer said cheerfully. Firman was wondering what the hell is going to happen next and Ash was trying to figure out why would somebody impersonate an Officer Jenny.
"Fell for it? What the hell?" Brock asked. Ash was wondering the same thing. Then, it hit him full blast.
"Jenny impersona... Duplica?!!! That you?" Ash asked and the officer took off her cap and removed the colored wig, revealing Duplica's aqua colored hair, not done up in her favorite dual ponytail look and it took a minute for Ash to figure out who it was. Brock was wondering why would Duplica dress up as an Officer Jenny and Firman didn't know what was going on at all.
"It's me, Ashy-boy. Took you long enough." Duplica said as she took out some hair bands from the uniform's pocket and started to get her hair done up in her two ponytail look,
"You know her, Ketchum?!!!" Firman asked surprised,
"Of course I know her, Ralph. She's one of my friends." Ash said,
"Can somebody tell me what the fuck's going on here?!! Can she be arrested for impersonating an Officer?" Firman asked, more confused than ever.
"I do this all the time, Ralphie. Why do you think my name is Duplica? I can even imitate you." Duplica said as she gave him a smile,
"Um... no thanks. This is one weird ass place, Ketchum. I thought that I would never set foot in here ever again after '03. My luck. It's worse than Verstappen's. And don't call me Ralphie!!" Firman shot back to Duplica, who was starting to get more pissed by the minute.
"Well, excuse me for living! At least Verstappen has a 2nd place podium finish, unlike you!!!" Duplica said. That did it. As soon as she said that, she and Firman got into this giant ass argument over Jos Verstappen. Ash, Brock, Pikachu and Meowth all looked on, wondering if they should break up the fight.
"Should we stop them?" Brock asked,
"Trying to stop an F1 driver from arguing is like trying to stop the tide. I'm going to find a phone to call Mom. My cell phone is probably useless with the device Team Rocket made." Ash said,
[I'd better come with you, Ash. Duplica and Firman might kill each other very soon.] Pikachu said as she hopped on Ash's head,
"I'm going to take a catnap. Wake me up, you die." Meowth said to the three as he curled up in the back and let out a big yawn before going to sleep. With the fight between Duplica and Ralph Firman raging, Ash, Brock and Pikachu quietly left them to fight. Before Firman and Duplica stopped bickering, a Subaru WRC car skidded to a stop, very close to hitting Firman's parked NSX. The two saw the car heading fight for them and did dove out of the way.
"Hey, watch it!! Who do you think you are?!! Sebastien Loeb?!!" Firman yelled out as Richie came out of his rally car, only to give Firman a dirty look.
"Don't call me that, asshole!" Richie said angrily,
"Wait. You look more like Francois Duval. Maybe with a bit of Marko Martin on the side." Firman said,
"Why does everybody call me those names?!!!!" Richie yelled out, fed up with people telling him that he looks like those WRC drivers.
"You're driving one of their cars. And I never want to ride with you ever again!!!" Suzie said as she got out of the passenger side door and slammed it,
"Well, that's the way I drive!!" Richie said. Moments later, Ash, Brock and Pikachu arrived back. They heard the commotion and went to check on what was up. When the three got there, they saw Ralph Firman arguing with Richie with Suzie and Duplica just watching the fight.
"Suzie?!! What are you doing here?" Brock asked in shock. He was worried that she would be mad at him for disappearing, but she let out a sigh of relief as she walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him.
"I was so worried about you. I was afraid that something bad had happen to you yesterday." Suzie said while trying her best not to cry. Brock put his arms around her and held her close to him.
"I'm fine, but how did you know I was going to be here?" Brock asked, more relieved that his girlfriend wasn't mad at him for not showing up at the shop yesterday.
"Oh, I just had this feeling when you didn't show up at the shop yesterday." Suzie answered as she held her boyfriend close to her, afraid to let go if something else were to happen.
"It was that bastard, Lance. He used me as a pawn to drag Ash to Pewter for a trap. If it wasn't for Ash's friend there, I don't know what would have happened." Brock said,
"I was so worried. From now on, I'm not leaving your side. Wherever you go, I'm going with you. And don't you argue with me about this." Suzie said as she looked up at him. This wasn't the time to argue with her. So, he just let it slide, seeing how determined she was when she said it.
"I'm not in the mood to argue after all of this happened." Brock said as he placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. Ash then noticed his friend and his Rally car and wonder why he was here as well.
"Richie, what are you doing here?" Ash asked his friend,
"Oh, I just had this feeling that you were going to be here." Richie answered. Suddenly and out of nowhere, this mob of Pokémon and their trainers arrived at the park, right in front of Ash. After the trainers recalled their Pokémon, Ash noticed that all of them were girls and they were all wearing.
"Hey, it's my fan club." Ash said as he noticed that the girls were wearing Toyota gear,
"Isn't that the fan club devoted to Ash and most of its members are girls who find Ash cute?" Suzie asked,
"Pretty much. I heard about this last week and sent an e-mail to Ash about it." Richie answered. Ash noticed Giselle walk up to him. She met her at Monza last week and was surprised to see her again so soon. Giselle was wearing a very close replica of Ash's Toyota F1 team leather jacket and she was also wearing Ash's patented Pokémon League cap with the Toyota F1 team logo in the place where the Pokémon League logo should be at.
"Well, Giselle. We meet again after the first meeting at Italy." Ash said,
"What?!!! You saw him at a F1 race?!!!" All of the fangirls asked Giselle, ready to kill their leader for not telling them every detail of her meeting with Ash at Monza.
"Well, I wanted to see what this F1 stuff was all about. And I didn't want to miss the chance to see Ash in action in person." Giselle answered,
"And we had a Pokémon battle on the pit straight at Monza. And I showed her that even though I'm in F1, I haven't quit Pokémon training." Ash said,
"Ash... now that we've cornered you... can we have your autograph?" Erika asked shyly as she and all of the girls held out pictures of Ash, his car and the team, along with more Toyota merchandise for him to sign. Ash just let out a sigh and reached into his Celica for his backpack. He opened a pouch and took out a Sharpie pen for him to start signing.
"Well, anybody want my autograph?" Ash asked and almost at once, the girls mobbed Ash. Brock, Suzie, Pikachu and Duplica all watched sign all of these things and take pictures with him and his fans.
"Lucky bastard. I never had any girls clamoring over me for an autograph." Ralph Firman said to himself as he watched Ash sign his autograph and take pictures with his female fans. He then noticed that one of Ash's fans was there, but she had on a Jordan Ford cap on with his name on it.
"Mr. Firman, can I have your autograph?" The girl asked shyly as she showed Ralph a picture of him holding up his 3rd place trophy he got from finishing 3rd at the Monaco Grand prix in 2004, his first ever podium finish in Formula One in a Jordan Ford.
"Sure thing." Firman said as he signed his autograph.
To Be Continued...
Okay, first off... I want to apologize for the delay of this new chapter. I have been very busy with my other fanfics and life. If you have the time, go read my latest fanfic, An Officer And A Pokémon Master. This is the first ever challenge I've taken ever, plus it's an Ash/Officer Jenny romance fic. And it's going to be BIG!!!!
Next time, deciding that driving around in a Toyota Celica WRC Car will draw unwanted attention, Ash decides to look for a new car. Also, what will happen when Misty Waterflower meets up with Ash yet again? Plus, I will shed some light on what happened right before and right after Ash's destined meeting with Michael Schumacher.
As always, please read and review. Have a comment or question? Send them all to Hornet19us@Yahoo.com. And I apologize for the long delay!! Please forgive me!!!!!
Mario Alvarado
10/14/2003
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER IS NOW THE 6-TIME, 6-TIME, 6-TIME, 6-TIME, 6-TIME, 6-TIME FORMULA ONE WORLD DRIVER'S CHAMPION!!!!!! He's the undisputed Driver's Champion, next to the great Juan Manuel Fangio!!!!!