A Team Rocket Story (Name in Progress)

Chapter 24

Tessie's POV

We spent the rest of the day going around the city, setting up what was needed, and, learning our grounds. Eventually we made our way back to the hotel and once back in our room, James threw himself onto one of the beds and started complaining about being tired. I ignored him and walked into the bathroom to remove my disguise.

The process wasn't really hard. I just took off my outfit, took my hair out of its twin tail position, removed the make up, took my contacts out, and washed the hair dye out, and I was good. I sighed as I looked at my original self in the mirror... "If only it was this easy to put on..." I threw on my pajamas and took a while to look at my reflection. I couldn't help but find some small flaws in myself. It was the first time I've done this since forever, and I seemed to have more flaws than I though... One eyebrow was higher than the other, my nose was barely crooked, and my bangs were cut at a slant... I'm surprised no ones ever told me. Not that any of this bothered me, cause it didn't.

I walked out of the bathroom, breathing deeply, "Bathrooms open."

James was laying on his bed when I came out. He sat up and smiled, "There's the Tessie we know and love." He stood up and walked to his backpack and started pulling clothes out.

I groaned, "Yeah, yeah... Now I gotta put all that back on tomorrow..."

Meowth started to laugh, "Why didn't you just leave some parts of it on?" He was laying on my bed at the time. I walked over, grabbed him by his tail and threw him onto James's bed.

"You should have told me that before I took everything off." I asked as I lay down on my bed.

Meowth laughed, "Just to make you angry~"

"Leave her alone, Meowth," James said, "She's got a big day tomorrow." James then disappeared into the bathroom.

I buried myself under the blankets and rolled over onto my side, away from Meowth, "Yeah, leave me alone Meowth." At that I quickly fell asleep. I really was tired.

Today was the day of the tournament, I woke up early, before Meowth and James, so I could get my disguise on. Arcanine sat in the bathroom with me while I did my thing. After I got everything on me, I brushed Arcanines fur out and put some berry-infused colored hair gel in his fur to make his mane black, to match my hair. I put a black, studded, collar on his neck and we both looked ready. I put Arcanine back in his poke'ball and one by one I brought out my Rocket Pokemon to take off their harnesses. With the black markings, I didn't need to do anything to them but put studded collars on them. I took out my other Pokemon and put collars on them as well. It wasn't really for any other reason, but to match Zaria. I then equipped each of my Pokemon with different braces that would up their attack power. By the time I finished putting the collars and braces on my Pokemon, the tournament was only two hours away, and James and Meowth were still asleep.

I walked over to James's bed and shook him, "James... Wake up." Once again he was shirtless.

He groaned and rolled over to looked at me. He groggily opened his eyes, "Oh hey Tessie..." He smiled.

I leaned down and tapped his cheek with my palm, "Come on, the tournaments in two-" James had his arms around my neck suddenly, and my face was dangerously close to his, " AH, WHATS GOING ON?"

James's eyes were closed again, "Just five more minutes." He hugged me tighter.

I groaned, "Five more minutes, no. James you have five seconds to let go-" I was suddenly cut off, by James's lips on mine.

My face flushed as red as my contacts. I panicked and In a flash second, I had James thrown, face down on the floor, "Ow.... Now that was uncalled for..." He moaned.