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Episode 8: Sweepstakes Mania EXT. PEWTER CITY STREET LIAM is walking on the sidewalk as he makes his way to the gym. ELIZABETH spots him and runs over to him. ELIZABETH Liam! Hi! LIAM Oh... hey... you. ELIZABETH This is great! You're going to the gym, right? Two friends, walking together! We're friends, right? LIAM I don't even know your name. ELIZABETH Ha! You're almost as funny as Brock! LIAM (TALKING HEAD) I'm not too thrilled about this girl coming into work every day, but at least she isn't getting a paycheck. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK is sitting in his office, flipping through his old high school yearbook. BROCK (T.H.) After Roxanne accused me of being immature at the convention, I've been doing some serious self reflecting. And what better way to do that than to go through my yearbook back from high school! LIAM and ELIZABETH walk into the office. LIAM Morning, sir. Unfortunately, this one came with me. ELIZABETH Good morning, Brock! It's morning! That's the early time of the day! BROCK Where did I go wrong? LIAM What are you talking about, sir? BROCK holds up his yearbook. BROCK I've been looking through my old yearbook. I'll tell you, those were the best days of my life. And now look at me! I don't even have a girlfriend! LIAM Who was your girlfriend back in high school, sir? BROCK Oh, I didn't have one, but that's not important. ELIZABETH You have me! LIAM No one asked you! BROCK flips to his picture in his yearbook and shows it to LIAM and ELIZABETH. BROCK Look at me back then! I was on top of the world! ELIZABETH Wow! You look just as handsome as you do now! That is a great picture! I like it! BROCK But now, I'm on the bottom of the world. LIAM Sir, I don't think you've ever lived in the North Pole or the South Pole. BROCK flips to another page of the yearbook that shows the track team. BROCK Look at this! The track team! LIAM You ran track back in high school? BROCK Of course not, but I was best friends with those guys! I even bought a varsity jacket off of one of them! Those were the days! ELIZABETH But since I'm here the days are even better, right? BROCK Liam, get her out of here. I need to wallow in my self pity for a bit. LIAM Yes, sir! Come on! LIAM and ELIZABETH exit the office. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA ELIZABETH We have a problem. It seems like Brock is stuck in some sort of nostalgic stupor. What do we do?! LIAM Why are you asking me? ELIZABETH Well, you've knows Brock for a while. How do you usually solve situations like this? LIAM Oh, Brock always comes up with some sort of scheme to solve our problems. I'm never very helpful when it comes to this kind of stuff. ELIZABETH Argh! What do we do?! LIAM I don't know! Do you have anything I can squat with? Squatting will get my brain going! ELIZABETH Liam, you're assistant to the greatest gym leader EVER! I expect more from you! LIAM (T.H.) Have I become too reliant on squatting? No. But really... yes. LIAM Well, if you aren't going to give me anything to squat with, you can expect nothing! ELIZABETH I guess I'm going to have to snap him out of it myself! ELIZABETH storms away. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE ELIZABETH barges into the office. BROCK is still looking at his yearbook. ELIZABETH Brock, put that yearbook away right now! ELIZABETH (T.H.) Yes, I love Brock... but there is such a thing as tough love. BROCK sighs. BROCK Did you know that my friend Steve was voted most likely to succeed? ELIZABETH Huh? BROCK I wonder if he became successful after all. He's probably sitting in his yacht right now, wearing a top hat and a monocle, right next to his high class prostitute. ELIZABETH Brock, why are you doing this to yourself? BROCK And what vote did I win during high school? Nothing! ELIZABETH There are more categories than students, you know. Most people don't get voted for in any category. BROCK I was voted most likely to do nothing! ELIZABETH That was a category? BROCK And once my high school reunion comes around, guess what? I'll just prove to all of them that they were right! I'm nothing! ELIZABETH You're not nothing! You're the greatest gym leader ever! BROCK If I want to be better than Steve, I'm going to have to make a lot of money, and fast! ELIZABETH Are you ignoring me? BROCK I got it! I'll enter a bunch of contests! Maybe I'll buy some lottery tickets as well! I need to go get Liam! BROCK runs out of the office. ELIZABETH (T.H.) I feel like he was talking to himself the whole time... BROCK (T.H.) Huh? There was someone in the room with me? Are you sure? INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA BROCK jolts over to LIAM, with ELIZABETH following soon after. BROCK Liam, I'm going to need your help! LIAM What is it, sir? BROCK We're going to be entering a lot of contests! I have to work on my computer to find as many corporate sweepstakes that I can find! You need to get down to the PokéMart and buy as many lottery tickets as possible! LIAM I'm not old enough to buy lottery tickets, sir. BROCK Uh... BROCK looks at ELIZABETH. BROCK Take her with you! She can buy them! LIAM Great idea, sir! That's why you're the boss! ELIZABETH I guess we'll be on our way then! LIAM and ELIZABETH leave the gym. BROCK (T.H.) This is such a great plan to secure my financial future, I don't get how more people are doing it! Actually, maybe you shouldn't broadcast any of these parts. I don't want people stealing my secret to success! EXT. PEWTER CITY STREET LIAM and ELIZABETH are walking down the street to the PokéMart. ELIZABETH Liam, you know we have to put a stop to this, right? LIAM Why? This plan is foolproof! ELIZABETH Even though Brock's the best person ever, those contests are all fixed! He can't win any of them! ELIZABETH (T.H.) I don't see why it's crazy to think all of those sweepstakes are fixed. It's no more crazy than thinking the former Kanto champion being assassinated was just a cover up to hide the fact he was abducted by aliens! LIAM Brock has never steered me wrong! I'm sure he'll be rich by tomorrow! ELIZABETH Fine, I'll go along with this for now, but only until I can convince Brock that this is a bad idea! LIAM Okay! By the way, do you think you can buy all these lottery tickets? I don't have any money on me. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE LIAM and ELIZABETH enter the office to find BROCK on the computer. LIAM We got your lottery tickets, sir! LIAM slams a bunch of lottery tickets on the desk. BROCK Excellent! You played my lucky numbers, right? LIAM We played your lucky numbers on ALL of them! That increases your odds of winning! ELIZABETH I don't really know math, but it makes sense to me! BROCK Good job! I've been searching through sweepstakes online. Mostly I've been sticking to ones that just require a name and address. ELIZABETH You can't do that! You have to enter the ones that require some original thought! Those have the big payoffs! BROCK Listen, I don't think you understand what I'm trying to do here, and I also have no clue as to who you are. But anyway, I don't want to enter any contests that require creativity! I'm trying to make money with as little effort as possible! ELIZABETH You'll never be rich with that attitude! Hold on... ELIZABETH moves BROCK away from the computer and starts surfing the internet. BROCK (T.H.) Right now, if I was to win every contest I entered, I'd be richer by five grand. I'm feeling pretty lucky. ELIZABETH Found something! LIAM What is it? ELIZABETH Shellder Soda is holding a contest to see who can come up with the best slogan for their products. LIAM Hm... I got one! Shellder Soda: it's Shellderlicious! ELIZABETH Well... we can use that as a backup if we have to. Brock, do you have any ideas? BROCK seems deep in thought. BROCK Hm... LIAM Do you have anything, sir? BROCK Shellder Soda: you know it's good. LIAM Brilliant! ELIZABETH Genius! BROCK We'll win this contest yet! Enter that catchphrase, random girl! ELIZABETH hurriedly types the entry into the submission form online. ELIZABETH Done! Let's enter another one! ELIZABETH gets back to surfing the internet. LIAM You'll be rich in no time, Brock! ELIZABETH Found another one! Rage Candy Bar wants a name for their new chocolate bar! BROCK Symphony! LIAM Wow, sir! It's so eloquent! ELIZABETH I'll enter that into the website now. BROCK Give me another! I'm on a roll! ELIZABETH I got an idea! How about you take that roll out into the gym and you be the best gym leader you can be? BROCK Hm... you know what? I got a better idea! I'm not going to make any money sitting around as a gym leader! How about I take my roll into the Pewter City Casino instead? I can make tons of cash there! ELIZABETH That wasn't what I was getting at... LIAM I've always wanted to go to the casino! BROCK What are we waiting for?! Let's get moving! BROCK and LIAM rush out of the office. ELIZABETH (T.H.) I'm not getting through to him. Maybe I should use my feminine wiles. INT. PEWTER CITY CASINO BROCK, LIAM, and ELIZABETH walk into the casino. LIAM seems overwhelmed by all the lights and noises coming from the slot machines. ELIZABETH I never knew Pewter City had a casino. BROCK Sure is convenient, right? LIAM You should play one of those machines, sir! They look fun! BROCK I'm more of a card man! BROCK finds a card table and sits down. LIAM and ELIZABETH stand next to him. The DEALER is already at the table, along with JEFF, a bald man with a goatee, and SUSAN, a woman covered with gaudy makeup and extravagant jewelry. BROCK Deal me in! DEALER You need to place your bet first, sir. BROCK Oh, sorry. BROCK places some chips in the middle of the table. The DEALER first deals a five and an eight to JEFF, then a six and a nine to BROCK, then a seven and a king to SUSAN, and finally deals a ten and a three to himself. BROCK I'll go first! BROCK turns to JEFF. BROCK Got any twos? JEFF Psh... JEFF (T.H.) My name's Jeff... that's right, I'm THE Jeff. I've competed in the World Blackjack Showdown, World Blackjack Showdown: All Stars, World Blackjack Showdown: All Stars Versus Celebrities, and World Blackjack Showdown: Humans Versus Pokémon. So yeah, I'm pretty good at blackjack. DEALER We're not playing Go Fish, sir. BROCK Oh, silly me! BROCK looks around the table. BROCK So who here has the old maid? SUSAN I take offense to that! SUSAN (T.H.) I'm in my EARLY fifties. Early means young. So I'm young. Don't let anyone who claims that I got plastic surgery sway you otherwise! DEALER The game is blackjack, sir. BROCK Oh! That game! Okay, I got it! The DEALER turns to JEFF. DEALER Hit or stay? JEFF Hit. JEFF is dealt a seven. JEFF I'll stay. The DEALER now turns to BROCK. DEALER Hit or stay? BROCK Hm... ELIZABETH You can do it, Brock! ELIZABETH starts rubbing BROCK on the back, which visibly disturbs him. BROCK Er... I'll hit. BROCK is dealt a nine. DEALER That's a bust, sir. BROCK Hah! In your face, goatee douchebag! I win! JEFF Please. You suck. DEALER Sir, you went over twenty-one. That means you lost. BROCK Oh, right! Blackjack! I'm sorry, I forgot. ELIZABETH Oh, you did your best, love! ELIZABETH throws her arms around BROCK, which causes him to start shaking, disturbed. ELIZABETH (T.H.) I think it's working! The DEALER finally turns to SUSAN. DEALER Hit or stay, madam? SUSAN Oh, you can call me Susan. When do you get off shift? Did you know I'm younger than my sister? DEALER I just need to know if you're going to hit or stay. SUSAN Fine, I'll hit. SUSAN is dealt a five. DEALER That's a bust. My turn. The DEALER deals himself a ten. DEALER And that's a bust for me. You win, sir. The DEALER hands the chips over to JEFF. BROCK Okay, time out everyone! Liam, I need to talk to you. BROCK and LIAM move away from the table, and begin talking in really soft voices. BROCK Liam, we got a problem. That girl is using her feminine wiles on me. LIAM She's such a weirdo! What do we do? BROCK She needs to stop. Liam, I'm sorry, but can you use your masculine wiles on her? LIAM Masculine wiles? BROCK Yes. If you start seducing her, she'll be too distracted to seduce me. LIAM She's a lot older than me, sir. I'm not sure if she'll fall for it. BROCK Well, we'll find out. Let's get back in there! BROCK and LIAM walk back over to the table, and BROCK sits down and puts his chips in. BROCK Good, you waited for us! DEALER I didn't have anything better to do. DEALER (T.H.) I literally don't have anything better to do today. This casino is government run, and unfortunately I got convicted of a misdemeanor, so it's either do nothing here or do nothing in jail. JEFF Well I had a problem with it. Some of us are here to play a game, you know. SUSAN And some of us are here to flirt with men much younger than ourselves! The DEALER deals cards to JEFF, BROCK, SUSAN, and himself. BROCK gets a pair of twos. The DEALER turns to JEFF. DEALER Hit or stay? JEFF Hit. As the DEALER hands JEFF a card, LIAM approaches ELIZABETH and starts rubbing her back. ELIZABETH What are you doing? LIAM You're so pretty and soft! ELIZABETH Er... I have to go over there now. ELIZABETH walks away as JEFF goes bust. BROCK gives LIAM a thumbs up. ELIZABETH (T.H.) Liam is being creepy. If people see someone that young flirting with me, I'm going to spend the rest of my days working at this casino! The DEALER now turns to BROCK. DEALER Hit or stay? BROCK Hit! The DEALER hands BROCK another two. BROCK Three of a kind! I stay! DEALER Sir, your card total is six. If you hit, you're guaranteed to not go bust. BROCK Why would I want another card when I have a hand as great as this?! The DEALER sighs and turns to SUSAN. SUSAN You don't have to say anything. You can hit me. DEALER (T.H.) The female clientele are always flirting with me, but that's just because they think I can hand out chips for free. And the dice. You don't want to know what they do with the dice. The DEALER sighs and hands SUSAN a card. DEALER That's a bust. And now my turn. The DEALER hands himself a card. DEALER And I bust too. Looks like Mister Three of a Kind wins! The DEALER hands BROCK his chips. ELIZABETH notices this and walks over. ELIZABETH Great job, Brock! Maybe you should quit while you're ahead! BROCK Oh, I'm quitting blackjack, but I'm going to get even more ahead. I thought of an even better way to make money! ELIZABETH Oh... BROCK gets up from the table and leaves the casino, with LIAM and ELIZABETH following him. JEFF (T.H.) That man was absolutely the worst person I have ever played blackjack with, and I've played with a Growlithe once. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK, LIAM, and ELIZABETH are waiting in the office. ELIZABETH Who did you call, Brock? BROCK I called a stock broker! Buying stocks is like gambling, but on an even greater scale! I'm going to be rich! LIAM Don't you already have stock in Team Rocket, sir? BROCK Yeah, but that stock has been stagnant ever since that Game Corner in Celadon mysteriously came under new management. A man in a disheveled suit, STEVE, walks into the office. STEVE Hello, everyone! Are you ready to make some money? BROCK Wait, I remember you! You're Steve from high school! You were voted most likely to succeed! STEVE Ah, you're Brock, right? I'd recognize those eyes anywhere! I was hoping no one would remember that little vote, though. BROCK Why? Look at you! You're a stock broker! Why does your suit look so dirty, though? STEVE Oh, this? I bought it second hand. Well... I didn't really buy it, more like stole it off of a homeless person. It makes me wonder where he got it from. BROCK So do you have a nice yacht or something now? STEVE Oh, you're just trying to flatter me! But yes, I do have a yacht. If only I could get it out of that parking lot now... LIAM I've always wanted to go on a yacht! Can I visit sometime? STEVE Of course you can, little buddy! You'd just have to deal with the rabid Sentret that I can't get off the yacht, though. LIAM Oh... BROCK How about we move away from that topic, hm? What stocks do you think would be good to buy, Steve? STEVE I'm glad you asked! Right now, the best companies to invest in are car companies! I have these records from twenty years ago and they all seem to be doing pretty well! ELIZABETH Aren't all the car companies failing? That seems like a bad investment. STEVE I would never steer you wrong. You see, I get a commission based on how well your stock does, and I need all the cash I can get in order to fuel my drug addiction! BROCK Oh, you know what? I'm not sure if I want to buy stock anymore. STEVE If you say so, buddy! If you ever change my mind, just give me a ring! STEVE (T.H.) Hey, I'm not sure who's watching this, but don't be afraid to ask me to be your personal stock broker! That even includes you, cameraman! Wait... do cameramen buy stock? STEVE leaves the office. BROCK I think it's time to call it a day now. ELIZABETH That's it? You've given up on your sweepstakes mania? That's great! Wait, what about all of those lottery tickets you made me buy, though? BROCK Oh, those? Eh... keep them, I guess. I'm content with myself now. BROCK (T.H.) When this day first started, Steve was most likely to succeed and I was a nobody, but now, Steve's a bigger loser than me, which is saying something! At least I don't have a drug addiction and steal clothes from homeless people... though ignoring the dirt, that was a nice suit. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM and ELIZABETH exit the office. ELIZABETH Great job today, Liam! We were able to cure Brock of his contest obsession! LIAM What did we do? We just got lucky that Steve turned out to be a huge lamer. ELIZABETH Oh, don't be so negative! I'll see you tomorrow, along with Brock, the love of my life! ELIZABETH exits the gym. LIAM (T.H.) I can't handle any more Elizabeth! Brock and I have a very delicate dynamic, and she's ruining it! Soon, Brock won't be asking me for help anymore, even though I can never seem to help him anyway! And then what reason would I have to be around? EXT. PEWTER CITY STREET ELIZABETH is walking back to her hotel room. ELIZABETH (T.H.) Today was great! Sure, I spent over fifty dollars on lottery tickets, but I was able to do it for the love of my life, Brock! 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I really love the first part where Brock checks his high school yearbook. Heh, just recently I looked through my yearbook and man, I hate some of the club and sport pictures I was in. XD I like Elizabeth this chapter as you give her a bit more personality this time around. I'll have to agree with her those sweepstakes are fixed (has done them before with online poetry contests and with hilarious results D: ). It is also nice of her to try to get Brock back into doing gym battles, even though it didn't work in the end, heh. Oh boy, Steve. Well, stock brokerage isn't easy, haha. Another funny and enjoyable chapter there. Can't wait for the next one! |
Bay, originally the plot of this episode was just going to revolve around Brock getting nostalgic for his high school days. :P Then I realized that it wasn't substantial enough for its own plot, and I also had to put in some events that would lead to the ending I wanted, so I think around Chapter 3 I scrapped what I had planned and wrote the outline for this instead. XD
Elizabeth is an interesting character, and she'll become (more? less?) important as the story goes on. :P |
Episode 9: Kanto Gym Leader Council INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM is hanging around in the gym when ELIZABETH walks in. ELIZABETH Good morning, Brock! Wait... ELIZABETH looks around the gym. ELIZABETH Where's Brock? LIAM The Kanto Gym Leader Council is meeting today. He had to go to Fuchsia City. ELIZABETH Oh, good! I have to tell you something. LIAM Oh brother. LIAM (TALKING HEAD) Elizabeth has told me a lot of things... mostly the varying degrees in which she loves Brock. ELIZABETH Remember last week when Brock was entering all those contests and he made us buy all of those lottery tickets? LIAM Made you. I didn't buy any. ELIZABETH Anyway, it turns out I won the big jackpot. At first, they thought the prize was going to be split by a bunch of people, but that's just because all the tickets I bought had the same numbers. Now, I'm a multimillionaire! LIAM Why didn't I hear about this in the news? ELIZABETH Oh, nowadays you can just hire a lawyer to represent you and claim the prize for you. LIAM So why are you telling me all of this? ELIZABETH Because you need to keep this all a secret from Brock! LIAM So you're telling me this so that I don't tell anyone this. LIAM (T.H.) I'm good at keeping secrets. One time I had a stomach virus for a year and a half and no one even knew! But I don't want to keep Elizabeth's crappy secret. ELIZABETH Listen, I love Brock, and I want him to fall in love with my, not my money. If he ends up wanting to marry me just because it would be good for him financially, all that I've been working towards will have been for naught! LIAM Fine, whatever, I'll keep your secret. ELIZABETH Yay! Thanks so much, Liam! ELIZABETH starts walking towards the office. LIAM You aren't leaving? ELIZABETH Oh, I thought I'd just make myself at home. I want to wait for Brock to get back! LIAM Great... INT. MEETING ROOM BROCK (T.H.) So today the Kanto Gym Leader Council is meeting. The meetings are always at Fuchsia City because Koga is the presiding officer of our little council. Usually these gatherings turn out to go bad, but when they don't go bad... they go even worse. BROCK walks into the meeting room. MISTY, ERIKA, a girl dressed in a flowery kimono, and BLAINE, a bald man with a white mustache and sunglasses, are already waiting. MISTY Well well well, look who it is. ERIKA Ew! A man! Get out of here; I don't want to catch man cooties! BLAINE Heh, Erika gave me the same greeting as well. Hello, Brock. BROCK goes over to shake hands with BLAINE. BROCK Good to see you, Blaine. How are things going over at Cinnabar? BLAINE It's terrible! Recently a bunch of people of a lower socioeconomic status and different race than mine have been moving there! Luckily I have a plan that should go over well with the council that will solve my little problem. ERIKA Who cares about your problems? You're a stupid guy! ERIKA (T.H.) Misty, Sabrina, and myself are the only people on this council that have any smart ideas! MISTY We probably won't get around to your problem anyway. Supposedly we're going to discuss Team Rocket. BROCK Team Rocket? I used to own stock in them, but it went bad so I sold it all. MISTY Yeah, well it turns out they're a criminal syndicate. They've been stealing Pokémon or something. GIOVANNI, a short haired man sharply dressed in a suit, enters the room. ERIKA Ew! A man! Get out of here; I don't want to catch man cooties! MISTY Hi Giovanni. GIOVANNI Are we starting soon? I have an urgent meeting with the CEO of Silph Co. and I don't want to be late. GIOVANNI (T.H.) In addition to my job as a gym leader, I conduct a lot of business on the side. I actually ran a casino in Celadon, but I was forced out of ownership by some kid.Why are you filming me, anyway? You aren't collecting some sort of evidence, are you? MISTY Well, Koga hasn't shown up yet, so I have no idea when we'll start. GIOVANNI Okay then. LT. SURGE, a man dressed in army fatigues, and SABRINA, a woman with flowing dark hair dressed in a strange purple jumpsuit, walk into the meeting room. SABRINA Surge, you can't just go to war with everyone. You need tact. LT. SURGE Dammit, Sabrina! I'm not even talking to you! Get out of my head! SABRINA (T.H.) Yes, I can read minds. Stop thinking about how much you want to do me. MISTY Sabrina, can you give the mind reading a break just this once? SABRINA I don't think so. I need to be on the alert at all times. GIOVANNI (T.H.) It's a good thing that I've trained my brain to block mind reading. Why? For the purposes of this interview, let's just say I have perverted thoughts and leave it at that. Yes, nothing more than perverted thoughts. It absolutely has nothing to do with crimes that I did not commit. MISTY Whatever, just don't be an *** about it. LT. SURGE Where's Koga?! I heard that we're going to be discussing Team Rocket and I got the perfect way to get rid of those bastards! BLAINE He's coming. So hey, did anyone get challenged by some kid named Hal? MISTY Oh, him? What a joke! I wiped the floor with him. ERIKA I obviously beat him, because he was a boy, and all males suck. BLAINE I beat him too. He was the weakest challenger in the history of the Cinnabar Island Gym. The funny thing was, he already had one badge. Who the hell lost to him? BROCK I don't know. It was probably the lieutenant. He cares more about the army than Pokémon battling. SABRINA Nope. It was Brock. BROCK Dammit! BROCK (T.H.) I don't have a lot of respect around here. It's a shame, too, because I'm always coming up with great ideas. One time I suggested that we change the name of the Kanto Gym Leader Council to the Kanto Gym Leader Committee. It nearly passed; it only needed seven more votes! All of a sudden, a poof of smoke appears. A sharp eyed man dressed in a ninja outfit, KOGA, emerges from it. KOGA Hello! Let's get started! KOGA (T.H.) I'm Koga. I'm the gym leader here at Fuchsia City, I'm the presiding officer of the Kanto Gym Leader Council, and I love making an entrance! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM is polishing rocks on the battlefield when he hears a knock on the door. LIAM Ugh. Am I going to have to scare a challenger away? LIAM goes to open the door, and ROXANNE walks in. ROXANNE Hello. Is Brock in? ROXANNE (T.H.) Things did not end well with Brock at the convention, and I feel kind of bad about it. I thought about what I did, and maybe it was wrong for me to sleep with Roark when Brock obviously hates him. LIAM Brock isn't here right now. Why do you need to talk to him? ROXANNE Eh, we both did some stupid **** at that convention earlier, and I just want to apologize to him. ELIZABETH comes barging out of the office. ELIZABETH What the hell are you doing here, you hussy?! ROXANNE Weren't you that girl obsessed with Brock? I have a better question: why are YOU here? LIAM Tell me about it! She's a real pain in the ***. ELIZABETH Well guess what? Brock wants to marry me! So I guess while I'm enjoying life with Brock you'll be doomed to live as a spinster for eternity! ROXANNE What?! You and Brock are engaged?! I come all the way here hoping that I can somehow convince Brock that we need to move past the convention, but it seems he moved on pretty fast anyway! That's it; I'm out of here! LIAM No! Don't- ROXANNE storms out and slams the door shut. LIAM You have no idea what you just did. Brock really has the hots for Roxanne. ELIZABETH Well, hopefully he'll have the hots for me soon! LIAM (T.H.) This girl is way too obsessed with Brock. There's something... off about her. Would you happen to have any idea what it is? INT. MEETING ROOM KOGA So our first topic on the agenda is Team Rocket. BLAINE Hold up! KOGA What is it, Blaine? BLAINE Before we start going on about those folks, I need to discuss the problem on Cinnabar Island. Too many... "urban" people have been moving in! KOGA And what exactly are we supposed to do about it? BLAINE Gentrification! MISTY Blaine, rich people don't want to live on an island. Sure, they may want to go to vacation on an island, or buy their own private island, but they don't want to live on like a town on an island! BLAINE When has gentrification ever failed? If we build it, they will come! I just need funding from the council in order to build mansions on Cinnabar Island so that rich people can move in. KOGA Do I even have to take a vote on this? We all say no, right? Everyone in the room nods. KOGA Okay. Next- ERIKA Wait just a minute! If that racist codger gets to flap his yap off, so do I! KOGA Fine. What do you want, Erika? ERIKA Guys are gross. I don't want to be anywhere near them, especially when I use certain facilities. We need to segregate restrooms by gender! BROCK They're already segregated! I know because I've tried to get into the women's room on many occasions! KOGA (T.H.) The council likes to make ridiculous requests. Two months ago Brock asked for five million dollars in order to build something he called "Fun Land". No way was that going to happen, so we gave him half of what he asked for instead. BROCK (T.H.) Fun Land? That's a work in progress. Forever in progress. KOGA Now can we finally discuss Team Rocket? GIOVANNI Yes. Though I don't see what the problem is. They seem to be a good group of people. MISTY I got a ton of reports from Mt. Moon saying that members of Team Rocket were stealing Pokémon from passerby. GIOVANNI Well I'm sure they had a very good and legal reason to do so! GIOVANNI (T.H.) Theoretically speaking, if I, as a casino order, wanted to save money capturing Pokémon for use as prizes at the casino, I could, and this is purely theoretical, have members of my theoretical illegitimate business steal Pokémon from trainers. This is absolutely theoretical, of course! KOGA We still have to do something about this! We can't have a gang of crooks running amok! LT. SURGE You know, I have an idea... MISTY No, don't say nuke them! BLAINE He's so going to say that. SABRINA It's exactly what he's thinking. LT. SURGE We nuke them! Everyone except for LT. SURGE groans. KOGA INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICESurge, we've been over this. You can't just go around nuking whoever you please! LT. SURGE Listen, I have the artillery, I have the men, I don't see why I can't do this! MISTY Because it's an absurd idea! LT. SURGE No it's not! Let me tell you something! Electric Pokémon saved me during the war! They zapped my enemies into paralysis! But something else saved me during the war... SABRINA Nukes. MISTY We didn't need a mind reader to tell us that, Sabrina. LT. SURGE Nukes! Absolutely! BROCK (T.H.) The lieutenant has been telling us war stories that have been steadily growing in their unbelievability factor. First a Raichu blew someone's head off, but the last story he told involved him riding a Fearow over a warship in order to drop a nuke on it, all while waving the American flag above his head. LT. SURGE (T.H.) That story was only partially true. I was also wearing American flag patterned pants. BLAINE I honestly have some fears over Team Rocket. I'm afraid they may try and move to Cinnabar Island, as the water will make it hard for us to launch an attack on them. BUT... if we were to gentrify Cinnabar Island- KOGA We already voted on it, Blaine. No means no! BLAINE I'm just saying that Team Rocket would have less space to move onto if rich people already were on most of the property. KOGA Now that we have all the bad ideas out of the way, does anyone have any good ones? GIOVANNI I say just wait Team Rocket out. They may not even be up to anything anymore. ERIKA Only a man could come up with such a bad idea! My city's economy was nearly crippled by that casino scheme they were running! We can't let them go! BROCK I agree with Giovanni. I don't want to do anything that requires effort. LIAM is sitting at the desk. LIAM Elizabeth, can you come in? ELIZABETH walks into the office, and is surprised to see that the TV is displaying a freeze frame of herself. ELIZABETH What's this about? And how do you suddenly know my name?! LIAM Elizabeth, you were kind of a freak. Your obsession with Brock was unreal. It led me to think two things: either you had serious mental problems, or you have an ulterior motive. ELIZABETH You got me! I'm totally nuts! I'm crazy in love with Brock! LIAM I would have let you go, but then you scared Roxanne away. That was something that would seriously piss Brock off, so my only option was to ask the camera crew what your deal was. ELIZABETH Oh... LIAM They gave me a very interesting interview with you, and from what I understand, you're more interested in being a TV star than being Brock's girlfriend. ELIZABETH That doesn't seem right! I told them that in confidence! LIAM This thing is going to air eventually. You do know that, right? ELIZABETH Of course I know that! It's the only reason I'm bothering with Brock! Do you know who I am? LIAM A freak? ELIZABETH No! I'm an actress! Do you remember that big Poffin advertising campaign a few years back. LIAM No. ELIZABETH Well I was the star of it! People all around the country started reciting my catchphrase: "I want my Poffin please!" LIAM So you're a failed actress? ELIZABETH I haven't failed yet! After that commercial, I tried to move on to bigger and better things, like game show hosting or news anchoring, but every application was turned down! I couldn't stop though. I was like an Arcanine in heat! I needed a new job! LIAM I could have done without that analogy. ELIZABETH So one day, my brother comes home from traveling. You see, he's a trainer, and the only badge he was missing was the Boulder Badge. He heard that Brock was actually accepting challenges, so he made his way to the gym. Apparently Brock faked his death, but my brother told me one other thing: Brock was being filmed. As soon as news got out that Brock was alive after all, I knew that I needed to take my chance! If I could manage to become a reality TV star, I could eventually become a real star! LIAM So you tracked down Brock at that convention and pretended that you were in love with him? ELIZABETH Exactly! LIAM Well, I still think you may have mental problems. I'm confused on one thing though: if you're so desperate to have Brock fall in love with you, why hide the fact that you won the lottery? ELIZABETH If Brock knew about that money, I wouldn't get to keep it all to myself! LIAM (T.H.) Elizabeth is a real *****. INT. MEETING ROOM MISTY We can't just send someone to ask them nicely to stop! They're a criminal organization! ERIKA Well if you can't come up with a better peaceful solution, I refuse to support anything else! LT. SURGE Everyone, we have a saying in the army: if at first you don't succeed, nuke them! BLAINE That's not a saying. And there's no way nuking is a good idea! You know what a good idea is? Gentrification! KOGA Everyone! Quiet down! Brock, we haven't heard much from you other except for that you were in support of Giovanni's idea earlier. Have any new thoughts? SABRINA He's thinking about how much he has to pee right now. BROCK Well, Team Rocket doesn't seem very nice, so I say we form a task squad made up of Misty, the lieutenant, Erika, Sabrina, Blaine, Giovanni, and yourself in order to combat them. MISTY That task squad doesn't include you. ERIKA And there's no way I'm going to be in a violent organization with a bunch of men! LT. SURGE I refuse to join the task squad unless I can use nukes! KOGA No nukes! BLAINE Gentrification! ERIKA Men suck! BROCK Shut up! The room becomes silent. BROCK Everyone, we came here today to solve a problem. Our region is being ruined by a gang of thugs called Team Rocket. We have a reason to be united, and yet, all we're doing is bickering around in circles! We can either just keep arguing amongst ourselves without getting anything done, OR we can go out with dignity and just stop now! LT. SURGE I agree with Brock. It's not like I'm going to budge on this nuke thing anyway. GIOVANNI That is an excellent idea, and with that, I'm leaving! I have a very important meeting to attend to! GIOVANNI gets up and leaves the room. MISTY Brock, you're wrong! If we don't come up with a plan today, when will we ever come up with a plan? BROCK Um... next meeting, I guess? MISTY And we'll just end up bickering then too! We need to take action now! ERIKA I agree with Misty! BLAINE I agree with the side that will let me gentrify Cinnabar Island! SABRINA Brock, stop thinking about how hot Misty looks in those shorts. BROCK Please, I hate red heads! KOGA ENOUGH! The room becomes silent once again. KOGA Surge, you're an idiot. Nuking people will solve nothing. Sabrina, stop being such an ******* by reading people's minds. Erika, stop being a gigantic sexist. Blaine, stop talking about gentrification. It makes you seem like a racist. And Brock, that is the worst idea I have ever heard proposed in this council. We're here to get things done, not just give- wait... look at the time! Looks like this session of the Kanto Gym Leader Council has officially ended. Oh well, hopefully we'll have better luck next time. MISTY No! We need to solve this problem now! KOGA Misty, I would love to, but we just don't have the time! Sorry! KOGA disappears in a poof of smoke. MISTY I hope you're happy, Brock. We ended up getting nothing done! BLAINE My island will fall to urban decay! LT. SURGE And I don't get to use my nukes! BROCK (T.H.) Did I disappoint a lot of people? Yes. In the end, it doesn't really matter, because all of their ideas sucked anyway. BROCK Well, I'll see all of you at the next meeting! BROCK leaves the room. LT. SURGE Can I nuke something already? ERIKA The only way I'd get behind that is if Misty or Sabrina supported it! No way would I acknowledge a stupid man's idea! BLAINE Would Misty or Sabrina be willing to get behind gentrification too? MISTY (T.H.) It's hard being the only sane person in a room full of idiots. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA BROCK walks into the gym. LIAM is about to greet him, but ELIZABETH runs up first. ELIZABETH Brock! It's so good to see you again! How was your meeting? Was it good? I bet it was good! LIAM Hold on! Sir, I have something to tell you! ELIZABETH Don't you dare! LIAM (T.H.) I wasn't going to tell Brock about Elizabeth's scheme. It's way too complicated. I find it kind of funny that I actually believe it. Anyway, I had a surefire way to get rid of Elizabeth. LIAM Sir, earlier today, Roxanne visited. BROCK Roxanne? Does she want to date me now? LIAM Well, unfortunately, Elizabeth here told Roxanne that she was already going out with you and that you wanted to get married. BROCK What?! ELIZABETH Stop this right now, Liam! LIAM After Roxanne heard this, she stormed off, and I don't think she's ever coming back. BROCK turns to ELIZABETH and explodes in anger. BROCK YOU STUPID *****! WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?! I PUT UP WITH ALL OF YOUR ********! I LET YOU COME TO THE GYM EVERYDAY! I LET YOU TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME EVEN THOUGH I NEVER RECIPROCATE IT! AND THEN YOU TURN AROUND AND MAKE THE WOMAN THAT I HAVE THE HOTS FOR THE MOST HATE ME?! DAMMIT! As Elizabeth breaks into tears, BROCK rips one of the rock from the arena up and chucks it at the wall. The rock shatters into pieces. BROCK GET OUT! GET OUT RIGHT NOW, YOU *****! I DON'T WANT TO EVER SEE YOU BACK HERE! ELIZABETH runs out of the gym, still crying. LIAM stares at BROCK, shocked. BROCK WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?! DON'T YOU HAVE WORK TO DO OR SOMETHING?! YOU AREN'T GETTING PAID FOR NOTHING! LIAM Yes, sir! I'll get right to work, sir! LIAM (T.H.) So... I guess I hit a sore spot of Brock's or something. I still think this was a good idea, though. As LIAM runs into the office, BROCK collapses onto the gym floor. BROCK DAMMIT! DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT! BROCK (T.H.) It's amazing how a single person can ruin your life in the span of one conversation. I don't even know what to do right now. I need water. I wish the Water type gym leader was hot so that I could actually enjoy drinking water. INT. MANSION LIVING ROOM ELIZABETH is sitting in her living room, drinking a glass of wine. ELIZABETH (T.H.) So for now, I think I'm just going to lay low for a bit. Brock will find it in his heart to forgive me eventually... I hope. I've never seen anybody yell like that before! It's terrifying! I was crying and I don't even legitimately love the man! I can't imagine what I would do if I actually was in love... probably **** my pants. Anyway, I will make my grand return soon enough, and when it does, it will kick Brock's ***! |
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Love this chapter. Really funny take on the gym leaders there. Of course, you know I’ll love the NUKEEEEEES. :p I feel sorry for Misty dealing with them, haha. The revelation of Elizabeth actually acting to fall in love with Brock is quite a twist there. Haha of course, who is actually sane enough to be a fan of Brock? :P It was a bad idea for her to shoo Roxanne like that though. Brock is actually scary when he’s mad. ._. Nonetheless, can't wait to see how this will turn out in the next few chapters. |
Episode 10: The Trial INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK and LIAM are searching around the office. BROCK I swore I left that coupon somewhere! LIAM We've torn the entire office up and haven't found anything, though! BROCK (T.H.) The other day, I got a "kids eat free" coupon for a local diner. I was going to take Liam out as thanks for the job he's doing, but I can't find it. And I can assure you, I am NOT paying for his meal under any circumstance. BROCK If we don't find this coupon, we aren't going out to eat! LIAM I've looked everywhere! I can't find it! BROCK Please, as if you can call what you're doing "looking". You haven't even lifted any papers up! LIAM You know what? Maybe we got some new coupons in the mail! I'll go check! LIAM leaves the office. BROCK (T.H.) I didn't get that coupon from the mail in the first place. I have no idea what that kid is talking about. LIAM returns with a stack of mail. LIAM Well, I don't see any coupons, but hold on, I have to do my squats first! LIAM begins squatting, but BROCK swipes the mail from him. LIAM Hey! BROCK Let's see what we got here. Junk, junk, junk, court summons, junk. Oh well. Wait... court summons?! LIAM Uh-oh. LIAM (T.H.) So I never told Brock that Gladys was going to bring him to court. I guess I should have taken into account that Gladys WAS going to bring him to court. BROCK rips the letter open and begins reading. BROCK "From the law offices of Joyce"... isn't that Gladys's friend? LIAM Er... it sounds familiar. BROCK "We request that you attend court tomorrow in order to stand trial for the case of Gladys v. Brock. If you do not show up, it will be assumed that you plead guilty, and you will be fined for damages to Gladys's reputation and property. Have a pleasant day, Joyce." What the hell is this all about?! LIAM No clue, sir. BROCK There's no way Gladys has any idea about our exploits with the tape, right? She has no case! LIAM Er... right. LIAM (T.H.) I'm starting to think I should tell Brock. BROCK So we'll go in there, fight this thing, and counter sue for wasting my time! LIAM I don't think you can actually sue someone for that, sir. BROCK Well you should be able to! All of a sudden, a man in a suit and bow tie, LARS, walks into the office. BROCK Hey, who the hell are you? Have you ever heard of knocking? LARS Ah, excuse me. I'm Lars. I'm a lawyer with the Pokémon League. LARS (T.H.) Being a lawyer for the Pokémon League is... exciting, to say the least. I'm still working on this big defense for Erika. I still can't figure out how to justify her closing the gym to all males. BROCK A lawyer?! Don't tell me you're going to sue me too?! LARS No, of course not! I was sent by the Pokémon League to help you! I'm their corporate lawyer! Whenever someone in the league gets involved in a lawsuit, I'm sent to help. LIAM Sir, the higher ups are going to help us out of this! BROCK I don't need a lawyer! LARS Brock, if you want to fight this, you need me. I've contacted this Joyce character, and apparently she has very concrete evidence against you. Luckily I've been able to get into contact with some character witnesses that should be able to help... BROCK I told you! I don't need a lawyer! I'm going to represent myself in court! LARS That's a foolish mistake. BROCK It may very well be, but at least then I can put that I was a lawyer on my resume! LARS That's not how that works. BROCK Really? Dammit. Fine, you can defend me. LARS Good. Now I'm going to need to know if the plaintiff, Gladys, contacted you in any way before the lawsuit came to light. BROCK Nope! We haven't heard a peep from her since I almost had sex with her at that museum gala! LARS Oh... LARS (T.H.) I've defended crooks, murderers, and people that let their Pokémon poop on other people's lawns without any moral quandaries, but I'm feeling kind of iffy defending this Brock character. LIAM Well... she may have said some stuff to me. BROCK What?! LARS Do go on. LIAM Um... when I went into her office, I may have written something on her desk... and she may have found it. BROCK Why the hell would you write something on her desk?! LIAM I dunno... it's like when a Growlithe pisses on your carpet to mark its territory, I guess. And I wanted to add insult to injury by defacing her property too. LARS Well, this doesn't leave us well off. I didn't know she had such solid evidence. BROCK Dammit Liam! I bet we're going to lose this case because of you! LARS Calm down. Have faith in our witnesses. If we can woo the jury, we'll be set. Anyway, I'm going to return back to the office. I'll see you two characters tomorrow at the courthouse. LARS leaves the office. BROCK Liam, this is all your fault! I can't believe you did this! LIAM I'm sorry, sir. BROCK First that ***** scares off Roxanne, and now this! I can't believe it! Why is life sucking so much?! LIAM Chin up, sir! Lars seemed to think that we can do well in the trial tomorrow. BROCK As if! We're screwed! So utterly screwed! BROCK storms into his office as LIAM sighs. LIAM (T.H.) Well, at least I got off better than Elizabeth did. INT. COURTROOM LOBBY BROCK and LIAM are waiting in chairs, dressed up in suits. LARS enters. LARS Well, are you ready for this? BROCK No. LARS (T.H.) Clients tend to be nervous right before the trial begins. They have reason to be, too. Half the time I show up hung over to these trials. LARS Don't worry. I don't think that Joyce is going to call you as a witness. I'm certainly not calling you as a witness either, so you just have to sit nicely and look sympathetic to the jury. BROCK Will do! LIAM What about me? LARS I haven't heard much about you. There's been talk of a Regis character, though. LIAM That's me... LARS Why would you have two names? No wonder you got into this mess. INT. COURTROOM BROCK, LIAM, and LARS enter the courtroom and take their seats at the defendant's bench. GLADYS and JOYCE notice them and walk over. GLADYS Ha! Today is finally the day I get to ruin you, Brock! JOYCE I bet you didn't know I was a lawyer, right? JOYCE laughs. JOYCE (T.H.) I hope whoever is watching this doesn't assume I'm just some unemployed layabout until they finally watch the trial. LARS Don't reply to them. They're trying to goad you into a response. BROCK Well it's working! I'm in a ****** mood, Gladys. The last thing I needed was this ******** lawsuit! You aren't going to see a penny out of me, and then you're going to rot in jail! LARS The judge can't make her go to jail, you know. BROCK I don't care! I'll make a citizen's arrest if I have to! LARS sighs. JOYCE Someone is angry! This should be fun! GLADYS Remember, Joyce, you have a job to do. GLADYS (T.H.) How come you're still filming? Are cameras even around in the courtroom? GLADYS and JOYCE return to their seats as the BAILIFF enters the room. BAILIFF All rise for the honorable Judge Reinhold. As the courtroom audience rises, REINHOLD enters the courtroom and takes his seat. REINHOLD Order in the court! Some large fries, please! BAILIFF (T.H.) I have told the judge many times to not quit his day job. The courtroom audience sits downs as REINHOLD begins talking again. REINHOLD Okay, so we have the case of Gladys v. Brock today. I see we have a lovely jury. Who is our head juror today? HARRIET rises from the jury bench. HARRIET Hello, your honor. BROCK Wait a minute, I know Harriet! How can she be a juror? HARRIET Do I know you? BROCK I'm Brock! I gave you those fitness lessons! HARRIET Doesn't ring a bell. JOYCE Harriet suffers from advanced age. I doubt she has any recollection of you or me. REINHOLD Well, can we get this thing started already? My bowling league is meeting today and I don't want to be late. The last person to show up always has to buy pizza and I'm not made of money. BROCK (T.H.) The courts in Pewter City use an odd system. Because of the number of petty lawsuits that keep popping up, all trials can only last one day. I'm partly to blame; I once sued a man for looking at me funny. REINHOLD So can we hear from the plaintiff now? JOYCE Of course. JOYCE gets up and talks to the jury. JOYCE People of the jury, the man you see before you is a very bad man. REINHOLD Hey! I'm going to hold you in contempt of court! REINHOLD (T.H.) I like threatening to hold people in contempt of court. I've never actually made good on my threats, but still, it shows them that I have the power! JOYCE I'm talking about Brock, your honor. He ruined my client's reputation by manipulating a poor, young man. LIAM I resent that! Once my exercise tapes become a hit, I won't be poor anymore! JOYCE Can everyone stop interrupting my opening statement? REINHOLD Yeah, we get it, Brock is bad. You're done. Can the defense get up here? JOYCE sits down as LARS gets up. LARS Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the plaintiff is a big, fat liar. Brock is a good man. He always stops for traffic lights... except when he's in a rush. He pays his taxes early... except for when he forgets. And he has never murdered anyone! Would a man like that be guilty? Absolutely not! LARS sits down. BROCK Thank you. That was very flattering. REINHOLD Okay, so the plaintiff has evidence or a witness or something, right? JOYCE We have both! JOYCE pulls out a stack of photographs and starts passing them out. JOYCE Exhibit A! As you can see, Liam wrote on Gladys's desk! He must have wrote that when Brock forced him to steal from her office. LARS Objection! You have no way to prove that Liam wrote that in the office at that time, or that the Liam that wrote that is the same Liam that sits before us today! JOYCE Don't sustain that objection, your honor! REINHOLD What? Hold on, I'm looking at this picture. It's great! What kind of camera did you take it with? Is this glossy print? JOYCE Whatever. I have a witness that will prove that Liam WAS in the office at the time. I call the Editor in Chief of the Pewter City Gazette to the stand! The EDITOR IN CHIEF walks up to the stand. The BAILIFF holds a copy of the Book of Arceus up to him. BAILIFF Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Arceus? EDITOR IN CHIEF Um... I thought we discussed this earlier. I wasn't going to swear on the Book of Arceus. BAILIFF Oh, sorry. Hold on. The BAILIFF puts down the Book of Arceus and holds up a copy of the Pewter City Gazette. The EDITOR IN CHIEF places his hand on the paper. BAILIFF JOYCE approaches the witness stand as the EDITOR IN CHIEF takes his seat.Do you swear the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you... um... yourself, I guess? EDITOR IN CHIEF I do. BAILIFF (T.H.) I hate when witnesses want to swear on stuff other than the Book of Arceus. Just deal with it. We don't have "one nation under Arceus" in our Pledge of Allegiance just so you can swear on a stack of your own newspapers! JOYCE Mr. Editor, let me ask you a question. On the day Gladys claims that a tape from her office was stolen, did you get any visitors? EDITOR IN CHIEF Yes! There was a boy named Regis! He accused Gladys of being a corrupt journalist! JOYCE And what did this Regis boy look like? EDITOR IN CHIEF Why, there he is, right in front of us! The EDITOR IN CHIEF points to LIAM. This causes an uproar in the courtroom. JOYCE shouts over the commotion. JOYCE As we can see, Liam was in the Pewter City Gazette offices on the day the tape was stolen! Not only did Brock have him steal, he had him defame my client as well. BROCK No I didn't! REINHOLD ORDER! REINHOLD bangs his gavel until the courtroom becomes quiet. REINHOLD Brock, can you prove you didn't have the boy commit those crimes? BROCK Of course I can! Didn't you hear all those nice things my lawyer said about me? Would a guy like that commit any crimes? REINHOLD Well, if the defendant has nothing else to say, I'm willing to let the jury make its decision right now. The faster this is over, the faster I get to my bowling league. LARS Hold on! We still have a witness to call! JOYCE Do you really think a character witness will save you? I've established quite well that Brock is a terrible person. LARS I don't care! I call Merv to the stand! MERV (T.H.) When I heard I was going to be a witness in a trial, I got really excited! My trophy wife loves all those law shows, so being a real life witness will surely win her back! MERV walks up to the witness stand and the BAILIFF holds the Book of Arceus up to him. BAILIFF Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you Arceus? MERV Yeah, sure, I just need to be off the witness stand by three. LARS approaches the stand as MERV sits down. LARS Merv, let me ask you something. Is Brock a good guy? LARS (T.H.) What I do with character witnesses is ask them questions that will receive a positive answer about the defendant, and then... uh... that's it. MERV Brock is a great guy! Not a lot of people like me. My ex wife doesn't like me. My ex trophy wife that I left my ex wife for doesn't like me. But Brock? Brock's a stand up guy. I attended a fitness program he ran. He was a great teacher, and the program price was very affordable. JOYCE Objection! I was there! That entire program was a ripoff and a scam! MERV How did I become so much more fit then? REINHOLD Order! Lars, continue. LARS Thank you. Now then, do you have anything else to say, Merv? MERV Actually, I have a question. You lawyers were saying earlier that Liam is also some Regis guy. How can that be? LARS Apparently Liam used the name Regis when he allegedly entered the Pewter City Gazette offices. MERV There's no way that they're the same person! I visited the Pewter City Gym one time, and some guy named Regis was there! He was a real jerk! That couldn't have been Liam! He must have an evil doppelganger or something! LARS So you're saying that Liam and this Regis character can't be the same person? MERV Exactly! The courtroom breaks into an uproar. LARS Jurors, you heard it with your own ears! Liam and Regis are not the same person, which means there is no way to prove that Liam was at the Pewter City Gazette offices on the day Gladys lost her tape! GLADYS No way! I happened to meet "Regis" at the Pewter City Gym as well, and it was definitely just Liam putting on a tough guy act! REINHOLD bangs his gavel. REINHOLD ORDER! Witness, are you sure Liam and Regis are two different people? MERV They have to be! Either that, or he has a split personality! LARS I'd like to request Liam's medical records be brought here immediately! That will prove without a doubt that Liam is not Regis! GLADYS Dammit, Joyce! How is this happening? JOYCE I didn't realize that their witness would be so stupid! The BAILIFF heads out to retrieve the medical records. LARS Once the bailiff returns, we'll have all the evidence we need to get you off the hook, Brock! BROCK That's good. BROCK (T.H.) I'm really bored. I can't even remember the last time I talked to the camera like this. The BAILIFF returns with the medical records and distributed copies to the courtroom audience. LARS As you can see, Liam is mentally healthy! There's no way he has split personality disorder, therefore, he is not Regis, and he did not break into Gladys's office on the day her tape recording went missing! REINHOLD Well, I think that's all we have to see. Jury, it's time to deliberate! INT. COURTROOM LOBBY BROCK, LIAM, and LARS are discussing the trial. LARS Well, it looks like we've got this in the bag! LIAM When we win, I want to celebrate with some ice cream! BROCK Sorry, but I don't have any coupons for ice cream, Liam. The BAILIFF walks into the lobby. BAILIFF The jury has made its decision. Time to go back in there. LARS Ready to hear the good news? LIAM I was until I heard there wasn't going to be any ice cream. INT. COURTROOM Everyone has taken their seats except for REINHOLD, who walks out of his chamber wearing a bowling shirt instead of his judge's robes. REINHOLD Sorry, everyone, but I really have to get to my bowling league after this trial! REINHOLD takes his seat. REINHOLD So anyway, jurists, what decision have you come to? HARRIET rises. HARRIET We find the defendant, Brock, not guilty! HARRIET sits back down as BROCK gets up to do a little dance. BROCK GLADYS sighs, but then she looks at the camera.Haha! In your face, Gladys! GLADYS I can't believe this! You're such a disgrace to Pewter City! You deserved to lose this lawsuit and get fired from your job as gym leader! LARS Fired? He seems a bit air headed, but not that bad. GLADYS You should have been there when I interviewed him! He's the most incompetent gym leader out there! He goes through excessive lengths to avoid battling people! I'm pretty sure he even faked his death! Joyce, is there anything we can do to stop this? JOYCE Argh... the jury made the decision. We're finished. REINHOLD Well then, Brock is not guilty, and court is adjourned. Now if you'll excuse me, I got to go bowling! GLADYS Wait! That camera has been filming Brock at least since I first interviewed him! Why didn't we think of those before? Evidence of his crimes have to be on there! REINHOLD Sorry, but he was already declared not guilty, and we have double jeopardy here and all that. So goodbye! REINHOLD rushes out of the courtroom as GLADYS approaches BROCK. BROCK Well, unfortunately for you, my defense was rock solid! GLADYS slaps BROCK. GLADYS You idiot! You can only continue this charade for so long until everything collapses around you! I hope you burn in hell! LARS I'm sorry, miss, but do you have any proof of these accusations? GLADYS It's like I said earlier: it's all in that camera. I'm sure its recorded plenty of Brock's blunders. Once that footage gets out, he'll be revealed for the sham he is! With that, GLADYS storms off, JOYCE chasing after her. GLADYS (T.H.) Stop filming me! Haven't you realized by now I'm sick of being on your stupid little show? And I'm never prepared! I didn't even put my good makeup on today! LARS Hmm... how much has been recorded, Brock? BROCK Oh, there's so much recorded! My interview with Gladys, my fitness program scam, faking my death... LARS Wow, that sounds like a lot. LARS (T.H.) So I've decided I'm going to take these tapes back with me to the Indigo Plateau. Whatever shenanigans have been going on at Pewter City, the League needs to know about. Especially if there are any potential lawsuits on our hands. I really don't want to defend Brock again. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA BROCK and LIAM walk into the gym. LIAM Sir, you did a great job out there today! BROCK I know! Lars helped out too, but I did most of the legwork. BROCK (T.H.) Lars told me not to, but I'm going to put "lawyer" on all my future resumes anyway. LIAM So what do we do now, sir? BROCK Eh... I don't know... BROCK puts his hands in his pockets, lost, but then seems surprised. BROCK Wait! I have something in my pockets! I hope it's money! BROCK pulls something out of his pockets, but it's not money. Instead, it is a coupon. LIAM There it is! The missing coupon! But... how'd it get into those pants? BROCK (T.H.) I don't really have a system for storing paper, so I tend to just stuff coupons and stuff in whatever pants I have. The only reason I didn't check my dress pants in the first place is because usually I only store coupons that give me fifty dollars or more off in them! BROCK That's not important! It looks like we can go out to dinner now after all! I still wish it was money in my pocket, though. LIAM Yay! I get a free meal! BROCK Actually, we're going to split the bill. 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Another fine chapter there. Haha, Gladys should have thought of using the show’s camera as evidence, so it sucks that she didn’t. And yay for the return of Harriet and Merv! It pays to have stupid people as witnesses, sometimes. :P Looking forward to what happens next! |
Episode 11: The Inspection INT. CONFERENCE ROOM Sitting in the room are LORELEI, a bespectacled woman with her hair tied up, BRUNO, a buff man wearing nothing except baggy pants, AGATHA, an elderly woman wearing an old fashioned dress, and LANCE, a fiery haired man wearing a cape. The room is dark, except for a TV at the end of the room, currently playing the scene of BROCK faking his death. LANCE picks up the remote and pauses the video. LANCE BRUNO, LORELEI, and AGATHA nod.Well, what do we all think? LORELEI I always thought Brock was kind of dumb, but I didn't realize he was this incompetent. LORELEI (TALKING HEAD) I'm in charge of all public relations for the Pokémon League. Anyway, a while ago, I was approached by a production company that wanted to do an eight part series on all the Kanto gym leaders. I thought that was fine, so I approved it. After one day of filming down in Pewter City, they call me up and say that they're going to need to stay in Pewter for a bit longer because apparently they were getting great footage. Now I understand. AGATHA I agree with Lorelei. Why did we hire him in the first place? BRUNO Er... he may have been my cousin. AGATHA Nepotism?! Dammit, Bruno! LANCE Calm down, Agatha. If I recall correctly, the old leader had left, and no one else wanted the position in Pewter City. He was literally the only person who would take the job. AGATHA Don't tell me to calm down, Lance! Why didn't we properly vet him? BRUNO Why weren't you so worried about this when he was first hired?! BRUNO (T.H.) Agatha is just trying to get revenge on Brock for tackling her at the Pokémon League barbecue. LANCE Please, calm down! Let's not worry about what we didn't do in the past; focus on what we're going to do now. Do we remove Brock from his position now? BRUNO And replace him with who? LANCE Er... LORELEI To be honest, I'm still a bit weary of this video. It was filmed as a documentary meant to entertain. How do we know that this wasn't edited to hell and back in order to make Brock look like an idiot? AGATHA So you want him to keep his job? LORELEI Don't jump to conclusions. What I'm suggesting is that we send an inspector to the Pewter City Gym. If Brock has just been made to look like a fool, the inspector will tell us that, and if Brock really is a fool, the inspector would also tell us that. LANCE Well, this sounds like the best option to me. Can we all agree? LANCE INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENAI'll send the inspector right away. BROCK and LIAM are talking. BROCK Things look like they're really turning around! Even though all that crap with Roxanne happened, I managed to beat that trial! I feel unstoppable! LIAM I bet that if a challenger walked into the gym right now, you could beat him! BROCK Don't go that far. But still, I feel as if I'm on top of the world! The office phone rings. BROCK Oh my! You know what? I bet that's someone telling me that I won one of those contests we entered a while back! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK and LIAM rush into the office, and BROCK grabs the phone. BROCK Hello! Did I win? LANCE (VOICE ONLY) Brock? Hey, it's Lance. BROCK Oh. To what do I owe this call? LANCE (V.O.) Nothing major. Just thought I'd give you a heads up that a Pokémon League inspector should be dropping by in a few hours. BROCK Why?! LANCE (V.O.) Oh, it's just a standard inspection. Don't worry about it! BROCK I'm not worried! LANCE (V.O.) Ah, good. Have a pleasant day then. LANCE ends the call. BROCK drops the phone onto the floor. LIAM Sir, are you okay? BROCK I'm finished! LIAM What are you talking about?! BROCK And I was doing so well, too! I got rid of Elizabeth, I beat that trial, but none of it matters anymore! LIAM Calm down, sir! BROCK No! This is the end! The Pokémon League finally got wise to my game! That inspector is going to fail me, and then I'm going to get the boot from the gym! LIAM What do you mean? You're a great gym leader, sir! BROCK No, I'm not. BROCK (T.H.) I used to think I was hot ****. Ever since that reporter came, though, I've felt terrible. I tried ignoring it, but reflecting on everything that had happened since, I noticed I made a lot of terrible decisions: faking my death, my outburst at the ribbon cutting, my argument with Roark at the convention. I guess it took someone else realizing that I'm a horrible gym leader for myself to realize that I'm a horrible gym leader. BROCK Liam, get out of here. I need to be alone. LIAM But what about the inspector?! BROCK gets up and pushes LIAM out the door. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM is pacing back and forth. LIAM (T.H.) Brock has been locked up in his office for about an hour now. I don't know when the inspector is coming, but right now, things are looking grim. The gym is terribly dirty, and there's absolutely nothing going on! LIAM goes to office wall and bangs on it. LIAM Get out here, sir! I'm going to need your help to prepare for the inspector! BROCK (V.O.) What's the point? It won't make a difference anyway! LIAM We can do this, sir! You just have to come out of that office, and then we can prepare to really impress that inspector! LIAM does not get a reply. LIAM tries to open the office door, but it is locked. LIAM Ugh. How the heck am I going to prepare the gym for an inspection without Brock's help? EXT. MANOR LIAM rings the manor doorbell. The door opens to reveal ELIZABETH, standing in her pajamas. ELIZABETH ELIZABETH motions for LIAM to enter the manor.Oh dear, the cameras are here! Why didn't you tell me? I'm not prepared at all! My hair is all frizzy! People can't see me like this! LIAM There's a problem at the gym! ELIZABETH I know that. Brock rejected me. LIAM No, a real problem. ELIZABETH What is it? LIAM An inspector is coming to the gym! If we don't pass, the Pewter City Gym is finished! ELIZABETH Hmm... that wouldn't be good for my aspirations of stardom. Fine, come in. INT. MANOR LIVING ROOM ELIZABETH and LIAM walk into the living room. They both take a seat on different couches. ELIZABETH So this is my place. I bought it with all my lottery money. It's nice. LIAM Don't be modest. It doesn't suit you. ELIZABETH Ha! I suppose you're right! Look at this place! It's great! ELIZABETH points to a gigantic statue of herself a way off in the room. ELIZABETH I had that built on commission. I wanted it done in a day and it WAS done in a day. LIAM Exactly how much money did you win in the lottery? ELIZABETH A lot. ELIZABETH (T.H.) Yes, I had my lottery money, but then I took half of it and used it to short sell a bunch of Pewter City Gym stocks. Best idea I ever had. ELIZABETH Anyway, what do you want? You said there was some sort of problem with an inspector... LIAM An inspector is coming and Brock is depressed and there is no way the gym can be ready in time and I'm out of breath! ELIZABETH Hm... I'm assuming that if Brock fails the inspection, he will be fired, correct? LIAM Correct! ELIZABETH Ugh. We can't have that now, can we? LIAM We can't! ELIZABETH So what do we do? LIAM We do! ELIZABETH What? LIAM Er... never mind. I got caught up in the moment. But anyway, if you were to help out, and Brock didn't fail, he would really appreciate it. ELIZABETH Good. I'm tired of being a bit player in this documentary. I want to be second only to Brock! LIAM But wait... that's me! I'm second only to Brock right now! ELIZABETH Oh, that's why you're funny, Liam. LIAM (T.H.) Maybe coming here was a bad idea... LIAM Why do you care so much about this anyway? You already won the lottery. Why not just use your money to make you famous? ELIZABETH I don't want to be famous just for being rich like some stupid heiress, Liam. If I'm going to be famous, I want to go about it the right way. I want the public to love me because of my broadcasted antics with Brock, not because of my money. LIAM Either way, you're conceited. ELIZABETH So be it. Can we get over to the gym now? I want Brock to fall in love with me already. LIAM Yes, but you can't draw attention to yourself. Brock is still pretty pissed off about what happened with Roxanne, so if he knew you were helping me before it happened, he would really flip out. ELIZABETH Fine, I'll put up with your little charade for now. Let's go. INT. CAR The Pokémon League inspector, GARTH, is driving in his car to the Pewter City Gym. GARTH (T.H.) Hello, I'm Garth, and I'm the inspector for the Pokémon League. Do I like my job? Eh, it's okay. I don't really get called into action very much. The last time I was needed at a gym was due to a complaint at the Vermilion City Gym. I got a tip off that Lt. Surge was expressing gross misconduct. Turned out he was just picking his nose. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM and ELIZABETH walk into the gym. ELIZABETH So what needs to be done? LIAM Well, the entire gym needs to be cleaned. That's usually my job, but I kind of gave it up after I started my whole squatting phase. ELIZABETH That can be done; we'll just need to hire some homeless people for an hour. What else? LIAM According to the Pokémon League handbook, activities such as Pokémon battles should take place at the gym. ELIZABETH We know there's an Articuno's chance in hell of that actually happening, so what else can we do? LIAM Well, the gym leader is supposed to promote the local community as a whole... ELIZABETH Okay then! We'll hold a big fundraiser tonight for the museum. I'll call the local press so they can make an announcement. ELIZABETH whips out her cellphone. ELIZABETH Liam, go over to the museum and tell the curator we're holding the event. Then make some fliers and hand them out to anyone you see. I'll take care of the cleaning. LIAM Yes, ma'am! LIAM (T.H.) It's almost like she's running the gym... INT. PEWTER CITY MUSEUM LOBBY LIAM enters the museum to find MAGNUS milling around. LIAM Magnus... MAGNUS Oh, Liam my boy! I'm sure glad you recovered from that pretty grim beating the Kabuto gave you! We were all so worried! MAGNUS (T.H.) Was I personally worried for him? No. But quite frankly, it's a liability for the museum to have people getting hurt here. LIAM I'm doing fine. I was surprised Madeline didn't visit me, though. MAGNUS Oh, she can just be a little shy sometimes. But what brings you here? Did you want to check out the new exhibit we have on Aerodactyl urine? LIAM No... I just came to tell you that we're holding a big fundraiser for the museum at the gym. LIAM (T.H.) Dammit, there's a new exhibit about Aerodactyl urine?! Why did that inspection have to be today?! MAGNUS Oh really?! That's so generous! I'll be sure to tell everyone I know, and don't be surprised if I make an appearance! LIAM Sounds good. Be sure to hype it up! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA ELIZABETH is pacing around the gym, talking on her cellphone, as a large group of homeless people, led by CLIFF, are cleaning the gym. ELIZABETH So we're having a fundraiser at the gym tonight for the Pewter City Museum. Can we get on the news? DIRK (V.O.) I suppose I can give you a spot. It's been a slow news day. The most newsworthy thing that happened today was that a plane landed safely. CLIFF Hey boss, can we all use the bathroom here? ELIZABETH For the last time, Cliff, no! DIRK (V.O.) What was that? ELIZABETH Just talking to someone else. But thank you so much, Dirk! I'll tell everyone I know to watch GNN today! DIRK (V.O.) Okay. You'll see my on the TV tonight. Bye. ELIZABETH closes her phone. CLIFF Now why can't we use the bathroom? My buddies and I haven't been squatted a loaf on a toilet seat in ages! ELIZABETH Squat a loaf... what? Who calls it that? CLIFF I do! ELIZABETH Well not today! Finish up cleaning and get out of here! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK is sitting at his desk in a daze, watching TV. BROCK (T.H.) I've been watching a lot of TV lately. Did you know there was a channel that tells you what channels tell you what's on the other channels? BROCK is flipping through channels when he hits GNN. DIRK (T.V.) Good afternoon, everyone. We here at GNN have an announcement to make for the Pewter City Area. Tonight there will be- BROCK changes the channel. BROCK (T.H.) Boring! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM walks into the gym. LIAM Wow, this place looks amazing! ELIZABETH If you have enough homeless people, anything is possible. So what next? LIAM Well, we can set up some gambling games where all the proceeds go to charity, and give a prize to whoever wins the most money. ELIZABETH Prize, got it. What else? LIAM If we charge people at the door we can give them some sort of meal. ELIZABETH I'll just get some fast food and put it on fancy silverware. No one will notice. LIAM That works. LIAM (T.H.) We may actually be able to pull this off. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE BROCK is sitting at his desk, still watching TV, but now eating a bag of chips too. SOAP ACTRESS (T.V.) Don't ever leave me! SOAP ACTOR (T.V.) I can't, because you used Mean Look on me! BROCK grabs a handful of chips and stuffs them into his mouth. BROCK (T.H.) This is gripping stuff. SOAP ACTRESS (T.V.) You stole my heart by using Thief! SOAP ACTOR (T.V.) I had to. I failed at killing your lover because I only used False Swipe. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA The gym is now completely transformed. Gambling paraphernalia is set up on one side, while tables, chairs, and dining equipment, and food is set up on the other side. LIAM The place looks great. Brock will be proud. Sadly, you have to go now. We can't risk Brock seeing you anymore. ELIZABETH I understand. But thankfully, Brock will want me back in his life after this evening is a success! ELIZABETH waves goodbye to LIAM and walks out the door. LIAM (T.H.) Good thing she's gone. I had no intention of telling Brock about any of her help. I don't want her taking any of my credit! EXT. PEWTER CITY GYM GARTH parks his car in the gym parking lot and exits. GARTH (T.H.) Wow, lots of cars around here! I wonder what's going on? It's my job to find out, so I may as well go in! I just hope there's no nose picking involved. GARTH walks up to the gym door and enters. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA GARTH enters. GARTH Holy Miltank! The gym is packed with people gambling and eating. LIAM notices GARTH has arrived and runs over. LIAM Hello, you must be the inspector! I'm Liam, the gym assistant! GARTH I'm Garth. I must say, it's quite impressive what you've put on here! LIAM How about I take you around for a look? GARTH That would be great. Is the gym normally this clean? LIAM Normally? I'd call this a bad day! GARTH Wow, you must keep the gym pretty tidy. LIAM Absolutely I do, and that is not a lie at all! LIAM and GARTH walk over to a blackjack table. JEFF, MERV, and STEVE are all playing. LIAM As you can see, the vibrant Pewter City community has come out to gamble for charity. STEVE Charity?! You mean we don't get to keep our winnings?! STEVE (T.H.) It turns out the stockbroker business isn't doing so well anymore, so if anyone out there just wants to donate money to me, that would be great! MERV I'm just excited about that prize! My trophy wife was always complaining about the microwave, so if I returned with a new one, she'd surely take me back! JEFF I'm just happy to be playing blackjack. JEFF (T.H.) When Brock was playing, blackjack was a disaster. I don't mind playing blackjack in the gym as long as I don't see his face at the table. GARTH Gee whiz, people from all walks of life show up to support the gym! LIAM Yes, people support the gym all the time! I am not fibbing at all right now! LIAM and GARTH are walking over to the dining area when they are stopped by MAGNUS, with MADELINE in tow. MAGNUS Liam, this is great! I wish you could throw fundraisers for the museum more often! LIAM You know me, there are so many charities we have to support, it's hard to find time for them all. I'm not bending the truth right now! GARTH Golly, the Pewter Gym sure is charitable! MAGNUS Madeline sure is impressed with everything! LIAM looks at MADELINE, but she quickly turns away from him. MADELINE (T.H.) Usually when I take advantage of people, I never see them again, so when I heard I had to go to the Pewter City Gym tonight for a fundraiser, I was seriously considering attending in a disguise. LIAM Enjoy the rest of the night, Magnus! MAGNUS I'm sure I will! LIAM and GARTH walk over to the dining area, where ARTIE is currently eating. LIAM As you can see, we also provided food for everyone in attendance. ARTIE This hamburger is simply delectable! Though it does taste awfully similar to the hamburger you can purchase at the establishment just a bit down the road... LIAM That must be purely coincidental! What I said was not a false statement! LIAM (T.H.) I sure have been doing a lot of flat out lying tonight... GARTH What's that over there? GARTH points over to a TV with a couple of exercise mats in front of it, where HARRIET is currently doing squats. LIAM Oh, that? It's nothing, honestly! GARTH walks over to the TV, with LIAM chasing after him. GARTH examines the TV and sees LIAM is on it, guiding an exercise. LIAM (T.V.) LIAM walks over to the office door, with GARTH following him. LIAM knocks on the door.Good job on those four squats! For this next exercise, we're going to do five squats! That's one more squat than the last exercise! HARRIET I'm improving already! GARTH You put out exercise tapes as well? I didn't know that the Pewter City Gym was fighting obesity! LIAM Oh, those are just a side project of mine... GARTH Nonsense! You sure are devoted to this gym! But where's the man of the hour, Brock? LIAM I'll get him. LIAM Brock, the inspector is here! BROCK (V.O.) Fine. I guess I'll come out now... BROCK exits the office, his hair disheveled and his clothes covered with chip crumbs, and his jaw drops as he surveys the gym. BROCK I can't believe it... GARTH Brock, I have to say that this is a wonderful event that the Pewter City Gym is holding tonight! It's great to see gym leaders want to take an active part in the community! BROCK Oh... oh! Of course it is! I try my best. You know I once donated a rock to the Pewter City Museum? GARTH Well, I'm sure the amount of money you'll raise for the museum tonight will top that! BROCK Oh, this is for the museum? GARTH I beg your pardon? BROCK I said, "This is great for the museum!" GARTH It sure is! Now then, it was nice to meet both of you, but I've seen all I need to see here. I'll be going back home now. Enjoy the rest of the night! BROCK We sure will! GARTH goes through the rest of the crowd and makes his exit. BROCK How the hell did you pull this off, Liam? LIAM Hard work and determination? BROCK That's good enough for me! I can't believe it! I've dodged another bullet! I should have been more optimistic! LIAM And you should definitely not thank Elizabeth for any of this, because she did not help in any way whatsoever. BROCK That's fine with me; I hate that girl. Now then, I haven't used the bathroom all day. Excuse me for the moment. BROCK enters the bathroom and shouts. BROCK (OFF CAMERA) What the hell is a homeless guy doing in here?! CLIFF (OFF CAMERA) I'm just squatting a loaf! BROCK (T.H.) There are some days that you think are going to go bad, but they end up turning out really well. This was one of those days! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play blackjack. I saw that one guy I played with earlier at the table! I'm sure he'll love to play cards with me again! LIAM (T.H.) I'm just happy all the work is over. I'm not even in the mood for squats right now. INT. CAR GARTH is in his car, driving back to the Pokémon League. GARTH (T.H.) I have to say, I was really impressed by what a saw at the Pewter City Gym! Good people, good times, good food, and it's all thanks to that Liam kid! He's really the heartbeat of that gym! How would it function without his ambition? It probably wouldn't! |
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Haha at the soap opera Brock was watching. Indeed, some intense stuff there. XD I have to say, I actually like that in this chapter Brock realizes all the horrible things he had done throughout the show. Sure, it took him 11 episodes to figure that out, but better late than never. *nods* Yay for Brock feeling better and everything turning out well in the end. Looking forward to the last two chapters! |
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Episode 12: Brown Nosing INT. CAR BROCK is driving in a rental car with LIAM in the passenger seat. BROCK (TALKING HEAD) So Liam and I are on the way to Indigo Plateau. The Elite Four has summoned us there to go over the results of the inspection. Quite honestly, I'm expecting an increase in funding. LIAM I don't get why we're driving there so early, then... BROCK (T.H.) You see, I'm going there so early because even though we both think the inspection went really well, there's nothing wrong with doing a bit of *** kissing beforehand. I'll just pay a visit to all the members of the Elite Four, and when they go over my inspection, they'll just remember how charming I was! LIAM Hey, can I turn the radio on, sir? BROCK Don't you dare! INT. HALLWAY BROCK and LIAM walk through the Pokémon League hallway and reach the office of LORELEI. BROCK (T.H.) So first off I'm going to take Lorelei out for lunch. I may be taking a big risk here, since I've never had much luck with the ladies, but I'm just brown nosing, so no pressure! BROCK knocks on the office door, and LORELEI walks out. LORELEI Hello? BROCK is stunned, as his eyes are fixed on her cleavage. BROCK Uh... LORELEI Close you mouth. That's how you catch bug type Pokémon. BROCK Uh... sorry! BROCK quickly shifts his gaze upward. LORELEI You're Brock, aren't you? That would explain why the camera's following you, at least. What do you want? We aren't having our meeting with you for a few more hours, and even so, we aren't having the meeting in my office. BROCK Oh, I thought Liam and I would just take you out for lunch! LORELEI I packed a sandwich on my way to work... but fine, I guess we can go out for lunch. LORELEI (T.H.) I'm not that big a fan of being filmed, especially when I'm eating. Why does everyone have to watch me chew? It's disgusting! INT. DINING ROOM BROCK, LIAM, and LORELEI have gone to a restaurant. A WAITER approaches there table. WAITER And what will we be having to eat this afternoon? BROCK glances at LORELEI. BROCK I'll have the breast... er... I mean chicken breast! LORELEI sighs. LORELEI (T.H.) The WAITER leaves.Yes, my boobs are big. Get over it. LIAM I'll have half of a grilled cheese sandwich! WAITER We don't offer half. You can only order the whole thing. LIAM But wouldn't it be cheaper? WAITER Nope. It would cost the same. LIAM Fine, I'll have the grilled cheese. LIAM (T.H.) Brock told me he that he wasn't going to pay for my meal, so I'm trying to be frugal. LORELEI I'll have the broccoli rabe. WAITER Okay. I will be back with your orders soon. LORELEI Liam, you put on quite the spectacular at the gym the other day, or at least I heard. BROCK Oh, the fundraiser was great! LORELEI I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Liam. BROCK Oh... LIAM Well, it was a lot of hard work, but I think it paid off. Everyone was really impressed! Even the inspector! BROCK So Lorelei, how about this weather we're having? It sure has been nice out. It's good weather to just go for a stroll in! LORELEI Is that all you can talk to me about? Just pointless small talk? BROCK Uh... what's your favorite color? LORELEI Blue. LORELEI takes a sip of her wine. LORELEI (T.H.) Where's the waiter? I'm going to need more of this. The WAITER has brought the food out. As BROCK, LIAM, and LORELEI eat, BROCK looks at a certain area of LORELEI. LORELEI You know, Brock, when you eat, you should try and keep your head up. BROCK Sorry! BROCK doesn't move his head. LORELEI That's wasn't a suggestion; that was an order. BROCK Oh... BROCK lifts his head up. LORELEI Look at that! You're eating like a non-perverted adult now! LIAM sees the WAITER and motions to him. LIAM Excuse me, but are there free refills on soft drinks? I nearly finished my soda. WAITER Sorry, sir, but we charge on refills. LIAM Oh, just get me a water then. That doesn't cost me anything, right? WAITER Right. The WAITER leaves. WAITER (T.H.) I have a bad feeling that kid isn't going to tip very well. BROCK is still struggling to have a conversation with LORELEI. BROCK Hey, so have you been watching "Kanto's Next Top Trainer"? I really want Leroy to win, but Tyrone seems pretty popular with the ladies. LORELEI I don't have time to watch TV, and if I did, I wouldn't waste my time watching reality garbage like that. LORELEI (T.H.) Yes, Brock is paying for my meal, but it really isn't worth it. This just proved there truly is no such thing as a free lunch. The WAITER comes out and brings two bills over to BROCK and LIAM. WAITER You said you wanted different bills, so here's one for the man and his lady- LORELEI We aren't a couple. WAITER And here's one for the boy. LIAM opens his bill, and mints fall out. LIAM Take these back! I don't want to pay for them! WAITER The mints are complimentary, sir. LIAM Oh, thank goodness! The WAITER leaves. LORELEI Well, I actually have work to do, so I'm going to leave now. You'll take care of the bill, right? BROCK Right. LORELEI gets up from the table and leaves. As soon as she's out of sight, BROCK gets up and leaves, leaving his bill unpaid. BROCK (T.H.) Dine and ditch! LIAM Hm... the waiter was okay. I guess I'll give him a five percent tip. LIAM gets his cash out, pays his bill, and leaves. WAITER (T.H.) Only fifty cents for a tip... I knew it! INT. HALLWAY BROCK (T.H.) So next up is Bruno. This dude is my cousin. He got me my job at the Pewter City Gym, and for that, I am eternally grateful. So I will be taking him out to watch an exhibition battle. BROCK knocks on the door to the office of BRUNO. BRUNO exits. BRUNO Brock?! What are you doing here, buddy? BROCK Oh you know, I was in the neighborhood, thought I'd show up early, say hi to all the Elite Four. BRUNO That's great, but you know, I'm really swamped with work right now. BROCK I got us tickets to that exhibition match today. BRUNO I guess I can go for a break, then. You do know that as a member of the Elite Four, I don't need to pay for tickets though, right? BROCK Dammit, I bought two tickets! What the hell am I going to do with this extra one? BROCK looks at LIAM for a moment. BROCK Liam, you go wait in the car. I'm going to try and scalp this ticket before the battle. LIAM Yes, sir. INT. INDIGO PLATEAU ARENA BROCK and BRUNO are sitting down, watching the battle. BROCK Hey, that one guy has an Onix! Kick his ***, Onix! BRUNO You do realize that the other trainer is using a Vileplume, which knows attacks that are super effective against Onix, and that Onix will probably lose this battle? I mean, you do know that, right? You know at least that much? BRUNO (T.H.) Sometimes I still try to validate my decision to make Brock a gym leader. BROCK Of course I know everything about Pokémon battles, cousin! I'm a gym leader! BROCK (T.H.) And I know that Onix is going to win. Rock types rule! BRUNO Anyway, I heard Liam put on an impressive program at the gym the other day. BROCK Well, Liam and I. Mostly I. It was a joint effort, but I was the jointest of that effort. BRUNO Jointest? Is that even a word? BROCK You know Shakespeare invented words? Well, so do I. BRUNO But you aren't Shakespeare! BROCK and BRUNO share a laugh. BROCK (T.H.) Bruno better watch it. I am just as inventive as Shakespeare! BRUNO But it's still good to know that someone is doing something at the Pewter City Gym. BROCK And that someone is me, obviously. Liam, too. But mostly me. BROCK turns his attention to the battle again. BROCK What?! Why'd he switch out Onix?! You can never go wrong with a rock type! BRUNO But now he's using Rapidash. He has the type advantage. BROCK But he doesn't have the cool advantage. Rock types for life! A BARKER starts moving down the aisle. BARKER Hot pretzels! Get your hot pretzels here! Get them while they're hot! Or you can wait until they cool! It doesn't matter to me! Hot pretzels here! BROCK Bruno, can you get me a hot pretzel? BRUNO Why can't you pay for one yourself? BROCK I just figured you can get them for free because you're a member of the Elite Four and all that... BRUNO Fine... One hot pretzel, please! BARKER Sure thing, Bruno, and it's on the house! The BARKER hands BRUNO a pretzel. BROCK grabs it. BROCK Yay! Yay! Yay! Thanks, Bruno! BRUNO (T.H.) Being with Brock is like babysitting a small child. INT. CAR LIAM is sitting in the car, singing along with the radio. LIAM And I'm here to remind you, of the Muk you left when you went away, it's not fair to deny me, of the cross-chop bruise that you gave to me, you, you, you oughta know! LIAM notices the camera. LIAM (T.H.) That totally isn't me singing! It's the radio! INT. INDIGO PLATEAU ARENA The battle is now over, and the crowd begins to leave. BROCK That was quite an enjoyable match! I'm pretty upset that trainer didn't use the awesome power of rock Pokémon, though. BRUNO He would have been at a disadvantage if he brought Onix out again! All of his opponent's Pokémon had a strength against rock types! BROCK Rock types have no weaknesses. BRUNO Grass, water, ground, fighting, steel. BROCK It's all in their head. Mind over matter! They can overcome their weaknesses if they think about it hard enough! BRUNO That's not how it works, Brock. BROCK Rock should be able to beat everything! I mean, if I hit you in the head with a rock in real life, you would die! The same should apply toPokémon. BRUNO Whatever. It was nice seeing you again, Brock, and I guess I'll see you soon, when we go over the inspection. BRUNO (T.H.) I am not looking forward to that. INT. HALLWAY BROCK and LIAM are now standing outside the office of AGATHA. BROCK You said you took care of plans for Agatha, right? LIAM Yes, sir, I did. BROCK Good! Er... what exactly are those plans again? LIAM Tea time, sir. BROCK Oh, so we're going to go to a cafe or something? LIAM No, sir. Agatha will be brewing the tea herself. BROCK Her... herself?! Liam, you know how I feel about old people preparing food and drink for me! LIAM Sir, if you want to look good in front of the Elite Four, you have to do this! It'll really make up for that time you tackled her! LIAM (T.H.) I should have known Brock wasn't going to take this well... BROCK Liam, this is a matter of life and death! I don't care if you want to gamble your own life away, but why did you have to offer up mine? LIAM This is for your own good, Brock! LIAM knocks on the door. BROCK Dammit! There's nowhere to hide! The door opens and AGATHA walks out. AGATHA Hello? Who is it? BROCK Her crippling eyesight prevents her from seeing us! Quick, Liam, let's get out of here! AGATHA I can see you. I just don't recognize you. LIAM This is Brock, and I'm his gym assistant, Liam. AGATHA Oh, Liam! I talked to you on the phone earlier. That's right. I recognize your voice. Well, come in, come in. AGATHA walks into the office. LIAM Sir, you have to go in now. BROCK I can't do it! I can't do it! LIAM Sir, I promise you that Agatha will not try to poison you. BROCK What if she doesn't try? What if she succeeds? LIAM She won't. Old people are... dimwitted anyway. LIAM (T.H.) I had to say something to get him to agree to go in. BROCK You're right. They're brains aren't what they used to be. I guess I'll go in. BROCK (T.H.) Listen, if I die in there, I want you to use this video as evidence in that murder. Give her the death penalty! INT. AGATHA'S OFFICE BROCK and LIAM take a seat on a couch in the office. AGATHA begins to heat water. AGATHA Liam, you must be a bright young man, holding such a great fundraiser for the Pewter City Museum. BROCK Why is everyone giving Liam credit for that? I'm the gym leader, you know! LIAM It was quite a hectic day, but everything went smoothly in the end. I even sold some copies of my exercise tape! AGATHA It's good to see youngsters take an active role in the community. Make sure to stay active, though. Don't end up as some old duff, just staying inside, fiddling around with your Pokédex. BROCK Liam is to young to be doing that, you disgusting old hag! LIAM I don't think that was a euphemism, sir. BROCK Oh, my apologies then, Agatha. AGATHA It's alright, I guess. I'm just happy you came. I heard you're actually going to try something I made this time? BROCK Listen, I was pretty sure those hot dogs were going to kill everyone! I wasn't willing to take that risk! I had to tackle you! AGATHA Luckily, that is in the past. Now we can just sit here like old friends and drink tea. AGATHA (T.H.) Ugh, I can't wait to just get this over with already. At least I'm getting a chance to see Brock suck up his pride. The water heated, AGATHA pours it into three teacups, and she pulls out a selection of teabags. AGATHA Is black cherry okay? LIAM I'm fine with that. BROCK I don't care. AGATHA begins to brew the tea. AGATHA I used to not use teabags, but it has become difficult in my old age. BROCK That must be a real shame. BROCK (T.H.) I don't care what has become difficult in her old age! You see, this is why young people are the best! We don't need people to help us wipe our asses when we go poop! AGATHA Take advantage of your youth, Liam. I can tell you this, you have a lot to look forward to in your future. BROCK And how would you know that? Are you some kind of witch? LIAM (T.H.) I was doing okay until Brock brought up the possibility of Agatha being a witch. Now I'm just afraid she's going to eat me. AGATHA I'm not a witch, just someone in the know. AGATHA finishes brewing the tea and gives cups to BROCK and LIAM. AGATHA Enjoy! AGATHA takes a sip. LIAM follows suit. LIAM This tea is excellent! AGATHA Black cherry is one of my favorites. Well, are you going to try some, Brock? BROCK Oh, you want me to drink it? AGATHA That's the idea. BROCK looks at the cup of tea. His hand begins to tremble. BROCK I don't know. I mean, I had a lot to eat and drink at lunch, and then I had that hot pretzel... it just seems like I consumed enough for now. AGATHA Nonsense! You can at least have a sip of tea! BROCK I guess I can... BROCK begins to lift the teacup to his mouth, his hand trembling more and more as he does so. Finally, it reaches his lips. BROCK Well... b-b-bottoms up! BROCK is about to drink the tea when... BROCK I can't do it! I can't! BROCK sends the teacup flying onto the ground, the tea spilling everywhere and the teacup smashed into a ton of tiny pieces. BROCK I can't do it! I just can't take the risk! AGATHA sighs. AGATHA That was a perfectly good teacup too, you know. AGATHA (T.H.) Really, it seems like every time I meet up with Brock, something of mine gets broken. First it was one of my bones, now my fine china. LIAM I'm sorry about that. AGATHA Don't worry about it, Liam. Some people just never change. AGATHA turns to BROCK. AGATHA You made this mess; you're going to clean it up. Go over to the janitorial closet and get yourself a mop. BROCK Yes, ma'am. INT. HALLWAY BROCK and LIAM leave the office. BROCK is exhausted from mopping the floor. BROCK That's the problem with old people! They think just because they had to do hard labor back in the olden days, we should have to do hard labor too! LIAM So, who's next? BROCK Just Lance. Then we've hit everyone. BROCK and LIAM arrive at the office of LANCE. BROCK knocks, and LANCE exits. LANCE has a very stern look on his face when he sees it's BROCK at the door, his arms crossed. LANCE says nothing. BROCK Uh... LANCE If you don't have anything to say, go away! BROCK Okay. BROCK quickly submits to LANCE and walks away. LANCE notices LIAM standing there. LANCE Oh, Liam. I heard how well that fundraiser at the gym went. Keep up the good work. LIAM Thank you, sir! LANCE slams the door shut. LANCE (T.H.) Listen, I don't have time to deal with clowns like him, and I certainly don't have time to deal with you clowns behind the camera. Now get the hell out of my office! INT. INDIGO PLATEAU LOBBY BROCK AND LIAM are pacing around when BRUNO greets them. BRUNO Ah, Brock and Liam. Follow me. We're ready for you. BRUNO leads BROCK and LIAM through the building until they reach a pair of double doors. They enter. INT. CONFERENCE ROOM LORELEI, AGATHA, and LANCE are already sitting down. BRUNO takes his place with the rest of the Elite Four, while BROCK and LIAM sit on the opposite side of the table. LANCE So we received the report from the inspector the other day. After taking a look through it, we settled on a decision. BRUNO It wasn't easy. AGATHA It was for me. LORELEI I had to read through a couple times to make sure what I was seeing was true. LANCE Yes, well, after careful deliberation, we are sorry to say, Brock, that as of now, you are hereby relieved of your duties as Pewter City Gym Leader. BROCK What?! How can that be?! The inspection went great! The inspector was so impressed! There must be something wrong! LANCE There is nothing wrong. We made our decision. BROCK jumps up from his seat. BROCK You can't do this! I did such a great job at that fundraiser! You can't call it anything but a success! LANCE I know. That's how we came to our second decision. Liam, you are no longer a lowly gym assistant. Congratulations, Gym Leader Liam. LIAM Seriously? I'm a gym leader now? LANCE Yes. Bruno has decided to visit sometime next week to help you transition. As soon as everything is running smoothly, the gym will be yours. LIAM I... I can't believe it. I mean... I've dreamed of this happening before, but... BROCK But what about me?! What happens to me?! AGATHA Nothing. You are no longer employed by the Pokémon League. BROCK goes over to the Elite Four and gets on his knees. BROCK You can't do this! Being gym leader is the only thing I have! Without it, my whole world collapses! BRUNO Don't worry, cousin. Now that you're unemployed, there's an endless amount of new opportunities that await you. BROCK NO! I'm finished! BROCK grabs on to the cape of LANCE. BROCK You can't fire me! YOU CAN'T! I need this job! I need it! I NEED IT! LANCE kicks BROCK off of his cape. LANCE Get off of me. You need to accept the fact that you are no longer a gym leader. Move on with your life. BROCK I can't do that! It is my life! AGATHA sighs. AGATHA Bruno, get him out of here. BRUNO gets up from his chair and picks up BROCK. BROCK shouts as BRUNO moves him to the door. BROCK You can't do this! I'll never forgive you! Let go of me! I swear I'll have my revenge! BRUNO throws BROCK out of the room. LIAM So... uh... what kind of health benefits do I get now? BROCK (T.H.) Well, **** on a stick. INT. LORELEI'S OFFICE LORELEI is working in her office when the WAITER from earlier enters. LORELEI LORELEI hands the money over and the WAITER leaves.What do you want? WAITER Well, you didn't pay your bill from earlier. I would have given it to the gentleman with you, but I have no idea where to find him. LORELEI Oh, he didn't pay? That's just great. LORELEI (T.H.) I'm not even going to bother tracking Brock down to pay me back. Lousy unemployed bum. |
My favorite parts have to be when he was with Lorelei and Agatha. Lorelei's breasts are indeed quite big, LOL. It's a good thing she appeared during the Orange Islands arc or else Brock will have a huge nosebleed. :P And oh my gosh, Brock's such a wimp for not drinking Agatha's tea, oi.
Hahahaha, poor Brock there at the end. That's what he gets for all the stuff he had done throughout this series. So Liam's going to be the new gym leader, huh? Hopefully he won't be like Brock and then Rock types have no weaknesses. :P Wee, close to the last chapter! |
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Episode 13: Sycophant Search INT. OREBURGH CITY GYM ROARK walks into the gym. HEATHER is waiting for him. HEATHER Good morning, Roark! The gym is clean and ready for the day! ROARK Absolutely wonderful! Good job, Heather! By the way, did you hear the news? HEATHER What news? ROARK Brock was fired from his position as gym leader. It's such a shame. He was a great guy! HEATHER (TALKING HEAD) No he wasn't. HEATHER So wait, who's the new gym leader? ROARK Oh, his old gym assistant is! Liam! HEATHER So how come I work my *** off and get no reward for it, but that kid does nothing and gets promoted? ROARK I think he actually put on quite the fundraiser at the gym. At least, that's what I've heard. Good for him! HEATHER What's the point of even staying here, then? I have no hope for promotion if my superior is more competent than me! I quit! ROARK Well, if that's what you really want... go follow your dreams! HEATHER Really? You aren't going to complain about it? HEATHER (T.H.) What does the future hold for me? Applying to be the gym assistant at the Pewter City Gym. Then I'll just have to wait it out until Liam is fired, and I'll finally be a gym leader. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA LIAM and BRUNO are talking in the arena. BRUNO So you should know all the basics by now, I hope. LIAM Yes, sir! Training was really helpful. BRUNO Just one last thing: you're going to have to hire a gym assistant. LIAM Really? I get to have my own assistant?! BRUNO Well, yeah. You replaced Brock, someone needs to replace you. LIAM Wow! I don't even know where to start looking! BRUNO You'll probably just want to hire a sycophant. LIAM Sycophant? BRUNO You know, a yes man! Someone who will just agree with everything you say and obey all of your orders! BRUNO (T.H.) Actually, that may be bad advice. That's exactly how Brock got into his predicament. He needed someone to tell him "No"! LIAM Okay! I guess I'll put out a want ad or something. BRUNO Good. Now that you've finished training, I'll only be dropping by every week or so for the next couple of months. The transition period is crucial. If you can get through it successfully, you'll end up being a great gym leader. If you don't... you'll end up being the next Brock. LIAM Don't worry, sir! I'll give it my all! BRUNO That's the kind of enthusiasm I like to hear! Have a great day! LIAM You too, sir! BRUNO leaves the gym. BROCK (OFF CAMERA) Is it okay to come out now? BROCK peeks his head out of the office, making sure the coast is clear, and then tiptoes out. BROCK It's a good thing he'll be visiting less frequently now! Sneaking around is hard work! LIAM (T.H.) Brock... won't leave the gym. BROCK (T.H.) Yes, I have been living at the gym since I was fired. I mean, I lived at the gym before I was fired, too, so what's the big deal? LIAM (T.H.) I really need to get rid of him. LIAM He'll still be coming here, though. You can't keep this charade up forever! BROCK Don't worry about it! He's my cousin; he won't care! we're family! Can you clean the bathroom? I made it pretty nasty in there! LIAM Brock, I'm the gym leader now. You can't order me around. And anyway, you're the only one that uses the bathroom here! BROCK So that's how it is, Liam? After working together for so long, we're no longer friends? LIAM We're still friends, but we're no longer working together! You need to accept that fact, Brock! BROCK So will you clean the bathroom, friend? LIAM I have to go put up ads around town for the assistant position. You can clean it yourself. LIAM leaves to go to his office and print out ads. BROCK stands in the gym, bewildered. BROCK (T.H.) It's like he's bossing me around. What's up with that? INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE LIAM begins typing up the ad, but becomes distracted by the mess in the office. LIAM Brock, my office! BROCK enters. BROCK Don't you mean my office? LIAM What is this?! LIAM points to a stack of pizza boxes. BROCK Oh, that's the Leaning Tower of Pizza! For every pizza I order, I throw the box on top of the tower! LIAM Throw it out. BROCK You can't throw out the Leaning Tower of Pizza! It's a landmark! LIAM I'm not going to throw it out. It's not my mess. You throw it out! BROCK What part of "It's a landmark" did you not understand? LIAM This is my office now, Brock! I can't have your garbage all over the place! BROCK It's not garbage! LIAM goes over to the tower and starts throwing the pizza boxes at BROCK. LIAM How do you like it?! Is it garbage now?! BROCK That's vandalism! I'm going to report you! LIAM I'm going to report you for loitering at the gym you no longer work at! BROCK Fine, fine! BROCK picks up the stack of pizza boxes and walks out of the office. BROCK (T.H.) This is much too important to throw out. I'm just going to hide it in the bathroom. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA The next day, LIAM walks into the gym. BROCK is waiting for him. LIAM You're still here... BROCK I stayed up really late! Turns out I got hungry, so I ordered Chinese food! I hope you like the smell of reheated General Tso's chicken in the morning! LIAM Listen, Brock, the potential assistants should be coming in today for interviews. I need you to be on your best behavior. Actually, do you know the expression "children should be seen, not heard"? BROCK Of course I do! I taught you that expression! You didn't follow it very well... LIAM For today, I would prefer if you were neither seen nor heard. BROCK This is my domain! I must survey the land! You can't tell a Tauros to not roam the plains! That would be Pokémon cruelty! LIAM It's a good thing you're not a Pokémon, then. LIAM walks away into his office. LIAM (O.C.) Ew, what's this smell?! BROCK You don't like it? INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE LIAM is on the phone. LIAM Hello, Roxanne! It's Liam! If you remember, I used to be Brock's gym assistant! Guess what? Now I'm the gym leader! There's a bit of a problem, though. Brock is moping around the gym all day, and I really need him to move on. Is there any way you could give him another chance? He wasn't actually seeing that other girl, you know! He actually despises her now, after she lied to you! So please, PLEASE, call back! Thank you! LIAM hangs up the phone. LIAM (T.H.) I've been trying to get in contact with Roxanne for awhile now. She won't answer any of my calls. It's getting annoying. I don't know how to solve this Brock situation otherwise! BROCK walks into the office. LIAM seems annoyed. LIAM What is it, Brock? I got a busy schedule today. BROCK Have you seen my toothbrush? LIAM Your toothbrush? BROCK I also use it to comb my hair, too, but it's technically a toothbrush. LIAM You know what, don't just find your toothbrush. Find all of your stuff, gather it up into a box, and move out. BROCK C'mon, Liam! You know I don't want to live in the bathroom! BROCK (T.H.) I did live in a bathroom for a week one time when I went abroad. My host family in Isshu did not like me very much. LIAM Not out of the office! Out of the gym! BROCK You have been quite the prankster lately, Liam. First you made me get rid of the Leaning Tower of Pizza, now you want me to move out? It's so silly of you! You need to take your new job more seriously. LIAM I am, Brock, and to do that, I can't have you hanging around all day interfering in my work! BROCK Fine! I'll gather all my stuff up! BROCK (T.H.) I have no intention of moving out. I guess I'll just have to suck up my pride and move into the bathroom after all. At least that way I'll have a scenic view of the Leaning Tower of Pizza. BROCK begins searching through the office for his belongings. He finds an earpiece. BROCK Hey, remember this? We used this when you infiltrated the Pewter City Gazette! Boy, you can't beat those memories! LIAM And doing that nearly got us into a lot of trouble. I'll pass on remembering that. Next, BROCK finds the "Let's Chuck Tonight, Baby!" videotape. BROCK This is what made me the strong man I am today. LIAM My exercise tapes are better. BROCK Please, all you care about are squats. LIAM (T.H.) Just because all I care about are squats doesn't mean I don't care about a wide variety of squatting techniques! BROCK then grabs a pickax. BROCK Without this, we would have never found that cool rock! LIAM And you would have never embarrassed yourself at that ribbon cutting for the Pewter City Museum. We didn't even use pickaxes to find that rock, anyway! BROCK Someone has a sharp tongue today... BROCK comes across a bunch of Boulder Badges. BROCK And look at all these! I haven't given one of these out in ages! That's just how good I am! LIAM What about that one challenger? Hal, wasn't it? He pretty much wiped the floor with you. HAL (T.H.) So how did my Pokémon training journey go? Well, I kind of gave up. You see, I heard the calling. Now, I'm doing Arceus's work. Can you believe those barbarians in Isshu don't believe in Arceus?! And the family that was hosting me made me sleep in the bathroom! BROCK That doesn't count! I was having an off day! But anyway, I found a bunch of junk, now! My hotel key card from when I went to the convention, a bunch of losing scratch off lottery tickets from that time I got obsessed with gambling... doesn't all of this remind you of good times, Liam? LIAM You aren't going to change my mind, Brock! INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA It is now time for the interviews. LIAM walks out of his office to see MERV, DALLAS, and HEATHER milling around as BROCK tries to make awkward conversation with all of them. BROCK Hey, have you ever lived in a bathroom before? HEATHER No... HEATHER (T.H.) What the hell is he still doing here? Wasn't he fired? And all of his questions are bringing up bad memories of my trip to Isshu! LIAM Uh... Dallas, I'll interview you first. DALLAS That's alright with me, pardner! LIAM and DALLAS walk into the office. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE LIAM and DALLAS sit down. DALLAS puts his feet on the desk. DALLAS I tell ya', I was shocked when I heard ya' scrawny little kid was going to be the new gym leader. LIAM Well, here I am: the new gym leader. Anyway, what kind of qualifications do you have to be gym assistant? DALLAS For one thing, I'm the best of the west! LIAM The best of the... west? DALLAS Ya' heard me right! LIAM Is that a real thing? DALLAS It sure is! LIAM Do you have a certificate proving that you're the best of the west? Can your references confirm it? DALLAS Course they can! LIAM On the resume you sent me, you listed your two references as "Houston" and "San Antonio", and for contact information you just put "See me". Can you explain what that's all about? DALLAS Of course! Those are my fists! LIAM And I think I've heard enough. Have a good day, Dallas. DALLAS angrily gets up and leaves the office. DALLAS (T.H.) I tell ya' this, if I don't get that job, he'll be hearing from Houston and San Antonio! LIAM Merv! Come in! You're next! MERV cautiously walks into the office. MERV Is it okay to sit down? LIAM Of course! Why wouldn't it be? MERV takes a seat gingerly. MERV Are you Regis or Liam? LIAM Liam. MERV Oh, that's good! I can relax! LIAM So your resume actually looked pretty solid, Merv. I just noticed one thing... you wrote that you have a disability. MERV Oh, you know me! I always have to go to the bathroom at three in the afternoon! LIAM Yes, I know that. You bring it up every time I see you. Every single time. Without fail. MERV I just don't want to alienate people. It's for the best that I explain it to them. LIAM Why did you not put any references, though? MERV The only person who I could think of that would say good things about me is... me. LIAM Oh... well... MERV Oh, it's three! Sorry, but I got to go! MERV quickly gets up and leaves the office. MERV (T.H.) That's not the only interview I had to leave early to use the bathroom for. Am I worried? Of course not! I got the job last time that happened! LIAM Heather, you're next! HEATHER walks in and takes a seat. LIAM I... was surprised to see you apply... HEATHER Oh, you know me! HEATHER smiles and leans closer to LIAM, making him visibly nervous. LIAM So... you had a great resume... great reference... um... HEATHER Do we really have to go through this? Just hire me! I'm the only candidate with actual gym assistant experience! Those other losers are totally unqualified compared to me! LIAM Er... well... HEATHER Liam, if you hire me, I will cater to your every need. I will do whatever you ask of me. If you tell me to jump, I will jump. I will not ask "How high?" That just needlessly complicates things. LIAM It... does? HEATHER It does. LIAM Fine! Welcome aboard, Heather! You're the new gym assistant! HEATHER Isn't that just grand?! MERV barges into the office. MERV Hey, have you seen that huge stack of pizza boxes in the bathroom?! It's huge! You should call it the Leaning Tower of Pizza! Get it? It's a pun! LIAM What?! BROCK! A furious LIAM jumps up and marches out of the office. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM ARENA BROCK Hey Liam! Who did you hire? LIAM What did you do with those pizza boxes?! BROCK I threw them out! LIAM NO! You moved them into the bathroom! BROCK That's practically throwing them out, isn't it? LIAM I can't believe you! Throw them out! For real! NOW! BROCK Why don't you appreciate my talents? LIAM What talents?! You just stacked a bunch of garbage together! Now throw it out! BROCK Don't tell me what to do! You aren't the boss of me! LIAM YOU'RE RIGHT! I AM NOT THE BOSS OF YOU, BECAUSE YOU DON'T WORK HERE ANYMORE, AND YOU NEVER WILL AGAIN! NOW CLEAN UP AND GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE SO I CAN DO MY JOB! BROCK stands in silence, shocked. HEATHER hops out of the office. HEATHER Sir, do you need me to take care of him? BROCK No, don't worry about me. I'll be on my way for good, now... BROCK slowly walks into the office. HEATHER I'll escort the other two out of here, then. INT. PEWTER CITY GYM OFFICE LIAM enters as BROCK gathers the rest of his belongings. LIAM watches in silence until BROCK notices. BROCK BROCK gets up and hugs LIAM.What? Have you come to yell at me some more? LIAM (T.H.) As I watched Brock, I felt bad. The two of us used to be a team. What happened? I had to make it up to him somehow. I had to make sure that he was able to move on in life without becoming a complete failure. So that's why I did what I did... LIAM Brock, do you remember Elizabeth? BROCK Don't remind me... LIAM Her affections for you won't real. She was just trying to use you to become a big TV star. BROCK Makes sense. Who the hell would love me, anyway? LIAM Well, remember when you made us buy all those lottery tickets? You told her to keep them once you got over that phase. BROCK Of course I remember. LIAM Well... she won. BROCK Does this have a point? LIAM Brock, even though you scared her away, she's still hellbent on becoming a star! She even helped out with that fundraiser because I told her it would gain your favor! She made me promise that I wouldn't tell you she won the lottery, but I don't care anymore! Don't you see, Brock? You don't have to live life in squalor! You can go to her! BROCK Really? LIAM Absolutely! Just don't tell her I said any of this. BROCK You're doing this all for me? LIAM You two deserve each other. BROCK I don't even know how to thank you! LIAM Don't worry about it. BROCK picks up the box with all of his belongings and takes one last look at the office. BROCK So I guess this is goodbye? LIAM Only for now. I'm sure we'll meet again. After all, Elizabeth lives in town, and I'm sure you'll be getting an invite to my next fundraiser. BROCK And I'm sure I'll attend! BROCK (T.H.) Liam? In the end, he really deserved to be gym leader. He'll do a much better job than I ever did. I have a lot of faith in him. With that, BROCK leaves the office, and the Pewter City Gym altogether. HEATHER enters the office. HEATHER I just saw Brock leave. He seemed... happy? Is everything okay? LIAM Of course everything is! I gave the greatest gift I could give to him: a life of complacency! Now let's get some challengers into this gym! HEATHER Yes, sir! HEATHER (T.H.) Darn it! It seems like Liam is actually focused on doing gym work for now! Hopefully he'll lose his enthusiasm soon enough... LIAM (T.H.) After everything we've been through, I have to say it's a bit bittersweet to see Brock leave. Sure, I got caught up in his antics all the time back then, and now that I have a position of authority, I've realized all of those antics were mistakes, but after thinking about it, I don't think I'd give any of those antics up. Brock may have been a bad gym leader, but he was a great friend. I'm going to make him proud! EXT. MANOR BROCK rings on the doorbell. ELIZABETH opens the door. ELIZABETH Hello? Brock?! I... wasn't expecting to see you here! Oh, and the cameras, too! BROCK Elizabeth, Liam told me all you did to help out the gym. It means a lot to me. BROCK (T.H.) It doesn't. ELIZABETH Is that so? BROCK It is. I also have to say that I'm really sorry for that time I yelled at you. BROCK (T.H.) I'm not. ELIZABETH Really? You are! Brock, that's terrific! BROCK I've given it a lot of thought, and I've come to a decision. Elizabeth... I love you! ELIZABETH hugs BROCK. ELIZABETH I love you, too, Brock! I love you, too! ELIZABETH (T.H.) And what I really love are the cameras! BROCK So, what's with this huge mansion? Are you living in a brothel or something? ELIZABETH Oh, no! I won the lottery! I bought this myself! ELIZABETH (T.H.) I hope telling him that wasn't the wrong move... I don't want my funds sucked dry! BROCK Is it possible you could do me one little favor, now that I love you and want to move in with you? ELIZABETH What is it? BROCK Can you give me money for a car? I've always wanted one! ELIZABETH (T.H.) I knew it. ELIZABETH hands the money over to BROCK. BROCK I'll be right back, love! After some time, BROCK returns. He rings the doorbell once again, and ELIZABETH answers. ELIZABETH You're back? What kind of car did you get? BROCK Please, you believed that? Look what I really got; just for you! BROCK brings a beautiful diamond ring out of his pocket. ELIZABETH Oh my Arceus! You bought that?! For me?! Brock, you're amazing! BROCK I know! ELIZABETH (T.H.) It seems I had nothing to worry about after all! Brock truly loves me. What a sucker! I don't care about his feelings as long as it gets me on TV! I wonder why he brought all his stuff from the gym over, though. You'd look at it and think he wasn't the gym leader anymore! BROCK (T.H.) Elizabeth fell for that one hook, line, and sinker! Trust me, the car is coming up next! Liam will be so impressed when I drive up to the gym in something cool! Looks like life is going to be smooth sailing for me! I just wish I was able to find a better woman... |
And now, just a short wrap up, for those that would like to read it.
I've been working on this story for what I believe has been close to half of a year. It's the first fanfiction I've ever finished, though it doesn't hold the distinction of being the first story I ever finished (I wrote a story last year from mid-January to mid-February in what could be called my own personal NaNoWriMo). When I took a look at that last scene I wrote between Brock and Liam, I basically went "Wow!" It was such a perfect culmination of everything that had come before. I believe endings are the most important part of the story, and I feel like I did stick the landing! I'd also like to thank the 8 people who voted for me during the SPP Fanfiction Awards (I'm have a pretty good feeling about who most of you are :P). Coming in second for best comedy and first (!!) for best human character was impressive. I know that when reading a fanfic, there's always that fear that the author may just give up on it, so I'd like to thank you for (hopefully) sticking with me these six months. As for where the story goes from here, I have a couple of ideas on where I could take this for a possible sequel, but before I even begin to write about that I'd have to have all the character arcs plotted out beforehand. Mainly, I've been wondering if I should write about Brock's rise from the ashes or his fall to rock bottom. If I do write a sequel, I'd probably make it more ambitious and juggle more characters and plots per episode, so look forward to it if I ever do decide to write it! And that's a wrap! I'll request to have this moved to the archives in a couple of weeks, but before then, be sure to get your final thoughts in! If you've been lurking the fic this whole time, feel free to pipe in with your last words, too! I hope you've all enjoyed this! |
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Anyways, awesome last chapter, there! I knew that Brock would be staying at the gym and never want to leave. Poor tower pizza. D: I do like the scene were Brock talks to Liam over some of the shenanigans they had done. Ouch over Liam yelling at Brock, but glad their last scene together ended nicely and I agree it wrapped up everything nicely! Speaking of which, oh dear over Brock and Elizabeth getting married. That shall be fun. XD Don't worry Brock, you'll find a better woman...eventually. :x Hm, in the end you decide how you want to do the sequel, but it would be interesting to see Brock fall to rock bottom. Either way though, looking forward to the sequel whenever you get the chance to do so! Congrats on finishing this story! I really enjoyed it lots. :) A job well done. *brofist* (but not the San Antonio and Houston kind, LOL) |
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