Pokemon Mansion

There was bad weather on the horizon today and the gang searched for shelter before it started to rain. Suddenly a Cleffa came out of a bush.

"Wow, a Cleffa." Dawn said.

"I wonder what it's doing out here?" Before Dawn's question could be answered, an Eevee ran over to the Cleffa and spoke to it.

"That Eevee is telling Cleffa that it shouldn't have wandered off from the mansion like that." Ash explained.

"What mansion?" Dawn asked.

Just then a woman dressed in a maid's outfit ran up.

"There you are Cleffa. Please don't wander off again." She said.

She then noticed the gang.

"Hello, are you kids lost?"

"Not really, but we do need to find shelter before it starts raining." Ash said.

"Well then follow me back to the mansion. Mr. Backlot won't mind you staying there." The woman said.

The woman's name was Monica and she worked as the caretaker of Backlot Mansion. Backlot Mansion was a huge mansion that belonged to a man named Mr. Backlot. It also had a huge garden which Mr. Backlot called the Trophy Garden. Monica introduced Mr. Backlot to the gang and explained that they needed shelter from the rain outside.

"You kids are welcome to stay here. The weather outside is dreadful." Mr. Backlot said.

The gang was delighted to hear that.

Suddenly some baby Pokemon turned up. There were three Pichu, two Igglybuff, a Azurill and two Budew.

"Eevee and I found Cleffa everyone." Monica said.

The Pokemon were happy to see Cleffa again.

"Are these Pokemon yours?" Brock asked Mr. Backlot.

"Yes, I love Pokemon just like everyone else." Mr. Backlot answered.

"Is Eevee yours too?" Tomo asked.

"No Eevee is wild." Monica said. "I found Eevee injured and hungry out in the trophy garden. We healed it and gave it food until it was all better again. After it was healed it stayed here to help look after the Pokemon."

"What a nice Eevee." Dawn said.

"Well since everyone is gathered, how about some food." Monica said.

She brought out a tray with bowls full of Poffins and the baby Pokemon and Eevee dig into it. Seeing the Poffins made Piplup and Growlithe feel hungry too, so the gang released their Pokemon to have some Poffins too.

Suddenly a Swinub appeared and it rushed straight towards the bowls of Poffins. Eevee charged towards Swinub and tackled it hard. Monica quickly left and came back with a big bowl of poffins.

"Here you are, Swinub." She said.

Swinub happily charged towards the big bowl and ate up all the poffins.

"I think that Swinub has the same appetite as a Munchlax." Ash said.

The others agreed.

Mr. Backlot explained that Swinub was wild and it loved the trophy garden, the mansion and Monica's poffins. Mr. Backlot invited the gang to stay for dinner and for the night. The gang agreed to his offer as it was getting late.

After having some dinner Dawn asked Monica if she could borrow the kitchen; she wanted to make poffins for her Pokemon. Monica agreed and gave the gang a basket full of berries they could use.

"Hey I just remembered." Ash said. "Prof. Oak told me when I last spoke to him on the phone that he came up with a new recipe for poffins. I wrote it down."

He took a piece of paper out of his backpack and made a small plate of poffins the same way the recipe said.

"What are these poffins like?" Dawn asked.

Before she could get an answer, Swinub came in and started to eat Dawn's poffins.

"Bad Swinub, these are for the other Pokemon." Dawn reprimanded him.

"You just ate a big bunch of poffins." Monica said.

"Here Swinub." Ash said, presenting his poffins to Swinub.

Swinub ate Ash's poffins and then it laid on it's back showing it was full.

"Hey." Dawn said. "You only made a small portion of poffins, so why is Swinub full already?"

"Ah that's because the poffin recipe Prof. Oak invented is for gluttonous Pokemon like Snorlax." Ash said.

"Oh I remember. Prof. Oak created a Pokeblock for gluttonous Pokemon." Brock said.

"Yes and since we told him about poffins, he decided to invent poffins for gluttonous Pokemon." Ash said.

"That's great. Can I look at the recipe too?" Dawn asked.

Ash handed her the recipe.

"Okay, I will make some more poffins."

*The next day...*

Everyone was playing in the trophy garden again as the weather was clear. The gang's Pokemon liked it in the garden and played with the baby Pokemon. Growlithe was with Eevee and they were wrestling with each other. Mr. Backlot laughed.

"I'm glad to see that Eevee has found something to battle with." He said. "As you know my Pokemon are too young for battling so Eevee always fights with sticks or something else."

Tomo was interested in Eevee.

Just then Dawn came out with poffins for everyone. All of the Pokemon munched on the poffins right away. Swinub came over, but Dawn gave him the poffins she made from Prof. Oak's recipe.

"I must thank Prof. Oak for inventing this recipe." Dawn said.

She was still impressed with how clever Prof. Oak was.

Suddenly Bullet Seed, Hyper Beam and Petal Dance attacked the garden.

"What on earth?!" Mr. Backlot gasped.

The attacks came from James' Carnivine, Ursaring and Roserade. Team Rocket had come to the garden.

"If you three came here with the intention of stealing the Pokemon, you'll have to go through us." Ash declared.

"We'll see about that." James said.

Jessie sent out Ambipom, Weavile and Yanmega to battle.

"Come on guys, let's protect the Pokemon!" Ash shouted.

Pikachu, Piplup, Growlithe and Croagunk got ready to fight. Eevee also stepped forward to fight. Pikachu used Thunderbolt, Piplup used Bubble Beam, Growlithe used Flamethrower, Croagunk used Sludge Bomb and Eevee used Swift. Together the five Pokemon managed to defeat Jessie and James' Pokemon. Just then an ice shard attacked Team Rocket; it came from Swinub. Jessie, James and Meowth couldn't take it anymore and left.

Mr. Backlot was grateful to the gang for helping defend his home and Pokemon.

"Thank you so much." Monica said.

Tomo went over to Eevee.

"You sure are one tough Eevee." He said.

Eevee hopped in pride.

"May I take you with me?" Tomo asked. "I'd like to have a tough Eevee like you on my team."

Eevee stared at Tomo for a bit and then yelped to say yes. Tomo was happy and caught Eevee in a Poke Ball. Dawn then turned to Swinub.

"Would you like to come with me?" She asked.

Swinub accepted and Dawn caught it. Mr. Backlot and Monica agreed that Tomo and Dawn were perfect for taking care of Eevee and Swinub.

"It's been fun here, but it's really time we got going now." Ash said.

"Oh yeah. There's a Pokemon Town taking place in Celestic Town." Monica told Dawn.

Dawn decided right away she would go there for her next ribbon.

"Oh before I forget." Monica said.

She gave Tomo a lot of different types of berries to hold in his backpack.

"These berries will come in happy for Eevee." Tomo was puzzled, but accepted the berries.

So with two new Pokemon friends the gang left the mansion to continue their journey.