Proud Day for Meowth

Today Meowth was in a bad mood and wouldn't stop sulking. Jessie was starting to get fed up with him.

"Why are you complaining Meowth?" She asked.

"That's what I'm complaining about." Meowth answered, pointing to James.

James was with his Jumpluff and was ordering it to use Pay Day for money.

"What's the problem with that?" Jessie asked. "Thanks to Jumpluff's Pay Day we get extra money for food and shelter."

"But that is Meowth's signature move, not some weed Pokemon's." Meowth said rudely.

James heard what Meowth said and whacked him on the head.

"You ungrateful feline!" James shouted. "If it wasn't for my Jumpluff knowing Pay Day you wouldn't have any money for milk and fish."

He turned to his Jumpluff.

"Don't listen to Meowth, Jumpluff. He is just being like that because he doesn't know Pay Day even though he should have learned it by now."

"James is right, Meowth." Jessie said. "You say that Pay Day is Meowth's signature move, but you don't know it at all. Yet all the wild Meowth and Persian that we've encountered in the past know it, and the boss' Persian knows Pay Day too."

Meowth was upset; he hated the fact that he was the only Meowth in the world that didn't know Pay Day. The reason he didn't know Pay Day was because he spent time learning to walk and talk and he forgot all about the move Pay Day.

*'I need to do something about this, but what?'* He thought.

Suddenly he noticed an old magazine lying on the grass.

"What's this?" He asked himself.

He went over to the magazine while Jessie and James weren't looking and opened it up.

"No way!" He gasped.

One of the pages in the magazine was about a man who was a Pokemon re-learner; someone who could help Pokemon relearn moves that they had forgotten in the past.

"That's it." Meowth said. "Maybe if I visit this guy he will help me relearn Pay Day and the move Screech that I want to know too."

The magazine said that the man was in Fallabor Town and that trainers had to pay him one Heart Scale for each move.

"Well that's handy; Jessie, James and I found some Heart Scales yesterday that we are going to sell when we reach the next town. And I'm sure they won't mind if I take two of them for this Pokemon move re-learner. After all they will help me learn Pay Day and Screech. I just need to get to Fallabor Town without Jessie and James knowing."

Jessie and James decided not to go anywhere today and just relax and sort out their Pokemon. The trio had come to a park and it was the perfect place to relax.

"I'm going to get us and our Pokemon some snacks from the shops not far from here." James said.

"Okay, oh and take our bag of Heart Scales to sell too. Make sure to get a good price for them." Jessie said.

What they didn't know was that Meowth had taken two Heart Scales from the bag.

Meowth asked Jessie if he could borrow Wobbuffet for a while.

"What do you want Wobbuffet for?" Jessie asked.

"I am going to practice my moves, so I need Wobbuffet for that." Meowth answered.

"Okay, but try not to hurt each other too much." Jessie said, handing Wobbuffet's Poke Ball to Meowth.

Meowth lied to her; he wanted Wobbuffet's help getting to the Pokemon re-learner. Meowth released Wobbuffet and told him about the Pokemon re-learner.

"Now you and I will go to Fallabor together Wobbuffet because I need your help." Wobbuffet saluted and said okay.

"Now the only question is how do we get to Fallabor Town and fast?" Meowth asked.

Wobbuffet pointed to the answer; there was a wild Pidgeot pecking at the ground for some insects to eat.

"You're brilliant Wobbuffet." Meowth smiled.

Meowth and Wobbuffet went up to Pidgeot and asked it if it could give them a lift to Fallabor. Pidgeot agreed on one condition; it wanted some food as payment. Meowth sighed, not happy with this.

"Fine I will get you some food when we get to Fallabor Town." He said.

So Meowth and Wobbuffet got onto Pidgeot's back and Pidgeot flew all the way to Fallabor Town. Once they got there Pidgeot landed in a park and wanted it's food now.

"Wait here." Meowth told the Pidgeot.

He went to the Pokemon Center, grabbed some apples, peaches and grapes and gave them to Pidgeot which made it happy.

"We need you to wait here for us." Meowth told Pidgeot. "We will need you to get us back to where we came from."

Pidgeot agreed, but it again demanded food as payment. Meowth agreed and he and Wobbuffet left to find the Pokemon re-learner.

"Sheesh that Pidgeot sure is greedy for food." Meowth whispered to Wobbuffet. "After this I am never going to ask Pidgeot for a lift again."

Wobbuffet agreed.

They soon found the Pokemon re-learner. The Pokemon re-learned lived in a small house and the inside looked like a small lab.

"Okay the magazine said that the Pokemon who want to relearn a move must be in their Poke Balls, so that means for once in my life I will have to be in a Poke Ball." Meowth said.

He presented an empty Poke Ball and two Heart Scales.

"Now I will go into the Poke Ball and you Wobbuffet will give the Poke Ball and the two Heart Scales to him, got that?" Wobbuffet nodded.

"I better write down a note so that the Pokemon re-learner will know what I want to learn." Meowth said.

He found a pen and some paper and wrote on the note that the Meowth in the Pokemon wants to relearn Screech and Pay Day. And he wrote down Jessie's name as the trainer's name.

"Okay let's do it." Meowth said.

He tapped the Poke Ball, got sucked in and was captured in the Poke Ball.

Wobbuffet picked up the Poke Ball, two Heart Scales and the note, then knocked on the door of the Pokemon re-learner's house. The old man answered the door and saw Wobbuffet.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

Wobbuffet handed the old man Meowth's Poke Ball and the note. The man read the note.

"Ah so your trainer has sent you to me huh?" The man asked. "What a good and loyal Pokemon you are."

Wobbuffet blushed.

"Okay well let's help Meowth relearn Pay Day and Screech." The man invited Wobbuffet into the house to watch what happens now.

Inside the house there was a big scanning machine and a few computers along with other things.

"What I do here is place the Pokemon with the Pokemon in it on top of the machine." The man said, placing Meowth's Poke Ball on the machine. "Then I type on the computer what moves Meowth wants to relearn."

He typed in Screech and Pay Day on the computer. Wobbuffet watched everything in interest.

"Then I stick these wires to the Poke Ball and Meowth will relearn Screech and Pay Day in no time at all." The man stuck some wires to the Poke Ball, pressed a few buttons and the machine turned on and Meowth's Poke Ball started to glow. Soon the glowing died down and the man turned the machine off.

"Okay now we are done, Meowth has relearned Pay Day and Screech." He handed the Poke Ball back to Wobbuffet and Wobbuffet handed the Heart Scales to the man, said thank you to him and left the house.

As soon as Wobbuffet exited the house, Meowth came out of the Poke Ball by himself.

"Ah finally." Meowth said. "Being in the Poke Ball doesn't suit me. Let's see if I have relearned Pay Day and Screech."

Meowth and Wobbuffet went into a alleyway where no one could see them. Meowth then pointed a paw at Wobbuffet and then his charm glowed and multiple coins flew at Wobbuffet.

"I can't believe it." Meowth said tearfully. "I finally have learned Pay Day."

He then tried Screech and that worked too. Meowth and Wobbuffet started to cheer and clap.

"Wait until Jessie and James see this." Meowth said.

Just then Wobbuffet pointed to a sack, which was lying against a wall.

"I wonder what that is?" Meowth questioned.

He and Wobbuffet walked over to the sack, opened it up and inside were some discs.

"Hey these are TM's." Meowth said. "They're discs that help Pokemon learn new moves. I wonder what moves these teach."

The TM's taught Water Pulse, Aerial Ace, Thunderbolt, Dig, Shadow Claw, Double Team, Secret Power and Iron Tail.

"Wow most of these moves are ones the twerp's Pokemon use." Meowth said. "Now I can learn them and fight back. Now to use these you place the TM's on the center of the Poke Ball and the Pokemon inside learns the move. So Wobbuffet, I'm relying on you to put the TM's on my Poke ball while I'm inside it again."

So Meowth went into the Poke Ball again and Wobbuffet placed the seven TM's on the Poke Ball one by one. Once Wobbuffet finished with the TM's Meowth came out of the Poke Ball and tried out his moves. He really did learn Water Pulse, Aerial Ace, Thunderbolt, Dig, Shadow Claw, Double Team, Secret Power and Iron Tail.

"I really have done it." Meowth laughed. "I have learned a lot of new moves all in one day."

He and Wobbuffet cheered and danced.

"Wait until Jessie and James see this. Oh, but we will keep going to the Pokemon re-learner and the TM's we found a secret, okay Wobbuffet." Wobbuffet saluted and promised to keep today's events a secret.

Meowth got some more fruit from the Pokemon Center to give to Pidgeot. Then Meowth and Wobbuffet went back to the Pidgeot for a lift back to where they came from. Once they got there Pidgeot gulped down the fruit and then flew away.

"I hope I don't see that Pidgeot again." Meowth sighed.

Meanwhile...

James and Jessie were preparing a picnic. James had bought lemonade, rice balls, cakes, cookies and sandwiches from the shops.

"Did you sell the Heart Scales?" Jessie asked.

"Yes and I got 10,000 Pokedollars for all ten Heart Scales that were in the bag." James said.

"That's not bad really." Jessie remarked. "I wonder where Meowth and Wobbuffet are. They have been gone for a while now."

Just then Meowth and Wobbuffet came into view.

"Where have you two been?" James asked.

"Ah here and there." Meowth said. "But something wonderful has happened to me."

He showed them his Screech and Pay Day attacks and then his Water Pulse, Aerial Ace, Thunderbolt, Dig, Shadow Claw, Double Team, Secret Power and Iron Tail attacks. Jessie and James couldn't believe their eyes.

"I don't believe it!" James gasped. "Meowth you have really learned Pay Day and all those other attacks?"

"Yes I did." Meowth nodded.

"But how?" Jessie asked.

"Let's just say I was struck by a miracle." Meowth said.

He wasn't going to tell them how he really learned the attacks. Wobbuffet just kept quiet. Jessie and James were confused by this, but left it like that.

Soon Jessie, James, Meowth and Wobbuffet began their picnic.

*'Today was the best day of my life.'* Meowth thought. *'And I hope to have more days like it.'*

He was happy to have finally learned Pay Day and it made him feel like a proper Meowth at last.