Palletshippers Rule!
Chapter Four
By Ketsuban
After two days, it was time to leave. Any longer, and it would become extremely difficult to reach Yukihana.
Ketsuban woke extra early, hoping to leave and make it to Murg’s place before Kero awoke, but had no such luck, and ended up dragging along not only Kero, but also his moronic friend Chris. Source of All Evil drove them, of course, and was waiting in Murg’s parking lot until the space ship took off.
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“Who all is here?”
Murgatroyd and Archaic were standing in Murg’s backyard in front of the spaceship that, honestly, didn’t look as if it would make it into space; but eh, couldn’t hurt to try.
“I’ll take roll,” Arch said. “If I don’t call your name then you’re not on the list and I’m sorry, but you’ll have to leave. Ash’s Baby Lapras.”
“Hai!”
“Blue Hiker.”
“Hai.”
“Almond.”
“Here.”
Ketsuban whirled around, hearing Almond’s voice behind her. “You?!”
“Ketsuban? What are you doing here?”
“Well, as a Pokeshipper I sort of had dibs,” she shot back.
“Hey, Almond!” said Kero. “Where ya been? Why haven’t you come over to visit?”
“Because your stupid sister has some dumb thing against Palletshippers….” He suddenly smiled. “Right?”
Ketsuban flushed and rubbed the back of her head. “Er, ah, I…”
“Sure you do!”
Ketsuban looked around. “Who said that?”
“Said what?” Kero and Almond wondered.
Poke appeared on Ket’s shoulder. “Don’t bother; they can’t see me. Go on, tell Almond off! Palletshipping sucks!”
“Who are you?”
“She’s talking to herself,” Kero sighed. “Figures.”
“Oh, don’t listen to that dumb Poke!” A small figure that looked like Gary, wearing Ash’s clothing, appeared on her other shoulder. “You know Palletshipping could kick Pokeshipping’s butt any day, right?”
“Could you, now?” Poke shot back.
“Oh, yeah!” The two vanished off to some extradimensional boxing ring or some such.
“Ketsuban?”
“Ano… hai,” she replied as Archaic glared at her, annoyed, and she realized he must have had to call her name more than once.”
“Thank you.”
“So, Kero, how have things been with that Infernoshipping club of yours?” Almond inquired.
“Oh, just fine. We had a bomb, but Arch said we have to leave it behind.”
Almond blink-blinked. “All right, then…”
“What’s that other ship you like?” Kero wondered. “Appleshipping?”
“No, that’s Bill Gates and Al Gore, silly. It’s Fruitshipping.”
“Oh, yeah!”
“I have to go over there now.” Almond pointed to a random place and left.
“Who’s he?” Chris asked.
“Ket’s boyfriend,” Kero replied, shortly before his air supply was cut off by aforementioned Ket.
“He’s our cousin,” she corrected her brother.
“Ohhh.” Chris nodded and chewed on the ice cream cone he had from somewhere.
“Chaos…Rocket?” Archaic stared at his list. “How did that name get on there?”
“Um, here,” Chaos replied from somewhere in the crowd.
Arch stormed over to her and her friend Meggie, who had most certainly not been invited. “What are you doing here?!”
“You called me last night, remember?” Chaos shot back. “You asked if I wanted to come and I said sure, why not, and asked if Meggie could come too. Remember?”
“No, I don’t remember! I also don’t remember putting your names on my list!”
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Meanwhile, in the extradimensional lounge that the Shipping Gods hung out in, Bitchfight was rolling around and laughing hysterically. A bunch of other Shipping Gods exchanged a glance, nodded in unison, and promptly killed him.
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“Oh, well… I suppose you can come,” Arch consented. “Just don’t cause any trouble, got it? And who’s going to run PI with you gone?”
“Oh, they’ll manage,” Chaos replied, shrugging.
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Cut to: The new, improved PI HQ.
“PARTY!” a random person cried.
“Woo-hoo!”
Insanity ensued. Fires were started.
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Elsewhere in the Shipping Gods’ lounge, ClosedForum was sitting off by herself, contemplating her next evil move. What could she do to totally ruin the shippers’ plans? Mwahahaha.
Of course! She glanced into her Crystal Ball of Evilness and reached down into the normal, everyday, non-extradimensional universe, picked up Little Pikachu, and deposited her into Murg’s spaceship as the shippers boarded.
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Since Little Pikachu prayed nightly to ClosedForum, she knew exactly what was happening. She rubbed her hands together maliciously and laughed to herself. Everything was going according to plan!
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“Wait, I wasn’t in that whole chapter!” Sciz complained.
“Deal with it,” replied Ket’s IRL-counterpart, busily studying for her math final.