Ch. 14

"I loathe being short!" O'Neill complained.

Carter sighed, glancing over at O'Neill. "You know sir, when you're young, you're hair isn't gray, you have vigor, and…"

"But all the same, I'm still SHORT!" O'Neill yelled, cutting her off.

"Do you really care about being short, Daniel?" Teal'c asked, looking down at Daniel.

"It could be better, but I can adapt," Daniel replied.

"Indeed," Teal'c said, raising his eyebrow.

A red flash came from the pokeball Teal'c had on his belt. Psyduck stood there, raising his eyebrow as well.

Teal'c stared down at Psyduck, who was engulfed by a red light as he returned to his pokeball.

"You two are like two peas in a pod," Daniel smiled.

"What pod," Teal'c asked, obviously not getting the joke. Daniel stared at him blankly.

A little ways off, two mysterious figures sat, hidden by a few bushes.

"Easy pickings if you ask me," the young man said.

"Of course," the young woman replied.

"C'mon, what are we waiting for?" A small mysterious figure said.

"So you're calling me SHORT!" O'Neill cried.

"Eight years, Teal'c, eight years you've been on earth and you don't understand a metaphor?" Daniel said in the background.

"I am not calling you short, I'm just saying that it could have been worse," Carter replied to O'Neill's rantings.

"Like what?" O'Neill cried, "what's worse than being short!"

"Well…" Carter began before she was cut off by a smoke bomb going off. Out of the smoke jumped three figures.

"I'm Jazz," the young woman said.

"I'm Ken," the young man said.

"And I'm Teddiursa," a small Pokemon said in an adorable voice.

O'Neill took out his pokedex, looking curiously at it.

"How do I get this darn thing to work," he muttered, hitting it a few times. Carter reached over and pressed the big button. It opened.

"Show off," O'Neill muttered.

"Teddiursa, the small bear Pokemon," the pokedex said. "Teddiursa enjoys licking its palms that are sweetened by being soaked in honey that it makes from fruit and pollen that Beedrill collect."

"Now, hand your Pokemon over to us before this gets messy," Teddiursa said.

"I didn't know Pokemon could talk," Daniel said.

"Indeed," Teal'c replied.

"We'll never hand them over to you," O'Neill cried.

"Fine," Jazz said. "We'll have to do it the hard way." She threw her pokeball and out of it came a Poochyena. Ken threw his also, and out came a vileplume.

"Go," O'Neill cried. The shrunken (except for Teal'c) SG-1 threw their pokeballs. Psyduck walked up to Teal'c and raised his eyebrow. Eevee began to fight with Poochyena.

"Use your thundershock, Pikachu!" O'Neill commanded. Pikachu shocked O'Neill.

"I didn't mean me," O'Neill said after falling on the ground.

"Ditto, transform into Pikachu and use thundershock," Daniel commanded. Ditto did as it was told and transformed into Pikachu. But before it could use thundershock, O'Neill's jealous Pikachu used thundershock on the enemies. This resulted in a large explosion, causing team rocket to go flying.

O'Neill started to get up as a mysterious stranger walked up and said, "Good battle. I haven't seen a rookie battle that well just starting off since Kechum came through."

"Who are you," Daniel asked.

"Me? My name is Mackenzie, but you can call me Mac for short." Mac replied to Daniel's statement.

"Nice to meet you Mac," Carter said, greeting there new acquaintance.

"So you a Pokemon Trainer," O'Neill asked.

"Actually I'm a Pokemon observer; I'm hoping to become one of the best Pokemon scientists in the world," Mac replied to O'Neill's question.

"Wait a minute. I thought you said Observer, not scientist," Daniel butted in.

"Being an Observer will help me become one," Mac replied.

"Ok, just curious ," Daniel said.

"So do you observers go on a journey like us Pokemon trainers," O'Neill asked Mac.

"Normally," Mac said in a sad manor.

"What do you mean normally," O'Neill asked, curious about Mac's statement.

Mac sighed and replied, "Normally yes. We go on a journey most times with a trainer, or trainers. But with me it's different. My parents won't give there consent for me to go."

"Oh," O'Neill said feeling sorry for Mac.

"If there was any thing we could do we would gladly do it, right Daniel," Carter asked in sympathy.

"Oh, yea, yes we would. So if there is any thing we could do just say." Daniel stated.

"Do you really mean that you guys? I mean we just met and you really mean that?" Mac asked, a huge grin growing on his face.

"Yes, because we can tell you're a good person." Carter replied.

"Dad why can't I go," Mac asked his father.

"I'll tell you why son: the world is full of people who wouldn't give you a second thought if, say, you were robed or shot; it is an ugly world out there Son," Mac's father replied.

"That may be true, but keeping me in here won't change a thing." Mac complained

"You really think so? Keeping you here is to protect you, not hurt you." His father replied.

"Well then Dad, it seems you have those two words mixed up. The fact is you are hurting me by keeping me here." Mac snarled getting angrier.

"Go to your room young man," Mac's father said in a stern voice.

"Fine," Mac shouted as he stormed off.

end of chapter.