Historian's Note: This takes place after Fox the Wanderer's bio, as Lesell Charis and her team of E-lemon-ators continue on their journey aboard the ship War-ouki, heading back to the AFC Kingdom. Thus far their journey has been filled with weirdness, the latest being a mysterious warning to K'thardin about some sort of pokemon-related peril. Yep, lots of weirdness... and today is going to be no exception, because Arrowyn (the Evil Master in our story) has more evil planned...

The evil Arrowyn had already caused plenty of trouble for our heroes, but it still wasn't enough to satisfy his appetite for dark deeds and bad lemons. Right now, he hungered for revenge against Geoduck, the traitorous psychic pokemon who had decided to help the E-lemon-ators to destroy Arrowyn's most vile lemons. Yes, Arrowyn wanted Geoduck to suffer for betraying him, and so he had sent out three of his best fighters to do the job: Ms. Cool, Vegeta P, and Vegeta Q.

The powerful and ominous trio flew through the air, searching the skies for the E-lemon-ator's ship. "So, what's the plan?" Vegeta P asked Ms. Cool. He didn't like taking orders from the little cat pokemon anymore than Vegeta Q did, but Arrowyn had put her in charge of this mission.

"Very simple," Ms. Cool purred, "To make sure the other E-lemon-ators don't interfere with us while we torment Geoduck, I've cast a spell that will home in on Geoduck's teammates and push their morale so far down that they'll be too tired, cranky, and depressed to fight us."

"That's your plan?" Vegeta Q snapped, "How ridiculous can you get?"

"All those present who are psychic pokemon, and therefore know how to deal with another psychic pokemon, raise their hands," said Ms. Cool, raising her paw. When the two Vegetas grumbled but did not raise their hands, she grinned.

_We'll get you for this,_ the two Vegetas thought to themselves.

"I can read thoughts, you know," Ms. Cool said warningly as the trio flew onward.

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Meanwhile, the heroic E-lemon-ators were flying back to the AFC Kingdom aboard the huge cabbit-ship War-ouki, with their damaged ship the Midorishu safely stored in War-ouki's cargo bay. For reasons known only to those who read the first few paragraphs of this bio, morale on the ship was way down.

Lesell Charis wandered about the huge ship and sighed. Feeling depressed first thing in the morning was unusual for an E-lemon-ator. She couldn't understand why she felt this way, especially since War-ouki's interior was much roomier than the Midorishu's had been. Perhaps the fact that this huge ship had only one bathroom had something to do with that. She looked at the lineup at the bathroom door and let out another depressed sigh.

MarvelBoy was standing at the end of the line. "Even with my super powers, I can't hold out forever," he groaned, shifting from one leg to the other in a performance of the I-really-need-to-use-the-toilet dance.

"Oh shut up, you haven't been waiting as long as I have," said Masami, sounding much crankier than usual.

"WELL, I'VE BEEN WAITING EVEN LONGER!" said Yayoi, sounding even crankier than that.

Lesell sighed (again), and joined the line, standing behind MarvelBoy.

Suddenly, there was a shout of "KAME HAME HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and an energy blast tore through the line, sending everyone flying. K'thardin then came running up and forced the bathroom door open, entered, threw out the person who had been inside, and slammed the door shut.

"Hey!" exclaimed AleeN, the poor individual who had been thrown out. (Lucky for him he'd only been brushing his teeth.) "K'thardin, I wasn't finished yet! Wait your turn!" He began to pound on the door.

Lesell and the others who had been standing in line before all let out a depressed sigh, then formed a new line behind AleeN. However, AleeN was not about to give up without a fight. "Hey, K'thardin," he shouted, still pounding on the door, "Maybe you wouldn't be so short if you didn't poop so much!"

The bathroom door opened. "You heard me," said AleeN, narrowing his eyes.

"KAME HAME HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" K'thardin shouted again, firing an energy blast that sent AleeN flying back and scattering the line again.

K'thardin slammed the bathroom door shut once more, and everyone sighed and formed a line again. Everyone, that is, except for AleeN, who began to cry like a baby, and Lesell, who gave up and decided to see what people were doing on other parts of the ship. Entering the ship's entertainment center, she found Literary Eagle, Kiyone-Type-Person, and Honey seated in front of the TV. Which would have been fine, except that the TV wasn't on.

"Um... aren't you guys going to turn that on?" asked Lesell, pointing to the dark screen.

"What's the point?" asked Literary Eagle, sighing sadly, "We'd just have to turn it off again."

"Um... then why are you guys sitting in front of the TV if you're not watching?" Lesell asked.

"What's the point of getting up?" Kiyone-Type-Person sighed, "Eventually we'd just have to sit down again."

If Lesell's morale was down before, it was REALLY down now. "Why do I even bother trying to talk to you guys?" she groaned, walking away.

"What's the point of leaving?" sighed Honey, "Eventually you'd just have to talk to us again..."

Lesell wandered to another part of the ship and found Seion lying on the floor with a really depressed look on his face. So depressed, in fact, that he didn't even bother to move when one of War-ouki's ship control crystals morphed into a cabbit form and began to nibble compulsively on his arm.

"What the..." Lesell murmured to herself. Looking around, she saw that some of the other ship crystals were sobbing hysterically, while the rest were drinking bottle after bottle of sake. "The SHIP is depressed too?" she exclaimed. Something was very wrong here. Trying her best to shake off the depressed feeling that had been bothering her all morning, Lesell grit her teeth with determination and tried to think of what she could to save her team from this serious drop in morale.

"Hmm, what about MAYHEM?" she asked herself. That guy's odd powers of chaos had wreaked so much havoc on the ship that he had gone off to the cargo bay to live in the Midorishu until they got back to the AFC Kingdom. Since that guy was an expert on chaos, perhaps he could liven things up enough to get everyone out of this bad mood. It was worth a try.

Lesell went in search of the cargo bay, but the War-ouki ship was so huge that she became lost and ended up in a part of the ship where she'd never been before. It was a huge room, filled with stacks upon stacks upon stacks of papers. Several papers fluttered off the top of one of the precarious stacks and landed at Lesell's feet. Turning them over in her hands, she saw that the papers were covered with drawings of Ayeka. Ayeka eating ice cream... Ayeka dressed like a schoolgirl... Ayeka wearing a baseball player's uniform...

"Hey, these are really good," Lesell said to herself, impressed. She found that she couldn't help but smile at the cute images.

"Who's there?" said a voice. Lesell looked up to see a man stepping out from behind one of the stacks of papers. Judging from the cobwebs clinging to his hair and clothes, he probably didn't move around much. "Oh wait, I know you," he said, "You're Lesell Charis, right? The leader of the E-lemon-ators?"

"How did you know that?" asked Lesell, "And... um... what are you doing here? Who are you?"

"I live inside this ship," the man replied, "because I wanted a quiet place where I could just sit and draw. My name's John Joseco."

"Wait a minute... you live inside War-ouki?" Lesell asked, "But what happens to you when War-ouki is in cabbit form?"

"Hmm... you know what? I have no idea!" John Joseco said sheepishly, "Sometimes when I draw, I don't notice anything else around me."

Lesell sweatdropped. "But sometimes you pay enough attention that you know about the E-lemon-ators?" Lesell guessed aloud.

John Joseco nodded. "Mostly, though, I just draw," he said. His eyes became large and sparkly as he continued, "My goal is to draw as many pictures of Ayeka as possible, then present them to the real Ayeka as a gift if I ever get the chance to meet her!"

"That's great," Lesell said, charmed by his enthusiasm. She smiled as an idea came to her, "But right now, I could really use your help..."

Thirty minutes later, Lesell called a meeting of the E-lemon-ators. They all sat around a large table with gloomy looks on their faces. John Joseco was also there, standing off to her side, while Geoduck sat in her lap. _I hope this works,_ Lesell thought to herself. Her teammates looked even more depressed and/or cranky than before. Seion still didn't seem to notice the cabbit-form ship crystal gnawing on his arm. (Lucky thing he was a cyborg. ^^;;;)

"I want you guys to take a look at these drawings," Lesell said, presenting a small stack of John Joseco's artwork. Several minutes later, everyone was oohing and aahing over the drawings, chattering happily about which of the cute images they liked best. Several minutes after that, Lesell asked John Joseco if he would like to be the official Artist and Chief Morale Officer of the E-lemon-ators, meaning that it would be his job to use his art to keep the team in high spirits. After several minutes of thought, John Joseco happily accepted... and then suddenly MarvelBoy exclaimed, "Wait a sec... if we're all here, then no one's in the bathroom!"

MarvelBoy dashed down the hall, but the rest of the E-lemon-ators scrambled after him, each person intent on being the first one in. And guess what? They all won this little race... meaning they reached the bathroom all at the same time and got stuck in the doorway.

John Joseco, however, had been gathering his art supplies and therefore was the last to arrive at the scene. He sweatdropped at the cussing mass of trapped bodies he saw. "Looks like I have my work cut out for me," he mumbled to himself.

But things worked out in the end, as it usually did for this bizarre crew (though only Kami-sama knows why ^^;;;), and it wasn't long before the gang was having a huge party to welcome their new team member.

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Meanwhile, Ms. Cool, Vegeta P, and Vegeta Q continued to fly through the sky. "We're getting closer, I can feel it," Ms. Cool said eagerly, "I can sense Geoduck's presense behind those clouds!"

Ms. Cool grinned evilly and floated in front of the clouds, waiting for the E-lemon-ators' ship to appear. By this time, they should be so depressed that they would be no threat at all...

Needless to say, Ms. Cool was quite surprised when the ship that came roaring through the clouds was filled with the sights and sounds of a joyous party. She was also very surprised to find that the ship was not the Midorishu like she had been expecting, but War-ouki's ship form, which was four times larger.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!" the cat pokemon exclaimed as the large ship slammed into her, causing her to lose her concentration and plummet towards the ground below. The ship continued on its course, blissfully unaware of the bad guys' presence.

"I suppose we'd better go save her," Vegeta P groaned, flying down after the falling cat.

"What a lousy job," Vegeta Q agreed.

Both Vegetas let out depressed sighs. Hey, all that negative energy the E-lemon-ators got rid of had to end up somewhere, right? ^_^;;;