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Dropping the Ball

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"Okay...let's go over "Dropping the Ball" again, Ash..." a teal haired girl explains to a black haired boy. "This is a pantomime sketch--so no talking."

"Right!" the black haired boy grins.

"You come on carrying a box full of rubber bouncy balls with the bottom only held in place with your hands." the girl explains. "When you get to center stage and see the audience, pretend to examine one of the balls. As you're doing that, I'll sneak up behind you with a party horn."

"Okay..." Ash beckons his partner to continue.

"If the audience sees what I'm about to do and tries to warn you, play off of that--move away from me in as many directions as possible." the girl grins. "Be aware, that neither you nor the audience will know when I'm gonna blow the party horn and surprise you--this is crucial to the gag's effectiveness."

"So what's Twinkle going to do after she's surprised me and make the balls spill everywhere?" Ash asks, referring to the girl's persona.

"Twinkle only wanted to play, so how mad or sad you look will affect how sorry I'll be--the cleanup should be even funnier if you wanna play with that." the girl concludes before taking down her costume--an orange leotard, a yellow and orange jester's cap, and white jester's ruff with ruby bobs on it, her gloves, and shoes, which also have the ruby bobs.

"I'm sure Azurill and Happini will love this, Risa..." Ash grins as he takes a cream and orange clown's costume, with a large purple collar with teal bobs, and a hat to match.

After throwing on the costume and carefully painting a four point star over his left eye--Sparkles' trademark--he grabs the box of rubber super balls "All set!"

Risa peeks out into the living room to see their small "audience" waiting for them. "Okay! Let's do this!"

Ash nods,and walks out onto the "stage" with the box. When he arrives at center stage, he notices Brock, Misty, Azurill, and Happini watching, grins, and waves hello before examining a sparkly ball in the box.

After a few tense seconds, Risa, as Twinkle, tiptoes onstage hiding a party horn behind her back. After showing it to her "audience", she makes a "Shh!" gesture, making Misty chuckle.

"Uh oh..." Brock stifles a giggle when he realizes what Twinkle is about to do to Sparkles.

Ash jumps to attention, gathers up the box, and moves towards "stage right", where he happily resumes examining a different ball, to the giggles of the Pokemon as Risa approaches. The game of Meowth and Rattata continues as Ash tries to find a spot to examine the balls in peace, but Risa continues sneaking up behind him in hopes of surprising him.

Finally, when both Ash and the audience least expect it, Risa blows the party horn with a squawk, making the audience roar with laughter as Ash jumps in surprise, making the balls fly everywhere.

Ash storms up to Risa,who is feigning laughter, and makes an angry gesture to the bouncing balls, as if to say "Now look what you've done!"

Risa gets on one knee and comically pantomimes pleading for mercy. This softens Ash's feigned anger a little, and the two of them chase down and return the bouncing balls to the box, to more laughter.

Once all the balls are back in the box, Risa extends a hand. Friends?

Ash nods, and offers his hand. Friends.. "Aw..." Misty comments as Ash and Risa hug to end the sketch.

"That was pretty good--I liked how you played off of my little warning." Brock is first to give his review.

"My only suggestion is not to let the build-up go on too long." Misty cautions.

"Yeah--part of the fun is catching Sparkles and the audience off guard." Brock agrees.

"So this can go in our collection of sketches?" Ash asks.

"It's a keeper--especially for an opening act." Misty suggests.
First Ash and Risa sketch!

In this, we look in on Ash and Risa practicing a sketch called "Dropping the Ball"
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