Mt. Silver

Pt.1: the fight

(In that annoying announcers voice) we find our heroes walking back, the long way, from the johto league. Ash is staring at all his johto badges, having succeeded in the johto league. But what will happen to our heroes when ash and misty get in a real fight? Read on to find out!

Ash introducing the title: the fight!

"Wow….it shines…" ash says stupidly. Misty whacks him with her trusty mallet. "Stop being stupid ash!!" she yells. Ash opens his mouth to start yet another childish fight but misty hits him with her mallet before he can get anything out. "Ok...I can take a hint…"ash says upside down. Misty blows on her mallet and puts it away. Ash gets up, grumbling. He goes back to staring at his badges, so he doesn't see Misty looking at him. She notices what she's doing and quickly looks away. *Huh, why douse he always act like a child when he gets a badge!?* She thinks to cover up what she just did. *Why am I kidding myself!!?? I love him! THERE! I SAID IT!!* She admits, for the first time, to herself. She blushes, but quickly starts a fight about getting lost with ash to cover up. And, as normal, in the middle of the fight they end up out of the forest (thanks to Brock). When they both stop in mid-sentence Brock raises an eyebrow. Ash and misty look around. As they notice there out, they give each other death glances and get on different sides of Brock. Brock just sighs and continues walking (with ash and misty sticking out there tongues at each other when the other one is not looking.) when they get to pallet ash runs ahead and bursts in the door of his house. "MOM!!! I'M HOME!!!" he yells at the top of his lungs. "He could have knocked!!!" misty says, annoyed. "How rude!" Brock has already walked ahead so she runs to catch up before the door slams. She finds ash in a vice grip-like hug from his mom. She snickers as she hears ash's mom saying "YOUR HOME YOUR HOME! I MISSED YOU!!" Over and over again. Ash yells back, as his face turns a fresh shade of purple, "YES MOM! I MISSED YOU TO! BUT CAN I BREATH PLEASE!!!"  This was too much for misty as she doubles up laughing. Ash's mom sniffs, lets go of ash, and says "sorry honey." Leaning forward she whispers in his ear, and everyone heard, "did you change your you-know-what everyday?" ash blushes a deep shade of maroon and says "yes mother." to bad misty still hadn't recovered from her first laughing fit, because she fell on the floor laughing, with brock trying hard not to laugh (unsuccessfully). Ash turns to them and says, in a threatening voice, "shut up!" "Now ash honey, don't talk that way to your friends! It's not polite! Now apologize!" Mrs. Ketchum scolds. "Huh, ok mom. Sorry Brock, sorry misty." Brock just nods while misty says, surprisingly sweet, "ok. I'm sorry to." Ash's eyebrows shoot up but misty was already deep in conversation with Mrs. Ketchum. * Girls! * Ash thinks. Unfortunately he also said it out loud and his mom was teaching misty some new mallet tricks. For his rude comment ash got a hit from his mom and misty. "Good one misty! Now ash ,honey, could you turn this way so misty can try the double-concussion-smash?" ash runs up stairs, with pikachu right at his heals, screaming "TRAITOR!!" with ash and pikachu gone, misty and Mrs. Ketchum turn to brock with an evil looking there eyes. Brock turned to run but they were to fast and, in 1 second flat, brock was on the floor unconscious. " Um… looked like a single-concussion-smash. Next time put more wrist in to it. Like this." Mrs. Ketchum shows misty the correct way and misty gets it. "If you do it right he should be out for a whole day. Brock should come around at 2." Misty smiles and goes to the guest room. Her normal room is the one right next to ash's.  Brock always takes the one pointing toward the new pokemon center. Misty flops down on the bed thinking* what a great place this would be to live! Much better than back with my sisters! * she turns on the radio just in time to  hear her favorite song play.  Faith hill's song, if I'm not in love. She sings along with the song.

"If I'm not in love with you,

What is this I'm going through, tonight?

And if my hearts lying then,

What should I believe in?

Why do I go crazy?

Every time I think about you baby,

Why else do I want you like I do?

If I'm not in love with you.

And if I don't need your touch

Why do I miss you so much, tonight?

If it's just infatuation then

Why is my heart achin'

To hold you forever?

Give a part of me I thought I'd never

Give again to someone I could lose.

If I'm not in love with you.

Oh why in every fantasy

Do I feel your arms embracing me?

 lovers lost in sweet desire

oh, why in dreams do I surrender

Like a little baby?

Someone help explain this feeling!

Someone tell me…

If I'm not in love with you

What is this I'm going through, tonight?

And if my hearts lying then,

What should I believe in?

Why do I go crazy?

Every time I think about you baby,

Why else do I want you like I do?

If I'm not in love with you.

She wipes a tear away as the song ends. That is exactly how she felt about ash. But she didn't know how to explain it to him.* One day. I'll tell him. No matter what he says in return. * She yawns and realizes exactly how tired she was. So she curls up in her bed and goes to sleep.

Meanwhile in ash's room, he was staring at the ceiling and talking to pikachu. "Man pikachu! Can you believe they wanted to do the double-concussion-slam on me?! I'd be out all day!!

Yet misty did look really pretty holding up her mallet to strike… WHAT AM I SAYING!?"

Pikachu shook it's head sadly and said, "Pi pikachu pika chu pikapi. (Man you do have it bad ash.) "WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE IT BAD!!!" "Pika chu kapi (you love misty.)  Ash sighed. "Your right. But she hates me!" pika, pikachu… (I wouldn't bet on it…) "What did you say pikachu?" Pi pikachu… (oh, nothing…) "ok." Ash roles over, with a yawn, and goes to sleep.

After taking a nap, and once brock wakes up, ash and co. go to talk with professor oak. "hey! Professor! It's me! Ash!" ash screams as he bursts through the door. "oh, hi ash. I just got off the phone with professor Morris. I'm glad you're here. come with me." Professor oak took them to a room in the back of the lab. The professor opened a velvet lined box and took out a beautiful silver badge, shaped like a mountain. "ash, now that you have beaten the johto league and gotten all of the badges in both leagues, you have earned the silver badge. This badge allows you to go on top of Mt. Silver. Only a handful of trainers have earned this badge. You should feel proud." Ash's mouth hung open, he could barely get out a thank you. Professor oak put the badge on the outside of ash's jacket and patted him on the back. ash managed to say thank you and went back to his house.

The next day, after having some well-deserved rest, ash and the gang are back on the road. Ash is skipping along while brock is walking backwards staring at the pokemon center. Misty pulls out her mallet and hits them both on the head. " Will you two stop acting like idiots!?"  Ash and brock both groan and get up. "Yea, sure misty…" they say. But in one minute they were back to what they were doing before.  Misty sighs and shakes her head. "Pi pika chu…" pikachu sighs also.  Well they sure are a group. One boy skipping down the road, the other boy staring, love-struck, into blankness, and one girl staring absentmindedly at the first boy. Not to mention a pikachu sneaking a bottle of ketchup out of its trainers backpack and a togepi snoring. What a trio! So anyway, they walk from town to town and brock has to buy a new map for viridian forest before they get there.

As they enter viridian forest, a bug crawls across Misty's shoe. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! HELP ASH HELP!!!!!" she screams and jumps on ash's shoulders. Ash stamps his foot to scare off the caterpie and misty slowly climbs off ash's shoulders. Misty blushes deeply and thanks ash. Brock and pikachu snicker at the site. "WWWAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" Togepi screams. "Oh no, it's ok togepi… mommy was scared by a bug. Ssshh…its ok…good togepi." Misty says to calm it down. 'Sniff' sniff' "togi pi togi? (Did daddy scare it off?) It asks its mother. Misty blushes slightly "yes he did."  Togepi runs over to ash and hugs his leg. "Togepi togi pi. (Thank you daddy for saving mommy!)" Ash blushes and looks at misty.  " Um…it said…thank you." Misty tells ash. "Oh…uh…your welcome togepi." Ash says confused. Togepi runs over to pikachu and says "togepi toge pi. (Uncle pikachu did daddy and mommy kiss yet?)" Pi…chu. (Um…no.)" Pikachu responds. "Togi…(ok…) "togepi! Get over here!" misty says. When togepi gets close misty bends over and whispers in its ear, " Now you know that daddy doesn't know mommy loves him! And he can understand uncle pikachu! So don't mention it. Ok?" "Togi…(ok…)" misty pats togepi on the head and it jumps in her backpack. They start through varidian forest. All the sudden…

Prepare for trouble!

Yes, and make it double!

To protect the world from devastation!

To unite all people within our nation!

To denounce the evils of truth and love!

To extend our reach to the stars above!

Jesse!

James!

(Team rocket pops out of the bushes. Do they ever give up?)

Team rocket blast off at the speed of light!

Surrender now or prepare to fight!

Meowth! dat's right!

Ash and the gang yawn and ash says, "now that that's over… pikachu thunder shock!"

"Starmie! Go!" misty says. "Water gun!"

Team rocket is drenched with water and then is shocked.

"Team rockets blasting off again!!!" a star twinkles in the distance.

"Will they ever learn!?" brock states. Ash shakes his head and misty calls back Starmie. "Good job Starmie! Return!" the gang continues walking, and then it gets dark.  They set up camp and settle in for the night. " Oh wow, what a day! I'm tired!" misty says. She yawns and goes to sleep. "Pikachu pi… [Goodnight guys…]" pikachu says as it, too, goes to sleep. "Goodnight pikachu, goodnight brock, goodnight misty, see ya in the morning." Ash sighs as he falls into a pleasant dream about pokemon and misty.

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          [In that announcers voice we've all come to know and hate] The next morning our heroes set off to go further into varidian forest. Misty, maybe you should settle down, bugs aren't that bad… "What do you know!!!!" misty screams and punches the announcer. Ok…now put the mallet down…I'll shut up…

          Now…where were we…oh yes! Pikachu was chasing after togepi who was chasing after butterflies. The gang had stopped to take a rest. Brock cooked lunch and they were about a one-hour's walk from the next town. A lot of battling against wild pokemon had tired out all the pokemon. So after a nap, brock set out to take all the pokemon to the pokemon center. Ash and misty start to walk a little also. Big mistake!

It was starting to get dark, and, yet again, they'd gotten lost. "Ash!!! Not again!!!! You got us lost again!" misty screams. "Me! Why is it always me! You're not Mrs. perfect you know! You can get lost too!!!" ash screams, angrily. " Well I'm not an immature brat! I can't get lost! I've got an acute sense of direction thank you very much!!!" misty says back in a bratty voice. " No, you're right, you're not an immature brat. YOU'RE AN IDIOTICE, UGLY, STUPED, NOT TALENTED, HAG WHOS FOLLOWING ME FOR A STUPED BIKE I BOROWED TO SAVE MY POKEMON'S LIFE!!! YOU WANT YOUR BIKE, FINE!!!!" Ash was truly angry now. He was tired of misty always picking out every single thing wrong with him and yelling at him about it. " I KNOW EXACTLY WERE WE ARE! THIS IS WERE I HID YOUR SURPRISE I WAS PLANING TO GIVE YOU TONIGHT. FINE! HERE! TAKE THIS AND LEAVE!!!!!  GET OUT OF MY LIFE SINCE YOU HATE ME SO MUCH! SINCE EVERYTHING I DO IS WRONG! SINCE YOU WANT TO DATE A MATURE, SOPHISTICATED, ROMANTIC GUY! GO FIND THAT GUY AND LEAVE!" Ash was huffing and puffing. He was out of breath and about to cry. He loved misty and didn't want her to leave. But she hated him, so he thought, and all he wanted was for her to be happy.   * This will make her happy. At least she'll be happy. * Ash thinks. 

Misty's knee's were shaking. She hadn't expected this to go this far. She couldn't say anything or she knew she would cry. She made herself look mad and watched ash go behind a clump of trees. * I went to far this time. I shouldn't have teased him so much… What's he doing? * She wondered. Ash wheeled out a shiny, new, sea-blue bike that matched Misty's eyes perfectly. It was a one-seater bike and misty wondered why he hadn't got a three-seater so all of them could ride. Ash gently put the bike handles in Misty's hands and turned away. Misty could see the hurt in his eyes. Her heart ached and she had to swallow hard before she could manage to get out any words. But the only sound she could make was a sob. She bit her bottom lip and breathed in deeply. "Well…aren't you going…" ash whispers.  Misty breathes in again and turns around.

As she walks away a tune goes through her head. She starts crying, silently, as she remembers it.

If I'm not in love with you

 What is this I'm going through, tonight?

If my hearts lying then,

What should I believe in?

Why do I go crazy?

Every time I think about you baby,

Why else do I want you like I do?

If I'm not in love with you.

* This isn't right! * Ash thinks. * This shouldn't be happening. Misty. Come back, I didn't mean It.  I'm sorry. You've got to believe me misty, please. Don't go…I can't live without you…misty… * ash stopped his thoughts. It hurt too much. He had to let her leave. This is what she always wanted. She's happy now. Ash gulped down the feeling of wanting to cry, but he started to cry any anyway. * Goodbye misty. I'll always be in love with you. * Ash told her in his head. And he would keep that promise. But maybe…since she's leaving…maybe…

    

Well folks…what's going to happen now… stay tuned for the next epi…HEY!

The audience throws popcorn and tomatoes at the announcer

OK, OK!!! I'LL SHUT UP!!

To be continued…