Hello everybody! This is one of my first English fanfics, so understand me if I do some errors.

I hope you'll like it!

Chapter 1 - The capture

'Come on, Pikachu. We're almost in Azuria!' said Ash to his sleeping pokemon. Electric mouse was tired of travelling through several regions to reach Kanto, however it was also happy to see his trainer in such good mental condition. It woke up, knowing that it's the end of their long journey.

Young trainer put the mouse on the ground.

'You see?' asked Ash, pointing at something. Pikachu strained his view and saw an orange haired girl, sitting on the river's bank. She was fishing.

'Pika pi! (Misty!)' Pikachu said, smiling. He liked Misty like any other of Ash's companions, except for Brock.

'Yes, it's Misty. You remember how we met? She fished us. I want Misty to fish me once again. You don't have to go with me,' Ash said, entering the water. Pikachu looked at him.

'Chu pika! (I'll stay!)'

'Ok. But don't let Misty see you before she fishes me!' shouted Ash before he dived under water.

Misty sighed, taking her fishing rod once again. Today was perhaps one of her bad fishing days. She could summon some fish but it won't be that fun: catching one, and then freeing it. She decided to leave the fishing rod for a while, taking a break. She took a sandwich from her basket and started eating. The combination of honey and orange jam tasted like sun.

The girl was about to take another one when the float dipped gustily. She grabbed the fishing rod and started pulling it.

'Wow, it must be a big one!' she whispered. Suddenly somebody jumped from the river. Misty screamed, almost falling, but somebody caught her.

'Hi!' she heard a familiar voice.

'You...,' Misty punched Ash in the stomach. He groaned.

'What was that for?!' he shouted.

'For scaring me, idiot!' Misty answered and turned to see Pikachu. She took him in her arms. 'Hello Pikachu, you hadn't change a lot!'.

'Pika! (Hi!)' said Pikachu, hugging her.

Ash looked at her.

'You won't hug me?,' he asked. Misty laughed.

'Not until you get dry,'.

The campfire was giving enough heat to dry Ash's clothes. He put them quickly.

'Why are you here?' Misty asked.

'Well, I wanted to see you before we return to Kalos. Maybe you wanna go with us?,'

'I don't know. I have to help my sisters' she said, hesitating. Daisy, Violet and Lily could take of the gym by themselves.

Ash smiled gently, just like he could read in her thought. 'See? It would be fun, I promise. Probably we'll go to see Brock. I don't know how I could survive without his meals...'.

Suddenly the black-haired boy sobered. He heard a strange noise.

'What's happen...' started Misty, but she was silenced by Ash, who put his hand over her mouth. 'Stay quiet,' Ash muttered, looking around. He knew someone was coming, and it wasn't good at all. After few minutes the noise intensified. Ash could recognize it: Team Rocket was looking for them. Ok, not for Misty. She hadn't done anything "bad" for them since he gave her a new bike, so they shouldn't attack her.

Ash dreamed to be so.

He signaled Pikachu to prepare for the fight, noiselessly asking Misty to hide. She refused.

'I don't want to stay away while you will be fighting,' she said silently.

In few seconds on the horizon appeared Jessie, James and Meowth. They weren't satisfated with their lifes as usual. Jessie looked straightly at Ash.

'Today we won't tell you any wisdom. Woobuffet, Shadow Tag! Rhydon, attack!' she shouted to her pokemons. Ash was shocked a bit, but he ordered Pikachu to attack.

'Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!'

'Staryu, Water Blast!'

The attacks collided, exploding. Ash couldn't see anything throught the smoke, even where Pikachu and Misty were. He turned around.

'Ash, watch out!' he heard. Too late. He felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, and fell to the ground, almost unconscious. He looked above him: both Misty and Pikachu were tied, held by Rhydon. James smiled, emerging from the darkness.

'I told you Jess that this time will be easy. Right, Meowth?'

'Right. Quickly, we have to return to our boss. He will be pleased,' said the speaking cat, jumping into their balloon. Ash tried to move, but he was too weak. He also tried to say something; Jessie heard him.

'Ah, yes, we forgot about you. Sweet dreams, my dear!' she said before hitting his head once again, knocking him out. Before his eyes closed, Ash saw Misty and Pikachu flying away.