Hello again. Sixth fiction, first CHAPTERED fiction! This is a takeover of 'mew mutation' by 'the black kitty'. I haven't 'stolen' it, as the author HAD put it UP for take over, and I've sent them a PM, saying that I'd like to take it over, and see how I do in relation to their version. There are bits I haven't altered, but that's just because I thought that the story was OK enough as it was. OK, I hope this is a good start. Here goes...
Disclaimer: As much as I'd like to, I don't own anything from the Pokémon franchise.

Chapter 1: The Feeling of Trouble

She awoke from a sleep that seemed bottomless, to the feeling that she was floating. Slowly, she tried to open her eyes… only to meet a stinging pain engulfing her. Everything was a blue haze around her, and felt like water. Her vision was a faint blur as she felt the stinging pain of needles sitting stuck into her body. Getting scared, she tried to move away, only to bump into invisible walls. She was being kept in that… that thing by walls of glass. Triggered into action by her sudden movements, two black dots… or more specifically, men came closer. As they approached, she recognised the R standing on their shirts… Team Rocket! She tried to get loose… escape this horrible place, but soon, she couldn't move and felt sleepy again as one of the guys of Team Rocket injected a sleep drug into some tube that lead to her arm, making her eyelids feel heavy. She tried to fight the urge to sleep, but her eyelids, slowly, won the war, and slid closed.

Ash snapped awake. He scanned his surroundings, with the more fearful feeling that something happened. He dismissed the thought, however, and shook his head to clear his thoughts. What was that dream about? It was like he was feeling, and thinking, someone else's thoughts. But wait… do I smell bacon? That dream was probably just a nightmare, nothing to worry about.

'Nightmares never mean anything, anyway.' Ash thought as he put on his shirt and cap and walked out of his tent and saw May, Max and Brock already eating.

"You left something for me I hope?" Ash asked as he sat down.

"Like we'd forget what you'd do if you don't get food." Brock said, in a rather sarcastic, and patronising, voice.

"Ha-ha (!)… very funny (!)" Ash yelled back, not in the mood for being messed with this morning, before looking away, seemingly, troubled.

"Something bothering you Ash?" May asked as she gave her Torchic some food from her backpack.

"Just a dream I was having… nothing to bother about." He said, as he sat down and looked at his lap, as Pikachu now was sitting on it. "When are we going to come to the next city?" Ash asked as he took the food Brock was giving him.

"Around noon, if we leave soon." Max stated while looking at the map. "Ash… are you sure nothing's wrong?" He asked now looking, pretty worriedly, at Ash. "Are you still bothered about what happened to Misty?"

Ash looked away, with a pained look in his eye, as if Max had called him a vile name. "I'm going for a walk." He spat, trying not to growl. He stood up, and stomped away, as Pikachu jumped onto his shoulder.

"Max you know he doesn't want to talk about it" Brock snapped at Max, as Ash became a figure in the distance.

With Ash…

He kept walking away with his head down, cap covering his eyes, which seemed a little moister than normal. He sat near a river he was walking alongside. Being here, he couldn't help but think of poor Misty. She always loved the water.

'I wonder what happened to her… she didn't deserve that.'

Flashback…

Ash walked out of the Pokémon Centre with Brock and Max at his side. He just won another gym battle, and was now waiting for May to come out of a perfume shop. (She loves perfume!) When she came running out, they stopped at a TV shop, where a disturbing news story was being told;

"We go over to the remains of the Cerulean gym. After the bomb attack of yesterday, this is all that's left of the building to stand, like some grizzly, modern day, ruins… (A picture of a few, still standing, yet burned walls without a roof were shown. Without being told, one'd never believe that this rubble was once the beautiful Cerulean City gym.) Because of this horrible move of Team Rocket, three of the Cerulean gym sisters were found dead… The youngest sister is still missing, so who ever sees this girl… (A picture of Misty flashed onscreen.) …please contact the nearest police station… she's probably hurt, and distressed. When last seen, she was wearing a red halter top and black jeans on the night of the disaster. She's about 15 years old, has shoulder length red hair and blue eyes…"

Ash was, still, completely shocked about the incident. He couldn't believe that Team Rocket would ever stoop to such a horrific level of low. He tried not to cry that day, and he was still trying to forbid himself from crying. It didn't work, of course. He wept, and he wept, and he wept. But when he, finally, managed to stop, he made his way back to camp. As Ash returned, and helped May, Max and Brock finish packing up the tents, they moved on to the next city.