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Episode 1: The Journey Home.

It had been a long time since Ash had seen Pallet town. After winning the Shinnoh league Ash disappeared for some time, for harder training. Now he returns to Pallet, the town he left nine years ago to start his pokemon journey.

"Ready for this Pikachu?" Ash asked his little yellow companion who had taken a seat on his trainers shoulder.

"Pika-pi!" the mouse replied.

"Let's go," Ash said as he flew down the hill strait to his mother's house.

Ash slowed down as he saw that his mother was in the kitchen with a smile he went up to the door.

"Knock, knock!" Ash yelled, "Anybody home?" He waited for a minute but no answer. He looked back inside and saw that his mom wasn't where he last saw her. He looked around. Surely Team Rocket wouldn't stoop this low. After he had left Brock and Dawn in Shinnoh he had some trouble again with Team Rocket and for the last four years he had been destroying the Team Rocket organization. He looked around and saw something scurry around the house. He looked at Pikachu and without a word the mouse jumped of his shoulder and sent a tremendous thunderbolt into the back yard.

Ash heard screams and could hear familiar voices, almost as if they were. "Mom!" Ash ran around the corner to see his parents, Brock, and Misty all fallen over and burned from the thunderbolt.

"Surprise," the four moaned in unison, "Happy birthday, Ash."

Fifteen minutes later, like all anime series works everyone was fine and enjoying the party. "Hey kiddo, it's been some time since I've seen ya. How are ya?"

"It's great to see you dad," Ash said, "How have things been since we fought for the Shinnoh cup?"

"Well nothing new I've been taking time to spend with your mother recently, and I've decided that I'm going to start building a gym in Pallet Town."

"Wow that's awesome dad, but why a gym?"

"Well bud, I've been gone for a long time and I've decided that I need to spend the rest of my life with your mom, not on big adventures. So I decided to get the best of both worlds, build a gym here and get mom's home cooking." He began to laugh as a wooden hammer nailed his head.

"Adam you jerk!" Delia yelled, "No really your dad has decided to spend more time with me, and not just for my cooking. Right honey?" A groan could be heard from the ground.

"So Ash, haven't seen you for a couple years now, whatcha been up to?"

"Brock! Wow you look like you've been doing well." Brock was wearing his old uniform, orange shirt, green jacket, and brown pants. This time though he was more bulk then the last time they were together. A small goatee grew around his lips and he had a strong scent of cologne on.

"And you look like you've been living in the middle of nowhere. You've got hair down to your back man."

Ash laughed as he grabbed on to his ponytail. "Yeah I guess it grew after a while. I can't help it if this is the first time I've had time to do anything else other than fight Team Rocket."

"Jesse and James at it again?" Brock asked.

"No," Ash said, "I haven't seen them since we were on a quest together. I've been taking out the organization itself as a whole."

"Well that explains why you've been gone so long," Brock confirmed his thoughts. "Just be careful around Misty she doesn't seem like she's been too happy since she got here. I think you might be in trouble." Ash swallowed as he turned to see Misty with a pissed anime face on.

"Well Brock it's been nice knowing ya, I'm going to see what I can do about this." Brock nodded as Ash began his walk. Both of them knew from past adventures that if Misty wasn't happy then someone was going to get knocked out.

"H-he-hey Misty," Ash croaked out of his mouth. "How are y-you?"

"Four years!" Misty yelled Ash jumped back. "You haven't said a word to me! No mail, no visit, no nothing!" I've been worried sick about you and now you show up to say hi?" Ash had his hands over his head waiting for the hammer of justice, but instead a card was put in his hand. "Happy Birthday Ash," Misty smiled and walked off.

Ash turned around to see his old friend and began to blush. Her hair had grown and she was becoming more beautiful like her sisters. She was wearing a white dress with a skirt that came up to the knee. "Wow, she's rea-"

"Hello? Ash?" Brock began as Ash put his hands across his mouth to shut himself up.

"You didn't hear anything!" Ash yelled.

"Right, I didn't hear you, but I did see you drool over your girlfriend over there."

"She's not my-"

"Yeah, yeah." Brock mumbled something.

"What was that?" Ash said as he glared at Brock.

"Oh, nothing." Brock said as he laughed walking off.

"So Ash I see you still kneel before me!" A brown haired man said as he walked toward Ash.

"Gary?" Ash got up from the ground and stood face to face with his rival since day one.

"Well I'd have to say that I'm impressed with the way you've trained your pokemon Ash. Losing to your son though must have been pretty embarrassing." Gary turned his face to Adam who's face began to turn red.

"Now you listen to me Gary Oak. When my son beat me I was the proudest I've been all my life. Seeing my son succeed."

"Yeah, I guess so." Gary nodded.

"So what are you doing here?" Ash asked

"Well, I've been waiting for some time now for you to come home so that we could chat for a while," Gary said. "I've got a proposition for you that you don't want to pass up." And with that Gary began to walk off. "Come to my house sometime soon. I'll explain everything there." You could almost hear that game boy rival music play as Gary walked off.

"I wonder what he's up to."

Ash went back to enjoying the party, Brock had given him a new plaque with all the badges that he had collected over the years and his folks gave him a new set of clothes, seeing as his clothes now were totally battered out of repair. But Misty had disappeared.

"Hmm… I wonder were Misty went." Delia and Adam looked at each other and smiled and Brock was looking the other direction.

"Well did you ever open her card?" Brock asked.

"No," he said as he pulled the card out of the hole in his pants that had been made into a makeshift pocket. "I was sort of waiting until now to open it."

He tore open the seal and opened the card.

"Dear Ash," Ash began to read it aloud. "I've been waiting so long for you to come back. Come meet…" Ash stopped reading it and dropped the card down.

"So is everything ok Ash." Brock smiled.

"I'll kill you later, but right now I've got to go."

"Okay honey have fun." Delia chuckled.

"Well what did the rest of the card say?" Adam looked at his wife.

Brock picked up the card and continued where Ash left off. "Come meet me by the bridge near Professor Oak's house for a special surprise."

They all laughed as they knew what was about to hit Ash. And this time it wasn't a mallet.

"Misty?" Ash called out but saw no one. "This would've been better if I could see right now. Stupid sun why'd you have to go down?" Ash turned around and began to call out his friend again. "Misty?"

"Oh Aaaaaaash." Misty said, "I've found you."

"What do you mean I thought I was supposed to meet… wow." Misty had changed her look completely, she was wearing something he hadn't seen in years.

"Misty."
"Yea."
"Is that my hat you're wearing?"

"You mean the one from your first adventure." She took a step forward.

"Yes." He paused to see her nod and then continued, "Hey misty."

"Yea," she began to blush.

"Is that my black shirt from my first adventure."

"Yes and the white shirt, and the vest." She took another step.

"Hey Misty?"

"Yes?"

"Are those the shorts you wore on our first adventure?"

"Perhaps." She took another step forward and tripped on top of him and they rolled down the hill. "Ow, that's not how it was supposed to work." She rubbed her head.

"Misty?"

"Yea?"

"I thought it worked out well."

She giggled, "Well stupid of course you would, you're a guy, guys know nothing about romance."

"Oh really?" Ash smirked. They both smiled and came in for that kiss that all the pokeshippers have wanted since forever and suddenly.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"What!" Ash yelled.

"And make it double!"

Oh no it appears that team rocket has come back to seek their revenge. Tune in next time as the heart pumping adventure starts again on, Pokemon.

To be continued…