CHAPTER 1

Ash, Misty, and Brock stood on the bow the small motor boat as the vessel lazily puttered toward the islands of the Outer Coast. They were on their way to Indigo Island to find and catch a rare Pokemon that was rumored to live on the island. When Ash had first heard the rumor he wasn't sure he'd heard right but when he'd asked the person talking about it to explain he'd gotten more and more excited about it and had exclaimed, clenching a fist. "I gotta see it!" Pikachu had totally agreed with him and had jumped onto his shoulder and raised a tiny yellow paws shouting. "Pika!" in agreement.

Misty had shaken her head and sighed. "Well here we go again," she said.

So there they were on a boat to Indigo Island where the so called rare Pokemon had been spotted. Misty had once been to Indigo Island by herself and she hadn't spotted any rare or unusual Pokemon. She figured it would be a wasted trip but she wasn't about to tell Ash that. He'd just say she was jealous or something. I know there wasn't any on the island the last time I was there, she thought leaning against the railing. But maybe a rare Pokemon lives there now. It sounds impossible but it could happen.

"Hey Misty," ash said joining her. "Aren't you excited?"

"Why would I be?" she asked, turning to him. "I for one thing this whole thing is just a wild goose chase. You're not going to find this so called 'rare' Pokemon because it doesn't exist."

"How do you know it doesn't exist?" he demanded. "For all you know it could have chosen that island because it knew no one would go to it because they thought nothing interesting was worth catching there."

"Your logic is flawed," she said sighing. "Why would a Pokemon think that?"

"I don't know," he replied.

She closed her eyes and folded her arms. "Pokemon aren't that dumb you know," she said. "They don't think like you do."

"What is that supposed to mean?" he shouted.

"I mean if a Pokemon thought like you they'd be caught in a Pokeball as soon as they set foot outside their lairs."

"Hey!" Ash exclaimed, offended. "Why you! I'm not dumb and if I were a Pokemon I would be too hard to catch!"

She turned away from him. "Fine then," she said. "Think what you want."

Ash was about to come back with something but Brock shouted to his friends. "Hey, guys! I think we're almost there!"

Ash and Misty ran to the front of the boat where Brock and the captain were standing. They saw before them the small yet beautiful Indigo Island.

"Indigo island," Ash said. "The place where that rare Pokemon is said to reside." he gave the island a determined look. "Well rare Pokemon I'm going to find you and capture you!" he looked at the captain. "How much longer until he lands?"

"Just a few more minutes," the man replied.

"Ash, be patient," Misty told him, looking at the young man. "A few more minutes isn't going to hurt you."

"Yeah I know," he agreed. "But I don't want anyone else to capture it. "

"You don't have to worry about that, Ash," Brock cut in, looking at the island. "There doesn't seem to be anyone else around."

A few minutes later the boat captain dropped Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu off on the island coast. "If you need a ride back to the mainland just give me a call and I'll come get you!" the captain called as he drove his boat away.

"Thanks, we will!" Ash called after him as he and his friends waved good bye.

When the boat was out of sight Ash got to the matter at hand. "Now it's time to catch that rare Pokemon!" he asked, clenching a fist. He looked down at Pikachu. "C'mon, Pikachu!"

"Pika!" the electric mouse squeaked.

The two took off into the jungle.

Brock and Misty watched him go. "He sure is determined," Misty commented, making a helpless gesture.

"Yeah," Brock agreed. "Let's just hope he doesn't run into any trouble."

"Then I think we'd better go after him," Misty said, already walking. "To make sure he doesn't."

"Hey wait!" Brock called, running after her.

The two didn't have to go very far before they found Ash. Somehow he'd wound up getting himself snared by a trap someone had set and was handing upside down with Pikachu looking up at him in confusion.

"Ash?" Misty said staring up at the young man. "How did you end up there?"

"It's not important!" he exclaimed, struggling. "Just get me down from here!"

"I'll get you down in a jiffy," Brock said stepping forward to help.

He didn't get far. The ground below him suddenly gave way and down he went into a hole.

"Brock!" Mist exclaimed, looking down into the hole. "Are you all right?"

"I'm fine," he called up to her. "but I can't get out of here. See if you can find some vines."

"Okay." Misty looked around. She saw trees, trees, and more trees but no vines. No vines that she could reach anyway. "I'll have to look around for some!" she called down to him. "You just stay down there and wait okay?"

"Where else can I go?" he asked.

"Hey, what about me, Misty?!" Ash shouted from the tree.

She looked up at him. "I guess you'll just have to hang out a little longer," she said winking.

"MISTY! GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!" he shouted wiggling around.

"How do you expect me to do that?" she demanded, putting her hands on her hips. "I bet the second I go to help you down I'll get caught in a net or something."

"More like another hole," a voice said suddenly.

"Huh?" Ash and Misty said looking in the direction the voice had come from.

There was a rustling in the brush close by then someone stepped out of the thick fern leaves. It was a girl with long black hair, green eyes, and wearing short blue jean shorts and a green belly shirt. She had her hands on her hips and was frowning in annoyance. "Now look what you did," she said. "You ruined all my traps."

The two stared at her. "Karen?" Ash said recognizing the girl.

"Huh?" she said, not recognizing them. "How do you know my name?"

"Don't you remember us?" Misty asked. "We met you a few days after you became a Pokemon trainer. How have you been?"

The girl stared at the two a moment trying to match up faces of people she'd seen, finally her face softened. "Oh hi guys," she said. "What are you doing here?"

"We're trying to find a rare Pokemon," Ash replied.

"Rare Pokemon?" Karen said looking confused. She started walking toward them. "I don't know about any rare Pokemon." she climbed up on a rock. "Here, Ash, let me help you." she untied the rock and let Ash go. He fell to the ground and made a crater.

"Thanks...," he said all twitchy.

"Hey, Karen!" Borck called from the hole. "Can you help me out of here?"

"Oh!" she exclaimed, walking over to the hole and looking down inside. "Sorry about that, Brock. Let me help you out." she pulled out a Pokesall and threw it. "Haunter help Brock out!" The ghost Pokemon popped out of his ball and flew down into the hole to carry Brock out of it.

"A Haunter," Misty said, watching the pokemon carry Borck out of the hole. "Since when did you catch one of those?"

"Since I realized I couldn't just rely on one Pokemon my entire life," Karen replied, looking over at Misty. "I caught Haunter in the Pokemon Tower a few days after I left you guys. I used him to help me get a Marsh Badge from Sabrina." the girl sighed. "But sadly that's only one of the four badges I was able to get so far."

"You have four badges?" Brock asked, coming out of the hole. Haunter put him down and he immediately grabbed Karen hands. "But someone as beautiful as you should have been able to get all sixteen badges by now."

"Well," Karen said, giving him a look. "I would have had more but two certain gym leaders aren't in their gyms because they're following a certain pain in the neck around."

"Hey!" Ash exclaimed. "I'm not a pain in the neck!"

"How'd you know she was talking about you?" Misty asked looking over at him. "She could have been talking about someone else."

"Oh..." Ash said defeated.

"Hey wait a minute," Brock said.

"What?" Karen asked.

"If you're here does that means Mewtwo is here too?" Brock asked.

"Yeah, I almost forgot about him," Misty said. "By the way, where is he? I thought you and him were like two peas in a pod now."

"Well not exactly," Karen replied looking nervous and a bit worried. "We're not getting along again. To tell you the truth I haven't seen him in two days. I know he's on the island somewhere but I haven't found him. I haven't even bothered looking for him because I figured he needed some space. You know how he is."

Ash, Misty, and Brock didn't comment. They had thought since Mewtwo was willing to allow Karen to keep him that he'd changed. They must have guessed wrong. "Hey wait a minute," Brock said. "If Mewtwo's on this island maybe that's the Pokemon everyone has been seeing."

"Awww," Ash said, bummed out. "Now I can't catch any new Pokemon."

"I told you there weren't any rare Pokemon here, Ash," Misty said.

"Hold it," Karen said. "You know if there is a rare Pokemon here I may know someone who would know."

"You do?" Ash asked, looking up at her. "Who?"

Karen gestured with her finger. "Come with me," she said. "I'll take you to her and maybe we'll run into Mewtwo on the way there as well."

A/N

You may remember my older Pokemon story called "Mewtwo Master" (If you have read it that is) where I introduced my OC Karen. You might not remember it since the story is kinda old but anyway. This story will have her in it too as you already know but it will also have some pairings in it too. I decided to put some AshxMisty stuff (On request of my little sister) and some minor MewtwoxKaren and MewtwoxMew (MEW'S A GIRL IN MY MIND! I DON'T WRITE YAOI!) I hope you enjoy it and I hope to get some feedback for the story. Thanks in advance. I hope they were in character.

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