A Promise Kept Means a Friendship Broken (Part 1)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters on Pokémon. They belong to Nintendo, GameFreak and 4Kids Entertainment etc. Also, I do not own any of the quotes and/or characters I mention. I'm not getting paid so puh-lease don't sue!
This is my first fanfic, so if it's a bit sketchy then I'll apologise right now. Note: the ages are slightly over exaggerated, but I just can't stand the thought of a ten-year old kid having a crush when he still supposed to be in that "boys rule, girls drool" stage. Enjoy!!!
Chapter 1: Blastoise from the Past. (A Poképun!)
We begin this story as most do… Ash-Tachi is lost, again.
"I can't believe that we are lost again," Misty gritted through her teeth. "How is it possible that you were reading the wrong map, Ash?"
Ash gave her the evil eye and said, "It's not my fault Misty, how was I supposed to read a map that was covered in your (he used sarcastic finger quote thingy) 'special face cream' ".
"If you had even one tiny brain cell in that oversized head of yours then you would know that it helps me stay young and beautiful".
"You're 16, you don't need to look young, and as for the beautiful part…" He paused. Misty thought this is it, he's finally going to tell me how he feels!!
"…All the cream in the world couldn't help your face. You're as ugly as a donkey's behind!!"
Brock sweat dropped and sighed. He thought that by the time he finished working for Prof. Ivy, these two would have at matured a little. When he looked up he saw Tracey trying to stop them from fighting but not getting anywhere. He looked over at Pikachu and Togepi, who were laughing so hard that they looked like they were crying.
"So I'm ugly, am I?" She whipped out her trusty mallet (the one which no female should leave home without) and knocked him out cold. "Ha!" she snorted.
"Oh no, Pikachu try and wake him up with an electric attack" Tracey said. "Pikachu? PIKACHU!"
"Pika, pika! Chu! (Alright, alright! Sheesh!). He wiped the tear away from his eye and shocked Ash.
"Huh? Wha' happened?" Ash took one look at Misty, saw how pissed she was and fainted.
"Chu! Pi pika chu pi ka pika chu!" (Cripes! You really scared the heck outta him!) He went up to Ash's Pokébelt and opened Squirtle's Pokéball.
Ping! "Squirtle!" He saw his beloved trainer lying on the floor and asked Pikachu what happened, so Pikachu filled him in. At first Squirtle couldn't stop laughing, then he looked at Misty and said "Squirt! Squirt squirtlesquirt, squirt!" (Wow! You're dangerous, girl!)
"I dunno what he just said to me, but I'll take it as a compliment." Misty joked.
After a couple of minutes of reviving Ash with Squirtle's water gun, the gang were on their way back to Pallet. Ash had just finished competing in the Orange League and had decided to go home and tell Prof. Oak all about it. They came across a sign that said, "Welcome to Viridian City!"
"You see Misty, I knew where we were going even without the map!" With that he started walking off, not looking where he was going and bumped right into someone.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" they both screamed. Then they both gasped. In front of him was a girl who was his height and looked about the same age. She had sapphire-blue eyes and brown hair that was tied up in a bandana that had a similar design to Ash's cap, a pair of very baggy dark blue jeans, a white T-Shirt and a short-sleeved green and white jacket. They both just stood there and looked as if they had just seen a Gastly.
"Hey Ash, what's wrong? You look as if you just saw a Gastly!" Brock replied. (Did I not just say that?)
"I… I… just can't believe it" was all Ash could manage to get out.
"Would you please explain what's going on because if you don't Ash Ketchum I'll hit you with my mallet!" threatened the infuriated redhead.
"So it really is you!" the girl replied. After a split second, the girl hugged Ash. " I thought we'd never see each other again!"
Chapter 2: Alley Kaishi, Pokémon master (in training^_^)!
By this time Brock and Tracey's jaws were on the floor, Pikachu looked confused, Togepi was just being …Togepi and the vein in Misty's forehead was growing and growing.
"ASH! WILL YOU PLEASE TELL US WHO IS THIS GIRL AND WHY IS SHE HANGING ALL OVER YOU!!?"
Immediately the girl let go of him and blushed. She looked embarrassed and laughed.
"Oh! I'm sorry; you must think I'm crazy!! Lemme introduce myself. My name's Alley Kaishi."
"Hi, my name's Brock, this is Tracey, Misty and you seem to already know Ash."
"Yeah!"
"So, do you wanna tell us how come?"
"Oh, okay. Well, um, I've known Ash ever since before I can remember. I lived in the house across the street from him until a couple of months before Ash's 10th birthday, when my grandparents decided to move to Mandarin Island".
Everyone said their hellos and introduced themselves.
"Oh, what a cute Pikachu! Is it yours Ash? Ash?"
They didn't notice that Ash had been silent for a while. "Pika? (Ash?). He just sat there and stared into nothingness. He looked as if he was confused, hurt and angry all at the same time. He had so many questions, why here?, why now? and most importantly why her? She was his best friend, they were gonna travel the World together but she just up and left him for a new life and he didn't even know where until now. So, the big question was what was he gonna say to her?
"YO! Earth to Ash. Hey, I'm talkin' here!"
"Why are you here Al?"
"What are you talkin' about?" She was obviously confused by his question.
"Why are you here Al? Why'd you come back to Indigo Island?"
"Well to put it in a way you'd understand… I'm here to ( she strikes that victory pose that Ash does) become the world's greatest Pokémon master."
Everyone except Ash and Misty burst out laughing.
"Sheesh man, what happened to your sense of humour?" She then saw Misty giving her a dirty look and said "Wait, don't answer that. I think I know why."
Ash couldn't hold the laughter in anymore, but as we all know there's a price to pay when you mock Misty!! BAM! She missed about three inches away from Ash's head. Misty turned to Alley and decided to try and make a good impression of herself.
"So you're training to become a Pokémon master, huh?"
"Yeah!"
*If she's anything like Ash then she might not have gotten far in the Pokémon League. * Misty thought to herself.
"So, um, how far did you get in the Indigo League?"
"I got in the top 10."
"Wow, that's…great. With it being your first time in a Pokémon League competition…"
"Oh, that wasn't my first ever Pokémon League competition."
Misty smiled. "It wasn't?"
"No, I competed in the Orange League first since I live on the Orange Islands."
Everybody face faulted Anime style.
"You know since we're in Viridian," Ash started "maybe we could have a match, Alley!"
First she looked confused, then a smile appeared on her face and she nodded in agreement.
"Yeah we haven't had one of those in a while! I think there's a perfect spot in town, come on!"
They followed Alley until they reached their destination it was an all-you-can-eat restaurant.
"All right, let's get started!" Ash said.
"Huh? I don't get it? How can you have a Pokémon match in an all-you-can-eat restaurant?" Tracey asked.
"Easy since we're having a food-eating contest, not a Pokémon match!" Ash replied. The remaining members of Ash-tachi face faulted. (Didn't see that coming, did ya?)
"Well, before you do that let us start you off with a little appetizer." Said a familiar voice.
(Here we go again!)
"Prepare for trouble!"
"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!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meeeowth. That's right! So hand over your Pikachu kid or else…huh?"
Meowth turned to notice that Alley was on the floor, howling with laughter.
"…Are…these guys…for real?" was all she could manage to get out.
"How dare you mock the notorious Team Rocket!?"
Alley stopped laughing, wiping the tears from her eyes as she did so, stood up and said "Your notorious all right, notoriously ridiculous!"
The Rockets couldn't believe their ears! Usually, people they first come across (with the exception of Ash-tachi, of course) are scared stiff of them and here was this girl, dissing them as if they were nothing!
"We'll teach you to mess with us. Go, Arbok!"
"Char-bok-a!" (Alrighty then!)
"Go, Weezing!"
"Weezing!"
"Let's go, Pikachu!"
"Pi, Kachu! (Yeah, baby!)
"Go, Staryu!"
"Psy?"(Wha?)
"Grrr. No Psyduck, not again. You stupid, dumbass Pokémon!!"
Alley decided to join in. "Alright. Go Hitmonchan!"
"Chan!" (Yeah!)
"Arbok, Wrap attack on Pikachu!"
The huge snake coiled it self around our favourite mouse.
"Pikachu, Thundershock now!"
"PIIII-KKAAAA-CHUUUU!" (You're dead meat!)
Pikachu knocked Arbok out cold. Alley decided to take advantage of the confusion.
"Hitmonchan, use your comet punch on Weezing!"
"Hit-mon-chaan!" (Okay, buh-bye!)
"Use mega punch to blow these losers away!"
"Hit-mon-chaan!" (Don't come back now!)
"Looks like Team Rockets blasting off again!"
"Sorry you have to leave so soon!" Tracey said.
"Slap me five, Hitmonchan!" Hitmonchan, unfortunately, missed her hand and hit Ash.
"Hey, your Hitmonchan hit-mon-chin. (Snorts) Get it? Hitmonchan hit-mon-chin. (Drumroll)" Ash and Alley begin to laugh uncontrollably while everybody else sweatdropped.
"Well, it's getting kinda late, we'd better find a Pokémon Centre to crash in."
Brock said. He had that "gaga" face cause he was thinking about Nurse Joy.
Since the Pokémon League had finished there were two rooms available, one with 3 beds and the other with 2. Much to Misty's dismay the boys had all decided to share so she was stuck with Alley. She decided to get to bed as soon as possible to avoid contact with her newly found enemy. Then she thought to herself "just hold on, why do I hate her so much? I only just met her and she seems to get along so well with Ash… maybe that's why. I've had a crush on him ever since we met four years ago and I'm scared she might take him from me."
Unfortunately her train of thoughts were interrupted by…I'll give you three guesses.
"Hey!" (Alley, for those who didn't know!)
"Oh, hello."
"Misty, there's something I gotta ask you."
"What?"
"Do ya have a thing for Ash?"
Misty immediately blushed.
"I thought so. I can always see when someone's gotta crush it's like a sixth sense or something. Wait, seeing is one of the original five, right? My bad. So, watcha gonna do 'bout it?" (Ditzy, much?)
"I dunno. I don't even know if he likes me? What if he laughs at me or tells Brock or Tracey? What if…"
"Woah! Calm down and stop thinking like that. You'll give yourself a wiggins! Look, do ya want me to ask him for you?"
"NOOOOOOO!"
"Okay! Um, well, ooh here's a good plan!" She whispers something into Misty's ear and she nods in agreement. The plan is set, the plot thickens and what our two femmes fettales (sp?) don't realise is that a certain electric mouse has been eavesdropping with a smile so sly it could put Joey (from Friends) to shame!
"Well, I'd better get to getting. All I've gotta remember is to be subtle. Oh, boy this is gonna be tricky!" Alley said.
As she left the girls room and went next door she was relieved to find that the older two were nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, Ash. Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure, Al. What up?"
"Okay, we're both mature, responsible adu… lemme re-phrase that. Um, we're both 16 now right?"
He looked a bit uneasy. "Yeah".
This was going nowhere! *Forget subtle* she thought. "Okay, we both know you have the most humungous crush on Misty, so spill the beans before I get ugly…er".
Ash just looked at her in disbelief. He couldn't believe that she spotted his feelings for Misty so quickly. It had been, what, half a day and she just…knew. Could she really be that smart or possibly psychic? He shuddered at the thought and tried to come up with something to say. Silence.
"I thought so".
"So, how did you figure it out?"
"Well, basically, I looked at the way you gaze at her, the way that you argue as if you were married but I kinda had a talk with Brock and Tracey and they confirmed my conclusions". He face faulted.
"You mean that Brock and Tracey know too?"
"Baka, everyone knows except you and the future Mrs Ketchum!"
"You're bluffing!"
"Wanna bet! Pikachu, come in here a sec, will ya?"
"Pi ka ka chu? (Do I have to?)"
"Ya huh!"
Pikachu mumbled some words that I can't put on here because he was being interrupted from his late-night ketchup feast.
"PI? (WHAT?)
Alley asked Pikachu to back her up and much to Ash's chagrin everything she said was true. Then out of nowhere he just started talking nonsense and running all over the room nervously twitching his fingers.
"Ohmigoshidon'tbelievethisishappenningtomewhydidn'tbrockortraceysayanythi
ngbeforewhatiftheyalreadytoldherandwhatabouttogepihemightofsaid
somethinohboyi'minalottacrapandicantgetoutofit…"
He took about…well let's just say I got bored and made a sandwich by the time he finally collapsed on the bed and started hyperventilating. Pikachu just stared on in amazement while Alley looked quite calm. When Pikachu asked why she was so calm she replied with a giggle
"This is how he reacted after he first met that bakayaro Gary Oak! He was so worried that Gary might beat him in Pokémon training that he reacted like this!"
She went up to him and screamed in his ear, "ASH, WAKE UP!! IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! WE'RE DOOMED, THERE'S A FIREBALL HEADING RIGHT FOR US!!"
"HOLY SHIT! I GOTTA SAVE MISTY AND PIKACHU!" He ran straight into the closet, realised his mistake and ran out the door. 3,2,1…
"Wait a second, that was a movie. Alley!"
"Sor-ry!" she said between giggles.
"So, back to real issue at hand here. What am I gonna do?"
"Well, step 1: if you can admit to me how you feel about her then I should be able to do a little somethin' about it".
"What do you mean 'if you can admit to me how you feel about her'?"
"Pi chu, pi ka pi chu pika kachu (She means, does she make you horny, baby?)"
Alley and Pikachu rolled over with laughter.
"Pikachu, behave!" (Whoops! Shouldn't of said that, Ashy-boy!)
"Oh, behave!" "Pi, kachu!"
(It seems that Alley and Pikachu are still stuck in that "Austin Powers" phase.)
"Alley, please!"
"Okay!"
"Thanks, now that I have your undivided attention (!). Okay, you want details you got 'em. I love her more than life itself! Her eyes, her hair, her smile…"
"Her mallet…" He shot her a dirty look and finished his speech. Five minutes later…
"…There are you happy now?"
"Ecstatic! Okay guys, I can see you have been hiding behind the curtain for the last, like, hour! Come on out!"
Out from behind the curtain came Brock and Tracey! (Come on, you can't tell me you didn't see that coming?)
"Oh my lord!" Ash could have died from humiliation at that point but instead chose to get in a little fistfight with Alley.
"How come you didn't tell me they were there?" He shouted. Ash held the poor girl on the ground by the neck but she threw him off to a near-by mattress.
"Cool your jets, Ash! They already know so what's the big deal?" He just stood there and as hard as it was to admit it she was right. Brock decided to break the silence.
"So, you finally like girls, huh? Don't worry I am an (in his silly but good French accent) expert in zis area. First things first flowers & candy basically ze whole, how you zay, nine yards…" He mumbled on for about five minutes.
"Eh?" Alley asked Tracey.
"He kinda falls for every older girl he sees".
"Ah. A normal 18-year-old guy. Go fig".
But what are heroes don't know is that they are being watched by Team Rocket. (Anyone starting to think that they really shouldn't leave the window open. No? Okay, fine!)
"So, it looks like I was right all along".
"About what, Jess?"
"Numbskull, haven't you been listening?! The twerp is in love with the twerpette. You know, I'm beginning to think that if she wasn't with him, he wouldn't beat us all the time".
"But about dat other girl who laughed at us?" Meowth asked. "She's really overconfident!"
"Okay, I have a good plan to get Pikachu and put that pest in her place that doesn't involve holes!"
"What's that?"
"A good old fashioned kidnapping! Ha ha ha haha!" She laughed evilly.
And just as we get to a relatively good bit I'm gonna go and say…
To be continued… (Don't ya just hate that. ^_^)
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