**All's Fair In Love and Rivalry**

**All's Fair In Love and Rivalry**

Author's note:: For some reason I have no idea why I don't like Ash and Misty together, well sometimes I do, and I'm sorry if you like a lot of AAMRN's but I usually do other people with Misty and other people with Ash. This is a Misty and Gary theme; though, not till the far end of the fic or chapters. All of 'em are 13-14 except for Brock who's the oddball, that's 17. Oh ya, just to let y'all kind people know now, I CAN'T STAND TRACEY so you'll never ever see him in my FICS! And the title doesn't exactly go with the story just yet, but it will and you'll see what I mean.

Disclaimer:: NO, I DO NOT OWN ALL THE SONGS I PUT IN HERE…City High, "What Would You Do", and Britney Spears' song, "Walk On By".

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In the woods, always getting lost...Ash, Misty and Brock decide to camp out, in yet another, unnamed forest. Misty gets up to turn the radio on.

"What station do you guys like?"

"Jammin' 94.5/ Kiss 108!*" Both shout. And as a matter of fact that wasn't the only thing they were shouting about after they announced the radio station of their choice. (*You may not live where I do, but just pretend it's the stations you like that are fighting over with your friends.)

"I'll be over here…" Misty says to…herself…but takes out her Walkman. "Heh, heh I knew this would come in handy." She's jammin' along to Jammin' 94.5 listening to City High 'What Would You Do'. "What would you do if someone's at home, cryin' all alone on the bedroom floor; cuz he's hungry and the only way to feed him is to seek for a man with a lil' bit of money. And his Daddy's gone, so we're smokin' locked down, In and outta jobs now, I ain't got a job now, so FOR YOU THIS IS JUST A GOOD TIME, BUT FOR ME THIS IS WHAT I CALL LIFE." What are you trying to prove Misty! We aren't exactly watching you, we're reading you. Oh I see! So you're saying that because Ash and Brock fight most of the time it's a good time for us to watch, but for you it's life! *eh..heh, heh,* moving right along…

They guys are just staring at her like a freak, and she's still groovin' to the song. Suddenly the station's interviewing people from past Leagues and matches. What the hell are the odds of Gary coming on the radio?

"Hey sup Gary? You're talkin' on Jammin' and here's a lil' bit a questions." Misty's dead in her 'beautiful song' that she half sung, until they put this bastard on the station. Her face dropped dead, and the rest of her body was in shock.

"Mist?" Ash asked.

"Oh my God Ash don't even bother asking! Gary's on the damn Jammin' radio!!!"

"HA HA, see Brock she picked mah station! Boo ya!" Ash started laughing hysterically.

"Do you have medication to take that I don't know about, Oh Insane Psycho One?" Just to make sure, Mr. Slit Eyes asked that question.

"Ass is insane? Oh I'm sorry I meant ASH." Brock started to chuckle, as well did Misty to her own little crack she made.

"ALL I WANTED TO KNOW WHICH CUP OF WATER WAS MINE! DON'T SNICKER AT ME! Besides I don't care what the hell that asswipe that's on the radio does." Ash defended.

"Well why don't you just choose one, drink it and see if it's yours, dork! Now give me some frick frackin' peace!" Misty yelled to Ass, oh geeze, typo error, I mean Ash! Misty's expressions are very effective…But Ash's I.Q of his shoe size took over his brain once again. He tried all of the cups with water.

"Eck, this one's cloudy and nasty…"

" 'Guess, that one's yours." Brock said bluntly with a smirk on his face.

"Shut up assmunch."

"Ah, damn Ash, you already drank it? Ohwell! That one was the one with Miracle Grow!" Another wise crack did Misty crack.

"SHIT, IT WAS? NO ONE TOLD ME THAT, well maybe I'll grow taller, I am kinda short!" What a confused boy. After the confusion with Ash to go with it, Misty continued to listen to Gary. She didn't really see what was wrong with the dude. He never did anything wrong to her, only Ash. So in a way, it sort of struck her because she was Ash's supporter, and same goes for Brock; but Brock didn't have this problem. Time drifted along as she thought about the possibilities with Gary and her.

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"Thanks, Gary, we're glad to have you anytime on Jammin'. Up next our Jam Scams! *Boston's home of hip hop and rap, Jammin' 94.5!* The station sang. Misty must have dozed off for about 15 minutes because Ash's so-called 'asswipe' had just finished talking to Jammin'. She just let out a soft sigh. The girl still felt awkward for liking Gary:

'Hell, he's cute and he's nice towards me, I wonder if I do ask him sometime, maybe he'll feel the same way…but the only thing, well I should say, person in the way is Ash,' The love-stricken Misty mused. 'I like Ash and all but, I'm afraid he's going to get mad at me for even at the thought of going out with Gary.'

The next song plays on the radio. "Here's Britney Spears with Walk On By, on Jammin'."

"Hmmm…Never heard this before, sounds pretty…"

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I'm comin' down there's a party tonight,
Only you, can make it right.
If I could be there with you, holdin' you tight,
There won't be no morning light.
Everywhere I turn, I see your face;
Reminded me of a higher place.
Every time you smile, Angels cry,
Every time you walk on by.
I'm not the only feelin' lonely,
Every time you walk on by.
I try to say somethin' but ends up bein' nothing,
Every time you walk on by.
Every time you walk on by.
I keep my cool, I pretend you're not here,
Every time you come to near, yeah.
I'm such a fool, 'cause this love is true,
And if I don't tell you, someone else should squeal.
Everywhere I turn, I see your face,
Reminded me of a higher place.
Every time you smile, Oh Angels cry,
Every time you walk on by.
I'm not the only, feelin' lonely,
Every time you walk on by.
I try to say somethin' but ends up bein' nothing,
Every time you walk on by, yeaaah,
Feelin' lonely. Oh yeaah.
If I ever see you again, this craziness must find an end.
I look at you, I promise myself…
I'm not the only feelin' lonely,
Every time you walk on by.
I try to say somethin' but ends up bein' nothing,
Every time you walk on by…
I'm not the only, yeah, feelin' lonely, Oh yeaaah baby, yeah yeah,
I try to say somethin' but it's nothing…
Every time you walk on by, yeaaah
Every time you walk on by…by…
Every time you walk on by…hey…
*music fades slowly*
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"THAT WAS SUCH AN INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL SONG TO GO WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN," Brock cried uncontrollably. "Ash you confused little boy come here! I'M SORRY ABOUT THE DAMN RADIO STATIONS, FORGIVE ME!" He pulls Ash to his chest and to think to do that, to suffocate the poor kid!
In a muffled voice, "Brock where the *cough* is Misty, and really you can just let me breathe any time now…" For Pete's sake here, the kid's on the brink of dying of no oxygen to the brain…if he has one.
*Lets go of the beautiful hug that him and Ash so deeply shared together…* "Oh yeah, she said she was going to take a walk, you unfortunately, were still drinking the clouded water shit and just said 'yeah, yeah bitch, I'm trying to still find out which one's mine!' I don't get it anyway, Ash there are only three friggin' cups and you're still—" Ash was fast asleep already.
" 'Knew that'd get him to sleep, heh!"
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Misty is walking at 9:30 at night, with no one to protect her and who knows what'll happen at that hour in the outskirts of the woods. We see some mysterious person walking about a couple of feet behind her then—
"BOO!" It was Gary. Wow big surprise, didn't see that one coming, right?
"EEEK!" Misty squealed and turned around to see who it was.
Misty blushed, "Oh…it's you…Gary… weren't you just on Jammin'?"
"Yeah, the Radio Tower isn't too far from here. Didja hear the part where I dissed Ash? Oh yeah that was a good one." Damn, she missed it. Ohwell it wasn't a bad thing, she probably would've laughed at whatever the comments Gary made. And of course, tell Ash. Somehow she thought he wouldn't be too thrilled.
"Uh yeah I'm sure it was!" Misty burst with a smile, "Ummm, no offense Gary, but why are you talking to me?" That was the start of her plan to pressure him on to see if he'd give her the answer she was looking for.
"What exactly do you mean by that, I know you travel along with DumbAss and DumbAsh, but I never saw a problem with you, in fact I never did know why you went with him. Hey, since I ran into you, will you go to the Annual Spring Dance we have every year in Pallet…with me?"
"YES!…I mean, that'll be nice…"
"Phat, then I'll see ya Saturday at 7 p.m., if you don't know how to get there, Hot-Head to get you there although he's invited too. Damn, he's an embarrassment to our town. Bye Misty."
"Uh, BYE! He knows my name, HE KNOWS MY NAME! YES!" This was all happening so fast that she didn't know what to do first. It was Thursday night; she had really only one day and a half to really get everything together—and to get this through Ash's skull.
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*****TO BE CONTINUED…CHAPTER 2 COMING*****