Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Pokemon.
This is ignoring Black & White, sorry for those of you that like that Generation.
Ash's POV
"Come on Pikachu we're almost there!" I ran over the last hill and saw Pallet town. "We're finally home!" It had been a while since we've been home, Sinnoh was pretty far away after all. It was nice to finally be home, I've missed my mom.
"Pika!" Pikachu ran off towards my house.
"Hey Pikachu wait for me! What's the rush?" I chased after my best friend. We got the house and Pikachu hopped the fence, jumping into my mothers arms who was in the yard gardening with Mr. Mime.
"Pikachu" she smiled happily then saw me "Ash! It's so nice to have you back home!" she hugged me tightly.
"Mom-must-breath" I squirmed and she let go.
"Sorry honey it's just been so long and I'm so proud of you for getting the semi-finals in the Sinnoh League!"
"I know mom, I've missed you too."
"How long are you going to stay dear?"
"I don't know, can't stay off my journey for to long but I do want to visit some of my pokemon at Professor Oak's lab."
"That reminds me, Misty called, wanted me to remind you to visit."
"Ill head over to Cerulean tomorrow then!" I grinned happily.
"Oh she's not at Cerulean honey, didn't she tell you the news?"
"No what news?" I asked confused, normally when anything big happened Misty would phone the nearest Pokemon center to tell me about it. We may not be traveling together anymore but we were still close friends.
"Well Ill leave it to her to tell you. She's at Professor Oak's lab."
"Why is se there? Never mind probably something to do with water pokemon or something."
"How about you go visit her and the Professor now. Ill make dinner."
"Alright mom, Ill see you later." I kissed her cheek "Common Pikachu we're going to go see Misty."
"Pika-pi!" Pikachu jumped on my shoulder happily, he missed having Misty around as much as I did. I dropped my backpack off inside the house before heading down the road.
It didn't take very long to get to Professor Oaks, knocking on the door I waited outside excitedly. I couldn't wait to surprise Misty and my pokemon, they wouldn't know I was back home yet. However that didn't go as well as I planned, the door opened up and-
"Gary?" I asked surprised "What are you doing here?"
Gary smirked at me "This is the Oak lab and in case you've forgotten Ashy-boy and I'm an Oak."
"Of corse I didn't forget that Gary!" I defended my intelligence, "I just meant I thought you were still in Sinnoh!" Just because we were friends now didn't mean we could resist baiting each other.
"I'm not doing field work right now so I thought Id stop by home to help out gramps, I've been home for a few weeks and they've been the best weeks I've had in a long time." Gary let out a sigh of pleasure.
"What are you talking about?" I frowned then smiled "Did Professor Oak get a new pokemon?"
"What? No! Gramps hasn't gotten anything new for a while." Gary rolled his eyes.
"Then why are you so happy?" I scratched my head confused, today just seemed to be a confusing day…
"Because-"
"Gary who's at the door?" I saw Misty's red hair behind Gary a moment before her face poked around his shoulder "Ash!" she smiled happily and pushed past Gary, giving me a big hug. I laughed and hugged back, barely noticing Gary's put out expression.
"Hi Misty my mom told me you were here and I wanted to catch up. It's been forever!" I smiled cheerfully.
Misty nodded "We have a lot to talk about, come inside." she pulled me into the living room, Gary following a bit behind us then sat down lounging on one of the couches. "We all watched you're battles. You were great. So were you Pikachu!" she took Pikachu off my shoulder to hold him.
"Pika-pi-chu-pi pika-pi."
"He's happy to see you too" I smiled, at Pikachu's talkativeness.
Gary prodded Misty's leg with his foot and made a gesture towards me.
"What?" I asked.
"It's nothing." Misty said quickly.
"Wasn't nothing the last time I checked" Gary muttered and Misty gave him a scolding kick like one of the many I used to receive.
"When did you two become friends?" I cocked my head to one side.
"We're not friends"
"But-" I started but was cut off when Professor Oak came in.
"Ash! I didn't realize you were back home so soon."
"I just got here Professor." I smiled
"I see, you guys must have been catching up." he nodded towards Misty and Gary. Misty was absorbed in 'talking' to Pikachu but Gary looked towards his grandfather, the two having a silent conversation with their eyes. "Well Ill leave you kids to it then!" Professor Oak said a little too merrily and walked off.
"What's going on today!" I finally burst out.
"W-What do you mean?" Misty stammered.
"Everyone's acting so weird! I mean I can get that Gary's back to see Professor Oak and all but why are you here?" I looked to Misty but then amended quickly "Not that I don't want you here its just that Gary said earlier that there's no new Pokemon here and the last time I came home and you were waiting to see me you stayed at my house."
"You stayed at his house!" Gary sat up quickly looking to Misty with an odd expression on his face.
"With his mother! She offered and I didn't want to waste my money on getting a hotel!" Misty exclaimed, turning bright red.
"And you two have been acting so weird! So have my mom and Professor Oak! What's going on!" I hated it when people didn't tell me what was going on. It was annoying when my mom and other adults did it but it was even worse when my friends did it.
Gary sighed "Misty and I are seeing each other."
I blinked a few times "Well I see her too, she's right there…"
Gary and Misty practically fell over in exasperation. "No Ash! Gary and I, we're dating!" Misty explained.
"Oh…Oh!" I looked between them shocked but suddenly I felt sick, deep in the pit of my stomach and I didn't know why. Hell yes I did. "Well that's great!" I forced a smile unto my face.
"Really…? You're okay with this?" Misty asked slowly.
"You sound like you don't want him to be okay with it." Gary whispered to her.
"Yeah of corse I'm fine with it!" I said a bit too loudly before Misty could respond to her boyfriend ughhh, kill me now! "Well I uh, I've got to go…my moms calling…come on Pikachu!" I called over my shoulder, already running out.
"Ash! Wait-" Misty called but I slammed the door and just ran. Misty and Gary knew that I wasn't okay with it but I had to get out of there. I ran all the way out of Pallet town to some nearby woods, finally stopping and sitting on an old tree stump. Pikachu sat in front of me and nudged my leg.
"Pika-pi?"
"I'm fine Pikachu, I was just surprised…that's it…just surprised…" I buried my face in my hands. This was all just so wrong.
"Pika…"
"No I don't like Misty!" I snapped.
Pikachu put his ears back unconvinced.
"I don't! I don't care if she's going out with Gary! I mean why would I care? It's not like expected her to wait for me while I was out traveling! She's a gym leader and I'm still struggling to beat gym leaders! Why would she go out with me when she can go out with some REASEARCHER, not that I want to go out with her or anything I mean-AHHH!" Pikachu shocked me, not hard but enough to get me to shut up. Once the shock wore off I sighed "You're right Pikachu…I do like her…What am I supposed to do now!" I stood up and kicked a rock into a bush.
"Ow!"
"Who's there?" I asked.
In an instant three people, well two people and a pokemon, jumped out from the bushes.
"Team Rocket!" I said surprised, I really didn't know why I was so surprised anymore, they always tended to show up at the worst or weirdest moments.
"Prepare for Troub-"
"I really don't have time for this right now. Can we do this later?" I was not in the mood to deal with them right now.
"Hey! You can't interrupt us in the middle of our motto!" Jessie yelled indignantly.
"Yeah! That's not how we do it!" James added.
"Well I'm not in the mood for this right now!" I responded "Pikachu, thunderbolt!" I exclaimed and Pikachu sent the attack towards them but it bounced right off of them.
"Ha! Bet you didn't expect us to line our suits in rubber!" Jessie laughed while Meowth took out a rubber extendo-arm and snatched Pikachu.
"You won't get away with this Team Rocket! Infernape g-" I stopped and felt around a bit before realizing I left all my Pokeballs in my bag at moms.
"Did somebody loose their Pokemon?" James smirked.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu tried to shock the arm but it didn't do anything so he tried again and again but still nothing worked as Team Rocket ran back to their balloon that was hidden behind a cluster of trees.
"I'm coming to get you Pikachu!" As a last resort I chased them myself but the balloon was already off of the ground. I jumped up and grabbed unto the basket, trying to scale up the side.
"Jessie!" James gasped, being the first to see me.
"Shake him off Meowth!" Jessie shook the talking Pokemon making him loose his grip on the mechanical arm that held Pikachu. I reached up and snatched it from them, the other hand still gripping the basket as we rose higher and higher into the air.
"Pika-pi!"
"I'm gonna get you out of there buddy" I promised but for now could only hold unto the mechanical arm.
The balloon started to sway violently from left to right as Meowth tried to shake me off.
"Are you guys crazy!" I exclaimed, we were way above the treetops by now, a fall from this height would cause a lot of damage.
"Duh" James laughed
"ASH!" I heard my name being called and I looked down, even from up here I could see Misty's bright red hair and another figure who I assumed to be Gary, I got that feeling in the pit of my stomach again, I realized they must have followed me after I ran off and were now chasing the balloon.
"Got it!" James exclaimed and I felt the mechanical arm holding Pikachu being ripped out of my hand, the handle hit against my chest and my other hand slipped. Suddenly I was plummeting down to the ground, the force of falling caused my hat to fly away but that barely registered. The only thing I heard was Team Rocket celebrating and all I saw was their balloon getting farther and farther.
I was taking a long time to hit the ground…
Then I realized I wasn't falling anymore, I sat up and saw that I was on the back of Gary's Fearow. We landed on the ground in front of Misty and Gary. They were holding hands, part of me almost wished that Fearow had let me fall.
NO! Don't think like that! Now isn't the time to worry about them! My brain yelled but my heart wouldn't listen. Stupid heart…
"Ash!" Misty yelled and ran from Gary, hugging me tightly. I bathed in the brief sense of triumph but she pulled away all too soon. "What happened!"
"The same thing that always happens! Team Rocket!"
"Where were your Pokemon?" Gary walked over to us.
"They were in my bag at my moms. I didn't exactly expect to come running into the forest." I rolled my eyes. Not feeling much in the mood for talking to Gary right now.
"Why did you run-" Misty started but I interrupted. My feelings were hard enough for me to deal with, I wasn't about to spill them to Misty. I had to get Pikachu back…I couldn't let what was going between Misty and Gary distract me.
"I've got to get back to moms and get my other Pokemon."
"Ash you just fell over fifty feet. You should see a doctor." Gary tried to stop me.
"Fearow caught me, I'm fine. I have to go get Pikachu." I started to walk away.
"You don't even know where they went!" he exclaimed.
"Ill find them! Its Pikachu! I have to go get him!"
"Then we're coming too." Misty said
"No! You'll just be a distraction…"
"Pikachu is my friend too Ash Ketchum! I'm coming with and you cant stop me." she yelled angrily and I knew that arguing with her would be useless.
"And if Misty goes I go. We cant let Team Rocket get away with this." Gary nodded.
"Fine! Lets just hurry!" I said and started to run towards my house, not wanting to waste any time.
Today was definitely the worst day of my life.
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I hope you guys liked the first chapter of my new story! Its my first Pokemon story but I've loved the show since I was like four and I've seen every episode but lately its started to just be bleh. The new girl in Black & White isn't as bad as I thought she'd be, I actually kind of like her cuz she's spunky but getting rid of Brock just made me sad. I mean after like what thirteen years Ash is still ten years old and is doing the same thing, just in a different place. I hate to say it but Pokemon needs either to end or change to fit the older fan base cuz most younger kids now aren't into Pokemon and those that used to love it are teenagers or even young adults now. That's just my opinion and if you disagree more power to ya!
I know Ash seemed kind of OOC but he is having a REALLY bad day…poor Ash… :(
PLEASE REVIEW! Reviews make me happy and makes me update faster!