Okayyy, Soo, apparently my original story, ASh's Return: What Could Happen somehow got deleted or something. But that's okay; looking back, I realise it wasnt going to be that good, anyway. In my absence I've grown a lot better at writing stories that flow more... smoothly. So basically, this is going to be a collection of short-stories and one-shots for Poke and Contestshipping, since they're my favorite pairings. I just have so many ideas that aren't really long enough to be considered real stories, soo... this was the outcome. I'll update whenever I get an idea in my head. By the by; I am not following the Pokemon Black and White series, so please bear with me if some of the facts are wrong. Oh, and I also don't own the Pokemon franchise, even though I desperately wished I did. Enjoy!

It was a peaceful day in the Unova region; the sun was setting, giving the sky a beautiful array of colors, ranging from orange, to purple, to blue. It seemed as if everything was in place, nothing to disturb the serenity of this day. The tranquils were twittering about; the cottonees were in the air, flowing with the wind, the sun reflectiing of of their bodies, making them sparkle and shine. Yes, this was a truly magnificent day indeed. Now, back to our heroes.

They were sitting on a hilltop, enjoying the view. Well, Iris was in a tree with Axew and Pikachu, but that's besides the point. Pikachu was relishing the feeling of the gentle breeze blowing between his fur; Iris kept comenting on how beautiful and graceful the scene looked, and Axew was snuggled in her hair, dozing off.

"Man, I sure wish everyday could end like this," the raven-haired trainer spoke, "don't you, Pikachu?" An elongated 'Pikaaa' was the answer.

"Yeah, especially after that meal! Thanks, Cilan!" commented Iris.

"Well, you're quite welcome. It is my passion, after all." replied the ever-modest Cilan.

It was quiet for a little bit, after that. It was a comfortable silence as they took in the scene, just lazing about. Soon after, Pikachu had climbed in Ash's lap, with the trainer stroking the golden fur gently.

"Well, it's getting dark. Should we go to bed, now?" Cilan asked.

"Yeah, we should. The scene was nice." said Iris.

"I'm right there with ya, guys," came Ash's opinion. "Man, I don't remember the last time I was that relaxed. I guess everything was just too perfect to be disturbed by training."

"Oh, Ash," Iris said, rolling her eyes, "you're such a kid."

Ash furrowed his brow; he really didnt understand why she kept saying that. He'd travelled 4 different regions, plaus the Orange Islands; he'd enetered many Leagues, and even some contests. He just shrugged it off with a "yeah, yeah, whatever, Iris. Goodnight everyone." while snuggling into his sleeping bag. He didnt really need one; it was warm enough outside to just sleep on it, but the sleeping bag just game him some added warmth and security. Soon, he was in a peaceful sleep, with the little electric mouse sleeping by his shoulder.

Ash awoke with a start. He was full of energy and just bursting with excitement to start the new day. He couldnt tell what, but he felt like something, just something good was going to happen today. It was as if his relaxed mood from yesterday was completely vanished. He could barely sit still to enjoy the wonderful breakfast Cilan had prepared; he was scarfing it down faster than normal.

"Woah, Ash, what's up with you? DIid something tickle your tastebuds today or what?" asked a startled Cilan. (A/N: I seriously hate how he talks.)

"Yeah, what's up?" asked Iris.

"What? Me? Nothing, I just wanna get going!" He said between mouthfulls.

"Pika, pika pikachu..." pikachu said, with a slight shake of his head for his best friend.

"What? I am not!" Ash defended. Not knowing what was going on between the two, Cilan and Iris turned back two their meals.

"Such a kid..." he heard a certain big-haired girl mutter. He reallly was getting fed up with her comments. I mean, afterall, she didnt even know of his accomplishments! But, he just shook it off, and didnt take it to heart.

Ash was, surprisingly, the first one finished their meal. You see, Cilan and Iris didnt eat like half-starved Snorlaxes, and actually ate at a decent pace, making small talk. They ignored Ash and his complaints at how "they were so slow," or how "A slowbro would be done by now," or, the ever-annoying, whiney, "come onnnnn!". by the time they were done their meal and had everything packed, Ash was basically pulling on their arms, trying to get them to walk. Pikachu was just on the sidelines, shaking his head and sighing at his trainer's antics. When Cilan and Irish had finally yelled at him, they started on down the hill, on the path to their destination: Icirrus City. Ash had linked arms with Iris and Cilan, Pikachu atop his head, and was running down the hill at top speed, practically dragging Iris and Cilan.

Ash barely had time to stop before falling into the vicious waters of the river they had to cross. It wasnt an especially wide river; but the waves were terrible, sure to tear up anything in their path. This is where Iris and Cilan sat down to rest after being dragged by Ash, while Ash still complained.

"It really is a beautiful day," Iris said, out of the blue, "but Ash wouldnt know since he never STOPPED TO LOOK AT IT!" Iris yelled.

This stopeed Ash's complaining, and he looked around; it was a beautiful day. The sky was clear, free of any clouds; you could hear the chirping of multiple bird-type pokemon; and the grass pokemon were out, soaking up the sun. Ash blinked a couple times, stopping to really admire the beauty of the day. He turned around and shot an apologetic smile towards his two companions, who just rolled their eyes in response.

"Anyway," Cilan started, changing the subject, "I hear the Basculin come out in these types of tough currents to, well, toughen up their skin and improve their endurance. Maybe we could catch some." (A/N: I dont know if this is true about Basculin.)

"Oh, yeah! Totally!" Ash said, agreeing. Iris shrugged in agreement. And with that, they set down their stuff, took out their fishing poles, and cast their line. When his friends weren't looking, he put on his special Misty lure and threw his line back.

"Woah! It's kind of hard to hold on to your pole." Iris stated, standing up to get a better grip on the ground, in an effort not to lose her fishing pole to the treacherous waves. Axew grabbed onto the back of her legs and held her there, like he was doing something.

"Ax, Ax!" he cried in agreement.

Cilan was currently in a battle with the waves and a female Basculin, who was putting up quite the fight. The scene actually was quite comical; he was trying to pull the line up with all his might, the heels of his feet digging into the soft ground, pulling with alll his might.

"Woah! This Little Basculin's got flavor!" he shouted. He soon realised that he was not going to win the fight, and ended up giving in, letting the Basculin get away with the bait, and deciding to go set up lunch. Ash, however, wasn't giving in thanks to his air of stubborn-ness.

"He's not getting away!", and "I got him now!," were all you heard from the pokemon-loving master.

"Pika, pi pika!" he cried, getting up on Ash's arms and pulling the fishing rod. Suddenly, the Basculin jerked forward, taking the pole right out of Ash and Pikachu's hands.

"Oh no! He took the fishing rod!" Iris said, clearly stating the obvious. Then, she turned to Ash, annoyed, and shouted, "How could you let this happen? Seriously! That was a good rod! Why are you such a, a, a KID!" Ash just looked at her angrily, and opened his mouth to say something, whenever a familiar voice spoke up;

"Hey, he destroys other's people's items. That's what he does. Ask me, May, or Dawn about our bikes." Ash turned around, to be met with the sight of her. She looked so calm, so elegant, so... nice. He couldn't describe it. The sun was reflecting off of her perfectly sun-kissed orange hair (which had grown out to be a long, shoulder lenth, wavy side-ponytail). She was wearing a blue camisole with a jean cropped, sleeve-less jacket, yellow short-shorts and new yellow and red sneakers. she had filled out a bit more in the last time he had seen her; she looked so much more mature. she had a full-on smile as opposed to her mischevious smirk, and she just looked... happy.

Well, Ash was Estactic. Elated. Overjoyed. Any word to describe "happy". Before he even knew what he was doing, his feet carried him over to her, tackling her in a bear hug.

"Ash! Did you get stronger or something, because you're SQUISHING ME!" she shouted in a playful tone. He took a step back and grinned sheepishly, responding;

"Sorry, Misty! I'm just really excited! I knew something good was gonna happen today!" he said. You could hear the excitement in his voice. "But, what are you doing here?" he asked, confused and curious.

"Well, actually, I was-" she was interuppted by a loud squeal of "PIKAAAACHUUU" and a blur of yellow coming at her. she happily caught Pikachu, cooing at it and saying how xcited she was to see it. Pikachu's cheeks were crackling with electricity; sparks of joy. "I know, Pikachu, I missed you too!" Misty said. Pikachu was melting in her arms, climbing on her shoulders, and resting on her head. She laughed. Ash just smiled at the shows of affection the two had towards each other.

"Um, not to interrupt or anything, but-" Cilan started from the table that was randomly there,

"Who are you?" Iris finshed for him, alo at the table, looking over Misty with a skeptical eye.

"Oh, I'm-" Boy, there certainly was a lot of interrupting today. How rude.

"She's Misty! Leader of the Cerulean Gym in Kanto, best friends of me, an old friend I used to travel with, sister of the Sensational Sisters,-" Ash started rambling.

"Haha, yeah, I, uh, think they get it, Ash..." Misty said, sweat-dropping. he just smiled and rubbed the back of is head.

"Oh, well it's nice to meet you, Misty. Care to join us?" Cilan, the ever-polite gentleman said, gesturing to the table. She shook her head hesitantly, and sat down. Ash sat next to her, happy all the time. She took a bite of the food, and her eyes went wide.

"Oh my god, I haven't had food like this since Brock's cooking!" She exclaimed, after she swallowed. She then happily ate the food.

"See, she doesnt talk with her mouth full." Cilan teased Iris. Iris pouted and kept eating.

"Anyway, Mist, you never told me why you were here." Ash stated, looking over her way.

"Oh," she said, wiping her mouth with a napkin, "Well, actually, after my progress with the gym, another Nurse Joy came by my gym and told me great news," she said, her smile growing bigger, "she said that I had been giving the challengers such a, well, challenge, and how 'marvelous' my progress was, that I made it into the Elite Four!" she said. she was practically yelling with excitement. She was beaming at Ash.

"Oh my god Mist, really? Thats great!" He said, giving her a side hug.

"I know! I'll specialize in Water Types, obviously. I got a really good team too," she said. she grinned at him deviously, as if hinting something, and he caught onto it. "anyway, they told me I had to face all the gyms in all the known regions, and win. I had a limit to two loses per gym. In total, I've only had thrree losses so far. I'm practically unbeatable!" she boasted, just to make him jealous. She saw that he was holding back on a retort, so she came closer to him and whispered, just to get on his nerves, like old times, "Gary said that he was really impressed with me." That snapped it for Ash, the thing that was holding him back.

"What? You've been talking to Gary? And of course he's impressed, who wouldnt be? I"m way more proud of you then him!" he shouted. Iris and Cilan were just looking at him like he was crazy, glancing back at each other, while Misty was in a laughing fit. Ash's face then got red, realising what she did. "Hey! Gary never really said that, did he?" he said. This made her laugh harder. When she was done, she faced him, her face red, and said

"No, no, he really did,"

"No, he didn't!"

"Yes he did!"

"Nuh-uh!" and it went on like this for sometime, before Cilan and Iris stopped it.

"Woah! Put that away," Iris said, looking at Misty's mallet, "and back away from each other." Pikachu just shook his head. They didn't understand Ash and Misty. Said people looked at each other confusedly; Why would they do that? And Ash spoke this thought.

"Why would we do that?" Iris looked at him like he just grew a tail.

"Because you two were just gonna kill each other!"

"Yeah, your soup was just a little too hot." Cilan added in.

"But we're best friends. We'd never actually hurt each other over some stupid, insignifigant argument... anymore." Misty said, adding the 'anymore' thoughtfully.

"Yeah. It's what we do. Ask Brock. ... Well, if you knew him." Ash added as an afterthought. Meeanwhile Cilan and Iris were just confused, and decided to saty out of it. Probably the smartest thing to do.

"Anyway!" Ash said, "Let me see your new Pokemon, ms. Elite Four!" he teased. she rolled her eyes and released her pokemon.

Inside of those six pokeballs Misty had contained a Golduck (freshly evolved,) A Kingdra, Gyrados, Azumarill, Corsola, and a Vaporeon. Ash was in awe of her team.

"Woah, Mist! You finally got your Vaporeon, I see. That's some team you have there! But, I think I may have a better one." he stated in playfulness, sticking his tongue out.

"Oh, is that so, Ashy-Boy?" she teased right back.

"Yeah that's so... Misty-girl!" he knew it was lame, but it was on short notice. She just let out a snort of laughter. He let out his pokemon; Pikachu, of course, Tranquil, Scraggy, Oshowatt, Snivy, and Tepig. She was impresssed; it was a pretty good team.

"Are you ready for this?" she called.

"You know it!" he said with a wink. She just smirked, with a pink tint to her face.

"What about you, Pikachu? Are you ready to battle me?" she called to the eager yellow rodent. yeah let out a 'pikaaaaaaaaaa!', cheeks crazkling with little sparks. "well alright then!"

And with that, they got in position.

Is Iris looked on the battle; Vaporeon vs Pikachu, she realized something; maybe Ash wasnt a kid. She didnt really know a lot about him. She just figured that this was the first journey he set out on. But, turns out, he's travelled 4 regions, some islands, joined a couple leagues, entered a couple contests, made a lot of friends, and even saved the world a couple times! Well, that's what she gathered from Misty and Ash reminiscing old times. And, by the way she saw Ash and Misty, he definitely wasnt a kid. You could tell there was something more between them, more than they let on. They so liked each other, from saving each other's lives multiple times, to helping each other in need, to even being jealous at the other's admirerers(?) (Melanie, Rudy, etc). She smiled as she watched their battle that Cilan was judging; just thinking about how she'd think twice before calling him a 'kid' again.

Okayyy. So, that was the first Pokeshipping one-shot. How was it? Sorry I didnt put the battle in; I'm tired (it's 12:30 am here) and I figured you guys could let your imagination's wander. I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes, but as I said, I'm very tired, as I refused to let myself go to sleep or stop until I was done writing in order to make up for being gone so long. Anyway, tell me how it was. Like it? Love it? Hate it? Want it to go die and burn a fiery death in a black, bottomless pit? Leave me your suggestions, comments, tweaks in the reviews! Thank you! And just a little heads up, the next one will probably be contestshipping. I'm really into long-time friends crossing paths again. I dont know why. Oh, and I have a question!: What do you guys think of Pokemon Black and White? I'm not that big of a fan of it, because I personally think they're taking it a bit too far. Hell, even Dawn annoyed me. Iris just gets on my nerves, especially with the whole "you're such a kid" thing towards Ash. I mean, really? Gosh. And I hate how Cilan related everything to food. Like dude, just shut up...

Sorry, I'm rambling. Anyway, tell me what you think in the reviews! Thank you guys so much!

Angel-of-energy