A/N: I'm tired but can't go to sleep but this is what you get. I'm busy with school and things, so don't expect me to update regularly….. I thought it was time I updated though. I hope you like it, and sorry for any grammar/spelling mistake…. I'm mega super ultra tired.
It was a quiet day in Kanto. The butterfree were fluttering about, pidgeys were overhead, and if you looked and squinted so hard to the point where you had a throbbing headache, you could see Ho-Oh between the clouds. It was a scene worthy of a picture painted with the finest oils. There were rainbows after a light rain scattered about, with the sun casting a majestic golden glow over the clouds. A truly marvelous seen indeed.
Unfortunately, our dense, bumbling idiot of a savior was about to ruin that. He was walking along merrily, singing a song aloud to himself, (and two his two very annoyed companions,) quite badly, with his trusty Pikachu chiming in every now and again.
"YOU WANNA BE A MASTER,"
"PIKACHU!"
"DO YOU HAVE THE SKILLS TO BE,"
"PIKACHU!"
And this is how it went for most of the day. The green-haired connoisseur, the young Dragon Trainer from the Village of Dragons, and the little Axew perched in her hair had already given up on trying to save their ears from the 'Pokemon Master' disaster's ridiculously loud singing. But, they were becoming fed up.
"WE ALL LIVE, IN A POKEMON WORLD-…. Woah, wait a minute." Spoke the raven-haired trainer, confusedly.
"Pikaaa?" asked his life-long friend.
"Where else would we live? Of course we live in a pokemon world." He concluded. They all pondered this while they were walking.
"Well," started Cilan, "maybe… maybe there's this alternate dimension, where the people have regular pokemon that don't do anything and are just friends?"
"So… no pokemon battles?" asked Ash.
"No, just… friendship."
At this 'ridiculous thought', Iris started laughing. Ash soon joined in with her, wiping a tear out of his eye.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous Cilan!" Iris said, her laughter booming.
"Yeah! Can you imagine a world without pokemon battles or contests?" Ash asked incredulously.
"Pika, pikachuu!" Pikachu said, shaking his head. Even Cilan let out a chuckle and stated,
"Yeah, I don't know what was thinking. Silly me." And with that, the conversation was done. Ash was now conversing with Pikachu, who was excited at the prospect to go home, and Cilan was talking with Iris about types of berries they'd found. That was until they'd come across a sign that read "Cerulean City, 1.5 miles."
"Hey, Ash, are we supposed to go through Cerulean City to get to Pallet?" asked Iris, making sure.
"Yup! And we can visit one of my best friends on the way there!" he stated proudly.
"Oh, did you know them since you were little?" questioned Iris.
"What? No, we travelled together through Kanto, Johto and the Orange Islands. We were with my other best friend Brock in Johto and most of Kanto, but were alone in the Orange Island for a little bit, before meeting up with Tracey. My friends Tracey and Gary are back in Pallet, and Brock's in Pewter City, so we can visit him too-" But at this, the thoughtful Ash was cut off. How rude.
"Wait, whoa, what? I thought you had just started your journey, with me and Cilan!" Iris said, dumbfounded. At this, Ash and Pikachu were rolling with waves of powerful laughter.
"Yeah, Ash how many people do you know?" Cilan questioned, looking at him skeptically.
"How many pokemon have you seen? Have you seen a lot of Dragon Types?" Added on Iris, eyes shimmering and practically floating with wonder and glee.
"How many places have you been?" Cilan said.
"Woah, woah, guys! Okay, I'll answer them in order. Cilan, I know a lot of people, I'll name them!" Ash said, finding nothing wrong with this. "The first person I ever met starting on my journey, was Gary. He's Professor Oak's grandson, the person I got Pikachu from, even though we didn't exactly get along at first!"
"Chaaaa!" Pikachu said, fond of the old man, rubbing his cheek against Ash's.
"He was my rival for a while, and he's a great battle. I lost to him a lot," Ash admitted sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. "Then, I started my journey, and I kinda ran into Misty… well actually, he fished me out of a river, then I stole her bike, and eventually fried it. Well, actually Pikachu did, but you know," he said, smiling. "She started to come with me on account that I owed her a bike, which I never gave back to her. She's the leader of the Cerulean Gym, since her sisters Violet, Daisy, and Lily can't do it. They're the Sensational Sisters. After a while, we met Brock, and he started travelling with us too, finally breaking away from his family of 9(I think?) little brothers and sisters," He said, another smile gracing his face, and Pikachu crackling with electricity at just hearing the story. Iris and Cilan were listening intently, glancing at each other every so often, and looking around at Cerulean City. "After we conquered The Kanto region, and I participated in the Indigo League, we went to Johto. I met Ricky and Melanie(I think?). I entered that League too! In the Orange Islands, I met Rudy, and challenged and won the Orange League. Then, me and Misty said goodbye," at this, his eyes darkened a bit, "and I went to Hoenn. I met May, her little brother Max, Drew, and travelled with her, Max and Brock. May was a coordinator, so I met her coordinating friends Soledad and this weird, very feminine guy named Harley. I fried her bike too… heh… Anyway, I went to Sinnoh, and met Dawn, Barry, Zoe, Paul and travelled with Brock. Dawn was a coordinator too. I met a bunch of other people too, but if I listed them all here, it'd take until midnight until I was done." he said, smirking.
"Woah, Ash. That was way much. Seriously, you've obviously had a lot of different flavors on your plate!" Cilan expressed, his eyes wide. Ash nodded, and Pikachu let out a 'Pikaaa!'.
"And to think, I thought this was your first journey! How wrong I was." laughed Iris. Axew, who'd woken up in the middle of the story, popped out of Iris' hair and let out an agreeing 'Ax, Axew!'
"I've seen a bunch of legendaries, too!" Ash said proudly, puffing his chest out.
"Really? Like what? Dragon types?" Iris swooned. Ash chuckled,
"Yeah, we met this like 50 foot gigantic dragon. We've met Latias and Latios, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Palkia, Dialga, Mew, Celebi, Giritina, Jirachi-"
"Woah, Ash, we don't know most of those pokemon!" Ciilan added in, raising his hands in surrender.
"Oh yeah. We helped save the world multiple times!" Iris looked on in wonder.
"Oh look, there's a gym over there-" he was cut off by Ash's yell,
"MISTY!" with that, he took off running.
"I didn't know he could move that fast." Commented Iris.
"Yeah, tell me about it!" Cilan agreed, nodding his head. "Well we better catch up!" Iris nodded, and starting jogging to where Ash was, in front of the gym, pounding on the door.
"HEY! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE! OPEN UP!" yeah, being subtle never was his thing.
"Ash, stop!" Iris said, pulling his fist back. He pouted, with Pikachu's ears drooping. Pikachu hopped on his head, pounding on the door his self, just as excited to see Misty.
"OKAY, OKAY, I'M COMING!"
Said a voice from inside. But Ash frowned, knowing that wasn't Misty's voice.
The door opened, revealing Violet. She looked down at them and raised an eyebrow.
"Like, who are you? If you're, like, here to challenge the gym, Misty's like, not here." Violet informed them, chewing her gum obnoxiously. Ash's expression immediately darkened, a frown now present on his normally happy-go-lucky face. Pikachu let out a sad 'cha…'.
"Well…. do you know where-" Ash started to ask, but was yet again interrupted.
"Like, OMG! You're Misty's little boyfriend, like, Fire or something! No, wait it was Dust- no, Ash! Yeah, like, Ash! Oh, Misty will, like, be soooooo super excited to see you again!" she squealed. Ash ignored the 'boyfriend' comment, rolling his eyes.
"Yeah. So, where is she?" he asked, impatiently hopping from foot to foot.
"I think she went to, like, Pewter City, to like, meet up with Brock or something, like something about meeting with gym leaders." Violet concluded, nodding her head and grinning.
"Oh, okay. Well thanks Violet." Ash said, walking away from the gym. He heard Violet close the door.
"Pewter City is like right above Cerulean(I don't know if it is… lets just pretend it is), so we can just go there if you want." Cilan suggested, shrugging. Ash immediately brightened up.
"Yeah, then we can meet Brock and Misty in the same place!" Ash said excitedly, practically bouncing in place.
"Killing two Pidgeys with one stone," Iris said, "seems easier to me." At this remark, Pikachu glared at her, at the mention of killing a fellow pokemon.
"Calm down Pikachu it was a figure of speech." Cilan spoke, trying to calm the little bundle of lightning. But Pikachu did not calm his little tirade, and pointed his nose in the air, the opposite direction of Iris. Ash rolled his eyes at his best friend's antics, and cried,
"Well come on, then! We can't miss her!"
"Or your friend Brock." Added Cilan, with a small smirk.
"Huh? Oh yeah, and him…" Ash trailed off, already starting to jog to Pewter. He called over his shoulder at his two companions, "What are you waiting for? Come on!" and started running even faster.
Iris shook her head, and stated "He so has a crush on her." Cilan agreed by looking at her, nodding, and saying with that annoying, always food-related speech,
"Yeah I guess she is his favorite taste." With that, they ran to catch up with their friend.
Once they got a few feet behind Ash, they started their own conversation.
"So, it's weird how Ash has saved the world a couple times prior to Reshiram and Zekrom, right?" asked Iris, glancing at her green-haired friend.
"Yeah, but in retrospect, it was kind of easy to tell that he'd had experience with that type of thing, with the way Victini took to him, and how he handled Zekrom…." Cilan trailed off thoughtfully. Iris nodded absently, until her eyes snapped up to the scene unfolding in front of her.
"Ash, look out!" she cried. Too late. Blissfully unaware and ignorant Ash had been too busy chatting with Pikachu and walking swiftly to notice the oncoming people down the road. He'd only noticed when his body had crashed into a petite frame, a girl's.
"You made me spill my double chocolate mocha frappe all over me!" the girl yelled in his face.
"Hey, I'm sorry! And it got on me too!" Ash yelled.
"It got on me more than it did you!" yelled the girl- no, young woman, with double as much force.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"Did-"
"Alright, ALRIGHT!" yelled the woman's partner over both of them. "Look, we all know how much you two loved to argue, but after just seeing each other after like 2 years? That's a bit overboard, dontcha think?" asked the partner. This partner happened to have squinty eyes, a dark complexion, and crazy spiked up hair.
It was only then that Ash got a good look at the two; who he recognized as Brock and Misty.
"Well it's not my fault he spilled the rest of my double chocolate mocha frappe on me." Grumbled Misty, pouting. At that comment, everything registered in Ash's brain; this was Misty, the person who's he spent 2 years after, waiting desperately to see, wishing to love, and wanting to hug. And that's what he did. He picked her small body up in his arms, and twirled her around.
"Ash, ash, ash! Put me down!" Misty commanded. It wasn't that effective though, seeing as her eyes we sparkling and her laughter was laced through her voice. When Misty's feet finally touched the ground, he stepped back, grinning, to take her fully in. He almost did a double take. She had grown taller, and… developed more, with her hair growing out to where it was shoulder-length and wavy. She was wearing a classic yellow tank top with red suspenders, and tight blue denim knee-length shorts. He looked over to Brock. He was wearing a PokeDoctor's lab coat, which had a picture of a pokeball over a pocket with "Dr. Brock Harrison" written below it. He was wearing white slacks and a black shirt.
"Ash, you rubbed my frappe into my clothes!" complained Misty.
"You'll get over it." Ash said simply. Misty rolled her eyes.
He went over to Brock, giving him a man hug.
"It's so good to finally see you guys again!" Ash practically shouted.
"I know, I was waiting for when you'd come to visit," Misty said slyly. "I was beginning to miss you." She said, batting her eyelashes and pouting. Ash's eyes went wide, and a pink tint came to his face.
"Well, uh, I, ah…" he looked down, not knowing what to say. His eyes immediately snapped up to look at Misty and Brock, who were snickering at his expression. He immediately glared, and said,
"Haha, very funny. But I really did miss you guys." Ash said seriously. Brock and Misty relented, and Brock said,
"We missed you too, bud."
"But you are SO not leaving as soon this time!" Misty said, with a ghost of a frown on her face, her eyebrows furrowed.
"Agreed! I can compromise." Ash said, replacing the serious look on his face with his toothy grin.
Just then there was a cough behind Ash, and they all turned to see Iris and Cilan, with Cilan creating circles in the dirt with his arms behind his back, and Iris with her arms crossed across her chest, weight on one foot.
"Oh, yeah! Misty and Brock, this is Iris and Cilan, my two new friends!" exclaimed Ash.
"Hello, nice to meet your acquaintance!" Cilan said, shaking Misty and Brock's hands. "I'm a pokemon, food and subway connosiuer, and used to be a gym leader with my two brothers." Explained Cilan. Ash's old friends nodded.
"And I'm Iris, a Dragon Trainer from the Village of Dragons, hoping to become the world's finest Dragon Master!" Iris stated boldly. There came a muffled 'Ax, Ax!', and out popped Axew.
"Oh yeah, and this is Axew." Iris said, stopping Axew from running up to them and tackling them in hugs
"Well it's very nice to meet you," Misty said, smiling.
"Yeah, and that sounds like cool goals and professions you have there." Brock stated.
That's when Brock noticed something.
"Hey Ash, where's Pikachu?" asked Brock looking around.
"I….. I don't know!" Ash said, a look of worry overcoming his face. Misty's eye twitched.
"How can you NOT know where Pikachu is?" she nearly screeched at him. He backed up when she took out her mallet.
"I… ah, I um… well, uh…." Ash started nervously, and gulped.
"Ash, I think he's in your backpack." Pointed out Cilan, pointing at his backpack where a bundle of yellow was tucked away. Ash looked confused.
"When did he get in there?" he asked. Then he shrugged, "Whatever, I'm going to wake him up. Boy, will he be delighted to see you guys!" All of Ash's companions looked at each other. "Pikachu, wake up…" said Ash, softly. "wake up… c'mon…. wake… up!" he said, his voice rising, and shaking his bag a little bit. Suddenly, an idea formed in his mind, and he bent down to his backpack and whispered in Piakchu's ear, "I've got ketchup." And with that, the little furball of fury's ear's twitched, then his eyes blinked open, and a yawn escaped him. He hopped from Ash's backpack to the ground, and stretched while letting out a 'chaaaa!'.
Pikachu looked at their surroundings, as if confused, until his eyes suddenly stopped on Misty and Brock. He gave a grin, and said,
"Pikaaaa! Pika, pikachuu! Chaa!" Misty opened her arms, and the little electric mouse hopped into her arms readily, scurrying from her shoulders, to her head, to her arms, and back again. His cheeks sparked with electricity, and he was letting out content noises, before seeing Brock, hopping into his arms, and cuddling into him.
"Wow," Iris breathed, "He's never done that to us." She said, looking at Cilan as if for support to which he nodded.
"Hey guys," Misty said, getting their attention, "it's getting kind of late out, why don't we head back to the gym? I've got extra rooms, and I need to take a shower to get this frappe smell off of me." She said the last bit while throwing a glare at Ash, who rubbed the back of his neck and shrugged, smiling apologetically.
"Sounds good to me!" Brock agreed, all while still holding Pikachu tight.
"Sure! We can all catch up once we get there." Ash said. Iris and Cilan just nodded, and the 5 started walking on their way, (Pikachu and Axew being carried).
And so, with that, our heroes reunited, and love blossomed once again.
A/N: How's you all like it? This one was also pokeshipping, but I'm fairly certain that the next one will be contestshipping. This one was considerably longer then my last one, and I think it was better too. Meh. There was some pokeshipping, but I felt like a friendship one too, with brock, so this is what happens. Tell me what you think! Thanks!
~Angel
