When the boat that Ashley and Brock were on arrived at Olivine City Ashley went to the disembarkation point with her sole travelling companion and said "well, I'll see you later then Brock."
"Yeah sure thing Ash...uh, sorry, Ashley" Brock said scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah, sure thing, it's going to take some getting used to, but I guess I've got no choice really."
"Well, anyway, I'll see ya 'round."
"See ya when I get back to Kanto" Ashley said before going down the gangplank.
Brock said to himself "It's a pity that I have to leave, it would've been fun following her around for a while."
20 minutes later Ashley had gone through all of the procedures necessary to go into the Johto region and said to herself "hmm, what should I do now? Well, I suppose I could go to the..." just as she was saying this her stomach growled "...beach, first things first though...lunch. that said though, where is a restaurant?"
"Did you say restaurant?"
"Wha?" Ashley said "Who said that?" turning around she saw the person that talked to her and saw that she knew her.
"I did Ashley."
"Eh, how do you..."
"Professor Oak called the Olivine City Gym and told me that you were coming back to Johto."
"Eh, but how did you...alright, the Professor told you what I look like I suppose, but what are you doing in Olivine City in the first place Whitney?"
"Well, it just so happens, that jasmine is sick right now so I'm here to help her get better."
"Uh, I thought that she would be fine by herself...I mean, she does have that assistant of hers...oh, wait..."
"Oh wait is right."
"Fair enough then."
"So, what are you doing in Johto?"
"What, the professor didn't tell you?"
"Nope."
"Wait, more importantly why aren't you questioning me about what has happened?"
"Well, Professor Oak gave me a quick outline of what happened and I figure that you'll give me the in-depth version when you're ready."
"Heh, thanks..." Ashley said "...so, do you know where we can get something to eat?"
"Yeah, there's this neat little restaurant that I know that's on the waterfront."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Alright" Ashley said, jumping up in the air causing her now sizeable tits to bounce around.
"Yeah, you might want to cut down on your jumping around a bit now."
"Why's that?"
"Well, you're kind of big."
"'Big,' what do you mean?"
"Up top..." seeing that Ashley still wasn't understanding what she was talking about said "Your tits already bounce around when your merely walking, aren't they?"
"Well, yeah, but eve said that that was natural for someone with a bust my size."
Whitney sighed and said "Yes, it is, but when you jump they bounce around even more."
"So?"
Whitney sighed again and said "look around us" clenching the bridge of her nose between the thumb and the forefinger of her right hand.
Ashley looked up and saw that all of the men in the area were looking in their direction with a weird look on their faces. She turned to Whitney and asked "why are they all staring at us?"
"They're staring because of you."
"Really? Why?"
"Well, for one thing, your already quite the beauty and then you just shook your tits all over the place."
"Ah, so that's what you were talking about."
Whitney sighed at seeing that what she was talking about had finally sunk in and said "the restaurant is this way" and walked off.
When they were outside the restaurant Ashley saw that it was a fish and chip shop with a few tables outdoors. Ashley went up to the counter and said "can I have some regular chips please?"
"Sure thing, do you want chicken salt on them?" the store worker asked.
"Sure thing" Ashley replied.
"Is the other lovely lady with you?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, so what'll it be?"
"I think I'll have a battered sav please."
"Alright, one battered sav and one regular chips coming right up."
After they ordered they sat down at one of the outdoor tables and Ashley asked "so, if you're here what's going on with your gym?"
"Oh, my younger brother is taking care of it for now."
"Really; Is he any good?"
"He's alright, for a rookie."
"A rookie! How long has he been a trainer for?"
"About three years now."
"Three years and he's a Gym Leader?"
"Yeah."
"Is that really all it takes?"
"Well, it helps that the Gym has been in the possession of my family for five generations now."
"Really?"
"Yeah, that and my grandfather has been training him for about six months now, so I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to give him a taste of Gym Leader life."
"Heh, I wonder how he's taking to it" Ashley rhetorically asked.
"They're ready" the store worker called out.
Ashley went up to the bench and picked up the order, paying the man. When she got back Whitney said "I don't really know, being a gym leader is not only about taking care of and battling your Pokémon after all."
"Yeah, Misty told me."
"Oh yeah, that's right. You were travelling with two gym leaders the last time you were here, weren't you?"
"Yes."
"So, what happened to them?"
"Well, as far as I know Misty is still looking after her gym and Brock is on his way back to take care of the Pewter City Gym while his parents are on holiday, though I think that he plans to share the Gym Leader duties with his brother Forrest."
"I see, so, is he still as perverted as I remember, or has he settled down?"
"After I was gone for a few hours shopping he started hitting on me, if that gives you any indication."
"I see."
"Yah, 'I see' is right."
"So, you're all alone now?"
"You could put it that way."
"So-o-o, do you want a travelling partner?"
"Sure, I'd love it if you came along, but don't you have to go back to your gym?"
"Yeah, but my brother and grandfather can run that for a while, I sometimes need a break too ya know."
"Well, that's fine. For now though, what do you say we go for a swim, huh?" Ashley asked as they were finishing eating.
"Sure thing, that sounds great."
As the fish and chip shop was opposite the beach the two girls didn't have far to go. When they got to about 20 metres away from the water they put down their packs, took out their towels and, as they were already wearing their swimwear, in Ashley's case, a blue string-tie bikini and in Whitney's case, she had a white one piece swimsuit. Ashley bent over at her waist and started rummaging around in her backpack until she found what she had been looking for...a pair of black short board shorts. She put them on and the two girls walked down to the water and, when they were five metres away from the water Ashley saw something blue and red washed up on the shore. She said more to herself than to Whitney "is that what I think it is..."
Whitney turned to her friend and asked "is 'what' what you think it is?"
Ashley ran over to the blue and red object and said "I thought so" sighing.
"You thought what?" Whitney, at this point thoroughly confused, asked.
Ashley said "this poor Tentacool."
"Whaaaa?"
"This;"Ashley said hefting the injured pokemon so that Whitney could see.
"We better get it to the Pokémon centre right away."
"Yeah, you're right, I'll put it in a pokeball while we go there, maybe it'll at least help prevent it from getting any worse than it already is."
"Good idea."
With that said the two girls, Ashley holding the Tentacool, rushed back to their bags and, when they were there Ashley tapped the Tentacool with one of her pokeballs and then picked up her backpack and, not bothering to get changed back into her normal clothes, rushed off to the closest Pokémon centre; luckily that was very close as there was a trainer battle club building nearby.
When she got to the Pokémon centre Ashley rushed to the desk and, panting due to running the entire way, said to the Nurse Joy attending the desk "please...help..."
"Alright now, just calm down, take a few breaths and then tell me what's wrong?"
"This..." Ashley brought out the pokeball with Tentacool in it "...I just caught it just now."
"Alright, you caught a Pokémon, there's nothing to be panicking about."
"You don't understand, it's really hurt."
"Oh dear, here give it to me, I'll see what I can do."
"Thank you Nurse Joy."
"No problem" the Nurse Joy said, taking the pokeball away from Ashley and leaving for the emergency room of the Pokémon Centre.
One hour later the Nurse Joy returned from the emergency room and, seeing Ashley and Whitney waiting for any information on the Tentacool, walked over to them and said "Tentacool will be just fine."
Ashley sighed and said "oh thank god for that."
"I thought that you said that you only just caught that Tentacool as a saving grace type thing Ashley?"
"Well, I can't bear the thought of any Pokémon getting hurt that badly."
"Wait, you can't bear hurting Pokémon, yet you challenge gyms?" Whitney asked.
"Well, that's that and this is this."
"Well, if you say so."
"Well, all it needs is a good rest now" Nurse Joy said.
"Alright, how long?"
"Just overnight should do it."
All of a sudden Ashley, Nurse Joy and Whitney hear "Coming up on Johto Now, the Pokémon Swap Meet comes to Olivine City..." on the television.
Ashley said "The Swap Meet is here this year?"
"Yeah, have you been to one before?"
"Yeah, it was in Pompona Town."
"Oh, if it was there they would have had that stupid Tauros run, wouldn't they?"
"Yeah."
"You didn't try to..."
"Originally yeah, but then with an entire herd of them charging at me I quickly rethought it."
"Oh thank goodness" Nurse Joy said.
"Well, I won't be trying anything like that again I can assure you."
"Well, are you going to go there?"
"Yeah, I think that I'll take Tentacool as well."
"You're going to trade it?" Whitney asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, I didn't think that you'd ever trade one of your Pokémon Ashley."
"Yeah well, I've never had any real desire to raise a Tentacool."
"That's fair enough I suppose."
"Besides, since I decided to go through here again I've been thinking that I just feel weird not having an electric type with me."
"I guess that makes sense." Whitney said.
"Well, Nurse Joy can I have a room for the..."
"You don't need to worry about that Ashley."
"What do you mean?"
"You can just stay with Jasmine and I tonight and then we can go to the meet together tomorrow."
"I don't want to impose..."
"It's no problem."
"Well, that's settled then...Oh, before we go, do you have any idea what could have caused Tentacool to be in that bad a condition Nurse Joy?"
"Well, there's a few things, first, a particularly tough Pokémon battle could have caused those wounds, an attack from another wild Pokémon possibly or..."
"Or what?"
"Well, there's been a hotel that opened up recently near where there is a supposed Tentacool nest."
"Oh no...I hope that it's not going to happen again then."
"You hope what is not going to happen again?"
"Well, the last time that a hotel was built near a Tentacool nest a war between humans and the Tentacool and a Tentacruel nearly broke out."
"Oh dear..." Nurse Joy said.
"Well, I suppose that as long as the hotel builders and occupants don't interfere with the Tentacool and Tentacruel, because I assure you there is almost definitely at least one Tentacruel there, there should be no problems."
"Well, good luck tomorrow then."
Ashley and Whitney simultaneously said "thanks Nurse Joy" and left the Pokémon Centre to go to the Olivine City Gym for the night.
