Chapter 4:
The poké ball hit the girl on the head and opened, shooting a red beam as it did so. The girl went inside the poké ball, this shocked Ash, the ball began rolling and eventually stopped, Ash caught Bianca. With that Ash threw the ball up, and the girl came out, she then transformed revealing the pokémon Latias the newest member of Ash's team. Ash was overjoyed with this and the jet plane like pokémon flew towards him tackling him to the ground to hug him.
With Ash's brand new pokémon he rushed in to town to buy the presents for his friends.
"Hey Pikachu, let's look for Brock first"
"Pika, Pikachu" replied Pikachu giving a saluting stance
"Let's go then" Ash smiled
With that Ash and Pikachu looked round the shops looking for a present that would be suitable for Brock, they were finding it hard and couldn't really find anything until they came up to one shop that sold cooking utensils shaped like different pokémon.
"Wow" said Ash "Pikachu look at this"
The small mouse turned around to see a serving platter shaped as a Lotad. It was larger than a Lotad to create more space to put food on the leaf on it's head.
"This would be great for Brock, come on Pikachu let's get it" said Ash joyfully.
With that the trainer and his pokémon went into the shop and bought the poképlatter. Just as they walked out of the shop Pikachu ran to another shop and pointed out the latest pokénav on the high street.
"Wow Pikachu well spotted buddy, this will be great for Max" Ash said
"Pi Pika" Pikachu exclaimed with a grin on his face.
Ash went into the shop to buy the pokénav for Max and whilst in the store he saw a brand new sketch book that came with a whole tin of pencils and a book to keep them in once they're drawn. Ash thought to himself that would be ideal for Tracey, and that's another person I'll have got a present for.
"Well Pikachu we only have to get a present for Mum, Misty, Professor Oak and May" Ash said to his best friend.
The next shop the two of them went into was a computer shop, the reason Ash went into it was to buy his Mum a videophone to have in the house as a Christmas present this would mean that she wouldn't have to go to the poké centre or to the professors lab to call Ash on his journey. But whilst they were there he also spotted a new device that was about the size of a computer screen but it was handheld it seemed to have a camera in it as well, when Ash asked the sales assistant he said it was the latest in technology and was called a tablet. Ash thought this would be great for the professor so he could work on his studies even when he's not at the computer.
"I'll take this and this then thank you" Ash said to the sales assistant,
"Okay, and because the tablet is new we are doing a special deal on buy one get one free" replied the sales assistant,
"Thank you" gleamed Ash,
Ash thought this to be good as he would take the spare one for himself on his journey's as the tablet also made as a portable videophone and this would enable him to contact his family and friends wherever and whenever. As Ash and Pikachu left the shop they thought what a good present for Misty would be when it hit them;
"We need to get Misty something to do with water" Ash exclaimed
"Pika-chu" said Pikachu following his friend down the street
They both came to a shop that sold everything you could imagine to do with water, anchors, boats, pokémon dolls and many more things. Ash thought this would be the ideal place to buy something for Misty so they went in. They looked around and eventually came up to a shelf that had different types of pokéballs, at first Ash wondered why they would be pokéballs in a shop like this but then the shopkeeper came over and explained to Ash that these weren't ordinary pokéballs, something Ash had realised with them being a completely different design and colour to ordinary pokéballs, it was a turquoise blue colour with black strips on it that in some way resembled a net. The shopkeeper explained to Ash and Pikachu that these were net balls and they increased the chance of catching water type pokémon, with hearing that Ash thought to himself that is ideal for Misty.
"I'll take five of them please" Ash said
"Certainly" replied the shopkeeper "I'll also throw in a complementary gift box for them seeing as it's Christmas"
"Thank you very much" Ash said happily, thinking to himself that's one present I don't have to wrap.
With that Ash left to get one more present, May's.
"Hey Pikachu, what do you think we can get for May?" Ash asked
"Pika Pi Pika" replied Pikachu shrugging his shoulders somewhat.
"Hmmm yeah, guess you're right buddy it's a hard one." Replied Pikachu
The trainer and his Pikachu carried on walking down the street when they came to a shop where clothes were on a huge sale, so they went in and bought a turquoise blue bandana in the same style as her red one, the same colour top in the same style to her orange one, and a pair of turquoise blue trainers, they also got her a pair of gloves, that were black on the finger tips and cuff and were turquoise in the middle. All the clothing's accents were black. Ash loved what he had bought her thinking she would adore it, however it was the cheapest of all the presents bought he wanted to get her something else, because after all it was May. Whenever he thought about her he seemed to get a weird feeling inside of him that he couldn't explain, but he liked it.
After they left the shop they were looking for something else to get her when they noticed that all the shops had closed, this made Ash feel upset due to the fact he really wanted to get her something else when out of the distance he saw the silhouette of a pokémon it was a small red lizard pokémon with a flame on it's tail, then he realized it to be a Charmander.
"Wow Pikachu, we should catch the Charmander for May, that way she'll have all the Kanto region starters" Ash said so jolly and fast that his best friend could barely understand.
"Pika Pika" The mouse said jumping up and down
"Right okay then, Go Buizel" Screamed Ash throwing his pokéball
Out of a red beam came a small fox like aquatic pokémon.
"Right Buizel were gonna catch this pokémon for May" Exclaimed Ash
"Bui Bui" replied Buizel
With that the battle commenced with Ash's first command being a water pulse, this blue sphere of water shot like an aurora sphere, due to the fight Buizel had against Maylene's Lucario in the Sinnoh region, hit the little red lizard head on. Charmander then turned around and fired an ember attack on Buizel which the aquatic pokémon easily dodged.
"Okay the Buizel, Aqua jet go!" Ash shouted,
With that Buizel shrouded itself in water and again made contact with the Charmander, however this time the contact was that powerful that the Charmander fainted allowing Ash to do the rest.
"Go Pokéball" Ash shouted after spinning his hat round.
The Charmander was turned into pure red energy and went into the pokéball and with that the pokéball began to shake from side to side and eventually stopped, signalling Ash had caught the pokémon. With that Ash and Pikachu headed off to the Pokémon Centre to get the Charmander healed, because he didn't want May calling out a fainted pokémon in the morning.
After having being to the pokémon centre Ash and Pikachu headed home to wrap the presents and put them under the tree. But he also wanted to pay a trick on his friends so he called out is Latias.
"Hey Latias, do you want to play a joke"
"eee" replied Latias giggling
"Okay, turn into your human form and I'll return you to your ball so that when you come out it will look like I captured a person" Ash explained
"eeeeeee" Latias replied nodding her head.
With that Latias turned herself back into Bianca and Ash proceeded to call her back into her pokéball. And with that Ash went into the house, ready to scare his friends and family. Ash walked through the door and straight up to his bedroom where he barricaded the door so that no-one could get in whilst he was wrapping the presents. He'd finally finished wrapping the presents and went downstairs to put them under the tree. Whilst doing so he realised everyone was in the living room and decided this was the time to reveal his new pokémon.
"Guess what I caught when I was out shopping" Ash said to everyone
"We don't Ash what did you catch" everyone in the room replied in unison
"Guess I'll have to show you" Ash said smiling
Ash then tossed in the air his pokéball and watched the faces of his friends and Mum, at first the silhouette they saw sort of resembled a Gardevior with it being human shaped however there faces went from being normal as if it was a normal pokémon to be caught, to completely horrified as they realised they had caught a human, even more so for Misty and Brock as they realised it was Bianca.
"Ash" exclaimed Brock in shock "howww hhave yoouuu ccauuughhht Biannca?"
The others followed by asking how he'd caught a human, and Ash merely chuckled to himself with Pikachu giggling as well,
"Well then do you reckon we should show them how we caught a human Pikachu?" Ash calmly asked his electric pokémon
"Pika Pi" replied the little mouse giggling
"Okay then, Latias reveal your true form" Ash told his newest caught pokémon
"eeeee" replied the eon pokémon phasing to her pokémon form.
The sigh of relief in the room was great, and whilst hearing it Ash, Pikachu and Latias were all rolling on the floor laughing to themselves, this in turn made Misty angry and she punched Ash on his head much like she did to Psyduck, this made Ash rub his head in pain, but then everyone else started to laugh including Pikachu and Latias much to Ash's dismay, but he himself saw the funny side in the end.
With that Brock asked how he caught Latias to which Ash answered straight away, however Brock saw that may looked a bit uneasy when Ash mentioned the kiss on the cheek. Due to this Brock decided he was going to watch the two teenagers to see what may happen. However he also thought to himself why would a kiss from a pokémon unsettle her. After talking everyone went into the other room to get their tea's and then went to bed waiting to see what tomorrow would bring.
Before he went to bed Ash helped Brock wash the dishes and the two of them headed upstairs, due to the Ketchum household being fairly small sleeping was a bit of a pain as the rooms weren't very big, Tracey and Professor Oak went back to the lab to sleep and were coming back in the morning whereas everyone else par Delia were in Ash's room, due to the 'gentlemen' they were Ash, Brock and Max slept on the floor allowing Misty and May to top-end-tail in Ash's bed, which they both thanked the boys for. And with that the five of them crashed out and awaited the arrival of what tomorrow would bring.