Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, I'm just borrowing the characters for a bit and will return them…eventually…and they will be *cough* fairly *cough couch* undamaged.
Ash's POV
"How are we supposed to get in?" I whispered, Brock, Dawn, Gary, Misty and I were hiding behind a bush, a very large bush, and spying on the Team Rocket house. There were several grunts patrolling around the building and they looked a lot more dangerous then Jessie and James did.
"We could charge them, our Pokémon probably out number theirs and are stronger." Dawn suggested.
"We don't want the guys outside to let the masses inside know we're here." Misty said sharply "If we can sneak in without the guards noticing it'd be a lot easier for us once we get inside."
"It was just an idea…" Dawn said dejectedly.
"Just ignore Misty, she always acts like a metapod is stuck up her-"
"Guys!" Brock hissed "Is right now really the time to be arguing?"
"Sorry" I muttered crossly. Misty had been less then courteous to Dawn since she came and I felt kind of bad for my blue haired friend.
"Now I think Misty is right." Gary said, keeping his tone neutral "About every ten minutes there's a gap between guards where I think we can all sneak in. Now does everyone agree with this plan?"
"Sounds good to me" I nodded and everyone else did too.
The gap was about three minutes away, which gave me plenty of time to think. If this worked I could get Pikachu, be out of here by nightfall, go to a far away place and never have to face Misty again. Then again I wasn't sure if I really wanted that. God these mental wars are getting on my nerves! I thought angrily. Then I looked at Misty out of the corner of my eye and all plans to run away disappeared and I couldn't imagine how I ever thought about leaving her in the first place. As if she could feel someone looking at her Misty turned her head and met my eyes. It had been a long time since I looked at her, really looked at her.
Neither of us looked away, we just stared at each other, I don't think either of us knew what to do to be honest. Then after what seemed like an eternity she looked away, it was only then I realized that this was my entire fault. I had spent so much time blaming Gary or Misty or Team Rocket for my problems when really it was all my fault. If I hadn't run out of Professor Oaks lab so quickly and forgotten my bag Pikachu wouldn't have been kidnapped. Hell, if hadn't ignored Misty so much these past couple years she probably wouldn't be dating Gary at all! With this new revelation in mind I reached out and put my hand over Misty's. Her head whipped up again in surprise and I smiled just a little bit, begging her to understand and she did. Misty always understood me. It was a silent promise not to let anything mess us up, while yes I wanted to be more then just friends but it would be a million times more painful to live without her in my life at all.
Dawn's nudge brought me out of my thoughts, I quickly let go of Misty's hand and turned towards her, almost but not quite missing the irritated look Misty shot my way when I did so.
"Its time" Dawn whispered and I nodded. The area was clear so the five of us bolted from the bushes, making a run for the door. We got there quickly and flung the door open, in retrospect the fact that the door was unlocked should have given us a clue but at the time we were just relieved that we made it inside.
Gary was the last one in and shut the door behind him, leaving us engulfed in pitch-blackness. "Well we're here, now what?" he asked slowly. By the tone of his voice I knew that he was thinking the same thing that the rest of us were, we just screwed up.
Before anyone else could answer the ground fell out from under us.
We all screamed because screaming just seemed to be the natural response to suddenly falling through the sky. It didn't last long however because just as soon as it began I felt myself hit solid ground. The sudden impact knocked the wind out of me but I recovered quickly, all those years of falling into Jessie and James' trap holes sort of built up my immunity.
Once I got my breath back I hopped to my feet and looked around, hoping that everyone else was okay too but the second I opened my eyes I immediately regretted it. I was in what looked like a tall tower, it was hallow in the center except for the long beams that criss-crossed to each side, there were dozens, one for each floor of the tower's center. On each side of the beam that I was on there were doorways, the beam apparently was like a catwalk between the two sides of the tower.
"Ash?"
"Misty!" I ran over, about five feet away from me on the same beam was Misty. I kneeled beside her worriedly "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, bruised elbow, nothing I haven't seen before." She nodded, taking my hand as I pulled her to her feet. "Where are the others?" she asked and I looked around, they weren't on our beam.
"Gary! Brock! Dawn! Where are you guys!" I yelled, the noise echoing off of the walls.
"Ash?" Brock looked over the edge of a beam about two floors above us.
"Hey! Down here!" I waved.
"Are you guys okay?" He asked, seeing Misty down there with me.
"Yeah, are you?"
"I'm fine but Gary landed pretty hard on his arm, I think its broken."
"He's there with you?" Misty asked worried for her boyfriend but relieved too, probably because he was with Brock.
"Yeah, you guys see Dawn?"
"I'm up here!" I could barely hear Dawn's voice but way up top at about the first or second beam I could see Dawn waving. "I'm fine! Is there any way we can all get to each other?"
"I don't think so" Brock said "These bridges don't seem to connect. We'll have to go inside the tower, there are probably staircases inside there."
"What if we get lost?" Dawn asked.
"Brock's right" Gary said, I couldn't see him but I recognized his voice. "We should go inside and try to find each other, a way out and most importantly Pikachu but we should stay low. We don't need to be getting into any battles with Team Rocket either."
"Sounds good!" Misty nodded and everyone got up, I followed Misty through the nearest doorway.
This definitely didn't go as planned, nothing seemed to anymore but at the same time it could be worse…We did get into Team Rocket's headquarters but everyone was split up, Gary was injured and worst, or best, of all I was alone with Misty.
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I'm sorry if the description of the beams was a bit weird, I had an image in my head but I couldn't get it out quite right so I'm sorry again if that's confusing to you.
But hey Misty and Ash are alone *wink wink*
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