Chapter 8
The next day, Ash is playing with his Pokémon in the grounds of Professor Oak's lab when he hears a voice behind him say "Long time no see Ashy boy".
Ash then turned around to see Gary standing next to his grandfather.
"Gary, hi, how are you?"
"I'm good, what about you, I heard about what happened at the Vertress Conference, sorry"
"It's fine, I just can't seem to win one of these leagues"
"Ash my boy, don't get yourself down, after all you did win in the Orange Islands and you conquered the Battle Frontier" said Professor Oak.
"I suppose. So, Gary what are you doing back here?"
"Well I'm doing some research with Professor Rowan in Sinnoh and he asked me to attend a conference on Pokemon Evolution for him in Viridian City, so I thought I'd pop by and see grandpa too"
"Cool, how long are in Kanto for?"
"A couple of weeks, the conference is in 4 days and then I'm gonna come back to Pallet and spend some time with my family before heading back to Sinnoh. What about you, how long are you here for?"
"A few weeks too, my birthday is coming up and I told my mom I'd stay for it, thought I might go and say hi to some of my old friends in the meantime though"
"Nice, and are these your new Pokemon?"
"Yeah this is Pignite, Oshawott, Snivy and Scraggy, guys say hi to Gary. There's also a few others that Professor Oak has been looking after for me. Hey, how are your Pokemon?"
"They're cool, most are here, I also left a couple in Sinnoh, and brought a couple back with me too"
Suddenly Gary's Blastoise jumps out of the water and lands with a thud on the grass before walking over to see Gary.
"Blastoise, how are you old friend?"
"Blaaast" answered Blastoise in its usual low tone voice
"Good, here I got a couple of old friend's for you to say hi too, as well as one new one too. Come on out guys".
Gary then calls out the three Pokemon he has with him, they are his; Electivire, Umbreon and Vespiquen.
"Electivire, Umbreon, good to see you again and hello Vespiquen"
"Yeah, I met Vespiquen when it was still a Combee in Eterna Forest, some Skorupi had been chasing it, I stepped in and well we've been together ever since"
"That's a nice story Gary" said Ash's mom who had now joined the group.
"Thank you Mrs Ketchum"
"You're welcome dear, Ash honey, you have a call"
"Really, who from?"
A few moments later Ash and Pikachu walk up to the vidphone and sees that Misty is on the other end.
"Misty, hi, how are you?"
"I'm good, what about you?"
"Not bad"
"Pika Pika"
"Hello to you too Pikachu"
"So, why'd you call?"
"Brock told me you were back so I just thought I'd call to say hi and ask how you are"
"That's nice, hey did you see the Vertress Contest?"
"Yeah we were all avid viewers, sorry about the result though, we all routed for you"
"Thanks"
"So umm, my sisters have gone on a holiday to Fuchsia City and I'm all alone up here, maybe you could come up for a few days and keep me company"
"That'd be cool, hey can I bring my Unova friends Iris and Cilan, they came back with me?"
"Sure, I'd love to meet them"
"Great, well, we'll leave tomorrow and see you in like 2 days, 3 tops"
"Deal, bye Ash, bye Pikachu"
"Bye"
The two of them then go back outside and Professor Oak asks who called.
"It was Misty, she invited me to stay with her for a few days in Cerulean City"
"That was nice of her"
"What about us?" asks Iris.
"Oh she invited you and Cilan too"
"Really!"
"Yeah, we leave tomorrow"
End of Chapter
