Annime: WHY HELLO BEAUTIFUL WORLD!

Ash: Umm…are you ok?

Annime: I'M WONDERFUL!

Ash: I hope so…

Misty: Annime doesn't own Pokémon or anything belonging to someone else.

Chapter 9

Ash looked over at the door. There were still guards banging on the door. The boy winced. It was going to be very fun getting out of there; at least not as fun as how they'd gotten inside the room.

"They don't seem to want to give up," Chris commented as he too watched the door. "So, how are we going to get out of here?"

Ash's head sung over to look at Chris. "What? Do you mean you don't know another way out of here? YOU were the one who had been locked in here, after all."

Chris huffed. "Yea but I put up a really good fight, so they had to knock me out before they dragged me in here. I was so angry that my earthquakes may have caused damage for miles."

Ash's eyes grew wide for a moment. Earthquakes… Wasn't he asleep, sick, and weak when he had felt earthquakes earlier?

"Ash," Selena called to the spaced out kid. She waved her hands in front of his face. "Earth to Ash, come in, Ash."

Ash blinked and looked over to Selena. "Yea; what do you want?"

"Remember, we have to find a way out of here?" she reminded him.

"Oh yea…"

"I say we take them all down," Chris suggested. "I'm still ticked at all of this crap, so I need something to take it out on."

"Speak for yourself," Ash muttered. "We just finished running as fast as we could here AND had to deal with them. I honestly don't know how much I can take."

Selena nodded. "If we find a way out in the back we can give them the slip. That way we won't have to deal with reinforcements."

Chris sighed. "You guys ALWAYS ruin my fun."

"That's what we are here for," Ash said with a smile as he turned to face the opposite of the door. "Now, it's time to start searching so we can get out of here before they break through that door."

Chris mumbled his complaints as he walked over to the wall. At a VERY close range the blue eyed boy examined the wall. He raised an eyebrow as his eyes held a twinkle of humor to them.

"Ok, I don't see anything. Let's go."

Selena glared at the teen, but not too harshly since she knew it was only a joke.

"No, Chris," Selena corrected, "we are going to scan this wall up and down."

Chris huffed and leant against the wall. Suddenly, Chris fell backwards into a doorway that had somehow appeared. The teen had screamed with surprise as the other two watched. Ash began to laugh while Selena raced over to Chris. She helped him up and then studied the new doorway.

"This may just work," Selena said with approval. "Now let's get going you two." Ash and Chris followed her, but Ash, the youngest, lagged behind as he kept laughing.

"What's so funny?" Chris asked.

"You ALWAYS do that!"

"I always do what?"

"You ALWAYS find those secret doors and then fall. It hasn't gotten old, ether; it gets funnier every time!"

Chris rolled his eyes and sped up. Soon, Ash was calmer, so he sped up as well. Selena came to a stop as she appeared at a fork in the hallway.

"Which way should we go?" Selena asked. She looked down both hallways but she couldn't really see anything; both were pitch black.

Chris shrugged. "Does it matter? If one is the wrong way we just turn around and go the other way." Selena narrowed her eyes at the blue eyed boy.

"It's not that simple," she explained. "If we go the wrong way we may run into guards."

"Let us run into guard," Chris said. "I want to punch someone in the face."

Ash looked down both halls as the other two continued to bicker. He then looked at the floor to find a rock by his foot. He picked it up, looked at the hallway to the right and threw the rock in that direction. To Ash's surprise, the rock went through the ground. The boy blinked. This could mean only one thing…

"We go left," Ash told the two who were now yelling at each other. "The hallway on the right has a trap."

Selena and Chris looked from each other to Ash and blinked.

"Are you sure?" Chris questioned.

Ash nodded. "It could lead to guards or be so deep that…well, you know…"

Selena nodded. "Ok, but let's be cautious going down the left hallway."

With this, the three started walking slowly down the left hallway. Ash created a fire ball in his hand and stuck it out in front of him as he began to lead. He hoped this would help keep them from falling down any kind of hole. After a while the three were becoming impatient. They decided not to worry about any kind of trap and started to run. That was a big mistake, and after five steps they were all yelling in surprise as the floor came out from under them.

Misty and Brock were sprinting in the direction of the Team Rocket base. Delia and Professor Oak were following them, obviously tired since they weren't in as good shape as the two children in the front.

Misty was breathing heavily as trees zoomed past her. Worry, fear, and stubbornness kept her feet moving at this one pace, but lack of energy was pulling her back. She clutched her teeth and tried her hardest to speed up. Sadly, her body wouldn't let her go faster than she was already going.

Brock was going through the same thing as Misty. His stubbornness and worry for Ash's safety was helping him go faster than his original speed while his body let him go no faster. He glanced over at Misty. He hoped they would both have the energy to find their black haired friend when they finally did make it to the base.

Annime: There you go!

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