Everyone sorry about the disappointment with the last chapter I'm disappointed too. I mean I had a great action scene in my head and I even looked up some ways to help me make it good, but half of the things that this darn internet said doesn't make any sense to me. I would go a professional author but I don't know any personally.
Don't own Pokemon or Dragon ball because I'm NOT Satoshi Tajiri nor Akira Toriyama. In case the username didn't give you a hint I'm a girl.
After witnessing the horrible consumption that consisted of Lemon the last known Tuffle, the fighters stood in shock. The clones melted out of nowhere, which was something Lemon most likely meant about their time running up. The warriors flew down to where Lemon use to be just moments ago and all agreed to pay their respects to her when they die. Everyone noticed it was getting late and the sun was setting over the horizon.
Gohan decided to stay behind to examine the area starting with the place where he first sensed her. Everyone went towards their friend's unconscious bodies. Piccolo picked up both Tien and Chiaotzu. Trunks told Goten to get Krillin and go to Kami's lookout.
Everyone soon went their separate ways as Trunks made his way back to his sister and Misty with little thought of a surprise awaiting him.
Trunks were at Atlantic area after flying in complete silence. He saw Misty waiting outside of the marine park, waving with one hand while the other was holding infant Pan. Marron was right next to her with a friendly smile on her face looking up at them. Bulla was holding hands with Marron as she too was waving like Misty. 18 was standing next to her daughter.
After when Trunks told 18 about what with Krillin, 18 calmly lifted Marron and went flying came up to Trunks and smiled the sweetest smile. Misty started to speak to Trunks.
"Trunks. I've finally figured out how to train Splash," Misty said excitedly. Trunks raised an eyebrow.
"You mean to tell me that this whole time you were trying to figure out how to train your whale?" He thought she already knew.
Misty winked at him. "Yep and my strategy is to never make myself as the target but a teammate," she looked at his still confused face. "Also to never have Bulla near the exhibit tank ever again," she added only making him confused even more. Pan was getting sleepy.
"I decided to have Splash find me with a blindfold on and Splash rampaged because she couldn't see and Bulla happened to have her feet in the water," Misty explained.
Trunks blinked. "Hold on, you put a blindfold on a whale? Why?" He stuttered in disbelief. "ALSO YOU HAD MY SISTER NEAR YOU? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND!?" yelled Trunks who was steaming now, the guy may like to keep it to a level of cool, but without hesitation, he's protective of his sister and wasn't ashamed to show it either. He then went to Bulla to make his own inspection on her to see if she was still in one piece and that she was in descent health too. Bulla gripped onto Misty's pant leg and let Trunks look after her.
Misty ignored him as she began to explain, "I wanted her to use and trust her instincts and I kept forgetting about the fact she's a social creature and that she needs someone to help her hunt," Misty informed more than he needed to hear, ignoring the part where he asked if she lost her mind. Trunks turned to look at her and he seemed to chilled a bit as she explained and he chuckled.
"So what now? Are you going to try to capture fish as if you're a whale?" He joked.
Misty continued to smile at him. "Yes that's the whole point since I'm the only one Splash can trust. All I have to do is learn to hunt like them, I know how they do it but it's easier said than done!" Misty planned out loud as Trunks' face faltered as if saying 'I was just joking'.
"By the way where were you this entire time?" Misty asked looking was at the sky and then turned back to Trunks and noticed some small bruises; it made Misty faced away to turn from Trunks' direction, he had small bruises that weren't too severe but it was enough to make Misty feel like she been through nothing in comparison to him. She finally got the courage to turn and look at Trunks as he began talking.
Trunks then told her about the Tuffle Lemon and his trouble battling not because of strength but because she wasn't really the bad guy and her clone army being so quick and smart. The light purple haired boy even told the story of how Lemon turned out the way she was and including the fact he was being rude to Lemon after finishing her story by putting his fingers up his snout; Misty even hit him for being rude to a lady in such a disgusting way. When Trunks was done chuckling about his own behavior he told her about fusing into Gotenks and then with 30 minutes passed he had to witness Lemon's self-intended death by her clones.
"Wow..." Misty was speechless. Inside she also more furious that Trunks didn't take her to see the fight but she kept that side hidden and instead showed the side of sympathy she had for the last Tuffle. Aside from that Misty had a plan of revenge on both Goten and Trunks, all she has to do was lure the both of them to Splash's exhibit.
Trunks picked up his sister, Misty climb on Trunks back using one hand for support and the other to hold Pan, Trunks quickly and carefully flew everyone back to West City to make sure everyone was accounted for. Capsule corp seemed to be the main meeting spot for the fighters and their supporters and because Trunks couldn't sense his father anywhere in the world so it was safe for her to go back.
Similar to how Misty greeted Trunks, Bulma was outside waiting for them. When the group of 3 girls and a guy came down the blue haired mother got the sleeping Pan out of the arms of Misty. Trunks held his currently sleeping sister with the same amount of careful his mother did with Pan.
After a moment has passed, the blue haired mother had her lips bitten as if she were hiding something or at least something she knew she couldn't if she wanted to. As if on cue the Pilaf gang made their appearance.
"Hey...Mai," Trunks grumbled looking at the black haired girl who had black eyes. Misty stood behind him in shock, she couldn't believe this girl was the same one that supposedly broke this tough guy's, heart. What shocked her, even more, was that she (Mai) was holding her (Misty's) Azurill and standing between Mai and the fox was next to Misty's Psyduck!
Azurill squirmed out of Mai's hands as Psyduck waddled his way to Misty's side. The red haired girl kneeled down to their level, picked Azurill up and hugged the blue Pokemon.
"Azurill! Psyduck! I'm so happy to see you!" Misty had tears in her eyes that showed true joy. Trunks looked at her happiness and couldn't help but join her.
Mai smiled at the girl. "I see that you guys already know each other," Misty thought she was referring to her Pokemon but instead she was talking about Trunks.
Misty got up and looked straight at the girl and politely smiled. "All three of us are close, I mean I known Psyduck and Azurill way before I knew Trunks here," She told Mai.
"I was actually talking about Trunks himself... so how long have you've known Trunks?" Mai asked suspiciously.
The girl with the ponytail thought about how long it had been."Almost about 2 months. But I consider him, Marron, Bulla, Splash, and Goten my best friends in the entire world," she said with absolutely no exaggeration.
"Who's Splash?" The fox named Shu asked with a question mark above his head, Psyduck also had the same expression (more confused than usual). Azurill stood still in Misty's arms as Trunks holding a snoozing Bulla and Pilaf stood silently.
"Splash is my Orca," Misty answered casually. "I'm training her at the marine park because I'm the only person there that got her trust," she gave extra detail to Mai and her friends.
Some time had passed then a moment of realization occurred. "I forgot to tell you my name is Misty," Misty introduced herself.
"That's such a wonderful name," Mai complimented.
Misty gushed. "Thanks, I think Mai is a wonderful name as well." The comment caused Mai to blush alongside Misty.
The blue elf man-child cleared his throat "I'm emperor Pilaf, and I'm pleased to meet you" he interrupted and tried to kiss Misty's hand. Trunks then swatted her hand away holding Bulla with the other arm.
"My name is Shu," The fox said.
Misty bowed. "It's nice to finally meet you all, and thanks for taking caring of my Pokemon. I can tell by how healthy they look," the red haired girl showed gratitude.
"Your what-now?" The Pilaf gang said in unison. Trunks had told them about Misty being from another world in another universe (The part in telling them is unwritten). The Pilaf gang couldn't believe that there was a human from a different world was standing before them.
"Turns out they really like berries and good thing too because I didn't know what else to feed them," Mai told Misty.
"By the way what took you so long of getting here?" Trunks asked changing the subject still craddling his sister.
"We had some unfinished business to attend to and none of which could be done in a second," Pilaf started.
"Why couldn't you have Trunks help you?" Misty asked. "Also for that matter why didn't you call?"
Pilaf looked at her, "it had something to do with our past and we didn't want Trunks to be a part of it since we knew it wasn't necessary," Mai answered. "I mean we like you Trunks but it was our own business to handle," Mai reassured Trunks before he decided to blast her away.
"I would like to know when and how you met my Pokemon," Misty said.
Mai pondered for a bit "It was back here in West City around the same time you met Trunks-" she was interrupted by Misty speaking to her Pokemon.
"That must mean you guys followed me because that's where I ended up." Misty cleared her throat. "Sorry please continue," she apologized.
Mai continued. "We were heading back to see Trunks but we stumbled across these creatures here and couldn't just leave them, so we decided to go back and see if anybody wanted them but no one claimed them. These two seemed to like berries a lot and it's a good thing we had some around the area and that's what we fed them," Mai told the story of how she met both Psyduck and Azurill.
"We've lost track of time and we're sorry for not calling or letting you know in the first place," Mai looked at Trunks blushing.
"It's alright," he said nervously looking away as he was blushing
Misty looked at him and smirked. "See? I told you she likes you," she said carefully putting an arm around Trunks' neck while Azurill was still in Misty's other arm and Psyduck was next to her. He was blushing even deeper. Soon enough she let go of him, making it once again easy to carry his knocked out little sister.
Misty took out her Pokeball with one hand. "Okay, Psyduck return!" Misty ordered as a beam of red light made the duck Pokemon go back in its Pokeball. The Pilaf gang went back into their shocked state. Misty shrunk the Pokeball so it could fit in her pocket.
"You had that with you the entire time?" Trunks asked not knowing rather or not he should be fazed by it.
"Yes, and my mallet," Misty bluntly told him.
"Right now!?" Trunks couldn't believe it.
"Yep," she replied cheerfully pulling out the giant hammer with one hand and the other holding her dear Azurill.
"How?! More importantly, where?"
"Not telling," Misty stuck out her tongue at Trunks.
"Oh? And why not?" Trunks were getting frustrated for a rather peculiar reason. "I get the Pokeball can become pocket size but I doubt your mallet can," he said.
"Because that's for only me to know," she kept going on with torturing him. Trunks gave up and grumbled off to the side keeping his sister asleep.
Bulma was watching the scene displayed in front of her, it was dark and the granddaughter of her dear friend was in her arms. "Okay time for bed," Bulma announced.
"But I'm supposed to at Kame house," Misty objected.
"I'll tell 18 and Krillin you'll have to sleepover there tomorrow night. I figured that you might want to spend time with Mai here to get to know her better," Bulma said.
"Fine," Misty sighed in defeat then a lightbulb went over her head. "How about I get to know her alongside Marron tomorrow instead?" she suggested.
"I don't see what's the point when you're sleeping in the same house with her but okay," Bulma and the children walked inside.
"It's settled then I'll take both you and Mai to Atlantic area where you guys can hang out and Marron can be dropped off there," Trunks decided for everybody.
"Aren't you going to be there? I have a surprise for both you and Goten," Misty innocently pulled out her trap.
"Goten will be there, but as for me, I don't care unless it takes forever." Trunks stated, obliviously taking the bait. Misty nodded as everyone but Bulma headed to their rooms to sleep. Mai and Misty (and Azurill) were sharing a room and the same went for Pilaf and Shu.
Bulma called Videl to pick up her daughter and when that was all settled Bulma went to bed like everyone else in her house.
The reason why the Pilaf gang and Misty didn't have their own rooms because in my head the guest rooms have two beds each and might as well stayed close together that way no one gets lost in the big house.
I dislike Mai but I prefer everyone as allies than enemies and even though I believe Mai can get in the way as an ally, I believe she gets more in the way as an enemy like Hercule, and yes I know Hercule was never considered a villain but if he were one he'll be more annoying than the silly Pilaf gang. In case you haven't noticed, another reason why I decided to put Mai in this story so I have an excuse to put in Psyduck and Azurill in it. I know it's possibly the lamest excuse in the book, but don't care.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter I enjoyed writing it despite it taking a little longer than planned.