Tory Pov.

I cried, that's all I did was cry. I couldn't do anything else with myself at the moment. I bolted out of the house and down the street trying to get away from everybody and everything. All I wanted was for everything to go back to how it used to be, when I never really had a care in the damn world.

I thought my parents sheltering me from everything was a true burden, but now I understand why they did it in the first place! I ended up out in the middle of the woods somewhere having no clue at all where I was.

"Damn it!" I said still sniffling, "This is the worst day ever!" I plopped myself down in the grass under the comforting shade of a short oak tree. "I wish none of this had ever happened! I just...I just..I want Ash back!" I cry out to no one but myself.

It truly was a lonely world out there and I thought I was safe from the loneliness when I found Ash in that alleyway. I sigh to myself, my sobs starting to subside. I look up at the sky as the last of my tears drip steadily down my face like a leaky faucet. Why couldn't I have been braver when those people broke in our house?

It could have changed what happened, even by a little. A second longer would have been just fine...I sigh again and wipe the rest of my tears away with my sleeve. "I can't change the past I shouldn't just be sitting around her doing nothing either, it is time to take some action." I say to myself, not realizing that Gary was behind me until he said, "That's the spirit! Let's get going!" I turn around quickly and give him a quick smile, I was ready now.

"Need some help?" he says holding out his hand. I nod and grab his extended hand as he helps me get off of the leaf covered forest floor. I walk by Gary's side in silence until he speaks up.

"Um..Tory I think it is time for me to apologize to you." I look at him confused, "You have nothing to apologize for." He shakes his head, "Yeah, I do. I keep trying to steal Ash away from you without thinking about how you or him were feeling about it." I nod slowly, "Well, thank you and I accept you apology." He gives me a weak smile as we walk on.

Eventually we wander out of the woods and find Green standing there impatiently waiting for us, "Oh finally you found him!" he says irritated. "Yeah...and Green I-," he cuts me off, "Whatever, I don't want to hear about it, kay?" I nod flinching at his pissed off tone.

Gary just shakes his head and rolls his eyes, Green narrows his eyes before turning his nose up at us and walking towards the house. "Hurry up and get ready to go, we were supposed to have left more than 20 minutes ago! Let's get moving, I want to get this over with so I can go home!"

I don't say anything as I hurry in and get to my room before realizing I didn't know what to bring. "Plus, plus! Min, min!" I hear before turning around and finding Plusle and Minun waiting for me patiently. I smile and hold out my arms allowing them to run up my arms and to my shoulders.

"Well I guess all I need is you guys!" The grin brightly as their tails light up in satisfaction. "Ready?" I hear Red say from the doorway. "Yeah," I say quietly, feeling kind of awkward around him. He nods and is about to turn away when I say, "Um...Red? I wanted to say I was sorry for earlier." He turns around and gives me a soft smile, "No worries, it is all okay." I let out a sigh of relief as he walks away, glad that he wasn't mad at me.

Well it was time to go, I head downstairs were everyone is gathered in the living room. I head over towards Gary who is looking a little tense, "Everything okay?" "Well," he starts, "I got 2 phone calls, one from you parents saying that thy will be home tomorrow afternoon. So that means this plan can't fail, which it shouldn't because it is fairly simple.

All we have to do is go in from the left side of the building where there is very little security and get Ash who is most likely going to be in the basement." "And with our Pokemon to help there really shouldn't be any issues since they are just a bunch of street thugs with cool looking Pokemon which are most likely all fire types," Green adds in yawning, "My Blastoise will take them out like that!" he finishes snapping his fingers for emphasis.

I take a deep breath in and out and then remember something, "What about the 2nd phone call?" The tension in the room rises a considerable amount,

"It was a threat call, someone who knows we want to go rescue Ash. They said if we make a fair trade everything will be fine." I raise an eyebrow, "What will we trade?" he laughs dryly, "Me." I shake my head, "But-," he holds up his hand cutting me off, "We have already decided it and don't worry after the exchange we told the cops to show up."

I nod, I knew this was all for Ash. Getting inside wasn't really the hard part, it was what to do after we had got in.

Apparently there was a lot more Pokémon there than we had originally planned and in all the chaos of battling I ended up running down some unknown hallway with Plusle and Minun.

I could hear the sounds of Red, Green, and Gary commanded there Pokémon. Well minus Red because he was just so skilled he didn't even need to command his Pokémon for them to take action.

They both knew what the other wanted, it was something I never had seen before. I stumbled around the hallways opening all unlocked doors and cursing at all the locked ones.

I finally opened an old storage room door to find who I was looking for. "Ash!" I gasped running over to him. He smiled and held his arms open for me. "Tory baby are you okay?" he asks me his grip tight. I nod,

"Yeah I missed you." he pulls back from the embrace and locks me into a deep kiss. I moan into the kiss as Ash lightly tugs at my hair and pulls my closer anxiously. We finally break the kiss after a few moments for a breath.

"I missed you so much!" he says holding me tightly. I smile, "Come on let's go then!" I move to leave before realizing Ash didn't move. "Ash what's wrong?" He looks done at his leg and then back at me, "Nothing, I am fine." He tries to get up but falls to the ground. "Ashy!" he gets up laughing.

"Just messing with you, I am okay my leg was just asleep." I let out a sigh in relief and ASh grabs my hand squeezes tightly. "Calm down, no need to be so nervous."

I give him a wide grin as he plants a soft kiss on my forehead making my blush. We head out into the now smkoky hallway. "Tory!" I hear Gary call out. "Here! And I've got him!" "Okay lets move!"

The sound of police sirens now begins to ring through the air as I try to navigate the hallways almost blindly. "Plusle! Minun! Find the exit!" I say coughing from all the smoke, something is bound to have caught fire.

"Tory baby slow down so you wont breath in so much smoke." Ash says from my side, coughing as well. i nod even though he can't see me clearly and begin to crawl on the floor. We finally get to a clear room that is clouded with smoke to meet Gary, Green, and Red. "There you are!" Green hisses irritably, (he is always irritated by something!)

"Let's go! Stupid Gary started a fire with his stupid Umbreon and I am trying not to get burned alive!" We hurriedly make a break down the hallway when we are stopped at an intersection by Red's ragged breathing.

"Red?" Green says worriedly while Red's breathing picks up. "Shit, stop!" Greens says urgently as Red's collapses to the ground. "What's happening?" Ash asks. "Asama attack! WE have to get out of here and fast!"

He leans down and tells Red to try to slow down his breathing as we search for a window as the room steadily fills with smoke. "Here!" I say finding a door that leads to the roof, it wasn't the best idea but at least we would get us out of the smoke.

Green single-handedly carries Red up the stairs himself while we follow. He kicks open the roof door and rests Red down before giving him emergency CPR. We all watch in suspense, the tension becomes to great for me and i turn away looking over at the police cars, ambulances, and now fire trucks that surround the building.

I wave my hands to signal to them that we need help, "He's okay!" Green says in relief with Red sitting next to him tiredly. "It's almost over, and we didn't even have to trade Gary," I say in relief that we are almost done with all this craziness. We all start waving our hands at the authorities to try to get noticed. "Keep your hands were we can see them." None of us make a move, "Turn around!" they say viciously.

We all slowly turn around as Ash gasps. "May?!"

Me: May?! Are you surprised to see I brought her in the equation?

Officer: Um excuse me ma'am you planned all of this?!

Me: Uhhhhh noooooooooo *sweat drop*

Officer: Hmm we will be taking you in for questioning!

Me: No you can't take me alive! Gtg!