Idea from: Chocolate Berry

Mine

"No!" Misty shrieked, clutching the pokeball. She was on her back, in the dirt, with Ash attempting to yank the thing out of her hands. She was helpless to do much else, a bit too miserable to try anything else than lie there and hope Ash would get tired of it. "I've suffered through tons of abuse, both from haters and fans and this is my damned reward! You let go of this and go back to Pallet, fatty!"

Ash sighed down at her. "Mist, you can't keep the vaporeon. The story is over. Just give it up and we can go to the next crap plot. We're getting paid a lot of money for this, plus the charity. Give up the vaporeon for the children."

"Screw the children!" Misty screamed, leaving the author worried that the next words would get her a few scathing reviews, but hopeful that all readers and reviewers would realize it was only a joke. "I'll inject them with AIDS for this thing! Do you know the amazing attacks it has learned, Ash? It's the most wonderful thing in the world. You already devolved Psyduck, just let me keep this. Please?"

Meanwhile, Dawn was beginning to panic. Paul was approaching her. No, hopeful Iakrishippers stand back, Dawn is not getting sweet Paul lovin'. She's merely nervous because she would love to keep that gorgeous articuno in her pocket and her hand clutched around the pokeball tight to prove it.

"Give it to me," he demanded, holding out his hand. For a moment, Dawn had a flashback to when her miniskirt powers had backfired and had had quite the wild night. "Girl, stop zoning out like I just asking you to multiply and give me the pokeball."

Dawn swung a hip at him, activating her miniskirt powers. "Why do you want that? Are you sure it's not me you're after?"

"I'm a soulless bastard," Paul explained, hand unmoving. "Give me the pokeball or I will bust a cap in your ass."

Dawn stared quietly, trying to figure out why that had sounded so sexy before shaking her head and summoning her back up plan. Kenny the love puppy sat by her feet, smiling as she scratched behind his ear. "Good boy, Kenny! What a good boy. Now, we went over this in training. Beg for me love." He immediately began to do so, hands in a prayer gesture and him on his knees. "Submit to my dominance." He rolled over on his back, smiling up at her. "And now the winner: Fight for my love, Kenny!"

Paul barely had time to yell "oh shi-" before Kenny leapt at him with a growl, pummeling the other while Dawn spurred him on with a baby talk encouraging voice that most would use when their puppy returned a ball.

And, finally, Cassie pouted while Natty began to lecture on how you better have your character using babynames dot com if you're using it yourself.

Moral of the Story: The characters can't get every pokémon they dream of without you ever explaining where they come from. If, in the story, Misty travels to Hoenn and catches a Surskit, fine. But, if Misty randomly has a Surskit, without ever being to that region, where's the logic?