Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon and I am getting REALLY tired of writing this disclaimer. I know I have to because if I didn't I would get in trouble.

I have nothing to tell you right now except sorry it took me so long to get this out. Enjoy!



Misty awoke with a start, at first not knowing where she was. She was cold, and then she remembered. She sighed as she fixed a little breakfast for her and Togepi. Suddenly she saw something in the shadows.

"What was that?" She wondered out loud. Then she heard a thump then a whine. She decided to investigate. When she went into the shadows where she saw something move, she saw what looked like a lump of hair with a snout. "What is that?" She again wondered out loud. She figured it was a Pokemon, but she didn't know what it was.

"Um are you ok?" Misty asked questionably. She heard a snort in reply, but that still didn't answer her question. She moved a little closer and reached out her hand.

"Oh you're hurt. I better take you to the Pokemon Center." Misty said to the lump of hair. "I wish I knew what you were! Then I could call you by your name.

Suddenly Togepi came waddling over to Misty wearing her backpack.

"Togepi! Now I don't know where we are! Wait, I'll just follow the way you came." She said to the egg. "Oh good! There's the place we spent the night!" Misty cried as she spotted the spot. (AN I am high on sugar, somewhat) "I have an idea! Togepi, will you talk to this Pokemon and find out what it is?"

*OK Mommy! What kind of Pokemon are you?* Togepi asked as she started to sing the lyrics to 'What Kind of Pokemon are you?' from the 2BA Master cd.

*I'm a swinub. I'm a girl. I'm hurt and tired and I hate living in the ice caves." The lump *ahem* swinub said. Togepi translated to Misty.

*Mommy, she said she's a swinub and she hates living in the ice caves and that she is hurt. She is also tired.* Togepi chirped.

*OK. Well, since I found the spot where we spent the night, and I don't know how to get out, then I guess we will have to find a way out ourselves. We can follow in Ash's trail." Misty sighed again as she remembered the hurt look on Ash's face when she yelled at him the day before. "Swinub, what hurts?"

*My leg.* Although Misty couldn't understand swinub yet, she figured her leg hurt because of the way swinub held up her front left foot.

"OK, well let me see if I have anything in my backpack...AHA!" Misty shouted as she found a bandana. She ripped it in half.

"Goooooooooo Starmie!" Misty called out her strongest Pokemon. "Stamie, can I have some water in my hands to wash out the bloodstains off of swinubs foot?"

*HIYA!* A squirt of water in Mist's hands was the reply.

"Thanks! Now c'mon back!" Misty recalled Starmie. She washed off Swinubs paw and tied the bandana on it. "There. That should hold until we get to a Pokemon Center." Swinub snorted.

"Togepi, do you think you can find Ash's trail so we can follow it?"

*I'm not that good with my nose, but I can try!* Togepi sniffed at the floor, and finally picked up the scent of Pikachu. *I found it, Mommy!*

"OK." Misty, Togepi, and Swinub headed off, with Togepi leading the way.

Out of nowhere came a sudden scream.

*ASH!* Came the faint voice of Ash's yellow mouse.

*Mommy, I think daddy is hurt!* Togepi cried.

"I'd say you are right. But I would think Ash would be further ahead then this. Why would-- come on! We better go find out what's wrong." Misty swept up Togepi and Swinub and stuffed them in her drawstring bag. She took off in the direction of Ash's voice. After about 10 minutes of running, she skidded to a stop when she almost fell down a dark crevasse.

*Misty! Over here!* Came the voice of Pikachu.

"Oh, no." Misty said under her breath. What she saw was scary. (LOL) Pikachu was at the edge of a dark, deep hole. She rushed over and looked down. She could make out a faint outline of Ash's hat.

"Misty, help me!" Ash shouted.

"Ash, what do you think I'm going to do? Leave you here until you freeze or starve or fall and keep falling till you hit something and black out and never see the light of day again and..."

"Misty just think of a way to get me out!" Ash cut off Misty's run on sentence. "Nice visual, by the way."

"Yeah well, I had a whole night to think up words to annoy you."

"That didn't even make sense, Misty!"

"Oh and how would you know? You never make sense!"

"Listen, this could go on for hours, God forbid it probably will, but by the time its over, I'll be dead!"

Misty thought about this for a second, and decided against arguing anymore. (WHAT?!?! Misty not argue anymore? That's crazy! OK, ok, here's something.)

"You can't fight when your dead, Ketchum."

Ash started to say something, then thought what she had just said over again. He had her there.

"Are you here to argue or to get me out--- AUGH!!!" His hand slipping cut off ash. He fell a few more feet and grasped on to a sturdy stone.

"Ash, you had better be thinking too!"

"I am, I am, ok?"

Misty couldn't even see an outline of Ash's hat, now that he had fallen even more.

"Ash, which Pokemon do you have with you?"

"Um, Pikachu, Bayleef, Pidgeot--- Pidgeot, I choose you!" It was hard for Ash to release his Pokemon for a few reasons: A. He had to hold on to the rock. B. His hands and most of the rest of his body were numb too.

"Ash, you numbskull! You could have just done that in the first place!

"Sorry, I was too busy freezing my butt off! I would have done that but that thought hadn't crossed my mind, all right?"

Finally, Ash's head appeared over the edge. Pikachu ran to him and hugged him.

"You do know this took all day, don't you?"

"No, it didn't. Only about half an hour."

"OK, but if we want to make it out by nightfall, then we have to get going."

Ash nodded.

"SWINUB!" Misty practically shouted in Ash's ear.

"What's a swinub?" Ash asked as he pulled out his Pokedex. The pokedex explained what a swinub was and then Ash put it back in his pocket.

"So, it's the newest addition to out family." Ash said.

"Yeah." Misty agreed. She was thinking about what he had just said. He said our, not your. OUR family.

"Ash?"

"Yeah?"

"You know before when you said the newest addition to OUR family? Why did you say OUR? We're not a family."

"Yet." said Ash under his breath.

"What?!?!?" Misty halted in her footsteps.

"Oh, um I just meant that...uh... that..." He stammered.

"You said yet! I said that we are not a family, and you said YET! What the heck is that supposed to mean?!"

"Uhh..."

"Listen, Ash Ketchum, there is no way I am going to be a family with you! We can be friends, but not a family. Get it through your brain, if you even have one!" Misty insulted.

"That hurt, Misty." Ash said, with a faraway look in his eyes. "That really hurt." Ash started running ahead, and was soon out of sight. (Why do girls always have to be the ones to run off? I know, they are more sensitive, but I changed it, so HA!)

"Ash..." Misty trailed off.

*Leave him be, Misty. He just needs some time alone.* Pikachu said honestly.

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So, how did you like it? Should I keep going? In the next chapter there will be more TR and Brock, and some explaining about that scenario. Sorry it took me so long to get this out. I've been busy, and my parents are buying a house, so they have been on the computer a lot. Thanks to all you people who are reviewing. I don't know how many chappies are left though. I'm writing this as I go along, and I have an idea on what might happen, but I don't know yet. So... see ya in next chapter! (If I decide to keep going. Don't worry, I probably will)

~StarPikachu