Jessie's eyes fluttered open. She moaned slightly and the pain in her head increased slightly. What happened? For some reason she couldn't remember, or maybe she never knew. Looking around her, she saw several rocks? Or maybe they were concrete blocks. Above her she could see the ceiling of wherever she was, cracked and jagged. It could come down at any moment.

Realizing that she needed to get out of there A.S.A.P., she moved her head an inch upwards, and slowly the rest of her body followed. Standing on weak legs, she tried to come to grips about the many things she didn't know. Slowly, memories began seeping back in. There was shaking, no make that a lot of shaking. So much that she had lost her balance and she had hit the floor, becoming unconscious.

But where am I? The question rang through her head and she got no reply. In the depths of her mind, she knew that something terrible had happened, but in this confused state she was unable to put her finger on what. She also didn't realize that this affected a lot more people then herself.

" Huh?" Ash pulled himself upward and stared at the fallen buildings around him.

He felt nauseous from being shaked around he had a cut on his hand, but he felt that wasn't very important right now, considering he felt he was going to puke. Ash ran where the gutter ended and let it go. When he finished, he wiped his mouth off and again examined his surroundings.

He realized he had been through an earthquake, that was no big surprise, but he wondered if anyone had been in those building when they fell. He knew though, that there had been.

" They all must be dead..." He said aloud and jumped at the sound of his own voice.

The street at first had seemed silent, but soon Ash realized this wasn't true. There was a loud gushing noise coming from a fire hydrant that got it top knocked off, every now and then he'd here rocks crumble, and Ash heard a far off sound of car horns honking. Ash was surprised that he was the only human on the street.

Suddenly, his thoughts turned to those of terror. His friends, they'd been in the city too. What if they were hurt, or in trouble, or even worse…

" NO!" Ash shouted, his voice echoing in the street.

He wouldn't know what to do if anything happened to any of them. First stop the Pokepark…

Misty opened her mouth to speak, but only a small screechy sound came out. An earthquake, she thought quickly, she had been in one before when she was a small child. It had only been a small one, only a taste of what it could really do, but it was enough to scare her for the rest of her life. And now, as she lay there sprawled on the floor, she was more afraid then she had ever been in her life. It seemed as if the earthquake came back to destroy her, to show her it's real power.

Misty strained to open her eyes, but when she did only a white haziness greeted her. Quickly, she sat up straight, shooting the pain through her body. She screamed and screamed tears flowed freely through her eyes. Why did this have to happen to me?

Suddenly she felt someone's hands latched on to her arms, and she felt she was being shaken. Misty moved her head to where she thought the person was.

" Who- Who is it?" She asked, through sniffles.

" Look I'm just trying to help you ok. Just trust me." A familiar voice answered her.

" Who are you though?" She asked again wiping the last tears away.

" You've really gone blind haven't you?" The voice replied avoiding the question.

Tears began to form again in Misty's eyes but she quickly wiped them away again. " Yes, I have…"

There was silence for a long time before the voice answered.

" Here, can you stand up? We have to get out of here before this whole place collapses."

" I can try." Misty's determined voice replied.

So with the help of the person, Misty was able to stand and eventually walk. Slowly they made there way across the building.

Jessie sighed slightly, she had to rest again she had to get off her aching feet but why did they ache so? Her head pounded again, she looked ahead of her and saw nothing but many piles of rock all over the place. Her hair was a mess, she knew that, but it didn't matter so much now. Or it didn't seem to. A sudden sound caught Jessie's attention. Another person trapped maybe; let's just hope this one survives.

Oh, my leg. James' thoughts trailed to his limb that was under a pile of rocks. Pain shot through him every time he moved. The museum was going to collapse, even he could tell that. Yeah, me, me the stupid idiot who always foils our plans, he thought bitterly. No time for those thoughts now, he knew that, but those thoughts always seemed to follow him around everywhere he went.

" Help! Somebody help me please!" James screamed, but he knew there'd be no one to answer him, there hadn't been so far, there wouldn't be now.

However, this time James screams were heard, and guess who came rushing into help him?

Ash had reached the pokepark in no time flat. He had run the whole way, his mind rushing with frantic thoughts. The gat to the pokepark had fallen down awkwardly, and Ash had a hard time climbing over it. Screams of hundreds of different pokemon sounded throughout the park.

" Pikachu!" Ash called. " PIKACHU!"

Suddenly five different pikachus hopped over to him.

" Pika." They all said in unison.

At first, Ash felt confused, slowly he looked at each one, examined them carefully and realized that none of them were his.

" Sorry guys I'm not your trainer." He said bluntly and walked away still calling Pikachu's name.

Ash heard a muffled 'pika' and then he heard something else.

" Hey twerp, get us outa here!" It was Meowth.

" Where are you!" He called ignoring Meowth's rude behaviour.

" OVER HERE!" Meowth shouted back.

The sound was coming from a fallen tree. Ash came over and knocked on it.

" Pika?" It was his pikachu all right.

Using all his strength, Ash pushed on the tree. He pushed and pushed and pushed and… the tree wouldn't budge. Ash leaned on the tree and sighed. He looked over to his left and saw a machoke walking by and got an idea (it's a miracle!).

" Hey Machoke!" Ash called, the machoke looked at Ash and looked all around him.

" I'm talking to you." Ash said. The machoke pointed at himself and made a grunting sound.

" Yes you." Ash replied getting a tiny bit annoyed. The machoke turned pink on the cheeks and walked over to Ash slowly.

" Could you help me roll this tree over? Please? I need to save my pikachu." Ash requested as nicely as he could.

The machoke nodded and back a little a way from the tree. Ash wondered what it was doing until he saw the machoke hurtling itself straight in his direction. Ash jumped out of the way just in time to see the tree go flying, and two very familiar screams coming out of it. Ash got up and ran after it. This is going to be harder then I thought.

Authors note: So how'd you like this one? I kinda left each of the characters on a small itty bity cliffhanger. Just a sort of thing that makes you ask questions. Questions which will be answer in the next parts. So tell me what you liked and didn't like so I'll no how to make the next one better. Oh yeah, and thanks a lot for your past reviews, they mean a lot to me.

Other pokemon fanfics I've wrote: A Long Way Back pt. 1 & 2, Butterflykisses pt.1 &2,

Soon to come: Adventures of James and Misty and Earthquake pt.3