On Misty, Brock, and Toby respective ways back to Cerulean and Pewter...
"Misty, why do ya look so shaken? Ya look like you just saw 15 miles of Caterpies, Weedles, and Venoats eating peppers and carrots!" Said Toby.
"I can't believe that Rachel, your girlfriend with the weirdest dialect in the world, is related to Ashton Ketchem, the Pokémon Master with the most annoying lifestyle in the world!" Said Misty.
"You ever notice they both tug on their cap around whenever there's a Pokémon battle going on in the vicinity they're in or they feel like it?" Said Toby.
"You never met annoying Ash! Neither has Rachel!" said Misty, reaching for a mallet.
"I know, but when you haveta watch all the Pokémon league matches 'cause the Master is your girlfriend's cousin, your gonna notice these things." Said Toby.
"Hey, Misty? I thought you liked Ash." Said Brock, puzzled.
"When you travel with someone for four years, you become their friend, even if you haveta go your separate ways. But god, he is annoying!" Said Misty.
"Brock-o, dude, lemme talk ta ya for a sec, no con Misty." Said Toby.
"Huh?" Said the young water trainer and the breeder at the same time.
"Misty, leave so I can tell Brock-o a little story."
"Fine, Cuz. See ya back at the gym." As Misty left, she said to herself "Now Rachel has every one of us doing the dialect thing-a-ma-bob."
"Little bitty Brock-o, same age as me but obviously much less observant. Misty does like Ash. That is so gaddam obvious I could borrow a mallet." Said Toby.
"You have a point, Tobias?" Said Brock.
"Only Rachel and my mother can call me Tobias. Brock-o, he likes her, too." He dropped the bombshell.
"I knew that... but how did you Tobias?" Said Brock, teasing by now.
"Yo! Toby, Waters, or die, pal." Said Toby, changing the subject.
"Ya didn't answer my question, buddy."
"Alright... I challenged him once. When he won, I told him I was related to Misty. I gave 'im a picture of her waving. There are rumors goin' 'round the league circuit that Master Ketchem has a shrine to a red-haired, skinny girl on his mantle."
"Does little Misty know this?"
"Naw... Rach bein' gym leader, she found out 'bout it, and she told me 'cause Mistara's my wittle bitty cuz."
"First of all, why would the not-so-sensational sisters hide that from us. Second of all, shouldn't I know, being a gym leader? And third of all," He paused for dramatic effect. "Mistara?"
"Oops... I wasn't supposed to tell ya that. Don't tell 'er ya know 'er real name, k?" Pleaded Toby, with visions of mallets on his head.
"It'll cost ya." Said Brock, with visions of Toby's female friends next to him in his head.
"Fine, I have a copula pals who'll go out with ya." Said Toby, whose Golduck told him the whole story.
"What, you mean, you've got yourself a working Golduck!"
"Mighty proud of it... AH!"
Toby was pulled into the bushes by three unknowns...
Author's Note: Yeah, real unknown. Hey, I'm a huge fan of the male unknowns, anyway!