I do not own Pokemon. I own Pokemon merchandise AND MAYBE SOMEDAY I SHALL HAVE IT ALL MWHA HA HA
But I own the story, don't steal it. Anyone who wants to email me with questions [not about why Misty wouldn't run away from Jack in the first place or why Jack didn't let her go. I have explained to the best I can and after that I just don't know] comments or just wants to chat my email address is Doddlebabe@hotmail.com
P.s This chapter is really boring so don't expect too much.Sorry about the delay ,our Internet connection was having a few problems


"So you guys were the guy and the girl we saw flying and surfing across the river?" Ash asked

"Yep, I'm the trainer of the Gyrados, Dewgong, Tentacool and Jigglypuff" Misty replied.

The pair was making their way through the forest. Misty was limping and clinging on the crutch made out of wood and Ash was helping her. His arm was around her waist and keeping her balanced. Neither of them had a clue where to go. They were searching for all Misty's Pokemon, which was now a large number. The new team of Pokemon, and the original team. The reason that she was allowed more then six were because she was considered dead so they didn't keep her Pokemon numbers on file.

"It's so weird, a couple of hours ago, you were a memory and a time in my life that I would give anything to change and now I am helping you walk, talking to you and just generally being with you. I can't believe that you're back" Ash stated, feeling ecstatic but a little too tired to show it.

After good nights sleep, he'd probably be bouncing off the walls, shouting at everyone that she was back. It would probably be just like when he was twelve and he had won the Masters league he had never been so happy in his life but his celebrations had been cut short by the news about his best friend. At the time he would never admit that Misty was his best person friend but she was.

Misty looked at him, her large aquamarine eyes filled with a number of emotions. She feared for her Pokemon's safety, she felt delight that Ash was back and she felt THAT feeling. A feeling she had when she had first met Ash and a feeling that rarely ever went away, if anything it only ever grew stronger. It was a feeling she could feel all over her body mostly in the chest area and the pit of her stomach. It was a warm feeling and some days she'd feel it so strong that it would give her a little spring in her step and a sweet little song in her head. What she always considered strange about the feeling she had, the songs she always hummed and sang softly or just ran through her mind were always about love or the way sometimes to feeling would make her say the strangest thing. That feeling was the reason that she would always say something was "so romantic".

"You are all grown up" she blurted out inspecting the tall masculine figure next to her.

"My mom nearly cries everytime I visit her" Ash remarked,

"Can you blame her, I feel sad looking at you. You're not the little ten-year
Old running around with such enthusiasm that I made friends with or made enemies with" Misty replied, smiling to herself.

"That bike was the scourge of my existence" Ash joked, thinking back to arguments had over the bike.

"Well one good thing did come out of that bike incident" Misty told him.

"Like what?" Ash asked, cynically.

"You met me." Misty replied, smiling.

"Yeah but what was the good thing?" Ash asked innocently

Misty stuck out her tongue at Ash and he stuck his tongue back at her. They both burst out laughing, and enjoyed acting like kids again.

"So if you're the trainer of Gyrados, Tentacool, Dewgong and Jifgglypuff that would make you a pretty good trainer" Ash stated.

"It would make me a better trainer than I used to be, but no match for the ultimate master. When I first met you I thought you were a little loser then I learned that you really did love Pokemon. No matter how unpleasant that lesson was. Eughh, makes me shudder to think of it"

"I remember the things I would do and you wouldn't raise an eyebrow. Ever get it, where someone tells you that you're not good at something you love and you try doubly as hard to prove em wrong?" Ash asked.

"Yeah"

"That what drove me most of time. To prove people who doubted me wrong and a lot of the time I wanted to show you I was a good trainer " Ash continued.

Misty looked down tears welling in her eyes.

"Misty I didn't mean to make you cry, that was ages ago and it was a good thing. You made me want to be a better trainer and you made me want to be a better person" Ash cried, not realising what he blurted out.

"It's not that *sniff* it's just that when *sniff* you said that stuff about you wanted to be a better trainer because of me I thought of how when I was younger I used always try to make my sisters proud of me as a trainer.
It was never fair, I won so many gym battles for them and they'd just tell me something about them being beautiful and me being a runt and never being anything more in their eyes. That's when I left home, I wanted to show them but I wanted to prove to myself that I was a good trainer and I haven't seen my sisters in ages. I miss them so much. I don't how they are or if their okay or anything. They're my only family in the world" Misty sobbed.

"As soon as we find your Pokemon, get your leg better and get that little punk
back, we can go and see your sisters. I know that they missed you" Ash promised her.

Misty looked at him in alarm and shook her head defiantly. She stopped moving, Ash stopped and looked at her quizzically

"No way, Ash. I may not like Jack. In fact he drives me crazy and he messed up a whole lot too and caused this whole 4-yr. gap in my life but if it weren't for him, I'd probably still be stuck with Butch and Cassidy. I don't want you to run around fighting my fights for me and I don't want you to hurt Jack. When it comes to kidnappers, he's not so bad and if I want to hurt him then I will. What he did was to me not to anyone else"

"You think that just because Jack only involved you in this scheme that no one else was involved. Whether you like it or not, when you made friends me and Brock and Tracey, you made friends for life. You are a part of our lives. I couldn't imagine my life without you all the time and the same went for Brock and Tracey and the way you are so happy about us being back means the same for you. We lost one of our best friends for four years, the only girl I ever felt so comfortable around. We could be ourselves around you. Brock goes crazy if he sees any girl around but around you her could just have a friend with you. Don't you get that? We lost a best friend and you say that this has nothing to do with us"

"You know why I want you to leave Jack alone? He sorta grew on me.
I know what he did and he knows it was almost satanic to do what he did, but Jack tried to do the right thing. He was scared at the thought of getting in trouble with the police, which I will admit was cowardly but he tries. He cares for his Pokemon; he kept us all fed, reasonably sheltered. He made me realise something's. Like how much I took for granted. He tries, Ash and I admire that in anyone, except for Team Rocket or someone evil but he's not evil, he gets things totally screwed up but he's not evil. I should be allowed to fight my own corner, you know that I have always been able to defend myself"

"You know I'm not actually in the mood to hear about how great the guy who ruined your life and hurt your friends and family is"

"I'm not defending what he did, I'm telling you to let me deal with himself. I don't need a knight in shining armour"

"Then I guess you don't need anyone's help at all"

" No I don't"

"You know that's always been your problem, you've never been able to admit when you need someone's help. I'm outta here"

Ash stormed off, Misty turning her back and limping away the opposite direction.
Ash felt a mixture of emotions, anger at Misty and himself. Regret and guilt were also burning in his mind. Something they both had in common was overwhelming stubbornness. He continued walking at a fast pace when he thought about how a person with a very injured leg was supposed to get out a place they had to fall down a waterfall to get to. It was impossible, but if it could be done it would just be extremely painful. He realised that Misty was just acting defensive because she knew that the way she was, she was completely helpless and he knew from experience that Misty hated to be helpless. He turned around bounding through the forest, the way Misty had gone. He saw a figure in the distance, crouching on the ground

"He right, damn him, he's right. I need his help, look at me, I'm on the ground and I can't get back up. I'm beginning to take everything for granted again. I should have told him the second I saw him. I've been afraid of doing that since I was a kid but the more I think of it, the scarier it gets. My leg is so sore, I hope it's nothing permanent" Misty thought to herself, as she tried to push herself up but failed, resulting in pain. She let out a moan of pain.

"Misty?" a voice asked from behind her.

Ash walked up in front of her and Misty looked up at him. He had a sympathetic face and she looked at him, trying to hide her pain.

"Need a hand?" he asked.

Misty bit her lip; they both knew that if she accepted she would be admitting that she needed his help. She did but she didn't know if she wanted to admit it. Ash waited, praying she would. He didn't want to make her think that he thought she couldn't do anything. He didn't want to bruise her pride, he just really hoped that she would swallow it. They both waited in silence for a few minutes when Misty finally nodded. She did more than nod though

"Ash I am a very proud person and it's hard for me ever to admit that I need help but I do, more than I ever have in my life. I was afraid you wouldn't come back, I doubted that you'd come back but I am glad that you did. I need your help to get better and to find my Pokemon and I need your help with so much more things than I ever led on"

"I was mad at first but then I realised that you're you and that without you even asking me, I would help you"

Misty smiled gratefully at him. He helped her up and they began walking ahead. They walked in silence enjoying the walk with each other. Neither could have dreamt that this would happen.

"Ash?"

"Yeah"

"Did you mean what you said back there about me making you want to be a better person?"

" Yeah I did"

Misty felt that warm tingly feeling she had, bubbling away in her stomach. They continued walking and chatting

"I don't get it, Ash. Ever since I knew you you've been dreaming of becoming a Pokemon master and now you're unhappy?" Misty asked, puzzled.

"I had one goal in my life and I achieved it but afterwards I have nothing. I mean when I think of the best times of my life, I think of when we were kids and travelling around trying to become Pokemon masters. And everywhere I go, people get all fussy about me, I just want to be normal again"

"But you're not normal, your famous" Misty told him.

Ash gave her a 'that was the understatement of the year' look.

"You know that" she added.

"I just wish that I could be going around trying to achieve my goals again and everyone would just see me as a normal guy. I wish that this fame stuff would just go away"

"You could lose on purpose" Misty suggested,

"I couldn't do that,"

Misty was about to say something when she saw something blue by the riverbank, and she nearly threw up. Ash looked over and turned away quickly. Misty gasped suddenly

"Tentacool" she cried.

"What?"

"That's my Tentacool"


"James you idiot, they were supposed to suck up all the Pokemon not blow them all away" Jessie yelled at James.

James was scratching the back of his head sheepishly.

"I was playing with it earlier and I guess I must have switched it to blowing away mode" he replied

"See that's what happens when you trust humans" Meowth commented.

Meowth looked up and saw Rapidash, Rhyhorn, Growlithe, Sandshrew, Fearow, Oddish, Scyther, Venonat, Marril, Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Pidgeot, Charizard, Kingler, Onix, Geodude and Vulpix glaring at them.

"Looks like Team Rocket's running away again" Jessie, James and Meowth yelled as they raced away from the Pokemon.
Brock and Tracey turned around and looked at Jack, angrily

"You have some serious explaining to do" they told him.

"I know but what's more important is finding those two, so I say we work together and then everyone can take chunks out of me" Jack suggested.

"Agreed"

"We have to make our way into town and get help first" Tracey stated.

"Of only Cee cee was here" Brock groaned.

"Brock you always want Cee cee to be there" Tracey remarked.

"This I ask you, Tracey. Do you not see Cee cee everytime we're near her? She is so bbbbbbeeeeeeaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuttttttiiiiiiiiffffffffuuuuuulllllllllll!!!!!!!!"

"She's so what?"

"Beautiful"

"Ahh, I didn't quite catch that one"

"Clearly"

"Well you did request a pretty busdriver"

"But I never expected someone like Cee cee and she's smart and funny and has morals and good character and she is so pretty"

"I can't get over how Misty looks" Tracey said,

"I know, Misty was always cute but now she's a stunner"

"What she looks the same as the day I met her" Jack said

"She probably changed gradually, she changed a tiny bit every day but you never noticed the changes but now when we see her all the changes have mounted up" Tracey explained.

"We have to get going though" Brock pointed out.

Brock and Tracey mounted Onix and Jack climbed on Rapidash.

Ash's Pokemon decided to look for them himself so the guys decided to let them search and the other Pokemon
Went away with their trainers.

"Pi pika chu chu pika , Pi pikachu PIKACHU!" Pikachu called to the other Pokemon. They nodded and headed off through the forest in search of the two missing trainers

Ok please read and review and I know this part was boring. I might take a while getting chapter 7 up, I have really important exams so I'll have to do some study. Just sit tight and I'll get the next part ASAP
Nibbs