To Know The Unknown
Part 4
Author: Chikorita_18
Category: Gen./AAML
Rating: G
Previously: After being tortured with dreams and visions of each other, Ash and Misty are finally back together. Their memories have returned, but the Unown aren't finished with them yet...
Author's Note: I have been getting beef about this fic for a while, so I'm going to clear it up here. The Unown only erased their memories, not their experiences. So, for example, Ash still won Togepi for Misty back in the ep "Who gets To Keep Togepi", but the memory isn't there. It's like what happened to Ash's mom in the 3rd movie. She was still Ash's mom, but she could not remember that she was until she saw Ash on TV. The same thing goes here.
And some are giving me beef about the Pokémon. I just call them 'it', okay?
And as to Brock and Tracey, they're coming back in this installment. So, let's get on with this.
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Ash was barely aware of Misty clinging to his arm as he watched the Unown spiral into the air. He had never wanted to see them again, and now that they were there, he had a feeling that they weren't after his mom again.
"Ash, what are we supposed to do?" Misty said, sounding remarkably unlike herself.
Ash noticed that the air around them was shimmering in an odd way. "They're going to try to trap us!"
Sure enough, the crystalline material that was coming from the Unown began to swirl up around them.
Misty looked around. "Ash, we gotta do something, or they'll trap us here and who knows what'll happen then!" She set about stuffing Togepi into her backpack.
Ash knew that Misty was right. There was hardly a time when she wasn't right. But he just couldn't think. It was like the Unown still had some grip on his mind. They wanted to trap them, and they weren't taking any chances that they may escape. "I can't...I can't think..."
Misty watched in horror as the crystal reached about six feet above their heads and began to seal up. She held onto Ash's arm tightly, not knowing what to do, but also wanting to make sure that the Unown didn't take him away again. "This is it...what do we do now?"
Ash was about to reply when the top of the crystal structure shattered into a million pieces. They looked up in time to see none other than their old buddy, Brock, standing on his Onix's back. "Well, you two, get outta there!" he called.
Ash and Misty managed to shimmy out just before the crystal sealed up again. "You have absolutely no idea how glad we are to see you, man!" Ash said. "What happened to ya?"
Brock shook his head. "I dunno," he said, a bewildered look on his face. "I was back home, at the Pewter Gym, and then, just out of the blue, I remembered that I was supposed to be travelling with you two. It was, like, surreal or something..."
"You haven't a clue, Brock," Misty said.
The Unown were revising their patterns, determined to trap all three now. Ash, always the one to stand up first, stepped in front of his friends. "What do you want with us?!" he demanded. "Why are you attacking us?"
Brock frowned. "They seemed to lose power when I showed up..." he said. "Maybe they're trying to prevent all of us from reuniting...maybe when the whole group reunites, they'll go away."
"But this is all of us, isn't it?" Misty said.
Ash shook his head. "We're missing one," he said. "We're missing Tracey."
Brock nodded. "We have to find him..."
Misty turned to him, a pleading expression on her face. "But he could be anywhere!" she said. "If his memory was erased, too, then that means that he might have been sent back to the Orange Islands, and that means that there's no telling where he is, and even if he does remember, does he know to come here?"
Brock was obviously stumped by the questions.
Just as all of them were losing hope, a voice that all of them wanted to hear for once came from behind them. "You know, I don't like people talking about me behind my back."
Ash turned and came face-to-face with Tracey. "Oh, man, I'll tell you...we'll do anything you want from now on!"
"So, what's going on?" Tracey said, watching the Unown warily. He'd been helping Professor Oak with the research that Professor Hale had asked him to look over, and he knew what the Unown could do.
"We haven't a clue," Ash and Misty muttered at the same time.
Brock pointed to what seemed to be the ringleaders of the Unown. "Look, they're weakening!" he cried. "I was right! The key was to have the whole group reunite!"
A sphere began to glow in the center of the swirling Unown. The sphere contracted, sending out a huge shockwave that blew all four to the ground.
Ash tried to get up. "You were saying?" he coughed.
Misty crawled to her feet, clutching a bruised arm. "Something has to stop this!" she cried.
Tracey was obviously thinking hard. "Well, how did you defeat them the first time?" he asked.
Ash turned to look at him. "We didn't!" he said. "Molly and Entei beat them!"
"Well, they can read thoughts...maybe..." He was at a loss.
Brock watched their patterns closely. "If we try to escape, they'll trap us. If we don't, they'll trap us. Man, we're just at a total blank right now..."
"It'd be so much easier if Molly and Entei were here..." Ash muttered, only half kidding.
Misty looked around, noticing that whenever they wanted someone to show up, they usually did. But the street was empty, everyone having ran for their lives as soon as the Unown had showed up.
The crystalline material began to swirl up around them once again. "Run!" Tracey cried.
All four broke into a dead sprint until Misty tripped and crashed to the ground. The Unown immediately began to swirl around her.
Ash spun on his heel and ran back for her, but the crystal wall went up too fast. He crashed into it, falling back to the ground. He sprung back up to his feet and pounded almost helplessly on the wall. He could just barely see her through the crystal. She was pounding on it, too, and obviously calling for him to help her.
Brock grabbed his arm. "Ash, there's nothing we can do!"
Ash fought against his grasp until Tracey pulled Brock away. "Do you mean to tell me that you're just going to leave a friend behind?!" he said. "Use your Onix to break her out of there!"
Ash noticed that Misty was beginning to lose consciousness. "Guys, they're trying to suffocate her!" he cried helplessly. "We have to get her out of there, we just have to! I've come too far to let them take her away again! I just can't lose her again!"
Tracey released his Scyther, since Brock seemed like he wasn't going to do a thing. "Scyther, use your Skull Bash to try and get Misty out of there!"
Scyther complied, but the crystal was too strong for it.
Ash was paniking.
Tracey looked around and saw that the Unown seemed to be gaining power. He thought about that for a moment, then it came to him. "Ash, calm down!" he said.
Ash looked at him as if he was nuts. "How can I?! She's gonna die in there!"
Tracey shook his head. "That's the key! We think that we'll never defeat these things, and that's where their power is coming from!" he said. "We need to believe that we can beat them! They know that you and Misty are close, so they trapped her to make you panic and think that they were winning...we need to believe that we can beat the Unown and we will!"
Ash turned back to see if Misty understood. She was fighting to stay awake, but she gave a thumbs-up to show that she had heard.
All four (six if you count Pikachu and Togepi) let out a deep breath and focused on a vision of the Unown scattering, flying away.
The Unown froze.
'It's working,' Ash thought. 'We can do this, we can defeat them...all we need to do is believe in ourselves... and we'll have it...'
The Unown were fighting against the sudden power coming from the friends, but losing. Finally, they gave up. Hundreds of the Unown flew off into the night sky.
The crystal encasing Misty faded away and she collapsed, ironically, into Ash's arms, breathing like she's just run a marathon. "I thought I was dead..." she said. She looked up at Tracey. "Are we ever glad that you showed up now."
Tracey looked like he didn't quite understand what he had said.
Ash hauled Misty back to her feet. "Why didn't we think of that, Misty?" he said. "That was exactly how Entei beat the Unown...it was because Molly believed that it could!"
Misty nodded, but then turned to Brock, fire in her eyes. "Do you maybe want to explain why you were just going to leave me in there to die?!" she growled.
Brock backed away a step or two. "I wasn't...I just thought..."
Ash shook his head. "Let's just dicuss it after a nice rest...and a couple burgers..." He turned back to Misty. "Now, wasn't there something you wanted to do?"
Misty smiled and nodded. She leaned forward. "Let's just hope the Unown don't show up this time," she said just before planting a kiss on Ash's cheek.
How the universe began
What the future holds
Why do fools fall in love
What happens to our souls?
Clues to life's mysteries
Are what we hope to find
Always reaching for a eason
Searchin' for a sign
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long as my heart beats
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
Is there lie on other planets
Why there's magic in a kiss
What dreams really mean
Who hears us when we wish
Everybody's wondering
Trying to understand
But all the revelations
Are like castles in the sand
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long the earth turns
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
You don't need to tell me
Just why you went away
Now that you've come back
There's nothing more to say
All I really need to know
Is that you're here to stay...
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long as my heart beats
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long the earth turns
I'll always love you...
So I don't need to know the unknown
THE END
A/N: That's it, it's done!!! Done, done, done!!! Oh, and please, only GOOD reviews, okay?
Part 4
Author: Chikorita_18
Category: Gen./AAML
Rating: G
Previously: After being tortured with dreams and visions of each other, Ash and Misty are finally back together. Their memories have returned, but the Unown aren't finished with them yet...
Author's Note: I have been getting beef about this fic for a while, so I'm going to clear it up here. The Unown only erased their memories, not their experiences. So, for example, Ash still won Togepi for Misty back in the ep "Who gets To Keep Togepi", but the memory isn't there. It's like what happened to Ash's mom in the 3rd movie. She was still Ash's mom, but she could not remember that she was until she saw Ash on TV. The same thing goes here.
And some are giving me beef about the Pokémon. I just call them 'it', okay?
And as to Brock and Tracey, they're coming back in this installment. So, let's get on with this.
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Ash was barely aware of Misty clinging to his arm as he watched the Unown spiral into the air. He had never wanted to see them again, and now that they were there, he had a feeling that they weren't after his mom again.
"Ash, what are we supposed to do?" Misty said, sounding remarkably unlike herself.
Ash noticed that the air around them was shimmering in an odd way. "They're going to try to trap us!"
Sure enough, the crystalline material that was coming from the Unown began to swirl up around them.
Misty looked around. "Ash, we gotta do something, or they'll trap us here and who knows what'll happen then!" She set about stuffing Togepi into her backpack.
Ash knew that Misty was right. There was hardly a time when she wasn't right. But he just couldn't think. It was like the Unown still had some grip on his mind. They wanted to trap them, and they weren't taking any chances that they may escape. "I can't...I can't think..."
Misty watched in horror as the crystal reached about six feet above their heads and began to seal up. She held onto Ash's arm tightly, not knowing what to do, but also wanting to make sure that the Unown didn't take him away again. "This is it...what do we do now?"
Ash was about to reply when the top of the crystal structure shattered into a million pieces. They looked up in time to see none other than their old buddy, Brock, standing on his Onix's back. "Well, you two, get outta there!" he called.
Ash and Misty managed to shimmy out just before the crystal sealed up again. "You have absolutely no idea how glad we are to see you, man!" Ash said. "What happened to ya?"
Brock shook his head. "I dunno," he said, a bewildered look on his face. "I was back home, at the Pewter Gym, and then, just out of the blue, I remembered that I was supposed to be travelling with you two. It was, like, surreal or something..."
"You haven't a clue, Brock," Misty said.
The Unown were revising their patterns, determined to trap all three now. Ash, always the one to stand up first, stepped in front of his friends. "What do you want with us?!" he demanded. "Why are you attacking us?"
Brock frowned. "They seemed to lose power when I showed up..." he said. "Maybe they're trying to prevent all of us from reuniting...maybe when the whole group reunites, they'll go away."
"But this is all of us, isn't it?" Misty said.
Ash shook his head. "We're missing one," he said. "We're missing Tracey."
Brock nodded. "We have to find him..."
Misty turned to him, a pleading expression on her face. "But he could be anywhere!" she said. "If his memory was erased, too, then that means that he might have been sent back to the Orange Islands, and that means that there's no telling where he is, and even if he does remember, does he know to come here?"
Brock was obviously stumped by the questions.
Just as all of them were losing hope, a voice that all of them wanted to hear for once came from behind them. "You know, I don't like people talking about me behind my back."
Ash turned and came face-to-face with Tracey. "Oh, man, I'll tell you...we'll do anything you want from now on!"
"So, what's going on?" Tracey said, watching the Unown warily. He'd been helping Professor Oak with the research that Professor Hale had asked him to look over, and he knew what the Unown could do.
"We haven't a clue," Ash and Misty muttered at the same time.
Brock pointed to what seemed to be the ringleaders of the Unown. "Look, they're weakening!" he cried. "I was right! The key was to have the whole group reunite!"
A sphere began to glow in the center of the swirling Unown. The sphere contracted, sending out a huge shockwave that blew all four to the ground.
Ash tried to get up. "You were saying?" he coughed.
Misty crawled to her feet, clutching a bruised arm. "Something has to stop this!" she cried.
Tracey was obviously thinking hard. "Well, how did you defeat them the first time?" he asked.
Ash turned to look at him. "We didn't!" he said. "Molly and Entei beat them!"
"Well, they can read thoughts...maybe..." He was at a loss.
Brock watched their patterns closely. "If we try to escape, they'll trap us. If we don't, they'll trap us. Man, we're just at a total blank right now..."
"It'd be so much easier if Molly and Entei were here..." Ash muttered, only half kidding.
Misty looked around, noticing that whenever they wanted someone to show up, they usually did. But the street was empty, everyone having ran for their lives as soon as the Unown had showed up.
The crystalline material began to swirl up around them once again. "Run!" Tracey cried.
All four broke into a dead sprint until Misty tripped and crashed to the ground. The Unown immediately began to swirl around her.
Ash spun on his heel and ran back for her, but the crystal wall went up too fast. He crashed into it, falling back to the ground. He sprung back up to his feet and pounded almost helplessly on the wall. He could just barely see her through the crystal. She was pounding on it, too, and obviously calling for him to help her.
Brock grabbed his arm. "Ash, there's nothing we can do!"
Ash fought against his grasp until Tracey pulled Brock away. "Do you mean to tell me that you're just going to leave a friend behind?!" he said. "Use your Onix to break her out of there!"
Ash noticed that Misty was beginning to lose consciousness. "Guys, they're trying to suffocate her!" he cried helplessly. "We have to get her out of there, we just have to! I've come too far to let them take her away again! I just can't lose her again!"
Tracey released his Scyther, since Brock seemed like he wasn't going to do a thing. "Scyther, use your Skull Bash to try and get Misty out of there!"
Scyther complied, but the crystal was too strong for it.
Ash was paniking.
Tracey looked around and saw that the Unown seemed to be gaining power. He thought about that for a moment, then it came to him. "Ash, calm down!" he said.
Ash looked at him as if he was nuts. "How can I?! She's gonna die in there!"
Tracey shook his head. "That's the key! We think that we'll never defeat these things, and that's where their power is coming from!" he said. "We need to believe that we can beat them! They know that you and Misty are close, so they trapped her to make you panic and think that they were winning...we need to believe that we can beat the Unown and we will!"
Ash turned back to see if Misty understood. She was fighting to stay awake, but she gave a thumbs-up to show that she had heard.
All four (six if you count Pikachu and Togepi) let out a deep breath and focused on a vision of the Unown scattering, flying away.
The Unown froze.
'It's working,' Ash thought. 'We can do this, we can defeat them...all we need to do is believe in ourselves... and we'll have it...'
The Unown were fighting against the sudden power coming from the friends, but losing. Finally, they gave up. Hundreds of the Unown flew off into the night sky.
The crystal encasing Misty faded away and she collapsed, ironically, into Ash's arms, breathing like she's just run a marathon. "I thought I was dead..." she said. She looked up at Tracey. "Are we ever glad that you showed up now."
Tracey looked like he didn't quite understand what he had said.
Ash hauled Misty back to her feet. "Why didn't we think of that, Misty?" he said. "That was exactly how Entei beat the Unown...it was because Molly believed that it could!"
Misty nodded, but then turned to Brock, fire in her eyes. "Do you maybe want to explain why you were just going to leave me in there to die?!" she growled.
Brock backed away a step or two. "I wasn't...I just thought..."
Ash shook his head. "Let's just dicuss it after a nice rest...and a couple burgers..." He turned back to Misty. "Now, wasn't there something you wanted to do?"
Misty smiled and nodded. She leaned forward. "Let's just hope the Unown don't show up this time," she said just before planting a kiss on Ash's cheek.
How the universe began
What the future holds
Why do fools fall in love
What happens to our souls?
Clues to life's mysteries
Are what we hope to find
Always reaching for a eason
Searchin' for a sign
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long as my heart beats
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
Is there lie on other planets
Why there's magic in a kiss
What dreams really mean
Who hears us when we wish
Everybody's wondering
Trying to understand
But all the revelations
Are like castles in the sand
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long the earth turns
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
You don't need to tell me
Just why you went away
Now that you've come back
There's nothing more to say
All I really need to know
Is that you're here to stay...
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long as my heart beats
I'll always love you
So I don't need to know the unknown
To know the unknown
It doesn't mean that much to me
To know the unknown
Some secrets are just meant to be
Don't want all the answers
'Cause one thing is true
As long the earth turns
I'll always love you...
So I don't need to know the unknown
THE END
A/N: That's it, it's done!!! Done, done, done!!! Oh, and please, only GOOD reviews, okay?