Author: MarieAmethyst
Title United Realms: Meeting
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me. *Sigh: Zechs…*
Author's Note: My friend Brad helped out. Um, just something I did for an 8th grade English project.
~*~
They all watched the vortex slowly evaporate. Everyone was puzzled, wondering how it had been created. While the mobile suit pilots discussed it among themselves, Zechs made up his mind on something.
Reaching for his comm button, he keyed it so only his men would hear, "This is Lieutenant Zechs," he said, "everyone is to exit their mobile suits." As he finished, many voices fought to be heard. "That is an order, pilots," he said. As more voices could be heard, he switched the frequencies. "Gundam pilots, this is Lieutenant Zechs."
"What do you want?" one of them asked.
"Merely to discuss a few things. Face to face, if possible." He could almost hear the gundam pilots thinking it over. Finally in front of him, he watched Wing Zero's ramp open and a teenage boy in a green tank top and black spandex shorts step out. Unbuckling his restraints, he pushed the button to open the ramp and stepped out. Zechs noticed the other gundam pilots were also standing on their ramps: one in black with a long braid, one with long bangs, one dressed in expensive clothes, and one in Chinese garb. And all of them were holding guns.
During Zechs' speech, five figures, three humans and two animal shaped, crept up to Wing Zero's feet. They stared wide eyed at the suits. Because they were hidden in the shadows cast by the gundam's feet, they went unnoticed.
Heero was mildly surprised when Zechs said he wanted to talk face to face. But he stepped out anyway, and saw the others step out of their gundams too. Then Zechs came out, dressed in his red military uniform, his long blonde hair being whipped around by the slight wind. Zechs' face remained passive under his mask when he saw the pilots' guns pointed at him, and made no move to draw his own.
Instead he said, "I wish to talk with you, under a temporary flag of truce."
Heero thought again for a moment, "Fine. But your pilots have to leave their mobile suits."
"I have already ordered that," he said, waving a hand to the side. Like he said, his men were getting down from their mobile suits by cables and standing next to their suits. The gundam boys put their guns away and jumped down to stand before their gundams.
Zechs also got down, using his cable. He walked over to Heero and said, "As you have probably figured out by looking around you, we are no longer on Earth. Even if we are, we aren't in our own space. It would be pointless to fight each other now. We should put our minds together and try to find a way home, or at least make a plan to do something. Do you agree?"
"No," Heero said.
At that the OZ pilots brought their guns up and pointed them at the boys.
"No," Heero said again, "I do not agree. But I see the wisdom of it and am forced to agree with it anyway," he held his hand out, and Zechs' white gloved hand took it. They shook once and everyone put their weapons away again.
Suddenly a small figure stepped out from the shadows of Wing Zero's feet. Before hands could go for their guns they had just put away, the face lifted up and became a 10-year old boy.
"Uh, hi guys, can you help us? We're a little lost." Ash asked, Brock, Misty, Pikachu, and Togepi coming out to stand behind him.
"And who are you?" Duo asked.
"I'm Ash Ketchem. These are my friends: Brock, Misty, Togepi, and my Pokemon Pikachu," Ash replied as Pikachu jumped up to sit on his shoulder.
"Pi pika pi!" (Hi!)
"What did he say?" Duo asked curiously.
Ash scratched behind Pikachu's ears and got a happy smile in return, "She said hi."
Duo walked over to Ash, "Well hi Pikachu. My name's Duo Maxwell." He glanced at Ash, "Can I pet her?"
"Pi." (Yes)
Ash nodded, "Scratch here, she loves it."
Duo did as he was told. Pikachu jumped over to Duo and sat on his shoulders. "I think she likes me." Then he looked like he had just remembered something, "Duh!" he said, smacking his forehead, "how stupid of me. These are my friends: Heero, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei." He pointed to each of them as he named them. He leaned closer and said in a stage whisper to Ash, Misty, and Brock, "They're all quiet, and a little crazy except for Quatre, but they're great to have in a fight."
Ash and his friends said together, "Hi guys!"
Quatre smiled, but the other three just nodded slightly.
"See what I mean? I love to talk, but when I try to talk to them, they just threaten me."
"Then you and Ash will become good friends; he loves to talk too," Misty told him.
Duo smiled, then noticed Togepi by Misty's feet, "Cool, you have one too! What's this one called?"
"Togepi."
"Pi pikachu pika." (He's nice, and he doesn't move around so much.) Pikachu told Togepi.
"Togi togi!" Togepi ran over to where Duo was standing and lifted its arms.
Lieutenant Zechs walked over and introduced himself to Ash, Misty, and Brock as Duo bent down to pick the other Pokemon up. "Pleased to meet you. I'm Lieutenant Zechs." Zechs shook hands with Ash and Brock, with Misty behind them, little hearts in her eyes. When Zehcs offered his hand to her, her hand trembled as she accepted it. He made a move to withdraw his hand, but hers still clung to his tightly. He gave her a strange look from beneath his mask, and with a blush she let go.
Ash said to Brock in a stage whisper, "Looks like Misty's got a boyfriend."
Misty overheard what Ash had said. Her head seemed to grow bigger as she turned to face Ash and Brock. She started to shout at them. All of the pilots backed away respectively as Misty tore offer her backpack and began hitting her friends with it.
Finally Ash shouted to Pikachu, "Pikachu! Shock her! She's about to kill us!"
Pikachu obeyed, and jumped off Duo's shoulder, "Pikachu!" A thin thunderbolt shocked Misty. And it also shocked Ash, Brock, and the other pilots near Pikachu. All of the pilots except Zechs and the Gundam pilots were knocked down, and all of their hair stood on end.
Pikachu looked at the downed and barely standing pilots and said, "Pikachu?" A small question mark appeared above her head.
Ash also lay on the ground, "Pikachu? I think you over did it a little," he croaked.
Suddenly a woman ran up, dressed in a uniform similar to Zechs', and threw her arms about Zechs' shoulders.
Brock jumped up and entered the zone Misty had been in a few minutes before, "She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he said, drooling slightly with hearts in his eyes.
"Oh Zechs, are you all right?" the woman asked, bringing a hand up to his face.
"I'm fine, Noin. Just a little shocked," he reassured her, his hand covering hers where it rested on his chest as they stared into each other's eyes.
Everyone's hair returned to normal, and a few of the vainer pilots, including Duo, tried to comb their hair back into order.
Brock and Misty glared jealously at the two holding hands, both thinking: hands off!
Noin introduced herself to the Pokemon trainers, "Hello. I'm Lieutenant Noin. Nice to meet you."
Ash was about to reply when five young men in armor ran up, weapons held ready before them. The pilots whipped their guns out and pointed them at the warriors. Before they could fire, the warriors put their weapons away.
"Put your weapons away, we mean you no harm," the warrior in red with the two swords said.
"We hope," the warrior in orange with the staff added.
"Who are you?" Duo asked them all.
"I am Ryo of the Wildfire," the red warrior said.
"I am Rowen of the Strata," the dark blue warrior with the bow said.
"I am Sage of the Halo," the green warrior with the sword said.
"I'm Cye of the Torrent," the light blue warrior said.
"And I'm Kento of the Hardrock," the one in orange said.
Zechs, Noin, and the five Gundam pilots introduced themselves, as did the three Pokemon trainers.
The Ronin Warriors asked their new allies what had happened.
Duo was the one to answer, "Don't ask us, ask them," he said, pointing to Zechs and Noin.
Zechs replied in a sarcastic, yet firm, voice, "Don't point your finger at me, I had nothing to do with what had happened. None of us know what has happened yet."
Suddenly they all heard Lady Une's voice over a mobile suit's intercom, "All mobile suits return to base," she stated.
Zechs quickly ran over to his Tallgeese and jumped up into the cockpit, "Lady Une," he said into his comm.
"What is it, Lieutenant Zechs?" she asked briskly.
"Do you know what happened? Why are we here?"
"I cannot tell you-" she started to say, but then he could hear another voice speaking to her in the background. Finally she said, "We had a group of top OZ scientists construct a weapon that would be able to make it so we could destroy the gundams, by targeting the Gundanium and slowing the gundams down."
"So that is why my Tallgeese was acting so strange," Zechs commented.
"Yes. It seemed to work, and we almost destroyed them. But it seems the scientists made a mistake, and we are now here."
"Maxwell was right then, we are to blame," Zechs said, his anger rising, "it was a low trick for us to try and slow them down. If we destroy them, it should be in an honorable fight."
Lady Une said, "This is war. We're suppose to use every trick in the book."
Zechs shook his head, "Treize is an honorable man. He would give his enemies an honorable death."
"I will not argue this with you, Lieutenant," she informed him, stressing his rank, "you and your men are to return to base."
"Please put Treize on the line."
He could tell she was about to refuse, but Treize took the comm from her, "Yes, Lieutenant Zechs?"
"Sir, did you really order that weapon to be built to destroy the gundams?" Zechs asked, praying it wasn't so.
"Yes Zechs, I was the one who ordered it built."
"But why?"
"The Romerfeller Foundation wanted the gundams gone. They ordered OZ to do that, anyway we could."
"But there is no honor in it," Zechs protested.
"Zechs, not everything is going to be about honor. Now, you have been ordered to return to base," Treize said, his voice making it clear the conversation was over.
"I am not returning," Zechs said quietly.
"What?" Treize asked him.
"I cannot fight in a war where there is no honor. I will not fight with anyone that uses low tricks to win."
"You know that makes us enemies," Treize said, just as quietly as Zechs.
"Yes. I am sorry, Treize. I can no longer be your friend."
"Not as sorry as I am, Zechs. Farewell."
"Farewell," Zechs echoed.
~*~
After Zechs had jumped up and vanished into his Tallgeese, the others stared puzzled at each other. Most of the mobile suit pilots had jumped into their mobile suits, so only those who were loyal to Zechs remained.
"Now what do we do?" Duo asked to no one in particular.
"Now we wait," Trowa answered.
"Are you really going to obey those orders?" Quatre asked Noin.
"What Zechs decides is our answer," Noin told him.
For awhile they said nothing, each thinking their own thoughts. Finally Zechs jumped down from Tallgeese and walked over to them and stood next to Noin. He surprised them all by ripping his mask off. He slowly pulled his gun out and proceeded to methodically destroy it until it shattered.
He announced quietly to Noin and the pilots that had remained behind to wait for him, "If you want to return to OZ, I won't stop you."
"But what about you, Zehcs?" Noin asked him.
"Zechs Marquise is dead," he stated flatly.
"All right then, Milliardo Peacecraft, what are you going to do now?"
"I will not go back to OZ. They fight with no honor now. I cannot fight in a war where there is no honor. OZ is not what it was, now that the Romerfeller Foundation has taken control. Those higher than Treize are forcing him to do things he does not want to do. Like what they have done to space. They have crossed the lines by tampering with nature. Because of that tampering we are now here, and we do not know how to get back. And we don't know if the other worlds will be the way they were before this happened."
Meanwhile, while Zechs/Milliardo was making his speech, the Ronin Warriors were having their own discussion.
"If we're here, how are we suppose to know if the Dynasty isn't here also?" Ryo argued.
"If the Dynasty was here, wouldn't they have already attacked?" Sage asked.
"Maybe they're too scared," Kento joked, "they know we're stronger than them.
"Or maybe," Rowen's quiet voice caught their attention, "they are waiting for the perfect time to attack."
Cye spoke up, "Yeah, what if Talpa is just regrouping and bidding his time till he is stronger?"
They all grew quiet, each lost in their own thoughts. But all five were thinking the same thing: What if the Dynasty was here?
~*~
The three Pokemon owners stood apart, watching the others curiously. The five boys in the strange colored armor were talking amongst themselves. The others, pilots of what they called gundams and mobile suits, were listening intently to the man with long blond hair. Ash noticed Misty staring at the man.
"Misty?" he asked her. When she didn't respond, he tapped her on the shoulder. After that didn't get a response, he said loudly, "Misty!" But she continued to stare wide-eyed at the blond-haired man. "Come on, Misty, you're starting to act like Brock." Brock, who was busy similarly staring at the purple-haired woman, didn't even glance at him. Finally, he gave up. "Pikachu: thundershock."
"Pika?" (Which one?)
"Both," he replied.
Pikachu looked at Misty and Brock's faces, noticing the adoring looks and slight drool forming on the corners of their mouths. "Pi pikachu pika pika." (I see what you mean, Ash. I can understand Brock doing that, but Misty? At least you haven't lost your mind over a girl yet.) Except Misty, Pikachu thought to herself. Pikachu ran to a spot before them, then sent a small thunderbolt at them. Brock and Misty fell over, both remaining on the ground until they recovered from the shock. Misty got up and began to walk toward Ash, an evil look stealing across her face.
Ash looked at her fearfully, holding his hands up in front of them, "Now Misty, I can explain!"
"You better," she said as she continued to stalk forward.
"Well, uh, I tried to get your attention, but you were too busy drooling over that Zechs guy. So I had Pikachu shock you," Ash offered lamely as Misty came to a stop before him. He tensed, waiting for the expected attack, then looked at her when it didn't come.
Misty's attention was once again focused on Zechs. "Isn't he the dreamiest?" she asked in a dreamy voice. Ash promply fell over.
"Pika pi?" (Why me?)
Title United Realms: Meeting
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me. *Sigh: Zechs…*
Author's Note: My friend Brad helped out. Um, just something I did for an 8th grade English project.
~*~
They all watched the vortex slowly evaporate. Everyone was puzzled, wondering how it had been created. While the mobile suit pilots discussed it among themselves, Zechs made up his mind on something.
Reaching for his comm button, he keyed it so only his men would hear, "This is Lieutenant Zechs," he said, "everyone is to exit their mobile suits." As he finished, many voices fought to be heard. "That is an order, pilots," he said. As more voices could be heard, he switched the frequencies. "Gundam pilots, this is Lieutenant Zechs."
"What do you want?" one of them asked.
"Merely to discuss a few things. Face to face, if possible." He could almost hear the gundam pilots thinking it over. Finally in front of him, he watched Wing Zero's ramp open and a teenage boy in a green tank top and black spandex shorts step out. Unbuckling his restraints, he pushed the button to open the ramp and stepped out. Zechs noticed the other gundam pilots were also standing on their ramps: one in black with a long braid, one with long bangs, one dressed in expensive clothes, and one in Chinese garb. And all of them were holding guns.
During Zechs' speech, five figures, three humans and two animal shaped, crept up to Wing Zero's feet. They stared wide eyed at the suits. Because they were hidden in the shadows cast by the gundam's feet, they went unnoticed.
Heero was mildly surprised when Zechs said he wanted to talk face to face. But he stepped out anyway, and saw the others step out of their gundams too. Then Zechs came out, dressed in his red military uniform, his long blonde hair being whipped around by the slight wind. Zechs' face remained passive under his mask when he saw the pilots' guns pointed at him, and made no move to draw his own.
Instead he said, "I wish to talk with you, under a temporary flag of truce."
Heero thought again for a moment, "Fine. But your pilots have to leave their mobile suits."
"I have already ordered that," he said, waving a hand to the side. Like he said, his men were getting down from their mobile suits by cables and standing next to their suits. The gundam boys put their guns away and jumped down to stand before their gundams.
Zechs also got down, using his cable. He walked over to Heero and said, "As you have probably figured out by looking around you, we are no longer on Earth. Even if we are, we aren't in our own space. It would be pointless to fight each other now. We should put our minds together and try to find a way home, or at least make a plan to do something. Do you agree?"
"No," Heero said.
At that the OZ pilots brought their guns up and pointed them at the boys.
"No," Heero said again, "I do not agree. But I see the wisdom of it and am forced to agree with it anyway," he held his hand out, and Zechs' white gloved hand took it. They shook once and everyone put their weapons away again.
Suddenly a small figure stepped out from the shadows of Wing Zero's feet. Before hands could go for their guns they had just put away, the face lifted up and became a 10-year old boy.
"Uh, hi guys, can you help us? We're a little lost." Ash asked, Brock, Misty, Pikachu, and Togepi coming out to stand behind him.
"And who are you?" Duo asked.
"I'm Ash Ketchem. These are my friends: Brock, Misty, Togepi, and my Pokemon Pikachu," Ash replied as Pikachu jumped up to sit on his shoulder.
"Pi pika pi!" (Hi!)
"What did he say?" Duo asked curiously.
Ash scratched behind Pikachu's ears and got a happy smile in return, "She said hi."
Duo walked over to Ash, "Well hi Pikachu. My name's Duo Maxwell." He glanced at Ash, "Can I pet her?"
"Pi." (Yes)
Ash nodded, "Scratch here, she loves it."
Duo did as he was told. Pikachu jumped over to Duo and sat on his shoulders. "I think she likes me." Then he looked like he had just remembered something, "Duh!" he said, smacking his forehead, "how stupid of me. These are my friends: Heero, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei." He pointed to each of them as he named them. He leaned closer and said in a stage whisper to Ash, Misty, and Brock, "They're all quiet, and a little crazy except for Quatre, but they're great to have in a fight."
Ash and his friends said together, "Hi guys!"
Quatre smiled, but the other three just nodded slightly.
"See what I mean? I love to talk, but when I try to talk to them, they just threaten me."
"Then you and Ash will become good friends; he loves to talk too," Misty told him.
Duo smiled, then noticed Togepi by Misty's feet, "Cool, you have one too! What's this one called?"
"Togepi."
"Pi pikachu pika." (He's nice, and he doesn't move around so much.) Pikachu told Togepi.
"Togi togi!" Togepi ran over to where Duo was standing and lifted its arms.
Lieutenant Zechs walked over and introduced himself to Ash, Misty, and Brock as Duo bent down to pick the other Pokemon up. "Pleased to meet you. I'm Lieutenant Zechs." Zechs shook hands with Ash and Brock, with Misty behind them, little hearts in her eyes. When Zehcs offered his hand to her, her hand trembled as she accepted it. He made a move to withdraw his hand, but hers still clung to his tightly. He gave her a strange look from beneath his mask, and with a blush she let go.
Ash said to Brock in a stage whisper, "Looks like Misty's got a boyfriend."
Misty overheard what Ash had said. Her head seemed to grow bigger as she turned to face Ash and Brock. She started to shout at them. All of the pilots backed away respectively as Misty tore offer her backpack and began hitting her friends with it.
Finally Ash shouted to Pikachu, "Pikachu! Shock her! She's about to kill us!"
Pikachu obeyed, and jumped off Duo's shoulder, "Pikachu!" A thin thunderbolt shocked Misty. And it also shocked Ash, Brock, and the other pilots near Pikachu. All of the pilots except Zechs and the Gundam pilots were knocked down, and all of their hair stood on end.
Pikachu looked at the downed and barely standing pilots and said, "Pikachu?" A small question mark appeared above her head.
Ash also lay on the ground, "Pikachu? I think you over did it a little," he croaked.
Suddenly a woman ran up, dressed in a uniform similar to Zechs', and threw her arms about Zechs' shoulders.
Brock jumped up and entered the zone Misty had been in a few minutes before, "She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he said, drooling slightly with hearts in his eyes.
"Oh Zechs, are you all right?" the woman asked, bringing a hand up to his face.
"I'm fine, Noin. Just a little shocked," he reassured her, his hand covering hers where it rested on his chest as they stared into each other's eyes.
Everyone's hair returned to normal, and a few of the vainer pilots, including Duo, tried to comb their hair back into order.
Brock and Misty glared jealously at the two holding hands, both thinking: hands off!
Noin introduced herself to the Pokemon trainers, "Hello. I'm Lieutenant Noin. Nice to meet you."
Ash was about to reply when five young men in armor ran up, weapons held ready before them. The pilots whipped their guns out and pointed them at the warriors. Before they could fire, the warriors put their weapons away.
"Put your weapons away, we mean you no harm," the warrior in red with the two swords said.
"We hope," the warrior in orange with the staff added.
"Who are you?" Duo asked them all.
"I am Ryo of the Wildfire," the red warrior said.
"I am Rowen of the Strata," the dark blue warrior with the bow said.
"I am Sage of the Halo," the green warrior with the sword said.
"I'm Cye of the Torrent," the light blue warrior said.
"And I'm Kento of the Hardrock," the one in orange said.
Zechs, Noin, and the five Gundam pilots introduced themselves, as did the three Pokemon trainers.
The Ronin Warriors asked their new allies what had happened.
Duo was the one to answer, "Don't ask us, ask them," he said, pointing to Zechs and Noin.
Zechs replied in a sarcastic, yet firm, voice, "Don't point your finger at me, I had nothing to do with what had happened. None of us know what has happened yet."
Suddenly they all heard Lady Une's voice over a mobile suit's intercom, "All mobile suits return to base," she stated.
Zechs quickly ran over to his Tallgeese and jumped up into the cockpit, "Lady Une," he said into his comm.
"What is it, Lieutenant Zechs?" she asked briskly.
"Do you know what happened? Why are we here?"
"I cannot tell you-" she started to say, but then he could hear another voice speaking to her in the background. Finally she said, "We had a group of top OZ scientists construct a weapon that would be able to make it so we could destroy the gundams, by targeting the Gundanium and slowing the gundams down."
"So that is why my Tallgeese was acting so strange," Zechs commented.
"Yes. It seemed to work, and we almost destroyed them. But it seems the scientists made a mistake, and we are now here."
"Maxwell was right then, we are to blame," Zechs said, his anger rising, "it was a low trick for us to try and slow them down. If we destroy them, it should be in an honorable fight."
Lady Une said, "This is war. We're suppose to use every trick in the book."
Zechs shook his head, "Treize is an honorable man. He would give his enemies an honorable death."
"I will not argue this with you, Lieutenant," she informed him, stressing his rank, "you and your men are to return to base."
"Please put Treize on the line."
He could tell she was about to refuse, but Treize took the comm from her, "Yes, Lieutenant Zechs?"
"Sir, did you really order that weapon to be built to destroy the gundams?" Zechs asked, praying it wasn't so.
"Yes Zechs, I was the one who ordered it built."
"But why?"
"The Romerfeller Foundation wanted the gundams gone. They ordered OZ to do that, anyway we could."
"But there is no honor in it," Zechs protested.
"Zechs, not everything is going to be about honor. Now, you have been ordered to return to base," Treize said, his voice making it clear the conversation was over.
"I am not returning," Zechs said quietly.
"What?" Treize asked him.
"I cannot fight in a war where there is no honor. I will not fight with anyone that uses low tricks to win."
"You know that makes us enemies," Treize said, just as quietly as Zechs.
"Yes. I am sorry, Treize. I can no longer be your friend."
"Not as sorry as I am, Zechs. Farewell."
"Farewell," Zechs echoed.
~*~
After Zechs had jumped up and vanished into his Tallgeese, the others stared puzzled at each other. Most of the mobile suit pilots had jumped into their mobile suits, so only those who were loyal to Zechs remained.
"Now what do we do?" Duo asked to no one in particular.
"Now we wait," Trowa answered.
"Are you really going to obey those orders?" Quatre asked Noin.
"What Zechs decides is our answer," Noin told him.
For awhile they said nothing, each thinking their own thoughts. Finally Zechs jumped down from Tallgeese and walked over to them and stood next to Noin. He surprised them all by ripping his mask off. He slowly pulled his gun out and proceeded to methodically destroy it until it shattered.
He announced quietly to Noin and the pilots that had remained behind to wait for him, "If you want to return to OZ, I won't stop you."
"But what about you, Zehcs?" Noin asked him.
"Zechs Marquise is dead," he stated flatly.
"All right then, Milliardo Peacecraft, what are you going to do now?"
"I will not go back to OZ. They fight with no honor now. I cannot fight in a war where there is no honor. OZ is not what it was, now that the Romerfeller Foundation has taken control. Those higher than Treize are forcing him to do things he does not want to do. Like what they have done to space. They have crossed the lines by tampering with nature. Because of that tampering we are now here, and we do not know how to get back. And we don't know if the other worlds will be the way they were before this happened."
Meanwhile, while Zechs/Milliardo was making his speech, the Ronin Warriors were having their own discussion.
"If we're here, how are we suppose to know if the Dynasty isn't here also?" Ryo argued.
"If the Dynasty was here, wouldn't they have already attacked?" Sage asked.
"Maybe they're too scared," Kento joked, "they know we're stronger than them.
"Or maybe," Rowen's quiet voice caught their attention, "they are waiting for the perfect time to attack."
Cye spoke up, "Yeah, what if Talpa is just regrouping and bidding his time till he is stronger?"
They all grew quiet, each lost in their own thoughts. But all five were thinking the same thing: What if the Dynasty was here?
~*~
The three Pokemon owners stood apart, watching the others curiously. The five boys in the strange colored armor were talking amongst themselves. The others, pilots of what they called gundams and mobile suits, were listening intently to the man with long blond hair. Ash noticed Misty staring at the man.
"Misty?" he asked her. When she didn't respond, he tapped her on the shoulder. After that didn't get a response, he said loudly, "Misty!" But she continued to stare wide-eyed at the blond-haired man. "Come on, Misty, you're starting to act like Brock." Brock, who was busy similarly staring at the purple-haired woman, didn't even glance at him. Finally, he gave up. "Pikachu: thundershock."
"Pika?" (Which one?)
"Both," he replied.
Pikachu looked at Misty and Brock's faces, noticing the adoring looks and slight drool forming on the corners of their mouths. "Pi pikachu pika pika." (I see what you mean, Ash. I can understand Brock doing that, but Misty? At least you haven't lost your mind over a girl yet.) Except Misty, Pikachu thought to herself. Pikachu ran to a spot before them, then sent a small thunderbolt at them. Brock and Misty fell over, both remaining on the ground until they recovered from the shock. Misty got up and began to walk toward Ash, an evil look stealing across her face.
Ash looked at her fearfully, holding his hands up in front of them, "Now Misty, I can explain!"
"You better," she said as she continued to stalk forward.
"Well, uh, I tried to get your attention, but you were too busy drooling over that Zechs guy. So I had Pikachu shock you," Ash offered lamely as Misty came to a stop before him. He tensed, waiting for the expected attack, then looked at her when it didn't come.
Misty's attention was once again focused on Zechs. "Isn't he the dreamiest?" she asked in a dreamy voice. Ash promply fell over.
"Pika pi?" (Why me?)