Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, but I do own Aaron, Jade and Nathan.

Kidnapped!!

By Speed Demon



Misty woke up, dizzy and nauseous. She was sitting in a small dark room that seemed to be bare except for the chair she was tied to. She wondered where she was, and why she was there in the first place.

Suddenly, a young man with dark brown hair and piercing green eyes walked out of the deep shadows that shrouded the room. Misty thought he was quite good-looking, although the dark 'Rocket' uniform he wore kinda subtracted from his handsomeness.

"Whaddaya what?" Misty said. "I don't have anything valuable, if that's what you're after."

"It's not you we're after," Nathan said. " It's you're boyfriend's Pokemon."

"What?! Why?"

Another young man with dirty blonde hair and ice blue eyes came in. " We've been watching you two for quite a while," he said. "You're Pokemon are quite strong. That's why we plan on stealing them."

"What makes you two think that Ash is just gonna hand over his Pokemon?"

"That's where you come in," A tall young woman with jet-black hair and gray eyes said as she walked out of the shadows. Nathan and Aaron moved aside for her, making it apparent that she was their leader. "As Aaron said, we have been observing you for quite a while, and I believe we have found his ultimate weakness. It seems to me that the boy has been harboring feelings for you, little girl," She said in a voice dripping with contempt and sarcasm. "We're using you as the bargaining chip in our little negotiation. He gives us his Pokemon, and he gets you back."

"Ash would never give up his Pokemon! He loves them!!"

"He also loves you. The hard part is figuring out which he loves more."

And with that, Jade, Aaron, and Nathan left Misty alone in the darkness to think.

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Will he do it? Misty thought silently. Does he really love me? Could he?

NO! She told herself. And if he tries to trade Pikachu and the others for me, I won't let him. I know he loves them more than anything else on this earth, and he shouldn't have to choose. Besides, he wouldn't do that for me.

Would he?? She said he loved me.

1 She's lying. Trying to mess with my mind. That's what Team Rocket's good at.

But what if she's telling the truth?

2 What if she's not?

Next Chapter: Ash finds out Misty is missing. What will he do?