"Wake up our your gonna be late again." said the oh too familiar voice.
I slowly got up and turned to face the person that was talking to me. "What do you mean I'm going to be late? Late for what walking around the woods as we usually do!"
Ok that might seem a little harsh, but you don't know this girl. We all know how bad Misty is, or at least I have heard many stories about her. But this girl is worse. She makes Misty seem like a pacifists.
"What do you mean walking around the woods!" She yelled out, almost knocking me over. "Have you forgotten already! You said that we where close to Pallet town and that you would finally get to see Ash!"
"Um. . ." I was a little embarrassed at the fact that I had forgotten about going to see Ash.
"I-I guess that I must of forgotten." I was waiting for a hit over the head, or kick in the face, but it never came. "Are you ok today?" I asked her, lowering my defenses. "Usually you would-"
"I WOULD WHAT!" She yelled, knocking me into the stream with a mallet. "Knock you around, or throw you into the river, or seek my Pokemon on you!"
All I could do was drag myself out of the water before I froze.
"Oh, I'm sorry Samuel, I guess I must have hit you with my mallet." She said caringly.
My god she's insane. I didn't want to speak incase she wanted to do something else to me.
A few hours later we were walking towards the Ketchum residence in Pallet.
"I hope he will see me. Last time I came to talk to him he just ignored me like I wasn't even there." I said aloud, as if to no one.
"Don't worry about it. Besides you can also go see Prof. Oak this time." Replied Brandi, the name of my traveling companion.
"Yeah, I guess so." I said sourly. Prof. Oak was a nut job in my eyes. "Well, here we are."
I knocked on the door a few times, but no one responded. But the 10th of 11th time I knocked on the door it finally opened.
"Yes what do you want?" Asked the voice on the other end of the door.
"I'm here to see Ash Ketchum." I said proudly. "I was wanting to ask him a few questions."
"Sorry but we don't want any reporters asking questions." Replied the voice as it started to close the door.
"But I'm not a reporter. I was wanting to ask him some questions about Pokémon." I said, hoping this would get me in.
"Wait here, I'll go see if I can get him." Replied the voice closing the door.
"I don't think your getting in." Said Brandi, with a small hint of laughter in her voice.
"Why don't you-" I started to say before the door opened again.
"You may see him. But don't keep him too long." Replied the voice opening the door.
I had been setting across from Ash for almost two minutes now. The only word that I had been able to get out was 'Hi I'm…" before I just started staring.
"Yes, you are?" Ash ask. "Go own, take deep breathes if you need to."
"I'm, I'm, uh. I forgot my name." I replied, still amazed at the site of Ash.
Unfortunately Brandi wasn't so nice. "Your name is Samuel you idiot!" She yelled as she hit me in the back of the head.
Ash started laughing at the site of me on the ground. "Yes she reminds me of Misty when she was, um. . ." For some reason he lowered his voice to barely a whisper to continue. "Crazy."
I didn't really know what happened next. Either Ash fell out of his seat, or was pushed out. Either way we where both on the floor face first.
After a few bandages to both me and Ash I was finally talking to him, oh he really did slip out of his chair. I didn't really know how to feel about that. My idol, and he can't even set in a chair.
"It seems that you had many adventures Mr. Ketchum." I said after hearing one of his stories.
"Please," he said. "call me Ash. I'm not that old yet."
"Sorry." I replied, feeling a little embarrassed. "May I ask you something Mr. Ketchum, err Ash. Where is Pikachu?"
"Oh, I think Pikachu is over at the Profs lab." Ash stated. "I was going to go get him before you arrived, in all honesty."
"I told you we should of went there first." Said Brandi, I ignored her.
"We where going to go down there too. Mind if we join you?" I said, almost begging.
"I guess you can come along. I don't really like going down there by my self anyway."
Ash replied. "Most of the time the Prof wants me to help him do something."
I looked around at a lose for words. I wish it would have been the for Brandi.
"This place doesn't look all that great, I've seen a few. This one looks like it could use some work." Said Brandi, with a hint in her voice that she used to make me mad.
"Oh hello Ash, what brings you down here." The voice started before I could reply to Brandi's comment.
"I was coming down to get Pikachu." Replied Ash. "Oh and because I have two people who wanted to see you."
"Oh hello, my name is Prof Oak." Replied the Prof sticking his hand out to shake mine.
"I'm Brandi and this is Sam." Said Brandi as she moved in front of me and took the Prof hand.
"Hey!" I shouted. "He was going to shake my hand not yours!"
"Well you just stood there like and idiot!" Brandi yelled back.
The Prof started laughing when he say me and Brandi fighting. "You two seem a lot like
Ash and Misty when they where that age. Always fighting."
"What Prof we weren't always fighting." Defended Ash, more for himself than for us.
"Why do you think we got married?
"You think I'm like Ash." I said, my eyes filling with joyful tears at being called that.
"Yes you seem a lot like him when he was that age." Started the Prof. "Never thinking before he said anything. Fighting with Misty all the time. Jumping into everything head first."
"WHAT!" Me and Ash yelled together.
"I'm nothing like that Prof and I never was." Retorted Ash.
"I'm not like that either. I always think before I act." I defended.
"Yes well," started the Prof, "what was it you where coming here for?"
"I was coming for Pikachu." Replied Ash.
"Oh right." The Prof started walking towards on of the rooms. "I just wanted to run a few test on him."
The Prof lead us into a large room, almost the size of the Ketchum's den.
"Pikachu is over there, I was letting him rest for a while." Oak said pointing at a sleeping Pikachu.
"Great," responded Ash, "thanks Prof. Oh, what was the test that you where running on him?"
"I was just checking his electrical charge, and some other stuff." Oak stated.
Without warning two hands came down and grabbed Pikachu from where he was sleeping.
"Prepare for trouble,"
"And make it double,"
"To protect the world from devastation,"
"To unite all peoples within our nation,"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light,"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight."
"Meowth, that's right!"
I was shocked, two strange looking people and a Meowth and came through the window holding a small glass object with Pikachu in it.
"Don't you three ever give up?" Sighed Ash.
"Hey Jesse we finally caught Pikachu." Said the boy.
"Yes James, now we will finally be on the bosses bad side." Replied the girl, who I took to be Jesse.
"Yes our dreams will finally come true." Said the boy again, I took him to be James.
"HEY!" I shouted. "You can't take Ashes Pikachu! He doesn't belong to you!"
"Who is that kid?" Asked James.
"Probably one of the twerps friends." Said the Meowth.
"Will you stop calling me a twerp." Yelled Ash. "And aren't you three a little too old to be going after Pikachu."
"Where just 24 twerp." Replied Jesse. "And it looks like we finally got Pikachu."
"Go Rattata!" I yelled, sending a Pokéball towards the three. "You can't just steal other peoples Pokémon."
"Go Bellsprout!" Yelled Brandi sending out her own Pokémon.
"Ha, go Arbok!" Yelled out Jesse.
"Go Victorybell!" Yelled James. But unfortunately the Victorybell turned and attacked him instead. "No don't attack me, attack them, ah just return."
"Rattata tackle attack!" I yelled out. But as I had feared it was useless against the bigger Arbok. Rattata was knocked out.
"No. Rattata return." I said returning Rattata to its poke ball.
"Ha your Pokemon can't hurt ours." Yelled Jesse.
"Get back you two, I'll handle this." Said Ash stepping forward. "Go Charizard!"
"Oh no, not Charizard." Said James.
"Don't worry Jimmy, as long as wes gots that Pikachu well be fine." Said the Meowth.
"Oh but I set it down over there when the fighting started," started James. "so it wouldn't get hurt."
"YOU DID WHAT!" Yelled out Jesse, I sorta felt sorry for him, she was just like Brandi.
"Charizard, use flamethrower." Ash said in a somewhat happy voice at James carelessness.
"Well maybe next time." Replied Jesse as they where launched out of the window by the flamethrower attack.
"Looks like Team Rockets blasting off again!" The three of them yelled before they left site.
"Who where those three?" I asked as I watched Ash go over and release Pikachu from the jar.
"That's just Jesse James and Meowth." Replied Ash. "There always trying to still Pikachu."
"They seem dangerous." Brandi started. "And they attack all the time?"
"There not really dangerous," Started Ash, "and they don't attack all the time. Just when there down on there luck, or so it seems."
"Pikapi. Pi Pikachu." Stated Pikachu, after which Ash started laughing.
"What did he say?" I asked, a little confused.
"Pikachu just said that maybe if they attacked more life wouldn't be as boring." Ash said, still laughing a little.
"Life is borin-" I had started before Brandi cut me off.
"Hey, where's the Prof?" She asked, looking around the room for him.
"I'm right here." Said Oak, putting his hand on my shoulder. "I saw your Pokemon get hurt so I got a potion for it."
"Thanks." I said, picking myself up off the floor. "But don't sneak up on me next time."
I looked over at Ash and Pikachu and say them looking out the window, lost in a thought. "I guess life around here must be boring." I whispered to Brandi. "Just look at those two."
"Yeah, I sorta feel sorry for em." She said, also looking at the two.
When the two realized that we where talking about them they came back to reality.
"Oh sorry," replied Ash, a hint of sadness in his voice, "just remembering some of the days when I was out adventuring."
After a few minutes of cleaning up the mess that was made by Team Rocket I finally decided to tell the Prof why I had come to see him.
"Well you see Prof Oak sir." I started, nervously. "I came to you to get a Pokédex. Since I couldn't get one back home. If that is ok with you that is sir."
Oak sorta laughed and said. "You don't have to call me sir. And of course you can have a pokedex. Why would you think that I wouldn't?"
"Well I just though-" I was cut off by someone running into the room before I could finish.
"Hey Gramps, what's going on, I heard a noise and I got here as fast I could." Said the new comer, short on breath.
"Oh it was nothing Gary." Stated the Prof. "Team Rocket just try to take Ashes Pikachu that's all."
"Wow!" I said, almost losing my balance. "Two masters here, now. Wow!"
"Who's that?" Questioned Gary. "I don't think I have seen him around before."
"Oh this is um. . ." The Prof thought back for a min trying to remember my name. "Oh yes I think his name was Samuel. He had come to see me about getting a Pokédex."
"Oh." Gary turned and looked at Ash. "I see that they didn't get Pikachu again."
"Nope, James had set him down before they started fighting." Ash said, starting to laugh.
Gary was laughing too. "I guess they will never get anything right."
I was totally surprised by this. From what I had heard and seen Ash and Gary where rivals. But yet here they where, talking and laughing like they had been best friends there hole life.
The Prof had retuned empty handed. "Sorry but I can't seem to find any of my Pokédexes."
"Oh." I said, visibly upset at the fact. "Well I guess you did your best in trying to find one."
"Don't worry." Said Oak. "Just come back tomorrow and I will have you one. I know that there are some laying around somewhere."
"Ok, I guess we'll find somewhere to sleep until tomorrow." I said, walking towards the door.
"Why don't you two stay with me?" Asked Ash. "I mean we have more than enough room at my house."
I almost started drooling at the thought of staying with a Pokémon master, even if was just for a night. "I-I-I."
"We accept." Replied Brandi, before I could even say the words.
"Great. Besides it would be nice to have someone over with Misty gone." Ash said as he started outside. "Well come on, it's getting dark."
We had gotten to Ashes house a few minutes later. On the way Ash talked about some of the other times when Team Rocket had tried to take Pikachu.
"Yeah those where some good times weren't they Pikachu." Ash said, finishing his last story.
"Cha." Was Pikachus response.
"Those where amazing." I said stepping into the house. "I wonder what will happen to us on the road like that."
"Yeah," Brandi replied, obviously bored, "but it shouldn't be to hard."
"Well anyway, you two can have my old room." Ash said as he pointed to a room.
"Thanks, but um. Where are you going to sleep? I heard that you still lived with your mom." I replied, not even thinking about what I said.
"Oh she's with Misty." Ash replied, visibly embarrassed.
After a small meal me and Brandi went into Ashes old room and got ready for sleep.
"Hey Sam." Started Brandi. "Where are we going after we get the Pokédex?"
"I don't know, whatever the next city is I guess." I replied. "Unless you have something else in mind."
"No," she said yawning, "I was just wondering. Well good night."
"Good night." I said before drifting off to sleep.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of someone mumbling on the other side of the door.
"Do you think the twerps in there?"
"How should I know Meowth."
"Be quite I think I heard something."
I opened the door and was shocked to see the three Team Rocket members that had tried to take Ashes Pikachu the day before.
"It's the wrong twerp." Replied James.
"Yes but maybe we can use him to our advantage." Jesse said, as she stepped closer to me.
"Hey, what are you doing? Hey, HEL-." I was cut off as Jessie but her hand over my mouth..
I was out for a few minutes before I came to. Standing above me where Jesse, James, and Meowth.
"Hey why don't you let me go you big bullies!" I yelled, hoping they would.
"Meowth, be quite twerp." Meowth said before scratching my face.
"What are you going to do with me!" I yelled, trying to cover the pain from the scratch.
"Simple," started Jesse, "we are gonna get the twerp to trade Pikachu for you."
"Ha, I doubt Ash would do something like that." I replied. "So you might as well let m-"
I was cut off by another scratch on the face. "Meowth, but he would if your life was in danger." Replied the Meowth.
It was about that time that I noticed something in his hand. "A BOMB!" I yelped.
"Yes now go back to sleep will you." Replied Jesse, Knocking me unconscious.
I was out for another minute or two before I was awakened by several people yelling.
"Lets us finish our motto first twerp!" Yelled an Angry Jesse.
"Yeah its only nice." Replied a sorta scarred James.
"Let him go our you'll regret it." I knew that voice, it was Brandi.
"Yeah, he hasn't done anything to you three." That one had to be Ash.
"How about this you twerps. You hand over the Pikachu and we might think about letting this one go." It was Jesse again, I tried to move until I realized I had the bomb on my chest.
"Yikes!" I yelled surprised at the fact. "The bombs on my chest!"
"Yeah, and if use don't gives us the Pikachu then wes blows the kid sky high." Replied Meowth, half to me half to Ash and Brandi.
I was horrified, needless to say. I was too young to get blown up. And what about my dream of becoming a master. If I died I very well couldn't do that. That's when I noticed it, it must have been wild, but still it could help.
"Go Arbok!" Yelled Jesse, releasing Arbok.
"Go Wheezing!" Yelled James, releasing a Wheezing.
"Pst, hey Pikachu." I said, trying to keep my voice down.
It was wild, it was a little smaller than Ashes Pikachu, but still I knew that It should be able to help me.
"Hey be quite." Said Meowth, scratching my face again.
I don't really know what happened next. But what ever it was it was a big thing. The Pikachu, either frightened or angered by the presence of Meowth started to charge for an electric attack. As I watched the Pikachus thunder shock heading towards Meowth, and consequently me. A million thoughts went through my mind, the one I dreaded the most, however, was the one the was also the loudest. What if I die.
When the shock hit me I blacked out. I'm not really sure how long I was out for, although. When I finally did come back I heard someone a little ways away from me crying. When I turned and looked I was shocked to see that it was Brandi. In her hand she was holding a piece of clothing that I had been wearing.
"Why did he have to die!" Shouted Brandi crying. "He was still so young!"
"Blast you Team Rocket." Said a somewhat teary eyed Ash. "This time they have gone too far."
I tried to say something, tried to tell them that I was still alive, but I just couldn't get out the words. That's when I heard someone else start talking. I didn't know that there where three people that had tried to rescue me.
"What's that over there?" I heard the voice say. "I think he's still alive."
That's when I saw that it wasn't another person. But infact Pikachu. At first I thought that I must have been seeing things. There must have been a third person out of my range of sight. And that Pikachu was just moving his mouth. But it finally became clear to me that I could understand what Pikachu was saying.
*Are you ok?* Asked Pikachu.
*Wha.* Was the only thing I could get out before I blacked out again.
I may seem a little evil doing that to you. But oh well, I'm an evil guy.
I slowly got up and turned to face the person that was talking to me. "What do you mean I'm going to be late? Late for what walking around the woods as we usually do!"
Ok that might seem a little harsh, but you don't know this girl. We all know how bad Misty is, or at least I have heard many stories about her. But this girl is worse. She makes Misty seem like a pacifists.
"What do you mean walking around the woods!" She yelled out, almost knocking me over. "Have you forgotten already! You said that we where close to Pallet town and that you would finally get to see Ash!"
"Um. . ." I was a little embarrassed at the fact that I had forgotten about going to see Ash.
"I-I guess that I must of forgotten." I was waiting for a hit over the head, or kick in the face, but it never came. "Are you ok today?" I asked her, lowering my defenses. "Usually you would-"
"I WOULD WHAT!" She yelled, knocking me into the stream with a mallet. "Knock you around, or throw you into the river, or seek my Pokemon on you!"
All I could do was drag myself out of the water before I froze.
"Oh, I'm sorry Samuel, I guess I must have hit you with my mallet." She said caringly.
My god she's insane. I didn't want to speak incase she wanted to do something else to me.
A few hours later we were walking towards the Ketchum residence in Pallet.
"I hope he will see me. Last time I came to talk to him he just ignored me like I wasn't even there." I said aloud, as if to no one.
"Don't worry about it. Besides you can also go see Prof. Oak this time." Replied Brandi, the name of my traveling companion.
"Yeah, I guess so." I said sourly. Prof. Oak was a nut job in my eyes. "Well, here we are."
I knocked on the door a few times, but no one responded. But the 10th of 11th time I knocked on the door it finally opened.
"Yes what do you want?" Asked the voice on the other end of the door.
"I'm here to see Ash Ketchum." I said proudly. "I was wanting to ask him a few questions."
"Sorry but we don't want any reporters asking questions." Replied the voice as it started to close the door.
"But I'm not a reporter. I was wanting to ask him some questions about Pokémon." I said, hoping this would get me in.
"Wait here, I'll go see if I can get him." Replied the voice closing the door.
"I don't think your getting in." Said Brandi, with a small hint of laughter in her voice.
"Why don't you-" I started to say before the door opened again.
"You may see him. But don't keep him too long." Replied the voice opening the door.
I had been setting across from Ash for almost two minutes now. The only word that I had been able to get out was 'Hi I'm…" before I just started staring.
"Yes, you are?" Ash ask. "Go own, take deep breathes if you need to."
"I'm, I'm, uh. I forgot my name." I replied, still amazed at the site of Ash.
Unfortunately Brandi wasn't so nice. "Your name is Samuel you idiot!" She yelled as she hit me in the back of the head.
Ash started laughing at the site of me on the ground. "Yes she reminds me of Misty when she was, um. . ." For some reason he lowered his voice to barely a whisper to continue. "Crazy."
I didn't really know what happened next. Either Ash fell out of his seat, or was pushed out. Either way we where both on the floor face first.
After a few bandages to both me and Ash I was finally talking to him, oh he really did slip out of his chair. I didn't really know how to feel about that. My idol, and he can't even set in a chair.
"It seems that you had many adventures Mr. Ketchum." I said after hearing one of his stories.
"Please," he said. "call me Ash. I'm not that old yet."
"Sorry." I replied, feeling a little embarrassed. "May I ask you something Mr. Ketchum, err Ash. Where is Pikachu?"
"Oh, I think Pikachu is over at the Profs lab." Ash stated. "I was going to go get him before you arrived, in all honesty."
"I told you we should of went there first." Said Brandi, I ignored her.
"We where going to go down there too. Mind if we join you?" I said, almost begging.
"I guess you can come along. I don't really like going down there by my self anyway."
Ash replied. "Most of the time the Prof wants me to help him do something."
I looked around at a lose for words. I wish it would have been the for Brandi.
"This place doesn't look all that great, I've seen a few. This one looks like it could use some work." Said Brandi, with a hint in her voice that she used to make me mad.
"Oh hello Ash, what brings you down here." The voice started before I could reply to Brandi's comment.
"I was coming down to get Pikachu." Replied Ash. "Oh and because I have two people who wanted to see you."
"Oh hello, my name is Prof Oak." Replied the Prof sticking his hand out to shake mine.
"I'm Brandi and this is Sam." Said Brandi as she moved in front of me and took the Prof hand.
"Hey!" I shouted. "He was going to shake my hand not yours!"
"Well you just stood there like and idiot!" Brandi yelled back.
The Prof started laughing when he say me and Brandi fighting. "You two seem a lot like
Ash and Misty when they where that age. Always fighting."
"What Prof we weren't always fighting." Defended Ash, more for himself than for us.
"Why do you think we got married?
"You think I'm like Ash." I said, my eyes filling with joyful tears at being called that.
"Yes you seem a lot like him when he was that age." Started the Prof. "Never thinking before he said anything. Fighting with Misty all the time. Jumping into everything head first."
"WHAT!" Me and Ash yelled together.
"I'm nothing like that Prof and I never was." Retorted Ash.
"I'm not like that either. I always think before I act." I defended.
"Yes well," started the Prof, "what was it you where coming here for?"
"I was coming for Pikachu." Replied Ash.
"Oh right." The Prof started walking towards on of the rooms. "I just wanted to run a few test on him."
The Prof lead us into a large room, almost the size of the Ketchum's den.
"Pikachu is over there, I was letting him rest for a while." Oak said pointing at a sleeping Pikachu.
"Great," responded Ash, "thanks Prof. Oh, what was the test that you where running on him?"
"I was just checking his electrical charge, and some other stuff." Oak stated.
Without warning two hands came down and grabbed Pikachu from where he was sleeping.
"Prepare for trouble,"
"And make it double,"
"To protect the world from devastation,"
"To unite all peoples within our nation,"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love,"
"To extend our reach to the stars above,"
"Jessie,"
"James,"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light,"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight."
"Meowth, that's right!"
I was shocked, two strange looking people and a Meowth and came through the window holding a small glass object with Pikachu in it.
"Don't you three ever give up?" Sighed Ash.
"Hey Jesse we finally caught Pikachu." Said the boy.
"Yes James, now we will finally be on the bosses bad side." Replied the girl, who I took to be Jesse.
"Yes our dreams will finally come true." Said the boy again, I took him to be James.
"HEY!" I shouted. "You can't take Ashes Pikachu! He doesn't belong to you!"
"Who is that kid?" Asked James.
"Probably one of the twerps friends." Said the Meowth.
"Will you stop calling me a twerp." Yelled Ash. "And aren't you three a little too old to be going after Pikachu."
"Where just 24 twerp." Replied Jesse. "And it looks like we finally got Pikachu."
"Go Rattata!" I yelled, sending a Pokéball towards the three. "You can't just steal other peoples Pokémon."
"Go Bellsprout!" Yelled Brandi sending out her own Pokémon.
"Ha, go Arbok!" Yelled out Jesse.
"Go Victorybell!" Yelled James. But unfortunately the Victorybell turned and attacked him instead. "No don't attack me, attack them, ah just return."
"Rattata tackle attack!" I yelled out. But as I had feared it was useless against the bigger Arbok. Rattata was knocked out.
"No. Rattata return." I said returning Rattata to its poke ball.
"Ha your Pokemon can't hurt ours." Yelled Jesse.
"Get back you two, I'll handle this." Said Ash stepping forward. "Go Charizard!"
"Oh no, not Charizard." Said James.
"Don't worry Jimmy, as long as wes gots that Pikachu well be fine." Said the Meowth.
"Oh but I set it down over there when the fighting started," started James. "so it wouldn't get hurt."
"YOU DID WHAT!" Yelled out Jesse, I sorta felt sorry for him, she was just like Brandi.
"Charizard, use flamethrower." Ash said in a somewhat happy voice at James carelessness.
"Well maybe next time." Replied Jesse as they where launched out of the window by the flamethrower attack.
"Looks like Team Rockets blasting off again!" The three of them yelled before they left site.
"Who where those three?" I asked as I watched Ash go over and release Pikachu from the jar.
"That's just Jesse James and Meowth." Replied Ash. "There always trying to still Pikachu."
"They seem dangerous." Brandi started. "And they attack all the time?"
"There not really dangerous," Started Ash, "and they don't attack all the time. Just when there down on there luck, or so it seems."
"Pikapi. Pi Pikachu." Stated Pikachu, after which Ash started laughing.
"What did he say?" I asked, a little confused.
"Pikachu just said that maybe if they attacked more life wouldn't be as boring." Ash said, still laughing a little.
"Life is borin-" I had started before Brandi cut me off.
"Hey, where's the Prof?" She asked, looking around the room for him.
"I'm right here." Said Oak, putting his hand on my shoulder. "I saw your Pokemon get hurt so I got a potion for it."
"Thanks." I said, picking myself up off the floor. "But don't sneak up on me next time."
I looked over at Ash and Pikachu and say them looking out the window, lost in a thought. "I guess life around here must be boring." I whispered to Brandi. "Just look at those two."
"Yeah, I sorta feel sorry for em." She said, also looking at the two.
When the two realized that we where talking about them they came back to reality.
"Oh sorry," replied Ash, a hint of sadness in his voice, "just remembering some of the days when I was out adventuring."
After a few minutes of cleaning up the mess that was made by Team Rocket I finally decided to tell the Prof why I had come to see him.
"Well you see Prof Oak sir." I started, nervously. "I came to you to get a Pokédex. Since I couldn't get one back home. If that is ok with you that is sir."
Oak sorta laughed and said. "You don't have to call me sir. And of course you can have a pokedex. Why would you think that I wouldn't?"
"Well I just though-" I was cut off by someone running into the room before I could finish.
"Hey Gramps, what's going on, I heard a noise and I got here as fast I could." Said the new comer, short on breath.
"Oh it was nothing Gary." Stated the Prof. "Team Rocket just try to take Ashes Pikachu that's all."
"Wow!" I said, almost losing my balance. "Two masters here, now. Wow!"
"Who's that?" Questioned Gary. "I don't think I have seen him around before."
"Oh this is um. . ." The Prof thought back for a min trying to remember my name. "Oh yes I think his name was Samuel. He had come to see me about getting a Pokédex."
"Oh." Gary turned and looked at Ash. "I see that they didn't get Pikachu again."
"Nope, James had set him down before they started fighting." Ash said, starting to laugh.
Gary was laughing too. "I guess they will never get anything right."
I was totally surprised by this. From what I had heard and seen Ash and Gary where rivals. But yet here they where, talking and laughing like they had been best friends there hole life.
The Prof had retuned empty handed. "Sorry but I can't seem to find any of my Pokédexes."
"Oh." I said, visibly upset at the fact. "Well I guess you did your best in trying to find one."
"Don't worry." Said Oak. "Just come back tomorrow and I will have you one. I know that there are some laying around somewhere."
"Ok, I guess we'll find somewhere to sleep until tomorrow." I said, walking towards the door.
"Why don't you two stay with me?" Asked Ash. "I mean we have more than enough room at my house."
I almost started drooling at the thought of staying with a Pokémon master, even if was just for a night. "I-I-I."
"We accept." Replied Brandi, before I could even say the words.
"Great. Besides it would be nice to have someone over with Misty gone." Ash said as he started outside. "Well come on, it's getting dark."
We had gotten to Ashes house a few minutes later. On the way Ash talked about some of the other times when Team Rocket had tried to take Pikachu.
"Yeah those where some good times weren't they Pikachu." Ash said, finishing his last story.
"Cha." Was Pikachus response.
"Those where amazing." I said stepping into the house. "I wonder what will happen to us on the road like that."
"Yeah," Brandi replied, obviously bored, "but it shouldn't be to hard."
"Well anyway, you two can have my old room." Ash said as he pointed to a room.
"Thanks, but um. Where are you going to sleep? I heard that you still lived with your mom." I replied, not even thinking about what I said.
"Oh she's with Misty." Ash replied, visibly embarrassed.
After a small meal me and Brandi went into Ashes old room and got ready for sleep.
"Hey Sam." Started Brandi. "Where are we going after we get the Pokédex?"
"I don't know, whatever the next city is I guess." I replied. "Unless you have something else in mind."
"No," she said yawning, "I was just wondering. Well good night."
"Good night." I said before drifting off to sleep.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of someone mumbling on the other side of the door.
"Do you think the twerps in there?"
"How should I know Meowth."
"Be quite I think I heard something."
I opened the door and was shocked to see the three Team Rocket members that had tried to take Ashes Pikachu the day before.
"It's the wrong twerp." Replied James.
"Yes but maybe we can use him to our advantage." Jesse said, as she stepped closer to me.
"Hey, what are you doing? Hey, HEL-." I was cut off as Jessie but her hand over my mouth..
I was out for a few minutes before I came to. Standing above me where Jesse, James, and Meowth.
"Hey why don't you let me go you big bullies!" I yelled, hoping they would.
"Meowth, be quite twerp." Meowth said before scratching my face.
"What are you going to do with me!" I yelled, trying to cover the pain from the scratch.
"Simple," started Jesse, "we are gonna get the twerp to trade Pikachu for you."
"Ha, I doubt Ash would do something like that." I replied. "So you might as well let m-"
I was cut off by another scratch on the face. "Meowth, but he would if your life was in danger." Replied the Meowth.
It was about that time that I noticed something in his hand. "A BOMB!" I yelped.
"Yes now go back to sleep will you." Replied Jesse, Knocking me unconscious.
I was out for another minute or two before I was awakened by several people yelling.
"Lets us finish our motto first twerp!" Yelled an Angry Jesse.
"Yeah its only nice." Replied a sorta scarred James.
"Let him go our you'll regret it." I knew that voice, it was Brandi.
"Yeah, he hasn't done anything to you three." That one had to be Ash.
"How about this you twerps. You hand over the Pikachu and we might think about letting this one go." It was Jesse again, I tried to move until I realized I had the bomb on my chest.
"Yikes!" I yelled surprised at the fact. "The bombs on my chest!"
"Yeah, and if use don't gives us the Pikachu then wes blows the kid sky high." Replied Meowth, half to me half to Ash and Brandi.
I was horrified, needless to say. I was too young to get blown up. And what about my dream of becoming a master. If I died I very well couldn't do that. That's when I noticed it, it must have been wild, but still it could help.
"Go Arbok!" Yelled Jesse, releasing Arbok.
"Go Wheezing!" Yelled James, releasing a Wheezing.
"Pst, hey Pikachu." I said, trying to keep my voice down.
It was wild, it was a little smaller than Ashes Pikachu, but still I knew that It should be able to help me.
"Hey be quite." Said Meowth, scratching my face again.
I don't really know what happened next. But what ever it was it was a big thing. The Pikachu, either frightened or angered by the presence of Meowth started to charge for an electric attack. As I watched the Pikachus thunder shock heading towards Meowth, and consequently me. A million thoughts went through my mind, the one I dreaded the most, however, was the one the was also the loudest. What if I die.
When the shock hit me I blacked out. I'm not really sure how long I was out for, although. When I finally did come back I heard someone a little ways away from me crying. When I turned and looked I was shocked to see that it was Brandi. In her hand she was holding a piece of clothing that I had been wearing.
"Why did he have to die!" Shouted Brandi crying. "He was still so young!"
"Blast you Team Rocket." Said a somewhat teary eyed Ash. "This time they have gone too far."
I tried to say something, tried to tell them that I was still alive, but I just couldn't get out the words. That's when I heard someone else start talking. I didn't know that there where three people that had tried to rescue me.
"What's that over there?" I heard the voice say. "I think he's still alive."
That's when I saw that it wasn't another person. But infact Pikachu. At first I thought that I must have been seeing things. There must have been a third person out of my range of sight. And that Pikachu was just moving his mouth. But it finally became clear to me that I could understand what Pikachu was saying.
*Are you ok?* Asked Pikachu.
*Wha.* Was the only thing I could get out before I blacked out again.
I may seem a little evil doing that to you. But oh well, I'm an evil guy.