"What exactly is this trip for again

Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, or any of its characters.

Author's note: um, hopefully, you've read the other 6 chapters and hopefully, I m goin for you read 1 outa the six…lol ;)

'Something like this' = some ones thought

'Something like this' = Pokemon talking

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"What exactly is this trip for again?" Asked a burly man from his passenger boat.

"Tourism sir, I mean besides our natural curiosity of the untouched parts of the world."

Ash responded cheerfully.

"Well that's all well and good, but I'm sorry I still can't take you."

"What's wrong with the island?" came from Brock's direction.

"Nothing really," The man turned around and pointed to a fading piece of green land right on the horizon, "Its just that that island has a funny reputation of appearing out of thin air in a raging sea that only and always rages around that certain spot. Any person would be hell bent just by going there."

"Is that so?" Misty smirked. "So its just a big scardy cat island is it?"

The man stood up tall and spoke with certainty, "By no means miss am I scared, if I could go to that island I might. But for right now it seems to have a bad idea against any visitors. If you get to close the waves get impassable and you have to turn back in order to return at all." The man folded his arms and continued with a glare. "But if you like ill take you as close as I can for the full pay."

"Oh I think not," Brock said mimicking the mans stance, "I'd rather walk."

"Okay you walk, we'll take the boat." Ash spoke boarding with misty and Pikachu.

"But Ash it's not like he is going to take us there and leave us! Were just going to come back here and end up where we started."

"Who said we were going to come back here?"

"What?" The man intruded.

Ash turned to him, "Look we will pay you full price if you take us as far as you can."

"That's fine, but what are you going to do once we get there?"

Ash took a poke ball from his belt and looked at it with confidence.

"Swim."

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On the passenger boat the three friends were on the Bridge keeping an attentive eye on their goal of the island.

"Swim he says, ha!" Brock scoffed a laugh.

"Listen Brock it's alright, believe it or not I have a plan."

"Oh I believe it. Its not like you haven't had 'plans' before. The only problem is your kind of plans always involve backfire, failure, and disaster."

"Yes it's true, I'm not denying my mistakes. But this time its different, there is a lot influencing me here, and a lot telling me it's the right thing to do." Ash looked over to Misty with Brocks glance following. She was sitting before the window viewing the island. She looked nervous and almost mesmerized at the waves.

"Ash," she spoke softly as he came over next to her she cleared her throat and continued. "You know how the feeling of dejavu usually only stays for a couple seconds?"

"I think so, why?"

"When it doesn't it," Misty just held her mouth closed and shut her eyes. At a loss she shook her head, she couldn't continue, more or less explain what she desperately needed to too her worried Ash. He kneeled in front of her searching her eyes for maybe a slight lead on his part. He paused for moment thinking.

"Who is Ace Kezzian?" he asked softly, but her answer was interrupted.

"5 minutes kids, I don't know what you plan getting your selves into, but whatever it is, its not my responsibility for you got it?" The man looked at Ash with a stern glare. He wasn't about to take the blame for 3 missing children.

"Yes sir, thank you for all you have done for us." Ash smiled. The man huffed and continued steering the small passenger boat towards the ever-growing waves.

'They have no idea, but it's not of my concern..'

Ash looked back to Misty and softly asked if she was ok. She nodded and reassured him with a smile. Picking up her nap sack she ran her hand on the side of his hatless hair.

"Its better now. Once I stop starring at the waves and rain."

"Hey Ash, exactly what type of pokemon were you thinking of using in this weather?" Brock asked.

Ash turned to him as the group got their things together.

"Water of coarse, which is already a step better then you, Brock the rock trainer." Ash laughed and released a pokeball. "You can use one of the new pokemon I caught."

Without delay Brock released the pokemon, he saw it held a Seadra. It looked at him and smirked, immediately spraying him with ink. Looking down at himself he sighed.

"That's got to be love."

Ash rolled his eyes while releasing his coveted pokeball, then handed it to Misty.

"This one, despite your large collection of water types, is one I caught for you."

Slowly the flash revealed a large pokemon with strong and wide flippers that seemed to take up its bodies whole, a Mantine. Misty gasped and stared at the marvelous creature. She grabbed Ash and hugged him closely.

"Thank you Ash," She spoke looking at him returning his smile. "Why just give it to me?"

"Because when I saw it, it was the most beautiful pokemon I have seen on this earth." Misty blushed slightly glancing away, "It was the strongest solid Water type I have seen too." They both looked at Misty's Mantine, only to see it immediately warming up to her, coming to her side. The two laughed for a brief moment before Ash gently held Misty's stare to his with her chin, "It also took ages before I finally could catch her." Misty held her arms around the back of his neck staring back at his eyes lovingly

"She's a she?" Brock asked, Misty Answered.

"Yes Brock a female, you know the one aspect in a pokemon or person you will never catch. I mean if you keep using "pick up lines" like, 'I never seen the stars before, in a persons eyes I mean.' And 'Aphrodite right?'" Brock Stepped out on the rain drenched deck and got ready to depart.

Ash let out a whistle, "oh that hit home for Brocko."

"I have better things to do, meaning other then nearly slicing his ears off when ever a girl his age is around."

The object of her mockery was heard muttering outside, "Well sorry miss "I fish my lovers from a lake.""

"Oh good god lets go." She grabbed the, struggling to hide a laugh, Ash by the arm and pulled him with her out side.

They got lined up, Brock with his love struck Seadra, Misty with her Mantine plus Togepi safely away in her nap sack, and Ash with his Squirtle and Pikachu firmly getting a grip on Ashes hat,

'Alright every body your about to see the eighth wonder of the world commence in my skillful act of remaining my hold on this "one of a kind" hat. Watch and observe.'

"Everyone ready?"

"Ready!" 'Ready!' the three replied.

"Ok we are gonna stay together and head towards the island, its only about a half mile or less away. Misty if you get how ever you get let us know."

"Right." She confirmed.

"Ok! Let's go!" the three dived into the water and were off.

The Man back inside the boat started to turn the vessel around but froze his motion with his hands on the wheel and simply watched the figures make their way through the coarse waves, edging closer to the green patch of land that automatically became shrouded in thick rain.

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"Ash! These waves are getting more merciless by the second!" Brock screamed as they appeared from under a small wave to the raging surface of the water.

"I know! But I don't know what to do at this exact time." They both looked at Misty in-between them and saw she was holding up ok. Suddenly she turned to see a colossal wave about to crash on them again and she went into action.

"Ok boys your gonna listen to me and we are gonna get to the island. Ever heard the word DUCK?"

She grabbed the two pokemon at her sides and towed them along with her as she directed Mantine under the swell they sat in. As they rushed forward under the storm, Brock looked above to see the impending wave crash right where they were floating. He looked at Ash and gave him a "she's good" expression. Ash nodded.

This cycle of ducking under every other wave worked until just when they felt they where almost near the islands shores. If the hairs on the backs of their necks could stand on end under water they would have drastically. The water seemed to fill with static. Misty started to slow as something started blaring in her telling her something was brewing. Rapidly a fierce cyclone started in front of them sucking them in. It whisked the group up into the air with in seconds. They yelled in pure shock calling back their water pokemon, yet all where unable to locate the other before they simultaneously blacking out.

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Seeing the world gain clarity as she opened her eyes, Misty noticed she wasn't in water anymore. She maneuvered her limbs, no instantaneous pain, a good sign. In the process of doing so she noticed she was on sand. Her sight returning completely she saw the same gray clouds as before. But to her sides was nothing but a solid line of drenching rain. Right on the borders on the stretch of beach she was on. She looked questioningly at the rain; maybe it possibly started raining while she was a sleep. Why it wasn't raining directly on the island was the strange thing. She turned her head to the sky again and decided to take it as a fluke.

'Fresh from a cyclone and waking up on a beach, better not be a trip back to giant pokemon Ville.'

Low and behold, Pikachu popped its head right over hers, making it appear rather large. Misty shrieked in surprise and shot up.

"Don't do that to me!" She clutched her forehead.

'Sorry, wanted to see if you were conscious.' Pikachu laughed a little before turning to Ash and Brock. ' She's ok, over here!'

She heard the two boys foot steps run behind her as she massaged her eyes. Feeling Ash's arms go around her she returned the embrace. Pulling back to look at him she gave him a quick soft kiss. Holding the back of his head she noticed his hat was not in its place.

"Ash where's your hat?"

"I don't really know, I mean Pikachu was around when I woke up, but minus my hat. " He paused for a second watching her face, "Misty what's wrong?" He looked at her struggling complexion.

"My, my leg." She slowly put pressure on her leg and at the same speed lowered herself down again.

"No not again, no." Ash straitened her leg with utmost care. She turned it to the opposite side to reveal a medium size red area, the size of a well of bruise.

"Its not, is it?" Ash asked.

Brock leaned down and examined it slightly. Continuing to feel around her lower leg, he noted nothing but a strait bone, no complete break. Misty grimaced barely noticeable as she kept her stare at the source of pain.

"Its not broken, I think its just a little hit around."

"Good." Ash sighed as he and Brock helped her to her feet.

"Alright Ash, part 2 of your plan would be…" Brock asked.

"Well," Ash looked around, all there was to see was beach and rain. The green part of the island was off a ways on the top of a semi-large cliff. "We must have landed on the other side of the island or something."

"The other side? Wow that was some cyclone." Misty commented.

"But ya know, that was really, really weird for it to just start like that. I mean usually two or whatever numbers of waves need to crash into each other to start one. And it just like manifested its self." Added Brock.

"With weather like this around this spot anything is possible."

"True." Brock replied to Ash.

"So lets go forward to that cliff. We will probably get a better view of things from there." Ash reasoned. As the group started moving Pikachu glanced to the rear of them.

'Uh guys.' Ash and the others looked up to Pikachu seeing it point behind them. Turning completely around, there was the rain barrier; in one quick fluid sweep it advanced right in front of them. The surprise of the movement sent them back to the sandy floor.

"Wha, wha, what was that about?" Brock stuttered.

Ash shook his head as they helped Misty up again. They stared at the Mysterious rain. Tentatively, they took a step back. At that moment the rain stepped closer.

"This isn't right." Brock stated.

Misty let go of the support from Ash and Brock. She assured them she was ok to walk. Slowly she went up to the barrier, it was fast falling rain and a fair amount of it, she couldn't see to the other side it seemed blurred out. Hesitantly she raised her hand to the border, but stopped right before it. She then reached into her nap sack, checking on the dosing Togepi, and going for an empty potion bottle.

"Lets see how glass handles this." She walked back wards to her watching friends. Swallowing hard she slowly tossed the bottle to the barrier like a twirling baton. Making contact the bottle exploded, in a brilliant unexpected light. They shielded their eyes from the fierce reaction. The fibers of the glass dispersed in a suspended cloud only to be quickly drawn in again.

'That's not rain.' At once they all nodded.

"This must be the Island we were meant to come too." Ash said mesmerized.

'And apparently we should never leave.'

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Wearily the group continued, uncertainty literally followed them, and they turned back to watch it shadow every so often. Making it to the cliff they surveyed the situation.

"They only way is up and on." Brock stated.

"Its funny if I knew there was a cliff on this stupid island I would of gotten a flying pokemon or two." Ash said annoyed. "Wait it's ok, I'll just toss Chickorita and Bulbasaurs' pokeballs up there and shout to them to help us."

"Right good idea." Brock commented. "We all know Chickorita would never stand being 30 feet away from her trainer," he teased.

Misty smirked as she whispered to Ash, "I know the felling." This caused her boyfriend to smile as he threw the two pokeballs up onto the cliff.

"I always know the feeling."

Misty smiled back to him and put her arms around his shoulders from behind.

"Bulbasaur! Chickorita!" Ash shouted up to his pokemon appearing from their miniature havens.

'Bulba!'

'Chicko!' Ash saw the two pokemon look down to them.

"Help Misty up to where you are!" Within a second, four green "arms" descended from the pokemon to Misty's side. She sat in them in swing style. Slowly she was pulled up to join the two pokemon on the edge of the cliff. She patted them on the heads to show her appreciation, and instructed them to do like wise for Ash and Brock.

Looking about the land that was pure and green she saw a large circular impression in the surface. But she could not see the depth of it, it being higher then their position. Once they were together, Ash returned his pokemon and they slowly went to the edge of the impression.

"Wait, you guys stay here, I'm going to see what is really in this mystery space. I mean it could be anything." Misty said pointing to the rain barrier that had moved to the edge of the cliff.

"No way, that what makes it more dangerous." Ash said grabbing hold of her hands.

"He's right, lets go up to it together." Brock said.

They walked right to the edge of the impression, seeing in was filled with nothing but more solid green grass.

'That's sort of a let down.' The group shrugged and hopped down to the impressions floor.

Feeling the same static as before fill the air the friends looked at each other in second guess. But before a soul could act a barrier of the rain coming inbewteen each one of them interrupted their sight.

Misty took in a breath and turned around quickly only to see she was surrounded by the deathly water curtain. She knew the same was for each of her friends.

Thinking of screaming for a response from them seized because it was probably useless. She didn't hear anything from them when it appeared, and she guessed she would have.

Panic started to set in as she felt for her knapsack because it wasn't there. Everything was in there, everything. Especially Togepi, her "motherly" instincts for the baby pokemon were the prime juices for the panic.

"Ace! What do you want from me? What did I do?" She yelled at a loss. As if struck by inner lightning, her memory flashed back to her conversation with Ace.

"Yes this rain can be so troublesome. But it's such a complex element to deal with, it's really quite astounding."

Looking stern again Misty focused on the direction she had last seen Ash, Brock and Pickahu, staring into her barrier.

"Rain."

'Is life.'

Misty's eyes went wide in fright. "What?" She looked up and behind her but saw nothing and no one. What did return was that familiar static, this time more strong. With out a way to stop it, the ground beneath her crumbled away and revealed a bubble of a purplish hue. Misty fell inside it and knew nothing but of its color.

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"Pikachu, Brock, Misty.." Ash's eyes sprung open. He had fallen into a mysterious purple bubble as well. It robbed him of his consciousness. And this was where he regained it. Feeling the hard intolerant floor around him let him find he was dry from top to bottom. It made him question the length at which he had slept.

He looked around the room franticly. No Misty, or Pikachu, or Brock. He also noticed that his backpack wasn't with him. But as to the room he was in, it was huge. But held nothing but him. It was in a tall dome shape. And there were huge half circle doorways around the perimeter. In them was nothing but darkness. He got up and ran to one, attempting to run through it. But stopped inches from it as something tripped him up. Ash looked to the cause as he saw the shape of a tied up Pikachu hazed into focus. It was invisible to him before.

"Pikachu!" He kneeled down and gathered his friend in his arms. He untied it and stroked its cheeks to help it regain consciousness.

"Hey buddy, snap out of it." And quickly Pikachu did just that. Sparks formed around its cheeks sensing its owner's touch. It then stood up alert in Ash's lap and rubbed its side.

'Okay, oww.' Ash laughed, glad it was pretty much unharmed by unwanted forces.

"Sorry Pikachu, I literally couldn't see you, you were invisible."

'Its ok then, I'm glad you fell over me. Where were you running too? There is no were to go but here.'

"What do you mean? These aren't doors?"

'Nope, just look like um, I tried it. I woke up in this spot after the bubble ate us. I tried to got out that door and just knocked into it. Then I got knocked out by something.'

"Something?"

'Yeah it wasn't like a hit on the head, like a aroma or sense or wave or something.'

"And that when it tied you up. I wish I knew what it was."

'So do I, hey lets see if anyone else is with us, and you need to cheer up Ash.'

Ash realized the look he was carrying was filled with worry. Manly for Misty, but for Brock also.

"Sorry it's just,"

'Yes yes, I know. Come on she's probably in here.'

Slowly they carefully searched the circumference of the room. With eyes and touch. It resulted in nothing, giving the impression that Brock and Misty, if they were indeed in the same room, had never awakened from the work of the bubble. Staring across the floor of the room looking for maybe anything new Ash and Pikachu paused staring at the center of the room, then at each other. They nodded and then Ash stood behind Pikachu ready for what it was about to do. It closed its eyes, then gathering strength and more realistically energy; it dispersed a huge wide range thunder attack through every square inch in the room. And like magic five objects came to view scattered around the center of the room. The bodies of their friends, Misty and Brock were sprung awake. But they feel back to the ground breathing to regain oxygen from the shock. Their three bags where around the room as well. Pikachu screamed over to them nearly laughing at their frizzled hair.

'TAG YOUR IT!'

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The friends sat in a very close circle in the very center of the room. Looking around nervously, trying suspect anything. Misty went through every description of her meeting with Ace Kezzian. The way he looked, sounded, acted. How unrealistic he really was. Just when Ash was about to burst with frustration, someone joined in on their conversation, speak of the unwanted, it was someone's old acquaintance.

"Hello Misty."

Ash looked up at the speaker then jumped to his feet. He stood in front of his friends in protection.

"You," Ash moved closer to him in a threatening way. Ace held up his index finger to the group.

"Before you act, don't." with out moving, the same purplish force returned to instruct Ash's rigid body to sit back down to the cloudy marble floor. Misty and Pikachu went next to him, Brock stood above them.

"Look, you don't need to use this magic anymore, we are just here to help Misty, we pose no threat to you." Brock reasoned to Ace. Ace looked at him and smiled, the same smile he always wore, forced cheerfulness.

"Big brother Brock, you're just the person I wanted to see." Misty and Ash went next to their friend.

"What?" Ash spoke unsure of what Ace was getting at.

"I just need to see a few things in order to show you a few." Once again the bubble returned. It surrounded Brock and pushed his friends from him, his pokeballs flew from his belt to the waiting hand of Ace.

"Brock!" Ash and Misty yelled on either sides of the bubble, running up to it. He had been made unconscious and laid on the bottom of the bubble. Misty tried and tired to reach him but failed. She stood as tall as she could and went right up to Ace. Ash ran next to her ready to get her away from any attacks, of any kind.

"He didn't have to come." She said pointing to the motionless body of her friend in the bubble. "The only thing that made him ever be friends with us was because we where real friends to him. A real friend Ace, I doubt you know of them." Misty went over to Brock again. "If you only want to continue to harass him like you have been doing for all of us you have three more things coming." Then it was Ashes choice to look Ace in the eyes.

"Let him go." He spoke solidly.

Ace smiled clearly this time; he walked back a few steps in front of one of the "dark" doorways. "You speak very strong, true, and heart carved words. But tell me this, " The bubble moved from the side of the prisoners friends to the back of the warden. "What if your dear Brock wasn't simply in this bubble? What if I told you, he was in grave danger? Or better yet ill show you." The room grew dark and the only thing visible where Ash, Brock, Misty and Ace. Ash and Misty were unwillingly torn from the side of each other and placed far apart. In front of them, facing the space in-between them was Brock, now standing, but head drooped in his unconscious.

Just as quick as he came to conscious two white blasts of energy hit him from both sides. One forming in front of Misty, and the other in front of Ash. He breathed in pain as he collapsed to the ground quickly. His friends stood in shock, pure shock. Running to him in unison they witnessed nothing but a motionless body. Misty couldn't believe her eyes. She just couldn't in anyway. She ran to Ace, despite her obvious limp and grabbed the front of his dark gray long sleeve shirt.

"That's not Brock." Misty spoke as she glared at him. He smiled back and spoke flatly and quietly.

"Now that you know that. I'm not Ace." Just as he finished his sentence, the body of Ace Kezzian faded. Misty's hand fell from their gripped position. Staring where Ace had been Brock appeared standing up right and holding his head. The room also turned light again, only to revel a different room. Ash and Misty didn't notice they went to Brock to see if he was okay. Pikachu was next to him; it was excluded from the demonstration as well and equally clueless.

"We have no idea what's going on, but Ace came here and made us think Brock had been killed from some reason." Brock looked at Misty in alert. Misty nodded to him.

"Things are turning really weird." Ash spoke while they looked around their new surroundings.

"You just noticed?" Misty asked flatly.

"Look at this place, everything is practically in marble. I wonder where that large black glass door leads too." Brock observed.

"Do you think we wanna find out?" Ash asked.

'I think you may want to come and see.'

"Who was that?" The group yelled.

"Hello again." A voice came from behind. They friends turned around only to be in greater shock.

There was Ace, but his wasn't alone, behind him floated two dark figures. One with a blue fog around its forum and the other smaller one wore pink.

Misty suddenly leaned over and covered her face. Static was happened again.

"Misty! What did they do?" Ash asked urgently. Just as fast as she went over she stood tall again. But instead of her normal eye color it had turned that dreaded purple.

"Haunted her dreams." She laughed hauntingly.

"No!" Ash whipped around to the two creatures, eyes in furry. "Stop it! Stop playing games with us! What do u want?"

'What do you want? Wasn't it, to help Misty?' A telepathic voice entered his brain.

He took a step back, "What are those two?" he spoke.

Misty was taken from Ashes side, despite his resistance. She was suspended between the two things as Ace dissipated. She pointed to Ashes poke belt. And spoke in a mellow version of her own voice.

"From the view of any human I am none other than cousins with those around your waist."

The larger creature stepped inline with Misty along with the smaller creature. Revealing their features. Both cat and even just kitten like in appearance.

"Pokemon?" Brock and Ash breathed.

Misty laughed, "And as you can see, we also possess-" 'telepathic powers.' The large creature finished as Misty was released from the two's control.

Ash ran to her and took her from the sides of the creatures.

"They did it, they, they did it…don't let them get you..don't go near them, please Ash no." Misty stuttered breathlessly as she clung to Ashes form unable to open her eyes.

"Shh, Misty, what did they do to you?" Ash soothed holding her close as tears started in his eyes watching the confusion, and worry she went through. Not getting an answer from the panicked sleeping love in his arms. He glared at the two clenching his teeth together.

"Who are you?"

'I am Mewtwo,' the large one pointed to its self. 'This is mew my equal.' It continued pointing to the smaller one. 'And we would like to reenact,

"What we did".'

Chapter 7, I hope this was up to snuff, as I have gotten anyway. I hope none of this is to confusing, but please let me know what you think J.