Chapter Five

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"Oh, not again! Ash, wake up!" Mrs. Ketchum called from downstairs.

"Huh? Oh, yeah! Today's the day!" Ash said as he yawned. He looked around his bedroom, and saw Misty sleeping on the top bunk of the bunk bed on the other side of the room, and Brock sleeping on the bottom bunk. Togepi was sleeping under Misty's arm, and Pikachu was sleeping on the floor. Ash sat up in his bed, stretched, and put both of his feet on the floor. He looked out the window by his bed, and saw Yuri walking around in her bedroom (she had clothes on, thank you!).

"Ash, get down here right now!" Mrs. Ketchum called again.

"Misty, wake up! We have to leave!" Ash said as he poked Misty in the arm. He looked through his window again, and saw that Yuri was watching him. He opened his window, and she opened hers.

"What are you doing, Ash?" Yuri shouted through her window.

"Trying to wake up Misty. What time is it?" Ash replied.

"It's 7:35! Let me try to wake Misty up. Stay right there!" Yuri said as she walked away from her window. She came back again, only this time with Chikara. "Say something to wake Misty up, Chikara." Ash heard Yuri say in her normal voice.

"Hey, Misty! Wake up, beautiful!" Chikara shouted. Ash began to laugh.

"Huh? Ash, did you just call me beautiful?" Misty asked with a groggy voice.

"Look out the window, Misty." Ash said as he offered his hand to help her down. She looked at it, and put her hand in his, and jumped down.

"Hey, Misty!" Chikara shouted as he waved. Misty began to blush.

"How do we wake up Brock?" Misty asked Ash.

"Hold that thought!" Chikara said this time as he walked away from the window, leaving Yuri to talk to Ash and Misty. After a few minutes, Chikara came back with Kuro.

"Now it's your turn. Say something to wake up Brock." Chikara said.

"Brock, I want to be your girlfriend!" Kuro shouted the loudest. Brock sprang up in his bed automatically, bumping his head on the bottom of the top bunk in the process.

"Ow, but yay!" Brock said with excitement. He ran over to the window, and saw Yuri, Kuro and Chikara standing in the other window. Yuri, Kuro and Chikara started to laugh, and Ash and Misty looked at Brock to try and found out why. When they found out why, they started laughing, too. He had a big bump on his forehead without knowing it.

"ASH KETCHUM, GET YOUR BUTT DOWNSTAIRS NOW!" Mrs. Ketchum shouted as loud as she could.

"Your mom sounds pretty angry, Ash. Better go see what she wants!" Yuri shouted.

"We'll meet you at Professor Oak's Lab soon! Bye!" Chikara said as he closed the window.

"ASH KETCHUM, DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE!" Mrs. Ketchum's voice sounded hoarse.

"I'M COMING, MOM!" Ash shouted, sounding pretty annoyed.

As soon as Ash, Misty and Brock were done getting dressed, they walked down the stairs.

"What's for breakfast, Mrs. Ketchum?" Misty asked as they sat down at the table.

"Well, Professor Oak called me earlier today and said you guys were going to some new place. Now, what was the name of it again?" Mrs. Ketchum asked herself.

"Banto. I'm sorry, mom, I shoulda told ya sooner." Ash apologized.

"Yes, that's it! Anyway, I wish you would've told me sooner, but that's in the past now, right? Anyway, breakfast today will be toast, eggs and hash browns. What would everybody like to drink?" Mrs. Ketchum asked as she opened the refrigerator.

"Orange juice!" Misty, Brock and Ash said at the same time.

"Pikachu, would you like something to eat for breakfast?" Ash asked Pikachu.

"Pika!" Pikachu said as he nodded.

"Let me go and get Pikachu's food for you, Ash." Brock offered as he stood up out of his chair. "I'll go get Togepi's food, too."

"Thanks, Brock!" Misty and Ash said. After they said that, the doorbell rang.

"Now, who could that be so early in the morning?" Mrs. Ketchum asked herself as she finished pouring orange juice into 3 glass cups.

"Good morning, Delia. Are Ash, Misty and Brock awake yet?" Professor Oak asked from the front door.

"Yes, they're getting ready to eat breakfast. Would you like to see them before they leave?" Mrs. Ketchum asked as she opened the door for Professor Oak to step inside.

"Thank you, Delia. Oh, Ash! Just the man I wanted to see!" Professor Oak said as Ash walked up to him, with Misty and Brock beside him.

"Is it about our trip to Banto today?" Ash asked.

"Well, yes, it is! I won't be here when you leave for your new journey with Yuri, Kuro and Chikara, so I though that I would stop by and give you a map and a new PokeGear. On this version, you can call people, listen to the radio, and basically everything you could do on the first version. But a new feature is that the PokeDex is built inside the PokeGear, so you won't have to carry around as much." Professor Oak said as he handed Ash the map and PokeGear. "And the best part is, Misty, Brock and Yuri get PokeGears, too! Only Misty and Brock's don't have the PokeDex inside, sorry."

"Great! Thanks, Professor!" Misty said.

"I already know enough about Pokemon that I don't need a PokeDex anyway. But, now I can keep a track of girl's phone numbers!" Brock said with excitement. "I'm going to go put Yuri's and Kuro's phone number in it right now!"

"Brock, wait! I haven't given Yuri hers yet!" Professor Oak shouted through the open door to the skipping (yes, I said skipping) Brock.

~Noon~

"Well, mom, I guess we have to go now." Ash said as he, Misty and Brock were standing outside the front door of the Ketchum residence.

"Okay, Ash. I packed some clean underwear, some bread, a couple of juice boxes, a blanket, soap." Mrs. Ketchum rattled off.

"Okay, okay, mom." Ash tried to make his mother stop talking. Yuri, Kuro and Chikara walked up behind the group, waiting to leave.

"And I also programmed the home phone number and Professor Oak's number into your PokeGear." Mrs. Ketchum said. "Well, bye honey! Call me the minute you reach Banto!"

"Okay! Bye, mom!" Ash said as he and everybody else began to walk away from Pallet.

"According to the map, the best way to get to the shores of Banto is to fly to Vermilion City and surf Northwest until we reach shore." Chikara said. "But, we, as in me and Kuro, have to go to the Pokemon Center in Viridian. So, you guys can figure out a way there."

"Yeah! Bye!" Kuro said as she called out her Articuno and sat on top of it.

"Wait, Chikara! Will I ever see you again?" Misty asked (I wanted it to sound sappy. I don't know why).

"Of course you will! Here, let me program my number into your PokeGear. I'll call you when I have some free time. Good-bye, beautiful." Chikara said as he gave Misty a good-bye kiss on the cheek, called out his Zapdos, and rode off into the sun with Kuro on her Articuno.

"So long, beautiful." Ash teased. Misty slapped his repeatedly for that.

"Well, how do we fly to Vermilion City? I don't have any Pokemon that can fly." Brock asked.

"We can take Ho-Oh and Moltres. Ash and Misty can get on Ho-Oh, and me and Brock will ride on Moltres." Yuri said as she called out her two legendary bird Pokemon.

"Let's go!" Ash said as he hopped on Ho-Oh's back. "Come on, Misty!" he held out his hand, waiting for her to put hers inside it. She put her hand slowly in his, and got on Ho-Oh. When Brock was on Moltres (and finally stopped worrying that it was going to burn him), Yuri commanded Ho- Oh to follow Moltres, and take off.

~~Next Chapter: Ash, Misty, Brock and Yuri arrive in Vermilion City to try and surf their way to Banto. Will they make it, or will their Pokemon not come through for them? Stay tuned to find out!