Life's Full of Little Surprises
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Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu, Team Rocket, Persian, and all the other 250 Pokemon do not belong to me. They belong to 4Kids, etc. Please do not sue me you will have better luck trying to get water from a dry well. The base story is property of Jaelle and Orla I asked before posting it. ^_^
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Chapter 18: There Here and Coming Home.
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Ash managed to get a few hours of sleep troubled sleep before he was awakened by someone having fun with his doorbell. The exhaustion from the previous night to early morning's events finally got to him. When he got home he crashed out on the couch completely comatose.
*Where am I? What time is it? And what the heck is that noise?* Ash groggily opened his eyes and tried to get out of what he thought was his bed only to hit the floor faster than expected.
"Ash, are you going to get that? If not I will." Richie bounded happily out of the kitchen and rushed to answer the door while Ash pulled himself off of the floor and looked at his watch. It read 5:00 AM he groaned and fell back on the floor burying his head in the couch.
"What took so long?" A familiar voice came from the door.
Richie smiled as he let the visitors in "I was making breakfast, Bryan is mysteriously absent, and Ash was crashed out on the couch."
Ash dragged himself upright in time to see four familiar people bustle into his house. One was acting like a pack mule under a ton of bags and balloons.
Gary put the bags down and went to examine his friend who looked like a zombie. "What happened to you?"
"Misty...labor...12 o'clock...home..." Ash mumbled still out of it.
Gary laughed then gasped as he viewed Ash's hand and arm. "How did you get that?"
Misty's sisters were huddled together around the bag and balloon pile arguing over who bought what. They stopped their arguing and rushed over the couch to find out why Gary was so shocked.
Ash then got bombarded with a million questions in rapid fire from three voices.
"Like, did...Like, hows...Like, no way..."
"ARGHHHHHH!" Ash threw back his head and yelled in frustration.
Richie had impeccable timing and in the shocked silence after Ash's yell entered the living room. He announced happily, "Breakfast is ready."
Everyone who was staring incredulously in mid question at Ash turned to him while Ash held his head. "What's going on? And why is everyone staring at me?" he scratched his head in confusion.
Gary shook his head and calmly walked past Richie whispering "Don't ask" and motioning him to follow. Leaving the sensational sisters alone with a frustrated and tired Brother-in-law. "I don't envy him." he chuckled under his breath.
Ash watched his friends desert him *Why me?* was the only coherent thought to cross his mind.
Daisy was the first to regain what little wits she had, "Like, did you have to yell? And where's our sister and new niece or nephew?"
Violet followed "Yah, and like what happened to your arm?"
Lily's was the last question "Like what was it?"
The pokemon came down the stairs for breakfast before they could ask any more questions much to Ash's relief.
"Pikachu Pikapi!" [Good morning Ash!] Pikachu shouted as he jumped on his friend's lap.
"Togiprii?" [Where's mommy?] Togepi looked up at him in confusion.
"Chicko chikori?" [Is everything okay?] Chikorita worriedly eyed the darkening bruises on his arm and hand.
Ash got up moved Pikachu to one shoulder and Chikorita to the other then picked up Togepi and walked off to the kitchen leaving his sister-in-laws behind.
"HEY!" They yelled and ran after him once they realized they were standing in the living room alone.
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After they breakfast the pokemon ran off to play in the yard leaving the humans in the kitchen looking expectantly at Ash.
He was awake and finally able to think. He sighed, "Now I'll answer your questions but one at a time."
Lily beat her sisters and Gary "Was it a girl or boy?"
"Girl"
All three squealed in delight as the three males cringed.
Daisy calmed the other two down "So where are they?"
Ash pulled his fingers out of his aching ears "Their still at the hospital. They get released tomorrow."
Violet sounded worried "There weren't any problems or complications right?"
The other three mirrored her expression as they stared at Ash who shuddered. "There fine. If there were any problem's I wouldn't have come home after."
After a collective sigh of relief Lily asked something they forgot, "So what did you guys name her?"
"Sarah Ketchum"
They thought about at the name. Daisy broke the silence "Why didn't you pick a flower name?"
Gary and Richie snickered, giving Ash a pitying glance. Richie spent yesterday at Oak lab complaining to Gary who came over to visit his family about noise the two of them were making trying to name the baby.
Ash sweat dropped as the three glared him down *Now I know it's genetic. Hope Sarah doesn't inherit it.* "Uhhh...none of them go with Ketchum."
They pondered his answer and Lily smiled "Okay!" she said cheerfully as her sisters looked at her like she was crazy.
"Anyway what did happen to your hand?" Violet eyed his left arm and hand which were looking an unhealthy shade of purple.
"Uh...." Ash stammered.
Gary was choking back on his laughter. But he couldn't hold it in and blurted out in mid laugh "Misty happened!" before Richie could stop him.
Richie explained what happened to Gary when they got to the kitchen. After one glance at Ash's mortified facial expression he "eeped" and ran from the room before Ash could kill him.
The sensational sisters eyed Ash in shock.
Violet couldn't believe the answer to her question "Our little sister..."
Daisy recovered, glared at Gary and whacked his arm. That knocked him off balance, he and the chair he was leaning on fell to the floor with a thud causing the other occupants of the room to cringe.
Ash looked at his prone still chuckling friend *Now I know the temperament is also hereditary. I didn't think her sisters were like her...they seem so different.*
"Owwww...why did you do that?" He stopped chuckling and stared up at her from his prone position on the floor.
She continued to glare at him "You shouldn't laugh."
He looked sheepish "Sorry..."
"W-what's going on here?" Ash watched the exchange in shock. "Are you two..."
Gary got up and dusted himself off "What?"
"You never apologize...you two aren't..." Ash was unable to process the possibility.
Gary grinned evilly "Going out?"
Daisy looked confused "Like, what's wrong with us dating?"
Ash shook his head as the other two sisters laughed.
Lily answered the confused Pokemon Master "They've been going out since the gym started to pick up again. It's been about a year...no...maybe a little longer..."
"H-huh..."Ash fainted.
Lily and Violet rushed over to Ash and checked to see if he was okay. "Misty isn't going to like this."
"Why not? She knew about it...though why Ash didn't I don't know."
"That's not what I meant..."
"What did you mean then?"
"I meant she isn't going to like the fact that her husband possibly has a concussion. His head bounced three times off the vinyl floor."
"Oh!"
Bryan chose that moment to come home through the kitchen door "I'm home...What happened to him?"
Richie popped his head back in to the room "Good to see your home. Did you come last night at all?"
Bryan looked from Ash to Richie "No, I spent the night with May..."
"YOU WHAT!?!" Gary roared as he rushed to choke Bryan.
Luckily the chair was still on the ground and Gary tripped. This gave Bryan a slight head start in the mad race from his new girlfriend's very angry brother.
Richie moved out of the way and held the kitchen door open so they wouldn't damage it.
Sensational sisters watched in wonder as the two males disappeared out the front door. Followed by shouts of, "You better not have done anything to my sister!", "I didn't mean it like that!", and the like were heard from outside.
Richie helped Violet and Lily carry his unconscious friend to the couch as they tried to revive him.
"Even with that entire racquet..." They heard Bryan and Gary yelling out side as they seemed to run back and forth in front of Ash's house.
"AHHHHHHHH! HELP ME!"
"YOU GET BACK HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!"
"We didn't do anything like that!"
"I don't care! I'm still going to kill you!"
"...he still isn't awake." Richie shook his head. "Well there is only one thing left to do since if we aren't at the hospital in ten minutes Misty will kill us."
Lily and Violet shot him puzzled glances as they watched him walk to the door. Daisy decided to follow him and get her boyfriend to stop trying to kill that other guy.
"Pikachu, Sparky come here!" Richie yelled.
Two almost identical yellow mice came bounding over from their entertainment otherwise known as Bryan and Gary.
"Pika?" [Yes?]
Sparky pouted "Pikachu! Pika pika pikachu!" [Kill joy! It was just getting good!]
Richie couldn't help but chuckle at his pokemon.
Daisy was busy yelling at Gary to stop acting so immature and get back to the house. "Your sister is older than you and can take care of herself!"
It fell on deaf ears as Gary pulled out a pokeball and continued to chase Bryan.
Richie stopped laughing. They were attracting a crowd and the other two sisters came over to see what was going on.
"This is getting nowhere." Richie groaned "Sparky you shock some sense into those two and Pikachu wake up Ash."
"Pika!" The two yelled as they ran off to do their assigned tasks.
Soon three yells of "AHHHHHH!" were heard echoing through Pallet Town.
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Ash had recovered the fastest and after being reminded that he had to see his new family ran out the door with a charred Bryan, two laughing Pikachu, Togepi, Chikorita, and a laughing Richie. They piled in to his car while Misty's sisters and a charred Gary piled into Gary's car with Daisy behind the wheel.
Ash dropped Richie and Sparky off at the gym. They made it to the hospital by 8:00 AM when they allowed visitors.
Gary glared at Bryan as they dusted themselves off.
Daisy piled packages and balloons in his arms to keep him from starting again. "Behave"
He grumbled under the pile of bags and Bryan practically ran to the nursery to escape him.
Ash carrying Togepi rushed up to Misty's room with Pikachu and Chikorita on his heals leaving everyone else behind.
The rest of them caught up to Bryan who was trying to find Sarah but her bassinet was missing. A nurse came down the hall and informed them that she was eating and they could go in to the room soon.
Bryan made an excuse of having to do something and rushed off before Gary could get a hold of him.
They waited in the waiting room for a nurse to say it was okay for them to go in.
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Ash sat in the chair near Misty's bed covered in pokemon: Pikachu on one shoulder, Chikorita on the other and Togepi on his lap.
"So how are you doing?"
"I'm still tired. They brought her in once earlier for a feeding." She shifted and Sarah whimpered.
"Your sisters and Gary are here to see the both of you."
Misty groaned and moved so her bangs covered her face. Sarah picked up on the change in her mother's mood and scrunched up her face but didn't stop eating.
Ash chuckled "I got to deal with all four at five o'clock this morning. I really don't think our daughter likes it when you get upset."
Misty looked up at him and stuck out her tongue. "No, I think it's because she is like her dad and doesn't like having her meal interrupted."
Ash pouted, "If it makes you feel any better Bryan got chased around by Gary. Sparky had to shock the two of them to get them to stop."
"Why?"
"Well it seems Bryan spent the night over at the Oaks and Gary thought he..."
Misty giggled disturbing her daughter again who whimpered louder "Sorry, little one. I'm sorry I missed it and that does make me feel better."
"Speaking of Gary did you know he and your sister Daisy were going dating?"
"Uh...heh heh heh...yes."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"It must have slipped my mind."
"Great now I'm really related to him." Ash grumbled under his breath.
Misty looked confused "What do you mean?"
"There really close and will probably get married meaning he'll be your brother-in-law and my I have no idea what."
"It can't be that bad. Besides I thought you guys made up. Besides you're kind of his Step uncle...um...never mind this is getting too confusing." She sighed and gave up on the conversation.
"Well I guess it isn't too bad, but it's still too weird."
"Like that's anything new with your family."
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While Ash and Misty had their conversation the three pokemon were curious about the blanket clad bundle and tried to peak around the blanket's edge.
"Togiprii togi?" [What is that?]
"Pika chu Pikapi pi Pikachupi pika." [That is Ash and Misty's baby.]
"Togi? Toki togi!" [Baby? But I'm the baby!] Togepi looked ready to cry.
Pikachu sighed, covered his eyes with his paws, and laid his ears flat against his shaking head.
"Chiko!" [Stop!] Chikorita reprimanded Togepi.
Before any thing else could happen Misty finished feeding Sarah and burped her. "Togepi"
Togepi stopped and looked at Misty.
Misty eyed her pokemon sternly, "Just because Ash and I have a baby doesn't mean we love you any less. You are old enough to do things on your own and need to stop depending on us. You are kind of like my first child and Sarah will not replace you but you must understand that we can't baby you anymore."
Ash picked Togepi up and put it on the bed next to Misty "You will be an older sibling to Sarah."
"Toki?" [Older?] Togepi seemed to consider it then chirped happily and started to glow.
"What's wrong?" Misty looked worried.
"I-I think Togepi is finally evolving." Ash and Misty watched in shock as Togepi stopped glowing and floated over the bed...
"What's going on?" Professor Oak and several nurses rushed into the room followed by everyone else to see the newly evolved Togetic floating around happily. While Ash and Misty continued to stare at it dumbfounded.
"It finally evolved!" Okido whipped out his note pad and examined the happiness pokemon. "Any idea as to what caused it?"
Ash put Chikorita and Pikachu on the ground and scratched his head. "Well I guess it was a realization that it wasn't the baby of the family anymore."
"Interesting..." Okido continued to take notes then whipped out some tools and took measurements of Togetic. But he had a few problems since he refused to float in one place.
Bryan stood in the doorway in shock. He slipped in behind everyone in an effort to avoid Gary and see what all the commotion was about. "T-that's a..."
"Togetic the happiness pokemon. The evolved version of Togepi, not much is known about this rare pokemon or its evolution." Ash's Pokegear read out what it knew.
"Misty, can I examine Togetic at the lab sometime soon?"
"I guess so. Is that okay with you Togetic?"
"Togi" [Yes]
"Well since Misty comes home tomorrow how about it you examine him today and bring him by tomorrow?" Ash suggested.
"Great! Bryan, come with me we've got a lot to get done." Okido grabbed his shocked temporary assistant and they rushed from the room Togetic obediently following behind.
"My, that was interesting." Sasha watched her husband rush from the room. "Ash can you give me a rid home? I think Okido took the car."
"Sure"
Misty's sisters got over the shock of seeing the little pokemon they used to ignore and professor Oak's odd behavior as they flocked over to examine their niece.
"Oh, she's so cute!"
"She's got her dad's hair..."
"But, she looks a lot like Misty!"
"What do you mean by that?" Misty growled as she glared at her sisters and hugged Sarah protectively causing Sarah to whimper.
Daisy shrugged "I didn't mean it in a bad way. So you don't have to get so defensive."
"Don't take it so personal Misty..." Violet tried to reason with her.
Ash moved the trio so he could sit on the bed next to her. "I think Misty's had enough excitement for one day. You can come to the house tomorrow when I bring them home."
"But..."
"No, come by tomorrow. I'll call you when we get home." Ash glared at them.
"Okay, but you had better call us. We'll be at the Oak residence." Daisy left the room dragging a protesting Gary with her.
"But I didn't get to see her!"
"You'll get to see her tomorrow."
"Misty, get some rest." Lily and Violet put the packages down by her bed and tied the balloons to a chair before leaving.
When the door closed behind them only Ash's mom was left in the room with them. She quietly sat down on the chair near Misty's bed.
"Thank you." Misty relaxed her hold on Sarah who was starting to fuss.
"Your welcome, now why don't you get some sleep and I'll take care of her." Ash smiled and took his daughter.
"I love them but they make me nuts!" She sighed again in frustration.
"Well dear, you are entitled to feel that way about your siblings considering the way they act. But try not to let what they say get to you." Sasha patted Misty on the arm.
"Thanks mom, I've been reacting to what they say for so long that I can't help it. I wish they wouldn't say those things."
"Well have you tried talking to them and explaining how you feel?" She grabbed Misty's hand.
"Every time I tried in the past they just shrugged it off. I don't know what to do."
"Well, I'll talk to them tonight but I doubt it will do much good. You get some rest while you can. Ash was a handful when I got home from the hospital." She kissed her forehead.
"MOM!" Ash whined.
"Well you were, I'm only telling the truth. Let me see my granddaughter before I go." She took Sarah from her pouting father.
"Don't worry I'm sure she'll be a lot easier to deal with. You two will do fine as parents, don't ever doubt that. Besides if you ever need me I'm right down the street." She rocked Sarah to sleep and handed her back to Ash. "I'll be waiting in the hall when you're ready to go."
"Pikapi, pika pikachu!" [Ash, it will be fine!] Pikachu and Chikorita ran out of the room with his mom.
Ash cuddled his daughter and put her in the bassinet, then called the nurse to take her back to the nursery. "You get some rest and I'll be back after dropping mom off and checking on Richie."
Misty tried to grumble about being told to sleep but let out a big yawn.
"See you are tired. I'll be back later."
The door opened and the nurse came in, "I'll take her back now. I think your family is still hanging around to get a glimpse of her." The nurse wheeled the cart away.
Ash gave her a quick kiss and left the room after the nurse.
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Ash did what he had to and spent the night at the hospital. He figured it would be less hazardous when he had to pick them up. He really didn't want a repeat of the previous morning.
"Huh?" He was disoriented for a second morning in a row. The chair in Misty's room gave him a crick in his neck and Misty's doctor standing shaking him awake startled him enough to send him sprawling to the floor.
"Your Daddy is silly, but that's why I love him." Misty told her daughter. The only response she got was a whimper.
Dr. Ito laughed and helped Ash up. "You probably should have gone home."
Ash yawned and stretched then glared at a highly amused Misty. "At least you got to sleep in a bed."
"Well you could have gone home and slept in a bed."
"I didn't want to be late and your sisters probably didn't listen to directions and are at our house right now." He rubbed his stiff neck.
"Well I see Misty's fine and you seem to be okay. I probably don't want to know what you mean about her sisters so I won't ask. I just wanted to make sure you were fine before I signed the release papers." Dr. Ito looked at Misty's chart.
Misty finished feeing Sarah her breakfast handing her to Ash to burp.
He closed the chart and signed a few forms "Just make sure she doesn't do anything too strenuous for a while. Don't do any pokemon training for a few weeks you're on maternity leave for the next three months." With that he handed Ash the forms and left the room.
"Let's get home. But I have a feeling that we won't get any peace when we get there." Ash rubbed Sarah's back and sat down in the chair.
"Let me get dressed before you rush us out of the hospital I don't want to go home in my robe."
A nurse came in and took the forms and instructed Ash to bring his car to the loading zone when Misty was ready. She quickly left the room.
Ash smiled at his sleeping daughter "I guess this is the end of our quiet nights."
"You got that right. You're going to wake up and change diapers too, I'm not doing everything." Misty exited the bathroom dressed and ready to leave. An attendant came with a wheelchair she sat down and Ash handed her Sarah."
"Yes, dear" Ash chuckled.
She glared at him "That's not funny and I mean it your doing your share."
He kissed her then ran to get the car. It was going to be a long day.
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To be continued…
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Only one more chapter left, I decided to play this out a little more. Still haven't decided if I'll continue. It depends on what you guys want. Thanks for sticking with me. Your support means a lot. Actually went over a hundred reviews! Yay! I forgot to add in my last not that I finally named Misty's doctor. He isn't the same doctor in the other chapter, Dr. Ito an OBGYN the other one was an internist. If there really is an OBGYN named Dr. Ito I had no idea so don't take offense. It was just a name that popped into my scrambled mind while typing. I just got tired of saying the doctor did etc. Naming the doctor made it easier.
I'm drawing a few scenes from the story so if you have any requests just send an email or say so in your review. If you want to be added to the update notification list let me know.
Now to address a few things from the Reviews:
I know where I got off track with my plot; I have been neglecting the Jhoto pokemon and everything to do with them. The whole problem with Gabby is now resolved so there shouldn't be any more problems with him. Don't worry, the Jhoto pokemon thing will be explained and if I do a continuation they will play a bigger role.
Joy-girl, I'm aware I didn't put the getting to the hospital part in. Gomen, I kind of forgot. If you guys want it I'll add in...somehow...
Evui, I'm aware that Ash's mom and Professor Oak's names are wrong but this is based on Jaelle and Orla's fic and they used these names. Note this is NOT a continuation of their fic. Though with a few changes I could change this to a regular fic but I don't really want to at the moment. Before you report me I did get Jaelle's permission before starting this. As for the months it takes for a baby to be born I'm glad to see someone was checking on my math but it did take about nine months. I didn't make an error. It's just that Sarah was conceived sometime at the end of June so some time towards the end of March is about nine months. So since Sarah came in early March she was early. If you have any other problems with my math let me know and I'll try to fix it. Besides I have heard of women carrying a baby for more than nine months it depends on the person, though most doctors will induce labor or do a C-section in those cases.
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Kitcat ^_^
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