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Part
2
Between
a BROCK and a Hard Place
Disclaimer:
I do not own Pokemon, *sigh*, oh well. The story is mine. Pokemon is owned by
Game Freaks 1995-2001
Ash, Misty
and Brock where on the road to Goldenrod City, next stop in the Johto region.
They had been walking quite a ways; they had spent over 6 days in the
forest. Their backs where sore from
sleeping on the ground, and their feet were aching.
No one wanted to sleep in a bed more then Misty, and she made sure that
the guys knew that. It had been a week since Ash and Misty revealed their true
feelings. But as always a problem
arose, they had yet to tell Brock. Brock,
who besides Ash was not the sharpest knife in the drawer, had been oblivious to
Ash and Misty. Every time Brock was
looking at a Map or cooking, or swooning over a pretty girl, Ash and Misty would
steal a kiss. Of course as soon as
he turned around they would stop holding hands or kissing and begin to 'fake'
argue with each other to sidetrack Brock. They where not ready to tell him, not yet.
As they entered the gates to Goldenrod City Brock started running around
trying to get girls e-mail addresses and phone numbers, unsuccessfully though.
Ash and Misty sighed, when Brock was out of sight, Ash turned around and
wrapped his arms around Misty's waist. They
leaned in for a kiss, Pikachu laughed happily.
Although Brock has no idea about them, Ash had told Pikachu a while ago.
Misty leaned her head on Ash's shoulder. "Ash, we have to tell
Brock…all week we have hardly been able to spend anytime together, and we
always have to fake argue when he looks at us."
Ash nodded. "We'll
tell him, I just don't know how he will take it."
Misty smiled at Ash as she played with his hat hair.
"Ash honey?" Ash blushed as he gazed into her eyes. "Yeah
Mist?" She kissed his cheek and ran a finger down the tip of his nose.
Ash blush furiously.
"Will you take me out somewhere
tonight?" Ash thought about it. Misty turned on her sappiest girlish voice
and shimmering eyes. "Pwwwease Ashy washy! Just the two of us?"
Ash had a goofy grin and laughed a little. "Yeah sure!
But what about Brock.?"
Misty kissed him again.
"We'll think of something, so where are going to take me?"
Ash thought a minute and turned to
Misty. "I don't know, never been to Golden Rod City before."
Misty fell over in stupidity. Just
then Brock came walking over to them holding his cheek.
Ash waved to him, but Brock just rubbed his face.
Misty got up giggled. "What
happened Brock?" Brock removed his hand to reveal his swollen red cheek.
"256 slaps to the face, well I'm
done for the day."
Ash just pointed and laughed.
"Shut up Ash" he said coldly. "Like to see you try and get a
girlfriend." Ash and Misty looked at each other and started laughing again.
Brock shrugged and took out his map.
(What they don't know is there meant for each other, I wonder when
there'll get together.) Brock chuckled to himself. (Yeah right, Ash and Misty a
couple, that's hilarious, Sabrina must be wrong.) He looked up from his map to
see Ash and Misty arguing. (Definitely wrong).
Brock scanned the map and found what he was looking for.
"Hey why don't we stay at the pokéhotel?" Ash and Misty looked
at Brock enquiringly. "Pokéhotel??"
Brock whipped out his Pokémon handbook, he skimmed the pages and found
the heading, and recited to the group what he read. "The pokehotel, known
for it's lavish and Pokemon oriented atmosphere, trainers who own the Pokemon
chosen for the weekly contest can get free rooms for up to 4 people and other
various prizes. It also says here
that daily Pokemon battles are held in their own battle arena.
Also surrounded by pleasurable nightlife, the pokehotel is a must-see for
any trainer." Brock slipped the book back in his pocket.
Ash was so excited he could hardly contain himself.
"Alright! A Pokemon themed hotel sounds great to me!" Misty
came up beside Ash and nudged him in the ribs and whispered in his ear.
"Don't forget, you promised to take me out tonight." Ash
nodded and whispered in her ear. "He did say "pleasurable night-life'
didn't he, we'll find something to do." Brock walked up to them. "What
are you whispering?" Ash and Misty jumped back. "Uh…uh nothing, just
wondering if there's free food there? Hehehe" Misty rubbed her forehead.
(Nice save Ashy). Brock was a bit
skeptical but soon forgot about it. The
three heroes walked off to the Hotel. Brock
looked back just as Ash and Misty were about to hold hands.
Pikachu sighed along with Ash. Ash was already annoyed. (I'll tell him
after our date…..oh-oh a date….I don't have any nice clothes!) Ash ruffled
his hair.
Misty held Togepi in her arms as she
walked with Ash. (What's up with
Ash, doesn't he want to go on our date? Wait a date..*Gasp* I don't have a thing
to wear!) Brock looked back to see
Misty and Ash very nervous looking. (What the?).
It wasn't long until they had found the Pokéhotel. They all were amazed at its immense size.
It looked to be at least 15 stories high, and it took up an entire block.
Ash's jaw dropped at the spectacle. "Whoaa…..it's pretty big.
Look's expensive…"
Brock looked in the Guidebook.
"Well if we win that contest, we can stay for free! Let's just hope we have
the Pokemon that matches the winning description." Ash ran to the door.
"There's only one way to find out! Come on!"
Misty, Brock and Pikachu ran in after Ash. Inside was a sight to behold, Pokemon and trainers
everywhere, the sound of Pokemon March could be heard over unseen speakers over
head, pictures and paintings of rare Pokemon where strewn on the walls.
The sheer size of the foyer was enough to be impressed.
The three trainers walked up to the main desk, a woman whom in Brock's
mind was beautiful greeted them. As
he began blushing over her, Misty grabbed his ear and dragged them off.
The desk clerk smiled. "Hello, welcome to the Pokéhotel, would you
like a room or participate in this weeks contest for a free suite?" Ash
gave her his peace symbol, the contest of course!" The woman slapped her
hands. "Good luck to you! You
must show me the Pokemon that matches the name in an envelope chosen at
random." The woman held up the envelope and opened it, studied it and
slipped it back in. "okay, call out your Pokemon, and let's see if you
win" one by one they each brought out a Pokemon, everyone single one the
lady shook her head. They were
getting nervous; they only had 1 pokeball each. "Ah man, it could be
anything." Ash threw his pokeball, and out popped Charizard. The clerk
shook her head. "Sorry not it". Ash slumped down on a chair. "Aww
man" Brock took out his last pokeball and threw it. "Vulpix go!" the
lady clapped her hands. "DID I WIN!" The woman shook her head again.
"No, it's just so adorable!" Brock sighed and sat down next to Ash, at
that point it was completely hopeless. Misty
sighed as she stared at her pokeball, psyducks pokeball. "Ugh, how could
this dimwit duck help now, ah well." She reluctantly threw the pokeball and
out came Psyduck. "Psy?" the woman jump up and horns blared as
confetti came down around them. "WHAT!?" the woman shook hands with
Misty. "Congratulations! You
Win!"
Ash and Brock bolted up. "No
way!" Misty reached down and grabbed psyduck.
"Way to Psyduck!" Psyduck
tilted his head. "Psy?" Misty sighed. "Oh well, now we get a free
room!" The woman handed tags to the three of them. "Here, these are
V.I.P passes they get you the best of everything free of charge!" Misty's
eyes grew wide. "Even ice cream!" the lady nodded. "Why of
course!" Misty jumped in the air. "YEAH!!" The clerk bowed to
them. " I hope you enjoy your stay!"
Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu got off the elevator and stepped into the
hallway.
They looked for their suite and
couldn't find it. They walked down to the end of the hall and there it was.
Misty jammed the key in the doorknob and unlocked it.
She swung open the door and gasped.
Brock and Misty came up behind her and caught their breath.
"oh..my…." Misty managed to
say. They stared at a 1000
square-foot room, complete with kitchen, living room, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms
with king size beds, a rec room and a full sized entertainment system.
The trio was speechless as they looked
at the room, their room, for the next
week. They were silent for a long
time until Ash spoke up. "I think I could take a week off from
walking." The three trainers ran into the room and quickly started checking
out all the cool gadgets and little bottles of free shampoo. They all collapsed on the huge comfy couch as Ash turned on
the 60" TV. They almost fell
of the couch as the 100-watt surround sound system blasted their eardrums. Misty
whacked Ash. "TURN IT DOWN" Ash turned the sound off and rubbed his
ears. Brock tapped Misty on the
shoulder. "HEY MISTY! YOU AN ASH WANNA SEE A MOVIE!?" Misty fell back
into Ash and whacked Brock upside the head. "Idiot! Take your fingers out
of you ears!" Brock brought his hands down and smiled sheepishly. "You
guys wanna see a movie? I saw a
cinema not to far from here when I was chasing…..uh...I mean…..talking to
girls." Brock rubbed his cheek at the thought of all those slaps to the
face. (*Sigh* WILL I EVER FIND A
GIRL!)
"What's playing?" Ash asked.
"Uh some kind of double feature,
romantic comedy I think, maybe I could learn some tips on picking up
women!" Misty sweat dropped. "Right…well actually I was gonna take a
nap." Ash intervened. "But Misty it sounds okaOWCH!" Misty jammed her heel on Ash's foot. He tried not to show it to Brock. "Naw, I'll go see
about those Pokemon Battles!"
Brock sighed. "Well okay, I'll be
back in three hours or so" Brock got up and quickly turned around with a
very excited expression. "Maybe I can get Nurse Joy to go with me! Or maybe
even Officer Jenny!" Brock was
replaced with a cloud of dust as he ran out the door. The door swung shut behind him from the back draft.
As soon as Misty knew that Brock was indeed gone she turned to Ash who at
that moment was rubbing his foot.
Misty ran over and jumped on Ash.
"Waa! Hey misty be caremmth!" Misty cut-off Ash with a kiss attack.
"Mi..mmph!…I..mmpth!" Misty continued to kiss all over his face. Ash
began to flail wildly. Misty got
angry; she stopped to look at Ash squirming under her. "Ash! I have waited
6 days to spend some time with you! The least you could do his put your arms
around me!" Ash began to turn an odd shade of blue. "Ash?" He was
finally able to get some words out. "your…knee…is….on….my."
Misty looked down, she turned beet red and jumped off him. Ash breathed in a
sigh of relief. "I'm so sorry honey!" Ash wrapped his arms around her
and smiled.
"Its okay Misty, now where were
we?" They leaned in for a slow and passionate kiss.
The broke the kiss after a minute and
lay down next to each other.
"What are we going to do about
Brock?" Misty Asked.
"Well, we should just flat out
tell him before things get complicated."
Misty turned to face Ash. "Right
after our date, where to?"
Ash got up and helped Misty to her
feet. "Let's walk around, there's got to be something."
Misty leaned her head on Ash's chest.
"Hey Ash, why not go to a dinner and a movie?"
Ash kissed her. "Yeah that's a
great idea."
Misty ran to get the room keys.
"Let's see what's playing"
Misty ran out the door and Ash ran to
catch up with her.
*******
Brock walked into the movie theater.
He had been late and the trailers were playing.
He picked a seat near the front and
crossed his arms. "Okay so officer Jenny didn't want to come with me, it's
her loss!" Brock looked down
at his bag of popcorn and nibbled a few kernels. "So Nurse Joy didn't come
either, I'm perfectly fine by myself" He was abruptly shushed by an old
women behind him. "Oh sorry" he whispered. He turned his attention to the movie. Just then he thought he heard a familiar voice.
He looked down to see two people in the chairs right in front of him.
(Hmm, the shape of their heads is awfully familiar) The girl to his left
whispered something in the guy's ear.
"Hey, is it okay if I do
this?" She leaned her head on the guys shoulder.
Brock munched on his popcorn. The
guy put his arm around her. "No problem Mist" Brock had a million
sweat drops as he inhaled his popcorn with reckless abandon.
"I love you Ashy"
Brock started choking on the popcorn
and grabbed at his throat. He
quickly dropped to the ground so not to be seen by what he now knew as Ash and
Misty.
"What was that Ash?"
"donno, hey watch, the movie
started"
Brock gasped for air as he lay on the
sticky floor. (oh my GOD. What is
going on here? Did I hear right, there in love?)
Brock slowly crept up back to his chair and sank down low see no one
could see him. Brock could hardly
pay attention to the movie as he watched Ash and Misty the entire time. (I know
Sabrina had told me about this, but I didn't expect them to get together so
soon…and why haven't they told me!) When the movie had ended Brock laid back
down on the floor. As movie patrons stepped on him, he remained quite for fear
of being caught. As he saw Ash and
Misty walk out of the theater hand in hand, he got up, brushed the gum and
popcorn off him and quietly sneaked out of the cinema always making sure he was
out of site. (oh okay…so they want to keep there little secret from me, well
that's fine, but how dumb do they think I am?
Well two can play at this game!)
Brock continued to follow them down to
the pier. Brock watched as he saw
them sit down on the edge of the pier and lean next to each other.
At times like this Brock had wished he could read lips, he had no idea
what they were saying and he couldn't get any closer.
He then saw Ash and Misty get their faces really close to each other.
(what the?)
He gasped as he saw them meet halfway
and lock their lips in a passionate kiss. He
covered his mouth and stepped back, he slipped on a puddle of water and fell
backwards into the ravine. Ash and
Misty whipped their heads in the direction where the sound had come from.
"did you here that?" Misty Asked.
Ash nodded. "I
definitely heard something"
Misty leaned her head on his shoulder.
"probably a Magicarp"
Ash put his arm around her. "
yeah, so how did you like the movie?"
"I thought it was great!"
Ash scoffed. "it was a bit cheesy,
that one guy was the worst actor I'd ever seen."
Misty playfully punched him in the arm.
"I thought it was romantic!"
Ash then stopped and stared into space.
"wait……wasn't the movie we saw a romantic comedy?"
Misty nodded. "yeah"
"Didn't Brock say he was going to
see a romantic comedy?"
Misty shifted uneasily. "y..yeah"
"Didn't Brock say the movie was a
double feature?"
Misty again nodded looking very
nervous.
"wasn't…the movie we saw…..a
double feature."
Misty gasped as she realized their HUGE
mistake.
"What if he saw us!" Ash
stood up with lighting speed.
"Calm down! It was dark in there!
Maybe he didn't see us!" As Misty and Ash continued to freak out, Brock
climbed out of the ravine and picked the seaweed off his vest.
(so they know, but I won't let them
know I know, because only if they think they know I know then they'll think I
don't know and continue to know what they know and thinking that I don't know,
only I will know what I know about what they think I know and
that…..I…..um…..they……I lost my train of thought!) Brock quickly
jumped to avoid being seen by Ash and Misty who had just ran by franticly,
towards the hotel. (oh oh, better get moving!) Brock ran towards the Hotel
making sure to take the scenic route.
Ash and Misty burst into their hotel room and quickly searched for any
trace of Brock. "oh, no he's
not here, what to do!" Ash checked all the rooms and spotted Pikachu
floating on his little inner tube in the spa.
"hey Pikachu" Pikachu looked up and winked at Ash.
"Pika!" Just then he
heard the front door open. Misty
and Ash scrambled to the living room to see whom it was.
In the doorway was a very soggy Brock.
Misty approached him. "hey…Brock…um…how
was the movie." Brock smiled.
(trying to fool me eh?) He walked in to the room as he did his shoes squished
from being waterlogged. "oh, I
wouldn't know Misty, I went swimming instead."
Ash and Misty let out a sigh of relief.
Ash pointed. "you swam in your clothes?" Brock sweat-dropped
and nervously scratched his head. "I..um……didn't find my bathing
suit….so I just dove in like this." Brock smiled and laughed. (yes that
will do). Ash and Misty slumped
down on the couch and gave each other a relieved glance.
Brock went to get changed. (how
come they won't tell me now! they
have a perfect chance, I'll give them a few more minutes. Brock emerged fully dry and dressed. He sat down in an easy chair opposite of Ash and Misty.
He stared at them and an uneasy silence seemed to drag on for minutes.
Ash and Misty were both getting incredibly nervous as they both gulped.
Then ash spoke up.
"HEY WHY DID THE FOOTBALL PLAYER
GO TO THE TELEPHONE BOOTH…HE HAD TO HIS QUARTERBACK! He he he." Brock
stared, no change in his facade. Misty
rubbed her forehead out of embarrassment. Brock
looked down to his feet.
(they have a perfect opportunity to
tell me, I thought they were my friends, well fine then, be that way!) Brock got
up. "I'm going to bed" he said coldly.
As he entered his room, Ash and Misty collapsed on the sofa. "that
was close" Misty stated.
"yeah, wonder what's wrong with
him, he acted kinda weird." Misty
kissed him and helped him to his feet. "I
wouldn't worry, we'll tell him tomorrow."
Ash broke away from Misty. "no Misty, I'm tired of lying to Brock,
you go to bed, I'll tell him myself, it'll be easier"
Misty was going to argue against it but
quickly agreed. She walked to her
bedroom suite and blew Ash a kiss as she walked in and closed the door behind
her.
Ash stared at Brocks door, he shrugged
and shakily reached for the knob. "hello? Brock? Can I come in?"
He pushed the door open the rest of the way and looked into Brocks room.
He was sitting in an easy chair on the opposite side of his bed.
He was just staring out the window with his hands resting on his lap.
Ash closed the door and walked up behind him.
"hey Brocko!" Brock
was silent, his eyes fixed on the view of the city.
Ash walked closer to him and put his
hand on Brocks shoulder. Brock
coldly brushed his hand off and turned to face Ash, his eyes narrowed.
"look um Brock I got to tell you
something.." Ash stopped and looked into Brock's ice-cold eyes, Ash
suddenly realized it.
"you know" Brock stood up and walked over to Ash.
"yes Ash I know everything, I know
about you and Misty and your little secret." He said coldly.
Ash was suddenly very nervous, his head
overflowed with thoughts on how to explain the situation.
Brock continued. "I just don't get it, why hide it from me for the past
week, you think I would never find out!"
Ash was taken aback from Brock's sudden outburst.
"I mean, how in the world could
you get a girlfriend!" Ash
fell over in stupidity. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN!" Brock clenched a fist.
"look at you, why would any girl,
even Misty fall in love with you, I mean I'm the one who is supposed to have a
girlfriend, I'm Brock for crying out loud!
You're just going to have to break up with her, that way we'd be even on
the love issue."
Ash got angry. "your jealous
because I've found someone who loves me!"
"Why Misty? she isn't even pretty
or anything! How could you possibly
know love?"
Ash got really angry. "HEY! That's
my girlfriend you're talking about! You
want to know what I think! If you stopped looking at girls who are only
beautiful and don't look at what's in the inside, then you'll never get a
girlfriend!" Brock stood still
and lowered his head. Ash stepped
back and reached for the door. "I'm sorry we kept it from you, good
night." Ash stepped out into the hallway and closed the door behind him.
Brock stood in his room, very silent and angry.
Angry of what Ash had done, what Ash had said. ("What does he know
anyway, what does he know of love?")
******
Misty looked up from her book to see a
very angry Ash walk into their room. "what
happened Ash?"
Ash looked at the girl he loved.
("of course I know what love is! I'm
a human being just like anyone else. I
can think, I can touch, I can feel.") He wrapped his arms around Misty and
kissed her. "he knows, and he
didn't take it very well" Misty
sighed and cupped Ash's face in her hands.
"he'll get over it, come on let's sleep, he be over it in the
morning." Ash smiled and threw
Misty onto the bed. She giggled
happily as Ash pounced on her and began to kiss her all over her face.
They kissed passionately for what seemed like hours.
They kissed so much the inside of their mouths went raw.
Misty pushed Ash from off her and rubbed her lips.
"I think we better stop for tonight, I have raging cotton
mouth." After a quick change
and a drink they settled into bed. It
was only the second time they slept in the same bed since that night in the
forest where they confessed their love for each other. Both content with the events of the day with the exception of
Brock, they drifted off to sleep. They
where soon in such a deep sleep that they didn't hear the door open across the
hall. They didn't here footsteps,
or the front door closing. Not even
Pikachu, for whom after raiding the fridge, fell asleep on the sofa.
********
Misty woke in the arms of her true
love. She looked upon his face. He
had a silly grin, and the same dirty cheeks he always had.
She snuggled close to Ash and inhaled his scent.
She then heard some footsteps come bounding down the hall.
A yellow blur flew through the door and jumped on Ash's stomach.
Ash was abruptly shaken awake. "WAA!"
The yellow blur jumped onto Ash's face.
"PI PI PI!!" Ash pushed Pikachu off his face.
"what is it buddy" Pikachu
franticly pointed out in the hall. Ash
jumped out of the bed and walked out the room.
Misty could hear the soft padding of Ash's feet.
The sound went to the end of the hall.
Then it picked up-tempo and seemed to travel to the living room, then the
kitchen and then the rec room. The
sound of Ash's feet gave the idea that he was running all over the hotel room.
Misty got out of bed and walked to the kitchen.
There she saw Ash looking around the dining area. "what are you looking for Ashy?"
Ash straightened out and looked at Misty.
"….Brock" Misty
was confused. "what do you mean?"
"I mean Brock is gone, he's not in
the living room, not in the rec room, not in the bathrooms, and I checked his
room, his backpack is gone." Misty
gasped in shock. "HE LEFT! But why!?" Ash put his hand on his chin. "maybe he took the news
rather bad, and of what I said." Misty bonked him on the head. "WHAT
DID YOU SAY!" Ash rubbed the swollen lump on his cranium. "that's not
important now, we gotta find him!" Ash
quickly got dressed and headed for the door.
Misty followed close behind. Pikachu
came bounding up to them. "no
Pikachu, you stay here, we'll find Brock, look after Togepi."
Pikachu sadly nodded. They
ran down the hall and into the lobby. They
made there way over to the clerk at the front desk.
"scuse me miss, did you happen to see a guy with dark spiky hair,
and a green vest and no eyes come by would you?" The clerk thought a moment. "why yes he left late last
night, in fact I was wondering why he would be leaving so late, he never did
come back." Ash and Misty
screamed. "WHAT!" They
both hurriedly ran out of the Hotel. Misty
and Ash looked up and down the busy street.
"where could he have gone to Misty?" Misty
shrugged her shoulders. "why would he leave, I thought he would be happy
for us…..you never did tell me what you said to him." She said
accusingly. Ash shifted uneasily.
"He complained how he should have had a girlfriend before me."
Misty was angry, mainly at Brock. She
grabbed Ash's wrist. "come on let's Ask around."
*********
"those twerps are always getting
in our way!" screamed Jessie. James
shrunk back in fear. "well
what are we doing wrong?" Meowth
popped up and scratched James in the face..
"Eeehhhioooo!!" he
grabbed his face and rolled on the ground in pain. "what did you do that for?!" Meowth sighed. "you tows are pathetic.
How can you always let those three twerps push you around."
Jessie got angry. "I would like to hear your plan.
Meowth gave her a smirk. "I'll
be glad to." He held up a
Pokemon guidebook and opened it. He
held the book in their faces and showed them the picture of a large
building. James was confused. "read
it" James knelt down and skimmed the title. "pokehotel,
thee hottest tourist attraction.' He
looked back to Meowth. "so what?"
Meowth bonked him on the head. "yous
have to keep reading!" James continued to scan the page, when finished he
looked up more confused than before. "yeah so?" Meowth scratched him right across his face.
James ran around rubbing his face. "it's
simple this Hotel has many trainers staying there, all of them has many Pokemon. Alls we got to do is walk in take control of the joint and
reap the benefits!" Jessie
sighed. "and how do you
suppose we do it?" Meowth took
out some costumes. "we go in all sneaky like and take over the front
desk!" James rejoined the group, a huge bandage on his face. "why just the front desk?" Meowth scratched his face again.
"don't you know anything, nobody goes in, nobody goes out without
going to the front Desk. It is well
known that the Front Desk controls the entire Hotel! All we got to do is take
whatever Pokémon come in through that front door, and scram!" James rubbed
his cheek. "that plan sounds complicated." Jessie took out a paper fan and slam James in the back of the
head. "I think it's a great plan, and who better to be at the front desk
but a beautiful, charming girl like me!"
"yeah, yous as charming as a
Charizard" Meowth exclaimed under his breath.
Jessie was to busy looking into her
compact mirror to pay attention to Meowth's comments.
James, whose head was now wrapped in
bandages sulked over to the group.
"well what are we waiting for!
Lets go get'em Jessie yelled.
"Eeehhhioooo!!"
****************
Ash and Misty had been searching all
morning but still found no trace of Brock.
Ash and Misty stopped at a nearby cafe for a drink.
"Where could he have gone, this isn't like him" Misty sighed.
Ash to was worried that Brock had run off and left them behind, but why?
( he must of been really insulted, a
wish that argument never happened...... where are you Brock?)
After
two hours of searching half the city for their spiky haired companion,
they decided to go back to the hotel, both were hoping and praying that Brock
would be there and waiting for them. As
they walked through the front door they were greeted by two individuals at the
front desk. One had red hair the
other had blue hair and they both wore glasses.
"Good afternoon trewps..er...sir welcome to the Pokémon
Hotel." the red head said. Ash
and Misty walked up to the front desk. "Scuse
me, have you seen a tall spiky haired guy with no eyes come through the front
door recently? " The man with a blue hair shook his head. "Sorry
nobody like that has checked in. But we do ask that you hand in your Pokemon.
There seems to be a bug going about and we would like to have all Pokémon
checked by Nurse Joy, for safety reasons of course" Ash seemed reluctant at
first but handed over his pokeballs. The lady with the red hair collected his
pokeballs. "We're going to need your Pikachu as well" Ash looked
confused. "But Pikachu is
upstairs in our room..... wait a second, how did you know I had a Pikachu?"
The two clerks began to sweat profusely. "er..um...I
saw you in here before. heh heh" Misty
was a little confused as well, but thought nothing of it. " We'll need
yours to ma'am" Misty was
about to reach into her bag before she heard a familiar voice. "Stop! it's
a Trick!" Ash and Misty
whipped their heads around to see the silhouette of Brock.
"BROCK! Your back!"
Brock ran into the foyer. "Don't do it, they're team rocket!"
The two clerks jumped up and threw off
their costumes, revealing themselves as Team Rocket. "Surprise
twerps!" Before Team Rocket could spout off their infamous motto Brock
hurled a pokeball into the group and out popped the massive shape of an Onix.
Its entire body filled up the lobby and its head scraped on the ceiling.
Other trainers who were nearby ran into the hallways as they watched the
impending battle. With one swift flick of Onix's tale he slammed Team Rocket out
the front doors and onto the street. Brock ran out into the street closely
followed by Misty and Ash. Brock
reached into his vest and pulled out another pokeball and threw it right at Team
Rocket. Out popped Vulpix, passerby's where impressed at how well
groomed Vulpix was. Brock extended his finger.
"Vulpix fire spin!" Vulpix open its mouth a shot a huge blast
of fire towards Team Rocket. As the
massive flames engulfed Team Rocket an underground gas vein exploded from
underneath them. James, Jessie and Meowth flew into the air, alarge fiery trail
flowing behind them. "Our plan
has gone up in smoke!" Jessie screamed. "So
have weeeeeee!" Meowth exclaimed as he flew by.
"Looks like Teams Rockets blasting off again!!!!"
"So long!" Brock yelled. He
then held out his pokeball and recalled Vulpix. Misty ran up to Brock who was
followed closely by Ash, who was reattaching his pokeballs, which he snagged
from behind the front desk. "Brock!" Ash and Misty yelled out.
"Where were you?" Misty pleaded. Brock stared at the ground.
"I'm sorry I left like that. After
my fight with Ash I left the Hotel to take a walk. I ended up taking a wrong
turn in my torrent of thoughts and I wandered off somewhere, basically I was
lost. I wandered most of the night
trying to remember where the Hotel was."
Ash spoke up. "how did you know those two clerks where team
Rocket?" Brock looked up to
Ash. "As always wandering
aimlessly around the town I found a park, as of a walk through the part I could
hear voices. As I got closer I
could make out that it was Team Rocket. I managed to hear their plot to take
over the hotel, I was going to stop them but I was too
tired I almost passed out right there. I'm and lucky I got here just in
time." Ash smiled. "thanks Brock, if it weren't for you they would
have my Pokemon right now." Brock, for the first time in the last 16 hours
gave them a smile. He then pointed
to the growing crowd around them. "Mind
if we go inside for a sec, I have to talk to you guys." Misty and Ash
slowly nodded their heads, both getting very nervous at what he might say.
After quickly returning to their room, they all sat down and waited for
Brock to speak. Brock inhaled deeply and began.
"First I would like to say that I
am sorry, I over reacted. While I
was walking around I had a lot of time to think.
I tried to put my self in your shoes, and the more I did that the more I
understand, you two where just shy." Ash and Misty just sat there, letting
him speak. "You guys are young and that's understandable, to tell you the
truth I am happy for you guys, in fact I think it's kinda cute.
I was just angry because you guys didn't tell me sooner, I thought you
couldn't trust me as a friend, But then I figured you guys were worried about
what I would think of you two guys getting together.
I was just jealous that Ash found someone and that I have no one."
Misty finally understood. "As a matter a fact I knew you two would be an
item before you did." Ash and Misty where really confused but continued to
listen. "Sabrina told me you would most likely end up as a
couple, I never thought it would been so soon after she told me." Ash and
Misty stood upright. "WHAT!!" they screamed together.
Brock sank back in defense. "Hey, hey calm down!" Misty was
flabbergasted. "So in a sense you knew anyway! How come you didn't tell
us!"
Brock continued to keep his hands ready
to block any oncoming attacks. "I didn't want to tell you because it might
have kept you from getting together." Misty calmed down and sat back down
beside Ash. "Well I'm sorry too, about our argument, about what I
said." Ash said. Brock shook
his head. "It's okay I had
some of that coming to me." Ash continued. "I'm sorry that I said you
had no luck with girls." Brock laughed.
"Well that's true, but you have to understand something, I am Brock.
I will always chase after girls. It's
what makes Brock, Brock!" They
all laughed at Brocks honesty. "I'm
also sorry I called Misty ugly" Ash immediately stopped laughing.
He looked over at Misty who had a bluish glow all around her.
Brock realized what he just blurted out.
"You better run Brocko!" Before
Misty could start her tirade there was a knock on the door.
Brock hastily ran over to answer it, thankful for the interruption.
Standing in the hall was the original Clerk that worked at the front
desk, and some other guy in a suit. "Hello there young man, on behalf of
saving Mrs. Bennet here, and helping us reclaim the Hotel from team Rocket, we
would like to offer you this coupon book worth 12 free stays at any of our
Hotels." He handed Brock a
small book and left, leaving Mrs. Bennet. "I
would personally like to thank you, they locked me in a closet for 2 hours, no
one would of known I was in there until you got rid of Team Rocket.
And what better way to thank you then this."
She reached out and kissed Brock on the cheek. Brock turned beat red as
he passed out on the floor. Mrs.
Bennet giggled and walked down the hallway.
Brock regained consciousness and jumped into the hallway. "Wait,
wait! I'm available!" Ash came
up from behind him and tapped his shoulder. "Um Brock her name was 'Mrs.'
Bennet, she's married." Brock
fell to his knees. "How could
she!? Oh WHY you vile temptress! Why do you play with my heart!"
"Um Brock"
"What"
"Run"
Brock looked over his shoulder to see a
really, really pissed off Misty wielding a mallet.
"*Gulp*"
"Call me ugly will you!!"
"Wait.... wait a second
here!" He held his hands up in
defense.
"I am two seconds away from being
all over you like white on rice, on a paper plate, with a glass of milk in a
snow STORM!!!!" With one
mighty swing Brock sailed through the air and crashed into and open elevator.
"Hey Brock! pick me up a magazine from the lobby when you come back
up okay!" Ash yelled. Brock
mumbled something as the elevator doors closed, sending him down to the lobby.
Misty stormed back into the hotel room, ranting as she went.
Ash sighed, just then Pikachu jumped
onto his shoulder. "Pi?"
He scratched under pikachu's chin. "Welcome
to my life" He turn to walk into the room, just then felt something, no, heard
something, something familiar. He
turned back in the hall to find the source of the sound.
There was nobody around, the sound was very faint.
He strained to concentrate on what it was saying.
After seconds of listening he made out the words,
-Find--me-. Suddenly it became very
quiet. "Pikachu did you hear that?"
Pikachu cocked his head.
"Pi?" Ash turned back into the room. "It's nothing."
He closed the door behind him. ("Must
be my imagination").
End part 2
End
part 2
Stay
tuned for Part Three – a Nightmare Battle
Proposed
finishing date May 30/2001
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