End Game Part 3 'Incognito'

But first, a message from the author:

"Sorry for the wait, I'm a busy git."

Now on with the fic. (Hey that rhymed)

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"There you see it ladies and gentlemen! This man or thing is actually flying in the air! And around him look to be the legendary pokemon we saw at Shimotee island! We are live from a helicopter circling over the forest of Olivine just a few miles from the city itself. And below us is an amazing scene; there is rubble everywhere and fires reaching high into the air. It looks as though a huge battle was fought here.

~We here in the studio watching the video are just in shock, we can only image what it must be like in that helicopter. Tell us Jane, who is this kid with the legendary pokemon?~

"I wish I could tell you, but hopefully we'll answer a few questions. Oh.wait.it looks as though the kid is leaving.yes he his. Whoa! He flew right over our chopper! Is he human? What is going on here! You did get a good shot of his face, right John? Aw crap, hold the camera steady!. I tell you what I've seen has been the most amazing news I've ever covered. What has transpired here is anyone's guess. Wait..we are trying to follow him, boy he moves fast!"

~Is he riding the pokemon? The picture isn't coming in to clear.~

No no no! He's acutely flying. Without any.jetpack or something, he was just floating. And those pokemon were so beautiful! You did get that on tape didn't you John?

~What do you see now?~

God this is so exciting! Hold on...the pilot says he's heading for downtown olivine!

~Is he going to attack it!~

I doubt it! The wreckage I'm seeing doesn't look like a town or village, it looks like some military compound or something, I could see weapons scattered on the ground. John! Put that camera down and get on the phone with every police man and women, media person and the mayor of Olivine. The pilot says that weird kid just flew into the heart of the city. And what the hell are you doing! Pick up that camera and keep shooting!

-But you said.

That is the biggest story of the year flying away from us, I could get a Pulitzer for this!

~Maria please, stay on the subject? Do you see anything!"

Hold on..uhuh.huh..okay..the pilot confirmed that the unidentified flying object landed near a pokemon center. The law force is heading there now and we hope to touch down soon.

~What do you suppose it is Maria?~

Whatever it is.I hope its friendly. We will report back in 10 minutes.

~Thank you Maria, there you heard it folks. A strange UFO has been spotting flying with legendary pokemon near Olivine. And it was just returning from an area containing huge amounts of wreckage and destruction. Please remain on this channel to receive updates on this phenomenon.

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"What's taking Ash so long?" Misty said with worry in her voice.

Brock looked up from staring at the floor and could only offer a silent shrug of the shoulders as his response.

Misty began to pace about the room with a disheartened Pikachu watching her every step. The young red head cradled Togepi in her arms and at times squeezed it to much while thinking of Ash. "Idiot, come on where are you" She thought to herself.

Upon Misty's arrival it seemed like a lot of weight had been lifted off Brock's shoulders. For the past few days he had hardly slept knowing that his best friends where out there somewhere. The worst feeling was when he realized that there was really nothing he could do. And that day when Ash finally came in, Brock was so happy. What had soon transpired scared the crap out of him. Ash became uncontrollable. The power...it was so cold. He remembered how he was pinned to the wall gasping for breath. Feeling the cold sting of Ash's rage.

Brock slowly glanced up to see the hole in the ceiling, covered by a tarp, ready for construction crews to repair it. Nurse Joy was also caught up in the event and it changed her demeanor as well. Brock spent some time trying to convince the Pokemon Nurse of the past events and that Ash was the 'Chosen One'. She believed after many attempts, in the end it was the memory of Ash's destructive departure from the Center that proved to Nurse Joy that this boy was not at all what he seemed.

She believed Brock even more now, since a legendary pokemon was standing three feet away from her. Nurse Joy always wanted the chance to heal a legendary pokemon, but Entei assured her that he was unharmed.

The pokemon center remained closed until further notice, Nurse Joy used the roof as a excuse but the truth was she needed to conceal the pokemon trainers and the mystical Legendary who at this moment was frantically looking about the lobby.

Misty stopped and glanced back. "What's wrong Entei?" "He's here!"

The fire pokemon instantly leaped toward the solid pane windows and scanned the horizon. Sure enough he spotted Ash coming in fast towards the building, the other legendary not far behind. Entei then lost sight of him behind a low flying cloud. "damn, where is he?"

There was an unnerving silence until a ripping sound broke it. They all looked above to see Ash come crashing threw the tarp attached to the ceiling, making yet another hole. He landed heavily and unevenly on his feet and stumbled for a few seconds before completely falling over.

"ASH!" Misty sprinted over to her semi-unconscious boyfriend. Meanwhile Lugia, Ho-oh and Zapdos attempted to enter the room through the same hole, each time making it slightly bigger then before.

Lugia bent down and nudged Ash's limp body with its head. "He has been drained of all his chi energy. He must have expelled it all during the battle."

Misty looked up to Lugia with worried eyes. "Will he be okay?!"

Lugia smiled. "Not to worry, he just needs rest. His body was just used to absorbing so much energy. Now that its gone, his body is going through withdrawal."

Brock ran up beside Misty. "Kinda like a sugar binge eh? After you have so much sugar your bouncing off the walls, afterwards you've never been so tired in your life."

They stared blankly at the spiky haired trainer.

"..What?"

Nurse Joy finally joined the group. "I think we should be tending to the young man sprawled on the floor right now." Misty nodded in agreement.

Nurse Joy, Brock and Misty lifted Ash and brought him into the pokemon medical examination room. Brock placed a pillow under his friend's head. "So..since he's like half pokemon and such, can't we just use pokemon medicine to help him?"

Misty shot him a crusty look mainly because she didn't want to hear her Ash being referenced as Half-Pokemon. "That's the stupidest idea ever. Besides if he was inured his body would have healed. It's a different thing altogether." Misty suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Nurse Joy. "She's right, all he needs is rest."

Just then the three of them heard a raucous coming from the front doors. A man and a woman were banging on the glass shouting and seeming to be in frantic need of something inside. Nurse Joy ran over to her computer to turn off the security protocol to open the doors. "Oh dear, this may be a pokemon emergency! I knew this was a bad idea to close the Center" As she began entering passwords and coding Brock slowly turned his head to the taller man and what he was holding.

From a distance it looked like a bazooka or something, but Brock could see a glare you would see off glass or plastic at the front of the object, not to mention a very faint red light.

For some reason something was grabbing his attention above the lobby. A rather large TV was hooked up to the ceiling above a grouping of chairs. But what was on the TV is what caught Brock's attention, it was Brock. He calmly turned to face the screen, and the image of him turned around slightly as well. Thinking he might be going crazy from lack of sleep he raised his hand and waved, and the television gave a mirrored action of Brock. Walking towards the Television he saw himself walking on the screen. This completely baffled him until he turned his confused gaze back to the man behind the door.

"Hey..Nurse Joy...turn up the volume to this thing."

From behind her computer she mumbled. "There's no time for television now."

It was at that time Misty also saw what was on the TV. "...I really think you should turn it up."

Finally looking up from her computer she spots Brock, twice. Almost doing a double take she realizes that one of them is on the large TV overhead. "What the?" Joy reached over for the remote and turned it as far as it would go.

"Alright! We are here and are currently looking into where the UFO was said to have landed. We really can't make out to much right now..this young man you see could very well be the strange boy that flew just moments ago..but its hard to tell from this distance. But with the doors locked on this Center, I feel that Nurse Joy is hiding something in there!....wait there!!! Over there! In the corner!! It's the legendary pokemon that we saw! Its hard to see through this glass but those are them! That UFO is here!"

The three of them as well as the birds all instantly turned around or ducked behind something so not to be seen on camera. While hunkered down beside a chair, Misty yelled over to Brock. "Oh no! They followed him here! They know about him!! They saw the birds!!! What are we gonna do!!" Franticly she began flailing her arms as the panic sank in.

Brock found cover under a coffee table and hissed back. "I don't know! Nurse Joy do something!"

Feeling the weight of the responsibility to look after her newfound charges she leapt up to her computer and accessed the complex security grid. "Okay, okay! Lets see.ummmm. Oh here it is! Metal security window shutters! That should block them out!" Her spindly fingers hammered away at the keyboard. "-Access denied-..Oh no. It says here they can only be triggered him a window is broken..somebody break a window!"

This was Brock's moment to shine. Crawling from out of under the table he immediately sprinted toward a row of windows near the east side of the center. Brock leaned in with his shoulder and sickly collided with the window. The glass reverberated from the impact but didn't break. Brock however, howling on the ground in agony believed he had just broken his shoulder blade. "Well that didn't work." He said while wincing in pain.

Nurse Joy sighed. "I forgot, those are double plane bulletproof glass windows.. for the Pokemon's protection, the metal shutters are just a back up if anybody did manage to break them."

"Allow me" Brock looked up to see Lugia rear back its head charging his areoblast attack. As the legendary pokemon let it fly Brock was just barely able to avoid getting squired by the blast. The concentrated beam of energy ripped through the glass like butter sending the attack across a parking lot, accidentally slicing a few cars in half. With the sound of an ear-piercing alarm, steel metal shutters fell to the floor on every window. Also cutting of the natural light source to the room, albeit the large gapping hole in the roof.

After the alarm stopped everyone clambered out from their hiding spaces and casually walked into the center of the 'Jail Cell' they just created. Brock was the first to speak, more like whine. "So..we're all stuck in here, our whereabouts and the legendary pokemon were just broadcast to over god knows how many people, who will surly flock over here aiming to catch a glimpse of Lugia and the others, plus we have Ash. The free known last defender of earth laying unconscious on a table...Well I'm plain out of ideas." With a sigh he sunk down into a nearby chair.

Misty also was getting worn down from all the excitement. "Let's call the police and maybe they can protect us!"

Brock looked at Misty and spoke sarcastically. "Oh yeah, lets do that! Hey officer Jenny we have a 16 year old boy with enough power to level a city as well as all the legendary pokemon here, could you lend us a hand and make sure no one touches us as we leave the center..ya right. They would sooner put us in jail for kidnapping Nurse Joy or something."

Misty was becoming irritable. "Well at least I'm trying to get us one step closer to freedom, your just giving up with out even trying!!"

Brock stood up and faced Misty. "I've done nothing but watch over you two for the entire time I've known you. I'm sorry but I'm tried of babysitting the both of you!!" The two infuriated trainers stepped closer to each other and began yelling at the top of their lungs. Misty stared Brock down. "Have you any idea what I have been through in the last 48 hours! I was tortured, beaten to a pulp and I almost died you self centered asshole!!"

Brock thrust his finger towards Misty. "Oh yeah, I've been going crazy worrying about you and how and if you were still alive! Then Ash goes mental when I try and explain to him about what happened and he almost kills me! I haven't slept for days and the thought of you dead and me being able to do NOTHING about it drove me to the ends of insanity!!!!"

With his last breath pushing those words out, he saw a visual reaction on Misty's face. A single tear slide down her delicate cheeks as she forced a small grin. "you..were.worried about me?"

Brock slowly lifted his head, his steely gaze softened as he looked upon her. "Of course I was..you guys are my responsibility..a bigger brother of sorts."

The two of them quickly met in a tender embrace only good friends could admire. Brock whispered in her ear. "I'm so sorry for yelling.I do know what its like to see a love one change so drastically..Ash is like family to me. It pained me greatly to see him go through so much struggle. I kept thinking..why him! He's just a boy! Ash is supposed to continue his journey, have battles, be carefree...why him.. "

Misty pulled back and wiped her tears away. "I would always think the same thing, its been hard on all of us. But we must always remember that no matter how powerful he gets, no matter what duties he must complete..he will always be the same Ash that would make us laugh and keep us going when things seemed impossible."

Brock sighed and sat back down in the chair. "Why are we even here...just think if we weren't with Ash then Giovanni could not keep using us to draw him out. We are bait, how many more times do you think one of us will be kidnapped? How many times will they barter us for Ash's pokemon. We have become a target..."

Misty occupied the seat next to him. "Are you blaming Ash?"

Brock thought a moment. "Never, this is not his fault only mine to bear. I should of stayed home, we should have just stayed in our Gyms and let Ash's future take its course without us. We have no right to be here, we are only going to get him killed.."

"Your wrong about that." Brock snapped his head up when he heard a male voice speak instead of Misty. The two of them quickly looked over to its source and saw Ash leaning against a desk. "You two are more important to this then you imagine...you are more important to me then thought possible..without you guys...there would be no Chosen One."

Ash slowly limped his way over to the collection of chairs. "Its time I informed you of your parts in this."

Brock and Misty never took their eyes off him, even the Legendary Pokemon gathered around perking their ears to listen.

"Apparently, from what I've heard from Lugia. Our friendship wasn't formed by chance, it was ordained by a higher power, Gods if you will. Thousands of years ago we existed, same features, same personalities and same attitudes right down to our very souls. The first Chosen One was named Satoshi; he lived around a time where there was no pokeballs or tournaments. Pokemon were kept in the wild or befriended by humans, not captured. I.I mean. he protected humans and Pokemon, because he was also part human and part Pokemon. Heh, they called him the 'Pokeman'. One day he met a girl in a small village, Kasumi was her name. They fell in love, he left one day for battle and he never came back. The body we found in the mountain range where Ho-oh lay was the last remains of Satoshi, that is where he fell. We were the first people to find him since his death...I am Satoshi reincarnated. My name is even derived from Satoshi, take away the 'S,T,O and I' and your left with ASH. Funny even the gods controlled my mother's decision concerning my name..."

Brock and Misty didn't blink as they watched him tell this mind-blowing story.

"Anyway, Brock you also have a part in this. You are the bodyguard of sorts. You are meant to help me in my travels, whether it is advice or company. You have always kept me in the lines, safe and focused on my goals. You are my brother."

Turning his gaze towards Misty he struggled to keep back tears. "We were in love thousands of years ago, and that love has found us once again. The God's created our first encounter. I have learned that Articuno was the one that rustled those Spearow's that attacked me."

Misty looked around confused. "But..does that mean, our love was just created out of thin air by powerful beings?!" It was visible that she was getting upset from this news.

Ash got up and moved to her side, he slipped his arm around her and gazed deeply into her eyes. "Misty, love is something no-one can create or control. There is a difference between ordainment and fate. Fate can only brings us so far, it's up to us to continue. Even if it was fate that we met on that day, it was the two of us that ignited our love, no God or higher power can control that. I love you.and no one can take you away from."

He was cut off as Misty grabbed his face and brought him in for a very passionate kiss. It was only until they heard a sob that they broke the kiss. They both looked to see Nurse Joy with a tissue wiping away a few tears. "Its so touching.*sob*..I need a moment."

The three trainers sweat dropped as they watched the Pokemon Nurse collect herself in the corner. Ash reached back to his belt and pulled off five pokeballs. Releasing Misty he slowly stood and walked over to where Nurse Joy was balling her eyes out. Tapping her shoulder he held out the pokeballs to her.

"This aught to cheer you up, 5 legendary Pokemon that need healing..I bet you always wanted to treat one."

Nurse Joy looked stunned as she reached out to them. "I did, I mean..it would be my honor." She happily walked to the emergency room to begin her work. Now that she was out of the way, Ash could finish his spiel.

"Alright, to sum it up. You guys are prophets. Created by the Gods to guide me in my travels, to befriend me and love me, to keep me on my toes. I don't know where I would be without you guys. Most likely I would of fled from my future, gone home and never look at Pokemon again. But you where there helping me, whether you knew it or not. So we are in this together, I have accepted my fate. You should as well."

With that he fell back down onto a couch and cried from the sharp pain that struck his back. "OW! Man...I'm a wreck..my healing powers have slowed down since I drained myself of so much energy...I really did lose my mind. I became someone I wasn't...I almost killed people today..."

Lugia stood next to him his head blocking whatever sunlight came in through the hole in the roof. "I told you what would happen if you lost your temper, you must learn to control it! You took on a whole army, well armed, well trained..and you succeeded. I am very proud of you..the speed in which you have learned to use your powers and how you have overcame the shock of such an responsible is inspiring." Lugia then made it so only Ash would hear his voice. "On a side note I noticed you didn't tell Misty that one of her prophet duties is to give birth to an heir.why is that?"

Ash concentrated his underdeveloped physic powers. "I really don't think Misty needs to know about that right this minute..she's just escaped from a torture camp and you think I need to inform her about us having a kid one day...you obviously do not know a thing about women.." Lugia made a weird face. "perhaps then you could teach me.."

Ash glanced up to his legendary Pokemon. "That's all nice and good, but..you know what?"

"What"

Ash rubbed his stomach. "I'm friggen starving! Is there anything to eat in here?"

Everyone in the room couldn't help but fall over at that comment. But true to form slowly but surly everyone's tummy began to growl with rage from lack of food. Even Pikachu tried to stifle a large moan emanating from his little body. "Piiiiiiiikaaaa."

Everyone agreed that it was time to gorge, after a large amount of worry and stress had been lifted their minds reminded them that they hadn't eaten in days. Running back to the kitchen area, Misty and Ash threw open the pantry cupboards with reckless abandon and search for something quick and easy to force down their throats. Even though Ash had just rescued Misty and decimated an entire army of Team Rocket, and that he summoned unspeakable deadly power, and that they were trapped, all of that didn't matter because for the first time in over a week they were finally together. It happened under less then unfortunate circumstances but it came out to be quite alright. They were once again in each other's company, none of them were alone anymore. It was like for a brief moment, they had gone back to the good ole days before they learned of their divine prowess.

Brock was content on a few bags of chips as Pikachu stumbled onto a case of Ketchup. They ate merrily and rejoiced after once again being reunited. Little did they know about the growing crowd of people gathering outside. Upon hearing that the Legendary Pokemon were in the vicinity it had seemed that the entire population of Johto found their way to the front steps of the Pokemon Center. Many where holding cameras and binoculars to try and get a glimpse of the inside but those steel shutters blocked anyone from fully understanding what was going on. Already large rumors where spreading throughout the crowd and that the center was under attack, that the Legendary Pokemon were sick with some strange virus and that this center was the only building with the technology to save them. But those townspeople that saw the News footage, seeing that strange young man, then learning he had flown inside knew that there was something more going on that any of them could comprehend.

Already many hot dog vendors were capitalizing on the instant attraction and were setting up kiosk's all around, even letting townspeople have their picture taken with a horribly drawn cut out of the three legendary birds, Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos. It seemed that in less then 2 hours the Center had become the 'center' of attention.

Back inside the three friends had just finished their 'pantry' raid and where resting their full bellies. Ash got reunited with his hat after Misty presented it to him halfway through a box of double chocolate chip cookies. He was so happy to get his hat back, although his mouth was full of crushed cookies. When he tried to express his joy he only ended up showering his friends in partially chewed crumbs. They all laughed, so happy to once again enjoy good times.

The three of them returned to the lobby and got their first glimpse of the madness outside thanks to the news coverage on the TV. Brock sighed. "Well there is no way we are getting out the front door."

Misty pointed to the ceiling. "We can always fly out through there!"

Ash scoffed. "We would have to be traveling at breakneck speeds so the hundreds of camera's don't spot us, but you two wouldn't be able to survive without your skin falling off. What we need..is.."

Brock snapped his fingers. "Incognito!"

Ash narrowed his brow. "what?"

"You know, a disguise! Cover our faces, travel undercover...Incognito!"

Misty struck her hand with her fist to show that she finally came up with a feasible plan. "alright! We just get some rags, throw them over our faces and make a run for it."

Brock stroked his chin. "But how would we see where we are going if we have stuff covering our faces?"

That's when Lugia stuck its head between Misty and Ash. "Just leave the flying to us. We can be your eyes if necessary."

With a sense of triumph they began to prepare for their spree to freedom. Brock rummaged around in his backpack and drew out three shirts, handing them out he was met with less then full enthusiasm. "What?"

Misty was the first speak up. "I'm not wrapping my head in your stinky laundry, got it?" She glanced over to Ash who was already peeking through the sleeve while trying to tie the shirt on snugly. "Its not that bad, besides once we're out of harms way we can just rip them off, its not like we need to wear these things all the time."

Brock squeezed his head into a shirt and made sure his hair wasn't getting damaged. "But what about when we walk down the street and stuff, won't people recognize us? We may never be able to set foot in any cities...then what?!"

Realizing that their problem far exceeded a stinky shirt they sat down to rethink their plan.

Ash grabbed onto Pikachu and stroked the top of its head. "What we need...are like full body disguises...costumes kinda..or some type of armor."

Hearing those words Lugia sprang up and stared at Ash. Surprised by its sudden movement Ash drew his sword thinking the people outside were trying to get in. Once seeing only Lugia he was about to sheath his sword until it called out to Ash. "Wait Stop! The sword! I just remembered! I feel so ashamed that I didn't think of it before!"

Ash stared at Lugia, waiting for a coherent answer. "What is it?"

"You know how the Gods made the sword, well they also created suits of armor to go with it. I can't believe I had forgotten about it. You need to call upon the armor of the Gods! That sword is like a key..it holds the power of the armor and you can release it over your body.protecting you.actually its was made to be used on not just you!!"

Ash waved his hands in the air. 'Okay whoa whoa whoa there..you saying I have had this armor this whole time and you never told me..ya know I could've REALLY used at that battle today!"

Lugia lowered its head in shame. "I'm sorry but after thousands of years go by your memory fades along with time.Anyway..here is how it works. The armor was made for the Chosen One and his two Prophets. On the Sword you will find 2 sets of 5 markings on one side of the blade. Misty and Brock are to place their fingertips on the corresponding symbols. You hold onto the hilt and press the small red jewel near the top of the handle. I must warn you that you may feel a little light headed as the armor is clasped to your body, the whole process takes seconds but it may be a sensory overload for you."

Ash looked around to Misty and Brock to get some sort of consensus on what to do. Their eyes told him that they were ready. Frankly Ash wanted to see how much of a rush they would get from this.

Holding out the blade they noticed the 10 dots on the blade right away. Misty was the first to place her fingertips on the symbols, she was hesitant at first but decided it was time to step up a notch. Brock moved his fingers and thumb over the dots and made sure he was doing it right, he didn't want to get hurt by this thing if he had one finger off to much to the side. They were all really tense as they had no idea what to expect, would it be a bright flash of light, would they see some really freaky tunnel teleport thing and magically appear in a sparkling suit of armor. Only one way to find out.

They all to a deep breath as Ash moved his finger to the small red jewel. "...hold on to your ass, ass-holders..its go time!"

With a flick of his finger they instantly felt the sword jolt with power and felt and insanely warm tingly feeling spreading throughout their bodies. They all shut their eyes for fear of death or something worse. But has soon as it had begun, it had stopped. They still refused to open their eyes as they assessed what had happened. Brock thought to himself. "I don't feel different..or any heavier...."

It was time to take a gamble as one by one they each opened their scrunched up eyes to looked upon an amazing and wondrous site. They all took in their view as they saw each other wearing these full body pieces of armor. Ash's was of a dark yellow color, his chest plate showed his muscular definition, his shoulders sported large pads that had large plates of armor run down both sides of his arm. In between where the yellow armor did not cover was a black body suit. His legs we also well covered with and his groan area was hidden behind a large flap that attached to his waist.

Misty's was dark blue and it to hugged her figure, it had less armor then Ash's and she was able to move so freely it was like she was wearing nothing at all. Brocks on the other hand was overloaded with tons of armor, he looked more like a tank, a dark red tank. All with the same look and design as Ash's and Misty.

Each of them slowly removed their helmets, and as they did they could see the shocked expressions on their faces.

"HOLY SHIT! This is so cool!!" Misty exclaimed.

"I feel as light as a feather!" Screamed Ash.

"I bet I could run right through a brick wall and not get hurt!!" Elated Brock.

As they looked over their newly found gear Lugia made an attempt to grab their attention. "excuse me! Yes, well Just as I remembered..but you must know that these suits are just for protection, they do not give the wearer any special powers and Ash's powers are not heightened, they are meant to keep you alive in dangerous situations..or in this case to escape unnoticed."

Ash was hardly paying attention. "Man this is like hardcore magical girl anime transformation type stuff!"

"Only with out the brief nudity." Exclaimed Misty.

Nurse Joy decided it was time to return to the lobby at this time and screamed when seeing the three suited up trainers. "what in the world happened hear!!"

Ash ran over and grabbed his pokeballs from her. "It's a long story, listen we have to be going now, thank you for everything!" As he attempted to run back Nurse Joy grabbed onto his shoulder and spun him around. "Wait!! Before you go! Answer me this...what is the meaning of life?"

Ash almost collapsed to the ground at hearing the questions but he just calmly looked into her eyes. "I'm not that kind of chosen one...I'm just here to protect not to preach." And with that he ran back to the group, which were already mounted on Lugia ready for launch. Donning their helmets and making sure Togepi and Pikahcu were secured in their backpacks, Ash gave the order and Lugia soared the roof going from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds. The armor thankfully allowed Misty and Brock to service the G-forces as Lugia rocketed into the sky like the challenger space shuttle. Once they were certain that they were out of view and out of danger, they all took a deep breath and slowly expelled it into the cool night air.

After a few minutes Lugia came upon another town, a small town, perhaps only 1000 people lived there. It was the perfect place to hide until things cooled down further. Lugia dropped down about 10 minutes away from the town so the three fugitives could de-suit themselves and walk in like a couple of drifters looking for a place to stay the night, completely incognito.

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"How did you sleep young master?"

Ash nodded his sleepy head as he, Misty and Brock entered the Inn's breakfast hall. They stumbled on a quaint little mom and pop run hotel were the beds were soft and the breakfast was always free, good thing to since Ash could murder a stack of pancakes right about then.

Letting the memories of yesterday try and escape them they were content knowing that a new day had arrived with new possibilities and more problems to solve. But right now they only thing that mattered was the lovely home made breakfast on the table.

As Ash leaned back his head to allow a shovel-full of eggs drop into his mouth he saw Misty reach for her drinking glass, when she brought it to her lips it suddenly shattered into a million fragments. She let out a yelp of surprise and pain and she shielded her face from the glass. The woman who owned the hotel came rushing over and inspected her hand.

"Oh my sweet dear I'm so sorry." She turned her head to the kitchen. "Dammit Alfred and told you not to buy these cheap glasses." All the husband replied was. "yes Dear."

The sweet old lady took a cloth and dabbed the trickles of blood away. She then leaned in closer to inspect her palm. "My dear you are very lucky, I don't see any cuts on your hand. Those damn cheap glasses.although I've never seen someone break one in their own hand before. Dear or dear." The innkeeper moved into the kitchen and left Misty staring at her hand, little did the woman see the scared and shocked look on her face.

Ash just stared at the broken glass ...this was strangely familiar. As Misty ran her finger over her palm she glanced to Ash who still had a mouthful of eggs. Fear was very much present in her eyes.

".Ash.what's ...going on.."

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Neongene Notes: I'M SORRY!! This is very very late, but I've been soooooo busy lately with school and work and all..i'm sorry. I planned to have this out by Christmas but that was shot to hell when I had three illnesses in a row. I'm sure a lot of you know that when you are sick you don't feel like writing. But I sat down and slapped and ending on this sucker and by gum I just wanted to finish. This was such a hard chapter to write because I didn't know what I wanted to do next in the fic, or if some things would be dumb or how much I wanted to give away and so on. Okay I'm back on schedual with my life and I'm gonna start getting a chapter done every 2 weeks. Tops, because I still have to finish this by april. Also the image I'm making for Steve Jesters fic "Shinobu Ai Dake" is coming along really really nicely, I've been working on it for 9 hours today so its gonna be good, tomorrow I will add the cell shading. HAZZAH!!

Neongene CHECK! Newly found milestones

This is the 20th chapter!! I had over 2500 people read this fic since October 2002. YAY! This is also the longest I have gone without updating BOO!

Thank you for reading, only eight more chapters to go. ^_^ ( I hope I can fit everything in there)