Okay, so I do not get anyone confused, I have transported you back in time to two o'clock in the afternoon, the same day Ash got attacked by a Team Rocket's pidgey, owner Luke. Ash went down to take a nap after his mom suggested it. Here are the events of that day.
It is two in the afternoon, and Ash and pikachu are still napping on the couch. Ash is spread eagle on the couch, lying on his stomach. One leg and an arm are hanging off the couch. Pikachu is snuggled up between Ashes side and the couch and is sleeping peaceful. The bags of frozen peas have fallen off, and did not help Ash one bit. One eye is swollen shut, and the other is partly closed. The bump on his head is a deep color of purple, and the size of a golf ball. Delia is in the kitchen watching her son sleep. He is sleeping talking, and is tossing and truing. It also looks like pikachu is having the same dream. When Ash says something, pikachu says something back.
"Pikachu I chose you, use your quick attack."
"Pika pika"
"Great job, we have won another badge."
"Pika pika." he says as he raises one arm and does the victory symbol.
Delia just sighs. She gets up and walks over to the couch. She looks at her son, and winces at the burses on his face.
"That little pidgey, who knew it, could have done that." She thought to herself, as she picks up the bags of frozen peas. "I guess this would not have work. You could never sit still for long, not even in your sleep."
As she walks back towards the kitchen, she pauses at her china hutch, which stands against the stairs. Inside are her favorite sets of plates, blows, cups, silver utensils with beautiful flower designs on them and many other items trinkets. She is amazed that not one piece has been destroyed, especial with Ash running up and down the stairs, and many times falling down the stairs due to his hastiness. She sits down the bags of peas, and opens up a draw. She reaches back and pulls out a small box. She opens it, and takes out some pictures. As she goes through it, she sees pictures of her friends from school, pictures of Ash when he was a baby, one with both him and Gary, when they were fishing at stream seeing who could catch the most fish. As she goes through the pictures, she finds a picture of her and Michael. It is of the Valentines dinner he had for them. She smiles and thinks back of the memories she had with him, and wished she knew what happen to him. She replaces the pictures and box back in the draw and closes it.
As she places the bags of peas back in the freezer, the phone rings.
"Mimmie, could you get that for me."
"Mr. Mime, Mr. Mime"
"Oh hello Mr. Mime is Delia there."
He nods his head, and hands the phone to Delia.
"Oh, hello Professor Oak, what can I do for you?"
"Hi, I just sent Tracey over to pick up the supplies for Ashes surprise birth…"
"Shush, Ash is in the house and taking a nap."
"Okay, sorry, but I thought he was probably out training."
"Not today, he got attack trying to help a pidgey that was hurt, but it hit him, and flew away. He has a good size of a lump on his forehead, and two black eyes, and I do not know if either one have swollen shut yet."
"Oh, that's bad. Have you contacted the others, about you know what."
"They should all have left Viridian day before yesterday, and should be at your place by this afternoon."
"Good, Tracy and I have been clearing up a spot outside for the party. I hope he does not find out. So I hope you have a way to keep his attention away from my place till then."
"I think I will have him travel to the flower garden and have him pick me up some fertilizer for me tomorrow, help me with my garden and some more errands that I need. That should keep him busy all day. Oh, here is Tracey; I will see you later at the party day after tomorrow. Bye"
"Bye Delia."
"Oh good, Mimmie let you in, here are the supplies for the party, Tracey."
"What happen to Ash, Ms. Ketchum?"
"Oh, he was attacked trying to help out a pidgey."
"Mimmie, could you wake Ash up, for me."
"Let me do it Ms. Ketchum."
Tracey walks over to where Ash is sleeping on the couch. He leans over the back side of the couch, and studies Ashes face for a minute. He whips out his pencil and notepad and sketches Ash.
"Tracey, just wake him up."
"Okay Ms. Ketchum, but I had to draw this, to show to the others when they get here."
Tracey finally puts his drawing utensils back up, and leans closer to Ash and yells:
"Nice shiners Ash, what did you do, run into a wall."
"What the!"
"Pika!"
Both Ash and pikachu fell to the ground, with Ash landing on his back, and pikachu landing on his stomach.
"Tracey what was that for?"
"Sorry Ash, I could not resist."
"Ash," his mother comes up to him, as he gets up off the floor. "Can you see out okay?"
"I can't see out of my right eye, and I can barely see out of the other one."
"Let me see, oh, those look worse. The swelling should go down some by the morning, and Tracey don't you have a place to go with those packages for Professor Oak."
"Yes ma'am, I see you two later," he said as he walks out of the living room, only to poke his head around the door frame, "I still think you ran into a wall." He moved out of the way, for as he finished taunting Ash, a couch pillow was thrown at him.
"Ash you know better, then to throw things in this house."
"Sorry mom."
"Come Ash, I think I have something that can be put on you eyes to help the swelling go down."
"Okay mom, what were those packages for Professor Oak for?"
"Oh, the mailman delivered them here on accident, so I had Tracey come over and pick them up. Now sit still, while I put this cream on."
"Wow! That's cold."
"Sorry Ash, but it should help. You got some pokemon magazines in today, and some letters, that should keep you occupied till dinner. I placed them on your bed."
"Thanks mom."
After Delia places the jar of cream back in the fist aid kit, she watches her son walk up the steps of the stairs, with his pikachu following him. She is happy to have him as a son, but in her heart, she wishes that Michele was here to see him grow up. She knows that if he had been around he would be proud of his son.
"Ash I will be right back, I need to go to the store to pick up a few items for dinner."
"Okay mom, see you then."
As Delia walks to the store, her Mr. Mine follows her with a basket on his arm.
"Oh, this surprise birthday party for Ash, I hope he does not find out about it. I have worked very hard. I do hope everyone makes it. Now let's see, what we need for supper tonight."
Back at Ashes room, he is sitting on the floor, with his back resting against the side of the bed. He is having some trouble reading his mail through one half closed eye. Pikachu is lying on his pillows watching him.
"I bet Brock would like to have this magazine that is coming out, a new breeder's magazine. I guess I will have to get him a subscription for his birthday."
He gets up, and sets his letters and magazines on his table, and flops down on his bed.
"Pikachu, I think my mom is up to something."
"Pika?"
"She has been acting very weird since I came home. She is not letting me answer the phone and the mail. I think she is going to throw a surprise birthday party for me.
"Pika!" says pikachu, with him rubbing the back of his head, and the stress tear drop appears. He knows of the surprise birthday party, and is helping Delia to keep Ash distracted long enough for him not to find out. Luckily Ash did not see pikachu's reaction of him finding out of the party. He now knows he has more work to do to keep Ash from finding out about the party.
"Oh well, I guess I will not worry about it till day after tomorrow. I know she will have invited Brock, Misty, May, and Max. It will be good to see them all again. Hey pikachu, you want to get some ice-cream from the fridge before mom comes home?"
"Pika!"
"Good, let's make sure we clean up after ourselves. Come on."
Meanwhile, about three o'clock, at Professor Oaks' house/lab, Brock, Misty, May and Max have arrived. They are not only the ones to arrive, also Professor, Birch, Elm, Ivy, Lance the Dragon Master, and many people they have meet and befriended. Also many of the gym leaders from Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn, and the Orange Islands have come. Even Gary is there.
"This will be great; Ash will never know what happen to him. I bet he will not think of this many people coming for his fifteen birthday." said Brock to the group
"Are you stating that Ash already knows that he is going to have a surprise birthday party?" Misty said
"Well his mom told me, that he always finds out about them, so she hope's that he does not find out that more than you, Max, May, and I, came."
"Well I hope that is so, but I doubt it, Ash always finds out. I always have to keep the knowledge of Gary's parties away from both of them when they were young. He always found out, and told Gary, before they became rivals." Oak said
"I do not think that will happen this year. His mother has him a busy schedule for tomorrow and she also has pikachu is keeping an eye on him. Look at what I sketch when I went to pick up some of the party supplies. He has two black eyes and a huge lump on his head." Tracey said, as he shows off the sketch of Ash he did early in the afternoon to the gathered throng
"Ouch, what did he do, fall down the stairs again." said Gary
"No, he was outside helping his mother out in the garden, when they notice a pidgey crash land. Ash went over to see what happen and went to help it out, but it hit him in the face and flew off." Oak said.
"Ouch, that looks painful, but that gives us some breathing room to get this party together, without him snooping around. So I say we split up into four groups. One to help hang the decorations outside, one to start cooking the food, one to wrap the presents, and one to stand as lookout just in case Ash is sneaking about. Brock said, as he started to unpack the cooking supplies.
"I guess I will be on lookout tomorrow." Lance said
"I will join you Lance, if I know someone, it is Ashes way of sneaking around." Gary said with a wink to the others.
Many of the people, who gather, broke up in the different groups and started getting the party organized. Gary telling Lance and the other who joined the look out group where to watch out for Ash, and where there are some good hiding places for him to use. Brock, May, and a few of the Gym leaders help go through Brocks long list of recipes. Many of them could hardly wait for dinner time, since they have heard of how a great cook he is.
"Hey Brock, should we be cooking this early, I mean if Ash nose catches a wisp of your cooking, we are cooked gooses ourselves." Misty said with May and Max laughing at her statement
"Oh, don't worry, some of it has to be cooked the day of the party, but a lot of it can be made in advance a few days before. So we are safe of Ashes nose." Brock said, with him in oven gloves, an apron on, and flour already coving parts of his face.
"Good, now let's get as much done as possible, before it gets to dark." Max said, as he helps wraps a present.
While the group of people are getting ready for Ashes birthday, Delia Ketchum, is walking home, she could not decide what to cook for dinner. She is too worried that Ash may find out about the birthday party. So she finally decided to cook some microwave dinners instead. As she comes in, she catches Ash and pikachu making Ashes world famous ice cream mountain. She just stands there as he makes it.
The indigents contain, six scoops of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice-cream, huge spoonfuls of caramel, and hot fudge, handfuls of marshmallow and chocolate chips, half a jar of sprinkles, and many broken up cookies, all of this mixed in the largest bowl his mother has.
"Now, pikachu I have not made this in a very long time, because mom did not like the mess I made the last time I made it, but it is the best you have ever tasted. Now if we can eat this before my mom comes home, it will be the best you have eaten."
"Pika, pika." Pikachu says, as he points to something behind Ash.
"Let me guess, my mother is right behind me. BUSTED!" He says, as he lowers his head.
"You are busted if you do not have another spoon out for me to share you creation." She said as she walks towards the two. "Well at least you did not make a big mess the last time you made this."
"Sorry mom, I thought you will be out longer. Don't worry; I will clean up my mess."
"That is okay Ash, I could not think of anything to fix, expect for TV dinners."
"That is okay, now let's dig in. Mr. Mime, you can have some if you want some."
"Mr. Mime!"
Later, after the four of them finished eating the creation Ash created, they sit down, to watch some television, and soon Ash went to bed, but not before Delia gave him his list of chores for tomorrow.
Meanwhile on an ice island north of Hoenn, we find that Jessie, James, and Meowth have crash landed. They are not pleased what they find. They are freezing, and still hungry.
"Man, I can't believe the boss sent us out here. It is cold. What are we suppose to do out here. There is noting." Jessie said as she exit's the cockpit of the rocket.
"Hey, I found some winter clothes in here, and some of those ration packs, a radio, and a tent." James said as he goes through the box of supplies. "Hey, here is a note."
"What does it says James, and hand over one of those jackets." Meowth says
"You don't need one, you have fur, and you're a pokemon." Jessie says as she grabs a jacket from James.
"It says that to stay put, and a transport will pick us up, and takes us to the Ice Base. And that he is giving us one more chance not to fail. Also these jackets and food is added to our debt with him."
"Well, what are waiting for, let's dig in. I am starving." Jessie said, very happy to get something to eat.
"HOLD IT! When do we know when they come and pick us up? I mean, what if they never pick us up, and the boss sees that the only way for us to never fail, is to leave us our here to our doom." Meowth said
"You think the boss will do that to us. I mean, will he leave us out here?" James said as he starts to cry
"I don't know but, I doubt it, mum, this is so good." Jessie says between bites of food
"Hey leave us some." Meowth says as he scratches her face with his furry swipes.
"DO NOT EVER TOUCH MY FACE YOU FUR BALL!" she says as she swings her head and hits him with her hair.
While Jessie and Meowth fight, and James cries, Wobbbuffet pops out, and starts to eat the ration packs that Jessie had open.
"You stupid pokemon, those are not for you, get back in you pokeball.
"Let's calm down, if the boss said we will be picked up, we will. So let's just stay put till they get here. Now give me one of those rations pack." Meowth said
So the trio sits and waits for the transport to come and pick them up. They go around and gather some wood and start a fire, and eat some more food. Night soon falls, and they set up the tent, almost tearing it up, and it falling down many times before they finally get the tent up. Soon they fall asleep with a full stomach, which they have not had in a long time.
So you are not confused, Ashes mom has been planning a surprised birthday party for him since he had came home from the Hoenn League Championship, which in my story, he has placed in fourth place. She had called many of the friends he had made during his journeys, and had invited also the professors, and gym leaders he had meet, with the help of Oak, Brock, Misty, and May and Max. Many of them have arrived and start putting the party together. Will Ash find out about he party, and what will happen to our favorite trio.
Till then, enjoy what I have up.
Tara Ray, alias: Green Gold Fox.
