Chapter 5: Riddle: Where's Misty?

"Let go of Misty, you freak!" Ash screamed. The others came in. The riddler had won

Misty so Ash had to go up. "Make sure there are police in every opening," he said.

"Right," nodded everybody. His hands reached the attic opening and he pulled himself up.

"MISTY!" he cried.

"HEL' ME ASH…!" said a muffled voice. He ran as fast as he could until he saw Misty lying on the floor, who was gagged. A washcloth was stuffed in her mouth while her hands and feet were tied.

"Misty!" He ran up to her and took out the washcloth. When Ash saw that the riddler was near, He couldn't tell who he was by the mask and the black clothes he was wearing. "Look," said Ash calmly, yet frustrated and almost sternly. "This is your last warning. Just give back Misty and I can…help you leave without anyone noticing you."

"You're bluffing," cried out the man in his normal yet cold tone. Ash was getting pretty angry now.

"Well I guess you'll just have ta learn the hard way." Pikachu thought he understood what Ash meant.

"PI KA…!"

"No Pikachu!" Ash puts his hand in front of Pikachu to stop him.

"Pikachu (What)?"Pikachu asked.

"Pikachu," said Ash frowning, "Misty's my responsibility. If you want any thing so fragile back, you have to get it yourself."

After that, Ash rammed into him, punched the riddler in the chest two times until the Unsolved Riddler got back at him. The bloody battle ended up with the Unsolved Riddler as the Victor. Ash was lying unconscious with his face and arm covered in blood and scratches. While Misty spitted the cloth out of her mouth and used her mouth to untie her hands and feet, she heard someone down below say,

"We caught him!" Misty went over to Ash, kneeled, and cradled Ash's head. She brought Ash's head close to her head and put her head on his shoulder, which was now also covered with blood.

"Ash," she cried on his shoulder, "please wake up!"

At that moment, Ash lit his eyes opened a little & whispered, "Misty, where is he?"

"He escaped after you fell. But they caught him! Ash? Do you think you can walk a little bit?" He tried to stand up using Misty's support when Brock's head popped up from the attic door.

"What's taking you guys so…oh!" He came up and helped Ash to walk.

When they finally got outside, they saw that the man's mask was taken off. But he wasn't a man at all! He was about the same age as Brock! Officer Jenny was filing a report on him when Uncle Matthew and Clarifee ran to see what has happened to Ash.

"Oh my gosh!" gasped Clarifee.

"What's happened to him?" sadly said Uncle Matthew.

"He and the Unsolved Riddler had a…battle," cried Misty.

"With Pokemon?" whispered Brock, looking at Ash.

"No," shook Misty, "by themselves."

"Misty, are you…" but Ash was soon interrupted when the riddler charged against him. "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" The unsolved Riddler kept on repeating. He choked, squeezed, and slammed Ash against the wall until 12 officers grabbed him. Then Ash's world went black.