This is a story I wanted to write for some time now. It's a drama.
I personally think it is sad. This story is some kind of one-shot but being too long it will be divided in 3 parts each of them from different POV
If you want to know the coupling, it is Egoshiping, Contestshipping.
Oh yeah rated T so don't blame me if it's offensive
Enjoy…
Part 1
GARY'S POV
We were going out, the all five of us, in Cerulean; Ash, Drew, May, Misty and me. Drew and May were going out while I had the luck to be with Misty. I know it's weird that Ashy boy came with us but he is May and Misty's best friend so Drew and myself couldn't refuse his company without upsetting our girls. After all, if it wasn't for him, we never would have been with May or Misty. It's thanks to him that we met them and hooked up. Misty and May both loved him at one time but he either couldn't return their feelings or couldn't choose between his two best friends so he unintentionally broke their hearts. We were there to cheer them up, to be their shoulder to cry on and it just happened. Now Ash was getting out of a long relationship with Melody, she had broken up a week ago and the girls wanted to take him out tonight. I'd like you guys to try to say no to your girlfriend, especially when she's keeping your mouth busy, which I don't really mind by the way…
"This movie was really great!" exclaimed Ash "Too bad Pikachu couldn't be there"
Pokemon weren't allowed in the theater and Pikachu, as always, insisted on not staying in his pokeball so Ash left him to my gramps' laboratory. I sometimes wonder what this airhead could do without him…
"Yeah, it was awesome" I agreed "Hmm, guys let's go this way" I said pointing the road leading to the forest. It was getting late. The sky was darker than usual and the trees were hiding the far away stars. I believe it was around 10 or 11 p.m.
"Why?"
"C'mon, I'm sure you wouldn't like to be taken in photo" I chuckled, since childhood I'm used to paparazzi because of my family fame but they weren't really, especially Misty; She hated them.
"Let's go!" she pressed, angrily with the thought of them animating her mind. We were now all chuckling as we could remember what happened last time she saw one, the guy wasn't too lucky.
I had the strange feeling of being followed but I couldn't tell Misty; she would have teased me for weeks if not freaked out. And with an ego too big for my safety I leaded the small group farther in the forest opening, watched by a cloud covered moon above us.
"I have others things to tell her than stupid impressions" I had thought, grasping the little black box in my pocket
"It's really dark" said May, there was a slight tone of fear in her voice and if I wasn't a hundred percent positive of getting hit I would have made a comment about it. I wisely chose to keep quiet.
"If you're afraid, clung to me" grinned Drew "You should do the same Misty" he added probably just to try to provoke me.
"And Drew if you're scared, I'm sure Ash will be glad to hug you" I said putting my arm around Misty's waist
The girls giggled.
"C'mon guys we have our pokemon to defend us if anything happens, stop clowning" said Ash, I couldn't help but notice with the look he was unintentionally giving us that he was hungry and tired. Like I said it was late…
"We should have taken a car, it would have been safer and quicker"
"Yeah" agreed Ash
"C'mon guys! Look at the sky, it's so beautiful!"
"Hey, here goes a shooting star, make a wish everyone!" exclaimed May really excited. The star went down drawing a 'banana' figure into the sky and, illuminating our face with it, it let some kind of stardust behind. I don't get impressed easily but I was amazed at the 'show' the sky gave us.
"You just sounded like a 5 years old child!" mocked Drew and agreeing with him I laughed along.
"Shup up! What's your wish?"
"I can't tell you"
"Why not?"
"If I do, it wouldn't happen" Drew loved to tease May even more that I like to tease Misty or Ashy boy. This guy sure knows how to get fun out of innocently stupid people. I know it as I, myself, use it as a big hobby.
"C'mon Drew, pretty please"
"What's your wish, Ash?"
"An impossible one, I prefer not to tell" Ash replied, melancholic
Was he thinking of Melody or…? I wondered snapping out of my thoughts. It was rare enough to see Ash serious or mature and I couldn't help but wonder the reason to this seldom event.
"I see" said Misty embarrassed "and what's yours?" she said turning to me
Drew winked at me, I had told him about the proposal as well as to Ash but he didn't seem to notice anything at all, he was just staring at the sky, sad. Anyway, Drew's unnoticed sign snapped me out of my wonders about Ash's well-being and sanity and reminded me of much more important things like asking the hottest girl I've met to marry me. I grabbed the box in my pocket and was about to take it out when we got disturbed…
"Okay guys, raise your hands in the air, leave them down and we shoot you" said an armed guy
They were five and all masked with hoods and they had a jeep, I can't understand how they could have sneak up on us without us noticing. We all did what the one who seemed to be the leader asked.
"What do you want with us?" asked Ash as fierce as he always is.
"C'mon you guys are loaded, famous and have great pokemon, try and guess. It's a bless that you were too stupid and went in an isolated place"
"Why don't we settled all this in a pokemon battle, like real men!" exclaimed Ash,
He was answered by a hard punch in the face and fell down, agonizing. The guy had hard grass knuckles, Ash's face was covered in blood almost intantly.
"Don't insult my intelligence; I know that anyone of you could kick my ass"
"He was insulting your skills, dumbass" replied Misty, if only she could keep quiet for Lugia's love…
The man approached Misty. I swear that if those other four men weren't threatening us with their guns, I'd have kicked his sorry ass to teach him not to mess with my property.
"Such a beautiful mouth yet such spiteful words" he tried to kiss her but she spat on his face. I could see Drew trying to restrain a amused smile… tough luck.
"I would have slapped you, lucky I can't put my hands down" she said as I tried hard not to laugh due to evident danger
"Bitch, unfortunately for you; I'm not gentleman and I can slap!" he was going to hit her. I looked around for any trace of help. Could it be a wild pokemon, a lost trainers or some kind of supernatural monster. Brushing the trees and leaves with my eyes, I examined the place. Heavy bushes and long grass was all I could see. I somewhere already knew that this kind of effort was futile so, afterwards, I tried to push him away from her, by myself. However, my action cost me a bullet in my left leg.
"Gary!" cried both Misty and May; the name had escaped their terrified mouth and went lost in the clear yet somber blue that was tonight's sky.
I kneeled down, in pain. It wasn't in these circumstances that I thought I'd be kneeling tonight. But what hurt me the most was the slap I heard, Misty was down too, slightly bleeding.
"Leave her, alone" I murmured, trying to stand both pain. The confidence of years of building quickly was demolished after those less than fifteen minutes of panic. If someone was to see me right now, I don't think that they could see the confident Gary Oak everyone knows.
"I'm okay, Gary" Misty weakly smiled to me "You should worry about yourself" she looked sincerely sorry and vulnerable; I wanted to hold her tightly and tell her that it was only a bad dream, that it would pass away but these cheap desires were silenced down by those creeps.
"How cute, isn't it guys?"
Fat, mean laughs were heard. I would have killed him if I could only get up and find a handy gun by my side. Like my other early wishes, this one was ignored by whatever god we possess.
"Okay, no more games now, empty all your pocket and belt and quickly, obey and you might live tomorrow, don't try to trick us!"
We obeyed again, soon, on the ground there were a somewhat big amount of money, jewelry, not the really expensive kind, though, and there also were 29 pokeballs. None of us were really superficial so we hadn't had precious objects in our possession.
"Hey Oak, I think you forgot something, there's a bump in your pocket" the dimwitted added. I was surprised to hear that this prehistoric ape could think and, most surprisingly, had some kind of observation sense.
"I don't know, what you are talking about" I tried to deny. "Smart move Oak… even Ashy boy could have found a better excuses" the result of my incapacity of finding a good excuse got me a kick right in the face and I fell down on the ground again.
"Don't try to fool us and give us what you have in your pocket or we hurt your little girlfriend," the leader added, pointing the gun towards Misty to my horror. I hatefully gave him the black box, the pain and anger he could see in my eye seemed to satisfy him enough.
"So you were about to propose, did we kind of disturb your little romantic scene?"
His men laughed.
I looked at Misty, she was too busy sending death glares to our oppressor to notice it but somewhere through her hateful eyes I could see that she had been touched and I genuinely smiled to myself. It quickly disappeared when I saw him put the ring in his filthy fat little finger.
"Hey guys, call me Mrs. Oak now!"
They all laughed again along with their leader who to my opinion should have tried to mask those yellow teeth of his.
"We hit the jackpot; we have for at least 2 thousands dollars and strong pokemon"
"It's no use, they won't obey to you" said Drew disdainfully.
"Well, if they don't, we'll sell them, right guys?"
"Yeah, Boss" his followers all agreed with the brain of the team
"Hey Misty I'd really love to kiss you and brag it to everyone, what about it?" he continued, encouraged by his many successful attempts at pissing us off.
"In your dream! And even in them I'd have the sense to kick your balls instead" Misty talked back in degust. I personally thought that my wife-to-be was smarter than this… Guess she hasn't totally cured yet her anger issues as she pretends to have.
"Okay, let me put that back" he pointed back his gun at me "You'd love to kiss me right?" Misty gritted her teeth and executed herself, taking the hint.
Furious, I saw him deepen the kiss and put his hands to what I thought was a reserved-for-boyfriends zone while Misty didn't move, trying her best to ignore it. She sleekly kicked a pokeball toward me, unnoticed by everyone but me. I was on the ground they wouldn't notice if I'd take it while the other where up with their hands in the air. I, now, actually can't believe that neither of us, struck by fear, thought to actually throw one. Or again, maybe we were just waiting for the perfect occasion… I guess Misty was the one to find it.
I needed a distraction to throw it.
"Aw man, that was some kiss" he said like some old pervert
"There's more of them from where it came from" she told him seductively as she somehow manage to read my mind "You're not so bad after all" I was grossed out. Even with understanding her plan one couldn't totally approve of it as it included kissing ape face. Unfortunately Ash, Drew and May didn't understand it; the look on their face was priceless
"You see I'm kinda really shy, I can't do this in front of all these people" Misty expertly lied. I wouldn't define her exactly as timid…
"Looks like the boss just hit on!" cheered the four other men. I urged myself to not make any comment.
"Let's get some privacy." He proposed, grinning, to her and they went in the jeep
The other four guy whistle and clapped. Now was the time, as those jerks weren't acknowledging us anymore.
I acted instantly and opened the pokeball and made sign to the others to take pokeballs too, quickly. They opened theirs as pokemon got out.
A Starmie, a Blaziken, a Roselia, a Rhydon and Arcanine appeared in front of our eyes.
The guys realized their mistakes but only too late, our pokemon took real good care of them. Blaziken and Arcanine combined a flamethrower attack on the first man who seemed to be the toughest. Rhydon charged at the smallest with no mercy for his height or person. Starmie froze the fattest one as Roselia paralysed the last thief standing. They were knocked out cold within a couple of minutes. Due to the noise, the few wild pokemon present, which were made mainly of flying types, fled. The moon that originally was covered by clouds was now fully visible. I estimated than more than half an hour passed.
"Get out of the car, now!" I cried at the leader "It's over" the guy got out with Misty
"You little slut, you planned all this?" he said looking at his unconscious men
"You got what you wanted right? You can now go brag to everyone that you kissed me, only it'd be in prison" she stuck her tongue a little bit too more confidently…
He quickly took Misty and put his gun on pressed against her head and cocked it. "Don't make me do this" he warned and reluctantly we backed off.
"Good, now withdrew all your pokemon and let me escape with all the money"
"You're going to release her?" I asked as my friends obeyed the order in soumission. The safety of our pokemon was soon withdrawn with them…
"You're in no place to ask question and…Ouch!" he screamed in pain, Misty had bitten his finger really hard "Slut!" he hit her with his gun on the head and she fell unconscious, he then kicked her near his four men laying down "I'll kill you" he pointed his gun at her
"No, I will" I said with renewed strength and rage, I don't think I ever hate someone that much. Hate isn't a appropriate word for all the loath this one guy inspired me with. My heart was pounding really fast and there was hatred everywhere within me except into my eyes where my love was now lying unconscious.
I jumped on him making the shot deflect on the car. Unfortunately, it ended in the fuel gas right behind the matriculation plate and made the car explode.
…
I woke up in a bad shape, I looked around me but just this action made me moaned in pain. I wasn't in the place I last remembered to be, where the nightmare had taken place, but in a cold hospital room filled with the odor of antibiotics. I moved my eyes to examined my environment. I caught the sight of a clock nearby the door that indicated a quarter to midnight… unless that it only took about one hour to get out of forest, we were the following day and at the veil of a next one.
"Hey, you woke up" it was Drew and May was with him. They were wounded but it didn't look too serious to me. And the small smiles their face wore were slight hints to my supposition.
"After the explosion, you passed out. Drew used his cell phone to call an ambulance and the police was already heading in our direction because of the smoke and fire the explosion caused."
"Those bastards have been arrested, Ash was closer than us to the explosion and he was already beat up so he couldn't move, he was too much hurt. You had passed out. The five men were hurt too and one was killed… now the rest is in a better shape and, of course, under arrest"
I couldn't help noticing that they weren't talking about Misty; I wanted to ask them about her but was cut off.
"Gary, you okay?" this time it was Ashy boy. He had been in the bed next to me the all time... guess that I was too absorbed to notice. The curtain that was supposed to separate us was drawn and I could clearly see a set of machines reflecting my own. I guess that he was overall in a better shape than I was and had woken up before. It was too painful to completely turn my head his way so I just answered.
"Never felt better" I tried to joke
"Too bad your sense of humor is still intact" Drew replied as I tried not to laugh, because breathing was already hard for me. But it seemed like Ashy boy couldn't control it and was now regretting it yet still somehow continuing. I noticed it, amused.
"Where's Misty" I finally asked, worried. Her shape was the worst one; she had been beaten up the most and had taken direct hit from the explosion excluding the fact that she had kissed that butt face. Drew's and May's expression darkened.
"S-she's still in the emergency room, they're trying their best to help her but she hasn't woken up yet. We're not allowed to see her yet"
"Is she going to be okay?"
"The doctor wouldn't answer the question" Drew added while May broke down in tears, Ashy boy was emotionless while I was just shocked:
How could such a great night have turned out into this! I closed my eyes once for a chance of waking up in a much more comfortable bed with better company and to notice all this was a bad dream. However, reality had others plans as I saw nurses checking my medical machines, white cold wall and Drew and May weak attempts at smiling.
I wanted to scream but no sound came out except for a moan I let out for moving so suddenly. I felt animosity for the all damn world, if he hadn't been of this son of a bitch, I'd have been the happiest man in this whole damn world and Misty would have a ring on and not an intravenous stuck on her arm. But as much hatred that I could feel and as much pain or sadness as I could take, it wouldn't change a thing. I was stuck with this reality like I was stuck in this bed.