CHAPTER 5

Unknown to Ash and his friends they wouldn't have to do anything to deal with Team Rocket. The three had entered the jungle about a half hour before the others had and after walking for awhile unknowningly stepped on one of Karen's traps. Before they knew what was happening they were falling into a hole.

"Ow!" Jessie exclaimed, her rear end landing on a rock at the bottom of the hole. "What was that? Huh?" she looked around herself. "All right, you two, which one of you dug this hole without telling me?"

"We didn't dig this hole, Jessie," James said who was lying ontop of Meowth. "It was already here."

"Well then they have huge Digletts on this island," she said sarcasticly.

"They probably do," James said, grinning nervously. "There are a lot of strange things on this island."

Jessie wacked James upside the head with her fist. "Oh shut up!" she ordered. "Try using your breath to get us out of here!"

"How am I going to do that?" he demanded.

She got up. "Give me a boost."

James got off Meowth and stood up to help Jessie. He knelt down and she climbed onto his back. "Hurry up Jessie," he said, straining. "You're a lot heavier than you look!"

"Oh stop whining!" she shouted down at him, reaching up to grab the ledge. Her fingers missed it by inches. "Grr. Get higher!"

"How do you expect me to do that?" he demanded. "This is as weigh as I can go with you standing on me!"

"Suck it up!" she shouted. "And stop wiggling! I can't reach the ledge with you moving around like that!"

"Sorry but I-" James arms gave out and he fell onto his stomach. "WHOA!" Jessie screamed falling backward and landing ontop of Meowth. "MEOW!" the cat screamed, wavering his arms around.

"Idiot!" Jessie shouted, angrily kicking James in the rear. "I almost had it and you had to fall over!"

"Sorry," he said again. "But I couldn't hold you up any longer."

"Hey did you hear that?" A voice from above suddenly asked.

"Yeah," another voice said. "It sounded like someone was screaming."

"I think it came from over there," said a third voice, this one female.

Footsteps then five shadows were cast over the hole in the ground. The three Rockets looked up and saw Ash. Misty, Brock, a girl with brown hair and... "Hey! it's that girl!" James exclaimed. "The one you blew up!"

"So she's alive!" Jessie exclaimed.

"Look, it's Team Rocket!" Misty exclaimed.

"Looks like we won't have to deal with them after all," the brown haired girl said, her voice sounding cocky. "Karen's trap did the work for us."

"I guess we won't have to worry about them finding that Pokemon before we do," Brock said. "It doesn't look like they'll be able to get out of there."

"I'm glad," the borwn haired girl said. "One less problem to worry about."

"Yeah," the others agreed then walked away from the hole.

"Hey!" Jessie shouted to them. "Don't just leave us down here!"

"Yeah!" James shouted, crying. "I don't want to be left down with mean old Jessie! I'm too young to die!"

Outside of the hole Ash and his friends all looked at one another. "Do you think we should get them out?" Maya asked.

"Naw," Misty said. "They can stand to be in there for a day or two. As long as they are in there we don't have to worry abvout them."

The others agreed to that logic and walked off, leaving the Rockets in the hole for the time being.

Later that day they group all congergated back on the beach and sat down to watch the sunset. Ash sat down beside Misty and the two stared off into space, saying nothing. Ash was feeling bad about what he'd said eariler and wanted to tell the girl that he was sorry. He hadn't been thinking. He should have considered what would happen to the island if he'd captured the Pokemon.

"Misty," he said after a moment.

"Hmm?" she said looking over at him.

"Sorry about before," he said. "I should have been more considerate to Maya."

"It's okay," Misty said smiling. "But I think you should tell Maya you're sorry too."

"I will," he said.

Karen and Mewtwo went off together to talk. Karen had some words to say to her Pokemon and she didn't want to say them in front of the others.

"Mewtwo," she said after awhile.

(Yes?) he said, looking down at the girl.

"I'm sorry about what I said the other day," she said, not looking at him. "You were right about my reason for being here. I was hiding out and not because I was worried about you. I was hiding from him because I didn't want him to find me again. I didn't want to go through that again. I didn't want to end up dying like before."

Mewtwo said nothing. This was the very first time she'd even been totally honest with him. It surprised him and made him wonder what had caused this change in her character. He was glad she was finally being honest with him though about the reason for them being there. He appreciated her honesty. (I'm glad you admitted it,) he finally said. (It must have been hard for you to be so truethful about it.)

She nodded. "I just, just didn't want you mad at me anymore," she said. "I'm tired of fighting with you all the time. I want to be friends. I forgive you for what happened with my mother." she looked up at him, her eyes filling with tears. "Will you forgive me?" she asked, her voice pleading.

He nodded. (Yes,) he said. (I forgive you.)

A/N

I'm working on it. I'm trying my best to get this fic done and an interesting read but I have writer's block so it might be awhile before I update again.