Sorry it took me so long to update (well, it wasn't that long, but for me it was) but I was up in the mountains (no internet) and I have like five projects due before I get back from spring break and you don't care so moving on…
And, as it has been for the past couple chapters, heavily implied Pokeshipping and Contestshipping.
Nope, I still don't own GX or Pokémon.
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"Hey, guys!" Aster shouted, emerging from some bushes. "I found Jesse! And he had a friend who I think you might be interested to see with him."
"Really? Who?" Axel turned to Aster, who noticed that it was only Axel, Chazz, Adrian, Dawn and a now-conscious Drew present…
"Hey, where's everyone else?"
"You mean Slacker, Short-fry, Atticus, Aussie, and your twin? Still looking for Jesse," Chazz commented, pointing over his shoulder.
"He's not my twin," Aster growled.
"So, who'd you find?" Drew asked, almost uncaring, as if he only said anything to prevent yet another Aster-centered argument. Ironic that…oh, never mind; you'll see.
Aster scowled, but before he could say anything…
"Drew?! It that you?!" Max rocketed out of the bushes, closely followed by Jesse. "It is you!"
Drew's eyes widened. "Max?! Where's May?"
"Is that all you can think about?" Aster interrupted. "'Where's May? Where's May?' You won't be happy until we find her—you sound just like Ash! Whenever we mention this 'Misty' chick, his right eye starts to twitch and he changes the subject! It's also how Professor Oak got him to accept training us: 'They can save Misty, Ash.' Are they your girlfriends, or something?"
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Two minutes later…
"Um…are we missing something here?" Ash asked as he, Jaden, Syrus, Atticus, and Jim appeared and spotted a huge dust cloud in the middle of the clearing.
"Hey, Aster found Jesse!" Jaden cheered as he spotted Jesse (and completely ignored the giant cloud of dust, let alone Ash's question), who was staying as far away from the dust cloud as possible with Max by his side. "And…some kid."
"I'm Max," Max interjected pointedly. "And I'm sorta responsible for that." Max sheepishly gestured to the huge cloud of dust in the center of the clearing, which everyone was warily watching.
"Um…yeah. Exactly what is that?" Atticus asked.
"That would be Aster learning that, one, white suits get dirty really easily, and two, he's not as good at wrestling as he thought he was," Adrian smirked. "I bet it would be real entertaining to watch him get his butt kicked by a fourteen-year-old (whose main Pokémon is a rose, might I add)—too bad we can't see anything. You know, I don't think I've ever seen one of those 'fight clouds' in real life before. Cartoons, maybe, but not real life."
"Wait, hold on…Aster's fighting? With who?" Jaden asked incredulously, eyes wide.
"Drew. Aster made some crack about May being Drew's girlfriend."
"That'll do it," Ash verified.
"He said the same thing about you and Misty, too."
"WHAT?! First Drew, now Aster?! She's not my girlfriend!"
"Grab him!" Dawn yelped as she latched onto Ash's arm.
"Dawn, I'm not gonna join the fight," Ash laughed. "I may have just as short a fuse as Drew, but I'm not one for fights—I prefer verbal attacks."
"So, um…who wants to separate them?" Jaden asked, pointing at the dust cloud.
Jesse snorted. "Not me." He had learned not to mess with Aster after the Morning Punch episode.
"I'll do it," Jim volunteered. "Shirley and I 'ave faced a whole pack of dingoes before—I doubt a pair of angry teenagers should be too much of a problem." Jim turned around and let Shirley lose from his back. "Go get 'em, girl!"
First, Shirley grabbed Drew by the leg and dragged him over to Jim, who grabbed his arms in a successful attempt to hold him back. Then, Shirley grabbed Aster's leg to hold him in place in the middle of the clearing and prevent him from attacking his now-defenseless opponent.
Jim frowned down at Drew. "It looks like you, mate, owe us an explanation. You don't just attack a kid two years older than yourself for making a one stupid little comment."
"I'm just upset about May—" Drew tried to explain.
"Don't feed us that!" Aster shouted from the middle of the field. "That's Ash's excuse with Misty, too! OW! Jim! Tell Shirley to let go—stop it; that hurts!"
"Jaden didn't try to kill me or Hassleberry when we said he was going on a date with Alexis when she was brainwashed," Syrus pointed out.
"Who're Hassleberry and Alexis?" Ash asked.
"That's irrelevant; tell you later."
"The point Syrus is trying to make is…" Atticus grinned slyly. "Was Aster dead on?"
"That wasn't—" Syrus tried to tell Atticus that that wasn't his point, but Atticus wouldn't hear it.
"Is she really your girlfriend?" he asked suspiciously. "On the same note, Ash, is Misty yours?"
Ash and Drew glanced at each other before answering in unison: "NO!"
"That was a pretty defensive 'no.'"
"They aren't!" Drew growled. "Maybe I'm just a violent person, ever think of that?!"
"How about you ask them?!" Ash challenged. "I mean, they would know whether they were our girlfriends, right?"
Atticus put his hand to his chin in thought. "Alright. I think I will. First, we get May back to ask her, because we have the resources to. Then, Ash, tell us what's up with this Misty girl so we can ask her, too."
Ash's eyes widened in surprise. I was being sarcastic…
"Hey, Silver-Hair was right," Drew commented, staring at Ash.
"My name is Aster!" Aster corrected irritably.
Drew rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
"Right about what?" Ash asked, confused.
"Your right eye really does twitch when someone talks about Misty."
Atticus turned to Max, ignoring Ash, who looked like he was using up all his willpower to convince himself to "ignoreDrewignoreDrewignoreDrew…" "So, Max," Atticus started. "Where's your sister?"
"It all started when Drew joined Team Light, after Dad made May try to beat Ash in a battle to brainwash him…" Max began.
FLASHBACK!
"Drew?!" May gasped. "You joined Dad's Team, too?!"
"That's right." Drew smirked, brushing some hair out of his face. "I've seen the Light."
"But Drew…" May started. "The people in Team Light change. I met Misty only once, but now…she's cold and distant. Same with my dad. It's scaring me, Drew. I was even considering…quitting."
"Quitting?!" Drew shouted, his eyes blazing, his tone enraged. "How could you even think like that?!"
"Drew, I—AH!" May recoiled as Drew struck her across the face.
"Don't even joke about that," Drew hissed, turning his back and retreating, slamming the door behind himself as he left.
"May!" Max cried, jumping out from the couch, where he had been sitting. "Are you alright?"
May didn't answer; she just stared at the door, cupping her cheek with her hand, tears welling up in her eyes.
"…May?"
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All eyes were on Drew.
"I don't remember that," he mumbled feebly, obviously ashamed of himself.
"Ahem!" Max interrupted. "I wasn't finished yet! So anyway, after a few days of Drew hanging outside our room, poking his head in every hour or so, May started to get upset. Finally, we devised an escape plan and carried it out yesterday…"
FLASHBACK…AGAIN!
"Max," May whispered urgently. "We have to get out of here!"
"You're right," Max agreed.
"I was thinking," May began. "The oldest trick in the book is saving our sheets and tying them together to form a chain out the window. We're only on the second floor, so it isn't as dangerous as it could be. So maybe, after saving our sheets for two days each…"
"That's four sheets. Just enough to get us to the bottom," Max finished.
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Two days later…
"We've done it, Max!" May cheered as she hopped off the rope of sheets and landed on the ground beside her brother. "We're free!"
"We should find Ash, May," Max decided. "He'll probably know what do."
May nodded. "Right. Let's—" Suddenly, May gasped. "I heard something. Voices."
"Hey!" May and Max jumped as a man in white spotted them. "Shouldn't you two be in your room?!"
"We were, um, taking a walk," May lied.
"Without supervision?" the guard sneered. "Yeah, right. Time to get you back to your room."
"Max," May whispered to her brother, "RUN!"
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"We got separated," Max explained. "She ran one way and I ran the other. I don't know where she went."
"Well, shoot," Jesse frowned. "Looks like we'll have to go out and find her."
"It won't be that easy." Max shook his head. "Team Light overran the Silph Co. again; that's their new headquarters."
Syrus took out his map from his pack. "But this map says it's in…Saffron City. That's…halfway across the region?! No way!"
"It's not as far as you think," Ash reassured them. After a few raised eyebrows, he continued. "Okay, it is. It would be faster if you guys had bikes…but we can't get those until we get to Cerulean City."
"That's right above Saffron City," Syrus noted, examining his map. "By the time we get there, we won't need bikes!"
Dawn glanced over Syrus's shoulder. "That's right. Besides, we have to stop there." Dawn pointed at a city to the top left of the map. "That's Pewter City. That's where Brock is, right, Ash?"
Ash nodded. "Right. But I should show you guys something." Jim, realizing the fight was over, released Drew and Shirley did the same to Aster. "Come here," Ash continued as he led the group over to a cliff and pointed at the small town below. "That's Viridian City."
"Once we make it through the city and Viridian Forest," Dawn explained, "we'll be right at Pewter City."
"She's right!" Syrus asserted. "We're almost there!"
"You might even catch some Pokémon in the forest," Drew reminded them.
"That's always a plus," Chazz said emotionlessly.
"Well, what're we waiting for?!" Jaden asked excitedly. "Let's go!"
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Okay, next chapter will take place it Pewter City. By that time, everyone will have some changes in their lineup, since there really isn't time to go over every single one of their adventures—I hate 40-chapter stories.
So, here's what Pokémon everyone will have (also, I know some aren't found in Kanto, but let's just pretend there was some sort of Great Pokémon Migration or something). Plus I'll have Ash, Dawn, and Drew's lineup as well:
Ash: (I tried to make sure he had different Pokémon than everyone else)
Pikachu (duh)
Charizard
Torterra (from his Turtwig/Grotle)
Feraligatr (from his Totodile)
Sceptile
Donphan
Dawn: (I would have tried to make sure she had different Pokémon, too, but she only had 5 to begin with, while Ash had, like, 20)
Empoleon (from her Piplup)
Ambipom
Lopunny (from her Buneary)
Pachirisu
Mamoswine
Drew:
Roserade
Masquerain
Flygon
Absol
Butterfree
Jaden:
Chimchar (AKA Sushi Lollypop the Fifth)
Munchlax
Tropius
Psyduck
Syrus: (I tried to give him and Atticus all cute Pokémon)
Piplup
Togepi
Ralts
Pachirisu
Chazz:
Misdreavus (AKA Myst)
Haunter (from his Gastly)
Mawile
Sableye
Atticus:
Igglybuff (AKA Cuddles)
Skitty
Shinx
Vulpix
Aster:
Riolu
Poochyena
Nuzleaf
Skarmory
Jesse:
Eevee
Meowth
Swinub
Turtwig (yeah, he caught a starter in Viridian Forest, but I said that his Pokémon represent the Crystal Beasts, and the only other turtle Pokémon I could think of was Squirtle, and the Beast is Emerald Tortoise)
Jim:
Cubone (AKA Skull Knight)
Geodude
Onix
Aron
Axel:
Cyndaquil (AKA Cinder)
Magmar
Carvanha
Torkoal
Adrian:
Swablu
Ninjask (from his Nincada)
Tentacruel
Cacnea
So, that's everyone. As you can see, I gave the GX people 4 Pokémon. And I guess that's about it.
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