The sun rose on a new day, bringing light to the people of Sinnoh. The new day meant new situations and new opportunities, and Ash of Pallet town knew this well. He had awoken very early that day, and along with his companions, set out towards his next destination: Solaceon town.
"Come on, come on, come on," Ash said quickly, "hurry up."
The three trainers had now gathered in front of the pokemon centre, although Brock and Dawn hadn't exactly woken up yet. Ash's determination had meant that even though the sun had hardly risen, he was ready and raring to go, which was more than could be said about his companions.
"We're coming Ash," said Dawn, putting on her hat, "seriously though, why do you need to get there so quickly?"
"I just love seeing my friends if I haven't seen them for a while, is that such a problem?" Ash replied.
Off to the side, there was a look on Brocks face as if he'd just realised something.
"No, no I guess not," said Dawn, rubbing her eyes wearily.
"So let's go then. Last one there is a rotten exeggute."
Dawn and Brock just sighed as they watched Ash sprint off, and then walked after him. They were simply too tired to bother chasing him and felt he could go there by himself anyway. Although as they were walking, there was a faint smile on Brock's face.
At the Day Care centre, Angie had also awoken very early, but her reason for not sleeping was quite different from Ash's. It was more a matter of not being able to sleep rather than choosing not to, as her anxiety concerning the next day had gotten the better of her. Knowing that Ash wouldn't waste any time getting to her house, she got dressed and completed her normal chores early in the morning. After this, she went into her kitchen to have breakfast. While she was eating, her mother entered the room.
"I wonder why you got up so early, especially as Ash will be arriving today," her mother said teasingly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" replied Angie with a hint of aggression in her voice.
"Oh, nothing dear," her mother laughed.
"But seriously mom," Angie said, "please, please don't go saying anything like that when he's here." Angie now had a look of desperation in her eyes.
"Don't worry dear, your father and I won't say anything too obvious."
"That isn't what I asked," Angie said, now pleading, "you just can't."
Her mother just sat there, drinking her coffee with a small smile on her face. Angie then decided to leave the house and wait outside.
"Why do parents have to be so evil?" she muttered to herself as she walked into her front garden.
The sun had just risen over the horizon now, and Angie could feel the morning breeze brush past her face. As she stared down the road, she knew that sooner rather than later, the boy that she had met not so long ago would appear there. She only had to wait a few minutes until something moving extremely fast appeared on the horizon. In fact, it was almost going as fast as a jet plane.
'What is that,' she thought, 'and why do I get the feeling I'll be finding out very soon?'
Before she knew it, 'that' was right beside her and it turned out to be just what she had been waiting for.
"Hey Angie," said Ash, getting down from his Garchomp.
"Ash, it's been too long," she said, still amazed at the Garchomp that stood beside her
"Hasn't it just, there's so much to catch up on," Ash replied eagerly.
"And Ash, this must be your Garchomp, the one I saw you use against the elite four."
The truth was, Angie hadn't been able to go to actually see Ash compete, so she had watched his matches on the television. She remembered how it was his Garchomp versus Cynthia's in the final match of his Sinnoh league challenge, and how it was that result that ended the match in a draw.
"The very same," Ash replied proudly, "although I still can't believe how awesome he was throughout all of my league challenge."
Garchomp smiled at this, happy at being praised by its trainer who had raised it from a Gible. Also, Pikachu (who had been watching all this from Ash's shoulder) now jumped down to meet Shinx who had been waiting with Angie.
"Pika pi," Pikachu said as it greeted Shinx.
"Shinx shinx," replied Shinx.
"I guess those two haven't seen each other in a while either" Ash said while he scratched his head.
"I guess not," Angie repeated, copying Ash, "by the way, where are Brock and Dawn, I thought that they were travelling with you?"
"They did come with me, but they were being to slow so I came with Garchomp to meet you here. They should be along in a while."
"Well you're here now, so why don't we wait inside for your friends?" asked Angie.
"Sure," Ash nodded, "Garchomp, thanks for the ride."
Ash returned Garchomp to its pokeball as the two trainers headed inside.
'Phew, this isn't as bad as I thought,' Angie thought to herself, 'I'm glad he is still his regular, kind self and all. He's such a nice person, and he's good to everyone too, well, except from Paul, but he has good reason for that. Anyway, I just hope the rest of the day stays like this'.
Unfortunately for Angie, the day was not going to stay as it had been so far. In fact, their day would take a turn for the worse, due to a small team who just happened to be spying on them from a nearby bush.
"Can we attack them now?" Jessie sneered
"My moral conscience is clear, how about you Meowth?" James turned to Meowth.
"As clear as a crystal, let's get stealin'," Meowth said with a glint in his eye.
"I have no idea where the other two are, but it appears that only Ash and the academy twerpette are here at the moment," James stated
"That's perfect, less of them to meddle with our plans."
"We'll nab us some pokemon before you can say 'we're gonna be rich.'"
"Right!" the three of them said in unison.
Back in Angie's house, the two young trainers had decided to sit down in the living room. For a few minutes, they talked like best friends to one another, filling in the gap of time that had seperated them, but just as they had started to talk, Angie's mother came into the room.
"Oh Ash, how nice to see you again," she said.
"Well, thank you for inviting me here Mrs. … erm… err…," Ash had stood up and was now quite embarrassed, "I'm sorry, but what's your surname?"
"Why it's Aoi, and I'm sure that you'll want to know a lot more about our family for the future, yes?" Mrs. Aoi answered with a devilish smile before leaving the room and a confused Ash.
"What was that all about?" asked a puzzled Ash
"Oh, nothing, she's just weird like that," Angie replied, sighing to herself.
"Never mind, let's just get back to talking."
They did just that. They continued filleing each other in on what had happened in the short time they had been apart. They told one another of the hardships they had faced, the fun times they had had, and of those they had met. For a long time, they listened intently to the other's tales, taking in what was said. It wasn't until a while later that they were rudely interrupted.
"Did you her something?" Ash asked.
"Yeah, I think it came from the back" Angie answered as they went to investigate.
Suddenly, a huge crash was heard, followed by the sound of a shrill voice. They ran to see what it was, and when they arrived they weren't all that surprised. The usual suspects from Team Rocket were standing there infront of them. James was lugging a huge bag of pokeballs behind him while the other two were just watching
"James, don't be so clumsy or they'll …"Jessie started before she saw who had arrived, but then she turned around, "so you found us stealing the pokeballs, eh twerps?"
"Give those back, they aren't yours," Ash and Angie shouted in unison.
"Make us!" Meowth shouted back as he pressed a button on a remote.
Before you could blink, a gigantic robot crashed down from the sky almost crushing those who stood there. There was a flash as Team Rocket jumped into there robot and dumped the pokeballs they had stolen into it.
"Is that the sound of two twerps I hear?"
"It is to me, loud and clear."
"On the wind…" the trio of thieves began
"Do you always have to put up with them and their motto?" Angie whispered to Ash
"Almost always," he sighed.
Angie turned back to the trio.
"Are you three clowns done yet?" Angie yelled.
"How rude!" Jessie retorted "we weren't finished but I guess we'll just leave now then."
"Oh no you don't," Ash said, "Pikachu, try thunderbolt."
Pikachu fired an intense thunderbolt, but it hardly damaged the machine at all.
"Ha ha, your Pikachu's attacks won't do a thing to our robot," Meowth laughed.
Ash winced as his attacks were not doing anything, but a small blue pokemon ran up to Pikachu to lend its strength.
"Okay Shinx, help Pikachu out," ordered Angie.
Shinx stood by Pikachu, and after charging, fired off an electrical charge that almost doubled Pikachu's power.
"Hey, hey wait a second, we can't take this," Meowth said in a panic.
"Meowth, I thought you said we could take an electrical attack," Jessie stated.
"One on its own maybe, but two attacks is a different story, especially with these two."
"So does that mean…" James said bluntly.
The robot exploded.
"We're blasting off again." they shouted as they flew off into the distance. A faint sound of a Wobbuffet could be heard before Team Rocket disappeared.
The force of the explosion pushed Shinx back into Angie, and in turn Angie into Ash, who managed to catch her and bring her so that she was resting on him whilst he was kneeling down.
"Are you okay?" Ash asked with a great amount of care.
It was at this point when Angie's parents ran through the door to find Ash and Angie there together.
"Well what happened here?" Angie's mother said with a sly tone.
Angie quickly jumped to her feet and blushed heavily due what her parents had just seen.
"Team Rocket just appeared, and they tried to steal the pokemon, and they almost crushed us, and… and…" Angie tried to explain
"Angie," Ash interrupted, "are you okay?"
It was at this point that a smile appeared on the faces of Angie's parents. Angie turned to face Ash.
"Ash… I'm fine," she said slowly and quietly, looking him in the eyes.
After this they all went inside to talk about what had just happened. Mr and Mrs Aoi listened closely as the two young people before them explained Team Rocket's attempted theft.
A while later, after they all had dinner (and an inevitable eating contest between Ash and Angie) Brock and Dawn arrived, surprised at how much they had missed.
"So Ash, what happened?" Dawn asked.
"Just Team Rocket up to their usual antics," he replied with a smile, "but Angie and I sure showed them didn't we?"
"Yeah, you were awesome today," Angie nodded.
"Angie, we were awesome. I couldn't have done it without your help you know."
"Thanks Ash," she said, twiddling her thumbs.
The sun had now set on Ash's first day with Angie, A day filled with joy and excitement. Now the whole group had arrived, more days of happiness were sure to follow. Ash who had just been crowned joint champion decided to stay with Angie in Solaceon town for a while, for more adventures and possibly for other reasons. Although, Ash and Angie's interactions hadn't gone completely unnoticed.
"Well dear, they're all asleep now, so what was it you wanted to say?" Angie's father asked.
"I'm sure you noticed our daughter today, yes?" his wife replied
"Of course, but do you think it was right we didn't step in when those crooks came, and that we let those two get rid of them?"
"Well you saw what happened; those two are just perfect together."
"Just like us when we were younger then," he said as he smiled.
"Yes, and we also know that he cares for Angie, thanks to that little episode earlier."
"It's only a matter of time then."
"My thoughts exactly dear," she said, "my thoughts exactly."