Chapter 7

-Ascending-

My eyes opened slowly and I awakened to a bright room. My vision was blurry, my chin and head were throbbing, and my lungs were burning.

'I'm alive?'

I heard voices around me. "Darren!" "You're going to be alright."

My vision cleared and I realized that I was in the hospital. Ash and Flannery were at my bedside.

"What happened?…How did I make it here?"

"Well, when you toppled over the side of the ship, us and others screamed for help. Misty and another lifeguard who was on duty dove in after you and managed to grab you. Thankfully you made it."

"Wow…I can't believe it… I thought I was dead for sure…"

'I really needed to thank Misty.'

…

My mind race towards Gary. I stood up "Where's Gary? I'm going to rip his (fucking) head off."

"He's gone. He was arrested by the 'Wailord Police' for assault and they sent him off on another ship."

I checked out of the hospital and returned to my room to rest. I decided to stay inside for the next three or so days. I wasn't sure how many people witnessed the physical altercation between Gary and I, but there was going to be plenty of people talking about the pokemon battle we had, and I wanted to wait until the gossip died down.

The next few days I sat inside bored out of my mind. I was laying down reading a book when for some reason I took notice of the large AC vent in the corner roof.

'Hmmmm'. I walked up to it, stood on a chair, unhinged the metal cover, and peered inside. 'Wow this thing is huge. It must run through everyone's room for this part of the ship!' I crawled into the AC vent for the hell of it to check it out.

The inside of the AC network was about 4x4 feet and was made up of steel panels. I crawled my way to the next vent and looked inside to see who roomed there.

Inside was an absurd view. Mr. Fuji roomed here, the old man who took care of Pokemon in Lavender Town. I had seen him at my duel at Battle Arena 1, and I was surprised to see that the geezer was still alive. He was probably on this vacation with his wife.

What horrified me was the sight of Mr. Fuji in the nude, being bathed in a mid-sized tub. A Mr. Mime was rubbing his back with a sponge while Mr. Fuji was hunched over. "MIME… MIME… MIME…" said Mr. Mime over and over again with each caressing sponge. "Yesss Mr. Mime. Now get right here."

I quickly moved past this vent to the next one before things got any weirder.

I passed a couple empty rooms and a couple rooms of no interest before I seen a vent on the right side with smoke coming from it. I snuck over there in prone to see what was going on, and was immediately greeted with the scent of marijuana.

I spied into the room and saw Gardenia and Cheryl sharing a blunt between them. They were both in bikini's and I figured they just got inside from tanning or from the pools. I watched intently as they finished smoking and then climbed into the hot tub at the center of the room. They both giggled as Gardenia almost slipped climbing in.

The act of spying on them and seeing them scantily clad got me incredibly horny. I decided to fap right then and there. My right hand moved towards my growing cock and my left hand was leaning against the vent so I could maintain the view.

Leaning against the vent was a bad idea.

The vent collapsed as I fell shoulder first onto the floor 10 feet below me. Gardenia and Cheryl were scared shitless and Cheryl let out an "EEEEK!".

I was rolling around, rubbing my shoulder in pain as they both got up and walked over to me with a bewildered look on their faces.

"What the fuck are you doing here?"

"I-I'm the mechanic on this ship. I was uh… called to fix the air conditioning."

Despite their altered state they didn't buy it for a second.

"Don't fuck with us. We'll have the Wailord Police over here in a second. Now tell us who you really are."

I decided that coming clean was the best option.

"I'm Darren Surge, a Pokemon trainer. I've actually met both of you before, do you guys remember me?" I held open my trainer case and showed Gardenia the Forest badge that I had won from her around 4 years ago.

"Hmmm that is my badge. But I don't recall battling you. We get a lot of challengers at the gym so that's probably why I don't remember you."

'Maybe you've been smoking a little too much if you can't even remember the winners to your own gym,' is what I wanted to say but refrained.

"What about you Cheryl? Do you remember this guy?" Gardenia asked. "Nope," Cheryl answered after tapping her chin in thought.

They turned their back to me and started whispering amongst themselves.

"Ya know…I did catch you guys smoking weed in here. Last time I checked that was illegal. So I suggest you guys don't make anything of this."

They instantly turned around and said that it was fine, and that they weren't going to rat on me anyway.

I made my way towards the door. I stopped as I heard a "Wait!".

"You wouldn't be interested in hanging out and smoking with us would you?

...

*GURGLEGURGLEGURGLE* I took a huge rip out of their high quality bong and exhaled the smoke. They both eyed me with a pleased look on their face, probably because they found another person to smoke with.

"So *cough* are you guys just friendss or what?" I inquired.

Cheryl answered "Yeahh we are just friends. We're not together or anything haha." "We actually met in Eterna Forest, and we've been BFF's ever since."

*GURGLEGURGLEGURGLE*

"What have you two been up to over the past four years? That was the last time I've seen you girls."

"Well, as you know I still run the Grass gym in Sinnoh. I actually hired Cheryl to help me run it. Besides that nothing much really… we've been battling and smoking.. pretty much that's it." Gardenia smirked.

"We decided to come on this trip to change things up from the same routine, y'know?" added Cheryl.

I held up the bong and said, "Looks like not much has changed!" We all broke into roaring laughter.

"What about yourself Darren?" said Gardenia trying to catch her breath and continue the conversation.

*GURGLEGURGLEGURGLE*

"I've been traveling, still trying to become league champion. No luck however. I came on this trip to meet new people."

"Oh that's nice. Looks like you've met the two coolest people on this boat," Cheryl said playfully.

"Haha for sure."

At this point I was plain retarded. I layed down on the floor-rug as a vegetative state seemed like the ideal comfort. I was seeing blinking lights and the top of my head was numb.

"You ok over there Darren?"

"Yeah Yeah I'm fine. Just haven't smoked in a while."

"We are heading back into the hot tub do you want to come in?" Cheryl asked.

"Sure," I summoned all of my strength to stand up, take off my shirt, and hop into the tub. It felt amazing as I descended into the bubbling hot water.

In this position I got a great view of their bodies. Gardenia was wearing a soft brown bikini and proudly displayed her round C-cups. Cheryl was in a light green bikini that complimented her dark green hair and green eyes very well. She didn't flaunt her B/C-cup boobs like Gardenia, but she was extremely sexy nonetheless.

Gardenia said with a bright smile, "Surprise!" as she whipped out another blunt. I would've been content with no more smoking, but for some reason I was happy there was more. I could probably speak the same for Cheryl.

We passed around the blunt. Cheryl, who was staring into space, suddenly had a look on her face like she discovered some groundbreaking revelation.

"SO WHY WERE YOU REALLY IN THAT VENT? YOU STILL NEVER TOLD US THE REAL REASON," she blurted this out as Gardenia gasped in contemplation of Cheryl's words.