Four chapters in less than a month!!!!!!!!! In the immortal words of London Tipton YAY ME!! (Too much Disney channel is not healthy and I apologize) Pokémon is not mine or else time wouldn't have been impossibly frozen and also progressing.
Ch. 8-Rescue
She knew she should run. Run away and never look back. But she couldn't move.
"Well you shouldn't eavesdrop. It isn't polite." She said coolly, trying to hide her fear.
"I'm so sorry. Manners are something I have not had to have in awhile. But perhaps we can start over if you'll turn around." She turned slowly on the spot.
"Ok, let's start with who are you?"
"I, my dear, am Nyander. And you have something I want." Misty stared, her brain screamed at her to move, but she was stuck. "You see time has caught up with you, and now things will go my way. In about fifteen seconds someone important to you is going to come around that corner and see this. The chosen one is linked to you, and judging by that ring I'd say that I was right." Misty looked at the corner.
'I've stayed away from him for months, years…why today?' she thought desperately.
"Times up." He said. They both stared at the corner, but no one came. Ten more seconds, then thirty.
"What is going on here dear? You're knight in shining armor should've come by now."
Misty glared at him. "I don't know how you know about time, but you know nothing about me or my life." Nyander suddenly grabbed her wrist and twisted her around. She hissed in pain.
"Now you listen to me missy. I have spent years planning this. I know more legends and prophesy than you even thought could exist. They all say the same thing. You, the red haired beauty, though I lose the term loosely now, are the chosen one's most treasured possession. You are the key to bringing him down. Now, where is he!?"
"I don't know who you are talking about, but my fiancé is no chosen one, I don't even know that guy, so just back off!" Misty kicked him hard in the shin.
"No!" Nyander shrieked, pulling her harder. Something popped in her arm and she screamed in pain.
"I will have my way little girl, but first you will pay. If you're not that important as you say, then no one will miss you."
May wasn't entirely sure what she was doing in Cerulean City today. Honestly, she was wandering Kanto entering contests, but she ended up here most of the time. She thought it was probably her subconscious wanting her to talk to Drew. She sighed forlornly as she rounded a corner, staring at the sidewalk.
"…no one will miss you!" May's head snapped up and she stopped walking. She watched the struggle between a man and a red-head girl.
"Misty?" May breathed. Her eyes grew wide and scared, and Misty's roved up to meet hers.
"MMLP!" but too late. Before she could react the car the man had thrown Misty into was gone. It took a good thirty seconds until May's brain kicked in.
"Oh no, I've got to go find someone, I've got to…" she was speaking out loud, but then a thought occurred to her.
'No May, isn't this what you wanted? Misty's out of the way, he can be yours again.'
"No!" she shouted to the street. "No, that's not who I am. I've got to find help." And she started running off as fast as she could.
She stopped, out of breath, in the lobby of Misty's gym.
"May? What are you doing here?" Drew sounded shocked as he looked at the panting girl in front of him.
"Misty…she…"
"Look May, I'm sorry. I hope you'll still be at the wedding, it-"
"What are you talking about?" May had caught her breath now, and was speaking quickly.
"Aren't you here about, May what's wrong?"
"Some guy, uh, took her. He was holding her funny and then, into a black car, and they were gone." Drew grabbed May and shook her.
"Where did they go?" he asked.
"How should I know? All I know is that we need to help and…" she lowered her voice. "We need to call him Drew." He let her go, staring at her. "You know it's true, he's the best one to help." Drew closed his eyes, looking annoyed.
'It's always him!'
"You do it, you're the only one with the number." May scrambled to pull out her Pokegear which she had acquired in Johto and pushed the speed dial button "2".
"May? What's up?" Ash's voice came out of the device.
"Ash, there's a problem. It's Misty." There was a click. May stared at Drew, both at a loss for words. The front door banged open. (ignore this line thing down here)
"That was fast." Drew muttered.
"May, what happened?" Ash said, coming up in front of them. He eyed Drew suspiciously.
"How did you get here so fast?" Drew asked, full of his own suspicion.
"I was coming to see Misty. Did she not tell you?" he said. "Where is she?" Drew looked to May and nudged her.
"Oh, uh, ok I was walking down the street and there was this scuffle, and I heard a yell, and I looked up, and it was Misty. The guy, and the car, and she was gone." She looked between the two men, terrified of how they would react. Ash however simply turned to leave. Drew ran after him.
"What the hell is going on?" Drew demanded while rummaging around for his pokeballs.
"How am I supposed to know, I haven't been here, so why don't you tell me what's going on? Let's go Charizard!" Ash released his most powerful partner and started to climb up on his back. "Well lover boy, aren't you coming?" Drew scowled.
"I have my own ride thanks." He released his Flygon.
"Whatever, let's go." Ash took off, Drew close behind him.
"What are you doing anyway?" Drew called. "You've seen her ten minutes out of the last nine years."
"She's my best friend, what do you want me to do, let her get hurt?"
"You are the worst best friend ever, but I care enough about my fiancé to accept all the help I can get."
Ash slid sideways off Charizard a little bit.
"Did you say what I think you said?"
"Focus Ash, there's the car." Drew pointed down below them.
"Alright, we dive on it, get her out of there and go on our merry way."
"Ash, you idiot, think for once. If we attack, chances are we'll hurt more than that guy. Even if we do get her out, he'll most likely come after her again. If we follow him we can stop whatever he's doing." Ash scowled.
"Alright, yeah." They continued to glide above the car in silence, following it to an out of the way complex.
"Alright girl, I'll give you one last chance. Tell me what you did!" Nyander slapped Misty across the face, but she continued to stare at him.
"I told you, you idiot, I must've been taken back to the wrong time because I don't know anything about what was supposed to happen!"
"But you did go back! You changed something, but you stupid girl, all you did was ruin your own life."
"It will be worth it when you're stopped."
"That is where you are wrong. It's a pity you won't live to see my new world. I do hope he tries to rescue you though, it would make my life so much easier."
"He won't." she sighed.
"Pity." He walked out of the room leaving Misty alone.
"Ash, you had better stay where you are." She said.
"So now what do we do, oh brilliant one?" Ash asked Drew sarcastically.
"Alright, alright, Mr. Chosen One, you have more experience with this sort of thing, so you can take the lead." Ash grimaced.
"Ah, this is usually fun. Ok, Charizard let's get this door out of the way."
"Rawr!" a huge wall of fire was unleashed on the poor unsuspecting door.
"Flygon, use dragon breath." Drew commanded. Within seconds the door had been reduced to a powder.
"Alright that worked, c'mon. He'll be holding her somewhere."
"Oh brilliant deduction, I'm so glad you came along." Drew rolled his eyes. Ash glared at him as he returned his Charizard. He turned to run off down the hall. Drew mimicked his actions, returning his Flygon and running after him.
Misty stared around her cell. There had to be a way out of here. No one would be coming for her she was sure so it was get herself out or wait to die.
She dug around in her pockets. "C'mon, c'mon, there has to be something, a ha!" Nyander had taken her Pokémon but he hadn't taken her back up bobby pin.
"Some super villain, putting me in a cell with actual bars." She set to work trying to free herself.
"So we're lost, aren't we?" Drew said. He and Ash stopped in a hallway and Ash stared around it.
"We are not lost; I'm just not sure where we are exactly."
"You are right where you need to be." Ash and Drew turned quickly.
"Who are you?" Ash demanded.
"And she told me she didn't know you. What a liar that girl is. I was just on my way to dispose of her if you care to join. Only now am I realizing I should have gone for the pretty little brunette too when she saw me." Drew growled involuntarily at this. "You are all sneaky, but it is no matter, I've got you here anyway."
Nyander pulled out a pokeball just as Ash and Drew reached for their own.
"Ash! What are you doing?!" Misty's shout rang through the gigantic hall and all three men turned to see her standing horrified in a doorway.
"Why you resourceful little whelp. Well it will make it all the better for me to dispose of them in front of you." He released his pride and joy, Zapdos. "Dispose of them." He commanded.
"Pikachu, thunder!" Ash shouted in a desperate attempt to stop the powerful surge of electricity heading straight for them.
"NO!" Misty ran at the pair of them, Ash unaware and Drew horror struck. There was a flash of blue and yellow as the attacks went off.
"Misty no, what are you…" But she was already in midair, tackling Ash into Drew and into the wall. Pikachu had managed to repel most of the attack, sending the mass of it toward Nyander himself. He shrieked in the face of the impending attack, unable to move and crumpled to the ground. The electricity in the air crackled a few times before finally dissipating. Ash and Drew each raised their heads slowly, looking at the scene, the destroyed hallway, Nyander's limp form, and…
"Misty?"
"May?!"
So much jumping around, and a bit of a rushed climax I'm thinking, but yeah we'll just see where this keeps going, I'm losing touch with it but I'm trying to keep focused on the story. Eh, so yeah.
STL