A/N- This is a repost of this chapter I found some nasty errors and I had to fix them...This starts the misadventures of Jason and Miz while in Cha-Chung Forest. I tried to make this chapter a little humorous. I hope you enjoy!

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Misfortune in the Forest

Jason and Miz had woken up late in the mourning under the tree. They decided to leave without saying anything, but they did stop by Tish's market to pick-up supplies. Tish thought that they deserved a reward so she had paid for the supplies. Miz said good-bye to her sister and they left the city. The two now walked through Cha-Chung Forest.

"Hey," Jason said, "you said you left the Ranger Academy to become a trainer, why?"

"Well, my brain wanted to do it so that maybe I could do something worth while in my lifetime, but my heart wanted the adventure of being a trainer. So, I dropped out of the academy and challenged the Jhoto league."

"How far did you get?"

"I got past the tournament, and was able to challenge the Jhoto Elite Four, but…I lost to the second one, Koga."

"You got farther than me. I lost to Ikisu."

"You challenged the Jhoto league?"

"And Kanto and Hoenn…But I never got past the Elite Four. Strong isn't even a word to describe them."

"I hear ya. Kanto's four were tough too. Lorelei totally kicked my butt…I don't know about Hoenn though. I haven't been."

"What did you think about Sabrina? Did she not freak you the crap out?"

"Yeah! I totally almost peed myself when I met her. She was scary…And what was up with the Viridian Gym? I ended up just getting handed the badge.

"Hey, me too! I'm glad it wasn't just me."

"Ya-know the leagues are fun, but there are lots of other things just like them that aren't as well known."

"Really? Like what?"

"I really know of two." Miz explained. "The Orange Island Challenge and the Kanto Battle Frontier."

"Really? Have you challenged them?"

"Neither one, but it's not a bad idea."

The two of them continued to reminisce about their past gym battles, and comparing their strategies. After some time they found themselves sitting next to a river eating their lunch. Miz had borrowed a hip-bag from Tish and was able to carry the food. After they had eaten Jason decided to lay on the bank and rest as Miz went to go "do business" as she said. When Miz was gone Jason stared up at the sky in thought.

So the first gym is in the next town. He thought. I wonder what the focus type is; I think I can take anything. Especially with the team I brought. He looked over to where his backpack was. It took him a minute for it register, but a small Aipom was going through Miz's hip-bag. "Hey!" he shouted. "Get out of there!" he got up and started swinging his hands. "Shoo, shoo!"

The Aipom looked at him with mischievous eyes and snickered.

"Hey, what's all the yelling?" Miz said from behind Jason.

"Look!" Jason answered pointing at Aipom.

"Hey!" Miz yelled.

The Aipom grabbed Miz's bag and scampered away.

"Son of a…" Jason grabbed his bag and chased after it, followed by Miz.

The Aipom was to fast and it slowly started to gain ground.

"I really hate these…" Jason gasped, "stick-fingered monkeys."

"We have to…" Miz said, "catch it. My pokeballs are in that bag!"

Up ahead the Aipom stopped and swung back and fourth on a tree limb. It dangled Miz's bag in a taunt. Jason ran faster and long-jumped at the Aipom. He outstretched his arms towards the bag; his fingers were inches away from grabbing it when the Aipom pulled it up. Jason growled and braced to land, but he did not. The Aipom had been hanging on a limb stretching over a cliff. Jason looked down to see at least a four-story drop into a large pond below. Instead of landing Jason sailed into the open air over the pond.

"I really hate those monkeys" Jason yelled.

Gravity took hold and fell down into the pond.

"Jason!!" Miz screamed. She slowed down and peered over the edge. The only thing she saw were the ripples of Jason's landing. She panicked for a moment until he resurfaced waving up to her. A snickering came from behind her. She turned to see the Aipom swinging her bag around its tail. She stared at it as it kept laughing. Then suddenly it flung the bag at her. She caught it, but the force caused her to take step back. She lost her balance and fell over the cliff. Miz curled up into a ball and cannon-balled into the pond. The cold water rushed over her. She quickly un-curled and swam to the surface. She broke the surface and gasped for air, pushing her hair out of her face.

"You ok?" Jason asked.

"As a person can be after being thrown off a cliff by an S.O.B Aipom!"

"At least we bathed for the day."

Miz splashed water in his face at the bad joke. "Not the-ow!"

"What?"

"Felt like something stung me-ow! There it is again!"

"What are-ow!"

Jason dipped his head under the water to see what it was. What he saw was not pleasing. "We need to get to the shore!" He yelled. "The pond's filled with Tentacool!"

They both swam as fast as they could to the shore. The Tentacool gave chase stinging their legs. The shore was not far and they quickly climbed onto land. The Tentacool pursued nonetheless and started hopping onto the land with them. Jason and Miz jumped to there feet.

"Do you have an electric pokemon?" Miz asked, bringing a pokeball out of her bag.

"Yeah." Jason answered going into his bag and bringing out a ball with a thunderbolt on it.

"Zap, assistance!" Miz yelled.

A Jolteon appeared in front of the Tentacool.

"How funny…" Jason said, "Jolteon!"

Another one appeared next to the other.

"Thinking what, I'm thinking?" Miz said.

"You bet! Jolteon!"

"Zap!"

"Thunderbolt!" they yelled in unison.

Both Jolteon's charged with electricity, and fired thin lightening bolts into the pond. The charge went through the pond and all of the Tentacool, knocking them unconscious.

"Good job" Jason said. "return."

Jason's Jolteon returned to its ball.

"You too, Zap."

Miz's Jolteon returned to its ball.

"Do you know where the road is from here?" Jason sighed, looking around.

"I-I-don't know." Miz muttered. She was obviously very worried. "We fell from high up. This is a totally different part of the forest."

"We could just fly out of here."

"Sure, Shownee is north—point the way." Miz said with heavy sarcasm.

Jason knew that he could not. They had gone so far off the road that neither of them knew the way to Shownee now. "Point taken." He said, "Where do we go then?"

"Well, we ran almost parallel to the road so lets head in a perpendicular fashion to the road."

They turned and headed away from the pond and the unconscious Tentacool. There was no clear cut path that they could see, but there was enough space between the trees for them to move between them.

The day eventually started to get late, and they were no where near finding the road. The sun had started to disappear behind the trees and light started to fade.

"Miz," Jason said, "I think we need to stop. It's getting dark."

"You're right we-"

A loud buzzing rang through the air.

"What's that?" Jason asked.

"Uh-oh…"

"What?"

Dozens of large bee-like creatures appeared out of the trees.

"Beedrill nest! Jason run!"

They both bolted from the area. The Beedrill followed holding out their stingers. As if trying to help the bee's the trees started to get closer together making it harder to move. Limbs started to smack Miz and Jason in the face leaving small welts. The bees simply slashed through the limbs. After a minute of running Jason stopped.

"Ok, I am sick of being pushed around by wild pokemon!" he yelled, and pulled a pokeball out of his bag. "Pidgeot, blow these bugs away with Whirlwind!"

The giant bird appeared in front of the Beedrill. It started flapping its wings and created a vortex of wind. It headed towards the bugs, blowing them in every direction. Most were flung into the air while some were thrown into trees. As the wind died down the bugs scattered and ran away in the opposite direction.

"Good job, buddy." Jason said patting Pidgeot on the head. "Return."

The bird went back into its ball.

"Nice job." Miz said.

"Why do I get the feeling some higher being gave us the finger today?"

Miz smirked and started looking around. "Hey, look!" She pointed off to the side.

Jason looked and saw some large boulders pushed together creating a make-shift shelter. They both walked over and went inside. To their surprise it was not as small as they had thought. A tunnel that made it deeper went into the ground.

"Here's our room for the night." Miz said.

They took off their bags and sat on the ground. They rested in quiet enjoying the peace they had found. Both of them almost instantly fell asleep. Clouds formed over head and blotted out what was left of the suns rays, bringing on the night. Later that night Jason was awoken by a strange noise.

"Miz." Jason said. "Miz…Miz wake up."

"What?" she said groggily.

"Listen."

She listened for a moment and then heard it.

"Grrrr…"

"Please tell me that was your stomach." Miz said nervously.

A large, furry, lumbering form appeared from the back of the tunnel.

"Jason," Miz whispered. "it's an Ursaring! Move out slowly!"

They both got to their feet and grabbed their bags and slowly inched towards the mouth of the tunnel. They were at the mouth when the Ursaring roared.

"Run!" Jason yelled.

They both darted from the tunnel and into the dark forest. Miz turned around to see that, thankfully, the bear was not following.

"Jason, stop, it's not following us." She said.

They slowed down and stood still.

"I give up!" Jason said. "I'm gonna go back and let it eat me!"

"Don't be a goober. We can just sleep on a tree like last night."

"I know."

"We'll find the road tomorrow I'm sure. At least it can't get any worse."

In bad taste thunder sounded overhead and rain started pouring down.

"You had to say it, didn't you?" Jason said.

"Sorry…"

"I hate you."

Through the night they trudged deeper into the forest in the pouring rain.

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A/N- Uh oh, Jason and Miz are lost! What are they going to do? Find out next chapter…For the record Ikisu is the first of the Jhoto Elite Four. I could figure out his english name...This was the first of a handful of chapters of what I'm calling the Cha-Chung mini arc…What do you think will happen next?...Don't forget to review.