I'm back! It's pokeshipping, but yu contestshippers need to send in an iea for a plot, because I've got nothing!
Oh, and by the way, I know my kissing scenes suck, very brief and un-descriptive. I haven't had any kissing experience yet, all right? That's awfully hard to write when you haven't been kissed. I guess I'll try them without posting for a while, if I get something good, I'll post it if you want, just tell me so in a review.
Ash frowned and gripped the metal bars tightly. This could not happen. Six years on the road, six years of epic battles, all those years of annoying Team Rocket popping up, but never, never in all that time had they ever managed anything like this. Never had they ever managed to put him, Ash Ketchum, in a cage, all alone, no pokémon, no exit strategy, needing…oh, how it killed him to say it. Well, he wouldn't then. He could do this. He was perfectly fine and, screw it. The thing he needed more than anybody else was…"Misty! Help!" He called out, fire engine red. He fell the floor of the metal His tailbone hurt a bit, just not as much as his pride. He'd gone for a walk alone, and saw Misty not too far back, fishing and well within hearing range. Ash moaned, this was a bad day.
"Calling out to your little girlfriend won't save you now!" Jessie laughed wickedly. She bounced around with her team. "We did what we had said we'd do, and now with have your Pikachu!" They laughed together.
"Ugh, talk about some half-baths short of a condo." (A/N: My friend Riku made that up, it's not mine.) Ash muttered. "And she's not my girlfriend! We're just really, really, really good friends."
"With benefits?" James inquired, sitting done and facing him. "Friends with benefits could be an exciting way to start a relationship. It may help you guys shift into a normal relationship, don't you think?"
"Ew, no!" He shouted. "Just friends, no benefits! Well, of course there's good stuff about being her friend, but not the kind you mean! I mean, benefits? I don't want any kind of benefits from any girl! Any girl, not just Misty," he nodded to himself. "Good, now she won't kill me."
"But we saw you and the twerpette kiss."
"Huh? Oh, CPR. I was dying, she was the only one there who knew it. Everyone else was scared to come because of the so-called danger of fishing in a huge river full of rocks with a fast moving current. Losers," he shook his head at the thought of his other friends. "Then she hit me with that stupid mallet of hers for 'trying to get myself killed' her words, not mine. And stop calling her twerpette, you know her name's Misty."
"Right," James nodded. "What were you doing in the water, anyway? Even you're not that stupid to go in for no reason."
"Uh, I saw something shiny at the bottom," he blushed. "Swam down, saw it was just a piece of glass, and smacked my head of a rock hard enough to get knocked unconscious. Misty dove in and dragged me out. Stupid Olympic level swimming ability. Why'd her parents teach her how to swim before she could walk?"
"So when she found her true love she could save him from water?" James giggled. Ash glared. "So, back to the main point. Have you ever had any sort of, you know, benefit at all?" he asked. Ash frowned.
"Why aren't you guys running away like usual?" He asked. "Mist, where the hell are ya?" Ash shouted, tilting his head back into the air. He looked back down at them. "She's probably got a bite and figures I could wait a bit. Anyway, why are you still here?"
"We know you'll catch up if we run, then we have to fight. Might as well wait for someone to come to us before we go blasting off again," Jessie sighed, plopping down next to James with Pikachu beside her. "So stop avoiding the question and start spilling."
"Gossiping fruitcakes," he sighed.
"We're sitting right here, you know, we can hear you just fine," James explained.
Ash nodded, "I know."
"Answer the question twerp, do you Pikachu?" Ash asked smugly. Pikachu shook his head no and smiled sweetly from his electric proof cage. He had long since given up trying to escape from such things, all it had ever done was waste energy.
"But I know someone affectionately named Dumbass," he smirked. "And he's in a metal cage, surrounded by bars, with no girlfriend."
"You've gotten mean," Ash glared, then laughed. "Besides, I have too gotten 'benefits' before," he air quoted. "I'm not a total loser you know, it took pretty much forever to hit puberty but now that I have-"
"CPR with you little red-headed girl friend doesn't count," Jessie glared and crossed her arms.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Ash shouted. He sighed and let himself fall backward to lay down on the hard floor, his head hitting the ground harder than intended. "Ow. Why do you have to pry? If you spy so much, you've got to know that I have absolutely no love life, never have, never will." He took a deep breath to scream. "Come on, Misty, I really, really actually need you this time! I'll totally catch you a bunch of water pokémon if you come and give you chocolate and stop trying to barb the barber to shave your head when you're not looking!"
"What, all the girls you liked rejected you?" James asked.
"I never asked any girls out," he gritted his teeth, feeling stupid. Who knew Team Rocket would be able to do this to him? They exchanged a surprised look.
"So, all the guys you liked were straight?"
"Dammit, you're the nineteenth and twentieth people who've asked me that! I'm getting tired of it! I'm not gay!" He scoffed. "I only liked one girl, but this one girl never showed any sign that she liked me back. She said that we were just friends a lot. I never told her, so nothing's happened."
"Was she taken?" Jessie asked.
"No, never, except for this one time she went out with that Gary," his lips curled unhappily. "That Gary takes everything."
"Aw, but you saved the world lots of times, Dumbass of Love! You were the Chosen One and well liked. He's only better because you just can't gather up the courage to say, 'will you go out to the movies with me-'" Pikachu began, getting cut off.
"Finish that sentence and I'm feeding you to the first purugly I find, you little demon rat!" Ash shouted.
"How? You're in a cage! I can say it all I want! Team Rocket probably understands too! You like Misty, you like Misty! You can't say it to her face but you liiiiiiiiiiike her!" Ash flushed.
"Not true."
"Please, I read your trainer log on your pokedex! You admitted you liked her like a million times in there!"
"You're worse than a little brother, you know that?" Ash frowned. "You're just an overgrown rat with spark in your fat little cheeks. You're so cocky."
"Sticks and stone may break my bones, but Gary kissed your girlfriend!" He laughed.
"You've been watching too much of That 70's Show!" Ash glared. "Stop that!"
"Though I may annoy you today, you're still in love with Misty."
"That barely rhymes!" He frowned. "And it doesn't make any sense."
"Does it annoy you?"
"Yes."
"Then it makes sense."
"Do you know if Gary2 and Twerpette 2.0 to together? And Twerpette III and Gary Imitation Three? Are they together?" James asked, looking at Jessie who was getting out he wallet, just like he was.
"Uh, Drew and May have both told me or Misty they like one another, they're not together yet. Paul and Dawn were the other two, weren't they? Uh, I haven't really heard anything from them, but I guess it's possible."
"Yes! So far I've won two out of five!" James shouted triumphantly. "The ones you don't know is is Brock and Tracey are gay." He bounced up and down, as giddy as a schoolgirl. Ash stared at him for a minute.
"I thought you were gay," he blinked.
"You thought I was gay?" James gawked. (You can put the emphasis on 'thought' or 'gay' depending on your opinion.) "Shouldn't you call your lover again? She doesn't seem to be coming."
"She's just my girlfriend! I mean, friend girl! I mean…you know the story!" He took another deep breath. "Misty! Get your butt over here!" Nothing. "Oh, should I do this? I don't know. Uncomfortable situation against painful and uncomfortable situation." He stood and leaned against the bars. "But, I would get to see her, as cheesey as that sounds. Eh, why the hell not? I'm totally dead for this. Get over here you no good, tomboy, trips in heels, never wears her, excuse me, his hair down, aggressive, bossy, scrawny little excuse for a girl, RUNT!" He was red in the face from shouting and gripping the bars.
She was at the clearing in a flash grabbing his shirt and slamming him into the bars. "Ketchum, what have I said about calling me a runt?" she snarled. He gulped.
"If I value my life I really shouldn't do it?" He shuffled in her grasp. "I'm real sorry Misty, real sorry! It's just I was captured by Team Rocvket and you weren't coming and they were gossiping and they're fruitcakes!" He whimpered.
"You'd better be," she growled. She released his shirt and turned with a much brighter attitude to Jessie, James, and Meowth. "Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. I got a really big bite and I figured Ash could wait a bit. Ash, stop mouthing 'I told you so' behind my back."
"How do you do that?" He gasped.
"Can you guys pretend you're scared, like when you were smaller?" Meowth asked. (I can write with his accent, sorry.) "I miss those days."
"If you say your old motto. I don't like how you changed it," Misty shook her head in disappointment. "It' doesn't matter what you say, you're always an annoying interruption from our adventure."
"We don't like it much either. We just wanted to try something different, you know," James added. "prepare for Trouble!"
"And make it double!" "To protect the world from devestation!" "To unite all peoples within our nation." "To denounce the evils of truth and love!" "To extend our reach to the stars above!" "Jessie," She stood with back to back with her partner, a red 'R' appearing behind them. "James!" "Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!" "Surrender now or prepare to fight!" "Meowth, that's right!"
"It's Team Rocket!" They gasped. The scene ended and they laughed and applauded at themselves.
"That was nice. Very fun. So, do you guys want to take on Blue, my Gyrados, or would you rather just toss my the keys?" Misty smiled as the keys flew through the air. "Aw, thanks!" She smiled.
"It's the least we could do for making us feel scary again. But we'll get you next time, twerps!" Jessie laughed evilly. "Oh, nice shoes!" She pointed at Misty's feet, where a brand new pair of sneakers were tightly tied.
"Oh! You like them? Me too! Thanks! Your uniforms seem brighter. Did you switch detergents or something?"
"Yeah, thanks for noticing. See you later, twerps."
"Team Rocket's walking off again!" They shouted, racing away. Misty spun around to the cage, the keys twirling on her finger.
"Alright, Ashy-boy, you know what I want to hear. Oh, and you still owe me a whole bunch of water pokémon, chocolate, and stop trying to get the barber to shave my head like Britney," She smiled.
"Why'd you take so long, it never takes that long to reel in a fish! Team Rocket was just about to set me up on a blind date!" He shouted. Misty giggled and released Pikachu. "What are you laughing at?"
"You. On date. You'd screw it up for sure! You're not romantic in the least! You'd be horrible, you'd probably challenge the poor girl to a pokémon battle. But, come on, say it or I'll leave you in there, you know I will too." He grumbled something under his breath. "Ah-ah, scream it."
"I'M A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS!" He shouted as his crush cracked up while shoving the key in the door. "Thank you," he kicked open the door, "And I'd be great on a date, for your information. I can be romantic."
"Really?" She said, obviously not believing it. "Tell me about it."
"Well, I'd pick her up and go to the door, especially if she's got, say, three older sisters who'll destroy my car if I use the two honk method," Misty giggled and Ash plunged on, encouraged. "I'm not a big fan of girly-girls, so I'd date a tom-boy. We'd go, I don't know, to that mini-golf, bumper boat, batting cage, go-kart place near my house. Then go out for some pizza and ice cream, as much as she wants, but if she gets more than one helping the price is split down the middle. Then go down to Prof. Oak's labs and look at some pokémon under the stars. Drive her home, walk her to the door, and if she fiddles with her keys, take it as a sign to kiss her."
"Wow," she gawked. "That actually doesn't sound that bad." She looked at him. "It sounds fun. You might be a good boyfriend after all. How'd you think of doing some so…so romantic?" She looked at him as they started walking home.
"Uh, how to have fun, too many romantic movies, and a romantic comedy Dawn and May double teamed on me to watch called 'Hitch'. The only part I thought was funny was when he kicked the girl in the head."
"Very nice." She nodded in approval.
Pikachu nipped Ash's ear. "Ow, what was that for?" He hissed. Pikachu gestured at Misty, her face that had been cheerful a second ago, was now tilted towards the ground, looking a bit sad and hurt.
She took a deep breath, shook her head, and continued on half-heartedly, "I'm sure you'll make a great boyfriend for some very lucky girl out there, Ash. Hope it' not someone too girly, or they'll kill you for the batting cages and go-karts."
And, suddenly, Pikachu got an idea. He raced off, found a four leaf clover, and raced back to his partner. Pikachu had a simply uncanny ability to find four leaf clovers almost instantly when requested. (Heh heh, sorry.) "Here, use your brain to ask her out with this. Make a cute little pick up line, she left you perfectly open for one."
"Pikachu, how do I make a pick up line with a lucky four leaf clover? All she said was I'd make a great boyfriend for some very lucky girl and, I mean, I'm pretty smart but even I can't figure out how to…oh!" He nodded and tapped his temple with one finger. "Got it." He tapped Misty on the shoulder and held it out to her when she turned his way. "Misty, here is a four leaf clover, just for you."
"Ash?" She said in confusion, taking it from his hand. "What, I mean, why? I…huh?"
He beamed proudly, "well, it's a lucky four leaf clover so you'll be a very lucky girl."
Well...there ya go.
You guys are awesome though! Almost one hundred reviews, and I'm in a good C2, you're all so sweet! Hugs and love to all you guys! Peace out, man! (giggles and shakes her head) That's not my generation, I've just been watching That 70's Show with Leo.