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Gary's on Fire!
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Ash visited Gary's room in the hospital, just to find a flame-styled snowboard. Ash found a note on it reading that it was from Gary's big sister, June.
A good-looking but responsible brunette-haired nurse showed up, she spots Ash and asks, "Excuse me, but aren't you supposed to be in your room instead of Mr. Gary Oak's?" Ash replies, "I decided to visit Gary because I've decided to repair a few strings of friendship with him."
Gary finally showed up, but in a red jumpsuit, Ash asks in surprise, "Are you heading towards someplace cold, Gary?" Gary nods, "Oh yeah, I've did some personal tests and I say I'm healthy as a horse."
The nurse said, "Whoa! Just where do you think you're going?" Gary said, "I don't think you've noticed but I ain't not sick. But I'm planning on going snowboarding down those snowcapped mountains back there. What do you say, Ash?" Ash feeling encouraged, just shrugs and says, "I don't see why not; I mean, I feel fine enough to go boarding sometime soon."
Theresa (the nurse) said in excuse, "You know, you two, this is not a ski resort." Gary chimed, "Yet." Ash said, "Well, apparently his big sister, June, still sends him care packages though, since their grandma and parents passed away. For a beautiful and sexy 28-year-old woman whose still single you'd be surprised."
Gary hands Ash a jet-black snowboard with a familiar green triangular mark on the bottom side and a bag obviously filled with skiing garments, "Apparently the same to you over the years, Ash. You never checked your mail for physical packages under the initials 'J.O.' with the flowers next to them. I'd bet you anything she'd wished to be at least 4 or 5 years younger than she is."
Theresa checked on Ash while they were talking, she confirmed to the hospital's computer as 100 percent healthy, she stuck an electric thermometer in Gary's mouth and said to him, "You are trouble." Ash shrugs, "Well, trouble is his middle name. That was until I first faced members of Team Rocket in our youth."
The temperature displayed on the computer screen connected to the thermometer first read 114°F (degrees Fahrenheit) then it instantly went to 182°F the next second! Theresa was surprised, "Oh my god! You're hot!" Gary smiles, "Why, thank you, so are you."
Ash decided to check the monitor she was looking at, it frightened him, "Uh, Gary…" he ignored Ash and asks Theresa, "You don't hold back much, do you?" Theresa tried to hold Gary back with every bit of reasoning she could think of, she even felt his forehead, "No, I mean you feel a little feverish." Gary shrugs it off, "Well, I never felt better."
He took the thermometer from his mouth and asks Theresa, "Tell me, what time do you get off work?" Theresa answered, "4:00 PM, but——" Gary says to her, "Then meet us on the roof at 4:10, and perhaps one of us will show you the time of your life." He places the thermometer into her pocket, "That's yours," he kisses her, "That's mine." He said, feeling good about it, "Nurses!"
Ash didn't like the look Theresa gave Gary (when he wasn't even looking), it looked wrong in the situation. Perhaps she likes to entertain patients who could be doomed before anybody, even herself, would know about it. Ash took a long and strong look at the monitor, it read a perfect 200°F. Ash says to himself, "Maybe it's best for me to join those two, just to make sure he doesn't die of mutagenic heat."
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Meanwhile, as Ash and Gary left with Nurse Theresa by helicopter…
Brock joins Misty and Max on the balcony looking towards the forest that leads towards the city. He asks Max, "How long was I out?" Max answers, "3 days. How're you feeling?" Brock answers, "Solid. Misty, how are you feeling?" She smiles with her answer, "Surprisingly good… yet incredibly depressed."
Max said, "That's not what your smile says." Misty covers her face, "Well… Ash is still indecisive as ever; when will he pick either me or May as acceptable and when will he make up for those years alone without him?" Brock looked beneath the balcony and saw May resting on a couch facing the scenery, "There are certain things in life that you should appreciate… even when things aren't going your way. Like trying to find the perfect woman in your life."
Misty sighs, "You're right, Brock. Ash would get a great thing with May; she's beautiful, she loves him no matter what, she——" Max snickers, "Then maybe you should date her then." Misty gags, "I choose not to." Brock nods, "Yeah, things will work out for the best."
But what those guys don't know at the moment was that they were being watched by the dynamic trio. James asks Jessie in a whisper, "Do we have to do everything ourselves?"
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At top of the highest snow-capped mountains close to their hospital, the helicopter carrying Ash, Gary, and Theresa the nurse hovered about 15 feet above the summit…
Ash suggests to Theresa, "Maybe we should stick to the right; the left might give us trouble and we should hover down about 10 more feet." Gary asks, "What are you, a coward?" Theresa smiles at the two, "Last one springs for room service!" She goes off skiing down the mountain like a pro!
Gary smiles confidently at Ash, "My future wife!" Ash said, "Your loss, so sayonara!" Ash headed off before Gary could even jump on his snowboard and land!
About 5 minutes later… Ash was in the lead, but nowhere to be seen by them! The nurse is outmaneuvering Gary with her skis better than he was on his snowboard!
She playfully teased, "You're losing!" Feeling his pride at stake, he said, "Alright… no more kid's stuff!" Then by creating some high-speed stunts, he's managed to outrace and outmaneuver Theresa! But both caught up with Ash, who still was in the lead!
Ash was the first to notice that Gary's ski jacket was beginning to give off a distinct black smoke but he doesn't feel a thing. Ash asks as he continues boarding, "Gary! What are you smoking?" Gary scoffs, "I'm not smoking! I'm breathing! Besides I never smoke!" then something frightening happens to Gary , but he doesn't seem to notice it!
Theresa screams, "You're on fire!" Gary smiles, "Thanks, you've got excellent moves too!" Ash exclaimed, "No! She means you're on fire! Look!" Gary looks at his jacket, finally he noticed, it's bursting into flame!
He tried putting the fire out with his hands in a horrified panic, but it only made the fire on his body much worse each time he tried!
Ash and Gary saw something much worse before them at the same time! "CLIFF!"
Theresa stopped but was it too late for the two young men who snowboarded off the cliff! Ash kept going while Gary was falling down like a flaming meteor!
Before Gary was 30 feet away from the impact of sudden death, he literally exploded and zoomed towards a different location in the zone like he was fired out of a cannon!
Everything went black…
Ash stayed by Gary's side the entire time as Theresa and several other pretty nurse friends of hers came by.
Gary woke up… bare-butt naked and standing in the middle of a melted pond that's boiling like a hot spring! Ash gasped, "Ladies, shield your innocence!" Gary hopefully asks, "Care to join me?" and to answer his question, the girls jumped into Gary's hot spring pond!
Ash wonders, "How was Gary able to do that? Well it looks like he's going to be the one springing for room service."