Chapter three.
NOTE: I Am saying now that this fic will be het, as in M/F when the pairing actually gets started (By the way, who should Ashley be with?
Summery: Ever wander 'What if Ash had Been Ashley? Would anything have changed in the series?' well I have, and this is the answer I came up with.
Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever, owned the rights to Pokemon or pocket monsters in any way, shape, or form. Please do not sue me, if you do, I think you should know that I do not have a diem to my name. I am also not affiliated with Nintendo, Gamefreak, or any other establishment. The only thing I own is my original content such as my OOC and such.
Note: Please remember my other user names: Yaoimutt, Dreamer531, and son.
Fuyutaro son: Oh my Jigglypuffs! Three chapters chapters already! XD -dies-
Pikachu: Pika Pika!
Fuyutaro son: Yeah, I know, it's time to start the fic.
PS. Thanks goes to thedarkpokemaster for telling me I was writing Jessie's name wrong. -Sweet drop- it has bin fixed.
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"Pokeball! Go!" Ashley shouted, throwing the Pokeball as hard as she could at the Caterpie.
The moment the ball connected, just like always, the Caterpie was sucked inside. It seemed to struggle for a few minutes, before finally giving in. Ashley waited for a few seconds, to see if it was really done struggling or if it was going to start up again. When she was finally sure that it wasn't going to start struggling again, ran over to it while jumping up and down in the air, happy that she had caught another Pokemon.
"YEAH! I did it! I caught a Caterpie! I've always wanted a Butterfree and now I finally have the chance to raise one myself!" She said happily, jumping up and down over and over again.
"Hey Pikachu! What do you think of our new friend?" Ashley asked, walking over to Pikachu and putting the Pokeball down near the ground so that he could sniff it.
Pikachu sniffed the Pokeball for a few seconds, before finally deciding that he liked the little bug inside the it.
"Pi-ka-chu!" he shouted, nodding his head to confirm his approval.
"Did you here that Caterpie? From now on Caterpie, your with us." she said, hugging the Pokeball closely while dancing around Misty. To say she was happy would have been an understatement.
"Does that mean?" Misty asked slowly, looking at me to see if she had correctly figured out what it was Ashley was saying when she said that Caterpie would be with us.
"Caterpie! Come on out!" She yelled. yelled, releasing Caterpie out of his Pokeball.
The moment the Pokeball left her hand, Misty took off running as fast as a Rapidash, trying to get as far away from Caterpie as she could.
Catching the Pokeball when it flew back into her hand, Ashley quickly walked over to Caterpie and stuck her hand down to him so that he could crawl up onto her shoulder. Caterpie however, managed to catch a glance a Misty, and decided to run over to her, something that Misty was not all to thrilled about. Once Caterpie was next to Misty, he promptly started rubbing the side of his head against her leg, clearly indicating that he liked her.
"Hey Misty, I think he really likes you, isn't that cute?" Ashley asked, walking over to the two of them.
Misty slowly slid to the ground, completely disgusted by the fact that a bug, Pokemon or not, was rubbing up against her leg.
"Get this disgusting bug away from me!" Misty said, scuttling as far away from Caterpie as she could.
"Hey, Caterpie isn't disgusting! You'll hurt his feelings." Ashley said, walking over to the saddened Pokemon while Pikachu tried to make him feel better.
"I know! You be friends with that creepy bug, and I'll be friends with Pikachu!" Misty said, picking up Pikachu, while trying to stay as far away from Caterpie as she could, not wanting to be anywhere near any bug or bug type Pokemon.
"Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. They are both my Pokemon, and they are both my friends, not to mention that Pikachu shocks anyone that holds him besides me." Ashley said while turning around to look at Misty, only to see that Pikachu was allowing Misty to hold him. "Pikachu!" she said, stomping her fut in an annoyed manner.
It was at that moment that everybody noticed that Caterpie was once again sitting against Misty's leg, something that seriously freaked that water Pokemon trainer out.
"AH! Ashley! Put that slimy thing back in it's Pokeball! Bug's are one of the three most disgusting things on the planet!" She shrieked, trying to kick Caterpie off of her leg.
Ashley quickly walked over and picked Caterpie up, not wanting Misty to injure him with her attempts to get him away from her.
"You really don't like bugs, do you?" She asked, unable to understand how anyone could be so afraid of a bug. It just didn't make any sense to her, it was only a Caterpie after all.
"No I don't! Carrots! Peppers! And bugs! Everyone has something that they don't like, and I don't like bugs!" She shouted, emphasizing each of the things she hated most as though they were a complete sentence in themselves.
"Yeah. Well, I like all of those things, but if Caterpie really freaks you out that much, I guess I'll just keep him away from you." She said, carrying Caterpie away on her shoulder. "Come on Pikachu." She added.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" Misty asked, wandering what was going on.
Ashley stopped and turned around, look straight at misty.
"To the next town, are you coming or not?" She asked, wandering what was taking so long.
"OH! I thought you meant you were going to leave me behind." She confessed, glad that she had been wrong. She reallydidn't want to be alone in a forest filled with nothing but bug Pokemon.
"Nope, now hurry up, since you hate bug Pokemon so much, I figured we get out of here as quickly as possible." In truth, she didn't really want to leave the forest just yet, knowing that there were many more Pokemon that she could catch if she stayed here, but she didn't want to upset her new traveling buddy, so she was willing to leave. "But I still have to stop and hunt for herbs and stuff before we get to the next town, so you're going to have to deal with the bugs a bit longer." She added, thinking that it was the best way to get to spend a few more hours in the forest, not realizing that the forest was big enough that it would still take her a couple of days to get through it either way.
When Ashley saw a mushroom that she recognized from her Botany book.
"Hey! That's a Tiny Mushroom!" She shouted, running over to the mushroom as she slung her backpack off her shoulder.
"Yeah, it looks small to me to." Misty said, not understanding what was so interesting about the small mushroom, and also not understanding that 'Tiny Mushroom' was the mushrooms name.
"No, it's name is Tiny Mushroom. It's a rare mushroom that chiefs pay a lot for, and it also can help with burns if mixed with the right plants." Ashley said, pulling a plastic zip-lock back out of her backpack and putting it inside it. "Oh! And that's Ashwaganda! It's used in sedative in most hospitals and Pokemon centers!" She said, spotting the plant next to a tree and pulling out another plastic zip-lock bag to shove it in.
"Oh, so these are the things you said you wanted to find, stuff to sell at shops, right?" Misty asked, hoping that this meant they could finally leave the forest.
"Yep, though if we find any more, I plan to pick them as well." She replied, standing up and sticking the bags into her backpack, careful not to knock Caterpie off of her shoulder. "OK, let's go." she said, walking off again while Pikachu and Misty followed her.
After a several more hours of walking, it started to get to dark for them to walk anymore so they decided to set up cam for the night.
"Oh man, I can't believe we have to sleep in this creepy forest again!" Misty said, unrolling her sleeping bag while Ashley set up the camp fire, which she did with a little bit of help from one of Pikachu's Thundershocks.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted, happily starting the fire for them.
"I know, I know. I'm sorry we have to stay in the forest, but I wasn't expecting the forest to be so... Big!" Ashley said, trying to calm Misty down.
Misty had been complaining about the forest the whole day, which is probably what caused all the Pokemon to stay as far away from them as possible, seeing as they didn't see a single Pokemon after Caterpie was caught, which Misty was very happy about, because they had both checked Dexter and found that Viridian Forest was full of nothing but bug type Pokemon, with a few others here and there. The other Pokemon were fine, it was the bug Pokemon she didn't want to see.
"I know, I know, I'm not even sure if I would have been able to get through this place in one day with my bike. To many tree's and not enough of a path. I wouldn't have been able to ride it through here." She said, annoyed that there was no path straight out of the forest. She was used to this, of course, as she had been travailing for the past few months, but this time was different. This time the forest had way to many bug Pokemon, and she wasn't at all happy about that fact.
"Well, the sooner we get to sleep, the sooner we can start traveling again, and get out of the forest." Ashley pointed out, crawling into her sleeping bag and going to sleep almost instantly.
Knowing that her friend was right, Misty quickly got ready for bed, and went to sleep, wanting nothing more then to get out of the forest as soon as possible.
While the girls slept, Pikachu and Caterpie sat on a tree stump near by and looked up at the moon. Apparently it was one of Caterpie's favorite things in the world.
"Rm -mr rmmr..." (Translation: Look at the moon...) Caterpie asked, looking up at the moon, wishing that he could fly around it.
"Pi." (Translation: Wow.) Pikachu said, looking up at it. It was full tonight, which made it a night that most Pokemon would be looking up at it. All Pokemon loved the moon, though none of them really knew why. It was just a simple fact that they all lived with.
"mrrm rm mr mr rrrm rm mr?" (Translation: Have you ever wanted to fly to the moon?) Caterpie asked, still staring up at the moon.
"pikachu? pi. Pi pika chu. Pikachu pik pika ka chu." (Translation: Me? No, I never thought about it. But you're a Caterpie, one day you'll be able to fly.) Pikachu said reassuringly.
"mr rm rrm mrr! Rmr rmmr rrrm mmr! Mrrm rm rrm?" (Translation: I can't wait to evolve! Then I can fly all around the would! Do you think I'm crazy?) he asked, looking at Pikachu. (A/N: I'm starting to think I'm crazy for writing this conversation.)
"Pika? Pi! Pika chu pika chu!" (Translation: Huh? No! Of course you're not crazy for wanting to fly!) Pikachu said, looking over at him while trying to assure him that he wasn't nuts.
"Mrmrmr rmr mr rr mmr rm..." (Translation: I can't wait to be a Butterfree...) He said, looking back up at the moon.
The two Pokemon talked for a while longer, before they both finally went to sleep, with Caterpie dreaming of one day being a Butterfree.
Unfortunately for everyone with ears, Caterpie went to sleep a little to close to Misty's head.
---------------- In the morning ---------------
"GAAAH!" Misty's scream could be heard all throughout the forest, scaring most of the inhabitants and causing quite a few of them hearing permanent problems.
She had woken up to find the very same bug Pokemon that she was so afraid of, sleeping right next to her face. Something she just knew would scar her for life.
Her screams also had the effect of waking everyone in area up with a jolt. All of them wandering what was going on.
"Wah?!" Ashley shouted, jumping our of her sleeping bag with so much force that she sent Pikachu flying. "What's wrong?! What's wrong?! What's happening? What? What?" She added, looking around, panic stricken.
When she finally saw what it was that had happened, she could help but feel like killing Misty, which she would have done if it wasn't for the fact that she was sure that Pikachu would miss her.
"What's this thing doing sleeping near me?!" Misty shouted, trying to back away from Caterpie, not wanting to be near him.
"Ah, Misty! He just wants to be your friend." Ashley said, trying to look as un-annoyed as possible.
"I don't care if it wants to be my friend! It's icky and slimy and Gross!" She shouted, still backing away from Caterpie as slowly as possible, afraid that if she moved to quickly he would follow her. "If you really want to be my friend, then get out of my face and into your Pokeball!" She shouted at him, again not wanting him anywhere near her.
Caterpie looked as though someone had just stepped on him. He was so saddened by her comment that he went over to his Pokeball and got inside it by pushing the little white button on it.
"Misty! You don't have to be so rude. You hurt his feelings! You ow him an apology." Ashley said, walking over to the Pokeball with Caterpie in it, angry that Misty had talked to her Pokemon like that.
"Hmf!" Misty said, turning her head and looking away from her.
"Fine, so you don't want to apologies to him. I see. So you like being a rude insensitive hag. Well fine then! Travel on your own." Ashley said, quickly packing up her stuff and leaving with Pikachu.
"Hay! Wait a minute!" She shouted. Angry at what Ashley had just called her. "Fine then, I'll travel on my own." She said starting to walk off only to stop in her tracks and hang her head. She was still angry, but she knew she was wrong. She didn't have to go and insult the bug Pokemon like that and hurt it's feelings. The moment the words had left her mouth and she had seen Caterpie looking so upset, she knew she had crossed a line. She still didn't like the Pokemon, but that didn't mean it was ok for her to insult him all the time.
"I was rude wasn't I." She said out loud, purposefully making it a statement and not a question. Taking a deep breath, Misty turned around and ran after Ashley, knowing that she would have to apologize to the bug Pokemon, even though she didn't like it. "Hay! Ashley! Wait!" She shouted, running after her.
"Yes?" Ashley said, smiling at her. She knew that would work, Misty didn't seem like the kind to be ok with picking on poor defenseless Pokemon, she just needed a few minutes to her self to realize what she did.
"I'm sorry, ok." Misty said, not quite meeting Ashley's eyes as she said it.
"Nu-uh-uh. You have to say it to Caterpie." She said, holding Caterpie's Pokeball out and releasing Caterpie from it.
The moment Caterpie was out of his Pokeball, mist instantly wanted to run for cover, but she forced her self to go through with it, knowing that it was the only way to patch things up.
"Come on, you can do it." Ashley cheered, trying to encourage her. It wasn't working.
Caterpie stared up at her with it's big cold and black eyes, wandering what was going on.
Misty took a deep breath and decided that it would be best to just get it over with.
"Caterpie... I'm sor-" She never got to finish her sentence as a Pidgey chose that moment to try and catch it's breakfast. Which was unfortunately a problem seeing as it was attempting to eat something that kind of belonged to Ashley.
Caterpie.
The bird like Pokemon had dive-bombed Caterpie in an attempt to fly off with him, but ended up knocking him into a tree instead.
"Caterpie!" Ashley shouted, quickly grabbing Caterpie's Pokeball and returning him to it. When Caterpie was safely in its Pokeball, Ashley looked over at the Pokemon, which was now sitting in some tall grass, eating warms. "Is that a Pidgeotto?" she asked, not sure if that was what it was, having never seen one before.
"I think so." Misty confirmed as Ashley pulled out her Pokedex to see what it had to say about it.
"Pidgeotto, the Bird Pokemon. Pidgeotto an evolved form of Pidgey. It is armed with sharp claws and dives from the sky to capture it's pray. Unlike the more gentle Pidgey, Pidgeotto can be dangerous. Approach with extreme caution. " It said, clicking off when it was done.
Ashley glared at the Pokedex for a few minutes, annoyed that it apparently thought she couldn't handle a Pidgeotto.
"First you call me stupid, and now you think I can't handle a Pidgeotto? I'll show you who can't handle catching a Pidgeotto!" She said, glaring down at the Pokedex before turning her attention back to the flying Pokemon, finding that it was still eating some warms.
"Pikachu! Let's go!" She shouted, as Pikachu ran out into the grass where Pidgeotto was.
The flying Pokemon immediately took to the sky, knowing that it would be harder for Pikachu to shock it if it were a moving target.
"Pikachu! Thundershock now!" She yelled pointing at Pidgeotto.
Pikachu sent a thundershock at the flying Pokemon, only to have it get dodged in mid air. After Pidgeotto dodged the attack, it quickly dive bombed the electric mouse, only to get dodged it's self, causing it to fly right into a tree, getting it's beak stuck in the process.
"Pikachu! One more time!"
Pikachu quickly complied, sending a strong Thundershock at the trapped bird Pokemon, thoroughly it.
"Now's your chance!" Misty shouted, but Ashley was already going for the Pokeball, ignoring the Air Balls and using a regular one instead.
"Pokeball! Go!" She shouted, throwing it as hard as she could at the flying Pokemon, hoping that it would do the trick.
"Yes! We caught Pidgeotto!" She shouted, doing her customary victory dance before walking over and picking the Pokeball up. "Yep, it's artificial. I am the greatest." She said in an overly serious voice while nodding her head.
"Well, someones not at all modest." Misty replied slyly, looking away from her with a smirk.
"Hey! Give me a brake! I just caught another Pokemon, it's another step on my road to becoming the worlds greatest Pokemon master, and my other goal. To catch one of every Pokemon in the world, I have a Pidgey, and now I have a Pidgeotto too!" She said happily putting the Pokeball on her belt with a smile. "One more Pokemon, and my belt will be full again." She said while nodding her head.
"Come to think of it, I should probably try catching more Pokemon soon to..." Misty said, realizing that she only had three Pokemon, and she had been training as a Pokemon trainer for a few months.
'I think I'll just forget to mention that fact... hehe' she thought mentally ash she rubbed the back of her head in nervousness.
"Ahahahaha!"
"So we meet again." Said a very familiar male voice.
Ashley, Misty, and Pikachu immediately started looking around, recognizing the voice and the laugh to belong to the thieves they had dealt with just two days before.
"I know that voice." Ashley said in an annoyed voice, still looking around to see who it was.
"To protect the world from devastation." The the voice that had laugh said.
Jessie James and Meowth appeared out of an opening in the trees the moment they started there motto, confirming the groups suspicions that it had been Team Rocket that they had heard.
"To unite all peoples within our nation!" James said, continuing on with the motto that had already become so annoying to Misty, Ashley, and Pikachu.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Oh now, not this again!" Ashley said, wishing that the three would just drop off the face of the planet.
"Please tell me this isn't going to become a normal thing..." Misty said, just as annoyed as Ashley was, but verbalizing it much better.
"Piiiiiiii...," (Translation. Uuuuuhh.) Pikachu said, rubbing the back of his head and wishing they would finish already.
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" Jessie said, striking a pose and continuing as though she hadn't heard a word that had been said.
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!" James also stuck a pose and ignored the interruption as though it hadn't even been made.
"Meowth! That's right!"
"Um? Don't you pigs have some mud you need to role in?" Ashley said, knowing that they were here to get her Pikachu. It didn't take a genius to see that Pikachu was freakishly strong.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL US?!" Jessie shouted, her eyes and vanes bulging out of her head.
"He just called us pigs, how rude." James said, glaring at Ashley.
"FOR THE LAST TIME, I'M A GIRL!" She shouted back at him, her own vanes threatening to pop.
"A girl? Are you sure about that?" Jessie said, smirking at her. Revenge was best served with an insult.
"Grrr..." Ashley growled out in annoyance, wishing she could just bash there heads in with a rock, but she wasn't sure if that would upset the rock or not, so she decided against it.
"Hey! Why are you three here anyway? Did you just come to insult us?" Misty asked, wishing they would just leave.
"We're not here to chat with you, we're here to get her Pokemon." Jessie said, as she and James pointed at Pikachu with their gloved hands.
"Hand over that Pikachu." James added, smirking at the small group.
"I don't think so, Pikachu is my friend, and I'm not handing him over to you guys!" Ashley said, standing in front of Pikachu and glaring at Team Rocket.
"Yeah! Go out and find your own!" Misty said, also stepping in front of Pikachu so that they couldn't get to him.
"We don't want any old Pikachu." James said, still pointing at Pikachu.
"The only Pikachu we're interested in is that one." Jessie added, while Meowth jumped up onto there shoulders.
"We're only looking for the rarest and most voluble Pokemon in the world kid."
"And that special Pikachu is just the kind of Pokemon we need."
It was at this point that Meowth decided to shut the two up, angry that they were giving away all of their secrets.
"You idiots! Stop giving up all our secrets!" He shouted, scratching them up with a Fury Swipes attack.
"Is Pikachu really that special?" Misty asked.
'Aren't Pikachu kind of common in this area?' she thought, not really understanding at first. That is until she remembered all the damage that Pikachu had caused at the Pokemon center. 'oh! I get it! It's because Pikachu is so powerful.'
Meowth jumped down on the ground, and crossed his... arms, answering her question without thinking.
"That Pikachu's powers impress even me. I really got a charge out of it's incredible attack the last time we met. It's powers exceed it's evolutionary level. That Pokemon-" Meowth was cut off in mid sentence as Jessie and James started stomping him into the ground.
"Ow! Ow! Stop it you guys! Ow!" Meowth said in pain while they spoke.
"Now your the one giving away all our secrets!" Jessie said, still stomping on him with the heel of her boot.
"Shut up before you tell them everything!" James said, also stomping on him with the heel of his boot.
"Hey you jerks! Cut it out!" He yelled, causing them to finally stop stomping on him.
When Team Rocket stopped bickering with each other, they turned their attentions to Ashley and Misty.
"Make things easier on yourselves and hand over that Pikachu." Jessie said, threateningly.
"Never!" Ashley said angrily, wishing they would just go and get lost.
"Then you leave us no choice!" James said as he and Jessie grabbed there Pokeballs.
"Pokemon battle! Ekans go!" Jessie shouted, throwing her Pokeball and releasing the snake like Pokemon inside.
"Koffing! Go get them!" James shouted, throwing his own Pokeball, and releasing the rock like Pokemon.
"Hey you cheaters! Two against one is cheating!" Ashley shouted in an angry voice.
"Well you know what they say, all's fair in love, war, and Pokemon battles." Jessie replied, laughing at Ashley's rule book loving ways.
"I say that saying is rotten, and so are you!" She said back, glaring daggers at the group of bad-guys.
"Oh course we're rotten, we're the bad guys." James said, practically reading Ashley's thoughts.
"Well if their going to use two Pokemon, I don't see why we can't use two Pokemon." Misty said, looking at Ashley with a spark of mischief in her eyes.
"huh? Oh! I get it." Ashley said, turning back to Team Rocket and smiling evilly. "A four on two battle doesn't sound half bad. Caterpie! I choose you!"
"Huh? What's that?" James asked, looking at the small bug type Pokemon.
"It's a bug. A measly little bug!" Meowth answered as he, Jessie, and James started laughing.
"Hahaha! Let's beat it with bug spray! Hahaha!" Jessie said, laughing at the vary idea that Caterpie could beat anything.
"Starmie, Staryu! I choose you!" Misty said, sending out two of her own Pokemon.
"The three members of Team Rocket instantly stopped laughing and looked at the knew Pokemon, now understanding what was going on.
"Hey! Wait a sec! That's not fair! You're supposed to be the good guys!" Jessie said angrily. She really hated when people copied her, and these two twerpets were doing just that.
"Like you said, All's fair in love, war, and Pokemon battles." Misty said while smirking at her, trying to make her angry.
Ashley took this time to open her Pokedex and scan Staryu, wandering what it was.
"Staryu, the Star Shape Pokemon. Staryu is the un-evolved form of Starmie. Staryu is said to gather with others in the night and makes its red core glow on and off with the twinkling stars. It can regenerate limbs if they are severed from its body. " Dexter said before clicking of.
"Gr! I'll show you! Ekans go! Use bite!" Jessie commanded, losing her temper completely when she realized that Ashley was completely ignoring her.
Ekans ran after Pikachu and tried to bite him, but was easily dodged, the moment Pikachu was out of the way, Misty went to work with Starmie and Staryu.
"Starmie, Staryu! Tackle Ekans!" she shouted, causing them to both to spin through the air an collide with Ekans at the same time.
"Hi-ya!" The two said in unison as Ekans went flying into a tree with the force used on him, though the attack did not knock him out.
"Koffing! Don't just stand there, use sludge, now!" James called out, hoping to blind Pikachu so that it wouldn't be able to use Thundershock on them.
The attack was successful.
Koffing's sludge attack made it's mark, successfully blinding Pikachu by hitting him in the eyes. "Koffing!" It said, happy that it had hit it's target.
Ashley quickly ran over to Pikachu, picking him up so that he wouldn't get hurt in the battle.
"Pikachu! Are you alright?" She asked, worried about her little electric friend.
"Pikachu.." He said, rubbing at his eyes, trying to get them clean.
"Don't worry little buddy, I'll get you all cleaned up as soon as we take care of these clowns." She sain soothingly before turning back to the clowns in question and glaring at them. 'Wait a sec, with the way they're lined up.. I know!' she thought with a smirk.
"Caterpie!" She shouted, knowing that he was in the perfect position to take out both Koffing and Ekans all in one go.
"Hahaha. The little twerpet thinks she can beat us with that little bug!" Jessie said, laughing at Ashley, not knowing what she had planed.
"You must be joking!" James said, adding his own laughter to the mix.
"And what do you think you're going to do with that little thing?" Meowth asked, still laughing at Caterpie and Ashley.
"This. Caterpie! String shot now!" Ashley commanded while keeping an evil smile on her face.
Caterpie instantly complied, shotting it's sticky string at Koffing first, turning him into what resembled a ball of yarn, and then turned his string shot onto Ekans, doing the same to his head.
"Now use tackle on Koffing!" Ashley shouted, smiling from ear to ear, happy that her plan was working.
Caterpie instantly did what he was told to do, and when he hit Koffing, Koffing went flying with such force that he smashed right into Ekans, knocking both him and the snake out.
"What?!" Jessie screeched, unable to believe what she had just witnessed.
"Beaten by a Caterpie?!" James yelled, equally as shocked.
"Now watch a real Pokemon in action." Meow said, stepping forward and into the battle. Meowth un-retracted his claws and held them out in a menacing fashion.
When Ashley saw this, she instantly smirked. If they thought they could beat her that easily, they were wrong. No girl lets one of her Pokemon get taken away without a fight, and she was going to make sure they remembered that.
"Caterpie." She said in a singsong voice. "String-shot."
Caterpie complied with the command, using string shot on Meowth and turning him into a yarn ball with legs and eyes.
When the other members of Team Rocket realized that they no longer had any Pokemon to fight with, the returned their Pokemon to their Pokeballs, then grabbed Meowth by his feat, and took off running, not caring that they were smacking Meowth's face on the ground.
"It looks like team rockets blasting off!" Jessie shouted over her shoulder at them as Team Rocket ran away.
"You may have won this time, but we'll be back!" James added, not stopping to look behind him.
"Come back anytime! We'll be glad to beat you then too!" Mist said, sticking her tung out at them as she recalled her Pokemon into their Pokeballs.
Ashley smiled as she walked over to Caterpie while wiping Pikachu's face off with a bottle of water and a rag she had gotten out of her backpack.
"You did a great job Caterpie." She said, bending over and petting him on the head while being careful not to drop Pikachu in the process. Remembering that Misty still had to apologize to him, Ashley stood up and called over to her. "Hey Misty, weren't you supposed to do something?" She asked, smiling at her with a mean glint in her eyes.
"What? Oh, fine!" Misty said, walking over to where they were while taking a deep breath and steadying her self. She really didn't want to be near the bug, but she knew she had to apologize sooner or later. "I- I'm sorry Caterpie. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings earlier." She said, slowly lowering her hand to pat him on the head, even though she really just wanted to run as far away from him as possible.
It was at this moment that Caterpie started to evolve, using his string shot on himself and covering himself in a cocoon.
"What? He's evolving!" Misty said, jerking her hand away from him as fast as she could, not wanting to get any of the string shot strands on her hand.
When Caterpie was done evolving, Ashley took out her Pokedex and scanned him, wandering what he had turned into.
"Metapod, the Cocoon Pokemon. Metapod is Caterpies next stage of life, it has encased it's self in a hard shell. This specimen has reached this stage faster then any other discovered Pokemon of this variety." Once again it clicked off the moment it was done.
"My Caterpie evolved faster then it was supposed to? Maybe that means it will go on to the next stage soon!" she said happily. As said before, she had always wanted a Butterfree and she was very happy that she would be getting one soon.
"You.. you really do like Pokemon a lot, don't you?" Ashley looked up at Misty's question and nodded her head in confirmation.
"Yep, ever since I was young I liked Pokemon. " She said, setting the now cleaned Pikachu on the ground and picking Metapod up. "As for you, I proud of you Caterpie- I mean Metapod!" She said happily, smiling at her newly evolved Pokemon.
Ashley returned Metapod to his Pokeball and stood up, groaning slightly at her aching legs.
"Maybe I shouldn't have crouched like that for so long." She said, looking over at Misty with an evil idea in her head. "Hey, want to go look for more Pokemon?" She asked slyly.
"What?! I thought we were going to-" She started, only to stop when a Beedrill flew by right in front of her. "AH! Let's get out of this creepy place!" She shouted, wishing that she could get as far away from all the bug Pokemon as possible.
"No way! There are still plenty more Pokemon in this forest." Ashley said before running off in search of more Pokemon with Pikachu following her closely.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Misty shouted, running off after them.
Little did they know they were being hunted by a samurai...
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Fuyutaro son: Bum-bum-bum! Ok, so it would have been a little more dramatic if it wasn't for the fact that everyone that is reading this has probably already seen episode for, and therefor know who the samurai is... but, don't you dare spoil my fun!
Pikachu: Pika pika!
Fuyutaro son: Shut up! I don't want to tell them about that! Anyway, another chapter over, another episode watched, stay tuned for the next chapter of : Pokemon – Pokemon Master!
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