Chapter Four.
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: What if Ash had Been Ashley? Would anything have changed in the series? Find out!
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.
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Fuyutaro son: Four chapters... Oh My Jigglypuffs! I can't believe I'm already to four chapters!
Pikachu: Pika?
Fuyutaro son: I don't know, it's a Pokemon made out of cotton candy.
Pikachu: Pika pika?
Fuyutaro son: Ok, so I do know what it is, but I'm not telling you yet, you have find out in the future, far into the future.
Pikachu: Pikachu!
Fuyutaro son: AH! THAT HURT! Fine! On with the chapter!
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Ashley, Misty, and Pikachu had been traveling for almost three hours straight since there run in with Team Rocket.
Misty had been a little annoyed at the fact that Ashley wanted to catch more Pokemon in the forest, even though the forest only seemed to have bug Pokemon, a fact she wished the raven haired girl would get through her head.
Ashley on the other hand was starting to get Annoyed herself, only she was annoyed because she hadn't come across any Pokemon in over three hours. Where the heck had they all disappeared to?
Now while Ashley, and Misty were busy getting more and more annoyed, Pikachu was simply walking around and enjoying the forest, having fun without a care in the world. That is, until Misty let out what had to be the worlds loudest scream.
"What? What's wrong?" Ashley asked looking back to see Misty wrapped around the branch of a tree, about ten feet of the ground. "Are you having problems getting down." She said in a slightly annoyed voice.
"No! I think I see another bug!" She shouted, pointing over at a bush.
"Maybe it's a, Cowderpie!" Ashley said, trying to be funny, but only seceding in annoying Misty.
The branch Misty was on broke, sending her falling to the forest floor. When she got up, she looked at Ashley with a level 100 glare attack, causing the poor girl to sweet profusely.
"That. Is. Not. Funny." She said, punctuating each syllable, while rubbing at her bruised back side.
"Oh, lighten up. You know I was kidding." Ashley said, smiling at her in an attempt to calm her down. It didn't really work all that much.
"You know I hate bugs, and I saw one right over there!" She yelled, pointing behind herself, not realizing that the 'bug' was coming towards her.
:"Wow! It's a Weedle!" Ashley said, pulling her Pokedex out like always and scanning the Pokemon.
"Weedle, the Hairy Bug Pokemon. The stinger on this Pokemon's head guaranties that any attacker will get the point right where it hurts. Weedle also have the ability to smell food and edible plants from far away." It said, before clicking off.
When dexter was done giving it's explanation about Weedle, Ashley stuffed the Pokedex into her pocket and immediately went into action.
"Let's go Pikachu!" She said, only to see that Pikachu was pretending to take a nap. "Pikachu, don't even try it. One zap and it's down, you don't really have to worry about the stinger, I promise." She said, looking at Pikachu with a slightly annoyed look on her face.
Pikachu knew that he had been caught trying to get out of battling, and knew that he should just get it over with. He really didn't want to battle the Weedle, that stinger on it's head looked really painful, but he knew that Ashley was probably right.
'One zap and it should be done for.' He thought, sprinting forward and into the battle.
With that thought, Pikachu let loose a thundershock before he was even told to do so, causing Ashley to smile. Unfortunately that smile quickly disappeared as both Pikachu and Ashley realized that the Weedle had been on Misty's leg when Pikachu had used Thundershock. Meaning that he had not only electrocuted the Weedle, but he had also electrocuted Misty as well.
"Misty! Sorry about that." Ashley said, running over to the half conscious Misty and helping her to sit up.
When Ashley looked over at the Weedle, she noticed that it was now trying to run from the fight.
"Pikachu! Don't let it get away! Give it another thundershock!" She said, causing Pikachu to do just that.
This time, when the thundershock hit, Weedle didn't try to get away as it was know unconscious.
Ashley quickly threw a Pokeball at the now unmoving Weedle, hoping it wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight with her Pokeball. When Weedle was sucked into the Pokeball, it shook only once before it finally gave up. Ashley smiled triumphantly as she walked over to the Pokeball and picked it up.
"And that makes six." She said, referring to the number of Pokemon a trainer was allowed to carry at any given time.
"Ashley! Behind you!" Misty shouted, causing Ashley to spin around. When she spun around, she came face to face with the sword of a strange kid dressed up like a Samurai.
"Greetings. Am I addressing the Pokemon trainer that comes from Pallet?" The strange kid asked, not lowering his sword.
"That sword doesn't scare me, I'm not letting you steal my Pokemon!" Ashley said defensively ash she slowly backed away from the sword. It might not scare her, but getting cut by it did.
"I am no Pokemon thief." He said, still not moving from where he was.
"Who are you then?" Misty asked, annoyed that the guy had just gone waving a sword at her friend.
At this question, the strange kid straightened up started bending and unbending his sword.
"I am Samurai! I am also shrewed, fearless, and completely invincible in combat. I have been searching the forest to have a Pokemon battle with the one called Ash from Pallet." He said, sheathing his sword at the end of his statement.
"Firstly, it's Ashley from Pallet town, and if you wanted a Pokemon battle, you should have just asked instead of swinging a sword at me." Ashley stated, still a little miffed at having a sword swung at her. Sharp pointy things should never be aimed at someone unless you plan to use them. Or at least that's what Prof. Oak told her when she chased him around his lab with one of his small medical knifes. Fun times. Fun times.
"Then let's have a Pokemon match! Let us see who triumphs!" Samurai said, holding out one of his Pokeballs.
"Fine! Metapod! Do your stuff!" She said, throwing Metapod's Pokeball onto the field, causing Metapod to come out of it.
"A Metapod, huh? A truly worth Pokemon, Go Pinsir I choose you!" Samurai called, throwing the Pokeball that had been in his hand.
The moment Pinsir appeared on the field, Ashley quickly pulled out her trusty Pokedex and scanned it.
"Pinsir, the Stag Beetle Pokemon. This fearsome Pokemon uses it's powerful claws to put the squeeze on it's opponents. When the temperature drops at night, it sleeps on treetops or among roots where it is well hidden." It said, clicking off when it finished. The moment the explanation was over, the battle continued.
"Watch an weep as Pinsir crushes your Metapod in half." Samurai said, telling Pinsir to attack.
"Ashley! Call of Metapod, not even a bug deserves this!" Misty said, not realizing that Metapod had an advantage, then again, neither did Samurai.
"Metapod! Harden!" Ashley called, causing Metapod to become as hard as steel.
When Pinsir's horns grabbed it and tried to squeeze, the horns broke, shattering into pieces.
"Pikachu." (Translation: It worked.) Pikachu said in shock.
"It worked." Misty said, not realizing that she and Pikachu had had the same thought.
"So, what was that about crushing Metapod?" Ashley asked with a smirk.
'that's what you get for underestimating my Pokemon.' she thought happily.
"Clever, very clever, Pinsir return!" Samurai said, returning his Pinsir back to his Pokeball, while throwing out a new Pokeball. "Metapod go!" He said, surprising everyone.
'Oh no! Metapod against Metapod! All they can do is harden! We're going to be here for hours!' Misty thought in misery, mirroring Ashley's and Pikachu's thoughts as well.
"Quick, harden like his Metapod!" Samurai said, not knowing that everyone was already hating this match up.
The two trainers kept telling there Pokemon to harden for about a half hour before Ashley remembered something she had once read.
"Hey Samurai? Did you catch your Metapod? Or did you raise it from a Caterpie?" She asked in a curious tone.
"I caught it as it is now." he answered, not knowing he had just told her something very important.
"That's all I needed to know!" She said triumphantly. "Metapod! Use tackle!" and with that, her Metapod used tackle, confirming her suspicions. She had once read that a Caterpie that has been trained by a trainer will usually keep it's ability to use tackle when it evolves, while one that trains in the wild usually loses the ability to use it when it evolves.
"What's this? A Metapod can't use tackle!" Samurai said, thinking the same thing as Misty.
"Wrong, a Metapod that evolved int the wild can't use tackle, but one that has evolved with a trainer usually keeps the ability to use it." Ashley said, explaining it to Misty and Samurai, while Pikachu just cheered.
"That's why you asked if I had raised him are not!" Samurai said accusatory.
"Yep. Again Metapod!" She said. This time when her Metapod used tackle, samurai use harden so that the attack did less damage then it had the first time.
"One more time!" Ashley said, practically dancing with the thought that she was going to win. This time when her Metapod hit Samurai's, Samurai's Metapod's hard cocoon cracked, causing it to pass out.
"You were truly a worthy adversary." Samurai said with a bow as he returned his Pokemon to it's Pokeball.
"Yeah! We did ti Metapod!" She said, running over to hug her Metapod, only to pause as a strange sound started up.
"Huh? What's that sound?" Misty asked as a sudden feeling of dread ran down her spine.
Everyone froze in fear and looked up at the sky.
"A Beedrill swarm approaches, we must take shelter immediately! Good day!" Samurai said as he started to run off in the same direction he had come from.
The swarm moved in so quickly that one of the Beedrill was able to pick up Metapod before Ashley was able to return him to his Pokeball.
"No! Metapod!" Ashley shouted, running after the Beedrill in an attempt to get Metapod back.
"Ashley, no!" Misty said, grabbing on to her arm and trying to drag her off. "We have to get out of here now!" She said, still pulling at her arm.
It was at that moment that Samurai came back and helped Misty draw her off away from the clearing and into his hut with Pikachu following close behind, when everyone was inside Samurai closed the door and bard it close with a plank of wood.
"No! Metapod!" Ashley said, still trying to get out the door, but unable to do to the fact that Misty and Samurai had both tied her down.
When the Beedrill attack finally ended, Ashley looked over at Samurai and glared at him.
"What the heck do you think you're doing! They carried off Metapod and you dragged me off!" Ashley said angrily, a tear running down her face.
"I am sorry, but if you would have gone after Metapod at that time, you would have been killed by the Beedrill." He said, turning to look at her.
"Yeah, we did it to save your life. We'll get Metapod back, don't worry." Misty said, slowly untying her.
"Pikachu..." (Translation: Metapod...) Pikachu said sadly, walking over and crawling into Ashley's lap.
"Samurai, you have to show me where they took Metapod, you seem to know a lot about this forest so you must know!" Ashley said, looking at him in the eye.
She was still angry at the fact that they had dragged her away, but she knew that they had saved her life, and she wasn't about to keep yelling at them for that. She was, however, going to force samurai to take her to find Metapod weather he wanted to or not.
Samurai just stared at her for a few moments before finally deciding that arguing was probably only going to get him killed by the upset trainer. The fact that he was afraid of the trainer told him one thing and one thing only. Even though he had thought that she was a boy at first, only a girl could ever manage to be that scary. When she had said her name was Ashley, he hadn't believed her, thinking that she was just a guy making a joke, but only a woman could have that much furry in her eyes, and that meant one thing. She was definitely a girl, and you never argue with an angry girl, that was fact that all men had to deal with.
"There is a place, where the Beedrill take Kakuna to to protect them. That is where your Metapod will be." He said, looking away from her and trying not to flinch at her anger. Girls really were scary.
"Show me." She said, still not taking her eyes of the back of his head as she glared at him.
"Ashley! It's to dangerous!" Misty said, while Pikachu ran over to Ashley's leg and sat next to it.
Ashley stared at her for a minute before finally deciding to answer.
"Metapod is my friend, and my Pokemon. I can't just abandon him in this forest." She said, glaring at her.
Samurai took a deep breath, trying to will himself to refuse, not wanting to get killed by the Beedrill.
"I am sorry, but I can not. The Beedrill guard that area heavily and I do not wish to meet my end there." He said, looking over at Ashley with a serious look. "You will stay here tonight, just to be safe. The Beedrill do not hunt the same target after twenty four hours." He said, getting onto his bed and going to sleep with his back toward them.
Ashley simply glared at him for a few minutes before a thought suddenly occurred to her.
'The Beedrill either came from where the hive is, or went toward it, if I go to those directions, I am boned to see Metapod at one of them... ' With that thought she slowly unrolled her sleeping bag and went to bed with Pikachu wrapped up in her arms while Misty stared at her with confused eyes.
Misty narrowed her eyes at the back of Ashley's head with a suspicious feeling.
'she's up to something... I just know it.' She thought unrolling her own sleeping bag and crawling inside it even though it was still in the early afternoon.
Misty had had every intent on staying awake so that she could make sure that Ashley didn't do anything stupid. She did plan to help Ashley find Metapod, even though she didn't like him and thought he was Gross, but she wanted to wait until the morning when the Beedrill would be away hunting for food, or at least that's what she figured the Beedrill would be ding in the morning.
Unfortunately, there was one problem with her 'stay awake and make sure Ashley doesn't do anything stupid' plan.
She fell asleep.
When the sun went down, and moonlight started filtering through the window, Ashley quietly woke got up, careful not to wake Pikachu, and checked to make sure that everyone was really asleep. She could tell by the moonlight that it was around midnight, if not one in the morning. Once she was sure that the others were really asleep, she quietly moved to the door, taking her backpack with her in case she needed something to use as a shield. She paused for a minute at the door, looking down at Pikachu for a moment.
She knew she should take Pikachu with her, but she really didn't want to put him in any more danger then she had to. And with that thought in mind, she slowly moved out of the cabin and into the night.
When Ashley was safely outside, she started running in the direction of the clearing that they had first encountered Samurai the day before.. When she finally got there, it took her only a minute to figure out what direction the Beedrill had come from, remembering that it had been from behind where she had been standing during the battle. Facing that direction, Ashley quickly took off through the forest, pausing at the slightest sound to make sure that it wasn't Beedrill coming to attack them. She really didn't want to be stung by their stingers, knowing that it would hurt a lot.
As she traveled, she slowly started to realize that it was starting to get more and more quiet in the forest, meaning that she was nearing a place where most Pokemon and animals did not go. It had to be a Beedrill hive, that was the only possible explanation. That, or there was something else in the forest that she didn't know about, which was something she didn't want to think about.
Two hours later she finally found a large tree with Beedrill in it, but as she slowly crawled closer, she was disappointed to find that while there were Beedrill, there were no Kakuna, and that meant that there was also no Metapod either.
"Well," She whispered to herself. "Looks like I went the wrong way, time to head back and go in the other direction." She said, starting to crawl backwards, thinking that she should have brought Pikachu.
When she had finally gotten far enough away from the group of Beedrill, she slowly got up, turned around, and started heading in the opposite direction, hoping that when she got to the clearing again, she would be able to find the direction that the Beedrill had flown off in from before.
When she finally reached the clearing again, the sun was starting to come up. It had taken her two hours to get to the big tree, and about the same time to get back, meaning that she had waisted four hours of her search running in the wrong direction.
Looking around the clearing, she finally found the right spot where Metapod had been when he had been taken away, which told her the direction the Beedrill that was caring him had left in.
"It's got to be this way." She said to herself, running off in the new direction, hoping that she would be able to find Metapod. As she ran through the forest, she couldn't help but think that it was a bit to quiet. It had gotten quiet when she neared the big tree too, but it was nothing like this. There wasn't even the sound of a cricket, or even the sound of a mouse. It was all silent. Too silent.
Ahsley had been running for over two hourse, making it somewhere around six or seven in the morning. As Ashley ran through the forest, a sound made her freeze in her tracks. It was the sound of a Pokemon saying 'Kakuna', which was something only a Kakuna would say. And Kakuna meant one thing.
Metapod.
The moment Ashley a heard the Kakuna, she got as low to the ground as possible, crawling toward it on her belly. As she slowly creped closer, she heard the sound of more of them, quiet a few more of them in fact. After interring a thick patch of tall grass, Ashley slowly lifted her head to take a look at the large tree that was just on the other side of some bushes. It was huge, and it was covered in Kakuna.
Unfortunately, it was at that time that Meowth decided to appear, jumping out of nowhere and landing right on top of Ashley's head.
"Do you know what a Meowth's favorite game is?" He asked, only to be knocked off of her head.
"Get of! This isn't the time fore this!" Ashley hissed quietly, trying not to alert the Kakuna and Beedrill to their presence.
Meowth promptly ignored her, not understanding that there was a major danger near by, and scratched Ashley's face. "It's scratch and sniffle." He said, smirking at her from the corner of his eyes.
Ashley called out in agony at the pain, holding her now injured face in her hands. "AH!" She cried, her burning from the pain.
"Guess who." A voice called, one that she knew belonged to James of Team Rocket.
"Prepare for trouble." Jessie said, appearing on the top of a large hill with James.
"And make it double." James said, holding a rose in his gloved hand as he stood next to Jessie.
The three of them had decided to add the two new lines to there team motto, thinking that it would make the motto sound better. Apparently they were happy with the results, while Ashley hated the two new lines because it made the motto longer, meaning that she would have to sit through it for a longer period of time, not to mention that they had added it at the worst time possible.
"To protect the world from devastation." Jessie said, not realizing that Ashley was to busy looking around for Beedrill to pay attention to her.
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce-" Jessie started, only to get cut off by Ashley.
"SH! Not now!" She hissed at them, franticly pointing over at the tree with all the Kakuna on it.
At this statement, a vain started throbbing in Jessie's forehead. She could stand it when people interrupted her, it drove her nuts.
"Gr! Never interrupt the Team Rocket motto" She said angrily, glaring at Ashley with flames in her eyes.
"But the Beedrills-" Ashley started, only to get cut off by a still angry Jessie.
"Cough." she cleared her throat before starting the motto where she had been interrupted at. "To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!" James said, also ignoring Ashley's statement, not realizing that it was very important information.
"Jessie!" Jessie said, pointing to herself.
"James!" James said as her raised the Roze to his face.
"Keep it down! You're going to wake up the Beedrills!" Ashley hissed, trying to keep her own voice as quiet as possible.
The three completely ignored her, continuing on with their motto as though nothing had been said.
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!" Jessie shouted, striking a pose like always and ignoring Ashley's attempts to quiet them.
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!" James added, also shouting it and striking a pose while still ignoring Ashley, not knowing that it was about to cost him.
"Meowth! That's right!" Meowth said at the top of his lungs, jumping up into the air as high as he could.
It was at this point that several very colorful and very loud smoke bombs went off behind them, waking up the Beedrill that Ashley had tried so hard to worn them about.
In an instant twenty or thirty Beedrills rose out of the tree, and started heading their way. Unfortunately, Team Rocket didn't notice this and instead started talking again.
"Little girl, why don't you hand over your Pikachu? There is no use trying to resist us, so be smart and hand over the Pokemon!" Jessie demanded, not realizing that Pikachu was no where in site.
"I don't have Pikachu with me, and even if I did I would never let you have him!" Ashley said, running off to hide from the Beedrill.
The three members of Team Rocket instantly started chasing her, which was exactly what she wanted them to do. She had a plan, and she was going to see it through to the end, even if it went horribly, horribly wrong.
'If I can dive past the Beedrill, Team Rocket will get hit with them instead. I only have one shot at this, and I have to make it count!' she thought running as fast as she could toward the Beedrills, wandering how long it would be before Team Rocket realized they were there.
Ashley saw the opening she needed and quickly dove through it, successfully dodging the Beedrills in the process.
It wasn't until Ashley dodged the Beedrills that Team Rocket saw them, and by that time it was just about to late for them to do anything.
"Good thing we brought the tank for cover." Jessie said, turning around to grab the tank, only to pale at the sight before her.
"It was worth the struggle dragging it here." James said, also turning around and turning pale when he saw the tank.
"Huh?" Meowth said, wandering why the two had paused.
Turning around, he got his answer. There were five Weedle eating the tank.
"Meowth! Their eating the tank!" Meowth shouted, horrified to see that it was half gone.
James held up the paper tank in his hands, watching as the Weedles simply kept eating.
"Well, we made it out of paper to reduce the wait!" James said defensively.
"Who knew-" Jessie said in a shocked voice. Apparently she had never heard about how most bugs can eat paper.
"Numskulls!" Meowth shouted, looking behind him to see how close the Beedrill were.
When he saw that they were only a few yards away, he took of running at full speed, just trying to get away. Jessie and James followed after him with James still holding on to the paper tank, not realizing that it was still in his hand.
While this was going on, Ashley was looking for Metapod, and was relieved when she finally found him. Running over to him, she reached for his Pokeball, only to realize that her belt was still at Samurai's hut. She still had her empty Pokeballs, because they were in her backpack, which she had remembered to bring with her, but they were not going to do her that much good in this situation.
"Come on Metapod, let's get you out of here." She said, as Metapod happily bouncing into her arms. He knew she hadn't abandoned him, he had saw her trying to chaise after the Beedrill, and that was enough for him. He didn't need to know anything else, he didn't care.
Ashley quickly turned around and took off with Metapod in her arms, only to trip ten minutes later over one of Team Rocket while she was still being chased my Beedrill, causing Metapod to role out of her arms.
It was at that moment that Misty, Samurai, and Pikachu found her. They were inside a strange net thing that Samurai had made so that the Beedrill would have a harder time trying to sting them.
"Ashley! Look out!" Misty shouted, pointing behind her friend as Pikachu started shouting his warning as well.
"Watch out for the Twineedle attack!" Samurai shouted, familiar wit the attacks the Beedrill used.
At their shouts, Ashley turned around to see what it was they were yelling about, only to find that a Beedrill was about to attack her with it's to large spear like arms, it's wings beating furiously.
Ashley was frozen in place, unable to do anything but just stare in horror as the needles came in closer to her. There was one thing that saved her though.
Metapod.
"Metapod!" (Translation: No!) Metapod shouted, jumping in the way of the attack and tacking a hit to it's hard shell, causing a tear to appear on it. It also caused one of the stingers on the Beedrill to shatter, making it fly off in pain.
Ashley picked up Metapod, holing him in her arms as Misty, Samurai, and Pikachu walked over to them with the net like cage.
"Metapod! Speak to me buddy!" She said franticly, seeing the deep cut in Metapod's shell.
It was at this moment that the gash on Metapod started to glow, indicating that Metapod was evolving.
"Metapod.." Ashley said as everyone watched a large butterfly like Pokemon slowly emerge from it's cocoon.
"Butterfree!" Ashley called as the Pokemon that was once known as Caterpie and then Metapod became Butterfree.
The moment Butterfree was free of his cocoon, he took to the skies in order to stretch his wings, flying for the first time.
The group could only stare in surprise, none of them had expected Metapod to evolve into Butterfree so soon.
"Oh, it's so beautiful!" Misty exclaimed. She might be afraid of bugs, but she had no problem with butterfly's, they were to pretty to dislike.
Ashley quickly pulled out her Pokedex and scanned Butterfree. It was the Pokemon she had always wanted, but that didn't mean she knew everything about them.
"Butterfree. The Butterfly Pokemon. One week after Caterpie evolves into Metapod, it again evolves into Butterfree. It has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can seek, extract, and carry honey from flowers blooming over six miles away. " It said before clicking closed.
"Well, it certainly hasn't been a week, Butterfree was only a Metapod for two days." Ashley said happily, watching as Butterfree flew around her. Dexter had said that Caterpie had evolved into Metapod really fast, but she hadn't expected it to evolve again so fast.
Butterfree was happily flying around, happy that he was finally flying, something he had wanted to do since he had hatched out of his egg.
"Eevie Eevie!" (Translation: I'm flying!) He said happily, flying around Ashley before flying higher again.
Suddenly, out of the forest, a small swarm of twelve Beedrill appeared, flying right at them. (A/n: In the anime, there are actually twelve Beedrill that come out of the forest after them, and five Weedle eating the paper tank Team Rocket made. They are the only Pokemon that actually chased them. Not kidding, I paused it and counted them out. It's only twelve.)
"Eevie eev vee eevie!" (Translation: let me fight them!) Butterfree said, flying down to hover next to Ashley.
"Butterfree... are you saying you want to fight them?" She asked, looking at the purple bodied Pokemon.
"Eevie!" (Translation: Yeah!) he said, ready to use his new wings in battle.
"Ok!" Ashley shouted with a smile, pointing at the Beedrill that were coming after them. "Butterfree! Knock them out with your sleep powder!" She commanded, sending Butterfree into battle.
Butterfree instantly went to work, flying hight above the Beedrill and covering them with his sleep powder. The cloud of sleep powder was so thick that it turned the sky over the Beedrills orange, making it look like evening had come even though it was still early morning.
When all the Beedrill hit the ground, Ashley pulled out her Pokeballs and throwing them at the now sleeping Beedrills. All the Pokeballs started disappearing almost instantly, meaning that the Beedrills didn't put up a fight at all. Then again, that might have been because they were asleep.
She had kept count of the number of Pokeballs she had thrown, happy when she realized that she had captured twelve sleeping Beedrill, all of whom were now safely at Prof. Oak's lab.
Remembering that she had tripped over one of Team Rocket's legs, she turned around to tell them to get lost only to find they were sleeping, and not alone either. Curled up asleep with them were five Weedles. The sight made her feel a bit bad for them, she had only known them for a short time, but she had already figured out that they tended to get the short end of things. The were kind of pathetic like that, and it just made her feel sorry for them.
"She was able to handle her Butterfree so well, and just after it evolved. Most impressive." Samurai said out loud with his arms crossed.
"Ashley!" Misty said, walking over to her while not leaving the cage. She quickly dug something out of her pockets and handed it to Ashley, which she quickly put on. It was Ashley's Pokeball belt. "What are you doing?" She asked her, spotting Team Rocket.
"Don't you feel kind of bad for them? I mean, I know they are the bad guys, but they are kind of pathetic, don't you think?" Ashley asked as she started to go through teem rockets pockets for something.
"Yeah.. I guess.. but if you feel so bad for them, why are you going through their pockets?" She asked, a little confused at her friends actions.
"You should not steel from others." Samurai said in a disapproving tone.
"I'm not stealing." Ashley said, still looking for what ever it was she was searching for.
"Then what is it you are doing?" Samurai asked, still skeptical about weather she was stealing or not.
"I said I feel bad for them, so I'm going to help them out." She said, finally finding what she had been looking for.
When she pulled her hands out, she had a Pokeball in each hand.
"Ashley, what are you-" Misty started, only to gasp in surprise as Ashley tossed the two Pokeballs at two of the sleeping Weedles. The Weedles were sucked into the Pokeballs, which just sat there in there grass.
Ashley had known that they weren't going to transport, they weren't her Pokeballs, and she hadn't been catching them for herself anyway. Digging through her backpack, she quickly found a pencil and a piece of paper, and quickly wrote something down on it and placed it in James hand.
After she strained up, she quickly caught the remaining three Weedles with her own Pokeballs, watching them disappear before turning to look at the others.
When she saw that the others were staring at her with weird looks on their faces she sighed in exasperation.
"I said I felt bad for them, remember? I wanted to help them and they each only have one Pokemon. So I figured I should help them out and help them each catch a Pokemon." she said, looking around for something. "Misty? Where's my sleeping bag?" She asked, unable to see it.
"It's in my bag with mine." She replied before turning the conversation back to Team Rocket. "You do know that they are probably going to use those Pokemon to steal, right?" She asked, shaking her head in disapproval.
"Yeah, I know, but still, if they have more Pokemon, maybe they will be able to find more food in the forests, did you see how thin they are? It's like they have only been eating one slice of bread a day." Ashley said, pointing at the three laying on the ground.
Misty took a closer look at them, seeing exactly what Ashley was talking about. They were really thin. (A/n: I know you are getting tired of my notes, but this is important. In the anime, it is a fact that the three members of Team Rocket don't eat more then a slice of bread a day. This was said in several episodes, so I decided to have Ashley change that. It's kind of sad and I like the three, even if they are the bad guys.)
"Wow, they are thin!" Misty said, noticing it for the first time.
"That is why they say, 'crime does not pay.'" Samurai said, looking down at the three as well.
"Pikachu..." (Translation: Sad...) Pikachu said, rubbing his own stomach and lowing his ears. He didn't like the idea of not eating, in fact he hated it.
"Ok guys, let's get out of here. We don't want them to find us standing over them when they wake up." Ashley said, starting to walk off.
Everyone followed her close behind, knowing that she was right.
"So, do you really think that giving them the Weedles will help them?" Misty asked, wandering if they would really do much good.
"Weedles have the ability to smell food and edible plants from far away, they will be able to lead them to food when they are hungry." Samurai said, causing Misty to remember what Dexter had said about them.
"Pika!" (Translation: Yep!) Pikachu said, jumping into the air.
"Oh, I get it! With the Weedles with them, they can find food more easily." Misty stated, now understanding why Ashley had caught the Pokemon for them.
"Exactly, so they will be able to eat more. I know we will probably have to fight them in the future, but like I said. I felt bad for them." Ashley said as the headed back to Samurai's cabin.
When they reached samurai's cabin, samurai told them that he would lead them to the path that heads out of the forest and to Pewter city.
"The path is actually near by, it's only about a twenty minute walk from here." He said as he put his Beedrill repelling cage like net away.
After a few minutes of getting ready, they all headed for the path, with misty almost running to it when she saw it.
'Yeah! I can get out of this creepy forest! No more bug Pokemon!' she thought happily, jumping up and down with excitement.
"This trail will lead you to Pewter city." Samurai said, nodding each of them in turn.
"Thank you for all the help." Ashley told Samurai.
"It is I that should be thanking you." Samurai said, smiling at her and Misty.
"Huh? Why is that?" Misty asked.
"Because, if it were not for Ashley's bravery in trying to get her Metapod back, I would have never understood why trainers that come from the town of Pallet are so strong." He said, bowing to Ashley. "They care more about there Pokemon then they do themselves."
"Haha, Yeah, I guess we do!" Ashley said with a laugh, rubbing the back of her head. Pikachu mimicked her.
"I await the day that we shell battle again." He said, looking at Ashley with a serious look in his eyes.
"I'm sure it will be a most spectacular match." Ashley replied, trying to sound like him, only to fail miserable.
"That is garmented."He said, turning around to face the forest. " I shall train hard for that day." He added as he set off, heading for his cabbin.
"What a strange guy..." Misty said as she, Ashley, and Pikachu started walking down the road, heading for Pewter City.
--------------- Later that night with Team Rocket --------------
It was around midnight when finally Meowth woke up. When he remembered what had happened, he quickly jumped up and woke his teammates up by scratching their faces.
"Hay you guys! Wake up!" He said angrily.
'How could they all have fallen asleep? I can't believe da twerps got away.' he thought, scratching at his teammates faces again.
"Ah! What do you think you're doing to my beautify face?!" Jessie screeched as she shot up and started beating up Meowth.
"Yeah Meowth, What gives?" James asked, but ignored the answer as he realized that he had something in his hands.
'huh, what's this?' he thought as he started to read the message.
"Pokeballs!" Jessie said, seeing that there were two Pokeballs on the ground. She quickly bent over and picked them up, thinking that they must have belonged to one of the twerpets. "I bet these are the twerpets Pokemon!" She said triumphantly, holding the Pokeballs up in the air.
"Yeah, dey must have dropped dem when dey were leavin." Meowth said in excitement, thinking that they could hand them over to the boss, and finally get some respect.
"Actually, it says here that they belong to us." James said comely as her continued to read the piece of paper.
"What?!" Jessie and Meowth said in unison, getting in close so that hey could read the note too.
Dear Jessie and James.
These Pokeballs both contain a Weedle. I caught them for you. Now before you toss them away, thinking they are useless, I think you should know that a Weedle can smell food or edible plants from really far away. Just have Meowth tell them to find food and they should help you out.
Ps. I wouldn't have them do this anywhere near the Beedrill nest as I don't know what will happen.
Signed, The Twerpets.
The three members of Team Rocket stared at the note for a few more minutes before looking at each other, unsure of what to say.
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Fuyutaro son: I hate writing Meowth's and Samurai's words, it's so hard to get them to sound like they do in the anime. They just talks funny.
Pikachu: Pika pika?
Fuyutaro son: Yes, I Know, I changed Weedles description a bit. But I like Team Rocket, and I don't want them to starve.
Pikachu: Pika.
Fuyutaro son: I Know, I know, you like them too. Anyway, please read and review! I'm begging you! For each review you make, a new chapter is saved from never being written!
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