Chapter Six.
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 Dialga! It's finally happed! I started buying Pokemon cards again!
Pikachu: Pika?!
Ashley: What's so bad about Pokemon cards? I happen to like them!
Fuyutaro son: Yeah, but I haven't played Pokemon TCG since before WOTC stopped manufacturing them, Heck, I haven't played since before they came out with the second generation cards.
Ashley: Crap, that is long.
Pikachu: Pikapika?
Ashely: Yeah, a really long time.
Fuyutaro son: Yep, now before we start the chapter, I would like to Explain something that my one of my friends pointed out to me. My friend pointed out that I don't cuss much in this fic, well, I don't really know why I don't, it must have something to do with the fact that Pokemon is kind of like my 'Childhood thing'. I will still put funny statement in it, the ones that I come up with when I'm half asleep, or once that I put in here to make a reference to one of my favorite books, like in this chapter. If someone can point out to me where the reference is, and what series it's from, I'll write you a short fanfic of your choice, but only the first one to point it out will get the prize, so look carefully. Then again, anyone that has read the book the line is from will know it instant, it's kind of the most famous like in the whole series. OK, now on with the chapter.
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Ashley and the gang had been traveling for over three hours. they had gone to sleep only a few miles away from pewter city, not wanting to travel in the dark, knowing that it would be harder to see. when they had awoke the next morning, they had set out almost immediately, waiting only long enough for all of them and their Pokemon to eat before leaving.
when they had left, Ashley had assumed that they would run across some Pokemon, only to find that none of the Pokemon in the area were around, as though they were purposefully avoiding them. As Ashley thought about it, she realized that some of the Pokemon probably were avoiding them, afraid of getting caught, and this realization just made her more annoyed. If she didn't see some Pokemon soon, she was going to start running around in circles naked, bathed in the blood of a new born lamb, singing 'I'm a Little Teapot'. It was really that bad.
"This is ridiculous! I can't take it anymore!" She shouted, throwing her arms up in defeate.
"You can't take what anymore?" Misty asked, looking at her friend with an annoyed look in her eyes. She was starting to get really angry, Ashley had been whining about not seeing any Pokemon since she had gotten up.
"Your not still upset over the Pokemon, are you?" Brock asked, wandering how anyone could be so impatient.
"Yes I'm still upset! There are supposed to be Pokemon all over this mountain, but we haven't even seen one!" Ashley said in exasperation. She really wanted to catch a Pokemon. "I thought Mt. Moon was supposed to be covered in Pokemon." She added with a sigh.
The four of them had reached Mt. Moon in only two hours after they had set off from the campsite, and where now walking along a long path that lead up and around the side of it, trying to get around it to the next town, though none of them were really sure which town that was.
After several minutes, in which the group let Ashley calm down, Misty voiced something she had been thinking about ever since they had started traveling up the mountain.
"Mount Moon. Doesn't the name sound romantic?" She said, thinking about moon lit walks, and candle lite dinners on a hill side at night.
"People say that a huge meteor crashed into the side of the mountain back in prehistoric times." Brock added, remembering all the stories that he had heard as a kid.
"A meteor?" Ashley asked, turning to look at him.
"Is it really true?" Misty added, looking at him as well.
"The meteor is called 'The Moon Stone'." He told them, thinking about all the fragments of Moon Stone that were back in the museum in Pewter city.
"Now that's romantic.' Misty said, still thinking about those candle lit dinners and the walk on the beach.
It was at this moment that the three trainers and Pikachu all heard a voice shouting for help further up the mountain.
"Ahh!"
Everyone instantly became alert when they heard the shout, knowing that they had to do something to help whoever it was. Taking off running toward the voice, everyone was shocked to see a man being attacked by a bunch of Zubat.
"What are Zubats doing out in the daytime?!" Ashley questioned, as she ran over to the man and set Pikachu to work with a quick command.
"Pikachu! Use Thundershock!" She shouted, causing Pikachu to send a large bolt of electricity at the attacking Zubats.
As the Zubats started flying away, Ashley started throwing Pokeballs, happy when she caught three of them.
"Are you alright?" She asked, running over to the person that had been attack, finding that it was a man in a lab coat.
"Ow..." He said, getting up as Brock, Misty, and Pikachu joined them.
"Are you alright?" Misty asked, echoing Ashley's unanswered question.
The man slowly looked up at Ashley, jumping up and hugging the life out of her when he realized that it had been her that had saved him.
"Wow! You guys saved me!" He said, squeezing her tightly in happiness, almost causing her to sufferance to death, and nearly crushing Pikachu who was stuck in between them. "Really! I'm talking super fantabulistic! I mean two thumbs up, way up! The best rescue I ever had!" he said.
It was at this point that Pikachu had finally had enough, electrocuting them in an attempt to get free.
When the Ashley and the man hit the ground, it took the man only a second to stand back up again. He instantly started shouting at the top of his lung again.
"They say mans best friend is his Pokemon, and with you two I believe it. I'm so moved! Such friendship I thought I'd never see, when the Zubats began attacking me! I thought I was done for when who should arrive, two heroes thanks to whom I'm alive! I'm alive! Thank you so much! Thank you!" He said, shouting the last part with all his energy, causing his words to echo through out the entire mountain and the Vally that was below it.
"He certainly doesn't look like the poetic type." Misty said, walking over to stand by Ashley as she got up, followed shortly by Brock.
"Yeah, and he also doesn't seem like someone that should be wearing a lab coat either." Ashley said, thinking that the man looked more like a starved beggar then a doctor or researcher, or what ever he was.
"Looks can be deceiving, I guess..." Brock said, silently agreeing with the two.
The man turned around and looked at them, walking over and grabbing Ashley's hands. "Did I mention how grateful I am?" He asked, smiling at her.
"Um, yeah. So why were the Zubats attacking you mister?" She asked, trying to be polight, but wishing he would let go of her hands.
"Never call me mister!" He said, finally letting go of her hands and going into his shouting mode again. "My name is Seymour! Seymour the scientist! Knowledge! Research! I'm Seymour the scientist!" He shouted, striking a pose for each word, apparently thinking that it would make his speech more dramatic.
"Yeah." Ashley said, trying not to role her eyes at him, but failing miserable when the background seemed to magically change into a sunset behind him.
"That nice to know, but it still doesn't answer our question." Misty said while smiling at him. Apparently she thought the scene was kind of amusing.
"I'm guessing somethings been upsetting them if they were willing to come out in the day." Brock said, thinking over all the reasons that a Zubat might have to come out into the day time. Zubats were nocturnal Pokemon, and it was almost impossible to see a wild one during the day, so there had to be something bothering them.
"Yes, and if you follow me, I will show you what it is that they are upset about." Seymour said in an overly formal voice, his scientist side finally coming out.
Seymour showed walked toward the entrance of the cave, telling them that they should follow him.
When the group followed him into the cave, they were shocked to find that there were light hanging all over the place, lighting up every inch of the place.
"This is the problem." He said, pointing at the lights that were handing on the walls. "See, the cave is all lit up inside. Somebody has strung these lights through the whole cave, but the Pokemon in this cave need the dark, these lights are upsetting them and making them confused!" He said in anguish. He really cared a lot about all the Pokemon in the cave, and the lights were very bad for them in quiet a few ways.
"That explains why the Zubat left the cave an attacked you." Brock said, understanding how bad the problem was. Certain Pokemon didn't do well in the light, not unless a trainer helped them get used to it, and these were wild Pokemon.
"look here. These Paras are planting their mushrooms everywhere, and the hot lights are drying up these Sandshrews." Seymour said, showing them a bunch of Paras that were ripping their mushrooms off of their backs and planting them in the ground, then showing them a bunch of Sandshrews that looks as though they were about to pass out.
Ashley looked around at all the Pokemon, feeling bad for them, and angry at whoever it was that had strung up all the lights. She was going to make them pay if she had anything to say about it. She also know that they had to shut the lights off as quickly as possible in order to save all the Pokemon in the cave, But before she did that, she had something she had to ask Seymour.
"Hey, Seymour?" She asked, stopping him in the middle of his explanation and hoping he wouldn't get angry at her for even asking the question that was in her head.
"Huh?" He answered, turning around to look at her so that she could say whatever it was she wanted to say to him.
"Um? Would it be OK if I... you know, just one or two?" She started, trying to figure out how to best ask the question, and not make it look like she was just taking advantage of the situation.
Misty quickly figured out what she was about to ask. Though she wasn't sure how she felt about catching the Pokemon in that were already being weakened by the lights, she knew that they would probably feel a lot better back at Prof. Oaks lab, so she wasn't really sure how she felt about it either way.
"Huh?" Seymour asked, not understanding what she was getting at.
"She wants to know if it's OK for her to catch a few of the Pokemon." Brock said, answering so that Ashley didn't spend the next hour trying to come up with a polite way to ask her question. They really had to do something about the lights as fast as they could, the longer they lit up the cave, the worse off the Pokemon in the cave would be. Then again, he had also asked for another reason, he was kind of wandering if he could catch a Sandshrew.
"Catch one of these Pokemon?" Seymour said, thinking about the question for a minute. Though he didn't really have a problem with people catching the Pokemon in the cave, he wasn't sure how he felt about them catching the Pokemon that were being weakened by the lights. After a few minutes, he realized that it wasn't really that much different from finding a wounded Pokemon in the forest, and catching it so that it could get better at what ever lab or Pokemon center the persons Pokeballs were transferred to, or so the person could take them to the nearest Pokemon center for treatment. Actually, it didn't really mater why the person was catching them, the Pokemon usually got better faster that way.
"I guess it's all right, as long as you only catch a few." He told them, seeing Ashley's eyes light up the moment he said yes.
Everyone was surprised when Brock was the first one to throw a Pokeball, because they had all thought that Ashley would be the first one to try and catch one of the Pokemon, even Ashley had thought so.
Brock had thrown the Pokeball at one of the Sandshrews. It was the one that seemed to be having the hardest time with the lights, so he thought that it was best if he caught it so that it didn't have to deal with the lights anymore.
When the Sandshrew was sucked into the ball, no one was shocked that it didn't even struggle with i, knowing that the Sandshrew had been to weak to fight in the first place.
"Alright." Ashley said, grabbing a Pokeball and throwing it at a Paras that was so weak that it was stuck upside down on it's back. (Please note that in episode six: The Clefairy and the Moon Stone, there really is a Paras that is stuck on it's back when it shows them planting their mushrooms.)
Unlike with the Sandshrew, when Ashley's Pokeball absorbed the Paras, the bug Pokemon fought back hard, hard enough to get out of the Pokeball.
Ashley stared at the little Pokemon as it got up, ready to fight. She felt so bad for it that she didn't want to chance seriously hurting it by battling it, so she grabbed one of her net balls and used it, knowing that, while it had had enough strength to fight off the normal Pokeball, it wouldn't have enough strength to get out of the Net Ball.
This time when Paras got sucked into the ball, it struggled only for a minute before the Net Ball disappeared out of site, transporting back to Prof. Oaks lab.
"I feel kind of bad for it." Misty said, looking at the other Paras sadly. "It didn't even have a chance to fight."
Ashley had to agree with her, but she still wanted to catch another one. Thinking about it for a sec, she decided that it would be OK to catch another one, so she grabbed another net ball, not wanting to chance the same thing as before with this one. She looked for the one that seemed to be struggling the most, before throwing the Pokeball at it, watching as the Pokeball transported it to Prof. Oak's lab.
"There, that should do it." She said, turning to the Sandshrews and picking out the second weakest, the first weakest having already been caught by Brock. "I think I'll only catch one Sandshrew, I don't think it would be right for me to catch more then that, since there are so few of them here as it is." She said, realizing that their were only five of them there. She finally found one that was laying on it's back, it's eyes half closed in exhaustion with it's mouth open, gasping for breath. When she saw the condition it was in, she wandered what the condition of the one that Brock had caught was, knowing that it had to be even worse for him to pass this one up.
She quickly grabbed another Pokeball and threw it at the Sandshrew, hoping that it would struggle like that first Paras had. With the condition they were were all in, she didn't like seeing them struggle like that. When the Pokeball opened up and sucked the Sandshrew inside, everyone held their breaths, hoping that it would work on the first time, it did.
Ashley smiled as the Pokeball disappeared, knowing that the Pokemon would be in good hands when they reached the lab.
When Ashley was done catching Pokemon, she kind of felt bad about taking advantage of the situation, thinking that the Pokemon should have had a chance to fight first. Pushing the feeling aside and trying not to think about it, she turned to Seymour and asked him to continue with what he had been saying before she had started catching Pokemon.
"So, as I was saying, the lights are drying up all the Pokemon. That's why I'm here, on patrol to protect the mountain from these troublemakers attacks against these caves." He said, turning around and leading them further into the cave, hoping that they wouldn't stop to catch Pokemon again, wanting to find whoever was responsible for the lights as soon as possible.
"Troublemakers? Why attack a cave?" Misty asked, not understanding why anyone would want to attack a cave. It just didn't seem logical to her. It's a cave, it's not like the person would gain anything, or so she thought.
"I'm afraid that it's because of the moonstone." Seymour said as he stopped and turned to look at them.
"The moonstone?" Ashley asked, wandering if she had actually heard him right.
"Exactly." He said, before he went into another one of his poems. "The moonstone is an awesome boulder, a million years old or even older. Deep in these caves the meteor hides, though no explorer has found the place, of the legendary rock from space! We've studied it's fragments for many an hour, and discovered it increases a Pokemon's power. And that is why the attackers are here, they've come to take the moonstone! Or so I fear." he finished, looking at them and waiting for one of them to comment.
"The moonstone... "Ashley said, wandering if it was real or not.
"Is it even real?" Misty asked, voicing the same thought that was going through everyones minds.
"Yes, ever since I was a little boy, I've believed that Pokemon came here from outer space." He said excitedly. He never seemed to have anyone to tell his theories to, and most people just ridiculed him for them, but he had a feeling that while the group wouldn't agree with him, they wouldn't be rude about it.
"From outer space?" They all said in unison, staring at the scientist in shock.
"Yes! And where, you ask, is the space craft that brought them to earth? In this cave, it's the moonstone!" He explained.
"It sure is an original theory." Misty said, smiling at him.
"But don't you see? It means the moonstone belong to the Pokemon! We humans must not take it from them!" He said, looking at them with excitement and grabbing Ashley's hands again. "You agree with me, don't you?" He asked, causing Ashley to nod her head franticly, wishing that he would let go again.
While Ashley was nodding her head franticly, a pink Pokemon with black tipped eyes half hopped, half floated past them carrying a blue-white crystal in its hands.
"Isn't that a Clefairy?" Brock asked as they watched the Pokemon run right by them.
"It's so cute!" Misty said, looking at it and wishing she had one.
"That's a Clefairy?" Ashley asked, pulling her Pokedex out like usual, and scanning the Pokemon.
"Clefairy, the Fairy Pokemon. This impish Pokemon is friendly and peaceful. It is believe to live inside Mt. Moon, although very few have ever been seen by humans." It said, clicking off when it was done like always.
"Aw! I gotta catch it!" Ashley said, going for a Pokeball, only to be stopped by Seymour.
"You can't!" He said as the Clefairy got away.
"Aw man, I wanted to catch one..." Ashley whined, looking over at Seymour as he let go of her arm.
"Sorry, but it's really best if you just let it stay here, I hope you understand." He said apologetically.
While Ashley really wanted to catch one, she agreed not to, causing Seymour to smile happily.
"Clefairy!" The heard.
When the group heard what must have been the Clefairy shouting for help, the all ran off in its direction, hoping they would be able to reach it in time to help it out of whatever situation it was in. When they finally reached the large room where Clefairy was, they were shocked to find the same Meowth from Team Rocket standing over it.
"Don't be scared, all we want is the moonstone." Meowth said, moving closer to the frightened Pokemon.
"Hey it's Meowth!" Ashley shouted, shocked to see him here of all places.
"Get away from Clefairy!" Misty shouted as Pikachu sent a thundershock at him.
Pikachu missed Meowth completely, but managed to not him Clefairy.
"Why are you twerpets here?!" Meowth asked in shock. Team Rocket hadn't been expecting them at Mt. Moon, and he knew that them being there was probably going to ruin their plans.
"It can talk?!" Brock and Seymour said, neither having ever seen a Pokemon that could talk.
"Yeah, you kind of get used to it after a while." Misty said, causing Brock and Seymour to look at her.
"You know this Pokemon?" Seymour asked her, wandering if Meowth was one of theirs.
"Yeah, he's part of a group called Team Rocket. They go around, stealing Pokemon and causing problems for everyone. I bet their the ones that put the lights up in the cave." She said, glaring daggers at the cat Pokemon.
"Yeah, they like causing trouble." Ashley said, not knowing that she was giving Jessie and James their cues to show up.
"Trouble?" the group heard, causing them to look up at the many tunnel openings that were on the walls of the cave.
"Make that double."
At this statement, Jessie and James came out of a tunnel that was high enough up on the wall that the group wouldn't be able to just jump up and chaise them away.
"To protect the world from devastation."
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket, blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth! That's right!"
when Team Rocket stepped out into the light, Ashley and the gang were able to see that both Jessie and James were holding digging equipment, James a pix and Jessie an ax.
"They sure are showoffs." Seymour said, already connecting the dots in his head.
"Oh Jigglypuffs, don't you guys get tired of saying that all the time?" Ashley asked, wishing they would say something new once in a while "Never mind, don't answer that. Your the ones that put the lights up in this cave, aren't you?" She asked angrily.
"So what if we are, little girl." Jessie said, only to stop and stair at Ashley's new outfit with James and Meowth.
"What? Who gave you that makeover?" They asked together, not able to believe their eyes, she looked so different now that her clothes were more feminine.
"Never mind that! The lights you put up are making the Pokemon in this cave confused." Brock said angrily, ignoring their question and moving on to the important topic.
"Oh, to bad." Jessie said sarcastically, smirking down at him even though she was angry at her question being ignored.
"How will we ever live with ourselves?" James asked, equally as sarcastic.
"Yeah! We want to get our hands on the moonstone so that we can power up our Pokemon with it." Meowth said, jumping up onto the ledge they were on, making Ashley wander how high a Meowth could jump.
"With the moonstone in our hands, nothing will stop us!" Jessie said, still smirking down at them.
"And then, we'll be able to get Pikachu!" James added, causing Ashley to glare at him, something that was starting to become an automatic reaction she had to seeing them.
"We wont let you!" Ashley shouted at them, grabbing the Pokeball with her Pidgeotto in it while Brock went for a Pokeball as well.
"Let's go!" Jessie and James said, jumping up and throwing four Pokeballs and releasing their two Weedles, Ekans, and Koffing.
"Ekans! Weedle! Go!" Jessie shouted as the Pokemon in question appeared.
"Koffing, Weedle! Come on out!" James shouted as his own Pokemon appeared.
"Ha! I knew you were going to use all your Pokemon! Pidgeotto! I choose you!" Ashley shouted as well, sending the large flying Pokemon out into the cave.
"You to Zubat!" Brock said, surprising everyone.
"A Zubat?!" Misty said, shocked to see the bat like Pokemon.
"I captured it before we entered the cave." Brock replied, looking at his new Zubat.
"Koffing! Smog attack." James said calmly as Koffing started oozing a black gas out of the holes on it's body. "Weedle! Poison Sting!" he added as an after thought.
While James had been calling out the attacks, the Clefairy had taken the opportunity to get away, running down one of the tunnels to the far right. Only Misty had seen this happen, and she began to form a plan as the battle started up.
The smoke quickly started filling the place, making it difficult to breath and see. Weedle had been ready to deliver his attack, only to grow ill when he was engulfed by the gas as well, causing him to fall to the ground and faint.
When the smoke started to fill the place up, Misty grabbed onto Seymour's arm and started pulling him down the path that the Clefairy had disappeared down.
"Come on! Nows our chance." She whispered to him, pulling him along. She wanted to make sure that the Clefairy was OK, and she also wanted a chance at seeing the moonstone, so she decided to kill to Pidgeys with one stone.
Seymour followed her, figuring out what she was up to and wanting to see the same thing, unfortunately for both of them, Meowth had seen them running off and had decided to follow.
"Pidgeotto! -cough- Use Whirlwind to -cough- to blow it away!" Ashley choked out, trying not to suffocate on the gas.
"-Cough- Zubat! Use -Cough- Supersonic!" Brock shouted, getting as low to the ground as he could.
Pidgeotto start flapping her wings as hard as she could, dispersing the poisonous gas and sending it right back at Team Rocket.
While Pidgeotto was using Whirlwind to blow the smog attack away, Zubat was busy at work, using supersonic on the gas, hoping to hit someone or their Pokemon.
He was unable to manage to hit any of the Pokemon though, as Koffing shot out of the smog and tackling him, knocking him to the floor
When Zubat was no longer using supersonic, Ekans flew out of the smog as well, attacking Pidgeotto by biting onto her as hard as he could.
"Zubat! Try supersonic on them one more time!" Brock yelled, knowing that there was no way they could dodge the attack now since they were so close to it.
Zubat obeyed, sending a supersonic out at the two Pokemon, hitting Pidgeotto in the process because Ekans was still holding on to her with his teeth.
When the three Pokemon were confused, Ashley instantly returned Pidgeotto to her Pokeball, not wanting her to hurt her self in her confusion.
While Ashley had known to return her Pokemon to her Pokeball, Team Rocket had not. Both Jessie and James had stood there, watching as Ekans and Koffing started acting strange, wandering what was going on with them.
It was at this point that the smog started to clear, allowing everyone to see that the two Weedles were curled up on the ground, having been knocked out by the smog attack.
Both Jessie and James returned their Weedles to their Pokeballs, knowing that the two bug type Pokemon were useless now that they were knocked out.
After they returned the Weedles to their Pokeballs, the they turned their attentions back to Ekans and Koffing, trying to figure out why the two had stopped attacking and where now simply dancing around in the cave. After a few more seconds of the dancing, the two Pokemon started attacking each other.
"Oh no!" James cried as his Koffing was suddenly wrapped up by Jessie's Ekans.
"Ekans! Koffing! Stop it you two!" Jessie shouted, trying to get them to stop fighting each other, not understanding what was making them act so strange.
"Ekans! Return!" Jessie shouted, returning the serpent Pokemon to it's Pokeball.
"Koffing, you too!" James added, causing Koffing to get sucked into it's Pokeball as well.
"Let's get out of her!" Jessie screamed as her and James ran away.
"The group tried to follow, but was unable to get up onto the large ledge, and instead turned their attention on something else.
"Hey, where's Misty, Seymour, and Meowth?" Brock asked, causing Ashley to look are in shock. She hadn't even noticed that they were missing.
"Clefairy's gone too!" She said, worry starting to come over her.
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Misty and Seymour had followed Clefairy all the way down the tunnel, shocked when they found that there was light at the end. When they saw Clefairy exit the tunnel, they quickly followed, trying to catch up to it.
"Clefairy!" Misty called, crawling out of the cave through the opening. The opening was really small, only big enough for one person to go through at a time if they crawled.
Once she was out through the whole, Seymour crawled out as well, catching up to her as she tried to catch up to Clefairy. They both climbed up a large rock wall, only to find a small dome like bridge covered in grass with Clefairy hoping across it. When they finally go to the top of it, Meowth was already there, trying to force Clefairy into giving him the moonstone.
"Give me da moonstone!" He said as his claws came out.
"Meowth! Leave Clefairy alone!" Misty said, grabbing one of the Pokeballs with her Pokemon in them and throwing it.
When the Pokeball hit the ground, she was horrified that she had grabbed the wrong Pokeball.
-great, it's like what happened back in the Pokemon center in Viridian city,- she thought, returning golding to the Pokeball and throwing another one. This time, she had the right Pokeball. Out of it came Staryu, the star shaped Pokemon her sisters had given her last year for her birthday.
"Use swift Staryu!" She shouted.
Staryu instantly went into a swift attack, sending hundreds of little star shaped beams of light at Meowth, hitting the cat Pokemon and causing him pain.
"Now use Water Gun!"
Staryu complied by jumping into the river, coming back up and shooting a powerful stream of water at Meowth, causing him to fly off into the distance.
"Bye Meowth! Have a nice drip!" She said with a laugh, before turning her attention back to Clefairy, who was looking at her in a confused sort of way.
"it's OK Clefairy, we're here to help you." Misty said, trying to assure the little Pokemon that they weren't there to hurt it.
Clefairy simply looked at her for a few minutes before smiling up at her, still holding the blue-white gemstone that they had seen it with when they first saw it.
"Hay!" A voice called from bellow them.
Misty looked out over the edge of the grassy bridge to see Ashley, Brock, and Pikachu standing under them waving their arms up at them.
"You OK up there?" Brock shouted, wanting to make sure that no one was hurt.
"Yeah, we're fine!" Misty said before looking back at Clefairy and Seymour. "Come on, I think Brock might have food for us." She said, causing Clefairy to follow her instantly. Food was a Pokemon's best friend.
Several minutes later, the group was sitting around eating and talking. Brock had brought out some special Pokemon food that he made just for the Pokemon. He had explained that the food was made specifically with a Pokemon's heath in mind. After a few minutes, Seymour asked Brock if her could try it, causing both Misty and Ashley to stair at him as though he was crazy.
"Hey, you're not really going to eat that, are you?" Ashley asked, trying not to throw up. Brocks food was good, but no one would ever get her to try a Pokemon's food.
"Yeah, it's for Pokemon, not people." Misty said, also trying not to become sick.
"Yeah, but as a researcher, I've learned to understand a Pokemon's choice of flavors." He said, taking a piece of the Pokemon food and eating it, before he finally verbalized his thoughts about it. "Yes, definitely good. Most Pokemon would love this." he said, causing the too girls to turn green.
"Ew." They both said in unison, setting their own food down, no longer hungry.
All the Pokemon were out of their Pokeballs, and enjoying them selfs as well, though Pidgeotto seemed to be eying Butterfree strangely, causing Ashley to rethink her decision to bring them both out at the same time. Pikachu, however, was off to the side, talking to Clefairy, wandering why the Clefairy was carrying the strange rock.
After a few minutes of talking to Clefairy, Pikachu jumped up and gave a shout, catching everyones attention.
"Pika-pih." Pikachu said as Clefairy ran off.
"Huh? What's going on?" Ashley said as they all followed Clefairy, wandering where it was going.
Pikachu and Clefairy were leading them somewhere, that much they were all certain. The only question on their minds was, where is it we are going?
After about twenty minutes of traveling, the group all were very surprised to find that there was another entrance to another cave on the mountain. Ashley however, was more surprised to find a very shallow stream with a bunch of mushrooms growing out of it. A certain type of mushroom that she knew just as well as the 'Tiny Mushroom', they were the 'Giant Mushrooms'.
"Yahoo! She shouted, pulling out a few plastic zip lock baggies from her backpack as she ran over to the stream.
She instantly started picking them, grabbing them by their bases under the water, and putting them into the bags, bringing their roots and the rocks they were rapped around with them. She had been careful to keep the roots with them, knowing that if she broke the roots off, the mushrooms would not last as long, something her mother had taught her when she had tried to grow an orange mushroom. The mushroom had died, but she had still learned a lot. She also put some water into each bag as well.
"Yes! I will finally have enough money to by some supplies in the next town!" She said happily. When Misty had forced her to by new clothes in Pewter city, she had been so upset that she hadn't been able to by a tent or something so that they wouldn't get rained on or something, and now she would be able to sell these and by one.
"Come on Ashley!" Misty shouted for her, causing her to look up.
Ashley quickly shoved the mushroom filled plastic zip lock baggies into her backpack and ran after them as they all entered the cave, not wanting to be left behind.
When the group got into the cave, they were shocked to find that their was a massive room with a large glowing white and blue meteor in the center, surrounded by a huge amount of Clefairys.
It was the moonstone.
"Wow..." Ashley and Misty said in unison, both taken by the beauty of the room and the moonstone.
"It's the moonstone.." Seymour said, happy that he had finally reached his life goal. He had always said that he would one day see the moonstone, and here it was sitting before him.
"Wow, I guess the legends really are true." Brock said, amazed at the shear size of the meteor. He had known that if it was real it would be big, but he had never even imaged that it would be this big.
"Huh? Wow! Look at all the Clefairy!" Ashley said, noticing them for the first time.
Everyone stared as the little Clefairy that they had helped hopped to the center of the room, and stuck the blue-white stone with a bunch of others that were all sitting around the large meteor, causing the stones to glow a bright shade of blue.
Seeing that the ring of stones was finally glowing, all the Clefairys gathered around the meteor before turning to look at the group. One of the Clefairys stepped out of the mass and started speaking, it was the same one that they had helped.
"Clefairy Clefairy Clefairy." It said, bowing to them in order to try and thank them for all the help they had given it.
"Hey, I think it's trying to say thank you." Misty said, causing everyone to nod, agreeing with her.
When the group bowed back, the Clefairy started dancing around the meteor, hoping up and down together, one group going around it clockwise, and another going counterclockwise, and with all of them singing 'Clefairy'.
"Wow! Look at them!" Misty said, watching them dance.
"Amazing, they must have formed their own little society, this is an incredible site." Seymour said, amazed at the Clefairys.
"Pika!" Pikachu said, running over to them, having just finished talking to the Clefairy they had helped.
"What is it Pikachu?" Ashley asked, kneeling down to talk to her yellow friend.
"You understand that?" Seymour asked, causing Ashley to look at him.
"Well, not completely, but I usually can understand most of it." She told him, turning back to Pikachu and listening to what he had to say.
Pikachu started doing a what could be compared to charades, causing the group to sweet drop.
-Anyone can understand most of it if Pikachu does that.- they all thought, trying not to fall over in shock.
After a few moments of watching Pikachu, Ashley was sure she finally had it.
"Ok, I think Pikachu is saying that the Clefairy gather the moonstones and pray to it, though at one point it looked more like he was asking for a Kleenex." She said, smiling nervously.
Pikachu jumped up happily, signaling that Ashley had gotten it right on her first try, something he was apparently very happy about.
"Maybe it's because the moonstone fell from the heavens..." Seymour said, looking up at the ceiling for the first time, finding that there was none. There was no roof, the top of the cave was just an open whole with the moon shining down on them from above.
"Wow." they all said, looking up at the ceiling as well.
"Maybe the legends are true!" Misty said, remembering what Brock said about it.
"Oh! It makes perfect sense!" Seymour said, jumping about happily.
"Huh? What does?" Ashley asked, confused, hoping she wasn't going to have to listen to more poems again. Sadly, she did.
"Outer space! Pokemon. And the human race will ride the moonstone into space. First to the moon, then to mars, then together to the stars!" He said happily, not realizing that Ashley was trying very hard not to order Pikachu to fry him. She really could stand his poems.
"Stars? That's our cue!" Said the unmistakable voice of Meowth, coming from behind them.
"Don't you guys ever give up?" Ashley said, already reaching for her Pokemon.
"You keep away from the moonstone or else!" Seymour said, trying to block their way, not realizing that they weren't planing on coming in any further anyway.
"Or else?" Jessie said, grabbing Ekans Pokeball.
"Hey? What's that sound?" James asked, causing Jessie and Meowth to stop and listen as well.
There was a strange rattling sound coming from somewhere in the room. It sound like bone knocking against bone. The three members of Team Rocket started to look around for the source of the sound before stopping to look at Seymour.
"It's his knees!" Meowth said, falling to the floor and rolling around while laughing.
"His knees are shaking! Hahaha!" Jessie said, adding her own laughter to the mix, trying not to fall over like Meowth.
"And he was threatening us? Haha. You're joking!" James said, causing Ashley, Brock, and Misty to glare at them.
"Gr! We'll show you!" Ashley said, grabbing Her Butterfree's Pokeball and throwing it.
Misty followed Ashley's example by quickly grabbing one of her own Pokemon's Pokeballs and throwing it, only to return it when she saw it was Goldeen.
"Oops, wrong Pokeball!" She said, grabbing another and throwing it while thinking she should reorder the lineup of her Pokeballs later. She smiled when Starmie came out of it, happy that she had gotten it right this time.
Brock grabbed one of his Pokeballs and threw it as well, smiling when Onix filled the room, blocking Team Rocket from getting anywhere near the moonstone.
"Let's show them that size doesn't matter! Ekans! Dive underground!" Jessie shouted.
"Koffing, Smokescreen!" James ordered.
Ekans quickly borrowed underground as Koffing started to fill the place with a dark cloud of smoke, obscuring everyones view.
Ashley and the gang started coughing and hacking on the smoke, unable to breath properly in the toxic gas.
"Pidgeotto!" Ashley coughed, grabbing Pidgeotto's Pokeball and throwing it."Pidgeotto! Whirlwind the smoke away!" She shouted, causing the large bird Pokemon to disperse the dark smoke with a large gust of air.
When the smoke cleared, everyone was shocked to find that the huge meteor that had filled the center of the room was now gone, leaving a giant whole in the middle of the cave floor.
"Ah! The moonstone!" Misty shouted, running over to the whole.
"Team Rocket's gone to!" Brock said, looking around for the three troublemakers, only to find that they were nowhere in site.
When Misty looked down the whole, she couldn't believe her eyes. Team Rocket had dug a whole so deep that she was unable to see the bottom of it.
"The smokescreen was just a trick! They used it to keep us from seeing what was happening!" Ashley said, Heading for the exit to chase after Team Rocket.
"Ashley! Where are you going?!" Misty shouted, wandering what the heck her friend was thinking.
"We have to stop them from getting away!" She shouted back as she exited the cave.
"Right! Onix, follow them underground!" Brock said, leaving to follow Ashley as Onix did as he was told.
"Fine, come on guys! Let's go to!" Misty said, speaking to Pidgeotto, Butterfree, and Pikachu who Ashley had accidentally left behind in her hurry to catch up to Team Rocket.
As Misty left with them, Seymour stayed behind, trying to reason with all the Clefairys.
"The moonstone means a lot to you guys, doesn't it?" He asked, looking around at all of them as they just stood there. "It's sacred to you, isn't it? That means you have to get it back. Do you understand?" He said, hoping that they understood him, though he knew that it wasn't likely.
"Clefairy." (translation: Right.) One of the Clefairys said, the one that they had helped out to begin with. After it said this, the Clefairy turned around and started talking to the other Clefairys, coming up with some sort of a plan.
When the Clefairys were done talking, they all jumped into the giant whole, one of them dragging Seymour along. They were all going to get the moonstone back, and their was no way that Team Rocket would get away.
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Misty had finally caught up to Brock and Ashley, wishing that they had been running on flat ground instead. Her feat were killing her.
Even though all of their feet were hurting the group didn't stop running, knowing that they had to catch up to Team Rocket and get the moonstone back.
When the group finally saw Team Rocket up ahead, they were shocked and happy to see that Onix had stopped them.
"Good job Onix! Now don't let them get away!" Brock shouted as the group neared where Team Rocket was.
"Koffing, Counter Attack!" James shouted, hoping that it would stop the giant rock Pokemon.
"Pidgeotto, Blow it away with gust!" Ashley shouted, hoping that Pidgeotto would get there in time.
It didn't
By the time Pidgeotto got to them, it was already to late, Koffing and Onix were laying on the ground unconscious having knocked each other out.
"Onix no!" Brock shouted in panic, grabbing at his Pokeballs to return Onix to his.
"Hey! It's Seymour!" Ashley shouted, causing Brock to look up from his search, only to stare in confusion as Seymour and a bunch of Clefairys jumped out of the large whole that Onix had created.
"Huh? What's going on?" Misty called over to Seymour, wandering why they were here.
"The Clefairys came to get their moonstone back." He said, watching as the Clefairy started gathering around Team Rocket.
The Clefairy had formed a circle around Team Rocket and were looking up at them with a strange expression on their faces.
"What's goin on?" Meowth said, confused at all the looks they were getting.
"I don't know." James stated lamely.
"Well don't just stand there! Do something!" Jessie shouted, clearly aiming her comment at Meowth, though it seemed that the Clefairys thought she had been speaking to them.
At Jessie's statement, the Clefairys started to wave their fingers in the air, back and forth, back and forth. While they waved their fingers, they started chanting 'Clefairy, Clefairy.' over and over again.
"What's going on?" Ashley said, moving her head from side to side to the motions of the Clefairy's fingers.
"This is an attack the Clefairy use called the Metronome. I have never seen the Clefairy use the Metronome used before. Anything can happen when you use the Metronome." Seymour said, saying each syllable as though it was it's own word while moving his head from side to side to the movements of the Clefairy's fingers.
At the end of his statement, the Clefairy stopped waving their fingers, and the ground under Team Rocket lit up with a bright white light that seemed to grow by the millisecond.
When the light seemed to have reached it's peek, the ground under Team Rocket exploded, sending them flying high into the heavens.
"Looks like we're blasting off again!" The shouted in unison as the disappeared into the sky, making it seem as though a new star was born.
The blast from the explosion hadn't been all good though, it had also done a lot of damage as well. The moonstone meteor that the Clefairy had been trying to protect had been destroyed in the explosion sending thousands of tiny shards into the air. The blast had also caught some of the Clefairy as well, sending several of them flying into the air, one of which was the same Clefairy that they had helped out earlier that day.
When Misty saw Clefairy get caught in the explosion, she imitatively took off running in the direction that she seemed to be going in, and caught her before she could hit the ground.
"Are you OK?" She asked looking down at her, checking her over for any injuries. She had been very lucky, she didn't seem to have any.
Misty set Clefairy down, and walked over to the group with Clefairy beside her.
As she and Clefairy approached the group, the tiny shards of moonstone began floating down on top of them, glowing a bright blue white, causing them to stare in wander. It was as if the stars them selves were floating down around them. When the shards started to touch the Clefairys, the Clefairys stated to glow, signaling that it was time for them to evolve.
"Their evolving." Misty whispered as she and Clefairy finally reached Ashley and Brock.
Brock, Misty, Ashley, and their Pokemon all watched as one after another, more and more Clefairys evolved.
"Cle-fable." one said as it slowly began to grow and change into its evolved form.
"Clefable, the Fairy Pokemon. When Clefairy evolves into Clefairy, its wings, ears, and tail grow bigger, though it still does not have the ability to fly. These unique creatures are among the rarest Pokemon in the world." Ashley's Pokedex said, without her having to pull it out and scan the Pokemon.
"Wow, look at them all." Ashley said, staring around in wander. She had never even heard of a mass evolution before, and she was pretty sure that most people hadn't seen one either.
"There's so many of them." Brock stated, just as shocked as Misty and Ashley were, but only half as shocked as Seymour seemed to be.
"This must be from the power of the moonstone..." He said, still staring at all of the Clefables.
When the Clefairys were done evolving into Clefables and the moonstone shards had stopped falling, the remaining Clefairys and the Clefables all lead everyone back to the cave to continue their festival.
Misty watched the Pikachu and the same Clefairy they had helped eairlier dancing in the festival together, smiling at them happily. (Clefairy was one of the Clefairys that didn't evolve)
When the festival was almost over, Seymour decided that he wanted to tell the others something.
"I've decided to stay and live here with the Clefairys and the Clefables." He said, causing the small group to look away from the dancing Pokemon and at him instead.
"Huh?" Ashley said, confused. 'I thought he already lived in the cave.' she thought confusedly.
"It's been my life's dream to find the moonstone." He continued, smiling at them. "I want to stay here, and one day travel to space with the Clefairy."
"Wow." Misty said, smiling at him.
"Well, when you get to space, remember to send us a postcard." Brock said jokingly, rubbing the back of his head.
After a few more minutes of talking, the group turned their attention back to the Clefairys and Clefables, watching as they continued their strange dance.
Early the next morning, the group headed out, waving goodbye to the Clefairy.
"So long Seymour! Goodbye Clefairy!" Ashley shouted. "We'll see you again some day!"
"Goodbye guys! I hope we do meet again someday, and thank you all for everything!" the scientist shouted, waving with the Clefairy as Ashley, Brock, Pikachu, and Misty walked off down the road.
"Do you think the legend about the Clefairys is true?" Ashley asked when the cave was no longer in site.
"It's fun to think so." Misty said, smiling at her.
"Clefairy!"
The group all stopped and turned around, shocked to find that the Clefairy they had helped had followed them.
When Clefairy saw that they had stopped, she ran up to Misty and jumped into her arms, holding on to her.
"Clefairy!" (Translation: I wanna come to!) she said, looking up at her.
"Clefairy, are you saying you want to come with me?" She asked, looking down at the little fairy like Pokemon and smiling.
"Clefairy!" (translation: Yeah!" she said, nodding her head happily.
Smiled at Clefairy as she grabbed a Pokeball and used it. When the Clefairy was safely in her new Pokeball, Misty went into Ashley patented victory pose.
"I caught Clefairy!" She shouted happily, holing the Pokeball with Clefairy in it in one hand, and making a piece sign with the other.
"Hey! No copying me!" Ashley said while smiling at her friend.
"Come on you two! At this rate, it will take us all day to get their!" Brock said as he walked off, causing the two girls to chase after him. (A/N: Poor Brock, something he could never say happed in the anime.)
The grouped walked on for a couple more hours, happy when they finally reached the fork in the road that he map showed. It meant they were almost there.
"This way to Cerulean city." Ashley read out load so the others could hear, failing to notice the odd look that came across Misty's face.
"Well, I guess we're headed the right way." Brock said, also failing to notice the sudden change in Misty's moon.
'I never wanted to end up here again.' Misty thought, wandering how she was going to get the others to head for a different town.
"Hey, there's something else written here to!" Ashley said, getting closer so she could read the small writing. "Gary was her?! Ash is a looser?!" she yelled in anger. "Gr! I'll show that jerk if it's the last thing I do!" She said, running off at high speed toward Cerulean City, wanting to beat the crap out of the brown haired jerk.
"Hay! Wait a minute!" Misty shouted, running after her, followed closely by Brock and Pikachu.
"Pikachu." (translation: Oh, brother.) Pikachu said. He just knew it was going to be a long day.
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Fuyutaro son: So that's the chapter, anyway, I have a question I wanted to ask you guys. Do you think I should start making the chapters go further and further away from the original Pokemon anime series? They will still be in the same places, and have the same people and events, but do you think I should change them up more? Kind of like how I did the Pewter city chapter, and the samurai chapter? Only more so?
Pikachu: Pika!
Fuyutaro son: OW! Fine! Do you always have to shock me when your mad?
Pikachu: Chu...
Fuyutaro: Ack! Don't glare at me, I didn't mean it! I swear! I'll tell them in the next chapter, OK?
Pikachu: Pikachu.
PS. OMG, I just realized that I have been switching from first person to third person during some of the conversations. XD (Just edited it)
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