Pokemon: Pokemon master!

by Fuyutaro son

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. Warning: Ash is a girl in this fic, if there ever is a pairing, it will be M/F, Please don't read if you don't like it

7. The Water Flowers of Cerulean City

Chapter Seven.

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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The closer and closer the group got to Cerulean City the more and more nervous Misty got. She knew she had do come up with something that would get the others to change their destination, but she could figure out what. As lame as it might sound, she eventually decided to go with the old tried and true scary monster plan, hoping it would do the trick. It didn't

"Hahaha! Nice face!" Ashley said, almost falling over from laughter.

Misty was stretching her own face out by holding onto both of her creaks, and pulling as hard as she could.

Brock simply stared at the two, wandering if it was another one of those girl things that he would never be able to understand.

"Besides Misty, I never said I wanted to catch Pokemon in Cerulean City, I said I was going to get my next badge in Cerulean City. Theres kind of a difference, don't you think?" Ashley asked, turning around and heading for Cerulean City again, only to be stopped by Misty who didn't seem to want to give up on whatever she was trying to do.

"Wait a minute! Why don't we go to Vermilion city? It's right by the water, and there are a lot of cool Pokemon! And you can even get another badge there to!" She said, hoping that her last statement would work.

"Uhuh, then it's settled." Ashley said, smiling at Misty, though she was mentally smirking.

"Really?" Misty said, thinking that she had finally won, and that they were going to head to a different town now.

"Yep, we going-" Ashley said, pausing dramatically, only to suddenly sidestep Misty. "To Cerulean City."

"Ah! Wha? Why?!" Misty asked, wishing she could just rewind time and change that stupid sign. If it hadn't been for the sign earlier that day, they would have never known they were going in the right direction, and Misty could have had them half way to whatever city she wanted, and as far away from Cerulean City as possible.

'Stupid sign.' she though angrily, making a mental note to burn it later.

While Misty had been silently plotting the untimely demise of the defenseless sign post, Ashley, Brock, and Pikachu had moved on down the road toward their next destination. When Misty looked up and found that they were already half way down the road, she couldn't help but wander if she she leave them, or follow them. She contemplated leaving them for only a few moments before taking off after them, shouting for them to wait up.

When she finally caught up to them, they were already able to see Cerulean City just down a small hill. Her home town, a place she never wanted to see again, not until she became a water Pokemon master.

"Great, back here again." She said under her breath so no one could hear, wishing they could just skip the town and go on to the next.

"You've been hear before?" Ashley asked, causing Misty to look at her in shock.

"Ack! You heard me?" She said in surprised. When both Ashley and Brock nodded their heads, she sighed in resignation, knowing that she would have to tell them eventually. Though that didn't stop her from trying a lie first.

"It's a really sad story, and it happened such a long time ago, I'd really rather not think about it." She said dramatically, turning her head away from them and looking off into the distance for added effect.

"This town used to be my home, until that day, the day that I lost everything." She said, covering her face, making it look as though she was crying, though she was really smiling. It seemed to be working.

"What day? What happened Misty?" Ashley asked, playing along even though she wasn't fooled at all. If Misty had toned down a bit on the dramatics, it would have worked perfectly, but she was kind of over doing it.

"Yeah, tell us." Brock said, also not really buying it.

"That day, the day I lost everything, was so horrible." She said, turning away from them and curling in on her self for dramatic effect. "It had all started in the fire, everything burned in that fire. Everything was turned to ashes in that fire. No one knew who started it, but we knew that someone had. My mother got me out of there and hid me as best she could, but we were found the next day by the assassins! They came for us, but my mother hid my, and they took her life." She said sadly, letting a few fake tears run down her face for effect.

"I vowed from that day on, that I would never set foot in that town again!" She said, turning away from the city and looking on down the road.

"So that's what happened." She said, turning to look at Ashley, Pikachu, and Brock, only to see that they were all eating popcorn.

When she saw them eating popcorn and watching her as though they were at a play, she sweat dropped, knowing that she hadn't fulled them one bit.

"You didn't believe a word of it, did you?" she asked in a flat tone, already knowing the answer.

"Definitely a trainer and not an actress." Brock stated, nodding his head at her as he wiped his butter smeared hands on a napkin while smiling up at her.

"Yep, didn't believe one word of it." Ashley said as Pikachu patted his full belly. When Ashley reached down into her popcorn bucket, all she felt was Pikachu's furry, and slightly buttery, head. "Huh?" Ashley said dumbly, looking down into the bucket. "Pikachu! You ate it all!" She said, looking down at the now fat and round electric mouse who was still running at his swollen belly.

"Pika..." (Translation: Yum...) Pikachu said, still rubbing at his round belly, liking at his lips to try and get more

"Hay! Pay attention!" Misty exclaimed, getting Ashley's attention off of Pikachu and back onto her. "Do we really have to go there?" Misty asked, pleading with them to change their minds, they didn't.

"Yep, sorry Misty, but we have to get the Cascade Badge." Ashley said, referring to her and Misty herself.

"That might be a problem..." Misty said, causing the group to look at her.

"Is this going to be another story?" Brock asked, razing an eyebrow at her, only to get a rock thrown at his head.

"That's not funny!" She shouted at him, taking a few breaths to cool down. After she was finally calm again, Misty looked at the two and decided to tell the truth this time, knowing that they would know if she lied. "The truth is, my sisters are the Cerulean City Gym Leaders." She stated, looking down at her shoe's. " Their called themselves 'the three sensational sisters.', but they refer to me as the runt. I left to become a water Pokemon master, so I wouldn't have to deal with them." She said, looking back up at them and begging them to go somewhere else. "So can we please go to a different town now? Please?"

Ashley looked at her for a few minutes. She couldn't help but feel sorry for the red head, her sisters must really be that bad if she was trying this hard to stay away from them. After a few minute, she finally decided that they were still going to go to Cerulean City, but this time they were going to go with a slightly different goal in mind.

"Misty, Ever since we started traveling together, you've been like the sister I never had." She said, looking at her friend with a reassuring smile. "But we are going to that city." She said, looking at her with a serious look on her face.

"Wha? Why?" Misty asked, unable to understand why they were still going to go to the gym after what she had just told them.

"Because, you have to stand up to them. You can't let them walk all over you." Ashley explained.

"I don't let them walk all over me! They brush me off when I stand up to them! Like it's no big deal!" Misty exclaimed, angry at the assumption that she just let them walk all over her.

"Then you'll just have to battle them." Ashley said, smiling at her.. That should teach them. All Misty had to do was beat her sisters and it would salve everything, or at least that's what Ashley figured anyway.

"What?" Misty asked, staring at her with a confused look on her face.

"Oh, I get it!" Brock said, jumping back into the conversation. "If Misty beats her sisters in a Pokemon battle, they wont be able to say she isn't as good as them then, and Misty will be able to get her second badge!" Brock stated.

"Huh?" Misty asked, thinking about what they had just told her. She didn't think that they would really care if she beat them, but it was worth a shot. She even had a new Pokemon she could use against them, though she had no idea how Clefairy would fair in a real battle, it had been with all it's friends in the fight against Team Rocket. "I guess it's worth a try." She said, though she still didn't think it would work.

"Go, Now let's go kick some water flower but!" Ashley said, picking up the very greasy and buttery Pikachu and running down the hill towards the town, with Brock following after her.

"I guess," Misty said, still not confident the plan would work. "I guess it's worth a try." She said, picking up her bag and running after the others, thinking that she was crazy for going along with the plan.

When the four of them entered the city, they all turned to Misty, telling her to lead the way.

"Um, sure, it's this way." She said, pointing down one of the many roads, and leading the way.

About a half hour later the group found their way blocked by a crowed filling the street, standing in front of an electronics shop.

"Did something happen?" Ashley asked out loud, wishing she could get a better look.

"I don't know, must have if it's drawing this big of a crowed." Misty said, jumping up as the three of them, along with Pikachu, made their way through the crowd, hoping they could find someone to tell them what was going on.

"Excuse me. Pardon me. Sorry sir. " Ashley said, having to force her self through several people, only to jump in shock when she felt something on her rear end.

"Hey!" She said, spinning around to see who it was, only to see that whoever it had been had disappeared. 'dumb jerk,' she thought angrily, turning around and making her way through the crowd again, trying to catch up with Misty 'It's not like it's a magic lamp for crying out load.' she added angrily, wishing she could beat the crap out of whoever it had been.

When they finally reached the front of the crowd, the saw a couple of officers courting off the place with yellow tape, trying to keep the crowd back.

"Huh." Ashley said, a little surprised at seeing another officer jenny. "There really is one in every town, isn't there?"

"Yeah! Isn't it great!" Brock exclaimed, causing Ashley and Misty to jump away from him in shock and surprise. They hadn't realized it before, but with the way Brock was staring at Officer Jenny, they were both starting to get a feeling that he was a big perv.

"Brock, please tell me you aren't always going to get like this around officer Jennys." Ashley begged, hoping that her feeling was wrong. It wasn't.

"I'm sorry Ashley, but I'm not sure I can do that." Brock said, his voice taking on a serious tone, only to have it change into a love sick tone a second later.. "I don't know why, but whenever I see an Officer Jenny or a Nurse Joy, I just see hearts before my eyes!" He exclaimed, putting his hands together and making goo goo eyes at the woman in blue.

"The skirts are the best apart of any-" Brock started, only to have Misty smack him over the head with her backpack, causing him to lye in a heap on the ground.

"Don't even start talking about stuff like that near us!" She said angrily, turning her attention back to the electronics building that was being blocked off.

"Don't you think you kind of over did it Misty? Just a bit?" Ashley asked, looking down at the crumpled man laying at their feet with a look of pity in her eyes.

"Nope, Pervs should be dealt with quickly and efficiently." Misty said plainly, as though she was talking about the weather as waved over to Officer Jenny to get her to come over and talk to them.

"If you say so." Ashley said, happy when she saw Officer Jenny coming over to them.

"Misty! So good to see you, how have you been?" Officer Jenny asked, surprised to see her here. "The last I heard you weren't planning on coming back to the city until you became a Pokemon master." She added, remembering why Misty had left in the first place.

"Yeah, um, good to see you to." Misty said, trying to avoid the subject. "So what happened?"

"Oh! Some burglars Brock in and robbed the place last night, but all they took was a massive vacuum and a giant hose. It was really strange." She said, pausing when she spotted Brock and the ground. "Who's he? Want me to cuff him?" she asked reaching for her hand cuffs, thinking that Misty had had to defend her self against him.

"Huh? Oh!" Misty said, realizing who she was talking about. "No! He's fine, really." She said, smiling at her in a reassuring way.

"Well, I'd like to talk to you more, but I need to get back to crowd patrol." Officer Jenny said as she waved good bye to them, going back to trying to break up the crowd.

"All they took was a vacuum and a hose? How weird." Ashley said as she and Misty started dragging Brock's still unmoving body away from the crowd and down the street.

"Believe it or not, I've heard weirder, you wouldn't believe the strange things that happen in this town." Misty said, starting to wish she hadn't hit Brock so hard, that way he could be walking on his own.

"Really? Like what?" Ashley asked, wandering what could be weirder then someone steeling a vacuum and a hose.

"Well firstly, I heard that there was a talking Meowth." Misty said sarcastically, rolling her eyes at the fact that Ashley had completely forgot about how that's kind of the weirdest thing anyone had ever seen.

"Oh! Ha ha, yeah." Ashley said, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment. She had completely forgot that a talking Meowth wasn't normal, she had simply gotten used to it over time, and now it didn't even faze her when she saw him.

"Then there was also this thing I've heard before, about how someone tried to steal some Growlithe from a police dog training school. That has to be both the weirdest and the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I mean, what kind of a moron would steal from cops?" Misty asked as she stopped pulling Brock, her arms getting to tired for her to do it anymore.

"Your kidding! You mean, someone actually tried to do that?" Ashley asked as she stopped to, unable to believe that anyone was that stupid.

"Yep, that's what I heard."

"Wow..."

Ashley and Misty sat down on a bench to rest their arms and legs, wishing that Brock would get up already.

After about ten minutes, Brock finally started to wake up, causing both of the girls to sigh in relief. They had been afraid that they would have to drag him all the way to the gym, which wasn't exactly something they thought would be fun.

"Nice to see you've decided to join the land of the living again." Ashley said, looking at him with a relieved look on her face. She was extremely happy that she wasn't going to be forced to pull him anymore.

"Huh? How long have I been out?" Brock asked as he stood up and dusted him self off. He was hoping that it hadn't been to long, he had some stuff he needed to take care off, and he didn't want to be to late for it.

"Um, not long." Misty said, trying to estimate the time in her head. "I would say you were out for about twenty minutes, give or take." She said as Ashley nodded her head at him in agreement.

'I should probably get going then.' he thought, not wanting to be late for whatever it was he had to do. "Sorry guy's, but let's meet up at the Pokemon center later, I need to go do some stuff." He said, getting up and walking away from them.

"Huh? Hey, wait a minute!" Ashley said trying to chase after him only to get stopped by the crowd. "I wander where he went in such a hurry.." She said, looking back at Misty, only to realize that they had been sitting in front of a Pokemart.

"Yeah, it's kind of odd for him to do that." Misty said in agreement, only to stop when she saw the look in Ashley's eyes. "What?" Misty asked, turning around to see what it was she was staring at. "A Pokemart? Oh! I completely forgot it was around her." Misty said, sweet dropping in slight embarrassment.

Ashley rolled her eyes at her and started walking toward the shop, fully intent on selling the giant mushrooms she had found on the maintain the day before.

"Come on guys. We're here, so we might as well sell the stuff I found, and buy some potions and things. Ashley said, calling over her shoulder to Misty and Pikachu as she walked into the shop.

"Come on Pikachu, if we don't go in with her she'll be here all day." Misty said, causing the still kind of fat Pikachu to follow her into the store. He hadn't followed her in the first place because he was to tired and to full to move, but he knew Misty was right and didn't want to be left out of the shopping adventure.

When the two of them were in the shop, they noticed that Ashley was at the front desk, talking to the clerk over the Mushrooms she had found on Mt. Moon. After they finally agreed on something, most likely the price, they Pokemart clerk handed Ashley some Pokedollers and took the mushrooms, opening the bags to set them on display for potential buyers to see.

"Ashley." She said, walking over to her. "How much did you get for everything?" She asked, looking at the wad of cash. "You know, we could just-" She started, only to be cut off by Ashley.

"I don't think so! We are spending this money on stuff we need, not on clothes." She said, putting the money into her pockets so that Misty couldn't get to it.

"Ah!" Misty said in disappointment. "Fine." She added, turning around and looking at one of the isle of stuff. 'I'll just have to start finding stuff to, that way I can spend the money on whatever I want.' Misty thought, thinking it couldn't be to hard to find stuff.

Misty and Ashley spent the next couple of minutes going through the shop, looking for stuff they might need. Just like all Pokemart shops, it was full of random stuff a trainer might need, including exactly what Ashley was looking for.

A tent.

She had been looking at the different tents and there prices when the Pokemart clerk found something in the mushrooms that she might want to keep.

"Hey miss!" He said, causing Ashley, Misty, and Pikachu to look up at him. "You might want to keep this, it was stuck inside some of the roots of one of the mushrooms." He said.

In his hand, he was holding a large blue-white stone, one that the girls had come to recognize as a moonstone.

"A moonstone!" The girls said in unison, both shocked to see one. The girls walked back over to the counter, to get a closer look at it.

"Yep, it's definitely a moonstone alright." Ashley said, taking it into her hands and looking at it.

"Wow! How lucky are we?" Misty said in shock and surprise, wandering if Ashley would let her use it on her Clefairy, though she didn't think that was very likely.

"Yeah, I was hoping I would be able to get one, though I didn't think I would." Ashley said, putting it into her backpack and continuing to look around the store.

After a while, she finally decided which tent she would get. It was a Vango Colorado 600DLX Tent, a tent that kind of looked like a plus sign from the top, having an entrance, a common area, and three bedrooms, it was perfect for their group. Everyone would get their own place to Sleep, and they wouldn't have to worry about getting rained on as it was waterproof.

She was also happy that it was so small when it was rolled up and closed, because she wouldn't have to worry about it taking up all of her backpack. In fact, all she had to do was roll it up and attach it to the top of her backpack and it wouldn't get in the way at all.

Her and Misty bought some other stuff as well, including a much better newer version of Ashley's old collapsible fishing rod. She figured that there must be a place to fish somewhere around the city, seeing as Misty was a water Pokemon trainer, and her sisters were the leaders of the water gym, it only made sense that their had caught their Pokemon someplace close by.

"Well, I guess that's everything." Ashley said, handing the items and the money for them to the shop clerk, trying not to laugh at the look on Misty's face when she realized that all the money was just about gone now. "Don't worry, we wont need to buy big supplies next time, so we might have money left over then." She told her, patting her on the back reassuringly.

"I guess." Misty said. She knew that Ashley was right about needing a tent. She had been traveling a while now, and she always hated it when she ended up out in the rain and had to take shelter under a tree. Having a tent would be a good thing, but she still wished she could have gone shopping with some of the money.

"Besides, gym leaders also give out money, remember? That means you'll have some cash after you beat your sister." She said, only to pause when she remembered something. "Didn't you get money from Brock when you beat him?" She asked, looking over at her. "He didn't get a chance to give me any money, but I remember seeing him hand you some." She added, thinking back to Misty's gym battle.

Misty stared at her in shock for a few minutes, she had completely forgotten about that.

"That's right!" She said, digging into her own backpack for the money as Ashley put the newly bought stuff into her backpack while the clerk just watched them. He had no problem with her digging for money in her backpack. He worked on commission, so the more money the spent while he was on the job, the more he earned on his paycheck.

"Ah! Here it is!" She said, pulling it out and counting it. "Wow, it's more then I thought it would be..." She said in surprised, the gears in her brain working on overload. "If I beet my sisters, I'll be able to go on a shopping spry!" She said when she finally did the math in her head. It meant she would be able to by a bunch of new clothes, though 4200 pokes wasn't a huge amount, it was still enough for her to go shopping, and that was all she wanted to do.

"Yep, so are you going to spend it now, or are you going to wait until after we beat your sisters?" Ashley asked, smiling at her, thinking that she wouldn't be able to wait.

"Nah, I'm going to wait until a beat them. Then I'll have twice as much to spend." She said, completely surprising Ashley.

"Huh? I'm shocked, I would have thought you would want to spend it as quickly as possible." Ashley told her, finishing her packing.

"Well, I thought about it, but if I wait, I can buy better things. so it kind of works out better if I wait." Misty said, as the two of them, along with Pikachu, left the shop and started heading toward the gym, Misty leading the way. She wasn't as nervous about battling against her sisters now, there was money in it for her if she won, and that was all she needed to know.

When they finally reached the gym Ashley and Pikachu were shocked. It looked more like a water park arena then a Pokemon gym. There was a large sign that looked like a Dewgong hanging on the top of the building, and the roof was orange and pink, alternating in colors like a beach parasol.

They had only been looking at it for a few minutes when the three of them heard a loud bang and a scream coming from inside the gym.

"Ah! That was Daisy's scream!" Misty shouted, taking off down the walk way and into the gym in a worried panic, searching for her sisters..

Ashley and Pikachu ran in after her, wandering what the loud bang had been and why whoever this Daisy was had screamed.

When they entered the building, they were shocked to find that there were hundreds of massive tanks lining the walls, and a few that seemed to all be on large tank that filled the center of the building, amplifying the fact that it looked more like a water park then a gym.

"Which way?!" Ashley asked in shock, seeing that there was a long curving hallway to her right, and one to her left.

As if in answer to her question, another scream was let out, coming from the hallway to her right.

"I guess that's the way!" She said, running down the hall with Pikachu following close behind.

After they reached the end of the hall, all there was was a stairway that led up onto a large arena with a giant pool in the middle. Ashley quickly looked around and spotted the problem. There was a vary large whole in the wall with a giant vacuum sticking out of it, and a hose draining the water out of the pool. On top of the vacuum stood three people that Ashley had come to know, and dislike.

Team Rocket.

Ashley also spotted Misty and three other girls, who had to be her sisters. Running over to the group, Ashley had Pikachu send a large lightning bolt at the vacuum, only to stop him a second latter when she realized that there was water all over the place. If Pikachu uses any of his electric attacks, it would electrocute everyone in the room.

"Hey! It's the twerps!" Meowth shouted, pointing over to where Ashley, Misty, and the others were now standing. "Don't just stand there! Put it in revers!" he added.

Jessie flipped a large switch, causing the hose to shoot out a large wave of water at the group, nocking some of them into the pool.

When Ashley saw that Pikachu and a strange white Pokemon was about to get sucked into the machine, she realized she had no choice but to have Pikachu use it's electric attacks.

"Pikachu! Use Thundershock!" she yelled, causing Pikachu to send out a large bolt of electricity, destroying the machine in the process.

The machine was destroyed, and Team Rocket was a bit extra crispy, but they didn't seem to be giving up any time soon.

"Gr! We'll show you! Ekans, Kakuna! Go!" Jessie shouted, throwing her Ekans and her newly evolved Kakuna into battle.

"Huh? When did her Weedle evolve?" Ashley asked in shock. She was starting to think that she might not have thought her plan to help them all the way through. When she had given them both a Weedle, she was expecting to have to fight them as Weedles in the future, but if one of them had already evolved into a Kakuna, then they might have to deal with a Beedrill or two in their future battles with Team Rocket.

"You too Koffing, Weedle!" James said, causing Ashley and Misty to both feel a slight bit of relief at the fact that his hadn't evolved yet.

When the four Pokemon appear, Misty grabbed on of her own Pokeballs and sent it out into the battle. When it hit the ground and opened up, Misty was relieved to see that she had managed to get Clefairy on her first try.

"A Clefairy?!" Team Rocket and Misty's sisters all shouted, shocked to see the pink colored Pokemon.

"Clefairy!" (Translation: ??? (a/n: Sorry, just wanted her to say Clefairy.)) she said happily, happy to be called out for her first battle with her new trainer.

:Ok, let's see what dexter has to say about Clefairy's moves." Ashley said, pulling out her Pokedex as Misty leaned in to see what it said.

"Clefairy's moves part one: This particular Clefairy only knows Pound, Growl, Sing, Doubleslap, and Metronome. Beware using sing as it will cause everyone in the vicinity to fall asleep, including the trainer." Dexter stated, causing the two girls to look up and stair at Clefairy.

"Causes everyone to fall asleep?" Ashley asked, razing an eyebrow.

"Yeah, doesn't sound like a very good idea to me." Misty said in agreement. It would be OK if it only effected Pokemon, but if it effected everyone, it would be very bad, and could be very dangerous as well.

"Don't just stand there waiting for them! Attack!"

when the girls heard Jessie's shouted, both of their heads shot up from the Pokedex in time for them to see Ekans coming in for an attack on Clefairy.

"Clefairy! Use Doubleslap!" Misty shouted.

Hearing her trainers command, Clefairy instantly started smacking the crap out of Ekans, causing the the snake like Pokemon to fly back in pain.

"Ekans! Gr- return." Jessie said, returning Ekans to his Pokeball.

"Koffing, use smokescreen! Weedle!! Poison sting!" James shouted, getting into the battle as well, determined to win.

Koffing's smokescreen started to fill a large portion of the gym, blocking their view of the battle, making nearly impossible to figure out what was going on.

Suddenly Weedle came flying out of the darkness right at Pikachu, knocking the electric mouse across the floor before it ran back into the smokescreen to make it harder for them to hit it.

"Pikachu!" Ashley yelled, happy when she saw that Pikachu was getting back up, though she was a little worried when she saw Pikachu wince slightly.

"Clefairy! Use Metronome!" Misty called in retaliation for the attack.

Clefairy instantly started waving it's fingers in the air, going back and forth, back and forth while chanting it's name.

Everyone watched and waited to see what would happen, everyone that is except Team Rocket, who didn't want Clefairy to finish it's attack, remembering what had happened last time.

"Weedle, Koffing! Tackle!" James commanded, causing both of his Pokemon to dive out of the smoke screen and straight for Clefairy. When they suddenly froze, shocked at what was happening.

Nothing.

Clefairy had simply glowed white for a few seconds, before she turned back to normal, her attack having no visible effect at all.

Everyone stared at her for a few minutes before Team Rocket stated laughing.

"That was it? You're joking!" James said, rolling around on the floor while holding on to his stomach, though the group couldn't actually see him.

"Haha! We were scared of that little thing? I bet it can't even do Metronome!" Jessie said, laughing as well.

"Hahah! Meowth!" Meowth said, laughing at them as well.

"Gr! I'll show you! Clefairy! Metronome one more time!" Misty said angrily, wanting to beat the crap out of Team Rocket for laughing at her Pokemon.

Clefairy started waving her fingers and chanting again, doing another Metronome as she had been asked to do.

Team Rocket was still laughing at her, thinking that the attack wasn't going to do anything. They were wrong.

This time, when Clefairy finished using the Metronome, a large beam of sunlight shot out of her, heading straight for Team Rocket. It was a Solarbeem.

When the attack hit, Team Rocket and the machine they had stolen were sent flying hight into the sky, and the smokescreen was dispersed, leaving the room nice and clear.

"Yeah!" Misty shouted, picking up Clefairy and jumping up and down in excitement. "We did it! We did it!" she shouted happily.

"Wow, like, that was totally amazing." The girl with blue hair said, causing Misty and Ashley to look over at the three girls.

"Yeah, I guess like, Misty had to get some talent since we got the looks in the family." The blond said, walking up to them as well.

"Hey!" Misty said, offended at the implication that she was ugly.

"Chill out little sis, we were only kidding." The red haired girl said, walking up to them as well.

"Fine." Misty said, returning Clefairy to her Pokeball and turning away from them to look at the pool. "I guess we aren't going to be able to have our gym battle anytime soon." Misty said, causing her sisters to look at her in confusion.

"Gym battle? So you're still going on about being a Pokemon master then?" one of them asked, only to realize that she had no idea who the girl with the tomboy clothes was.

"Oh, who are you?" She asked, turning to Ashley.

"Huh?" Misty said, looking over at Ashley, only to realize that she hadn't introduced them yet. "Oh! This is my friend Ashley!" She said, turning to her sisters. "we're both traveling together while we collect badges." Misty said, smiling at her sisters.

"Oh, figures you would have a friend that dresses like that." The blond said, looking at Ashley's clothes as though she would never be caught dead dressed like that.

"Daisy!" Misty said, wishing her sisters would be a little bit more polite.

"Sorry. Anyway, I take it that your statement means you both came here for a gym battle, tight?" Daisy said, look between Misty and Ashley, causing the two to nod at her.

"Sorry, but we don't feel much like battling anymore." The girl with the blue hair said, folding her arms in a slightly saddened way.

"Yeah, Violet's right. We just got beat by these three kids from this no where place called polite town or something like that." The one with red hair said, shaking her head at them. "It was like, one defeat after another. My eyes were like, totally spinning from all the defeats."

"Yeah, we totally had to rush all our Pokemon to the Pokemon center. The only one we have left is a Goldeen, and it's horn attack is pretty much useless." Daisy said, shaking her head as well.

"Polite town?" Ashley asked, trying to remember if she had ever heard of a place like that, before she finally realized that the redhead was getting the name wrong. "Wait! Did you mean Pallet Town?" She asked, hoping she was wrong. She wasn't

"Yeah! That's the town those kids said they were from!" Daisy said, nodding with her sisters.

"Great, that means Gary's already been here." She said, hanging her head in misery.

"Huh? Do you know those kids?" The girl with red hair asked, looking at Ashley for a minute. "Come to think of it, they were wearing clothes kind of like that. Their's were better, but the styles are kind of the same if you squint your eyes and tilt your head a bit." She said doing just that.

Ashley hung her head even more, feeling even worse at the comparison of her and the other trainers from her town.

Misty saw this and could feel the pouting storm coming over her friend, causing her to do whatever she could to avoid it. She wasn't sure why, but she had a feeling that Ashley was the kind of person to drag other people down with her, and she really didn't want to feel like crap at the moment.

"Hahaha, Sorry about that Ashley, Lily didn't mean it. Really, you dress way better then the other people from your town, I bet they all looked like crap when they got here!" Misty said, trying everything she could think of, which looked like it was starting to work.

"Really?" Ashley said, looking up at her with big puppy dog eyes.

"Not even close." Violet said, shaking her head and causing Ashley to go back into her depressed mode faster then anyone would have thought possible.

"Violet! Try being more sensitive! Will ya?" Misty said, wishing her sister would think before putting her foot in her mouth.

"Oh!" Daisy said, realizing what Misty was trying to do. "Yeah, your outfit is totally better then theirs were!" She said, elbowing her sisters to get them to play along.

"huh? Oh! Yeah, loads batter, totally!" Lily said, smiling at her even though she personally thought that Ashley's outfit was by far the worst.

"Hahaha. Anyway, if it's badges you two want, you can have them." Violet said, holding out two Cascade badges while trying to change the subject.

"What?! Ah man." Misty said, hanging her own head now. "I really wanted to battle." she added, looking up at them.

"But we don't want to battle, remember? We said we totally don't want to get beaten again. " Daisy said, shaking her head at her baby sister.

"How about if we come back tomorrow? Would that be enough time for your Pokemon to heal?" Ashley said, trying to think of something. She really didn't want to just be given a badge. Sure that was how she got her badge from Brock, but she had fought him and had almost won. That was different.

"Yeah, but like, we wont be able to battle here, and like we said. We don't really want to battle anymore." Violet said, wishing they would listen. The three girls really weren't into battling anymore, getting beaten so many times made them want to give it up all together.

"We know you said that, but it's your job as the gym trainer to fight against all opponents! You just have to battle us!" Ashley said, trying to convince them.

"Well, I guess it is kind of our job." Lily said, thinking about it for a minute.

'There's no way they'll ever stop pestering us until we fight them. Misty was always so stubborn.' She thought, deciding that if she gave up now, it would save her a lot of arguing in the future.

"Fine, we'll battle you guy's tomorrow when our Pokemon are healed. OK?" She said, surprising all the other girls in the room.

Misty and Ashley were shocked that she had given in so quickly, while daisy and violet were shocked because they hadn't expected her to give in at all. After all, she had been the one to suggest giving up battles in the first place.

"Lily, are you sure about this?" Daisy asked, wandering what was going through her sisters head.

"Of course I am." She told her before turning her attention back to Ashley and Misty. "Now you guys go have fun, we have to figure out where we're going to have the battle, we can't exactly have it here now." She said, turning to the whole in the wall and wandering how they were going to fix it.

---------------- A couple hours later --------------------------

Ashley and Misty were sitting in the Pokemon center's front lobby eating while talking about what they were both planning to do during their battles the next day.

"Well, with Pikachu it should be a piece of cake. Water and electricity and all." Ashley said before she took a big bite out of her burger, only to pause and stair at the way Pikachu seemed to be trying to make out with the ketchup bottle.

'That. Is just Weird.' she thought, picking Pikachu up by the tail and lifting him so that he was at eye level, raising an eyebrow when she saw that he was still holding on to the ketchup bottle with a really happy look on his face. "You know, sometimes I worry about you." She told him, causing Misty to laugh at their antics.

"Well, it could be worse, he could be in love with mustard." Misty said. She really hated mustard, it was almost as bad as bugs. Not quite, but almost.

"Says you. You don't have a Pokemon that goes off into lala land whenever there's ketchup around." Ashley said, lowering Pikachu back to the table and trying to ignore the strange sounds coming from the poor defenseless ketchup bottle. (Please note that Pikachu is simply eating out of the ketchup bottle, you pervs)

"Haha, I think it's kid of cute." Misty said as she watched Pikachu licking at the ketchup as he squeezed it out.

"I think it's embarrassing." Ashley said, shacking her head a few times, trying to forget about what Pikachu was doing. "Anyway," She said, turning her attention back to what Misty was going to do for her battle. "what do you plan to do tomorrow? Clefairy's Metronome isn't exactly the world most predictable move, if you try and use it all the time, it might cause you to loose the battle."

"Well, I've been thinking about that. I was actually planing on asking for a favore..." She said, looking at Ashley, hope in her eyes, only to have Ashley crush them.

"You're not borrowing Pikachu." She said, taking another bite of food as Misty made her protest.

"Hey! Why not?!" She asked in shock, she hadn't expected Ashley to actually say no.

"Because," Ashley said, chewing and swallowing her food before she continued speaking. "You need to win this with your own Pokemon. Don't you think you're kind of insulting your Pokemon if you use someone else's Pokemon to win a battle?" She asked, giving Misty a serious look.

"Well, I guess I never thought of it like that before." Misty stated, thinking about what Ashley said. It was kind of true. If she used someone else's Pokemon then it was like saying she didn't have enough faith in her own Pokemon to win the battle, and she wasn't sure she could do that to her Pokemon.

"I guess your right." She said at last, giving in and nodding her head at Ashley in agreement.

"Good. Now lets figure out how you can beat them with your own Pokemon. Since you guys all use water Pokemon, and Clefairy's attack is to unpredictable, they kind of have the upper hand."
Ashley stated, malling over the facts in her head while finishing the last of her burger.

"There's nothing I can do. All I can do is fight them with the Pokemon I have, and hope my strategy is just better." Misty said, unable to come up with anything. She could try catching more Pokemon, but they would just be water Pokemon, and that wouldn't really help in her situation.

"Maybe you should get some last minute training." Ashley said, nodding her head as she thought about it. "To bad there isn't a stream or river around her, you could fight some water Pokemon with your own, and level them up some." She said, not seeing the sudden gleam in Misty's eyes.

"Wait! There's a river near by!" She said, realizing that Ashley was right. Training was the best thing she could do to get ready for her battle the next day.

"Great!" Ashley said, jumping up from her seat, picking up Pikachu, grabbing her backpack, and dragging Misty out the door.

When the girls finally reached the river, Ashley pulled out both her new rod and her old one and set them aside before continuing to dig through her backpack for something she could use as bait.

"Don't tell me, you forgot to get bait when we were in the Pokemart, didn't you?" Misty asked, smiling as she pulled out her own tackle box.

"Yeah, can I barrow one of yours?" She asked her with a pleading look in her eyes.

"Sure, I'll even let you use one of my Misty Lures mark 1!" She said happily, holding up an object that looked like a mini Misty that was holding up one figure.

"Um... I kind of want to catch some Pokemon, not scare them away..." She said, only to have Misty smack her on the top of her head.

"Well if you don't want to use it, fine then!" Misty said, taking the lure and walking away in a huff.

"Huh? Wait!" Ashley said, running over to her and apologizing, thanking her profusely when she handed the lure to her. "Thank you!" She said, putting it on the end of her fishing line, and casting her line into the water.

The two sat in silence for several minutes, waiting for a Pokemon. After about twenty minutes of waiting, Misty's line finally snagged something, causing both girls to jump up in excitement.

"Hey! I got got one!" She shouted in excitement, happy to finally have something on the line.

"Really?!" Ashley and Pikachu ran over to her, both wanting to see what it was.

When Misty finally reeled it in, they were all very disappointed to see that it was only a Magikarp, and not a very big one at that.

"It's less of a Magikarp and more of a punakarp, don't you think?" Ashley said, taking it off of Misty's line and holding it up for her to see.

"Ah, man!" Misty said, taking the dinky Magikarp and throwing it back into the river.

The two girls continued to fish for a few more hours, snagging nothing but Magikarp the whole time, which they both kept throwing back into the river, wishing that they would catch something else.

While most of the Magikarp they had caught were kind of on the small side, there had been two that were huge, both larger then Misty from fin to mouth, and both caught by Ashley. The girls had fought over who would get to catch them. Magikarp might be pretty much useless, but ones that big had to have a really good tackle, plus they might be able to break the record for the biggest Magikarp caught in the area. Ashley of course was the one that kept them, seeing as it was her that had snagged them and reeled them in, but that didn't stop Misty from wanting to catch her own monster Magikarp.

After about an hour more of catching nothing but Magikarp, with Misty finally catching her own giant, Ashley and Misty both agreed that they would try one more time to catch something other then a Magikarp, and then they'd head off to the Pokemon center for bed, seeing as it was already getting dark.

Little did the two of them know, some Pokemon only come out during the night.

Ashley cast her line into the water, sitting down and waiting for something to bite while Misty threw her own baited line into the river as well.

Misty didn't get a chance to sit down to wait though, as she had a bite almost instantly.

"Wow, that was fast!" She said, causing Ashley and Pikachu to look over at her, shocked that she already had a bite.

Ashley jumped up from her seat, fully intent on running over to help her friend, only to grab her own fishing poll when it almost got dragged into the water.

"Ah! I got one too!" She shouted, holding on for dear life, trying to reel the sucker in without breaking her rod.

Misty and Ashley were both having a hard time trying to reel in whatever was on the ends of their fishing polls.

"They must be huge!" Misty shouted as she was dragged forward a few inches, nearly causing her to fall over.

"I don't think it's Magikarps this time!" Ashley shouted back, also getting dragged forward. "Pikachu! Do something!" She said, still trying not to loose her fishing rod and trying not to fall in.

When Pikachu sent a thundershock into the water, both Misty and Ashley were both horrified to see that the elcectic attack had done almost nothing at all to either of the Pokemon at the ends of their fishing lines.

"GR!" Ashley growled, it seemed as though she was having the hardest time out of the two, though Misty wasn't exactly fairing much better.

Misty's line loosed a bit, giving her a chance to grab her Pokeballs and call out Starmie, Staryu, and Goldeen.

"Guys! Get into the water and knock that Pokemon out of there!" She yelled just as the line suddenly tightened again, nearly ripping her off of her feet.

Goldeen, having already been in the water in the first place, unable to be on land, swam down ahead of the others and found the Pokemon her trainer was currently battling against. When the other two caught up to her, they were shocked to see that the Pokemon Misty was having such a hard time with was a really dark blue Pokemon that looked as though it was to small to be able to put up such a strong fight against the master fisher-girl.

The three Pokemon quickly dove under the tadpole like Pokemon, using their Water Guns on it from underneath, causing it to fly up and out of the water.

When the Misty finally managed to reel it in, her and Ashley were both happy to see it wasn't a Magikarp, though Ashley was still to busy dealing with her own line to see what it was.

"Alright! It's a Poliwag!" Misty yelled reeling in as much of the line as she could while the Pokemon was still in mid air. When the Poliwag hit the water, Goldeen was ready for it, running up underneath it and giving it a Horn Attack from behind, throwing it onto the land.

"Great! Now use Water Gun Starmie!" Misty yelled when she saw the double star like Pokemon jump out of the water.

Starmie sent a strong burst of water at Poliwag, which the dark blue Pokemon simply dodged before using hypnoses on Starmie in retaliation.

Misty watched in amazement and excitement when she saw Starmie fall asleep. Hypnoses was exactly the kind of thing she needed for her battle with her sisters the next day.

"Starmie, return!" She said, turning to Staryu when Starmie was safely in his Pokeball. "Staryu! Knock it back into the water for Goldeen!" She ordered.

Staryu flew around Poliwag, trying to avoid getting knocked out the same way Starmie had while positioning himself behind the blue Pokemon.

"Poli!" (Translation: Take this!) Poliwag said, shooting a Water Gun attack at the star shaped Pokemon, only to have it get dodged at the last second. "Poli?" (Translation: Huh?) It said in confusion. It had never seen a Pokemon fast enough to dodge one of it's Water Guns.

While Poliwag was staring, Staryu took the opportunity to knock it into the water with one of her own attacks, sending the tadpole like Pokemon into the river with a giant burst of water.

Once again, Goldeen was waiting for the blue Pokemon, and gave it another Horn Attack in the back, sending it out of the waiter and into the air.

Misty was sure it was down for the count, and was shocked when it flipped over when it neared the water again, and promptly started smacking golding around with Doubleslap attack in retaliation, using it's tail to do it.

Golding was knocked under the water from the attack, but came back to the surface to give Poliwag her own attack in retaliation, another Horn Attack.

This time, when Poliwag hit the ground, it didn't get up, having swirls in it's eyes that indicated that it was knocked out.

"Alright, Pokeball, go!" Misty shouted as she threw the Pokeball, jumping up and down in happiness when it gave it's final click, signaling that Poliwag was now hers.

"Yes! I caught Poliwag!" She shouted, picking up the Pokeball and giving a victory pose, only to see that Ashley was still trying to reel in her own Pokemon.

"Ashley!" She said in shock, returning Goldeen and Staryu to their Pokeballs and running over to help her.

While Misty had been fighting against her new Pokemon, Ashley was busy just trying to reel her's in. The thing was putting up such a strong fight that she was actually to seconds from flying into the water when Misty grabbed on to her, helping her get back onto her feet.

"What the heck could be this strong?!" she shouted to Misty, still trying to reel the dumb thing in.

"I don't know! Their aren't any Gyarados around here!" She shouted back, thinking about it for a second before adding "At least I don't think there is!"

"What?! Don't say that!" Ashley shouted in horror, knowing full well that there was no way they could take on a Gyarados of that was what it was.

"I only meant that I wasn't sure!" She said, still trying to help Ashley pull the Pokemon in. "But don't worry, if it was a Gyarados, we would have both been pulled in already!" She shouted, still pulling on the rod with Ashley.

The girls braised themselves, planing on giving it one big pull with both of their full strengths, hoping it would get whatever it was out of the water.

When the girls gave the line their huge tug, the Pokemon on the other end flew high into the air, shocking both of them at the realization of what it was.

"Holy crab-monkeys! That is one big goldfish!" Ashley shrieked, seeing that massive Goldeen while it was still in mid air. The two of them couldn't be sure about it's size until it was caught, but from they way it looked to them, it had to be the size of a one man island, big enough for their traveling group to ride on if the situation ever called for it.

"That has got to be the worlds biggest Goldeen!" Misty said as the golding landed on the ground and started thrashing around, trying to get back to the water.

"Yeah, definitely." Ashley replied. "OK Pikachu, you're up!" She said, turning to the little yellow Pokemon and sending him into battle.

Pikachu was a little nervous about battling something that big, but knew that it was weak against his electric attacks, seeing as it was a water Pokemon.

"Pika!" (translation: Pika!) Pikachu said, jumping into the battle and sending Thundershock after Thundershock at the large water Pokemon, causing it to thrash around harder in pain.

"Well this is kind of a let down." Misty said with a small laugh, shaking her head in slight annoyance. Her battle had been with something that was about a fiftieth of the giant Goldeen's size, but Ashley was having a much easier time fighting the Goldeen then she had with her new Poliwag.

'I guess that's how it is when you have an electric Pokemon, water Pokemon don't really stand a chance, especially if your electric Pokemon is super powered like Pikachu is.' she thought, half laughing at the differences in the battles. Her battle had been really hard, but Ashley wasn't having a problem with hers. 'I wander if this is what it felt like for her after her battle with Brock...' she thought realizing that this was the revers of that situation.

"That's it Pikachu! One more time!" Ashley shouted, knowing that the Goldeen had to be very weak. Pikachu had already sent more then twenty Thundershocks at it, and she knew it couldn't possibly take that many more of them.

When Pikachu's last attack hit, the Goldeen's eyes became giant swirls larger then Ashley and Misty's heads, signaling that it couldn't battle anymore.

"Alright! Pokeball! Go!" she shouted, throwing her last Net Ball at it, hoping that it did the job.

Ashley, Pikachu, and Misty stood still for several minutes, watching as the Pokeball continued to shake, the Goldeen inside continuing to fight.

"Ok, it was definitely a good idea to use the Net Ball." She said, knowing that if the Net Ball was having this big a time with trying to capture Goldeen, then a normal Pokeball would have no chance.

"Ashley? Where did you get that ball anyway?" Misty asked, wandering where she could get one as well. The weird Pokeball seemed to work better on water Pokemon then a normal one did, a fact that was not lost on her at all.

"Huh? Oh! You mean my Net Ball?" Ashley asked, looking at Misty for confirmation, continuing when she nodded her head. "I have a penpal in a region called Johto. She sent me a magazine that talked about this man that made special Pokeballs." She said, not taking her eyes of the Net Ball, which was still shaking. "It had a number for his place in it, so I called it up and ordered some. Cost a lot to." She added.

Misty nodded her head at the information she had just gotten, wandering if Ashley still remembered the number or not. When she saw that he Net Ball was still shaking back and forth, she instantly decided that she would get her hands on a Net Ball even if it cost her all the money she had, because there was no way a normal Pokeball would be able to fight against a Pokemon for this long. If the Net Ball had been just like any other Pokeball, it would have already let go of the Pokemon inside it a long time ago.

When the Net Ball finally stopped shaking, Ashley, Misty, and Pikachu were shocked when they realized that it had taken over ten minutes for it to stop.

(A/N: Please note that I have not decided if Ashley will be keeping the Goldeen or if she will loose it at some point in a future chapter after the whole St. Ann event or if she will simply send it to Prof. Oak and forget about it for a long time. It's to big for her to keep around all the time.)

"I actually caught it..." Ashley said in shock, only to become more surprised when the ball disappeared. "Huh? Oh! Haha, I forgot." She said, turning to Misty and rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment.

"I can't believe you actually caught that thing..." Misty said, only to freeze when a thought struck her. "Hey! That's no fair! You caught tree giant water Pokemon!" Misty exclaimed in shock and disappointment.

"Huh? I did?" Ashley asked, thinking about it for a second. "That's right! I did! Two giant Magikarp and a giant Goldeen!" she said, shocked that she had managed that all in one day. Giant Pokemon had to be rare, it wasn't like you saw them every day.

"Yeah, Oh well! I'd rather have a cute and strong Poliwag then two giant Magikarp any day." Misty said, hugging the Pokeball with her new Poliwag closely.

"I see you didn't mention the Goldeen." Ashley said deviously, trying not to smirk at the vain that appeared on Misty's forehead.

"Ga! Shut up!" Misty said, trying to hide the annoyed expression on her face. She really liked her new Poliwag, and would always rather have it then the giant Goldeen, but that didn't stop her from being jealous of her friend's new super sized Pokemon.

"Hahaha! I was just kidding." Ashley said as they started packing up their fishing gear and heading back to town and to the Pokemon center.

A thought occurred to Ashley as they headed back to the Pokemon center.

"Hey, Misty?" She asked, looking over at her friend as they entered the city and started walking down the street.

"Yeah?"

"Your sisters have to do the gym near water right?" She asked, wandering if it would be possible to use her new Goldeen in the battle.

"Yeah, they kind of have no choice. All they have to fight with is a Seel, a Cloyster, some Seakings and a bunch of Goldeen. They'll be able to use the cloister and the Seel on land, but they have to use the others in water, and they don't usually use Seel in Pokemon battles. He's not exactly that useful, kind of the odd ball if you ask me." She said, remembering that Seel had never been able to use any other move besides whirlpool and tackle, and his whirlpool had been really weak at that.

"That's great! I'll be able to use my new Goldeen tomorrow!" She said happily, running up the street and heading to the Pokemon center as fast as she could so that she could call Prof. Oak. Luckily Pikachu was in her arms, so he didn't have to run after her.

"Hey! Wait up!" Misty yelled, running after her as fast as she could.

When the girls finally reached the Pokemon center, neither of them were shocked to see Brock practically drooling over Nurse Joy at the Pokemon centers front desk.

"Oh Nurse Joy! My heart aches for you!" He said, holding up out a bouquet of flowers for her.

Misty and Ashley walked up behind him, both grabbing on to one of his ears and dragging him away from her while she stared at him in confusion.

"Come on romeo, it's way past your bed time." Misty said as they dragged him off.

"Ow! Ow! Let go! Ow!" He said as they dragged him over to the Pokeball transporter system.

When the small group reached the machine, Ashley and Misty let go of Brock's ears, both ignoring his pleading look to have them let him go back over to her.

"Don't even try it, super perv." Ashley said as she dialed Prof. Oaks Number.

Ashley sat, waiting for someone to pick up on the other end while Misty explained everything that had happened that day to Brock. He was a little shocked that Ashley had managed to actually find a giant Pokemon, let alone three, though he wasn't shocked at all when he heard that Team Rocket had been the ones that stole the giant vacuum and massive whose, having heard their stories about Team Rocket already.

Ashley looked at the clock when no one picked, confused when she saw that it was only 7:30 PM.

"That's odd, he should still be up." She said, redialing the number and trying again.

This time a very panicky and out of breath Prof. Oak answered, causing the group to worry slightly.

"Is everything alright Prof. Oak?" Ashley asked while Misty, Brock, and Pikachu leaned in to see what was going on.

"No it is not all right!" He said, looking at the screen in a slightly panicked sort of way. "Where on earth did you get three giant Pokemon?!" He demanded, wandering how she had managed it. He was especially curious out about the Goldeen. It looked like it could give a Snorlax a run for it's Poke-berries. It was the size of a really small island, making it nearly impossible for him to find a place on the lab grounds for it to swim in.

"Um," She started nervously, a little scared of the annoyed look in his eyes. "I went fishing with Misty?"

"Very well." He sighed shaking his head to try and get over his annoyance at having no place to put such unique specimens.

It wasn't that he didn't like having the Pokemon their, He had been so excited when he had gotten them. It was simply that when he realized that he had to find a place for them to stay, he had been unable to come up with anything and had wound up getting some of the rock Pokemon to help him dig a new lake, which was why he hadn't been near the phone the first time Ashley had called.

"Anyway, I was calling to see if you could send me the Goldeen I just sent you, I kind of needed for a gym battle toma-" She started, stopping when she saw the look of death in his eyes.

"Ashley Isabel Ketchum, do you have any idea of what I just went though to find a place for that Pokemon to stay here in?" He asked, hanging his head in despair at all his hard work going out the window.

"Hahah, Yeah, sorry about that." She said, rubbing the back of her head, feeling bad for him. She knew it must have been really hard to find a place for Goldeen to swim around in, but she knew that she might need the large water Pokemon in her gym battle to.

"Well, figure out which Pokemon you're going to send here while I go put Goldeen back in it's Pokeball." He said as he headed off screen.

Ashley thought about it for a few minutes, but was unable to figure out which one to send. She could send Weedle, but she was pretty sure that Pidgey and Butterfree would want to go to the lab for a while to, and then there was the fact that she couldn't exactly use Shellder in a battle either. Lot's of her Pokemon needed a break for a while, but she couldn't exactly send them all. Or could she?

"I think I'll send a couple of them over." she finally said, causing the others to look at her. "Don't worry Pikachu, I wasn't talking about you." She said, rubbing the top of the electric Pokemon's head, causing hit to squeal in delight. 'Pikachu mental note number one, his weakness is having his head rubbed by cute girls.' she thought with a smile, continuing to rub at his head.

"So what did you mean?" Misty asked vuriously.

"I'm going to send over four Pokemon. Weedle, Pidgey, Butterfree, and Shellder." She told them, pulling out the right Pokeballs as she spoke.

"Are you sure it's a good idea to send most of your Pokemon? Don't you think it would be a better idea to keep a full team with you?" Brock asked, wandering if it was a good idea to get rid of all her flying Pokemon like that.

"Don't worry about it." She said with a shrug, not really sure if it was a good idea either, but not wanting to tell them that.

Ashley put the first Pokeball in the transporter and pushed a button, waited for it to finish transporting before she put in the next one.

Prof. Oak came back right as she was putting the last Pokeball in. when he saw how many Pokeballs were waiting for him, he was a little surprised.

"You sent all of these? How come?" He asked. Though he was always happy to see new Pokemon, he was a little surprised that she had sent them all.

"Oh, I just figured that they would like to have a vacation for a while. That's wall." She said, smiling at him while rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment.

"I supposed that's a good idea, Pokemon do need to have a rest some times." He said, bringing the Blue Pokeball with Goldeen in it over to the screen and setting it into the transporter while taking the other Pokeballs out of it. "Now let's see. So what are the Pokemon you're sending me?" He asked out loud as he released the Pokemon inside, finding a Weedle, A Pidgey, and a Butterfree in side.

"I'm also sending a Shellder to, but I haven't gotten a chance to transport it yet." She told him happily while he looked at her Pokemon.

"Well, I can see that they have been fed well, but they don't seem to have been in a lot of battles. Well, the Butterfree does, but the others don't." Prof. Oak said, turning and look at Ashley through the video camera. "You are remembering to switch what Pokemon you use when training, aren't you?" he asked in a slightly lecture like tone.

"Hehehe, I haven't really had the chance to, I've only had seven or eight battles so far." She said, causing him to hand his head at her statement.

"I try, but no one ever listens to me." He said in despair. " Ashley, you do know that you can have your Pokemon battle one another to train, right?" He asked, already knowing the answer.

"Huh?! Oh! I must have forgot!" She said, rubbing the back of her head again.

"Sure you did." Misty said behind her sarcastically as Brock nodded his head in a way that said he didn't believe her either.

"Ack! Not you to Pikachu?" She asked, looking down at the yellow Pokemon sitting in her lap as he nodded his head in the same way that Brock had.

"Pika Pika." (Translation: Lier lier." Pikachu said, folding it's arms and looking away from her.

"Looks like the jury all agree on this one." Prof. Oak said, smiling at the screen.

"Fine, fine. Just push the button." She said in a slightly annoyed voice as she pushed the button on her end and sent the last Pokeball with Shellder in it over to him.

Prof. Oak complied with her request, pushing the button at his end and sending the Pokeball with the giant Goldeen through the transporter and over to her.

"Alright then, I'll talk to you later." Prof. Oak said, turning off his monitor.

Ashley shook her head and headed over to the Pokemon center's front desk, wanting Nurse Joy to give her new Goldeen a full checkup.

"Hello. What can I do for you, Ashley?" Nurse Joy asked her when she saw her walking up to the counter.

"Can you look over my new Goldeen for me, I want to use it in my battle tomorrow." She said, handing the Pokeball to her

"And my new Poliwag to please!" Misty said, handing Nurse Joy her Pokeball as well.

"Sure thing." she said, taking the Pokeball and walking into the back room with it.

Ashley waited with a smile on her face for a few minutes, not wanting to head off to bed until she heard the shout she knew was coming.

"Oh my goodness!" They all heard, causing Ashley to smile even wider.

Having heard Nurse Joy's exclamation, they all headed for their room at the Pokemon center, wanting to go to get some sleep before Ashley and Misty's battles the next day.

The next day everyone was woken up by the sounds of a very extra crispy Ashley getting her morning wakeup call from Pikachu.

"Thanks a lot, Pikachu." She said, coughing up a bit of smoke as she did so.

"Pika..." (translation: Heh...) Pikachu said, rubbing the back of his head in an apologetic sort of way.

"Ashley, do you always have to wake us up this early?" Brock groaned, turning over on the top bunk and trying to go back to sleep.

Ashley stood up and threw her pillow at the back of his head, hitting her target dead on.

"It's not like I like getting shocked." She said, grabbing her clothes and heading for the bathroom, deciding that she should probably get ready now that she was up.

While she was washing her face, Misty walked into the bathroom and started her own morning routine, getting ready for her own battle that day.

When the girls were done getting dressed Ashley and Misty went to the front desk to get their new Pokemon back from Nurse Joy. When the Pokeballs were safely on their belts, they walked back to their room and found that Brock was already dressed and waiting with some food for them. They all sat down and ate their food, letting most of their Pokemon out of their Pokeballs to eat, leaving only the two Goldeen in their Pokeballs.

When everyone was done eating, the group packed up and headed for the Pokemon gym, with Brock going off into lala land at the thought of meeting the Cerulean City Water Flowers he had heard so much about. He had seen some posters of them and was very happy that he would get to see them in person.

"Hello? Are you guys here?" Misty shouted when they entered the Pokemon gym, not seeing anyone there. "That's odd, I would have thought they would have been up already." She said, remembering how her sisters had always been the first people in the whole city to wake up, wanting to go fishing for water Pokemon.

"Hey! Look!" Ashley said, running over to the wall that had been knocked down the day before. It now had a large black tarp over the whole with a note pinned to it.

"Huh? It's a note." Misty said as she and Brock walked over to it. "What's it say?"

"Um, I think it's directions to where we'll be having our battles at today." Ashley said, taking the note off the tarp and showing it to Misty.

"Do you know where it is?" Brock asked, a little disappointed that the sensational sisters hadn't been there.

"Um, I think so." Misty said, sweet dropping when she saw the horrible sketch one of her sisters left on the note. If she squinted her eyes and tilted her head a bit, then it kind of looked like the statue of a Seel at Dewgong Beach, a place that was just up the river from where her and Ashley had been fishing the night before. "Come on, I'll lead the way." She said, turning and heading for the exit.

It took the group about an hour and a half to get to Dewgong Beach, and another twenty minutes trying to find the Seel Statue because Misty couldn't remember where it was on the beach. When they finally found it, they were happy to see that Misty's sisters were already there, and Brock was extra happy to see that they were in bikinis.

"What like, took you guys so long?" Daisy shouted from her perch on a large boulder in the middle of the water.

"Yeah, we've been totally like, waiting for ever." Lily said, her pink-red hair sticking to her face from the water in it. The wait couldn't have been that bad, because she had clearly been swimming.

"Yeah, like, the guys left an hour or so ago. We were like, totally bummed you couldn't meet them." Violet said, coming over to them with a towel rapped around her waist.

Misty and Ashley instantly grabbed Brock by his ears, keeping him from running up to the three girls and professing his undying love for them, something they didn't feel like watching.

"It's like, totally Misty's fault." Ashley said, mimicking the three gym leaders way of talking. "She like, totally forgot where the Seel statue was like, at."

"Yeah, sorry about that." Misty said, sweat dropping in embarrassment as Brock bopped Ashley on her head for the mocking.

"Sorry." Ashley said to them, using her arms to cover her head in an attempt to not get bopped again.

"Don't worry about it." Daisy said, smiling at them from the boulder. "Hey, like who's your friend?" she asked, spotting Brock for the first time.

"My name's Brock," Brock said, pulling some flowers out of nowhere and moving forward to hand them to the nearest sister. "and I would like you to have these as a token of my-"

"Come on romeo, we have a battle to do." Misty said before Ashley could as both of the girls grabbed Brock by an ear and started pulling.

"Any way," Daisy said after she was done staring at the three's antics. "Which ever one of you is, like going to go first, like totally get on the rock over there so we can start." she said, pointing at a boulder opposite the one she currently standing was on.

Misty and Ashley argued for a few minutes, trying to decide on who would go first. They finally decided when Ashley threatened to use Pikachu on her if Misty didn't go first.

"Fine! I'm going, I'm going!" Misty said, walking over to the other end of the beach, and hop frogging her way to the pillar.

'Hm.. I wander if there is any Seels around here.' Ashley thought, making a mental note to find as she walked over to where Brock, Lily, and Violet were sitting so that she could watch the battle with them.

When Misty got onto the boulder, she was able to see that there were several smaller boulders in the water for Pokemon to stand on that she couldn't see before. They were sitting about an inch under the water's surface which was why they were so hard to see.

'This is kind of like a second gym, though the challenger wont be able to use rock or fire Pokemon here, not that they would.' she thought, thinking about which Pokemon she was going to use first.

When Misty was on the giant boulder, and Ashley was sitting down, Brock got up and walked over to the edge of the beach, going straight into referee mode.

"This is an official Pokemon gym battle! Both Gym leader and challenger may each use only two Pokemon! Battle, begin!" Brock shouted, raising his hand and signaling the beginning of the battle.

"Alright, Misty call, Starmie!" Misty said, throwing her Starmie's Pokeball onto one of the smaller boulders, catching it when it came back after releasing Starmie.

"Seaking, your like, totally up!" Daisy yelled, throwing one of her Pokeballs into the water and catching when it came back as well.

A large orange, black, and white version of a Goldeen appeared, causing Ashley to grab dexter to analyze it.

"Seaking, the Goldfish Pokemon. Seaking is the evolved form of Goldeen. It has powerful back fins which it uses to propel it's self forward to ram it's opponents with it's powerful horn." It said, clicking closed when it was done.

When Ashley turned her attention back to the battle, she was a little surprised to see that it had already begun.

"Seaking, use Horn Attack!" Daisy shouted, ordering the Seaking to attack first.

Seaking dove up from the water and straight at Starmie, it's horn aimed for it's gym like core.

"Starmie! Use Swift to knock it away!" Misty shouted in retaliation to her sisters attack.

Starmie did as it was told, sending out hundreds of little star sharped pieces of energy, knocking Seaking back into the water, only for Seaking to jump back out at her again.

"Ah! Starmie!" Misty shouted when she saw her double star shaped Pokemon get hit dead on by Seaking's Horn Attack, knocking it into the water and off of it's boulder.

Starmie came back up to the surface and shock it's self off slight, signaling that it was still good to fight.

"Starmie! Give it a Rapid Spin!" Misty shouted.

Daisy had no time to think of a counter attack as Starmie instantly went into a Rapid Spin, Spinning right into Seaking and knocking it right out of the water and on to one of the boulders, causing it to flop around in pain.

"Seaking!" Daisy said, seeing that Seaking was hurting itself more by flopping around on the rock. "Seaking, return." She said when it finally passed out. She sighed in disappointment. She had really thought that this would be an easy battle, but it seemed her baby sister was a lot more talented then she had thought she was. "Alright Misty, lets see how you can handle this! Cloyster! Go!" Daisy yelled, throwing the new Pokeball into the water and catching it like last time when it came back.

"I knew you were going to do that!" Misty said triumphantly, switching Pokemon and sending out her newest one. "Starmie return! Poliwag, your up!" she said, repeating her sisters action of catching the Pokeball on the rebound.

"Poli!" Poliwag said, jumping up out of the water and onto one of the small boulders. (A/n: I'm getting kind of tired of always trying to come up with a translation. So from now on, sometimes there will be one, and sometimes there wont.)

"Huh? A Poliwag?" Her sisters asked out loud. They didn't know that she had one, she hadn't the last time the checked, so they new that it must be a new one.

"Like, when did you catch that?" Daisy asked, wandering where she had gotten it. 'It's like, totally cute!' she thought, while smiling at it.

"I caught it yesterday." Misty said, smiling at her sister. Though she didn't get along with any of them, they all had one thing in common. The loved water Pokemon.

After a few minutes of fawning over Misty's new Pokemon, Misty and Daisy decided that they both needed to get back to the battle.

"Alright Poli, give it a hypnoses!" She shouted, instantly giving her new Pokemon a knick name and causing her sister come up with a panicked command.

"Hurry! Dive underwater!" Daisy yelled, not wanting Cloyster to fall asleep when she had just brought him out into the battle.

Cloyster did as he was told, diving into the water and closing his shell so that he wouldn't be able to see the Hypnoses attack.

"Poli, dive in and give it a Doubleslap!" Misty shouted, causing Poli to dive into the water and start smacking the crap out of Cloyster's hard shell.

"Sorry little sis, but that isn't going to work. Cloyster is totally protected in it's shell." Daisy said, smirking at her baby sister.

"That's only half true. While Poli's attacks wont do much when Cloyster closes it's shell, the attacks still do some damage to it, and my Poli is super strong!" Misty said, giving Daisy her own smirk in return.

"What?!" Daisy said, looking through the surface of the water, and seeing that she was right. Little cracks had started to appear on Cloyster's shell, which couldn't be very good for her Pokemon.

"Ah! Cloyster!" She yelled, watching as Cloyster's shell opened up slowly to reveal that he was knocked out.

Daisy sank to her knees, shocked that the battle was already over. She hadn't expected to loose to her little sister, she had thought that the battle would be a fast one, only with her being the one that won it.

"Cloyster is unable to battle! Victory goes to the challenger!" Brock said, bringing his arm down and declaring that Misty was the winner.

"I can't believe I lost." Daisy said as she returned Cloyster to it's Pokeball.

"Wow, Misty was like, totally awesome." Lily said while Violet nodded her head in agreement.

"You did it!" Ashley said, running over to the other side of the beach hugging Misty as she jumped off the boulder and onto the beach.

"Of course! What did you expect!" Misty said, jumping up and down as well. She was so happy that she had beat her sister, and she was really starting to like the idea of battling in the Pokemon league.

"Hello over there! I'm like, totally waiting over here!" A voice called, causing Ashley and Misty to look up from their jumping around, only to see that Lily was now standing on the boulder that Daisy had been on.

"Yes! Time to battle Pikachu!" Ashley shouted over to the little yellow Pokemon, causing it to run over to her and jump onto her shoulder. "Let's go!" She added, jumping onto the first boulder and leap frogging her way over to the big one she was supposed to stand on.

Not being the worlds most graceful person, there were several times when she almost fell into the water, barely holding on while having to climb her way back up onto the boulder that she had fallen from.

When Ashley and Pikachu were finally on the final Boulder, Brock stood up again to start the battle, giving the same speech as before.

"This is an official Pokemon gym battle! Both Gym leader and challenger may each use only two Pokemon! Battle, begin!" He shouted, again raising his hand and signaling the beginning of the battle.

"Cloyster, I totally choose you!" Lily shouted, throwing her Pokeball and mimicking her sisters by catching it when it came back.

"Huh?! Since when did you guys get another Cloyster?!" Misty asked in shock.

The last time she had been home, they had only had one Cloyster, and the three of them were constantly using it in Pokemon battles, causing it to become very strong.

"Hey! I knew that other Cloyster looked strange!" She added, lowering her head in embarrassment when she realized that this Cloyster was the one she knew, and not the other one.

"Like, yeah right! You were totally clueless!" Daisy said, laughing as Misty lowered her head even more.

"You've been gone a while, we've caught some new Pokemon since you left." Violet informed her, watching as Pikachu tried repeatedly to electrocute Cloyster, only for it to do absolutely nothing.

"What gives?" Ashley asked out loud, unable to understand why Pikachu's attack was doing absolutely nothing to the water Pokemon.

"Hahaha, haven't figured it out?" Lily laughed, pausing for a minute before explaining what was going on. "Nothing can get through a Cloyster's shell when it's closed, not even electricity." She said, smiling at them in triumph. Daisy might have lost against Misty, but there was no way Lily would loose to this girl. Not with this Cloyster on her team at least.

"Fine! If that's the way you want it, I'll just use a different Pokemon!" Ashley said, knowing that she could breack through Cloyster's shell like Misty had if she used the right Pokemon. "Pikachu! Return!" She yelled, calling the yellow Pokemon back to her side.

Pikachu jumped from boulder to boulder until her was on the same one as Ashley, wishing that there was an easier way to get back other than a Pokeball, using all that electricity had really made him tired.

"Pika..." (Translation: Sleepy.) Pikachu said, curling up on the rock and falling asleep.

Ashley smiled down at him for a second, before grabbing her new Goldeen's Pokeball and throwing it into the water, causing Misty's sisters and Brock to all gasp in shock.

"That's a Goldeen?!" They all exclaimed, shocked at its sheer size.

"Yep, definitely the size of a small island." Ashley said out loud, finally being able to see it from above. It was huge, even bigger then she had thought it was when she had first seen it.

"Um? Cloyster-" Lily said, already doing the math in her head. If a horn that was the same size as a full grown man was to hit Cloyster, there was no chance that the shell covered Pokemon would win. "You might want to run." she said, still shocked at the size of the giant Goldeen.

Goldeen! Use Horn Attack!" Ashley shouted, Hoping that one attack would do it.

Goldeen moved in for the attack, only to get stuck on the many boulders, unable to get past them or swim in between them to get to Cloyster.

"Ah! It's to big to get through or around the boulders!" Misty said, stating the obvious to everyone within ear shoot of her.

"Its size, like, totally saved Cloyster!" Lily said, shocked at her sudden wave of luck, only for her look of elation to change to a look of horror when Goldeen started thrashing around, destroying the boulders it was currently stuck on.

"Goldeen!" It shouted, finally getting free from the boulders and hitting Cloyster with a Horn Attack.

Cloyster didn't stand a chance, one hit and an enormous crack appeared, causing it to pass out in pain.

"Ah! Cloyster, return!" Lily shouted, sinking to her knees. She couldn't think of any other Pokemon she could use against it, all she had left was a Seaking, and she already knew that it would be no match for the giant Pokemon. "I forfeit." She said sadly, standing back up and saying it again so that everyone could hear.

"Huh? What?!" Ashley asked in shock.

"That Cloyster is like, totally the strongest Pokemon any of us have, and your giant Goldeen like, totally beat it with one hit. There's like, no way that I could beat it with any other Pokemon I have." She said, hopping off of her boulder and going over to where the others were.

Ashley did the same after she recalled Goldeen. When she finally got over to them, having only fallen from the boulder three times this time, she couldn't help but smile when Lily and Daisy handed her and Misty badges and some money as rewords for beating them.

"We present you both with the cascade badge." Daisy said as Ashley marveled at the badge. It was shaped like a teardrop or raindrop.

"You two earned it." Lily added, causing the two girls to start jumping up and down again happy that they had bot won their battles.

After several minutes of talking, Ashley and the group decided that it was time for them to say good bye and head off for the next town.

"Misty, you should totally remember to call home once in a while." Violet said, hugging her little sister as everyone said their goodbyes.

"I will, don't worry." Misty told her, smiling at her in a reassuring way.

When everyone was done saying their goodbyes, the two groups started heading in different directions on the beach. Lily, Daisy, and Violet heading back to Cerulean City, while Misty, Ashley, Brock, and Pikachu headed in the opposite direction, hoping to get to the next town as soon as possible.

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Firstly, I wold like to say, I usually write a chapter while watching the episode, I decided to get a bit further away from the series, so I didn't watch the episode this time. How do you think it worked out?

Secondly, I decided to start editing out episodes, making the people catch the Pokemon earlier in the series, that way I can get rid of some of the episodes and get further and further away from the series. But don't worry, I plan to still have Ashley go through all the major events in the series, well, most of them anyway.

I also want to point out to people, that I will have this as a fanfic series, what I mean to say is that the Kanto junk will be book one: 'Pokemon: Pokemon Master', and the orange stuff will be : 'Pokemon: Pokemon Journey', and then I'll name the rest as I get to them, so there will be several fics that you can read as though they were separate stories, but you can read them all in order if you want.

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