Chapter Ten
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 Fuyutaro son.
And thanks goes out to Tjay-Drag-Latios'of'the'Cookie for his review. Like I said in the reply, I disagree about the amount of Pokemon she has, but I DO agree that she has had it way to easy. So I will make the battles harder for now on, though I wont be doing that with shrimpy.... I mean Krabby. XD shrimpy, dang I did it again. The really small Krabby was easy to catch in the anime, and I plan to do the same thing here.
Oh, and just like in chapter 9, there is a quote in this chapter, if someone can find it and tell me what it's from, I'll put something into the fic for them. (The quote might be from anything. It might be from a movie, anime, cartoon, or a theme song. )
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"Of course, first we get kidnapped, then we nearly get burned to death, after that we get chased out of a cave in the middle of the night by a really angry Golem, and now we're gonna drown in a storm. This is just great!" Ashley said angrily as she pulled out her plastic rain coat and put it on.
They had only been sleeping for a few minutes when a really loud roar woke them all up. It had come from a rather large, and very angry look Golem. It had taken them only two minutes for them to give up on battling it as none of Misty's or Ashley's water Pokemon could even hurt it, meaning that they were out classed easily.
When the group had finally gotten away from the over sized Golem, they had found themselves standing out in the rain some where near route 25. None of them had had the time to put on raincoats, and all of them were now soaking wet.
Brock and Misty put on their raincoats to, though Ashley had to continued with a soaking wet Pikachu sitting on her shoulder under the coat.
"Great, now what are we gonna do? " Misty asked, wishing it was warmer under the rain coat. The problem with having plastic raincoats was that, even though they kept the rain off you, they didn't insulate you from the cold air.
"Well, we need to find someplace dry to sleep. Ashley, do you still have that tent?" Brock asked, remembering the one she had bought in Cerulean City.
"Yeah, just one problem." She said, wishing she had thought ahead. While she had bought it specifically for times like this, she had forgotten to take care of one minor detail.
"And what's that?" Misty asked, wandering what could possibly be keeping them out in the poring rain.
"Hehehe." She said, fiddling with her fingers nervously. "I never applied the water proof seal." she said, holding up the little tube of jell she was supposed have put on the tent to make it water proof.
Misty's and Brock's eyes started twitching in annoyance. Leave it to Ashley to forget something important like that.
"Great, so now what are we going to do?" Misty asked as Brock pulled out the map and started looking at it, hoping against hope that their was somewhere close by that they could stay the night at. As it turned out, there was.
"It says here that we're actually pretty close to Sandy cove, and there's a lighthouse there we might be able to stay at." Brock said as the three trainers huddled under a massive tree, with Pikachu huddling on Ashley's shoulder under the raincoat.
"Really?" Ashley asked, leaning in to look a the map over Brock's shoulder. She was elated to see that it wasn't that far. If they ran, they would be there in only a few minutes.
"How far is it?" Misty asked, praying that it wasn't that far away, not wanting to be out in the rain any lo9nger then she absolutely had to be.
"I don't think it's that far, it can't be much more then a few minutes away, if we run." She said, pointing at the little spot on the map that read 'lighthouse'.
"Yeah, according to this, it should be just east of where we are now. If we start running, we should be there in just a few minutes." Brock said, folding up the map and putting it into his pocket as he turned in the direction of the lighthouse.
"Alright, first one there drys off first." Ashley said, taking off and running through the forest with Brock and Misty following close behind. Pikachu was holding onto her shoulder for dear life, wandering if Ashley had even stopped to consider the fact that he was on her shoulder.
"Pikachu..." (translation: ug....) Pikachu said, clinging to her shoulder and wandering if he would ever be dry again. His fir was soaking wet and he was freezing. The fact that Ashley was running didn't help either because it forced air to pace through the opening of her jacket, making it very cold inside.
It took Ashley only six minutes to finally reach the edge of the forest, and when she did, she found her self on a small sandy beach near the ocean. It wasn't what she had expected at all. She had known that the light house was by the ocean because the map showed that it was, but she was so used to seeing rocky shores that she hadn't been expecting a beach.
"Wow..." She said, looking around at it. Even with the rain, the beach still managed to look like a fun place to hang out, though she knew that it was never safe to be near water when it was raining. You never know when lightning might strike, and it tends to strike large bodies of water more often then anything else.
It was at the same moment that Misty and Brock began to exit the forest that Ashley spotted something moving on the beach. It looked like a small red crab, but Ashley had a feeling that it was actually a Pokemon.
"Huh... let's see what dexter has to say about it." Ashley said, flipping open her Pokedex and scanning it.
"Krabby, the River Crab Pokemon. Krabby's tend to be around one foot, four inches tall but can grow to a size of just over three feet. Krabby live in holes dug into beaches. On sandy shores with little in the way of food, they can be seen squabbling with each other over territory."
"Huh? A Krabby?" Misty said, walking over to Ashley and looking down at the rather small specimen.
"Huh, that's a crabby? It's more of a shrimpy if you ask me." Ashely said, digging through through her backpack and looking for a
"Hey, aren't Krabby supposed to be about twice that size?" Brock asked as Ashley used a Pokeball to catch it, not even shocked when small crabby was caught without a fight.
Brock and Misty didn't even blink when Ashley caught the Krabby without battling it, their suspicions confirmed instantly.
"Yep, that was definitely a low level Krabby." Misty said as Brock nodded in agreement with her. "Anyway, the lower a Krabby's level, the smaller it is. I'm guessing that one was probably around level three or something." She added, wandering how old the Krabby was. Shaking her head, she decided to think about it later, knowing that it was better for them to get out of the rain as soon as possible.
"That's nice and all, but don't you two think we should get out of this rain? The lighthouse is right over there." Brock said, pointing over to a tower that was sitting on the top of a cliff not to far away from where they were standing.
"Well that's convenient." Ashley said jokingly, thinking about how much of a coincidence it was that they had come out of the forest right next to it, having thought that they would need to run along the water to find it.
The group all headed toward the lighthouse, running up a path that took them around to a gently sloping part of the cliff and right up to the front door.
"Hello!" Ashley shouted, knocking on the door, only to get stopped by Brock.
"Ashley, it might help if you actually use the intercom." Brock said, pointing over at a little machine with a speaker and some buttons on it.
"Oh, hehe. I knew that." Said the raven haired teen, rubbing the back of her head and smiling nervously.
"Sure ya did." Misty said, rolling eyes and pushing one of the buttons on the intercom, causing a buzzer to sound, signaling that to the occupants of the lighthouse that someone was at the front door.
The voice of what had to be a young man answered the buzzer only a minute later. The voice might have been nice if it wasn't for the fact that it seemed to be slightly annoyed.
"Who's there? Do you have any idea what time it is?" The voice asked, though it sounded only half annoyed toward the end of it's statement.
"Um, sorry about waking you up, but we got caught out in the rain and have no place to stay for the night." Brock stated, his voice taking on an apologetic tone.
"And we were hoping we could get out of the rain." Ashley and Misty added in unison, both going into begging positions and issuing the strongest puppy-dog eyes they could manage.
The fact that the voice couldn't see them didn't faze them at all, both believing that the person on the other end of the intercom would be able to hear their cuteness if they tried hard enough.
"That's fine, as long as one of you can cook anything besides tofu, that is." The voice said as the front door began to open, as if of it's own accord.
"Well that was kind of creepy." Ashley said as they all walked into the lighthouse, trying to make it sound like a joke, though she was actually very serious. It didn't help matters a few seconds later when the
"And that was even creepier." Misty said as they looked behind them at the now closed door.
"Sorry about that, the automatic doors sometimes scare people." said a voice from somewhere in the dark, causing everyone to start looking around for the person that had spoken.
"Hey, where are you?" Misty called, still trying to see through the dark.
"My name," The voice said at the exact same time that a light turned on in the room. "is Bill."
When the group finally saw who it was that was talking, or rather what it was that was talking, they couldn't believe their eyes.
"Is that a Kabuto?" Brock asked, completely shocked at what he was seeing.
It wasn't just a Kabuto, it was a really big Kabuto. It was huge, and it was staring at them with glowing red eyes.
The group stared in shock at the large rock and water Pokemon, unable to believe that they were really seeing what they were seeing.
"But that can't be!" Misty exclaimed, unable to believe her eyes.
"No! I'm not a Kabuto! I'm a man, and I'm just stuck in this costume!" the Kabuto said as though that simple statement explained everything, which it kind of did.
"Huh? A costume? Is that what you were talking about when you said you needed help?" Ashley asked, blinking in confusion at what she was still convinced was a giant talking Kabuto.
Hey, she already met a talking Meowth that thought it was human, so a talking Kabuto with a similar complex wasn't to hard for her to believe.
"That's right. I got stuck in this costume because these stubby arms are to short to get to the button." the 'not a Kabuto but a man' Kabuto said, moving it's little arms around and trying to reach for a red spot on the suit, which they guessed must be the button that he was talking about.
Though in Ashley's opinion, it was more like a big red zit.
"Did you come from a costume party or something?" Misty asked as they started to walk over to the over sized dome like Pokemon to push the 'button', which she and Ashley both though might just be a pimple. If that was the case, then there was going to be a vary dead extinct Pokemon in the room if the girls had anything to say about it.
"Party? No, I use costumes to learn more about different Pokemon." it said, still trying to reach the red spot with it's small arms. "It allows me a chance to get into the Pokemon's head and see what kind of problems it might have had basted on it's body limitations. But let's talk about that later, for now, can one of you please press that button. I've been in this suit for so long, and my bones are starting to ache."
"Um? Sure..." Misty said nervously, walking the short distance over to the 'not really a Kabuto' Kabuto.
Once she was close enough to it, she pressed the button as fast as she could, still just as convinced that it was really a crazy talking Kabuto as Ashley seemed to be. She was tired, and she was wet, but that didn't mean she was going to believe that a Pokemon was a human just because they said they were.
That would be weird.
As soon as she pushed the red 'pimple' like button, a strange light appeared from inside the Kabuto as the arms and back of it slowly fell away to reveal a young man around Ashley's age. The man had dark greed hair and an outfit that looked like it belonged to one of the noble men from old stories of a few hundred years ago.
"Thank you. I've been stuck in that costume for over a day." the man said, bowing to them slightly. "My name is bill, and this is my lighthouse."
"Bill, huh?" Brock asked, seemingly remembering something he had read in a Pokemon book he recently bought. "Wait, you're not bill as in bill the Pokemon researcher, are you?"
"Researcher?" Misty asked, remembering something she had heard once about a young Pokemon researcher named bill.
"Yes, I am. " Bill said, bowing to them again." And I'm honored to meet you all."
"Wow! I think I've heard of you. I think I heard Prof. Oak saying something about you before." Ashley said, trying to remember what it was that he had said.
"Oh, you know Prof. Oak?" Bill asked, slightly surprised.
"Yeah, he's the one that gave me Pikachu." Ashley said, explaining everything about how she knew Prof. Oak.
After listening to Ashley's explanation, bill started showing the group around his lighthouse, stopping to show them a wall of all the known Pokemon in Kanto.
"Wow, there are so many..." Misty whispered, looking from picture to picture in amazement.
She had never really realized how many Pokemon there were in Kanto. She had always known that there were a lot of them, but she would have never guessed that there were over a hundred. It was really amazing.
"Yes, and there are probably a lot more that have yet to be discovered. I'm sure there will be even more pictures added to this wall in the next few years, and then even more after that. People are always discovering new Pokemon. One can never know when a new Pokemon will pop up, or where." Big said, smiling with pride at the wall of Pokemon.
He always loved it when he got the chance to teach a new trainer or two something new about Pokemon. It always made him happy no mater what it was he was teaching them. It was something that prof. Oak had dubbed 'the teacher complex'.
"Wow..." Ashley said in amazement, thinking about how many Pokemon there would be in Kanto in a few years. "Hey, one's not up here."
"Hm?" Bill asked, a little surprised and extremely intrigued by her statement.
"When Pikachu and I first left home, we saw one flying over the rainbow. It had a large golden tail and was kind of red. Prof. Oak said it wasn't real, but I'm sure I wasn't seeing things." Ashley explained, going into further detail when bill asked her about it.
"I believe what you saw was a Pokemon known as ho-oh." he said, getting a little excited by this realization.
"Ho-oh?" The three human members of the group asked, a little confused as to what he was talking about.
"I've never heard of a Pokemon called that." Misty said, wandering what type it was.
Hopefully, it was a water type. (A/n: Poor Misty, to many water Pokemon on the brain.)
(A/N: I am getting rid of the 'ultra giant Pokemon' in this fic. They don't exist in my little poke'-world as that makes no since what so ever.)
Bill was just about to answer when the sound of breaking glass rang though the air, surprising them completely.
"To protect the world from devastation." a loud voice called, causing Misty, Ashley, Brock and Pikachu to groan in annoyance.
"To unite all peoples within our nation!" a second loud voice called, causing the group to groan again, this time in frustration.
"Not you guys again!" Ashley said, only to be ignored completely.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!" said the red haired form of Jessie as she appeared through the window that she, Meowth, and James had just broken.
"To extend our reach to the stars above!" James said, following his team member though the window.
"Jessie!" Jessie said happily, striking a pose like every other time she said the motto.
"Oh dear god, some one please kill me and put me out of my misery!" Misty said, hanging her head and wishing that Team Rocket would just get over with their stupid motto already.
"James!" James said as he and Jessie continued, completely ignoring Misty's comment as they went on with their usual routine.
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth! That's right!" Meowth said, practically flying through the window to land between Jessie and James.
"What do you three want?" Misty asked, wishing they would just take a hike or get lost.
Either would do.
"We want you to hand over your Pokemon!" Jessie demanded, causing Bill to raise an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah, we heard that the famous researcher Bill lives here, and surely he has quite a few rare Pokemon." Meowth said, pointing a claw at the small group before catching site of Bill himself.
"Yeah, so be a good little twerp and cough them u-" Jessie never got to finish her statement as Bill did exactly what she had asked him to do.
In less then a second he had pulled out a Pokeball and through it at them. What came out of it surprised everyone.
"MRER!" a large yellow dragon like Pokemon said, flapping it's tiny wings furiously as it went flying though the air at them.
"Dragonite, hyper beam." Bill said, looking angrily at the three intruders.
Before anyone even had time to blink, Dragonite did as he was told and sent Team Rocket flying though the air with them shouting 'we're blasting off again' as they went.
"Um.. well that was short." Ashley said, silently wishing that all of their encounters with Team Rocket could go that fast.
It would save her a lot of headaches.
"Now, I do believe that someone said they could cook?"
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OK, so it was a really short update. Think of it this way, I could have added in the next episode as well but then you wouldn't have gotten it today and would have had to wait even longer for it.
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Like I said, if you spotted the quote and know what movie it's from, put it in a review with a Pokemon and who you want it to catch. Or you could put it in a review with a request to put you in the fic (if you do this, please list the Pokemon you want to have, though I will ignore request for certain Pokemon, AE: Have Ashley catch Suicune. That isn't going to happen. If I ever make Ashley catch a legendary, I will put it in a poll first, and she wont be catching them in the wrong region.)