Will she find Ash??? No one knows!!! Gasp! Well, I know but oh well!!!
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Disclaimer: Do I have to keep saying this?? Doesn't everyone get it already?? I'm just not lucky enough or rich enough to own Pokemon!
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Misunderstanding
Chapter 7: A Last Breath
Misty ran as fast as she could but she felt like her legs would never get her there fast enough. It wasn't really far but she had wished she had brought her bike with her. She hadn't wanted to because she had wanted to get the whole experience of traveling, just like she used to. Riding a bike made you past everything by so quickly. That was one thing she had learned while traveling with Ash without her bike.
But now she wished she had it. Anything to find Ash sooner. Suddenly she stopped to catch her breath and suddenly she found herself falling. Falling until she was sitting in a ditch. "Ouch. How did this hole get here?" She asked herself, rubbing her side.
She heard three people laughing.
"Prepare for trouble, you fell in our trap."
"And make it double, I, uh, used to sit on Santa's lap…"
"What? That doesn't sound evil or team rocket-like at all!" A women's voice, who Misty knew as Jessie complained.
"Well I'm sorry but why do I always have to make up the rhyme on the spot! I have to rhyme with whatever you say but you can say whatever you want!" A male voice that Misty also knew as James complained back.
"Well you always do it! Why change things if they've been working so far!" She argued back.
Misty looked around to see if she could find a way out of this. I know. I'll use to Gyarados' Hydro Pump to make them blast off, and then Gyarados can just help me out of this hole! She thought to herself as she reached behind her to grab her pokeball. Then she felt to light material of her dress and smacked her forehead. She didn't have her Pokemon. Of course. She sighed as she looked up.
Jessie and James were still fighting but she didn't hear the talking Pokemon, Meouth's voice. Until then.
"Hey wait. Jessie, James, there's only one twerp in here." He told them. Misty saw three heads poke over the edge to get a look in the hole. Misty looked up at them, her hand on her hip, waiting impatiently.
"Oh well, we can just steal her Pokemon!" Jessie said and they all laughed in agreement.
Misty cleared her throat loudly and they all looked over the side of the hole at her again. "Um, just thought maybe you'd like to know that I don't have my Pokemon with me. But feel free to steal invisible Pokemon or something." She told them, still looking impatient.
"You don't have them with you?? Hmm, well I guess that's why we haven't blasted off yet." James commented.
"Yeahhh." Misty agreed.
"Well I have a plan! We'll leave her in here and her twerpy friends are bond to show up looking for her after awhile!" Meouth told them.
"And then we'll snag Pikachu!" Jessie finished. Meouth nodded.
Misty panicked.
"No! You can't leave me down here! You don't get it! No one will be looking for me! And definitely not Ash. He's at a waterfall not far from here waiting for me! Or at least that's what I hope. The point is, if you don't get me out of here I may never get to talk to him again! If he leaves home and stops writing everyone and just goes somewhere that no one knows of, then I'll never see him! And I need to talk to him! I need to explain things! Look Team Rocket, I know you guys are the bad guys and everything, but I also know you're not evil and you just have to understand what I'm saying! I'm begging you! Please get me out of here! Please!" She begged as tears filled her eyes at the thought of most of those things happening.
The three of them looked around at each other. "One moment." James told her and they disappeared from the ledge of the hole.
"We can't let her go!" She heard Meouth whisper.
"We have to! That's some serious stuff!" James whispered back.
"What do you think Jessie?"
"I don't know, on the one point, letting her out would ruin our plan. But on the other hand, why young love! What it's like to be young and in love!! It brings me back to my youth!"
She started going on and on and Misty sighed. Suddenly she heard a crack. Then she heard another crack. And another. She looked down and saw that the bottom of the hole was full of cracks and more and more were popping up with each sound.
"Why love is wonderful! As wonderful as youth! And-"
"Umm, guys! If you're gonna get me out, can you please do it now!" She yelled as more of the bottom began to come apart.
"Why the nerve of her! Impatient and rude!" Jessie yelled looking over the side of the hole. Then she saw what Misty was freaking out over and frowned. "Oh, well that makes sense."
Suddenly, the bottom of the hole did something that Misty had been fearing it would do. It broke.
She was suddenly falling again but this time it was getting darker and darker as she fell. She was getting deeper and deeper into the earth. Then, without warning, she finally stopped falling. But in the worst way.
She hit the hard and rocky ground, back first. She screamed out in pain. She wasn't sure how far she had fallen but it must have been pretty far since she had been falling for a long time. The longest fall she had ever felt. And her back hurt so badly, she thought she was going to pass out. She could've sworn she heard something crack and she knew this was it.
It looked like she had fallen in a cave but she could see the hole above her where she had fallen from and the sky far above that hole. A few rocks were still falling and she gasped in pain as one hit her right in the stomach. The rock was probably the size of her head. That would cause some internal bleeding, that was for sure.
She did the only thing she knew to do in the situation. She started screaming. Screaming her head off. At first she was screaming "HELP!" Just for anyone but after awhile she realized that help was not going to come.
After awhile she accepted death. Knew it was coming, and accepted it. So she just started screaming for one person and one person only. She started screaming Ash's name. She didn't know why at first. She knew he wouldn't hear her where ever he was. And she also knew that even if he came, there was nothing he could do to stop her death. So why was she calling him? She suddenly realized why.
Misty had never been the type of person to get help from anyone, especially Ash. She had always wanted to show him she could do things on her own and that she didn't need to rely on anyone but herself. But at that moment, Misty knew that if Ash didn't come, she would die.
Physically, dying was inevitable. She knew that whether Ash came or not, her heart would stop beating today. No matter how many demons she stared down or how many fights she picked with the world, it was going to happen and there was nothing anyone could do about it.
But she wasn't scared. She wasn't worried. She knew that whatever was beyond this life, whether it was total and complete blankness or hell itself, she'd be better off then she was now. So that wasn't the kind of dying she was worried about. She needed Ash to be there because there was something she needed to tell him. And if she didn't tell him, then she would die inside. Even after death, she knew that she would suffer that much more and she just needed him to be there.
Maybe this never would've happened if I had just- but she couldn't go on with her thought because she suddenly felt a sharp pain run down her spin. All she could see was darkness, but she wasn't sure if it was from it being night or from her foggy head. She took a deep breath and looked up at the sky only to see, once again, nothing but darkness.
Her breath was uneven and coughs kept coming and stopping her mid breath. She couldn't scream anymore and she didn't know what to do. "I'm sorry Ash!" she choked out as best as she could. "I just couldn't hold on. I just couldn't…" And with that, her world was covered in darkness, only this time; there was nothing she could do to stop it.
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Ash kicked a rock into the water. He didn't know why he was here. He supposed he was here because he was hoping Misty would come after him. He sighed and looked at the water fall he sometimes wished he had never jumped into.
He looked over at Pikachu on his shoulder. He was being quiet. Pikachu probably knew that there was nothing he could say.
"Well Pikachu, I guess she's not coming." He said with a sigh. Before leaving town he had run home and changed into his normal clothes. His black zip-up sweat shirt with a yellow strip and white sleeves, and his baggy denim jeans. He had everything he needed for a journey and that was what he planned to do. He looked out one last time and laughed.
"It was stupid to think she'd come after me. She said it herself. She didn't believe me. She thinks I hate her or something. Why would she come meet a liar? Why would she come meet me?" He asked.
"Pika…" Pikachu said sadly.
"I know buddy, it does suck." He kicked one last pebble into the water before walking off in the other direction, away from the place where it all began.
Before he got far, a piece of paper floated down in front of him. He picked it up and looked up into the sky to see where it came from. What he saw surprised him. It was Team Rocket's balloon, but it was leaving. Flying away. Ash checked his shoulder quickly and saw that Pikachu was still there.
He unfolded the piece of paper and looked at it, expecting some kind of threat. But instead, it read:
"Your friend is trapped in a hole not far from here. She's probably hurt and we didn't mean to do it. Sorry. Just go save her or something.
Anonymous."
Ash shook his head and read it again. His friend was trapped and hurt? Or more importantly, she was trapped and hurt?? It couldn't be who he thought it would be. Could it? It didn't matter. He dropped the paper and ran as fast as he could in the direction of Pallet Town. If it was her, that would be where she would be coming from.
As he ran through the darkness he prayed that Team Rocket or "anonymous" was lying. Or setting a trap. Or maybe that they only meant her ankle was sprained or something. Just not something serious.
He almost ran right into the hole in the darkness. But then he saw it and stopped. "ASH!" He heard Misty scream from in the hole and his eyes widened. Her voice was cracking and she sounded hurt.
He dug through his backpack and came out with a flashlight. He shined it down into the hole but it was a long fall. He could faintly see that someone was down there. He knew from the voice who it was but he was scared now. She didn't sound so good.
He grabbed a pokeball and threw it on the ground as fast as he could. "Bayleaf! Use vine whip on me to lower me into that hole!" He told her quickly and in no time he was slowly being lowered into the hole.
As he was going down, he continued to hear Misty screaming his name. He was surprised she was screaming his name. Did she see him? Had she seen him when he first reached the hole? Had she known what Team Rocket was going to do? And why was she here anyway? Had she come looking for him? Or maybe she was just heading home. Maybe she didn't even know he had left.
But none of that mattered now. Even if she hated his guts, he'd never leave her down here. Never.
He got closer and closer to the bottom and her cries for help were getting quieter by the second. Finally he was almost there and he heard her choke out one last call.
"I'm sorry Ash! I just couldn't hold on. I just couldn't…" And then silence.
Ash could see the ground so he unwrapped Bayleaf's vines from himself and just jumped. It was still a high jump but he was ok.
He ran over to Misty's body and turned on the flashlight. Her eyes were closed and Ash was worried for the worst. His eyes filled with tears and began to spill over.
"Don't be sorry! You can hold on! You can! Please! You have to!" He cried while checking her pulse.
He didn't feel anything.
"Please! Breathe!! Just breathe! I need you! I'm the one who should be sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" He screamed. "Please, just be ok! Just stay alive. Please just-" He was cut off when he suddenly heard a ragged breath and tears of joy spilt out of his eyes even more than the ones of sorrow. He lifted her body up and hugged her gently, not wanting to hurt her. She wasn't conscious or anything, but she was alive!
But now Ash had to hurry.
"Pikachu! You need to go get help! Go get Officer Jenny and Brock and my mom and everyone! I'll be coming and heading to the hospital so just bring them along this road so they can run into us! And Bayleaf! Get your vines down here so you can pull us up!" He yelled to them.
"Pika!" He heard Pikachu yell determined as he ran off. Then he saw Bayleaf's vines and he grabbed them as Bayleaf began to wrap them around him and Misty, and they were slowly lifted from the hole.
"You're going to be ok. I swear! I won't let your heart stop beating, ever again" He promised her silently.
Yay! She's alive! I think I just made myself cry a little. That was emotional! Well, hopefully he'll get to the Hospital in time!! Run Ash, run!!!! And review readers, review!!