Hey guys sorry for not updating for a while. School just finished for me and you know, during the last few weeks it's pretty hectic with all the exams and what not. Well, now that I am on my Summer hols (yes Australia's seasons are messed up lol) I may be able to post more than once every two weeks, we'll just have to see how busy I am heh. (I have no life so I'll most likely be doing nothing xD) Plus considering we're coming up to christmas, I do have some oneshots planned so look out for them!
Normal POV
Misty had eventually realised that being a hot head and having a very short temper was not a very good trait to have while living within team rocket. Now, she'd eventually managed to control her anger, however, during moments such as these, she completely forgot the meaning of self control.
The girl's fists clenched as she watched the scene before her.
Ash was awkwardly standing in a corner as Serena flirtatiously giggled and batted her eye lashes at him.
Misty was beyond pissed. She hated seeing the brunette flirting with Ash, even if he was completely oblivious to it. She refused to believe that she was jealous; she just hated Serena; that was all, because she had taken him away from her. It had obviously got nothing to do with the raven haired boy; however she hated him as well, for abandoning her.
Just then, Ash's gaze fell upon the red head, his almond eyes wide and pleading, he obviously felt uncomfortable, yet she saw no reason why she should help him. He was the reason she always felt a droning ache inside of her all day every day.
Misty rolled her eyes and marched up to the girl anyway. She tapped her on the shoulder, Serena's sickly sweet smile turned sour as she saw the person opposite her.
"Why don't you go fangirl somewhere else?" Misty growled, putting her hands on her hips aggressively.
"I'm not fangirling at all, Ash and I were just talking, right?" Serena giggled, turning to the addressed.
"Um... sure..." Ash muttered awkwardly, rubbing the back of his head.
"Besides, I bet you don't even know what fangirling is tomboy!" She scoffed, flicking her long brown hair confidently.
"I know way more than you think I do" Misty sighed, rolling her cerulean eyes.
"Well, you were kind of interrupting Ash and I... so if you wouldn't mind," she made a shooing motion with her hands as if Misty was some kind of annoying vermin.
"Hey Serena, quit being mean to Misty!" Ash piped up, his brows furrowed in annoyance. "Can't we all just be friends?" He almost pleaded.
"Not if it evolves being friends with a slut like her!" Serena declared, pointing an accusing finger at the red head.
Misty scoffed, surprisingly she hadn't knocked the girl out yet.
"That's rich, coming from you. How the hell did you pass the 'rejection' exam?! Now that I wanna know! I bet you some how seduced the examiner with that low cut shirt and tiny skirt of yours."
Serena seemed to shut up at this point. She glared daggers at the girl opposite her and stormed off.
"You know, she is pretty nice when you get to know her..." Ash offered quietly.
"Yeah I can tell, you know, I really do like being called a tomboy and a slut Ash."
The boy was silent for a moment, looking at her with a weird expression on his face which said 'really?' Misty rolled her eyes.
"It's called sarcasm idiot. Look, you obviously didn't need my help, I'm sorry for intervening with your little 'conversation'." She spat, channeling her anger out onto her ex-best friend. With that she began to huff down the corridor.
"Hey Mist wait!" Ash yelled, running to catch up. "I didn't mean it like that okay? I'm sorry and thank you for helping me, she was getting a bit too much,"
When Misty didn't stop, Ash let out a small growl and tackled the poor girl, gripping his arms around her waist and not allowing her to escape his hold as she struggled.
"Let go of me!" She snarled. "You made it clear that you didn't want to be friends when you left me before! When you stopped hanging out with me for that bitch! I don't even know why I did what I did a second ago!" She practically yelled, trying to prevent the un-shed tears from falling. "You left me..." She muttered, finally ceasing her struggle.
"Misty..." Ash whispered sorrowfully. He gently led her to a near by, empty classroom, knowing how much she hated people seeing her seem weak.
He didn't say anything for a while as they sat, backs against the wall, side by side.
"I never left you," he muttered after a while. "I just couldn't be with you as much because Paul was forcing us all to train much harder for that elite position. The rest of my time was taken up… by... Serena..." He stopped as he realised what he'd just said. "Oh god Misty... I'm so sorry. I thought you were the one avoiding me all this time..." Ash gasped.
Misty rolled her eyes, resisting the urge to smack him upside the head. He was as oblivious as ever.
"She just seemed so sad without me," he explained, "she told me we met before when we were really young, I patched up her knee or something on one of those training activities the younger kids do... I honestly don't remember but she seemed so upset... so I just played along..."
Misty grimaced; Ash was way too nice all the time. There really was no problem with it really, it made him all the more sweeter if anything, yet it sometimes came with a price.
"I realise now that I truly abandoned you in doing so." He bowed his head, not looking the girl in the eyes. "Please forgive me!" He exclaimed, voice quivering.
Misty was silent for a long time, she then slowly began to nod her head.
"I forgive you Ash," she said, trying not to smile so much. The boy's eyes lit up and he pulled her closer in a tight embrace.
"I'll make it up to you, I promise Misty, I'll find a way to make up for all of those years you felt lonely!" A huge smile was now plastered to his face. "I promise!"
Misty then slapped the back of his head, gaining a groan in response.
"Idiot," she grumbled.
Kenny lounged on Dawn and May's sofa, sighing in defeat as he turned to TV off because there was nothing good to watch.
Him and Dawn were currently the only ones in the room, Dawn was sitting on her bed engrossed in the book Paul had given her while Kenny did nothing, feeling rather bored.
"Hey Dawn, can I ask you something?" He asked out of the blue.
"Hmm" Dawn hummed, not entirely paying attention.
"Why was Paul in your room yesterday?" Dawn's head snapped up, she furrowed her eye brows, deciding not to tell him the truth. She hated seeming weak in front of people, having Paul know, let alone see her in that state was bad enough.
"Oh, no reason really," She said, brushing the question off. "Just helping me with training... and stuff."
"Oh," Kenny said simply, not pressing the question any further.
Just then, there was a knock at the door, Dawn went to answer and smiled as she saw who it was.
"Hey Zoey, come in." She said, stepping aside to let the girl through.
"I brought the notes you wanted for theory," she began as she walked inside.
"Ah yeah, thanks. Oh hey have you met Kenny?" Dawn asked as she walked in and slapped the man on the couch.
"Hey what was that for?!" He complained humorously. Dawn replied with a devious look as Zoey hovered by the entrance. She seemed to watch them closely, a slight hue of red tainted her cheeks.
"So... have you guys met?" Dawn questioned awkwardly.
"No," Zoey replied quickly. "It's nice to meet you but I should really get going, sorry for the intrusion," She bowed before hurrying out the door.
"What was that about?" Kenny questioned. Dawn just stood dumbfounded, Zoey was usually calm and collected about everything and was pretty laid back, this was weird.
"She isn't normally like that..." Dawn muttered, shaking her head.
"Well she's weird," Kenny concluded, receiving a sharp look from the bluenette.
"Oi!" Dawn growled, slapping him again. "You barely know her, she's usually really cool. "Maybe something happened, I should go check it out."
Kenny shrugged and sat up, heading towards the door.
"Well, I'm gonna go study with Leona, do whatever you wanna do, though she'd probably appreciate it if you came along too, I heard you needed the extra help, unless you wanna go and leave us again." He said casually.
"I can't tell whether you're subtly guilt tripping me or not, but I suppose you're right..." Dawn sighed, following her friend out and locking the door behind them. I'm sure she's fine...
Dawn groaned for the millionth time that hour, she had a headache and was already tired of studying.
"What is even the point in this, I really don't see why an assassin needs any of this!" She whined, throwing her science book dramatically across the room.
"Now Dawn, we need to be smart, I know none of us here chose this life, however, I'm sure that eventually you'll grow to appreciate it."
Dawn sent her friend a weird look.
"Yeah cause we all love killing the innocent and not being able to interact with normal human beings." She sighed, lying down on her back and staring up at the ceiling.
"Daaawwnnn," Kenny dragged on, "You're supposed to be 'little miss optimist' remember? What happened?!"
"Well, I guess I just realised the reality of what this facility is doing," every one was silent for a moment.
"That escalated quickly," Kenny stated innocently, causing the girls to laugh.
"Yeah well, I reckon Mr Grumpy pants' pessimism is rubbing off one me, it's not good!" Dawn huffed, rubbing her temples.
"Who?"
"Paul Shinji!" Leona pipped up. "I see you two together all the time now! It's adorable really," she added slyly as Kenny narrowed his eyes, annoyed by the fact that Dawn had brought up Paul.
"What?!" Dawn screeched, her cheeks beginning to burn, "we hate each other! He's so annoying and grumpy all the time!" She exclaimed.
"Anyways," Kenny said irritably, wanting to change the subject, "do you know whether you're gonna have to do the exam?" He asked her, feeling very concerned for her safety.
"Um, no not yet, no one's said anything about it," She replied, "I hope I don't have to do it…"
"I'm sure Paul will fight for you and not let you do it," Leona giggled deviously. Dawn crash tackled her friend who was unable to get free of the bluenette due to her hysterical laughter.
Kenny just rolled his eyes grumpily and got back to studying.
Paul growled, he hated playing messenger, he'd much rather be participating in a mission right now, yet there he was, taking the book that he and Dawn had retrieved the other day down to the lab.
He hated the place, it brought forward too many painful memories that he had shoved to the very back of his mind.
Paul sighed and looked down at the book he was holding, normally he would be able to contain his curiosity, this, however, was different. Maybe it was because the object that was so important to the team was a book or maybe it was some other compelling reason, but Paul couldn't help himself.
Slowly, he opened the door of a dark room and went inside. He'd never been in there before but he assumed that it wasn't used much.
He fished a small torch from the belt wrapped around his waist and began to read the first page.
After 7 years of being trapped in the alternate dimension, I have finally returned to the current time period; previous experiment that we concocted failed, some how sending me away. I have however, learnt rather a lot during my time away and the information I have is valuable, we will be able to use it to win any war in the future and keep our people safe. These 'pokemon' will be able to aid us in so many ways. The team has already begun to build the portal leading to the other dimension, this project is defying all of the time and space laws, it gives us an entirely new perspective on the universe and it appears I am now forever linked to that world, as will be my ancestors for generations to come.
- Joseph – Charles Berlitz.
Paul stared at the first entry for a while. This man had the same surname as Dawn, what the hell was he talking about the 'alternate dimension' crap for and what in the world were pokemon? The team couldn't possibly believe that this book was legitimate could they?! There was absolutely no way that it could be real.
'Suppose they did think, or it was actually real… Would they try to do anything to Dawn?' Paul asked himself. 'I'm going to have to keep an eye out for her, I did promise after all.'
The man then closed the book and cautiously walked out of the room, his mind buzzing with all of the new found information. He made his way down to the main lab and handed the book to a scientist who then scurried off into a securely locked room to the left.
May sighed; she'd been going over all of the fighting techniques with her brother for the past two hours yet had had enough of his cocky attitude and stormed out. He really needed to improve on his fighting abilities if he wanted to get through this test; she honestly thought it was worrying her more than it was him.
She couldn't lose her brother as well, their parents had been moved to another branch across the continent when they were younger and the siblings hadn't seen them since, they doubted they ever would again.
The girl sniffed and covered her hands over her eyes. She was glad that the courtyard was practically empty because she didn't want anyone to see her like this. She just couldn't lose her brother because she'd have nothing left.
A few minutes later she felt someone standing over her and quickly rubbed her eyes dry, she glared up at the figure and growled as she saw who it was.
"Are you okay?" Drew asked with seemingly genuine concern. May knew better however and continued to glare daggers at the boy.
"Go away," she hissed defensively.
"No," he said simply, "all I came to do is apologise for the other day, and I end up finding you crying,"
"I'm not crying," she retorted hotly.
"Oh really?" He said, raising an eyebrow as he crouched down and wiped away the salty tear which had escaped and was trickling down her face.
"I just… got dirt in my eye, now go away." She sniffed, turning her head away from him.
"May…" He began, crawling over and sitting next to her, his back leaning against the wall. "Just tell me what's up."
"And why the hell should I?! Why are you here for me now when you weren't back then?!" She cried angrily.
"Just… hear me out, okay?"
"No, that's not okay, why the hell should I listen to you when you never listen to me?!"
"But I'm listening to you now,"
"You weren't when my parents left and I needed you the most!" May growled, almost in tears again. "All you and Brianna did was laugh and make fun of me, knowing exactly where it hurt the most!"
"May! Just listen for a moment, please!"
"No!"
"Just… I'm so sorry, and I was stupid back then, and I'm stupid now. I know I hurt you and I don't know why I kept doing it, I was an idiot. Just, let me be here for you now, I realised that it was painful without you and I have no idea why I pushed you away, I guess I was just scared."
"You were scared?! How the hell do you think I felt?! My parents left me and then you and Brianna, two of my closest friends, made fun of me and bullied me because of it!"
Drew was silent for a long time. He just sat, emotions varying from anger to longing and depression playing around in his head. Before he could say anything else however, May shot up and left, he watched, eyes full of worry as she disappeared back into the building. The boy sighed, rubbing his face resignedly.
He had made a mistake back then, he hadn't meant to be mean to her, all he had meant to do was tease her about if for a while because that's what they did to each other all the time, it just happened to get out of hand and some sadistic part of his brain seemed to enjoy it…
He knew that it hurt her but at the time he couldn't care less; he'd decided that he didn't need her because he'd gained a new form of respect from everyone else; they practically worshipped him due to the fact that he was becoming an elite.
He now realised however that he was being completely stupid. He considered her one of his best friends, if not more than that. And he had lost her all because of his selfishness. Slowly, he got up and made his way into the building, deciding to head back to his and Paul's room for some sleep because frankly, he was exhausted.
As he opened the door, he was met with not only Paul's usual scowl, but also his other team mates. Ash grinned a toothy grin, he seemed to be almost jumping around, something was obviously exciting him.
"What?" Drew asked irritably, wanting to do nothing but sleep.
"I finally found out the reason Misty wasn't speaking to me properly for so long!" Ash practically yelled. The green haired boy sighed, remembering that Misty had all of a sudden become really cold towards the boy.
"And why is that?" He asked with a somewhat bored tone before noticing that maybe he could use the same method to make it up to May.
"Well, in all honesty I'd abandoned her for Serena," the raven haired boy replied, his expression turning grave. "I'd pretty much forgotten about her… But we talked a lot today, and I promised her that I'd make it up to her!" He said a little more brightly.
"Oh, I see," Drew muttered, feeling slightly disappointed over the fact that he couldn't use that same technique with May.
"And," Ash began, "I managed to convince the higher ups to allow us all, with the girls' team, to go out on Sunday!" He said, grinning from ear to ear.
"You mean… out? No supervision?" Drew questioned with awe, wondering how in the world he was able to do that. He'd never heard of anyone being allowed out for non mission purposes; it'd be a first for him, and also the others too.
The boy in question nodded his head vigorously, a self-righteous smile spanning from ear to ear glued to his face.
"So, how did you do it?" Paul asked. The only reason he had, however, was that something didn't sit right with him. They wouldn't have allowed them to go out unless it served a meaningful purpose, but what could it be?
"Well, other than my charm and brains, I do have my ways…" Ash said slyly, tapping the bridge of his nose. Gary's hand then sailed through the air and thwacked him on the back of the head, causing the boy to wince.
"Quit pretending to be all high and mighty Ashy boy, you're the stupidest one here, I would really like to know this as well." He said while crossing his arms.
Ash simply stuck out his tongue and made a run for the door, Gary in hot pursuit. Paul then hastily got up and locked it, preventing the two from coming back in.
"Good idea," Drew chuckled, throwing his shirt off and climbing into bed. Paul grunted in response and did the same after switching the light off. The greenette smiled, he knew that Paul didn't talk a whole bunch yet he respected that, he, along with the other two guys and the girls had been his closest friends since they were young.
He was determined to somehow make their day out the day that May would forgive him, or at least make progress with her. They were going to have to be together the entire time after all.
There you have it, next chapter completed! This story is in need of waaay more feels (even though this was a feelsy chapter), hence the reason they'll be going out :p Surprisingly enough, I actually have the reason they're able to go out worked out in my head (for once lol, and yeah, it ain't juuust the feels) so it ain't gonna be like that spontaneous exam thingy which I hope you'll be proud of me for ^-^
~ X-Ray