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The next morning, the sun shone brightly on the log cabin that the three Pokémon trainers were resting in. Fearows and Spearows flew in the nice morning air, as Misty started to wake up from her slumber.
Misty stretched and yawned, while still in the comfortable bunk bed. Then she turned to her right to see the boys still sleeping. Brock was out like a light in the top bunk, while Ash was stirring in his sleep, his back to Misty. His covers were on the ground, revealing that he was still wearing his jeans, socks, his green gloves, and black t-shirt. While his blue jacket and hat was on the table, next to his backpack.
Misty smiled at him, but felt something tug inside her. It had been tugging inside her whenever she was around him, yet Misty still didn't know what it was. Every time it happened, she'd always think that maybe it was a stomach bug, but later on she wouldn't get sick. Misty sighed, as the tugging in her stomach continued, barely minding it anymore.
Misty watched as Ash turned around, his face to her now. Then slowly, he stopped. Ash slowly, opened his eyes, and then yawned. Ash turned and saw Misty watching him, and smiled. But the smile barely made it to his face, when he felt something inside of him. Ash grabbed at his stomach, as he started to feel strange.
Misty noticed this, and questioned him. "Ash? Are you okay? Are you hungry?"
Ash met Misty's eyes and said, "I'm not hungry, but I feel something weird inside of me." Suddenly, without warning, Ash started to grow inside his bed, giving Brock a weird wake up call. Ash and Misty screamed in fear, as Ash continued to grow, soon breaking the entire bunk bed. Pikachu and Togepi instantly woke up and were grabbed by Misty and rushed out of the log cabin, with Brock running after them.
Misty and Brock backed away from the log cabin, as Ash continued to get bigger and bigger inside. Feeling squished and uncomfortable, Ash broke the log cabin's roof, and stood up, still continuing to get big. Ash looked down at the ground, as his friends started getting smaller and smaller, until they started looking like ants. And then it was all over. Just like that. Ash stopped growing. He had been able to grow up to the size of a small mountain.
Misty and Brock gasped at their tall friend. "Ash!" Misty yelled, trying to get his attention.
Ash looked down and saw Misty flailing her arm around, while still holding Togepi and Pikachu in the other. From how big he was, his hearing wasn't the best, and could barely hear Misty. Ash looked at her with confusion. "I can't hear you." Ash said, gesturing to his ear.
Misty dropped the Pokémon on the ground, as Ash's voice boomed toward them. Misty and Brock grabbed for their ears in pain. "He can't hear me!" Misty yelled, making sure that Ash didn't blow out her eardrums.
Ash looked down in sadness. He wanted to know what they were saying to him, but he couldn't hear. Then an idea came into his head. Ash slowly kneeled down, and grabbed Misty's collar shirt with his thumb and index finger. Misty screamed in fright, as Pikachu jumped and hung for dear life onto her left leg.
Misty watched as she was soon laid in the palm of Ash's gloved hand. Misty breathed heavily, as Pikachu released its grip from her leg, and scurried to her. "I'm fine, Pikachu." Misty said, her breathing slowing down a bit.
"What did you say?" Ash asked, smiling. Misty and Pikachu screamed and grabbed for their ears again. Ash gasped and moved his hand away from him. Then to him in a whisper, he said, "Are you okay?"
Misty looked up at Ash's big face, and nodded. "Yeah. We're fine."
"Pikachu!" Pikachu said, seeing Ash as it saw him like every other normal day. Then it quickly scurried out of Ash's hand, and towards his shoulder. Once it got there, Pikachu looked around, thinking 'Geez. It's a little bigger than it used to be.' Ash laughed, quietly.
Then he turned to Misty again, who was now standing in his big hand. "How did this happen?" Ash asked, still questioning why he was as big as a Groudon, maybe bigger.
Misty shrugged, and said, "I don't know. Maybe we should ask Brock." Then she gestured to Brock, who looked like a dot in Ash's eyes.
Ash nodded, and slowly kneeled down and grabbed Brock, who was holding a frightened Togepi. Brock screamed as he was put in Ash's palm, next to Misty. "Ah! What happened to you?" Brock asked, gesturing toward Ash's big face and body.
"I don't know. Maybe it had something to do with my wish?" Ash wondered out loud. Pikachu looked up at him, surprised at how smart he'd become, while the others were still thinking about the possibilities. Pikachu face palmed as it knew that they didn't realize it yet.
Pikachu needed to get their attention. Pikachu looked up and saw Ash's big head full of hair, and his left ear. Pikachu knew it was going to regret this later, but it jumped up and bit hard on Ash's earlobe.
Ash's eyes widened as he felt a sudden pain on the side of his head. Ash looked down and saw that Pikachu wasn't on his shoulder any more. "Pikachu? Pikachu?" Ash started questioning his surroundings, making Misty and Brock look up at him.
"What's wrong, Ash?" Misty asked, loudly. Ash looked down at her.
"Have you seen, Pikachu?" Ash asked, as he continued to look around. Misty looked up at Ash's head, and saw the little, yellow furball biting on Ash's ear.
"Ash!" Misty yelled up at Ash, causing him to turn his head toward her. Then she gestured toward her ear, making Ash a little confused. But he grabbed his right ear to find nothing, and then he felt around his left ear, and felt the little Pokémon. Ash grabbed Pikachu's small, fragile body, and lifted it up in front of his face. "Pikachu? What were you doing?" Ash asked.
Pikachu jumped out of Ash's grip, startling him a little, and landed on the tip of Ash's nose. Ash looked cross-eyed as he watched Pikachu try to explain to him what was happening. Pikachu then made a motion with its paw of rubbing something, and Ash knew what it was talking about.
"I was right! This must have something to do with my wish!" Ash said, a little too loudly, causing his friends and Pokémon to grab for their ears again. "Sorry." He replied, sheepishly. "But the question is why? I only asked to be taller than Brock." He said, completely forgetting about what he fully wished for.
Luckily Brock remembered. "No, you didn't. You wished that you were taller than all of your friends."
"So?" Ash asked.
Misty looked up at Ash, and said, "Well you did befriend a Lugia, Ash. They're pretty big." Ash remembered the time he first met Lugia. He was told by it, that he was the 'Chosen One', and had to save the world, which extremely stressed him out. Ash sighed.
"I need to talk to the genie." Ash said, scratching the back of his head with his free hand. Misty and Brock nodded.
"Pika." Pikachu said, and then it jumped off Ash's nose and into a nearby tree.
"Pikachu. Where are you going?" Ash asked, as it watched Pikachu run off. Pikachu scurried down the tree, and into the broken up log cabin, that a certain Pokémon trainer destroyed. Running to Ash's green backpack, Pikachu pulled out the magic lamp, and ran outside, with the lamp dangling from its mouth. Pikachu, then ran to Ash, and started scurrying up, on the outside of his pant leg. While running up Ash's now tall and long body, Pikachu slowed down and started breathing heavily.
Noticing this, Ash took his other hand, and caught his Pikachu before it could fall to the ground, and then he laid it in his other hand, where Misty and Brock stood. Pikachu dropped the lamp on Ash's skin, and heaved out a big sigh. "Good job, Pikachu." Misty said, as she grabbed the lamp, and started to rub the side of it. "Now let's wake up the genie."
As she said that, faint blue smoke started pouring out of the lamp, and soon enough, the genie appeared from out of the smoke and onto Ash's hand. "Oh. So I see that you want your second wish?" The genie asked, with his eyes closed.
"Yes. I would." Ash said, while glaring at the genie in his hand. "Look at me."
The genie opened his eyes, and looked at his master in surprise and shock. "Holy shi-!" But caught himself before cussing. "I mean, oh no!"
"Yeah! Oh no, is right! I didn't ask for this." Ash said, angrily.
The genie turned his back on Ash, and said, "It's not my problem. I only did what you wished for. You wanted to be taller than all of your friends. You didn't give me anyone, specifically."
"I said I wanted to be taller than Brock." Ash said.
"So? You didn't use the words 'I wish' in the sentence, did you?" The genie asked, making Ash sputter. "Yeah. That's what I thought."
Ash growled, and glared at him. "You know, I can easily drop you." Ash said, hopefully intimidating the man.
The genie looked at him, and said, "Do it. Drop me. I dare you!"
"Fine!" Ash yelled, making his friends' ears pop. Ash grabbed the genie by his collar, and then he let go. Misty and Brock gasped as the genie fell. "See? What's that gonna prove?" Ash asked the falling genie.
"Nothing. Just that you can't get rid of me until all three of your wishes are fulfilled." The genie said, as it reappeared in the palm of Ash's hand. Ash gasped, and jumped a little.
Ash sighed, and said, "Fine. I'll wish my second wish."
"Wait!" Misty yelled, catching the genie and Ash's attention. "You have to pick your words carefully, if this genie is going to make your wish come true, literally. Why don't I make the wish?"
Ash was about to say something, when Brock gave him the look. Okay, I'm going to put it out there that there are a million types of 'the look'. All of you have gotten it from your parents or friends. But 'the look' that Brock was giving Ash was a 'Why don't you let her? She's smarter than you.' Ash sighed, and said, "Okay, Misty. But choose carefully."
"Okay." Misty said, tapping her chin with her index finger, as she walked in circles on the Pokémon trainer's gloved hand. "I've got it! I wish Ash was shrunk down to size." Misty said, proudly, to the genie.
"Are you sure?" The genie asked, questioning the red head.
Misty nodded. "Yep. Because with this wish, Ash will be normal again."
The genie sighed. "Okay." Then he snapped his fingers, and a puff of faint blue smoke appeared in front of Ash, but once again, nothing happened.
"Why didn't it work?" Brock asked, as to why his best friend was still the size of a skyscraper.
"Your first wish is permanent for 24 hours. Until your second wish comes true tomorrow morning, after you wake up, you are going to be stuck like this." The genie said, as it slithered back inside its lamp.
Ash sighed with grief. "Great. I'm going to be stuck like this all day."
"It's okay. We'll make it work." Brock said.
"Oh yeah?" Ash asked. "How are you going to solve this problem? I'm hungry." As he said that, his stomach let out a grumble that almost shook the forest.
Misty, Brock, and Pikachu sweat dropped, as they slowly realized the problem. Since he was a giant, Ash's appetite had gotten bigger. "I might be able to fix that." Brock said, still sweat dropping. "Just put me on the ground, and I'll start it."
Ash nodded, and then slowly and carefully set Misty, Brock, and Togepi on the grassy surface, while Pikachu stayed with Ash, who was perched once again on Ash's left shoulder.
Misty sat on the logs around the dead campfire and watched Brock get supplies and ingredients for an early lunch. Then she looked up at Ash, who was around 50 feet tall now. Misty smiled up at the boy, in his big, brown, beautiful eyes. And suddenly, the tugging in her stomach returned, ruining the moment. What was it that made this? She wanted it to stop! Whenever she took medicine, it still wouldn't go away. It was like a disease that couldn't be cured and would stay there forever. Misty sighed, as the tugging continued.
Ash was laughing at Pikachu, who had climbed up the side of Ash's head and into his messy, black hair. Pikachu then slid down the center of Ash's face, like a slide on a playground, and jumped back down on Ash's shoulder.
Their enjoyment was cut short, when a big, rubber, and mechanical hand came flying out from behind Ash and grabbed Pikachu. "Pikachu!" Pikachu cried, as it tried to get free.
"Pikachu!" Ash yelled.
Slowly, a Meowth shaped hot air balloon came out from behind Ash, as two people started chanting out rhymes for some odd reason.
"Prepare for trouble!" One said.
"Make it double!" The other said.
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all people within our nation!"
"To denounce the evil of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jesse!" Jesse said, as she introduced herself.
"James!" With James doing the same.
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!" Jesse said.
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!" James said.
Then Meowth came into view with Pikachu in the rubber, mechanical hand contraption. "Meowth! That's right!" It said, proudly.
"Ha! We finally got your Pikachu!" Jesse said, proudly.
"What?" Ash asked, as he slowly turned around to reveal himself. Jesse, James, and Meowth gasped in shock.
"Hey! Why are you so big?" James asked, getting a little frightened.
Ash glared at the trio, and said, "None of your business! Now give me Pikachu or else!"
Jesse scoffed and said, "Or else what? James, fly this thing away." As she said that, James did as he was told, and the balloon floated off a few feet. "Now what are you going to do, twerp?" Jesse asked, as she stuck out her tongue.
Ash looked at her with a bored expression. Then he extended his arm out at the balloon and grabbed it, stopping it from floating. Jesse noticed this, and muttered under her breath, "Crap."
"You were saying?" Ash asked, smirking. "First, I'm going to take my Pikachu back." Once saying that, he broke the mechanical hand with just his thumb and index finger, causing Pikachu to fall a few feet, before Ash finally caught it in his hand, and put it on its shoulder. "Then I'm going to blast you off…again."
Jesse scoffed again, and asked, "And how are you going to do that?"
Meowth and James look frightened from behind her, and tried shushing her. "Maybe you shouldn't make him mad. I mean he is twenty times bigger than us." James said, his voice shaking.
"I don't care if he's a hundred times bigger than us." Jesse said, snapping at her fellow teammate.
Ash smirked evilly, and said, "I'm glad you asked." Jesse, James, and Meowth turned toward Ash again, and watched as both his cheeks swelled up with air, and let it all out on the balloon, making it fly far away from them, quicker than they could say their famous phrase.
"Looks like we're blasting off again!" They screamed.
Ash smiled, and turned to the little Pikachu on his shoulder. "Are you okay, buddy?"
"Pikachu." Pikachu said, nodding in agreement. Then it looked down at Misty and Brock, who were flailing their arms out at them. Ash looked down and saw them too. Then he slowly kneeled down.
"Yeah? What is it?" Ash asked.
"Here you go. Brock made it especially for you. He says it will keep you full for the whole day." Misty said, as he handed him a bowl of soup. "Now try and not eat the-." Before she could say anything else, Ash had devoured the bowl and soup whole. "Bowl." Misty finished, sighing.
"That was good." Ash said, rubbing his stomach. "Thanks." Misty smiled and nodded as she walked over to the logs and ate with Brock.
As the day continued on, Ash was slowly getting bored. He'd tried catching Pokémon, but that obviously didn't work, since he could barely open a Poké ball with his big hand. He tried taking a nap, but whenever he would breathe in, some type of bird or flying –type Pokémon would come into his mouth, making him gag and cough them out in frustration.
When night finally fell, Ash laid on the forest ground, while looking up at the night sky. Ash sighed, as he knew that he would have a very uncomfortable time while sleeping. He laid his head down on a pine tree, which would make him scratch his head every two seconds. And he was also very cold when the wind blew against him.
Misty and Brock were preparing their sleeping bags outside, since somebody ruined the cabin and broke it. Once done, Misty walked over to Ash and held out a blanket, which wasn't even enough to cover one of his hands, but Ash took it anyways. "Thanks." He said, as he put the small blanket on his chest.
Misty only yawned as a reply, and headed off to her sleeping bag where a sleeping Togepi laid. Misty crawled inside the sleeping back, and whispered, "Good night, Ash." before drifting off into a deep slumber.
Brock crawled into his sleeping bag as well, and said, "Good night, Pikachu." Then he fell asleep.
Pikachu had crawled up on Ash's chest, where Ash had laid the blanket. Pikachu lay on the blanket, and started to drift off into sleep. "Pikachu, pika pi." Pikachu said, before closing its eyes.
Ash's eyes slowly closed as well. "Good night, Pikachu." Ash whispered, as his eyes fully closed, and he drifted off into the land of dreams.
*sigh* This chapter was very long! Btw, I might not have the next chapter up tomorrow, just for the fact that I'm going on a little road trip with my family, and we won't be back until late at night. So other than that, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review! ^^