I'm still sick. Yay… But I guess since I have nothing else better to do, I'll continue on with the next chapter. Again, I don't own anything.
Everyone looked at Professor Oak with a weird expression, especially Ash. Trying to shake it off, he smiled, nervously, and asked, "What do you mean?"
Professor Oak looked at him, sternly, and said, "I mean that the signal is coming from inside of you. Your stomach to be specific."
"Uh? But how would your big invention fit into my small stomach?" Ash asked, still not convinced.
Brock scoffed and looked away. "Small." Ash glared at him.
"Simple. Remember in the video, when the ship started turning a faint glow, and then suddenly it was gone?" Professor Oak said.
"Yeah. But what does that have to do with-?" Ash asked, but was interrupted by Professor Oak.
"That ship was shrinking, Ash. So small that you could barely see it or even notice it." The man said.
"What? But shrinkage is impossible! Right?" Brock said.
"Like I said, I got bored of building toasters, so instead I built a ship that can shrink things including itself." Professor Oak shrugged.
Ash looked a little frustrated with the Professor. "Okay. Other than that beeping sound, can you prove that your invention is in my stomach another way?"
"Of course." Professor Oak, then sat back down in the chair, and started to type. "Since Misty, Pikachu, and Azurill were all in that ship. We'll be able to contact with them." Then he pressed a button, and the screen turned on.
In Ash's stomach, Misty, Pikachu, and Azurill looked down as they saw a small screen open up on the keyboard, and watched it turn on. Then they saw Professor Oak smiling at them.
Misty gasped, happily, and said, "Professor Oak!"
"Hello, Misty. Are you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Pikachu and Azurill are too." Misty said, as Pikachu and Azurill waved, happily, at the screen.
Suddenly, Professor Oak was almost pushed out of the chair, when Ash, Brock, and Tracey popped up on the screen. "Hey guys!" Ash said.
"Oh, hi Ash." Misty said.
Pikachu grinned at the screen, as it said, "Pika pi!"
"Hi Pikachu!" Ash said, smiling at his yellow buddy.
"Guys, where are you?" Tracey asked.
Misty looked away, nervously, not really sure how to explain the situation. "Well, um, you see. We kinda shrank down to the size of a crumb with this ship. And now, you're gonna laugh when you hear this, Ash." Misty said, starting to laugh, as did the Pokémon beside her.
Ash started to grin and chuckle too. "So? Where are you?" He asked.
Then Misty yelled, happily, still laughing, "In your stomach!" Pikachu and Azurill nearly fell off the chair with all their laughter.
But Ash's grin disappeared, as he asked, "What?"
"We're in your stomach." Misty said, still laughing.
"What? No. That has to be a mistake." Ash said, as Professor Oak whispered something into his ear.
"Told you." The old man whispered, as a sly grin appeared on his face.
It was Brock's turn to ask the questions. "But how did you get in Ash's stomach?"
"Well, we were trying to get his attention, by flying around his face. But then he swatted us away, and I guess, we accidentally landed in his food. Because the next thing we knew, we were being thrown down a pink hole and into a pool of green liquid." Misty tried to explain.
Ash looked at her with confusion. "No. You're not in my stomach. You're probably in Brock's. Or even Tracey's." Ash said, pointing to his two friends, who looked confused and nervous.
Misty sighed, and shook her head. "Nope. We're in yours, Ash."
"How do you know?" He asked, his hands shaking.
"Because you're the only one who ate a chocolate chip cookie, today. And then, you ate your favorite burger, a cheeseburger with lettuce." Misty said, as Ash sweat dropped.
Ash crossed his arms, and said, "I don't believe you."
"Fine. We'll prove it." Misty said, as she walked away from the screen and to the hatch on the roof of the ship. Misty opened the hatch as Pikachu and Azurill jumped out on the top of the ship.
"Azurill, use Water Gun! Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!" Misty ordered.
"Pika…CHU!" Pikachu let out an enormous amount of electricity from out of its body.
"Azur…ILL!" A blast of water was sent out of the blue Pokémon's mouth, both attacks hitting the side of Ash's stomach.
On the outside, Ash grabbed at his stomach. Then he felt a big tickle from inside, as he started to laugh, loudly. "Okay! Ha ha! Stop! I believe you!" Ash yelled, between breaths, as he fell on the ground, laughing.
"Okay. That's enough." Misty ordered from inside Ash's stomach, as Pikachu and Azurill jumped back into the ship, with Misty closing the hatch afterwards.
Ash finally got off the ground, still laughing a little from the previous tickle. "So now what?" Ash asked.
"Well, we have to get them out!" Brock said, as he quickly grabbed Ash, tight, as he tried giving him the Heimlich maneuver.
"Brock, stop! He isn't choking!" Tracey yelled, stopping Brock. "All you're doing is bruising his internal organs!" Brock looked at Tracey, and then at Ash, before finally releasing him. Ash fell to the ground, as he coughed, roughly on the floor.
Ash glared angrily, at Brock. "What's wrong with you?" He asked, his teeth clenched together.
"Me?" Brock asked, as he then pointed a finger at Ash. "What's wrong with you? You're the one who ate your best friend and first Pokémon!"
Ash backed away from him. "I didn't do it on purpose." Ash whispered, as he had his hat cover his eyes in guilt.
Brock sighed, and put a hand on Ash's shoulder. "I'm sorry. I know you didn't do it on purpose. I'm just worried."
"It's okay." Ash said. "But still how will they get out of me?" He asked, looking at Professor Oak, who had sat down and was typing on the keyboard. The screen showed a transparent picture of Ash's body, which showed his stomach and other body parts. A red dot was in the middle of Ash's stomach, blinking.
"Well, they could always go out the back door." Professor Oak suggested which Misty, Pikachu, and Azurill heard from the small screen.
"Uh, no! How about we don't! I'd rather touch a bug Pokémon than go out Ash's back door!" Misty yelled.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu clearly agreed with Misty.
"Azurill!" Azurill said, nodding its head up and down.
"Worth a shot." Professor Oak said, shrugging his shoulders. "If they don't get out that way, then they'll have to get out from inside Ash's head."
"Why my head?" Ash asked.
"Because your head has a lot of exits." Brock said. "Your eyes, your ears, your nose, and your mouth."
"I guess. But how will they get up there when they're all the way in my stomach?" Ash asked.
Professor Oak turned around, and said, "Man, you ask a lot of questions. But this one I shall answer." Then he turned his back to the trainers, as he started to type something in the keyboard. Suddenly, the transparent picture of Ash's body zoomed in, so it could only focus on Ash's stomach. As it continued to zoom in, there were now blood vessels being seen around or beside Ash's stomach.
Ash gasped, quietly. "They'll have to push through your stomach lining to get to a blood vessel. And that blood vessel will lead them to the heart, where they can hitch a ride on a different blood vessel to the brain. Simple." Professor Oak explained which confused them all.
"That doesn't sound simple." Ash said, nervously. "Will it hurt?"
"I doubt you'll feel a thing with how small they are." Professor Oak said. "Misty, did you catch all that?" Professor Oak turned back to the screen.
Misty looked rather nervous, but she nodded, confidently. "Yep. Just tell me where to turn, and I'll turn." Then she strapped herself into the chair, as she positioned her hands on the steering wheel. "Let's do this."
"Pikachu." Pikachu said, as it sat in Misty's lap, next to Azurill. Misty pressed a button, as the ship started to move forward in the pool of stomach acid.
On the outside, on the big screen in the room, the red blinking dot started to move around Ash's stomach. "They're on the move." Tracey said, looking up at the screen.
"Okay. Misty, now I want you to take a right." Professor Oak said.
Inside Ash's stomach, Misty nervously turned the steering wheel, to make them go right, where they would be directly hitting Ash's stomach lining. "Okay, now what?" She asked, looking down at the small screen in the ship.
"Just keep going forward until you hit Ash's stomach lining, and then I want you to press the big blue button. Okay?" The man directed.
"You got it." Misty said, as she and the Pokémon continued to head to the side of Ash's stomach. Suddenly, they all lurched forward, as the ship hit against the pink wall. "Okay. Now the blue button." Misty said, as she searched for the button. When she finally found it, she pressed it down with her right index finger. The ship started to push forward on its own, managing to slip its way out of the stomach without causing any damage.
On the outside, Ash felt a weird tingle in his stomach, as he quickly grabbed at it. Suddenly the tingle turned into a feeling of pain, as he got on his knees. "OW!" Ash said, still grabbing his stomach, with Tracey and Brock looking at him with concern.
Inside Ash's stomach, the ship finally made its way into a blood vessel and out of Ash's stomach, which made the ship move quickly in the vein, along with other cells.
"We did it!" Misty yelled.
"Pi pikachu!" Pikachu exclaimed, happily, fist pumping in the air.
"That's wonderful news, Misty!" Professor Oak said, as he heard a low groan from behind him. Professor Oak turned around to see Ash clutching his stomach, tightly.
"I thought you said it wouldn't hurt?" Ash whimpered.
"Yeah. But not everything I say is true. After all, how would I know if it would hurt or not? This is the first time in history that someone has actually gotten inside a person's stomach, without it being called cannibalism." Professor Oak said, with a smirk, which gave him an evil glare from Ash.
"So guys? Where are they off to now?" Brock asked, looking up at the big screen, watching the blinking red dot move up Ash's body.
"They're heading for Ash's heart." Professor Oak said.
Another cliffhanger! Mwahaha! *cough, cough* Go away, you stupid cold! Nobody likes you! I hope you liked the chapter and please review! ^^