Reunion, Chapter 3: Busted!
This small story also found it's roots in the MorpheusShipping thread on Bulbagarden, where we were discussing how Angie might make another appearance now that Ash is traveling the Unova (Isshu) region. Member CrazyYanmega, also know under the same name on this fanfiction site, and the author of some great MorpheusShipping fanfics himself, mentioned a way how Angie could turn up in Unova. Unable to write at the moment, he suggested someone might make a fic about it, and I volunteered, since the idea appealed to me. As can be expected, this short story also involves MorpheusShipping (Ash and Angie liking each other) so if you really don't like that idea, perhaps you should stop reading here. The rest, I hope you enjoy this fan-fiction.
Little recap, very fitting since it took me a while to come with this update ;-) Ash has met Angie again, who is working as an exchange student at the Unova Daycare. Hoping to find a perfect moment to confess her feelings to Ash, Angie is giving Ash a tour of the facility. But soon they find themselves in some serious trouble...
The door through which Ash and Angie had entered, had been pushed open with a loud bang. A sturdy looking man in a blue and grey colored uniform stepped inside, his face showing he wasn't in a particularly good mood!
"Quick, " Ash whispered to Angie, as he grabbed the egg from Pikachu's tail and gave it to Angie.
"And what do I have to do with it? Angie hissed back, "You think I'm some kind of magician that can make it disappear or so? Here! You take it!" and she handed the egg over to Ash again.
Ash looked around frantically, but saw no convenient space to hide the egg. In a desperate last attempt, he quickly slid it under his shirt, moving his belt up a little so it couldn't fall out.
"Didn't you read the signs? Authorized personnel only!" the guard shouted, as he quickly paced towards our friends.
Ash and Angie were too scared to say anything back, and just stared at the large man, towering above them, as he looked down on our friends.
"W-w-w-we're very sorry..s-s-sir..." Ash said with a timid voice.
The guard looked at Ash a little better, and at his odd unusually round appearance. Ash felt drops of sweat forming as the staring look of the guard made him more nervous every second. Angie was also trembling, as she was expecting their secret to get discovered any moment.
"You know," the guard started, still looking at Ash, "maybe you should eat a little less, you look as round as an egg yourself," the guard added, as he laughed momentarily. "Now off with you, before I report you both to the boss!" he added, on a more serious tone.
Angie and Ash were about to move towards the exit, when Angie suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Wait up! Now I recognize you, you're one of those new exchange students, right?" the guard asked Angie, who turned around, shaking.
"Th...that's right..." she stuttered, "...and this is a friend of mine that dropped by," Angie said, pointing at Ash, "I was showing him around."
"In that case, it's alright, just don't make such a pandemonium like you did before, okay?"
"Yes sir!" Ash and Angie said together.
"Have a nice d...hey, what is that?" the guard suddenly said, as he looked past our friends, and noticed a fragment of the broken egg container.
"Uh oh..." Angie sighed.
"Wait a minute..." the guard started, looking at Ash again. "You're not fat, but that's an egg under your shirt, now isn't it!" he said to Ash, while his tone of voice became more aggravated.
Ash slowly pulled the egg from under his shirt, while trying to avoid looking into the guard's eyes directly.
"I'll take that, you vandals!" the guard shouted, "you two are in big trouble!" he added, as he reached for the egg.
But as soon as the guard was about to take the egg from Ash's hands, it suddenly started glowing with a pulsing light!
"Wait a second, this egg is about to hatch!" the guard shouted. "don't move, I'll get the nurse to help!"
And off he went immediately, leaving Ash and Angie alone with the egg, Ash still holding it, with a dazed look on his face.
"So, now what do we do?" Angie panicked. "I bet they will sent me home right away!"
"Pikaaaa!" Pikachu interrupted Angie's worried thinking.
"Pikachu's right, let's get to that later, we have other things to worry about first," Ash translated his little buddy's remark.
Both tried really hard to remember what was needed when an egg was close to hatching. Ash slowly turned his head towards Angie, and kept looking at her intensely.
"Why are you staring at me?" Angie wondered, as she felt a bit uncomfortable and at the same time flattered to seemingly have all of Ash's attention.
"You live on a daycare, surely you must know something..." Ash suggested.
"You wish," Angie sighed, "we do have some eggs once in a while, but usually the owner of the Pokémon that we have in the Daycare comes to pick it up as soon as my parents called them to let them know there was an egg. Besides, one of the reasons I applied to be placed here for my exchange, is that this daycare facility has a big hatchery, so the chances I got to to see some eggs hatch were much bigger here," Angie explained.
"I see," Ash wondered, "hey, wait, you said it was one reason for you to come here, what was the other then?"
"Ehhh," Angie froze, as she was unwilling to confess she had phoned Dawn a while ago, and learned from her that Ash was going to Unova, which did heavily influence her decision to pick this center to get more experience. "That's not important right now, we've got to take care of this egg first!" she quickly added, trying to regain her cool a little.
"It would sure have been nice if Brock had been here right now," Ash pondered, "he has helped Nurse Joy so many times, he'd know what to do..."
For a moment the two kids stared at each other, their emotions a strange mix of panic and excitement, because of the "egg situation" they found themselves in now.
"Come to think of it," Ash started, "eggs usually hatch all by themselves, I don't recall Brock or anyone else doing really much besides looking at the egg and making it comfortable. I think we'll be fine," he added, trying to sound as "loose" as he could.
"But what if we made it hatch too soon?" Angie started to worry, "after all, we did disturb it with your silly behavior."
"My silly behavior!" Ash raised his voice a little, "if I remember well, you were pushing me aside as well!"
Pikachu watched the two quarreling trainers and shook it's head, waiting for some sense to get into both youngsters. After a short silence, Angie decided to be the first to put an end to this awkward situation.
"You're right..." Angie admitted, her eyes deflected at the ground, "it's all my fault..."
"Hey, I'm the one who started, so no need to take all the blame," Ash said, as his voice sounded much more soft and comforting all of a sudden.
"Thanks," Angie replied, as she looked up at Ash's face. Then she gazed at the door through which the guard had entered before. "What is taking him so long to get back here?" she wondered.
"Hahahahaha!" a triumphant laugh suddenly sounded from the other side of the door...
(To be continued...)
A little shorter than usual perhaps, but considering the time that has passed since the previous update, I thought it would be better to come with a small chapter, instead of waiting much longer until I had the rest of the events I have in my head, worked out into this story. I'll try to be sooner with the next update...
I apologize for any typing errors, or grammatically not 100% correct sentences. Remember, I am not a native English speaker or writer. I tried to make this story as close to the Pokémon series as possible, so that the characters will react roughly the same in this fictional story as they do in the series. I hope I succeeded in doing that. Comments are always welcome, you can use the review function on this FanFiction site for that.
Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any trademarks of Pokémon. Any similarities to the works of others is purely accidental, and not meant as an infringement on anyone's achievements.