A/N this chapter was a request from AMG from "Gotta Catch Ya Later," where After Ash fell in the pit trap Team Rocket dug, they use a claw to lift Pikachu out of the hole and then cover the hole so Ash can't get out. Ash is trapped, but Misty has a feeling to come back, and she rescues Ash. Just as Ash and Misty are saying goodbye to each other, Disclaimer does not own Pokémon.

Legend

"Talking."

"Thinking."

Chapter 5 gotta catch ya later redo

Here they were, two best friends saying goodbye, and it was hard for the both of them to say this they had been through a lot with each other for the past few years. All three of them had come to a three-way crossroad saying goodbye. There were Ash and Misty, and the two of them had known each other since the day Ash started his Pokémon adventure.

"Well, I guess that this is goodbye then, isn't it, Ash!" She said to him, it was evident in her voice that she didn't want to leave him, but what choice did she have.

Ash then frowned, knowing that Misty was still upset, but what could he say to her after all they had gone through so much together here they were leaving each other. "What can I say to her? To let her know that everything will be fine?" He thought to himself.

While Ash was thinking, he could hear her talking to him. "Well, you know… without me there..." Ash could tell there was sadness in her voice.

"It's because of this bike that I met Ash," Misty said with a smile as Togepi chirps softly and looks up at Misty.

Misty had a smile on her face looking at her little Pokémon egg that they found by chance. "Togepi, it was a coincidence that you and I met, too," Misty says. The following comment would shock her.

"Ours wasn't a coincidence," Ash says boldly, and for some reason, Misty liked the sound of that.

"I don't believe it could be just a coincidence that I met you out of all people," Ash said told her as he looked at Misty with a smile.

Misty liked what Ash said even more, but she needed to ask him what he means.

"What do you mean, Ash?" Misty asked curiously.

"I guess what I mean is that, even though that happened… I think we were meant to meet and become friends," Ash says, delighted and turning to Misty with a bright and warm expression on his face as he says that.

After hearing this, Misty smiled even more as right now, Misty knows how good a friend Ash is and how far they have come. However, both Ash and Misty, the two young trainers, wanted more from each other.

They wanted to be together as lovers, something higher than being best friends for the two. That's all both Ash and Misty wanted, but they were scared that doing so would ruin what they had.

"Me too, we've been through so much together on our travels; I'd say we're best friends now," Brock adds to both their shock. Both of their eyes tremble, but the feeling is better than ever.

"You mean it, Brock?" misty asked as she looked at her older friend. "We're really best friends?" She asked once again, wanting to be sure as Brock nodded his head at her making Misty smile at this. "Yeah." Misty finally says, smiling. Happy. With emotion running through her. Great emotion as Brock and Ash nodded their heads. And Ash sees Misty continue to be happy. Ash then heard her laugh, which made her smile. "Love that laugh of hers." Ash thought to himself.

Separate paths finally come to us under a sun that gradually falls into the distant shallow, prolonging said shallow. "Guess I'll be going this way," Misty said finally, still not wanting to leave Ash.

"Yeah," Ash says dismal in his voice, but Misty could faintly see the corners of his face curling up into a smile. We exchange looks and understanding. Facing the facts, they might not see each other again for a long time.

"Take care, Ash," It was all Misty could say; looking at him with admiration and love, Ash nods his head. Another silence arrived with both you trainers looking at each other. "You too, Misty," Ash said, trying to be as brave as he could.

Both of them exchange looks are intense: they're peering into their quivering eyes, now intensely fixed. Ash's gaze was melting into Misty's.

But Misty can't help but think: "Will I ever see him again?" Misty thought she needed to know. "Will I… see you again?" the words finally escaped her throat. A soft silence.

"You will… I swear." He finally says. Suddenly, Misty felt like I could work up the courage to tell him how she felt for him. While Ash also wanted to do the same thing too

"Maybe I should tell him/her how I feel now! Before it's too late, but should I?" The two thought together.

But another voice then screams at the two of them before even having a chance to tell the other what they wanted. Brock rushes into the air as though he wanted to stop them from telling the other their feelings.

"HOLD EVERYTHING!" Brock cries out abruptly. He pants wildly, his mouth slightly ajar, and his lips are trembling. Ash looks confused to no end but in an innocent way.

"What's gotten into you, Brock?" Ash asks, now looking to Brock and why he had cried out.

"Actually, I also have to go back home right away." He informs us with nonchalance filling his voice. Ash and Misty are surprised, as is Pikachu. All three of them weren't expecting this. "So all three of us were parting. This was really it. I mean, Brock parted with us once when he stayed on Valencia Island to work with Professor Ivy… but this might have been permanent. Or not. You never know," Misty thought.

"I got an e-mail saying I had to go back and take care of some errands and stuff, and I almost forgot." He went on.

Ash did ask him how he could forget something like that, but Misty knew. He didn't want to leave too. Brock said he didn't know, but Misty was quick and sharp to point out that it was because he didn't want to leave. Her voice then softened afterward, and in a nicer tone, I told him I understood. Ash locks his eyes onto ours intensely, with bottomless depth in his eyes. Respect in his eyes.

"Well, I guess this is where we all split up," Brock said after a long silence hung over us. But Misty had to ask Ash one last time.

"Are you sure you'll be okay without me, Ash?" He was quick to interject, telling me he'd be fine.

"See you, then," Brock says. "Bye-bye," Misty said, her voice speaking softly.

"So long…" Ash says like he's about to cry. As Misty was ridding her bike off into the late afternoon, but something didn't feel right: like that happened too quickly. And it did; she had one last thing for him.

As she went back, Misty heard Ash saying something to himself, something about him never being able to do something without Brock and her. Ash was initially taken aback and didn't take well to Brock and Misty sneaking on him, but Misty felt like she needed to give him one more thing. A parting gift, and to insinuate her feelings for him, one last time. Brock gave him a fork, a spoon, and a lunchbox. Misty gave him a handkerchief, so it would be easier to carry. Then she peered into Ash's eyes, noticing a pale glow in them. His eyes dimmed. Tears began to flow out, and he pulled his cap over his eyes quickly, telling us he thought we ought to go now. It was hitting him now. Looking at him once last time, Misty had told him to take care. Brock said he'd miss him. So would Misty. And Pikachu most definitively.

As Misty rides off, a rush of greenery whips by her, finally smiling with Togepi riding along with her, thinking about Ash, the young man she loved with all of her heart. "Well, Ash Ketchum, finally, I know how you feel about me."

A part of him didn't want her to go, but there was nothing that he could do. What hurts the most was he had not told her yet how he felt about her; it had only been just recently that he felt this way.

Later that night with Misty:

Misty had to set up camp for the night, but as she was doing so, she had a strange feeling in her heart that something was wrong, but what was it. Slowly moving her hand to her heart, it hurt only now did she know that the two may never see each other again. Slowly Misty fell to the ground and cried her heart out; part of her was glad that Ash was not here to see her like this. Another part of her wanted Ash to be here so that Misty could hold Ash close to her, and Misty wanted nothing more than For Ash to hold her within his arms.

"It's not fair!" Misty whispered quietly but angrily.

She didn't want to leave Ash and Brock. She loved traveling the world, meeting amazing people and mysterious Pokémon, discovering new cultures, and participating in different rituals. For the last few years, she had felt free. She had felt that she could go wherever the path led her and do whatever she wanted. She didn't need a place to call home, and she didn't need her sisters. She didn't think she was attached to anything, but now Misty realized that she had been tied down to something all that time and that something was Ash. She had a family in Ash and Brock, and she had become so attached that she was almost dependent on them.

"WHY! I loved him now. I will never get to tell Ash how I feel about him!" Misty shouted as she punched to the ground.

Togepi could see that Misty, her mommy was upset; the baby Pokémon could tell that it was because she had to leave Ash, who Togepi conceded to be her daddy. At this moment, Misty chose that she would go and tell Ash how she felt; picking up her campsite Misty went to Pallet Town to tell Ash.

The next day Misty was just on the edge of Pallet Town; the sun had already come up, and it was now afternoon. As she was riding her bike, Misty saw Gary and was wondering what he was doing?

"Gary! What are you doing?" Misty asked him.

Gary then started to tell her what he had told Ash not too long ago, but what Gary wanted to know was what Misty was doing here. From what Ash had told him, she was on her way back home.

"Hey Misty, what are you doing here? Ash told me that you went back home?" Gary asked her, but he already knew why. Gary had always known that there was something about those two having something for the other.

"Well, I came to see Ash so I could tell him something that I had on my mind," Misty said to him.

Gary just smiled at her. "Wow, Ash, I hope you know how lucky you are to have someone like her in your life," Gary thought, looking at her before he finely talked to Misty. "You're going to tell Ashy boy how you feel, right?" He asked only for Misty to blush; this proved to Gary that Misty was in love with Ash.

Knowing what he wanted too, Gary went off to his next adventure, but he said good luck to Misty before that.

Just then, Misty saw something that Ash had told her and Brock about all the time, and she saw it clear as day. It was Ho-Oh, but that was not all she could see Ash sitting on a tree with a Pokémon she knew that was Pikachu even if they were small, she could tell that it was Ash. Just then, Ash jumped down from the tree and started to walk away, only for Ash to fail into a pit trap; the next thing she saw was green smoke.

"What's going on up there? Wait, oh no, Ash!" Misty thought with fear as she started to ride her bike as fast as possible to get to him on time.

As Misty was on her way to Ash, he was just looked up at Team Rocket after he fell in; they used Weezing; they said to Weezing to use its smock screen down where Ash and Pikachu were. As Weezing's smock screen filled up the pit, Ash and Pikachu started to find it hard to breathe; then, without any warning, Team Rocket used a claw to grab Pikachu out of the pit, and then covered it up so that Ash couldn't get out.

Ash started to find that it was getting a lot harder to breathe now; he weakly opened his eyes. Ash closed his eyes, thinking that he would die here, and they were so many things he hadn't done yet that he still had to do. Becoming a Pokémon master, but there was one thing Ash wanted more than becoming a Pokémon master. What he wanted was for him and Misty to be together to have a family with and grow old with her, but that will never happen; now slowly closing his, he cried know he couldn't keep his promise to Misty.

"Mist… (Cough) I'm sorry… (Cough) that I want… (cough) keep my promise!" Ash said before falling to the ground.

Up above Ash, Team Rocket was celebrating that they had Pikachu at long last, and this time, no one could stop them. As they were about to leave, Team Rocket was stopped by an angry Misty and her Politoed; the three had never seen her this angry.

"You! What have you done With Ash?" Misty asked them only for all three to laugh at her, then pointed to where he was.

When Misty looked at the smock-filled pit, she was more scared than ever; she tried to call him, but he didn't answer her. With this, Misty went down to her knees; she wanted to cry, but first, she would deal with Team Rocket and save Pikachu.

"Politoed, use Double slap on Team Rocket and then free Pikachu!" Once Misty said this, Politoed made sure to send Team Rocket flying with help from Pikachu.

"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" The three shouted.

After they were gone, Misty then went over to the pit where Ash was sadly still trapped within the pit; she looked over to her Politoed, and her Pokémon knew what Misty wanted. Once Politoed had gotten rid of the bars that were trapping Ash, Misty went down to get her friend out of there before things could worsen.

"Ash! Talk to me!" Misty said, panicking; she looked for Bayleef's pokéball, and once she found it, she called her outside of the pit. Bayleef saw that Ash was not moving then, and she saw Misty and could see the look she had on her.

"Bayleef use your vines to get both Ash and me out of here," Misty told her, and Bayleef did as Misty said, knowing Ash needed saving.

Once the two of them were out of there, Misty went over to see how Ash was, but when she cheek him, she found out that he wasn't breathing. "No! Ash, you have to breathe!" Misty yelled at him.

She tried to shack him but didn't help Misty know that they were only one other way to help him. Knowing that this was the only thing that could help him, Misty decided to give Ash CPR. Part of her didn't want to do this; it felt like she was taking away his first kiss from him; even if she wanted to be the one to kiss him, she didn't want it to be like this at all.

"Please forgive me, Ash, for doing this!" She thought to herself as she looked at him than opening his mouth; she put her mouth over his and started to breathe air into him.

Misty did this repeatedly and tried to start his heart again all the time, and she was crying, hoping, and praying for it to work. Finally, she fell on his chest, crying out all the tears that she could give.

"It's not fair, Ash; you said that we would see each other again! You promised me, Ash, so don't you dare go dying on me! Besides, I haven't even told you the trough yet." Misty said to him as she looked at him and smiled.

Closing her eyes, she finally told Ash what she had wanted to do for a long time. "The thing is, Ash is that I don't care about my bike. I never cared about it, all the time we were together, I loved it Ash all of it! What I'm trying to tell you, Ash is that I love you, want to be your girlfriend, I want to get married to you, have kids with you, and I want to grow old together!" Misty said, crying her heart out to him.

Misty didn't know that Ash heard everything she said to him, and like Misty, he wanted to cry. The reason that he didn't just get up once Misty brought him back, but he was going to tell her that he was back, only stopping when she was going to tell him the truth.

Slowly Ash started to rub Misty's back, and Misty looked at him. Ash could see the tears in her eyes. "It's alright, Mist. I'm here," Ash told her.

When Misty heard Ash's voice, she thought she was going crazy, thinking that he was still alive. As she slowly looked opened her eyes, and to her disbelief, there he was, alive and smiling at her. Misty then did something she would never have done in her life; she grabbed him and hugged him so tight that she didn't want to let go of him.

"Ash! God, don't you ever leave me again, please!" Misty cried to him.

The only thing Ash could do was smile at her as he hugged her back so that he could let her know he was there. Slowly the two looked into each other's eyes; both of their heads moved closer to each other, as did their lips till, at last, both lips meet each other.

"I'm doing it. I'm kissing Ash/Misty," They both thought at the same time.

The two soon had to stop kissing when they both needed air; looking at each the two of them smiled at the other. Neither Ash nor Misty knew that their Pokémon were watching them, all of them happy that the two were together at last. Well, Bayleef was the only one that wasn't happy about it at all.

"I love you, Ash!"

"I love you too, Misty!"

The two of them once again kissed each other, and after it was over, the two of them went back to Ash's home. Once there, the two of them were then quickly noticed by Ash's mum, and she smiled at the two as she saw them holding the other's hand. After five hours of talking, Misty knew it was time to go back to her gym neither wanted to leave the other, but this was something they had to do. Ash said that he would go with her, but Misty told not to even think about and go to where she saw Ho-Oh was going to, and with one last kiss, the two said goodbye once again.

A/N well, that's the end of this what-if hope you all liked it, so please read and review, so I know what you think of it.