Hi, everyone, thank you for reading part 4, here is part 5.

            “WHAT?” Ash scream as Misty tells him the situation, “Why did you do that?”

            “Because I know you want to battle him.” Misty said.

            “Look, I rather NOT battle Samuel Waterson risking YOU to travel with him. I rather Not battle him so YOU can stay with my.” Ash yells, now trying to catch his breath.

            “What did you say?” Said the stunned Misty.

            “What I really mean is,” Ash quickly recovers, “I don’t want to battle him, period.”

            “I don’t get it, one minute you will do anything just to battle Sam, the next minute you rather not.” Misty said little confused.

            “I don’t want to battle him, and that’s all is to it.” Ash said as they made it into Ash’s room, Ash plops down the couch and cuddles Togepi. “Toge!” (Dady!)

            Misty does her best puppy dog face in front of Ash, “Come on Ash, do it for me, please?”

            Ash can’t resist that face, not even a Gyarados could, “Okay, but you owe a me a lot for this, and  when will I battle him?”

            Misty smiles, “When we reach Pewter City, and that’s tomorrow morning.”

            “No! I got to train now! Where is Pikachu?” Ash scream.

            “Train for what?” Brock comes in the room; on his shoulder Pikachu is licking a ketchup pocket.

            “Misty, can you explain it to Brock?” Ash said as he leaves the room, “Come on, Pikachu.”

            Ash takes out a map of the blimp; he scans for any big area where no one would go, he only find the storage, which is pretty big. He follows the directions from the map, and for the first time of his life, he did not get lost.

            Ash open the unlock door, Ash looks at Pikachu, who is still eating ketchup, “You know, eating too much ketchup is not a good thing.”

            “Pichu pi, ka pika pikachu pi chu ka pika kachu pika.” (Trust me, not having ketchup to eat is the only bad thing.) Pikachu said.

            Ash sigh then laugh, he look at the huge room, then he releases all his Pokemon, “Give me five laps now! Pikachu drop that ketchup!” Ash barks out orders.

            Normally Pikachu would Thundershock Ash, but he knows Ash isn’t joking around, so he carefully places the rest of his ketchup pockets at the corner of the room and starts to run. Ash had joined the run.

            After five laps, the Pokemon are warmed up, but Ash is having trouble to catch his breath, “Pikachu, you battle with Cyndaquil; Bulbasaur, you battle with Bayleef; Noctowl, you battle with Totodile; and I should try to catch my breath.” Ash sits down

            After the intense battle, the Pokemon rest beside the sleeping Ash.

(I am changing to Poke-language)

            “Why did Ash work us so hard?” Pikachu said as he picks up his ketchup pockets.

            “How would I know? You are the only one out of the Poke-ball.” Bulbasaur snaps.

(I am changing back to normal language)         

Ash slowly wakes due to the noise the Pokemon are making. He looks at them, “Come on! Give me another 5 laps! We have to train hard to beat Samuel Waterson!”

            The Pokemon reluctantly run around the huge room. Ash sits up and starts looking up information on Cyndaquil on the Pokedex.

            As the sun slowly become visible on the horizon, Misty groans as the sun’s rays shine through the window. She pulls the cover trying to block the bright light, but it didn’t help blocking Kelly’s voice.

            “Wake up Misty, it almost 9 already.” Kelly said, yawning. Kelly said as Misty ignore her, “I heard there is mall on the blimp.”

            Misty suddenly shot up and said, “A mall? Where?”

            “At your dream land. Now get up, or you are going to miss the big battle today.” Kelly said, annoyed. Misty then falls down on the bed. Kelly pokes the side of Misty’s stomach.

            “Alrignt, alright! I am up already, and you don’t have to poke a hole in my stomach.” Misty gets up and gets dress in the bathroom.

            There is a knock on the door, then Brock comes in with Togepi in his hands, “Has any one saw Ash and Pikachu, they weren’t in my room yesterday night.” Brock said, a little worried.

            “He has to be on the blimp.” Brock continues.

            “Of course he is on the blimp, you think he would jump out the blimp and fly across the sky?” Misty snaps as she comes out from the bathroom.

            “Let’s try to find him before we lands.” Kelly suggests.

            “Good idea. I will go check the battle area, you guy check…somewhere.” Brock quickly darts out of the room.

            Kelly takes out her map of the blimp and gaze at it, “Let’s go to the storage room, it’s pretty big, he might be training over there.”

            “Good idea, let’s go.”

            Misty and Kelly follow the map toward the storage room, they made some turns and found the storage room. Misty opens the door and walks in. Kelly follows. Inside the room, they see Ash barking order.

            “Dodge that!”

            “Thunder Bolt!”

            “Vine Whip, then Body Slam!”

            And the list goes on and on.

            Bulbasaur had had it, it shake he body vigorously, releasing blue powder on Ash.

            “It’s Sleep Powder!” Kelly exclaims.

            “I can see why Bulbasaur is doing it, Ash has been training himself and his Pokemon too hard.” Misty said, she takes Ash’s Poke-ball and returns all of Ash’s Pokemon, Pikachu scurries to the corner of the room to get his ketchup.

            “How are we going to get Ash back to his room?” Kelly looks at the snoring Ash.

            “You carry his legs, I will carry his arms.” Misty said. They life up Ash, luckily Ash isn’t that heavy, Pikachu jumps on Ash’s stomach as Misty and Kelly carry Ash back to his room.

            They carefully lays Ash down on his bed and leaves the room, Kelly quietly closing the door. “Wow, he trained very hard, over night.”

            “He probably slept half of it.” Misty jokes.

            “We are arriving Pewter City, please go to your rooms and sit down, we are prepare to land. Thank you for riding S. S. Flight, we hope to see you again.” The captain at the end of the speaker said.

            Half-hour later, everybody got off the blimp; people go their separate way. Ash, who black eyes tell Pikachu to ride on Brock’s shoulder instead of his, “I am so tire.”

            “Well. You should of sleep yesterday night instead of training your Pokemon.” Brock lectures.

            “Hey Ash!” A voice call behind them, Ash slowly turns, seeing Samuel Waterson running up to them. “Do you want to battle now?” He said, then he looks at Ash’s eyes, “Or may be this isn’t a good time.”

            Ash seems to get his energy back instantly from nowhere. “I take you on any time. Let’s rumble.”

            “I’ll be the judge.” Brock said to everyone. “Three Pokemon from each trainer is allowed in this battle, no time limits, is both trainer ready?”

            “Ready.”

            “Ready.”

            “Let the battle begin!” Brock shouts.

            “Pikachu you up! Let’s win this one so Misty stays with us!” Ash yells with determination.

            “In this case, Quagsire go!”

            Ash checks Quagsire with his Pokedex: “While this carefree Pokemon have a good nature personality, Quagsire is able to deliver powerful assaults if it wants to. Quagsire is both Water and Ground type, Quagire is the evolve form of Wooper.”

            “Interesting. Pikachu, Thunder Bolt!” Ash commands, Pikachu leap high into the air and send an electrical attack at Quagsire. Quagsire just stands there and takes the hit; it didn’t have a scratch on it.

            “What?” Ash exclaims.

            “Quagsire is Ground type, electrical attacks won’t work. Hydro Pump until that Pikachu is out.” Sam said calmly.

            “Ground or no Ground, I am going to win any ways. Pikachu, Agility!” Ash yells to Pikachu. Pikachu nodes his head and starts running circles around Quagsire, who is having trouble aiming. “Hah! Can hit Pikachu? Pikachu, Thunder!” Pikachu jumps into the air and a lightning came down the sky, it hit Pikachu, and Pikachu releases a blinding attack toward Quagsire, Quagire doesn’t know what hit it. It falls back a little.

            “Quigsire, watch out for that Thunder, it’s pretty strong.” Sam said, still calm.

            Quigsire continues squirting water at Pikachu, Pikachu zigzags around. Ash yell “Shull Bash!” Pikachu charge at Quigsire then he jumps and flight like a rocket, straight toward Quigsire. Pikachu hit it hard and it falls down. Quigsire struggles to get up, but its effort failed.

            “Quigsire is out of the match, the round goes to Ash!” Brock said.

            “Keep it up, you doing great!” Kelly yells happily.

            “You did a great job, you deserve a nice, long rest.” Sam said, returning Quigsire to its Poke-Ball. “Gyarados, I choose you!” A huge water snake emerges from a Poke-Ball and stares at Pikachu with its angry glare.

            Ash looks at Pikachu, he seems to be very tire, he decides to call him back, “Pikachu come on back,” Ash grabs one of his Poke-Ball and yell, “Cyndaquil, you’re up.” Cyndaquil land easily on the ground as he comes up from the Poka-Ball. He lit up his back immediately.

            “What? Why is Ash sending Cyndaquil out, he knows that fire have a disadvantage against water Pkemon.” Misty said to no one.

            “This is going to be easy.” Sam said.

            “You wish.” Ash said smiling, “Let’s finish this!”

To Be Continuted

End of part 5

Pikachu is out already, Cyndaquil is weak against water, the odds is against Ash, will Ash win, if he doesn't, Misty is going to travel with Samuel Water. Please wait for Part 6: A Friend's Departure. Please review.