Ash groaned groggily as he opened his eyes to see his 'beautiful angel' laying beside him, with blood running on the side of her face. He cringed at the site. It was a pretty bad mark on her face. He noticed that he was in a somewhat worse predicament; his own arm covered in blood - you can see the figure of the long gash through the red liquid. He wonder how they both got injured.

He was more concerned about Misty than what was happening to his arm - more concerned about her than noticing where he was.

Ash shook Misty lightly, hoping she'd wake up. She woke up and saw Ash's face hovering over hers.

"Hey, you ok?" Ash asked softly - so soft, it sounded like a whisper - but Misty could hear.

"Yeah,"she started out, then she looked over to Ash's arm and gasped."Ash?! What happened to you?"

She sat up and studied his arm, in shock - disgusted a little. Blood's obviously not an excellent thing to see.

"I don't know how it happened, but you should look at the side of your face,"he said as Misty felt something wet trickle down her cheek,"it's cut too."

Misty brought her left hand to the left side of her face where cut was at. She hissed as she felt the pain when her hand contacted the wound. Then she looked at Ash's arm once again and twitched.

"Ash, you need to get your arm patched up more than I need my face to be worked on - that looks pretty bad,"she said as she pointed her finger at his arm.

"Yeah -" he stopped. Ash suddenly realized that where he was...well, he couldn't figure that out yet. It didn't look like the world he was living in...it looked like another planet.

The color on the planet was completely red, and there were a lot of volcanoes sprouting from the ground. (Don't worry, they're not on Mars...^_~)

Misty noticed where they happened to be at too.

"A-Ash...w-w-where are we?" Misty trembled.

"I don't know..."then it just hit him."Oh yeah, I remember now what had happened to us! That ghost took us away at that restaurant, remember? She must have tooken us into her world."

"Yeah...but, we have to go and find someone that can help us get out of here! It might not be safe here, and-and we may never get to see our family, our friends or our Pokemon again!" Misty cried, feeling herself losing it.

"Misty, calm down! We'll find a way out of here, just relax!" Ash tried his luck, but her frantics wouldn't stop.

"Relax?! Screw it Ash! We're in another planet or whatever, and it looks like there's no civilization here, no food, no nothing! We are alone here with nothing!" Misty yelled at him.

"Misty,"Ash said calmly, putting his hands on her shoulders,"Calm down. We'll be ok, just have some hope, some faith. Chill."

Misty still continued, but she loosened up a bit."No survival, nothing...I just want to get out of here..."

"I do too, but we need to be calm so we can think clearly,"Ash said as he sat down on a red rock.

Misty shook her head. She sighed as she plopped herself down on the ground, covering her face with her hands. Ash scooted over beside her and embraced her in a hug. She looked up at his face and smiled. They leaned in closer and closer....

"Stop. Look at me and listen," the same female ghost said as her figure appeared in front of them.

Ash and Misty quickly stopped what they were doing and stared at the ghost.

"My name is Zelestina, I am the queen of this planet, Mazarus. Mazarus is out of your solar system, into a different solar system, not far from yours. I have chosen you two to help me with something very, very important," Zelestina said.

Ash spoke up,"Um, Zelestina, what is it that you are wanting us to help you with?"

"To control all Pokemon minds, so they all can be my servents. I don't exactly have the power to do that, but you two can help. Two humans, that's all it is to do it," she replied.

"What?! You think we are going to help you do that? Heck no!" Misty said in a sassy tone.

"Pokemon are here to live in this universe-not to be controlled, not to be servents. We are all here to live together, to work, to cooperate, and to be friends-but not to control," Ash confirmed in a deep, confident, and assuring voice.

"Not in my case! You will help or else!" Zelestina raged.

"Pure evil, pure evil,"Misty said."And guess what? Evil has never won, and never will! So give it up! We will never help you! I'd die and not help you!"

"Same goes for me,"Ash agreed.

"Fine, no help, then I'll just let you both suffer pain. Then you can die," she said with satissfaction.

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"Where in the heck is Misty and Ash? I mean, they could be on some other planet now!" Brock said to Sandrae as he was pacing the Pokemon Center lobby. (nooo Brock! They're not! ::hesitates:: I was being sarcastic about that....lol. ^_~)

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Ash and Misty were being thrown onto the ground harshly a dozen times, jolted with lightning, then were thrown into a cage where fire surrounded it. The medal of the cage wasn't hot....yet.

"Worse punishment will come later," Zelestina said as she floated away and disappeared.

Misty started crying, her tears falling onto the warm surface of the cage."This is useless."

Ash started to say something to her in comfort, but he was interrupted.

A yellowish ghost appeared...it looked like an angel. Light was shining from it, it looked peaceful.

The angel said,"The only way you two can defeat Zelestina is by your own powers. You have special powers that you have to discover..."

"What powers are they?" Misty asked in a slight relief.

"I'll tell you a bit.....you have to use your mind. Focus on a power you want to use...." the angel said.

"We don't know what the powers are-" Ash started.

Ash and Misty both looked at each other then took a deep breath. They held hands and closed their eyes. They formed a picture of the cage and the fire surrounding it disappearing. Soon, they opened their eyes and saw they were sitting on the solid ground - no cave, no fire. They let go of each others' hands and gasped.

And the angel vanished in the thin air.

They just sat there in shock. They didn't know they had powers. It was amazing, it was unbelieveable.

"We have p-powers? YEAH!" Misty celebrated.

"Yeah, it's awesome!" Ash smiled at her.

"Let's go beat Zelestina,"Misty said with a strong determination in her voice.

"Yeah,"Ash nodded as he took her hand once again.

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::getting beat over the head::

Me (in agony): I'm sorry that I'm not updating as much as I should! I'm on summer break now and I'll be updating more!

Person doing the beating: YOU BETTER BE!!!!

::gets hit in the head with a mallet again::

Me (fire flaming in eyes): I will....grrrrrrr......::shoves person up against a wall and spits the person in the face:: (that's gurl power!)Don't mess with me....MUAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAA!

::runs off somewhere in La-La Land::

lol. ^_^

**Blue Flamed Cheetah** - I had no clue that this story would turn out like this...lol, ideas just keep popping up in my head. lol. I'll get to Brock's battle and the Jamfest soon....maybe....^_~