This is How the Story Goes...  Part 5

FINALLY, THE TRUTH...

"Pikapika chu pikachu pi-KA chu pikapi chu, kapikapika chu pi pi chu ka pi,
pi-ika chu pikachu pi pi pi pi PI!"
Ash sweatdropped.
"Well?" everyone asked.  "What did Pikachu say?"
"Heh...Pikachu said we went to the mall, picked out some outfits, and left him
there so he snuck some clothes in our backpacks and made us get in trouble!" Ash said.
"PIKACHU..." everyone except Ash gasped.  "I'm very disappointed in you, young pokemon!"
Mrs. Ketchum said.
But Pikachu shrugged and said, "Pikapi chu pika chu chu pi."
Ash didn't want to, but had no choice but to translate it.  "Pikachu said that...um...I did...well,
I kind of...you know...did the same thing with Ketchup since the...um...clerk wouldn't sell us
any...a long time ago...Pikachu made me do it!"
"ASH..." everyone except Ash himself gasped.  "I'm very disappointed in you, young man!"
But Ash laughed nervously and said, "Well, Brock stole that magazine with pictures of naked women!"
"BROCK..." everyone except Ash gasped.  "I'm very disappointed in you, man!"  @_@
"Well, don't look at me!  I don't even need the magazine!  Remember how Ash said Misty sleeps?"
"MISTY..."
"Ash is the one who said that!"
"ASH..."
(Okay, this is getting annoying.)
"Oh yes, and when we get home, you're going to tell me just why you are so impolite to Misty!"
Mrs. Ketchum said.
"Home?  You mean you're gonna bail me out?"
"Yes, Ash."
"My story was true!  I knew it!" Ash shouted happily.
"Liar!  Mine was!" Misty shouted.
"That beautiful girl, Mary, loved me...you KNOW mine was!" Brock shouted.
Mrs. Ketchum smiled.  "All of your stories are true."
"What?" everyone except Mrs. Ketchum asked, confused.
"Each of you were telling them from a different perspective, and so, you expect the stories
to be told different along the way in the minor details," said Mrs. Ketchum, "but the event was
almost the same from each of you, except Pikachu.  That's why I believe you, but mostly Pikachu.  So Pikachu
gets to go home first, and I'll pick you three up later on when I get off my new job.  You'll be home
by night time," Mrs. Ketchum said.
"WHAT?"
"But how can you just change from US to PIKACHU in ONE sentence??" Ash shouted.
Officer Jenny just happened to be coming along.  Mrs. Ketchum explained everything, and Jenny let
Pikachu out.  "You three will be picked up by her before nightfall," Jenny explained to Ash, Misty and
Brock.  Pikachu blew a raspberry at Ash and said, "Pika pika pika!  Chu chu pika-a! (Nah nah nah nah nah
nah, that's why I LIED!)"
"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!  Did you hear Pikachu, Officer Jenny!?  He just said--"
"I don't want to hear another lie out of you!" both Mrs. Ketchum and Officer Jenny said as they walked
away with a proud, content Pikachu.


Misty growled.  "We were about to get out soon enough just when we said that we don't want anyone
to know that we're stuck here, but NOW all the world will--ouch!" a much angered redhead
shouted when her hand, which she swung back trying to motion towards the
outside "world", harshly collided with the stiff nickel bar.  "Ow...Ash, this is all your fault!
OUCH!" she yelled again as her hand once again hit yet another bar when she swung her hand
back, ready to slap the dark-haired preteen.

"All my fault??  If I remember correctly, Misty, YOU were the one who made us LIE!" the
pokemon trainer retorted...