Ages ~

(Which I decided to do, ‘cause fortuntly, it all pretty much one time, not that you care or anything…)

(When Ash is telling the story)

Ash ~ 14

Misty ~ 14

Brock ~ 17

Rudy ~ 18

Mari ~ 10

And…. I think that’s it…

P.S. I was thinking, you know who would be cute together? Mari and Mikey. They just seem to have so much in common! Ok fine, ignore me.

Then and Now

~ Part 4; Misty meets her match - round 2 ~

Ash sat back down. His eyebrows furrowed at the thought of who he was to write about next. Rudy was without a doubt his least favorite gym leader. Why? You’ll see. He reached over and turned on his computer and began typing with a vengance.

The trip to Trovita was a silent one, for me at least. Brock kept asking us who Rudy was, and why I didn’t like him. Misty was pondering over whether or not she should be happy to see Rudy, and me? I was plotting some evil things in my head. Why don’t I like him? I really couldn’t answer that then, but I know now.

All I knew was that I hated Rudy and this wasn’t going to be good. (Ok, hate is such a strong word, how about something, like, ‘strongly dislike’?)

As Trovita came into view, I was ready t kill somebody. Brock’s voice was getting tired from asking so many questions and not getting one of them answered, and Misty was just standing there, completely spaced out.

We landed on the dock and was greeted by a small brown haired girl.

"HEY!!"

"MARI!" Misty cried out in happiness. Mari ran into her arms and Misty picked her up and twirled her around.

"Hi Ash! Whose this?" Mari asked., referring to Brock of course.

"Oh, Mari, meet Brock, Brock this is Mari."

Brock nodded.

"My big brother is going to be so happy to see you Misty!"

Misty blushed. "I guess…"

"Misty’s here for a gym battle for the water league." I said with a slight bit of annoyance.

"Oh that! Come on!"

So Misty put Mari down and she lead the way to Rudy.

"Hey Rudy! Guess whose here!"

Mari called out to a large house.

Out of that large house came a boy with brown hair and a vest on.

Rudy

"MISTY!" He ran to Misty with arms open wide.

"Oh hi Rudy!" Misty smiled.

"*Ahem*!"

"Oh, hi Ash, whose this?" He asked pointing to Brock.

"This is Brock." I answered.

"Nice to finally meet you Rudy." Brock reached out to shake his hand, but Rudy ignored it.

"Oh Misty, you haven’t changed a bit, if only for the better!" He gushed.

Brock raised an eyebrow at me.

"What?" I snapped.

He said nothing but shook his head.

What? I looked at Pikachu who smirked.

I don’t know what’s wrong with them. If Rudy wants Misty, then he can have her.

"So, do you want to eat dinner with us tonight, then we can have the battle tomorrow?"

"That’s fine." Misty agreed.

"Good, it’ll be a two on two."

"OK."

Is she even going to ask me what I think? Nooooo.

"Misty, I think we should battle tonight so that we can have plenty of time to train or something."

"Oh Ash, he’s offering free food and it’s just one night."

Rudy led her in the house leaving me speechless and Brock and Pikachu with amused faces.

So, while WE stayed at the pokemon center and ate food from Burger King, Misty stayed and ate some big fancy meal at Rudy’s house. But no! I’m not bitter! Who’d want to stay at crummy old Rudy’s anyway?

Well, at least it’s not going to be like last time, right?

Well, needless to say, I didn’t like what Misty and Ridu were doing then, and to this day I’m not too happy about it. Why? You’ll just have to wait and see!

I proposed to stay up until she came back to the pokemon center, but, I didn’t. I tried, but I fell asleep around 10. Brock and Pikachu snickered at me most of the time. Occasionaly making annoying comments like, ‘Jealus Ash?’ or ‘Why are you waiting Ash?’ or even, ‘Why not go there now, ruin their time, and tell Misty, and be done with I?’

At first I’d just hit them and glare at them, but soon I just learned to ignore it.

When I woke up the next morning, I jumped up and ran t Misty’s room to see if she was there.

"Misty?" I knocked on the door.

After two minutes of knocking, I opened the door desperately hoping she was doing anything private.

To my surprise or relief (I couldn’t tell which one at all!), she wasn’t there at all!

My worry increased emmensly as I thought about the possiblities of where she could be.

She could be caught in some hole by Team Rocket all alone wihtout her pokemon. She could be lying somewhere naked because she was all alone with no one to protect her from the rapist. She could still be with Rudy. She could have run off with Rudy because he proposed to her! SHE COULD HAVE MARRIED RUDY! OR WORSE –

"HI Ash! What are you doing in my room?"

…Or she could be right behind me!

"Misty! Where’ve you been?"

"I stayed late over at Rudy’s, so he let me stay there the night. And I just came back."

"But-"

"Ash was so worried about you Misty!" Brock came up from behind me, I didn’t even need to see his grin. I bet it was stretching from ear to ear.

"Really? Ash? Worried about me?"

"NO! It was all Brock!" I cried desperately trying to hide my blush and Brock’s comment. "He was staying up past 12 waiting for you! Poor Brock probably didn’t get any sleep! You should have called or something!"

Misty raised her eyebrow but didn’t say anything else about it.

"Whatever. Where’s my pokemon? The battle is in 15 minutes."

"Oh yeah! They’re in your room."

"OK, thanks."

When Misty was gone, I glared at Brock.

"What?"

He grinned and shrugged.

I turned away from him figuring it really wasn’t worth it.

~

We got to the battlefield 5 minutes late thanks to my wonderful navigational skills. I didn’t do it on purpose! Really!

("Piiiiika. Pika Pikachu chu. PIKACHU PI! ((Riiight. You had your fingers crossed! You scardy cat!))")

Anyway, Rudy was waiting there immpatinetley tapping his foot on the ground.

"SO they finally make it!"

He shortly glared at me. "I’m sure it wasn’t Misty’s fault! She’s always on time."

I saw Misty blush at this comment, and I growled.

Misty giggled and walked over to the motioning Rudy.

I heard him whisper something about dumping somebody, but that was all I could here.

Misty’s face paled at whatever he had told her.

"Hey Misty, you ok? You look a tad pale."

"No! I’m ok. Let’s just get on with the battle."

"Pikachu pika! ((Yeah! A battle!))"

"This is a two on two match. I’ll go first, Staru go!" Rudy threw out his poke’ball and out came Staru."

"OK! Then I choose Garados!"

"GAAAAAAAAA! ((YEEEEEEEEEHAAAA! Let’s kick some BUTTE!"

"Don’t go easy on me just because – "

"I won’t! Staru, water gun!"

"Garados, dodge then Thrash!"

"GAHHHH! ((GOT IT!))"

Garados dodged then used it’s thrash. Staru was still in, but barely.

"ALRIGHT!"

"I’m not done yet, Music!"

One of Rudy’s helpers turned on the radio. The Johto league champions song came on.

"On NO! Misty! Look out for the Thunderbolt!" Ash cried out from the sidelines.

"I KNOW!"

Misty cried, worried. Garados was confused from the thrash attack and wasn’t easy to control.

"Stau, spin yourself into a THUNDERBOLT!"

"GARADOS LOOK OUT!"

By the time Garados had regained control, it was too late, she was burnt to a crisp.

Misty sighed. "Good job Garados, return." Poor Garados. POOR? What am I saying? That thing tried to bit my head off and eat me? HA HA HA! WHOSE LAUGHING GARADOS?!

She looked at Staru and noticed that it appeared to be panting. She smiled.

She knew exactly who to pick.

"GO GOLDUCK!" Golduck?

"GOLDUCK! ((LET’S KICK SOME BUTTE’))"

Rudy looked surprised, but shook it off. Alright, try a thunderbolt again Staru!"

"HYIA!"

Misty smirked. I thought she was insane at first.

Rudy looked surprised even more. Why was Misty smirking you ask? Just wait and see!

"GOLDUCK, REFLECT!"

Golduck built up a strong reflect while a tired Staru built up a thunderbolt.

Golduck reflected Staru’s thunderbolt and it went straight for Staru.

"No! Staru!"

"Alright Golduck! You’re Staru used up a lot of energy using that Thunderbolt." Misty explained. "So it was easy to reflect it and hit it back to your Staru.

Rudy smiled and nodded. He had one more pokemon to go, and so did Misty.

"GO TENTACRUEL!"

"Cruel!"

"Tentacruel, poison sting!"

"TENTA!"

"Golduck, PSYBEAM!"

The Psybeam hit Tentacruel head on, but the Tentacruel was strong and he was still standing.

"Tentacruel, SURF!"

"Golduck, ride that wave!"

Golduck jumped up and rode te wave.

"No! Alright Golduck! Send that wave back where it came from and use Hyperbeam!"

"NO!"

Tentacruel was toast.

"This match is finished. Misty has defeated the gym leader Rudy.

Rudy smiled and walked up to Misty. "Good job. Here’s you badge."

Misty smiled and thanked him.

"ALRIGHT MISTY!" I jumped up and ran to her giving her a great big hug.

"That was a good choice Misty." Brock commented.

Misty smiled at me. "Thanks guys."

"Hey," I made a peace sign. "Maybe you’ll battle me in the pokemon league someday, then I’ll know your secret!"

Misty smirked, "Yea but I‘ve seen more of your battles then you seen of mine!"

My mouth dropped open. She was right.

Misty giggled at me.

Misty turned to Rudy and held out her hand. "Thanks for a great battle Rudy."

Rudy hugged her, and she whispered something in his ear. He nodded and smiled.

This did not look good.

She released him from the hug and turned to me.

"Hey Ash, I want to talk to you for a sec."

This was definetly NOT good.

"OK."

She led me into a mini forest and looked at me with those clear, blue Aqua-green eyes.

"Ash. Rudy asked me to stay with him on the island."

 

 

"ASH! GET OVER HERE NOW!!" A voice cried from another room.

Ash cringed and got up from his compute saving his progress. The rest would have to wait till tomorrow. Right now, he had to deal with this problem, now.

 

 

 

 

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