Pocket Woman
Part 3


Over the next few days Ash and Brock worked with Misty. Getting her to speak was not as hard as they thought it would be and in only a few days she was already speaking like a pro.
"So, your mother said she wanted to teach me to cook and some other neat things....." Misty seemed excited about the idea.
"Yeah but what good will it be to you Pikachu?" Ash asked.
"Oh come on Ash it won't hurt Misty to have a little fun, will it?"
Ash didn't seem quite sure of Brock's support. "Yeah I guess so...."
Now that Misty was talking Ash was having a hard time adjusting to her. He seemed externally confused, as if he was fighting a battle within himself. Misty didn't help the process. She contained to sleep with Ash and always stayed close to him. Ash found the whole process rather nice, but at the same time his feelings were in a storm of confusion.
"Well Ash what should we do today? Can we go out?" Misty had been bugging him to go shopping since she could speak properly.
Ash rolled his eyes. "What do you want to go shopping for? I mean it's not like your gonna use any of it for long....opps." Ash realized his mistake instantly. However it was too late. Misty had tears in her eyes and with a soft sob she brought out her mallet and smacked him. After dropping the mallet she ran to her room.
Brock glared at him. "Nice going dummy!" he looked off towards the redhead's room. "Better go apologize...All she wants is to experience what it's like to be human. You don't have to be so insensitive!"
Ash sighed. "I know, I know. It's just...." he paused.
"Just what?" Brock asked?
"Sigh...nothing..."
The pokémon master walked off to apologize to the girl. Brock grinned as he heard a happy squeal from Misty's room. Half a second later Misty came running through the front room at full speed. Ash, dragged along for the ride, gave Brock a look of despair. Brock laughed, that is he was laughing until Misty ran back into the house, grabbed the pokémon breeder, and dragged him along with Ash.
"Help me." Brock whimpered.
A few days later Ash's life was once again turned upside down. Ash was sleeping peacefully with Misty sleeping on top of him as always. However just as he was to awake to the now familiar sensation of Misty sleeping on top of him, he was awakened to a scream of pain.
"ASH! OHHHHH OWWWWWW! PIKAPI! CHU CHU PELP ME! ITS HURTS SO MUCH!"
Ash bolted up as open his eyes to a horrible site. Misty was seaming in pain and the cause was her body. Misty's body was disfigured. Her right arm had yellow fur on it while her left was now short and had only 3 fingers on it. She had a tail on her bottom and on her head was half a Pikachu's nose and a pair of Pikachu ears.
"Ash......please help me! oooooooooooooWWWWWWWWW!!!! IT HURTS!"
Mrs. Ketchum and Brock by then had rushed into the room.
"Ash dear what's wrong???"
Ash looked up, tears forming in his eyes. "It's Pikachu....she's .....she's.."
Brock gave her a quick once over. "Quick ASH! Lets get her to Professor Oak!"
Ash nodded as he picked Misty up and ran as fast as he could towards the lab.
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Ash paced back and forth as her waited for the Prof. As soon as he had arrived Professor Oak had taken Misty from him and stuffed her into some kind of crystal tank. Soon afterwards Brock and his mom had arrived.
"Ash dear sit down and relax." Mrs. Ketchum attempted to calm her son down.
"MOM! How can I calm down!? Pikachu is in that thing!...and I have no idea what's happening to her!" Ash's voice was choked with emotion, worry and confusion written all over his face.
Before Brock could try his hand at calming his friend Prof. Oak walked in. Ash instantly rushed up to him.
"SO WHAT'S GOING ON? IS SHE GOING TO BE OK? TELL ME PROF! TELL ME!" Ash had hooked onto the collar of Prof. Oak's lab coat and was shaking him as he spoke.
Prof. Oak gently grabbed the young man's wrist and began to calm the young man. "Well you got her here in time but...."
"BUT?!" Ash yelled.
"But the problem is that the moon stone has finally worn off." Ash looked confused. "The stone rewrote her DNA... the machine I made is a prototype Physic reconstruction unit." Ash still looked confused. "It will rewrite her DNA but the problem is that I didn't have enough time to finish it.......it may not work completely and leave her....." Oak trailed off, he did not need to finish that sentence.
Ash let go of Prof. Oak and flopped down into a seat. His head hung low for a few moments, he looked up at the pokémon Prof.
"What will she be if she survives?"
"That's her choice. However, what she choose to be she will be forever. There will be no way to ever change her again."
Ash nodded slowly as he hung his head again. Mrs. Ketchum and Brock did their best to comfort the young man......Time passed.
* * *
"What's taking so long!? It's been 7 hours already!" Ash was getting impatient.
"Now now dear. Professor Oak said that the DNA reconstruction would take a long time." his mom said calmly.
"Ash........................"
Ash's head bolted up as Misty walked into the room.
"YOU'RE OK PIKACHU!" Ash exclaimed. He stopped for a second. "You decided to stay a human?" his tone was now confused once more.
Misty had been looking down all this time but as she approached Ash she raised her head and looked him in the eyes.
"Yes Ash I WANTED to stay human." Before he could ask she continued.  "I love you Ash. Ever since we met you took care of me, you protected me, and you loved me. You have always been willing to give your life for me because you love me so much. I wanted to stay a human because I wanted to give back to you what you gave to me. Your love. I'm this way now and forever for you, only for you, and just for you. I love you Ash, and I only want to make you happy." Her blue eyes sparkled like the stars and shone with love.
Ash was speechless. "Pikachu I...I..." Ash thought about meeting her, about all the adventures they had shared, about how much he had grown to love her. And with a sudden realization he KNEW that he loved her back. He walked forward and embraced her. Misty cried as he held her. Ash took a moment to look around, his face once again confused. He looked at her mom and she nodded her approval. He looked at his long time friend Brock and he gave him a smile. He looked at his mentor Prof. Oak and he received a sagely nod. Lastly Ash looked at Pikachu.
His first pokémon turned human. Her eyes were filled with love and in that love Ash realized that he had not lost a pokémon, but gained something even better.
"MISTY!" Ash cried happily as he tossed her into the air.
"ASH!" the surprised girl replied in the same tone.
In that small moment Ash realized one more thing. He had been through so much and had so many adventures but now his biggest one was about to begin. And as Misty came back down into his arms the two humans wrapped their arms around each other.....never to let go of their love ever again.

The End (Or is it?)