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Chapter 5:  Red Alert

Ash, Misty, and Brock ran down the halls as quickly as they could, Jessie, James, and Meowth followed from behind, and even started to gain.

Misty:  We gotta hide!

Ash:  But where?

They ran around the corner and continued down trying to ditch their pursuers.  A door opened with a cleaning lady pushing a cart full of soap and rags, she saw the three running towards her.  She run into the room and closed the door.  Ash and Misty dodged the cart and run in an open room and hid, but Brock was too busy watching if Jessie, James, and Meowth were close behind that he failed to dodge and ended up running into it and landing on the cart.

Brock:  Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!

The cart traveled down the hall and towards the garbage chute.  He accidentally got into the chute and slid down.  Brock landed in a dump bin plummeting into the trash.  Just then a Rocket worker rolled the bin and attached it at the end of the subway taking Brock totally way from Rocket Headquarters and to the official dumpsite of Team Rocket.

The sounds of feet running the hall passed and Ash and Misty looked out to see if the coast was clear.

Ash:  Alright, looks like we’re safe.

Misty:  They’ll be back, we gotta keep moving.

Ash:  Where’s Brock?

Misty:  I don’t know.

Ash:  Let’s go find him, maybe he hid in one of these rooms.

Ash and Misty searched in each room, nothing.

Ash:  See anything Pikachu?

Pikachu:  Pi ((no))

Misty:  Let’s keep searching.

Just as they turned the corner a rocket minion approached them

Rocket1:  Oh it’s you!  Aren’t you supposed to be in the lab?

Ash:  Ah yeah.  But we . . .

Misty:  Just had to use the bathroom first.  A long ride in the subway does that to ya.

Rocket1:  Yup.  I know, had beans for breakfast and that wasn’t pretty.

Misty made an icky face.

Rocket1:  Well let’s go, the boss is probably waiting for you.

The two had to play along with it, they could say no or they could give themselves away.  They went into the research center and there they saw an arch looking thing filled with wires and metals.  Not a good time to fake.

Misty:  What do we do now?

Ash:  I don’t know.  And we still have to look for Brock.

Rocket1:  Well, I’ll just go.  Those beans are acting up again.

The rocket minion left, Ash and Misty saw the opportunity to run when . . .

Giovanni:  Is the test subject ready?

Scientist:  Yes sir.  The growlith is ready to be Chrono Shifted.

Ash:  Wait, what’s going on there.

Misty:  ASH!!

Ash looked over.  He saw a dark man watching from a window above, scientist moving about, and what caught Ash’s eye was a growlith caged up right infront of the arch.

Giovanni:  Proceed!

The scientist turned on a machine, the lights dimmed and the sound of electricity roared out.  It sounded like a room full of magnatons generating power.  The growlith in the cage started to howl.  Flashes of lights filled the inner part of the arch, it was like a lake full of light.  The growlith howled more, howled in desperation not to go in.  The scientist started to push the cage towards the lake of light, the growlith started to burn through the metal bars with its flame-thrower attack.

Scientist:  Contain that growlith, it’s not suppose to break through the cage until it’s all the way in the portal.

A scientist showered the growlith with a fire extinguisher making it faint.  Ash totally ragged up, he cared for all pokemon and could see it being missed treated.

Ash:  Get away from that growlith!!!

Misty:  ASH!!

Ash:  Pikachu thunderhock those scientist!

Pikachu:  Pika PI KAAAA CHUUUUUUU!!!

The scientists were hit hard and fell to the ground.  Ash tried to pull the growlith’s cage away from the portal, Misty ran in and pulled Ash away.

Ash:  No they’re going to kill it!

Misty:  ASH, you’re going to get yourself killed.

Giovanni:  Guard, GUARDS!  Get in here, intruders below!

Guards entered from all doors surrounding Ash and Misty.

Misty:  This doesn’t look good.

Ash:  Well we’ll just make a pathway out.  Pikachu use your Maximum Thunder Attack.

Pikachu:  PIKA PIIIII KAAAAA PPIIIII KAAAAA CHUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

Bolts flew everywhere shocking most of the Rocket guards, but Ash didn’t realize the mistake he made.  One of Pikachu’s bolts landed on the control panel and caused a short circuit.  The portal became unstable and became a vacuum.  Ash, Misty, and Pikachu where so close that they were being pulled in.  Ash held onto one of the bars of the growlith’s cage and Misty held onto Ash.

Misty:  ASH!!!

Ash:  MISTY!!  Hold on, I gotcha.

Then suddenly the bar broke.  It was one of the bars that the growlith started to burn off.  Ash, Misty, and Pikachu fell into the portal screaming.

Ash:  MISTY!!! MISTY!!!

Misty:  ASH!!!  Don’t let go of me.

Pikachu:  PIKAAAAAAAA!!

And together they were chrono shifted into the future.

Next Issue:  Ash and Misty’s Future