And here starts the slightly longer chapters because I was writing for fun, and 
not just to force myself to get here! =P

CHAPTER 6

	“NEVER touch that package.” May was lecturing Ash on her private things. 
“It’s a long and very personal story…”
	“I can keep it secret!” Ash loved getting secrets from people. He was good 
at it too. But not this time.
	“I won’t tell anyone about THAT! Period!”
	“Oh fine…” Satoshi was let down a bit; he thought he was one of May’s best 
friends. ‘Oh well, there are more secrets where that came from.’

* * *

	Bananas live in England… Extreme Makeover: Bikini Edition… Terror in I 
rock… Abnormal nose scar formations…
	“Huh?”
	All of a sudden, Kasumi’s memories came back to her: the smoke, the fire, 
the trail, the clearing, and now… this.
	The redhead wasn’t in a very good position; in midair her bike had clung 
to a twig and had snapped off after she fell deeper. It was pinning down one of 
her arms, and the other one was twisted behind her back. Misty looked up and saw 
the dim sky continue to darken. She checked her watch but it was broken. The 
situation seemed pretty hopeless.
	But Misty had hope on her side. She needed to tell Ash the truth… about 
her crush on him.
	‘Oh, crap. I didn’t bring my pokeballs because I left most of them back in 
Kanto, and Starmie and Manectric are still healing at the pokemon center… Gah! 
What am I going to do???’
	Kasumi knew she had to save her bike because a, there was no possible way 
she could get back to the pokecenter before curfew without it, and b, her family 
had recently been losing money and a new bike would just be too much. [A/N: 
Well, unless she could get Ash to buy her one. =P]

* * *

	Haruka was happy. Misty must be dead. The brunette hadn’t heard of that 
coward since she ran at the fire. Still, there was a possibility. Someone had 
tripped the cave alarm. Someone had found the fork in the road. And now she had 
a nice present in case a certain someone had happened to do just that…

* * *

	Somehow Misty had managed to get her arm out from behind her back, and she 
only had to deal with her right one now. She heard rushing water at the bottom 
of the cavern and her eyes opened wide. ‘If I don’t get out of here now, I’m as 
good as drowned!’

* * *

	Now in her Secret Base [A/N: one of her many, actually] , May Birch 
checked her camera displays. The Phase One hole had been revealed. ‘Crud. I’ll 
have to disguise it again!’ In Phase Two, there was… Kasumi! And the water had 
auto-flushed!
	“All is going as planned. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
	The evil girl left her fortress, on the way clicking an ‘express flush’ 
button on one of her laptops.

* * *

	“Have you seen May?” Ash asked his mother.
	“She left an hour ago. Something to do with ‘unfinished business’,” she 
replied.
	“Any idea what?” he questioned.
	“Your guess is as good as mine,” she responded semi-solemnly.
	“Well I ought to go look for her,” he stated.
	“I want both of you back by 6:00 sharp, do you hear me?”
	“Yes, Mom!” Ash rolled his eyes and stepped out the door.

* * *

	Misty was digging. Well, she had been until a couple seconds before. She 
had been building a pit for her bike. It fell right in perfectly and Misty got 
up and dusted herself off.
	‘Freedom,’ she thought.
	The almost-free trainer took an ascension gun out of her bike pocket and 
shot it at the roof of the cave. She tied her feet to the pedals on her bike and 
held on to the ascension gun for dear life. The mechanism pulled the leader and 
her bike up and out of the hole just in the nick of time. Moments later, and she 
would’ve drowned.

* * *

	It was dark now, and Kasumi had to use a flashlight to be sure that she 
didn’t cut her feet with the scissors she was using to unbind them. Then she 
really started to worry. The path through the woods from which she had come 
previously had been blocked by a huge rockslide, forcing her to choose an 
alternative. She chose the north path, but she might’ve chosen differently if 
she had known her current route would lead to terrible disaster.

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