Saturday May 1, 2004

Sorry I haven’t updated that much. My English teacher is piling project 
after project on us. I hate it. >_<  I’ll be able to update a lot after June 
9th so I hope you guys can bear only one update a week until then. <_< 
Enjoy!

	“ASH! WILL YOU WAKE UP????!!!” Misty shouted over Ash’s head as it was 10 
in the morning. Ash grumbled and rolled over.

	“Ash damnit! I know you were training until almost midnight but you still 
have to get up!” Misty explained. She stormed out of the room, leaving a 
very tempered Ash who had just woken up.

	“No respect.” Ash grumbled as he stumbled his way out to the Pokemon Center 
Lobby.

	“Well, look who finally got up. It’s Mr. Sleepyhead.” Maggie replied as she 
polished her Gym Badges, 4 of them. Ash didn’t notice at first but walked 
over to the pop machine and got a Mountain Dew Livewire. He then sat down at 
the table and his eyes glanced at her badges.

	“Nice badges there Maggie.” Ash said. Misty and Brock exchanged looks and 
tried not to laugh. Maggie’s eyes widen as he took a drink of his pop. 
Suddenly, comprehension dawned on Ash and a second later, Maggie, Misty, and 
Brock were covered in orange soda.

	“GYM BADGES????!!!!” Ash exclaimed. Maggie smirked.

	“I kept you in the dark long enough Ii thought. Guess it was time to show 
you that you had competition.” Maggie said with a smile. Misty’s eyes 
twitched as she wiped her face off. She then slammed a mallet onto Ash’s 
head and he fell face first onto the table.

	“Did you REALLY need to spit pop all over us???????!!!” Misty shouted. The 
whole center became deathly quiet as everyone stared. Brock tried to change 
the conversation as everyone went back to what they were doing.

	“So Ash. Have a strategy on how to beat Chelsey?” Brock asked. Ash didn’t 
answer right away. He was studying the badges.

	“You have all the ones I have except…YOU BEAT CHELSEY????!!!” Ash shouted. 
Again, the lobby became quiet. Maggie blushed.

	“Yep. I did. By watching your battle, I could find things that I could do.” 
Maggie said. Ash plopped back in his chair grumpily.

	“So all these times you went and disappeared for awhile was because you 
were battling?” Ash asked. Maggie nodded. Misty and Brock where coughing 
into their napkins. Ash’s eyes twitched.

	“And just WHAT is so funny?” Ash asked. At this, Misty started laughing her 
head off, when she recovered much to the glares of Ash; she explained what 
was so funny.

	“Well, Maggie had strategy. She watched other people battle Chelsey. You 
just went in a demanded a battle. You had no idea what she would do or 
anything, unlike Maggie.” Misty said. Ash rounded on Maggie.

	“Well? What did you notice? Anything that can help me?” Ash asked.

	“Quite a lot. I’ll tell you.” Maggie said.

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	It was just after lunch. Ash went running out of the center towards the 
Gym.

	“This time we’ll win.” Ash said as the others caught up.

	“You better hope so. I don’t know of any Gym Leaders who let you battle 
them more than twice. You better hope you win Ash.” Brock said.

	“I will. You can count on that.” Ash replied. With that, they went up to 
the gym doors, opened them, and walked inside.

To be continued…

Okay. That’s the best ending I could think of. I hope it was okay. Well, 
review! ^_^