Episode 47!

Disclaimer: Shadow does not own pokemon. Did shadow ever say she owned pokemon?

Notes: <> indicates telepathy, italics indicates poke speech, ** indicates thoughts, and () indicates authoress’s notes.

Timeline: A few days after Episode 46

Ranma – Thank you!
Tmp – okay, at the end, Ash was talking to the stars. You spelled Syaoran correctly. Yes, Eriol was the person talking. Um… they have magic and that’s how the ice cream stays frozen. I’m not telling how Teresa got a Doduo. Honou = Ho-oh. No, Eterneon is not the pokemon Ash is getting out of the 3 types debate. Not telling what Ash gets yet, wait a couple of episodes!

Pikacar/Marle: Eterneon is cute! *Smile*

Silver2: Wow! Anyways, there is no writer’s block yet, thank you!

Nikki and Crystal Wind: Why’d you change your name? Anyways, no, I don’t have a pic of Eterneon but I could draw one…

SnowTiger – YAY! *Cheers*

Eevee99 – um, sorry, but no, I don’t really like the relatives game much… unless Charlotte’s going to be related to Ash…

Satoshi – Ice and Fire are both taken, Fire is Charlotte’s, and Ice is Lance’s… wait! That might be a plot thing! Forget I said anything! Yep, the star was talking to Ash! DIE NELVANA! *Cackles* ‘Thoughts of a pokemon’ is followed by ‘More thoughts of a pokemon’, Satoshi. I’ll update that too.

Episode 47: The gaining of the bright morning star badge

“AAHHH! It’s all yellow and orange!” Ash said, staring in disbelief at Topaz city. “No way!”

“Didn’t you know? All the cities here have a color theme.” Charlotte said.

“But I didn’t think everything would be yellow/orange!” Ash said. “Besides, even the people are wearing nothing but yellow and orange!”

“In that case, do you want a costume in that color so you’ll blend in?” Teresa asked hopefully.

“No!” Ash said emphatically. “No way!”

Charlotte silently thanked lugia that there hadn’t been a photographer along when she had captured her set.

“How about this?” Teresa asked ten minutes later, in the pokemon center.

Ash was afraid to look up, but he finally forced his eyelids open and glanced up at the costume Teresa was holding.

There was a pair of black jeans, embroidered all over with orange poppies. The shirt was a dark yellow tank top. With this went an orange headband, and a pair of black elbow-length gloves. Also, he had black-and-orange sneakers.

“Is this a Halloween special?”

“No, that’s still three weeks away.” Teresa said. “It’s orange, but not orange, so you won’t stick out too much, but you won’t look mundane either!”

Ash sighed, but he went and changed into the costume.

“So who’s the Topaz city gym leader?” Teresa asked.

Charlotte yawned. “Mina. She uses normal-type pokemon.”

“Oh?” Teresa blinked. “I know there’s a gym in Johto like that. Whitney.”

“I wouldn’t know.”

Ash emerged from the bathroom, dressed in his costume. “Okay, I’m ready!” He said.

“Great! Let’s go!” Charlotte said. “The gym is only one block away.”

“Could it be that huge building that’s bright orange and heart-shaped?” Ash asked in a small voice.

Teresa winced. Ash sounded smushed. But then, considering what the building looked like…

“Yes.”

“Great.” Ash muttered as they walked in. “I’m so glad the gyms at home aren’t like this…”

Teresa nodded in agreement. *Yikes! This building is terribly ugly. All the colors clash! Ugh. *

When they walked in, junior trainers who were all dressed in identical frilly orange blouses and really short white skirts immediately swamped Ash.

“Ooh! A new challenger!”

“Let me fight him, Kali!”

“No, I want to, Jenny! You got the last one!”

“Liar, that was Michelle!”

Ash panicked. Charlotte sighed and pulled out a jar of noxious black liquid. She opened the jar and suddenly, a being of diaphanous smoke appeared.

“AAHHH!” Shouted all the junior trainers as they ran away.

Ash blinked. “What was that?”

“Smoke demons. Pretty useful for driving away large numbers of people.” Charlotte said, as she sucked the smoke demon back into its jar. “Okay, you should be able to go find Mina now.”

“Thanks!” Ash said. He and Teresa immediately ran into the gym. Charlotte yawned, pulled a pillow out of her backpack, and fell asleep against one of the benches.

“Oh gym leader! Where are you?” Ash called.

Mina nearly fell off her bright pink and orange plush sofa. “Are you a challenger?”

“Yes! I challenge you for the Venus badge!” Ash said.

Mina blinked as she looked at his costume and fangirl who was videotaping. “Okay…. Let’s have a one on one pokemon battle!”

“Sounds good to me!” Ash said. He reached for his poke belt. “I choose Eterneon!”

“Normal to normal, eh?” Mina asked. “In that case, I’ll use Snubble!”

The pink dog pokemon appeared and growled. Ash blinked. * Isn’t Eterneon a light type? *

“Eterneon, use Psychic!” Ash called. Eterneon nodded. Her eyes flashed gold as she shot a psychic at the dog pokemon.

“Snubble, use Charm!” The Snubble batted its eyelashes at Eterneon, who immediately broke off her attack.

“Darn! Snap out of it!” Ash said. “Use Light Beam!” The dazed Eterneon managed to focus on Ash’s voice and fire off the attack.

Snubble shook, but it still managed to stay upright.

“Now finish it off with Light Ray!” A ray of white light shot from Eterneon’s eyes, combining into a spiral of stars. The attack pounded into Snubble unmercifully.

“I win.” Ash said, as Snubble collapsed.

Teresa smirked as the tape finished. “Woohoo! Got it all on film! Great one, Ash!”

“I guess you win.” Mina said. “Wow! Nobody’s ever been able to beat me that quickly!”

“Thanks!” Ash replied as he took the Venus badge from Mina. However, he was unprepared when she kissed him on the lips.

“In that case I’ll go out with you for sure!”

“What?!” Was all Ash managed to say before he fainted.

He was awoken by Pika-chan waving a giant paper fan in his face.

“Oh! You’re awake!”

“Pika-chan, I just had the strangest dream…” Ash said as he yawned. “I dreamed that this girl I didn’t even know glomped me.”

Mina cleared her throat.

“Ash… it wasn’t a dream.” Pika-chan said.

Ash screamed and dashed out of the Venus gym. Teresa and Pika-chan ran after him. Charlotte was still sleeping against the wall. But soon, she awoke and joined the chase.

“I don’t even know you!” Ash shouted as he ran.

“But you’re so cute!” Mina protested as she chased him.

“A good relationship is based on mutual consent!” Ash screamed as he dashed into a department store.

Mina shrugged and followed in. “Come back here!”

“Hey, quit hitting on him!” Charlotte said as she joined the fun.

“Who asked you? You’re so ugly only a toad would go out with you!”

“What? Why you – Arcanine, I choose you!”

“What an ugly pokemon! You ought to get cute ones like me, than boys will like you! Clefairy, go!”

“Extreemespeed and then Fire Blast!” Charlotte shouted in annoyance. * Grr… who does she think she is? *

Ash cautiously peered out. * Phew, I think its safe now. *

Clefairy flew over char-boiled. Just then, Mina spotted Ash in one of the mirrors. “Come back here, you hunk!”

“Eep!” Ash said as he continued to run.

“Jigglypuff! Use Disable!” Mina sang out.

Ash dived into a display. He hid there until Mina had gone.

“Ash? Where are you?” Pika-chan asked.

“She’s gone!” Teresa added.

Ash peered out. “Really? Thank Mew!”

“Quick, let’s try to get out of Topaz city while she’s still sulking in her gym.” Charlotte said.

Ash nodded enthusiastically. He changed into a simple t-shirt and jeans, and they quickly raced for the city limits.

Fortunately, Mina wasn’t aware of this fact.

They were much relieved when they finally got out, without even bothering to hit the center.

“Next time, I’m going to make sure the girl doesn’t like me.” Ash said.

“Yeah.” Teresa said. * So I was kind of jealous… so what? *

“What’s next?”

“Amber city is next.” Vulpix-chan piped up. “Leader uses various types of earth pokemon. He’s a guy, so you won’t have to worry about glomping.”
“Great! Let’s go!”

And so the group headed for the next town.

End episode 47! C&CC are great! Flames will be used to summon Suzaku-seikun, who will be so annoyed that he will devour you all! Mwahahaha!

Poll: If shadow wrote a new story, should it be…

A.) A Destiny fic

B.) A story where Ash goes over to Team Rocket because he has no other choice

C.) An Ash meets Red story

D.) A story with Ash, Lance, Charlotte in it.

E.) A depressing pokemon POV fic

F.) Don’t do anything, just update CCA

G.) Pick two