Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks!

Disclaimer: I really don’t own pokemon, but I wish I did! Anyways, don’t steal my fanfic/characters/ideas!

Lance: Romance?

Phantomness: I’ll think of some, I promise! But… Argh, this is turning out to be a long series… so I play… Time Jump!

Timeline: 3 months and seven badges later

Started 11/26/04

Chapter 11

“Wow, so I’m finally at Pokemon League.”

“Looks like it.” Lance smiled.

“Arigato! I mean, just for being there…”

Lance looked a bit nervous as Ashline hugged him, but hugged her back. She was pretty nice, and less of a ditz now. Tragedy can change people for the better, right?

I hope so…

“So, are you nervous?”

“Hmm… well, Lorelei might be hard…”

She didn’t have electric pokemon, and the only grass-type she had was bellsprout, which she hadn’t bothered to train. Maybe that was a mistake.

“You still need Earth badge though.”

“Hai!”

“Good luck with that then.”

“I think I can do it… oh wait, no… I have a bunch of water-types. I’ll be fine against Giovanni.”

“I hope so.”

Ashline grinned. “Oh, don’t worry! He can’t be that good!” With that, she skipped off to the gym.

Lance inwardly sighed. * So she thinks… *

Inside the gym, Giovanni laughed at his challenger. His challenger was a little ditzy girl? This wouldn’t take long. He’d even have time for that rocket executive meeting he had scheduled in fifteen minutes!

Piece of cake…

“I challenge you, Giovanni!”

“Brave of you, little girl. Machamp, go!”

“Umbreon, you’re up!” Ash said, releasing her dark eevelution. Giovanni blinked, not recognizing the pokemon.

Oh well, it looked like an eevee. But fighting beat normal…

“Machamp, Low Kick!”

“Umbreon… Psychic now!”

Psychic hit Machamp right between its eyes. The muscular pokemon teetered for a few seconds, and then fell. Ash smiled. * One down! *

“Oh? That’s different. Kingler, I choose you! Crabhammer!”

Umbreon had enough defenses to stand for a bit, so… it used Confuse Ray followed by Sand-Attack. That would help the next pokemon should Umbreon fall.

Set up strategy.

“Guillotine!”

“Quick! Toxic!” Kingler was poisoned, but Umbreon fainted now.

Ashline switched out her Bellsprout. Giovanni burst out laughing.

“You’re kidding me! Kingler, Guillotine!”

“Bellsprout, use Growth!”

Bellsprout’s special rose! Kingler is confused! It hit itself in its confusion! Kingler takes poison damage from toxic!
“Maybe not?”

Giovanni glared. “Kingler, Guillotine again!”

This time, Kingler’s attack missed! Guillotine had horrible accuracy + sand attack = problems. More poison damage was tolled.

“Okay, Bellsprout, use Wrap!”

For every turn wrap moved, Kingler took more poison damage. Ashline smiled sweetly as Wrap finished off Kingler.

Giovanni glared. * She’s trying to make a fool of me eh? Very well then… *

Flicking a switch, he released Mewtwo.

Ashline blinked. * That’s a pokemon? Oh well. *

“Mewtwo, Disable!”

“Huh?”

Ashline suddenly found her body neatly pinned against the gym wall. “Yikes! What are you doing?”

‘Sorry, but my reputation as a gym leader is at stake here.” Giovanni said. “I won’t kill you. Mewtwo, use Amnesia!”

As the mental attack hit, something in the back of Ash’s mind crumbled. Amnesia had succeeded in destroying the barriers between lives.

Her eyes turned red and snapped open.

“Oh no you don’t…”

Mewtwo paused, perplexed. Why wasn’t his attack working? And when had the human’s voice gotten so deep?

< Who are you? >

“None of your concern.” Ash said, her eyes ablaze. “Phoenix Firestorm!” Flames soared from her body, surrounding into a phoenix shape and charging.

When the flames cleared, Mewtwo was KO’d, and Ash was gone.

Ash crossed her arms, glaring at nothing in particular. Those weren’t all nice memories. Although…

A blush crossed her face as she remembered how nice Lance had been, despite her totally stupid actions.

Did that mean he still remembered and might like her?

How cool! Er… no, that wasn’t what he/she meant at all…

“It’s so hard being a girl. How weird.”

Lance appeared a few minutes later. “So why are you here in Whirl Islands?” * which happens to be *my* home, not yours… *

“To see you.” Ashline replied sweetly.

“Oh?”

Ash kissed him, enjoying his startled look. “You like me, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

“Good.”

“I see you’ve gotten your memories back.”

“I should thank you for being so patient…” * But why did I get reincarnated as such a dumb blonde? Yech! *

“That was nothing.”

“Oh, don’t lie, Lance.” Ashline said, as she kissed him again. * I know you too well, sensei… *

“Fine, I won’t. It was quite a challenge remembering you were in this body so I wouldn’t lose my temper.”

Ash purred as Lance hugged her. “I see… well, how’s Father?”

“Oh, yours? At least he’s not interfering in our lives this time.”

“Good, because I love you and nothing will keep us apart this time.”

“I know.”

End Chapter/The End!

Completed 11/26/04

Stupid ending I admit. *glares at schoolwork*