"Surender now our prepare to fight, fight, fight"

"Meowth, dat's right"

"Mmph, mmph!!"

"Ow, look James poor little twerp is trying to talk" Jessie said mockinly

"Maybe we should let her talk Jess"

"Um...ok, but not for too long, she could ruin the plan by screaming." Jessie said then turned to Misty " So, girl, if you try to scream or ask for help or anything but speak quietly, your friend Pikachu will suffer the consequences, it's that ok with you?"

Misty nodded.

"Ok, Meowth take the gag from her mouth"

Meowth did as told.

"Now, you can talk to us" Jessie said

"Why am I here?" Misty asked

"We kidnapped you, isn´t it obvious" James said

"I know, but why, I mean, you always get Pikachu don't you"

"We do, but this time we wanted you, Pikachu is just a cover up"

"A cover up?" Misty asked confused

"Well yeah, a cover up, this way you won't notice that we're trying to h-" Jessie covered James mouth a whispered to him, " she would notice faster if you tell her you idiot"

Misty just stared at them still confused of what they meant.

"Ok,ok,..time's over" Meowth reminded and went over to Misty and placed the gag on her mouth again.

"Now this time we'll do it right!!!" James said

"Our plan will not fail this once!!!" Jessie said, and both of them laughed evily and soundly.

Not to far away from the shanty, a spiky brown-haired guy was passing throuhgh the forest and heard some evil laughs.

"Maybe I should go check that shanty and see whas's going on" He said and went to the place he thought he heard the laughs coming from.

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" I'm totally full..this is not life" Ash said seating on a couch at the Pokémon Center.

"You've said it man" Brock said seating beside him.

"I can't belive the things we do for them" Ash said

"Well, we have to do it"

"Yeah, we do, now we have to head up to Olivine City and get the other part of the list at the Pokémon Center"

"Ok, so that means we should get going now so we can get soon to Olivine"

"FIne, lets go!!"

"..now on to local news, a Pallet Town pokémon trainer known as Gary Oak save a girl and a Pikachu from a group of Rockets, it seems like they were kidnapped a day ago, the girl's name is Misty Waterflower, she is one of the Gym Leaders of Cerulean City and now we have more information from the place were the event took place. back to you Anne,.." the reporter said

Ash and Brock freeze at the sound of Misty´s name.

"Did that woman said Misty and Pikachu werre rescued by...GARY!!" Ash said

"I think she did"

"Lets keep watching" Ash said sounding a little frustrated

"We are here at the Flowerine Town Police HQ with Gary Oak, the boy who saved the girl and the Pikachu, Gary, tell us how this happened" Anne asked.

"Well, I was crossing the forest when I heard laughs and voices so I went to check out what was going on, so I went and peeked through a window of the shanty and saw a two persons and a meowth, then I looked to one corner and saw a girl tied up with ropes and Pikachu on a cage, so I entered the place and begun a pokémon battle with the guys inside and I won, but for some reason they blasted off, that's why police couldn't arrest them"

"Thank you Gary, now back to you Charles"

"Thank you Anne, now international, Rusia is-....."

"He rescued her, he rescued her, I can't belive he rescued her!!!!"

"Calm down Ash, there's nothing to be worrying about now that we now thay are safe" Brock said.

"YEAH, BUT NOT THANKS TO ME BUT TO GARY" Ash shouted

"Come Ash, at least you tried, you got a stomach ache becouse you drank all those sodas, man." Brock said

"I know I did, but Misty won't notice that, now she's gonna like Gary best" Ash said dissapointed.

"Ow, this is about her," Brock said trying to tease him.

"Well it is, I do want to impress her I really wanted to save her, and here I am the Pallet Town loser who can't do nothing right, she would never like me"

"Don't said that Ash, I'm sure she likes you a lot, you just have to listen closely to her to figure it out"

"I don't understand" Ash said confused

"You will, now lets go to the Police HQ so we can see Misty and Pikachu"

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"Thank you for saving me Gary" Misty said

"No prob, besides is my job to protect beautiful girls like you" Gary said. Misty blushed.

Ash and Brock entered the HQ and saw Gary and Misty talking.

"Hey Mist!!" Ash said happily

"Oh, hi Ash, is good to see you"

"Good to see you too, I´m glad you're safe"

"Yeah I am, thanks to Gary"

"Oh yeah, him" Ash said dissapointed

"So, Ketchum, you finally came, what took you so long?, I guess losers are just slow" Gary said with a smirk.

"I'm not a loser, and I was going to rescue her, I really was, is just that..that."

"Just what, loser"

Ash just stayed silent and gave Gary a mean look.

"Well, Misty we're here to take you and pikachu back with us" Brock said to cut off the possible fight within the two young boys.

"I'm glad, so lets go!!" Misty said as she sat up taking Pikachu in her arms.

So they went out the HQ and head up to the Pokémon Center.

"Nurse Joy, can you give us a room" Ash asked

"...and a date?" Brock said trying to hit on Joy.

"Come on Romeo, she can do that" Misty said while pulling Brock away but his ear.

"Here's your room key" Nurse Joy said

"Thank you" Ash said

The trio went to their room and placed their stuff in there.

"I'm gonna get some fresh air, see you guys later" Brock said

"Ok" Ash and Misty said in unison.

They saw Brock leaving the room.

"And, I'm gonna have a bath" Misty said walking to the bathroom

When Misty entered the bath Ash turned to Pikachu and started talking to him.

"Hey buddy, I'm glad you're ok, sorry for not coming sooner"

"Pik pikapi" (It's ok Ash)

"Thanks pal" Ash said and hugged Pikachu.

"But, you know" Ash said relising him "I wish I did rescue you guys, I mean, that's my job. But once again Gary is one step ahead of me, is just that I didn't wanted to risk you two, because they were going to take you to the TR HQ."

"Don't worry Ash" a voice said from behind them. Ash turned and saw Misty.

"M-Misty, I didn't hear you coming out of the bath"

"I didn't want you to" Misty said

"Why d-"

"Thank you for caring" Misty said cutting Ash off.

"No problem, I'd alwalys cared for you, you're my best friend" Ash said

"Ow,..your best friend, I just hoped you looke at me some other way,..in way I looked at you" Misty said.

"And, how do you look at me?"

"I look at you has a caring, brave, loving and cute guy" said Misty moving closer to Ash.

"Well, I look at you the same, you know" said Ash moving even closer to her.

"I'm glad Ash, because I love you" Misty said few inches away from Ash's face.

"I love you too Mist" Ash said as he leaned to kiss her. They kiss sweetly and deep until their air was gone.

"I really love you" Ash finished.

"Me too" and they lean for another kiss. Pikachu just closed his eyes, he didn't want to see that.

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"Ow Jess, those kids finally got together" James said crying, looking through the window.

"I guess our plan worked after all" Jessie said proudly

"Dat means..."

"Team Rocket did a good thing at last!!!" The trio said in unison.

"Hey, and what happened to my bottle lids?"

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THE END!!

A/N: I finished it, at last, it took me over a month to finished but I did, I know there are some things in the story the weren't cleared up or weren't that clear but it is my first time, i hope I could improve my writtings for next time. so R&R!!!

And, mau, thank you for the motto, and all of you thank you for the reviews, it gave me a reason to keep writting!! And a little comercial, read Mauricio's job, is really good.

Bye

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