I was Loved, but Lost
Author: Goopie
Email: webmaster@charpalace.com
All characters are property of their rightful owners. I only own the ones I've made up (ex. Christa, Cassie etc.) so, if they are on the tv show or anything, I don't own them. I'm not making any profit from this story, nor any other I've made (though I wish I was).
Chapter 1
On Monday morning, Gary slowly drags himself out of bed and gets dressed.
"I still miss Crystal. Ash was wrong, it's been 3 years, and I feel the same as I did when she ran away..."
Gary gets a vision of sitting in a corner of a building watching his wife singing a song. (We all should know what song it is from the story, "The Mystery of Ash's Love") Before she sings the last three words, she runs away, never to be seen again.
Gary gets dressed and walked outside, headed for his Grandfather's lab. He walks in.
"Sorry I'm late everyone." He says as he takes a seat at a table.
"Gary, I'd like you to meet, Nicole, and Heather. I've also invited Ash, Brock, Suzie, Christa and Pikachu." Prof. Oak introduces everyone.
"Why did you call us, Professor? It must be important for all of us to be here." Brock says.
"Yes, it is Brock. You might not have know this, but Team Rocket has decided to move to America." He pulls out some charts. "Notice the crime reports have lowered dramatically."
"Why would the go there? Pokemon has just gotten started there." Christa tells them.
"I'm not sure, exactly, but I'd like you all to find out for me. That's why I called all of you. Just think of it as this-vacationing in another country, with a little investigation on the side."
Everyone thinks it over and decides to go.
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A month later, they board a plane in Celadon, headed for Los Angeles. They board, take their seats and are off. Ash, and Pikachu sit in one row. And Brock, his wife Suzie (yes, his wife! They figured they had so much in common that they should spend the rest of their lives with each other. Hopefully...) in one row, and Christa and Gary sit in another row. And Heather and Nicole in another.
Gary turns and starts talking with Brock.
"So, I see you finally found someone, huh?" Gary says pointing to Suzie.
"Yeah. So, uh... What do you think we'll do when we get to America? Will we just stay in California?" Brock says changing the subject.
"No, probably not. Since there are 50 states, I suggest we got to a lot of them. Like at least half."
Heather turns around.
"You mean we can go to different places? That means we can go on a major shopping spree!" she exclaims. Everyone sighs as a huge sweat drop forms on the back of their heads.
"Well, Heather, I heard somewhere, that there's a huge mall in a place called, uh... Minnesota. We can check that out." Nicole tells them.
"We aren't here for shopping. We have business to take care of." Ash states.
"Oh, come on Ash, lighten up. You don't seem to want to have any fun." Christa comments. "He must be one of those all work, no play, kind of guys." She whispers.
"Hmph." He turns around and stares out the window.
"Pika Pi Chu Pikachu (What's wrong. You usually don't act like this.)" Pikachu asks his best friend.
Ash doesn't answer.
"Pi Pikachu (Fine. Don't answer me.)"
The stewardess comes around and asks if they want anything to eat. Pikachu, like always, gets a bottle of ketchup. The others take their food and Ash and Brock both start pigging out on it. Everyone just stares at the two.
"Wow! Slow down." Heather tells them.
"Yeah. Brock slow down when you eat. Or your going to choke." Suzie says.
They slow down a little bit, but totally devoured their food before the others took one bite.
"They'll never learn..." Suzie sighs.
Los Angeles International Airport...
"So, Craig, are you sure they'll be here?" a woman asks.
"That's what the boss said. Have I ever told you wrong?" a man answers.
"Lets see... How about the time you said Cassie's plan would work. And the time you..." a voice tells them as he lists off times that Craig was wrong on his claws.
"What do you mean my plan wouldn't work? It was your fault she got away!" Cassie screams.
"My fault! Don't think so, it was his fault. He opened the door."
"Oh what does it matter. She got away, and it's over with. Now the plane should be landing soon, so we should watch for them." Craig says.
They sit down and cover their faces with newspapers, as if they were reading them.
"Charmander, you can't read. Get on the ground and act like a normal Pokemon!" Cassie yells.
Before he could make a come back, Craig picks him up and drops him on the ground. "Now wait there till we see them."
"Fine."
Eventually, our heroes come out of the plane and head to the baggage claim.
"I say we go straight to the mall after we get checked in a hotel. I mean we'll be here for who knows how long investigating, so we should have some fun." Heather explains.
"Well, I really don't want to go shopping right away. Since we'll be going to a bunch of different states, I don't see why we should spend all of our money in one place." Ash argues.
Brock sighs as a sweat drop forms on his head. "Well, it seems just like the old days... Ash fighting with someone every second of the day. So Ash, do you like Heather, too?"
Ash blushes. "What? You shouldn't be talking. I wasn't the one who was always drooling over a girl. Oh, never mind." Ash stomps off.
"Ash doesn't seem to be acting like he usually does. I wonder what's wrong. Pikachu, why don't you talk to him?" Brock asks.
"Pika Pi Chu." Pikachu shakes his head.
"You mean you've already tried? Well, I guess if he doesn't want to tell us why he's so upset, then fine. I plan to pry it of him by the time we leave California, though."
"We should get out bags and get checked into a hotel." Christa tells them.
As they turn to leave, they are stopped by two people and a Charmander.
"Make it easy and hand over your Pokemon!" Craig explains.
"Huh? If you want our Pokemon, you must be Team Rocket!" Gary yells.
They tear off their disguises and begin their motto:
"Prepare for trouble"
"Make it double"
"To protect the world from devastation"
"To unite all peoples within our nation"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love"
"To extend our reach to the stars above"
"Cassie!"
"Craig"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight"
"Charmander! That's right."
"Ahh! A talking Charmander!" Heather, Nicole, and Christa scream.
"So what about Charmander. Now, hand over all of your Pokemon!" Cassie orders.
"No way! You aren't getting a thing from us without a fight!" Brock explains.
"Fair enough. Pokeball go!" Craig yells.
"Mon Chan" The Pokemon says as it comes out.
"Pokeball go!" Cassie yells.
"Cloyster" The Pokemon says.
"OK, you want to battle ALL OF US? All right then. Ninetales go!" Brock yells.
"Cubone Go!" Christa says.
"Gengar go!" Heather exclaims.
"Kadabra I choose you." Nicole yells.
"Eevee Go!" yells Suzie.
"Golem Go!" Gary yells.
"Pika!" Pikachu says getting ready,
"What? Seven against 2 isn't fair." Craig whines.
"I always thought bad guys never play by the rules." Brock tells them.
"Well, I... uh..." Craig stutters.
"Well, I guess you've won this time. But don't think you'll never see us again." Cassie says running off.
They recall their Pokemon and continue threw the thick crowd of people who were standing around to watch the fight begin.
"Hey Suzie, I never thought you had an Eevee." Nicole says.
"Oh, yeah I do. I got Eevee from Mikey the Eevee trainer. His Eevee just had babies and decided to give me own, since I'm a breeder." Suzie explains.
"You think we should look for Ash? I mean we shouldn't leave her without him." Gary asks.
"Yeah, we might as well. Or he'd be even more mad than he already is." Nicole explains.
"Pika" Pikachu agrees.
They go off in search Ash. When they find Ash, they decided to rent a car. They get two cars and leave to find a hotel. After a while of looking, they find a hotel and decide to break up into groups.
"Us guys will go together while you all go together." Gary explains.
"OK."
"Lets meet back here at 7:00 so we can go eat, OK?" Suzie suggests.
"Great. See ya then." Gary says.
They part and Gary, Ash, Brock, and Pikachu are standing there still.
"Maybe we could go to the movies." Brock suggests.
"OK. Lets go."
When they get there, they decide to see, "A Time for Love and Death" (I made the title up, if there is really a movie titled that, sorry, I didn't know.) They thought it was pretty good. At the end of the movie, someone stands up and turns around and announces, "Well, I hope you've enjoyed the show. We have a little surprise for everyone. One of the actresses, and writer of the movie, Kelly Nelson, has agreed to tell us about the movie you all just saw."
As she stands up from the front row, and turns around, the man takes a seat. The woman had orange hair down to her chin, she wore a light green shirt with khaki cargo shorts. The woman has eyes as blue as the ocean that sparkle as if they were made of glitter.
Her voice was just as sweet as you'd think it would be. "Hello. I'm Kelly Nelson. I made the movie you just..." She stops as she sees our heroes.
They just stare at each other for a while until Gary speaks up. "Crystal? Wh..What are you doing here in America?"
The man who announced the woman stands up. "She is not Crystal. I just told you her name is Kelly Nelson."
"Yeah, but she looks a lot like someone ... or some people we know..." Ash explains.
"Huh?"
Everyone turns and looks at Kelly. She starts get nervous. 'I always knew they would never give up on looking for me. But I never thought they would recognize me..." she thinks.
"Well.. I ... uh..." she starts.
"You mean... your not really Kelly Nelson?" The man asks her. She shakes her head, no.
"Well, then who are you really?"
"Misty Waterflower!" Ash yells at the same time Gary yells, "Crystal Oak!"
"I'm confused. You have 3 names you go by?" the man asks.
"No. It's a long story... We should probably talk in private." she says.
As she pulls on his arm out the door, he stops and yells to our heroes, "You, too!"
They pick up their stuff and follow them out into the hall and into a little room with a few chairs and a table. They sit down and tell the man everything that has happened since they last saw Crystal/Misty.
"So, I guess you found the person you came to America for, huh?" the man asks.
"Well... we really weren't looking for her here." Brock explains.
"Then why are you here?" Crystal says. (I'll just use Crystal from now on. Since they really don't have any real proof of her being Misty, yet. ^_^)
As they explain their mission, they lose track of time and it's 7:45 by the time they realize what time it is.
"Ahh. We're going to be late. They'll be really mad if they have to wait." Ash tells them.
"Who?" Crystal asks.
"Our friends. We are supposed to be meeting them in 15 minutes for dinner. I'm sorry, but we have to go." Brock explains.
"OK. Well, call me when you get a chance." Crystal says writing a number on a piece of paper and handing it to Pikahu, who was on her lap.
"Ok, bye." they all say as they leave to the hotel.
At the hotel...
"Where are they? I knew they would be late. It seems like all guys are late!" Nicole yells.
"Not all guys, Nicole. Just the ones you're friends with." Heather laughs.
They all just got back from shopping. Each of them wearing something new. Nicole's light pink dress, went down to her knees. Her brown hair flowing down her back, and green eyes sparkling, even though she was mad.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Nicoles argues.
"Oh, nothing..." Heather teases. She wore a black miniskirt with a purple tank top. She brushes a strand of her blond hair out of her green eyes.
"Will you two stop fighting? They'll be here, I hope..." Suzie explains. Suzie wore a long green dress with flowers on it.
"Yeah." Christa says. She wore a long red dress. She had white barrets in her green hair, that became her trademark 2 years ago.
Just then the door bursts open. They turn around and see the guys bent over panting.
"Where have you been? You're late!" Nicole yells at them.
"We ... got her ... as fast ... as we... could..." Gary explains between breaths.
"Hey! We aren't late. We're early!" Ash says after his breathing turned normal.
They looked at the clock, to see it was 7:59.
"Ok, fine. You just barely made it. But we better go." Nicole tells them.
They go out the door. Ash walks next to Heather. Christa sees this and gets mad. She slightly pushes Heather out of the way and grabs onto Ash's arm. He stops and looks at her, in a weird way.
"What are you doing?" he asks.
"Um.. I, uh..." she quickly thinks of an excuse, "I'm cold. Yeah, I'm cold."
"Well, you should have brought a sweater or something. I really don't think that's the reason your holding onto me..."
"Christa likes Ash!" everyone teases.
It's true, she does like Ash. Ever since she first met him, she's liked him even more.
"Huh? Um, Christa, we're just friends. Your 17, I'm 23..." Ash explains.
"So. What, you like Heather? She's 25."
Ash blushes. "That's none of your business..."
"So you do like Heather! I knew it!" Brock exclaims.
"So who cares who likes who. Lets just go, I'm starving!" Gary yells.
"Ok." everyone agrees.
They go on their way once again, without noticing 3 suspicious looking things following them...
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So how do you like it so far? It'll get better later, trust me. ^_^ People have wanted this sequel, so I made it as fast as my fingers would go. So tell me how you like it. Email me at Charpalace@hotmail.com or visit my website at http://charpalace.cjb.net | |
