'The Ultimate Test'

Part 3

"You failed...." the boss said.

"I'm sorry sir. This trainer is exceptionally good. I just need a few more men and more time."

"You shall have them. The operation must succed!" He slammed his fist into his chairs arm rest.

"Uhhhh....Sir?" Jessie said

"What!"

"May we please be informed as to what the 'project' is?" the boss thinks on it for a minute then sighs.

"I suppose your too deep in to be kept in the dark anymore." He presses a botton on his chair and a map of the forest appears on the screen. Their is a small, blinking red dot on the map. "That dot represents the most important peice of equipment in the project. When it is activated, every wild pokemon in a four mile radius will be rendered unconsious. We spent millions on it's development!But if we pull this off, the money we can make will double what we spent!"

"Then why does that brat bother you so much?" James asked.

"Idiot! If those two trainers are their to defend the wild pokemon, it will slow the operation! Worse yet, they could bring the authorities. The last thing we need is the cops swarming the place!"

"I personally guarrante that they won't escape this time." Toran said.

"I expect only the best from you, Toran. Don't disapoint me again. Dismissed!"

The three left the room hopeing to find Ash and Misty.

Misty pulled back from the kiss Ash was giving her. She had no idea what to think 'Does he love me to? Or does he just think he owes me? I need to think!' Misty quickly turned and ran out of the cave, tears forming in her eyes. Ash just stood their, confused.

'I guess she doesn't love me.' he thought. Ash sat down for a long time. All he could see in his mind was Misty running away from him, as if he were going to hurt her. 'She hates me now! We were friends and I ruined it!" Ash decided he would try to explain it to her when she came back. Eventually he realized she wasn't coming back. He crawled into his sleeping bag and cried himself to sleep.

Misty was sitting on a moss covered rock a dozen yards from the cave. The had climbed on it, wrapped her arms around her knee's and cried into her arms. She wasn't shure how she should be feeling. He thoughts sounded like two people arguing:

'He kissed me, and I had liked it.

'But what if it was just pity?

'What if he loves me and now he thinks I hate him?

'Maybe he's just scared?

'I'm scared and I didn't kiss him.

'Well.... why don't I go back their and ask him how he feels?

'Good idea!

Misty brought her head up with a jolt. Both sides had agreed on something! She smiled 'It's gonna be tough, but if I just ask him what he ment by it, I won't have to guess anymore!' She jumped off the rock and ran back tword the cave. All of a sudden two men had grabbed her arms and pinned her to the ground. She tried to scream but one of them put a sock or some cloth in her mouth and she couldn't scream. They tied her hands behind her back and lifted her off the ground.

"Tell us where the boy is!" The tall one said. In response Misty kneed him in the groin. The shorter man punched Misty in the stomach. Hard. She fell to the ground.

"Filthy bitch! Don't ever do that to a member of team rocket!" he said. Then he kicked her in the gut and she started sobig in pain. The short guy helped the tall guy and together they began leading/pushing her through the forest. Around dawn they stopped to rest.

"Are you hungry?" the tall one asked. Misty shock her head. He looked at her a moment then removed her gag. "Better?"

"Yes ." Her stomach still hurt from the shots she had taken.

"If you just tell me where the boy is, I'll let you go." he lied "It's him we're after."

"His names Ash. Try calling for him. Babye he'll kick your asses." The man smiled a small smile.

"Your a feisty little thing." the shorter man walked in from the forest. the taller man looked at him "Well? Did you find any trace of the other one?"

"Nothing. The damn kids not anywhere near here."

"Are you sure?"

"If you don't trust me, go look for your damn self!"

"Good idea, watch the kid." with that, the tall man walked off. The short guy sat across from Misty. and ate and apple. Then he said:

"So, did you eat bitch?"

"Not yet, numb nut."

"Whore!"

"Slime!"

"Skank!"

"Cum-catcher!" The man got up then and slapped Misty across the face. Then he smiled as if he had just gotten a good idea.

"I'll bet your friend is nearby isn't he." Misty didn't answer. "Yeah...he's close and your trying to distract me while he sneakes up on me." he looked around the sight suspicioslly. Misty's fear was rising to new heights. If this lunitic actually thought Ash was close by, what would he do to draw him out?

"I'll get him over here." He started tword Misty. 'I will not scream. no matter what he does I won't scream!'. The guy squatted in front of Misty and tied her legs around the tree trunk she was sitting on. Misty was sweating and shaking. "Last chance to do it the easy way. Call the boy."

"Go to hell!" she said between gritted teeth. The man shrugged and then ripped Misty's shirt open. Misty closed her eye and clenched her jaw shut. The man put his mouth to her chest and bit her, and again, and again. It hurt so much! But for Ash she could take it, she wouldn't let these assholes near him.

he continued to bite her as his hands slipped into her shorts. when he started groaping aroound in her privated, Misty lost control. 'Forgive me!' she thought to herself.

Then she screamed.

She screamed until she couldn't scream anymore.

Charmeleon woke when he heard something. He listened carefully and heard it a gain. A call...no a scream......Misty's scream! He got up and ran to Ash's side. He began shaking the young trainer. Ash finally woke up.

"What is it Charmeleon?"

"Char char char, meleon char!"(Misty is in danger, we must help her!) Ash bolted out of bed and looked around. Misty wasn't their. He dressed and put on his sword. He ran out of the cave. In the distantce, Ash could her a girls scream.

"Track her, Charmeleon!" The pokemon didn't hesitate. It began looking for her trail, sniffing for her scent. He found her scent and dashed after it. He could hear Ash's footsteps as he followed. The two continued into the jungle all day. Misty's screams had stopped long ago. They didn't stop traveling, not to eat, not to rest, to to piss. A few hours before nightfall Ash and Charmeleon came apon a camp site. Charmeleon said that the place reeked of Misty and her kidnappers.

The duo crept to the edge of the site and looked around. One guy was sitting on a lod eating. Their was a disturbance to his right and he got up and started talking to someone. A man, shorter than the first, walked out of the bushes. He was holding a chain. the other end of the chain was wrapped around Misty's neck. Ash looked at misty. her shirt was gone and the front of her pants were hanging open. She had alot of cuts and bruises and a large red mark on her face.

Ash was beyond furious. He drew his sword and was about to charge into a fight when charmeleon stopped him.

"Charmeleon, char char. Mel char, meleon char"(It's to risky, Ash. Attack now and you will die.)

"Who cares as long as she's safe!"

"Char eleon mel."(Your to important)

"I love her!"

"Mel char eleon mel."(She loves you too.)

"She does?"

"Char. Meleon char char, el char mel eleon mel."(Yes. She made me promise not to tell, but you deserve to know now.) he looked at Ash to be sure the boy wouldn't do anything drastic, then he said: "Charmeleon meleon char char. Meleon char el."(We wait for the right moment. Then we strike) Ash nodded.

END OF PART 3