PART 3


Ash's POV(point of view)

I got to my feet just in time to see one of the ten Robers aim the rifle at Katrina. What did they think they were doing? "Katrina, run!" I said jumping in front of her. I knew this could risk my life but I couldn't let them get her. The Rober kept his gun to my own head as Katrina and the five other workers at my gym made a run for it. I looked slightly over and still saw Katrina there. What was she doing? "Katrina, GO! Save urself!" She just stood there and walked slowly closer and closer to the robers. "I'm not letting them kill you, Ash" She said as a Rober raised his gun and.. BANG.

I ducked back, but soon realized the shot had been aimed at Katrina and turned back to see her laying down on the floor. Her eyes were now closed and her arms hung at her side. I didn't say a thing, for I knew she was dead. A small area of blood formed around her lifeless body. It was a ruby colour. I looked at the bullet and saw it. I could only do one thing now. It is what she would have wanted me to have done, save myself.

A Rober still had a gun to my head, so any sudden movement could kill me. His hands were holding the gun tightly and between his jacket I saw a black shirt with a red R embedded onto it. Team Rocket!. I should of known. He looked ready to pull the trigger now so I made up my mind and kicked him hard. Then after running I heard another bang.


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Ashley's POV

"Nooooooooo!" I said running to my room in tears. The Rocket member had to of been lying, right? There's no way that my parents could both be dead. Is there? I couldn't stop my tears, wether the rocket member was lying or not.

I heard someone shut the front downstairs door, probably Brian. I put my face into my pillow so the crying noise would be dimmer. After hearing footsteps outside my room, Brian came in "Ashley.." He began to say. "..Maybe your parents are still alive, but got shot or something. I don't think they're dead." Misty was on his shoulder and flew down to my bed. She climbed up onto my pillow and pushed my head up as hard as she could. "I'm so sorry about all this happening, but you can't let that make you feel sorry for yourself" She said, and I lifted my head up alittle. What was left now that both my parents were dead?

"Do you think they're dead?" I asked the bird. She shoke her head "You never know with Rocket members. It could be a trick" I nodded as I leaned my face down on the pillow again "I hope it is"

From downstairs we all heard a large bang on the door. Brian went to answer it and I slowly got up to follow with Misty on my shoulder. "We're here to take Ashley to Team Rocket. The boss demands that she join. She's the daughter of the Pokemon Master himself, could become of some use" I heard this and ran back upstairs. I could see fear in Misty's eyes. "You can't have her!" Brian yelled trying to block the Rocket from entering. I locked myself in a closet. "He wont find me here" I whispered to the rainbow coloured bird.

After catching my breath I remembered one of the things the Rocket had said. "My dad was a Pokemon Master? How come he didn't tell me?" Misty didn't say anything. "Misty?" I asked. She was still silent. "Really, why didn't he tell me?" I asked again, beginning to subspect something. She finally hopped down from my shoulder "I have no idea" She whispered as a bright light came from the door.

"Got'cha!" The Rocket member had Brian and grabbed me. He then headed out the door with both of us. He tied us in a rope as he then pulled out a black walky-talky. "Uhh..yes sir. Got em' right here." The Rocket paused for a moment "I'm bringing them right to the Head Qauters" I struggled to get lose from the rope "Let us go! NOW!" The Rocket dragged us up and put us in a Black truck. "What makes you think that I will?" He laughed. He walked to the front of the truck and got in. I saw even more fear in Misty's eyes. I felt the top of my head to reveal the hat I had gotten from my birthday. 'The only suvenier of my parents' I thought as we hastily were being moved by the truck to the Head Quarters. Me and Brian were both scared, never knowing what exactly would happen.


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Narrarated


The dark dim halls of Team Rocket school were filled with young children from seven to nine years of age. On each childs tenth birthday they were sent to the older aged Team Rocket school from ages ten to twelve. At age thirteen the children would start going on missions for the boss himself.

It had been two years since Team Rocket had kidnapped Ashley. She was now a week away from being 10 and would be sent to the older school were they start to begin teaching everyone there about stealing Pokemon. She had tried escaping in every way she could in the past, but would always be caught by security one way or another.

She hoped Brian was doing ok. She hadn't seen him since the day of her kidnapping. They immedietaly took him to the Advanced class, even though he should've still been in the younger group school. Why had they taken him to the older school? He would only be ten right now, the age he should've been going to the older school in the first place.

She walked to her room, and looked at her watch. It had only been thirty minutes since school had ended for the day. Atleast where she was now wasn't bad, her school was just another normal one. She was only worried that when she advanced to the next school that what they taught there was how to steal Pokemon. How will I be able to escape? She thought to herself as she entered her room.

Misty was sitting on the bed reading a book, which looked much too large for her so it was kind of funny. "Isn't that book too big for you?" Ashley asked. The bird then looked up not even noticing Ashley had been there. "Oh, hello Ashley" she said "I was just reading this Pokemon Training book that I found in the Library today" Ashley sat on the bed "Oh, can I read it later?" Misty nodded "Sure, Since you want to become the greatest Pokemon Master ever" Ashley sighed "If I can get out of this place, that is. But Brians gone and I'll never be able to get out in time without his help"

Misty looked up at the yellow hat Ashley was wearing "You like that hat a lot, you always wear it" She said trying to change the subject. Ashley nodded "It's the only thing I have from my parents since we were kidnapped" Misty corrected her. "I was birdnapped" Ashley smiled "Birdnapped?" Birdnapped, that's new, She thought. "Yes, birdnapped"

Ashley pulled out another book from her green backpack. "I got this from the classroom" She said waving the book in the air. Then Brang it down and opened it. "It tells about every Pokemon Master there ever was, and things about them. In order too" Misty gasped, her name might be in there as a friend of Ash. "My dad would be 28 1/2 now, and 18 1/2 minus that is 10, and that's when people begin there Pokemon Journeys. So 18 1/2 years ago was...the year 2000" She began flipping pages. Misty sat on the bed and watched. She knew Ash hadn't been a Pokemon Master when he first started training.

Ashley soon discovered this and tried going six or seven years ahead. "Here it is!" She said pointing to the name Ash Ketchum under the year 2007. "Ash Ketchum started his Journey at age ten from the town of Pallet. He lost his first wife only 3 years after they were married, 2011. His daughter Ashley never kn-What?" She said after reading some of the first paragraph. She re-read the last sentence, finishing it this time "His Daughter Ashley never knew of this because of her young age, and he then re-married to Katrina. They lived happily until Katrina was killed at the gym. That same day Ashley was kidnapped and killed. He now lives in Pallet near his gym holding his league title."

She paused "But, that means that my dad's still alive!" Misty's eyes widened. Ashley sighed "Everyone thinks i'm dead besides Team Rocket and everyone here" She looked at the book and read about Katrina's death. "It says that some people, probably Team Rocket, were stealing some Pokemon and my dad says that he told everyone to run and everyone did. Besides my mom, or should I say step-mom. Then some Rocket member shot him in the side and thought they killed him so they left. He did almost die..but survived"

She read the next part "They said in here that the Rockets had probably kidnapped and killed me, just like they tried to kill my dad and step-mom. So they just told everyone that I was dead so no one would waiste there time searching for m-Hey!" Misty was still reading some other things they had on the page while Ashley began to make a plan to escape. "We have to escape..we can't let them get me to go to that next level school were they begin to teach how to steal Pokemon units." She said

"But there are too many gaurds out tonight, tommorow will be better" Ashley said Misty looked up "What exactly is your plan?" Ashley sat down for a moment "Good Question..let me think" A few minutes went by "I've got it! I saw this tunnelway once that the guards don't usually block. We'll go that way into the big cave. Go through that, and out the doors to the low fence and climb that"

"Good plan, but if you could think of a plan like this before, then why didn't you?" Ashley got up "Well, I didn't think everyone thought we were dead. And I thought that both my parents were dead so I shouldn't of waisted my time anyway." She then put Misty on her shoulder and picked up the book "We need to return this. I wont be here tomorrow"

They walked down the halls over to where a lot of classrooms were. "There it is" She pointed to a classroom that had a light in it, another student was still in there. "He's not in my class, but got detention from another teacher." Ashley said pointing inside the classroom. "My teachers name is Jesse" Mistys mouth dropped

The bird didn't move as she looked at the teachers red hair. "R-r-ed hair? And her names Jesse?" Ashley nodded "Yea, why do you know her or something?" Misty looked into the classroom "She use to try to steal Ash's Pikachu all those times.." She flew off of Ashleys shoulders and onto her head to get a better view. "You knew my dad?" No response "Misty! Not this again" Misty answered "Ok, yea I did know your dad but only for alittle bit"

"And you knew my teacher too?" Misty flew back onto her shoulder "Yes, I did. She always did this strange motto whenever she ran into us" Ashley giggled "You mean that prepare for trouble thing? She makes our class say that in the mornings once in awhile. It's kinda fun to have a motto, but hers is just old" Misty agreed on that, definetaly.

They walked into the classroom and Misty saw her teacher correcting test papers from this morning. "Jesse, can I ask you something?" The teacher looked up "Yea, sure kid" Ashley put the fairly large book on her desk for a second "Do you know where my dad's gym is?" Jesse sighed "If you're thinking of trying to escape again dont think about it. Oh and on your test you almost flunked.. getting all the Pokemon training questions right.. and"

Misty cheered and Jesse looked at the bird "That's a strange bird. Anyway, you got all the Team Rocket questions wronge. Why does that bother me?" Ashley sighed "Because..I don't have any evil in me and could never steal Pokemon. I really don't see why they kidnapped me in the first place, I won't steal the Pokemon so I won't be that useful" Misty giggled alittle. 'She's right' She thought.

"That bird giggles too? Where'd you get it?" Ashley put Misty on her finger "I got *her* the same day I was kidnapped and the same day that I found out that my parents were both dead. But I found out today that my dad wasn't dead and everyone thinks that I'm dead so I want to escape to tell them that I'm not." She turned to her fathers page in the book and handed it to Jesse "See? Read this."

When Jesse read this she handed Ashley back the book. "His gyms on 8th street in Pallet, do you have a plan for escaping?" Ashley nodded "Yup, and I'm going to try to escape tommorow. If any teacher or person asks where I am could you say that I'm sick? please it would really give a lot more time" Jesse nodded "But consider yourself lucky that I'm actually not going to tell anyone about you trying to leave." She handed Ashley the Pokemon Masters book "You better keep this"

Ashley then thanked her teacher with a smile and left. She rushed back to her room and grabbed her Blue jacket, put it on, got her green bag and left with Misty "I don't exactly trust that my teacher wont say anything to someone, so we have to go down to the tunnel tonight so the guards wont know where to get me. Then we can leave tommorow when the guards aren't guarding outside the Head Quarters" Misty nodded "As long as we get out of here"

Ashley ran down the dark halls as fast as she could. She turned accouple of corners and finally stopped. She leaned over and opened a large air vent up. "After you," she said lowering Misty into the tunnel. She then followed her shutting the lid over them. They walked down the tunnel step by step. It took them an hour or two, but they finally made it to the Cave just in time for Curfew.

She put out her sleeping bag and went to bed. 'She's so much like her dad,' the bird thought 'If only I were human again so I could've been there to help her escape Team Rocket. No, actually I would've been at that gym. And be totally dead. Atleast now I can live for a long time' The bird wrapped up its thoughts and slowly closed it's eyes. 'She'll find out the truth about everything soon enough.' The bird then drifted off to sleep.

"No! Stop, don't hurt me!" Ashley was saying in her sleep, not waking the bird. Ashley was in a huge black building, running, running to save her Pokemon. "You can't take them! I wont let'cha !" Then a yellow rodent Pokemon called out to her -it was a Pikachu. "Ka-Chu!" She heard waking up. "Wh-who said that?" She asked looking over at the sleeping bird. She looked at her watch "5:30 AM" And shoke Misty awake. "We have until 7:00 AM to escape, c'mon let's go"

She and Misty walked trying to find the Cave's exit. "Ka-chu" Ashley heard for the second time that day. "Misty, did you hear that?" The bird nodded. "Pi.." The creature began saying other things as well and Ashley followed the sound. She ended up at a box and opened the lid off. "It's a Pikachu!" She said picking it up "How cute!" Misty looked at the Pikachu who didn't seem very happy "Chu.." Sparks grew around it's face. "Pikachu? It's Ash's Pikachu!" Misty said flying on the Pikachu "Piii?" The Pikachu asked "Meowth! Cant a cat get any sleep around here?" Ashley pulled out her Pokedex "Meowth- A cat Pokemon, usually found in dry areas" Misty pointed at the pokedex "where'd u get that?"

"My step-mom gave it to me a long, long time ago. She was cleaning up and found it lying in the basement" Misty nodded. "So Meowth, dont think you remember me..and.." She used Qoutations "Team Twerp" Misty let out alittle laugh as Meowth got up from the box. "Your voice sounds farmilar, but I've never known a talking bird before.."

Misty shoke her head "Do you remember Misty? the girl who traveled around with Ash-the person with the Pikachu" Meowth thought for a moment "the one with orange hair? You're her?" Misty pushed over to cat-pokemon "Yea! Gotta problem with that?!" Meowth shoke it's head "N-No-No. No Problem" She looked at Pikachu "Ashley, somethings's wrong with Pikachu-" Meowth cut her off "He doesn't like humans. And never could trust one again-I don't blame him, after how they treated us and hurt us." Ashley looked at the Meowth "But, that's what Rocket members did. Not what a trainer did." Meowth shrugged "Team Rocket members are still humans though, just like trainers are. Which means they could do the same things the Rockets have done"

"I guess.." Ashley said, she was still holding the mad Pikachu who had gotten a flashback: He was sitting on a table in Professor Oaks lab looking at a boy. "Aww he's so cute, Professor I'll take him. Me and Pikachu will be best friends" His flashback then ended as another began: He saw his trainer infront of him who at the time, didn't trust. The spearow had hurt him badly as he watched his trainer risk his own life. "Spearow, do you know who I am? I'm Ash from the town of Pallet, and I'm destined to become the worlds greatest Pokemon Master. I cant be defeated by the likes of you!" The flashback ended as he looked up at the girl who resembled his old trainer a lot. Pikachu smiled "Pika!" and hugged Ashley. "Meowth! He just called Ashley its trainer!" The Meowth overturned fainting. This was un-believable coming from da rat, It had thought.