Misty hurtled forwards down the forested hill that lay ahead, Ashs hand was tightly gripping hers, the teenagers made sure not to look back, as they both skidded down the slippery track. The rain poured, making it uneasy for them to run, along with the fact they were running down hill. Misty dodged a tree, pulling Ash with her, but as her eyes had been concentrated on the tree, she ran straight into the rock, and fell forwards, only to feel Ash pick her up from behind. Their breathing got heavy as they made their way deeper down into the forest, neither daring to turn around, nor wanting to. The pouring rain continued to pound their bodies as they both sprinted onwards. Screams were coming from behind, echoes of their names reached their ears, along with a loud BANG. Misty jumped as a bullet hit a near by tree, but she didn’t look back. She was determined to carry on trampling through the forest until she found safety, Ash quickly grabbed her and held her backwards, Misty looked at him, the tears running down her cheeks mixed with the rain, Ash said nothing, but pulled her to the side, where she saw it. A cave.

As the teens entered the small cave, Misty let out a small screech at the bug pokemon found in there, Ashs hand covered her mouth, he breathed down her ear, and whispered for her to stay calm. Misty fell back into his arms that were awaiting her, as more tears fell down her cheeks. Voices came from Outside, and they both fell silent, as the sounds of three men muttered.

“Hmm…seems like Theyre gone..”

“They cant be!! We CANT return with out them!!”

“They cant have gone far. come on men, venture on!”

“Ok…but I swear to god, my wife will kill me if I come home with no pay. again”

Within a few minutes, the blackly dressed men had ran off into the forest further, the sound of slashing and arrows being fired following them.

Ash removed his hand, releasing Misty, she let out a loud sigh and sunk to her knees. Looks regretful, Ash looked down and knelt next to the sobbing girl.

“Ash…They still have him..” Misty whispered

Ash nodded.

“I know…” He then placed his arm around Misty, and pulled her close to him, the two 17 year olds embraced each other as Misty cried onto his ripped shirt. Ash stroked her hair, worrying about both his best friends.

The sun shone over the grass that lay around the small cave, as some rays of light entered the dark surroundings. Ashs eyes flung open at the sight of it, and he yawned, sitting forwards. He then looked to his left, his yawn was soon gone, to be replace with a look of guilt, Misty was curled up next to him, shivering, and Pikachu was still with them…it was all his fault. He sat back, allowing Misty to rest some more, and keeping a look out for any unfamiliar faces, or any unwanted faces. He sighed, and put his head in his hands, trying not to let himself cry, he squinted his eyes together to stop the tears from escaping as he thought oh his captured Pokemon, and the pain he and his friend had gone through. Neither trainers had any Pokemon with them, because of a certain organization. Team Shock. All they had wanted was his Pokemon and Mistys , just for a couple of days…to “test” him, if Ash had known that “test” meant; Starving, whipping, and force battling, then he wouldn’t have let the team take them away in the first place. After a few weeks, he and Misty had gone to try and find out where they were, but by even approaching the teams base, they had entered unwanted territory. That’s when the chase ad begun.

Misty stirred over, peering around, and placing a hand to her head, letting out a moan, the first words to escape her mouth where

“Ash..?”

“Misty?” Ash turned around, and looked over to her, her eyes were half open and she was looking at him with sadness.

“…What are we going to do..?”

Ahs couldn’t help but shrug to the girl in front of him, he had been so lucky..to still have her there, with him…after so many years.

“You don’t know??” Panic filled her voice, and her eyes became watery again, she never usually showed her emotions before, but lately…she had been going mad bottling it all up…she didn’t tell all her feeling, though.

“Im..Sorry…Im sorry Mist.” Ash whispered, feeling guilt run through his body

Misty stopped sobbing, and reduce to letting tears slip down her cheeks, she just started at him.
“Don’t be sorry, its not your fault.” She smiled at him, and as she did, she cohoked slightly on her tears.

“It…It is, im so sorry for getting you into this mess, and your Pokemon…you don’t even have them anymore!! All because I let those creeps take my Pikachu away!!”

“ASH! Stop blaming your self!!! This is NOT your fault, its theirs, they have sick minds Ash, and they don’t care who they hurt…its their fault…not ours.” She crawled over to him on her knees, and put her hand on his arm, smiling with glittering watery eyes.

Ash peered outside of the cave, to see if anyone was there, or near, he then signalled Misty forwards, and they both left, feeling relieved to be breathing the fresh air again.

Ash’s shift eyes travelled their surroundings, and he let out a sigh of relief, to see no one in sight, He looked down at his clothes to see that he was wearing dirty and ripped clothes, his skin was covered in mud and his nails were buried in dirt. He looked to Misty to see her, being almost the same, dirt, mud, rips, tears, and looking like she had been dragged through a bush…backwards. Still, she looked as pretty as ever…

“Where now?” Misty asked, without her usual high spirit.

“Pikachu.” Ash stated, Misty sighed.

“Ash…I…I think its too late for that…I..”

“No! Misty, we’ve got this far, we know where it is, where the rooms are, we know where he is!! We can do this!” Ash shouted,

“Ash!! Come on, we CANT go there, they’d hurt us!! We were lucky to get away last time, do you really want to risk our lives again?!”

“No…but, do we really want to risk theirs?”

Misty stopped herself before shouting again, she felt sorry for him, but also she felt proud. He was right, why save themselves when some of their best friends were in the base? Who knew what was happening to them…She nodded at Ash.

“Come on. We’ve got some pokemon to save” Ash took her hand and started to walk the path that they had been running down the only hours earlier.

After hours of walking, neither Ash and Misty had let go of each others hands, they walked on with silence, until they heard something. A shot. Misty screamed, and ran into Ash, she flung her arms around his waist, and buried her head into his chest. Ash stared around, looking in the direction the bang had come from, he felt himself lock his arms around Misty, wanting to keep her safe, another bang emerged from the north, Misty jumped and held onto Ash tighter. Two men emerged from the trees, both of them holding guns tightly in their hands, Ash noticed this straight away, and turned away, gripping onto Mistys hand and pulling her with him. Ash began to run again, as they had the night before, both teenagers ran for their lives, shots were heard from behind and it felt like a reply. Misty screamed as the two men followed them as they sprinted up the hill, they both shot at her, missing by an inch. Her feet skimmed the shots as she jumped, still hanging onto Ashs tight grip. Their feet carried them further up the hill, until they reached a small lake, The people who had been following them were not far behind, so they did the first thing that came to mind, and jumped into the water, ducking their bodies underneath the surface, and holding their breath. They heard the muffled voice of the men, who were breathing heavily, while trampling past. As soon as they were out of ear shot, Ash surfaced. Not too far after he was followed by Misty, they both swam to the edge of the water and crawled out. Misty stood up, as Ash sat, breathing heavily, and trying to think of new plan, as they couldn’t go the way the men had gone. Misty had caught her breath, and was now kneeling next to Ash and patting him on the back.

“Are you ok, Ash?” she asked, as she rubbed his back and helped him breathe properly,

“Yes, Yeah…fine, just a little...” Ash stopped in his words as he looked up, to see the three men that had just passed them whiles being under water. He jumped up, and took Mistys hand, pushing her behind him, the three men held guns to their heads. Ash puts his hands up, in defeat, he sighed, he had no other choice. If he ran, they could shoot him or Misty, and if they stayed…well…they had a CHANCE of surviving. A small chance, but a chance.

“Your coming with us.” One of the men said, he nodded to his friend, and he walked towards Misty with a bag, Ash watched, with shifty eyes, but dared to move with two guns pointing in his direction, Ash took one more look at Misty, and into her eyes as her head was covered with a sack, she let out a small muffled scream, and struggled as her captor took her hand from Ashs and placed them behind her back, he then tired her hands together. Ash watched, wanting badly to take her hand in his again, to et her out of the situation, but he just ended up having a sack placed over his own head, and getting his own hands tied behind his back.

Ash felt him self pushed into a room, the bag removed from his head, but no extra lighting came to him eyes, he was in a dark cage, and he hit the floor, smacking his head on the floor. He gritted his teeth as he knelt up, and ran towards the cage bars, gripping his hands around the bars. He looked around, Misty was no where to be seen, he saw many Pokemon around him, being experimented on, and two men outside his cage with guns patrolling the corridors.

“Wheres Misty!?” He shouted, trying to find some way of breaking through the bars, one of the men just laughed at him, while the other came over and knelt down so he was staring Ash in the face.

“Your little “friend” has gone with our boss. That’s all you need to know!” with that he laughed along with his college. Ash gritted his teeth and let go of the bars, he sighed and walked to the back of the cage, dropping to the floor and putting his head in his hands, thinking of some way to escape.

Misty gasped and inhaled fresh air as the sack was removed from her head, she looked around for a sign of Ash, only to find three men in black costumes, one who had lead her into the building, and two new faces. She started to breath heavily, as the people around her became closer, one of them has a rope in his hands, and the other had a chair in his. She was pushed into the chair, and she tried desperately to escape the grip of the man holding her down as another person tied her to the chair. She let out a scream, and kicked frantically, hoping for Ash to come to her rescue. She screamed his name out numerously, only to be told to shut up by the man who was holding her down.

“What do you with me? WHY CANT YOU JUST LET US GO?” She screamed

“Because, you know too much already! Now shut up before we KILL you.” One man threatened, holding the gun to her head, she simply swallowed her words and closed her eyes.

“Please…please let us go..” she whispered, her eyes still closed. She opened them just in time to feel a hand hit her cheek with immense power.

“I told you to shut up, girl.” The man, tallest of all growled at her. Se looked down, thinking of where Ash was…and is he was still alive. Tears escaped her eyes at the thought of him dead, and she couldn’t wipe them away this time.She wasn’t to give up this easy though, oh no. She was going to keep on going until she got some answers.

“Wheres Ash? WH-“ *SLAP* Once again, her cheek was beaten from the man, she still didng give in though,

“WHHERES ASH?!” *SLAP* Again.

“WHERES ASH? WHERES ASH! TELL ME!” She screamed, as she continued to get hit on her cheeks, but each hit just made her scream it louder and angrier. Tears fell down her cheeks as she shouted the words, and they echoed around the bright room they were in.

“WHE-“ She stopped as the door opened. And then, came in a man, who’s eyes were buried in his brows shadow, he worse a black suit, and held onto a stick for support as he was walking. The three men around Misty stiffened, and turned to him with a salute. Misty gulped, and watched as he approached her.

“Is there a problem?” He asked, leaning forwards, to reveal a eye patch over one eye, and a glint of green in the other.

“W…Where’s….where’s my friend.” She said, with a determined strong voice.

“Your friend? You mean, the brat with the scruffy hair? The ones who’s Pokemon we took?”

“His names ASH!” She shouted into his face,

“Yes…Ash…Ash…hmm, well Ash is…what they say…dead.” He said with such simplicity. Mistys eyes widened, Ash, dead? Impossible, he was lying, he HAD to be lying, Ash couldn’t die…not now…not EVER, he wouldn’t leave her like this, would he? NO! he was still alive..

“Your lying, DON’T LIE TO ME! ! HES STILL ALIVE! DON’T LIE!” She shouted, repeating herself, as the “boss” walked towards the door.

“Shut her up” He stated, and left the room.

Ash groaned, and his eyes flashed open, he was in a different surrounding, a lighter one…he shot up onto his feet, to see no one around him. His eyes searched the room, and found a door, he raced towards it and grabbed for the handle, then he stopped. This was too easy, far too easy, no way would he have been left in here. No way.

“Smart boy.” A voice came from behind Ash, who whizzed around to see a the same man Misty had seen, in his same dark suit, this time with glasses on.

“Where’s my friends! Where’s my Pokemon? Where’s Misty!” He shouted, pounding his fist onto the wall behind him,

“Your Pokemon, they are fine. They are being trained, mind, in harsh manners, but they are still fine, and will be tougher, and as for your …friend. Well, im sorry…to say. Shes dead.”

Ohhh whats the evil lil blighter up to now??xDD haah well yeah this took me like a while to do ive been meaning to do it for AGES xD haha well enjoy my friends!!<33 Lawl! =]]