Chapter two- Cute girls, idiots and clowns

The last three days before he started his journey had flown by. Mason had been riding the high of his catching Poliwag, and the look on the professors' face after he had come by later that evening had been priceless.

He had been taking the past three days to get to know his newest Pokémon as well as see what the little guy could do. He had found that Poliwag only had three moves, Bubble, Hypnosis and Double Slap. Needless to say, he had spent the second-day training Poliwag until it had, at the very least, water gun in its move set. Bubble was good, but it just wasn't fast enough for Mason's standards, and he had plans to replace it with Bubblebeam as soon as he could.

But for now, he had gotten in all the training that he could and was now packing away his things to start off on his journey. A huge grin on his face, he felt like a little kid at Christmas.

The professor had come by very early that morning and had woken him up to invite him to the lab, as the other trainers-to-be would be coming by to collect their Pokémon. He had very politely declined the offer. While he knew he'd eventually be joining up with Ash's little group at some point, he didn't want to start off with him from the very beginning of things. He wanted to make his own way first.

And so it was that half an hour later Mason had left the watchers cabin behind and was following the river with a smile on his face. His bag with his gear on his back, his Pokéballs on his belt, two occupied ones on his right side and his four empty ones on his left.

He already had plans for them in the future, as he realised that when he got a full team it would become annoying to tell them apart. He had recalled an episode later in the series with Richie and his Pokéballs, how he had elemental stickers on them, he figured he'd keep an eye out for something similar. The last thing he wanted to do in a battle was sent out the wrong Pokémon, that would just be embarrassing.

He was well pleased with how things were starting off so far, he had had two Pokémon in his team and was already thinking of other Pokémon to catch to create a balanced team. He had thought of specialising in one specific type, but immediately binned the idea, he wasn't about to limit himself like that.

He was also glad that one of his other worries had been solved that very morning by Professor Oak when he came by. The kindly professor had given him three thousand Pokédollars to start his journey with. That solved his cash problem, at least for now. He didn't see any signs of how trainers earned money in the anime series but suspected it was like the games where he'd have to pay out if he lost a battle. He'd have to remember to come up with a plan on how to get more cash, but for now, he'd settle for challenging any trainer he could find when he stopped at Pokémon centres to refresh his funds.

Right at this minute however, he was keeping his eyes peeled for a certain someone as he followed the river. He knew if this world was exactly like the anime then he'd be coming across her very soon. While he didn't want to cross paths with Ash at the very start, he had no problems with crossing paths with other canon characters, especially of the female variety, and with how the ages were apparently different in this world he was looking forward to meeting her.

Okay yes, he admitted to himself that he was a pervert on some level. He was a hot-blooded male who enjoyed the intellectual company of beautiful women. But he was not as bad as Brock, and anyone who compared him to that lover boy, he would lay them out flat for the insinuation.

His long wait finally bore fruit as he came over a small hill and looked down to the shore of the river and spotted long orange hair by the river that made him pause for a moment as he took in the sight that was Misty Waterflower.

She was definitely older, her orange hair that was short in the anime was grown out to just past her shoulders, and from what Mason could make out, she was wearing more sensible clothing in this world. A light blue, short sleeved, tee-shirt and knee-length jean shorts, that were just form-fitting enough to show the reasonable curves of her feminine figure. All in all, Mason wasn't disappointed.

With a smile, Mason began to make his way down to the shoreline as he watched Misty at the water's edge, her fishing rod in hand as she waited for a bite on the other end, that was cast out into the river.

"Morning," Mason greeted as he came down, "nice day for fishing isn't it, anything biting?" he said trying to start up a conversation.

Misty glanced over her shoulder to him and after a moment gave him a smile, "it is," she said before sighing at his question, "sadly no, I've been out here for an hour and haven't got one bite yet."

Mason nodded sympathetically at her plight. He had never really been one for fishing, in his world or in the Pokémon games, only ever doing it in the game to get the Pokémon he needed for his Pokédex. Feebas had ruined it for him in the third generation.

"Are you a water Pokémon trainer?" Mason asked as he tried to continue the conversation as he glanced to a tree across from them and saw her bike leaning against it, 'it won't be there for much longer, once Ash comes by and nicks it after being an idiot' he thought to himself.

Misty smiled and nodded, "Yeah I am. Name's Misty. Are you a trainer?" she asked as she looked back to him and noticed the Pokéballs on his belt.

Mason smirked and nodded, "Yeah, just started my journey today, I'm Mason Storm, and I'm aiming to become a master Pokémon trainer. Already have two Pokémon in my team." he smirked.

Misty smirked, "awfully big goals to become a Pokémon master, don't you think." she said, clearly amused at his dream.

Mason shook his head, "I don't want to become a Pokémon master." he corrected her, "I said master trainer, like how some people want to become masters of a specific type of Pokémon. I want to learn all about the Pokémon that I catch and train them to be the strongest they can be." he explained, before grinning, "if along the way I become a Pokémon champion or two, I wouldn't say no. It would only be natural with how strong my Pokémon would become with me training them."

Misty giggled at his statement, "I see, well since you told me your dream I'll tell you mine." she said as she stood up, "mine is to become a master water Pokémon trainer, to see all the water Pokémon in the world, and to make a team of the strongest and most beautiful ones" she said her eyes shimmering with passion as she spoke.

Mason smiled, "That sounds like a wonderful dream, I actually have a water Pokémon in my team at the moment, I just caught him a couple of days ago, would you like to see them?" he asked.

Misty's eyes seemed to light up more hearing that, "of course?" she said at the offer instantly.

Mason smiled and nodded as he took off the two Pokéballs from his belt and tossed them to the water, "come on out you two" he called as the balls opened and the forms of both Poliwag and Dratini appeared on top of the water facing them.

"Oh my gosh they're so cute," Misty cooed as she saw them, having retracted her rod and put it to the side before she knelt at the water surface. "Your Poliwag is so adorable, and even though it's not a water Pokémon Dratini is so cute, how did you get one?"

Mason smiled, "it's a long story, Dratini has been my partner for a while now, and the two of us are best buds. Isn't that right Dratini?" Mason asked his partner getting a "Dra!" in response making Misty coo some more at the cute dragon Pokémon.

"Ohhhh," Misty cooed before standing up smiling, "they both look really well trained, I can tell you've been doing a good job with them."

Mason nodded, "thanks, I do try, but it's a team effort," he smiled back looking at his two Pokémon in the water.

"Well I can certainly see that you're not all just talk like some trainers are when they start off," Misty smiled seeing how he looked at his Pokémon, "I can actually see you making your dream a reality if your this good right now"

Mason smirked, "thanks, and I'm sure we'll both achieve our dreams, I can tell you're as passionate about your Pokémon as I am about mine, I bet you'll be a great water Pokémon trainer."

Misty's cheeks blushed at his compliment, "you really think so?" she asked flustered a little at the confidence he had in her, he had only just met her.

Mason smirked, "of course, though I don't think any of them will be able to beat their trainer in the beauty department," he told her with a grin, making Misty's blush darken further.

But their conversation was sadly cut short before she could reply. When a loud noise followed by a loud splash came from the river making both trainers and Pokémon look over at the noise.

"What was that?" Misty asked in shock her eyes wide.

Mason's eyes scanned the water as well as he realised what it was as he mentally sighed, 'here we go'

A couple of moments passed before they saw a head of black hair with a red cap emerge from the middle of the river and start swimming to shore. "What the hell?" Misty asked as they watched him swim over with one arm while carrying a Pikachu in the other.

Ash made it to the shore but he didn't stop long, "Run!" he yelled as he began to do just that himself and proceeded to run past them before spotting Misty's bike.

"Hey!" Misty yelled as he put his Pikachu in the front basket, "that's my bike what do you think you're doing.

"Sorry, I'll get it back to you later!" Ash yelled back as he began to run the bike up to the path and then took off.

"What the hell!" Misty yelled, outraged as she watched Ash ride off on her bike.

Mason, on the other hand, was looking up at the other side of the river where Ash had fallen in, his eyes wide, "Ah Misty! I think we have bigger problems!" he said before pointing towards the large flock of angry Spearow flying towards them.

"Ahhhhh!" Misty screamed in shock before Mason grabbed her and pulled them both into the river to avoid the angry flock of angry bird Pokémon.

From under the water they watched for several seconds as shadows of the flock passed overhead and continued their pursuit of Ash and Pikachu before they eventually came up gasping for air.

"Thanks for that," Misty said after a moment, half annoyed at the sudden trip into the river and half grateful for his quick thinking, not wanting to have a close encounter with a flock of angry Spearow.

"Don't mention… look out" Mason began to say before switching tacts mid-sentence as he pulled Misty out of the way as a lone Spearow swooped in and tried to attack them.

"Hey don't attack us, that idiot went that way!" Misty yelled at the bird Pokémon as she pointed in the direction Ash had gone.

"I don't think it's going to listen," Mason said as he kept himself afloat next to her, "But if its a battle it wants, Dratini, use Twister!" he called out.

Dratini came up from where it had been in the river and nodded its head before raising it up as once more it began its attack. The winds whipping up as Dratini let out a cry as the waters began to whip around stirred by the winds as the attack continued.

Spearow tried to fly through the winds but it was slowly being pushed back even further towards out above the body of the river where Poliwag popped up.

Seeing the opportunity Mason took it, "Poliwag, use water gun!" he called and the small tadpole Pokémon nodded and it took a breath before releasing a powerful stream of water at the bird Pokémon catching it off guard as it fought the winds. The water hit with a crash and sent the flying type Pokémon skyward and back towards the shoreline before it crashed into the ground its eyes swirling from the attack combo.

Mason and Misty swam towards the shoreline, and the second they were back on dry land Mason wasted no time as he pulled one of the empty Pokéballs from his belt, 'well I needed a flying type, waste not want not' he thought before tossing the Pokéball at the downed Pokémon.

Just like it had three days before the Pokéball sucked in the downed Pokémon and began to shake, once, twice, three times before its light went out, and Mason grinned, that was that.

"Taking every advantage hm?" Misty said as she covered her chest with her hands, her tee-shirt drenched after their impromptu swim in the river before she turned and started to walk over to her bag which she had thankfully not left on her bike, "would you mind turning away,"

Realising what she was asking he nodded and did so as she took a towel from her bag and began to take her shirt off and dry herself down before redressing, this time in a slightly orange shirt with a yellow stripe down the left side of it, "thanks" she said blushing slightly, "you can turn around now"

Mason did so and rubbed the back of his head, "So, what now?" he asked as Misty bent down to pick up her fishing rod, unintentionally giving Mason a bit of a show as her wet shorts clung to her arse now like a second skin, 'Arceus help me'

"Now," Misty said as she stood up and folded the rod down to put away in her bag, "I track that prat down, give him a piece of my mind and get my bike back."

Mason smirked as he recalled both Poliwag and Dratini to their Pokéballs, "mind if I join you. We were having a nice conversation, I'd like to continue it when you get your bike back" he said grinning.

"Sure, you can hold that idiot while I'm beating the crap out of him," Misty grinned evilly before she started to make her way up to the road with Mason following up behind her, rather enjoying the view her still wet jeans were providing him.

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It was after a long gruelling walk later that Mason was of the firm belief that if Misty actually asked him to hold Ash while she proceeded to beat the crap out of him, he would have no problems doing just that.

He was soaking wet and had only just managed to get a little dry when the lightning storm had hit and then he was all wet all over again, and it was getting very uncomfortable walking all the way to Viridian City in completely wet clothing.

Yes he could pull out the change of clothes he had in his bag, he would have no problem changing clothes out in the open even with Misty about, but the fact was if he did he'd have nowhere to put his wet clothing. He sure as hell wasn't going to put them into his backpack, not with all his tech in there. So he had settled for walking in wet clothes, and vowed to change, and get a second bag, at his earliest convenience.

Lucky they had managed to take cover a couple of minutes after the storm had started underneath a tree to avoid most of the rain, and set off after Ash again after it had passed. It was roughly twenty minutes after that they had come across Misty's bike in the middle of the road, much to her horror.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! LOOK AT WHAT THAT BASTARD'S DONE TO MY BIKE!!!!"

It was charred to a crisp. The rubber of the front and back wheels were melted, and both wheels were badly bent. The entire frame looked as if it had been scorched with a flamethrower. Mason had to wince, it looked much worse than what the anime made it out to be.

"I saved up for months to pay for that. I even got two jobs to pay for it," Misty said as she knelt down, mourned the loss of her bike before she jumped to her feet as her eyes blazed, "He's going to pay for this!"

Mason could only sweatdrop and nodded his head, feeling pity for Ash now as once more they set off again, as they carried the bike between them, resuming the chase for Ash.

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It was starting to get dark when they finally reached the Viridian city Pokémon centre, still carrying the bike between them as they walked into the centre.

"YOU!", Misty yelled as they walked in and she spotted Ash across the floor of the centre and left Mason behind her as she carried the bike with her, "look what you did to my bike you bastard" she yelled bodily lifting the bike overhead and brought it crashing down on Ash.

Mason could only stand there blinking, he certainly didn't remember that from the anime, but then again they are older so he guessed this was all related to that. And some small part of him couldn't help but smirk watching as Ash got flattened under the bike.

"What do you have to say for yourself you prat, just look at what you did to my bike, do you know how long I had to save up for that," Misty continued to rant at Ash as he groaned from under the bike.

Mason just reached them as Ash finally managed to get out from under the bike and rub his head where the bike had made contact with him, "I'm sorry, alright, it was an emergency"

"I don't want your excuses, you're going to pay to replace my bike that you destroyed!" Misty yelled

"It was an accident," Ash said as he looked down his hat shading his eyes, "I had to get Pikachu to…." he began to say only to clench his fists.

The fire slowly started to go out of Misty's eyes as her anger melted away for the moment realising that something bad had happened and recalled seeing him carrying the injured Pikachu before.

Mason sighed and shook his head and started to walk away to find a room to change in and someplace to hang his clothes up to dry, he was still soaking wet, and he knew from the anime what was going to happen next and he didn't want to be walking around in wet clothes for a battle.

Time Skip

After finding a room and changing out of his clothes and hung them up to dry. Now dressed in a dark blue shirt and black cargo pants, he returned to the waiting main floor of the Pok��mon centre to find both Ash and Misty waiting still.

"Still no word?" he asked as he walked over to them, Ash didn't look up, but Misty did and shook her head. Mason found that odd, in the anime, it was right after Misty arrived that Pikachu had been brought out of the treatment room.

But it was at that precise moment that the light at the top of the treatment room door went off with a ping making them all look as the doors opened and Nurse Joy and Chansey came out pushing a stretcher with Pikachu on it hooked up to what looked like a small generator of some kind.

The three of them went over quickly to see the small Pokémon.

"Pikachu," Ash said worried as he looked down at his partner. Pikachu was in no state to reply, it had a number of scratches all over its body and looked pretty banged up, Mason couldn't help but wince seeing the state it was in and felt a small amount of anger well up inside his chest when he remembered how Pikachu got into this state. Protecting Ash from the Spearow after he had been the one to provoke them by throwing a rock at them, 'idiot'

"Your Pikachu will be alright Ash, it just needs to rest now, it's good that you got it here so fast," Nurse Joy told him, "the procedure went well, now it just needs time in the recovery room"

Ash seemed to relax at that, "that's great," he said before looking to Misty, "listen I'm sorry about your bike, but I'm going to need time to…" he began to say before Misty cut him off.

"No way, I fell for that last time!" She yelled at him, the fire back in her eyes, "but you should go and be with your Pikachu now, we can square up later, but don't think I'm forgetting about this Ash Ketchum"

And it was the moment after she said that, that the speakers in the centre came to life and the voice of Officer Jenny played off them "Your attention, please. Our Viridian City Radar detectors have detected an aircraft belonging to a gang of Pokémon thieves. If you have a Pokémon in your possession exercise extreme caution!"

Mason frowned, 'that was a bit long winded of her, but then again the Jenny's in the first series, aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.' he thought to himself as moments after the announcements ended the skylight broke as two Pokéballs dropped in from above, releasing Ekans and Koffing into the centre and Fokking began filling the room with a thick, foul smelling, smoke.

Mason covered his nose and mouth with the neck of his shirt as he could see figures through the smoke.

"What the, who are they?" he heard Ash ask aloud.

"Team Rocket," Mason answered as he looked at the figures through the smoke.

"Oh, did you hear that? Someone knows who we are Jessie," A male voice that Mason knew was James sounded through the smoke.

"I knew we were famous, James~" Jessie's voice sounded as the smoke began to fade.

"If by famous you mean infamous then yes," Mason said with a scowl, noticing the others look to him, "they're a notorious group of Pokémon thieves that normally single out trainers with strong, powerful or rare Pokémon in their possession and then gang up on them and steal them. I heard all about your little group when I was travelling. What are you doing here, there's nothing but weak and injured Pokémon in this centre, seems like a poor choice of a target if you ask me."

"Oh someone sure knows a lot," Jessie commented with a smirk, "and it's true, normally such a place would be too low of a target for us, but you never know when you'll find a diamond in through all the trash"

"You're not getting Pikachu," Ash said from the side as he moved to block them from getting near his injured Pikachu.

"How cute, a boy and his rat," Jessie said as she looked to Ash and rolled her eyes, "we don't want your electric rat boy,"

James smirked, "Didn't you hear your friend kid, we only go after rare and powerful Pokémon, and your Pikachu is neither."

Ash clenched his fists at his sides as he glared at the pair. "You two are really starting to bug me,"

Jessie smirked, "how cute, did you hear that James."

James chuckled, "indeed, the boy is bugged~"

"Meowth~," Meowth said as he jumped down from the skylight, "then let's squash em"

"Koffing attack," "Ekans go!" the pair instantly commanded.

At that Koffing moved in to attack spraying more of the putrid-smelling smoke as it did so. Nurse Joy, Misty and Ash made a run for it pushing Pikachu's gurney with them as they ran for it from the attacking Pokémon. Mason followed, barely ducking as Ekans launched over his head.

'Damn it,' Mason mentally cursed, 'I can't even get a chance to grab my Pokéballs' he thought to himself as he followed the others in a temporary retreat, 'next time no talking, I'll just kick their asses'

Mason followed the others and got into the Pokéball storage room just in time as the doors closed and locked behind him. He took a moment to catch his breath mentally cursing himself, he'd been walking all day, suddenly having to run like that had left him breathing hard. 'Damn it, that's it, from not on any time I have my Pokémon training I'll be doing the same, I can't be a called a Pokémon trainer if I'm not fit enough to keep up with my Pokémon'

Just then the lights went out as he looked up, and remembered this scene in the anime. "They've cut the power." he stated with a frown, "bet it was that Ekans, must have bitten through the power lines."

"That's okay," Joy said as she headed towards the computer, "because we've got our own Pika-power source."

From a glass window into a side room Mason could make out the sparks of electricity begin to light up the room and show a circular treadmill generator with nine Pikachu running around on it, the electricity coming from them. He had to admit it was clever, just as the lights started to come back on.

Nurse Joy was busy typing away and starting up the Pokéball transfer machine and began to transfer all the Pokémon in the centre. Mason turned to the door, he knew what was going to happen and he pulled a Pokéball from his belt.

"Dratini, come on out!" he called as he tossed the ball and the small dragon appeared in front of him facing the door as well, just as smoke began to slip through the cracks. Then Koffing and Ekans burst through the door in a joint attack. Followed by Jessie and James.

The pair stopped however when they saw Mason standing with Dratini ready to meet them and both smirked.

"Well well, what do we have here," Jessie smirked as she eyed Dratini, "looks like we've found the diamond in the trash."

"Hand over the Dratini brat, that's just the kind of Pokémon we're looking for," James demanded.

Mason smirked, "not happening. You two would have a better chance at catching your own that getting my partner from me."

"Don't be so sure of that," Meowth said from between the two human members of team rocket.

"Go get that Dratini, Ekans," "Koffing, you too" they ordered their Pokémon.

Mason smirked as the two Pokémon came at Dratini, "Dratini, Thunder Wave!" he called.

And Dratini obeyed instantly letting out a static burst of electricity from its body, catching the two poison Pokémon off guard and paralyzing them both.

With those two dealt with for now Mason looked back to Ash, "Go, get your Pikachu out of here, I'll deal with these idiots" he said hoping that things would play out like in the anime. While he wanted to beat these clowns himself, he knew that it would be better for him, in the long run, to get their attention onto Pikachu instead of Dratini. That way he wouldn't have to worry about them giving him grief if he ever went off to travel on his own.

Ash nodded his head and began to push Pikachu's gurney towards the other exit from the room. Lucky for Mason, team Rocket took that as a challenge.

"Forget Dratini for now, after that brat, Ekans," "you as well Koffing" the idiots ordered, not noticing Mason's triumphant smirk, as he watched them give chase.

Wanting to see the show, however, Mason ran forward and picked up Dratini and ran after them. Misty noticed him leave and ran after him, "hey wait!"

They reached the doorway into the entrance hall of the centre just in time to hear the loud explosion and see the bright flash of it. Mason mentally cursed as he turned to pull Misty close to him and down with Dratini between them as he covered them as the smoke cloud and shock wave came towards them in a loud, BOOM!!!

It took thirty long seconds for the smoke to clear and the rubble to settle after the explosion before Mason began to get up and offered a hand to a blushing Misty.

"T-Thanks" she thanked him as he helped her up and they began to venture out into the ruined entrance hall that was only rubble now.

Mason whistled as they reached Ash and Pikachu who now looked as strong as ever, "Damn," he said surveying the damage, "that Pikachu of yours packs quite the punch doesn't he" he said as he looked around and smirked, 'If that didn't focus their attention solely on Pikachu, I don't know what will' he mentally thought, before looking over towards where the room was that he had left his clothes dry and his jaw dropped as all he saw was ruins as well, 'well, looks like I'm going clothes shopping as soon as I reach Pewter city, cause I doubt I'll have time tomorrow' he though while extremely grateful that he had kept his bag with him and hadn't left it in his room, though he would have to make sure and check his stuff inside it later to make sure nothing was damaged.

Time Skip

It was the next morning as Mason got up from his bed stretching and letting out a loud yawn as he got to his feet. The three of them had been able to sleep in the undestroyed rooms in the Pokémon centre, after the events of last night.

Quickly pulling on his clothes and grabbing his backpack, he went down to get some breakfast in the cafeteria, which lucky enough had been at the opposite end of the corridor from the entrance hall and hadn't been damaged in the explosion the night before.

Reaching a table Mason sat down and began to dish out some of the Pokémon food that he had for his team, putting his bag to the side when he was done. He was extremely thankful when he checked through it last night, none of his gear was damaged in the slightest.

Mason calls out Dratini, Poliwag and Spearow for breakfast, having made sure to get all three check-ups with Nurse Joy an hour before he went to bed, and now all three were back to full health and ready for anything.

It was then that Misty came into the cafeteria yawning as she spotted Mason, "morning~" she said as she came over and sat down at the table with a smile, "sleep well?" she asked.

"Heck yeah," he replied with a grin, "it was so good to sleep in a real bed for a chance." And he meant it, multiple weeks in the watchers' cabin, sleeping in an old cot had left him dying for a real bed again. "I slept like the dead last night,"

Misty giggled hearing him and shook her head, "yeah Pokémon centres are great."

Mason nodded at that as he mentally noted that any chance he got he would be staying in one when he could screw camping out, he'd take a comfy bed, soft pillows and warm covers any day of the week.

That what when Ash walked in still half asleep, his eyes still half closed like the walking dead. Letting out a loud yawn and a sleepy, "morning".

Mason's Spearow seemed to twitch when it heard Ash's voice, and quicker than Mason or Misty could track, the tiny-bird shot into the air and right at Ash and began to peck at Ash's head.

"Ow, hey! Cut it out!" Ash cried, now very much awake after the multiple pecks to his head. Before he recognised the Spearow, "hey I recognise you, you're that Spearow I threw a rock at yesterday..." he began to say before covering his mouth realising what he was saying.

And like that Misty was up off her seat and glaring at him, "So that's it! That's what started that whole mess! That's what led to my bike being destroyed!" she yelled as she began to march toward him her fists balled at her sides, and before Ash could even say anything she whacked him over the head and laid him out flat on the ground groaning, "You idiot!"

Mason sighed as Spearow flew back over to him and landed on his shoulder and he watched him with a smirk, 'of all the Spearow I could have caught it just had to be the one that Ash tried to catch, what are the odds on that.' he thought to himself and shook his head with a small smirk, "Hey, come on now, it's time to eat not argue, you can pummel him for his stupidity when we're on the road to Pewter city."

That seemed to get Ash's attention, "Say what?" he asked confused.

Only to get another fist to the top of his head courtesy of Misty, "you don't think I'm going to let you go and run off, do you! You still owe me a new bike for the one you destroyed!"

"OW!" Ash moaned rubbing his head as a large lump began to form on it.

Mason just smirked, 'That will never get old' he thought to himself and sat back as he took up the menu and began to look through it deciding what to have for breakfast. 'Hmmm, I think I'll have pancakes, with a side of bacon'