Pokemon The Novel: Next Generation

Chapter 6: Ash's Proposal

After the first day rounds, which has another day left of the first round, Ash and his family go out for dinner to pass the first round, but Jaden and Flannery still have to do their battles. It doesn't happen until tomorrow's rounds. Misty and May take Ash home early as they want to spend more time with him, and they are amazed and feel more in love with Ash after they hear him sing. "Guess I'll see you guys later." he chuckles at the others while they sweatdrop drop, seeing Misty and May dragging Ash back home.

While Cynthia is treating her family to another night out with them, they bump into a group of the trio, but they don't expect to see them. Meanwhile, Misty, May, and Ash, along with Mew and Pikachu, are heading back home, but halfway back home, the trio get halted by Dawn, who demands a battle with Ash. They aren't taking her seriously, but then they almost get hit by a Hyper Beam. "Alright, Alright, but if I win, Dawn, you leave me and my girls alone until tomorrow's rounds," says Ash, annoyed then. Dawn nods in agreement.

Just as they are about to battle, an unexpected old foe stops the battle. "Wait...*pant*...You all need to go now!." says James from Team Rocket. The others are surprised to see him. "Okay? What's wrong, James?." says a curious Ash as he and the three girls come over to him, "Your ex-friends are planning to attack you as soon you reach back home." he says, having to see shocked expressions even on Dawn's face. "Wait...What do you mean?." says Dawn, wanting to know what's happening. "They're planning to attack everyone while they don't see it coming," he informs them.

Ash turns to Dawn, crossing his arms at her. "Did you know about this, Dawn?." he says, wanting to know what they are planning, but Dawn just shakes her head. "No, I only wanted to battle you; I didn't know what they were doing," she says, and then Ash speaks up again. "You're telling the truth; let's give them an ambush of our own," he says as Ash, Misty, and May leave to take care of the traitors while James returns to the others. While walking back home, May breaks the silence. "How can we trust James," she says, asking Ash. "I can feel his aura; he's telling the truth, plus James, Jessie and Meowth quit being with Team Rocket," he says, reassuring his girls. Then Misty comes up and takes Ash's left arm. "We'll teach them a lesson, Ash," she says with a smile, and May nods in agreement.

Upon returning to Cynthia's home, Mew uses her psychic powers to read human minds, and she finds the traitors behind a set of trees. Ash had a smirk on his face, and then he turned to his girls. "You four head inside. I shouldn't be too long," he reassured them by bringing out Darkrai. They, too, had smirks on their faces, then headed inside with Mew and Pikachu.

Ash sent Darkrai to set his plans in motion as Darkrai went through the ground and then appeared behind the traitors, but they never noticed Darkrai at first until he tapped one of them on the shoulder, getting Paul's attention. He turned around only to face Darkrai, then softly growled to speak to him. Paul received the other's attention as they all turned around. Darkrai put them all to sleep and into an endless nightmare loop, ensuring they didn't bother the others.

Darkrai returned to Ash. ''Mission accomplished, Ash," Darkrai said. Ash nodded, returning Darkrai to its ball. Then Ash entered the house, only to be tackled by his girls, who kissed him. He then returned the kissing, and three hours later, Cynthia and the group, along with former Team Rocket members Jessie, James and Meowth, returned home to find Ash sleeping on the couch with Misty and May on each of Ash's shoulders. Cynthia couldn't help herself but take a picture. "Well...Guess we better wake them up," says Brock, but then Mewtwo shows up from the kitchen. "That won't be necessary." he then used his powers.

Mewtwo gently lifts the love birds and teleports them to Ash's bedroom. He places them on the bed, where their bodies switch on auto-pilot as they cuddle up. Mewtwo leaves the room to give his report about the traitors at Ash's request. After an hour of chatting and laughing about what Darkrai had done to the traitors, everyone except Cynthia left the house to head to their booked rooms. Cynthia stayed up a bit longer but heard someone behind her. She quickly turned her head to see Ash.

"Sweetie, what are you doing up?." she asks, then Ash sits beside her. "I want to do something special for May and Misty, but I would like some help, Mom." he says with a doubtful tone in his voice, making Cynthia worry, "Ash, you can tell me anything. You know you have my support," she says, reassuring him with a smile on her face and rubbing his back.

"I want to propose to May and Misty," he says in a severe tone. "Well, what do you have in mind, Ash," says Cynthia, still rubbing his back and smiling at him as he looks at her with those words. "You would help me?." he says, double checking, "Ash, sweetie, I mean it. It's your choice, and my job as a Mother is to support her son." She smiles at Ash, reassuring him that she will help him.

Ash and Cynthia had lost track of time and stayed up most of the night until Cynthia noticed it was after three in the morning. She turned to Ash, telling him to go back to bed. "We'll do your plan sometime after the tournament's final rounds," she says. Ash nods in agreement as he heads upstairs, followed by Cynthia. As they reach the top of the stairs, Ash turns around and hugs Cynthia, which surprises her. He then looks down at Ash. "Thank you for being my new Mother." Cynthia blushed, then wrapped her arms around Ash, embracing him. "I'm glad to be your Mother, Ash and happy to have you in my life." She kissed his head and sent him off to bed. "We got a lot to do tomorrow; get some sleep, son," she says, and Ash nods in agreement as the two go to their beds, getting ready for tomorrow.

The next day, with the final battles for round one, won't be upon hours. Ash leaves the house early in the morning with his adoptive mother, Cynthia, to implement Ash's proposal plan. Two hours after Ash and Cynthia left, May and Misty finally woke up. Misty noticed a note left by Ash. May leans on Misty's shoulder to read it as well, which is Ash asking them to wait in the house until he sends Mewtwo to teleport to him when he's ready. Then the girls look at each other. "Wonder what he is going to plan," says May, thinking about Ash's plans. "Not sure, hope it'll be romantic," she says, placing her hands on her cheeks, showing all lovey-dovey.

May and Misty went through their routine by hitting the showers, then getting dried and dressed in something fancy for their surprise date with Ash. Finally, they both did their hair and went downstairs, seeing Cynthia with Mewtwo. They both noticed the girls. "Wow, you both look stunning; I think Ash is gonna drool," she says, giggling, making the two blush as they chuckle nervously.

Then Mewtwo looked at them. "Are you two ready to go?" he asked them. They responded with a nod to him, and then they stood still to be teleported with Mewtwo to Ash. Upon arriving, May and Misty looked around at their new surroundings and noticed they were at the beach. There were two points behind them to show Ash all dressed up nicely for them, and they both blushed seeing how stunning Ash looked and noticed how he'd set up their day out.

Ash started blushing and chuckling. "Heh, so...Surprise," he said with a smile as he set up a picnic. They also had an early dinner in the late afternoon since they had won their matches and were waiting for round two of the tournament since their day together was going nicely. After an hour of picnic, Ash, May, and Misty enjoyed their time together. May and Misty loved being fed by Ash, which made them blush. Then, after being together for several hours, it was time for Ash's second part, an early dinner at the beach. Ash led the girls there, blindfolding them and asked Mewtwo to use his psychic power to leatherette them to their seats with Ash following them.

Once Mewtwo has placed May and Misty in their seats, Ash pushes their chairs closer to the table and gently removes their blindfolds without hurting their eyes to the bright sun. What they saw stunned them. Blushing like a rose while enjoying their dinner with Ash, he pretended to drop his dessert spoon with his elbow on the table and then slide it off. "Oh man..." he says as he picks up his spoon. He makes it look like the spoon went over to May and Misty.

Secretly close by are Ash's true friends and family watching from afar, making sure they don't ruin the surprise that Ash has planned, but then they slowly start to get excited as they see through their binoculars that Ash is going through with his plan, as soon as Ash got into position he then got May and Misty's attention by taking their hands making them look down at Ash then they start blushing like lava. "May...Misty...You both stayed with me through thick and thin. I would be honoured if you both would marry me." he says, smiling at them.

They remained silent for a minute, and then the silence was broken as May and Misty spoke up. "Ash...Yes." they both said, smiling at him. He got up, kissed their lips, and then put the rings on their fingers. All three looked to their left, seeing their family and friends cheering and clapping at them. The girls looked at Ash, and he only showed a nervous chuckle, but May and Misty didn't care. They got up from their seats and hugged Ash, and he embraced them back.