Pokeshipping Week 2018

Traveling Companions Reactions

Oh Man...

"...Please, go out with! I like you, a lot...please..."

"Um – well, I...oh whoa this is so sudden...um...please take it it easy on me...I-I know next to nothing about this sort of thing..."

"Oh Ash, thank you...!"

"Um – er – I'll be in your care..." Man...why'd I have to go and say that?! It's so cliché...!

"And...I'll be in yours."

Ash Ketchum had been surprised when he had learned that Professor Kukui had somehow gotten in touch with his first traveling companions Brock and Misty, and had asked them to be the Pokémon Schools Kanto tour guides for when the class took a field trip to his home region. On the end of the first day back however, he hadn't expected Misty to suddenly confess to him.

He would've been lying if he said he hadn't had similar thoughts about her in recent years. The many years that they had spent apart, but still communicated via calls or emails had been enough to maintain their friendship, it even still caused old feelings to stay nurtured, which Ash supposed was how it had gotten to the point it was at the present.

As they walked back to where the others were, Misty had a sudden realization. "Oh crap!" she cried. "How are we going to tell the others!?"

Ash froze in his steps. "Oh dear..." he muttered.

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The Alolan Classmates, plus Brock

"Well, I suppose that doesn't come as a surprise," said Lana, with her chin resting thoughtfully on her hand as she nodded up and down. "He does carry around with him a lure in the shape of her, and she seemed pretty happy to be with him after so long." At the sound of her words, Ash never wanted to bury himself more than that.

"You saw it coming?!" spluttered Mallow, in shock. "I never saw this coming at all! I-I..." she stuttered, unsure really of what to say. "...I...I just, congrats...? I mean...Ash dating someone, it...it should be inevitable, being nineteen and all that...but still..."

"Ugh," groaned Ash. "Thanks for the vote of confidence," he added as he meekly twiddled his thumbs whilst tears streamed comically down his face.

"I agree," said Sophocles. "Based on everything I thought I knew about Ash, I would've thought dating was something that was out of his range, but this is such a huge anomaly!"

"I'm happy for him but...I'm just surprised," added Kiawe.

"You guys..." said Ash irritably. But before he could go on, a sharp groan was heard.

"Ugh...lucky bastard..." groaned Brock from under a table, he was laying on his side, curled up in the fetal position with his back to the rest of the group. "Ash gets a girlfriend before me...not fair man..."

Ash and Misty just sweat dropped.

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Dawn

Ash looked awkwardly away to the side, unsure if the call was either frozen, or if the girl on the other end of the line was having some sort of medical emergency, but whatever the case, he was getting a strange vibe through just the image of her alone. "D-Dawn...?" he asked after a few minutes of the long silence. "Are you okay...?"

Dawn blinked. "Huh? O-oh yeah, I-I'm fine ha ha...!" she paused, Ash gulped, Dawn had a very annoyed look on her face as though he had done something wrong. "I'm not sure whether it's my imagination or not, but – did you just say you're dating Misty?!"