Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:35:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Gregg Friedman <velraptor2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Switch - Transgender, Teen, Mind Control, Sci-Fi

Note this is not my story the original story is from an author called
Tsunami_Shocker all reviews will be sent to her after i check them first
for any foul language.  Thank you and enjoy "The Switch."

-Ash&Misty4Ever

The Switch
Created by Tsunami_Shocker
Brought back by Ash&Misty4Ever

Ash woke with a start.  It had been 3 years since he had begun his Pokemon
journey and he was now a gym leader, thanks to Brock.  But one thing had
been bothering him. He kept having these same dreams every single night.
The ones where he was running, running to a shadowy figure standing in some
bright light. He had never been able to figure out who or what the shadow
was, because while he was running it kept getting farther and farther away.
He knew that these dreams meant something, he usually had dreams in which
he had lost something, and then the next day he would wake finding that his
watch was missing.  Ash looked around his room. Misty was asleep on the top
bunk, Brock was on the bottom, he himself was on the floor in his sleeping
bag and Pikachu was snoozing with Togepi in his basket.  Ash felt cold
sweat on his forehead. Then a voice made him jump.

"Ash? What's up? Are you okay?" came Misty's sleepy voice. "Is there
something wrong?"

"No, I just had a bad dream. Thanks though Mist."

Ash whispered. "Gosh, she sure is considerate," he thought. "Waking up like
that because she's concerned."

Then Ash drifted off to sleep.  He had a dream about Misty, then her face
faded away, and a new image appeared.  He knew he was in water, he could
see all the fish around him.  He also noticed that he was carrying
something furry and small. He was about to look down and see what it was,
but then a Gyarados appeared.  Ash swam for his life; it was by
instinct. Then he felt something sharp pierce his shoulder. It tugged on
his sleeve, and he was yanked out of the water.  "YAAAAAHHH!!!!!" he
yelled, flying through the air.  "Naw, it's just a kid. And a Pokemon!" he
heard a voice say. "Awww, are you hurt?" the voice asked.  "Yeah, I'm
okay." said Ash as he looked into the eyes of a cute young girl.  "Not YOU,
the Pokemon!!" the girl yelled looking at him, blushing. 'Geez she's cute,'
thought Ash.

"Is it breathing?" she asked worriedly.

"I...I think so," said Ash, finally looking at what he was holding.  It was
a Pikachu.  Then the girl shook his shoulder.  Everything was starting to
become blurry.  "Ash, get up," said the girl's voice.  But she wasn't
moving her lips.  "C'mon, Ash, get up."By this time he could barely see
anything.  Then everything went black.  "CHUUUUUUU!!!!" Ash shot up from
his sleeping bag.  Pikachu was near him. He had been shocked by Pikachu's
Thunderbolt.  Ash coughed.

"Man, Ash, you're a heavy sleeper." came Brock's voice.

"Yeah, we couldn't wake you up." said Misty's voice.  "It's twelve
twenty-five!"

"Waaaa??" said Ash.  "12:25? Sheesh, I'm a heavy sleeper."

"Brock said that already, silly." Misty said.  "Just how dense CAN you
possibly get, Ashy Boy?"

Brock was shocked. Misty was talking to Ash nicely.  He had always thought
that they loved each other, but they were too stubborn to admit it.  "I've
always wanted to say this." he thought. " Ash and Misty, sitting in a
tree," he sang, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G! First comes love, than comes marriage, than
comes Togepi in a baby carriage!"

Misty pulled out her mallet, and handed it to Ash.  "Care to do the
honors?" she asked him.

"Thank you." Ash wonked Brock as hard as he could with the mallet.

"I couldn't have hit him harder myself." said Misty as he gave her back the
mallet.

"Thanks." said Ash.

"So why did you sleep in so late?" Misty asked. "Did you have another bad
dream?"

"Huh?" asked Brock weakly. (Ash had hit him pretty hard ^_~.) "How do you
know if he had a nightmare?  Are you taking those psychic lessons again?"

"No Brock. He woke up in the middle of the night and I heard him. He told
me."

"Psychic lessons?" Ash asked confused.

"I took psychic lessons once to read other people's minds." Misty replied.

"Why would you want to-" Ash was cut off.

"Never mind that, why did you sleep in?"  Ash felt that Misty was hiding
something. Then he recalled his dream. He knew now that this was a memory
of him meeting Misty. Ash told them, "I don't know, I think that my dream
kept me sleeping to tell me something."

"Just what are you talking about Ash?" Brock asked as he surveyed him
suspiciously.  "Well I know that my dreams mean things." Ash replied. "One
time I had a dream in which I was falling from a cliff and something
grabbed me. The next thing I know, when we were heading to Saffron City, I
fell off a cliff and Bulbasaur seized me with its Vine Whip."

Misty thought that this made sense. She too had dreams that she knew were
trying to tell her something, but only one didn't make sense. She had been
running towards a tall shadow but once she tried to get near it, it became
farther away.  "What kind of dream?" Misty asked.

Ash thought that he'd better not tell her that his dream was about her. He
blushed and said, "I'll tell you later, right now I'm starving."Misty
thought, 'He's hiding something and I know it. But what?'

*************************************************************

Ash and company was traveling to Moonlit Isle.  "Oh I can't wait to get
there, it sounds soooo romantic!" squealed Misty.

"Hang on we're almost there, Misty!" Brock said.

Misty blushed and continued walking. She was really excited. Then they
reached a building. It was very tall and had many windows. A sign above it
said:'Moonlit Isle Experimental Laboratory'.

"A laboratory?" Ash asked, surprised.

"They must do a lot of experiments here." said Misty.

"We sure do."

Ash and Misty jumped. "Yaaaah!" they yelled together. They turned around
and saw a man standing behind them.  "You two," he grunted, "come with me."

"Um...okay." Ash and Misty said.

Brock just walked away to the Pokemon Center. *Probably to see
You-Know-Who...^_~*

They followed the man inside the lab. They saw two rooms side by side with
a chair in each one."We're going to do an experiment on you two."  Ash and
Misty gulped.  "Sit down on those chairs." the man said.

Misty went inside a room and saw a large number 2 on her door. Ash found a
number 1.  "Close the doors." the man said.  They both closed their doors.

Misty's voice whispered to Ash, "Ash I'm scared."

"Don't worry Mist'."

"He's so reassuring." Misty thought.

All of a sudden, there was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Ash
and Misty heard the man's voice.

"Are you two okay?"

"Yes." came Misty's voice.

"I'm alright." said Ash's voice.

Misty felt strange. She had something on her head and hands. Then she
looked down and saw that she was wearing pants. She felt her hands and
noticed she was wearing gloves. Misty felt the top of her head and pulled
off a hat.  "Ash's hat!" she thought.

Meanwhile Ash was feeling weird. He felt taller and had bare hands and
legs. He was wearing shorts. Something squirmed in his arms.  "Togepi!"
thought Ash.

They stepped out of the rooms and stared at each other.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!" they screamed.

"You-" Misty started.

"-Are me!" Ash stammered.

The man stared at them. "The machine went haywire. It was supposed to make
you read each other's minds."  They started to get used to this. They
decided to play a trick on Brock by freaking him out. They had their own
voices, but each other's bodies.  Brock found them standing outside the
lab.

"Uh, are you okay? Because I just saw the laboratory blow up!" Brock said
worriedly.  Ash and Misty just nodded. They didn't want Brock to hear their
voices.

"Let's go then!" Brock exclaimed.
************************************************************* Ashco. were
walking to the Pokemart to get supplies.  Ash (in Misty's body) saw a
Jigglypuff. He gave Misty the sign. Misty winked.

"Hey guys, it's Jigglypuff!" Ash (in Misty's body) said.  Brock was
shocked. So was Pikachu. To them, Misty looked like she had Ash's voice.

"Uh, Misty?" Brock asked.

"Yes?" Misty (in Ash's body) replied.

Brock and Pikachu were not prepared to find that Ash (actually Misty) had
Misty's voice.  "What the freak is wrong with me?!! Ash has Misty's voice
and Misty has Ash's! I'm going nuts!!" Brock yelled.

"PIKA PI CHU CHA PIKACHU!" [me too! I'm going berserk!]

Ash and Misty giggled. "We switched bodies! Geez, Brock, you really
freaked!" Ash laughed.

"Yeah, that was so funny!" Misty chuckled.  These words both got them
Thundershocks, complimentary of Pikachu.  Ash and Misty fell down
Anime-style.

"How in the world did this happen?" Brock asked.

"The experiment backfired." Misty explained.

"It was supposed to make us read each other's-"

Misty put her hand over Ash's mouth. "Never mind that, let's get back to
our normal selves!"

Ash stared at her. 'Why doesn't she want Brock to know?' he asked himself.

*************************************************************

They arrived at the lab.  Misty knocked.  "Hello, anybody there? We need to
switch back!"  The man they had met earlier opened the door.

"What? You want to switch? Okay, we'll try one more time." he said.  Ash
and Misty sat in the rooms that they went in before. They closed the doors.
There was a loud buzzing noise. Ash and Misty felt a tingling down their
backs. Suddenly Ash heard Misty's voice, but it wasn't out loud. It was
very faint.  "Did it work? I'm scared. Is Ash all right? Please let him be
okay." he heard.

Then Misty's real voice came out.  "Ash? Are you okay?"

" Yes, I'm fine."

Then Misty heard a faint voice enter her head. It sounded like Ash.  "Man,
she really does care. Did we switch? (slight pause.) Yup. Switched. I heard
Misty though. Maybe the experiment worked! Then that means she can hear me
now! Hi Mist! Ya there?"

"Yes Ash." she responded normally.

Ash heard her again. "Normally he's not that smart.  But he's figured this
out. He's becoming unusually intelligent. Wait a minute. He can hear me!
Umm, hello Ash..." "Hi Misty. Thanks for the compliment.' Misty heard.
"You guys switch?" Brock's voice came.

"Pika?" [Are you okay?]

"Yes." Ash and Misty replied.

They walked out. Now they could read each other's minds.

*************************************************************

"Misty?" Ash thought.

"Yes?" Misty thought.

"Should we tell Brock?"

"Not yet." Misty accidentally said out loud.

"Not yet what?" Brock asked.

"NOTHING! Hehehehe......" Ash said.

"Let's tell him now." Misty told Ash.

"Okay...."

"Brock?" Misty asked.

"What?"

"Ash and I have something to tell you."

"The experiment worked. We can read minds now." Ash said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Brock asked.

"Well um..." Misty started.

"We wanted to play a prank. DON'T PIKACHU!!!"  Ash yelled.  For Pikachu was
about to shock them both. He quickly ceased.

"Oh." said Brock.

"Misty?" Ash thought.

"Yeah?"

"I have something to tell you."

"You can't tell me, silly, you have to think it!"

"Whatever. Well...I..I...Oh heck, I love you Mist."

"I love you too, Ashy Boy."

"AHA! YES! YOU DO LOVE EACH OTHER!!! WOOHOO!!!" Brock suddenly shouted.

"Waaaa?" Ash stuttered.

"How the-" Misty said.

"I got the experiment too!" Brock said triumphantly.

"Pikachu, Thunderbolt." Ash and Misty whispered to the mouse.

"PI...KA...CHUUUU!!!" *shock* Ash and Misty dragged Brock off into the
sunset.

"Hey Mist?" Ash asked.

"Yeah, Hatboy?"

"Don't call me that. Anywayz, how come you wanted to read minds so much?"

"Because I wanted to know what you felt about me without you knowing."

"Then how come you told Brock about your psychic lessons and not me?"

"I thought you might figure it out. I don't think you're really THAT
stupid."

"But Brock would probably figure it out before me, right? I mean, I'm not
smarter than he is."

"I never thought of that Dirty Cheeks. Maybe I'm getting dense!"

"DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT CALL ME DIRTY CHEEKS!!!" Ash yelled, aggravated.
Misty giggled.

"Did I miss something?" Brock's voice said. He had woken up.

"GO BACK TO YOUR UNCONSCIOUSNESS, YOU SPIKY-HAIRED LOVER BOY!" Misty
yelled, knocking him out with her mallet once again.

Ash burst out laughing.  "You really like calling people names, huh?"

"Well, ya gotta be prepared for anything."

"Huh? Like what?" Ash was curious.

"Like THIS!" At that, Misty grabbed Ash, spun him around to face her, and
kissed him forcefully but gently on the lips.

"Mmmmm....that was unexpected..." Ash said dizzily with a look on his face
somewhat like Brock's when he saw a pretty girl.

"Yeah." Misty bust a gut laughing.

"And so was THIS!" Ash yelled, wrestling her to the ground.

"Pika pi chu."[They're finally together.]

"Toge priiii!"[Mommy and Daddy-yay!]

And now Ash and Misty knew what their unknown dreams were about: each
other.

THE END