020 - Santa, can you help it go faster, to become a Pokémon Master?

[bestwishes]

[Being an old friend of Santa, Ash obviously sent him some Christmas wishes. Using the magical key provided, he manages to open a door somehow leading right into his home in Pallet Town. He excitedly heads downstairs and...]

Mom! It's me, Ash! Mom! ... Mom?

[He walks over and... hand goes right through her.]

... That's weird. Mimey?

[He heads to the Oak Laboratory. Oak is there researching writing poetry while Tracey does actual work, as per usual. Neither of them notice his presence either. He explores the Oak ranch, coming across many of his old Pokémon, Heracross, Snorlax, Muk, Sceptile, Buizel, etc.

None of them pay him any notice at all. Slightly unnerved by all this, he decides to head out towards Route 1. ... Only to come to an invisible wall. He returns home, walking back through the door to Mayfield, picking up a phone.]

So, I've found a way home? ... But nobody can see me and I can't go beyond the boundaries of Pallet Town.

Comments

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

You actually... went back 'home'? [And you can't leave Pallet. That's just, well, weird.]

[bestwishes]

Well, Santa left a magic key... and when I opened a door with it, I was in my house? Like, my house in Pallet that is. And mom was there, and Professor Oak and Tracey, but... they couldn't see me? And I couldn't touch anything?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

That's...pretty weird.

[bestwishes]

Yeah, I'm not really sure what to do...

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of the tricks that this place has, or something.

[bestwishes]

Yeah, I'm not really sure what to do...

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

... I don't know either. I just hope whatever I get is something useful.

[bestwishes]

Yeah... It's great seeing mom and the Professor again and all, but it's not much use if they can't even see me and I can't go back to Unova or anything either?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

Ash, just don't go there anymore. You have to promise me not to go there again. [ ... because Misty has a bad premonition. ]

[bestwishes]

Hm? Why not?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

What if something bad happens, and you're stuck there? What then? [ BU ]

[bestwishes]

Well, it's not like home is a particularly bad place to be stuck compared to here?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

How are you going to get any food if you can't have people see you? [YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, GDIT]

[bestwishes]

... I guess that's a good point, huh?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

[I win this argument you can't win]

[bestwishes]

[Dammit Misty, you always win. D:]

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

You still owe me a bike, Ash Ketchum.

[bestwishes]

And uh... How do you expect me to get one?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

You could raise money to get one...

[bestwishes]

And how would I be raising the money?

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

I don't know, you think of something! You're the one who owes me a bike!

[bestwishes]

Fine, fine...

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

[The score? Misty: 2. Ash: 0.]

[bestwishes]

[Why you do dis to me!?]

[cascadedwater.livejournal.com]

['Cause it's all misty to me.]

[roadroller]

Use your newfound invisibility to do pranks! ♪

[bestwishes]

But I can't touch anything over there either?

[roadroller]

Really? ♪

Not even dirt? ♪

[bestwishes]

'fraid not?

[roadroller]

Well, that's lame. ♪ Why even bother?

[bestwishes]

Uh... I dunno? But it's a door to home.

[roadroller]

Well, at least you can see that they're all right, and you'll know if you need to flatten em' for having fun without you.

[bestwishes]

Yeah, I guess so, huh?