Ash noted that his mom was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, a large floppy straw hat, and sun glasses. That could only mean one thing. Delia took Ash out to her somewhat barren garden. She gently set him on to the soil before pulling some work gloves out of her back pocket, “Would you mind helping me Ash? I want to start planting my garden today.”

“Um, sure mom.” Ash wasn’t sure what he could do at his size, he’d probably be more of a hindrance than a help.

Delia pulled out four tiny packets of seeds, ripping one open she poured half its contents on to the soil next to her son. “Here you go, these tomatoe seeds.”

Ash picked up one of the seeds and hefted it into the air on to his shoulder. Even at his reduced height the seeds weight wasn’t too bad.

“Now I’d like these planted a good six inches apart and about 2 inches deep, okay sweetie?”

“I’ll do my best mom.” Ash knew his aid was unecessary but he appreciated the fact that his mother was trying to make him feel useful.

Ash made his way over to a nice patch of soil and set the seed down. He started digging into the ground furiously. He didn’t want his mother to think he’d softened just because he was used to be carried all the time. He wanted to show her he was still fit. Though he’d never tell her, her opinion of him really meant a lot to Ash.

“I’m glad you’re so eager to help out your mom.” Delia smiled, “Just wait till these babies grow. There isn’t anything better than home grown fruit and veggies! I can’t wait to harvest them. I’ll make you a new salad I’ve been working on.”

Ash smiled, his mom loved cooking and trying out new recipes! Suddenly though, he stopped, “That sounds really delicious mom but I’m not to sure we’ll be passing through Pallet when it’s harvest time.”

Delia stopped working as well, slowly she turned to Ash, her eyes wide yet not yet filled with tears, “Ash please don’t leave me again. It’s so lonely here without you. Sure there’s professor Oak and Daisy comes and keeps me company but there’s no real replacement for you. Please Ash.”

“……………………….”

“Ash, I know how you feel about that………….. that vile Misty girl but she’s just toying with you!”

Ash was taken aback, he had felt himself caving in under the pressure of his mothers pleas but now…. “Don’t talk about her like that! You don’t even know her!”

“I know her, I know her type. She’s really quite a loud, brash, unattractive girl. She’ll use you to satisfy herself and cast you aside when she’s done.”

Ash was hurt, “I thought you two really bonded when you last met.”

“Well that was then this is now. I didn’t see her for what she really was back then. Ash don’t you see she isn’t safe? That one day when she grows bored of you she’ll just eat you as if you were nothing but a potatoe chip or she’ll cram you…” Delia couldn’t finish, she bit down on her knuckles.

“Mom I love you with all my heart but you’re wrong and I’m going with her!” Ash pulled himself out of his 3 foot (to him) deep hole and stared his mother straight in her eyes, “I met Misty just a day or two after I left Pallet. I mangled her bike and I owed her but you know what? Soon enough she forgave me, and soon we were just friends traveling together. We ended up becoming the best of friends and Misty, along with buddy Brock, would help me train and get stronger. We went every where together. Misty and I made tons of friends, saw all sorts of weird pokemon, and got to travel over the entire continent. We’ve been on so many great adventures I can’t even count them! When I shrunk she could have crushed me! She could have eaten me, shoved me up her nose, whatever. But you know what? She didn’t because SHE’S MY BEST FRIEND!”

Delia pulled back slightly wincing

“Brock didn’t want to give me a second thought, he said she should just leave me even after all the things the three of us had been through. Well obviously, since I’m here, she didn’t just dump me off of some route somewhere. Misty is better than that. She even took really good care of Brock when he shrunk too. He did get munched on by Officer Jenny but that wasn’t Mist’s fault at all!”

Delia nodded, “I understand, calm down Ashley.” She whispered quietly.

“So I’m shrunk now and Misty’s shown me mercy. She hasn’t killed me, that alone makes her better than most people out there, but not only that she treats me like I’m the same person! Like I AM a person! If anything she treats me even nicer than before! She knows I can’t ever change back to my normal size but I’m still her best friend. So eventually we phone you and you ask for me to come home. Misty didn’t need to bring me back, what about Misty’s plans? But no, for me, she decides to head back to Pallet even though its dozens of miles away. We traveled four weeks to get here, four weeks Misty could have been doing what Misty wanted to do. She came here for me.” Ash was sobbing now, “And what thanks does she get? You treat her worse than dirt.”

Delia was tearing up soon, she suddenly felt foolish and petty, “Oh Ashley I’m so sorry. I was just so worried about you! I…. I know you care for her but I never thought she might actually care for you back.”

Ash sniffed, “Well she does and… and… and I love her!”

“Ash, I know you have a crush on her but you haven’t been around long enough to know what true lo-”

“No, I love her! And I want to be with her! She’s more than just my best friend, she’s become my world. Can’t you just accept that?”

Delia smiled sadly no longer trying to wipe the tears away, she remembered when his whole world used to be catching and training pokemon. Still…….

“I……. It will be difficult but… with time…” Delia nodded.

Ash was shocked. Was his mother finally acknowledging Misty as his girlfriend? That she was finally coming terms with the fact that Ash wanted to travel with her and spend the rest of his life with her?

“Mom.”

“Honey, I’m sorry I’ve been so cold to her…. Let’s… Let’s just keep planting these seeds. I have a lot to think about.”

“……. Sure.”

………………………………………………………

Misty met up with Casey not long after finishing up the dishes, she was returning to Ash’s with a small dark plastic bag.

“Hi Casey, so where’s Pickachu?”

“What in the hell are you-? Oh Pickachu!” Casey laughed, “Ash set him free, he didn’t want Oak to hold on to him. I was just so desperate that Pickachu was the first of Ash’s pokemon to come to mind!”

Misty narrowed her eyes, “You don’t say?”

“Hey don’t stare at me like that….. Quit it Misty!” The older girl didn’t relent.

“Look, tell ya what. If you stop looking at me like I strangle growlithe puppies for fun I’ll let you use Ash’s old Kingler every once in a while. It’s a water tyyyyyyyyyype.”

Misty kept staring, “……….. Why not just give him to me?” She finally asked, “You’ve got all the others.”

“Tell you what, how about I give you one of these?” Casey opened the bag revealing 3 scared shrunken teen boys.

“Where did you get those?!! I thought the entire town was sold out.”

“Yeah well I traded one of ash’s Tauros pokemon to a girl in town for em.”

“You what?! That pokemon is a lot more valueable than any shrinkie!” Misty stomped her foot, furious at the younger girl.

“Relax! For some reason Ash has dozens of them.”

Misty relented and took a moment to think, that was right! That one time they went to the Safari Zone Ash had caught an entire herd!

“Well it’s still a waste.”

“I’m sorry Misty.” Casey moaned out insincerely, “Here just take one and let me get on with my day.” Misty broke her eye contact with the Casey and stared at the bag. Slowly she dipped her hand inside snatching up one of the soon to be victims.

………………………

Ash sighed in pure bliss. He leaned back and let the hot water up to his chin. The bath had cleaned away all the dirt and sweat that had been clinging to his body. After planting all of his mother’s seeds she’d taken him to the bathroom upstair, plugged the sink, and filled it with hot water so that Ash could take a bath and clean up. She’d scraped off a bit of soap and let it float on the surface next to him. All her had to do was grab a hold of it and snap a piece off of the thin sliver. Ash had finished up but he wasn’t sure when his mother would return to get him out so for now he was just relaxing. The door to the bathroom opened and shut. Was that her already? Ash paddled over to the side of the sink and grabbed on to its edge pulling himself upwards. What he saw shocked him.

Misty was sitting on the toilet, her pants down, with a tiny teen in her hands. Was she going to eat him?

“Its been days since I’ve felt a shrinky squirming in my pussy. I hope you don’t disappoint or I’ll have to bite each and every one of your limbs off separately.”

Ash’s breath caught in his throat.

“Ready to go muff diving?” Misty snickered cruelly.

“Noooo!” But it really wasn’t up to him, the shrinkie flew head first towards her snatch. No sooner had his head touched her reddish orange pubes then Ash cried out in dismay. Misty looked up. For a second the two of them stared blushing, Misty at Ash’s nakedness, and Ash at Misty’s exposed crotch.

“A- ash?” Misty accidentally dropped the teen into the water below.

Quickly she flushed the toilet as if that would somehow dispose of the evidence and erase everything Ash had just seen and heard. Ash couldn’t believe it. The girl he loved, the girl who meant everything to him, his best friend, was using boys to pleasure herself. Sure he knew she ate them, but he never thought she’d use them for gratification or that she could treat them so cruelly. Ash had been faithful to her, of course he really couldn’t be anything but faithful at his size but that wasn’t the point. They’d only been dating officially for a day or two but their feelings for each other had been around for so much longer. Though Ash only cared for Misty it seemed to him he didn’t mean much to her. What she had been doing behind his back, well, it was almost as if she’d been cheating on him.

“Misty how could you? I thought I meant more to you then that.”

The horrified girl didn’t know what to say, “A- Ash! I… I..”