"That damn trainer!"

Ashley huffed as she walked into the PokèMon center, yet again beaten by Gary Oak.

"What the hell is Gary's problem?!"

She spat, pissed off. Ashley then took her pokeballs that contained her fainted pokemon out of his pocket.

"Just give me a minute, and they'll be good as new!"

Nurse Joy chimed, loading the pokeballs onto the tray. Sure enough, after a few minutes, they were good as new.

"Here you go!~"

Joy then handed the pokeballs back to Ashley, and Pikachu beamed. She rolled her eyes at Pikachu's happy-go-lucky attitude, and did NOT want to deal with him.

Pikachu must've noticed this, because he narrowed his eyes at her. He then flicked his ears, most likely because he thought he heard a sound. Just seconds later, Pikachu was out the door, running in the direction leading to Viridian forest.

~…Few minutes later…~

Pikachu followed the sound of crying as if it were a trail of muddy footprints leading to a crime scene. He was hot on its trail, and eventually, found the source of the crying. Ashley followed close behind, Pikachu unaware of this fact.

And to be honest, Pikachu was shocked to see it was Gary being tormented and bullied by Red. He was being lashed with a whip repeatedly.

It was NOT a very pretty sight, for Gary was a bloody mess. He had a busted lip, his hair was messier than usual, and he looked as if he were a terrified, abused 3 year old, by the way he was trying to huddle for protection. His back and chest were covered in bluish-black bruises, as well as some on his face. One of his eyes was swollen shut from a hard core punch, and he had more bleeding gashes than you could count all over his body.

Pikachu gaped, unable to process how Gary Oak ever got to be such a horrible, mangled sight.

"Pika!" Pikachu roared.

Red stopped scratching him, and had pinned Gary against the tree, and proceeded beating the ever loving crap out of him.

"Pl-please s-to-p-p!"

Gary wailed, trying to talk.

"Aww, does the widdle baby want me to stop?"

Red taunted, and grinned evilly.

" Yeah righ-"

He was cut off by Pikachu delivering a can of kickass electricity, shocking him violently. Red gasped, and fell to the ground, blood now pouring from his mouth. From behind a tree, Ashley had witnessed all of that horrid event, and ran over to Gary.

"OH MY GOD! ARE YOU OKAY?!"