Title: Got to Catch Them All.

Author: landofthekwt

Rating: PG-13

Prompt: Catch (Fan-fic bake-off #1)

Word Count: 223

Fandom: Pokemon

Genre: Schamltz

Warning: Character Deaths

Summary: Ash caught them all.

Ash stroked the rigid body of Pikachu. The taxidermy was so good and Ash was so senile that he sometime forgot that Pikachu had been stuffed long ago.

" We finally did it, Pikachu. We caught them all"

The ninety-year-old Ketchum stared at the rows and rows of poke balls mounted on the shelves as far as the eye could see. He had started down this road a long time ago. Now he had completed his life's work.

As the last pokemon was drawn into the designated container, Ash flushed with pride. He and Pikachu had worked so hard for this day. It was appropriate that Pikachu should with him at the end.

Once it had been about badges. The badges were lined up in his trophy case. He did not need any stinking badges anymore. He had lived on simply to complete his life's work.

He gasped. Pikachu dropped from his hands and fell to the floor.. His last thoughts were of the little yellow pokemon who had stayed with him to the end. . He and Pikachu would together forever battling in that great tournament beyond the stars..

They had fought so many battles together. Pikachu had been first and last friend. He had been the only one there for him at the end when he finally caught them all.