So, this isn't exactly a new story. It's more ideas I've started that never went anywhere, or previous incarnations of chapters already written and so. More or less, why it's called Pokeduds.
Amber eyes lit up with absolute livid rage. "You damn freaks!" Ash growled menacingly through the reinforced doors blocking him. "Let us outta here, right now!" he bellowed, slamming his shoulder into the door with enough force to make the entire wall rattle.
Through the window of thick glass his eyes were set on the trio that had locked him and his friends in here in the first place. Jessie, James and Meowth, laughing with malicious glee as Jessie waved around the silver suitcase holding their pokeballs and James paraded Pikachu around like a trophie, trapped within one of their stupid electricity-resistant cages.
Jessie stuck her tongue out at him mockingly, "Yeah right twerp," She replied, going as far as to bring one of her hands up and flip him off, "We win! We've got all'a your pokemon, Pikachu's trapped and you're stuck in there!"
James took the mocking even further, squashing his face right up against the glass and began making deranged faces at them, "There's absolutely nothing you can do now you stupid twerps!" He laughed out, his voice muffled from his position on the glass.
Growling, Ash flung his face forward and head butted the glass window so hard the entire frame shook. James yelped and sprung back like the coward he was. "I'm gonna beat you till you're unrecognisable when I get outta here you damn flamboyant clown." The amber eyed trained snarled lowly.
James actually paled at the threat, but before Ash could take satisfaction in that little victory and follow up with another threat for icing on the cake, a small feminine hand laid gently on his shoulder grabbing his attention.
He turned slightly, amber eyes practically glowing with a need for violence meeting soft, concerned pools of the clearest blue. He'd travelled with a few girls that had blue eyes, May's had been an incredibly light blue that bordered on crystalline and Dawn's herself had been a deep, dark blue that almost bordered on black at times. But Serena? Her eyes were just blue, he couldn't describe them in any other way. Her eyes were just so blue, bluer than the sunny summer sky, more blue than anything he'd ever seen.
That was saying something considering he'd seen the Blue Orb itself in person.
"Ash," Serena breathed softly, those blue orbs of her casting a concerned glance at Pikachu outside the room within the clutches of team rocket, "Calm down okay? Don't let them provoke you, we need to think of a way out of here, stooping to their level won't help." she told him, her voice washing over him comfortingly
Serena had that effect on him. Brock's voice had been deep, wise in ways that touched on his experience, Cilan's had been even more flamboyant than that fruit cake James' and each and every one of the girls he'd traveled with previously had been loud, proud and fiery in their own different ways. Serena's was different, she wasn't quite as confident as the other girls he'd traveled with, she was soft spoken and patient.
He felt two small arms wrap around his midsection and broke away from his eye to eye with Serena. Looking down, he was met with a head of blonde hair pressed tightly against his stomach, thin arms trembling slightly, "Don't let them get to you Ash, please," Bonnie said into his stomach, voice both hitched and muffled from his jacket. Bonnie turned her face up to meet his and a flash of red hot anger shot through his system once again, "We need to focus so we can save Dedenne and the others." she hiccuped slightly, blue eyes of her own nearing the shade of May's watery with unshed tears.
Ash clamped down on the growl that threatened to explode from his throat, his eyes searching out Clemont flashing him a shaky smile from the other side of the room as he continued his search for anything useful to help them get out of this room. Instead he lightly ruffed her immaculate blonde hair in a comforting manner, "Don't worry Bonnie, they won't get away with this." Ash told her, careful to not promise to let go off his anger. Bonnie was only a little girl, didn't these pathetic thieves have any shame?
He was so done with this. He'd been content to just let them go about their buisness and annoy him with their attempts to steal Pikachu every week or so, they were so inept they couldn't even take Pikachu from him when he was a complete ignorant noobie, he'd been more amused by them than anything else to tell the truth. Not like trainers as pathetic as them could ever beat him, right?
Ever since Unova, they'd stepped up their game though. They became more and more malicious every time he saw them. His arrogance had got the best of him once again and because of that arrogance they were in this situation.
"Hah!" He heard Jessie cackle. Turning from Bonnie he looked to see Jessie with James beside her leaning up against the window on the door, no doubt to mock them once again. They were so stupid, they already had what they wanted why didn't they just make off with their pokemon? That stupidity was going to cost them when he got outta here, "Yeah twerp, don't let us make you angry! Listen to the useless loser of a trainer and the useless little tag along." the pink haired woman sneered at them.
He saw Serena flinch back as if struck. Gently, he removed Bonnie's arms from his waist and turned his attention back to the window, "Shut up! I'm warning you.." Ash let the threat hang in the air.
Jessie just continued to sneer at him, completely confident in their victory. She took no heed of his anger or warnings, "Seriously twerp, at least the other brat was like a walking pokedex, he was a step up from the munchkin you have tagging along this time," she said, "But forget her, don't get me started on that useless girl beside you. Seriously, what do you see in her? The first one was a gym leader, the second was raised by a gym leader, the third had been preparing to enter contests long before she left on her journey and the last was training to be a dragon-master." Jessie continued, her eyes straying from Ash and staring mockingly right at Serena.
Ash pointed a finger right at her, "I'm warning you one more time. Drop it, or you're seriously not gonna like what's gonna happen to you three freaks when I get outta here." he told her, his voice ice cold.
Jessie pulled back and her eyes lit up with fury, her face flushing red in her anger. "Freaks!? How dare you!" she screeched in outrage.
Ash would have smirked, if James hadn't already been right beside her ready to continue where she left off, "You've went with a serious downgrade this time twerp," he told Ash with a chuckle, "She's terribly lacking in comparison with the other girls."
He shot a sneer at the girl in questio, "Why, it was quite the sight to see her sobbing like a little child because she failed utterly at that showcase." he continued, "The way she cut her hair was the most amusing thing I've seen in a long while, a way to distance herself from the utter failure she was I assume."
Serena gasped, staggering back slightly and her hands flying up to her mouth in shock. Her entire face was turning red from sheer embarrassment, "You….you were watching me?" she whispered, her voice disbelieving as if she couldn't believe they'd do such a thing.
When all James did was break out into outrageous laughter, Ash's eyes narrowed. He was so sick of these utterly pathetic losers dogging their steps and mocking his friends. That was what they were, losers. One ran away from home because he was a spineless little rich boy running from a girl he didn't want to marry and the other was just a pathetic, arrogant and greedy girl who wanted to take from others for herself.
He didn't know and could care less about Meowth's history.
For one brief second, amber turned into shining orbs of endless blue. Then he swung his fist.
Serena had always known Ash was strong. She'd known ever since they were little when he attempted to escort her out of the forest at Professor Oak's summer camp. Her knee had been hurt more than first thought and even with Ash steadying her she couldn't put her weight on it.
So what did Ash do? He picked her up and swung her onto his back, then he trekked for over ten minutes with her on his back to reach the summer camp again. All without stopping or complaining once.
Then there was the way he could casually let Fletchinder roost atop his arm, all the while carrying Pikachu and his backpack filled with supplies. She'd tried to let Fletchinder do it once and she nearly toppled over within the first second.
So yes, Serena had always known Ash was strong. He displayed it so casually and so often that it became kind of like a fact of life to her. Like the sun was hot, Ash was strong. It was just a fact.
Then, she was shamed to admit as she stood there completely out of her element and completely mortified by the mocking she was on the receiving end of, being compared to other girls in Ash's life of all things...then, Ash swung his fist.
Serena gasped, eyes widening in utter disbelief as Ash punched right through the thick, reinforced glass like it was paper and latch onto James' throat, dragging the man forward and making sure to smash his face harshly against the door that was locking them in.
"Ash!" She shouted, worry filling her. Serena didn't care that he may have dragged James into the door with enough force to crack his skull, all she cared about was the fact that Ash could very well hurt himself very badly if the glass punctured his arm.
Worry getting the best of her, Serena hurriedly pulled her red vest off and quickly rushed up behind Ash. James was screaming as Ash growled, pulling him into the door head first again and again while squeezing the man's throat tightly.
This takes place in the Pokeball Company episode.
So the original idea for this, was for Team Rocket to save James and go to make their escape. Only, Clemont comes to the rescue and manages to fix up a Pokemon Transport Machine that was within the room. Ash calls Oak and gets the closest of his pokemon at hand sent over, which just happened to be Sceptile that Oak was doing some research on
Well, those doors wouldn't last long against Sceptile, and Team Rocket even less so. They get stomped, arrested once and for all and at the end of the day Ash keeps Sceptile on the team. The general idea, is that his other pokemon grow stronger, quicker due to training with Sceptile and Ash see's the potential in having his new pokemon train against his older, more powerful ones. This story would probably include Ash getting Sawyer and Trevor's mega stones, because fuck those dopey kids. They in no way deserve Mega Evolution.
