I wanted to let you know that I do not claim any of my characters or references to Pokemon stories. I just have ideas that might be considered interesting dealing with such characters and new ones, too.
Later Years!
Chapter1: New Arrivals and Old Foe
Written by : Drake22ice
A "Good morning!" followed by a soft kiss woke him from his deep sleep. He opened his eyes to a slender, but beautiful, redheaded woman smiling at him with a slight look of sympathy behind it. "Guess what?" she said. His response did not come quick enough for her to scream out "Number Four hatched this morning, and he is blue!" The young man jumped out of bed to go see the new arrival. He ran into the next room and gave a kiss to a little black haired girl, his daughter, before looking over her shoulder into a crib with three little yellow creatures, and one odd ball blue one. "Daddy, this blue pichu is the cutest!" she said with excitement. He smiled and replied with "And, Star, this one is really unique. There has never been a blue one reported. We will have to call your uncle" The little girl simply looked up at her father and began to smirk, but frowned when she saw his red around his eyes.
She thought it was a good time to say "Their daddy should be proud." The young man just closed his eyes as tears filled them up. He opened them again and yelled into the other room, "Misty, get Chance ready! I think we should go to the center, today!"
The family of four and their pokemon living in Cerulean City packed up their gear and hopped onto their bikes. Ash Ketchum, the most popular trainer ever to have journeyed the world, who has written countless stories of his adventures through many regions of pokemon, is riding in front with his son, Chance, attached to the back. Misty, the wife of Ash, mother of two, and Gym Leader for their town, follows her very heart broken husband with a carriage of baby pichus attached to her shiny new bike, which Ash bought her for their tenth anniversary. It was a reminder of how they met. Finally, there was 10 year old Star, who wanted to grow up to surpass her father's popularity and discover new pokemon that he had never gotten to see. She knew that she could not start her journey until her father's best friend and father to the new arrivals became better.
About a month ago Ash's Pikachu found a cute girl pikachu while running outside. They began to bond and ended up leaving to go to the forest for a few days. A week after they left, Star and Misty went for a walk into the forest and found Pikachu sliced on the side and not conscious. The girl pikachu was not around, but from hearing a cry in a bush, Star found a little pichu and three eggs. They took them all to the Pewter City Pokemon Center. Pikachu has been there ever since in a coma. Ash has not been taking it too well and has declined from all public interviews.
It was getting dark and they kept seeing a flash of light coming from over the hill. To their surprise, a baby vulpix was their trying to keep warm. It had a cold, and every time it sneezed, a puff of fire came from it's mouth. Misty ran over to it and picked it up. It was not strong enough to be scared and fight back. It would not eat the formula that Misty tried to feed it, so Star asked if she could try. Vulpix has been the one pokemon that she has always wanted. Sure enough when she held it close to her little body, the vulpix started to lick her and then took the formula. After it was looking healthier, Ash popped a pokeball into Star's lap. He told her that since it will be better off in there until they get to the center, she should catch it. The little red spark of a Vulpix flew into the pokeball. "Congratulations!" said Misty holding baby Chance as she fed him his bottle. Star had a small smile, but worried for the little Vulpix.
Back on the road in the morning, Star noticed the trees had been slashed. Suddenly a Persian jumped out in front of them causing Ash to fall from his bike. HE quickly grabbed Chance and put him in Misty's arms. The Persian looked familiar with its scorched right ear. It began to talk. "Look at the little family of twerps" it said. " I have been waiting to run into you. I tried to get your attention with Pikachu, but--" it didn't get to finish when Misty came in with "That was you who did that to Pikachu, Mr. Meowth! I should kill you right here." Ash threw himself at the rather large persian, missing and getting cut by a claw in the ear. "Oh, no---it is I who must kill you. We tried and tried to get a good life, but every time we got close to impressing the boss, you twerps messed it up" Mr. Meowth said with a cold attempt. "Now, Jessie is in an insane asylum, and James is in jail for trying to sell fake pokedex's that were supposed to stun the owners to let James steal their pokemon, but exploded and killed people instead. My only goal, now, is to make up for our losses and finally get rid of you brats!" He jumped at Misty and the baby when he got tail and rear full of flames. Star had rolled her pokeball under the giant cat and called out to her new friend to use flamethrower. The feline fell to the ground. Then Misty yelled to Number 2 "ThunderWave", since it was the only new arrival who new it. The persian was paralyzed and too weak to go on fighting. Ash looked with rage, Misty saw it and cooled him down with her Seadra's waterpulse. She told him that there is a better way.
The family quickly tied the persian up and through it in front of the police station with a note on the way to the Pokemon Center in Pewter City. They rushed into the center, Ash charging into the intensive care unit, and Misty handing Star's Vulpix to the pink haired and very pregnant woman behind the counter. "Hello, Joy!" Misty greeted. Nurse Joy took the baby pokemon of Star's and the four little pichus into the nursery. There, Star looked on as Misty told Joy all about the attack. Joy although very interested in the blue pichu, was very concerned about this poor, but amazing family. Star tugged on her dress and said "Aunt Joy, where's Uncle Brock?"
In with Ash, he saw the dark complexioned man in a white coat standing over the bed where Pikachu laid. "Hey, Brock, how's he doing?" Ash whispered. The very tired man looked back, smirked to see his friend and replied "Ask him yourself. He woke up last night." "PIKACHU!!" Ash screamed with joy. The little electric mouse type pokemon, looking weak and showing its age, turned his head to smile at his best friend. "Go easy, Ash! He had a long few weeks. We all did!" Misty with Chance and Joy rushed into the room after Star to see that Ash was holding the paw of an awake Pikachu. Misty smiled to see her man happy again.
The friends sat down while Star played with her Vulpix in the nursery. "So, Ash?---what happened to your ear?" Brock insisted. Misty looked at Joy and Ash replied "It was Mr. Meowth! Everything—Pikachu---Everything!" Brock stared at him in almost disbelief-- "After all this time? He is still out there?" Ash just nodded. "I cannot believe it!" Brock sighed. Ash came back with " Ever since his partners got separated from him, he has become more vicious and wants revenge on all of us. We should probably warn the others." Joy asked "But don't the police have it, now?" At that moment the siren blew loudly outside. Ash looking down-- "Not anymore." "Speaking of the others—these arrived, yesterday! They are letters and invitations from May." Taking them from him, Misty reads them aloud:
"Hello friends! I know that you are having a rough time right now. We hope everything is okay with Pikachu and the babies. We send all of our prayers to you. Drew and I hope that you are able to make it to the wedding, but we understand if you cannot. Please let us know how you are. Love, May and Drew."
"Are you guys going?" asked Misty. Joy simply rolled her hand over her belly and said-- "I dunno if I could make the trip anyways." Ash looking at Pikachu watching his little ones run around in the carrying case. "Life without family or friends is no life" Ash exclaimed. "I think we all should go! I will have us flown there. What do you think, Buddy? Do you think you could make it?" Ash said in hope as Pikachu looked at him and nodded.
Brock and Joy said their good nights and went off to bed in the House next door. "You've gotta be proud of him." Misty said. Ash, thinking she was talking about Brock returned with " Ya, he has always been impressive with his ability to heal Pokemon. That's how he was able to get certified and build his University For Higher Learning of Pokemon. It's also how he finally got Nurse Joy to say Yes. He has always been a good friend and I am happy that he found his place. Ash looked over to his now sleeping Buddy. I would do anything for him—especially with how many times he has helped Pikachu."
"Ash, Brock is really great, but I was talking about Pikachu. He has been through a lot. He probably put everything out there to protect his babies and that little girl pikachu." As she looked down, she said---" I hope she is okay—somewhere out there. Pikachu is probably worried sick." Ash looked at her thinking what he would ever do without Misty. Then, he took a glance over to the resting two children over on the guest bed. Star's Vulpix curled up next to her, drooled down her hand. "That evil Persian is still out there. Damn-it, Mr. Meowth!" he thought.
" Hey Misty?" he got her attention. "I know it is dangerous out there, but Star really deserves to start following her dreams. Her journey awaits her. Now that she has Vulpix, she needs to go out and enjoy her life. It is great that she thinks of her daddy and stays home to comfort me, but Pikachu is doing better. She doesn't need to stick around." Misty concerned said, "But what about Mr. Meowth? He still has vengeance on his mind. What if---what if he went after Star?" "She is the age that we were when we faced dangers." he retorted. "And there is a new recruit in the Pokemon Rangers that we know well. He can keep an eye on her for us." "Well, maybe your right." she said in worry. "He will definitely be at the wedding. We can ask him then."