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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Telepathy or similar"
Chapter 1: Pokémon! I Choose You!
362:04:01:08:13
Pallet Town, Kanto Region, Kaiyou League Federation
It was early morning in the small and peaceful Pallet Town, the sun just having risen over the hills that surrounded said town on three sides, the ocean being on the south side. In a moderately sized house near the edge of town one young future Pokémon Trainer is just waking up. The figure in the bed stirred as the sunlight entering through the window increased. Yawning, the young child looked at the Voltorb shaped clock on the bedside table, and noticed that they had awakened early, seeing that the time was 6:30 a.m.
'It's pretty bright for being so early.' They thought, but due to the still lingering sleepiness decided to ignore it. Choosing to hurry and prepare, the child left the bedroom and entered the bathroom where they quickly bathed.
After bathing they got dressed, and looked into the mirror, seeing their reflection. Blue jeans, black shirt partially covered with an open red jacket with white sleeves, collar, and the border on the bottom. A red cap with a white front, angled downwards covered the top of the head, leaving long messy black hair to erupt from underneath stretching to the lower back, and brown eyes that could barely be seen from beneath the cap's bill.
Finishing looking at themselves in the mirror, the child picked up a yellow backpack from the floor, which contained all the supplies they would need, then took a metallic bracer from the desk and placed it on their left forearm where it promptly locked itself. The bracer seemed to have thin shallow groves that formed beautiful patterns that appeared to change shape and move around depending on the angle from which it was looked at.
Finished with the preparations, the child once more looked at the clock and saw the time as being 6:30 a.m. Something felt wrong about the displayed time, but once more they ignored the feeling and went downstairs to the kitchen and made breakfast.
'Which should I pick,' They wondered while eating, 'Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle, any of them would be a good starter. Bulbasaur would provide the easiest path in the beginning and Charmander the hardest. Squirtle would be balanced in between. Gary's always wanted Squirtle as his first pokémon, so I can leave that one to him and choose between the other two. I'll pick Charmander,' The child finally decided, 'Bulbasaur would probably be best for Her, if for no other reason than irony.' Finishing the mental debate and breakfast the child washed the dishes and then looked at the kitchen clock to see the time was 8:49 a.m.
'WHAT!' They wondered, 'the clock in my room must've been busted. I'm late!' Running out of the house, the figure mentally thanked Arceus that they lived so close to the Oak Corral.
After a few minutes of running, they arrived in front of the stairs to the lab only to see a large group of people cheering for someone. Pressing through the crowd the child got to the front where they promptly collided with another youth, causing them to lose their balance and fall on the ground.
"Hey you, that hurt!" Exclaimed the youth that had been collided with. Then upon looking closer at who had collided with him the youth asked, "Ash, is that you?" Not waiting for a response he continued "It is you, Ash. Starting late, are you?" He smirked.
Mentally rolling their eyes at the youth with whom they'd collided, who Ash now realized was their childhood friend Gary Oak, who had brown messy hair spiked up and black eyes, wearing a purple shirt and pants, with a medallion hanging from his neck.
"As my rival you're already falling behind and it's only the first day." Continued Gary. 'So he must've already picked his pokémon.' Ash thought.
"In this Poké Ball I have my first pokémon," He continued speaking while holding up a sphere that was divided in half, the top being red and the bottom white. Lightly pressing the button on the front, the sphere enlarged itself to 3 times its original size, changing from the storage mode to active. He started spinning the device on his index finger as he talked.
"Gary, Gary, he's our man, if he can't do it no one can!" the cheerleaders in front of the crowd cried out. Looking at them past Ash, Gary lifted his arms in the air and exclaimed, "Thank you my friends, my girlfriends!" On hearing this Ash sweatdropped and thought, 'He can't be serious...'
"I'll be sure to become a Pokémon Master," Gary continued his speech, "and I shall spread the name of Pallet Town throughout the world!" 'Doesn't the world already know about us, because of Professor Oak?' wondered Ash.
Seeing Ash looking towards him Gary proceeded with his previous dialog as if he hadn't stopped midway for a speech. "I'm sure you want to know which pokémon I received. Due to being Professor Oak's grandchild I obviously received the best one, after all I carry his name! If you had been on time, you'd know which one it was. Smell ya later, Ashie-boy!" Walking away from Ash, Gary walked until he was behind Ash, then turning around quickly and leaning forward he gave an exaggerated sniff over Ash's shoulder, then turned around and continued walking away. With a deadpan look on their face Ash thought, "And thus Gary has entered even greater levels of disturbing."
Leaving the group where it was, Gary got on the car that was waiting for him and sitting himself over the trunk instead of a proper seat he waved back at the group, "Thank you so much, all you charming people!" As the car started moving away he unrelentingly spoke, "Gary Oak will now leave to become a Pokémon Trainer!" As the vehicle moved away the crowd followed behind it.
"Ah, aren't you Ash?" An older voice spoke from behind the wall where Ash was standing. Looking back Ash saw the figure of their mentor, the 50 year old man, Professor Samuel Oak, he had grey hair and black eyes, and he wore an opened white lab coat over a red shirt and cream pants.
"Ah, so it is. Almost did not recognize you wearing that. I supposed you're here for your first pokémon?" He asked already knowing the answer, so Ash's nod was unneeded. Taking a pensive pose, "Come to think of it, I'd heard there'd be four people today. I forgot you were one of them." Looking serious he looked at Ash, "But you do know, that you came late today?" Ash just grinned mareepishly and shrugged. "I suppose you trusted that broken clock of yours again?" Ash nodded.
"Well, let's go up to the lab." Professor Oak spoke.
Walking into the lab they went into the second floor, the main room of which contained a display device for the starter pokémon. It was a pedestal device with a glass dome over it, inside could be seen 3 standard Poké Balls each laying in a half-spherical grove equidistant from each other, the groves connected to the center of the device by linear groves that ended in a round closed opening in the center. As they approached the glass dome parted and retracted into the pedestal.
Looking closer at the Poké Balls, Ash saw that each was inscribed with the name of the pokémon contained within in the Kanto native language, Fushigidane or Bulbasaur in one, Zenigame or Squirtle in another one, and Hitokage or Charmander in the last one. Wanting to confirm Gary's pick, Ash first choose the Poké Ball inscribed with the katakana for Zenigame, activating it, she verified that it was empty.
"That pokémon was chosen by a kid who was not late." Professor Oak commented from the side. Ash rolled their eyes already assuming it was empty. Placing the ball back in its grove, Ash went for his choice and grabbed the Poké Ball inscribed with Hitokage. Upon activating it, Ash realized that this one too had been chosen, it made her wonder if She had chosen it. "That one went to a kid who was on time." Professor Oak once more commented from the side.
Ignoring him, Ash picked the last Poké Ball, the one inscribed with Fushigidane, and activated it. Once more they found it to be empty. Professor Oak taking on a lecturing tone spoke, "Be it the train to work or Pokémon, one second off will change your life."
Eyebrow twitching at the realization that the Professor had just made them go through the Poké Balls for nothing, as they all were already empty, Ash glared at the older man. Seeing the look, Professor Oak scratched his cheek and commented, "There is one more. But…". Looking eagerly at the older man, Ash nodded, accepting whoever the fourth pokémon might be. Seeing the look, Professor Oak sighed and pressed a discrete button on the side of the pedestal causing the center to open and a Poké Ball to move upwards. Unlike the previous three Poké Balls, this one was not inscribed in katakana, but instead had a small yellow lightning bolt etched over the release button.
"This remaining pokémon," Began Professor Oak while picking up the newly risen Poké Ball, "has a bit of a problem to it." 'Me being late was also a problem.' Ash thought. "In any case..." Professor Oak drifted off and placed the Poké Ball in Ash's hand. Without doing anything the spherical device activated itself, and with a wave of yellow energy, which confused Ash as Poké Balls are supposed to release pokémon in a ray of red energy, that coalesced on the pedestal, a small being formed. It was a young rodent like pokémon, it was mostly covered in yellow fur, aside from the tips of its long ears which were black, small red circles on each cheek, it also had two parallel lines of brown fur on its back, it's tail was shaped like a lightning bolt, and was just as yellow as the rest of the body aside from its base which was brown.
Opening its eyes and blinking a few times the small being spoke, "Pikachu." (Hello). Seeing it, Professor Oak spoke, "It's a pokémon called Pikachu." Rolling their eyes Ash sarcastically though, 'You don't say, Professor.' Leaning forward Ash looked at the electric rodent from closer up. "How cute! Aren't you the greatest?" The small pokémon heard a young female voice in his head. "That's right! Pleased to meet you, Pikachu. I'm Ash." Despite the desire to hug the small rodent, Ash resisted the urge due to feeling that the pokémon was uncomfortable in his current location. "Chu pika? Pikachu." (Who said that? You didn't speak.) The Pikachu spoke, addressing the second part at the young human in front of him. Despite himself, the Pikachu was curious about the young voice in his head and wondered if it came from the younger human.
Before Ash could answer Professor Oak once more spoke up, "It's also known as the "Electric Mouse". It's shy and not used to humans. It would probably be uncomfortable with being touched." 'Thanks Professor,' Ash thought sarcastically, 'if I hadn't felt his emotions I would have picked him up and been shocked before you even spoke.'
Looking at the curious pokémon on top of the pedestal Ash addressed him once more, "Yes, I was the one who spoke in your mind, as far as I can remember I've always been able to speak to pokémon in this way, I use my Aura to forge a connection between us, and project my thoughts to you." "Pika." (I see.) The young Pikachu was amazed, he'd never known humans where capable of such things, even if he didn't know what Aura was. But there was an even more pressing question for him to ask, "Pika pichu chuka?" (Why do you sound like a girl?) Ash sweatdropped at the question. " I am a girl. Listen Pikachu, you probably don't know, but I'm supposed to start my journey today as a Pokémon Trainer. How would you like to go on this journey with me?" Pikachu looked at the human that he now knew was a girl, even if he still thought she looked like a boy with long fur on his head, but maybe that was due to the weird coverings humans insisted on putting on. While he didn't trust humans much, he could tell somehow that this one didn't mean him harm and really wanted him to travel with her. Looking at her again, he saw the hopeful expression on her face and spoke up, "Pikachu pika picha?" (Would I have to be inside one of those Poké Balls?)
Ash looked at the pokémon in front of her and answered, "if you don't like them, there's no reason for you to be inside of it, unless you want or your life might depend on it." Feeling the hesitation of the young Pikachu, Ash continued, "If you come with me, I'll promise you that if you ever want to leave for whatever reason, I won't stop you. I'll release you, and take you to wherever you want to go." "Pika!" (Really?) Pikachu was surprised at what the girl said, even more so because he felt that she really meant it.
"Yes. I want the pokémon that travel with me to be my friends, if they don't want to be with me, how could we be friends? It doesn't matter how long or how hard it would be, I want to create close bonds with all the pokémon that might travel with me. I want them to help me accomplish my dreams, as I'll help them accomplish theirs. If for their dreams to be fulfilled we are required to part ways then that's how it will be, even if it hurts to be separate. I would still hope that one day we might be reunited again, and if our dreams are realized at that point, it would be an even happier reunion." Pikachu was in awe at what the girl had said, he could tell she meant it and that she was very determined, and couldn't help but feel like wanting to help her fulfill her dreams. While her words lowered his hesitation greatly, he still wasn't used to humans, but decided to give her a chance. "Cha! Chu pika Pikapi!" (Yes! I'll go with you, Ash!)
Feeling a great surge of happiness, Ash addressed the Pikachu again, "What's your name, I don't think you'd want to be called by your species name all the time."
"Pikachu." (I've never had a name) Answered the small pokémon. " How would you like to be called Raijin? In ancient times it's what humans called the Thunder God Zapdos." Ash told him after a few seconds of thought. "Cha!" (Yes!) Pikachu was excited about the name, to be named after the Thunder God was a great honor for him.
Smiling at the newly named Raijin, Ash extended her right arm so that the Pikachu could climb to her shoulder. Doing so Raijin reached the shoulder and then rubbed his cheek against his new trainer's own.
"Well that was surprising. I didn't think he would get along so well with anyone, even you despite your ability to talk to pokémon." Professor Oak was indeed surprised, not to mention a bit jealous about the ability to understand pokémon, but then remembered what having that ability cost Ash. Despite being able to share emotions and thoughts with pokémon, she was completely incapable of communicating with other humans. She was born without the capability of spoken word, and was even unable to project her thoughts to other humans, only being able to send them to pokémon. "Well then, my parting gift. A Pokédex, so you can record the data of the pokémon met on your journey, and these Cherish Balls." Cherish Balls, while being the same general shape as Poké Balls differed visually in that they were almost completely red, both top and bottom, aside from a single indented black stripe around the opening that went all of the way around the Monster Ball, equidistant to either side from the opening. In the exact center of this stripe, was a red stripe that followed it most of the way around but stopped just short of the activation button, it was also raised to the same level as the rest of the Cherish Ball exterior. Just before reaching the activation button, the black stripe thinned to a third of its size, in this same girth it circled the activation button, which was itself the same red color as most of the Cherish Ball.
Taking the 6 Cherish Balls Ash placed 5 of them on the left backside of her belt. Once done she took the Pokédex, and placed it unto a slot that appeared on his bracer where the Pokédex promptly disappeared inside of it, in spite of the fact that there appeared to be no space for it to fit in, once inside, the slot closed and the seams vanished leaving the bracer looking as it had when she first put it on. Moving on Ash picked up the Poké Ball that had contained Pikachu and shrunk it down to storage mode. Then placed both it and a blank Cherish Ball on two newly opened half sphere slots in the bracer. Hovering his right hand over it, a holographic interface appeared. After initializing a few commands both Monster Balls became covered in a field of energy, after few seconds the energy retreated and the Cherish Ball soon became inscribed with kanji for Raijin in golden script through an unseen method. Ash then took both Monster balls from the slots, which promptly disappeared, then placed the Cherish Ball on the right backside of his belt and the Poké Ball back in the center of the pedestal.
"Oh, I see you finished your device to transfer the pokémon's capture data between Monster Balls without having to release them first." Professor Oak said, impressed by the device his pupil had created.
"Well I guess this is it for now. It's time for your journey to begin." Smiling at the young girl in front of him, whom he considered to be a second granddaughter. "Do take care young lady, and send reports often, so I can know how you're doing." Nodding at the older man, Ash picked up her backpack and with Pikachu on her shoulder left the lab and began heading out of Pallet Town and into Route 1.
362:04:01:09:05
Route 1, Kanto Region, Kaiyou League Federation
"There are very few pokémon species this close to Pallet, but I would like it if you would help me capture some of them so we can have a few more friends on this journey. Of course, I'll apologize now just in case any of them don't want to go with us, because in that case your effort would be wasted as I'll release them. I want them to come willingly with us." Ash sent at the Pikachu, while scratching him behind an ear.
"Pika." (Ok.)
As they continued to walk out of the town they were soon in a dirt track sparsely surrounded by trees. Deciding to learn which moves Raijin knew, Ash activated the interface of his bracer which appeared as a hologram in front of him, then using the Pokédex functions activated it so it'd tell her Raijin's move set.
"Pikachu, the Electric Mouse Pokémon." The voice of the Pokédex came from the bracer, while a 3D image of Pikachu appeared in front of Ash, slowly turning in a circle. "When several of these Pokémon gather, their electricity could build and cause lightning storms. It keeps its tail raised to monitor its surroundings. If you yank its tail, it will try to bite you."
"It's Ability is Lightningrod, this is unusual, the entire Pikachu evolution family only has Static as their ability. It's known moves are: Growl, Thundershock, Tail Whip, Charge, ThunderPunch, Volt Tackle, Wish, Charm and Sweet Kiss"
"Wow, it's really rare for a wild pokémon to know more than 4 moves. And Lightningrod, I wonder how you got that as your ability, it should be impossible to have anything other than Static, but still very useful, any electric attacks used on you will just increase the power of your special moves." Ash then blushed when she thought about Raijin's move set. "I do wonder what your family tree is like though, most of your move set are Egg Moves, moves that are passed down from earlier generations." After it was done Ash closed down the interface.
"Pika pipi chu kachu pichu ka cha chuchu pikachu pika." (I'd wondered why electric moves did not affect me.)
Before they could continue their conversation they heard a soft rustling from besides the path, and looking towards it they saw a Pidgey. Without Ash having done anything, the Pokédex spoke up, "Pidgey, the Sky Pokémon. Among pokémon that fly, it has the gentlest personality and is easy to capture. They're suitable for beginning Pokémon Trainers."
"In that case... Alright Raijin, let's go! Help me catch it." Ash said with great excitement in her voice. Upon hearing her Raijin jumped to the ground, "Chuu, pikachu pika." (No, I'm still not sure if I want to do this.)
"You're not going to cooperate with me?" Ash spoke with both disappointment and a bit of hurt having thought they were on their way to being friends. "Chu." (Not for now.)
"No matter what?" Instead of responding Raijin started jumping away and up a tree till he rested on a branch. "Pika pika pika pika" (Not until I'm sure about what I want to do.)
"I get it, so that's how it is? Yeah, it is!" Ash spoke to Raijin, "All right, while you're in that tree, I'll catch it!" The girl finished, once more getting pumped up at the thought of her first capture. Taking out a Luxury Ball from the right backside of her belt she put it in the active mode, causing it to expand, then thought to herself, 'That's right, I vowed to all the pokémon of the world. I decided that the best Pokémon Master will be me!' She held up the Luxury Ball in front of her face and continued her inner monologue, 'What will I do if I can't catch one Pidgey?'
The Luxury Ball was very different from both Poké Balls and Cherish Balls. It was black for the most part aside from the border with the opening indentation which was silver. The indentation where the Monster Ball opened was completely golden, including the activation button, though in its case, the border was red as well as the exact center. The top half of the Luxury Ball had midway through a red band that circled it all the way around, it was the thickness of the opening indentation, and on top and below this band were thinner bands of gold.
Then holding up her left hand she began to concentrate and to Raijin's amazement he saw blue energy begin to coalesce in a spherical form in her palm. After about 10 seconds of concentration the spinning blue sphere of energy known as Aura Sphere was completed. Moving her hand forward she launched the energy projectile at the bird pokémon and then with her right hand sent out the Luxury Ball so that it would hit right after the Aura Sphere.
Before the Pidgey knew what was happening it was hit by the Aura Sphere and weakened and disoriented enough that it could not fight off the Luxury Ball when it captured it, causing said device to give the signature 'ping' of a successful capture soon after hitting it, soon after golden katakana appear on the top part of the device over the release button spelling Poppo, which was the native name for Pidgey in Kanto.
"Alright! I caught Pidgey!" Ash exclaimed in excitement before looking at the Monster ball in her hand. "I'm sorry for the pain I caused you, but I did use a weakened attack so as not to hurt you much. Once you heal up a bit I'll ask you what you want to do." Making the device return to storage mode, the young girl placed it back in her belt.
"Not bad for my first capture, don't you think Raijin?" Ash asked her companion before looking towards him only to see him sleeping on the branch. This caused Ash to let out a noiseless sigh. Before she could do anything else she noticed movement from her bag at the base of the tree. Looking closer she saw a Rattata looking through her stuff, without thinking she threw a Luxury Ball at it. As she did this the Pokédex once more piped up, "Rattata, a forest pokémon. It likes nuts and cheese." "Wait a minute, this isn't a forest at all." Ash broadcasted this thought without meaning too. The Pokédex continued as thought it'd heard her, "On occasion, they'll go out into fields and go after careless travelers' rations."
'This time I know for sure it meant me..." Ash thought as she heard Raijin laughing. Her further thoughts where stopped when the Luxury Ball returned to her hand inscribed with Koratta. This surprised her as she did not actually expect to catch it. Deciding to deal with it later, she shrunk the Luxury Ball down and placed it on her belt.
Hearing the sounds of more Pidgey off to the side, Ash looked and saw 3 Pidgey pecking at the ground. Knowing that same species pokémon can be very different she decided to catch more. 'Instead of using Aura Sphere, I think I'll use a pebble so as not to hurt them too much, due to their weakness to Rock types, it should enable me to catch them easily.' Putting thoughts to action, Ash picked up a pebble and threw it at them but missed all 3, causing them to fly off.
Seeing the silhouette of another, Ash once more picked up a pebble, and aiming, launched it at the bird pokémon, this time she managed to hit it. But regretted it as soon as the bird pokémon turned around and she realized that it was not a Pidgey but a Spearow. A Spearow that shot her a very pained and annoyed glance.
Once more the Pokédex piped up, "Spearow. Unlike Pidgey, it is very violent. They'll swoop down to attack humans, and other pokémon." Putting heed to the words Ash saw the Spearow begin running and then taking flight towards her. Just as it was about to hit her she jumped down evading the attacking pokémon. After several misses the Spearow saw the Pikachu in the tree and decided to attack him.
"Wait a minute, Spearow!" Ash broadcasted at it, "I'm your opponent!" The Pokédex took this time to chime up, "Wild pokémon are often hostile towards human-raised pokémon."
After several more tries to hit the rodent the Spearow managed to get him to trip and almost fall off the branch, leaving him hanging by his front paws. Taking another pass the Spearow shouted, "Kyeeee." (Dieee.) but this time, as it was getting close, Raijin decided to release a Thundershock at it, causing it to scream in pain and fall to the ground. "You did it." Ash said as Raijin stood beside her.
Unlike she thought the Spearow wasn't done yet, and with tears in its eyes it stood back up and gave a loud screech. Causing a flock of Spearow to lift off from a nearby tree and start heading towards them to attack.
Nervously Ash looked at Raijin, "Run away?"
"Pikachu." (You need to ask?)
And so both took off running as fast as they could passing by several other pokémon who decided to hide once they spotted the flock. "Do your best Raijin." Ash said with determination, "I'll definitely save you!"
"Pi kachu!" (Run faster!) Was his response upon seeing the Spearow getting closer, and putting action to words speeded up himself. "Didn't I say that I'll save you?" Ash answered but did indeed increase his speed.
Unfortunately the Spearow were faster than them both, and started pecking at them once they reached them, but mostly concentrated on Raijin. "Stop it, Spearow!" The young trainer sent at them, not that they listened.
Ash saw the Pikachu fall and get covered by Spearow pecking at him. "Raijin!" Speeding up more she concentrated and fired an Aura Sphere at them shooing them away from the downed rodent. She quickly picked him up and hid him with her arms as she continued to run. A few minutes later she was exhausted but dared not stop, she jumped over some bushes and to her dread came face to face with a waterfall she hadn't heard due to the pounding of her own heart.
Knowing she had no choice she held Raijin closer to herself so as to protect him with her own body and jumped into the waterfall, hoping the place where the water fell on the river bellow would be deep enough to stop her from hitting bottom. To her surprise she saw an egg falling down the waterfall besides her, and even though she was in the middle of a crisis, she could not in good conscience allow it to be smashed at the bottom when it fell so she extended a hand and used her Aura to pull it close. Holding both Raijin and the egg close over her chest she once more concentrated and formed the strongest barrier she could in the little time left before hitting bottom to protect them both. Once near the river below she held her breath before hitting the water, the current being very strong started pushing her down river without letting her surface but to her relief as far as she could tell, both her passengers were not hurt in the fall.
Passing a few pokémon by, both dangerous and not, she evaded a lure she saw, not wanting to draw the Spearow to whoever was at the other end. And after a few more minutes she finally reached a shore and pulling herself out of the water she accidentally knocked one of her Cherish Balls in. Too exhausted to even think about looking for it, she was surprised when it jumped out of the water and into her hands. Before she could even look at the name inscribed she saw the dark cloud of the flock coming closer so she put it back in her belt, assuming that it caught a Magikarp due to the ease of capture. She took a moment to place the egg safely in her bag surrounded by clothes before picking up Raijin again and taking off running.
"Dexter," She thought towards her bracer, "directions to nearest Pokémon Center. As simple as possible!"
"The nearest Pokémon Center is in Viridian City, closest route, is the path 25 meters to your forward left." Was the answer from the bracer. Once more she took off running this time using as much Aura as she could to speed up her movements. "Advice me on course corrections, please, as they become necessary."
After a few minutes of running with the Spearow slowly getting closer, and rain starting to fall she jumped of a small cliff in the dirt road she hadn't noticed till that moment. Unfortunately for her, once she fell the wet ground caused her to slip and fall, twisting her ankle.
Sitting up, she looked towards the small pokémon she still carried in her arms, seeing his condition brought tears to her eyes. "Raijin, is this really happening?" she asked rhetorically. "I'm sorry, this is my fault." Placing the small pokémon on the ground she brought out his Cherish Ball and expanded it. "Raijin, get into this. You'll be safe there, plus it will stop your injuries from getting worse."
"Chu?" (What?)
"I know you hate to go inside... But if you're inside, you'll be safe. So please get in! Leave the rest to me." Placing the sphere on the ground in front of the injured Pikachu, Ash stood up and faced the incoming flock. She tried but failed to create an Aura Sphere, being to exhausted to do so.
"What do you guys think of me?" Ash broadcasted towards the Spearow comings towards her. "I'm Ash of Pallet Town! I will become the world's best Pokémon Master! I won't lose to guys like you. I'll get every one of you." Stopping to breathe as in her exhausted state, even broadcasting her thoughts was tiring her out even more. "Raijin, please get in. Get in the Monster Ball. Get in."
Breathing deeply she forced the exhaustion away and aimed her hands towards the flock and began slowly firing weak Aura Spheres, but unfortunately there were too many Spearow so the ones she hit, even if taken down made no large difference to the overall number.
Raijin watched as the girl, used all her determination to fight to protect him, even when he could tell that only her will and desire to protect him kept her from falling to the ground. "Come on, Spearow!" His trainer thought at them, and Raijin, realized that he meant his thought, this was his trainer, doing her best to protect him, no matter the cost to her. And this sparked a well of determination of his own, a desire to protect her too, to help her accomplish her dreams. And so with pure will power, he ignored his pain, he ignored his exhaustion, the rain, the thunder and the lightning. He ran towards his trainer hoping to get there in time. And upon reaching her he climbed up her leg and over her backpack, unto her shoulder and jumped in the air between her and the Spearow, barely noticing her surprised look in his direction.
Calling up his electricity, hoping it would be enough for what he wanted, he knew he succeeded when a lightning bolt hit him, greatly powering him, and thus with an exclamation of his name he drew all the power he could from himself and the storm and released the most powerful Thunder attack any member of his evolutionary line, and most outside of it, had ever released. The main attack was so powerful it covered an area of over 15 meters in diameter and lasted several seconds.
Once the bright light of the attack was over the storm clouds dissipated having lost all their energy to the attack, the entire flock was also down. Slowly opening her eyes, Ash, who was laying on the ground where she'd been blown to by the attack saw the exhausted pokémon laying down in front of her.
"Pi ka chu." (I did it.) Was the fatigued words spoken to her by her friend. "I did it?" Ash asked, being a bit out of it at the moment. "Chu." (Yes.)
Before either could say anything else an amazing and beautiful rainbow colored bird pokémon flew overhead towards a rainbow. "Pi ka?" (What's that?)
"No data. In this world, there are pokémon that are still unknown." The Pokédex answered to the rodent. "Dexter," Ash began, "record: Ho-oh, the Rainbow Pokémon. Goddess of the Sky and Guardian of Life." As she spoke, both her and Raijin continued to watch the pokémon travel through the sky until it disappeared beyond the rainbow.
Standing up and picking up the small pokémon Ash once more spoke, "Dexter, capture the flock and send it to the Professor, attach a note warning him that they might be a tad aggressive once they recover." Finishing her words a small round opening enlarged on the bracer from which flew out 41 storage mode Nest Balls, which captured the entire flock and disappeared in flashes of light. Nest Balls had the same shape as Poké Balls, and even the same white bottom. But the upper half was mostly colored green with two equidistant brown bands, the upper of which was straight, while the lower one curved upwards at the sides of the Monster Ball. "Message sent." "I'll deal with them after giving them a good long while to calm down." Ash said to Raijin, "I do hope the Professor reads the message before releasing them, though."
And so once more she started slowly walking towards Viridian City, as much as she wanted to get her Pikachu there fast, she knew she could not run with her twisted ankle. And so it was that a few minutes of walking later they went over a hill and saw the city spread out in front of them. Seeing this Raijin leaned up and licked his trainers face before laying back down on her arms. With a smile on her face, Ash realized she'd just made her best friend and that their adventure together was just starting.