ML54: Hi guys!
Oshawott: Oh my Arceus! Could it be?!
Ash: It is! The promised sequel!
ML54: Yeah, I know it's been a while since I promised this sequel. I got the inspiration to write this since I started watching the Pokemon XY series! That new theme song is AWESOME! Disclaimer Froakie!
Froakie: ML54 doesn't own Pokemon.
Falling
It was a bright and early morning in the Kalos Region as our heroes, Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie, were waiting on the harbour in Coumarine City. Their Pokemon, Pikachu, Fletchinder, Froakie, Hawlucha, Fennekin, Chespin, Dedenne and Bunnelby all by their feet, also waiting for...
...Something.
"Chespin Chespin? (Uh...What are we here for, Pikachu?)" Chespin asked, tilting his head around Bunnelby to face him. Pikachu turned back, excitedly.
"Pika Pika! (Ash's friend Dawn is coming here for a little while!)" He replied, with great enthusiasm and a twinkle in his eye.
Froakie tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Froakie...? (Why are you so excited...?)"
Dedenne giggled. "Dededededene! (Yeah! Is she your girlfriend?!)" She asked, putting a mockingly dreamy expression on her face.
Pikachu recoiled a bit, a blush adorning his cheeks. "Pika...Pikachu. (No...She owns my girlfriend.)"
The group looked directly at Pikachu in surprise, before they got over their shock long enough to ask questions.
"Fen fen? (Since when did you have a girlfriend?)"
"Bunnelby? (Who is she?)"
"Dedenne? (Can you find a wife for Clemont then?)" The group turned to the little orange Pokemon, most with an eyebrow raised. "Dedenne Den! (What, Bonnie can't look after him forever!)"
They sighed as a group while their trainers talked amongst themselves. "So what's Dawn like, Ash?" Serena asked, curiously. Ash grinned.
"Oh she's one of the best friends I've ever had! I met her in the Sinnoh Region while she was on her journey to become the top Pokemon Co-ordinator!" He declared, noticing his friends confused expressions.
"What's a Pokemon Co-ordinator, Clemont?" Bonnie asked her big brother, who rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"I honestly have no idea! This is new to me." Serena nodded in agreement, having never heard of this concept either.
"Yeah, so Ash, could you please explain?" Ash nodded, hoping this won't end up like the time he tried to explain Pokemon Evolution...That had ended up being explained by Clemont.
"Of course! A Pokemon Co-ordinator takes part in a thing called a Pokemon Contest. In a Contest, it's the Co-ordinator's job to try to draw the natural beauty and appeal of their Pokemon by using a move to show them off, then three judges gives a Co-ordinator a score out of ten each!" He explained in as much detail as he could without his head exploding.
"...That sounds so complex!" Bonnie complained, huffing. Ash smiled, squatting down to face her.
"Hey don't worry, Bonnie! I'm sure, once she gets here, she'll show you what I mean!" He said, much to the other three's excitement.
"Really?! Do you think she will?!" Bonnie asked, jumping on the spot a bit. Ash nodded. "Alright!"
"That does sound quite interesting, I'm sure we'd all like to see that, right Serena?" Serena nodded her head.
"Of course! It does sound impressive to say the least!" She commented. "So is there anything else about her we should know?"
"Of course! Right now she and her Buneary are doing some modelling back in Sinnoh, but she said she could come and travel with us for a while!"
"Modelling?!" Serena asked, shocked. Ash smiled, nodding.
"Yup! She's a bit of a fashion nut too, but she's really nice and a super strong battler as well..."
Serena looked at him as he continued to list off Dawn's many qualities before something occurred to her. "Does...Does Ash have a crush on this girl?!"
He had all the tell tale signs of having a crush on her. From the twinkle in his eye as he sings her praises, to the slight red tint to his cheeks as well.
On the outside she tried to keep up a bright smile, but on the inside, she could feel her heart break a little. She's had a crush on Ash ever since she saw him again on the TV, facing off against that Garchomp on top of Lumiose Tower. She wouldn't go as far as to say she's had this crush since they were in Professor Oak's Pokemon Camp all those years ago, but she's still had these feelings for a while.
Fennekin looked up at her trainer in worry, almost as if she could feel Serena's distress. It's said that a Pokemon and a Trainer can pick up on each other's feelings and sometimes mimic them and right now, there was some truth in that statement.
"HEY ASH!" They heard as a ship could be seen coming into port. On the bow of the ship, stood Dawn and Piplup, waving to their friend who had turned away from Serena to greet her, Pikachu jumping onto his shoulder.
"HI DAWN!" He replied, waving his arms in front of him to draw her attention, Pikachu looking at her...or rather the PokeBall on her belt.
After the boat docked, the plank was set down and Dawn raced down, enveloping Ash in a warm hug, which he gladly returned. "Oh it's been such a long time! How've you and Pikachu been doing?! How many badges do you have?!" Ash grinned back, letting her go for a minute to get his badge case.
"We've been going great! I already have three badges!" He announced, showing the three to her.
"Wow, that's so great! I'm really proud of you, Ash!" Ash blushed a bit, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"Yeah, but I still got a long way to go..." He felt a tugging on his trouser leg and turned down to see Pikachu looking up at him with his arms crossed. "Oh right, you want to see Buneary again, don't ya, buddy?"
Pikachu nodded, to which Piplup rolled her eyes. "Piplup... (Loverboy...)" Dawn giggled, but nodded, grabbing three PokeBalls.
"No need to worry, I brought a few of my Pokemon with me! Come on out everyone!" She declared, releasing the three Pokemon, revealing themselves to be Cyndaquil, Chikorita and Buneary. Buneary then smiled widely and all but tackled Pikachu to the ground.
"BUNEARY! (PIKACHU!)" Bonnie's eyes sparkled at the scene of Buneary and Pikachu nuzzling each other without a care in the World.
"OH WOW! THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST CUTEST THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN!" She exclaimed, running up to them and looking at the little happy smiles and building of tears of joy in the corner's of Buneary's eyes. Dawn looked surprised for a bit, before Ash answered her unasked question.
"Oh yeah! Guys, this is Dawn!" Ash said, introducing his new travelling companions with his old one. "Dawn, these are Serena, Clemont and his little sister Bonnie!"
"Wow, it's so great to finally meet you! Ash has told me all about you, so I hope we get to be great friends." Dawn said to the three pleasantly, to which Bonnie's eyes started to look over her inquisitively before she announced.
"You're a KEEPER!" The other four recoiled as Bonnie got down on one knee and took Dawn's hand in her own. "You're the perfect girl to become my brother's wife!" Clemont looked on in horror while Dawn rose an eyebrow at her.
"BONNIE!" Clemont exclaimed, his mechanical Aipom Arm reaching over to grab her, dragging her away from the blue haired girl. "How many times do I have to tell you not to do that, it's so embarrassing!"
"I'll let you think about it!" Bonnie continued, not really listening to her brother. Serena and Ash sweat dropped while Dawn looked a little clueless about what happened.
"...She gets like that sometimes..." He then turned and motioned for the Pokemon to come over. "And here's some of the new Pokemon that we have. These three are mine, Froakie, Fletchinder and Hawlucha!" The three mentioned Pokemon nodded and greeted Dawn.
Serena then picked up the Fire-Type and said. "This is my partner, Fennekin!" Fennekin smiled and sneezed, causing a few embers to burst from her ears.
"And those three are Clemont's Pokemon, Chespin, Bunnelby and Dedenne, though Bonnie looks after Dedenne for him!" The three greeted her happily as their trainers slowly returned, after Clemont had had a talk with Bonnie.
"Well hello there all of you my name's Dawn, and these are Piplup, Cyndaquil, Chikorita and Buneary!" Serena looked on at the four, curiously, before retrieving her Pokedex.
"Piplup, the Penguin Pokemon! Because it is very proud, it hates accepting food from people! It's thick down guards it from cold!" The mechanical, female voice said as an image of Piplup appeared on the screen. She then moved it over to Cyndaquil.
"Cyndaquil, the fire mouse Pokemon! It has a timid nature! If it is startled, the flames on its back burn more vigorously!" It said as Cyndaquil shuffled uncomfortably at all the unfamiliar faces. She then moved it over to Chikorita.
"Chikorita, the leaf Pokemon! It uses the leaf on its head to measure the temperature and humidity! It loves to sunbathe!" It said as Chikorita rested next to Cyndaquil, enjoying the sun's rays. She lastly moved the Pokedex over to the happy couple, scanning the new bunny.
"Buneary, the rabbit Pokemon! When it senses danger, it perks up its ears! On cold nights, it sleeps with its head tucked in its fur!" Pikachu grinned, nuzzling her cheek, causing her to giggle.
"Pika Pika Pikachupi. (Don't worry about the cold, you got me to warm you up.)" Buneary beamed and hugged him some more.
"Buneary bun! (Oh you little charmer!)"
The others sweat dropped at the scene, feeling a little awkward. "...Froakie? (...Anyone else weirded out?)"
"Piplup pip! (Yeah, at least me and Chimchar are subtle!)"
"Dedenne! (I think it's cute!)"
"Chespin... (You would...)"
Ash then turned to Dawn in sudden realisation. "Oh yeah! Dawn, I just explained to Serena, Clemont and Bonnie what a Pokemon Contest was and they were hoping you could demonstrate for them. So can you?" He asked.
"Oh please, oh please, oh PLEASE!" Bonnie continued, holding her hands together and looking up at her imploringly.
"Of course I can, I'd be happy to, right guys!" Her three, unoccupied Pokemon nodded, cheering.
"Great! We'll find a perfect spot and then she can show you guys what she can do!" Ash exclaimed, expecting Pikachu to jump on his shoulder to agree with him.
In confusion, he looked over and found that both he and Buneary had fallen asleep against each other. He sweat dropped and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Oh yeah, Pikachu didn't sleep well last night since he was so excited to see Buneary again!"
Dawn giggled. "Yeah, Buneary was exactly the same." She explained, picking the two up.
"C'mon, let's head on out to the cliff, I hear there are some great views up there! Just one cable car away!" Serena said, leading them towards the car. Everyone else nodded and chased after her, Pokemon included.
Once they were on the cliff, Dawn set the sleeping pair of rodent Pokemon on a nearby tree and ran to the centre of one of the fields with Piplup by her side. "Alright, you ready Piplup!"
"Piplup! (Always!)" She replied, relishing the attention she was getting from the audience of Ash and his new travelling friends. She loved showing off.
"Alright! Then start off with Whirlpool!" Piplup nodded and threw her head back, creating a massive water current above her head, much to their amazement.
"Wow! It's so pretty!" Bonnie said, staring at the Whirlpool.
"It sure is, but Piplup's not finished yet!" Dawn smiled at Ash's words and continued the routine.
"Alright Piplup! Use Bubblebeam!" Piplup nodded and fired a volley of bubbles into the Whirlpool, causing them to spiral around in a circular motion, causing sunlight to refract through the bubbles in many different directions and angles, essentially creating one huge disco light show that even people passing by stopped to admire the beauty of it.
Not realising the repercussions that this dazzling light may have near a cliff...
Fennekin, after watching the Whirlpool, had thought that the routine was finished and had spotted a few twigs near the edge of the cliff she could snack on. Feeling her stomach rumble slightly, she slipped away, hoping not to have garnered too much attention.
She didn't, however, notice Froakie following her, concerned. "Are you okay, Fennekin?"
She turned to him and tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Um...Yeah, just a bit hungry is all." She answered him, stepping about four steps towards the edge of the cliff and snatched one of the twigs up, much to Froakie's horror.
"Hey! Get away from that ledge!" Froakie scolded her, causing her to look up at him. "That's a dangerous thing to do! You could fall off!" Fennekin huffed and turned away.
"I can look after myself, Froakie! Don't tell me what to do!" She shouted back.
"Well I wouldn't have to if your weren't doing something so stupid! Get back over here now!" Fennekin stuck her tongue out at him and took one step closer to the edge of the cliff.
Froakie's blood started to boil now. What was she trying to prove by doing this?! "Get back here now!" He seethed, letting out almost violent levels of anger at this point.
She turned back to face him, a twig sticking out of her mouth before it disappeared behind her lips. "You're no fun, you know that!"
"There's a time and a place for fun and now is neither the time nor the place! You're in a lot of danger over there, now get back over here!"
"...Make me!" She asked, grinning. Froakie groaned and turned away.
"You know what, fine! Go ahead and get yourself killed! See if I care!" He replied, coldly, much to her shock and shame.
"...Sorry Froakie...I didn't mean to make you worry...I just...AHH!" Froakie turned in alarm as one of the refracted rays of light hit Fennekin, unexpectedly, in the eye, causing her to finch backwards...
...off the side of the cliff.
"FENNEKIN!" Froakie cried out, jumping after her and grabbing her in a hug. Once she was secure, he looked around himself, almost as if his adrenaline set everything in slow motion. Vaguely, he was aware of their trainers looking over the side of the cliff but that wasn't as important as trying to find a ledge or something to land on...
...but there were none!
All there seemed to be was the rapidly approaching ground which, even with his jumping abilities, he couldn't land on safely. It was a really high cliff! It was impossible for Hawlucha and Fletchinder to catch up to them as well. So he did the last thing he could think of to do.
He spun round so that his back was facing the ground, using his body as a cushion, grabbing a few frubbles to pull down his chest and over his head to provide further insulation from the impact for Fennekin.
She looked down in horror as they landed and she bounced off him and landed on her side a couple of feet away from him, some of his frubbles sticking to her fur.
But she didn't care about that right now, she needs to check on her friend who had taken the full brunt of the impact for her. "FROAKIE!" She cried out, running up to him.
He was lying on the ground, eerily still. Gently, she shook his body, only just noticing a red liquid leaking down and staining her paw.
She pulled her paw back and stared at the blood staining it in horror. "No..." She whispered as she removed the frubbles from his chest and saw what had caused the blood to leak...
...He had been impaled by a sharp rock.
Tears started to fill up her eyes as she gazed down upon the still Froakie and leaned her ear down next to his mouth.
Thankfully she could hear him breathing, but it was very shallow.
"Fennekin! Froakie!" She heard from above her and looked up to see Fletchinder and Hawlucha flying down towards them.
"FLETCHINDER! HAWLUCHA! PLEASE! HELP HIM!" She cried out, revealing how bad Froakie's injuries were.
The two cringed as they approached the frog Pokemon and Fletchinder squatted down in front of him. "Alright, you two lift him up onto my back and I'll fly him to the Pokemon Centre! Afterwards, you get everyone else to go there too!"
"Sounds like a plan!" Hawlucha replied, trying to sound as calm as possible, but on the inside, he was terrified! He liked Froakie, he was a good friend, a great partner and an even better rival!
Fennekin was still trembling and sniffling with fear, worry and guilt. "It's all my fault! I should have listened to him! He was just concerned for my safety, he wasn't trying to boss me around! And now he paid the price for it!"
"On the count of three, Fennekin, okay?" Hawlucha asked, to which she nodded silently. The two got on opposite sides of Froakie. "One...Two...THREE!" He announced as the two lifted him of the rock as carefully as they could, hearing a sickening, squelching sound as he levitated up by the help of his friends.
Fennekin flinched, feeling a stabbing pain in her heart, knowing that this was all her doing.
Soon he was off and he fell limp onto the Fire/Flying dual type, who shivered at how...unnatural it felt. "Y-yikes! I'd better hurry!" He exclaimed, taking to the air as quick as possible, shooting upwards as quickly as possible, careful not to lose his cargo.
Hawlucha knelt down and offered his back to the fire fox. "Here, let's go Fennekin!" She blinked her tears away and jumped onto him without a word, only for more tears to take their place.
Fletchinder stood in front of the Pokemon Centre and looked at the door, waiting for it to open. "C'mon! C'mon!" He said, anxiously before he noticed the out of order sign. "What?! The door's...broken?!"
He cursed under his breathe before he felt Froakie's breath get even shallower. "Alright door...You're going down!"
He took a few steps back and shot into the air, throwing himself forward and building both heat and momentum. "FLAME CHARGE!" HE cried out as he smashed through the glass doors of the Pokemon Centre, much to the shock of the patrons and Nurse Joy.
Fletchinder flinched as he felt a few glass shards cut into the skin under his feathers, but continued to the front desk, facing a very disapproving Wigglytuff. "Wiggly Wigglytuff! (You better have a good reason for doing that!)"
"Fletchinder...Fletch! (My friend's been really hurt...Please help!)" He replied, manoeuvring Froakie, carefully, in front of her.
She and Nurse Joy gasped in horror and pushed down a panic button on the desk.
Suddenly, a red siren went off and four more Pokemon, two Wigglytuffs and two Cefables, burst out from the back room with a wheeled table, which they placed Froakie onto, and rushed to the back. Nurse Joy placed a hand on Fletchinder's shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile.
"I promise we'll do all we can for him. In the meantime, Wigglytuff here will take a look at those cuts." Wigglytuff nodded, picking the bird up.
"Wigglytuff! (Let's take a look then!)" Fletchinder watched Froakie get wheeled away before he eventually gave into his own exhaustion and passed out.
"ASH! WATCH OUT FOR THE GLASS!" Serena cried out as said boy barged through the door and looked around frantically.
"Excuse me!" He called out to a man with a brown coat and bowler hat, about to leave through the side entrance to the centre. "Did you see my Fletchinder and Froakie?"
The man looked back and gave a nod. "I assume you mean the Fletchinder that smashed through that door right there." He said, motioning to the fragmented glass entrance, it's remains being continually crushed by the careful footsteps of his friends and their Pokemon. "Froakie was taken into P.I.C.H.U. now and Fletchinder is being looked at for a couple of cuts and bruises."
"Thank you so much sir!" Ash bowed before turning back to his friends and nodding to them as he approached the front desk. "Man! This is like deja vu!" He thought to himself as he had flash backs of running into the Pokemon centre with a bleeding Oshawott in his arms and a worried Snivy on his shoulder.
Ash had to steady himself on the front desk as he reached it, clenching his eyes shut to stop any tears from spilling. "Please be okay Froakie..." He whispered to himself, not noticing a young woman listening to him.
"Ah, so I assume that this is your Fletchinder then?" The younger Nurse Joy said, physically younger by about five years. Fletchinder turned, tiredly, towards Ash, happy to see his trainer. Ash looked back and smiled at the bird, gratefully.
"Yes..." He said, swiping Fletchinder off the table and hugging him. "I'm real proud of you buddy, thank you for getting him here so quickly!"
"Fletch...(You're welcome...)" They suddenly heard a ding, and the light indicating that surgery was taking place turned off.
Out of the surgery room came the five relieved faces of Nurse Joy and the four Fairy-Type Pokemon. "W-w-we did it..." Nurse Joy let out, shakily, glancing down at Froakie, who's chest had been wrapped up firmly by medical gauss and his arms being wrapping in much the same manner with surprisingly little done to his head. "So what had happened to the poor dear?"
"I think...I think he and Fennekin were playing to close to the edge of the cliff and they must of slipped and fell..." Ash said, screwing his eyes shut again. "This is all my fault! I should have been watching him!"
He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to face Serena, smiling at him lightly. "It's not all your fault, Ash. I should have been watching Fennekin too..." Fennekin had heard this and just felt worse.
"I can't believe they're blaming themselves! This is my fault, not there's!" She thought to herself, feeling even more tears trying to fault.
"Now stop that, both of you!" Nurse Joy scolded, causing them to flinch. "This is nobody's fault! You can't have twenty-four hour surveillance of your Pokemon! These things happen and pointing blame is not going to help anyone!"
She ushered the four Pokemon to take Froakie to the back. "I'll let you know if he wakes up and I'll sort you out some rooms. However it's Pokemon only during the night, so I can't let you back there."
They all nodded except for Fennekin, who shook out of Serena's grip and ran towards where they rushed Froakie. "Fennekin!" Serena was about to go after her, before Nurse Joy put a hand on her shoulder.
"Leave it. I'm sure it just wants to check on Froakie." Clemont nodded.
"Yeah, and if she doesn't come back, I'm sure she's only staying to watch over him." Serena looked on, worried.
"Okay...If you're sure."
Dawn smiled, putting an arm around her. "Hey Fennekin looks strong enough to protect herself and Froakie, so no need to worry!"
"That's when I worry the most..." Ash said, still fretting over his Froakie.
Once the four Fairy-Type Pokemon left the room, after injecting some sort of liquid into an IV bag attached to Froakie's arm, Fennekin jumped onto the chair next to his bed, then onto the bed itself.
From there she looked into Froakie's peaceful face and sighed in relief. "Those Nurses are miracle workers..." She mumbled, making a mental note to let the Nurse Wigglytuffs know that more often.
She circled on the spot for a few seconds before finding a comfortable space to lay down and start thinking, already knowing that sleep is going to escape her tonight.
"Well...Thank you Froakie..." She whispered, knowing full well he can't hear her. He's asleep right now, so any words that fall on his ears would be wasted. Still, it's nice to practice. "...You...Y-you saved my life...A-at the risk o-of your own..."
She shook her head, freeing the tears that were lodged in the ducts. "I'm so so so so so so sorry!" She finally yelped, burying her face into the sheets below her. "This is all my fault! I should have listened to you! I should have gotten away from the ledge! It was a stupid thing to do! I...I-I...I..."
Froakie shivered a bit and Fennekin's head shot up to look at his slowly opening eyes. "Hi...Hi there...Strange orange blob..." Fennekin rose an eyebrow at the strange words, but was otherwise overjoyed that he was awake.
"F-froakie!" He smiled, excitedly.
"Where?!" He said, moving his head left and right, as if searching for him. Fennekin recoiled a bit.
"Um...You're Froakie, aren't you?"
"...Oh yeah!" He responded, grinning happily. "Woohoo!"
"Oookay, I think you need some more sleep." Fennekin concluded, stepping up to move the covers up and to tuck him in.
Froakie looked as the orange blob turned into the fox Pokemon he usually sees. But, his muddled loopy brain wouldn't let him have any control on what he was going to do or going to say.
So what he said, was. "Wow...You're really pretty..." Fennekin's eyes shot open and she turned to the half open irises of her Water-Type friend.
"Um...Thanks..." She replied, blushing slightly. She then looked down at herself and grimaced. Her fur was frizzy, their were frubbles on her chest and chin, there was dried blood on her paws and tear streaks down her face. "I'm a mess!"
"I'm only telling the truth..." She blushed again, but decided to let this go for now as she brought the covers just under his chin, nuzzling him in a friendly manner on the cheek.
"Try to get some sleep now, okay?" She said/asked, moving back to her spot on the bed to try and sleep herself.
After a few minutes, Froakie piked up again. "Can you tell me a story?" She looked up at him, quizzically. "My mommy used to tell me a story everytime I went to sleep."
"Well...Okay I guess I know one story...Once, there were these five special gears, called the Time Gears..." And so the night continued with the story falling on Froakie's ears until he eventually gave way into sleep and Fennekin, much to her amazement, managed to as well.
ML54: This is for one of my new favourite pairings! Froakie and Fennekin!
Fennekin: Please review, but no flames.