I DO NOT OWN POKEMON OR SRMTHFG!
The story begins with Chiro, who escaped Skeleton King onto Ash's planet.
Chiro ran through the forest as quickly as he could with one goal in mind: getting away from Mandarin.
His clothes hid the many injuries that Mandarin's master, Skeleton King, had given him, but he could still feel them with every step he took.
Finally, he reached a small city.
Without looking back, he rushed into the crowds, hoping they would be able to hide him.
Navigating through the mobs of people was difficult, but he knew he would manage better than the creepy monkey that was chasing him. Even now he could hear people surrounding Mandarin in wonder.
He turned a corner and then another and two more. He was sure he had lost Mandarin by now.
He crashed into a young woman with pink hair.
"Hello there." The woman said. "Can I help you?"
"Oh… I…" Chiro stammered. "Sorry for running into you."
"It's okay. Do you need somewhere to stay? It's getting pretty dark out." The woman asked.
"That would be nice." Chiro admitted. He followed the woman to a building with a big P on it.
"This is the Pokemon Center. Feel free to spend the night here." The woman told him. "I can take care of your pokemon, if you'd like."
"Um… I don't have any pokemon." Chiro replied sheepishly.
"No pokemon?" The woman gasped. "How could your parents not get you a pokemon by your age? Almost everyone here gets a pokemon when they turn ten. I'm Nurse Joy, by the way. I take care of trainers' hurt or tired pokemon."
"I'm not from around here, but thanks for letting me spend the night." Chiro said.
"No problem." Nurse Joy smiled at him. "Tell your parents to get you a pokemon the next chance you get."
Ash, Dawn, and Brock entered the Pokemon Center quickly, but cautiously. Now that they knew that the main branch of Team Rocket was after Ash, they needed to be extra careful.
Why was Team Rocket after Ash? They certainly didn't know.
It didn't take long for them to rent out a room for the night. They went upstairs and, exhausted, went straight to bed.
A purple sleeping gas poured into a room in the Pokemon Center. The gas was to make certain a certain child stayed asleep until he could be transported to a Team Rocket base.
Sensing something was wrong, Chiro opened his eyes, expecting to see Mandarin. He was certainly surprised to see humans climbing in through the window. The gas took its toll on him and he unwillingly fell into a deep sleep.
Mandarin climbed in a window on the other side of the Pokemon Center. He was surprised to see that the kid had made friends so fast.
He tiptoed towards Ash.
Dawn woke up and screamed.
Before she could do anything to help her friend, Mandarin grabbed hold of the boy and teleported back to Skeleton King's ship, where he threw Ash into a cell previously inhabited by Chiro.
It seemed to Dawn and Brock and Nurse Joy that the police would never arrive. It seemed that not one, but two boys had been kidnapped that night. Everyone in the Pokemon Center was awake and scared that they would be next.
Officer Jenny finally stepped through the door. She saw all the kids and noticed with dismay that most of them knew as little as she did.
"Nurse Joy." She began. "Can you tell me a little more about the two boys that were abducted?"
The kids in the room shifted uncomfortably.
"Well, I know that at least one of them was running from something. I know that because he ran straight into me. He also had no pokemon and admitted he wasn't from around here. I don't know much about the other one, but perhaps you can ask his friends." Nurse Joy beckoned to Dawn and Brock, who stepped forward and gave a little information about Ash.
"Dawn saw who took him." Brock announced.
Dawn nodded. "I don't know where he came from or why he wanted Ash, but I know he was orange and white and dark and looked like a scary version of an Aipom. Also, he used teleportation."
"They looked alike." Nurse Joy added. "Except Ash had brown eyes and the other boy, who never gave me his name, had blue."
"You said one of the boys seemed to be running from something. What about the other one?" Officer Jenny questioned.
Dawn and Brock exchanged a glance.
"We don't know why, but Team Rocket wanted Ash for something. We were running from them." Dawn admitted. "But it certainly wasn't Team Rocket who kidnapped him."
"Is there any surveillance we can view to figure this out?" Officer Jenny asked.
Nurse Joy nodded. "Come with me. Dawn, Brock, you can come as well. Everyone else, stay here."
They walked down a couple of halls to a type of control room. Nurse Joy rewinded the videos to an hour ago.
They watched the abduction scenes unfold. Ash's was over so fast that all they got from the video was a clear image of his captor. In the other boy's video, all they could see was purple gas.
They spent a half hour trying to identify the creature in Ash's video without luck. It wasn't like any pokemon they'd ever seen before. The other boy's was easier.
"I'm absolutely positive that Team Rocket was behind that one." Dawn said.
"It's quite possible, but that raises the question of where they are keeping him." Officer Jenny agreed.
"Surely they have a base somewhere in Sinnoh." Brock put in. "We just have to find it."
"If we can find something with his scent on it, Growlithe can lead us straight to him." Officer Jenny suggested.
"That's easy." Nurse Joy said. "The bed he was sleeping in definitely still has his scent on it. We'll use that."
"What about Ash?" Dawn asked uncertainly. "How will we find him?"
"Perhaps the other boy can help." Officer Jenny shrugged. "We'll have to deal with that later."
Dawn reluctantly agreed to the plan.
And so they started their search.
That concludes my first chapter. What'd you think? Please R&R!