HM14 – Pokémon Black and White
Chapter 2: The Fall, the Trio, and the Dragons
"Are we there yet?"
"Ash, you've been asking that non-stop for the past half-hour!"
"I can't help it, Iris! This plane trip is just so BORING!"
Iris sighed as she slinked back into her seat next to Cilan, who was busy reading a book. Although Ash might have been older and smarter now, the one thing that never quite changed with him was his complete and total lack of patience. With Ash's complaining, she realized she probably should have brought something to do like Cilan, but she knew that griping would get her nowhere.
"Are we there yet?" Ash again asked the question most commonly heard on family car trips. 'Where's the nearest bathroom?' is a close contender.
Iris groaned as Ash had the annoying nerve to ask the question YET AGAIN. Ash didn't have the experience or talent of a kid, but he very often seemed to have the personality of one.
"Ash, if you ask that question one more time, you're going to get hit so hard in the head, that your KIDS will have migraines!"
"And she means it, too." added an unpleasant Cilan.
"All right! All right! Sheesh! Seriously, sometimes you're worse than Misty!"
"I'll take that as a compliment." Iris smirked.
"So, what do YOU suggest I do for the next hour?"
"You could go stand on your head in the corner." Cilan suggested.
"Well, I've got nothing else BETTER to do." he muttered as he walked to an isolated corner of the airplane. He then proceeded to stand on his head. Pikachu watched with his palm to his face. Axew was also watching with Pikachu, but he was just laughing his head off.
"Now just what are you laughing at, Axew?" Iris asked her Dragon starter. She turned around to see the source and, lo and behold, Ash was indeed standing on his head in a corner of the airplane.
"It's getting a little dizzy…" he commented.
Iris couldn't help but laugh at Ash's silly antics. Cilan turned around from his epic fantasy book to look at Ash.
"My goodness." he said as he looked at the upside-down Ash. "Ash certainly is an odd ingredient out of the batch like that."
"I've said it before and I'll say it once again. You are such a kid, Ash!"
"What can I say?" Ash told them. "Once a kid, always a kid!"
He stood back up-right (after toppling down backwards, causing Iris and Cilan to laugh again) and walked over to them.
"Now what do you guys want to do?"
"Don't know." Iris told him as she reclined in her seat. "I'd say go tree-climbing but… you know… we're in an AIRPLANE and all…"
"You could read my book if you want." Cilan offered.
"What's it about? Pokémon?"
"No, it's about a boy who has to live with awful people since his parents were killed, and then he discovers he's a wizard. And that's only the beginning!"
"That's cool! How awesome would it be to have magic powers? Hey guys, I can just imagine it… Ash Ketchum, the Magic Wizardry Master! All tremble before me!"
Iris smirked. "You with magic powers would DEFINITELY be something to be afraid of."
"Yeah!" he cheered, missing the point that Iris was making. This prompted a facepalm of epic proportions by Pikachu.
Cilan laughed. "I sure am glad I decided to go traveling with you, Ash! You never cease to amuse me with your wild flavors!"
Iris looked outside the windows to see land up ahead at a large city, perhaps even larger than Castelia, and skyscrapers towering above it.
"Hey guys! I think we're almost there! I'm so excited!" she bounced up and down happily. "I'm gonna get to meet the Legendary Dragons Reshiram and Zekrom! And cute little Victini! I never thought in my life that this could happen! I…"
Cilan ignored Iris for the time being to resume reading his book and Ash searched his pockets frantically for his iPod.
"Axew…"
Meanwhile, at the studios, Reshiram and Zekrom were waiting for Ash and his friends to show up. They weren't very familiar with the trio, and Zekrom had only met Ash once under… unfortunate circumstances.
"Any sign of them yet?" Reshiram called up to her now-husband Zekrom, who was perched on the rooftops of the studio's water tower.
"NO! Not yet!" Zekrom wasn't afraid of anyone seeing or capturing him since Pokéballs didn't exist in Tokyo. That mechanism wasn't invented here yet. "How are things with the pointy-eared twerp?"
"He's a nuisance… as usual. Now he wants to get a surround sound system, along with his plasma screen TV and Xbox 360 he already GOT, installed in his trailer. And he's not letting up."
Zekrom sighed. "Victini never seems to be… hey wait Reshi, I think I see something!" He saw something in the air approaching the studios and its' shape was made clearer and clearer as it drew closer. He used a scope he made back in Unova to get a better look at it.
"Is it the plane?"
"Yeah, it has the flight number 151 on the airplane. That's the plane Airplane Driver left with."
"They're… coming down rather low, aren't they?" Reshiram pointed out to Zekrom.
"…Uh oh."
"Uhh... we're going pretty far down to the studio, aren't we?" Iris pointed out to her friends.
"Yeah, this is a pretty low altitude." Cilan told her.
Ash widened his eyes as he realized what Airplane Driver was about to pull off here. Airplane Driver had done this previously when he, Misty and Brock came to Tokyo to film the first movie.
"I can't believe he's doing this again." Ash muttered to himself as he walked off from Iris and Cilan. He walked near the airplane door and grabbed a pack off of the wall nearby.
"Ash, what are you doing?" Cilan asked.
"Just get over here and grab a parachute pack."
"But why?" wondered Iris.
"Believe me; you're going to want one."
Iris and Cilan gave Ash a confused look, but did as he suggested and they both grabbed the packs off of the wall. As the plane continued to descend, Airplane Driver set the plane on Autopilot and left the cockpit. He made his way through the airplane and over to the trio.
"Hello there, Mr. Ketchum, Iris, Cilan."
Ash looked over to Airplane Driver and shouted to him.
"Why are you doing this again? Do you get some sort of sick pleasure out of dropping people into the sky?"
Iris and Cilan looked at each other, frightened. Axew, who was inside the transdimensional wormhole known as Iris' hair, looked like he had just seen a powerful Ice type.
"Maybe I misheard you." Iris tried to reassure herself. "Did you say…"
"Dropping into the sky?" Cilan screamed, scared out of his mind. He resisted the urge to cuddle up into a fetal position on the floor, if only because it would not help him earn his man points. But then again, Cilan was not exactly the epitome of manliness.
"Yes." Ash sighed. "He likes to do this on occasion instead of landing at an airport like NORMAL PEOPLE!"
"Mr. Ketchum, this plane is due at Paris in 3 hours and to get there on time, I'm afraid this is the only way."
"You said that the last FIVE TIMES!"
"So I did." Airplane Driver walked up to the airplane door and opened it. The fierce and violent air rushed into as the airplane continued to fly. It stopped its' descend, being 2,000 feet from the ground, but continued to go straight.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?" Cilan shouted over the rush of air, just barely audible.
"YES! YES, HE IS!" Ash shouted back. Sighing to himself, Ash grabbed Pikachu off of the floor and jumped out of the airplane. Iris and Cilan looked at each other, wondering who would go next. Quickly, Iris decided that she would jump next.
"Well, here goes nothing…" she muttered. Axew clung to his owner's purple hair as if his life depended on it. Which it probably did. She jumped out of the airplane and soon found that she enjoyed the rush and adrenaline of such a reckless act.
"WHOO HOO!" she shouted, unable to be heard over the air. Axew was just about as tense as a college student cramming for final exams on the day before.
Cilan looked down from the airplane, being the only one too scared to jump. He clung to the metal pole on the wall next to the door and didn't want to let go. Airplane Driver had to use a crowbar to separate Cilan and his precious pole and then pushed him out of the door; with the green-haired man SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER.
Ash had already pulled the cord on his pack to open the parachute about halfway down. It popped out and extended open, causing him to descend slowly.
"I cannot believe Airplane Driver pulled that crap on us again." he sighed to himself. Pikachu also sighed, agreeing with him.
Of course Iris, being even more reckless than Ash, didn't consider pulling the cord until three-fourths of the way down. Fortunately, she wasn't an idiot and pulled the cord at that point. Due to pulling it later, Iris had a faster, yet still safe descent.
"Oh, that was so much fun, wasn't it Axew?"
She reached in her hair to pull Axew out, whose face was even green than his skins'.
"Axew?"
BLECH!
"Oh… man." she groaned as she looked at the green… stuff… on her clothes. That smell was NEVER going to come out…
Meanwhile, Cilan began to scream seemingly random gibberish in terror. He gets bonus points for unintentionally reciting Bible verses in the original Hebrew. Ash looked at Cilan, who had already fallen past him and was approaching the ground fast.
"Cilan!" Ash shouted. "Pull the parachute cord, now!"
Unfortunately, Cilan couldn't hear Ash over the air rushing past him, and Cilan was too freaked out to think of pulling his parachute chord. Things weren't looking good for him…
"What's going on up there?" Reshiram tilted her head towards the sky, but could only make out 3 specks above the studio… one of them falling a bit TOO fast towards the ground.
Zekrom, who was on the water tower and had a better view than Reshiram, could see what was going on above.
"It's Ash and his friends!" he shouted back to Reshiram. "And I think one of them is in trouble!" Zekrom took to the skies to try to catch the green-haired man falling to the ground without a parachute.
He flew slightly above him and kept up with Cilan as he fell. Zekrom would have to time it right and catch Cilan at the right angle so he didn't just slip through Zekrom's claws. Finally, he dived down towards Cilan at a 55° angle. He increased his speed as Cilan's acceleration toward the ground grew higher. Cilan, thinking he'd die, had already said his last prayers and was waiting what he thought was the inevitable.
Zekrom's timing was perfect. Successfully, and without any serious injuries, he caught Cilan in his claws. He descended to the ground as Cilan began to look up at Zekrom.
"Whaaaaaa!" he yelled, startling Zekrom. Fortunately, Zekrom had a firm grip on Cilan, so Cilan was still safe.
"Don't startle me like that." Zekrom told Cilan. The two touched down on the studio's back lot and Zekrom set the still shaky Cilan on the ground.
Cilan scratched the back of his head nervously, feeling embarrassed. "I-I'm sorry about that. You just really spooked me! But uh… thanks for saving my life. What's your name so I can know who saved me?"
"Zekrom." he replied in a gruff voice.
"You mean THE Zekrom?"
"What other Zekroms do you know?"
Cilan laughed. "Point taken."
Cilan, Reshiram, and Zekrom turned their heads to the sky to see Ash and Iris coming down slowly on their parachutes.
"Ash! Iris!" he shouted up to them. "I'm all right!"
"Oh, thank goodness." Iris sighed.
The two hit the pavement of the back lot at slightly different times, with Iris hitting the pavement a couple of seconds before Ash did. They both caught up with Cilan as Iris hugged him in relief.
"Thank goodness you're OK!"
"Well, I'm glad…"
"You couldn't handle a little jump out of an airplane?" Iris asked him.
"Uhh… Hey look, it's Zekrom!" he shouted, pointing towards Zekrom to get the attention off of him.
"Cilan, you think I'm stupid enough to fall for…" Iris felt something large tap her shoulder from behind her.
"Very funny, Ash." she said without turning around.
"Uhh, Iris? I'm 10 feet to your left."
Iris turned to Ash to see him a good distance from her not even in arm's distance.
"Wait." said Iris. "So if I'm hugging you… and Ash is to my left… then who's…"
She slowly turned around to see the Legendary Dragon of Thunder, the Dragon of Black Yin, the Poker Buddy of Thundurus, the Big, the Mighty, the Grand…
"Enough with the adjectives already!" Ash shouted.
…Zekrom.
Iris' jaw was hung WIDE OPEN. She couldn't believe it. She was standing face-to-face with one of the powerful Pokémon that ever lived. Zekrom… she always dreamed of this day, ever since she was a little girl. Even when Zekrom DID come to Professor Juniper's lab and Iris saw Zekrom's thunderclouds, she never got the chance to meet it.
"Umm… are you a…"
"Guy? Yes."
"So can I…"
"He's taken." growled the white dragon near Zekrom.
"Oh!" Cilan finally noticed the white dragon next to him. "You must be Reshiram; it's a pleasure to meet you, sir." He said, bowing politely.
Reshiram got a noticeable twitch in her left eye. Zekrom's eyes widened, knowing of the carnage that would ensue if he didn't do something.
"Reshiram, don't kill the boy. He didn't know."
Cilan looked at Reshiram awkwardly. "Oh, you're…"
"Female, yes."
"Well… I-I… thought with the… you know… between your… you know… umm… Please don't kill me?"
Reshiram sighed. "Fine. Just… don't do it again."
"I understand."
"And you must be Victini." Ash said.
"Oh, you're so adorable!" said a gleeful Iris, holding up a squirming Victini who chose the wrong time to wander into the back studio lot.
"Hey, let me go, you bitch! You don't have the right to touch the Victini! And damn it, I just had my wings done!" he yelled angrily at her.
Iris dropped the rabbit with wings and she, Ash, and Cilan seemed shocked at how vulgar Victini was. "Don't worry, that's normal." Reshiram told them.
"Geez… stupid humans…" he grumbled. "OK, Mr. Producer!" he yelled out to someone in the distance. "Where are my damn Macarons? I ordered those things a half-hour ago and they STILL haven't arrived at my trailer! Make sure they get there like, NOW! Oh, and if you need me, I'll be in my trailer playing Halo 3. Do me a favor and don't need me."
SLAM!
"Well… uhh… heh heh. That was a… much more sour flavor than we were expecting of Victini." Cilan chuckled nervously.
"He does that to people when they first meet him. Proof that you can never judge a book by its' cover."
"But I don't even read that often." Ash told the white dragon.
Reshiram sighed. "You're missing the point of the…"
"Hey there." a new voice came by surprise. The five looked up at the source of the voice, a man in his late 20s with brown shaggy hair, a white T-shirt, and blue jeans. He had a simple, rugged, yet attractive look to him.
"And you are, sir?" Cilan asked.
"I'm the producer of this film, David Marshall."
"That name sounds kind of…American for someone producing a movie in Japan." Iris pointed out.
"Actually, I am American. I came here when I got the offer from Game Freak and the old producer quit. They knew I was a good producer… but anyway, I apologize for Victini's behavior. Game Freak wants me to incorporate him into the movie as a promo, but he's…"
"A jerk?" Ash said.
"I'll just say that's the nicest way to put it."
"Mr. Marshall's a good guy." Zekrom told the trio of friends. "He's very helpful and if you need anything, ask him."
"I've got a bunch of Macarons I've got to deliver to Victini, as he requested." he sighed. "I'll see you guys around!" He left the group back by themselves.
"So, when does production begin?" Iris asked Zekrom.
"It starts tomorrow, so you guys should take it easy today, 'cause things will get tough."
"All right then." Ash said confidently.
"Oh by the way Ash…" Zekrom told him.
"Yeah, Zekrom?"
"I want to apologize for what happened in Unova when you arrived. I've been feeling guilty over it."
"What do you mean?"
"My powers were… out of whack that day. I exhausted them and those thunderclouds were courtesy of my friend Thundurus. They came to replenish my energy since I was so wiped, but at the same time, I heard that you arrived in Unova and I was interested in you. I really didn't mean to electrocute you guys like that. I apologize to you too, Pikachu."
Pikachu hopped from next to Ash to on Zekrom and hugged the black dragon's head saying 'Pika-chu' as if to mean, 'It's OK.'
"Don't worry about it, Zekrom." Ash said to him. "Everyone turned OK in the end, right? So don't sweat it."
"Thanks Ash."
Suddenly, Ash's stomach began growling as fiercely as an Arcanine's.
"I'm guessing it's about lunchtime." chuckled Cilan. "How about I make all of us something to eat?"
"You can cook?" asked Reshiram curiously.
"Well, I don't mean to brag but… I'm a decent cook, if I say so myself."
"Decent?" said a shocked Ash. "He has his own restaurant if that says something for ya! It's a 4-star!"
"Oh Ash, don't brag about me… after all, I still share it with my brothers Chili and Cress."
Zekrom grinned. "Well, I can't wait to try this '4-star' food I'm hearing about. There's a kitchen in the studio with all sorts of food you can use!"
"Well then, let's get cooking!"
All five of them walked into the studio and to the kitchen, where a new disaster will await them…
Pokémon © Nintendo / Game Freak
A/N: Obviously, I didn't use the real name of the producer for… you know… because I don't want to get sued! I already did in Pokémon World Tour… anyway, read and review!
