The next thing I knew I was lying next to Ashley. My fur was soaked to the core and I felt sore.
I looked around and saw thick iron bars that not even Earsplitter's Overheat could melt. There were other cells with other people and their Pokemon, some awake, some asleep. None looked injured, though, thankfully.
I decided to walk over to Ashley and shake her awake, and that's exactly hat I did.
Ashley shifted, grunting, then opened her eyes. She blinked at me. "Where are we?" she wondered aloud.
I was wondering the same thing. I went over and tried to use Ice Beam to freeze them and barged into them. The ice shattered but my body ran into the iron bar, causing a loud boom to echo across the room.
At that, a teenage-looking boy came into the room and glared at me. He shouted at me, throwing an object of some kind at me, "Shut up!"
A more official-looking woman came in and shooed him away with a stick of some sort. She then walked over to the cell and poked me with it.
A shock ran through my body. The stick felt cold and hot at the same time, and it left blisters underneath my fur.
I took a closer look at the woman. She was wearing a light blue, flowing dress decorated with white and dark blue patterns.
Ashley crawled over to me, took me back to the back of the cell against the white wall, and began stroking me. We were captured, prisoners of some sort... Ashley was trying to comfort me, I could tell, but I still fet unsettled by our surroundings.
The woman stood in the middle of the hallway between the rows of cells and shouted a wordless shout.
Most of the people woke up, but several Pokémon remained asleep, probably had fainted in battle and hadn't recovered yet.
She woman then began to shout again, but this time it was an explanation.
"Filthy Swinubs! Wake up!"
All of the people in sight woke up at that point, and a few more Pokémon woke too.
The woman began to shout once again. "Prisoners! You are in the presence of the great and powerful Commander Splocean! Bow down or suffer!"
She waited expectantly for the people and Pokémon to bow. Few did.
She walked over to a cell and shocked a Pokémon with her electric rod. It instantly bowed, along with one or two others in seprate cells.
She walked over to the cell next to us and hit the man next to his Machoke with the rod. He immediately bowed, screeching. He had looked tough too.
I knew better than to keep resisting. I rested my head on my outsretched hands, hearing a gasp from Ashley.
I heard footsteps, a smack, and a cry from Ashley. I poked my head up to look at her, only for it to be smacked with it, running a shock through my body. I returned to my bowed postistion and shut my eyes.
I heard a few other shreiks from people and Pokémon, and then Commander Splocean began to shout again.
"You seem to know our power now, don't you? Now then! You all are to bow down to Team Flow, for now we own you all! You are slaves of Team Flow, the most dastardly team of criminals! All oppositions must fall! Team Flow will rule all!"
"There is currently a war between all of us criminal teams... It seems to me that none of you idiots knew, even when we were right under your noses! Er.. well, we were actualy above your heads, but... Y-You get the point!"
"You are to serve us until the war is over! If we fall, so do you! You're fighting for your lives now, and you better reaize that!"
She walked over and grabbed me by the shoulder thoguh the bars. She shook me and threw me to the other side of the cell, away from Ashley. The world was black for a long time.
I slowly opened my eyes to find that I was in something that looked like a wheel. It was closed in on all sides, with few holes for air and a cubby for what looked like store-bought Pokémon food. I hated that stuff.
I felt a shock on my belly, and I stood up, alarmed. The ground was electric! I began to run forward, because of the shock on my feet, and the wheel turned. It sped up so much that I tripped, in which the electricution of the wheel grew.
I was forced to run like this for the whole day, and the electricution stopped. My feet were blistered more than they had ever been, and my whole body hurt. My legs were sore for running nonstop and I had tripped so many times my flank was swelling up.
I didn't undestand the point of it, nor why there was an all-evil war, but I knew one thing for certain: I wasn't about to see daylight soon.
