Chapter 2: Firestorm:
Alright I do admit I really like the feel of this story, it is edgy and the idea of the main pairing of this story to start out hating each other also adds something and the fact they have to not only protect their friends and the people from Team Rocket gives the story an intense feel about it.
Disclaimer: pokemon isn't mine but this story sure is.
May: 19
(Leaf's POV)
It had been a few days since I had to evacuate from my home to the Hoenn region all thanks to Ash who was too soft in the battle that we faced against Team Rocket, I was walking through Rustboro City not knowing that I was being watched by Team Rocket, the city was quaint that looked traditional, a massive building at northwest corner of the city and the gym on the opposite side of the street.
"I wonder how May is going" I said to myself thinking about her, I also knew that Ash and her were really go friends as well, "why do we have to share the same friends?" I asked myself in anger, "knowing Ash he would almost be in the region now, can't wait to defeat him" I said with a grin on my face thinking about the last time I had the chance to defeat Ash.
I continued to walk through the city looking at the shops, and buying the necessary supplies for the fight that was ahead of me, after buy the supplies I started to think about the what Team Rocket was doing chasing after the both of us, "so we both got led into a trap by a person who dressed up as our friend" I said to myself calmly walking through the streets towards Verdanturf Town.
"So you escaped the bulk of our forces in Kanto" a man wearing Black question with a menacing smirk, "you will not escape Team Rocket again" he declared.
"Great so instead of the bastards in Kanto, they give me three clowns" I said angrily, "bring it on" I said smirking at my opponents thinking this would be a great warm up for my battle with Ash, "I will wipe you three out in one move" I declared confidently as they called out their first pokemon to battle me. "Blastoise, Delcatty and Slowking let's show these guys what we're made" I called out my pokemon o battle the three rocket's opposing me.
"So you want to battle us?" the rockets said in unison, "our pokemon are way more powerful than yours" the rockets said with laughter, I looked at the two pokemon that were glaring at mine.
"Great so now I am fighting on my own" I said under my breath, I was basically fighting three full teams against one, "great so I am fighting on my own" I said in frustration, "Blastoise use Hydro Pump" I commanded my starter pokemon, "Delcatty use Blizzard and Slowking use Psychic" I called for the attacks, the powerful attacks were sent on their way and with potent strength, "let's see you get out of this alive" I told them with a confident smirk.
"Use Dark Pulse on Slowking" one of the men called for the attack, a large black winged pokemon sent out a burst of dark energy towards the royal pokemon pushing it back after it to the powerful dark type attack.
"Scrafty use Focus Blast" the other rocket grunt called out for the next attack, a blue sphere formed in one of the hands of the dark/fighting type before firing it at my Delcatty, the blue sphere plowed through the icy attack before slamming into the normal type pokemon dealing immense damage to it.
"Now time to finish this battle" the other rocket member said with a confident look on his face, I looked on as the battle quickly became a four on eighteen battle, "now use Thunderbolt the rocket grunt commanded his Gengar, Gengar sent out a mighty blast of electricity towards my Blastoise knocking it out of the battle.
"No I can't believe it when did Team Rocket become so good?" I asked myself shock at what had just happened, "crap how will I defeat Ash if I can't defeat these morons?" I asked myself while recalling my pokemon.
"Any last words little girl?" the rockets asked in unison.
"Yeah I have few choice last words" I replied with a smirk, "go fuck yourselves" I told them in defiance, just as they were about to land the killing blow another powerful attack hit Team Rocket and their respective pokemon.
"So you want to kill my friend?" a brunette asked with anger, "you want my friend then you will have to get pass me first" she said with a confident smile.
"Stay out of this little girl" the Rockets said in anger, I turned around again to see May was standing there calmly ready to battle, "so you want to stand against the might of Team Rocket little girl" as their Honchkrow charged at May's pokemon.
"Blaziken use Blaze Kick" May called out confidently, Blaziken's leg became surrounded in flames before it kicked the big boss pokemon, I looked on to see May's pokemon defiantly taking a stand against team Rocket's pokemon.
"When did May become so good?" I asked myself as I watched the battle unfold before me.
"Well Leaf are you going to sit there? Or are you going to help me?" May asked angrily as I picked myself and picked one of my pokeballs ready to call out one of my pokemon, "so I do have one question" May said while her Blaziken continued to hold off the pokemon barely.
"Nidoqueen use Poison Tail" I called out for the attack as we began our challenging battle against the rockets.
"Blaziken use Blaze Kick again" May quickly commanded confidently, the two pokemon charged at the enemies pokemon, Blaziken moved faster with fire engulfing his legs before kicking the opposing pokemon, Nidoqueen swiped her tail at the other combatants send it flying dealing immense damage.
"So May how did you know I was here?" I asked my friend as the three rockets recalled their pokemon and got ready to call out another lot of pokemon, "not again dammit why do I have to be chased by Team Rocket?" I asked as I looked at my friend who just laughed.
"For your first question I was coming here to do a bit of shopping" May confessed with a smile, "and for your second question you are an evolver just like Ash" May pointed out with a smirk, "hey Leaf where is Ash anyway?" May asked me but I ignored the question and focused on the battle again, "Leaf you two are the only Evolvers left you need to work as a team" May lectured me.
"I will never work with Ash!" I yelled out in anger as I glared at me opponent, May let out a long sigh, "come on May you're way stronger than he is" I told May but she started to get frustrated at my attitude, I looked back before charging right into another battle, just as I was about to defeat the rockets a powerful attack from out of nowhere blew me back, "great why did Ash have to show up?" I asked myself as I looked around to see the origin of the attack.
"I am sorry evolver I am not Ash, but you two will meet in the afterlife when we are done with you" a mysterious person pointed out as a large pokemon colored purple with large horns and a powerful tail.
"So you intend to battle me with that Nidoking?" I asked with a grin as Nidoqueen got ready for the battle, "Nidoqueen use strength" I called out for the attack in the new battle.
"Nidoking use Hyper Beam" the man said with a smile, Nidoking fired the beam knocking out my Nidoqueen with one hit, "for an evolver you sure are weak" the man said with a smile before walking away from the tree, he was a tall man with short black hair, he was wearing a suit, "now evolver you will die" he declared with a grin.
"Leaf get out of here now" May told me, I looked around to see that she was being dragged away by three rocket grunts, I glared at the rockets and chased after them before I was hit with another attack, "Leaf no you need to get out of here!" May screamed out as the distance became greater.
"You bastards will pay for this" I declared with a burning anger, I turned back to the person to find he was gone, looked around to find the man with the Nidoking, "where are you?" I yelled out trying to find the man, I ran after May before I was interrupted by Nidoking, "get out of my way" I demanded angrily.
"Sorry little evolver your too much of a threat to Team Rocket and must be eliminated" the man said as he appeared next to his pokemon, "Nidoking use Thrash" the man commanded his poison pokemon to attack me, Nidoking charged at I was trembling at the sight of them imposing pokemon running at me.
"Dammit looks like I won't be battling Ash again" I said to myself as I closed my eyes, I opened my eyes to see a powerful attack push the drill pokemon back towards his trainer, I looked around to find where the attack originated from, "so Ash made here just in time" I said with a smirk, Ash landed next to me and glared at me, "what the fuck are looking at?" I asked the other evolver.
"You couldn't resist, you just couldn't resist getting into a fight" he told me angrily, I was about to snap in anger, "your just lucky that I save May on the way here and she told me you needed help" Ash said with a frown as his dragon pokemon got ready to fight against the person who attacked me.
"Ash I was attacked by Team Rocket, I fought them off while you were waiting for me to have no pokemon" I replied angrily as I walked away from the battle, "as you would say Ash, good luck you're going to need" I told him before leaving the battlefield to go and meet up with May, I could hear the battle raging in the background but I ignored it, "damn why did he save me again?" I asked myself thinking about Ash's actions again, "and why does he always seem to come and protect me?" I asked as I turned around to see Ash battling alongside his Dragonite.
"That's it Dragonite finish this battle with Dragon Pulse" Ash commanded confidently, I watched as Dragonite charged up a ball of green energy over his mouth before firing the attack at Nidoking, Nidoking was knocked out of the battle, I witnessed as Ash recalled his dragon pokemon, a million thoughts crossed my mind I really wanted Ash to kill the man that he fought against but I knew Ash was the merciful type, "get lost before I change my mind" Ash told the man.
"this is far from over evolver I will comeback with even more people just like me" the man said in laughter before flying off with his Pidgeot.
"Ash you fucking idiot you let that man go because you're so merciful, have you considered the fact that our friends are in danger because of us?" I questioned Ash who glared at me.
"Pikachu shut her up for me please" Pikachu was reluctant to follow the command, but did so anyway, I was hit by a powerful surge of electricity, I watched as Ash walked away into the forest.
"Damn you Ash you had this chance and now you're going to regret not finishing the job" I said as I felt arches of lightning course around my body, "you're just too nice for your own good" I said before falling asleep.
(Normal POV)
The mysterious man was a secret location preparing his report about Ash and Leaf, "I have some information to report about the evolvers" he said professionally, "their friend is the daughter of the gym leader in Petalburg City and she seems to know about the evolvers" the man said with a grin.
"Very good make sure they stay separated, my next plan is having them in separate parts of the region so they can't reach each other" Sandy pointed out confidently, "Marcus I want you to deal with Leaf, I will send in Trinity to deal with Ash" Sandy pointed out with a grin as a woman with long silver hair wearing a pink skirt and a purple shirt.
"Now I get to have some fun at long last" Trinity said with a smirk, "I will lead him to Lilycove City while you keep Leaf in Rustboro City" Trinity told Marcus with a grin.
"I will also send a small force to capture the Maple family before we deal with their other friends in the different regions" Sandy said with a smirk, "we will lure them into a trap again where they will face the full force of Team Rocket on their own" Sandy said with a smirk before shutting off the communications. At the rocket base Sandy was walking towards five of the best Team Rocket had to offer, "you five are to follow this mission, capture and imprison Ash's and Leaf's friends" Sandy ordered the five rockets.
"Ma'am" the five said in unison while saluting to Sandy.
"Jessie I need you to capture the Berlitz family, James you are to head to Unova to capture the brothers, Cassidy head to Hoenn to help with the capture of the Maple family and Butch you are to help in the capture of Iris and her grandfather" Sandy pointed out with a grin, "Oh and Meowth you will need to infiltrate the Harrison family and lure them into a trap near Mount Moon" Sandy told the feline pokemon.
"What about Misty she might get in the way" Cassidy pointed out only to be met with laughter by her superior.
"She is of no concern to us, she has already been captured along with her sisters, we will use her as bait to lure Brock's family in" Sandy declared with a grin, "now go the chances of world domination hinges on the success of your separate missions, 'I will go and capture their rivals as well to make this little ploy even more interesting" Sandy thought with a smirk
"Ma'am the mission is as good as done" the five said in unison before heading off towards their targets.
"Excellent once the evolvers find out their friends in our possession they will have no choice but to come here and rescue them" Sandy said with a menacing laugh.
"Sandy how are the operations going with the destruction of the evolvers?" her boss asked as he face appeared on the main screen, "once the evolvers are defeated we can begin our operations for total conquest" Giovanni pointed out with a smirk while sipping on a glass of wine.
"Everything is going to plan, we have them in the Hoenn region and in separated cities" Sandy told her boss, "even if the plan doesn't work we are starting a backup plan" Sandy stated with a sly smile, Giovanni smiled while completing his glass of wine and shut down communications, "but before I deal with the evolvers I will deal with Giovanni first" Sandy said under her breath before laughing.
(In the Hoenn region)
Ash was walking through the tree filled forest towards Petalburg City to visit his friends, he looked around to see the many bug type pokemon, there was grass type over the forest floor and flying types flying overhead, Ash took the chance to take a break from walking and sat down to listen to the pokemon.
"Man Pikachu these pokemon sound so peaceful" Ash said as he rested on his back and looked to the sky, "I just hope that Leaf doesn't hold a grudge" Ash said with a laugh, Ash continued to look up to the sky as butterfly like pokemon flew around the trees, and the Tailow were dancing around the sky.
"Ash where are you?" a familiar voice called out to the trainer, Ash opened his eyes and looked around to see Leaf was approaching him, "Ash when I find you I will hang you from a tree!" Leaf yelled as she continued her search for the trainer.
"Oh shit she is pissed off" Ash said nervously, Ash picked himself up and ran towards the exit of the forest while avoiding the detection of Leaf, "damn she recovers quickly" Ash said with a smile as he exited the forest, "I better check in with May" Ash said while running towards the nearest city while not taking notice of the surroundings. Ash made it to Petalburg City to visit May and her family, Ash looked around the small city to see fires burning, the fires caused the sky above to glow a crimson red and the people were running in panic, Ash walked over to May's house to see and walked into the burning building, upon entering the house he spotted letter on the table while the house was burning down, Ash grabbed the letter and read it.
After reading the letter Ash quickly ran towards the forest to meet up with Leaf, "so Ash I never had the chance to thank you for earlier" Leaf told Ash with a seething expression on her face, Ash didn't have the time to care for what happened earlier he handed her the letter about another situation, "Ash does this mean that our friends are being targeted?" Leaf asked shock after reading the contents of the letter, "but they have nothing to do with the evolvers business" Leaf pointed out angry.
"Yeah I know but it also seems whoever took May and her family also set fire to Petalburg City to keep us busy and to make it look like it was us during one of our fights" Ash said with a grimace, the two looked at each other for a moment, "Leaf you know how much I hate you, but we need to team up to save not only our friends but the world from Team Rocket" Ash told Leaf calmly.
"Well Ash I hate you too, but we need to stop Team Rocket" Leaf said as she approached Ash, Leaf extended her hand towards Ash, Ash extended his hand and shook Leaf's, "Ash this is a temporary alliance after we deal with Team Rocket you and I will have a battle to the death" Leaf proclaimed with a smile.
"And I will be the winner" they said in unison before smirking at each other.
The two ran towards the burning City luckily the people got out of the city except for a couple of children, "someone please help my children are stuck in the city" a woman wailed as she looked around to find her kids, Ash looked around his shoulder and ran straight into the city to find the children.
"Ash you crazy bastard!" Leaf hollered as she watched Ash run into the burning city to find the kids, "well I better make myself useful" Leaf said as she called out her water pokemon to help put out the flames.
(Ash's POV)
I made it into the middle of the burning city to try and save a few children from being burnt to death, "dammit I don't think this was a good idea" I told myself as the heat begun to get unbearable, I looked around as some of the building started to crumble as the noise of the flames started to sound like a train passing by, "fuck the noise of these flames is loud" I said while continuing my search for the children.
"Someone please help!" someone scream but the noise was barely audible since the noise of the flames drowned out the voices.
"There's someone in danger, damn I better hurry" I told myself as I continued to look for the origin of the screams, I continued to hear the children yelling out for help, "Children stay where you are I will find you!" I yelled out as loudly as I could muster.
I looked around and found the origin of the screams, "Excadrill I need your help" I said calling out a pokemon mostly colored brown with long steel sharp claws and a white face with a steel extension coming from the top of its head, "Excadrill dig a hole under the building" I told the subterrene pokemon started digging a hole under the building allow me to get in the fires safely, I eventually made it to the children, "Alright kids follow me in" I told the children after recalling the ground type pokemon.
"Thanks mister" the children said while I heard a creak coming from above.
"No time for thanks just get in here now" I told the children as a bit of the building started to fall, all the children made it in to the hole with a bit of time to spare, "Excadrill cover up the hole to prevent any of the flames from following us" telling the ground type to seal the exit, we crawled our way to the entrance to see Leaf standing there in front of us, "Leaf why are you here?" I asked the woman with a frown.
"Just making sure you don't die yet" Leaf said with a grin before extending her hand towards me, "give me the kids" Leaf demanded confidently, I gave the kids to Leaf before being helped out myself, "and to think I will be working with a reckless fool such as you" Leaf said while shrugging her shoulders.
"I am reckless what about you? We still need to get out of here before we get cooked" I told Leaf as we ran with the children towards the exit of the city, "damn some of the trees are in front of us" I said as I looked around the burning city to discover we were trapped as the flames started to close in around us, "Leaf what about your Blastoise?" I suggested with calmness.
"Sorry Ash Blastoise is exhausted he took some major damage in the last battle with Team Rocket" Leaf commented , "Ash how about your Charizard and Dragonite?" Leaf asked as I pulled out my two pokeballs.
"Dragonite, Charizard I choose you" I called out for my two flying type pokemon, we climbed onto the two pokemon and got ready to take off, "Kids hold on tight, and kid look after Leaf for me" I said jokingly as we took off before the fires completely closed in the area where we were previously standing, "damn that was so close" I said with a sigh of relief while Pikachu was standing on my shoulder watching Petalburg City burn to the ground.
We flew towards the evacuees with the children that we saved, I looked back to see the city was completely consumed by the fires, "Team Rocket you will pay for this" I declared angry that Team Rocket would attack innocent people. We landed at the site of the evacuations with the children on the backs of our pokemon.
"Hooray the children are saved thanks to you two" the people celebrated in unison, Leaf and I looked at Each other and smiled, a man walked up to us with a smile, "if there is anything I can do as thanks for saving our children please let us know" the man said with a sincere smile.
"there is no thanks required we did this because we thought it would be the right thing to do" Leaf said with an embarrassed smile on her face, she scratched the back of her head and looked towards me, "you know Ash I get the feeling I was wrong about you" Leaf told me while extending her hand out to meet mine, "I call for peace between you and me" Leaf declared happily, "no more trying to kill each other, no more trying to best each other, but we will have the battle to see who the better evolver is" Leaf declared with a smile as I extended my hand to meet hers.
"So we're a team now? We have to work on our communication, we have to work on our team work" I told the brunette as we shook hands, "and I promise to make sure you don't do anything stupid" I whispered in her ear, "so from this day forward we are at peace" I declared confidently while nodding at the woman.
We hated each other to start off with and now we're allies, I had the feeling that when we work together we were going to defeat Team Rocket and save our friends from those bastards, "So Leaf this moment is perfect for a celebration, how about a drink at my expense?" I asked the woman as we looked towards the horizon.
"Ash don't get the wrong idea I still despise you but it isn't to the extent that I will kill you anymore" Leaf told me while getting ready to walk away, "take me the best bar you know" Leaf demanded with a smile, we walked to Rustboro City after failing to save Petalburg City from being burnt down, we walked towards the forest still not walking close to each other.
'Maybe one day we can learn to respect each other, even share our deepest secrets, one you don't know about Leaf" I thought to myself as I watched Leaf walking in front of me, "Leaf wait up you need to look at something before we get drunk" I told the woman in front of me. After making my suggestion we rested on the forest floor looking at the relaxing sight of pokemon flying overhead with the sunset as a backdrop.
"Wow Ash this is amazing" Leaf said with a smile, this was the first time I saw that she was genuinely happy at something, we still kept our distance but that distance managed to close somehow over the last few hours. We spent a few hours in the forest watching the forest life move around us, we picked ourselves up and walked to Rustboro City.
"There is Leaf the best bar in Rustboro City" I said with a smile, we walked in to see the crowd was very small, the staff was happily serving them drinks, and a few drunks at the bar with their heads resting on the counter, "excuse me I would like to have a couple of pints of beer please" I requested with smile.
"So Ash where is the party?" Leaf asked with a grin before I handed her a beer, "you got me a beer, that's norm for idiots like you" Leaf told me with a frown, "but thanks anyway Ash" Leaf said thankfully before starting her first drink. We had a few drinks before leaving the bar happy that we spent the time to have a drink together
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, a little sweet near the end now that Ash and Leaf sort of respect each other now, they are willing to work together.
Will this alliance work? Or will it fall to pieces? How will Ash and Leaf rescue their friends from Team Rocket? What is Sandy's secret objective? And what is Ash's deepest secret about Leaf?
Find out in the next chapter of The Evolvers.
Chapter 3: Rumble in Rustboro City