Grasping The Truth -Chapter 2.
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"C'mon ChaCha!" Marsha hollered, beckoning the yellow mouse to follow after her with her hand.
The Pikachu squealed obediantly, and scurried after it's mistress, jumping onto her shoulder for an easy ride.
Wes glanced around at the beautiful city of Phenac.
Waterfalls washed past them in the city's fountain.
A boy with a Castform ran nonstop around it, giggling with his tiny, white companion.
"Hey! Marsha!"
The dark haired girl spun round, and grinned as her newest friend, Ash came running up to her, his loyal Pikachu not far behind.
"What's up?" She asked, smiling as ChaCha greeted Pikachu with a sniff and a friendly tail shake.
"I just wondered if I could maybe, join you? I'm kinda new to Orre since I came here to check it out like a week ago, and perhaps I could help you with your training?" Ash asked, awaiting an answer.
Marsha beamed, "Sure! But as long as you don't mind travelling with more people!"
Marsha strode up to Wes, who was facing off against Rui. The two seemed to be arguing over what town to head off to first.
"Hey Marsha!" Rui grinned, running up to her female companion, her spritely Plusle sprinting behind her.
Marsha waved at the redhead, and noted to the girl that Ash was behind Marsha.
"Hi there! Rui's the name!" She giggled, shaking his hand.
"This is Ash. Can he travel with us?" Marsha pleaded, watching Rui jump up and down in agreement.
"Wes, Ash! Ash, this is Wes." Marsha explained, watching as the two men shook eachother's hands forcefully.
"Great! So where are we off to first?" Ash asked, Pikachu jumping onto his shoulder.
Wes fixed his comrades with a stare, "Pyrite Town seems a perfect place to begin, apparently it's teeming with Shadow POKe'MON."
"Wait... Shadow POKe'MON?" Ash asked, a bewildered look on his face.
After the three had explained to the raven haired man the situation, leaving out the part where Wes had been an ex Cipher member, they headed off...
Marsha nodded, "Then let's get going!" She began leading the way out of the gates.
"But, first! I need to stock up on supplies! We'll head to the Outskirt Stand." Wes explained, walking over to his sand bike.
It had two compartments, one was the bike itself, with large silver and black wheels and red paintwork. Then was the side carriage, it was painted grey and was like a small bullet shaped object with two wheels.
"Sweet ride!" Ash stated, running up to the bike and examining it.
Wes sighed, petting the bike's front, "Yeah, this thing's my baby." Before, returning Plusle to it's ball and beckoning Ash to sit in the side carriage, along with Rui.
"Marsha, come behind me. And ya might wanna hold on tight to Ash's Pikachu and ChaCha." He exclaimed, watching her hop on and place the two almost identical rodents in her lap as the bike started up.
With a loud roar, the bike began scouring over the desert, spraying sand and dust everywhere.
The wind blew forcefully in their faces, causing Wes' hair to almost poke Marsha in the eyes as her own black locks danced in the wind, obscuring her view.
The two Pikachu sat comftably in her lap. The older Pikachu (Ash's) was sat happily, letting the fierce gale rip through it's fur as it passed by.
ChaCha looked on with a slightly worried expression, pressing her ear's flat against her skull as the wind rippled over and in her coat.
"It's okay ChaCha!" Marsha coaxed her electric mouse, stroking it's fur.
Eventually, an old, rundown gasoline stand appeared as if by magic in the hazy distance as a heatwave created a sizzled effect on it.
As the bike stopped, Marsha, clinging onto ChaCha and Pikachu, clambered off, before Ash and Rui copied.
Just as Wes was about to walk into the station, a voice called him back.
"Oi! Battle!" The man growled. He had a ruffled appearance, and pink, spiky hair.
"That's Willy. He's trouble..." Wes explained, watching the man yell at him.
The gang ignored him, until Willy stomped over to Ash and Marsha as they waited outside beside the vehicle.
"Oi! Battle me! Or be at my mercy!" He yelled in their faces, anger in his eye's.
Ash grew annoyed, and retracted a POKe'BALL from his belt, and threw it so it hit the sandy floor hard, bursting open to reveal Bayleef.
Across from him, Willy did the same, two identical Zigzagoon's growled at the Pallet Town trainer and his grass type.
"Pikachu! Get in there!" He yelled, watching as the mouse darted forward, it's cheek's crackling.
"Yer never gonna beat me!" The man yelled, commanding his normal type's to attack with Tackle.
Pikachu and Bayleef leapt and got out of the way of the moves, and Bayleef's vines shot out from it's back, and clamped around the first Zigzagoon, holding it still.
Pikachu immediately Thunderbolted the captured creature, knocking it out with a single blast.
The second Zigzagoon Headbutted Pikachu, sending the small mouse head over heels into the sandy desert air. The electric type flipped over a few times in the air, before landing softly on the dust on his tiny paw's.
"Chu." It sneered, charging up a Volt Tackle.
Zigzagoon charged at Bayleef, but the green and yellow dinosaur just Body Slammed it, pinning it down with it's heavy weight.
Eventually, just before Pikachu's super charged electric run hit the pair, Bayleef released Zigzagoon, allowing Pikachu's Volt Tackle to hit it square on, sending Zigzagoon flying backwards and into the ground with a heavy and pained thud.
"Noooo!" Willy screamed, returning his Zigzagoon and running away like a coward.
At that precise moment, Wes and Rui reappeared, and grinned at the two.
"Let's head off then!" Rui exclaimed, plonking herself next to Ash in the carriage.
Everyone climbed back on, and the engine started up, before the bike sped away, towards the criminal and secretive town of Pyrite, where ruffians and POKe'MON thieves lurked...
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Slowly, the creature slunk around the side of the building, it's icy blue eye's fixed on the mountains of boxes that were being transported into the escalator, and down into the notorious Under.
The building was old and rundown, with a beat up vending machine next to the escalator and a woman dressed in black.
The POKe'MON spotted a party of strange men, all dressed in red and black.
She scurried after them as the last load of boxes sunk into the Under, clambering onto a crate as the escalator took them down.
As soon as she arrived, she jumped down, and ran fast, her blue tail flapping behind her.
The creature hid behind a wall, watching the men move the crates, into a laboratory.
Her eyes fixed on a man as he walked towards a set of glass cages, and threw a Furret into one, slamming the door behind it.
She watched in horror as more POKe'MON, including a Stantler, who was dragged in, a Noctowl, Misdreavus, and even a Sneasel and a Murkrow were shoved in roughly beside the Furret. Beside them, was another cage containing a Swablu, Aipom, and a Gligar.
When the men had gone to fetch some more POKe'MON, the blue POKe'MON ran over to the glass cases, and began scrabbling on the doors to try to free the animals.
The Furret eyed the creature strangely, watching her struggle.
Suddenly, she opened her mouth, and let loose a concentrated jet of water, which she sprayed hard on the lock.
Eventually, it broke open, and she stepped back as the Furret hopped out, smiling at her.
Just as she was halfway through watergunning the Noctowl free, the men came back.
She and Furret froze in panic, their eyes as wide as the human's by the exit.
"Get 'em!" One yelled, running at Furret and the water type.
Furret squealed as him and the blue animal dodged the first human, and ran through the leg's of the last one, running hastily up the steps to the top floor of the Under.
The men, scowled as the two POKe'MON disappeared upstairs, where the men couldn't follow.
They ran as fast as they could, through people's legs and around houses, they reached a small place, with steps leading up to the silver buildin
A large aerial swung back and forth beside the house.
The two creatures stood by the door, until someone opened it.
"Ah, you're back." Spoke a feminine voice, beckoning the water type and the rescued Furret inside.
She glanced at Furret, before picking him up, and walking downstairs into a medical room.
Her dainty human hand's petted the water type cheerfully, before, her blue eye's fixed upon the normal type on the table infront of her.
She made sure he was healthy, and then took him to a room where there were a few other POKe'MON, these included a Shroomish, Ledian, Slugma, Makuhita and a Skiploom were being kept.
Furret stayed in with the others as the woman closed the door behind her.
The lady threw a POKe'BALL next to the water type and out popped a Marill.
"Look after her Bitt! I'm going out for a while!" She yelled.
A boy, no older than Marsha appeared,
he had brown hair and wore a green baseball cap.
She smiled at him, before the doors shut her out.
She snuck around, towards the UFO. Shoving in a forwards disc, she ran in, and when she arrived, ran to the escalator, allowing it to carry her out of the Under and into Pyrite Town.
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"Hey You! No-one enters this battle square unless it's for one thing!" A man hissed, pulling two POKe'BALLs from his pockets and glaring at the gang.
Marsha shoved past Ash as she got ready to battle.
"I'll take this one." She reassured, pulling two balls from her pockets and staring at the guy.
"Seadra! Poison Sting, Ledyba! Comet Punch!"
The two POKe'MON ran towards Marsha, before she cried out, "Archie! Noctowl!" and her strong Arcanine and Noctowl appeared.
Both creatures dodged the attacks and with a Wing Attack and a Fire Blast.
Ledyba was hit dead on with the flames, and collapsed.
Seadra used a Waterfall, which cascaded over Archie and Noctowl, the dog almost fainted.
"Archie! Flame Blast! Noctowl, Air Slash!" She bellowed, narrowing her eyes as the dog hurried towards Seadra, releasing a powerful criss cross of red flames which scorched the water type, but it hardly damaged Seadra.
Noctowl swooped towards Ledyba, his chestnut, brown wing's outstretched as he smashed them into the bug type, causing multiple slashes to it's body, knocking it unconcious to the floor.
The man cursed and shouted at Seadra, "Seadra! Take down Noctowl with Ice Beam!"
Immediately, the channeled beam of frozen water shot from Seadra's mouth and attacked Noctowl, freezing him in a solid block as he smashed in ice to the floor.
Marsha growled, and returned Noctowl, before commanding Arcanine to attack with a Hyper Beam.
The dog howled angrily at Noctowl's unconciousness, and opened his mighty jaw's, and stepping back a few feet.
All of a sudden, a large beam of multicoloured light exploded from the canine's jaws, and hit Seadra, sending the seahorse flying through the air and to the ground.
"Yes! Good going Archie!" Marsha screamed, punching the air and hugging her giant dog.
He licked her face appreciatively and returned to his POKe'BALL.
"Damnit, Well see ya 'round kid." The man grunted, running off rudely.
"Whoa! High five Marsh!" Rui hollered, smacking her hand against Marsha's.
"That was pretty good." Ash complimented, glancing at Pikachu who also nodded.
"Thanks!" Marsha added, ChaCha hopping onto her shoulder.
"Now, let's get into the Under. Rui and I will head south, Marsha and Ash, go north." Wes explained, running with Rui towards the centre.
Ash looked at Marsha.
"Mission: enter the Under!"
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To be continued!
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