The Darkest Hour- chapter 2.
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Morning dew plopped from the overhanging branch above Ash's sleeping bag, the droplet splatting on Pikachu's head, causing him to shiver and wake.
The small rodent immediately noticed the absence of Ash and Misty in their sleeping bags, and got up, stretching his tiny paw's out and yawning.
He padded over to Azurill, who was still asleep, and tucked him in, then he headed towards the large tree in which Iris slept soundly, Axew snoring in her grasp.
The mouse sighed, and decided he should go and find the two humans, maybe shock them for waking him up last night.
So the little rodent shot through the bushes, scurrying around large trees and dodging fallen logs.
He scattered up a torrent of leaves as he ran, only stopping to sniff the air eventually beside a elm tree.
All of a sudden, Pikachu's head shot up.
It was like someone was watching him...
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"Master, should we find the first?" A man dressed in black asked, waiting for a reply.
The man in the chair did not spin round as he waved backwards to agree, his other hand stroking the large, pampered Liepard in his lap.
"Very well." the admin murmured, running out the door and collecting occupied POKe'BALLs from the Storage Room.
The grunts in the common room were all chatting, some playing board games or charades. They all went deathly silent as the Plasma Admin entered, throwing POKe'BALLs into each of their open palms.
"The boss says it is time to find the first." The admin growled, watching all of the men and women carry their POKe'BALLs along with themselves out the door.
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"Let's head off to Castelia City!" Cilan yelled, pumping a fist air, his Pansage mimicing his actions.
"I never thought you'd be THAT excited to head on a journey Cilan..." Iris grumbled, crossing her arms and staring at her shoes.
Axew watched suspiciously as Cilan gave Iris a strange look.
"Let's head off!" Brock agreed, picking up his backpack.
Before the argument could carry on any further, a scream erupted across the forest.
The three teens and Axew popped their head's over the hedge to see Dawn and Paul, in a headlock.
"Stop calling me THAT!" Dawn yelled.
"Oww! Get off me!" Paul bellowed shaking his head in attempt to get free.
After a coaxing from Brock and a bubblebeam from Piplup, Dawn eventually released the purple haired teen.
"Where are Ash and Misty?" Dawn asked, shoving her beanie hat over her head, her indigo orbs glancing around the area.
"Probably gone to make out, they won't go far." Paul said wisely, watching Iris pretend to gag.
"Great so I guess we're all stuck here till the happy couple return!" Dawn grumbled, plonking herself down on a log, Piplup flopping beside her.
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"No peeking!" Ash insisted as he guided his fiery girlfriend through the woods, his hand's over her blue eye's.
"Okay okay! But how much longer? I'm starving here!" Misty yelled good naturedly.
Eventually, the trees began to thin out, until they reached a cliff.
"Open 'em!" Ash hollered, removing his hand's from her eyes and watching her gasp.
The baby blue sky hovered above them, not a single whisper of cloud in sight. Below was a vast expanse of trees, their leafy green colours reflecting in the morning sunlight. In the distance, the grand Unova ocean was just visible, glimmering as the shafts of light bounced off of the calmly rippling waters.
On the edge of the cliff, was a small, red picnic blanket, on it was a hamper and two glasses.
Misty's eyes widened, "You did this, for m-me?" She asked, baffled.
Ash scratched behind his head sheepishly, nodding and adding with a blush, "Yeah, but Paul kinda helped me..."
Misty grew even more surprised.
"I don't know whether to be more surprised that you did this for me, or the fact that Paul seems to have a romantic bone in his body!" Misty mused, munching on a sandwich as the two basked in the sunlight.
Ash scowled, and Misty ruffled his raven, hat head locks.
BANG!
"What was that?" Misty yelled, dropping her sandwich and watching as Pidove flew in a hurry from the canopy's of trees in the forest.
"Sounded like a gunshot to me..." Ash murmured, standing up slowly, "Wait here." He commanded, creeping behind a tree and looking around.
...Meanwhile...
Pikachu listened intensely as the gun shot made his ear's ring sorely.
He began scurrying in the direction it came, eager to find out what was going on...
"Get it!" One grunt yelled running after his prey with his Purrloin in tow.
The little creature soared as fast as she could through the trees, dodging a few fleeing Swadloon and other POKe'MON as she went.
Eventually, one of the Scraggy managed to land it's attack, and the poor Celebi was sent crashing to the tough ground.
The grunts surrounded the weak time traveller, POKe'BALLs at the ready.
Celebi was deemed too weak to fight back, and closed her crystal blue eye's tight, waiting for one of the POKe'BALLs to suck her inside and lock her in for good.
However, as the first one flew towards her, she heard a loud cry and a crackle of electricity.
She opened her eye's to come face to face with a little Pikachu.
In Unova? She pondered, staring at the electric type as it thunderbolted another ball away.
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"We should head back, the guys will start to notice." Ash advised, watching the redhead beside him nod profusely.
As they ran through the forest, another gun shot rang throughout the land.
"It's coming for over here!" Ash yelled, his feet crunching on the leaves as he ran towards the noise.
"Wait up!" Misty hollered, scurrying after her no-common-sense of a boyfriend.
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Pikachu cried out as a sharp pain shot into his abdomen, causing him to fall over, his eye's screwing up in pain.
Celebi watched horrified as the brave mouse leaked blood onto the grass around him.
Just as a grunt was about to grab the grass type, a voice echoed across the forest, only a few feet away.
"Retreat!" a Admin bellowed, watching as two figures began to appear from the hedge.
Team Plasma dashed away, scurrying through the forest like the lowlife they truly were.
It was only after Plasma had left, did Celebi notice a redhead and black haired boy run over to her.
"Pikachu!" Ash yelled, immediately noticing his rodent's pain as the creature's fur became stained red in parts near the wound.
Misty knelt beside Ash as the boy picked Pikachu off of the grass and ripped some picnic blanket, wrapping it firmly around the gunshot wound in his abdomen.
"A celebi?" Misty questioned, noticing for the first time the green creature beside Pikachu.
The green fairy narrowed her eye's at Misty as the girl approached, but felt too weak to fight back.
Misty stroked Celebi's head, watching the green animal fall unconcious.
"We've gotta get Pikachu and Celebi some help." Ash explained, watching Misty nod briefly as the gang began sprinting towards the camp, yelling for help.
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Not too far away, another grass type stood, her coat flapping in the breeze as it floated around her white and green torso.
Several pink flowers decorated the serenely beautiful POKe'MON's fur.
She sneezed as the pollen from a flower shot up her delicate nostrils, the flower petals floating around her in a picturesque scene.
Suddenly, the happiness was interrupted by a loud bang.
The green creature's ears twitched as she grew nervous, as the shot dissappeared.
"Something's happening."
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"Brock! Iris! Cilan! Dawn! Paul!" The pair screamed, Ash fighting back tear as he held his lifeless friend in his arms.
"Hey! I can hear them!" Iris yelled, craning her neck to listen to the distant voices.
A few seconds later, Ash and Misty burst, headoverheels into the clearing.
Dawn almost fainted as she spotted the abundance of red liquid covering Ash's hands and Pikachu's fur.
Paul raised an eyebrow as he looked at the unconcious Celebi in Misty's arms.
"What the hell happened to Pikachu?" Brock yelled, grabbing the rodent from Ash and pulling out his first aid kit.
"We heard gunshots earlier, when we were on our way back, we found them both." Misty explained, cradling the green POKe'MON in her arms.
"Pikachu must've been shot." Cilan exclaimed, removing the rag of clothing from the wound to examine how bad it was.
At that precise moment, Pikachu squealed painfully, attempting to leap to his paw's.
But Brock had seen that coming, so, clad in a pair of pink rubber gloves, he held the mouse still while Cilan prepared a dressing for until they got to the next POKe'MON centre.
"We should get going, Pikachu needs definate medical attention." Cilan explained, handing the mouse back to Ash and packing away the kit.
Misty took Celebi from Paul who had examined her.
"She's completely fine apart from being exhausted." Paul exclaimed, watching the redhead cuddle the tiny legendary.
The gang walked faster than normal, striving to get to the nearest POKe'MON Centre by tea time at the very least.
Ash didn't let anyone rest until they got to a gigantic bridge.
"Whoa! The Sky Bridge! It's said to be the most dynamic bridge in all of Unova! It curves in the middle!" Iris explained, placing a foot onto the polished surface of the magnificent bridge.
"We gotta hurry!" Ash yelled hastily, watching heartbroken as his little buddie's power began to fade away.
Pikachu shivered, and glanced up at Ash.
Ash glanced down at his best friend as the gang sprinted across the bridge, cars zooming below them.
Hang in there buddy...
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To Be Continued!
Haha! Cliffy or what?
Here's a POKe'POEM!
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I shall scatter moondust,
wherever I walk,
to fly in a meteorite,
there are few scientists who stalk,
my kind is extraterrestrial,
and we're all painted in pink,
I dance in the bask of the moon with my ancestors many a night,
and if you want to see us you'd better come when the meteors take flight,
I am said to have ridden on the stars,
we're tough to find,
the moon stone is ours,
happiness will lead to success,
but because we are cuter than the rest,
some of us are kept as we are,
a few evolving and become stronger by far,
But The Question Still Remains,
What POKe'MON Am I?
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