Chapter 3 – Questions Answered
Items in italics are thoughts
Flash Back To Mere Moments ago
I don't believe it. Professor Oak thought as he watched his friends and protégés fight off the Dopels, It can't be. I thought him maybe, but all of them…
Just then Ash made it to his side.
"Do you know what he wants Professor." Ash asked as he pulled the Professor behind some machinery to hide him.
"Yes, Ash I do. He is after something I have hidden for nearly 40 years."
"What is it, Professor?"
"A power, an old Pokemon relic, that in the right hands could be used to defend the world …" Professor Oak said with a grim look on his face "… or in the wrong hands could be used to destroy it. Inside is a power called 'The Spirits Of The Ancients'."
"Wait a minute, that name sounds familiar. I think Mom mentioned them in a fairy tale she used to tell me. Something about a group of knights who defended their kingdom from an evil wizard who used ensorcered Pokemon and evil monsters to try and take it over, or something to that effect."
"Yes his name was/is Kalzan, and he…" Professor Oak was saying before Ash interrupted him.
"Whoa, what do you mean was/is? Is the wizard still alive?"
"I'm beginning to think so Ash. He was one of only eight people who knew the Spirits were real and of those I thought that I was the only one still alive."
"They were, uhm I mean, are real, the Spirits, I mean?"
"Yes, they are real and you're probably either wondering how I know this," The Professor said with a slight glint in his eye, "or you think I'm crazy."
"Well, I can tell you I have never thought you were crazy, eccentric maybe, but not crazy." Ash said with a hiding a smile. "So, how do you know all this?"
"Well, I know this because I was one of the last set of rangers nearly 40 years ago..." and with this Ash stared at the Professor dumbfounded. " and I believe you are one of the new set."
"What!"
"I know this maybe hard to believe, Ash."
"Well to be perfectly honest, Professor, after everything that I have been through , I'm no surprised. What do I have to do?"
"Just look inside yourself and you will know what to do. I'll see if I can find the other Rangers while you take care of the Hybrid out there."
Back to the present
"I believe the lady asked to be let go." The figure in the shadows said as he stepped towards the lighted room. He had on a red helmet with a stylized Charizard medallion molded to it and a silver face shield. His outfit was mostly red with a white stripe down the sides and a golden Charizard emblazoned on his chest. White boots, gloves, & a white belt with a holster finished the look.
He then walked over and helped the fallen Misty up asking, "Are you ok, miss?"
She looked up into the mask and for some reason she felt safe, "Yeah. I'm Fine."
"Good, then you can," The red ranger raises up his pistol and aims it straight at Max & Tracey and fires hitting the rope binding the two guys to the pole, "help get those two, to Professor Oak."
With that he rises up and turns towards the rising Chops, "Alright ugly, are you ready to dance?"
"Sure kid, your funeral." The hybrid said as he faced the Red Ranger, "and this time you don't have the benefit of surprise. By the way I've brought a few friends with me. Dopels, go."
The misshapen Dopels ran at the Ranger and for a second it looked like he was gonna be over run by the sheer numbers, until Brock and Richie came started pulling the Dopels away and fighting by his side.
"You two grab May and get her and the others outside, NOW."
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Brock asked as Richie ran over to grab May.
"Oh, I can handle anything this joker has," And with that he reached to his belt and pulled out a red saber with a flame shaped hilt. "And as for his friends, I've been told that I've got help on the way."
"Alright." And with that Brock turned and ran with Richie & May back behind the machinery that the Professor was pulled behind. Once there he saw Professor Oak and the girls but Tracey, Max, & Ash were nowhere to be found. Then he noticed a doorway in the wall that wasn't there when he was running up.
"Where are the others?" Brock asked
Misty looked up at him with eyes that seemed about to burst.
"Max & Tracey went in there," she said as she pointed towards the door. She then turned towards Professor Oak with tears now flowing and blurted out, "But I haven't seen Ash, where is he Professor?"
Professor Oak stood there for a moment and held Misty. Then he pulled her straight and looked into her eyes and said, "Misty, it's ok. Now I need to get in there and help Max & Tracey. As for Ash, Misty I think you already know. Just look inside your self and you'll find the answers." With that he turns towards the rest of the group, "And that goes for all of you. Look inside yourself and you'll figure it out."