Chapter 3: Never gonna give you up.
It's been six days since the invasion of Team Rocket. Many has been slained, or have been missing. Ash had lost all confidence since he blacked out.
Ash has been training all day and night since he woke up, teaching kids to defend themselves, teaching pokemon how to defend themselves also, and regaining confidence in his pokemon battling.
It was a Thursday night, and Ash was still training behind the house.
"Ash, you need to take a break, haven't you trained enough already?" Rosa asked as she came out the back door.
"Not... Enough.." Ash said while still pounding the brick wall with Pikachu.
"What if Team Rocket comes? Huh? What are you going to do then? You won't have any energy left."
"Energy? What's energy?" Ash sarcastically questioned.
Rosa sighed and left to go back inside, "Also, dinner is inside, if you know what that means" She said sarcastically.
Ash stopped, and sneaked into the house and gobbled all of his dinner up, and Pikachu gobbled his dinner too.
When Rosa went to check on Ash, she realised Ash had sneaked in to eat. Rosa smiled for a split second only to realise the plates was smashed into pieces.
She became fiery hot, filling with anger, ruining her perfect looking house. Then all of a sudden she disappeared. Without a trace.
It was only until morning that everyone found out.
"Everyone stop panicking!" Ash shouted, "We'll figure this out, but first we need clues."
"There's like, zero clues around here." Brock said, while looking around.
"There's plates smashed here." N pointed out.
Ash moved back a little and squeaked, "That was, um, me."
"Ooooh, Rosa isn't going be happy about that, Ash!" Misty said, as everyone laughed.
Then, Lt. Surge came into the room, asking, "Why is the front door knocked down?"
Everyone ran to the front door, to see a beaten down wooden door. In front of it was, unclear, messy footsteps and looked like the person tried to hide his trail.
Ash and co. followed trail into Route 15.
"Do you guys see anything?" Ash questioned the group.
"Nope," they all said.
"She might have been captured by Rocket for torturing." Brock wondered.
"Why didn't we hear or see the person who captured her?" Lt. Surge questioned
"She's always the quiet one in the group, we wouldn't know until it's too late" N said.
"Everyone quiet!" Ash shouted, and they went silent.
They heard rustling sounds, and sounds of someone struggling. The group followed into past a couple of bushes, to find Rosa hands tied, and mouth covered with tape.
"Rosa, what happened?" Ash questioned as he was untying her. "Oh right, your mouth," Ash pulled the tape off.
"It's a trap and a diversion!" Rosa finally announced.
Then, poison fog started to enter the area, quickly surrounded the group. Ash struggled to grab Yveltal's poke'ball."I'll just do it myself then!" Yveltal said, as he popped out of the poke'ball.
"Yveltal.. Protect, quick!" Ash quickly commanded. Yveltal brought out a huge white barrier, blocking the fog from reaching them.
With protect, they all slowly got back to Route 15.
Ash and Rosa hugged, although for Ash, it was more of a violent squeeze than a hug. They then notice smoke up in the sky,
"No, It can't be..." N said.
"Fuchsia City... Gone" Brock sighed.
"No, we might be able to save it," Lt. Surge said.
"He's right. We might have a chance" Ash agreed.
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up!" Rosa shouted, as she was running.
They managed to get back to Fuchsia in a couple of minutes. They ran to the centre expecting to find the most bloodiest, one-sided battle. Instead they found a big group of what is a newly formed militia trying to hold off Team Rocket. Instead of standing around, they had joined the fight, pushing them back slowly to the north, where the safari zone was. It was a while until Team Rocket finally had a way to push in. They had sent decoys to the north, a trio with an interesting pokemon. This was unlikely any other pokemon. This pokemon was a Meowth who had the ability of human speech. Meanwhile Team Rocket had started swarming both west and east side of the city. It had caught many by surprise.
'Oh man, how are we this stupid?' N thought.
N quickly got a group to head to east, and another to the west. This battle had lasted many hours, and even a television crew had came in to fight with the city.
Ash, Rosa, and Surge was in east, and forces started pounding them.
"Pikachu, use thunderbolt!"
Pikachu bursted out a huge bolt of electricity, shocking both Pikachu, and a bunch of grunts.
"Pikachu, no!" Ash ran to Pikachu, picking him up softly, "You're gonna be alright, buddy. Trust me, everything is gonna be alright." As Ash was going to ask Lt. Surge for a potion, Surge was bitten by an Arbok in the leg.
"I'm all right.. I'm fine... I had worst in the war.." Surge muttered, but obviously we wasn't looking good. But he was calm, and it was amazing he could because Arbok nearly bitten his whole leg off.
"Does anyone have a first aid kit?" Ash shouted at the group. But everyone looked at him with a blank face.
"Fine, I'll have to go to the Pokemon Centre. See if they have anything." Ash said.
"No you can't." Rosa replied.
"He's going to die!" Ash shouted back
"But the rest of us cannot hold them off! We'll get overrun if you leave." Rosa pleaded.
"Don't worry As-, I'm a -an, I can figure something ou-" before Surge could finish his sentence, he had gone to another, better place.
Behind them a small stream of people started to come their way. In front of the pack, was N. He shouted, "The trio managed to break in, we have to get away quickly!"
Everyone agreed and ran to the south, Route 19 and south to it, was the sea.
"Delphox, use fire blast on the trees. We can't let them get us." Rosa commanded.
Team Rocket tried to get through the woods, but the fire quickly spread, and trapped a couple of grunts to a painful death.
As everyone gathered by the beach, they heard a faint cry: it was a boy.
"Mummy, mummy!" is all they heard.
"Oh, Max! Max!" a voice finally cried in the group.
The women rushed to Rosa, and pleaded, "Please save him, you have to."
"I can do it" Ash jumped in.
"Oh thank you, young man, please.. please..."
Ash and his Greninja, ventured back into the woods. For half an hour, he got nowhere, he had been going around in circles.
"Oh god, why didn't I think of this. Yveltal, find the kid for me!" Ash said, face palming himself.
Yveltal searched around, and found the boy, trapped.
"Well, Ash, you've got about two minutes to get to the boy, or he's gonna be crisp." Yveltal said. "He's east of you.."
Ash asked Yveltal to get on him but Yveltal said, "I'd like to, but you don't use me as much. So... N, O"
Ash got mad, but quickly ran east. He finally found the little boy, trapped in the middle of ring of fire.
"Greninja, hydro pump" Ash commanded. Greninja pumped litres and litres of water around him, and Ash picked up the boy and ran fast all the way to the beach.
It was sunset, and Ash returned with a boy in his hand, with some parts burnt.
"Oh my sweet little boy," the mother cried as she grabbed the boy from Ash.
"You people are just plain stupid!" she let out with a burst of anger, "Why did you people even set the forest on fire? Who even let a eleven year old in charge?"
"I'm the champion of Kalo's, so I pretty much know what I'm doing" Ash replied, confidently.
"pfft, at least put someone responsible in charge, like this turtle shoe'd guy" she pointed to N.
Ash and Rosa turned away, and they both whispered, "craaazy" in a high pitched voice, they laughed, and they held hands, while walking across the orange beach.
The group arrived in Vermillion City. Everyone in the city had gathered for the funeral of Lt. Surge. It was a long, quiet day afterwards, with everyone helping fortifying the city for a future attack. They had Diglett cave ready to be used and destroyed.
"It has been at least one week since the Team Rocket invasion. All exports and imports has been cut or intercepted, and the whole region has started to ration their food. The president reportedly been negotiating with Giovanni. Over 1000 civilians and pokemon have been killed, and more than 500 have been captured. Due to safety reasons, we are moving to Goldenrod Radio, and will start giving news via radio. In other news, Red has reportedly been missing from Mt. Silver. His whereabouts is unknown."