Author's Note: Hello everyone I'm back! I'm adding all the characters ages.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Age:
Misty: 17
Ash: 15
Gary: 15
James: 20
Jessie: 20
Chapter 3:
Viridian Trouble
-The Viridian City Pokemon Center-
Misty parked her bike and they quickly entered the Pokemon Center.
"Hello Nurse Joy, a Spearow flock attacked this Pikachu and it seems seriously injured," Ash frantically explained, "may you please help it?"
"Oh dear, looks like this Pokemon needs to go to the ER!" Nurse Joy said with a worried face. "Chansey!" she called out, and the Pokemon came out of the back room with a trolley.
The Chansey swiftly but carefully laid Pikachu on it, and left to the room down the hallway. Ash followed the Chansey with the trolley, while Misty told him she would wait for him at the main lobby.
The worried trainer has waited for Pikachu for hours. It was almost midnight, yet Ash was still wide awake, and all he could think about was if Pikachu was okay. Lugia has tried to lighten Ash up with a conversation, however, failed to do so. Ash sighed on his seat outside the ER while looking down at the floor. Suddenly, the door to the room opened up, and the Chansey beckoned Ash in the bright room. He quickly followed Chansey, eager to get results.
Ash looked at Pikachu and smiled in relief. The Pikachu had only minor injuries, and possessed a couple of bandages around his body. Chansey followed Nurse Joy out the room to give the trainer and the Pikachu some time to privately share emotions.
"Hey Pikachu, are you feeling better?" Ash said as he crouched down to match the trolley's height where Pikachu stood.
Pikachu squealed in enlightenment, "I feel relieved!" Pikachu said.
"I'm glad your feeling well Pikachu."
"You can understand Pokemon language?" Pikachu asked. He was surprised, because he knew that only a handful of humans understood Pokemon.
"Somehow I can," Ash sheepishly grinned and rubbed his head, "but that is not important right now. Tell me what happened that led you to being chased by the flock?"
"After the event two years ago, I was shunned and kicked from my clan. I tried to find you, because your kind heart showed me that you would be the perfect home I wished to live in. And so a day before you became a trainer, I was gnawing on some electrical wire thinking about you. Unsuspectingly, a human with a white coat found me and captured me in a ball before I got a chance to react. It seemed like days in the ball and I was about to lose hope on getting out, but I sensed your presence and cried for help. I got no answer in return. After a while I was let out to eat. Knowing it was my chance to escape, I ran off with the ball I was held in captivity in when the man was not looking. Once I got to the forest, I destroyed the ball and started searching for you. Then, I unknowingly wandered into Spearow territory and found myself chased by the sensitive Spearow flock. I tried to use Thundershock and knock off the pursuit, but more just kept coming, until I saw you coming towards me and I only had a glimpse of what you were riding on before everything turned black." Pikachu explained.
Ash merely nodded. After a short pause of silence, he said "I'm sorry I couldn't help you at first. I heard an urgent distress call but I didn't know where it was coming from. Will you forgive me Pikachu?"
"I forgive you, but only under one condition."
"What is it?"
Pikachu took a big breath, and said, "That I join you on your journey as your Pokemon."
Ash grinned, "I would love to, in fact, I was planning to offer you that chance first!"
Pikachu smiled, finally he felt like he was home. Ash took a Pokeball and tapped Pikachu with it. Pikachu embraced it and the Pokeball made a quick "ding" sound. He opened the ball out right after and Pikachu came out. The cute mouse Pokemon stretched.
"Welcome to the family Pikachu." Ash welcomed.
"Please do not put me in that ball again." Pikachu pouted, he hated being enclosed in a ball and wanted more freedom.
"Deal." Ash grinned and gave Pikachu a little handshake.
For some reason Ash knows Pikachu was going to become the best of its species ever seen, with many talents.
One more thing Ash, what Pokemon is in that ball?" Pikachu questioned and pointed to the ball around Ash's neck.
"Oh, it's the Pokemon I was riding on when I was going to save you from the flock. I'll introduce him to you later," Ash yawned, "let's go to sleep first."
Pikachu hopped onto Ash's right shoulder as Ash walked out of the room. He asked Nurse Joy for a room and he got a card. Misty took the room next to Ash's. Once the tired teen was in the room, he took off his backpack and unpacked some stuff. After brushing his teeth and taking a shower, he laid on his bed. Pikachu hopped on the bed and snuggled beside Ash.
"Night Pikachu."
"Night Ash."
He took the Pokeball around his neck and held in next to his chest.
"Goodnight Silver. It's been a long day."
"Night dad." Silver replied.
The Lugia heard and saw everything while he was in his Pokeball. He had a feeling of jealousy. His dad was treating that mouse Pokemon like it was his son. Silver thought angrily. He wanted to show Pikachu who the boss was. No one will replace him as Ash's only son. He was proud of his position, and growled softly in his ball. He will deal with Pikachu soon.
Boom!
Ash felt the large explosion vibrate his bed and he jumped out. Pikachu also felt the same thing and hissed, who dared to ruin his sleep? Ash quickly changed and took the Poke ball on the bed as Pikachu hopped on his shoulder. He ran out the door and saw Misty do the same thing. The trainer looked at the smoke and saw Nurse Joy frantically getting the loudspeaker to announce to warning but was immediately cut off. Alarms were blaring, and smoke was clogging the clean and clear air. He sprinted down the short hall and gave the suspicious women holding Nurse Joy a nice, powerful kick.
"Ooof." the figure groaned as she was hit right in the belly and dropped Nurse Joy.
Ash had Misty drag the unconscious Nurse Joy to somewhere safe and he stepped in and confronted the figure. Ash saw a young adult with long red hair with the big letter "R" imprinted on her white shirt. Ash knew which evil organization this woman was in. He read all about the evil deeds Team Rocket did with Pokemon on the news, and one of his goals was to smash the rising regime. Ash jumped back when he sensed a claw coming at him. The attack came from a Meowth, who quickly retreated back in the smoke.
"Show yourselves members of Team Rocket!" Ash demanded.
Two figures rose out of the smoke and stood next to the woman, who was busy standing up and rubbing her stomach, still feeling a bit queasy from Ash's kick. The one on the left was a scrawny man with the same clothes as the woman. He had blue hair and a smug face. The one next to him was a Meowth standing on his two hind legs, which was a bit unusual as a Meowth.
"James, help me squash this kid!" the woman commanded.
"Alright Jesse, but I don't like the looks of this kid. I think we should get out." James said.
"No, stay here and fight! Meowth, go get the Pokeballs and load it onto our hot air balloon."
"Aye aye!" Meowth replied and scampered to some bags with Pokeballs filled in it. Meanwhile, James threw his Pokeball and out came a Koffing. Jessie threw her Pokeball and out came an Ekans.
"Alright, lets tell this boy who he is dealing with!"
Pikachu hopped off of Ash's shoulders and took his fighting stance, despite his wounds, which made him flinch for a second.
"Can you do this buddy?" Ash questioned uneasily. He felt that Pikachu had enough for a day, and didn't need anymore fighting.
"Yeah!" Pikachu triumphed with a determined face.
"Alright, Pikachu, let's do this." Ash exclaimed.
"Go Koffing, use Tackle!"
"Assist Koffing, Ekans use Bite!"
"Pikachu dodge Koffing and use Quick Attack on Ekans!"
Koffing charged at Pikachu, but Pikachu evaded it and Koffing crashed at a wall, fainting. Pikachu sped towards Ekans with a trail of white behind him. Ekans had no chance and was hit full on by the attack. It fell and fainted.
"James why didn't you help me! It was all your fault!" Jessie accused.
"No Jessie it was your fault blindly attacking the Pikachu!" James shot back.
Ash sweat dropped, and the Meowth shook his head watching the two adults bickering back and forth. He decided to use a scratch attack on the trainer, thinking that he was distracted by the useless dispute. Ash easily sidestepped and Meowth bonked his head on the wall. The Team Rocket members heard police sirens blaring louder and louder so they returned their Pokemon and dragged the dizzy Meowth behind them running out from a large hole in a wall.
"That Pikachu is pretty strong, lets follow this trainer later and try to get his Pikachu. The boss might even give us a promotion." James daydreamed, but was hit in the head by Jessie.
"Stop dreaming and let's get outta here!" Jessie said and turned on Ash, "We'll remember you kid." Jessie growled and disappeared from the smoke.
Ash shook his head and tried to pursue the Rocket members, but when the smoke cleared, he saw nothing, almost as if they disappeared through thin air. Just then, some officers broke through the jammed doors of the building and Officer Jenny came in. She told the officers to secure the building for any harmful things and she looked at Ash.
"Hands in the air thief!" Officer Jenny commanded and Ash obediently did what he was told.
"Ma'am, this is a misundersta-"
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."
Misty and Nurse Joy ran towards Officer Jenny.
"It's a misunderstanding miss, this boy was the one who saved us and fought the thieves. I saw everything. Unfortunately, the thieves escaped through the smoke." Misty explained, and Officer Jenny lowered her firearm.
"Oh, I'm sorry young man, what is your name?" the officer asked the boy who slowly lowered his hands down.
"I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town, and thank my pal Pikachu, I couldn't have done it without him," Ash said and patted Pikachu, "would you mind if I help you clean up this mess?"
"Oh of course!" Officer Jenny replied.
After cleaning up, the Pokemon Center looked just as good as before. Officer Jenny looked at Ash and saluted.
"On behalf of the Viridian City Police Department, we would like to thank you for your efforts against the thieves." Officer Jenny thanked and gave Ash some money and a Luxury Ball.
"Thank you Ma'am." Ash said and put the ball and money in his bag.
Nurse Joy waved goodbye as Misty and Ash walked out of the Pokemon Center. Ash's stomach growled.
"Heh, guess we should go eat lunch." Ash sheepishly smiled.
The duo went to eat at a nearby restaurant. They then went to the Pokemart to stock up on their trip across the Viridian Forest. While Misty was busy buying some fishing items, Ash went to the outskirts of town to feed the hungry Lugia some food. Ash and Misty met up outside the Pokemart.
"Where were you? I've been trying to look for you!" Misty screamed.
"I was uh, training Pikachu." Ash lied, he did not want to reveal Silver, just not yet.
Ash heard Misty mutter some things about him being a big jerk having her waste her time finding him.
"Anyways Misty, let's get going, I can't wait for my first gym badge." Ash said and started walking down the trail to Viridian City.
"Come back here! Why you little-!" Misty cursed and went to catch up with Ash.
Well, that was the end of this chapter. Sorry if the battle scene was too cliche, but I couldn't think of anything else. For those of you who don't know what ER means, it means emergency room. Also, Ash is going to get a unique and rare Pokemon next chapter. The Luxury Ball will come in handy.
Have a great weekend,
STr222
*Minor update on 10/28/15