Alternate Ending Two

Each step creaked ominously on the cellar stairs as Ash descended into the darkness. In his left hand, he held a high-tech candle… Its flickering glow making the darkness all that more deep. In the far corner, scuttling as of rats, scratched away at the walls and dirt floor.

"Oooh Pikachu…" Ash's voice caught on a sob as he neared his insane friend. Dirt kicked up from Pikachu's relentless movement tickled his nose and stung his eyes. Or was that the tears threatening to take hold of him once more?

Hand shaking, he held out his candle hesitantly toward Pikachu. Trying to cut through the black and get a good look at the spunky rodentia. Without warning Pikachu was on him! Tearing at his throat and shocking him wildly without control. The candle spun off into the cellar.

Ash tried to get a scream out but Pikachu was chewing through the undefended flesh of his neck. Blood spilled onto the floor mixing with dirt. Ash reached out toward the candle as his body shook with uncontrollably. Pikachu mewed with victory as he dragged Ash back, back into the deepest reached of the cellar…