(After making through Virdian forest, our heroes have been forced to take a detour to the pewter mines)
"WELCOME! To the stone-covered mountainous terrain of Pewter Mines!" Greeted a worker in a yellow hat with a green plus symbol on it.
"Why are you so happy?" Gary asked him.
"Because we're always happy to see new faces!" The worker answered
Deciding not to question it, Gary smiled. "That's nice. Well I'm here for volunteer work because the road to pewter is closed" he said.
"Great here's your headlamp, your hard hat, your hand drill, your hackie-sack, hatchet, hamburger, hammer, handkerchief-" the worker said while beginning to toss random objects at him.
"Dude is all this really necessary?!" Gary asked.
"Now that you mention it…ill just take that hackie-sack and burger back" the man tried. "The burger is coming with me. You can have the hackie-sack though" Gary replied while stuffing the burger into his mouth and walking into the mineshaft
"Ashly, light this place up" Gary said as he tossed out her ball.
"Sure thing" she said as her markings and diamond glowed blue and casted a light over the walls.
He made it into an inner chamber but was met by a trainer.
"You wanna battle?!" He asked eagerly.
"Um sure" Gary replied. Ashly jumped out in front of him.
(Music Burning Battlefield)
"Cool Pokemon. Now, go Geodude!" The trainer yelled, "Geodude, use Rock Throw"
"Geo! GeeeeeoooooooDUDE" said the rock Pokemon while forming a rock in it's hands and chucking it ad Ashly.
"Duck!" Gary called.
Ashly put her head down and the rock sailed over it and into a wall where it crumbled.
"Now, Tackle attack!" Gary ordered.
Ashly charged into it, and before it could move out of the way, she sent it tumbling backwards.
"Haha, got him" she relayed to Gary.
"It's down but not out" he replied.
"Then let's turn things up" she laughed.
Dexter beeped and Gary flipped it open.
"My function is also to tell dunces when their Pokemon know new moves….unless you get me wet then shove me in your backpack" it said.
He sweatdropped. "Why are you telling me this?"
"New moves for Ashly and Dawn: Dragon breath" replied Dexter.
Gary closed it. "Alright, Use dragonbreath!" He ordered.
Ashly opened her mouth and what came out wasn't exactly an attack, but it was enough to make the Geodude faint from fear at what it could be.
"Geodude, return. Try this on for size…ahh crap…I left my other Pokemon at camp…all I have on me is a Zubat" the trainer groaned.
"So what, you backing out?" Gary asked.
"No way! Zubat! I choose you!"the trainer replied.
As soon as Zubat emerged, Gary pointed at it like it was a falcon dive bombing him. "GO ASHLY, USE DRAGONBREATH" he yelled.
She somehow inexplicably shot a beam of purple energy at the poor bat and it dropped like a rock onto it's trainer's head.
(End music)
Gary reached into his backpack and pulled out a small remote and pressed a button on it. And 'You just got Pwned FTW' began to play.
"Oh come on man, that just bites" whined the other trainer.
Ashly walked over to Gary and kicked him in his Achilles' tendon making him collapse on the ground.
"I may be small but I know where to harm you so that it matters" she told him in his head, "now come on, we need to start busting rocks. Tomorrow morning, we can sneak into town" she added as she dragged him away with his shirt in her mouth.
"Or we could look for Brock" Gary suggested. Ashly growled at the name.
"Now hold on, we don't know if he's really against you. Besides we can't kill him either way until we get his badge" he said..
"How are you even talking right now?" She asked.
"I have no idea" he answered.
They didn't find Brock until that evening.
"You got some neat Pokemon" one worker said to Gary as he watched Ashly, Serena, May and Dawn eating in their pokemon forms.
"Thanks. Do you know where I can find Brock?" Gary asked.
"Sure. He usually trains over there this time of night" The worker said.
Gary returned his team and went to the a clearing and sure enough, they found Brock there with his Onyx and Geodude.
(Music: Pikachu arrives)
"Hey Brock, long time no see" Gary called.
"Gary, what happened to you?" Brock asked when he spotted him.
Gary rubbed the back of his head. "Long story short, I met with an multidimensional being who did some things I would care not to explain. Also, do you know about misty killing ash?" He asked.
"While I may be one of the only people in kanto to have ever seen a Dialga or palkia, I don't see why a Dialga would change you back into a ten year old. And what do you mean misty killed ash" Brock told him.
"It wasn't a Dialga…but speaking of which…Come on out" Gary sighed as he tossed Ashly's ball out. She appeared in human form.
"Hello…..Brock. You know how people can only live once? Well I'm not a person anymore" she said.
"Ash….you'r a hot girl!" Brock gushed as he ran over to her and was about to propose until Ashly slapped him across the face.
"Your right…I kinda deserved that" he sighed.
She rolled her her eyes. "Yeah you did. So misty killed me and garitina revived me as a Dialga. Care to tell me how you don't know about what misty did?" She asked.
"I had ho idea, though I did think she was acting really suspicious as to avoiding talking about your disappearing recently. So that's it huh? She killed you" Brock muttered.
"Yep. Also, team galactic changed Dawn and May as well as another of my friends into Pokemon too" she said.
Gary let May, Dawn, and Serena out in Pokemon form.
"I still can't get used to at foggy feeling in my head when I get sent out" may grumbled.
They looked at Brock then changed to their human ones.
"Hey Brock" Dawn greeted him. May just waved.
"Looks like our group is back together huh?" Dawn asked.
Brock nodded. "So do you guys wanna go to town tomorrow morning and run team rocket out?" Ashly asked.
Brock grinned. "Yeah. It's been a while since I left pewter anyways. It'll be good to get back on the road….if you don't mind me coming along" he said.
"The more the merrier" May said happily.
(End music)
(A short detour to the Pewter mines has brought Ashly and friends back together with Brock. Tomorrow they plan to set out to Pewter city to take it back from the evil clutches of the team rocket origination. Will they win? Find out next time as the journey continues)