A/N: Ok... I was late this week again... but I was trying to get a job, I'll give ya more Gary and Ash love as a gift 3
Chapter 7
Hidden Secrets Revealed
It had been 3 hours since Ash had seen the outside of the truck, though it felt much longer. Risa had fallen asleep beside the cage, along with all the rest of the Pokemon. Ash would love to doze off like them but it was too cold now. They must have travelled up the mountain and the wind seemed to have picked up too. Ash sneezed for about the fifth time and gave another loud sniff.
"Cold?" said Gary.
"I'm fine..." Ash lied. He was freezing. All he had was a shirt and shorts, his jacket was in his bag which was back in the cave. He pulled his cap down a bit more to cover his ears, well, half cover them.
"You're a liar..." Gary said with a smirk.
Gary stood up and sat beside Ash.
"Body heat is all I can give ya right now" he said with a smile. Gary too only had a shirt on and thin trousers. Ash noticed this and snuggled closer.
"Gary?"
"Yup"
"Why have you been being so nice to me after all this time..."
"I dunno, cause I feel I owe you it and well... you and Umbreon are all I have left..."
'Thats right!! I may have the Eeveelutions, Pikachu, Togepi, Chikorita and Tracey, but Gary, only has Umbreon and me...' Ash thought about this for a while and was soon snapped back to reality. Gary brought Ash into a hug, Ash's head resting on his chest.
"You're my best friend..." Gary whispered into his ear.
Ash blushed wildly but found Gary very warm and comfortable. Before he knew it, Ash was falling asleep in Gary's strong arms. Gary waited until Ash was asleep and kissed the top of his head.
"I love you..." he breathed, making Ash snuggle closer and bury his head into Gary's chest.
They both fell asleep, dreaming the same dream, of the days when they would play in the fields of Pallet Town until the sun disappeared and the stars came out to watch them instead.
Ash was awoken to the sound of sharp breaks and him falling forward. His eyes widened with shock and panic.
"Wake up!! They've stopped!! Risa, get ready!" He whispered, shaking everyone in his panic.
Risa shook herself and stood infront of Ash and Gary, ready to attack.
"Pikachu, can you use Thunderbolt?" Ash whispered.
Pikachu shook its head sadly then Espeon spook up.
"This cage surpresses our powers somehow, these people are dangerous, be careful" she mumured.
Ash nodded back then turned his attention to the truck door. The sound of doors opening and closing was clearly heard, then footprints... and then bolts moving and the room was flooded with light and... BANG!
Risa was lying on the floor and Gary soon fell after, they were clutching their heads now, screaming in pain. Ash felt his skull almost shatter from the inside out as his head was filled with a high pitched screech. He fell to his knees, the sound talking over his mind, all he wanted was for it to go away. He felt himself fall to the ground completely and then only shadows were visible, he was blacking out. Soon, his world went black as he lay unconcious.
"Lively bunch ain't they? But where'd that girl go and now there are two Umbreons. You thinkin' what I'm thinkin' Jane?" said the younger man, petting his Stunky.
"Yes I am Grant, and you can guess whats install for these tweebs. Crush, pick 'em up and get them into the lab."
The large man picked up Gary and Ash and walked through a door. The truck has stopped inside a huge building, the halls were white, like a hospital, only terrible noise's like drills and metal clanking and the sounds of wailing and moaning, but not noises humans can make, these sounded like the voices of tortured Pokemon, maybe. The man brought Ash and Gary into a square room, filled with cages with rare Pokemon in them, and one strange one. They were thrown into a cage where is was just big enough for them to sit up. Their Pokemon soon followed, and Risa was put into a seperate cage.
"Hmph, the Boss will be pleased with our find..." said Jane.
"Yeah. Hey Jane, Crush, look what I got from that twerp." Grant said, waving a cap and putting it on his head, "Pretty cool, huh?"
Jane rolled her eyes and laughed.
"Once they wake, we'll have the Professor test on their Pokemon." Jane continued in an amused voice, "We haven't killed their family and friends for nothing you know. We'll work on getting them to join us, we need their power... they have nothing left now, so whats stopping them?"
"Ash? Ash!? Aw no, come Ash! Wake up, you're not in a come are you!?"
Ash opened his eyes slowing then closed them quickly again, the light was piercing. Was he dead?
"ASH!! You're awake, thank God!" came Gary's voice.
Ash's eyes snapped open as Gary hugged him. The truck, the screech, Risa, Pikachu! It was all coming back to him now. He sat up pushed Gary to arms length.
"What happened!? Where are we!? Where are my Pokemon!!" Ash demanded.
"Chill Ashy boy. We are in this damn cage, can hardly sit up in it. I think we're in some lab or Pokemon testing place. The sound of the poor things down the hall is heart breaking... and the Pokemon are up there and Risa there. Look Ash, theres about 100 in here..." Gary answered, pointing here and there.
Ash looked up and spotted Pikachu.
"Hey buddy, you ok? And are you guys ok too!?" he asked.
"Pika pi!!"
"Chiku"
"Togepi" she had obviously been crying.
"Ah we're fine, for now... got a headache though. Kimi is dying from one, right Kimi!!" Amber said, raising her voice in the Espeons ear.
"Yes Amber, thats right..." she growled back at the grinning Flareon.
Ash looked about for Risa and spotted her trying to chew through the bars of her cage.
"Risa that won't work" said Eden with a sigh.
"I know but it's worth a try" she mumbled and continued her chewing.
Ash shook his head and laughed at Risa who stared back with a smirk but then blinked.
"Ash, your hat is gone..." she said as she tilted her head to one side.
Ash's eyes widened and he put his hands on his head.
"Oh no! One of those goons must have stolen it. Oh this is war now!" he shouted.
"Really? Humans are so stupid" came a voice and a giggle. The voice didn't sound real, more like a dream, but still too real to be a dream but too dream like to be real. It wasn't heard but more, filled your whole body, was it a physic Pokemon? No. It was too real to be a physic Pokemon talking. Ash looked all about and noticed an empty cage with electricity running through its bars, but it wasn't empty, something was in there, it was just making itself invisible.
"Ssshhh Star!"
Ash looked up and saw a Plusle and a Minun.
"Huh, you talk? Like Risa and the others!!" he said, wide-eyed.
"Oh yes, everyone in here can but those four." said the minus, pointing at Pikachu, Umbreon, Chikorita and Togepi.
"Yeah." chorused the whole room.
"Bizzare..." mumbled Gary.
"Not as bizzare as two stupid make humans" said the same dream-like voice again.
"Star! No one !d to know you exist!" said the Plusle, glaring at the empty cage.
"Pfft, like I care now! They have me trapped in this cage, in this room, in this time, in this dimension, IN THIS WORLD!! I really don't care about any of that right now. Maybe these humans can help us out of here."
"I doubt that Miss. They are male humans. They are the more arrogant and stupid of the spieces, as usually." A Shinx explained from above the Plusle and Minun.
The Minun giggled but the Plusle gave her one evil look.
Ash looked around at all the Pokemon, there were many kinds from many regions. A Skitty, a Sneasel and Weavile, an Azurill, a Girafarig, a Munchlax, a Hoothoot, a Chatot, a Cleffa, a Mime Jr., a Bonsly, a Ponyta, a Chingling, a Buneary, a Drifloon, two kinds of Shellos, a Cherubi, a Buizel, a Pachirisu, a sleeping Abra, a Luxray, Luxio and Shinx, a Piplup and the Plusle and Minun. What a collection! And they all talked? He even noticed two little Pichu in a cage above Pikachu.
"Humans, what are your names." asked the voice.
"Well I'm Ash and this is Gary." Ash said, coming back to conversation.
"Ah, well, I'm Star. You look so familiar" the voice replied happily.
"It'd help a lot if we could see you" mumbled Gary.
"Oops, sorry, how rude of me." and with that, a figure began to appear infront of the boys. It looked a little like a Pichu, it even had the red cheeks, but it was white with the ears of an Espeon that were tipped with black. A black line was on its head like a crown with a black star in the middle, and it's tail resembled that of a Mew, only shorter and a little more furry and messing, and had black bands around the top as it came to the black tip. Two little black wings sat on its back and it's paws and belly was black to match. It had bright grey-blue eyes that reminded Ash of the sky at dusk and it's little black nose made it complete.
"Star you idiot..." grumbled the Plusle and Minun together.
Star looked up at them.
"Oh come on you two, live a little" she said with a giggle.
Ash and Gary looked at eachother.
"Is that, a new Pokemon?" Ash whispered.
"Well I've never saw one, and I'm a researcher so I guess so" Gary replied.
"I'm no new Pokemon, I've been here since the dawn of time. I created all Pokemon and worlds. Even the stars themselves, I created them first actually, my favourite too. I created Piaka and Diagla and all other legendary Pokemon, right down to a Caterpi. Even Mew and Celebi, they're my daughters. I did a great job too, huh. That Celebi and Mew are such a great team." She was rambling now, and none of it was getting through to Ash and Gary.
"S-So, what you're saying is, you're the very first Pokemon, and creator of humans too." Ash said, wide-eyed.
"Yep, and trust me, it took forever!! I mean, I was thinking of a green sea and blue grass, but it looked pretty funky, but the blue sky and sea looked way better, don't ya think?"
All Ash and Gary could do was nod, even Risa was lost for words, for once...
"Then can't you get us out of here??" Asked Eden.
"Sadly no, they have been doing their research, thats for sure. They made this weird cage. I can't teleport, use any powers and even touch the thing or I'll get a shock. It really hurts too..." she grumbled.
"Hold it, if you're like a billion years old, why are you still here?" Gary said, with his researcher instinct, how could he pass up an opportunity to question the 'Creator'.
"Oh easy, I'm the Creator, I live forever, hehe. I can travel through time and space, and so I stay the way I am, I may be millions of years old, but I only look about your age."
"She can shape-shift too, go on Star, show em!!" said the two Pichu.
"Kay Chu and Chi, but only because you're so cute" she said.
She began to take a different shape immediatly, she ended up changing into an Altaria.
"Do I suit this? Haha" she giggle and changed back. She was like a Ditto.
"So you can use any powers of any Pokemon and change the image of them and the earth and space?" Gary continued.
"Oh yeah, sure I gave them my powers, but not too many, incase they think they can change what ever. I made you, so I can mess around with your features too. I love making rain, it's like making a cake or something."
"This is amazing, how have you dodged so many people?" he said.
"I didn't. Ash, ya know that bird you saw when you first started traveling?"
"Yeah..."
"That was me. I only remembered now. I love playing pranks on people, thinking they saw a legendary Pokemon, haha. I usually watch over lots of trainers, to make sure they treat Pokemon right and visversa. I am Karma. I have a lot of names now. Karma, the all knowing spirit, God, Madonna..."
"Wow, and we get to meet you... but if you're here then..." Ash looked at her sternly and she nodded.
"Yeah, with me on here, I can't keep the world in balance. Hurricanes could just keep going and destroy everyone, sun may never stop and crop will wither and die. In other words, famine, disease and the end of life."
"One Pokemon, making so much difference. Must be one hard job" said Ash.
"Not really, it's fun. And if I get it wrong the first time, I can always go back and fix it."
"Then what about volcanos destroying homes and people."
"I can't be everywhere at once ya know, what am I, Harry Potter!"
"Who?"
"Nevermind, thinking of a different world..."
"If theres different worlds out there, then why can't we see them in the sky?"
"Cause if you did, ya'd have to go and investigate then people would bring Pokemon to places like, London and then the worlds wouldn't be so special..."
"True. Well, don't worry, Gary and I will get everyone out of here!!" Ash said happily.
"Yeah, and I'm gonna visit Harry Plopper" mumbled the Shinx to the Luxio.
"Thats right Ash, if everyone in here works together we can get out no problem." Gary said with a confident grin.
"And then we can get the rest out too. They have my Celebi and Mew and lots of others. I can hear some of them scream in pain..." said Star.
"You bet, we'll get them all. We just need a plan..."
After about an hour of conversation between people and Pokemon, they came up with a good plan.
"Everyone got it?"
"Yep" chorused the room.
"Then we start immediately"