May, Gary, Iris, Misty and Cilan all poured into the room with Gary and Cilan supporting Bonnie, who was mildly hyperventilating. "What happened to her?" Ash asked to them all.
"We all think it's because she saw Clemont again and was once again torn into choosing either her friends or turning herself over to Clemont, and she can't handle the stress!" Gary replied in a worried tone, and none of them noticed Riolu quietly slip pass them and out of the door.
Without saying anything, Ash lifted Bonnie onto his bed, sweeping off the bits of Riolu's egg shell onto the floor so that she was comfortable. He put his hand on her forehead and was suprised at how hot her head was. It was well beyond normal! "Everyone, stay here and look after her, I'm getting Nurse Joy here!" Ash exclaimed, to which everyone agreed instantly. He sprinted out of the room, mentally writing a note inside his head reminding him to kick Clemont's poor ass when he sees him again.
As he went onto the main floor, he bumped into some random guy, and they both fell onto the floor, with Ash on top of the man. He was around 6ft, had big brown bushy eyebrows and brown eyes. He had quite a few scars littered around his face. He had a small but noticable tattoo on the left of his jaw, and it was a small fire. Ash swore he saw this somewhere, but where? The man grunted viciously, meaning very clearly for him to get off or he would pay dearly.
"So sorry sir, I need to find Nurse Joy! It's an emergency!" Ash quickly stated, and sprung up on his feet, helping the man up with him. Looking around, Nurse Joy was nowhere to be seen. On the other hand the man was staring at Ash with great intent. So this was his target. Yes, he recognised Ash from a surveillance photo in the street. He inwardly grinned at his luck about how he found him so quickly, and patted him on the back, placing a sticky tracker on Ash's hoodie secretly.
"Don't worry son, it was just an accident. As for Nurse Joy, I have no clue. Now, if you excuse me, I need to be going. Bye." The man said, losing his quick anger.
Ash nodded and looked at the entrance/exit of the Pokemon Centre. A huge crowd was outside, and he couldn't make out what was happening at his current view. He jogged through the auto-open-double-door-thingie-ma-jiggie and barged through the crowd, pokerfacing at the responses he was getting.
"Hey!"
"What the fuck dude!?"
"I just dropped my ice-cream onto my jeans! Ya frickin' dick!"
Ash mumbled sorry to everyone and finally got to the middle, and saw Riolu and Nurse Joy. Nurse Joy was gawing at the rare Pokemon and Riolu wasn't paying attention to the gigantic crowd and cameras around him. He was more focused at the world. 'So, this is the world. Interesting...' Riolu thought. "Riolu! How the heck did you get here!?" Ash questioned loudly.
Riolu spun around, smiling that he saw a familliar face in the dense crowd. To others he seemed like he was barking but he was talking to Ash.
"I wanted to go and explore Mas- I mean, Ash." Riolu said innocently. Just as Ash was going to speak a little boy that looked like he was 12 barged through the crowd without any respect. Almost immediantly Ash caught the whiff of the smell of his arrogance and cockiness. He was wearing a black top with the word 'Sweg', along with a red jacket and a glod chain that looked too big for him. He was wearing ripped jeans and they were almost slipping off, letting everyone seeing his grey boxers with the 'Rebel' logo on the front.
"Yo ya prick, move from my future Pokemon! I'm gonna catch it and ONLY I will catch it, 'cause I'm the boss and 'cause I got dem skillz!" The wannabe gangster said, as if he was the king of the world. Ash was dumbfounded and let out a silent groan. He HATED these kind of kids. The crowd was also mildly shocked, and took just a few steps back. All apart from Ash. The boy looked at Ash as if he was a peasant or something, and proceeded to talk.
"Oi you! Ain't you gonna move or somethin'?" He said, walking up to Ash. Although he was really small compared to Ash he tried to put on a tough look. With a huge outburst the boy cried out, "ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING!? AM I GETTING THROUGH TO YOUR THICK HEAD!?". Ash couldn't take this anymore, so he knocked down the little boy with a swift punch, and he fell onto the floor. Nobody in the crowd, not even Nurse Joy helped him back up. It seemed as if the crowd also agreed with Ash's actions. Rubbing his sore cheek, the cocky boy got back up and let out a Pokeball. Out came a Poliwrath, with gold rings on its fingers and silver earrings pierced into its skin where the ears would be (as you may know, a Poliwrath has no ears).
"Whoever the frick you are, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle! If I win, I take Riolu with me, AND you have to lick the floor!" He confidently said, cracking his knuckles. A stupid grin was plastered on his face. Ash was deadpanned as he walked back a few steps and took out a Pokeball. Riolu also walked to the side, eager to see what this "Pokemon battle" is about. Ash threw the Pokeball into the air, letting out Talonflame. Instantly the kid doubled over, laughing with all his might.
"Wow, what a stupid trainer, a Fire type against a Water type? Pfft, I thought this would be a decent challenge, but now its gonna be a breeze!" He laughed.
"Lets keep this a 1v1 situation, now lets start." Ash said, wanting to start already.
"Lets." The kid said, before giving out a command. "Waterfall!" Poliwrath roared as it let out a huge stream of water straight towards Talonflame.
It was a direct hit.
Steam covered the field as Waterfall hit Talonflame, doing severe damage. However, thats what everyone apart from Ash and Talonflame thought. Talonflame flapped its wings and blew the steam away, revealing its undamaged body. Everyone gasped or had their jaw drop. The kid stomped the floor in rage. "HOW DID YOUR PATHETIC POKEMON NOT GET DAMAGED!? TELL ME NOW!" He demanded. Ash chuckled.
"First, my Pokemon are not pathetic, and secondly I told Talonflame to use Roost. So when your attack hit Talonflame it was both rapidly losing health and healing,
and since the duration of Waterfall was smaller than Roost, Roost won and now his health is steady and still full. Now, Talonflame show this little kid what real power is! Use Swords Dance, followed by Brave Bird!"
Swords momentarily surrounded Talonflame, orbiting the Dual-type Pokemon and faded into the sky. Then, Talonflame was engulfed in red and white brilliant flames and it charged at Poliwrath at an unbelievable speed. The move made contact and Poliwrath was onto the floor covered in bruises. Talonflame circled Poliwrath in the air a few times before landing next to Ash. The kid could't believe his eyes.
On the side, Riolu was having a lot of fun watching the first part of the battle. He wondered if he could fight like that one day...
"Cheater! How did you do that? My Poliwrath is soo strong!" He shouted. Ash rolled his eyes. This kid was the definition of stupid. "Talonflame's level is much higher than Poliwrath's as I've used him a lot before. Moreover, I made him use Swords Dance which made his already high attack stats go higher, and mixed with his ability Gale Wings and the raw power of Brave Bird, your Poliwrath was toast." Ash said quickly, noticing the recoil damage Talonflame had attained.
Deciding to wrap this up Ash gave another command. "Use Brave Bird once more!"
"Oh no you don't! Poliwrath roll to the right!" Poliwrath heard this and managed to dodge the attack, making Talonflame slam into the ground. "Now, use Rock Slide! Reck that puny bird!" Poliwrath jumped back onto its feet and put its arm into the sky, making a black portal above Talonflame. Out of it came heavy rocks that were falling towards Talonflame. With quick thinking, Ash said another command.
"Flare Blitz in the sky to dodge, and follow that with Roost!" Ash cried out loud. Just as the rock was about to make contact, Talonflame sharply opened its eyes and flew swiftly into the sky, regaining its health with Roost. 'Phew, that was close!' Ash thought. "Now Talonflame, fnish this! Brave Bird!" Talonflame bellowed a mighty screech and hit Poliwrath square in the chest, making it faint.
"Looks like I win! Great performance out there Talonflame, now get a good rest, you deserved it." Ash said proudly, as he returned Talonflame back into its ball.
On the other side of the field, was a sad looking ego-driven kid. He was almost crying, so he ran away whilst the crowd were cheering at the victory. Taken by suprise Ash was hugged by Riolu, who was happily wagging its tail. "Ash, pleeeasssee teach me how to do that!" Riolu begged, tugging at his top.
Ash chuckled. "Sure, but on one condition." Ash replied.
"What's that?"
"Don't run away like that okay?"
"Ok Master Ash!"
Well now my eyes hurt and sorry about the very late chapter again xD Buh bai everyone, see ya all next time.