The Guys Chapter 7
The day was sad, the air seemed stale, and the four were on looking their injured pokémon and all confiding in themselves, trying to think positively, but nothing was coming to mind.
Ash, Gary, Drew and Paul were all currently in the Pokémon Centre, staring through a glass wall to the emergency room.
Paul was recalling the event, with no real emotion shown on his face, he wore a blank expression.
Gary was just standing to the right of the Sinnoh native with a look of sadness, and a slight look of weakness.
He was remembering the last part of the encounter with the Shadow Blades, the group who mysteriously knew Gary and the others, and by the looks of things, they had revenge, or some form of hatred towards them.
But more specifically, he was recalling the garchomp attack. He was unable to defend his friends or even catch the pokémon to try and support his friends.
Gary P.O.V
I can't believe I failed them; I was unable to fight the dragon. My pokémon couldn't even catch up, or defend itself. If something happens again like that, and if I'm unable to do anything, what other pokémon would be severely hurt. I can't let that happen, two pokémon is too many! No more of our team will be injured because of them!
I grit my teeth, and scrunched my fists. I'm just so angry! How dare they do that!
"Gary" A calm voice awoke me from my violent thoughts. I looked to the owner of the voice.
It was Drew.
"It wasn't your fault" He says to me. "Ash and I should've been able to defend ourselves, at least scizor and honchcrow are okay"
I knew he was right, but still… I should've been able to help him.
"He's right" Ash joins in, with a sad tone? "It's important to remember swellow and flygons injuries, rather than the attacker; we can deal with them later."
"I guess that makes sense" I reply to them slowly, taking in all the information. "I really hope they get better soon"
I heard Paul call my name, I wonder what he wants?
I walk over to him and he pulls out a pokeball.
Why is he getting that out? What's going on?
"You want to be stronger right?" He tells me, rather than an asking tone. It seemed more of a statement.
"Sure?" I question, not sure where he is going with this conversation.
"Then let's battle" He responds.
For the first time in a few hours, I smiled; maybe he felt the same way. Either way, I guess this helps both of us, let's do this for Ash and Drew.
We walked outside of the pokémon Centre, and found an area to battle.
"Umbreon" I shout, whilst finding it's pokeball on my belt, then launching it into the air.
This should be fun.
I see him call out his honchrow, time to get to work!
Narrative
Ash saw them leave and smile. Paul has a nice side to him, he just covers it up.
They didn't leave on purpose, their hearts are in the right place, so the duo of Ash and Drew let them go.
Drew sent Ash a sad smile.
"Swellow is tough, it will be fine" Drew says confidently, but sadness was still evident in the tone of his voice.
"Same goes for flygon" Ash responds happily, trying to create some morale between them. "They will be fine"
"Ash and Drew" A light voice is heard.
A woman was standing by the door of the emergency room, looking at them both with a worried look on her face. It was nurse Joy.
The worried look on the nurses' face made the two young both give a nervous glance towards each other.
"Flygon and swellow are seriously injured, they might make it, but I'm not sure as to when, it could be a months' time." She says "Swellows injury seemed more serious, and flygon may only take a couple of weeks, its part dragon type must have had more resistance"
Ash POV
I can't believe things turn out like this, swellow might not make it? Because of whom it is, because of some type advantage! This is ridiculous, no pokémon should be expected to survive that attack, it was so un-expected… I had my guard down…
And it almost cost swellow's health. All of it is my mistake!
Narrative
Ash shut his eyes, preventing any possible tears from falling, but not from sadness, he seemed… angry.
The Kanto native ran from the pokémon Centre, and ran past the battlefield, running past Gary, then Paul.
He just kept running.
Running and running until he hit his limit, he started to slow, but endured the pain, he wanted to just keep running.
Ash winced and hit the side of a tree stump with his foot. But the boy had no energy left, he just fell to the ground. He rolled over onto his back and looked at his current surroundings. He was in the forest which is located in the gap between Pewter and Viridian City.
The trees had a dark green look and the now orange, evening sun was slowly making its descent to disappear under the horizon, but the majority was unable to be seen due to the hanging branches and leaves, blocking a lot of the view.
But what was most important to Ash was the tranquility, it was calm and quiet, he could re-collect his thoughts and focus on what to do next.
'Swellow is injured and may not make it into the tournament. I don't want to leave It behind as it doesn't deserve what happened, it wanted to be here, I can't remove him from my team, I want swellow to have a spot to return to'
Ash was thinking hard, it was a tough decision. Swellow's emotions, or the victory with a group of friends?
But Ash smiled, realizing what he had to do and turned to look at his best friend, the yellow mouse pokémon that would never leave him if he ran away or lost his sight on what's important, pikachu will always be there.
Ash smiled at this.
'There are still 4 Pokémon on my team with full health, ill beat the tournament with 4!'
Ash told his idea to the mouse pokémon, and the electric pocket monster just sparked its cheeks and took a battle stance.
Ash was remembering what his teammates said to him, the people he would have to rely on in their quest to be number one.
But what could make our pokémon reach even greater levels of power?
It was Gary who said those words, when they were walking here, how to get stronger.
'That's why we became the catalysts, we wanted to break the limits and be the first to make the step towards ultimate strength, but we will need a move, something to counter a powerful move like giga impact or hyper beam'
Ash sat on the ground and continued to think, a move to deflect anything… Protect wouldn't be good, and the pokémon can't move whilst inside the protective barrier.
A move…
A special move…
'A special move?' Ash thought to himself. 'Yeah! A move combined to make the battle go in your favor. It would be unpredictable, powerful and strategic.'
Ash had been sitting there for half an hour, thinking of what to do.
Ash whispered to pikachu about his idea, and pikachu nodded in confirmation, responding to its trainer that it likes the idea.
"Alright then, let's get to it!"
Ash and pikachu stay in the forest, practicing on this new idea created from pure imagination, creativity, and the power of the trainer's pokémon.
-Mean While-
"Great work Umbreon" Gary praises, returning his Eevee evolution to its pokeball.
The battle was at a stalemate, both decided to call of the battle before one got too injured.
"Nice work" Paul says to his flying type, recalling it into its red and white sphere.
Drew walks outside with his hands in his pockets, getting some fresh air after being cooped up inside the pokémon Centre for so long.
"Is Ash back yet?" The green haired boy asks the duo.
"No" Gary replies calmly "Not yet"
"I think he just needs a day to get his head around things, first bulbasaur, and now swellow, things aren't going his way" Paul informs "But he doesn't run when his friends need him, and he knows that. He will be back"
Gary and Drew were surprised at Paul's words. One, that was really deep and full of understanding for someone like Paul to say, and two, he actually said more than one sentence in sequence.
But they nodded their heads at the Sinnoh native's words, and understood that Ash would indeed return to them.
They just had to wait until he decided to come back, before they could go to the hosting city tomorrow, it should only take a day to get there as Viridian is a lot closer to Pewter than to Pallet.
"Is there something we can do whilst we wait?" Gary asks his teammates.
"Not really" Paul replies "It's getting dark, let's just get an early night, wait for Ash and then head out for Pewter City tomorrow."
-Back with Ash-
"If we can control that, I think we will be finally getting a high level of power" Ash says excitedly.
"Pika" A worn out pikachu chirps, tired after training and using a lot of its power and energy.
"You did well today buddy" Ash replies whilst slowly heading back to the Centre to meet his friends.
'If pikachu can do it, I'm hoping my others can too'
Ash grins to himself after learning a new move for his battles with his trusted partner.
A special move!
-IMPORTANT NOTICE-
This isn't really a spoiler, as I'm guessing you guys know what a special move is, it's like Ash's countershield in the Anime, using moves in a different way. I REALLY need to know if you guys hate the idea, if it seems bad ill delete it as it may ruin the story or whatever, but I really need to know if the special moves are a good idea for the story, if not ill update and remove the idea, thanks for reading
