Eggy Disaster and Misunderstanding
Misty has witnessed how hard Ash studied based on how he trains his pokemon. This made her pursue to train her own team harder.
He has two out of three Kanto starters, a Milotic, Goodra, Pikachu and Pidgeot.
If there's one thing in common, all pokemon are trained to be good in dodging and quick on their feet as much as they possibly can do with their physiology.
Bulbasaur is clearly raised to be able to move faster than what his species could do, and utilizing their build fit for defense, and Bulbasaur knows mostly Normal and Grass-Type techniques to make use of his natural assets while powering himself up. He could use Synthesis, Leech Seed, Energy Ball, Vine Whip, Leaf Storm, Growth, Seed Bomb, Solar Beam, Tackle, and Bide. His ability is Overgrow though Ash wished he had Chlorophyll instead, so now he is training Bulbasaur to be fast on his feet without it. He is also trained to be able to gather energy quickly for his Solar Beam.
Charmander's ability is Solar Power, meaning Charmander can keep going and going as long as the sun is out, with Misty remarking Damian was a total know-nothing idiot when Ash explained what Solar Power can do in simple terms. He learned Flamethrower, Fire Spin, Tackle, Body Slam, Smokescreen, Dragon Rage, Dragon Claw, Inferno, Sunny Day, Ember, Bide, and Iron Tail.
Pidgeot whose ability is Keen Eye knows only powerful moves after its original moveset prior to Ash finding him. His original moves are Gust, Quick, Wing and Sand Attacks, Whirlwind and Double Edge, Ash taught him Roost, Acrobatics, Aerial Ace, Air Cutter and Slash...and trained his wings hard to improve the strength of his wings, and improve his flying ability maneuvers so despite flying fast, Pidgeot can easily turn in any direction without losing speed.
Milotic, having learned moves from TMs learned Ice Beam, Blizzard, Hail, Bind, Flail, Aqua Tail, Hydro Pump, Rain Dance, Surf, Whirlpool, and Water Sport. Its ability is Cute Charm...which is self-explanatory. Milotic was sent home with Goodra and Pidgeot to train.
Goodra's ability is Sap Sipper and Hydration. Gooey is also his ability but due to Goodra's physiology, he's born with it. Goodra is Ash's strongest pokemon because unlike his other pokemon, Goodra has all three available to him like he was a born winner out of his kind which is very rare and can only be gained by Breeding(and be the lucky one to be born with it). Prior moves taught to him as a Goomy aside, Goodra learned Dragon Pulse, Power Whip, Tackle, Body Slam, Outrage, Ice Beam and Aqua Tail. Because Professor Oak asked to study Goodra, Goodra trains in the Corral under Ash's instructions.
Pikachu, one of the newcomers has Lightning Rod and has his own abilities prior to joining Ash, he learned Dig, Light Screen, Wild Charge, Double-Hit, Pound and Iron Tail. He was also subject to physical training as his species are...physically-frail.
Now, Ash has his three newcomers with him only.
'So what do you plan on catching next since you sent your three strongest home?' Misty asked Ash as his newcomers walked with them as they left the Butterfree Zone a week after Butterfree was released in order for everyone to learn new moves before the more senior members are sent home.
'Well...I want one of each type.' said Ash. 'I already got a Grass, Fire, Water, Electric, Flying and Dragon Type while my Bug Type went to get married I have to catch a new Bug-Type soon...a Normal, hopefully I can get a Psychic, maybe a Fighting would be good too...I dunno.'
'...dunno?' Misty sweatdropped.
'Well we'll cross that bridge later.' said Ash cheerfully, causing his three pokemon to sweatdrop.
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Vermillion City...
Ash and Misty suffered two eggs bonking them on the head when it fell from the sky, alarming Pikachu who was on Ash's shoulder as the mouse pokemon hated to be in a pokeball.
'OWWWW!'
'T-that hurt...' Misty whimpered as both felt somewhat stunned and disoriented from the hit.
'...eggs?' Ash croaked out. 'From the Sky?'
'But that's nonsense unless delivery planes about egg transports have a faulty or improperly-locked hatches and started raining eggs...' Misty groaned out. 'How about we take the eggs to Nurse Joy before we get ourselves fixed because walking around with a concussion is bad?'
'Hopefully the Pokemon Center is nearby though...I don't feel so good.' Ash complained as he took out a notepad, wrote something and gave a piece of it to Pikachu. 'Pikachu, go get Nurse Joy asap.' he instructed.
'Pika!' Pikachu took the paper and ran into the city. It took him a while to reach the Pokemon Center that was swamped with injured pokemon.
'Pipipi!' Pikachu called out to Nurse Joy as it jumped onto her desk and gave her the paper.
'Oh my, I wonder who's it from?' she wondered as she opened the paper with shaky, clearly-rushed handwriting.
Unknown Pokemon Eggs fell on our heads real hard from the sky.
Concussion, barely conscious. We can't risk walking like this.
Please come for possible trauma on eggs and help for us too.
We're at the North Vermilion Entrance leading to Cerulean.
'Oh my!'
And so...Ash and Misty are found unconscious on the roadside with the eggs and Pikachu freaked out as the paramedics took the Trainers in, treated for their injury on the spot while Nurse Joy who came along made sure the eggs are looked after and they slept off their concussion. However, they dreamed.
The eggs were from a Breeder that specializes in breeding Piplup and Combee. They were sitting nicely on baskets but the plane shook a bit from a Fearow attack, judging by alarmed screams of the pilots and the two eggs fell off the baskets, rolling towards the hole Fearow made. The horrified Breeder failed to catch the eggs on time as they fell off...and the fall down below was really super scary...and then they fell on the heads of two humans, saving them from a nasty end of going splat on the ground but still hurt from hitting hard human heads at least...
The humans, injured from the concussion put their aching selves on their laps while shaken from their head injuries so the eggs felt somewhat comfortable while hurting.
Ash and Misty woke at the same time in their assigned rooms.
'...what a dream.' they both mused as Pikachu glanced at Ash.
'Pika?'
'I have a really weird dream Pikachu.' said Ash groggily as he told his dream to Pikachu.
'Pi?!'
'Unbelievable, right?' Ash grinned weakly. 'Well I feel a bit better now.' he said as he slowly got up. 'Let's go see Misty if she's awake.' they asked the receptionist for Misty's room. He had to describe her.
'Oh? That Jane Doe? Finally we have a name.' the Nurse sighed. 'You're the only one with an Identification Mr. Ketchum. Injured people with no form of ID on them tend to be called John or Jane Doe in any hospital and then assigned a number so we don't get confused. She's currently Jane#13.' she said flatly. Ash and Pikachu sweatdropped. 'Really, some people forget how important IDs are!' she huffed. 'Misty is it? Any last name?' she asked him kindly.
'She never told me but she's one of Cerulean City's Gym Leaders.'
'Oh, now I know! Gym Leaders are famous!' the Nurse happily updated information. 'She's in Room 309.'
'Thanks.' said Ash gratefully as he went to visit Misty's room.
'Oh, hey Ash.' Misty greeted, her hair down considering she wore bandages on her head so that side-tail really has to go. 'I have a really weird dream about the eggs. Poor things.' Ash stiffened. 'The plane they were on got attacked by a Fearow, damaging the plane enough to have a small hole...'
'Two eggs fell off the shaken baskets, rolled down the hole...' Ash continued as Misty stared at him in shock. 'And bonked us on the head while the eggs are scared out of their wits. They nearly died if not for us.'
'Same dream?!' Misty gawked out, wide-eyed as she had the exact same dream.
'Yeah. I'm of the mind to call Professor Oak about this.' said Ash. 'You well enough to go?'
'Yeah.'
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Pokemon Center...while Misty asked about the eggs, Ash phoned Professor Oak about what happened.
/I see...sometimes, that DOES happen albeit rarely from people who were once in the same situation as you. Pokemon in severe distress can cause telepathic connection to communicate out their distress for help but that's if they're spiritually and mentally powerful enough without having to be a psychic according to studies of other Professors./ Professor Oak told him. /A Plane moving shipments of Combee and Piplup eggs got attacked by a Fearow above Vermillion area eh? I'll look into news about that. You should phone your mother as hospitals DO phone home if relatives had accidents./
'Y-yikes...she's probably beside herself by now.' Ash gulped.
And he wasn't kidding when he phoned his mother who was wailing frantically because she got a phone call about her son who got a concussion. It took a while to placate his mother by telling her how it happened.
/I see...so you're now in the Pokemon Center to ask about the eggs?/
'Yeah mom. Professor Oak definitely says they'll be traumatized and have something against Fearow for life for sure.' said Ash wryly. 'That's the name of the threat they heard when the pilots and the Breeder panicked. And we don't know what happened to the plane or the rest of the eggs...I just hope they got down alright, not...ulp...' he gulped. His mother also shuddered. 'If the bad thing happened, only two survivors are here now.'
/I hope not Ash, that would be terrible./ Delia choked out. /Are you really OK now dear? 100%?/ she asked fretfully.
'I'm OK now after a long nap.' Ash promised her. 'I'm worried about the eggs more than myself you know. I'm resilient they're not.' his mother groaned.
/Only you Ash, only you.../ she said in resigned exasperation.
xxx
'Nurse Joy says the eggs are OK.' said Misty as she sat with him. 'They were hurt, but she fixed them just fine.'
'That's good. Well, now what? Did the Police say anything?' Ash asked her.
'They're looking for planes that possibly dropped the eggs on us.' said Misty. 'I'm not sure if Nurse Joy will believe our dreams so I didn't say anything.'
'Oh...'
'So, you up for a Gym Battle Ash?' Misty piped up. 'I hear Lt. Surge is a specialist in hard blows and immensely powerful attacks. He doesn't go easy on anyone, even undertrained Pokemon so every day this place is packed with injured pokemon. You better be wise about your choice because there will be no accommodation if the newcomers get badly hurt.'
'...a recon would be good.' Ash mused. 'We'll watch over how he fights, so we wait for a Trainer to challenge him. Besides my head is still throbbing I won't be able to fully focus on a fight anyway.'
'...good point.'
'By the way, the Nurse Receptionist insists you always carry an ID on you. You were Jane Doe 13th.'
'Huh?! But I HAVE Identification!' Misty sputtered as she took out her Cerulean Gym Leader badge. 'This thing here can be scanned since it has a Microchip with my information on it!' Ash stared blankly at the small badge.
'They didn't see it I guess. Maybe you should make that thing bigger and more obvious.' came the suggestion. 'Its as small as the handout victory badges.' Misty deflated at that.
'Seriously...?' she groaned. 'Making these things cost a pretty penny and this thing here is only free at first if the League gives it to a Gym Leader. Gym Leaders get two for free at first. Then if Gym Leaders change, changing information costs nothing before it changes hands, but if you lose the badge, you'll pay as much as you pay for a house with 8 rooms.'
'HUH?!' Ash gawked as the mere thought of paying for a mansion just to have a Gym Leader Badge was a horrifying thought to him. And its mainly because of the microchip, he could tell.
'So yes, I can't just change this even if I want to.' Misty sighed as she put it in her bag. 'I can't even lose it. Losing it will be horrifying. I'll never hear the end of it from my sisters who have the other one.'
'...'
xxx
They did recon research by peeping on the windows.
Lt. Surge's Raichu is clearly big, Bigger than a normal Raichu and trained hard very physically if those mostly Normal attacks were anything to come by.
Upon watching five battles, they went to eat out in a cafe.
'OK, upon seeing enough fights...Raichu is mostly a physical fighter. I noticed that all Gyms give a freebie to beginner Trainers if they're smart enough to notice the freebie.' said Ash. 'First is the Sprinkler on the Pewter Gym. A good attack will end the matches for good and win you by default if you don't have an advantageous type with you but I didn't use that though. I used Caterpie and a String Shot then Goomy's strategic water attacks. Then there's the concrete pads in the pool in your Gym. Serge's freebie is the soil ground his Gym Field is on and the fact that Raichu uses only physical attacks but surely there's an occasion when he DOES use Electric Attacks.' he began thinking.
Misty stared at him as if he grew two heads.
'Ash? What freebie are you talking about?' Misty asked him. 'We don't have freebies.'
'What do you mean? Those things are obviously freebies!' Ash said, clearly confused.
'Gyms are Gyms for a reason Ash. We won't be a Gym if we're that easy on Trainers because our job is to prepare them for the League.' Misty explained. 'You're just good with situational analysis and exploiting your terrain to your battle benefit Ash, and you wound up misunderstanding what you see in our gyms as a Freebie.'
'Uh...' Ash croaked out, baffled.
'So,' said Misty in amusement. 'How are you going to deal with Surge?'
'Well, Raichu is muscular and probably fed a lot of good food with loads of Protein. Not only that, its mostly a close-range physical fighter and uses Body Slams like how kids eat candy so its endurance and stamina is higher than a typical Raichu. And its mainly muscle so physical attacks will do half or almost no damage depending on specie and how trained they are. I'll have Bulbasaur go to be safe. Pikachu and Charmander will be totaled unfairly unless I train everyone to reach the standards of their teammates. Bulbasaur's good with distraction and the final blow will be Leech Seed. He'll have no trouble at all.'
His battle went exactly how he decided it should be and he won.
xxx
'Well, that's one way of winning without getting squished by that tough muscled brute...' said Misty.
'Yes but more training is needed. I'll have our newcomers as good as their upperclassmen in no time flat with a little dedication.' said Ash, reassuring Pikachu who sulked at not getting to fight because his species are ahem, skeletally frail. He really would be in the hospital for months if he faced that muscular hulk.
They visited the eggs that apparently hatched into subdued-looking baby pokemon.
'They're Piplup and Combee.' said Nurse Joy with a sad smile. 'They're both female and they've been like this since they hatched.'
'Well, the way they ended up here is pretty traumatizing.' said Misty, feeling sorry for the baby pokemon in a room, sharing a bed and they could see through the one-way glass.
'Can we see them Nurse Joy?' Ash asked Nurse Joy. 'And anything from the police?'
'Er...ah...classified but let's just say they'll be here for good unless someone adopts them...' Nurse Joy stammered awkwardly, letting the Trainers know the plane met a bad end. Just how, they were better off not knowing. Fearow has fear in its name with a damn good reason.
They went into the ward as Nurse Joy observed the interaction as the two pokemon looked up at the Trainers.
xxx
'Hey there ladies.' said Ash kindly. 'How are you feeling since your er...hard landing?' Piplup was the more spoken one, stammering out while looking all teary-eyed before going to Misty while Combee went to him, also crying while buzzing.
'Well, let's give em' a good life Misty. Nearly-dying has a way of changing one's outlook on life.' Ash told his friend who sadly nodded while comforting Piplup who was crying on her lap. Combee was just as upset.
'Parenting traumatized kids is something new though...'
And so...
'I'm amazed they took well with you when they barely responded to me after hatching.' said Nurse Joy. 'When they hatched, they barely responded to anything while looking so sad and despondent. Its like...they gave up on living.' she said sadly.
'Well...we'll have to do something about their Fearow Trauma too.' said Misty.
'Fearow Trauma?'
'I told Professor Oak.' said Ash. 'The babies are mentally and spiritually powerful enough to transmit their thoughts to us during severe distress and we dreamed of what happened to them. The plane they were on were attacked by a Fearow, boring a hole in the storage hull of the airplane with just one person to look over several egg baskets of Piplup and Combee. The shaking caused these two to fall off their baskets and roll down the hole...' Nurse Joy gaped.
From what she heard from Officer Jenny...
The reports were a crashed, clearly-attacked plane with a hole in the storage hull. The pilots and breeder dead. Most of the eggs didn't make it.
