Chapter 9: A Third Companion?

At seeing his two lovers scared and nodding, Bill walked away from his friends and right up to his enemy. As soon as Phillip saw Bill storming towards him with clenched fists at his sides, he knew something was wrong. "Hey Billy Boy, what's wrong?" He asked innocently, still not noticing the two female Pokémon behind Bill.

As he walked up to his enemy, Bill remembered how Bill had always treated Pokémon, and realizing that Phillip wasn't going to apologize easily, he walked right up to Phillip and punched him right in the face as hard as he could, breaking Phillips nose in the process. He then crouched right beside Phillip and, grabbing and pulling his ear up, brought the injured boy's eyes level to his and looked straight into Phillips. "Now Phillip, I know what you did to those two fine ladies over there," he began, then proceeded to point at Lucy and Sapphire "Now, if you don't tell them that you're sorry, AND MEAN IT, it will get a lot worse before it gets better, OK?" Phillip nodded quickly . Bill then called Lucy and Sapphire over and said "Phillip here has something to say, RIGHT Phillip" "I just wanted to say that I am really, really sorry about what I did, and promise that it will never happen again" Phillip said as his eyes began to water because of the pain from his ear. "Well ladies, do you except this scumbags apology?" Bill asked, hoping that they did, because he wasn't big on fighting. After the two ladies talked for a moment, Lucy said "Yes we do except his apology." Bill smiled as he felt Phillips head become heavier, a sign that he had just passed out from hearing Lucy talk. "Arighty then let's..." Bill began before seeing something familiar roll from Phillips partly open knapsack. As he realized that it was a pokeball he picked it up and looked in his notebook for how to release a captured Pokémon.

Once he figured it out he placed the pokeball on the ground, then stomped on it, and saw the red light of a Pokémon being brought back, but was startled when he saw a Pikachu, laying in a pool of blood."YOU SICK BASTARD!" Bill yelled as he beat Phillip within an inch of his life, before turning his attention to the severely injured Pikachu. After ten minutes of trying to stop the bleeding, Bill gave up and ran with the Pikachu in his blood soaked arms, but he didn't know that the closest Pokémon Center was in the next town, two miles away, but he still ran all the way there, his two lovers struggling to keep up with his sudden burst of stamina. After a surprising five minutes Bill was bursting into the Pokémon Center, causing the door to slam into the wall and shatter. This caused Nurse Joy to look over at the door where she was startled to see a young boy, arms soaked in blood, holding a heavily bandaged Pikachu.

As Nurse Joy worked on the Pikachu, Bills' two lovers walked in, saw the blood soaked boy they loved, and ran/flew over to him, tackled him and gave him a big hug. Although he was surprised he hugged them back, then noticed that everyone in the centre staring at them, but he didn't care.

After an hour and a half Nurse Joy walked over to him and said "Are you Bill?" "Yes, is the Pikachu alright?" Nurse Joy was surprised by the two legendary Pokémon beside him, despite the fact that he wasn't wearing the traditional trainer outfit. "Sir, are these Pokémon yours?" She asked nervously. "No" he said, "But they are traveling with me." "Ok, well, yes the Pikachu is alright. She's sleeping right now, but if you want to see her you can. But, may I ask, what happened to her?" "Honestly Nurse Joy, all I know is that I broke her trainers nose, and then I released her." And with that, Bill and his lovers got up and went to see the Pikachu.

After getting to the room, Bill was hesitant to let his lovers in, and so he said "Sorry you two, but I don't think it would be wise if you two came in, OK?" The two ladies were clearly sad but nodded. Bill then said in a reassuring tone "It's just because after all she's been through, I think that a human might be scary enough, let alone two legendary Pokémon." Seeing that the two were slightly happier with this, Bill got up to go to Pikachu's room.

As Bill walked into the Pikachu's room, he saw the wounded creature laying completely still on her bed. Seeing that she was asleep, Bill took a seat on the chair beside her bed. Nurse Joy came into the room a moment later and said "Sir, how long are you planning on staying?" Before answering this, Bill glanced to his left, where the Pikachu was sleeping, then proceeded to say "I would like to stay with her until she wakes up. Is that OK?" His response startled Nurse Joy, only because she knew that this Pikachu wasn't his. "Of course it's OK, but what about your other Pokémon," Nurse Joy started, but Bill held up his hand to silence her. "Please tell my other two companions to come in here."