Chapter 10: War
Alright now the first major battle between Team Rocket and Team Plasma, with a few major events occurring in the next few chapters during the beginning of this war. Someone asked me if I am going to do a chapter where Ash and Hilda settle down to have their family (the answer is, that is my intention, but in a different region not Kanto or Unova.)
Disclaimer: pokemon doesn't belong to me.
(Hilda's POV)
Ash and I had finally left Driftviel City to head to our next destination, Ash calmed down after finding out he was going to be a father, in fact hwe was more excited about the prospect of being a father which caught me by surprise. It was very early in the morning and we were walking through the field with the sun was rising over the horizon while we were walking through a grassy field with a large river writhing its way through the area, there were pokemon walking happily through the fields, eating berries and other assorted fruit from the trees. It was relaxing to see the color of the sky going from purple to a bright blue.
"So, Ash what are we going to do when we get to Mistralton City?" I asked Ash with a smile, "knowing you it will be facing Skyla in a gym battle," I said with a smirk.
"Yeah I had every intention to face Skyla in battle," Ash retorted with a grin as we continued to walk towards a cave. "Hey, Hilda what is this cave?" Ash enquired calmly while pointing at the entrance.
"Ash, this place is called Chargestone Cave," I replied as I walked up to him. "Not many people go through here anymore due to the inconvenience, there is an air service from Driftviel that takes people over this place," I told Ash quietly, "but since the earthquake occurred all air services were suspended for a while," i said quietly.
We walked into the cave and started looking around, while walking further in we started hearing voices. "strange I thought people didn't use this cave anymore," Ash said quietly while we started following the voices.
"When the time is right we will attack Team Rocket," someone said as the voices bounced off the cave walls, "tell our forces to set up base near Mistralton City," the person said calmly. We heard footsteps approach us; Ash grabbed my arm and pulled me around the corner to prevent us from being spotted by the people planning to attack Team Rocket.
We watched as the three men wearing a knights outfit ran passed us, "Team Plasma, this must mean they are getting ready to start the war," Ash said while we watched the men run further away, I watched Ash pull his bag off his shoulders to have a look inside to make sure the White Stone was still inside the bag. "Good if we hold onto this then we still have a chance of defeating them," Ash said wisely before we started to move quietly through the cave and towards our destination.
I grabbed a hold of Ash's arm not wanting to get separated from him, "Ash, what if we get caught in this cave?" I asked nervously.
"I will protect you and our child," Ash proclaimed sternly while we continued to move through the cave carefully watching over my shoulder making sure that we weren't being followed by Team Plasma, "Hilda, stay near me alright," Ash told me confidently while we walked through the dark cave.
(Ash's POV)
"Ash, are you sure we can deal with Team Rocket and Team Plasma?" Hilda asked me while she grasped my arm. I looked at her and shook my head, "no, what are we supposed to do now?" Hilda asked me before her face changed to a pale white and started to feel very sick. "Ash, can we rest for a moment?" Hilda asked me before resting on the cave wall.
I walked next to Hilda and sat next to her while thinking about the situation that was unfolding. "Are you alright?" I asked her with concern.
"I am just feeling a little tired that's all," Hilda responded calmly before falling asleep on my shoulder. "Please stay close to me," Hilda said sleepily before she fell completely asleep.
It wasn't long before fell asleep next to her luckily there was no one nearby. During my sleep I started another dream sequence this time I was in school with Hilbert sitting next to me and Hilda sitting at the front of the class room.
"You know brother, I need to find a way to get you and my sister together," Hilbert told me with a smirk before placing pen to paper and jotted down a small note passing it over to my younger self. My younger self opened the letter and looked at it in shock. "Come on bro hand it to my sister," Hilbert demanded with a smirk.
Unfortunately Hilbert and I had the exact same hand writing at the time. The teacher at the time walked up to me and demanded that I read the letter for the entire class to here.
"This will be better," Hilbert said with a smirk.
"Hilbert one day I will get you back for this," my younger self, professed angrily I stood up and read the letter to the entire class, the younger Hilda looked back to me and I could see that her face was a crimson red.
"You two are in for detention tonight," the teacher said with anger, I was totally embarrassed by Hilbert, "Hilbert you should know better than to put you younger sister in this situation," the teacher said angry at young Hilbert.
"Yeah Hilbert, you should know better than that," I said with a smirk.
"You Ash are just as bad," the teacher said.
"Teacher I only want my sister to go out with Ash, he and I are bro's for life, we might not be related by blood, I will always consider him my brother, if anyone deserves detention it me, Ash isn't to blame for the letter." Hilbert stated trying to get me out of trouble.
"Very well, Hilbert you will get a week's detention while Ash you're free to go," the teacher said with a smile.
After a while I woke up from my slumber to find myself surrounded by small yellow pokemon, I tried successfully to wake up Hilda before a small blast of electricity surged towards us unfortunately Hilda was in the firing line, I quickly got up and took the attack for Hilda, "sure that isn't the best you got," I said with a confident smile.
"Ash why did you do that?" Hilda asked me with concern.
"I said I would protect my family," I confessed while looking at her with a smile, "Hilbert wouldn't forgive me if anything happened to you while in my care," I told her as she slowly picked herself up.
"I am not a total vegetable," Hilda told me as she called out her Pignite, "Joltik, this pokemon will be very useful to me," Hilda declared happily I threw out my pokeball calling out my Fraxure, "Thanks for helping me Ash," Hilda said thankfully.
"Fraxure use Dragon Rage," I called out for the first attack of the battle.
"Pignite, use Flamethrower," Hilda instructed her pokemon calmly while still looking very tired. The small pokemon started to run away in fear as a gear like pokemon hit the ground. "Ash, that's a Klink," Hilda told me calmly.
"So there were other pokemon between these Joltik?" Questioned as we prepared to throw a pokeball at the gear like pokemon.
"Ash, I want a Joltik" Hilda told me as her pokeball hit the small yellow creature trapping it inside, I threw my pokeball at the same time trapping the other pokemon, during the mean time all the other pokemon ran away in fear. The pokeballs wobbled from side to side until it stopped and signified the capture of the two pokemon.
"Alright I caught a Joltik," Hilda celebrated at the same time as me.
After the capture of the two pokmeon we continued our way through the cave towards the next city. We were rested up and ready to face the next challenge. "Hey, Hilda do you remember when your brother got in to trouble for setting us up?" I asked with a smile.
"Yeah I remember that, he always thought highly of you Ash," Hilda responded happily, "he did everything to get us to go out, when you left he was in a depression because he lost someone he considered a brother," Hilda said with a frown. "No amount of cheering up from either me or our parents made him happy," she said while looking around the cave.
"Yeah so what did he do while I was gone?" I asked wanting to know more.
"He tried to save money so that way could be with you," Hilda replied while looking to the ground, "our parents didn't see it but Hilbert was willing to do anything for me and you," Hilda said with a smile. "Also the day you were forced to read the letter and endure the embarrassment of knowing my brother at the time helped me view you in a different light," Hilda professed proudly.
"What do you mean?" I asked before seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
"The truth is, we didn't need his help to be together," Hilda said while walking towards the exit of the cave. "We walked different paths but in the end we still found each other," Hilda stated with a broad smile.
"Well you do have a point there," I said while clenching my fists. "But sadly we have other things to deal with," I said before hearing footsteps coming from behind, I looked back to see five men running in our direction, they continued to approach as more men started to appear. "Hilda, let's hide for a moment," I declared while grabbing her hand before hiding behind a large rock.
We looked around the corner to see Team Plasma pouring into the city, more and more men continued to flow through the cave like an unstoppable river. I looked at Hilda with concern knowing this could mean one thing was set to occur, "it's begun," I whispered while watched Team Plasma march through the cave. We continued to watch while Hilda was looking very tired from the long journey through the cave, we caught a couple of pokemon but now we were witnessing the beginning of an all-out war between Team Rocket and Team Plasma.
"Ash, I am scared," Hilda confessed while grabbing onto my hand.
"I will protect you," I said while pulling her in closer, I looked around to find a safe place so we can stay there, I looked around to find another chamber of the cave, "Hilda we can rest there until they pass through," I said while helping Hilda get to the next part of the cave. We walked into the next chamber I looked around to see only a few small rocks with no one in the chamber, it was completely silent allowing Hilda to rest again.
"Ash, what are we going to do?" Hilda asked me with fear.
"The first thing you can do Hilda, is to go home," I said with pain, "I don't want to lose you and our child," I declared while looking away not wanting to make eye contact.
"No, Ash it hasn't gotten too dangerous yet," Hilda said defiantly while taking hold of my arm. "Ash, please don't send me home," Hilda pleaded while crying.
"Hilda, it's starting to get dangerous Team Plasma has sent an army to fight Team Plasma," I told her but she still didn't let go of my arm, "Hilda there is going to be a war between Team Rocket and Team Plasma soon," I stated angrily, I forced Hilda to let go so I can have a look outside the chamber we were staying in, Pikachu stood on my shoulders while we looked on in dismay.
"Dammit doesn't this ever end?" I asked in shock as the Plasma forces continued to march through the cave. "Clever to use this cave," I said while looking back at a dejected Hilda. "Hilda, I am sorry but you have to think about our child, we will meet up with Skyla and she can help you get back home," I told Hilda while trying to avoid eye contact with her.
"But, Ash, Skyla only flies as far as Castelia City," Hilda told me while drying up her tears.
I watched on as the final troops passed through the cave. "Hilda time get out of the cave, be careful alright," I directed trying to remain calm. We walked out of the cave to find the city was still intact, "odd, what's going on?" I asked with uncertainty.
We looked around the city for a while, we made it to the air fields where Skyla was flying one of her plane. "Ash, this is odd we saw thousands of Plasma troops pass through Chargestone Cave an hour ago," Hilda told me with concern while looking around the city to see that nothing has happened yet.
"Yeah I know, Team Plasma passed through here but it seems like they weren't interested in the city," I said in response, things brightened up when we were approached by a woman with magenta hair, wearing mostly blue and straps that looked like belts.
"Skyla, it's been a while," Hilda said with a smile before extending her hand out to shake her friends.
"Yeah it has Hilda," Skyla said with a bright smile. "So Hilbert, now that you're here," Skyla said while glaring at me.
"Skyla, this isn't my brother, this is Ash," Hilda said in my defense.
The woman approached me and smiled before kissing me on the cheek, "yeah you're right Hilda," Skyla submitted as Hilda looked on in anger, "I just wanted to make sure," Skyla said with a smile.
"Next time look at his hair, Ash's hair is colored black while Hilbert's hair is colored brown, you always do this when you think someone else is my brother," Hilda said in anger before I stopped her from losing her temper even further.
"You know Skyla, Hilda is right," I said calmly.
"Really sorry, you look just like him, and I am very angry at him for not even returning my calls," Skyla professed with a frown.
"That's not like Hilbert to do that," Hilda pointed out while thinking about what we had seen.
"Skyla, you were flying for a while right?" I asked while Hilda was thinking about her brother.
"Yeah I was flying for a while, I saw something that needs to be addressed with the rest of the gym leaders," Skyla pointed out with concern.
"What was it?" I asked sternly while looking towards Hilda.
"I saw a massive army heading towards Twist Mountain earlier today," Skyla said in a more serious tone, I swear there must have been ten thousand men in the Team Plasma army," Skyla said with concern. "They were pouring out of Chargestone Cave, ignoring Mistralton City, there is something going on," Skyla declared calmly before walking back to her plane.
"Team Plasma is at war with Team Rocket," I said which caused the red head to freeze in place.
"War, that can't be good," Skyla said quietly. Skyla looked back at us and walked back to us, "Hilda, you need to go home I will follow you," Skyla said with concern while placing her hand over Hilda's shoulder.
"There must be something we can do to stop this," Hilda said trying to hold back her fear.
"Sadly there is nothing we can do," another voice called out, I turned around for a moment to see N walking up to us, "Team Plasma has set up position and it is only a matter of time before the two forces begin the war," N said while looking away, I looked away for a moment to see smoke rising over the horizon.
"N, do you know where Hilbert is?" Hilda asked in concern.
"Yes, he is gathering the gym leaders to help to bring an end to this war," N said quietly. "Ash do you still have the White stone with you?" N asked me while holding out his pokeball, "Ash, Zekrom needs the help of Reshiram," N told me before walking away to the origin of the smoke.
"Yeah I still have the White stone with me," I replied with a smile. N looked back and smiled at me before leaving us to decide the next cause of action. "Alright ladies we need to figure out where Team Plasma and Team Rocket are fighting, then we need to gather our forces," I said as the women looked at me with concern
"So, Skyla what about the gym battles?" Hilda asked with hope.
"Sorry, Hilda we have something bigger to deal with first, I need to find Hilbert and we need to stop this war." Skyla said as she walked up to the gym and locked the doors and put a sign on the front door, "I will open the gym again when this is resolved," Skyla declared while looking at the sky.
"Alright you two enough thinking about other crap, we need to help people out before the innocent get killed in this war," I said while the tension in the air was starting to thicken up. "You two will need to get out of here," I instructed them.
"Not until I see Hilbert, Ash," Skyla snapped back before walking ahead.
The air had an uneasy calm about but my concerns continued to stay with Hilda, I called over for Pikachu, he jumped onto my shoulder before I started following the woman. 'Fuck, why do they have to be so stubborn?' I thought to myself. Suddenly a loud explosion was heard from a distance away, "what the fuck was that?" I asked while looking towards the distance seeing a large column of smoke rising over the horizon.
"Do you think it started already?" Hilda asked me with concern, I looked back an nodded my head grimly.
(Normal POV)
Twist Mountain had suddenly became a battlefield with Team Plasma and Team Rocket charging at each other with their respective pokemon, loud explosions ripped through the air and flying pokemon were vying for supremacy of the skies.
Meanwhile two men were witnessing the beginning of the battle concerned about how desperate the situation had gotten, "N, how is Skyla going?" Hilbert asked calmly before getting ready to charge into battle.
"She is doing fine, she mistaken Ash for you before kissing him on the cheek," N said with a smile.
"Why does Skyla do that?" Hilbert asked while shaking his head, "after all that work trying to get Ash and my sister together she could have ruined it," Hilbert said with a smirk. Hilbert looked at the corner of his eye spotting Ash, Skyla and Hilda. "No, what are they doing here?" Hilbert asked in shock as they started to approach the battlefield.
"Hilbert, if they are approaching a nasty situation you must stop them," N told Hilbert calmly.
"Virizion I need your help," Hilbert called out a mostly green colored pokemon. "N, I will make sure they don't get involved in the battle, if you get involved in the fight make sure to save some for me," Hilbert said with a smile.
Hilbert jumped on to his legendary pokemon and rode through the fighting armies of Team Rocket and Team Plasma, "Dammit why does Ash have to get involved in this?" N asked as he got ready to call out his legendary pokemon, "Zekrom, time to battle" N called for his pokemon before jumping on to its back, "Zekrom, time to end this meaningless war," N declared angrily as his pokemon slammed the ground with a powerful thunder type attack sending men from each side flying in different direction.
N was fighting off the two armies with his Zekrom dealing only a small number of casualties to each, but the fighting continued between them while pokemon on the ground and air were clashing with great intensity.
Hilbert made it to the group baring their path, "I am sorry guys I can't let you go any further," Hilbert declared as another explosion sounded.
"Hilbert, I have been waiting to talk to you," Skyla said angrily.
"Skyla, I think it should wait until his is all over," Hilbert told Skyla calmly but she refused and looked into his eyes, "Skyla, please go home, you to Hilda," Hilbert told the women.
"Hilbert, what's the situation?" Ash asked trying to calm Hilda down.
"They just started fighting with no clear advantage on either side," Hilbert pointed out, "N, is fighting with his Zekrom and I need to get back with Virizion, Cobalion and Terikion," Hilbert told Ash quietly. "Ash, Please take them back home," Hilbert told his friend.
"Hilbert, I still have to pay you back for the embarrassment you caused me in our school days," Ash said with a smirk. Hilbert looked at Ash and smiled before nodding. "Alright you two we need to get out of here," Ash declared but as Ash turned around Skyla climbed on to a large white pokemon and took of towards the battlefield.
"Skyla, get back here!" Hilda called for her friend but the demand was drowned out by the ferocity of the battle. "Ash, we need to stop Skyla," Hilda said with concern, Ash looked at Hilda and nodded.
"Hilda, you must head back to Mistralton City, I will make sure Skyla returns before I help Hilbert out," Ash said calmly before heading off to the battlefield.
"Alright, Ash, but please make it back to me alive I don't want our child to be without a father," Hilda told Ash with a faint smile before kissing him on the cheek, Ash looked at Hilda and smiled before Ash ran off to the battle to stop Skyla from getting hurt. Hilda walked off towards Mistralton City like Ash instructed her, 'Ash, please make it back to me,' Hilda thought to herself in anxiety towards the situation.
(Ash's POV)
I ran towards the battlefield in my search for Skyla who was putting herself in unnecessary danger, 'Skyla! Where are you?" I asked as I watched pokemon fighting each other in sky, one lot of pokemon was mostly colored grey with a bit of green and a red feature on their heads, they were fighting a mostly brown pokemon with a cream underside and a red and yellow hair from their heads. "Great Pidgeot and Unfezant," I said while gritting my teeth.
I witnessed the battle unfold as I looked to the ground watching two people fighting against an entire to armies themselves, I looked up to the sky again to find a white pokemon fighting against the hordes of flying pokemon.
"Damn this could get rough," I said trying to figure out the best cause of action, "well Hilbert and N can take care of themselves, but for Skyla, Hilbert wants her looked after," I said to myself as a group of men surrounded me. "This is just great," I said in frustration as the men wearing mostly silver with a blue 'P' insignia looked at me and smiled.
"You will now hand over the White Stone," one of the soldiers sad calmly.
"Like hell I will," I said with defiance before the men charged at me with their pokemon. Pikachu was ready to battle, I called for my other pokemon ready to battle the small force. But before I could call for an attack a large gust of wind pushed the small force away.
"Ash, what are you doing here?" Skyla asked me before landing next to me.
"Skyla, you need to go home now!" I responded angrily as the men picked themselves up.
"What about you?" Skyla snapped back with frustration.
"I will be helping out Hilbert and N," I replied angrily but Skyla didn't want to hear what I was saying, "Skyla, whatever you want to tell him, it can wait I will make sure he makes back to you alive, I promise," I promised Skyla.
Skyla approached me and hugged me, "Thank you, Ash you really are his brother like he keeps telling me," Skyla said proudly. "If there is a message to pass on to Hilbert, please tell him I love him," Skyla said with a smile before leaving the battle
"Don't do that, you will only piss Hilda off," I said calmly before heading off to help Hilbert and N in this battle. 'Hilda, I will return to you,' I thought to myself while thinking about Hilda's bright smile and blue eyes.
I ran towards the battle to meet up with Hilbert and N, I kept getting held up by the two armies I fought off men from both sides until I reached them, they were surrounded by men from both factions and barely fighting them off.
"Hilbert, N, how are things going?" I asked as I made it back to their side.
"Brother, I was wondering how long t would have taken you to get to our location," Hilbert told me with a smirk, "don't worry I left some for you as well," Hilbert told me before we started fighting off men in every direction.
"Hilbert, there is a chance we might need to pull back to Mistralton City," I told Hilbert, he nodded in approval. "Oh I have one more message for you Hilbert," I told my friend.
"What's the message Ash?" Hilbert asked me as he go ready to charge into battle.
"Skyla loves you," I told Hilbert with a smile.
"I already knew that, next thing she says is to come back alive," Hilbert said with a grin.
"No I promised that to her," I professed as I got ready to fight off the two armies.
"That's just like you Ash, always making a promise and keeping it," Hilbert said with sarcasm before charging into battle with his pokemon, I followed Hilbert into battle with my own pokemon while fighting off opposing pokemon from all directions.
The war has just started between Team Rocket and Team Plasma with no clear advantage between the two sides. Will Ash and Hilbert make it out alive? Will the gym leaders change the result of the battle? And will Ash keep his promise to Skyla?
Next time in Blaze and Glory: Chapter 11: Break.