Chapter 9

Peril in Pallet Part 3

Pallet Town

3 months after Lucario and the Mystery of Mew

Mamoswine some of the worlds largest pokemon. Very out of place in the post-apocalyptic Pallet. Yet our heroes ride one crashing, trampling, and dodging the mysterious but obviously dangerous creatures.

"Turn right" Ash said pointing to his right. Mamoswine quickly followed his action nicking a creature with it's tusk in the process.

"How much further?" Asked Dawn.

"Not much" Brock replied

"Hey! Look," Richie pointed upward, "There's a clearing in the clouds." True to his word there was a clearing in the sky, but beyond their sight were hundreds of black dots that grew larger as they grew closer.

"Are those pokemon up there?" Brock squinted (even more than normal) to get a better look.

Ash looked upward as well "Yeah and they're right over the lab."

"Well then let's kick it into overdrive" Dawn kicked her trusty twin tusk pokemon who obliged by knocking down the black things even faster.

After about five minutes, Mamoswine was beginning to show signs of weakness but a ray of hope was just on the horizon. Literally.

The hill on which Prof. Oaks lab sat was bathed in it's normal sunshine but when you zoom out of that picture you see a much different scene. There where hundreds of Pokemon fighting black beasts at the boarder of the black and lifeless landscape, in the sky there were hundreds of flying pokemon swooping around

"Looks like the Professor really knows how to hold down a fort." Richie said in ah at the battle before him.

"Come we've got to help." Ash said reaching for one of his Pokeballs.

"I'm with ya" Richie called out and followed with another Pokeball in hand.

"Hey guys" Brock shouted over the constant attacks.

"What" Ash and Richie answered simultaneously.

"Don't you think that it's best to see what on earth is going on here." The two boys quickly thought it over and hopped back on the twin tusk pokemon and headed off to the main lab. When they entered the front entrance they greeted by an unusual sight. Dozens of pokemon and people that Ash recognized as the citizens of Pallet Town were everywhere mostly huddled around the Prof.'s TV and video phone. And up in the ceiling was hole which revealed what was a view one could mistake it for a clear summer's day.

"What's going on here" Dawn asked a little to loud. Everyone stared for a moment but then returned to what they were doing, accept for a few people scattered across the room.

"Ash!" Ash was surprised when the voice seem to come from everywhere. But it wasn't A voice, it was a whole bunch of voices. Next thing Ash knew he was tackled by something yellow and green.

"Bayleef." Ash's leaf pokemon cried out from on top of it's master.

"About time you got here," May said a-matter-a-factly, "and who are you?"

"I'm Richie, and this is Sparky."

"Pikapi"

"You beat Ash in the Indigo League, right" Max asked with stars in his eyes.

Richie sweat dropped, luckily Misty jumped in for him. "Yeah, but only since Ash's Charizard was a jerk at the time."

After some wrestling with his very affectionate Bayleef, Ash was a able to get back to his feet.

"May, Max, Misty. What are you guys even doing here."

"Because we knew you would." May said with a wide smile,

"It's been awhile since we've been on one of your crazy adventures." Misty added.

"I believe it would have been best if you'd stay where you were." Prof. Oak walked up looking glum.

"Why Professor" Dawn asked.

"Follow me and you'll see."

Professor Oak lead the group up some stairs and down a small hallway to a study, In the middle of the room was aundreds of books along bookshelves on three of the four walls. The last wall had a large window with a single computer in front of it. It was almost like you were on the bridge of a gigantic ship

but today the landscape outside the window was literal war zone.

"Professor what exactly are those things." Dawn asked.

The professor looked out at the scene and spoke. "I don't know," he closed his eyes and tilted his head down, "We just call them black beings..."

"Like on TV"

"Yes, the tv network contacted us as soon as things became severe. Now where was I, ah yes. Yesterday around midnight it started.

Flashback Pallet Town 11:57 Professor Oak's Lab

"Yaahhh, man am I beat." a very tired Professor Oak walked down a hall in his favorite blue Phanpy pajamas . "I can't believe that all those Tauros got out again." Prof. Oak slumped into his bed and pulled down a Phanpy eye cover.

KAAAABOOOOOM. The echoed over the countryside.

Prof. Oak sat up, "What in the name of Lapras' Long-johns," He took off his eye cover and hurried to a window. Outside was a clear moonless night and the clouds in sight were on the horizon but all this was not at the top of the pokemon professor's to do list, because there was smoke billowing on the other side of a hill a clear sign of a fire. Prof. Oak got his lab coat on as quickly as he could.

After hearing screams and shouts he knew this was no ordinary fire. When he got to the house that had caught on fire he saw the silhouette of a huge bulky figure but as it moved out the blackness didn't subside, the black being then fired it's red beam at a neighboring house, but instead of setting it ablaze it turned into a black husk almost as if it skipped the burning process entirely.

Prof. Oak then looked up and six fiery objects falling out of the sky. He knew at once this was going to be a catastrophe. "Everyone get to the lab" he yelled.

Present Day

"That doesn't answer what are those things." Max said complexed.

"Or why are they even here in the first place" Misty added.

"Well we can only tell that they want one thing" Brock said

"What's that" Richie asked

"This is truly an Apocalypse in Pallet town" said looking out at the scene in front of the window.

Authors notes

Hello all my adoring fans and welcome to the author's notes. To start of the reason this update was so late was because of me going on a family vacation and just all round laziness (truly sorry on that last one).

P.S just cause I accidentally hit the key [Ω]