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The Next Morning
*BEEP BEEP BEEP!*
*BRZZZ!*
The sound of a shattered alarm clock woke my little partner and I up from our snoozes. I head Pichu gasped at something as I slowly began to gain some energy. My right hand swung the bed covers away from me while my left hand felt heavier.
"What's wrong, Pich..."
"WHAT THE HELL?" I shrieked.
I removed my hand only to find the source of the sudden scare. Broken gears that were just clacking inside a small alarm clock were fried beside electricity surged in my hand as I turned my left hand and glanced at my hand. Power sparked within my flesh. Literal power that could energized most electronics on this planet. Was it the aftermath of Pikachu's Thunderbolt or was this another issue to add on my list of problems?
"Great, I have to pay for the clock!" I groaned.
"Pichuuuu..." My pal felt my pain.
"Where can I find a pair of rubber gloves?" I said to myself, jumping out of the bed.
Twenty Minutes Later
After the sudden wreckage I caused, the broken clock was paid. It was now 6:20 according to my poketech as I was geared up for one wild day. It may have been just a work day, but if the killer was still out there, it was going to be a work day in hell. Anyone in the building could end up in a body bag, but the fearful thoughts were holding me back. I walked out of my room and made my way to where Ash's "girlfriend" was sleeping.
"Here we are!" I exclaimed, stopping in front of the door that was two doors east from mine.
Beyond the brown door, lied the sleeping blunette with the Pikachu that was awaiting the reunion with his trainer. But first, I needed to find this Ash person and to do that, I needed to awake my leads. My hand reached the door handle, only to be surprised by something that was happening from the other side. The door slowly opened before my fingers could even wrap around the handle.
"Pika. Pika/'
Ash's yellow mouse came out of the crevice, frantically searching for something. Either he was still missing his trainer or he was hungry were my thoughts. A squeak came out of him as he made his way towards the lobby.
"Pichu?" My buddy wondered.
My baby pokemon ran off to wherever his evolution was heading, leaving me alone with confusion. Was Dawn already awake or was it one of the two other thoughts I had were real. A deafening screamed suddenly howled into my ear drums, vibrating them wildly. Based on what I was hearing, it was definitely a female real close by. A female whose name was Dawn. I was ready to swing the door open, when she did it for me.
"Ooof!"
Unknown POV
"Excuse me, Nurse Joy?" I called.
"I would like to pick up the pokemon I left with you last night please." I said.
"Toge Togepi!" My baby chirped.
The pink haired nurse gave a warm smile as she brought out a tray. A silver metal tray with a large spot to put a small pokemon on (for those who hate being in their pokeballs) and five pokeball slots. Since Togepi was already in my arms, the empty space was obviously not needed. One by one, my right hand collected my capsules and placed them in my pocket. With Ethan still asleep, I thought a little training would help start the morning before work.
"Thank you!" I said with a bow before walking away.
"Pika!"
I halted by the sound of a familiar squeak and turned around. Running towards me was the Pikachu that Dawn and Ethan were watching. He then stopped a few feet away and greeted me with a squeak. Without the two trainers with him, I wondered why the mouse came here. If they were still asleep,the events that happened with Team Rocket were enough for me to understand.
"Hey Pikachu!" I smiled, taking a step forward.
"Toge Togepppii."
"Pichu!"
Pikachu's pre-evolved form caught up, stopping right beside the big mouse. It only took three seconds fo the baby to recognize me before it jumped onto my left shoulder. A simple lick to the chin became clear that it was "Ethan's" Pichu. Next to my Togepi, the little rodent felt like a baby brother to Ethan and I. He may look like a weak baby pokemon, but there's a lot of power i him. After all, he was raised by Ethan's father for many years before he passed his pokemon to his son.
"What's up, Pichu?" I said, stroking the back of the mouse's head.
"Pichuuuuu…." Pichu purred.
'Are Ethan and Dawn up?" I asked.
"PIKACH….."
A raging call for Pikachu roared from the other side of the Pokemon Center, but then stopped suddenly. Judging by its female sound (and Pikachu's spooked face, it was probably Dawn currently getting her mouth shut. I ran to the east wing, wondering what just happened.
"PIKA PIKA!'
East Wing
Ethan's POV
"MMFMFMFMMMFMMF!'
"Do you want to wake up the whole hospital?" I asked in a quiet voice.
Like a parent trying to control their screaming child, I was trying to console the angry brunette and boy was she acting like one. As hard as I could, I wrapped my hands around the girl's mouth to keep her quiet, but her body was refusing to cooperate with me. The more she squirmed, the harder it got to retain m grip. She really wanted to kill Pikachu and anyone could figure why. Just one look at her hair and you would think her head was bleeding.
"Are you oka…."
"Toge?" Togepi chirped.
Even though I only reunited with her yesterday, her baby pokemon gave her presence away. I looked over Dawn's shoulder and saw Jill in a state of shock for a good reason. She and my Pichu were staring at the blunette's long hair (or should I say, the "redhead's" long hair), wondering what happened. It may have looked like Dawn had some blood in her hair, but it wasn't. The red liquid dripping onto my arms was actually ketchup from the bottle I gave her last night for supper. Her hair even smelled like ketchup to to prove the point.
Unfortunately, Jill didn't get the scent in time as Dawn flinched by the sight of my friend. With her cheeks burning up, she booted my right shin and escaped my loosened grip.
"OW!" I screamed, falling back down to the floor.
"STOP STARING AT MY HAIR!" Dawn yelled.
The scared trainer ran back into her room with her Piplup, slamming the door. Jill then came up to lend me a hand, but I didn't offer her help till ten seconds later.
"If she's like that every morning, then I feel sorry for the Ketchums tonight." I responded to the wake u[call.
"She didn't hurt you too bad, did she?" My friend questioned me curiously.
"I'm already up, am I?" I smirked.
"What happened?" Jill asked as Pichu jumped on my shoulder.
"I guess Pikachu had too much ketchup and accidentally spilled some on Dawn's head." I figured.
"I was gonna wake her up, but Pikachu must have done it for us." I exclaimed, looking at my buddy.
"Pichu." Pichu nodded.
"Why are you up so early, Jill?" I changed the subject.
To avoid more beatings (and to be sure that Dawn wasn't eavesdropping), I wanted to change the subject. I wasn't expecting an interesting report about Jill's coming day, but her response was typical coming from any pokemon trainer. She wanted to start her day with some training before work. Due to our upcoming battle, I didn't know she was trying to hide whatever weaknesses she had or wanted to destroy me.
"Am I detecting a sign of weakness?" I teased.
"We'll see who laughs when the last pokemon is standing." Jill smirked.
"Toge Toge." The brunette's baby chirped.
"So, what are you going to do until work?" I got ask.
Like Jill, I too woke up to do some training. Not to train with my pokemon for some silly battle, but to train myself. Train to be the better warrior than I was yesterday. I wanted to see what these "nanites" inside me could do during a little workout. If I was going to take on my father's killer (or Team Rocket) I needed to buff up. As soon as Pikachu was reunited with Ash, the training would begin.
"Really?" Jill said with disbelief.
"You're seriously going to start working out?"
From the shocking look of my friend's face, it had seemed i said something that the old me wouldn't have said. I guessed I wasn't the type of person who exercised daily, but yet again, who does. Thankfully, I only told Jill my plan and not the reasoning behind it. If she knew what my future goal was, she would never allow me to accomplish it. She would be all over me, pleading me to stay away from danger. Too bad for her, I needed to do this. With my dad in heaven, what's to say the killer's next target could be Jill's mother or worse, her own daughter.
"Yep!" I nodded.
"What made you want to do that?" My friend asked curiously.
"Can a trainer exercise without his pokemon for once?" I responded.
"Chu?"
A familiar squeak cut the conversation as Jill and I turned to the end of the hallway. Standing three doors down from where we were, was Pikachu depressed by what he had done. With his ears down in sadness, it was pretty difficult to not ignore the poor rodent. He was afraid of Dawn storming back out and attack him for what he had done to her hair. Fortunately for all of us, the blunette was going to be there for a while. Especially with all that ketchup coating her hair.
"But first, I'm going to wait for Ash." I informed Jill, walking towards the sad pokemon.
Pikachu's mood quickly changed into joy after hearing his trainer's name. He had remembered that this morning was going to be special. He was finally going to see Ash after a day of absence. Eager for the reunion, the mouse jumped onto my left shoulder and gave me a smile. I placed my hand over his back and gave him a little stroke.
"Ready to see Ash?" I smiled.
"Piiikachuuu…" Pikachu purred.
"C'mon! Let's go get something to eat." I said.
Jill's POV
The two mice pokemon ran off of Ethan's shoulders, guiding the persistent trainer to the cafeteria. Rather than joining them in their search for Ash, I decided to back off. There was an important thing I needed to do and the time to do it was now. I needed to apologize for angering Dawn. After hearing the raging howl of the blunette, I could tell what kind of girl she was. Her meltdown resembled that of a girl who likes to appeal herself to others. To simply put it, she didn't like people seeing her with a bad hairdo and I embarrassed her.
*Knock! Knock!*
"Don't you dare come in here!" Dawn responded to my knocking.
"Maybe I can you!" I called out.
"Ethan went to the cafeteria with Pikachu to go wait for Ash, so it's just me!" I exclaimed.
"If you come in here and laugh, I'll knock you out and tell Ethan that you tripped on a banana!" The blunette warned me.
"I'm sorry if I embarrassed you." I apologized, opening the door.
"I didn't know you…."
My explanation got cut the second I saw what Dawn's partner was doing. Bubbles blew past me as Piplup stopped his move on his trainer's head. With her hair getting covered by soap, Dawn laid her hands on top of her head and began to scrub away. She was sitting in front of a mirror in a spinning chair still wearing her pink and yellow pajamas. Her bare feet were exposed underneath a table with beauty supplies scattered around.
"Was Piplup using Bubblebeam on your hair?" I gasped, closing the door.
"Yep, came up with the idea back when I started my first journey in Sinnoh." Dawn nodded.
"That's pretty clever!" I commented,
'Can you turn on the fan for me, please?" The blunette ordered.
I went to the center of the room and did what Dawn frantically wanted. The room itself was pretty basic for a hotel room. It was small and there wasn't a lot of room for walking. A small window gave some sunlight into the dim room as I stood between the blunette's seat and the twin sized bed where she slept on during the night. Since the room had a ceiling fan, a single tug on the switching hanging above us was all it rook to get the blades spinning.
"Thanks." Dawn said.
"Do you want the window open too?" I suggested.
"Sure. Anything to dry off quickly." The blunette agreed.
In order to do the current objective, I had to empty out my full hands. I put Togepi on the bed and went to the window where a decent sight of Viridian City was visible. My hands grabbed the bottom of the lower screen and lifted it all the way. The morning breeze entered the room as I turned to Dawn's swaying hair.
"You should should be dry in a little bit." I told.
"Is the ketchup gone?" The blunette wondered.
One glance at the girl's long hair was enough to know that there wasn't a speck of redness in her hair. All I could see was drops of liquid running down the blue pieces of hair. Even the inner layers became soaked by the penguin's water attack.
"Don't worry, it's been washed off." I answered.
"Thank Arceus." Dawn sighed.
"Can't believe Pkachu did that to me." She replied.
"I'm pretty sure it was just an accident." I said.
"Just be glad it was woke up from that and not a Thundershock." I chuckled a little.
"T-true that!" The blunette giggled along.
"Sorry for screaming at you. I have a pet peeve of people judging my hair if it's a mess." She apologized.
"It's okay. I would have done the same if I was you." I responded.
"So why are you up so early?" Dawn asked.
"Just wanted to do some training with my pokemon before work." I answered.
"Ethan and I are gonna battle sometime today when we're on break." I added.
"Oh yeah, you guys work at that Poketronics place." The blue haired trainer mentioned.
"Good luck! You're gonna need it." A warning was given to me.
To pass the time, the blunette went on in telling me how her battle went against Ethan. Why the two decided to battle late at night was still beyond me. Apparently, it was a tag battle between Dawn's side of Pikachu and Piplup against Ethan's Zorua and Gengar. The first round sounded like it was short from what I was hearing. Although Ethan did stopped the girl's Thunder-Whirlpool combo with a combo of his own, Zorua didn't last long to Pikachu.
"Impressive!" I commented.
It wasn't the first round victory I congratulated Dawn on. What really surprised me was the cooperative bond between the blunette and her friend's Pikachu. A pokemon who hadn't seen his friend in a long time, understood the girl as if she was his master. True I've seen Ethan battle with his father's Pichu, but the little mouse knew the son throughout his young life. Dawn was a trainer from another region who must have travelled with Ash. Now the question was where did she first meet the boy. Back in Sinnoh or during another journey?
"Gengar then took out Piplup immediately after and he would've defeated Pikachu too if your Togepi hadn't appeared." The blunette finished.
The story ended with the mentioning of my baby pokemon as I turned to check on him. Since I've lost him a lot to random Metronome teleportations, he could have left without me knowing. Thankfully,Piplup provided my baby some entertainment with some bubbles. Sets of bubbles got blown out of the penguin's beak, floating above the jumping egg pokemon.
"Sorry about Togepi ruining the battle." I apologized, turning back to Dawn.
"Don't be!" Dawn said, turning to me.
"Your pokemon would have been gone if we didn't hear you." She replied.
"That's true." I said.
Dawn turned back to the mirror in front of her and inspected the top of her head. Through the mirror's reflection, I watched her pat herself on the head for any remains of wet spots dripping across her fine dark blue threadlike strands. With her hair lively calmly swaying to the breezes of the fan and the outside weather, the chances of her still wet were slim. A sigh came out of the blunette's mouth as her hand reached out for her comb. Little did she know that my hand beat her to the brush.
"Let me help you with that." I smiled kindly.
The sapphire eyes blinked at me with confusion as I wrapped my fingers around the comb's handle and lifted it off the table. Rather than just standing around doing nothing except talking to the blunette, I wanted to help her out with her hair while continuing our chat. Plus, I wanted to give her a preview of what I had in store for my battle against Ethan.
"Are you allergic to perfume?" I questioned Dawn.
"No." She shook her head.
"Then I have something for you to try on!" I announced, taking out a green bottle from my pocket.
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I looked at the last update date of this story and HOLY CRAP! March 12, 2013?!
For those of you who are still following this story, I'm so sorry for not updating it for a year! To tell you the truth, I did lose interest doing this story, but when I got into the MGS (Metal Gear Solid) franchise during the summer, I slowly went back to thiss story. It's tough when you have many other stories to update when you have new story ideas you want to publish.