Ash the next day was cleared after his incident with the Yanma he was back out on the road. Ash knew he should be reaching Ecruteak but he wasn't sure how far he was. When he caught a sweet smell in the air Mew seemed excited "do you smell that we must be near Charmaine apple orchard she has the best apples in the entire Pokemon world."
Ash was surprised "You mean you have been here how come you are not stopped by the fields up that prevent Pokemon from entering the other regions?"
"They built the machines and tech to prevent Pokemon from wandering and breeding based on the ones they could catch. The Legendary, rare Pokemon we can normally only produce one offspring my mom was different because my sister happens to be my twin this normally doesn't happen. As far as the barrier it isn't there for us. Now let's go I want some of the sweet apples."
Ash chuckled and followed his nose to find the orchard. Ash found it and made his way to the house and he saw a woman he walked up to her "I am ash I was wondering if I could buy some of your apples."
She sighed "I am Charmaine I would but right now I am having troubles with some apple thieves in the orchard if you help me out I would be willing to sell you some apples."
"Sure I don't mind can I have a look in the orchard."
She sighed in relief "Yes please have a look I have tried everything to figure out who the apple thieves are with no luck."
Ash headed off into the orchard he was walking around when Pikachu yelped he turned to see Pikachu was hit with an apple core. He looked around and he spotted who threw it Ash was surprised to see it was a Pichu. He saw the Pichu run off and Ash gave chase after it to see it join up with 4 more Pichu. Pikachu got off his shoulder and ran towards the Pichu. Ash stayed where he was while it seemed Pikachu seemed to talk with Pichu. Finally Pikachu waved Ash over he walked over to Pikachu "what's up buddy what are they doing here?"
Mew translated the speech "He says these Pokemon were on board a plane to be taken to their new habitat when the plane experienced trouble and dropped the cargo. The Pichu broke off and they got hungry and they found this place. They don't know how to survive out in the wild because they were supposed to be put with other Pikachu."
Ash didn't hear anything about this but then again he hardly watched the news. Ash was thinking over a solution when it hit him. "I have a solution you 5 will have to come with me."
Mew translated for him "They say there are more than 5 of them there is to 21Pichu those 5 are the strongest and quickest so they are left to get the food."
Ash had to admit that made since "well go get your friends and come back here I have a solution that will work out for all of you."
The Pichu ran off and about 10 minutes later came back with their friends. Ash walked them back to the house. Charmaine seemed surprised with the entourage he had. 'Is this the thieves in my field?"
"Yes I think I have a solution that will work for everybody." Charmaine didn't say anything but with her eyes was urging him to go on. "I was thinking since these Pokemon are on familiar with being out in the wild. Since everybody knows how to handle Pokemon I was thinking since they love your orchard so much that maybe they could protect, pick and in return you would feed them and shelter them and maybe train them up."
Charmaine seemed to think it over then knelt down in front of the Pichu "is that all right with you guys I would love to have you I do some to watch the orchard and help pick the apples."
All of the Pichu nodded their heads and rushed forward and hugged Charmaine who fell over and giggled as they hugged her. Ash noticed when Pichu wasn't with the group ash knelt down in front of it "Don't you want to join in?"
"She says she felt this wasn't was the life for her she felt that something else was out there for her and that she would like to go with you."
Ash pulled out a ball "I would love to have you." He activated the ball and Pichu was caught before she was whisked away Ash let her back out. She climbed to his free shoulder Charmaine was back to standing surrounded by Pichu.
"I see one of them wanted to go with you I am glad it's going to where it can be happy. For your help you can stay with me tonight and in the morning I will give you some apples for all your help."
Ash wasn't going to argue so ash followed her into the house the next morning Charmaine gave him a bag of apples and Ash was back off down the road and Pichu was back at Oak's lab. That same day Ash came upon a mountain pass it looked look a thunderstorm was rolling in and then ash noticed it getting foggy out. He went to find a place to buck down when he saw something in the fog "Sir that is Raikou it is the equivalent of Zapados sir."
Ash reacted quickly "Kadabra and Suicine I chose you." They appeared "Girls take down that Pokemon but don't hurt it too badly." Ash saw them chase after Raikou Ash could barely see but he saw the lights from the moves they were pulling off.
Ash saw a bright flash of white "Sir Kadabra just evolved into Alakazam." Ash knew she was due to evolve at any point he was glad he called her in for this battle. But then a few minutes later he saw a flash of red "Sir Alakazam was knocked I sent her back would you like to send someone else into the battle."
"Alright Zapados come on out." The lighting bird appeared "I want you to fly close to the battle but don't be seen when you see a chance I want you to use Aerial ace on Raikou." Zapados flew off into the battle. Finally he heard a thud and Raikou tumbled close to Ash it seemed to be knocked for a loop Ash took this chance and threw a Poke ball. Raikou seemed to struggling to break free but the ball eventual dinged and it was whisked away and Ash sighed in relief. Zapados landed near him and Suicine came in looking a little worse for wear. "Good job girls I am proud of you now go and take a rest."
They were whisked away Jarvis chimed in "sir besides Mew you have used Zapados to catch very single one of the rare and powerful creatures."
Ash didn't seem to notice that he realized he used an electric type for each and every one of the captures. Ash couldn't think much on it because thunder cracked and Ash ran to find a clearing in the end he found a cave and stayed there for the night. The next morning he headed out and he finally reached Ecruteak city and he now stood in front of the Ruins of the Tin Tower.
When he saw something fly overhead and he saw the rainbow and he knew it was Ho-oh the Pokemon he saw when he was first starting his journey. He was going to try and catch it "Zapados Moltres and Charizard I chose you." They appeared standing on the ground "Guys catch that Pokemon for me please."
They looked and gave acknowledgement and took after Ho-oh. All three intercepted the bird and Ho-oh unleashed a strong fire attack. Moltres intercepted and wasn't hurt by the fire Charizard was fast and grabbed Ho-oh and spun around then launched itself towards the ground at the last moment Charizard let go and pulled up Ho-oh smashed into the ground. Ash ran towards were it had fallen and as he reached the area he saw Zapados struck with a strong electrical attack. Amazingly Ho-oh was still standing and launched itself from the ground light on fire then nail Zapados.
Zapados fell from the sky with a thud Ash knew Ho-oh had used Brave bird Zapados was slowly getting up from the attack. Ho-oh was blindsided by Moltres who nailed with solar beam. Followed by Charizard who hit as Ho-oh fell with steel wing then Zapados unleashed a thunderbolt and with a mighty crash Ho-oh laid on the ground. Ash threw a great ball and a few seconds the ball dinged and it was whisked away.
Moltres, Zapados and Charizard landed Ash went over and hugged each one "you girls did great I am proud of you now take a long rest." They were whisked away and Ash turned to Mew "why do you think I keep on finding these Pokemon people go there whole lives and not see one or some trainers may see one or two but I have seen and caught including you and your sisters clone 7."
Mew shrugged her shoulders "did you ever make a wish?"
Ash flashed back to the night before his journey began when he couldn't sleep "Yeah I did the night before I was set to start my journey do you think that may have something to do with it?"
Mew again shrugged her shoulders "I don't know you would have to ask a Jarichi that question."
Ash gave a mew a puzzled look "what the heck is a Jarichi?"
Mew gave a sly grin "spoilers you will have to get to Hoenn before you find out."
Ash groaned now he wanted to get to Hoenn even faster but first he needed to get through Johto and catch the Pokemon he could and maybe defeat the elite four he ran into along the way.
