Chapter 14: Clash
Time to see what will happen in this chapter, some of my stories will be released a little late because I will be exceptionally busy with University starting for me this month, so please enjoy this story.
Ash stood up with holding his pokeball, the large white pokemon stood on the spot waiting before giving Ash the signal to capture it, "alright, Reshiram, now we are a team," Ash decreed as he threw his red and white device at the large white pokemon, the massive pokemon disappeared into the capsule before the ball landed on the ground. The pokeball started to wobble from side to side as the people started to watch the event occurring, "come on Reshiram," Ash hoped as the capturing device continued to move from side to side.
'If Ash captures Reshiram, it will change to course of the situation we are in,' N thought as he crossed his arms watching the pokeball with great intent, the former member of Team Plasma looked around to see the rest of the friends watching hoping that their friend would capture the legendary pokemon, "Hilbert, I have a request," N stated while looking standing next to his friend.
"You need me to help to find out what Team Plasma and Team Rocket are up to," Hilbert replied much to the delight of N as they continued to watched the pokeball wobble from side to side.
Hilda stood next to Ash while clasping her hands together, 'come on please Reshiram we need your help,' Hilda pleaded while closing her eyes waiting for the moment to pass which seemed like forever to her, eventually the pokeball stopped moving and signified the capture of the legendary pokemon, "he did it," Hilda said while breathing a sigh of relief.
N and Hilbert walked up to Ash followed by the gym leader of the city, "well done, for now this is where we part ways, I need to keep an eye on my father and Hilbert needs to make sure Team Rocket aren't going to cause trouble," N stated while Hilda looked away in disbelief, "don't be too sad Hilda, you have Ash to look after you," N declared while getting one of his pokeballs to get ready to leave the city, 'plus I cannot tell them that I am going to find Genesect,' N thought to himself while watching Hilda tend to Ash who fell to the ground again, "Hilda, take care of him, he is still going through fatigue," N instructed the brunette while calling out his deep black pokemon Zekrom.
"Right, Braivary time to move out," Hilbert called out his pokemon, he jumped onto the back of the flying type and flew off to search for Team Rocket in order to bring an end to their plans, he looked back as he continued to fly off with his sister tending to the tired Ash, 'Hilda, sorry little sister, but I have to defend this region so you and Ash can live in a peaceful world,' Hilbert thought as he continued to fly off with his mission in place, "come on Braivary, we need to save this region before it is destroyed," Hilbert told his pokemon as they continued on to find Team Rocket.
"Alright you two, I will be checking up on the rest of the group, you two take care," Gary told his friends before leaving them and heading towards Chargestone Cave.
While Hilda was helping Ash walk back to the hospital a small pokemon with long green hair appeared in front of them, Hilda couldn't believe her eyes, hovering in front of Ash and Hilda was Meloetta, "I cannot believe it, in one day I have seen three legendary pokemon," Hilda said as she extended her left hand out to the melody pokemon on for it to move away from her, Hilda looked over her shoulder to see Ash still sleeping when one of his pokemon jumped out of his pokeball, "I never saw Ash with this pokemon before," Hilda said in amazement while looking at the blue and black pokemon helping her get Ash back into the bed of the hospital.
Ash woke up for a moment and lifted his head and looked up to Hilda who with the help of one of his pokemon was getting him back to his room in the hospital, "Hilda, I want to battle the gym leader," Ash told his girlfriend tiredly but Hilda shook her head, "why are you saying no?" Ash asked the brunette before looking ahead to see another pokemon floating in front of him, "is that another rare pokemon? Or am I hallucinating?" Ash asked while being led back to his room.
After a while Ash was placed back on his bed in the empty hospital of the ruined city, Hilda walked out of the room to get some food for Ash, she looked back to see Ash resting on the bed peacefully, 'what if he doesn't recover?' Hilda thought to herself while closing the door to the room, "what is my brother and N planning?" Hilda asked herself as she remembered the moment she was left to look after Ash, she walked down the hall thinking about what to do next, 'I hope my child is still going,' Hilda thought as she remembered the battle and the scary moments she had at the tower,
Hilda walked to the entrance to see the café still unattended by the workers, she walked up to it to get some food, feeling uneasy about the fact that she had to steal food to help Ash, "How is Ash going?" asked a female voice causing Hilda to turn around nervously.
"Skyla, what are you doing here?" Hilda asked the gym leader quietly, "oh right I need to set some food for Ash," Hilda replied to Skyla's query while picking up some food from the shelf.
The gym leader watched in shock as her friend grabbed food but didn't pay, "Hilda, you know that stealing food is wrong?" Skyla asked started to walk back to the room with Ash, "Hilda, I know that Ash is still recovering from fatigue, it takes a while for people to recover," Skyla remarked before she decided to follow Hilda to the room with a tired Ash.
"I know all about fatigue Skyla, I have suffered from it before," Hilda professed while remembering her past before she met Ash again. "You know Ash and I have known each other since we were children," Hilda told the gym leader with a proud look on her face, "but when Ash moved away, I was totally saddened by his move," Hilda explained while the duo continued to walk towards the trainer's room.
"What happened?" Skyla asked as they entered the ward.
"Ash and my brother got into a lot of trouble, so our respective parents decided to split the two up," Hilda replied to Skyla's question with a frown, "my brother got really depressed after seeing the person he considered a brother leaving, but for me it was much worse," Hilda continued to explain her history while walking through the ward.
"What do you mean?" Skyla question quietly.
"When I was younger, I was always getting sick, the only one that would help me was Ash," Hilda retorted while pulling an old photo from her pocket, "we used to attend the same school together, Ash was always a few years ahead of me, but always stood up for me," Hilda said while looking at the picture of a younger Ash.
"Why would he? You seem so strong now," Skyla enquired quickly.
"Because I wasn't a healthy person at the time, because I used to get sick all the time, it as what the kids needed to have to pick on me," Hilda replied proudly, "Hilbert never knew about the trouble Ash got into by just standing up for me," Hilda remarked while the gym leader before making to the entrance of the room, the women opened the door to find Ash still on the bed but this time he was awake, "it was during the middle of my third year in primary school that I was getting ganged up by a group of sixth graders, it was Ash who defended me but was beaten up himself," Hilda said while walking into the room with Ash looking over to the women approaching him, "when Ash and Hilbert got into trouble and Ash moved to the Kanto region I lost my pillar of strength, so I resolved to get stronger," Hilda said while presenting the food to Ash.
Ash took the food and smiled at his girlfriend, "wow, I totally forgot about our school days," Ash said with shame, "oh thanks for the food Hilda," Ash thankfully told the brunette, he sat up and took a bite from the sandwich, "I forgot about the days in school when I stood up for you," Ash confessed sadly as he finished his sandwich.
"The reason why I became a trainer is to get stronger," Hilda explained while sitting next to Ash with more food in her grasp, "after reaching ten years of age, I tried to talk my parents into letting me get a starter pokemon, but they refused me that chance, they both knew that if I got a pokemon I would immediately leave Unova to search for you like Hilbert did," Hilda told Ash much to the surprise of the trainer sitting up on the bed.
Ash looked up to his girlfriend and almost dropped his food, "to be honest Hilda, when I started travelling I did notice Hilbert following me a few times, I just never told my friends about it," Ash explained while chuckling, "say Hilda, where are your parents anyway?" Ash asked the woman sitting next to him.
Hilda sat there in shock she dropped the remaining food in her hands on the floor, her mouth agape and visibly shaken up, "the reason why we never see my parents again is because, they died while on vacation about five years ago," Hilda replied as tears started to flow down her face, "I was hanging out with one of my few friends Bianca, she was like a sister to me," Hilda explained while trying to keep more tears falling from her eyes.
Skyla watched from a distance and kept quiet knowing that she needed to get out of there, Ash looked up to see the magenta haired woman leaving the scene, "Skyla, I want to challenge you to a gym battle," Ash called out to the gym leader.
"Of course, I have six flying types so I will be battling you both one after the other," Skyla replied before walking away, 'I can't believe Hilbert doesn't know anything about his family and what happened to his parents,' Skyla thought while looking back to see Hilda restart her conversation with Ash.
Meanwhile back in the room Ash was getting ready to walk out of the room, "Hilda, tell me on the way to our gym battle," Ash told the brunette before grasping his head, 'dammit, still so damn tired,' Ash thought while walking slowly towards the woman in the room, "come on Hilda, we need to get a move on," Ash said while extending his hand out to the lady.
Hilda looked up to see Ash holding his hand out, 'Ash,' Hilda thought's echoed loudly in her mind, "what am I supposed to do Ash?" Hilda asked the trainer while grabbing his hand, "I lied to you about my parents being alive, but I knew that eventually you would find out," Hilda said with a frown, she got up and the couple started to walk towards the exit of the hospital.
"Dawn would always say no need to worry," Ash replied with a faint smile.
The two trainers walked out of the hospital and to look around the city and find no one had returned. It remained very quiet as the buildings looked like they were going to fall to the ground without warning, the wind picked up in the city, "this place is so depressing," Hilda commented while keeping the trainers hand tightly in hers, she turned her attention the airfields ahead of the duo, with the hanger nearly completely destroyed due to the battle that raged on the previous days.
Ash sighed a little with guilt written over his face, he couldn't believe that the enemies would have such disregard for people's safety, "I agree Hilda, but what were we supposed to do?" Ash asked the brunette with a frown, clenching his left hand in anger as his Pikachu watched him stopping on the spot with Hilda standing next to him, "I might have Reshiram helping us, but I still don't know what to do," Ash commented while closing his eyes to picture in his mind what happened, 'I have no idea what I would do if I can't protect Hilda,' Ash thought while seeing a picture of the young brunette vanishing in front of him.
"Are you alright?" Hilda asked the trainer, he looked up and smiled at the woman.
Ash nodded while trying to maintain his cool, "yeah I am fine, just thinking about something," Ash commented in reply while looking up to see the sun beginning the set.
"Fine, really Ash? I know that there is something not right," Hilda replied with a frown as she took a step in front of Ash and stood in front of him, she looked up and gazed into his eyes.
"No really I was only thinking about something," Ash retorted with a faint smile, Hilda slowly moved her right hand up to Ash's face and cusped it while smiling at him, "Hilda, what are you doing?" Ash asked the young woman unable to do anything to.
"Ash, I want to battle you," Hilda demanded with a more determined expression, Ash listened with shock unable to come up with a response, he shook his head while he tried to mutter a word, "I really want to see how much stronger I have become," Hilda said while keeping her hand firmly on the trainers face.
"But Hilda, why now?" Ash asked the brunette who shook her head in reply.
The brunette leaned in towards Ash's left ear and whispered, "not now, when we get to Lentimas Town."
Hilda removed her hand and turned around to start walking to the gym, "where is Lentimas Town?" Ash asked the woman quietly.
Hilda looked over her shoulder and smiled at him, "on the other side of the region Ash, once we deal with Skyla, she will take us there," Hilda replied before walking off again.
Ash followed Hilda to the gym with Pikachu jumping on his shoulder, he looked back to see some of the buildings falling apart, "you know buddy, I am not sure if I should battle Hilda," Ash said while turning his gaze to the beautiful brunette, 'what should I do?' Ash asked himself while thinking about his still unborn child, "hey wait a second Hilda," Ash called over to Hilda with a smile, he tried to run over to his girlfriend but was too tired to run.
Hilda ran over to him and too his hand again, "you're still really tired Ash," Hilda decreed as she helped him towards the gym.
"Hilda, there is something I need to ask of you," Ash commented as they were approached by the gym leader.
"What is it Ash?" Hilda asked as she turned her eyes to the trainer.
Ash gulped nervously as he closed his eyes thinking about the future after the journey, "you know Hilda, we are almost at the end of our journey in this region," Ash commented while pulling out a box from his pocket, "while you weren't feeling well, I sort of went out shopping for a while," Ash professed while finding a small box in his pocket, "close your eyes for a moment," Ash requested happily.
Hilda closed her eyes while Ash continued to search for the item, "Ash, what is it?" Hilda asked again.
Ash eventually pulled out the small box in his pocket, her kneeled down and gulped again, he opened the box with a shining gold ring, "open your eyes," Ash instructed calmly.
Hilda looked down to see the trainer kneeling down in front of her, "Ash, what are you doing?" Hilda asked the trainer in shock, she was overcome by emotions that she started to cry in joy.
"Hilda, we are going to be parents, so I think it would be the right thing for me to do," Ash commented with joy, "Hilda, will you marry me?" Ash proposed loudly.
Hilda stood in shock crying some more, knowing that Ash wasn't going to run away from this responsibility, "yes I will," Hilda replied to Ash's question, Ash stood up and placed the ring on her left ring finger, but before Ash could say a word Hilda placed her finger over his lips, "but after we compete in the Unova League," Hilda commented with joy as she looked at her ring that Ash had given her, not noticing Skyla standing behind them.
"So when is the wedding?" Skyla asked the duo with a cheeky smile.
"After the Unova League," Hilda commented with pride.
Ash nodded in approval as Hilda grabbed his arm, "but before we can compete in the Unova League we both need to win three more badges," Ash remarked as he grabbed for his pokeball.
"Right, Ash will battle three of my pokemon, then Hilda will battle the other three pokemon after you Ash," Skyla commented with certainty while pulling out a pokeball ready to battle Ash, "go Swoobat," Skyla called forth her first pokemon to take to the battle.
Ash grabbed for his pokeball ready to battle the gym leader, "Zoroark, I choose you," Ash called out his dark type pokemon to battle Skyla's flying type pokemon, "I will start things off with Dark Pulse," Ash remarked as he ordered his pokemon with confidence.
"Swoobat attack with Air Slash," Skyla replied to Ash's first attack.
The two pokemon unleashed their powerful attacks at one another, as the two attack moved closer to center of the battlefield Hilda watched on as the powerful moves clashed together creating a powerful gust of wind sending parts of the attacks flying away, Zoroark and Swoobat glared at each other waiting for the chance to attack yet again.
"Alright Zoroark attack with Shadow Ball," Ash instructed his pokemon quickly.
"Counter with Aerial Ace," Skyla counter quickly.
The flying type charged at the trainers pokemon while barely dodging the shadowy blob of energy, the attack landed causing a decent amount of damage on the illusion fox pokemon, "time to surprise her, Zoroark attack with Flamethrower," Ash instructed his pokemon with a smirk, the powerful dark type unleashed a powerful burst of flames at the courting pokemon smashing it with devastating force, the psychic type fell to the ground after receiving a critical.
"No Swoobat!" Skyla yelled out for her pokemon as it tried to get back up, eventually the flying type got back up but was panting from the hit, "alright, psychic moves will have no effect on a dark type pokemon," Skyla reminded herself as she looked over to the trainer who as panting from the first round of the battle, 'he is still tired,' Skyla thought as concern started to build up, she looked over to Hilda who was more concerned while noticing that Ash was on the verge of collapsing but was pushing himself up.
"Zoroark finish this quickly with Night Daze," Ash tiredly called for the next attack of the round, the dark type's eyes started to glow a pure red before unleashing a powerful wave of dark energy at the flying type hitting it hard and knocking it out of the battle and giving Ash the first round of the battle.
Hilda kept her eyes on Ash as more concern started to fill her heart, she watched as the trainer struggled to keep his footing on the ground, 'crap, his fatigue is starting to catch up to him,' Hilda thought while standing up to prepare to run over to Ash, "Ash, I will come to help," Hilda said before Ash raised his left arm up to stop Hilda, "Ash," Hilda whispered to herself before stopping in front of the trainer.
"This is my battle," Ash said while trying to get himself back up.
"There is no need for you to everything on your own," Hilda berated Ash while getting closer.
Ash got back up and looked at the gym leader, he shook his head to shake the tiredness from himself, he looked up again to see Skyla holding a pokeball only to find three women standing in front of him, 'oh man, what's going on?' Ash asked himself while grasping his head, he turned his gaze to see Hilda walking up to him, "no Hilda, I will be fine," Ash stated while feeling the effects of the battle.
"Unfeazant, time to battle," Skyla called out her next pokemon, she shrugged her shoulders and shook her head, "you know you should listen to Hilda," Skyla told Ash concerned that his fatigue was starting to get worse.
"No, I will be fine, Zoroark attack with Dark Pulse," Ash instructed while falling to one knee, 'great she even used Double Team this early,' Ash thought as he saw another two copies of the flying type pokemon.
The dark type pokemon sent out a pulse of dark energy at the opposing pokemon, "Use Gust," Skyla instructed her pokemon with confidence. The flying type flapped his wings and releasing a powerful gust of wind to match the dark wave of energy.
Ash watched while panting for air while watching his pokemon hit the gym leaders pokemon with ferocious power, the flying type fell to the ground while Ash placed his hands on the ground, "Zoroark attack with Flamethrower," Ash commanded before falling face first onto the ground. The powerful dark type sent out a flurry of flames hitting the opposing pokemon much to the shock of the gym leader.
"He beat two of my pokemon before losing one of his," Skyla told herself but noticed Ash out cold on the ground, 'but he is completely drained, I guess that battle against Team Rocket and Team Plasma took a lot out of him,' Skyla reminded herself as she watched Hilda running towards Ash, she knelt down next to him, she picked up the pokeball and recalled the dark type pokemon, "Hilda, we can finish the battle tomorrow," Skyla told her friend with a frown.
Hilda shook her head and picked up one of her pokeballs, "no, I will take his place in battle," Hilda decreed while throwing out her pokeball, "go Liepard," Hilda called out her first captured pokemon.
"Swanna, time to battle," Skyla replied with her more powerful pokemon, "Hilda, if you can defeat my last four pokemon with your four you win I will give you and Ash a badge each," Skyla declared with a confident smile, "I will start this party with, Hurricane," Skyla instructed her water type pokemon with great confidence. The flying type flapped its wings unleashing a powerful blast of wind towards the dark type pokemon.
Hilda gritted her teeth knowing that trying to overpower this pokemon was going to be difficult, "Liepard, dodge the attack then counter with Night Slash," Hilda instructed her pokemon quickly. The smaller dark type dodged the attack and then charged towards the flying pokemon with shard claws extending out before jumping up at the pokemon.
"Oh no you don't, Swanna attack with Brave Bird," Skyla instructed her pokemon with assurance, the flying type flew towards the purple pokemon.
"Dodge it now," Hilda demanded with panic in her voice, the dark type dodged the attack but the flying type quickly changed its path and flew towards the dark type pokemon with the same blue aura, "Night Slash now!" Hilda yelled out with even more panic in her voice.
The Dark type did its best to turn around and slashed down on the attacking pokemon, the two attacks collided knocking the two pokemon back, red lightning arched its way around the flying type as the feline like pokemon tried to get back up after the devastating attack, "Liepard no!" Hilda screamed out for her pokemon.
The two pokemon collapsed after the first round making it a draw, the two trainers recalled their fallen pokemon getting ready to call out their next combatants, "Mandibuzz, time to battle," Skyla called out her fourth pokemon in the battle against Hilda, 'what pokemon is next?' Skyla wondered as she waited for Hilda to reply to her pokemon.
'Her next pokemon is a dark type, so this one should do nicely,' Hilda thought as she pulled out a different pokeball instead, "Pignite, I choose you," Hilda imitated Ash's signature line, "after you Skyla," Hilda invited the gym leader to attack.
"You asked for it, Mandibuzz attack with Brave Bird," Skyla replied to the invitation, the bone vulture pokemon flew up and charged towards the fire pig pokemon with a bright blue aura.
"Dodged it now with Flame Charge," Hilda countered with confidence. The fire type gained a bright red aura and ran to the left dodging the attack coming from the dark type pokemon, "now use Brick Break," Hilda ordered as she punched the air in front of her, "but use Flame Charge to get closer," Hilda instructed with confidence.
The fire type ran with the flaming aura, the right fist of the starter glowing white as he got closer before slamming down on to the vulture like pokemon, the dark type fell back as Skyla gasped in shock with as the effect of the attack hurt her flying type pokemon, "amazing," Skyla complimented as her pokemon started to get back up.
Hilda looked down to see Ash was still not getting back up, "Ash, I promise to win this for the both of us," Hilda whispered while his Pikachu looked at the woman with guilt over his face, "Pikachu, I want you to help me out," Hilda whispered to the small yellow pokemon. Hilda returned her focus to the battle, her pokemon ready to take the next order as it came, 'Pignite should be faster as well,' Hilda thought while watching dark type flapping her wings ready to continue the battle against the fighting type pokemon.
"Your pokemon is impressing Hilda, but it will not be enough Air Slash now," Skyla replied while smirking at the younger woman. Her pokemon flew up with her wings glowing blue, the bone vulture pokemon sent out blades of air towards the fire pig pokemon.
"I don't think so, Pignite dodge Air Slash," Hilda commanded while swinging her left arm out. The fire type moved quickly to dodge the attacks coming from the dark type, "now hit it with Flamethrower," Hilda demanded with conviction, a powerful blast of flames burst from the fire type pokemon smashing into the flying type pokemon with ferocious impact.
Skyla watched in disbelief as her pokemon fell to the ground, "Mandibuzz get up now!" Skyla yelled out as her pokemon tried to get back up but was unsuccessful in the attempt, Skyla recalled her pokemon upset that her advantage was no longer there, 'you're an amazing trainer Hilda, but I need to prove that us gym leaders are superior,' Skyla thought while smirking at the woman standing at the other end of the battlefield, she pulled out her pokeball and got ready to call out her next pokemon, "Braivary, time to battle," Skyla called forth her next pokemon to battle Hilda.
Hilda looked at her partner pokemon noticing that he was tired and couldn't do much more, "alright, Pignite attack with Brick Break," Hilda called out for the attack of the new round, the fighting type moved quickly to attack the flying type pokemon.
"Not a chance, Braviary attack with Brave Bird," Skyla replied with the counter attack, the powerful flying type charge towards the fighting type with a bright blue aura, in an instance the valiant pokemon crashed into the fire pig dealing significant damage to the fire type, "I should tell you this will not be easy," Skyla explained while crossing her arms and shaking her head.
Hilda recalled her fallen pokemon while the flying type and getting ready to call out her next pokemon, Hilda looked down again to see Ash getting up slowly, Hilda knelt down and placed her hand on his back, "Ash, this is my turn to fight for you," Hilda whispered sweetly while grabbing one of the trainers pokeballs, "Fraxure, I choose you," Hilda called out one of her loves pokemon for the battle, "Fraxure, Ash cannot battle this time around so I am taking his place," Hilda explained to the dragon type pokemon. The dragon type nodded and got ready to face off against the powerful flying type that easily accounted for her fire starter pokemon.
The battle is heading into its final moments with Hilda facing off against Skyla's more powerful pokemon.
Will she win the battle? Or will she fail? What will they discover in Lentimas Town?
Next time Chapter 15: Grateful.
I will make this promise, here and now, I will finish this story by the end of June no excuses, the monthly releases will most likely not happen as I will try to release once a week.
Please have a look at the next installment in the Trainer and the Princess saga as it will take place in the Unova region, it should have a different start to the saga than most of my other stories a well.