Chapter 21: Deep Drive
"Come on Ash, we should get back inside to sort things out," Professor Oak told the raven-haired trainer.
"Right, I'll take May," Ash said plainly.
Misty took Blaziken's Pokeball, Pikachu, Tracey, and Professor Oak followed close behind. Ash just walked slowly towards May's fainted body. The only noise was his footsteps as all the Pokémon thought it was best to stay quiet after what just happened. May lay there unconsciously, her hair was hanging down, her eyes were closed, and the rest of her body posed as if she died.
Ash picked her up and carried her like she was a princess going to bed. As he carried he could have sworn he felt her move. When he looked her, May hid her head in his chest as if she were a little girl being carried to bed by her daddy. He blushed slightly at this gesture and saw that the others were about to enter the lab. May was actually heavier than he thought, but considering the way she eats he shouldn't be surprised. On the other she never really shows signs of gaining weight. She was an angel in a deep slumber, Ash thought.
When he reached the lab he saw Misty, Pikachu, Oak, and Tracey. "Ash, you should leave her on the couch in the book room for rest until she wakes up," Professor Oak suggested.
"Yeah ok," the Pallet boy carried her to the book room.
There he was a little unwilling to let May go. In his arms it felt as though she was defenseless and she needed him for protection. She needed someone to hold her tightly and protect her from people like Drew. He looked one more time at the sleeping angel and put her on the bed for rest, that moment he had the temptation do something and he couldn't fight it. Ash leaned closer and kissed her forehead.
"Sweet dreams May," the boy in the hat smiled and walked out of the room.
May was just left there alone and for a second a little smile appeared on her face before vanishing. When Ash entered the room where the others were it was time for a discussion.
"So would you care to explain what happened kids?" the old man questioned as to what occurred earlier.
"Professor May and Drew were battling with Blaziken and Typhlosion respectively," the Cerulean Gym Leader explained.
"And things got out of hand when Typhlosion activated Blaze and a strange black aura began to encircle Drew. His eyes turned black, he became emotionless and aggressive out of thin air," the Pallet trainer uttered to the Pallet professor.
"What else happened?" the Pallet professor's assistant spoke with curiosity.
"Drew started taunting her after he had won the battle, even when Blaziken and May did the best they could to win," the black-haired trainer began to clench his fists.
"So the rest happened when we arrived didn't it?" the elder man had assumed.
"Yeah, that's right. When Drew stormed out of here," the red-head recalled.
"I feel like there is more to this. Never before have I seen someone's eye color change and better yet have a black substance circle, truly mysterious indeed. Was he like this earlier?" Oak asked once again.
"Yesterday when he came back from your lab after dropping Roserade off, he came home with promises of ending the intense rivalry he and I have been having since he arrived. This morning though, he was completely different. He was complaining about headaches and was acting dead the whole morning, when he arrived here his eyes were flaring for training, but when things began to disfavor him he got that black glow," Ash clarified with the best detail he could.
Tracey raised an eyebrow and Professor Oak rubbed his chin, "Something is very wrong here. It's irrational for someone to behave like this and transform in to such a violent character within seconds. Ash and Misty may I ask you a favor?" Professor Oak had been speaking to the two experienced battlers.
"Yes, professor?" the two were puzzled as to what he was going to request.
"I want you to follow any leads as to what is going on with Drew and where he may have gone," the gray-haired adult ordered.
"Right," the duo acknowledged seriously.
"Yeah and please come back as soon as you find anything, we're also concerned about him," the headband assistant added.
"Of course Tracey," the messy haired teen assured him.
"We'll be upstairs in the computer room, let us know when you will begin this investigation. After all, you will need to recollect every lead you have won't you?" the professor included as the two shook their heads.
"Pikachu!" the yellow mouse leaped on to his master's shoulder.
"That's right, Pikachu will be great at sniffing things out as well as hearing since Pokémon have better senses than we humans," Oak also mentioned to them.
"You hear that buddy, we'll need your help too," the boy in the Sinnoh Attire grinned as his Pikachu got on a determined face that would assure help in the search for answers.
"Well then, oh and Misty can you give Blaziken to Tracey. He'll make sure May's Pokémon makes a fast recovery in the examination room," the old man stated one last thing.
The red-haired girl reached for the ball, "Of course, here you go Tracey." Mist handed the Pokeball to Tracey.
Tracey received the ball, "I'll make sure Blaziken gets a nice rest you guys and if May wakes up just tell her to not worry about it."
"Will do," the gym leader informed him as the two residents of the laboratory continued upstairs to continue the work they had been doing before this interruption, leaving Ash, Misty, and Pikachu alone.
"So Ash, where do we start off?" the water user asked him.
"Misty do you really think Drew could've done without thinking twice?" the boy returned a question.
"What do you mean?" Misty inquired in confusion.
"The way Drew was treating May before he left. I really thought he changed for the better, but now it's clear he changed for the worst and going as far as to hurt May like that," Ash spoke sternly about the events.
"This time Ash, I don't Drew didn't through his own actions. He may be spiteful towards you, but he could never hate May because he cares about her as much as you do. You have to see that," the water gym leader put on arm on his shoulder.
"Then why'd he do it in the first place?" the Kanto male asked her.
"Ash you're in denial. You think Drew did this intentionally because Drew has always seemed arrogant and egotistic, but you have to look at the facts also. Think about it, how on earth Drew could change eye color and start glowing black in a battle," the red-haired Kanto girl made him think this out.
Her raven-haired friend looked in to her eyes and recalled the moment Drew changed. He was unable to see the change because the smoke had been hiding him so it wasn't clear as to how he did it.
"We never saw him change eye color or get that black aura around him, did we?" the Ketchum boy recollected.
"Yeah, so there has to be more to this than we think. I bet those headaches he had this morning also had to do something with it, he might as well have been restraining it earlier, but it snapped during the battle," the blue-eyed gym leader told him.
"When did it happen though?" the auburn-eyed teen questioned it.
"My guess is something happened last night," the older girl made an assumption.
Ash faced the ground, but when? He didn't recall anything bizarre occurring last night and why hadn't he told them about it earlier? They could've helped him with this if he had asked.
"Why couldn't he fight back Misty?" the teen got frustrated at Drew's secret.
"Whatever it was, it must've been stronger the boy's own will," the water gym leader presumed.
"That's no excuse, you have to keep fighting," the boy retorted.
Misty frowned at him, "Excuse me Ash, but he isn't the first person I've heard of that's experienced this."
Ash frowned at her, "What do you mean?"
"The King of Pokelantis, does that ring a bell?" the Water-type gym leader raised an eyebrow.
That moment Ash had been paralyzed by her words. He had completely forgotten about that horrible experience, when the evil king himself had possessed Ash's body. It was a dark spirit with ambitions of using Ho-oh to dominate the world. Max, Brock, Pikachu, and May had all told him about his time under the king's manipulation. He had used his devious tactics to try and defeat Brandon using his Sceptile. The aura was similar to Drew's and had no concern for human life when he ordered Sceptile to use the judge as a human shield. It wasn't without the help of his friends that he was finally able to break free from the possession. Without them who knew what would've happened, he didn't have the ability to fight back an enemy from within. Is it possible that Drew was experiencing something like this?
"How'd you figure out?" the boy was put down by the comment.
"Brock told me about it. You didn't care about your friends or anything and he said you had a dark aura circling you. It sounds like Drew isn't the only lover who's been under something related to this. You weren't able to break free until May, Brock, Pikachu, and Max got you out of the effect," his red-head friend told him.
"Yeah that's right. You think Drew is in the same situation?" the boy questioned her.
Misty nodded, "Yeah and he needs someone to help him break free. Professor Oak chose us for the job and that's what we will do."
"What about May?" the younger friend asked her.
"I don't think we'll find Drew today, he must be at the end of Route 1 by now. His Flygon seemed pretty fast," the gym leader expected.
"Oh, you know something else has been bothering me," Ash declared to her.
"What is it?" Misty asked him.
"May lied to us about her result in the Johto Grand Festival," the boy looked at her.
"Ash, you can't be upset at her about that, can you? I'm sure there's a perfect explanation for it and you can ask her when she wakes up," the cerulean-eyed girl looked at him.
"Why though? Becoming famous and travel was what May always fantasized about, why is she still here. She worked hard and beat Drew in the finals, why did she throw it all away after working so hard. Others work hard for an honor like that," Ash expressed his opinion on this.
His Cerulean friend's hardened, "Listen Ash, you can snap at her when she wakes up. She lost Drew and she doesn't want to lose you either, if you want to figure this out you're going to have to take it smoothly. May needs more than ever now and she doesn't want no one else, set things right and help get through her crisis, besides May is unpredictable and I'm just happy she won it after working hard to beat opponents like Drew, you said it yourself outside when you confronted Drew."
The teen male stopped there. What she said was true, he told Drew he didn't care about any of that, and he was just happy that she beat him and won the whole tournament. It might just be the stress building up that made him think this way, but his curiosity would still find out as to why May had denied the opportunity of fame in the first place. Ever since May and Drew came he has experienced things he rarely does feel, stress, jealousy, and most importantly love.
"You're right Misty, May needs someone to be there for her and I'll be there to cheer her up. Just like I always have in the past," the messy haired boy gave her a reassuring smile.
"That's the spirit now come on let's go look for some clues," Misty winked at him.
"Right, let's tell Professor Oak," Ash told her as they both decided to go upstairs to the computer lab.
Ash felt a bit sorry for leaving May behind. She would have done that silly yet cute May's Investigation act, but he was aware that needed all the rest she could get before going back to the cruel reality she was living in. When they reached the computer lab they sound Professor Oak checking on some data on Dragon-type Pokémon.
"Professor what are you doing?" the raven-haired trainer questioned him.
"Oh excuse me; I was just researching something on Dragon-type Pokémon. I have been really captivated by it lately," the professor explained.
"Oh ok, we're going to out to do as you requested professor," Misty stated to him.
"Oh splendid, we'll wait for you here now. Just close the door when you leave ok," Oak told them.
"No problem, see ya later professor and tell Tracey we'll be back," Ash ran back downstairs with Misty.
"Of course, bye now kids," the old man said farewell to the two teens.
Soon he got back to his dragon research and on the search bar typed "hydra, wings, dragon," but like before there was no search result for it. Professor Oak frowned and mumbled, "What are you?"
Ash, Misty, and Pikachu were leaving the lab behind as they walked on to the dirt path.
"Now where do we go Misty? I'm not sure we have any leads," the auburn-eyed teen looked at her with a confused face.
"Nonsense Ash, we know that he went north because he said it, but it's best if we go check out the scene of the event," the Cerulean resident thought with the instincts of an FBI agent.
Ash recalled any place Drew might've been at last night. There was Oak's Lab and he said his Roserade had gotten hurt during some training on the beach, the beach!
"Misty I think I know where we can go!" the Pallet resident figured it out.
Both Pikachu and Misty stared at him a bit surprise since he usually doesn't think this fast outside of battle, "Really where Ash?"
"Yesterday, when Drew came back he told May and I that his Roserade got injured battling on the beach and had to go to Professor Oak's Laboratory," the black-haired boy pointed out to them.
"Nice one Ash, so let's head to the beach," the red-head suggested and they got on the road.
"We forgot to analyze that picture those two were talking about, but no matter we can manage," the cold voice of a coordinator said.
He was flying over the last parts on the northern end of Viridian City. From this height the busy and gigantic city wasn't very large; it looked more like a play set that would be played with by some toddler. Cars were ants and people couldn't even be seen, just after city and some bit grasslands awaited the location where he was headed to.
His Dragon/Ground-type flew him across the skies as they continued onward to their destination. Flygon would never defy his trainer, but he was alert about his strange behavior ever since they left the ranch. He saw that May had been crying, Ash ready to fight his master and the others just seemed stunned about the transpiring occurrence. What could have gone wrong and knowing his trainer, there was a possibility that he had done it, which is why he wanted to leave the place. He had been acting strange since last night when he had released him from his Pokeball and asked about any strange. The dragon only wondered if it involved the horrifying dream that the coordinator had told Typhlosion and him about.
Drew's eyes were darker than ever and his aura had become so black that it could be could be identified from the ground as a flying black orb. His thoughts recalled what happened back at the ranch. His Typhlosion had mercilessly ended Blaziken and he himself had left May at the end of despair. Ash had been upset about it and would do anything to get his hands on him, but why did he care. The coordinator could have ended everything that instant and continue with his work.
Imagines of the brunette appeared in his head, the sounds of her giggling, and remembered run-ins with her in Hoenn and Kanto as well as their time together in Johto, "Some things are just more important." Drew tightened his fist as he went through the clouds.
One futile attempt at getting back at him was the barrage of attacks Ash and May's Pokémon had tried to hit him with. Flygon had easily dodged each one, but every last thing about those people and Pokémon irritated him. This day wouldn't be forgotten in his corrupt mind as he looked on at the sky.
By this point the city had seen its end and Drew left it behind. Leaving Viridian City showed that Drew was ever closer to his goal and if it had involved destroying such a major city he would have done so because his mind had worked like that. The dark aura was clearly corrupting his minds and soon the white in his eyes was becoming darker just like his eyes. Determination for completing the task was pumping in his blood and nothing would stop him, not after coming this far.
"Accelerate Flygon," the coordinator commanded.
Flygon started flying faster as he obeyed the command, but at that moment Drew saw something hiding among the clouds. It was bright and multi-colored; although it may be hidden it left behind falling glitter that shined like gold.
"What is that," the green-haired teen narrowed his vision to the flying object. When it came out from the clouds it revealed a tremendous bird with a long beak as well as several different colored feathers and Drew had realized what it was.
"Ho-oh…Flygon follow it," the dark-eyed coordinator demanded.
His Hoenn Pokémon then changed to the direction of the Fire/Flying-type and soon was flying discreetly in the sky as Ho-oh remained oblivious to it.
"Wonder what would happen if I caught that bird," the LaRousse coordinator reached for Pokeball.
"Flygon use Dragonbreath!" Drew commanded as Flygon shot a green beam at Ho-oh.
The legendary bird quickly spotted it at the corner of its eye and dodged by going to the side.
"Darn it, it knows," the green-haired teen got annoyed.
"Flygon use Dragonbreath again," the LaRousse boy ordered.
This time however Ho-oh hid itself in the clouds and the Dragonbreath missed, thus bothering Drew even further. He quickly told Flygon to go after and that was possibly one of the worst orders he had ever made. The cloud was heavy and dense, blocking both of their views and flying nowhere. It felt like forever for both of them and Drew supposed that the clever bird had lost track of them and escaped.
When they finished crossing the dense cloud they found themselves if the sky once again and with Viridian Forest just on the horizon with grasslands under them, "Darn that bird, should have stayed on task. Come on Flygon to the forest."
The moment Flygon began to travel towards the first something shot out from below. Drew became alert and looked below to see a Dragon Pulse aiming for them.
"Flygon dodge!" the coordinator ordered and the dragon avoided the attack just in time, but within seconds another was shot. "Again!"
After dodging a barrage of several Dragon Pulses, Flygon and Drew believed it was over and wondered what that could have been, but there was no time to think when two Dragon Pulses shot out from opposite sides, Flygon avoided the first, but was hit by second and the two began falling towards the ground.
His Hoenn Pokémon fainted because of the attack while it dropped like a missile to the ground. Its trainer reached for the Pokeball, "Flygon return!" and the red light transported Flygon back to its ball, while Drew kept falling.
"Looks like this is it…" Drew closed his eyes and let himself drop. Before he did his eyes slowly started turning black and his aura vanished, then everything went black.
"Foolish boy, no one can catch Ho-oh," a mysterious voice was heard and that was all that was heard after.
Ash and Misty stood on the sandy beach with Pikachu on Ash's shoulder. "Well Ash let's get to work," Misty ordered him.
"How are we going to find evidence here though, it isn't like the beach is small," Ash complained to her.
"There's no other choice, besides we have Pikachu. He can smell and hear things out well, better than we can so that's a great help," the red-head tried to brighten the situation up.
"Yeah, guess that works," the black-haired teen agreed.
"Ok let's split off, but let's not go too far," the Cerulean gym leader told them as they acknowledged and began the search.
Pikachu started digging through the sand to find any items, while Misty went to swim in the water to find anything there. She may get her clothes wet and she didn't expect to go swimming, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Ash looked behind the rocky parts of the beach to find anything, but there was nothing except for some pebbles. He began getting annoyed with the lack of clues and began digging himself.
Misty swam through the water and tried to feel anything suspicious in the water, but nothing could be found except broken seashells and stardust. When she grabbed something that felt like plastic she got out of the water to see what she had caught and it revealed a Yin and Yang sign. She turned it around to find some letters and saw two letter, "M's" on the sides of the circular object and with the letters, "U, N, A" in the middle. It looks as though some of the letters have been scratched off, Misty thought. Some of the scratched letters seemed to write B or E. Misty thought she should keep this just in case.
Ash also continued digging in the sand and saw something glistening that was sticking out. The messy haired trainer approached it and tried to pull it out, but it was stuck well so it decided to dig from its sides to loosen the grip. As he dug it felt very hard and there were tints of blue that weren't covered in blue. When he thought dug good enough he pulled on the object and it was still resilient, but the boy started to strain more and finally he pulled the item out, however he fell backwards and sent whatever the thing was flying.
"This is really not my day," the auburn-eyed teen sighed as he got up and walked to the object.
He picked the item up and examined it; it seemed to be the size of a Thunderstone. Ash wiped the dust off it and the item revealed itself. "What is a sapphire doing on the beach? Weird, I thought you could only find this in caves, might as well hang on to it if it is a lead."
All Pikachu had found up until now were shells, Krabby, and Shellder hidden under the sand, but nothing. Our yellow mouse began to get irritated, but when he approached the trees he smelled something like burned wood. The Electric-type went in to the trees to follow the scent and when reached the source he was shocked to see what he had found.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu called out so Ash and Misty could here.
"Sounds like Pikachu," Ash put the sapphire in his pocket and ran to the source of the call.
"Pikachu's calling, better head over to the trees," Misty put the Yin and Yang sign in her pocket.
The two teens ran to the place where Pikachu was calling. "Pikachu!" the two stated simultaneously.
"Misty, did you find anything?" the raven-haired boy asked.
"Yeah I…" her speaking was interrupted by the sounds of a tree that was starting to fall.
"Misty watch out!" Ash leaped at her and the two moved out of the falling tree's way.
"Are you ok?" the black-haired teen looked at her.
"Uh umm yeah," the red-head smiled shyly and blushed.
Ash wondered why she was blushing and he soon realized that he was on top of her, embracing her. They looked in to each other's eyes saw felt something they had already felt once before yesterday. Misty felt warm in Ash's embrace and it felt as though she didn't want to let go, neither did Ash. This was something none of the two could understand, but they were lost in each other for some reason.
"Pika!" the mouse grabbed the pair's attention; he was obviously irritated at both of them for forgetting the reason of their mission.
Misty got her senses and so did Ash. "Umm sorry," the teen boy laughed nervously as he let go of Misty and pulled her up.
"Don't worry about it," the gym leader laughed nervously as well.
Pikachu sighed at this and had no time for the love routine right now. Thankfully they both returned their focus to the task, "So what'd you find?" the mouse's trainer asked.
"Pika," the yellow rodent pointed to some burnt trees.
"Wow, how'd these trees get their trunk burned?" the boy with the hat questioned.
"Pikachu!" the mouse leaped and hit a thick burned trunk with its tail and the trunk broke in to two as the tree fell backwards.
"These trees are really delicate since they've been burned," Misty informed the two.
"Yeah, you didn't even have to use Iron Tail to break a tree like that one, but how did this happen?" the Kanto trainer inquired.
"There must've been a battle here, and something tells me it involved Drew," the Kanto gym leader stated.
"He could have been training here Misty, that's all," the boy in the Sinnoh Attire explained.
"It's probable, but he could have been also been battling someone. How many of Drew's Pokémon know fire techniques, besides Typhlosion?" the water user questioned.
Ash recollected all of the Pokémon Drew owned in his head. There was Roserade, Masquerain, Absol, Typhlosion, Flygon, and Butterfree. Masquerain, Roserade, and Butterfree unable to use offensive fire attacks, but Absol have the capability to learn fire offenses. However Drew's Absol never showed an ability of using fire techniques so it only left Flygon, who knew Flamethrower.
There was only one thing that he could determine, either Flygon or Typhlosion was used in battle, "Flygon can use Flamethrower."
Misty acknowledged this, "Well then we can only determine that Typhlosion or Flygon were used in battle, but how do we know if it was battling or training?"
"Wait, how come the whole place didn't just set on fire?" the Pallet trainer asked.
"This was a power struggle and it was a clash between a fire attack and another offensive technique, call it a side-effect. It happened earlier too, when Blaziken and Typhlosion used Overheat. The trees and even the grass started to heat up. When we go back to the lab I can show you the same scorch marks in the ranch as the ones here," Misty had clarified the whole scenario for him.
There was something in Ash that still left him puzzled, how could they determine whether it was training or battling. "Misty, there's still the fact that neither Typhlosion nor Flygon were injured. Drew never dropped them off at the lab so it might have just been training."
"That's true, this is getting complex. Pikachu already showed us what he found, let's see what you and I found." The water gym leader told Ash as Pikachu was proud of having found a big clue.
"I found this sapphire, but I don't know if it means much," Ash told her.
"Ash how on earth did you find this on the beach, these are found in caves! It's gorgeous, but you don't find sapphires on the beach, where'd you find it exactly?" the red-haired gym leader admired the mineral as she questioned Ash. She knew she shouldn't get off topic, but she knew that Ash could use this for something useful, she just hoped he could push aside his density and figure it out.
Pikachu was also mesmerized by the mineral and had the same thing in mind as Misty. He just put on a sly smile, thinking the same thing as Misty. Ash didn't notice any of the two though; since he was too busy explaining how he found it.
"I found it dug up in the sand. How could we use that as evidence though?" the boy raised an eyebrow at her.
"C'mon Ash think, sapphires are found in caves. Why on earth would it be on the beach unless someone brought it and lost it? It couldn't have been Drew because he probably would have gone back just to pick up this, after all it is valuable. It might just belong to the person Drew was battling," Misty tried to prove the existence of a second person last night.
"Or maybe you're just exaggerating and it could've belonged to someone who was here before Drew," the raven-haired teen argued.
"Oh Ash, you're just trying to disprove everything about Drew only so you can prove he's a jerk anyway," the gym leader retorted.
Ash's face flushed because that might have been part of it, but he also argued that there really was no one with Drew last night and it's all in her head. This could have just been an intense training session.
There was still one clue that might disprove him though, "What'd you find Misty?"
"I just found this, but I doubt it's any good," the Cerulean girl handed him a circular piece of plastic showing the Yin and Yang symbol.
"Where'd you find this?" the male teen inquired her.
"In the water, look at the back," the female teen told him.
Ash flipped it and saw some letters written. Some of them were scratched out, there was an "M" on the opposite sides of the circle and it looked as if it were trying to write a name, but sadly the rest of the letters were scratched out. He looked at the bottom to find three letters written, "U, N, A."
"Wonder what this could mean," the Pallet resident said, puzzled.
"I don't know, but it doesn't give us much to go on. I'll keep it just in case though," the gym leader stated.
"What should I do with this?" the teen showed her sapphire and at that moment Misty as well as Pikachu face-palmed each other.
Ash looked at both of them and didn't know what was up, "What?" The teen stared at them curiously.
"Ash that thing is valuable and you'll never know when you might need it," the red-head explained to him.
He looked at the valuable item held in his hand and realized Misty did make a point. After all, a sapphire is worth a lot of money.
The trio started putting everything away and was a bit disappointed about not being able to make a conclusion as to what happened with Drew. There were still many possibilities and Ash thought Misty would want to look in to this further, besides it was getting late to stay in a place like this as the sun began to set. Suddenly Pikachu's ears twitched and the duo noticed.
"What's wrong buddy?" Ash questioned him as he just stood still.
At that sudden moment the ground started shaking and heavy winds began to occur. "What's going on?" Ash and Misty exclaimed as they try to keep their balance from the wind and shaking.
"Pikachu!" the Electric mouse shot out a Thunder attack at a Hyper Beam and a Dragon Pulse.
The winds stopped, it also felt like the ground had just opened and shot out a Stone Edge. Pikachu managed to react quickly though and shatter the stones with Iron Tail.
"Who's doing that?" Ash looked around.
"Come out!" Misty demanded at that very instant.
When the dust cleared it revealed a Garchomp and from behind the trees a Salamence and Dragonite had appeared.
Ash, Misty, and Pikachu stood there paralyzed. They had no idea what to do against the formidable and hostile Pokémon.
"Dragon-type Pokémon: Dragonite, Salamence, and Garchomp," the raven-haired trainer stood there awestruck.
"Pseudo Pokémon," the red-head spoke with fear.
Pikachu did its best to intimidate the mighty beasts, but Dragonite, Salamence, and Garchomp began to slowly close in on them. They appeared to be highly leveled Pokemon with a delight for hurting others, Pikachu thought. He had barely managed to pull back the Dragon Pulse and Hyper Beam with just a Thunder and then cancel that Stone Edge with an Iron Tail.
"What do we do Ash?" Misty asked him in a quiet manner to avoid alerting the pseudo trio.
"Run," the boy whispered and all three began running as the dragons began to give chase!
The Love Triangle just seems to keep getting in to a large amount of trouble and have also involved Misty in it. What will happen to Drew, May, Ash, Misty, and Pikachu? Find out in Chapter 22!