Our Life Together - Chapter 21: The Heat Is On!
Chapter 21 of my fanfic about Ash and Angie living together. First chapter inspired by the great "Morpheus Family" drawing, by Endless-Summer181 on deviantART (check the link on my profile page to see it) The main title of this story is a tribute to the great MorpheusShipping fanfic called "Our Time Together" by MisterP in which Angie recounts her time with Ash, "the boy with the Pikachu". As can be expected, my story also involves MorpheusShipping (Ash and Angie being together) so if you really don't like that idea, perhaps you should stop reading here. The rest, I hope you enjoy this fan-fiction.
"Huh?" Ash wondered, as he stared at the ceiling, trying to see what his friend Brock was hinting at.
"Remember our first battle?" Brock whispered in Ash's ear.
"What does that have to do with it?" Ash whispered back, still uncertain what his companion could mean.
But then Ash's eyes lit up as he started to realize Brock's plan. He shortly nodded back at Brock, while giving him a look that he now had grasped his idea. Then Ash turned towards Pikachu, and started whispering something in it's little buddy's ear.
"You understand, Pikachu?" Ash whispered.
"Pika-pi" the little Pokémon acknowledged.
"Okay, just wait for my signal then," Ash whispered back.
"Gary, if you won't do anything, I will!" Angie suddenly shouted, as she started to step forward with a very angry look on her face.
"I understand why you and Ash fit so well together..." Gary whispered, inaudible to anyone," both so impulsive and strong headed..."
"Magmortar! Cool that tempered lady down, will you?" Conrad responded to this sudden uproar. "And use your hottest Fire Spin for that!"
Magmortar positioned itself between Angie and Conrad. Angie stopped for a moment, but although she started to get a little frightened, so didn't show it. Only Ash could see her fear, and he almost raced forward from his hiding place, to try and save his wife! Brock's hand on his shoulder held him back, however.
"Now!" Conrad shouted.
"Mooor!" the big fire Pokémon cried, as a wall of flames was sent towards Angie.
"No!" Ash yelled, as he shook Brock's hand from his shoulder, to step in and try to help.
But as the fire was about to hit Angie, the flames started glowing with a purple hue. Then they were bent away, like some invisible force pushed then back. The fire was getting smaller and smaller, as the purplish glow compressed them into a little ball, and finally extinguishing them in the process.
"Aaah, it seems we have visitors," Conrad said, smiling, "welcome back! Although you should not take that welcome to literally, of course."
Totally ignoring Conrad's words, Ash stormed towards Angie, and wrapped his arms around her. For a second she tried to fight Ash of, since she still had her eyes closed, trying to shield them from the heat she felt as the flames were getting closer. But the she opened them again, and when she saw her love, was so happy to see he was okay, that she kissed him there on the spot. Then, after realizing this was a strange place and situation to be embracing each other, they both let go and only a slight blush reminded them of this moment.
"What...what happened!" Angie wondered, "how did you stop the flames?" she asked while looking at Ash.
"I think Uxie and Mesprit must have used the Psychic attack to control the flames," Gary explained, while pointing at the two small Pokémon that were hovering in the air, close to the entrance.
"Nice move..." Conrad interrupted the conversation, "but now it's my turn to do a little Psychic of my own!"
And as he spoke, Conrad flicked a few switches on his control panel. Lights started flickering on the cage on the ceiling that held Azelf captive. The flickering of the lights intensified, while it seemed like the cage started vibrating a little.
"Pikachu, Now is the moment! Do Thunderbolt!" Ash shouted.
"Piiii-kaaaa!" Ash heard his little yellow companion growl.
"Come on, Pikachu, do thu...! Eh... Pikachu?" Ash wondered as he looked back to see why his buddy had not performed their planned attack yet.
Pikachu had a strange look in it's eyes. Ash had seen that look before though! It was the same as when Pikachu and Shinx started to behave so erratically down at Lake Valor. But this time it seemed worse. Pikachu's face was twisted in anger, with sparks flying of it's cheeks like Ash had seldom seen.
"Pikachu? Snap out of it!" Ash shouted, as he took a few steps back.
But it didn't seem to work at all. Pikachu still kept coming towards Ash. Amy, who was hiding behind Brock, closed her eyes as she was scared of all what was happening.
"Well, you leave me no choice, buddy," Ash spoke solemnly. "When I heard about Pokémon disobeying their trainers near the Lake, I dug up your old Poké Ball, and took it with me. I know you don't like it in there, but seems like you leave me no choice..."
Ash reached inside his jacket, and took out a Poké Ball with a lightning bolt on it. Thoughts raced through his mind as he held this ball in his hand and stared at it for a moment. Ash remembered his first encounters with Pikachu all too well, how at first they were far from friends, with Pikachu refusing to obey any of his commands, driving him almost mad, and making Ash believe he would never become a real Pokémon Trainer. And how things had changed from the day they were attacked by those Spearow, and Ash gave all he had to keep Pikachu safe. How they had been the best of buddies from that day on, and had been through so much together. He felt almost guilty for even considering making Pikachu go into it's Poké Ball now, but he had no choice indeed. Ash reached out his hand to straighten his cap, like he always used to do when he was about to catch a Pokémon, but then realized he had lost it in the cave. So instead Ash simply stood firm, and was about to press the button on the Poké Ball, to activate it, when suddenly...
"Chuuuuuuu!"
(to be continued...)
The 21st chapter of my story in which Ash and Angie are married. I apologize for any typing errors, or grammatically not 100% correct sentences. Remember, I am not a native English speaker or writer. I tried to make this story as close to the Pokémon series as possible, so that the characters will react roughly the same in this fictional story as they do in the series. Comments are always welcome, you can use the review function on this FanFiction site for that.
Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any trademarks of Pokémon. Any similarities to the works of others is purely accidental, and not meant as an infringement on anyone's achievements.