Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, but I do own Champion City and the Were-Pokemon.
Chapter 25: The Road To The Almia League!
After winning the Almia Grand Festival, our heroes continue on their way to Champion City for the Almia League until Hunter J shows up.
She froze Pikachu, but she also froze Ash too, since Pikachu was on Ash's shoulder.
"Get here quickly and when you do, get rid of the brat and just keep his Pikachu in the ship." said J, over her headset to one of her henchmen.
"Ash!" said the others in unison as they were trying to find a way to get him and Pikachu unfrozen.
J's henchmen didn't take long before they were there and they sent out one of the containers and snatched up Ash and Pikachu and then, they left as quickly as they came.
The gang tried to go after them, but the ship disappeared before they could even make their way through the forest.
"Let's hope that Ash can get out of this one." said Angie, a little sad with the others agreeing with her.
(On J's Ship)
Once they had Ash and Pikachu on board, they took the container to the holding area and quickly started to figure out how they were gonna get the Pikachu to stay and the kid to leave.
Once they had figured out, they slowly pulled the dial down and Ash slowly started to come back to life along with Pikachu.
He looked at the container that he was in and then, he looked at the henchman that was done with pulling the dial down.
"You!" said Ash, a little muffled as he started to hit the glass with his right shoulder, which didn't have Pikachu on it.
The container started to move back and forth until it fell onto the ground and broke into a million pieces.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" said Ash, putting his left hand on a gash on his right arm that was starting to bleed from the glass breaking and flying everywhere.
Pikachu shocked the henchman and then, they left the room to try to find and exit out of the ship.
They thought that they found an exit, which was actually the commander room of the ship, where J usually sits to make sure that they are going the right way.
"How did you get out? No matter, I'll send you on a little trip so that you won't be so annoying to me." said J, pressing a button on a control panel.
Once she pressed the button, the floor opened up beneath Ash and Pikachu and they slid down a little hole until they saw the ground starting to come up quick.
"Go Staraptor!" said Ash, getting an idea on how they won't have a very quick death.
Staraptor knew what was going on so it quickly snatched up Ash and Pikachu onto its back and then, hey looked for the others and they found them within a few minutes
"Ash, are you ok?" asked May.
"I'm fine except that I got a nice size gash from breaking the container that I was in." replied Ash, lifting his left hand away from the gash and also wincing a little while doing that.
"I can take care of that in no time, Ash." said Brock, getting his medical equipment out.
Once Brock bandaged up Ash's right arm, they continued on their way to Champion City.
(A Couple Of Hours Later)
They stopped for the night and for some dinner and before they went to sleep, they gave Ash the three poffins and then, they went into a deep sleep in dreamland.
(In Ash's Dream)
He was dreaming about what the Almia League would be about until, the Were-Pokemon interrupted again.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ash, folding his arms across his chest and looking pretty irritated at it for interrupting his dream again.
"I'm here to try to tell you about Mike and Peter again." said the Were-Pokemon calmly.
"Like I'll listen to you after what you did to me last time!" said Ash, starting to get angry.
"I'm sorry about that, but I had no choice because you were really making me mad." said the Were-Pokemon calmly again.
"YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU'RE STARTING TO GET ON MY NERVES!" yelled Ash, starting to get really mad himself.
"Listen to me, Ash! You don't want to get mad!" said the Were-Pokemon, trying to calm Ash down, but it was failing.
"I WISH THAT YOU WOULD JUST SHUT UP!" yelled Ash, running toward the Were-Pokemon to try to punch it.
The Were-Pokemon dodged it and let Ash have it with a Focus Punch in the stomach hard.
"Stop it, Ash! You don't want to do this!" said the Were-Pokemon as it went over to check on how Ash was doing and he was apparently fine since he got back up and tried to fight with the Were-Pokemon.
He hit it straight in the stomach as hard as he could, but he felt the punch in his stomach as he was punching it.
He looked down as his hand was still making contact with the Were-Pokemon's stomach and he saw that his fist was making a print on his own stomach since he was practically fighting himself instead of the Were-Pokemon.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash was clutching his stomach hard as he felt his punch hit his stomach harder than in the dream.
He was even showing a pained expression as he was doing that.
(Back In Ash's Dream)
Once his hand left the Were-Pokemon's stomach, he was in shock at how he could feel the punch instead of the Were-Pokemon.
"How did that happen?" asked Ash, still in shock at what happened.
"I'm just another side of who you are and you're gonna have to listen to your mind and mine if you want to survive the first year of becoming me." said the Were-Pokemon, looking at Ash as he fell to the floor on his knees.
"This can't be real! NO!" screamed Ash, putting his hands on his head.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash was still asleep, but he was restless for the rest of the night, until he found a comfortable spot that he could finally relax in.
(In The Morning)
Once they were up, Brock started to get breakfast ready and once it was done, they quickly ate it before heading back on their way to Champion City for the Almia League.
(With Mike And Peter)
They were entering Champion City after a couple of nights of being on the road.
They went to their hiding place in an abandoned building in the middle of the city and they were ready to face the Were-Pokemon whenever it came back.
(Back With The Gang-A Couple Of Hours Later)
Just as they were halfway to Champion City, Team Rocket showed up to grab Pikachu, but they grabbed Ash instead of Pikachu and retreated so that they could think something over.
(With Team Rocket)
"How about we trade him for Pikachu?" asked James, looking at Ash as he was tied up.
"That's a great idea, James." said Jessie as they were getting back up from sitting down.
"And I have something special that will make them hand over Pikachu too." said Meowth, looking at Ash with a devious smile.
Ash was starting to get scared as they came over to get him into position for Meowth's plan.
(Back With The Gang)
They were just about to give up their search for Ash when Team Rocket came out of nowhere and started to put their plan into action.
"We'll hand over the twerp if you give us Pikachu or else." said Jessie, starting things off for them.
"The answer is no!" said the gang in unison.
"Then we'll go with 'or else'!" said James as he pushed a button and Ash was lowered out of the bottom of the basket still all tied up.
"If you don't give us Pikachu, the twerp will have an untimely death!" said Meowth, waiting to push the button to release Ash's hold.
The gang didn't know what to say about what was happening to Ash.
"Don't give them Pikachu! I can handle myself for now!" said Ash as he started to wiggle out of his hold a little.
"What is he doing down there?" asked Jessie.
"He's trying to escape!" said James, looking down as Ash as he was starting to get free.
"Then, let's put Plan B into action!" said Meowth as he pushed a button.
The rope that Ash was hanging on, after he got done untying himself free, let go of the bottom of the balloon and soon, Ash was falling and he was falling fast.
He didn't have anytime before he hit a branch with his stomach taking the full impact of it.
He held onto the branch with all of his strength and thought that if he let go, he would probably have a really bad fall.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" said Ash, still holding onto the branch.
Pikachu shocked them away as they were saying the usual: "Team Rocket's blasting off again!"
Ash didn't realize that he was close to the ground until he felt himself start to slip off of the branch and he landed on the ground with a hard thud.
"Ash, are you ok?" asked Dawn.
"I'm fine, but man, did I hit that branch hard." said Ash, clutching his stomach.
Once Ash was able to get up without any problems, they continued on their way to Champion City.
(A Couple Of Hours Later)
When they were almost to Champion City they stopped for the night and once they were done eating their dinner, they went straight to sleep, but they forgot once again to give Ash the three poffins.
(In Ash's Dream)
Ash was just standing in his mind, which was a swirl of red, purple, and black, as he started to realize that he didn't have a dream like before.
He started to walk around his mind so that he could find out what was going on.
"Hello? Anyone in here besides me?" asked Ash, starting to get scared.
"I am." said something in the darkness of Ash's mind.
Ash was scared since he wasn't expecting something or someone responding to him.
The something came out of the darkness and it revealed to Ash that it was the Were-Pokemon.
Ash was in shock as he realized that the Were-Pokemon had red eyes again and it looked like it could kill him right there.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash wasn't, surprisingly enough, tossing and turning like before and he wasn't clutching his stomach like he was before during any of the other dreams with the Were-Pokemon.
(Back In Ash's Dream)
"What are you doing here?" asked Ash, starting to get scared by the look in the Were-Pokemon's eyes.
It didn't say anything, but it started to walk closer to Ash.
He was frozen in place as he saw it coming closer and he didn't even notice that it was using Vine Whip and in a second, he was wrapped up by the Vine Whip and was staring at the Were-Pokemon in the eye.
"Down the hatch!" said the Were-Pokemon as it started to lower Ash into its mouth.
"NO!" screamed Ash on his way down into the Were-Pokemon's stomach.
He punched as hard as he could at the Were-Pokemon's stomach, but he was starting to get pain in the spots that he was hitting the Were-Pokemon at in his stomach.
He tried one more thing, which was a good kick, but he collapsed inside the Were-Pokemon's stomach as he felt the pain surge into his own stomach.
He felt the Were-Pokemon start to digest him and he knew that it was the end of him for sure.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash was clutching his stomach with his hand as hard as he could, but he was only dreaming about the pain, not actually able to feel it.
He quickly let go of his stomach once the dream had passed in his mind.
(In The Morning)
While everyone was waking up, the others noticed that Ash was starting to perk up a bit, but they were unsure of what was making him start to perk up all of a sudden.
When they got done wondering about Ash, they quickly ate their breakfast and then, they continued on their way to Champion City.
(A Couple Of Hours Later)
They were arriving in Champion City, which was as big as Ever Grande City with the stadium as big as Lily of the Valley's stadium with the Pokemon Center near the stadium, and once they were inside the city, the went over to the Pokemon Center so that they could get a room for the six nights that they would be there.
Once they had their dinner, they went to bed, but again, they forgot to give Ash the three poffins.
(In Ash's Dream)
Ash was just standing in his mind again, just like in last night's dream, when he saw the Were-Pokemon start to come out of the darkness with red eyes again.
Ash was about to back up when he noticed that he couldn't move at all.
He also noticed that the Were-Pokemon was starting to get control over his body so that he couldn't move away from whatever it was going to do next.
Ash was scared to death as the Were-Pokemon was starting to reach him.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash was starting gasp a little in his sleep, but the others didn't notice or wake up since they were in a deep sleep.
(Back In Ash's Dream)
Once the Were-Pokemon was just a few feet from Ash, it was starting to control Ash by opening his mouth as wide as it could go and jumping into Ash's mouth in a blink of an eye.
Ash was surprised as he saw the rest of the Were-Pokemon sticking out of his mouth and he could feel its head inside his mouth as he was starting to swallow it whole.
The Were-Pokemon didn't waste anytime at Ash's swallowing mechanism as it rushed the rest of the way into Ash via his mouth.
Ash was still shocked as he could feel the Were-Pokemon move around in his stomach as he stood in the exact same spot as before.
Once it was in a comfortable spot in Ash's stomach, the Were-Pokemon put a claw against Ash's stomach so that he could feel some pain before it made its escape.
Before he knew it, the Were-Pokemon was clawing its way out of his stomach.
Ash was in pain as the Were-Pokemon was doing that and he fell to his knees as the Were-Pokemon was coming out of his stomach full force.
Once it was out of his stomach, Ash was on the verge of dying from all of the pain that he was in and all the blood that he was losing fast.
He looked up at the Were-Pokemon one last time before he died.
(Back In The Real World)
Ash woke up as fast as he could and he was panting and starting to sweat a little bit as he was thinking about the dream.
"I'm so glad that the Were-Pokemon won't haunt me in my dreams anymore since tonight is the first night of the full moon and the full moon will stay through the last night of the Almia League. I hope that I can make it through the Almia League and the Were-Pokemon being careful so that it won't die so that I can compete in the Almia League too." thought Ash, getting ready to get up and start to get ready for the Almia League to begin.
It wasn't long that the others started to get up too.
Once they got done getting cleaned up, they went down to the dining area for some breakfast and when they were done there, they went to the Champion City Arena for the beginning of the suspense-filled Almia League.
Hope you enjoyed Chapter 25! I actually got it done quicker than the last because I finally have a snow day! I'll see what I can do to get another chapter or two out sometime today. See ya later!
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