Okay we are up to Chapter 37 in Pokemon: Try it again Ash! Kanto. Last chapter featured a short flashback introduction going back five years before the events of the story involving Anthony going to the Battle Arena and asking to be trained in martial arts by Greta along with Ash's rematch against Leaf. Read, Review and enjoy.
Author Note:
Just so you guys know Commerce City is the setting of the Season 9 episode "Curbing the Crimson Tide!" and why the Nurse Joy there didn't recognize Ash I have no idea. That was a mistake and I'm sorry (Lets just assume she doesn't remember him after at least four years).
Also Anthony's voice actor is Christian Bale.
Flashback-Battle Arena-Five Years ago.
Anthony has been training with Greta at the Battle Arena for over six months now and has pretty much mastered the art of karate but since he began training Anthony has developed serious anger issues stemming from his father's death 15 months ago and has attacked and injured several students who have said something to him that in anyway little or big offends him which has forced Greta to have to confront Anthony on this issue.
"Anthony we need to talk" Greta says approaching Anthony who is observing a stack of wood "What is it now?" Anthony asks in an uninterested tone of voice and then breaks all the wood in half with no difficulty or signs of pain (He feels it he just doesn't show it) "What do you think? You broke Nathan's arm!" Greta says.
"He was being arrogant, he said I was too young to know all this" Anthony says giving his excuse for doing what he did "That in absolutely no way excuses what you did Anthony, this is the sixth time you've done this!" Greta says (Whoa he was rough when he was 13).
"What's your point exactly, Greta?" Anthony asks "My point? Anthony you have a serious anger problem that you need to under control!" Greta says with a serious and slightly aggravated tone of voice "And how do you suggest I do that?" Anthony asks.
"I don't know, but you can't stay here if you're going to keep acting like this!" Greta says, "What are you saying?" Anthony asks this getting his attention and interest "I'm saying…Anthony, because of your behavior I'm going to have to ask you to leave" Greta says.
"So I'm expelled is that it?" Anthony asks, "I'm…afraid yes Anthony" Greta says with some guilt in her voice not really wanting to say this "Fine" Anthony says "I'll grab my things and be gone by sundown" Anthony says feeling he has learned enough from the Battle Arena and walks off to gather his things and leave.
End Flashback-Commerce City-Current time
In the airs outside of Commerce City the beautiful morning sun rises and the normal colored Butterfree with the yellow scarf and the Pink one fly peacefully threw the air without a single care in the world when suddenly Hunter J's airship de-cloaks right in front of them (That could ruin anybody's day).
The two then take notice of this and are startled by this and suddenly dozens of Golbat and Crobat pour out of the airship and surround the two Butterfly Pokemon "Free-Free!" the Pink Butterfree says to the normal colored one obviously as scared as the normal colored one is.
The Golbats and Crobats all then use a Supersonic to try and confuse them but the normal colored Butterfree uses Protect and shields himself and the Pink Butterfree from the Normal-type attack.
J is watching all of this from inside of the airship "We need to capture that Butterfree before it escapes" J says and gets up from her command chair "Where are you going sir?" one of J's henchman asks "I'm going capture that Butterfree myself" J says and heads out of the command deck.
The Golbat and Crobat (On Hunter J's orders) return to the airship and normal colored Butterfree stops using protect feeling safe now (That wasn't a good idea Butterfree) and Hunter J who is riding her Salamence appears right in front of them.
"Stay still and there won't have to be any trouble" J says and prepares her arm cannon to fire at the pink Butterfree but the normal colored Butterfree uses a Whirlwind attack on J and her Salamence which blows them away and they are sent flying threw the air but they manage to regain altitude.
"You pesky little insect, I'll take care of you! Salamence use Hyper Beam!" J says and Salamence opens up its mouth and forms a white orb of energy with a pale pink center in front of it and then fires a pale pink beam of energy with a bright white energy around it, which hits the normal colored Butterfree separating it from the Pink one.
Hunter J then aims her cannon at the pink Butterfree and fires, which turns it into stone and is placed inside of a case and it flies right into her hands and she smiles and the normal colored Butterfree injured from Salamence's hyper beam simply drifts threw the wind down into the city while Hunter J, Salamence and the Pink Butterfree return to the ship.
After defeating the arrogant Commerce City Gym Leader Leaf and earning his 4th badge Ash is about to encounter a Pokemon who he has not seen in a long time…
Ash is currently peacefully eating his Breakfast, which is a bowl of cereal in the lounge of the Pokemon Center with Bianca (She has her own bowl by the way) "Its like they say Ash, victory is sweetest when you've known defeat" Bianca says (Well said Malcolm S. Forbes, well said) referencing Ash's victory in his rematch battle against the arrogant Gym Leader Leaf yesterday and his defeat the day before that.
"Yeah that's for sure," Ash says agreeing with her on that subject "Hey! You! There you are!" a familiar voice calls out and Ash and Bianca look across the lounge to see the person who said that is none other then Burgundy "Burgundy?!" Ash asks shocked "Pika-Pi?!" Pikachu asks also shocked.
Burgundy then runs over to where Ash, Pikachu and Bianca are and gets right up into Ash's face "So you actually thought you could escape me didn't you?" Burgundy asks, "I didn't think you'd follow me all the way here to Kanto!" Ash says a bit creped out by Burgundy who followed him from the far away Unova region to the Kanto region.
"Well you were wrong! I'll follow you anywhere to get revenge!" Burgundy says, "Wait…who are you exactly?" Bianca asks having not met Burgundy (Which was a good thing) and Burgundy turns her head in Bianca's direction and runs over to her and gets in her face (You shouldn't have said anything Bianca).
"THIS DOESN'T CONCERN YOU IN THE SLIGHTEST! SO JUST BACK OFF!" Burgundy says yelling right in Bianca's face "Ugh…my name is Bianca by the way" Bianca says a bit nervously "Well…for your information my name is Burgundy" Burgundy says introducing herself to Bianca right after yelling at her (At least she's trying to be a little classy).
"As for you, I've been following you for weeks now every since you defeated me and I swore revenge against you, I was even on the same plane as you when you came back here for Kanto!" Burgundy explains "Okay…that's pretty creepy" Ash says (Which is an understatement Ash, because that is extremely creepy).
"Why do you even want revenge against Ash anyway?" Bianca asks "I want revenge because he didn't just defeat but before that he had the nerve to insult my skills as a Pokemon Connaisseuse" Burgundy explains "What did he say?" Bianca asks, "I'll tell you what he said!" Burgundy says.
Burgundy Fantasy.
Burgundy is holding on to her fainted Samurott while in a spotlight in a darkness with a giant Ash, Pikachu and shiny Purrloin who are surrounded by a dark aura watching over them "Your Pokemon are the weakest weaklings I have ever seen and the only thing that's weaker is your skills as a Pokemon Connaisseuse! You will never become an S-Class Connaisseuse now go run off and come back so I can beat you right down into the ground again! MWAHAHAHA!" Ash says laughing manically as does Pikachu.
End Fantasy.
"I didn't say it like that!" Ash says, "Well…It was close enough!" Burgundy says, (Man she can really exaggerate things) "You sound like you're exaggerating everything Ash said to you" Bianca says and Bianca frowns and looks straight into Bianca's eyes.
"Alright let me repeat what I just told you a moment ago…THIS ISN'T ANY OF YOUR BUISNESS, SO BACK OFF!" Burgundy says to Bianca aggressively and Bianca places her hand on Burgundy's face and then pushes her out of her face and Burgundy lands right on the couch.
Burgundy then looks at Bianca and scowls at her "Chienne! How dare you push me?" Burgundy asks (To find out what she said in French go on Google translate and find out) Bianca with obvious rage in both her eyes and voice.
Suddenly someone puts a hand on Burgundy's shoulder and she shudders at this "Excuse miss, but I would appreciate it if you didn't harass my friends" the person behind Burgundy says and Burgundy screams out of surprise and she turns to see the person behind her is Ash's new friend Anthony Jenny.
"Anthony?" Ash asks, "Look sir, this doesn't really concern you" Burgundy says, (At least she's trying to be polite) "Miss, I couldn't agree more with you…" Anthony says and puts his hands on her shoulders and moves Burgundy to the exit "So I believe it would be in everyone's best interests for you to leave" Anthony says and pushes her threw and the door closes.
"Whoa, that's actually a great way to deal with her" Ash says pretty impressed by the way Anthony dealt with Burgundy "So from what I heard she wants revenge against her for insulting her skills as a Pokemon Connaisseuse" Anthony says recounting what he had heard while eavesdropping on the Ash, Bianca and Burgundy.
"Yeah that about sums it up," Ash says "Pika-pi…" Pikachu says.
Meanwhile somewhere else in Commerce City (But not too far from the Pokemon Center) May, Dawn and Max are walking threw the streets looking around the city "So May, where are we going anyway?" Dawn asks May since the coordinator from Hoenn hasn't told them where they're going in Commerce City.
"I thought since we're here in Commerce, we could visit a friend of mine here" May explains "Butter...Butterfree…" a weak voice says and the three turn their heads to see the normal colored Butterfree with the yellow scarf laying on the ground injured after its fight with Hunter J and her Salamence.
"Hey look! It's a Butterfree!" Dawn says, "It looks like its hurt!" May says (Whoa, what gave it away May?) "We better get it to the Pokemon Center quick" Max says and they go over and pick the injured Butterfree off the ground and turn around and begin running back to the Pokemon Center.
"While I was in Unova, I had seen a few Connaisseuse shops but I never had my Pokemon evaluated by one" Anthony says having a conversation with Ash and Bianca in the Pokemon Center lounge "You should never ask Burgundy to evaluate your Pokemon she won't get a single thing right" Ash says.
"I'll keep that in mind" Anthony says.
Outside the Pokemon Center Burgundy is sitting on a bench "Who does that guy think he is, pushing me out the door? If I could I would…" but before Burgundy could finish her sentence she looks to see May, Max and Dawn running for the Pokemon Center with the injured Butterfree in Dawn's arms and watches them run into the Pokemon Center.
"Ash!" Max says "What is it guys?" Ash asks "Pika-Pikachu?" Pikachu asks, "We found a Butterfree on the ground and its hurt!" Dawn says and Bianca pulls out her Pokedex to check the data on this Pokemon.
"Butterfree the Butterfly Pokémon. Butterfree has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can even search out, extract, and carry honey from flowers that are blooming over six miles from its nest"
Ash comes over and looks at the injured Butterfree and notices the yellow scarf on its neck and gasps, as does Pikachu shocked by this.
"Ash, what's wrong?" Bianca asks "This Butterfree…its my Butterfree!" Ash says "Your Butterfree?" May asks since she hasn't heard Ash mention having a Butterfree at all "We need to get this Butterfree medical treatment now" Anthony says looking at how injured the Butterfly Pokemon is "Right" Ash says agreeing with him.
The group including Anthony hand Ash's injured Butterfree to the Nurse Joy who along with her Chansey begin to treat the Butterfly Pokémon's injuries and nurse it back to health "So Ash you said this Butterfree is yours, but why wasn't it with you?" Anthony asks finding that odd.
"Well you see, I released Butterfree over six years ago" Ash says "Really why?" Dawn asks "Well you see Butterfree was the first Pokemon I captured in the wild way back when I first started out as a Pokemon trainer when he was a Caterpie" Ash explains.
Flashback-Viridian Forest-Six years ago
A flashback shows a 10-year-old Ash Ketchum in Viridian Forest staring down with a wild Caterpie "But capturing him was pretty easy to be honest" Ash explains and shows 10-year-old Ash throwing an empty Poke Ball at the Wild Caterpie which absorbs it and falls on the ground and wobbles several times then halts confirming its capture.
"Then he evolved into a Metapod the same day and then into a Butterfree not so long after" Ash explains showing more flashbacks of Caterpie covering himself in a string shot attack and evolving into a Metapod and then cracking open and evolving into a Butterfree.
"So why did you release it?" Anthony asks, "It was a season where Butterfree go to find a mate and mine did a Pink Butterfree" Ash explains showing a flashback of his Butterfree meeting the Pink one and the two flying off with Ash waving goodbye.
End Flashback-Commerce City-Current Time
"A pink Butterfree? That sounds unusual" Anthony says, "Wait Ash if this is your Butterfree, then where's the Pink one?" Dawn asks "Yeah and what happened to this one?" Max asks referring to the normal colored Butterfree's injuries sustained in the air.
"I don't know…that's what worries me the most" Ash says feeling just as worried for his Butterfree's mate as he is of his Butterfree and he looks at his Butterfree who is getting medical treatment and suddenly Ash's eyes glow blue and blue aura surrounds his Butterfree and he suddenly see's Butterfree's memories.
Memory Flash.
The memory of Hunter J and her Salamence attacking Ash's Butterfree and his mate including Butterfree being hit by Salamence's hyper beam attack and losing altitude while the Pink Butterfree is turned to stone by J's cannon and placed in a case.
End Memory.
"Pokemon Hunter J!" Ash says "What about her?" Dawn asks, "She was the one who attacked Butterfree…and she has his mate!" Ash says recounting what he saw in Butterfree's memories to his friends.
"Who's Hunter J? In fact what's a Pokemon Hunter?" Bianca asks, "A Pokemon Hunter is someone who captures wild and sometimes captured Pokemon and sells them on the Black Market" Anthony explains "How do you know all that?" May asks, "I'm from a police family, I know things like that" Anthony says, "That sounds awful!" Bianca says (It is Bianca, it is).
"J is a Pokemon Hunter me and Dawn ran into a couple times in the Sinnoh region, she once tried to steal Pikachu and she's one of the worst people I've ever met" Ash explains (Which is true she is one of the ruthless villains in the anime).
"Which means she plans to sell your Butterfree's mate and I can assume she can make a lot from it having an unusual color," Anthony says "Then we have to find her, before she gets away!" May says "That might be hard her ship can turn invisible so it's pretty hard to find" Ash says.
"We have to think of some way to find her soon Ash, if what you say is true we don't have much time" Anthony says, "What should we do?" Max asks open to suggestion "Wait guys! I've got an idea!" May says "What?" Max asks "We know someone who might be smart enough who lives here who could track down J's ship" May says "Who?" Dawn asks.
The group along with Anthony then quickly run threw Commerce City and they make their way to a large building where they knock on the door and a elderly man greets them and recognizes "Ah yes, I remember you people" the man says "We're here to see Luna, its really important" Ash says "Right this way" he says.
On the rooftop of the building a girl perhaps eleven years old who is wearing a pink dress and has red hair with two long ponytails is currently working on something on her laptop with a Scizor probably belonging to her is standing in the corner.
"Miss Luna, You have visitors," the man says revealing the girl's name to be "Luna".
The group then walks on to the rooftop after the man does and Luna see's May smiles and runs over and hugs her "Finally May! You're here to visit me!" Luna says since she has been waiting three or four years for May to visit her (Took you long enough May).
"Yeah Luna I am" May says, "Luna the reason we're here is that we really need your help" Ash says, "I'm all ears," Luna says "A Butterfree I know was captured by a Pokemon Hunter near here named J" Ash explains "Pardon me sir but did you say the one who captured this Butterfree was named J?" the butler asks.
"Yeah have you heard about her?" Ash says "Indeed I have" he says "I heard a Pokemon Hunter is someone who steals other people's Pokemon for money" Luna says "Correct you are my dear and Hunter J is one of the most ruthless her and her group of mercenary henchmen were responsible for several crimes in the Sinnoh region they disappeared for several years but recently have re-emerged" the butler explains giving Luna some information about J and her henchmen.
"The Butterfree she captured is a different color a pink one" Ash says "Which is a bad thing, a Pokemon with an unusual color can go for a high price on the black market" the butler says "We need you to help us find her ship it can turn invisible do you have anything that can find it?" Anthony asks, "Alright I'll help you…But I don't know when" Luna says.
"What do you mean?" Dawn asks, "It might take me awhile to make something that can track her…maybe a week or three" Luna says, "We don't have that much time Luna! We need to catch her before she gets away!" Ash says not willing to let Pokemon Hunter J escape with his Butterfree's mate.
"Wait guys! What if we baited Hunter J back into the city?" Max asks coming up with an idea "With what?" Luna asks and Max points at Scizor and Ash begins to get what he's saying "Oh I get what you're saying Max" Ash says "What?" Dawn asks.
"A talking Pokemon would probably be worth a ton to a Pokemon Hunter…which means…" Ash says and turns to Luna "Luna its time for Red Lightning to come back" Ash says and Luna smiles "Alright lets do it" Luna says.
In the middle of Commerce City cars are driving on the roads and people walking to wherever they are off to and suddenly a loud laugh is heard and the people on the street stop and look to the top of the building to see Luna's Scizor "Red Lightning" who is now covered in a red cloak.
"Looks its Red lightning!" a person down on the ground says; "Red Lightning is back!" another says.
"Indeed, it is I Red Lightning Commerce City, it has been awhile since the last time any of you have laid your weak eyes on me but nevertheless I have returned and I hear there is a Pokemon Hunter known as J out there who enjoys capturing rare and powerful Pokemon so if you are hearing this J come and get me…if you can!" Red Lightning says then laughs manically and jumps away.
Meanwhile inside of Hunter J's airship J having seen Red Lightning's challenge (Maybe she has like a spy cam there or something) and smiles "Challenge accepted Red Lightning" J says and the pilots of the ship change coarse back to Commerce City to search and capture Red Lightning.
"So you use the computer to talk threw the radio on your Scizor and make it appear that Red Lightning is talking that's…clever" Anthony says impressed by Luna's deception with Red Lighting (Theatrical and Deception are powerful agents to the uninitiated).
"Now all Red Lightning has to do is bait Hunter J out so we can put this tracker on her and follow her back to her ship" Luna explains and then gives Ash the tracking device she just made to track Hunter J "Yeah but we have to hurry, she'll be here soon" Ash says knowing how Hunter J works.
Somewhere else in Commerce City Red Lighting is jumping around building and lands in an alleyway "Red Lightning!" Hunter J calls out and she appears in the alleyway riding her Salamence "I see you have heard of me and you must be Pokemon Hunter J" Red Lighting (Well really Luna threw the radio) says.
"Yes I am, and you're coming with me" J says and points her cannon at Red Lightning and fires but Red Lighting dodges the shot and fires a Swift attack at Hunter J from its claw which hits her Salamence but doesn't really do that much damage to its health.
"Salamence, Dragon Pulse!" J says and Salamence opens its mouth and a turquoise sphere of energy appears in front of it and then fires the sphere at Red Lightning but he dodges the attack and suddenly May's Blaziken appears and one of Blaziken's feet glow metallic light blue and Kick's J's Salamence right in the face with great force.
Blaziken then lands right on the ground flawlessly and stares right at J and her Salamence "Blaziken!" it says ready to fight them "You defiantly look like a strong Pokemon…I suppose I'll be capturing you today too" J says and aims her cannon right at Blaziken but before she can fire a shot a Shadow Ball attack is fired Salamence catching it by surprise which causes J to fall off of Salamence and on to the ground below.
J then groans in anger and looks up to the top of the building above her to see the source of the shadow ball is Ash's Zorua along with Ash himself and Pikachu and sneers at him "I didn't expect to see you here!" J says both surprised and angered by Ash's sudden appearance.
"Neither did I" Ash says, "Let the Butterfree that you captured go right now!" Bianca says and J gets up from the ground "Do you actually think I'm going take orders from you? Salamence get rid of them with Flamethrower!" J says and Salamence sprays fire towards Ash, Bianca, Pikachu and Zorua but Ash's Charizard flies in the way and launches a DragonBreath attack which cuts threw Salamence's flamethrower and hits the Dragon Pokemon which is super-effective due to it being a dragon type attack and causes Salamence to crash into the ground.
"Please, your not even a worthy practice opponent then an actually one, weakling" Red Lighting says and laughs and soon J's Salamence rises from the ground after recovering from Charizard's DragonBreath attack fires a Hyper Beam attack at Red Lightning only for Red Lightning which explode on contact sending Red Lightning hitting the wall.
Hunter J then hops on top of her Salamence and it gains altitude but before the two can escape Ash (While Hunter J isn't looking) throws the tracking device Luna gave them on her back (She doesn't even feel it) as she and her Salamence fly off into the air.
"We did it! She's tagged she can't get away!" Ash says and Charizard flies underneath where and Ash recalls Zorua back to her Poke ball and him, Bianca and Pikachu hop on to Charizard and fly after the Pokemon Hunter while Blaziken and Red Lightning begin jumping buildings to get back to Luna's house.
Back at Luna's house in the yard Luna, Luna's butler, May, Max, Dawn and Anthony are monitoring J's tracker on Luna's computer and soon Red Lightning and May's Blaziken return to the yard "It seems the bait worked now all Ash has to do is find the Pink Butterfree and get out of J's airship" Anthony says.
"We should have gone with him, he only has six Pokemon with him and Bianca doesn't have any" Dawn says (Whoa Ash didn't really think this plan all the way through and neither did I when writing this) "I'm sure Ash will be fine, that Charizard is a strong one from what I've heard" Anthony says having confidence in Ash's abilities as a trainer.
"Yeah but still…" Dawn says, "I'll be right back guys," Anthony says heading for the door "Where are you going Anthony?" May asks, "I need to use the bathroom" Anthony says "Do you wish to have me show you where it is, sir?" Luna's butler asks "No thank you, I'm sure I'll find it eventually" Anthony says and goes inside.
Once inside Anthony unzips his backpack and inside his the armor pieces which the chest piece one has a Gligar shaped symbol on "Its time" Anthony says and begins the process of placing the armor on him (You won't see it).
Meanwhile up in the air Hunter J and her Salamence approach her airship and it turns visible and the two enter it and Charizard flies behind the ship and lands on top of it and Ash, Bianca and Pikachu hop off of him "Charizard use Flamethrower to melt a way in" Ash says and Charizard does just this and melts a whole big enough for him and Bianca to go threw and recalls him back to his Poke ball "Wait…Ash they'll know where here then!" Bianca says thinking the way Ash is doing things is reckless (Which isn't too farfetched).
"I don't care Bianca! If we don't stop J from getting away that Butterfree will get sold to some scumbag for money" Ash says "Pika-Pikachu!" Pikachu says agreeing with Ash remembering his own capture by Hunter J years ago in Sinnoh and the two jump down the hole into the airship and Bianca sighs still thinking this is crazy but jumps down as well anyway.
In the command deck of the airship the alarms go off "What's happening?" J asks one of the pilots "There's been a security breach sir apparently on the lower decks" the pilot says and then shows a live feed of the lower decks on the big screen showing Ash, Bianca and Pikachu there.
J sneers at this and groans in frustration "Ketchum! But how did he find me?" J asks standing up "Sir…there's something on your back" one of the pilots says and J feels her back and pulls off the tracker and groans again "He put a tracker on me of course!" J says and throws the tracker to the ground.
Suddenly the live feed turns to static for some reason "What just happened?" J asks "I don't know, the cameras have all gone static for some reason nothing but the piloting controls are working" a pilot reports "Ketchum must have something that scrambled the systems!" J says (You are so very wrong Hunter J).
J then unleashes all of her Pokemon Salamence, Drapion, Ariados and a new Pokemon, which she must have captured while in the Unova region a Scolipede "Sir, are you going after him?" Pilot asks and J slaps him over the head "You idiot! What do you think I'm going to do?" she asks and leaves the deck with her Pokemon to go after Ash.
Meanwhile somewhere else in the ship in a dark room an explosion is triggered on the floor making a hole in it (Big enough for a human being to climb threw) which causes wind to begin to suck out of the ship but a dark figure climbs threw it along with a bat-like Pokemon and the figure pushes a crate on the whole stopping the sucking "Gligar-Gligar" the Pokemon says (Guess who that Pokemon is everybody).
"Their systems are scrambled Gligar, so it'll be much easier to locate and rescue the Butterfree" the figure says in a deep (But not sounding like he has throat cancer) voice and the two leave the room to search for the Pink Butterfree who is being held captive on the ship.
"Alright, if this is the same kind of ship she had three years ago, then the place she keeps Pokemon she catches isn't too far away," Ash says (How he remembers this even I don't know and I'm the writer of this story) and suddenly J's Salamence flies right in their way and growls at them.
"I told you they would find out we're here!" Bianca says and soon from behind them J's Scolipede, Ariados, Drapion and J herself join the mix "I must admit I'm impressed you were smart enough to plant a tracker on me but I'm even more impressed you knew how to scramble my systems" J says.
"Wait? What do you mean, I didn't do that I didn't even know that happened?" Ash asks, "Do you think I really care? I'm not going to just let you come aboard and steal something that's way too valuable to me?" Hunter J asks referring to the Pink Butterfree that she kidnapped.
"No way! I'm not letting hurt another Poke ball" Ash says and pulls out four other Poke balls and unleashes the Pokemon inside which are his Zorua, Gabite, Snorlax and Glalie (Don't ask why he didn't unleash his Charizard) and J smiles "You really thought I wouldn't come with just my Pokemon?" J asks and suddenly about ten of Hunter J's henchmen surround Ash, Bianca and Ash's Pokemon "This is going be a lot tougher then I thought it would" Ash says (Man, Ash really didn't think this all the way through and apparently neither did I when I was writing this).
Suddenly all of the lights in the area go off for some unknown reason "Hey, what happened to the lights?" one of Hunter J's henchmen asks in the darkness.
"AHHHHHHHH!" one of the henchmen screams and then goes silent "Who's screaming? What's happening?" another one of them asks "Does anyone have a flashlight?" another asks and one them turns out to have and turns it on only for the dark figure to grab him from behind and knocks him out with a single blow to the head.
"Sir someone else must be in here with…AHHHHHHH" one of J's henchmen screams and the sound of a knock out can be heard "Somebody get the flashlight he had! Before whoever this guy is gets us!" a henchmen says and one them fumbling around in the dark manages to get the flashlight and flashes it in the way of the dark figure and shows for a brief moment he is a man wearing black-violet armor with a Gligar-like symbol on his chest, cape and a cowl and pounces the henchmen then knocks him out and turns off the flashlight darkening the room once again.
"This is not good" a henchmen says and the sounds of punching, kicking and the faint sounds of bones breaking and the lights suddenly turn back on and shows the masked figure is gone and all of the henchmen are lying on the ground beaten down and unconscious.
"What just happened?" Bianca asks confused about what just happened (Nobody blames you at all Bianca, I would be very confused too) and Hunter J looks at her beaten henchmen and groans in anger "Come out you coward!" J says trying to get the masked figure to come back and finish what he started with her.
"Glalie use Ice beam!" Ash says and the Face Pokemon charges a light blue sphere of energy in between the horns on the top of its head and then fires light blue beams from the sphere "Salamence use flamethrower!" J says and Salamence releases a red-yellow stream of fire from its mouth, which collides with Glalie's ice beam, which manages to cut, threw the ice-type attack and hits Glalie and sends the Face Pokemon crashing right into the wall where it faints instantly.
"Glalie return" Ash says and recalls Glalie back to its Poke ball and pulls out another Poke ball "I'm not wasting my time fighting you J! I'm gonna spend it getting Butterfree out of here so Charizard I choose you!" Ash says and throws the Poke ball in the air and in an instant Charizard is unleashed from his Poke ball and lets out a mighty roar.
Ash then recalls the rest of his Pokemon (Except Pikachu of course) and him, Pikachu and Bianca hop on to Charizard and fly off to search for the Pink Butterfree wherever she is on the ship (Like Ash said finding and rescuing the pink Butterfree is more important then fighting J).
"Salamence after them!" J says and her riding on her Salamence flies after the four and her Pokemon follow her (They just leave the beaten up and unconscious henchmen on the ground, nice).
Ash, Bianca, Pikachu and Charizard then come to a door Charizard uses a flamethrower attack on it and burns a hole threw it (They could have just opened it but it was probably locked) and they go threw it and look to see the Pink Butterfree which J captured earlier in stone form inside of a case.
"This is what she does to Pokemon? This is Wrong!" Bianca says not liking the way J treats the Pokemon she captures (You and me both) "I know, lets just get Butterfree out of here" Ash says and then goes to the switch on the case and turns it down which unfreezes Butterfree and the case glass retracts and Butterfree flies above Ash, Bianca, Pikachu and Charizard.
"Free, free!" Pink Butterfree says happy that it is free from its confinement "Butterfree looks really happy!" Ash says, (You would be too if you were freed from being turned to stone too Ash) "Now lets get out of here before Hunter J catches up" Bianca says.
"Don't move!" Hunter J says and they look behind them to see J on top of her Salamence with her other Pokemon who are blocking the only exit from the room "You really think I'm going to listen to you J?" Ash asks "No but if you know what's good for you, you'll hand over the Butterfree and surrender" J says.
"He won't be doing that Pokemon Hunter J" a voice says over the intercom of the ship "What the hell? Who said that?" Hunter J asks "I am in complete control of this vessel now, your entire crew has been neutralized" the voice says and Hunter J activates her comlink "Does anyone read this?" Hunter J asks.
Somewhere else in the ship several of J's henchmen lie on the floor beaten and unconscious like the ones before (Whoa he wasn't kidding).
"No one is answering" J says "You have two options Hunter J, you and your Pokemon surrender peacefully and allow Ash, Bianca and the Pokemon you kidnapped to leave or I will pilot the ship into the city where the police will inevitably storm it and capture you all" the voice says telling Hunter J his demands (You can already tell that he can be a badass).
"Whoever you are I'm not surrendering to someone who thinks they can just walk into my ship and take it over," J says and she turns to Ash and Bianca "And I'm defiantly not letting you walk off with something that's worth something to me" J says.
"Fine, Charizard use DragonBreath!" Ash says and Charizard's eyes glow red and it fires a transparent beam of energy with white rings around it from its mouth which hits Salamence, which causes it to flip over and hit the wall, and pushes J off of Salamence.
"Now Pikachu use Thunderbolt!" Ash says "PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Pikachu yells as he releases a powerful bolt of yellow electricity from its body at J's Ariados, Drapion and Scolipede, which electrocutes them and they howl in pain and fall to the ground while not fainted but with reduced HP levels.
"Lets go!" Ash says and him, Bianca and Pikachu along with the pink Butterfree hop on to Charizard and fly out of the room and Hunter J picks herself up from the ground and growls in anger as the humans and Pokemon get away.
On the command deck the masked figure stands in the middle of the room with his Gligar next to him and soon Ash, Bianca, Pikachu, Charizard and Butterfree enter it and land behind him "Who is that?" Bianca asks and the masked man turns around and looks at them "I…have no idea" Ash says.
Suddenly a shot is fired but the group ducks before anyone is hit and the shot is revealed to be from Hunter J's cannon "So you're the one who took out my crew" Hunter J says and looks at the masked figure "I didn't expect you to be wearing something so…unusual" J says (I bet people have worn stranger get-ups though).
The Masked Figure does not respond to what J just said to him and simply holds up his wrist and fires over six projectiles from his gauntlet at Hunter J which hits both J's shoulder and both of her cheeks which cut them and causes her to bleed a little bit and groans in pain.
"You Bastard! Scolipede use Poison tail!" J says and Scolipede's tails glow purple and Scolipede goes to hit the masked man with it but he jumps out of the way and runs over to Scolipede and jumps on it from behind and grips its neck area and Scolipede's eyes widen in shock then falls to the ground.
"Ariados use String Shot!" J says and Ariados shoots multiple white strings from its mouth at the masked man and he holds out his gauntlet which the webs wrap around and he grabs hold of the string and reels Ariados in which causes the Long Leg Pokemon to be thrown right in his direction and punches it right in the face (He is as bold in doing that as I was writing that).
"Salamence use Flamethrower! Drapion use Poison sting!" J says and Salamence fires a spray of red-orange flames while Drapion opens its mouth and fires multiple purple darts from its mouth and both attacks are heading right for the masked figure.
"What are you doing? Get out of the way!" Bianca says but the masked man jumps out of the way of both attacks and begins running towards Hunter J who seeing him approaching her begins firing shots from her arm cannon to try and turn him to stone and stop him but he dodges every shot by ducking and moving a different way.
"Stay back! I'm warning you!" J says but the masked man jumps up and tackles her off of Salamence and goes to punch her in the face but Drapion grabs him and restrains him and J smiles.
"Ash, we need to help that guy!" Bianca says, "You're right! Charizard use DragonBreath!" Ash says and Charizard's eyes glow red and he fires a transparent beam of energy with white rings around it from its mouth which hits Drapion right in the face and it releases the masked man from its grasp.
"I'm getting tired of fighting you…" J says and then looks at Ash and Bianca "I'll deal with you some other time" J says and recalls the rest of her Pokemon and hops back on to Salamence and fires a Dragon pulse attack on the wall and she escapes threw it.
"Ash, she's getting away!" Bianca says "It doesn't matter…she doesn't have Butterfree anymore" the masked man says feeling that it was more important that they saved the Pink Butterfree then capturing Hunter J.
"Who are you?" Ash asks and the masked figure stares at him right in the eyes "I'm Gligarman" the masked figure says revealing his name to be "Gligarman" (Yeah I know it would've been more epic if it was said holding Hunter J by the collar).
"Gligarman?" Ash asks remembering that name.
Gligarman then throws something at the windows which breaks them open and he walks over to the broken open window with his Gligar and jumps out the window and while falling threw the air and his cape turns into a glider and glides off into the city with his Gligar.
Ash, Bianca, Pikachu and Butterfree then get on to Charizard and fly out of the ship themselves while the ship's autopilot (Which was set by Gligarman) goes into the city where it will land so police can storm it and arrest the men on board (I bet this will an interesting day for the cops).
The group riding Charizard then land on the roof of Luna's house where May, Max, Dawn and Luna greet them "You guys made it back!" Dawn says, "Yeah and we found Butterfree!" Ash says and Butterfree flies happily over the rest of the group "Wow! It really is pink!" May says.
Anthony then comes back on the roof (Guess where he was the whole time) "Well did I miss anything?" Anthony asks, "Ash came back with the Butterfree!" Dawn says, "What took you so long anyway?" Luna asks a bit rudely "After I finished using the bathroom I got lost in the house I'm even surprised I managed to find my way back up here" Anthony explains giving his excuse for taking so long.
The group then goes back to the Pokemon Center where the Nurse Joy shows Ash's Butterfree has fully healed from his injuries and is happily reunited with his mate as the two fly around with each other in the air "They look so cute together!" Dawn says.
Ash's Butterfree and the Pink Butterfree go over to Ash and Bianca and fly in front of them "Butterfree…do you want to be with me again?" Ash asks and Butterfree nods in a "Yes" fashion "Free…free" Butterfree says "And you want to be my Pokemon?" Bianca asks and the Pink Butterfree does the same as her mate does.
"Okay" Ash says and pulls out an empty Poke ball as does Bianca and the two throw them at both Butterfrees which absorb them both and fall to the ground wobble and blink several times and halt and sparkles fly off them confirming their captures.
"Alright…I caught a Butterfree!" Bianca says striking a pose (Whoa she's already doing the same thing everyone else does, she catches on quick).
"Hey where did Anthony go?" Max asks noticing Anthony isn't there and neither is the Nurse Joy and they look to see in the distance Anthony is talking with the Nurse Joy and she giggles at whatever he just said to her.
"What's he doing?" Luna asks and they watch as Anthony walks out of the Pokemon center and Ash goes over to where Nurse Joy is "What did Anthony just say to you?" Ash asks "Oh nothing really…he just said I was the cutest girl he's met so far since he's been here and I gave him my phone number" Nurse Joy says and giggles.
"Okay…" Ash says.
"I can't believe it Ash my first Pokemon" Bianca says "Just you wait Bianca, there are plenty more out there to catch" Ash says.
With Ash's Butterfree back into his roster of Pokemon and his mate as the first addition to Bianca's our heroes continue their adventure. What will happen next? Stay tuned and find out.
To be continued…
Okay we just wrapped up Chapter 37 and this plot was an idea given to me by reviewer ashds (Thanks for the idea!). We also have the debut of Anthony's superhero persona Gligarman who doesn't have throat cancer like Christine Bale's Batman.
As you can see he puts on the persona of an eccentric womanizer to throw people off the scent of his identity.
Also here's a link to the trailer for the 16th Pokemon movie titled ExtremeSpeed Genesect: watch?v=u-S6mTUV-9w&list=WL28F4353C7CE71604
Also here's the link to the trailer of N's anime debut in Japan:
watch?feature=endscreen&v=mCHuSYQeKb4&list=WL28F4353C7CE71604&NR=1
Also if you haven't noticed I put a Howl's moving castle reference when Anthony was talking with Burgundy, guess why…
Also just so you know an arc I'll be doing is Ash trying to find out what happened to his father and Delia when asked will refuse to give him any details. I don't think its Giovanni by the way; I think that theory is stupid.
Also I'm having a poll of which Generation I or II starter Pokemon Bianca should catch if you want to go on my profile and vote.
I'll update as soon as I can. Gotta catch 'em all!