Hey there everyone! Happy Friday afternoon, or whatever time it is where you are!
In case you didn't know or thought I was a Death Eater in disguise, it's me, Ty8, here with another episode of the show you all either love or don't notice, "Typhlosion8's Weird Author Notes!"
I'd like to say again to reassure you all that I'm feeling great about this and have little to no plan where the story is going, which makes it better! But rest assured, I will update next week and probably for a long time after that. I've struck creative gold, and I'm not slowing down until I'm either dry or finished! (hopefully the latter)
I'm actually hoping to finish this story off at 50 chapters, so if I'm counting right, (which I am because I used a calculator because I'm lazy) there's only 13 chapters of IMDH left not counting this one. So prepare for chapters that will be longer or one long epic finale chapter. (Actually, I've already posted a poll so vote on what you want!)
So, I think now is the perfect time to say:
Time for Chapter 37!
A shriek from afar jolted all of them out of their pause as their bridge began to creak loudly. It was going to snap any minute now. Even now, it began to feel unstable as they picked up their pace in the hopes of crossing before they fell.
"Stay calm, and don't look down." Brock said, and May gave a shiver.
"How can we stay calm when we're all about to fall to our deaths?" she whimpered softly to herself.
With a sudden groan, the whole structure shifted downwards, and they all dived down and grabbed whatever they could as the tower moved deeper into the gap, becoming weaker every second.
"Hurry. We don't have any time to spare." Ash said, and the close call shook them all as they began to move even quicker.
Meanwhile, Pikachu, as he walked down in front of his friends to guide them, began having darker thoughts as he struggled to keep control over his mind again.
A quick Iron Tail to the bridge would take them all out, and I would be able to escape with Quick Attack. No one would know later because the tower was going to collapse anyway...
The yellow mouse shuddered as his tail started to shine silver, but the colour disappeared as soon as it had come as Pikachu pushed the thoughts out of his mind. He wasn't sure why he had such control over himself, but he was going to keep in control as long as he could, because Ash needed him to be by his side as his best friend and partner. They were always working together.
I will not leave them to fall into this crevice of terror.
He looked up to see how close they were to the ground when he noticed a familiar head looking straight at them.
"PikachuPi!"
Brock heard Pikachu's call and was surprised.
Misty's still here? I would have thought that the others would be gone by now, because they're on the other side.
He tried to see if he could spot the Misty and the others down there, but his head snapped upwards when a sharp noise caught his attention.
Flying out of the laboratory was a large dragon-like creature.
"Aerodactyl's free!" he whispered. The Rock/Flying type began flying towards the mountain, natural attracted to the noise still coming from the volcano.
He's coming towards us!
"Ash! Aerodactyl is flying this way!" he shouted, and the teen seemed to be in shock as the prehistoric Pokèmon flew in their direction.
Ash finally looked at Pikachu.
"Do you think you can fight it for a few minutes until we're all on safer ground?" he asked. Pikachu, still fighting his other side, seemed to become a little eager thinking of fighting.
"Pi Pikachu!" he said confidently, and jumped onto Ash's shoulder. From there he climbed onto his head, and carefully jumped onto May's, then Jessie's, and finally Brock's, before landing lightly on the tower and prepared to fight as the group continued to move downwards.
Ash, being only a few metres away from the bottom, quickly walked down the tower ahead of the others, and was confused to see only Misty at the bottom.
"Where's Gary, Silver and James?" he asked. She began telling him the story.
May was the next one to get to the bottom, grinning and doing some sort of victory cheer. Jessie came soon after, sinking to the ground and taking deep breaths. Finally, Brock got off, giving a small grin.
"Well, how many people can say that they nearly died climbing across a radio tower over a gap caused by an earthquake before the volcano on Cinnabar Island erupted?" he asked jokingly, and the others all managed to smile.
Aerodactyl saw a Pikachu in a haze of red, and shrieked at it menacingly. The Pikachu just grinned cheekily, making the former fossil even madder. Aerodactyl, still infuriated and infected with Pokèrus's power, dove at the tiny mouse, and the creature darted down the fallen tower like it was a bridge before stopping lower to the gap and sparking.
It suddenly shot bolts of lightning at Aerodactyl, and the Flying/Rock type screeched in slight pain, but it was overpowered by it's anger, and lunged, it's sharp claws missing the Pikachu by a millimetre. The close range just encouraged Pikachu, who released more power and enveloped Aerodactyl in more lightning, slowly wearing it down.
With a final burst, the Pikachu stopped, and changed attacks into an Iron Tail, swinging it straight into Aerodactyl's jaw. But Aerodactyl was prepared for the attack to it's face, and a Fire Fang bit deeply into Pikachu's tail, which wasn't really meant to be attacked so viciously.
Pikachu tails are mostly muscle, and there are only a few bones in the base of the tail to allow flexible movement. But the muscles are delicate and easy to tear if enough pressure is put on it, it will do painful damage. As soon as the after the metallic sheen went away, the pain became much more intense as the flames burned the layer of fur black and the sharp teeth of the obvious carnivore began to bite through the Pikachu's tail.
"Chuuuuu!" the mouse cried out in pain as it wiggled to get free. A weak Thunderbolt zapped Aerodactyl, but wasn't anywhere near as strong as before.
Then, like a switch had been flipped, Pikachu stiffened, and then growled out a snarky taunt.
"Kachu Pi."
With new energy, thousands of volts of raw power was released, and Aerodactyl let go instantly as it collapsed onto the bridge as more energy poured into it. It whimpered in pain, calling out it's surrender to the tiny electric mouse, who finally stopped.
The Pikachu's tail, which was burnt black and had crimson blood stained into it's fur where the teeth had sunk through, changed into what looked like a solid metallic blade that swung too fast to see anything more than a silver streak in the air as the mouse sliced cleanly through the carnage of metal, rock and debris, slicing the bridge into two halves, Pikachu's and Aerodactyl's.
And the bridge broke at last, the weak metal destroyed and began to fall inward into the crevice below and Aerodactyl didn't move, too exhausted. But Pikachu did, becoming a white glow as he bolted for the other side. As his feet touched the solid ground, he relaxed a bit, before shuddering to control himself again.
The adrenaline was wearing off, and as Pikachu's eyes turned back to their charcoal black, he mewled in pure pain and whited out.
Ash gingerly scooped Pikachu up into his arms and pulled off his jacket, wrapping it around the mouse and tightly around his butchered tail. He was now in only his faded old Rocket shirt, the one he walked into Indigo Plateau in, hidden under his hoodie.
Pushing away the memory, he looked at his friends, trying to think of a way to get them all off the island.
There were five of them now since Misty showed up. There would be no way to get away unless they got on one of those huge Team Rocket cargo boats, and that would be hard. He still had his last plan for getting into one of them, but it wouldn't be easy.
"Look out!" May shouted, and everyone went down except Ash, too deep in his thoughts.
"Ash! Move!" Misty yelled at him, and he blinked before looking up and seeing a huge flaming bird high in the sky glaring straight at their group.
"That's Moltres!" Brock said in awe.
Ash looked closer, seeing a strange colour in it's eyes. The bright red colour registered in his mind.
"That's Pokèrus Moltres!" he said, and the group tried to find some sort of cover from the Legendary as it powered up and attacked them with a Fire Blast. The flames were coming too fast, preventing escape.
Ash was in the middle and most likely to be hit, and tried to cover his head with his arms like a shield, but didn't have to, because a blue creature leaped in front of the all and hit the Fire Blast with a Hydro Pump, destroying it and hitting Moltres too. The bird screeched in annoyance and flew away.
The others, who were in a slight shock, walked closer to the blue dog.
"Is that... Suicune?" Jessie asked. Misty, the Water type expert, nodded jerkily.
Suicune seemed to cool the surrounding area, and the air became fresher and had a faint sea water smell. The dog seemed much larger than legends depicted.
It looked straight at Ash and met his eyes.
"Do you and your friends need help getting off this island?"
And there you have it. Cinnabar is a disaster zone still and everyone is struggling to get off tis island of terror.
Have a nice day!
Ty8