Okay we are up to Chapter 52 of the story. Last chapter Ash and the group came to Kanto Safari Zone along with Laura Greenleaf a family friend of Ash's family that he's known since he was four-years-old along with her daughter Marceline. Read, Review and enjoy.
Narrator:
While Ash, Bianca, Iris along Laura and Marceline Greenleaf went in their own direction in the Kanto Safari Zone, the rest of the group, which consists of May, Dawn and Max search around their own part of the Safari Zone for new Pokemon to capture and train…
In a large green grass field in the open Safari Zone several kinds of different Pokemon roamed.
One group of these many Pokemon were a herd of Nidoran of both kinds male and female and Nidorino and Nidorina but unknown to these wild Pokemon they were being watched by people who were intent on capturing some of them.
"After a very long and frustrating hiatus I welcome you all back to an exciting new addition of…May's expeditions…Today we're taking a look at the wildlife here in Kanto region Safari Zone, where so many different kinds of Pokemon all live in peace and harmony and but they are all aware of the fact that any day they could captured by a Pokemon trainer…or perhaps even a Pokemon coordinator who just happens to…"
"You know sis, if you're gonna do that you might as well bring something to record that with, so its an actually expedition video and not just you talking to yourself" Max said which revealed it was him along with older sister May and May's special friend Dawn who were hidden behind a rock as they observed the vast wild Pokemon.
May frowned and then swiftly bonked her younger brother on the head in response to what he had just said and Max simply groaned in pain from this.
"I wasn't talking to myself Max, I was talking to you and Dawn and I expect both of you to listen," She said.
"Would you two just cut it out already, aren't we hear just to catch Pokemon?" Dawn asked the two.
"Hmph…Fine, I'll let it go this one time, but the next time…not so much" May said.
The three of them looked over the huge rock that they hid behind and saw the Nidoran, Nidorino and Nidorina all together in various groups and Dawn curious about them pulled out her Pokedex.
"Nidoran the Poison Pin Pokémon. Although small, Nidoran's the poison that Nidoran's venomous barbs secrete can be potential fatal. The female version of this has smaller horns"
"Nidorino the Poison Pin Pokémon and the evolved form of a male Nidoran. Nidorino is a very aggressive Pokemon and can be easily angered and when this happens it is known to stab its foes with its horn, which oozes poison upon impact"
"Nidorina the Poison Pin Pokémon and the evolved form of a female Nidoran. Unlike Nidorino this Pokemon has a much more gentle temperament and emits ultrasonic cries that have the power to befuddle foes"
The three of them then opened up their baskets which contained empty Safari balls and pulled some out which they all intended to use to capture some of those wild Pokemon out in the fields.
"Alright we throw the Safari balls on three…one…two…THREE!" Dawn said.
The trio then threw over twelve Safari Balls combined over all of the Nidoran, Nidorino and Nidorina and while some of them noticed them being thrown in their direction about eight of them didn't and they were absorbed inside the Safari Balls and captured instantly.
The Safari Balls used the capture the Pokemon then all instantly teleported away to the labs of Professors Rowan and Birch for safe storage.
The facial features of the Nidoran, Nidorino and Nidorina that were not captured by the Safari balls quickly changed to angry expressions and they all turned their attentions to the rock the group hid behind.
"Guys that was just great, I wonder how many of them that we caught with…"
"Ugh…Dawn?" May asked in a scared tone voice.
"Yeah, what is it May?" Dawn asked.
"I don't think the Pokemon liked us throwing those Safari balls at them…"
"Really, why?" Dawn asked.
"Look up" May answered with her finger pointed above them.
Dawn curious of why her special friend sounded so scared and looked up above her head to see all of the Pokemon that were not captured with the Safari Balls all gathered on top of the rock they hid behind and stared down at them with very angered and scary looks on all of their faces.
"So…what should we do?" Max asked in a quiet tone of voice so as to not to set off the obviously hostile Pokemon.
"Run away…" Dawn responded.
"What?" He asked.
"RUN AWAY!" She yelled.
The three of them then ran off at top speed away from the rock while the wild Pokemon they attempted to capture with their Safari Balls took pursuit right behind them at the same speed.
The three of them looked around where they ran for any way to escape the angry Poison Pin Pokemon, which chased them, but they could not find any in their current line of sight.
"I don't see anyway to escape! They're gonna get us!" Dawn said.
"Quick! Over here!"
The three of them all heard the familiar voice and looked out to see their friend Anthony Jenny inside of a thick dark green bush who motioned the group to come and hide inside the bush with him from the wild Pokemon.
The trio realized what he had motioned them to do and they ran over to the bush and they went inside of it with him, the Wild Pokemon that pursued them ran right past it.
Now safe inside of the bush from the Safari Zone Pokemon with the others, Dawn let out a big sigh of relief.
"That was close, I thought for a second that those Pokemon were going to get us for sure," She said.
"So thanks for helping us, Anthony" May said.
"You're welcome, it would be best to be careful in here…the Safari Zone Pokemon can be much more aggressive then typical wild Pokemon you might normally encounter" He explained.
"Yeah, thanks for the advice" Max said.
The four of them exited through the other side of the bush and they continued with Anthony now with them through a grass field in search of some Wild Pokemon for them to capture in the Safari Zone.
Meanwhile somewhere else in the Safari Zone Ash along with Laura, Marceline, Bianca and Iris had stopped at a small blue lake where except for Marceline had all taken out the fishing rods in their baskets and fished for water Pokemon to capture.
"Have you gotten any bites yet Ash?" Laura asked.
"No, not yet, you?" He asked.
"No, not yet" She responded.
"Hey! I think I got a bite!" Bianca said as she felt something tug on her fishing rod.
She then twisted the rod's handle to reel in whatever water-type Pokemon had latched on to it.
Finally Bianca managed to reel in the Pokemon who had latched on to the rod and it came flying out of the water and landed on the ground which promoted shocked reactions from the group for what the Pokemon was.
"Magikarp! Magikarp! Magikarp!"
The Magikarp, which Bianca had reeled in with her fishing rod, was shown to be a simple Magikarp, which simply flopped around on the ground now that it was out of the lake that it spends all of its time in.
"Its…a Magikarp" Laura said.
Bianca pulled out her Pokedex to check the data on this extremely common Water-type Pokemon.
"Magikarp the Fish Pokémon. Magikarp is virtually worthless in terms of both power and speed and it is considered to be the weakest and most pathetic Pokemon in the world and nobody knows why it has managed to survive for so long"
"I'm definitely catching this one!" She said and pulled out an empty Safari Ball from the basket.
The Magikarp heard what she had just said and the reaction that gave was that it smiled and began increased its flopping speed apparently happy by what Bianca intended to do.
"Alright then…Safari Ball Go!"
She then threw the empty Safari Ball at the Fish Pokemon which absorbed it and the specialized Poke Ball landed on the ground where it wobbled and blinked several times, then it halted and sparkles flew off which confirmed its capture by Bianca.
Bianca then picked up the Safari Ball, which contained her newly captured Magikarp inside of it.
"This Magikarp makes it six Pokemon that I've captured so far, this is great!" She proclaimed.
"Congratulations!"
Bianca along with the rest of the group heard this voice and turned around to see that the one who had said that to her was the girl that Ash and the group met while near Sunny Town who tried to steal from them, Selina Kyle.
"That was just simply amazing!" She said.
"Oh great, it's her…" Ash muttered less then joyful with her presence.
"Ash, you know this girl?" Laura asked.
"Oh course, he does, he's one of the nicest customers that I've ever had the pleasure of selling products to…my name is Selina Kyle and I'm a nomadic entrepreneur!" Selina said.
"Yeah your products worked so well, except when they didn't and turned out they were all fakes and you tried to scam us all out of our money!" Ash said irritated by Selina's attempts to look innocent in front of everyone.
"Pika, Pikachu!"
Selina simply smiled in response to what Ash had just said to her "That's a bit harsh you know, all that I was trying to do was to make a living, I just hope you can forgive me" She said and then she ran over and embraced Ash.
"Hey! Get off of me!" He demanded as he tried to pry the teenage thief off of his body.
Ash finally managed to push Selina off of him.
"HMPH! You are quite rude, I actually now regret calling you one of my nicest customers" She said.
"To be honest, I don't really care what you regret calling me" He said.
"Fine! Good day Sir!" She yelled then she turned around and walked off away from the group.
"Finally…and thankfully she didn't steal anything from us this time" Ash said and then suddenly he felt a tug on the fishing rod, which he still griped in his hand.
"Hey! I actually got something on the hook!" Ash said as he began to reel in whatever water type Pokemon had latched on to the hook of the rod.
Ash with all of his strength pulled on the rod and the Water-type Pokemon began to emerge from the pond, which revealed itself much to the group's surprise to be a Slowpoke who looked pretty tired and uninterested.
"Slow…"
"It's a Slowpoke, I've seen pictures of them before!" Marceline said.
"…Poke…"
Ash then opened up his basket of Safari Balls to use one of them to capture the Dopey Pokemon with.
He then pulled one out and took aim at Slowpoke, which like most of its kind simply lay there probably by complete choice.
"Safari Ball, go!" He said and then he threw the empty Safari Ball at the Dopey Pokemon, which hit its back then absorbed it into the Safari Ball and it began to wobble and blink several times until it halted and sparkles flew off which confirmed its capture and it beamed away instantly to Professor Oak's lab.
"And I still about twenty-four Safari Balls left to use" Ash proclaimed.
"Pika…Pika, Pikachu!"
Ash heard his best friend's words and looked down to see Pikachu looking through the basket, which contained the empty Safari Balls given to him by Kaiser.
"What is it Pikachu?" Ash asked.
Ash kneeled down and looked into basket where Pikachu pointed at the Safari Balls inside and the teenage Pokemon trainer counted the number of them inside and was shocked by how many were in there.
"What the…there's only like thirteen Safari Balls left...so where did they…" Suddenly it hit Ash of what might have happened to the other eleven Safari Balls that were in his basket.
He then scowled as he realized what happened to them.
Flashback-Several moments ago
The young thief Selina Kyle embraced Ash and while she did this she took a handful of Safari Balls, which were all in their minimized forms and placed them all inside of her skirt's pocket.
End Flashback
"It was Selina! She stole my Safari Balls!" He yelled enraged that the young cat thief had tricked him yet again.
"And since she stole those Safari Balls from you, I seriously doubt that she entered the Safari Zone with Kaiser knowing that she did" Laura added.
"So what are we going after her to get them back?" Iris asked.
Ash simply sighed, "No, it's really not worth it…lets just all hope that some angry wild Pokemon ends up chasing her around for awhile that'd teach a lesson" he said.
Ash then sat back down and put his fishing rod back into the water.
"You know, I think actually might have seen someone that looks like her somewhere else, I just can't put my finger on where" Laura added.
"This is just a wild guess but you probably saw a picture of her getting arrested for robbery somewhere" Ash remarked as he began to calm down from his rage about the fact that Selina had just stolen his Safari Balls.
Meanwhile somewhere else in the Safari Zone May, Max, Dawn along with Anthony who had just helped them escape some wild Pokemon, hid in a bush as they watched a wild Rhyhorn that slept peacefully on the ground.
Dawn then pulled out an empty Safari ball and took aim at the sleeping Spikes Pokemon.
"Alright here goes nothing…Safari ball go!" She yelled then she threw the Safari Ball in the direction of the Rhyhorn but all of sudden when it was about to hit and capture it the Safari Ball collided with another Safari Ball, which caused both balls to crack up and fall to the ground, which left them both broken and unusable.
The wild Rhyhorn heard this and awakened from its slumber.
"Rhyhorn…"
It then got up from the ground and walked away from where it had slept and it smashed both of the unusable Safari balls which were used Dawn and some other person to try and capture it to pieces with its foot and walked off to someplace else.
"Well…that didn't work at all, Dawn" Anthony said.
"Who even threw that other Safari Ball, anyway?" May asked.
"HEY! Who's over there?"
Dawn heard this female voice yell at her and the others and she sighed as she realized who it was "Oh no, its her…" she said.
Dawn then stood up from the bush along with May, Max and Anthony and looked to see that the one who had thrown the other Safari Ball was none other then Dawn's rival Ursula.
"Hmph! Its you again, I shouldn't even be surprised," She said in her usual rude tone of voice.
"If I might ask May, who is this girl exactly?" Anthony asked.
Ursula then heard what Anthony had just asked May and she turned her body in his direction "My name is Ursula and I'm a Pokemon Coordinator" She said.
"And its safe to assume that it was you, who threw that other Safari Ball at the Rhyhorn that Dawn tried to capture, correct?" He asked her in a rather polite manner.
"Yes and I would have captured it if this blue haired bubble brain didn't throw her own Safari Ball and broke the Safari ball I tried to use!" She said.
"Hey! Don't yell at me, how was I supposed to know you were trying to catch that Rhyhorn anyway?" Dawn asked.
"ERGH! Forget it! Honestly I don't get why I even waste anytime arguing with some no-talent Coordinator like you!" Ursula said.
Dawn in response scowled at the spiteful words that her rival had just said to her and Ursula then walked away from the group to somewhere else in the Safari Zone.
"Well…she's not that kind, is she?" Anthony asked.
"That's being a bit too kind to her if you ask me, she is one of the most mean spirited people that I've ever met in my life!" Dawn said as she stomped on the ground several times angry about what Ursula had just said to her.
May then walked over to Dawn and began to rub her back to calm her down "Dawn don't let her get to you, its just not worth it," She said.
"Hey! Get back here you!"
Upon hearing the voice the group turned around and saw a wild Scyther which was being pursued by none other then Bianca the trainer that Ash had met during his travels in the Unova region.
"Scyther! Scyther!"
The wild Scyther that the bubbly blond trainer chased after had clear fear written all over its face as it clearly had been chased by Bianca in the Safari Zone for some time now and ran as fast as its legs would allow it.
"Stop running! I just want to catch you that's all!" She said as she tried to pull out an empty Safari Ball from her basket while she also ran to catch up with the Mantis Pokemon.
"Ah! Got it!" She said and pulled out an empty Safari Ball from the basket.
"Now…Go!"
She then threw the Safari Ball in the direction of the Wild Scyther, which hit the Mantis Pokemon in the back of its head, which then much to its clear dismay caused it to be absorbed inside of it where it fell to the ground and wobbled and blinked several times until it stopped and sparkles came off which confirmed its capture.
"Alright! I did it!" Bianca said then she picked up the Safari Ball, which contained her newly captured Scyther inside of it.
"I can't believe it, I just caught my first Pokemon in the Kanto region!" She proclaimed.
"Ugh…Bianca" Dawn said.
The bubbly blond trainer heard Dawn and turned around with a big happy smile on her face.
"Oh, hi Dawn did you just see me capture that Scyther, I just know that it will be a great part of my team, didn't you see how fast it was running…"
"Bianca, your Safari balls are all over the ground" Dawn said and pointed behind Bianca.
The bubbly blond trainer in response to what Dawn had just told her turned around and was shocked to see the other twenty-nine empty Safari Balls were now all scattered across the ground outside of the basket most likely because she had lost her grip on the basket while she threw the Safari Ball that had captured her Scyther.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I can't believe it, how couldn't I notice that, why do I have to be so stupid all the time?" She asked as she ran over to the basket and began to frantically put all of the stray specialized Poke balls back inside of the basket.
"I take it that you all know who this girl is?" Anthony asked the group confused by the bubbly trainer.
"Yeah, her name is Bianca, Ash met her when he was in the Unova region" Max said.
Bianca soon enough finished picking up the stray Safari Balls and stood up.
"Oh my god, that was so totally embarrassing, I'm surprised that none of you guys aren't laughing at me right now" She said as she pressed her glasses back on to her face before they could have had a chance to fall off.
"Of course we wouldn't Bianca, what made you think we'd do that?" May asked.
Bianca then giggled and scratched the back of her blond head "Oh no reason, it just that this happens to me a lot and…well I can be kind of klutz sometimes" She said.
Unknown to five of them they were all being watched by Selina Kyle in a tree who spied on them with a pair of high range binoculars and she spotted a gold watch which was on Anthony's hand and she cracked a devious smile.
"Jackpot…" she whispered to herself.
Meanwhile, not too far from where the rest of the group were in the Safari Zone, the group of Ash, Bianca, Laura, Marceline and Iris were now where Dawn, May and Max had searched for Pokemon, before they had moved on to another area in the Zone.
The five of them hid behind a large patch of grass while they scoped the area for any Pokemon that they could capture.
"Hmm…I don't see anything in my line of sight, did you guys see anything?" Iris asked.
"I don't, but I'll keep looking" Marceline said.
"So Iris, what are you doing here in the Kanto region anyway, the last time I saw you and Cilan you guys said you were going to Johto?" Ash asked his former traveling companion.
"I came here to Kanto because I heard about a place in Northern Kanto, where you can find a lot of different kinds of Dragon-type Pokemon so I just had to come here and check it out" She answered.
"Hey! There's something coming, look!" Laura said as she pointed out through the grass to an approaching Rhydon, which looked just as powerful as it was big.
"Whoa, that's a Rhydon!" Ash said amazed by the sight of the Drill Pokemon.
Bianca pulled out her Pokedex to check the data on the Ground and Rock type Pokemon.
"Rhydon the Drill Pokémon and the evolved form of Rhyhorn. Its rugged and armor-like hide allows it to be capable of living in molten lava of over 3,600 degrees"
"This one could make a great addition to my team, I'm defiantly going to try and capture it" Ash said and then he opened up his basket and pulled out one out of the only thirteen Safari Balls that he had left after Selina Kyle had stolen the rest.
He then pressed the specialized ball's button in the center, which expanded it in his hand and took aim at the wild Rhydon that he had in his sights.
"Safari Ball, GO!"
Then Ash threw the empty Safari Ball right at the Wild Rhydon while its back was turned.
The Rhydon however then swung its tail against the Safari Zone, which sent it flying off into the distance.
"WHAT?"
Meanwhile in a small pond in the Safari Zone a pack of wild Poliwag swam happily in the water when suddenly the Safari Ball that Ash had just previously attempted to use to capture the wild Rhydon flew over and landed on the head of one of the Poliwags which absorbed it completely inside and captured it then it teleported off to Professor Oak's lab in a bright flash of light.
"Poliwag?"
What had just happened left all of the other wild Poliwag the one that Ash had just unknowingly captured very confused about what had occurred right in front of their very own eyes.
"Damn…" Ash muttered to himself.
The Wild Rhydon walked over to apple covered tree and removes one of the pomaceous fruit from the tree and began to feast on it with great joy.
"Ash, you still have twelve more Safari Balls and looks like that Rhydon isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so you still have a chance to catch it" Laura said to try and boost Ash's confidence.
"You're right, thanks Laura" Ash said and then he once again opened up the basket and pulled out another empty Safari Ball to try a second time to capture the Wild Rhydon which was in his sights.
"Alright, here we go again…Safari Ball, GO!"
He then threw the empty Safari Ball at the Rhydon, which this time actually hit, the rock and ground typed behemoth and absorbed it completely inside of it where it fell to ground, where it wobbled and blinked several times then it halted and sparkles came off which confirmed its capture by Ash and it teleported away to Professor Oak's lab.
"Yes! I caught it!" Ash exclaimed with great joy.
"Hey! I was trying to capture that thing!"
The group all heard this and looked to see not far from the patch of grass they hid in a female Pokemon trainer, whom had dark pink hair, blue eyes and wore green clothes along with a yellow hat and her facial expression simply told the group she was not happy at Ash capturing the wild Rhydon.
"Georgia?" Ash asked surprised by her appearance in the Safari Zone.
"Oh great its you two, why I am even surprised by this?" She asked in her usually rude tone.
"Ash, who's this girl?" Laura asked and Ash sighed in response "Yeah I do this is Georgia, Iris and I met her when we were in the Unova Region" He explained.
"You forgot to mention one thing about me…I'm a Dragon Buster" Georgia said as she could hear what Ash was saying to Laura.
Laura was visible puzzled by what Georgia had just said as she had no idea what kind of trainer a "Dragon Buster" was in fact "I've never heard of that kind of trainer before" She said.
"Well…that's probably because there must not be any other Dragon Busters besides me here in the Kanto region at the moment" Georgia said in a suspicious manner.
"Well then, I'll take that as your way of saying that there aren't any other Dragon Busters in the world besides you, Georgia" Iris said.
"Axew! Axew!"
"Hey, watch it, I'm…pretty sure that there are other Dragon Busters besides me!"
"If that's true then why haven't we met any other ones besides you?"
"Well…ugh…that's because they live in very obscure areas in the Unova region, do you think I'm lying or something?"
"Actually, yeah I kind of do as a matter of fact"
"Georgia doesn't seem to be Iris' biggest fan is she Ash?" Laura asked.
"Yeah, when we first met Georgia she said the reason she decided to become a Dragon Buster in the first place was because some trainer beat her in a Pokemon battle really badly in the Village of Dragons, the place where Iris comes from" Ash explained.
"And I take it that she didn't take the defeat very well, did she?"
"Not really and it doesn't seem like she'll be getting over it anytime soon" He said as the two of them along with Bianca and Marceline watched Iris and her rival continue their unfriendly banter with one another.
"Dragon Pokemon Trainers like you and the one that beat me are the whole reason that I became a Dragon Buster in the first place…to put you all in your place and show that you aren't as powerful as you're made out to be!" Georgia yelled.
Georgia quickly realized that Iris was not paying attention to what she was saying and the Dragon Buster quickly shifted her sight in the direction that Iris was looking in and was amazed by what her rival had seen.
The thing that caught both trainers' attention was a Wild Pinsir, which was crawling on the bark of one of the trees in the zone, as it happily tasted the fresh sap, which came out of the tree's cracks.
Bianca pulled out her Pokedex curious about this particular bug-type Pokemon.
"Pinsir the Stag Beetle Pokémon. The two long pincer horns that it possesses are very powerful and when it grips prey with them, the prey are torn in half"
The entry that the Pokedex had just given on Pinsir left not just Bianca visibly shocked but also Marceline who held on her mother's leg tightly scared by the wild Bug-type that was only several feet away from them.
"That was…disturbing, seriously its like these entries were written by some creepy guy who just enjoys scaring people" Bianca said.
"It looks absolutely amazing and so powerful…" Iris said.
"I'm going to capture that Pokemon for sure!" Georgia and Iris said in unison then immediately realized that both of them had just said that and their happy expressions turned into angry expressions.
"Don't even think about it, I'm gonna be the that catches that Pinsir not you!" Georgia said with a fierce look on her face "Not a chance, I'll capture it before you even have a chance to pull out a Safari Ball!" Iris responded.
While the two went on arguing Ash along with Bianca, Marceline and Laura simply stood in the grass patch and watched the two rivals continue their seemingly endless banter with each other.
"I can already tell that when these two are around each other, there's bound to be a lot of hostility around them" Laura commented after she had watched simply a few moments of the two rivals interact and bicker with each one another.
"Yeah that about covers most of it…" Ash remarked.
"Pika…"
Meanwhile somewhere else in the Safari Zone the other three members of the gang along with Anthony and Unova region Bianca were now in a large area which had much less grass then the other areas they had been through in the Safari Zone which made it a rather rough terrain.
Anthony looked around the patch of land they were in now and looked in all direction for any wild Pokemon that they could capture "Guys, something tells me that we aren't going to find a lot of Pokemon in this area" he said as he did not see any wild Pokemon in his line of sight.
"I'm with Anthony on this, I can't see a single one" Dawn said as she looked out in the far-reaching fields for any wild Pokemon that the group could capture.
Max looked down into a small ditch and saw something "Hey guys I see one, come over here" he said and the group walked over to where he stood and they looked down into the small ditch to see a wild female Nidoran searching the ditch for something perhaps food.
"OMA, that Pokemon is just so totally cute what is it?" Bianca asked and she pulled out her Pokedex to identify the cute little poison type Pokemon.
"Nidoran the Poison Point Pokémon. Although Nidoran is quite small in size this Pokémon secretes a deadly poison, which can be fatal. CAUTION is advised to travelers when approaching this Pokemon"
Unova Bianca was visibly shocked by the Pokedex entry on Nidoran and her glasses fell off her face but she quickly realized that they did and grabbed them before they could hit the ground and shatter.
She then breathed a sigh of relief and placed the glasses back on her face.
"Looks like I'm going to have to be extra careful, if I'm gonna catch this one" She said and then she dug out an empty Safari Ball from her basket which looked to be almost empty which only had about fourteen other empty Safari Balls and the fishing rod inside of it.
May noticed this "Bianca, why don't you have many Safari Balls left?" She asked.
"Oh…well…I actually saw a few other Pokemon here then just the Scyther that I caught and well I was just so excited to try and catch them that I kind of used up a few of the Safari Balls I had…and I didn't catch any of them" She embarrassingly admitted.
The bubbly blond trainer then unzipped her backpack and began to dig through that looking for something.
"Bianca, what are taking out of your backpack?" Dawn asked.
"I'm getting something that's sure to get that cutie over here and into my Safari Ball…" she said then she pulled out a Granola Bar and the rest of the group was confused by this all except for Anthony who seemed to get why she planned to use the tasty snack.
"Ah I see you plan to use that Granola bar as bait in order to lure the Nidoran over so that you can capture it easily" Anthony said and Bianca nodded "That's correct, plus I haven't met a single person yet who can resist a Granola bar that's for sure" she said.
She then unwrapped the Granola bar and placed on the ground and then she and the rest of the group hid behind a rock as she looked over it to see when the wild Nidoran would come and try to eat it.
"Alright, come here cutie…" she muttered herself.
The wild Nidoran having found no food where the group had first spotted it walked over to where Bianca had planted the bait and she immediately spotted the Granola bar on the ground.
The Poison Point Pokemon took the bait and hurried over to the snack food and began to hungrily devour it as it had been sometime since she last ate anything.
"Now's my chance..." Bianca said and then she pressed the button on the empty Safari Ball and it expanded itself in her hand.
"Go! Safari Ball!" She yelled out.
She then threw the empty Safari Ball at the Wild Nidoran but the Poison Point Pokemon heard what Bianca had just yelled and unleashed a powerful poison sting attack, which damaged the Safari Ball before it could have been used to capture her and was left unusable.
Bianca in response to what had just happened face palmed herself as she realized that it was her own fault that the Nidoran noticed she was attempting to capture her and was able to damage the Safari Ball.
The wild Nidoran who looked like she was rather angry with Bianca for trying to capture it used a Toxic attack and fired a stream of thick purple liquid from its mouth toward the bubbly blond trainer.
"Quick! Get out of the way!" Anthony said and he jumped on to Bianca and pushed her down on the ground and out of the way of the Nidoran's attack, which missed both of them and simply the hit that they were hiding behind.
Bianca on the ground was simply stunned silent by what Anthony had just done.
"You're welcome by the way my dear" He said to her as he helped up from the ground.
"Oh…ugh…thank you," She said grateful for what he just did.
"Don't mention it and unfortunately its not over yet…" He said and glanced at the wild Nidoran who still looked angry with Bianca for her attempt to capture and Anthony for pushing her out of the way before her Toxic attack could have had a chance to hit her.
"Don't worry I've got an idea…" Bianca said and then pulled out another Safari Ball out of her basket "I'll try using another Safari Ball on it" She said.
"Wait that won't..." Anthony warned.
It was far too late for before Anthony could have even had a chance to finish his sentence Bianca threw the empty Safari ball at the wild and angry Nidoran who simply fired yet another Poison Point attack which like the last one damaged it and it felt to the ground and split in half leaving it unusable.
"Work…" Anthony said.
All of sudden out of nowhere another Safari Ball hit the Wild Nidoran from behind and absorbed the Poison Point Pokemon inside of it and fell to the ground where it wobbled and blinked several times before it halted and sparkles bounced off and confirmed its capture.
May, Dawn and Max came out from behind the rock after they had saw the Wild Nidoran captured by an unknown trainer and walked over to where Anthony and Bianca were.
"Guys did you see who just caught that Nidoran?" May asked.
"Who captured that cute little poison Pokemon my dear? Why it was I of course!"
May, Max and Dawn instantly recognized the voice that just spoke and soon enough Selina Kyle walked over to where they along with Anthony and Bianca were and picked up the Safari Ball, which contained her newly captured Nidoran inside of it and placed it in her handbag.
"Oh its you and I suppose that Safari Ball that you just used to catch that Nidoran was stolen right?" May asked as she remembered who the young cat thief was and their last encounter with her.
"That hurts you know, I'm simply offended that you would think I would commit such a pathetic act of theft," She said in an innocent and somewhat mocking tone of voice.
"Excuse me my friends but if may be so kind to ask, who is this girl?" Anthony asked.
"Well my good sir how very kind of you to ask…I'm Selina Kyle and I'm a Pokemon Trainer and traveling entrepreneur" She explained.
"More like a traveling cat thief, two weeks ago she tried to scam us all out of our money by selling us a bunch of fake items" Dawn said to Anthony.
Selina while she listened to Dawn focused in on Anthony's gold watch.
"Oh alright you got me I admit it, I sold fake items to them so I could make a quick buck but you have to understand when you're traveling around you need money for food and other things to survive on" She explained.
"Well I suppose that's true…" Anthony said but before he could have finished his sentence Selina ran over and embraced him tightly.
"Oh I'm so glad that you could understand my difficult dilemma, it is just so hard to survive in this harsh and unforgiving world all by yourself" she said as she held on to the charismatic trainer tightly.
May who was already tired of Selina's excuses went over and grabbed Selina by her waist then pulled her off of Anthony and released him from her tight grip.
Selina simply scowled at May in response but then she simply closed her eyes and turned around "Well that was just plain rude, I think I'll just be leaving now if you don't mind" she said and walked away from the group.
"You should probably check all of your pockets and stuff Anthony, she probably just hugged you to try and pickpocket you" May warned.
Anthony took May's word for it and began to dig through his jacket and shirt pockets but found everything that was inside of them to still be in there.
"Well either she was really just being a bit overly friendly to me or she didn't find anything of value on me since my everything that's on me is still there" He said with a relieved tone of voice.
Max however was the first one to notice something he had seen on Anthony earlier was now missing "Ugh…Anthony didn't you a have a watch on a few minutes ago?" He asked.
Anthony was shocked by what Max had just said and then frantically checked both of his hands and found that neither of them had his gold watch on them and quickly realized that Selina must've stolen off of him while had him in an embrace.
Anthony's expression quickly turned to anger when he realized what Selina had just done "Where did she go?" He asked.
"She went that way, what are you going to do Anthony?" May asked as she had noticed the older trainer's angry expression.
"I'm going after her!" He said and then he ran off in the direction Selina had left in to retrieve the watch she had stolen from him just a few moments ago.
"Anthony, wait for us!" Dawn yelled then she along with May, Max and Bianca followed Anthony and struggled to keep up with him as he ran in hot pursuit of Selina who had stolen his watch, which for some reason seemed to be very important to him.
The Wild Pinsir after sometime it finished eating the tree sap and it hopped off the tree and began to walk off but unknown to the predatory bug-type Pokemon it was being watched by both Iris and Georgia who are now competing with one another to see who can capture it.
Georgia saw Iris in the other bush and scowled at her rival "You'd better think twice before assuming I'll let you capture that Pinsir before I do, it's mine" She thought to herself as she looked for the perfect opportunity to capture the wild Pinsir before Iris.
While the two stalked the wild Pinsir the rest of the group Ash, Laura, Marceline and Bianca were now looking around another part of the Safari Zone to use up their remaining Safari Balls to capture whatever Pokemon they may find.
"Ash, are you sure we should be going so far away from where Iris is?" Laura asked.
"I wouldn't worry, She won't be alone since they're both going to try and catch that Pinsir before the other one can so I think they'll be at this for awhile" He responded.
"Pika, Pikachu"
"Chansey…"
Bianca heard this soft sounding voice not far from where the group was walking.
"Guys, did you hear that?" She asked.
"What did you hear, Bianca?" Ash asked.
"Pika, Pi!"
"Guys don't be so loud, you might scare it away…" Bianca said and then she pointed over to a tree where the group saw a Wild Chansey eating a piece of some kind of fruit, which grew off of the tree.
"Whoa it's a Chansey, I didn't think we'd find that Pokemon here in the Safari Zone" Ash said.
Ash then opened up his basket and reached in for one of the remaining eleven Safari Balls that he had left to use and took aim at the wild Chansey to try and capture it before it notices him and the others and run away.
"All right…here goes nothing," He said.
Ash then swiftly threw the Safari Ball in the direction of the Wild Chansey but the Egg Pokemon had finished the fruit it was eating and walked away from the tree so instead of the Safari Ball capturing Chansey like Ash had hoped it would it slammed right into the tree and broke in half.
The Wild Chansey heard the sound of the Safari Ball being damaged and turned around to see it on the ground broken in half.
Chansey then looked out in the grass patch to see the group hiding inside of it.
"Chansey! Chansey!"
She then ran away from them in a hurry much to the visible dismay of Ash.
He then simply sighed in response and face palmed himself.
"We better move on," Bianca said.
"Yeah lets do that…once we've used up our Safari Balls or we get tired of this we can just go back to the gate, you've got to wonder what the others are doing right now...they've probably caught a bunch of Pokemon by now" Ash said.
The four of them then set out to go out further into the Safari Zone to look for other Pokemon for them to use up their remaining Safari Balls to capture them with.
Meanwhile in a grass field section of the Safari Zone the cat thief Selina Kyle examined the gold watch, which she had just, pick pocketed and ran off with from Anthony.
"Hmmm…it looks like it's about thirty…maybe twenty something years old and that admittedly handsome guy I took it from looks much younger then thirty so it might have belonged to someone before him…either way I'm sure I'll be able to make plenty off of this" She said to herself.
"No, you're not…"
Selina turned around and saw Anthony who stood above her and he was visibly not amused by her pick pocketing of the watch, which for some reason seemed to be of much value to him.
"Oh you noticed that I…oh why the hell am I even trying to make up an excuse, I stole your fancy gold watch, ya' happy?" She asked.
"Well I'm glad that you're honest about something now give the watch back to me" Anthony said and held his hand out but only half expecting that she'll actually return the gold watch to his possession.
"No Way! If you want this back you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!" She said and closed her palm around the watch not ready to give it back to him anytime soon.
"Fine then, you've leave me no choice I'll have to take it from you" He said with a very serious look on his face.
Selina at first was a bit surprised at this but then she smiled deviously "Alright then…lets see what you're made of" she remarked as she got back on her feet in front of Anthony.
Anthony made the first move against Selina and bolted at her to try and grab the watch away right out of her hands.
Selina in response quickly darted out of the way, got behind him and kicked him to the ground by striking him in the back with her leg, which caused Anthony to let out a yell of pain.
"Had enough yet?" She asked arrogantly.
Anthony then got up from the ground his lower back still throbbing after Selina kicked it "No…not yet" He said not giving up trying to get the watch back.
"Alright then…" She said.
Selina then made the third move and went to strike Anthony with a fast punch but he quickly blocked the blow with his arm and then grabbed and twisted her arm backwards which caused her to scream out in pain and dropped the watch on to the ground.
Anthony while keeping Selina in the arm lock went down to pick the watch up but Selina took advantage of this and quickly jumped and wrapped both of her legs around Anthony's head and threw him down on the ground.
She then grabbed the watch off of the ground before Anthony could get a hold on it.
Anthony however grabbed her arms as she grabbed the watch and she dropped the watch on the ground and he grabbed it himself and pushed her away from him.
Anthony then stood up and placed the watch back on his wrist "That was much easier then I thought it would be…though you put up a pretty good fight, you seem to have some pretty decent fight skills…but you could stand to improve" He said and began to walk away from the young cat thief.
Selina then managed to pick herself off of the ground and watched as Anthony walked away from her with a sour look on her face.
Part of her was tempted to try and fight him more to take the watch but she realized that he clearly would rather die then let her take it so she simply turned around herself and walked away so she could get out of the Safari Zone through the way she snuck in from.
"The way that guy fought…its just like my fighting style…could he be…"
When Selina realized who Anthony was she stopped for a minute but then kept walking as if nothing had just happened.
"If he is who I think he is…he'd better watch his back with what's coming…"
May, Max, Dawn and Bianca soon caught up with Anthony in the field.
"You got your watch back!" Bianca said.
"Yeah I did but it's not my watch specifically…it belonged to my father" He said and then he walked past the group.
"It belonged to his father…what does he mean by…" Bianca said but realized what Anthony had meant by what he had just said and she was silent for a moment.
"…Oh I see…" She said.
The Wild Pinsir who hid in a thick bush watched as a wild Tangela wonder around through the forest and the Stag Beetle Pokemon waited with great patience for any chance that it could get to attack the Grass Type Pokemon and finally have its dinner.
Unknown to both the Pinsir and the Tangela that it stalked Iris was inside of the tree above it waiting herself for the right moment to capture Pinsir before her rival Georgia could.
"Alright Axew, its hiding in that bush below us and when it tries to get that Tangela it's hunting we'll be able to catch it" Iris whispered quietly to her Pokemon companion which poked his head out of her bushy purple hair.
"Axew! Axew!"
Below them in the bush the wild Pinsir realized its opportunity to pounce the wild Tangela and make it its next meal was then and now, so it readied itself to jump out of the bush and attack the Vine Pokemon.
Iris pulled out an empty Safari Ball and readied to take aim at Pokemon Predator once it jumped out of the bush.
"Come on…" She whispered.
"Axew…"
"PINSIR!"
The Pinsir jumped out of the bush above the Tangela ready to grab it and chop it in half with its powerful claws and consume its organs as its next meal.
"Safari ball! Go!"
Suddenly a Safari Ball was thrown out of nowhere, which catches the notice of both the wild Tangela and the Wild Pinsir, and it landed on top of the Wild Tangela, which absorbed it and it fell to ground where sparks bounced off it capturing it and it teleported away to someplace else for storage.
Georgia saw this and popped her head out of the bush.
"Awe, Damn it!" She yelled in a moment of anger.
The wild Pinsir took notice of Georgia presence in the bush and it was not at all amused by her capture of the Pokemon it had stalked and attempted to make into its meal.
"Oh…ugh…you were going to eat that Tangela I just captured…weren't you?" She asked nervously "Well, I'm sorry about that…but I'm sure that you can find food someplace else around here"
The Pinsir then clicked both of its pincers on its head together at Georgia and she realized with dread what it meant by that. The Pinsir planned to eat Georgia instead.
The Pinsir then began to walk over toward her and Georgia in response jumped out of the bush to try and get away from the fearsome predatory Pokemon but her leg had been caught in one of the bush's vines.
"My leg!" She said as she tried to get it off her leg "It's stuck!"
The Pinsir then picked up its speed and ran at Georgia but all of sudden just when Georgia had assumed that she was going to end up chopped in half and devoured by Pinsir, the Stag Bug Pokemon was enveloped in red energy and was absorbed completely into a Safari Ball where it wobbled and blinked several times until he halted and sparkles bounced off and confirmed the Pokémon's capture.
Georgia then finally freed herself from the Bush's vine and got up off the ground and looked ahead of her to see Iris in the tree, which was just above where the wild Pinsir had stalked the Wild Tangela, which she had just accidentally captured.
"Well…" Iris said.
"Well…what, what are you expecting me to say?" Georgia asked.
"Well, I think thank you would be acceptable seeing as I just saved you from being eaten by that Pinsir by capturing it" The Dragon Trainer replied.
She then jumped down from the tree on to the ground where she walked over and picked up the Safari Ball, which contained inside of it, her newly captured Pinsir and put it away in her pocket.
"Alright…thank you…you happy?" Georgia asked.
"Very much, I'm glad that I could help you" Iris said.
"Axew! Axew!"
Georgia then almost said something back to Iris but decided not to as it would be a rather pointless gesture and she simply scowled at her and walked off out of the forest and away from both her and Axew.
"You're welcome" Iris remarked.
She and Axew then left the forest themselves as they did not want to risk running into anymore ferocious Pokemon in there that might want to have them both for a snack.
Meanwhile back with Ash along with Laura, Bianca and Marceline searched for any wild Pokemon to use up their remaining Safari Balls to capture with but so far the search had been rather fruitless.
"Doduo!"
"Doduo!"
The group heard this and they shifted their attention to the right and they saw a flock of Doduo who pecked at the ground with their beaks as they searched for some food to eat and Bianca curious about this took out her Pokedex.
"Doduo the Twin Bird Pokémon. This Pokemon was discovered as a sudden mutation and several scientific studies have revealed that both heads of Doduo contain completely identical brains who have some sort of telepathic link which they use to communicate"
"Those Pokemon just look amazing!" Bianca said, then she opened up her basket of empty Safari Balls and pulled one of them out and primed it for capture "I know that one of them will make a great addition to my party"
Hidden Behind a large rock she watched as one of the Doduo peck at the ground where it found some seeds and ate them all whole.
Bianca watched carefully as she waited for the right moment to attempt and capture the wild Doduo "Yeah, that's right keep eating…" Bianca whispered to herself.
However while one of the two Doduo heads were eating seeds from the ground the other head heard something from behind the rock however as it was very hungry as it had not eaten in sometime thus all it could with one head was to watch the rock while the other head ate the seeds in the ground.
"Now's my chance!" Bianca said.
She then came up over the rock and revealed herself to the wild Doduo.
"Safari Ball! Go!" She yelled.
She then tossed the empty Safari Ball right at the Doduo, which collided with one of its two heads, and absorbed into it then it fell on the ground where sparkles bounced off it and teleported away to Professor Oak's lab.
Some of the other Doduo in the flock of the one Bianca had just captured noticed what had just occurred and they all turned their attention away from the ground and over to her as they all stared at her with their double heads.
Bianca realized this and she got a bit nervous as she recalled how the Nidokings reacted when Ash captured the Nidoqueen they both fought over "Ugh…I captured your friend…I'm sorry but…you know this probably happens all the time here" she said as she began to inch away from the rock.
She then made a break for it and ran off and the Doduo all stood still for a brief moment then resumed to pick at the ground with their beaks for the seeds buried in the ground as if nothing had just happened.
Bianca still running away turned her head around to see that the Doduo are still picking at the ground and she stopped in her tracks "Whoa that was a surprise, they didn't even chase after me" She said.
Sometime later the four of them decided to give up on capturing Pokemon in the Safari Zone and they all returned to the gate where they met up with May, Max, Dawn and Unova Bianca who had told them some of the things they ran into while going around the place.
"So where did Selina go after that?" asked Ash.
"No idea, but we should probably tell Kaiser about her breaking in her or better yet call the local Officer Jenny" Dawn remarked.
"It doesn't right now, let's just be glad she's not out problem…for now" Ash said.
The group returned their remaining Safari Balls to warden Kaiser and said their goodbyes to him and the gang prepared to set out to get back on track to Gardenia Town for Dawn's next Pokemon Contest.
Before they left Ash spoke with Laura in private before she and Marceline departed from the Safari Zone to go back to wherever they live.
Laura gave Ash a big hug outside her car which had Marceline buckled up in her seat as she began to fall asleep after all that happened that day "I'm glad that I was able to see you again after so long…" Laura then took a blank piece of paper and pen then wrote something down on it and handed it to Ash's hand.
"This is my phone number, its so that we can still keep in touch with each other wherever you are" She said.
"Thanks Laura I'll try and talk with you as much as I can, but there's something I wanted to talk to you right now" explained Ash.
"Sure Ash, you can tell me anything," She said.
"Well you see…I've been thinking about my father lately, he disappeared when I was about three years old and recently…I've decided I'm going to try and find out where he is"
Laura gasped at what Ash had told her which puzzled Ash.
"Laura is something wrong?" he asked.
"Ugh…no…Ash, nothings wrong...I just remembered that I forgot to pay my cable bill back at our house so I need to get home quick for all I know my cable company could have cut our service" she explained.
"Okay…anyway I'm glad that we could hang out after so long apart" He said.
"It's been great Ash, I hope we can see each other again sometime" She said.
Laura then got into the driver's seat of her car and shut the door and started up the van and then drove off away the Safari Zone on course back to wherever her and Marceline lived.
A few hours later night had fallen and Laura was still driving but thankfully their home was only at least a half hour away and soon enough her and Marceline will be able to return to their home and get some much needed sleep.
Laura however was currently heavy in thought about what Ash had told her back at the Safari Zone before she left.
"Oh Ash…if only you knew the truth" She said to herself.
To be continued…
Okay we just wrapped up after a long and agonizing nearly three month hiatus.
I'm going to be posting the Lavender Town Chapters that I was supposed to post in October after this one and thankfully I've already finished writing Chapter 53 and nearly finished with Chapter 54.
To avoid anymore, long hiatuses I've already come up with the plots of the next few chapters, which will be released during 2014.
Storyline related notes:
So far I'm half way done with the planning process of the storyline about Ash's father and I'm thinking that I'm going to publish the first chapter of it sometime in 2014.
I'm not going to give away too much in terms of plot but I'll give some hint about it. It's going to follow up on some of the things we learned in the seventh movie Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.
The Storyline to come before this one will be one that features Anthony Jenny as the main character called "The Gligarman" and will lead into a spin-off story for the character, which will feature Anthony as the main character so he will make fewer appearances in this story.
Author Notes:
Last chapter I mentioned Zoey will appear in this chapter which she didn't unfortunately the chapter was already really long so I had to cut her out of it but don't worry she'll defiantly make her debut about five chapters from now when the group reaches Gardenia Town.
By the way to any of my fans interested a few months ago I started a DeviantART account under the name FFPokeGhibli. There you can find some fan art for my stories and other things.
I'll update soon. Gotta catch 'em all!
