Chapter 19 Arriving in Vermillon City

Ash and Misty finally arrive in Vermillion City and were happy after they trudged for days at this point. Sonic was more than fine with the stamina to spare.

"Your stamina has improved quite a bit, You walk for 4 hours straight before taking a break. I Think our Synchronize form will likely be easier on you after we use it."

"Synchronize form?"

"Long story Misty."

Ash said to Misty's question about this Synchronized form. The trio and Pikachu walked to the Pokemon Center to heal their Pokemon and for Ash to decide his team for facing the electric type gym leader, Lt. Surge. To the flabbergasted look in both Ash's and Misty's face when they saw Surge what appear to be asking people to Poke sit? Aka babysits for Pokemon. Ash decided to check it out and see what the Lieutenant needed a Pokemon sitter for?

"Hello Surge."

"What do you want, kid? Wait? You're the brat with the Pikachu! I still see he has not evolved. Not yet ready for him to become a Raichu?"

"That's Pikachu's call, not mine Surge."

Ash answered and Surge did not argue anymore with it due to an idea form his head along with a smile on his face.

"Say, kid, can you and your female friend watch a Pokemon tomorrow?"

"Sure what's the Pokemon?"

"It is my Raichu's little girl he got made by a wild Emolga and she is a big brat and very slippery. Can you watch while I go visit some army friends at our old military base?"

"Sure no problem."

"Thanks. I will owe you a lot."

"You can repay me by fighting me for a badge to get into the Prism League."

"Okay sounds fair to me."

Surge handed a pink color Pokeball to Ash and made a mad dash out of there Pokemon center due really wanting to get to waste any more time she did try to find someone to take care of her. Ash and Misty walked to Nurse Joy to heal up and decided to hit the hay early due to walking for most of the day. Sonic enjoyed the time exploring the town and did some training now mastered Flamethrower even the Fire and Thunder Punch attacks.

Sonic arrived to wake up both Ash and Misty for a day to spend watching the Emolga and prepare to do battle with Lt. Surge when they face off. Misty showered first before Ash could due to being a deeper sleeper than Misty. The duo got dressed and headed out to train and let Surge's Emolga out to meet her. At the beach Ash free Emolga from her Pokeball. She appeared to be like any other Emolga except she was rocking hot pink shades that fit on her small but adorable face. Emolga was infected by confusion but thankfully she was not in battle so she did not have to flip a coin to decide if she zaps a tree or herself, her luck it would be Emolga shocking herself.

"Hello, Emolga my name is Ash I will be taking care of you for today."

"Me as well. My name is Misty."

Emolga's attention was elsewhere as she spread her arms letting the wind rise her into the air and glided into the town to do what she truly loved, shopping. Ash and Misty were about to chase after her, Pikachu followed after Emolga keeping good pace behind her.

"We will watch her enjoy the day."

Sonic said to Misty and Ash and dashed to catch up to Pikachu and the spoiled rich Emolga.

"Guess its just you and me Ash."

"it seems that way."

Ash and Misty had matching red faces from blushing. the couple head to the docks to spend some time enjoying the view of the sea and maybe for Ash find trainers to do battle with for his third gym on his hit list. Pikachu had to duck and weave between the legs of humans and human size Pokemon as he keeps up with the Emolga was soaring them all, lucky her. Pikachu caught sight of her diving down and grabbed an apple from an apple stand and get out of dodge before anyone noticed she stole an apple right under the owner's nose. she landed on top of a light pole ready to dig her teeth into the juicy Apple in her paws.

Pikachu climbs the light pole and frustration written on his face.

"It's not right to steal food."

"It's not wrong if no one knows something was even stolen."

"They will notice today or the following day. It does not make the crime any less bad."

Pikachu closes his eyes when giving his lectures and he saw when they open up only the uneaten center of the apple between her paws. Emolga face the smuggest of all the regions on this big blue planet.

"Sorry were you saying something?"

Pikachu's frustration was to a boiling point and try to tackle the flying squirrel clone of himself. she dodges by falling back and gliding away, but Pikachu leap off the light pole using quick attack move to tackle into the air-born Emolga. the two crashes down and Pikachu rolled off her got into a stance ready to face her. Emolga was done with this Pikachu, so she builds electric energy between her paws to shape a sphere of lightning and pitched it towards Pikachu. the electric mouse coat her bolt shape tail with silver energy and smack it like his tail was a baseball bat.

Emolga used that as her chance to get some distance away from older electric Pokemon. Pikachu follows Emolga and saw her land on a hat display that are on sale. Emolga was holding a cute Poke size hot pink straw hat, perfect for sunny days.

"This cute pink hat. that matches with my sunglasses."

Emolga said to herself and placed it upon her cute head. her observation was correct. in the mirror reflected an angry Pikachu right behind her, and when she turned around she saw that indeed there is an angry Pikachu behind her. She had a guilty smile drawn on her face.

"Hello. fancy meeting you again."

"Emolga instead of stealing stuff why not paid for the hat."

"Okay sherlock how do we pay for it? we are Pokemon we got no money on us."

"But I do."

Said a voice got the heads of both electric type Pokemons turning towards the source of the voice. their stare landed on Sonic who had a friendly smile on his scary Charizard face. to Pikachu's surprise, he had money? and paid for the hat.

"Where did you get that money?"

"I sold some of my rings."

Sonic answered handing the cash over to the cashier that was more than enough for the small Pokemon size straw hat. Emolga was a loss of words from the kindness of this fire and flying type Pokemon.

"Thanks. but why did you pay it for me?"

"Well for one I got money to spend so why not. 2 I expect you to stop running and behave."

"fine."

She said following Sonic and Pikachu to the park of Vermillion City.

Ash in the meantime found a fellow trainer to do battle with their trusty Pokemon. The girl picked her trusty and beautiful Ninetales as the starter of this three versus three Pokemon Battle. Ash's next pick was an obvious one, Sharpedo appeared ready to rip and tear until the Ninetales is unable to fight anymore in this battle.

"Ninetales be a dear and hit the mean old shark with your Energy Ball attack."

Ninetales fired a green ball of energy that flew through the air towards the Shark shaped like a torpedo. Ash cried out for Sharpedo to dodge the Energy Ball attack, water form around his body, and flew off into the sky to avoid the grass type attack.

"Awesome, now land the Aqua Jet Sharpedo."

Ash Vocaliced to the water and dark type Pokemon. Sharpedo showed off his razor-sharp teeth and crashed into Ninetales with the force of a belly flop of a Snorlax,or another way to put it the Aqua Jet was super effective. Ninetales got to her feet though her legs were shaky from the pain her entire body was feeling from the shark attack.

"Ninetales hang in there. Do your Psyshock attack."

"Sharpedo counter it with another Aqua jet."

Ninetales opened its mouth wide and fired its purple beam of psychic energy which hit Sharpedo but this girl did not know this shark was a dark type which means they are not affected by psychic attacks. For her foolishness, her Ninetales got another but more powerful Aqua Jet. Ninetales' eyes turned twirls the classic sign to show that its unable to fight anymore and a new Pokemon needs to enter the battlefield in its place. The female trainer returned her knocked out Pokemon for her next Pokemon.

Her choice was a good one unlike her last move choice, it was Hitmonlee the spring legged fighter, or also known as the kicking fiend.

"Hitmonlee avenges Ninetales by landing a Focus Punch on Sharpedo's ugly face."

Sharpedo was offended, he preferred the scary or menacing face comment, ugly face is just rude. Hitmonleee used his springy legs to bounce towards the hovering Sharpedo with a hyper-charged punch and was being delivered straight into his face. Sharpedo growled but the pain was not enough to take this shark out.

"Sharpedo hit Hitmonlee with your Psychic Fang attack."

His razor-sharp fang glowed a faint pink color as he opened wide like he was about to eat an entire watermelon whole. Hitmonlee was on guard but his eye could not see the faint energy teeth form and mirrored Sharpedo crunch down. The energy teeth dug deep into Hitmonlee's side and got an agonizing cry from him. She told Hitmonlee to use his Brick Break attack next on the dark blue shark. Hitmonlee bounces upfront, flipping down and chopped like a sledgehammer straight down onto Sharpedo's big head.

The ground cracked where he landed and Ash was certain he was unable to fight on and needed to be returned to his Pokemon. However, this Sharpedo likes to defy everyone even the writer so he rose up crying out he was not finished yet.

"Sharpedo, thank goodness you're up. I like you to return just in case."

Sharpedo's frustration was justified since he really wanted to get even with the Hitmonlee for the Brick Break, but he could tell another hit like that and Sharpedo will be sleeping with the fishes. Ash returns Sharpedo happy that he did not put up a fight so he can pick his runner up for his Pokemon team. The Pokemon was the fairy psychic mime, Mr. Mime, or as Delia and Ash calls her, Mimey.

"Mimey show this Hitmonlee what you're made of. Use your Psychic attack."

Mimey nodded as a smile formed on her face along with getting blue glowing eyes. Hitmonlee felt his entire body became stiff and saw a faint blue glow around his entire body if he went off what he was seeing on his hands and feet. Mimey smiled as she used her psychic powers to slam Hitmonlee's face so hard into the ground there will be a hole in the shape of his head. Hitmonlee picked itself up and stared into the eyes of the hole shape like his head. Hitmonlee rolled back and hopped up to his feet and hopped on the ball of each foot.

"Hitmonlee hit that Mime with your Sucker Punch attack."

Hitmonlee did some front flip jumps like he did from a ninja flick and gave Mimey a dark type punch to the face. Mimey's cry showed that the punch hurt but this Mime was not going to take a Sucker Punch and fall over.

"Mimey hit Hitmonlee with your Psychic attack once more."

Hitmonlee felt his body become still once more and being lifted in the air. He prepared his body as he was rocketed into the ground at terminal velocity. Hitmonlee tried to get up and use its Sucker Punch attack but he tripped on his own feet and fell over. Mimey saw it as her chance and decided to hit Hitmonlee not with Psychic but a fairy type move, Dazzling Gleam. Mimey forms a sphere of fairy type energy and tosses it right into Hitmonlee's face. The fairy explosion knocked him back and out cold at the same time

The female trainer returns her fighting type and picks something more suited to face the psychic fairy pokemon. Her final Pokemon was the cute floating head Koffing. Mimey knew this was a bad matchup so she turned and asked very frantically to get out of this match. Ash complied and returned her to her small metal ball and let someone else fight the floating head of toxic gas. Ash's third Pokemon was his Larvitar and he was ready to fight after a long wait.

"Koffing smack that Larvitar with your Gyro Ball attack."

Koffing's body became coated in steel energy and started to spin right round baby and headed towards Larvitar. Larivatar acted fast and hopped out of the way and smacked the side of Koffing with a Brick break attack that only really stung the metal-coated Poison Pokemon.

"Larivatar Use your Rock Slide attack."

Larivatar nodded yes to Ash as rocks started to form right above the floating Poison-type Pokemon and started raining down like hail and hurt far worse than hellish winter weather. Koffing was still floating like a butterfly but the marks marked by the falling rocks show he was hurt badly.

"Koffing Attack Larvitar with Headbutt."

Koffing flew right up to Larvitar's grill and smashed his own head into Larvitars. Larvitar's skull hurt and for the pain Koffing caused him, Larvitar used Crunch on Koffing, getting a painful cry out of the floating sphere Pokemon. This dark type attack was too much as it fainted in the teeth of Larvitar. Larvitar let Koffing drop to the ground gently from his teeth as he roared out to get all that energy he was feeling from winning. He approaches Ash as his body glows and his entire body becomes covered in blue energy to show that he was evolving at long last to his first stage. Larvitar became a shell-shaped Pokemon, it became Pupitar one stage before the mighty Tyranitar form. Ash pulled the Pokedex to get info on Pupitar.

"Pupitar the Hard Shell Pokemon and the evolved form of Larvitar. This Pokemon still has the Shed Skin ability and knows moves like Crunch, Stone Edge, Iron Head, and Iron Defense along with others. Pupitar creates a gas inside its body that it compresses and forcefully ejects to propel itself like a jet. The body is very durable—it avoids damage even if it hits solid steel. This troublesome Pokémon can't wait to evolve, so it relieves its stress by wildly propelling itself around using compressed gas."

Ash hugs Pupitar to celebrate his evolution while Misty watches with a smile on her face due to Ash being happy, therefore she is happy. After breaking the hug with Pupitar he returned him to his Pokeball and shook the female trainer's hand for a good match they had.

Sonic and Emolga that flew to the place were waiting on Pikachu who arrived at long last.

"You Could have given me a lift Sonic."

"but what's the fun in that."

Pikachu gave Sonic a stern look. Emolga chimed into the conversation.

"Only old people complain they're tired."

Pikachu's face told Emolga he was not having any of that crap. Sonic could not help but laugh at it and got the same look Emolga got.

"How about this Emolga. If you can master one move I have I will have my trainer buy you that hat sound fair."

"Sure what move you want me to learn?"

Pikachu noticed her eagerness to get a hat was matched with the eagerness to learn a new move. That brought a smile to Pikachu's face as he told her the move he wished her to master, that being Pikachu's Mighty Thunderbolt.

"Thunderbolt this will be a piece of cake."

"That's funny because I said those same words when I tried to learn it for the first time."

Pikachu smiled and got into a stance to demonstrate the Thunderbolt attack. He builds the electric up inside his small yellow body before letting go in a stream of energy that struck down and landed on an X form in the dirt by the helpful Sonic who was sunbathing and watching this play out.

"Now you try it."

Emolga smirks and starts to build up her electric energy inside of her, but Pikachu noticed she was putting too much energy into it.

"Emolga stop before-"

BOOM as Emolga exploded leaving her body coated in black smug even caused her to cough up smoke.

"You put too much energy into it causing your body to implode from using beyond your output limit."

"How am I supposed to know that!"

"You should have tried to do the minimum amount of energy needed for the attack, not more for that very reason."

Emolga groaned in frustration as Sonic chuckled hearing them fighting knowing this going to be a fun show.