Chapter 23: Brushus Town

In the Cycling Road, Ash, Alice and Alex are pedaling their bikes up ahead, but when they try to stop, they find themselves slipping down the track, and Alice says, "It seems like this road is an uphill and when we stop, the bike will slips down."

"Yeah, I guess the only way is to keep pedaling without stopping. That sure is tired." Ash says.

"But we have to get to the next town up ahead." Alex says as they decide to continue pedaling.

With the group pedaling forward with their bikes, Ash, Alice and Alex finally arrive at Brushus Town.

"We finally made it...I swear I never wanted to ride a bike on a slippery uphill." Alice says with a groan.

"I know...but hey, we are at Brushus Town." Ash says.

"Yeah, I can smell something great even we are standing at the gateway." Alice says as she manages to stand back up. "It somehow makes me feel better after that pedaling."

"That is probably the herbs in the store." Alex says. "There are two famous spots here in this town. The Herb Store and the Day Care."

"Let's go to the Herb Store first, and then we can check out the Day Care." Ash says as the other two agree.

As they go to the Herb Store, they see that they are selling Energy Root, Energy Powder, Revival Herb and Heal Powder. "So what do they do?" Alice asks.

"Energy Root and Energy Powder restore Pokemon's health points, Revival Herb revives a fainted Pokemon, and Heal Powder removes the status effects. But all of them make the Pokemon unfriendlier due to the bitter taste." Ash says.

"Why do we want to risk friendship to heal Pokemon?" Alice asks, "I mean...I want to be more friendly towards Pokemon."

"I know what you mean, but when there are no other ways to heal, bitter medicine is always the best choice." Alex says as both of them nod.

Then they also notice the stand that sells Incenses, Alice asks, "And what about these? What are those?"

"They are incenses, those must be the aroma that we found when we enter the town." Ash says. "Different incenses have different use, for example, this Lax Incense may cause attacks to miss its holder, and Wobbuffet holding this incense can produce Wynaut eggs."

"Or else it will be Wobbuffet eggs?" Alice blinks a little. "That sure is surprising."

"Believe me...Snorlax can breed Snorlax eggs unless holding Full Incense." Ash says with a laugh.

After it is done, they all arrive at the Day Care. But they stop at the midway as they see Keira battling Rick in a battle, much to their surprise. And Rick manages to defeat Keira with ease.

"What's your problem with Pokemon eggs?" Keira asks with annoyance after recalling her fainted Pokemon.

"Don't you get it?" Rick says as he also recalls his Pokemon as well. "It makes no sense raising a Pokemon from an egg, they are so weak at the beginning!"

"And that's the task for the trainer, to raise it to a strong Pokemon!" Keira tries to retort back, she can't believe there is a person like Rick who is being such a jerk on the opinion of baby Pokemon.

"Pff..." Rick burst out of laughter and says, "Talking with you is useless... Have fun with your weak babies, they will be destroyed by my powerful Pokemon!"

As Rick tries to leave, he notices Ash and says, "Ah, it is you again, weakling! Still way behind me, haha!"

"So, what you should matter is that every time we battled I always kicked your ass." Ash says as Alice and Alex is laughing. Keira giggles a little, but Rick is a little annoyed.

"Grr..." Rick is angry since what he said was right, even though he was a weakling, he manages to defeat him every time they meet. "I've visited the Daycare Center, but it's totally lame... I am not interested in getting an egg."

Alice says, "Oh, because you are too weak to try to raise it, huh?"

"Why having a baby in your team? You have to train it from the bottom...That's a waste of time!" Rick ignores Alice's insult and he says, "I am going to Goldune City now where I will beat the Gym Leader and get my fourth Gym Badge. See you later...Or maybe not, haha! Out of my way, loser!"

"Huh? Who are you talking to? I am not a loser." Ash tilts his head, causing him to seethe in anger, but Rick just walks aside him and then leaves.

Keira says, "That was really burning, Ash. At least you are here, unlike somebody who thinks Pokemon raised from eggs aren't worth training...He said they are too weak... I don't know why he is talking this nonsense..."

Alice sighs and says, "He is a sore loser, we shouldn't put his words in mind."

"So you know about the building behind us, right?" Keira asks as she turns around as she is facing at the building in front of them.

"Of course, the Daycare Center. They can raise our Pokemon and if we leave two with them, we may come back and find an egg. I have gone through a lot of them when I was traveling." Ash says.

"But you might not know about this region's, let's go inside and have a look." Alex says as they walk in.

But as they are inside, they see two Team Solar Grunts trying to go to the egg with the Daycare lady pleads, "You can't take those Pokemon eggs! They're for the new trainers!"

"Old lady, giving these Pokemon to new Trainers is a waste! They won't bring out their full potential and power..." The female grunt says.

"Team Solar will raise these Pokemon to be powerful and strong, why waste that on useless Trainers who have no idea what they're doing?" The male grunt adds.

"Pokemon aren't tools! We only give these eggs to trainers with good hearts and will treat them proper, with love and care! It's not up to you!" The Daycare Center Lady says.

"Haha...These eggs are coming with us and you can't stop us!" The grunt says as he already takes out the bag and puts the eggs inside.

"No, no, please!" The lady yells in a desperate tone, but in vain as the grunt just slaps her, causing her to fall down to the ground.

"Hey! What do you think you are doing?" Ash yells as the grunts see them.

"Trainers, please, help me! Please save these Pokemon eggs from these goons!" The lady says with a beg.

The female grunt says, "Oh dear, isn't that the Prince and the same one from Thundrome Pass?"

"Yes, it is! Are you following us?" The male grunt asks.

"Huh? Ash, Alice, you know them?" Keira asks the two of them, and they nod back.

Alex says, "We can talk about it later, we must stop them first."

Then the two grunts send out Snazap, Raizid, Hummzing and a new yellow Pokemon known as Blitzly. Ash sends out Raizid, Alice sends out Huskpup, Alex sends out Geckone and Keira sends out Nimblow in order to fight them.

"Use Crackle Slam." Ash yells as he defeats the Hummzing with the move.

"Husky, Blizzard." And the Raizid is frozen in ice as Alice pets her dog.

"Geckone, Mind Blast." Alex says as the move blasts the Snazap, knocking it out.

"Nimblow, use Water Pulse." Keira says as the Blitzly is being splashed with water and fainted.

The two grunts see all the Pokemon fainted and they recall their Pokemon.

"No, how could I lose again..." The female says.

"Fine, you win. If you want to waste the potential of these Pokemon on stupid, careless Trainers, go for it. It won't matter soon enough..."

As the grunts drop the bag and leave, the lady says, "Thank you! Thank you so much! You saved these eggs from those weird people. They wanted to use the Pokemon in these eggs as tools for war, that's not what these Pokemon are for. They're for the new trainers who are beginning their journey. I want to thank you all."

Ash says, "No problem, we are just doing what is right. They shouldn't mess with those eggs as they are very important."

"I have an idea." The lady says with a cheerful smile, "How about you take care of some eggs, I know you will treat them nicely."

They all gasp as they just get a free egg without any problem. Keira says, "Wow, thank you Daycare lady!"

After they each get an egg, Alice turns to Ash and gives her egg to him. She says, "Well, Ash, I want you to take care of my egg, is that okay? I don't think they are Ice Types."

Ash says, "Of course, I will like to take care it for you as well."

Alex also gives him the egg and says, "If you don't mind, I'll give the egg to you as well, since they aren't Psychic Type Pokemon."

"Sure. Thanks a lot." Ash says as he gets three eggs in his bag. Keira also gets the egg and the lady says, "Remember, you have just to wait a bit before its hatching."

"We will." Ash assures her. They turn to Keira who is very excited, she is now looking at her egg with a dreamily face. "This is so cool! We got to care of an egg until it hatches! I wonder what's inside! Ash, promise me we will battle each other when the eggs hatch! I want to see what you get! For now, I am going to head to Goldune Desert, I'll meet you there, see you!"

As Keira leaves, Alice says, "She sure is energetic, but that is what she is, don't you think so?"

Alex says, "I agree. Now that we were here, how about we also go to the Goldune Forest tomorrow?"

Ash says, "Sure." And much to their delight, the day care lady agrees to let them stay for a night, so they decide to take a rest there.


At night, Ash and Alice are sleeping in the same bed as Alice asks, "Hey, Ash. I want to ask you a question. Do you know how eggs are produced?"

Ash is confused and he says, "I don't know, all I know is that when you put two same Pokemon in the Day Care, they would have an egg. And some Pokemon will need Ditto or Formling to hatch an egg as well."

"That might be true, but the process to have an egg is called mating. And it is a kind of process that bonds the two people together." Alice says.

"And how do we do this mating stuff?" Ash asks, and Alice is now becoming fully red. Alice says, "Ash, you don't just ask people about doing that. I mean...we are not ready to have a kid when we are traveling around the Rikoto Region, right?"

"That may be true. Sorry if I ask a rude question." Ash frowns, and Alice says, "Relax, you don't need to be serious about it. I mean...let's change the topic shall we?"

Ash nods as they decide to talk about other stuff, as they also want to forget what they were saying about mating.


The Brushus Town chapter is finished, I know that I made this story an M-rated, but I am not going to include lemons in the story yet. I hope you like this chapter and I decided to go back to some traitors and the regrets in the next chapter.