Chapter 16 Back to the League
It was finally time to go back to the Pokémon League.
During our time in the forest, Ash had, surprisingly enough, caught a Skarmory.
Needless to say, he was ecstatic about having a Steel-type.
He was scheduled to fight at 3:30 p.m. on the Azure field, so we were currently lounging around, the humans chattering and Lugia and I keeping an eye on the three remaining eggs.
Articuno was flapping around in an attempt to fly, but her wings were too weak.
Yes, *her* wings.
I'd scanned her earlier, figuring that *I* wouldn't like it if someone just referred to me as an "it", as many people did with Pokémon.
Every now and then I teased her by levitating her a foot above the ground, making her think it was her own doing. Then she'd catch on, and cry out, "No!"
I'd pretend to drop the little squawking Articuno, and then stop her half an inch from the ground. She would wilt in relief, and scold me to the best of her ability.
Ash was anticipating the battle fearfully, since he would be up against a stronger opponent this time. Oddly enough, he was sitting still and staring blankly at the ground.
Misty tried baiting him a few times to get him to engage in playful banter, but he remained mute.
Brock and Misty exchanged a look, and I inserted into Misty's mind, The reality that he could possibly lose is probably beginning to sink in.
Misty was surprised to hear a voice in her mind at first, then realized it was me. She got up and walked over to me, where I was wiggling my tail in front of Articuno like a worm.
"How could he lose if he had you and Lugia?"
I smiled, both at her overestimation of our strength and at the baby bird that was failing in capturing my tail.
We are only so strong, I told her. Neither of us are invincible. There are other trainers with *very* strong Pokémon. And Ash, as a matter of principle, is going to try to rely as little on us as possible.
"But you're his Pokémon. He has a right to use you two. The Ash I *thought* I knew would do almost anything to win," Misty was confused.
Lugia entered the conversation, We were strong before he got us. Most of his other Pokémon are strong because he *made* them that way. He didn't catch us. We came to him. When the others hatch, and he trains them and Articuno then he shall use them with pride. He doesn't want to win if he doesn't have to work at it. You should know that by now.
"I suppose you're right." Misty went back to Ash. "Why don't you start training Articuno now?"
"Huh?" Ash actually replied, looking at her like she was crazy. "Articuno's still a baby. I don't see you training Togepi."
"I like Togepi because he's cute and sweet. I don't have any intention of battling with him. I prefer to battle with Water Pokémon, remember?"
"Yeah," Ash said unenthusiastically. He then brightened up, "Okay. I'll start training Articuno!"
"Coo?" Articuno heard her name.
I smiled down at her, "Mew mew."
[You get to battle.]
"Cuno?"
[Why?]
"Mew mew. Mew meeew?"
[I battle. Don't you want to be as strong as me?]
"Arrt!" Articuno exclaimed.
[I wanna be good as you!]
I rolled my eyes at her grammar. We would have to work on that. "Mew mew mew mew, mew."
[Then go over to your trainer little one, we'll all help you.]
"Coo! Art!" she hopped over to where Ash stood standing. He looked a little skeptical that she could win a match, but didn't voice it.
"Ash!"
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to use Psyduck? If Articuno doesn't hit that dumb duck's head then its a definite win!" Misty offered the use of her Pokémon.
"Okay," Ash said.
Misty let out her yellow Pokémon.
Psyduck stood there with its hands on its head, "Psy."
Articuno cooed, "Aaarty!"
"Uh, Articuno, Ice Beam!" Ash figured an Ice Pokémon would probably know an Ice move.
"Coo?"
[What dat?]
I demonstrated one for her up in the air.
"Oh. Cuno!" Articuno spat out a little bit of ice at her opponent.
Psyduck remained still, "Duck?"
"Mew mew!"
[C'mon, you can do better!]
"Arrrtttyy!" Articuno managed to do a nice Ice Beam for its low level and small stature.
"Psy," Misty's Pokémon did nothing, then slowly fell over, "-duck."
"Coo?"
[Win?]
"You did it, Articuno!" Ash congratulated.
Articuno chirped in joy, "Articuno!"
Misty recalled Psyduck, and bent down near the glittering bird. "Good job, Articuno."
She blushed, "No."
I floated over to her, That was great! Wanna battle with another Pokémon?"
"Art!" she nodded.
Brock spoke, "How about you battle Geodude? I'll go easy on you!"
"Okay!" Ash agreed.
Geodude came out, "Geo."
"Coo!" Articuno challenged.
Geodude looked blankly at the bird.
"Articuno, Ice Beam again!"
"Geodude, Tackle!"
After Articuno hit the Rock Pokémon with its weak Ice Beam, Geodude tried to smash her into the ground. She flapped her wings as Ash warned her to dodge, and she tried to escape.
Geodude was in mid-air when she suddenly took flight.
It surprised Geodude as much as it surprised her.
"Cooo?" she questioned. Her eyes widened when she realized she was in the air. "Art!" Articuno cried out.
Geodude crashed into the ground in shock, "Dude."
Geodude somehow managed to be stuck in the ground, so Brock told him to return.
"Arty!" Articuno rejoiced.
"Way to go, Articuno!" Ash congratulated her.
She alighted on top of his shoulder, nibbling on his ear in affection.
Whew, I was worried about her for a moment.
I imagined she now knew Fly, Peck, Ice Beam, and perhaps a few other attacks if she was lucky.
Not bad for a baby bird.
We only had a few minutes until Ash's battle, so we headed towards the Azure Field.
Ash was able to use four Pokémon this time. When asked who by Brock he answered, "Krabby, Muk, Skarmory, and Bulbasaur."
This field was a pretty cerulean color, a little more calming than the Violet Field Ash had battled on last time.
Ash's opponent was a green-haired trainer named Joey.
Joey liked to talk a lot and challenged, "I'll beat you swifter than a Pidgeot can fly."
"You wish!" Ash called back.
The two were announced, and the battle officially began.
"Kangaskhan, go!" Joey let out his Pokémon.
Ash sent out Skarmory. "Ree!" the Steel- and Flying-Type taunted.
"Skahn," the kangaroo-like Pokémon snapped back.
It was at this point that I figured it would probably be a long battle. So I levitated one of Ash's Pokéballs towards me, and let out Wartortle. I gave a meaningful glance to Brock, who caught on and let out his Vulpix.
"Tortle?"
[What do you want?]
"Vul!" the Fire Pokémon told Wartortle.
[Eggs!]
"Mew."
[Right.]
Hardly straining, I used my Psychic powers to lift the two known elemental types out of the backpack and placed them in front of the proper Pokémon.
I turned my eyes to the battle.
So far all the two Pokémon had managed to do was wear each other down and drain the opponent's health power and energy a little bit.
"Steel Wing!" Ash called.
The bird glinted and smacked Kangaskhan across the head with its metal wing.
That was humorous.
Kangaskhan's baby tumbled out of its pouch, and the mother roared and scooped it back up and placed it where it belonged.
This gave Ash time to shout another command, "Iron Tail!"
Shimmering, Skarmory attacked, finally causing the Kangaskhan to groan and slowly collapse to the ground.
~Go Skarmory!~ I mentally cheered.
"And Kangaskahn is finally down!" a deep male voice boomed over the loudspeaker.
Joey's next Pokémon was an Ampharos. The yellow and black electric Pokémon purred, "Fee!"
"Skar!" Skarmory trilled, as if threatening that Ampharos would get scarred if it didn't tread carefully.
"Ampharos, Thunder!" Joey yelled, naturally.
That strike against the poor Flying-Type's weakness brought it out of the match. Ash brought out Bulbasaur.
"Bulba!" The Grass-Type awaited instructions.
"Bulbasaur, Tackle!"
"Saur!" it cried as it rammed into Ampharos.
"Rohs!" Ampharos grunted as it was hit.
"Ampharos, Tail Whip!" Joey ordered.
The Electric-Type whipped Bulbasaur with its ball-tipped tail.
"Saur," it groaned softly.
"Bulbasaur, Back Kick!"
Ash had interesting tactics all right. He was lucky that his Pokémon understood his strange orders.
Bulbasaur skipped happily over to the slightly confused Ampharos, turning its hind-quarters towards the yellow Pokémon, and smacking it several times in the face with its back legs.
"Ooohhhss," Ampharos moaned. It blinked, then started pawing at its face desperately.
"It appears to be confused by trainer Ash Ketchum's strange attack!" the announcer informed the audience.
Ampharos fell over heavily, groaning pitifully.
It was recalled, and Magcargo was sent out.
The lava snail grunted, "Carg."
"Bulbasaur, Body Slam!" Ash called out.
"Bulb!" it slammed roughly against the Fire Pokémon, moaning slightly when the lava singed it partially.
"Magcargo, Flamethrower!"
"Go!" it groaned deeply, spewing out a fiery hailstorm at the opposing Pokémon.
That was it for Bulbasaur. It collapsed on the ground, charred and twitching in pain.
"Bulbasaur!" Ash cried out concernedly. He rushed to it, "You okay?"
"Bulb," Bulbasaur managed painfully.
It went back into the Pokéball as a beam of red light.
It would be okay with some rest and a trip to the Pokémon Center, I reasoned.
"Two down and two to go with both sides. A fairly even Pokémon match so far," the announcer said.
Ash determinedly sent out Krabby.
"Bee," its squishy voice greeted Ash.
He smiled, and Joey called out to his Pokémon, "Rock Slide!"
Magcargo bombarded the crab with an avalanche of rocks.
"Krab!" It barely phased it.
"Krabby, Bubble!" Ash commanded.
"Bee," it spat a big line of sparkling bubbles at the Fire- and Rock-Type, hitting a double weakness.
But it wasn't ready to go out yet.
It tried to retreat partially into its shell, then came out. Joey yelled, "Magcargo, Rock Throw!"
A huge boulder hovered above Krabby, causing it to panic and try to get out of its path. The boulder got its target, causing Krabby to cry out in pain.
"Krabby, Crabhammer!" Ash shouted.
Krabby pulled back its pincer, then smacked Magcargo on top of its fiery head.
"Carg," it moaned, its head spinning. Magcargo appeared to be doing okay, but abruptly became limp.
"Magcargo, return!" Joey called out, semi-angrily. He wasn't doing as well as he had wanted.
The small crab held its pincers up in the air triumphantly, and Ash congratulated him, "Great job!"
Right as Joey sent out another Pokémon, Krabby started glowing and growing.
It was evolving!
Surely enough, Krabby evolved into Kingler. It happily shouted out a war-cry to the Pokémon Joey had just sent out.
"Huh? What is *that* Pokémon?" Ash asked, confused. He pulled out his Pokédex.
"No data stored for this particular Pokémon."
It looked remotely like a flying green and white onion, with big blue eyes, leaves for hands, and green feet that hang out kind of like mine.
Even I wasn't sure what it was, and I'd been around for quite a while.
Lugia spoke from the sidelines next to me, I believe it is a Celebi, a Psychic- and Grass-Type. I think it's known as...a Timetravel Pokémon.
"A Celebi..." Ash trailed off.
While he was preoccupied, Ash's opponent ordered, "Confusion!"
Celebi's Psychic move hit Bulbasaur's weakness, easily causing it to faint.
Ash bit his lip, and I could practically hear his brain ticking. If he sent out Muk like he'd said, there was a good chance he'd lose. Muk was a Poison-Type, and had a weakness against Psychic. But he trusted his Pokémon...
With no further hesitation he sent out the Sludge Pokémon.
I mentally prayed for his success.
After Muk came out he grumbled, "Muk."
Ash hastily called out, "Sludge Bomb!"
The purple Pokémon spat a bunch of goopy Poison out at the two feet tall flying onion.
That hit its weakness, and it appeared to be sick.
"It's poisoned!" the speakers vibrated.
"Selly..." it groaned.
"C'mon you stupid Pokémon! Use Psychic!" Joey grated.
The powerful Psychic move hit Muk, but he held on by the skin of his teeth...Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Ash then told Muk to use Sludge, and it was spat forcefully out at Celebi.
And Celebi could fight no more.
It wasn't as long of a battle as I thought...
"And that was it, Pokémon fans. The battle is now over, and Ash Ketchum is the winner!"
Ash held up two fingers, "Yeah!"
I floated over to Ash, about to congratulate him, but both of us saw Joey kicking his Pokémon.
"You stupid thing! We didn't come here to lose! You oughta know better'n that!"
The Celebi merely whimpered, cowering down. It was still out of breath from its battle, and exhausted.
"Stop that!" Ash ordered as he marched over to Joey.
"It's my Pokémon, and I can do whatever I want to it!"
"Pokémon isn't just about winning! It's also about friendship and camaraderie!" Ash reprimanded him.
"If you care so much about it, why don't you take this pathetic onion bulb? I have no use for such an easily losing Pokémon! I'm going home!" Joey stormed off.
"Why did he just want to get rid of *this* one?" Misty wondered.
He's probably had a lot of trouble with it, lately, I suggested.
Lugia nodded in agreement.
Ash bent down to the abused Celebi, and picked it up. It tried to shy away from him, but was too tired to fly off.
"It's okay. I won't hurt you..." Ash soothed it. "And neither will he."
"Bye?" it asked.
"Mew," I nodded.
[He's gone.]
"Sell?"
"Mew, mew mew."
[Yeah, he's gone forever.]
"Chu?" Pikachu wanted to talk to it.
Ash gently squatted, showing it to Pikachu.
"Pi-Pikachu!"
"Celebi?"
"Chu chu!"
They quickly made friends, and Pikachu reassured it that Ash was a kind trainer, and it would be in good hands.
"Prrriii!" Togepi laughed randomly.
We all looked at the Egg Pokémon and it flushed.
Articuno hopped over, "Coo?"
"Sell!"
It turned out Celebi was female, and I suggested to Ash that it might make her happy if he asked Misty for a ribbon or bow.
He questioned her, and she produced a pink ribbon. He tied it around Celebi, making a bow.
She laughed timidly, "Celebi!"
That last gesture won her over.
Now Ash had won another match, and gotten another rare Pokémon. Luck seemed to come after him like an Arcanine after a delicious rare steak.
Now, if only those blasted eggs would hatch...
Author's Questions: How's that? Ash's getting pretty lucky, eh? I always thought he should get a lot more Pokémon than he has in the Television episodes. Is this as fun for you as it is for me? Or is it a little too unrealistic? Should Brock and Misty get a Pokémon or two as well? (If they did the Pokémon probably wouldn't be *too* rare...Sorry, I'm a little selfish...) Any improvements needed? My fighting writing perhaps? Heh, that rhymed...
It was finally time to go back to the Pokémon League.
During our time in the forest, Ash had, surprisingly enough, caught a Skarmory.
Needless to say, he was ecstatic about having a Steel-type.
He was scheduled to fight at 3:30 p.m. on the Azure field, so we were currently lounging around, the humans chattering and Lugia and I keeping an eye on the three remaining eggs.
Articuno was flapping around in an attempt to fly, but her wings were too weak.
Yes, *her* wings.
I'd scanned her earlier, figuring that *I* wouldn't like it if someone just referred to me as an "it", as many people did with Pokémon.
Every now and then I teased her by levitating her a foot above the ground, making her think it was her own doing. Then she'd catch on, and cry out, "No!"
I'd pretend to drop the little squawking Articuno, and then stop her half an inch from the ground. She would wilt in relief, and scold me to the best of her ability.
Ash was anticipating the battle fearfully, since he would be up against a stronger opponent this time. Oddly enough, he was sitting still and staring blankly at the ground.
Misty tried baiting him a few times to get him to engage in playful banter, but he remained mute.
Brock and Misty exchanged a look, and I inserted into Misty's mind, The reality that he could possibly lose is probably beginning to sink in.
Misty was surprised to hear a voice in her mind at first, then realized it was me. She got up and walked over to me, where I was wiggling my tail in front of Articuno like a worm.
"How could he lose if he had you and Lugia?"
I smiled, both at her overestimation of our strength and at the baby bird that was failing in capturing my tail.
We are only so strong, I told her. Neither of us are invincible. There are other trainers with *very* strong Pokémon. And Ash, as a matter of principle, is going to try to rely as little on us as possible.
"But you're his Pokémon. He has a right to use you two. The Ash I *thought* I knew would do almost anything to win," Misty was confused.
Lugia entered the conversation, We were strong before he got us. Most of his other Pokémon are strong because he *made* them that way. He didn't catch us. We came to him. When the others hatch, and he trains them and Articuno then he shall use them with pride. He doesn't want to win if he doesn't have to work at it. You should know that by now.
"I suppose you're right." Misty went back to Ash. "Why don't you start training Articuno now?"
"Huh?" Ash actually replied, looking at her like she was crazy. "Articuno's still a baby. I don't see you training Togepi."
"I like Togepi because he's cute and sweet. I don't have any intention of battling with him. I prefer to battle with Water Pokémon, remember?"
"Yeah," Ash said unenthusiastically. He then brightened up, "Okay. I'll start training Articuno!"
"Coo?" Articuno heard her name.
I smiled down at her, "Mew mew."
[You get to battle.]
"Cuno?"
[Why?]
"Mew mew. Mew meeew?"
[I battle. Don't you want to be as strong as me?]
"Arrt!" Articuno exclaimed.
[I wanna be good as you!]
I rolled my eyes at her grammar. We would have to work on that. "Mew mew mew mew, mew."
[Then go over to your trainer little one, we'll all help you.]
"Coo! Art!" she hopped over to where Ash stood standing. He looked a little skeptical that she could win a match, but didn't voice it.
"Ash!"
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to use Psyduck? If Articuno doesn't hit that dumb duck's head then its a definite win!" Misty offered the use of her Pokémon.
"Okay," Ash said.
Misty let out her yellow Pokémon.
Psyduck stood there with its hands on its head, "Psy."
Articuno cooed, "Aaarty!"
"Uh, Articuno, Ice Beam!" Ash figured an Ice Pokémon would probably know an Ice move.
"Coo?"
[What dat?]
I demonstrated one for her up in the air.
"Oh. Cuno!" Articuno spat out a little bit of ice at her opponent.
Psyduck remained still, "Duck?"
"Mew mew!"
[C'mon, you can do better!]
"Arrrtttyy!" Articuno managed to do a nice Ice Beam for its low level and small stature.
"Psy," Misty's Pokémon did nothing, then slowly fell over, "-duck."
"Coo?"
[Win?]
"You did it, Articuno!" Ash congratulated.
Articuno chirped in joy, "Articuno!"
Misty recalled Psyduck, and bent down near the glittering bird. "Good job, Articuno."
She blushed, "No."
I floated over to her, That was great! Wanna battle with another Pokémon?"
"Art!" she nodded.
Brock spoke, "How about you battle Geodude? I'll go easy on you!"
"Okay!" Ash agreed.
Geodude came out, "Geo."
"Coo!" Articuno challenged.
Geodude looked blankly at the bird.
"Articuno, Ice Beam again!"
"Geodude, Tackle!"
After Articuno hit the Rock Pokémon with its weak Ice Beam, Geodude tried to smash her into the ground. She flapped her wings as Ash warned her to dodge, and she tried to escape.
Geodude was in mid-air when she suddenly took flight.
It surprised Geodude as much as it surprised her.
"Cooo?" she questioned. Her eyes widened when she realized she was in the air. "Art!" Articuno cried out.
Geodude crashed into the ground in shock, "Dude."
Geodude somehow managed to be stuck in the ground, so Brock told him to return.
"Arty!" Articuno rejoiced.
"Way to go, Articuno!" Ash congratulated her.
She alighted on top of his shoulder, nibbling on his ear in affection.
Whew, I was worried about her for a moment.
I imagined she now knew Fly, Peck, Ice Beam, and perhaps a few other attacks if she was lucky.
Not bad for a baby bird.
We only had a few minutes until Ash's battle, so we headed towards the Azure Field.
Ash was able to use four Pokémon this time. When asked who by Brock he answered, "Krabby, Muk, Skarmory, and Bulbasaur."
This field was a pretty cerulean color, a little more calming than the Violet Field Ash had battled on last time.
Ash's opponent was a green-haired trainer named Joey.
Joey liked to talk a lot and challenged, "I'll beat you swifter than a Pidgeot can fly."
"You wish!" Ash called back.
The two were announced, and the battle officially began.
"Kangaskhan, go!" Joey let out his Pokémon.
Ash sent out Skarmory. "Ree!" the Steel- and Flying-Type taunted.
"Skahn," the kangaroo-like Pokémon snapped back.
It was at this point that I figured it would probably be a long battle. So I levitated one of Ash's Pokéballs towards me, and let out Wartortle. I gave a meaningful glance to Brock, who caught on and let out his Vulpix.
"Tortle?"
[What do you want?]
"Vul!" the Fire Pokémon told Wartortle.
[Eggs!]
"Mew."
[Right.]
Hardly straining, I used my Psychic powers to lift the two known elemental types out of the backpack and placed them in front of the proper Pokémon.
I turned my eyes to the battle.
So far all the two Pokémon had managed to do was wear each other down and drain the opponent's health power and energy a little bit.
"Steel Wing!" Ash called.
The bird glinted and smacked Kangaskhan across the head with its metal wing.
That was humorous.
Kangaskhan's baby tumbled out of its pouch, and the mother roared and scooped it back up and placed it where it belonged.
This gave Ash time to shout another command, "Iron Tail!"
Shimmering, Skarmory attacked, finally causing the Kangaskhan to groan and slowly collapse to the ground.
~Go Skarmory!~ I mentally cheered.
"And Kangaskahn is finally down!" a deep male voice boomed over the loudspeaker.
Joey's next Pokémon was an Ampharos. The yellow and black electric Pokémon purred, "Fee!"
"Skar!" Skarmory trilled, as if threatening that Ampharos would get scarred if it didn't tread carefully.
"Ampharos, Thunder!" Joey yelled, naturally.
That strike against the poor Flying-Type's weakness brought it out of the match. Ash brought out Bulbasaur.
"Bulba!" The Grass-Type awaited instructions.
"Bulbasaur, Tackle!"
"Saur!" it cried as it rammed into Ampharos.
"Rohs!" Ampharos grunted as it was hit.
"Ampharos, Tail Whip!" Joey ordered.
The Electric-Type whipped Bulbasaur with its ball-tipped tail.
"Saur," it groaned softly.
"Bulbasaur, Back Kick!"
Ash had interesting tactics all right. He was lucky that his Pokémon understood his strange orders.
Bulbasaur skipped happily over to the slightly confused Ampharos, turning its hind-quarters towards the yellow Pokémon, and smacking it several times in the face with its back legs.
"Ooohhhss," Ampharos moaned. It blinked, then started pawing at its face desperately.
"It appears to be confused by trainer Ash Ketchum's strange attack!" the announcer informed the audience.
Ampharos fell over heavily, groaning pitifully.
It was recalled, and Magcargo was sent out.
The lava snail grunted, "Carg."
"Bulbasaur, Body Slam!" Ash called out.
"Bulb!" it slammed roughly against the Fire Pokémon, moaning slightly when the lava singed it partially.
"Magcargo, Flamethrower!"
"Go!" it groaned deeply, spewing out a fiery hailstorm at the opposing Pokémon.
That was it for Bulbasaur. It collapsed on the ground, charred and twitching in pain.
"Bulbasaur!" Ash cried out concernedly. He rushed to it, "You okay?"
"Bulb," Bulbasaur managed painfully.
It went back into the Pokéball as a beam of red light.
It would be okay with some rest and a trip to the Pokémon Center, I reasoned.
"Two down and two to go with both sides. A fairly even Pokémon match so far," the announcer said.
Ash determinedly sent out Krabby.
"Bee," its squishy voice greeted Ash.
He smiled, and Joey called out to his Pokémon, "Rock Slide!"
Magcargo bombarded the crab with an avalanche of rocks.
"Krab!" It barely phased it.
"Krabby, Bubble!" Ash commanded.
"Bee," it spat a big line of sparkling bubbles at the Fire- and Rock-Type, hitting a double weakness.
But it wasn't ready to go out yet.
It tried to retreat partially into its shell, then came out. Joey yelled, "Magcargo, Rock Throw!"
A huge boulder hovered above Krabby, causing it to panic and try to get out of its path. The boulder got its target, causing Krabby to cry out in pain.
"Krabby, Crabhammer!" Ash shouted.
Krabby pulled back its pincer, then smacked Magcargo on top of its fiery head.
"Carg," it moaned, its head spinning. Magcargo appeared to be doing okay, but abruptly became limp.
"Magcargo, return!" Joey called out, semi-angrily. He wasn't doing as well as he had wanted.
The small crab held its pincers up in the air triumphantly, and Ash congratulated him, "Great job!"
Right as Joey sent out another Pokémon, Krabby started glowing and growing.
It was evolving!
Surely enough, Krabby evolved into Kingler. It happily shouted out a war-cry to the Pokémon Joey had just sent out.
"Huh? What is *that* Pokémon?" Ash asked, confused. He pulled out his Pokédex.
"No data stored for this particular Pokémon."
It looked remotely like a flying green and white onion, with big blue eyes, leaves for hands, and green feet that hang out kind of like mine.
Even I wasn't sure what it was, and I'd been around for quite a while.
Lugia spoke from the sidelines next to me, I believe it is a Celebi, a Psychic- and Grass-Type. I think it's known as...a Timetravel Pokémon.
"A Celebi..." Ash trailed off.
While he was preoccupied, Ash's opponent ordered, "Confusion!"
Celebi's Psychic move hit Bulbasaur's weakness, easily causing it to faint.
Ash bit his lip, and I could practically hear his brain ticking. If he sent out Muk like he'd said, there was a good chance he'd lose. Muk was a Poison-Type, and had a weakness against Psychic. But he trusted his Pokémon...
With no further hesitation he sent out the Sludge Pokémon.
I mentally prayed for his success.
After Muk came out he grumbled, "Muk."
Ash hastily called out, "Sludge Bomb!"
The purple Pokémon spat a bunch of goopy Poison out at the two feet tall flying onion.
That hit its weakness, and it appeared to be sick.
"It's poisoned!" the speakers vibrated.
"Selly..." it groaned.
"C'mon you stupid Pokémon! Use Psychic!" Joey grated.
The powerful Psychic move hit Muk, but he held on by the skin of his teeth...Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Ash then told Muk to use Sludge, and it was spat forcefully out at Celebi.
And Celebi could fight no more.
It wasn't as long of a battle as I thought...
"And that was it, Pokémon fans. The battle is now over, and Ash Ketchum is the winner!"
Ash held up two fingers, "Yeah!"
I floated over to Ash, about to congratulate him, but both of us saw Joey kicking his Pokémon.
"You stupid thing! We didn't come here to lose! You oughta know better'n that!"
The Celebi merely whimpered, cowering down. It was still out of breath from its battle, and exhausted.
"Stop that!" Ash ordered as he marched over to Joey.
"It's my Pokémon, and I can do whatever I want to it!"
"Pokémon isn't just about winning! It's also about friendship and camaraderie!" Ash reprimanded him.
"If you care so much about it, why don't you take this pathetic onion bulb? I have no use for such an easily losing Pokémon! I'm going home!" Joey stormed off.
"Why did he just want to get rid of *this* one?" Misty wondered.
He's probably had a lot of trouble with it, lately, I suggested.
Lugia nodded in agreement.
Ash bent down to the abused Celebi, and picked it up. It tried to shy away from him, but was too tired to fly off.
"It's okay. I won't hurt you..." Ash soothed it. "And neither will he."
"Bye?" it asked.
"Mew," I nodded.
[He's gone.]
"Sell?"
"Mew, mew mew."
[Yeah, he's gone forever.]
"Chu?" Pikachu wanted to talk to it.
Ash gently squatted, showing it to Pikachu.
"Pi-Pikachu!"
"Celebi?"
"Chu chu!"
They quickly made friends, and Pikachu reassured it that Ash was a kind trainer, and it would be in good hands.
"Prrriii!" Togepi laughed randomly.
We all looked at the Egg Pokémon and it flushed.
Articuno hopped over, "Coo?"
"Sell!"
It turned out Celebi was female, and I suggested to Ash that it might make her happy if he asked Misty for a ribbon or bow.
He questioned her, and she produced a pink ribbon. He tied it around Celebi, making a bow.
She laughed timidly, "Celebi!"
That last gesture won her over.
Now Ash had won another match, and gotten another rare Pokémon. Luck seemed to come after him like an Arcanine after a delicious rare steak.
Now, if only those blasted eggs would hatch...
Author's Questions: How's that? Ash's getting pretty lucky, eh? I always thought he should get a lot more Pokémon than he has in the Television episodes. Is this as fun for you as it is for me? Or is it a little too unrealistic? Should Brock and Misty get a Pokémon or two as well? (If they did the Pokémon probably wouldn't be *too* rare...Sorry, I'm a little selfish...) Any improvements needed? My fighting writing perhaps? Heh, that rhymed...