YIKES! Cel used my pet name from Infantry! Well for some reason I had to
get some of my friends from Infantry to review my story, because my readers
didn't seem up to writing reviews. Well until I have sixteen reviews the
next chapter won't be up. I will be ditching my ratio I have been using at
that point. After the next chapter it would be up to thirty two reviews
before I write another chapter. I figured that I wouldn't do that to you
guys since I'm so nice. Boy am I developing an ego. Well anyway I only
have one other thing to address before I begin. The first is that I made a
mistake with what I wrote about Noctowl, and I am very sorry for that.
Also, just to say this now: Any flamers will get hit with a Infantry
incinerator upon posting their rants! Believe me those things HURT!
Anyway on with the fic! Well, after my quote.
"Bring it on!"
-Goku/Dragonball Z-
** Believe it or not, but that guy has some good quotes in him!**
Chapter 4- The Sea Baron! (Chapter three was supposed to be titled Uneasy Waves.sry bout that guys and gals.)
Ash stared up at the monstrous Gyrados as it looked down at him angrilly. Pokemon were not the smartest creatures on the planet, but they were smart enough to know if someone was purposely upsetting them. The red gyrados before Ash was most definitely pissed at the noise he had been making with the jet ski, and now it was going to make him pay. Ash silently wondered just how he had not considered the fact that the gyrados might get him in a situation like this, and he quickly realized that, as usual, he hadn't really planned out things in detail. He had thought he was so smart using the jet ski, but now he didn't have a water pokemon that would return to him. He also only had pikachu out and ready to fight. Then the gyrados decided to attack. It lunged forward at Ash, and the boy just swam to the side before the giant red pokemon crashed through the waves.
Pikachu got a thunder attack ready, and when Ash noticed this he yelled at the pokemon to stop. Just pikachu wouldn't be enough, and he didn't want her to get hurt. "Pikachu release the other. I'm fine, but I need help!" Ash said. Pikachu sighed and stalled out her attack. 'He needs help all right.' She thought degetively. Anyone stupid enough to take on a gyrados while his pokemon are being released must have a few screws loose. Ash was not sane half the time, as his pokemon believed, but he was a good trainer still the same. Pikachu quickly released jolteon and the electabuzz from their respective pokeballs as soon as she reached the jet ski and had found the dang things. Ash meanwhile had grabbed a hold on the back of the red gyrados's head when it had surfaced beneath him, and now he was fighting not to get thrown off the damned thing. Jolteon, upon being released looked first for Ash. Electabuzz threw a fit at being wet, and then started to look around. The two both saw Ash in trouble and jumped to the first conclusion.
Pikachu didn't have to tell them what to do. The other two had seen Ash in trouble and had quickly redied a thunder attack. Pikachu released the two grass pokemon as she watched the thunder attacks hit the gyrados. Thankfully Ash had jumped free before the attacks had hit. Now the gyrados was coming after them. Bulbasaur took up a guard stance along with chicarita and together the two vinewhipped the gyrados in the head. It just kept coming until it overturned, and smashed the jet ski much to the dismay of the pokemon who were aboard it at the time. Ash cried out and swam over to where his pokemon were. He was relieved to see them all surface unharmed. Then the gyrados was already coming at them again. Pikachu and the other electric types looked to Ash as chickorita and bulbasaur couldn't use many of their grass attacks from the water.
"Make sure you stop it this time, or we're goners." Ash informed his pokemon, "Use a triple flash to blind it, and bulbasaur prepare a solar beam." The electric types followed through as bulbasaur prepared it's deadliest attack. The gyrados was nearing the group of floating opponents to crush them, when suddenly the electric types all charged up.and let out a blinding flash. The gyrados howled in pain as it received a blinding that would make Tien proud. Then as it considered recovering from the attack it was thrown back through the air by a solar beam. "Way to go!" Ash cried to his pokemon, "Now use thunder you guys." The electric types followed that command with sheer glee, and gyrados received the shock of it's life.litterally.
The red monster swayed in place for a short while as current flowed through it, and it appeared to be slightly paralyzed. Ash sensed a victory rising from the ashes of this fight, and he gave one last command.
**Ok I know that was a very cheesey pun, but when you got a kid named Ash and all his eletrical pokemon it can't be avoided.**
"Form a triangle around it and give it a real tri-thunder!" Ash commanded the electric types. He was sticking with what was best for a huge opponent.huge amounts of power! "Chickorita use vine whip to throw bulbasaur into gyrados as well!" Ash commanded of the grass types. The three electrics did as told, and shocked the gyrados fiercely. Meanwhile bulbasaur was thrown like a bullet at the gyrados. "Okay bulbasaur finish it off with a skull bash!" Ash told the sturdy pokemon, and bulbasaur concentrated it's energy as it streaked over to the gyrados. Then, the impossible happened. Even though the gyrados was weakend, and taking damage, it managed to break free of the electrical surge as it knocked pikachu and electabuzz flying with it's huge tail. Then it gave the surprised bulbasaur a water gun to deflect it before it headbutted it into lala land.
Pikachu ended it's electric attack right then, and the gyrados turned on the mouse pokemon. It flicked it's tail at the pokemon, and the waves it put out tossed the mouse into the air. Then the steel integrity tail of the monster slammed into the mouse. Ash heard an ominous 'crack' and hoped it was only a rib or two that was broken. Satisfied that it's job was done with the others the gyrados turned on Ash and chickorita. Ash smiled faintly as the gyrados charged with it's maw wide open. Thinking about his pokemon first, as was often the case, Ash threw chickorita aside as gyrados came in. Ash felt a searing pain in his shoulder, that ran down his arm as he was flung through the air from the attack of the gyrados. He noticed that there was a lot of blood in the water, and that it was his. He figured it was over now, and he was sorry for failing his pokemon. He thought wrong.
'CHHHHIIIICCCKKKKKAAAA!!' chikorita shouted as it turned and saw what the red baron had done to the lovely Ash master.
**You don't want me to translate what the little darling said believe me.**
Before the gyrados realized what exactly had happened chickorita had seized it in it's vines and had started to preform a mega drain. Although the way the gyrados quickly withered under it's touch, you might consider it the ultra-mega-squeez-the-living-f*ck-outta-you-drain! Ash realized that chickorita was going to kill the gyrados if he didn't do something, and he quickly recalled the pokemon. Gyrados immediately collapsed from the strain, and Ash hurled a pokeball with his good arm to capture it. It was a little sloppy since his right arm had been torn up in the attack, but the gyrados was caught when the ball hit. Bulbasaur had recovered from the attack by that point, and he swam over to Ash. He wrapped to boys arm with his vines, and Ash didn't understand what it was doing until he realized a second later it was stopping the blood loss. Ash swam over to where the electric types were, and he noticed that they were keeping pikachu from drowing.
Ash and his pokemon set up a strategy to get back to shore, and were soon slowly making their way back. Ash was swimming with the help of electabuzz while bulbasaur dog-paddled alongside them. Jolteon was carrying pikachu on it's back, while it dog-paddled as well. It showed clear concern for it's passenger as it swam. Even for a mouse, pikachu felt very light. The pokemon was unconscious, and its breathing was ragged and uneven. Ash began to tire as they got close enough to pallet where they could see the shore. Even though his shoulder and leg from the other day were screaming at him in pain he couldn't seem to stay awake. As he passed out electabuzz showed one of the rare moments in it's behavier, when it would help uncondionally the one it cared for. It swung Ash under one arm in a rescue hold, and stroked with the other strong arm. Of all electric types electabuzz was without a doubt, the best swimmer.
Soon the pokemon reached shore despite the distance. Chickorita was released, and they all managed to get the two casualtys to the pokemon center. Ash was treated for his shoulder wound and blood loss, but it wasn't so simple with pikachu. Delia was called over, and she was told she couldn't see Ash because he was unconscious. However, with the way she was it wouldn't have been safe to let her see him regardless. One stranglehold from her and her boy would be doomed. Proff. Oak was also called for the mother's sake, and he took her back to her home to call Ash's friends. Brock was called first, and the line was disconnected as a large crashing sound came from the gym they had called him at. A minute later the screen came back, and they were treated to the Pewter city gym's newest onix made tunnel. It headed straight to Pallet town.
Delia was nervous about calling Misty, but she did so anyways. She was told by Daisy that Misty was at the pokemon center looking after one of her injured pokemon. Daisy said she would tell Misty herself, and Delia put down the phone. "You know." The proffesor said as he sat down after making some tea for the two, "I think Ash would really enjoy seeing Misty's face when he wakes up." Delia smiled at him as she thought of what the proffesor was implying. It was very good that he was able to calm her nervs this way. Still, Ash would wake up soon, and it was best to make sure Delia understood that. She was most likely to get histerical if he didn't. Oak grinned then as he fished out a pokeball.
"They treated this new pokemon he caught as well. I believe it is what Ash got hurt by when he caught it for Misty." Proff. Oak stated. After they had their tea he took Deila outside and released the gyrados Ash had just caught. It stared at the two people before it, and it was considering getting angry at them, since they were not his masters afterall. It only sweatdropped a bathtub though. Delia had the professor by the neck and was strangelling him. "YOU LET MY BOY GO OUT AFTER A POKEMON LIKE THAT?!!" She screamed in the proffesor's ears as she swung him around like a rag doll. "Y-yes I did.OW! Delia please, we lost our jet ski in the incident as well!" Delia just got angrier.
"You think I care about your jet ski?!! This is my boys life! Are you saying I'm going to lose my precious Ash?!! He's all I have left in this world!" Delia then released the near dead proffesor as she broke down crying. Gyrados decided to take the easy way out as it tapped the pokeball that Proff. Oak had dropped with it's tail. It then gladly took santuary in the pokeball. Meanwhile it's future trainer was just getting the bad news. "Oh my god Ash is hurt?" Misty asked Daisy to confirm that her sister wasn't just trying to scare her. Daisy shook her head no. "I told you Misty, like that Ash friend of yours was so stoked about catching this big dangerous pokemon he got hurt. One of his pokemon are hurt two, but get this. The worst part is that he ruined a jet ski in the process."
That proved to be the wrong thing to say to Misty. "Like I care about the stupid jet ski! I'm going to see Ash!" Misty yelled at her annoying sister. "Umm.what about, like, Poliwrath Misty?" Daisy asked her. Misty lifted the pokeball she had just gotten back from the center. "Poliwrath is fine now. I'm worried about Ash." She said. Misty walked past her sister, and went to exit the pokemon center when she noticed Gary Oak had arrived and was scowling at her. "Ash is hurt." She said in a dangerous tone, "I will give you your match later.wait." Gary turned to her in anger as he blocked her path. "Hey I heard you two talking alright. I may have said some thing I shouldn't have before, but that doesn't mean I wanted Ash to get hurt. I'm going to go with you." He told her in a commanding voice. She didn't argue with him. The two walked out of the shop and Gary realeased a pidgeot and a fearow to take them on their way. "Ash you moron." Gary said as he sighed.
Misty laughed at Gary's rare display of friendship, and he glowered. "I also hope the center gets him back to you with all the 'important' parts." Gary hinted eveilly before the two lifted off for Pallet town. They arrived to find out that Ash hadn't woken up yet, and that pikachu was still being worked on. Misty, Delia, and Gary took up a vigil at the pokemon center, and late that evening Joy managed to convince them to take turns waiting. Gary took the first vigil, and he was allowed to sit by Ash's bed. He chose to stand. He was never good at passing the time.
He had grown in many ways since he had parted with Ash so long ago, but he still needed to talk. Because of this, Gary soon found himself talking to the very out-of-it Ash Ketchum. "You know, I figured you'd do it." Gary said almost bitterly to the boy nearby his, "You were always doing stupid things to prove something to that redhead, but I honestly didn't want to believe it when she told me you had gone after a GYRADOS of all things. Even you know that you get a magicarp and wait for it to evolve." Gary sighed as he realized just how futile such thoughts were with Ash. "Don't go smiling about it either when you wake up moron." He told ash warningly, "I mean I may be a great trainer, but I have to admit if I pulled a third of the stunts you have I'd have been dead a looonnnnggg time ago."
It was at that point that Misty walked in. Despite the shortness of the converstation Gary had been actually talking to Ash on and off for four hours. She smiled as she had caught the last few words out of his mouth, and she figured that Gary had been keeping Ash company the only way he knew how.by opening his big mouth. "Now I'm sure you'd rather be with red here anyway, so I'm going to see if your mom would make me a few of those disgusting things she always makes for you. Chilidog-whatever-they-are. It'd probably cheer her up." He said his goodbye and walked out. Misty was now left to sit at Ash's side.
"You know he is a pretty nice rival now that you've kicked his butt." Misty teased the drooling boy that was laid out before her. Then she noticed that the mouth clsoed and Ash's face broke out into a smile. Ash then opened his eyes and frightened her. "You know I managed to keep from laughing the last twenty minutes that annoying jerk was here, and then I have to deal with you and I'm laughing at the first thing you say." Ash commented with a dopey grin.
Misty jumped over to Ash and hugged him, but then she jumped right back when he groaned as she hugged his sore shoulder. Then Ash lost his goofy expression as the wound reminded him of what had happened. "Skip the introductions Mist." He said seriously, "Where the heck is pikachu?" Misty took a deep breath, and she painfully noted the boys worried eyes on her. Those eyes trusted her, and they were reading every little expression they could from her. Finnally she turned her head from Ash. "Pikachu is still in surgery. It's pretty bad Ash." She said, and she was not surprised in the least, when the next second Ash had ripped out his Iv and jumped out of bed in search of his pikachu. He ran down the hall to the center of the pokemon center, and he quickly approached the desk where Joy was at.
"Excuse me nurse, but how is my pikachu?!" Ash asked her desperately, and his question seemed to shock the nurse. She quickly compensated for this surprise however. "Hey! You should be in bed young man." The nurse told Ash, but he would have none of it. "I can't be in bed while my pokemon is hurt so bad. Please tell me how my pikachu is." Ash said as tears threatened his eyes, "I-I just hafta see my pikachu!" Ash felt like a big baby coming so damned close to crying at his age, but frankly he didn't care if the whole world saw him as a baby.
Silently the nurse came to him from around the counter, and she put a hand on his shoulder. "Come with me." She imformed him, "I'll take you where you need to go." She extended one hand in a geasture that told Misty to saty behind as she escorted the boy into a back area. "Now listen Ash." The nurse told him in a stern manner, "Your pikachu needs you very much right now.maby more than you'll ever know, but sadly it's not going to do it any good as far as it's condition is concerned."
Ash stared at her in shock, but she just continued. "We can't save your pikachu, but it is still very important that you be there. The poor dear risked her life for you, and you should be with it when it goes. Can you do that?" She asked him, and her voice was filled with as much compassion as was possible. Ash didn't answer her verbally, but he nodded his head to show that he understood her. She sighed, and then she opened a nearby door for the young man. "She's waiting for you." The women said, and she closed the door behind the boy as he walked through to say goodbye to his oldest friend. This was the worst day of his life.
~Fin.
Ack! I know you guys are going to kill me now! Exspecially since you won't get the next chapter until I have sixteen reviews up on this fic. Well sure me I'm that way sometimes, but it will work out. Can we expect a miracle recovery from pikachu? No, sadly that was clearly stated as not being the case. Ash must say goodbye to his closest friend, but the real question is: What will he do when pikachu leaves. Also, is there something that the pokemon had to ask her trainer before she goes? Will there be one wish from the little gal in her whole life of servitude, and if so can ol' Ketchum meet the request. I hope I have motivated you all to write reviews for the next chapter. Also keep in mind my warning about flames. I wrote that with it in mind what would happen if I killed pikachu. I don't hate the little dear, despite what some of my actions and sayings suggest. I'M SORRY PIKACHU!
~Naso
"Bring it on!"
-Goku/Dragonball Z-
** Believe it or not, but that guy has some good quotes in him!**
Chapter 4- The Sea Baron! (Chapter three was supposed to be titled Uneasy Waves.sry bout that guys and gals.)
Ash stared up at the monstrous Gyrados as it looked down at him angrilly. Pokemon were not the smartest creatures on the planet, but they were smart enough to know if someone was purposely upsetting them. The red gyrados before Ash was most definitely pissed at the noise he had been making with the jet ski, and now it was going to make him pay. Ash silently wondered just how he had not considered the fact that the gyrados might get him in a situation like this, and he quickly realized that, as usual, he hadn't really planned out things in detail. He had thought he was so smart using the jet ski, but now he didn't have a water pokemon that would return to him. He also only had pikachu out and ready to fight. Then the gyrados decided to attack. It lunged forward at Ash, and the boy just swam to the side before the giant red pokemon crashed through the waves.
Pikachu got a thunder attack ready, and when Ash noticed this he yelled at the pokemon to stop. Just pikachu wouldn't be enough, and he didn't want her to get hurt. "Pikachu release the other. I'm fine, but I need help!" Ash said. Pikachu sighed and stalled out her attack. 'He needs help all right.' She thought degetively. Anyone stupid enough to take on a gyrados while his pokemon are being released must have a few screws loose. Ash was not sane half the time, as his pokemon believed, but he was a good trainer still the same. Pikachu quickly released jolteon and the electabuzz from their respective pokeballs as soon as she reached the jet ski and had found the dang things. Ash meanwhile had grabbed a hold on the back of the red gyrados's head when it had surfaced beneath him, and now he was fighting not to get thrown off the damned thing. Jolteon, upon being released looked first for Ash. Electabuzz threw a fit at being wet, and then started to look around. The two both saw Ash in trouble and jumped to the first conclusion.
Pikachu didn't have to tell them what to do. The other two had seen Ash in trouble and had quickly redied a thunder attack. Pikachu released the two grass pokemon as she watched the thunder attacks hit the gyrados. Thankfully Ash had jumped free before the attacks had hit. Now the gyrados was coming after them. Bulbasaur took up a guard stance along with chicarita and together the two vinewhipped the gyrados in the head. It just kept coming until it overturned, and smashed the jet ski much to the dismay of the pokemon who were aboard it at the time. Ash cried out and swam over to where his pokemon were. He was relieved to see them all surface unharmed. Then the gyrados was already coming at them again. Pikachu and the other electric types looked to Ash as chickorita and bulbasaur couldn't use many of their grass attacks from the water.
"Make sure you stop it this time, or we're goners." Ash informed his pokemon, "Use a triple flash to blind it, and bulbasaur prepare a solar beam." The electric types followed through as bulbasaur prepared it's deadliest attack. The gyrados was nearing the group of floating opponents to crush them, when suddenly the electric types all charged up.and let out a blinding flash. The gyrados howled in pain as it received a blinding that would make Tien proud. Then as it considered recovering from the attack it was thrown back through the air by a solar beam. "Way to go!" Ash cried to his pokemon, "Now use thunder you guys." The electric types followed that command with sheer glee, and gyrados received the shock of it's life.litterally.
The red monster swayed in place for a short while as current flowed through it, and it appeared to be slightly paralyzed. Ash sensed a victory rising from the ashes of this fight, and he gave one last command.
**Ok I know that was a very cheesey pun, but when you got a kid named Ash and all his eletrical pokemon it can't be avoided.**
"Form a triangle around it and give it a real tri-thunder!" Ash commanded the electric types. He was sticking with what was best for a huge opponent.huge amounts of power! "Chickorita use vine whip to throw bulbasaur into gyrados as well!" Ash commanded of the grass types. The three electrics did as told, and shocked the gyrados fiercely. Meanwhile bulbasaur was thrown like a bullet at the gyrados. "Okay bulbasaur finish it off with a skull bash!" Ash told the sturdy pokemon, and bulbasaur concentrated it's energy as it streaked over to the gyrados. Then, the impossible happened. Even though the gyrados was weakend, and taking damage, it managed to break free of the electrical surge as it knocked pikachu and electabuzz flying with it's huge tail. Then it gave the surprised bulbasaur a water gun to deflect it before it headbutted it into lala land.
Pikachu ended it's electric attack right then, and the gyrados turned on the mouse pokemon. It flicked it's tail at the pokemon, and the waves it put out tossed the mouse into the air. Then the steel integrity tail of the monster slammed into the mouse. Ash heard an ominous 'crack' and hoped it was only a rib or two that was broken. Satisfied that it's job was done with the others the gyrados turned on Ash and chickorita. Ash smiled faintly as the gyrados charged with it's maw wide open. Thinking about his pokemon first, as was often the case, Ash threw chickorita aside as gyrados came in. Ash felt a searing pain in his shoulder, that ran down his arm as he was flung through the air from the attack of the gyrados. He noticed that there was a lot of blood in the water, and that it was his. He figured it was over now, and he was sorry for failing his pokemon. He thought wrong.
'CHHHHIIIICCCKKKKKAAAA!!' chikorita shouted as it turned and saw what the red baron had done to the lovely Ash master.
**You don't want me to translate what the little darling said believe me.**
Before the gyrados realized what exactly had happened chickorita had seized it in it's vines and had started to preform a mega drain. Although the way the gyrados quickly withered under it's touch, you might consider it the ultra-mega-squeez-the-living-f*ck-outta-you-drain! Ash realized that chickorita was going to kill the gyrados if he didn't do something, and he quickly recalled the pokemon. Gyrados immediately collapsed from the strain, and Ash hurled a pokeball with his good arm to capture it. It was a little sloppy since his right arm had been torn up in the attack, but the gyrados was caught when the ball hit. Bulbasaur had recovered from the attack by that point, and he swam over to Ash. He wrapped to boys arm with his vines, and Ash didn't understand what it was doing until he realized a second later it was stopping the blood loss. Ash swam over to where the electric types were, and he noticed that they were keeping pikachu from drowing.
Ash and his pokemon set up a strategy to get back to shore, and were soon slowly making their way back. Ash was swimming with the help of electabuzz while bulbasaur dog-paddled alongside them. Jolteon was carrying pikachu on it's back, while it dog-paddled as well. It showed clear concern for it's passenger as it swam. Even for a mouse, pikachu felt very light. The pokemon was unconscious, and its breathing was ragged and uneven. Ash began to tire as they got close enough to pallet where they could see the shore. Even though his shoulder and leg from the other day were screaming at him in pain he couldn't seem to stay awake. As he passed out electabuzz showed one of the rare moments in it's behavier, when it would help uncondionally the one it cared for. It swung Ash under one arm in a rescue hold, and stroked with the other strong arm. Of all electric types electabuzz was without a doubt, the best swimmer.
Soon the pokemon reached shore despite the distance. Chickorita was released, and they all managed to get the two casualtys to the pokemon center. Ash was treated for his shoulder wound and blood loss, but it wasn't so simple with pikachu. Delia was called over, and she was told she couldn't see Ash because he was unconscious. However, with the way she was it wouldn't have been safe to let her see him regardless. One stranglehold from her and her boy would be doomed. Proff. Oak was also called for the mother's sake, and he took her back to her home to call Ash's friends. Brock was called first, and the line was disconnected as a large crashing sound came from the gym they had called him at. A minute later the screen came back, and they were treated to the Pewter city gym's newest onix made tunnel. It headed straight to Pallet town.
Delia was nervous about calling Misty, but she did so anyways. She was told by Daisy that Misty was at the pokemon center looking after one of her injured pokemon. Daisy said she would tell Misty herself, and Delia put down the phone. "You know." The proffesor said as he sat down after making some tea for the two, "I think Ash would really enjoy seeing Misty's face when he wakes up." Delia smiled at him as she thought of what the proffesor was implying. It was very good that he was able to calm her nervs this way. Still, Ash would wake up soon, and it was best to make sure Delia understood that. She was most likely to get histerical if he didn't. Oak grinned then as he fished out a pokeball.
"They treated this new pokemon he caught as well. I believe it is what Ash got hurt by when he caught it for Misty." Proff. Oak stated. After they had their tea he took Deila outside and released the gyrados Ash had just caught. It stared at the two people before it, and it was considering getting angry at them, since they were not his masters afterall. It only sweatdropped a bathtub though. Delia had the professor by the neck and was strangelling him. "YOU LET MY BOY GO OUT AFTER A POKEMON LIKE THAT?!!" She screamed in the proffesor's ears as she swung him around like a rag doll. "Y-yes I did.OW! Delia please, we lost our jet ski in the incident as well!" Delia just got angrier.
"You think I care about your jet ski?!! This is my boys life! Are you saying I'm going to lose my precious Ash?!! He's all I have left in this world!" Delia then released the near dead proffesor as she broke down crying. Gyrados decided to take the easy way out as it tapped the pokeball that Proff. Oak had dropped with it's tail. It then gladly took santuary in the pokeball. Meanwhile it's future trainer was just getting the bad news. "Oh my god Ash is hurt?" Misty asked Daisy to confirm that her sister wasn't just trying to scare her. Daisy shook her head no. "I told you Misty, like that Ash friend of yours was so stoked about catching this big dangerous pokemon he got hurt. One of his pokemon are hurt two, but get this. The worst part is that he ruined a jet ski in the process."
That proved to be the wrong thing to say to Misty. "Like I care about the stupid jet ski! I'm going to see Ash!" Misty yelled at her annoying sister. "Umm.what about, like, Poliwrath Misty?" Daisy asked her. Misty lifted the pokeball she had just gotten back from the center. "Poliwrath is fine now. I'm worried about Ash." She said. Misty walked past her sister, and went to exit the pokemon center when she noticed Gary Oak had arrived and was scowling at her. "Ash is hurt." She said in a dangerous tone, "I will give you your match later.wait." Gary turned to her in anger as he blocked her path. "Hey I heard you two talking alright. I may have said some thing I shouldn't have before, but that doesn't mean I wanted Ash to get hurt. I'm going to go with you." He told her in a commanding voice. She didn't argue with him. The two walked out of the shop and Gary realeased a pidgeot and a fearow to take them on their way. "Ash you moron." Gary said as he sighed.
Misty laughed at Gary's rare display of friendship, and he glowered. "I also hope the center gets him back to you with all the 'important' parts." Gary hinted eveilly before the two lifted off for Pallet town. They arrived to find out that Ash hadn't woken up yet, and that pikachu was still being worked on. Misty, Delia, and Gary took up a vigil at the pokemon center, and late that evening Joy managed to convince them to take turns waiting. Gary took the first vigil, and he was allowed to sit by Ash's bed. He chose to stand. He was never good at passing the time.
He had grown in many ways since he had parted with Ash so long ago, but he still needed to talk. Because of this, Gary soon found himself talking to the very out-of-it Ash Ketchum. "You know, I figured you'd do it." Gary said almost bitterly to the boy nearby his, "You were always doing stupid things to prove something to that redhead, but I honestly didn't want to believe it when she told me you had gone after a GYRADOS of all things. Even you know that you get a magicarp and wait for it to evolve." Gary sighed as he realized just how futile such thoughts were with Ash. "Don't go smiling about it either when you wake up moron." He told ash warningly, "I mean I may be a great trainer, but I have to admit if I pulled a third of the stunts you have I'd have been dead a looonnnnggg time ago."
It was at that point that Misty walked in. Despite the shortness of the converstation Gary had been actually talking to Ash on and off for four hours. She smiled as she had caught the last few words out of his mouth, and she figured that Gary had been keeping Ash company the only way he knew how.by opening his big mouth. "Now I'm sure you'd rather be with red here anyway, so I'm going to see if your mom would make me a few of those disgusting things she always makes for you. Chilidog-whatever-they-are. It'd probably cheer her up." He said his goodbye and walked out. Misty was now left to sit at Ash's side.
"You know he is a pretty nice rival now that you've kicked his butt." Misty teased the drooling boy that was laid out before her. Then she noticed that the mouth clsoed and Ash's face broke out into a smile. Ash then opened his eyes and frightened her. "You know I managed to keep from laughing the last twenty minutes that annoying jerk was here, and then I have to deal with you and I'm laughing at the first thing you say." Ash commented with a dopey grin.
Misty jumped over to Ash and hugged him, but then she jumped right back when he groaned as she hugged his sore shoulder. Then Ash lost his goofy expression as the wound reminded him of what had happened. "Skip the introductions Mist." He said seriously, "Where the heck is pikachu?" Misty took a deep breath, and she painfully noted the boys worried eyes on her. Those eyes trusted her, and they were reading every little expression they could from her. Finnally she turned her head from Ash. "Pikachu is still in surgery. It's pretty bad Ash." She said, and she was not surprised in the least, when the next second Ash had ripped out his Iv and jumped out of bed in search of his pikachu. He ran down the hall to the center of the pokemon center, and he quickly approached the desk where Joy was at.
"Excuse me nurse, but how is my pikachu?!" Ash asked her desperately, and his question seemed to shock the nurse. She quickly compensated for this surprise however. "Hey! You should be in bed young man." The nurse told Ash, but he would have none of it. "I can't be in bed while my pokemon is hurt so bad. Please tell me how my pikachu is." Ash said as tears threatened his eyes, "I-I just hafta see my pikachu!" Ash felt like a big baby coming so damned close to crying at his age, but frankly he didn't care if the whole world saw him as a baby.
Silently the nurse came to him from around the counter, and she put a hand on his shoulder. "Come with me." She imformed him, "I'll take you where you need to go." She extended one hand in a geasture that told Misty to saty behind as she escorted the boy into a back area. "Now listen Ash." The nurse told him in a stern manner, "Your pikachu needs you very much right now.maby more than you'll ever know, but sadly it's not going to do it any good as far as it's condition is concerned."
Ash stared at her in shock, but she just continued. "We can't save your pikachu, but it is still very important that you be there. The poor dear risked her life for you, and you should be with it when it goes. Can you do that?" She asked him, and her voice was filled with as much compassion as was possible. Ash didn't answer her verbally, but he nodded his head to show that he understood her. She sighed, and then she opened a nearby door for the young man. "She's waiting for you." The women said, and she closed the door behind the boy as he walked through to say goodbye to his oldest friend. This was the worst day of his life.
~Fin.
Ack! I know you guys are going to kill me now! Exspecially since you won't get the next chapter until I have sixteen reviews up on this fic. Well sure me I'm that way sometimes, but it will work out. Can we expect a miracle recovery from pikachu? No, sadly that was clearly stated as not being the case. Ash must say goodbye to his closest friend, but the real question is: What will he do when pikachu leaves. Also, is there something that the pokemon had to ask her trainer before she goes? Will there be one wish from the little gal in her whole life of servitude, and if so can ol' Ketchum meet the request. I hope I have motivated you all to write reviews for the next chapter. Also keep in mind my warning about flames. I wrote that with it in mind what would happen if I killed pikachu. I don't hate the little dear, despite what some of my actions and sayings suggest. I'M SORRY PIKACHU!
~Naso