Gold Digger

Hanna was one of the Nugget Bridge trainers, until she met Greg. But she didn't know that he was the son of the infamous Gary Oak… (Set about twenty years after Ash become champion.

Chapter three: Saffron

Hanna followed his bike tracks for half an hour before getting bored.

"I suppose it's not worth too much effort to get my revenge?" She mused.

A rustling in the grass distracted her; she put one hand protectively on her pokeballs.

A bull like pokémon with a brown mane leapt out of the bushes and stared at her; it's eyes bloodshot.

"Tauros?" Said Hanna cautiously.

The pokémon grunted and pawed the ground impatiently, and then it charged. Hanna flung herself out of the way and released geodude.

"Geodude, rock throw!" She shouted.

Her geodude threw rock at the Tauros, now charging away from them, it did a pin turn and raised clouds of dust.

Then it charged at them again, for the second time Hanna flung herself out of the way, this time releasing another pokeball.

"Vaporeon, go!" She shouted.

Then suddenly she realised that neither the Tauros nor the Vaporeon were there, only her Geodude.

"Huh?" She said bewildered, "Where'd they go?"

She saw her pokeball lying on the ground, with the light on, "Well, there's Vaporeon at least."

She picked it up and was about to place it in her belt when she noticed that Vaporeon's pokeball was still in her belt, then that meant…

"Go! Pokemon?" She said nervously. The tauros almost exploded from the pokeball and turned to Hanna.

"ROS!" It roared, and she flinched away from it.

"I guess I just caught a tauros…" She said uncertainly, "But that doesn't help me get to Saffron."

The tauros looked at her angrily and made to disappear into the grass. "Hey, come back here." Yelled Hanna.

The tauros ignored her and disappeared into the long grass.

"Wait!" Said Hanna.

She ran off into the long grass after the tauros, from ahead of her she heard it charging.

"Damn! I'll never get it now." She thought miserably. She turned to go back to the path, but the long grass was too tall for her to see over. She parted the blades and pushed on.

After fifteen minutes she realised she was lost, in a field of extremely tall grass.

"Damn! Stupid tauros." She shouted.

She heard a thundering of hooves off to her right and turned around. The tauros burst out and almost knocked her over. She managed to swing herself up on its back to prevent from being trampled. Then she was riding a practically wild tauros.

She clung onto its back for about half an hour before it reached the path again and stopped, exhausted. She climbed gingerly off its back and clung to its mane, shivering in fear.

"I hate heights." She said slowly.

The tauros feebly jerked its head.

"I suppose you're tired" Said Hanna unsympathetically, "If you'd just stayed with me in the first place."

The tauros turned feeble red eyes towards her, and she felt something inside her melt, "Alright then, hang on a second." She said.

Hanna reached inside her bag and took out a potion. "It's my only one, so you'd better be good." She said sternly.

After giving the potion to her tauros she sat down on the path, "How am I supposed to get to Saffron now? It's gonna be dark before I can get there."

She looked at the tauros, its eyes were still bloodshot. "Is there something wrong with you? You don't look too well." Said Hanna. "Perhaps you need to go to a pokecenter?"

The tauros nodded its head in agreement, and then turned around so that its side was facing her.

"Oh, no, not again." Moaned Hanna, but she reluctantly got up on the Tauros anyway. "Follow those bike tracks." She ordered, "And be careful with me, please?"


Saffron was big. Thought Hanna in awe. Very big. She asked a man where the poke center was, and he pointed sullenly down the street.

'Big, but not friendly,' She said to herself.

She found the pokecentre and entered, then stopped as she saw something totally impossible. Greg was backing up against the wall, as a man held a long knife and nurses screamed.

'Greg?' She wondered.

Hanna looked around the room. It was your average pokecenter, with chairs and tables, a place to eat and a place for pokemon. She wondered vaguely whether or not it would be better to run, but then decided to get revenge on Greg, her way.

She ran up to the man with the knife just as he slashed at Greg, and hit him over the head with her backpack.

'How dare you?' She screamed shrilly. 'Do you have any idea how sick my tauros is, and you sit here making all the nurses scream? I'm disgusted at you.'

The man turned around, and for a minute both him and Greg had identical expressions of surprise on their faces. Then Hanna kneed him in the groin and punched him in the face. He fell down on the ground unconscious.

The nurses looked at Hanna in surprise.

'Well? Are you gonna fix my tauros or not?' Said Hanna impatiently.

'Of course,' said a nurse faintly.

Hanna smiled and threw the pokeball.

Then she grabbed Greg by the arm and hauled him outside.

'What on earth was that, Hanna?' He spluttered.

'Simple, you were in trouble, I saved your life.' She answered complacently.

'I have to get out of here.' He muttered.

'We have to get out of here,' corrected Hanna.

'What do you mean? We?'

'If you don't let me come with you, I'll hand you into the police.'

'The police? Hanna, what are you on about?' Asked Greg angrily. 'I do you a favour by helping you beat a gym, and you threaten me with the police.'

'I'm not dumb, Greg, I saw the badge on that man's jacket, he's a member of the special police. You let me go with you and finish beating the league, or I'll hand you in.'

Hanna saw Greg stiffen. So he does have something to hide, she thought triumphantly, I knew it!

'Fine! Get your Tauros and we'll leave.' Said Greg.

'I have to beat Sabrina first.'

'She's too good, wait until you've beaten a few more trainers before you challenge her.' Said Greg impatiently. 'Now get your stupid tauros and we'll leave.'

'Okay.' Said Hanna, smiling happily.


Again that night Greg decided to sleep outside. Again that night Hanna slept in the tent peacefully while he shivered. She was getting her revenge on Greg, and he could do nothing about it.

A/n: I know that was a rather weak ending, but it gets better - soon.