First I apologize for the big gap between the 'button' line and the actual button in the last chapter, apparently, has taken away the lines and asterisks and the squiggly line ( if it shows) So sorry it seemed a bit weird ;; (Oh yes and it also took my smiley faces away… (sniff))
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Second ChancesPart 9; "We weren't ready!"
"Catrinna!" Ash spotted the black haired trainer and ran to her, calling her name. She turned from her current battle to nod.
"We've held them off so far, but we're only evenly matched. With you three here we should be able to gain the advantage point." Joey felt the grin widen on his overly proud face and he opened his mouth, but Catrinna continued before he could continue. "I'll admit you were right, but I will not admit that I was wrong either." She scanned the trio her gaze stopping at Ash. He saw great pride in her eyes and stance, pride that would never let her admit she was wrong. "You really can't blame me for not believing four lunatics you just wander into my office declaring Team Rocket has stirred up a take over after eighty years ago." Ash just simply smiled and nodded his understanding, mercifully saving her pride.
"DUCK!"
All four ducked as a flamethrower narrowly missed their heads. "I suggest," Catrinna stated and she calmly stood up. "that we resume the fight." She watched the stand there. She waited only a few seconds, realizing they weren't taking the hint. "Go! The conversation is over!" The trio shrugged and went their separate ways, all set for battle.
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Joey frowned, surveying the battlefield, it appeared that they had the advantage, but not enough to get out with most of the people and pokemon. 'well,' he thought, 'might as well start somewhere.' He saw a Polywrath walking around throwing bubble beams at his side. Joey reached to his poke' ball belt and fingered a poke' ball, silently praying in his head.
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"Great, I'm glad you know what your doing." Ash mumbled to Pixit after she had used a sleep powder on a group of pokemon, among other, numerous attacks Ash hadn't known the small pokemon was capable of doing. Pixit just squealed and made a peace sign. Ash was about to respond, when a large ball of… something narrowly missed his head. "Wow," He stared at the rock the ball had demolished. He turned and saw a small green pokemon with large, angry beady eyes fixed on Ash and Pixit. Long, purple spotted ears were drawn back as it moved from all fours to stand on two feet. Small wings spread from its back were flickering, probably deciding what its first move should be, or waiting for the opponent's first move. Ash glanced over at Pixit who was glaring back at the pokemon. "Are you going to fight it?" Ash asked. Without taking its eyes from the new pokemon, Pixit nodded its head firmly, giving a small "IT!"
Ash felt a small smirk appear. Yes, he missed the old days. "Alright then," He got into the old battle stance. He twisted the black cap he on till it was backwards on his head, then began to order the attack. "Go Pixit! Start out with your Psybeam!"
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Ruby was tiring quickly, as well as her pokemon. She had underestimated the level of the pokemon, sure, there weren't a lot, but they were all very high-leveled pokemon. Ruby cringed as her Vulpix was thrown to the ground by a powerful body slam. Quickly she raised her poke' ball and shouted, "RETURN!" Now all her attention was on her last remaining pokemon, Trixa. "Alright, we're going to have to retreat." Ruby advised, as much as she hated to admit it. She surveyed the area. Catrinna was mixed up in her own battles, Ash was fighting a more powerful pokemon, and it didn't look as though he wanted to concentrate. She noticed his hat was on backwards, and somehow it rang a bell with her, but she quickly shook it off and headed off in the direction of Joey.
There was a noise. Trixa was calling to her. She turned her head to make sure Trixa was okay, but instead of Trixa behind her, there was a Beedrill.
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Joey gritted his teeth and kicked a nearby rocket. "They just keep coming!" He shouted at Houndoom who was equally involved with various pokemon. His thoughts briefly wandered off to Ash and Ruby, how were they doing? He had to admit, this battle wasn't anything like he'd pictured. The pokemon were much higher leveled and he wasn't the best at fighting. He barely managed to duck from a clumsy rocket and let his Houndoom deal with him. Joey had just enough time to look over in Ruby's direction. She was heading towards him, her Trixa was following closely behind – no, wait, there wasn't a Trixa anymore. "RUBY!" He cried as she turned around, she was frozen. Joey scrambled up from his position on the ground and raced toward her, with Houndoom, his only pokemon left standing, following closely behind. "Ruby!"
Too late! Beedrill sunk its poisonous tip inside her arm. She screeched, falling to her knees and calling for pokemon. Both Trixa and Houndoom reached there desperately throwing embers and other fire attacks at the Beedrill who, with the combined attacks of the two, fell to the ground in front of Ruby.
"RUBY!" Joey slid to a stop in front on Ruby, on his knees. He quickly reached for her arm, checking the injury. He pulled the stinger out, ignoring her yells and threats to kill him. It was a painful process for the stinger was wedged deep in there, and Ruby was frequently moving, trying to get away from the pain while threatening the same pain on Joey. Finally, the threat was out and Ruby was breathing normally again, she gave him a small, grateful smile as he tore part of his own shirt to wrap up her arm. "It should be okay until we get back." He stood up and reached out a hand to help Ruby up. Ruby accepted it, saying nothing, trying to save her pride as she subtly wiped away tears. "Let's check on Ash." She mumbled.
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"Stone attack!" Pixit built up as much energy as the little thing had and focused it on this attack. The new pokemon formed a barrier and braised itself against the attack that was to come.
"Ash!" Ash turned and saw Ruby and Joey running towards him. Trixa and Houndoom were limping behind, barely able to keep up. "Ash, it's an Axim! Don't use Pixit!" Ash's concentration was certainly broken then. He turned abruptly to stare open mouthed at Joey. "Axim has an advantage over other Psychic pokemon!" Ash turned to call of pixit, but it was too late. Pixit released its stone attack and it hit Axim straight on. For a brief moment, Ash really thought it was going to work, but no! The barrier suddenly grew larger and stronger, sending the attack right back at Pixit! Poor Pixit, now with all energy spent, was sent down to the ground, totally frozen and out of the fight. Trixa and Vulpix realized the situation, and valiantly stepped in front of their masters, growling, though barely standing. Axim grinned, showing its sharp teeth and sent them down with a lightning punch.
Now that all pokemon were down and out, all that was left were the three humans standing it Axim's way. It stood up to its full 2'11 inches and got ready for a devastating Psychic attack.
There it was, a blinding flash, Axim was sending a powerful psychic there way, and there was no pokemon left to stop it. Someone shouted an attack behind him, but there was no time to think. Ash blindly stepped in front of Joey and Ruby as time slowed. Ruby was still on the ground, wincing at the light and the coursing pain in her arm. Joey was hovering over her, using his own body as a shield, just as Ash stepped in front of the on coming attack.
Wait a second… it wasn't time that was slowing down, it was the attack! There was a voice, "REFELCT!" A barrier formed in front of them just as the slowed attack was about to hit them. Another blinding flash, this time it was going away from them.
As the flash died away, Ash let out a sigh of relief and let his muscles relax. It suddenly registered in his mind who had saved them. He whirled around, mentally preparing a long, long lecture. "What did I tell you about staying at the league?!"
Misty frowned and crossed her arms. "Geez, you could at least be grateful that I saved your life!" She snapped.
Joey moved away from Ruby, turning his head away so she wouldn't see his blush. Ruby still held her arm in pain, but still managed a small smile in Misty's direction. "I'll thank-you, Misty." But Misty was too far-gone, worry and stress had finally taken a toll on her. Oh, how she missed the glorious life of Heaven…
"You ungrateful jerk!" She yelled. "I just saved your lives and you YELL at me?!"
"I'm grateful…" Joey squeaked. Ruby threw a glare and harshly whispered. "You'll wish she let you die if you don't shut-up!" They were spared as Ash continued.
"You deliberately ignored what I said! You came anyway! What did you do, steal a pokemon? I know Kip wouldn't be able to do that!"
"You have some nerve you selfish-"
There was a small blast behind Misty causing her to duck as a bellsprout flew over her head. "(PLEASE!)" A small pokemon flew closer to them and crossed its tiny arms. "(If you don't mind, we have a battle to finish?)" It's eyes rolled, a sign of annoyance before flying off.
Ruby and Joey looked at Misty to wait for her to finish her response, but she was only sending a smirk straight at Ash. Both heads turned to see Ash's reaction. His mouth was dropped open and his eyes wide. Misty carefully stepped up to him and put a finger under his chin, gently pushing up, closing his mouth. "Easy, Ash." She leaned in closer and whispered in his ear, "I'll forgive you this time, but that doesn't mean you can't do some extra nice things for me, got it?"
She grinned playfully and moved her finger to poke his nose before turning around and walking to find something more useful she could be doing. Joey raised an eyebrow and gave Ash a question glance. "What? What is so special about a Togetic?"
Ash grinned sheepishly, not quite sure how to respond. "Misty… used to own a Togetic."
To his surprise, Joey only rolled his eyes and made a 'tsk'ing sound. "Well duh, almost everyone has had a Togepi or Togetic. It's so big like Growlethies and Houndours are as big for pets. Geez, so what?" Joey shook his head again and looked around, examining the battlefield. "Looks like we've pretty much won." He looked down at Ruby. She was clutching her hurt arm and staring up at Joey with complete trust that he would get her out okay. He smiled encouragingly and held out his hand for her good arm. "Now lets go get you some medical help, shall we?"
(A few hours ago)
"WAAAA?!" Both human and pokemon had similar reactions once they found their voice. Misty's mouth was dangling dangerously close to the ground whilst Togetic was blinking rapidly, trying to digest why its old master was here – better yet, how. Greg's eyebrows shot up as he whipped out a paper and pen quickly scribbling some notes about Togetic's reaction.
"How…" Misty finally picked up her jaw, and set it back in place. She slowly made her way through the debris and stopped right in front of her pokemon, her baby. "You're still here?" She whispered, somehow having enough sense to speak low enough so the nosey scientist wouldn't catch on.
Togetic small mouth opened to show it's shiny white teeth as it nodded happily. Crying out its name with happiness, Togetic did a gentle head butt into her chest. "MOMMY!" It sent the telepathic message, the voice just dripping with happy excitement. "How are you here?"
Misty pulled her pokemon out from the hug and smiled while explaining, "Ash and I are on a mission, care to help?" Togetic screeched with excitement. Misty, talking that as a distinct 'YES!' turned to Greg, Togetic still in her arms. "I need to go help the people fighting the rockets. You said Togetic is so strong, won't you let me take it with me to help fight?" She gave her best, hopeful puppy face. Hesitantly, Greg nodded his head, and before he could change his mind, Misty was out of the room, running for a ride there.
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"So what now?" Misty asked, looking up from her position on the floor. She was laying on her stomach, playing with Togetic and Kip. Togetic had apparently taken a great liking to Kip and was teaching it the art of being a baby pokemon (In which Togetic was secretly giving Kip some pointers on how to be babied and pampered as much as possible). Ash was sitting on the bed smiling at them, just enjoying the scene. For a while, his thoughts had departed off to before everything got so hectic…
(Flashback)
"What now?" Misty repeated her question; she was now giving her full attention to Ash who had finally just blinked out of his memory. "What's going to happen next?"
"There's supposed to be a meeting." Ash answered. "A meeting of all gym leaders and such to decide what they're going to do. Hopefully, it won't take as long as the other war did." 5 1/2 years…
"What are we going to do?"
"We get to be there because we were the ones who heard about it first."
Misty felt a grin spread to her face. "Just like old time, huh?"
Ash rolled his eyes. "Not quite… For one thing, there's many new pokemon, I'm not in charge and…" Ash paused, looking at Misty then shrugged. Misty cocked her head.
"And…?" She urged.
"And…" Ash sighed, he started it, might as well finish it. "Since you're not pregnant, you're not as moody – Ow! HEY! You wanted to know!"
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Joel groaned deeply, throwing his head back. "You LOST the egg?" He was steadily sliding down the chair with his head draped across the back. He rubbed his face with his hands. "How could you LOSE the dumb egg?!"
"Oh shut-up!" Rebecca scowled. She crossed her arms and sank deeper in her chair. "It was four against one, not to mention they had a Pixit!"
"So? The boss is SO going to kill us!" Tyler moaned in his hands. All three were sitting outside their boss's headquarters, waiting to give their report. Apparently, it had been ruled that the portable vid phones where no longer safe – especially since their latest failure and the police were aware of their planes, but the rockets didn't care. Vid phone was a much easier way to give bad news, you know?
"You mean they're going to kill me!" Joel corrected. "I'm the leader, I'm going to get the blame for this."
Rebecca brightened up. "Really? You mean I'm off the hook?" She ducked as a flying shoe was thrown at her head.
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"Ash," Misty asked cautiously. "Do you know where we're going?" Misty carefully fell in step with Ash and studied him. He was very focused on his steps, occasionally looking up and around, then looking over at Misty giving her a nervous grin. "Ash," misty tried again after the seventh grin. "You DO know how to get to the meeting room, right?"
"O-of course, Misty." Ash gave her another grin –eighth-.
"Oh good," Misty was loosing site of her patience. "Where are we?"
'We're in the league building."
"Thank-you, captain obvious, WHERE in the league building are we?" Ash opened his mouth to answer, but Misty corrected herself as she stopped walking to stare at Ash. "And don't say hallway either."
"Okay then, I won't." Ash continued his journey, leaving misty behind, not so calmly waiting for and answer. Misty frowned as he disappeared out of site. She leaned back against the nearest walk and looked at little Kip in her arms. "He'll be back." She mumbled to it.
Sure enough, Ash appeared, still heading in the same direction he was moment ago. "Ash," Misty calmly stated, "You've gone around in a circle, why don't we just stop and ask for directions?"
Ash shook his head. "No! I'm good."
Misty, now fed up, felt her head grown abnormally large. "ASH! ADMIT YOU GOT LOST IN YOUR OWN LEAGUE BUILDING!"
Ash's eyes widened slightly and he quickly clamped a hand over her mouth. "Hush! Okay, fine, I'm l-l-.." Ash stopped, repeating it in his head, than tried again, "I'm l-loooooo-"
"Oh I give up. Don't hurt yourself." Misty turned to passerby, he seemed to have a destination, but nothing too immediate, this would take a while. "Excuse me," Misty started, she softly tapped the man on his shoulder. "Could you please help me, us" she glanced back at Ash, "Find the meeting room?" She could see Ash cross his arms and mumble incoherent words under his breath. The man smiled, probably grateful to have something else to do. He tucked the pencil he was holding behind his ear, readjusted his tie hanging from the fancy business suite and pushed his wire-rimmed glasses up on his face.
"I'd be glad to! This way." He nodded his head in the direction he was already heading, a motion for Ash and Misty to follow.
"Thank-you so much! Ash has such a bad sense of direction!" The man briefly let an eyebrow raise at the name, but shrugged it off and returned to his leading.
"It's no problem, really. I'm Toby, and I assume you're the new people the rumors have been talking about?"
"Rumors?" Misty asked, carefully.
"Well, yea, there are these four trainers who discovered Team Rockets' plans, and two of them looked like THE Ash and misty, and here you are." Toby grinned slightly then raised his arms to stretch. "Well, I suppose it doesn't matter, really, Ash and Misty are dead, it would be impossible for you to be them. Maybe some really freaky coincidence, or maybe your related?" He waited for a short time before realizing they weren't going to say anything, so he continued talking. "Oh, I don't really think it matters anyway. You are who you are, right? I suppose it would get rather annoying when people are always asking you if you're related to the Ash and Misty, huh?"
"Excuse me," Ash decided to break in, his first time since almost admitting he was lost, "What's that?" Toby stopped to see Ash pointing to a dust bunny – a LARGE dust bunny, and it was moving. Toby found himself raising his eyebrow again. "That's a Dosti. They're usually not fighting pokemon, people use them to clean. Didn't you ever have one?"
"Ehm, sorry," Misty stuttered, "They're not very popular where we are…" Toby shrugged.
"Anyway, it's a cleaning pokemon, some people use it to battle since its part water, but its not strong." He stopped abruptly in front of a door. "Oh, here we are. Have fun!" He waved to them as he walked away, once again taking his pencil from his ear and taping it against his hand.
"Well, that was odd." Ash commented.
"Oh. Hush, and least he helped us get here! Now lets go."
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"… attack or –" Catrinna, and everyone else in that room for that matter, turned their head to stare at the newcomers. "So good of you to join us, Ash, Misty. Please have a seat." Ash and Misty were feeling increasingly uncomfortable as they quietly made their way to the two empty seats reserved for them beside Joey and Ruby. "Since all of you are now here." Catrinna continued, still staring at the four with a sneer, just waiting to come out, "Why don't you explain what you know."
They looked at each other, not quite sure how to start, then one by one, they all told their story in turn.
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"So what do we do now, Master Ketchum?"
Ash sighed and leaned back in his chair. His eyes had numerous bags under them, showing his worry about the growing war that was upon them. He rubbed them gently before watching the gym leaders and elite members carefully. "My guess," He said slowly, "Is to wait for the Rockets next move."
"Is that such a good idea?" A new gym leader, Jonathan by name, asked, he was brash and new to this game, Ash could tell.
"How so?" Ash calmly asked.
"Why wait for the rockets to attack us? They could create much devastation if they get to us before we can get to them!"
Ash was silent. He thought about it, let the others think about it, then spoke up himself. "You're right, however, were do we begin? Nobody knows where this rocket leader is hidden." His eyes glanced over the newest, but old edition to the member. "Right? So why lash out when we don't even know where to begin?"
Jonathan made a noise in the back of his throat as he stood up, his seat rolling back. "So we're just going to sit here while more cities get taken under control? Why don't we just attack them and take it back? My city is in danger of going under siege, and we just sit here? Or we could at least go help the others!" He glanced around at the members present, some were missing due to the fact that their city was taken over by Team Rocket. "How can you call yourselves members of this elite when we're not even fighting for our land? Huh? And what about Johto? The orange islands? It's already been a year-in-a-half! Haven't they sent word that they're going to help us? Or are they sitting back doing nothing as well?"
Ash was about to respond, but Lt. Surge, now older, his gray hairs coming through the blonde, he had a few wrinkles, but it all came with more wisdom. He didn't stand up. He only looked at Ash, then up at Jonathan the brash young blue haired 20-year-old. "They were better prepared then we were!" He simply stated. That one statement sent chills through everyone in the room. Jonathan bared his fists. He refused to admit that the good side wasn't prepared for the evil. Lt. Surge continued. "You know I'm a war man, I hate to admit that we weren't ready, but we weren't! Team Rocket waited until we were nice and cozy in our world thinking everything was okay and team rocket was nothing but a laugh! Well ha, ha, joke is on us!" He folded his arms and leaned back. "They were better prepared then us, and we can't just go and attack them. All we can do for now is defend against them as best as we can and protect the cities we have. Some point in time they'll have to stretch themselves out enough and then we'll fight when they're numbers are spread out."
Ash cleared his throat, showing that he was going to intervene. "As for Orange islands, Johto and Houen, I haven't heard from them yet. Now," Once again, Ash could just feel that bags increase under his eyes. He could tell everyone was feeling the same. "I suggest we all rest. Tomorrow I want all of you to go back to your cities and protect them. If you have any trouble with rockets, I want you to send your fastest pokemon to whoever is closest to get help. Okay?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Have fun everyone." Ash smiled slightly and stood up, signaling the end of the meeting. Slowly, everyone got to their feet (who weren't already standing) and headed out the door, eager to get to bed. Brock, ,faithful leader of the Pewter gym, stayed behind.
"Hey, man." Brock grinned and slapped Ash on the back. "How's the kid?"
Ash grinned at the thought of his baby. Oh, she's great. She's saying a few words. She turned a year old last month. She's getting really big too, wish you could see her."
"Maybe I will, my man!" Brock mimicked Ash's grin. He was happy that Ash could still smile at these times. It almost seemed like everything would be okay when he smiled like that. His smile was always contagious. "What's she doing now?"
"Misty's watching her at the house." Brock's grin faded as Ash's did.
"How's Misty doing?"
"She's… okay I guess." Ash looked out the window, watching the trees blow in the wind. "She still has nightmares about the recent battles and I know she's really worried about me. I think all this is taking its toll worse on her, you know?" Brock was grim. He knew Misty's sanity was only held together by Ash and her baby's company. Brock listened as Ash continued. "You know you really can't blame her. She saw things she shouldn't see, Cerulean was taken by Team Rocket and we haven't heard from her sisters. Besides, Misty never liked fighting." He chuckled. "Except with you and me of course." Brock nodded his agreement and Ash suddenly sobered even more – It was freaking Brock out. "We have to end this soon." Ash whispered, more to himself than to Brock. "We have to end this soon."
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"So what's the plan?" Caleb, the Saffron gym leader, asked. Catrinna looked around. She held herself with a certain sense of pride that Ash understood, but he could also tell the uncertainty in them.
"I'm thinking that we should wait for Team Rocket. We don't know what they're planning so we should-"
"Attack." All eyes turned to Ash's - the black haired boy who looked remarkably like the famous Ash Ketchum.
"Attack?" Catrinna frowned. She didn't like being interrupted at all.
"Attack." Ash confirmed. "We need to attack before they get the upper hand. Attack while they're still getting ready to attack. We need to be ready before them."
"I disagree. What if they are prepared?" Stacey of Cinnabar Island commented.
"Then we attack them anyway." Anthony from Viridian answered.
"I'm with they pretty red head and the black haired one too." A teenager, by the name of "Nemo" with blonde hair winked at both Misty and Ruby. Ruby blushed slightly causing Joey to frown and send an unintentional glare in his direction. Misty was blushing for a different reason. She leaned over and whispered in ash's ear. "He just hit on his great, great, great aunt!" Ash frowned deeply, staring hard at the boy. "Nemo" Waterflower (note1) or not, no one hits on his wife, er, girlfriend.
"OKAY!" Catrinna stood up, not liking the idea that she was loosing control of her meeting. "Let's take a vote. All for waiting raise your hand."
Four out of thirteen present raised their hand. "All for attacking now…" the other nine raised their hands. "Fine." Catrinna nodded her consent. "As soon as possible, tomorrow we take all out strongest pokemon and trainers and attack the rocket base."
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(note1) I know the name Waterflower may seem weird for it to last this long when all the kids were girls, but I figure that Daisy, Lilly and Violet all seemed like girls who would make their husband change their name since they're so well known. Okay? Didn't want you to think they married some taboo style or something.
Okay! Everyone who got Togetic right, stretch out your arm, then slap your hand to you forehead --- you got a gold star!
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New pokemon:
Axim: Small, green pokemon with very large beady eyeballs. Its ears are long and sticking on the side of its head. Various purple dots cover the small body. It stands on all fours unless performing an attack as a pre-warning. Aside from the four legs used to hold it up, it has an extra set of arms between the four legs, these are used the most. It has a long tail and a tiny wing span allowing it to fly no more than seven feet in the air and not very fast. A psychic type, but has the rare ability to learn many other kinds.
Dosti: A mop pokemon looks like… a dust ball/mop without the handle and eyes. It really isn't used for battles, mainly as a maid or just for show. No one knows what would happen if you where to cut all its fuzz/hair off. A normal/water pokemon.
A couple things I thought I should point out and remind you of, the war Ash and Misty were in took five in a half years vs. present war which will take a few weeks … tops. Ash and Misty are here to make sure it doesn't last as long as theirs did and to make sure it goes smoothly, got it? Good. No timeline for now, didn't see the need since there wasn't really any major new development. Hope you liked!
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