Authors Note:
Well, I'm writing at blinding speed now... I didn't want to leave you
hanging at the last episode, so I decided to start write this
immidiately...
This is a long episode, one of the longest episodes so far, in fact...
Well, 26 episodes...*sniff* only 14 left then....
But what would my Authors Note be without some response to my readers...
Paradox Paradox
Hell Flame Vulpix
Mickey
David
Fyrefly
Moon Girl
all of you, thanks a lot! And I still have forgotten someone, I know that...
Anyway, better get going...
.........................
"Dammit, wake up!"
Amber shouted, over and over. She shook him, she punched him, she did everything in her power to wake him up.
But that goddamn kid refused to start to breathe again.
"Thorn!" Amber released her Chikorita again. "Use your vine whips to get up again, and once you're up, send them down so that I can use them to take Jason away from here."
Thorn released its vine whips, and when they had a tight grip on something over the edge, it pulled itself up.
When the Chikorita got all the way up on safe ground, it released its vine whips again, and Amber grabbed them, as she thanked god that Thorns vine whips was so long.
She tied them around Jasons waist.
"Pull him up, Thorn!" she shouted, and Jason slowly began his last journey to freedom.
Somehow, she blamed herself for his death.
If he hadn't...
No, she couldn't think like that.
But...she felt some kind of connection to him. Almost like they was the same kind...
No. No one else could have gone through what she had to face on those laboratories.
No one.
She clenched her fists, and she tied Thorns vine whips around her waist when they came down.
When she finally reached ground level, and when she finally could see the dark sky, she felt somewhat relieved that she was alive.
But Jason...
She kneeled down, just to check that he really was dead.
Suddenly, she felt a vibration in his chest, and she practically jumped high up in the air when she felt it again.
"Thorn! He's alive!" she shouted. "Come on, we must get him to a hospital!"
But they were surrounded by treacherous cracks and ravines.
How would they get past all them, and still reach a hospital in time?
........................................
"It's cold..." Emma said, pulling her trenchcoat-jacket closer around her.
"I can go and get some blankets" nurse Joy, and went to the storage room, and returned with a pile of blankets.
Carrie took a blanket, but she decided to sit outside for a while. Rin accompanied her, and they both sat down at the edge of the cliff.
It was night, and even though no wind could get down there, it was still cold.
"We can't get out of here, Rin." Carrie said and shook her head. "With a little luck, someone would have a phone that we could use, but the PokeCenters telephones are both trashed into pieces."
"Carrie... Remember what I said... We will get out of here, in one way or the other. If we just stay calm, someone will come and save us."
Carrie suddenly found herself smiling at the thought of Jason, coming down the ravine in a dirty helmet.
"Jason will..." she said, as the picture faded away. "He will save us."
..............................
Crossing the cracks and ravines sure wasn't easy.
Carrying Jason on her back, Amber desperately tried to jump over the cracks, and several times it nearly ended in catastrophe.
When the cracks and ravines finally seemed to end, she started to run as fast as she could.
She had no idea where she was heading, she just kept running straight forward, hoping that she would find a town nearby.
If it hadn't been destroyed by the earthquake...
She shook that thought out of her head.
It didn't took more than five minutes before she was totally exhausted, both mentally and physically.
She sank to her knees due to Jasons weight.
"Dammit... I can't do it...."
But she gathered new courage, and got on her feets again. At least she had to try.
She ran through the forest, with her eyes fixed on the ground in front of her.
After half an hour, she finally reached a town.
Several buildings had collapsed because of the earthquake, but the hospital still stood steady.
She was to tired to even move. Probably, it was already to late for Jason.
"Somebody help!" she screamed
A man came to her, and quickly grabbed Jason.
"Come on, young girl. Let's take him to the hospital."
They bursted through the hospital doors.
"He fell..." Amber said, gasping for air. "I don't know..if he's...breathing..."
"Don't worry, we'll take care of him." a doctor said, as Jason was put on a stretcher.
Several nurses came, and Jason was taken away down the corridor.
"W-W-Where is he going?" Amber anxiously asked.
"Don't worry," a nurse said. "They are taking him to a room, so that they can examine him."
Amber didn't answer.
She had collapsed on the floor...
...................
"I have an idea!" Sakura exclaimed, as they all gathered to eat.
Everyone turned their eyes against her, and she took a deep breath.
"I have noticed, that many of us have fire Pokemon. What if we could use them, to burn through the cliff-walls, and create a passage to safe ground."
"No.." Emma said, shaking her head. "Fire can't burn through stone..."
"Yes it can." Rin said. "If all of our fire Pokemon use their flames on the same place, we will burn through it. And if we burn in a angle that points up, we can eventually reach the surface, even though it will take a lot of time, and our Pokemon will be tired."
"We can work in shifts." Carrie suggested, feeling her hopes rising.
"It's the only idea we've got." Rin said. "Why don't we give it a try?"
"Okay." Emma said. "We'll work in two teams, half an hour each. We can't stay to long, since it will be hot like hell after a while. I'll take the first shift with Sakura, and then Carrie and Rin take the second shift. Nurse Joy can overlook our Pokémon between the shifts. Here, Carrie. You can take Heat and Scarlet, since you don't have a fire-pokemon."
Emma gave Carrie two Pokeballs, and Carrie nodded.
"Okay." Rin said. "Let's go for it."
Emma and Sakura placed themselves a few meters from the cliffwall which they had decided to burn through.
"Flamestar, Ebon, I choose you!"
A Rapidash and a Houndoom formed of the white-light from her two Pokeballs.
"Fiery, go!" Sakura said, and released a Flareon.
"Okay, it will get hot." Nurse Joy said. "Not a minute more than half an hour, okay. You can be seriously damaged. And further and further we get, the smaller and smaller amount of time we can work, since the heat will be much stronger in a passage."
"Okau, let's go then, Sakura..." Emma said. "Flamestar, Ebon, flamethrower on the cliffwall!"
"Fiery, flamethrower!"
Three beams of fire hit the wall, and a enormous heat struck against the two.
"This is risky" Carrie said. "I'm not sure if it's going to work."
"Well, all we can do is hope..." Rin answered.
......................
Half an hour later, Rin and Carrie prepared to enter the small corridor that Emma and Sakura had manage to create.
Carrie and Rin climbed in, and they could feel the heat from the stones.
"Scarlet, Heat, go!" Carrie released Emma's Pokemon, a Houndoor and a Growlithe.
"Vixen, come on." Rin said, as Vix came in. "Flamethrower!"
"Flamethrower, Scarlet and Heat!"
The three Pokemon released their flames, and the heat that struck against Carrie and Rin was enormous.
"We have to stand outside, Carrie..." Rin said, protecting her face with her hands. "Vix, take care of yourself."
The three Pokemon continued for nearly half and hour, but eventually, they couldn't continue due to exhaustion.
"Emma, Sakura, your turn..." Rin said.
Time went forward in slow-motion, and it was hard even to make a little hole in the cliff wall.
The further they got, the harder it got to pierce through with the fire.
After three shifts each, Emma showed them the drawing she made.
"P stands for the PokeCenter and the cliff it landed on. I think we have reached about this far with the tunnel."
Emma pointed on an X mark.
"Not even half the way. And the higher the tunnel goes, the harder it will be to go up in it, since its angle is pretty sharp. But if we manage to get through... IF... We will be out of here. But from now on, we must wear safety ropes, that prevents us from falling."
Nurse Joy came out of the PokeCenter, carrying a bunch of ropes.
"Tie these around your waists when you climb up in the tunnel. And our Pokemon must wear these to. The smaller ones, we have to hold in our arms... And that means, that we cannot work in half-hour shifts anymore, since the heat will be too strong. From now on, we'll work fifteen minutes each before we switch."
"Okay. I guess its our shift now, Rin..." Carrie said, as she tied one of the ropes around her waist.
"You must tie your ropes around something on the walls of the tunnel, so you have to climb up without protection, okay?" Emma said, carefully watching them as they prepared themselves.
Carrie and Rin nodded.
"Okay girls, let's get this overwith, shall we?" Sakura said. She was sitting on the ground, gasping for air. The last shift had taken her breath. "I'm dying to get out of here."
Emma was just about to launch a sarcastic reply, but she held herself.
Inside, she felt proud. She had taken her responsibility, and that was something that was new in her life.
She had always travelled around without no goal, except to make herself and her Pokemon stronger, and responsibility was something that she didn't need to worry about.
But now... She felt somewhat satisfied with herself.
"Take care of Scarlet and Heat, girls..." she said, as Rin and Carrie began to climb up the tunnel.
..................................
The heat inside the tunnel was overwhelming. Vix had a rope around its waist, while Carrie held Emma's Houndoor Scarlet tight in her arms, while the little dog Pokemon released its flames on the wall.
Rin held her arms around Heat, Emma's Growlithe.
Since both Carrie and Rin was so close to the flames, the heat was practically unbearable, and several times Carrie was about to suggest that they would go back down.
Slowly they burned through the stone, and the time seemed to go in slow- motion.
"Wasn't we supposed to be in here for fifteen minutes?" Carrie asked.
"We have four minutes left of our shift!" Rin replied. "Geez, its getting real hot in here..."
Now, it seemed like the time had been put on standby. Every second felt like an hour, and the heat increased in power all the time.
Their shift was practically over, when the walls around them suddenly began to tremble.
"O no! Another earthquake!" Rin exclaimed. "Come on Carrie, we must get out of the tunnel, quickly."
But they were to slow.
With a deafening noise, the walls around them collapsed.
Carrie tried to protect herself, but she was knocked unconscious by a falling stone.
A moment later, they were both buried under large masses of stone....
....................................
Amber regained her senses, and she found herself lying in a hospital-bed. The sun was shining through the window, which meant that she must have slept for quite a while.
Suddenly, she practically jumped out of bed, only to find herself dressed in a pyjamas-like dress.
My god... They must have seen her ears and her...
She must have collapsed due to exhaustion... But how would she explain for the nurses about her... abnormal....things...
"Better not stay here to long." said to herself, and suddenly, she remembered.
Jason.
Quickly, she put on her red cap, her lilac tank top, lilac jeans and her silver gloves without fingers.
She put on a pair of socks, and her black trainers with silver stripes, and last of all, her belt with her Pokeballs.
Then she bursted out of the room.
She couldn't let them examine her more than they obviously already had.
"Jason! Where is Jason?!" she shouted, making everyone in the lobby to stare on her like she was some kind of mental-case.
She ran over to the counter.
"Nurse! Can you tell me where the boy who arrived yesterday is?"
"He's in room 9, but I don't..."
"Thanks!" Amber snapped, and ran down the corridor like she was on fire.
Where was he?
Room 7, 8, 10?
"Where is number 9?!" she shouted in panic, but she found the room right behind her.
She bursted through the double-doors, not even reading the sign that said "No entry allowed"
Inside, she found a nurse right next to Jasons bed.
"Nurse! Is he alive?"
"Miss..You shouldn't be here bec..."
"God dammit, how is he feeling?!" Amber shouted, feeling her body- temperature rising.
"Why don't you sit down...please." the nurse said.
"I don't want to sit down! I want to know how he's doing!"
"Miss... Are you relatives?"
"No. He saved me from the earthquake and then he fell... My god...is he alive?"
The nurse slowly shook her head.
"We tried everything we could. Electrical shocks, heartmassage... But we couldn't save him..."
"You mean....Is he..."
"Yes." the nurse said slowly. "He's dead."
................................
But what would my Authors Note be without some response to my readers...
Paradox Paradox
Hell Flame Vulpix
Mickey
David
Fyrefly
Moon Girl
all of you, thanks a lot! And I still have forgotten someone, I know that...
Anyway, better get going...
.........................
"Dammit, wake up!"
Amber shouted, over and over. She shook him, she punched him, she did everything in her power to wake him up.
But that goddamn kid refused to start to breathe again.
"Thorn!" Amber released her Chikorita again. "Use your vine whips to get up again, and once you're up, send them down so that I can use them to take Jason away from here."
Thorn released its vine whips, and when they had a tight grip on something over the edge, it pulled itself up.
When the Chikorita got all the way up on safe ground, it released its vine whips again, and Amber grabbed them, as she thanked god that Thorns vine whips was so long.
She tied them around Jasons waist.
"Pull him up, Thorn!" she shouted, and Jason slowly began his last journey to freedom.
Somehow, she blamed herself for his death.
If he hadn't...
No, she couldn't think like that.
But...she felt some kind of connection to him. Almost like they was the same kind...
No. No one else could have gone through what she had to face on those laboratories.
No one.
She clenched her fists, and she tied Thorns vine whips around her waist when they came down.
When she finally reached ground level, and when she finally could see the dark sky, she felt somewhat relieved that she was alive.
But Jason...
She kneeled down, just to check that he really was dead.
Suddenly, she felt a vibration in his chest, and she practically jumped high up in the air when she felt it again.
"Thorn! He's alive!" she shouted. "Come on, we must get him to a hospital!"
But they were surrounded by treacherous cracks and ravines.
How would they get past all them, and still reach a hospital in time?
........................................
"It's cold..." Emma said, pulling her trenchcoat-jacket closer around her.
"I can go and get some blankets" nurse Joy, and went to the storage room, and returned with a pile of blankets.
Carrie took a blanket, but she decided to sit outside for a while. Rin accompanied her, and they both sat down at the edge of the cliff.
It was night, and even though no wind could get down there, it was still cold.
"We can't get out of here, Rin." Carrie said and shook her head. "With a little luck, someone would have a phone that we could use, but the PokeCenters telephones are both trashed into pieces."
"Carrie... Remember what I said... We will get out of here, in one way or the other. If we just stay calm, someone will come and save us."
Carrie suddenly found herself smiling at the thought of Jason, coming down the ravine in a dirty helmet.
"Jason will..." she said, as the picture faded away. "He will save us."
..............................
Crossing the cracks and ravines sure wasn't easy.
Carrying Jason on her back, Amber desperately tried to jump over the cracks, and several times it nearly ended in catastrophe.
When the cracks and ravines finally seemed to end, she started to run as fast as she could.
She had no idea where she was heading, she just kept running straight forward, hoping that she would find a town nearby.
If it hadn't been destroyed by the earthquake...
She shook that thought out of her head.
It didn't took more than five minutes before she was totally exhausted, both mentally and physically.
She sank to her knees due to Jasons weight.
"Dammit... I can't do it...."
But she gathered new courage, and got on her feets again. At least she had to try.
She ran through the forest, with her eyes fixed on the ground in front of her.
After half an hour, she finally reached a town.
Several buildings had collapsed because of the earthquake, but the hospital still stood steady.
She was to tired to even move. Probably, it was already to late for Jason.
"Somebody help!" she screamed
A man came to her, and quickly grabbed Jason.
"Come on, young girl. Let's take him to the hospital."
They bursted through the hospital doors.
"He fell..." Amber said, gasping for air. "I don't know..if he's...breathing..."
"Don't worry, we'll take care of him." a doctor said, as Jason was put on a stretcher.
Several nurses came, and Jason was taken away down the corridor.
"W-W-Where is he going?" Amber anxiously asked.
"Don't worry," a nurse said. "They are taking him to a room, so that they can examine him."
Amber didn't answer.
She had collapsed on the floor...
...................
"I have an idea!" Sakura exclaimed, as they all gathered to eat.
Everyone turned their eyes against her, and she took a deep breath.
"I have noticed, that many of us have fire Pokemon. What if we could use them, to burn through the cliff-walls, and create a passage to safe ground."
"No.." Emma said, shaking her head. "Fire can't burn through stone..."
"Yes it can." Rin said. "If all of our fire Pokemon use their flames on the same place, we will burn through it. And if we burn in a angle that points up, we can eventually reach the surface, even though it will take a lot of time, and our Pokemon will be tired."
"We can work in shifts." Carrie suggested, feeling her hopes rising.
"It's the only idea we've got." Rin said. "Why don't we give it a try?"
"Okay." Emma said. "We'll work in two teams, half an hour each. We can't stay to long, since it will be hot like hell after a while. I'll take the first shift with Sakura, and then Carrie and Rin take the second shift. Nurse Joy can overlook our Pokémon between the shifts. Here, Carrie. You can take Heat and Scarlet, since you don't have a fire-pokemon."
Emma gave Carrie two Pokeballs, and Carrie nodded.
"Okay." Rin said. "Let's go for it."
Emma and Sakura placed themselves a few meters from the cliffwall which they had decided to burn through.
"Flamestar, Ebon, I choose you!"
A Rapidash and a Houndoom formed of the white-light from her two Pokeballs.
"Fiery, go!" Sakura said, and released a Flareon.
"Okay, it will get hot." Nurse Joy said. "Not a minute more than half an hour, okay. You can be seriously damaged. And further and further we get, the smaller and smaller amount of time we can work, since the heat will be much stronger in a passage."
"Okau, let's go then, Sakura..." Emma said. "Flamestar, Ebon, flamethrower on the cliffwall!"
"Fiery, flamethrower!"
Three beams of fire hit the wall, and a enormous heat struck against the two.
"This is risky" Carrie said. "I'm not sure if it's going to work."
"Well, all we can do is hope..." Rin answered.
......................
Half an hour later, Rin and Carrie prepared to enter the small corridor that Emma and Sakura had manage to create.
Carrie and Rin climbed in, and they could feel the heat from the stones.
"Scarlet, Heat, go!" Carrie released Emma's Pokemon, a Houndoor and a Growlithe.
"Vixen, come on." Rin said, as Vix came in. "Flamethrower!"
"Flamethrower, Scarlet and Heat!"
The three Pokemon released their flames, and the heat that struck against Carrie and Rin was enormous.
"We have to stand outside, Carrie..." Rin said, protecting her face with her hands. "Vix, take care of yourself."
The three Pokemon continued for nearly half and hour, but eventually, they couldn't continue due to exhaustion.
"Emma, Sakura, your turn..." Rin said.
Time went forward in slow-motion, and it was hard even to make a little hole in the cliff wall.
The further they got, the harder it got to pierce through with the fire.
After three shifts each, Emma showed them the drawing she made.
"P stands for the PokeCenter and the cliff it landed on. I think we have reached about this far with the tunnel."
Emma pointed on an X mark.
"Not even half the way. And the higher the tunnel goes, the harder it will be to go up in it, since its angle is pretty sharp. But if we manage to get through... IF... We will be out of here. But from now on, we must wear safety ropes, that prevents us from falling."
Nurse Joy came out of the PokeCenter, carrying a bunch of ropes.
"Tie these around your waists when you climb up in the tunnel. And our Pokemon must wear these to. The smaller ones, we have to hold in our arms... And that means, that we cannot work in half-hour shifts anymore, since the heat will be too strong. From now on, we'll work fifteen minutes each before we switch."
"Okay. I guess its our shift now, Rin..." Carrie said, as she tied one of the ropes around her waist.
"You must tie your ropes around something on the walls of the tunnel, so you have to climb up without protection, okay?" Emma said, carefully watching them as they prepared themselves.
Carrie and Rin nodded.
"Okay girls, let's get this overwith, shall we?" Sakura said. She was sitting on the ground, gasping for air. The last shift had taken her breath. "I'm dying to get out of here."
Emma was just about to launch a sarcastic reply, but she held herself.
Inside, she felt proud. She had taken her responsibility, and that was something that was new in her life.
She had always travelled around without no goal, except to make herself and her Pokemon stronger, and responsibility was something that she didn't need to worry about.
But now... She felt somewhat satisfied with herself.
"Take care of Scarlet and Heat, girls..." she said, as Rin and Carrie began to climb up the tunnel.
..................................
The heat inside the tunnel was overwhelming. Vix had a rope around its waist, while Carrie held Emma's Houndoor Scarlet tight in her arms, while the little dog Pokemon released its flames on the wall.
Rin held her arms around Heat, Emma's Growlithe.
Since both Carrie and Rin was so close to the flames, the heat was practically unbearable, and several times Carrie was about to suggest that they would go back down.
Slowly they burned through the stone, and the time seemed to go in slow- motion.
"Wasn't we supposed to be in here for fifteen minutes?" Carrie asked.
"We have four minutes left of our shift!" Rin replied. "Geez, its getting real hot in here..."
Now, it seemed like the time had been put on standby. Every second felt like an hour, and the heat increased in power all the time.
Their shift was practically over, when the walls around them suddenly began to tremble.
"O no! Another earthquake!" Rin exclaimed. "Come on Carrie, we must get out of the tunnel, quickly."
But they were to slow.
With a deafening noise, the walls around them collapsed.
Carrie tried to protect herself, but she was knocked unconscious by a falling stone.
A moment later, they were both buried under large masses of stone....
....................................
Amber regained her senses, and she found herself lying in a hospital-bed. The sun was shining through the window, which meant that she must have slept for quite a while.
Suddenly, she practically jumped out of bed, only to find herself dressed in a pyjamas-like dress.
My god... They must have seen her ears and her...
She must have collapsed due to exhaustion... But how would she explain for the nurses about her... abnormal....things...
"Better not stay here to long." said to herself, and suddenly, she remembered.
Jason.
Quickly, she put on her red cap, her lilac tank top, lilac jeans and her silver gloves without fingers.
She put on a pair of socks, and her black trainers with silver stripes, and last of all, her belt with her Pokeballs.
Then she bursted out of the room.
She couldn't let them examine her more than they obviously already had.
"Jason! Where is Jason?!" she shouted, making everyone in the lobby to stare on her like she was some kind of mental-case.
She ran over to the counter.
"Nurse! Can you tell me where the boy who arrived yesterday is?"
"He's in room 9, but I don't..."
"Thanks!" Amber snapped, and ran down the corridor like she was on fire.
Where was he?
Room 7, 8, 10?
"Where is number 9?!" she shouted in panic, but she found the room right behind her.
She bursted through the double-doors, not even reading the sign that said "No entry allowed"
Inside, she found a nurse right next to Jasons bed.
"Nurse! Is he alive?"
"Miss..You shouldn't be here bec..."
"God dammit, how is he feeling?!" Amber shouted, feeling her body- temperature rising.
"Why don't you sit down...please." the nurse said.
"I don't want to sit down! I want to know how he's doing!"
"Miss... Are you relatives?"
"No. He saved me from the earthquake and then he fell... My god...is he alive?"
The nurse slowly shook her head.
"We tried everything we could. Electrical shocks, heartmassage... But we couldn't save him..."
"You mean....Is he..."
"Yes." the nurse said slowly. "He's dead."
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