Authors Note:
Sorry for the lack of updates... I wounded my knee pretty bad during a soccer-game, so I have some problems getting to the computer. It's not easy with crutchers and plaster-bandage....
Can you imagine?
I'm going to spend eight weeks of my life with crutches and plaster- bandage.... ...sigh....
Anyway, Jason is back, so you can put down every sledgehammer you have. And thanks, as always, to my faithful reviewers...
And by the way, if it wasn't for you all, I would have drop this story long ago... Actually, I was planning to quit at episode 10, but then I read the reviews that I had recieved so far, and then I got some kind of rush of inspiration. That inspiration still pushes me forward, and it's amazing how I have managed to avoid a writer's block in 28 episodes... Anyway, thanks again (I can't thank you enough, you must know that...)
And: I might change the name of this story when I post the next episode... If I do, I'll let you know, OK?
And especially large thanks go to Fyrefly1 this time... She's been so nice to me..... Love ya!
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"But I swear to god that you are dead!" Amber said, still kind of refusing the fact that Jason was alive. "The nurse said it!"
"You must have gotten the wrong number from the nurse at the lobby" Jason said. "Someone else must have died in that room. I'm better than ever."
"But...Your heart was barely beating, and you couldn't even breathe! How come you are so healthy now, all of a sudden?"
"According to the nurse, my heart fell out of its rhytm when I hit the cliff. That's why I barely could breathe. If I had arrived here a few minutes later, I would be dead because of the lack of oxygen. But now, I'm fine."
Even though Jason sounded so confident, Amber could feel that he still wasn't completely recovered.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
Suddenly, Jasons eyes got hard as steel. He clenched his fists.
"I'm going to find Carrie, and Teddyursa. The nurse is going to examine me again in two minutes, so I have to go now before she gets here. I'm going back to the Trainer's Course...or what's left of it....And I'm going to find Carrie...And Teddyursa."
It didn't took more than a second for Amber to make a decision.
"Well, what are we waiting for?"
..............................
Yes.
What were they waiting for?
Jason ran as he was on fire.
Quick like the lightning he dashed through the woods back towards the now ruined Trainers Course with glowing determination.
Amber could barely keep up, but she didn't want to slow him down.
It was strange.
He was burning for that girl, and for his Pokémon.
She admired him for that.
She had taken care of herself her whole life, but even though her will was as hard as iron, it couldn't compare with Jasons.
Again, she felt that strange connection to him.
He must have been through some rough times, just as herself.
She felt a sting in her heart when she recalled all the hours of her life that was stolen away from her on the laboratories....
Suddenly, Jason gave up a small shout.
They had reached the Trainer's Course.
Or the remains of it....
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"It's getting harder to breathe, Carrie...." Rin said. "The air is disappearing...."
"Don't lose your hope, Rin." Carrie said decisively. "Jason is on his way, I know it."
Carrie was right.
As usual.
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¨"Look at this place!" Amber gasped. "It's just a fine mess of treacherous cracks, holes and deep ravines created by an earthquake that my dead grandmother must have sensed... There's not a single building left standing!"
Jason sank to his knees, as he took a deep breath.
"Where did the PokéCenter stand?" he asked, but he didn't bother to wait for an answer. "She was on her way to it, when the tremors started."
"You don't give up, do you?" Amber asked and raised her eyebrows. "What about the Pokémon, Teddyursa? You can't expect him to be alive..."
"I do." Jason said, and Amber could see how he clenched his fists when he got on his feet again. "I know they're both alive."
They headed towards the spot where the PokéCenter once stood, only to find that the ground had been ripped open in a deep, dark ravine.
"Gee, the whole PokéCenter must have fallen down during the earthquake. You can't expect them to survive that."
Jason didn't answer her question.
"How are we going to get down there?" Amber asked. "Jason...Shouldn't we call for a rescue team? We don't have any ropes...."
"I can use Bulbasaur."
"Jason....Face it. It's suicide!"
"Could be."
The conversation ended abrubtly, and Jason released Bulbasaur. He tied his Pokemons vine whips around his waist, and then he threw one last look on Amber.
"Look, you don't have to go down with me, if you don't want to, OK? But I want you to stay up here, and help me get Carrie out of there."
"How do you know that she's aliv..." Amber interrupted herself, and nodded. "I can use my Chikorita Thorn. Then we can pull up two persons at a time...."
Jason nodded.
"Thanks Amber...."
And then he turned around and took a giant leap forward.
Slowly, he lowered himself down in the darkness.
He could barely see his own hand.
Maybe this was a long shot. Maybe Carrie wasn't as lucky as he was.
Maybe she was dead.
Jason took a deep breath.
Suddenly, he didn't get any further down. Bulbasaur's vine whips couldn't reach any longer.
"Amber!!!!" he shouted, hearing his own voice echoeing between the walls. "You must use Chikorita's vine whips and tie them around Bulbasaur! Then lower him down too, so that I can get down further!"
"Lucky my hearing is excellent...." Amber said quietly, and tied Chikorita's vine whips around Bulbasaur. "Come on, Thorn. Lower Bulbasaur down too."
With Bulbasaur down as well, Jason could get even further down in the ravine.
Suddenly, he spotted something to the left....
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"They must have sent out rescue teams by now." Sakura said. "Maybe we should lit a fire."
"For what? To fry eggs?" Emma snapped. "They won't see it from up there."
Nurse Joy let out a sigh.
Things only got worse.
Suddenly, Emma let out a little shout, as she pointed to the sky.
"Look!"
The three girls just gasped.
"They.... Have come to save us!"
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Jason couldn't believe what he saw.
Three girls was standing on a large cliff, and behind them, he could see the remainings of the PokéCenter.
Their fall must have been stopped by the cliff. They had the same luck as he had.
That meant.... That Carrie was alive....
But he was still to far away to see if Carrie was with them.
Slowly, he came closer and closer, and eventually, he could place his feets on the cliff, and untie Bulbasaurs vine whips.
He was shocked to see that Carrie was not with them.
"Thank god!" nurse Joy exclaimed. "Are you here to save us? I'm Joy, and this is Emma and Sakura... ca...."
Jason silenced them with a hand gesture.
"You're a kid!" Emma exclaimed. "We thought that the rescue team had arrived!"
"Where is Carrie?" Jason asked panically, paying no attention to what the girls said. "Where is Carrie?!"
"I-In there...." Sakura said, and pointed at the tunnel, now blocked by several large boulders. "There's another girl there too...."
"W-what..." Jason sank to his knees, gasping for air, as he punched his fists in the ground after every word. "Why...aren't....you...trying...to...dig...them..out!?"
He got on his feets again. Furious, and his hands shook of anger.
"How the hell did she get in there?!" he asked.
"W-We tried to dig a tunnel....to get out of here.... but it collapsed...." Sakura said quietly.
"A tunnel?!" Jason said with a sigh. "A goddamn tunnel? Are you nuts? Didn't you think about the risks?!"
None of the girls answered, not even nurse Joy.
"Don't just stand there! We have to dig them out!"
Sakura opened her mouth to say that both Carrie and the other girl was dead, but Jason held a hand in the air, silencing her.
And so they started to dig.
Hours passed, or so it seemed.
Digging, digging, and digging.
Jason's hands were bleeding, but he didn't care. The girls was forced to rest every now and then, but he just kept digging.
Like a machine, like a robot that didn't need any fuel.
He was pushed forward by his love for his best friend.
She couldn't be dead.
The thought of him, dragging her out of the tunnel, dead, placed itself on his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.
She wasn't dead. He knew it.
Not even the powers of nature could stop them. They survived SS.Pearl, and Jason swore to God that they would survive this earthquake too.
Slowly, they worked their way in the tunnel, and they pulled away more and more boulders for every minute.
At ground level, Amber was waiting, nervously, having no idea what was going on down there.
"We're close now!" Emma said, but Jason barely heard her.
Suddenly, he saw an arm, pointing out between the boulders.
They worked harder than ever before, and eventually, they managed to get the girl out of the tunnel.
Emma placed her on the ground, while Jason used all his energy to pull away the last boulder that stood between him and Carrie.
She was white as a ghost, and he pulled her out of the tunnel.
"Rin is alive!" Emma said, relieved when nurse Joy had examined her.
"My god...." Jason gasped. Carrie wasn't breathing. "Carrie! Wake up! Don't do this to me!!!"
He kneeled down, and tried with heart massage, but she still didn't show any signs of life.
He shook her violently, and then he started to do mouth to mouth.
Inhale....exhale.... inhale....exhale.
It felt like time had stopped around him. Emma, Sakura, nurse Joy and Rin was only weak fragmentaries in his mind, he didn't pay any attention to them.
All he could see was Carrie's pretty face.
He continued for forever, even though only a few minutes passed in real time.
For every second, Carrie's chances of survival decreased.
He was forced to stop due to lack of oxygen, but as soon as he regained his breath, he began again to give her more of his own air.
Inhale....exhale.....inhale...exhale.
He didn't notice that Carrie had regained her conscious.
She decided to wait with the announcement just a little while.
In fact, she was enjoying the feeling of having Jason's lips against hers.....
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Awww.... The first kiss.... well, sort of..... Maybe I'll should add romance as a genre to this one? Hehe, hope you liked this chapter, because I did.... Stay tuned for episode 29... Because the danger isn't over yet....
Sorry for the lack of updates... I wounded my knee pretty bad during a soccer-game, so I have some problems getting to the computer. It's not easy with crutchers and plaster-bandage....
Can you imagine?
I'm going to spend eight weeks of my life with crutches and plaster- bandage.... ...sigh....
Anyway, Jason is back, so you can put down every sledgehammer you have. And thanks, as always, to my faithful reviewers...
And by the way, if it wasn't for you all, I would have drop this story long ago... Actually, I was planning to quit at episode 10, but then I read the reviews that I had recieved so far, and then I got some kind of rush of inspiration. That inspiration still pushes me forward, and it's amazing how I have managed to avoid a writer's block in 28 episodes... Anyway, thanks again (I can't thank you enough, you must know that...)
And: I might change the name of this story when I post the next episode... If I do, I'll let you know, OK?
And especially large thanks go to Fyrefly1 this time... She's been so nice to me..... Love ya!
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"But I swear to god that you are dead!" Amber said, still kind of refusing the fact that Jason was alive. "The nurse said it!"
"You must have gotten the wrong number from the nurse at the lobby" Jason said. "Someone else must have died in that room. I'm better than ever."
"But...Your heart was barely beating, and you couldn't even breathe! How come you are so healthy now, all of a sudden?"
"According to the nurse, my heart fell out of its rhytm when I hit the cliff. That's why I barely could breathe. If I had arrived here a few minutes later, I would be dead because of the lack of oxygen. But now, I'm fine."
Even though Jason sounded so confident, Amber could feel that he still wasn't completely recovered.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
Suddenly, Jasons eyes got hard as steel. He clenched his fists.
"I'm going to find Carrie, and Teddyursa. The nurse is going to examine me again in two minutes, so I have to go now before she gets here. I'm going back to the Trainer's Course...or what's left of it....And I'm going to find Carrie...And Teddyursa."
It didn't took more than a second for Amber to make a decision.
"Well, what are we waiting for?"
..............................
Yes.
What were they waiting for?
Jason ran as he was on fire.
Quick like the lightning he dashed through the woods back towards the now ruined Trainers Course with glowing determination.
Amber could barely keep up, but she didn't want to slow him down.
It was strange.
He was burning for that girl, and for his Pokémon.
She admired him for that.
She had taken care of herself her whole life, but even though her will was as hard as iron, it couldn't compare with Jasons.
Again, she felt that strange connection to him.
He must have been through some rough times, just as herself.
She felt a sting in her heart when she recalled all the hours of her life that was stolen away from her on the laboratories....
Suddenly, Jason gave up a small shout.
They had reached the Trainer's Course.
Or the remains of it....
.............................................
"It's getting harder to breathe, Carrie...." Rin said. "The air is disappearing...."
"Don't lose your hope, Rin." Carrie said decisively. "Jason is on his way, I know it."
Carrie was right.
As usual.
......................................................
¨"Look at this place!" Amber gasped. "It's just a fine mess of treacherous cracks, holes and deep ravines created by an earthquake that my dead grandmother must have sensed... There's not a single building left standing!"
Jason sank to his knees, as he took a deep breath.
"Where did the PokéCenter stand?" he asked, but he didn't bother to wait for an answer. "She was on her way to it, when the tremors started."
"You don't give up, do you?" Amber asked and raised her eyebrows. "What about the Pokémon, Teddyursa? You can't expect him to be alive..."
"I do." Jason said, and Amber could see how he clenched his fists when he got on his feet again. "I know they're both alive."
They headed towards the spot where the PokéCenter once stood, only to find that the ground had been ripped open in a deep, dark ravine.
"Gee, the whole PokéCenter must have fallen down during the earthquake. You can't expect them to survive that."
Jason didn't answer her question.
"How are we going to get down there?" Amber asked. "Jason...Shouldn't we call for a rescue team? We don't have any ropes...."
"I can use Bulbasaur."
"Jason....Face it. It's suicide!"
"Could be."
The conversation ended abrubtly, and Jason released Bulbasaur. He tied his Pokemons vine whips around his waist, and then he threw one last look on Amber.
"Look, you don't have to go down with me, if you don't want to, OK? But I want you to stay up here, and help me get Carrie out of there."
"How do you know that she's aliv..." Amber interrupted herself, and nodded. "I can use my Chikorita Thorn. Then we can pull up two persons at a time...."
Jason nodded.
"Thanks Amber...."
And then he turned around and took a giant leap forward.
Slowly, he lowered himself down in the darkness.
He could barely see his own hand.
Maybe this was a long shot. Maybe Carrie wasn't as lucky as he was.
Maybe she was dead.
Jason took a deep breath.
Suddenly, he didn't get any further down. Bulbasaur's vine whips couldn't reach any longer.
"Amber!!!!" he shouted, hearing his own voice echoeing between the walls. "You must use Chikorita's vine whips and tie them around Bulbasaur! Then lower him down too, so that I can get down further!"
"Lucky my hearing is excellent...." Amber said quietly, and tied Chikorita's vine whips around Bulbasaur. "Come on, Thorn. Lower Bulbasaur down too."
With Bulbasaur down as well, Jason could get even further down in the ravine.
Suddenly, he spotted something to the left....
....................................
"They must have sent out rescue teams by now." Sakura said. "Maybe we should lit a fire."
"For what? To fry eggs?" Emma snapped. "They won't see it from up there."
Nurse Joy let out a sigh.
Things only got worse.
Suddenly, Emma let out a little shout, as she pointed to the sky.
"Look!"
The three girls just gasped.
"They.... Have come to save us!"
.....................................
Jason couldn't believe what he saw.
Three girls was standing on a large cliff, and behind them, he could see the remainings of the PokéCenter.
Their fall must have been stopped by the cliff. They had the same luck as he had.
That meant.... That Carrie was alive....
But he was still to far away to see if Carrie was with them.
Slowly, he came closer and closer, and eventually, he could place his feets on the cliff, and untie Bulbasaurs vine whips.
He was shocked to see that Carrie was not with them.
"Thank god!" nurse Joy exclaimed. "Are you here to save us? I'm Joy, and this is Emma and Sakura... ca...."
Jason silenced them with a hand gesture.
"You're a kid!" Emma exclaimed. "We thought that the rescue team had arrived!"
"Where is Carrie?" Jason asked panically, paying no attention to what the girls said. "Where is Carrie?!"
"I-In there...." Sakura said, and pointed at the tunnel, now blocked by several large boulders. "There's another girl there too...."
"W-what..." Jason sank to his knees, gasping for air, as he punched his fists in the ground after every word. "Why...aren't....you...trying...to...dig...them..out!?"
He got on his feets again. Furious, and his hands shook of anger.
"How the hell did she get in there?!" he asked.
"W-We tried to dig a tunnel....to get out of here.... but it collapsed...." Sakura said quietly.
"A tunnel?!" Jason said with a sigh. "A goddamn tunnel? Are you nuts? Didn't you think about the risks?!"
None of the girls answered, not even nurse Joy.
"Don't just stand there! We have to dig them out!"
Sakura opened her mouth to say that both Carrie and the other girl was dead, but Jason held a hand in the air, silencing her.
And so they started to dig.
Hours passed, or so it seemed.
Digging, digging, and digging.
Jason's hands were bleeding, but he didn't care. The girls was forced to rest every now and then, but he just kept digging.
Like a machine, like a robot that didn't need any fuel.
He was pushed forward by his love for his best friend.
She couldn't be dead.
The thought of him, dragging her out of the tunnel, dead, placed itself on his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.
She wasn't dead. He knew it.
Not even the powers of nature could stop them. They survived SS.Pearl, and Jason swore to God that they would survive this earthquake too.
Slowly, they worked their way in the tunnel, and they pulled away more and more boulders for every minute.
At ground level, Amber was waiting, nervously, having no idea what was going on down there.
"We're close now!" Emma said, but Jason barely heard her.
Suddenly, he saw an arm, pointing out between the boulders.
They worked harder than ever before, and eventually, they managed to get the girl out of the tunnel.
Emma placed her on the ground, while Jason used all his energy to pull away the last boulder that stood between him and Carrie.
She was white as a ghost, and he pulled her out of the tunnel.
"Rin is alive!" Emma said, relieved when nurse Joy had examined her.
"My god...." Jason gasped. Carrie wasn't breathing. "Carrie! Wake up! Don't do this to me!!!"
He kneeled down, and tried with heart massage, but she still didn't show any signs of life.
He shook her violently, and then he started to do mouth to mouth.
Inhale....exhale.... inhale....exhale.
It felt like time had stopped around him. Emma, Sakura, nurse Joy and Rin was only weak fragmentaries in his mind, he didn't pay any attention to them.
All he could see was Carrie's pretty face.
He continued for forever, even though only a few minutes passed in real time.
For every second, Carrie's chances of survival decreased.
He was forced to stop due to lack of oxygen, but as soon as he regained his breath, he began again to give her more of his own air.
Inhale....exhale.....inhale...exhale.
He didn't notice that Carrie had regained her conscious.
She decided to wait with the announcement just a little while.
In fact, she was enjoying the feeling of having Jason's lips against hers.....
.......................................
Awww.... The first kiss.... well, sort of..... Maybe I'll should add romance as a genre to this one? Hehe, hope you liked this chapter, because I did.... Stay tuned for episode 29... Because the danger isn't over yet....