The Life and Times of Ash Ketchum
Episode 2: Pokemon Emergency!
(To make it easier to break it down, going to be putting quotes from the show in Italics)
The screen turned back on to show Ash rushing into Viridian city with a badly injured Pikachu within his arms.
"Oh no, Pikachu!" Everyone cried out, seeing their little yellow friend in obvious pain.
"Don't worry, we know he's ok." Max said as everyone else smiled.
They watched as Officer Jenny accosted Ash and accused him of working for Team Rocket.
"Ash working for Team Rocket? Never!" Dawn and Serena yelled, both blushing as they said this.
"Yeah, Ash would never join those meanies!" Bonnie cried.
They then noticed the wanted Posters for Team Rocket and just who was on them.
"Wait, so Jessie and James were considered competent members once?" everyone asked, confused. "What happened?"
"I guess Ash must have happened." Brock smirked.
"Sit back, hold on and don't yell!" Officer Jenny cried as she sped off towards the Pokemon centre.
"Hang on, Officer Jenny speeding?! Impossible!" Brock cried as Misty laughed at him.
Her laughs turned to groans seconds after as she showed up chasing after Ash and everyone else laughed and Brock smirked.
"That's Team Rocket?" May asked, seeing the three of them in their balloon over the city, and the weird way there were talking.
"Just remember, I'm the top cat."
"What was with Meowth back then?" Clemont asked, confused.
"Who knows, it's hard to think they were even more idiotic back then." Serena grinned.
"Can't I?" Ash was cut off as Pikachu was rushed into the surgery room of the Pokemon centre, and the tears welled up within the girl's eyes.
"Poor Ash." They sighed.
Ash's mother popped up on screen as Ash phoned her and they heard her berate Ash for putting himself down.
"Go Delia!" Brock shouted as the others smiled at the screen.
"Ash should know not to put himself down like that, especially in front of his Mom." Max smirked.
"I just spoke to your mother and she tells me you've made it to the Pokemon centre in Viridian City, is that correct?" Oak asked as he appeared on the screen, phoning in on Ash.
"I couldn't be talking to you if I wasn't here." Ash replied.
'Oh Ash, always with the stubborn streak.' Serena thought with a sigh.
Noticing the vacant, far-away look on Serena's face, Bonnie hurried to hide her smirk before anyone else noticed and asked why she was smirking. (Sorry, but since I got back into Pokemon late last year, whilst I love the other ships, Amourshipping is my current favourite, so I'll focus on her interest in Ash a lot more than the others)
"I'm pleasantly surprised to see you made it there so quickly." Oak said to everyone's general confusion.
"Oak thought Ash was going to fail in his dreams?" May asked, shocked that the man who treated Ash as a second grandson doubted him.
"It seems so, at least he knows now, no matter what, Ash never gives up." Dawn said as the others nodded their heads, no matter how hard the going got, Ash never gave in or ran from a fight.
"I bet him a million dollars that he'd be wrong."
"Well, money isn't anything, am I right?"
"Oh why do I even bother?" Oak said with a sigh, as the watchers looked on in amusement.
"Poor Professor Oak." Bonnie said.
"Well, at least he did have some faith in Ash, despite what he may have previously said." Clemont said with an all knowing tone that made Serena and Bonnie giggle and the others look at him in confusion.
"I did see a flying Pokemon like that one!" Ash pointed at the depiction of Ho-Oh before Professor Oak told him he was mistaken and that better trainers than he had never seen it.
"Oi, Professor, don't belittle Ash so much!" Misty yelled at the screen as Brock smirked at her.
"Err, Misty, you know he can't hear you and this already happened, right?" Max asked before Misty blushed.
"Yeah I know that!" She cried out, face turning red from embarrassment.
"NOW I'VE GOT YOU!" A voice yelled in the background, the image showing a panting Misty holding the charred remains of her bike.
"Misty's back!" everyone cried as Misty hid her face.
They heard Misty call Ash a loser and berate him for the damage as Ash stood there and took the abuse, before saying how Pikachu was in a bad way, Misty's face softened and she asked if Pikachu would be ok.
"Aww Misty, you DO care about Ash." May teased as Misty blushed.
"So do you!"
"Do not!" May cried, also turning red.
They heard a blaring alarm call out for people to watch out before it went back to Team Rocket flying overheard and attacking the Pokemon centre.
"Oh no, the Pokemon centre!" Serena yelled, those who hadn't been there looking worried, as Misty laughed.
"And here we see the first of many failures by Team Rocket." Misty smiled.
They heard Team Rocket give the motto before they all sighed as one.
"Do they ever really change it up? It's pretty much always identical." Everyone said, before looking at each other and laughing.
"Guess they never change." Dawn smiled.
"You're not getting Pikachu!" Ash yelled as Jessie said "Why would we want your Pikachu?"
"Oh so they didn't want Pikachu at first?" Clemont asked.
"Nope, they saw how powerful Pikachu was and decided they wanted it after this first time." Misty said.
They watched as Koffing and Ekans attacked the Pokemon centre whilst Nurse Joy tried to transfer out the other Pokemon to safety in Pewter City.
"You know as well as I do that a Water Pokemon can't battle on land!" Misty said as Team Rocket looked mystified at her choice of Goldeen.
"Erm, Misty, why did you choose Goldeen then?" Max asked.
"To try and distract them, but Ash was too slow to run and Team Rocket weren't as dim witted as they seemed to be after this time." Misty said.
Ash and Pikachu ran down the hall chased by Koffing and Ekans, before suddenly crashing, with Pikachu's eyes opening and a tidal wave of Pikachu crashing into the foyer towards the stretcher carrying Pikachu.
The Pikachu fried Team Rocket before Ash and Pikachu began talking in Pika's to one another.
"Does Ash even know what he was saying?" Dawn asked as she watched the display taking place.
"I don't think anyone did, or ever will." Brock said as he too was stumped by what was happening.
Ash began pedalling on the remains of Misty's bike before Pikachu used the power to fry Team Rocket once again and send them blasting off.
"Their first of many blast offs." Everyone cheered as they went flying on their balloon.
"That Pikachu is certainly very rare. A real prize."
"Let's catch it."
"Perhaps we will." Meowth said.
"Oh boy, so this is where they got the fascination with Pikachu?" Clemont asked.
"They still have that then?" Misty said with a sad smile.
"Unfortunately." Serena sighed.
They watched as Ash and Misty went into Viridian Forest and Misty hide behind Ash at the sight of a Caterpie.
"So….you're scared of bug Pokemon?" Bonnie asked.
"Yeah, they're weird and icky." Misty said with a frown as the others smiled at their friend's misfortune.
"It's just….bug Pokemon…." May trailed off.
"We all have one fear though, don't we?" Brock said with a smile as everyone nodded, sorry they'd considered Misty's fear to be so out of the norm.
"The screen turned to black as Ash threw the Poke Ball at Caterpie, asking will Misty ever get her bicycle back?
"Did you Misty?" Serena and Dawn asked her.
"Eventually." She smiled.
(Should I do Ash Catches a Pokemon or move onto The Showdown At Pewter City?)