Pokemon Black and White Rebirth.

hapter 4.2 Rules of Nature. Round 1.

Iris was looking over the opposing Pokemon. They were at bit of a type disadvantage, but she had no idea how strong N's Pokemon were.

"Well, Axew is my only option right now. We can't lose… and I can't use… him. In fact, if I pulled that jerk out, he'd just prove the green freak's point," Iris thought, groaning at the thought of the other Poke Ball behind her back.

"Okay, Pikachu, Purloin, let's do this," Ash said.

"Right," they both replied.

Axew, however, gulped. He wasn't sure what to do. He looked at Iris's focused face, then back at N's dull and haunting expression.

"Pikachu, use Iron Tail," Ash said.

The yellow mouse turned his tail to iron. N was now waiting to see what would happen next. The Sandile dug underground.

"Thunderbolt the Iron Tail," Ash said.

This caught everyone off guard as Pikachu sparked his own tail with electricity. They both got the idea from a video game called Metal Gear Rising.

"My friends… end this quickly. Go!" N ordered.

The male Purloin and Timburr charged at Pikachu, Purloin, and Axew. The Timburr targeted Pikachu, as she swung her large log at him.

"Pikachu, just dodge and wait for the right time. Purloin, listen for where that Ground Pokemon went," Ash ordered. Pikachu danced around Timburr's attacks, while Purloin waited.

"Axew, use Leer on that Purloin!" Iris yelled out. Her tusked dragon ran at the cat Pokemon trying to scare him.

However, the Purloin merely chuckled.

"Aw, the pray thinks he's the hunter," Purloin mocked, not very effected by it. This took Axew and Iris aback.

"Axew, use Scratch!" Iris ordered.

Axew was about to claw at this contending jerk, but then Purloin used Scary Face, making Axew stop where he stood, frozen in fear.

"Axew, shake it off!" Iris yelled. However, her plea fell on deaf ears as the male Purloin went to town pounding the heck out of him.

"Axew, you need to fight back!" Iris cried out again.

"How sad, if only you'd have listened to the truth, your dragon might have been spared. Give in, and I'll find you and your friend a comfortable collar and shackles to wear in your new cells," N remarked.

"Sh-shut up!" Iris snapped in frustration.

Ash eyed Purloin, who was looking at Axew, while going to Pikachu.

"Purloin, help Axew!" he said.

As the male Purloin kept clawing at Axew who was covering his eyes, the lady feline shot out a Shadow Ball, forcing him away from the hatchling.

"Axew, you need to listen to Iris and fight," she said.

"I can't!" Axew cried out.

"You need too! Your Mum's and Ash's lives are on the line! If we fail to protect them, then they will end up just like that Tepig, or worse!" Purloin hissed.

"What?" Axew asked.

"They will trap Iris in a cage, beat her, do other unspeakable things to her, and kill her! Hell they might even eat her! I've seen it happen before, so don't let that happen to Iris!" Purloin said.

Something within the sweet nature little dragon snapped. His red eyes glowed.

"You won't hurt Mama. YOU HEAR ME?! YOU WON'T HURT MAMA!" Axew cried out, unknowably charging up Dragon Rage and causing N considerable confusion.

"What? He called that human… his mother?" he thought baffled at the thought.

"Axew use Dragon Rage! You can do this Axew! I believe in you!" Iris cried out to her surrogate son.

Purloin was keeping the male of her kind on his toes by using Double Team. He kept scratching at copies which annoyed him to no end, just as she wanted.

"Fight me already, woman!" he yelled.

"Nah, watching you make an idiot of yourself is much more amusing," she replied.

He was fixated on her, and the Timburr was so busy with Pikachu they didn't see the doom coming their way. Axew was about to fire.

"Iron Tail that Timburr!" Ash commanded.

Pikachu then shot like a cannon. His electric Iron Tail slashed the Timburr's large log in half, catching him off guard.

"Now Quick Attack him into N's Purloin," Ash said, with sparks in his eyes. Pikachu had the same spark as he quickly attacked the Fighting Pokemon with his head, shooting him right next to the male Purloin. N then looked at what was about to come with horror.

"NO!" N cried out, sadly for him it was too late. Axew fired his perfect dragon rage as the blue fire shot out of his mouth and blasted both of the opposing Pokemon. This sent them flying into a few grunts.

"YYYYYYEAAHH! THAT'S IT AXEW! DRAGON POKEMON FOR THE WIN!" Iris cheered pumping her fist in the air.

"Whoa," Ash thought.

The dust settled and Axew was still full of energy.

"ANY ONE OF YOU WHO THINKS OF TOUCHING MY MAMA IS GONNA GET YOUR SKULL CRUSHED!" Axew roared.

"Axew, what the hell?!" Pikachu asked with amazement.

This caused Axew to return to his normal self.

"Oh, I'm sorry Pikachu, I didn't mean to snap like that," Axew apologized.

"No, stay snapped, stay snapped!" Purloin said in a panic.

"Well, looks like we won, now hand over that Tepig!" Ash declared to N.

"You think so?!" N asked in a dangerous tone, his eyes now cold as ice.

They could hear cracking underneath the earth. It looked like he was coming for Pikachu. With an image of a Raichu being chomped on by a pack of Krookodile with a dark purple aura around them, Purloin panicked and shoved her love out of the way.

"Sweetie!" she gasped as she was attacked by a pair of Sandile chompers.

Pikachu watch as she fainted from the Dig attack. He spat her out onto the ground.

"I've had dirt better than her," the Sandile laughed, which got Pikachu angry, while Axew took a step back.

"Purloin, no!" both Pikachu and Ash yelled. Ash then pulled out her Poke Ball and returned her.

"You did great," he said.

"This pointless violence against Pokemon is what Team Plasma is here to stop. Surrender yourselves if you truly care for your Pokemon," N said once more.

"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" Pikachu yelled as he blasted a Thunderbolt at the Sandile. Sadly, it was doing very little against him.

"Pikachu, stop!" Ash warned his buddy.

He didn't listen as he went for an Iron Tail. The Sandile quickly bit his metallic tail and started shaking him around like a rag doll on the floor.

"Axew, help out Pikachu!" Iris ordered trying to turn things around in their favor and end this. Too much was at stake for them to lose.

Axew tried to Scratch at the crocodile Pokemon. However, he was knocked back by his opponent's tail.

"Axew, use Dragon Rage!" Iris commanded.

"Pikachu, shake him off!" Ash nearly begged as Pikachu was being flung around.

Axew was about to fire another Dragon Rage, but Sandile started to choke Axew with his tail. Pikachu looked like he was about to faint and Axew was starting to lose control of his own move.

"Axew!" Iris cried out.

"Get the human cages ready!" she heard a grunt joke, causing a jolt of terror to go down her spine.

"Crap, crap, what do we do!?" Ash thought in a panic.

"Here I come to save the day!" they all heard Oshawott yell as he popped out of his Poke Ball with a Razor Shell ready. He jumped into the battlefield and slashed at the Sandile's back. The pain freed both Pikachu and Axew. Axew couldn't fire his Dragon Rage at his target but he did fire it at a few grunts who were about to attack Ash and Iris behind their backs.

Oshawott sprayed Water Gun at the Sandile, weakening him even more.

"Now, Pikachu, Oshawott, finish this off with a Water Gun-Thunderbolt combo!" Ash said.

The two Pokemon combined their power, making an aquatic, electric vortex, shocking the Ground type to fainting. The battle was over.

"The King lost?!" one grunt asked.

"No way!" another said.

"Lord Ghetsis, your orders?" the grunt asked their sage.

Ghetsis just stood there, thinking ahead. This wasn't good for morale or for their image as N stood there with a look of pain on his face.

"Now hand over Tepig!" both Ash and Iris demanded.

"We outnumber you, and your Pokemon are almost done! We can take you brats! For Lord N!" one grunt rallied.

"NO!" N snapped with anger in his voice, causing his grunts to stop where they stood.

"We had a deal, and I'm going to honor it. Give them the Pokemon! We leave!" he ordered.

"But, but my lord!" a grunt protested. However, the cold glare N was giving him made him shut up.

Two grunts handed them Tepig's cage. He was whimpering in fear at the sight of them. N then looked at the two trainers.

"Don't think that your victory means anything! You've just harmed your own Pokemon and my friends. Know this; we will have all of Unova's Pokemon be freed from humanity! Even if we have to rule over it," N declared.

"Oh really, then Ash and I are just gonna have to stop you at every turn!" Iris responded.

"Yeah!" Ash, Axew, and Pikachu added.

"Also, f## you, f# % your hat, f$%# your weak ass Pokemon, f$%# your swords, f$ # your gay ass armor, f$%# the old crack ass over there, f#%#, y'all's banners. This is Unova, I'm from Juniper Labs. My Trainer is from Kanto, and if I see any of y'alls walking the streets, I'm slapping the s#$& out of ya!" Oshawott declared in a gangster way.

Everyone was shocked at this while The Sage looked like he was about to pop a blood vessel in anger. Soon, every grunt threw a smoke bomb, and just like that, they were gone.

"What he say?" Axew asked, since Iris had been covering his ears.

Ash then used his staff to free Tepig from his cage.

"Don't worry. I'll take good care of you. I promise," Ash stated.

Tepig looked at all the smiling faces and put his snout on the boy's hand, trusting him.

Later that night, Iris and Axew were up in a tree covered in a fluffy blanket.

"Are you sure you don't want to sleep on the ground where it's safe?" Bianca asked. She was traveling with them for a short time. She was wearing a set of light green pajamas with Minccino on them.

"No need to worry, Bianca. I think Iris knows what she's doing," Ash laughed as they put their sleeping bags on the ground.

Axew looked down.

"Night, everyone!" he said cheerfully.

"Night," most of the Pokemon said.

"Sleep tight, sweetheart," Purloin said, blowing a kiss to Pikachu.

"Hey, don't I get anything?! I saved y'all!" Oshawott asked.

Purloin rolled her eyes. She spotted Ash tending to the new member of the crew.

"Oh, very well, just close your eyes," she muttered.

He did, and with much mischief in her eyes, she grabbed a sleeping Pidove and shoved her rear into his puckered face. This caused the bird to wake up and attack Oshawott, making both Pikachu and Purloin laugh.

"Hey, thanks for, ya know… doing what you did," Pikachu muttered.

"You'd have done the same," she said, rubbing her body against his.

Ash looked over to Tepig, who was still eating by the fire.

"Hey, are you feeling better?" he asked.

The pig looked up, and gave him a small smile.

"Yes, I haven't had anything to eat in days. Thank you so much," Tepig stated gleefully.

"Well look, I don't know how your last trainer treated you, but everyone here is family, so you can relax and–" Ash started to say before he noticed Pidove and Oshawott were fighting.

"Oh, come on guys, really!?" He yelled as he tried to break them up, which caused Tepig to laugh.

As the night continued, everyone gazed at the stars until they fell asleep. However, Ash had woken up from another nightmare. This time it was of Team Plasma.

"It's Orre all over again. I'm gonna have to pull out all the stops if we are gonna stop Team Plasma. I'll have to get everyone tougher… even if it means going to Gym Battles again. Well, it'll be fun. I managed to win that battle so… maybe I'm not a failure after all. Yeah, maybe Unova could be a brand new start for me," Ash thought.

He was so consumed with his own thoughts that he didn't notice that Iris and Axew had snuggled up against him. She must have climbed down from the tree.

"It's too cold; give me your body heat," Iris mumbled in her sleep. With a huge blush on his face, Ash looked at Iris sleeping peacefully like an angel. He turned to all of his sleeping Pokemon and Bianca, then back to Iris… and slowly drifted to sleep.

End of chapter.