Pokemon Black and White Rebirth

Chapter 9.1: Strong in the real way.

(If you can see the Key and Peele reference you get a cookie.)

Nacrene City, a town full of warehouses. It was getting to the point where the warehouses were replacements for houses, shops, other things including a famous cafe. Other then the pokemon gym, the natural history museum was the only thing of notice in the slightly run down town. Not that the gym leader and her husband hadn't been doing their best to reform the their home.

In one of the many warehouses Jessie, James, and Meowth of Team Rocket were plotting a heist. A few warehouses down from the one they were renting, was a small bank. It had a somewhat large sum of cash inside, so the three were putting their heads together to find the best way to line their pockets, and fund Team Rocket's expansion into Unova.

"I've got it!" James said as he hit the table. The other two looked at him, having no idea themselves.

"Okay, so we get into the bank. Pass off as workers, doesn't matter what kind, or at what level. We open accounts there, they pay us to the do whatever work, and put money into the accounts. They won't even know their being robbed, and in thirty years we can just walk away, like nothing happened! James proposed.

Jessie, and Meowth gave their friend an irritated look with the anger vein's popping out of their heads.

"Mother F%$ker THAT'S CALLED A JOB!" Jessie and Meowth yelled in anger, at their friend/co-worker.

Twelve miles away from the city were our protagonists; Iris with Axew, and Cilan with Pansage, the two letting their pokemon spar. Cheren and Bianca were doing the same with the boy's Snivy and her Munna. Ash and Pikachu were trying to watch both fights while Purrloin seemed to be deep in thought on Ash's lap.

"Alright Pansage lets take this nice and slow." the moss haired gym leader advised.

"I'm in no rush. Come young Axew, we've had our fill of a fine meal, so let us battle on and improve our skills!" Pansage spoke with a burst of passion. "Let us take the day by the throat!" Pansage shouted as he flexed his tiny muscles.

"Err right…" Both Iris and Axew muttered.

"Come on Axew today's the day! We are gonna learn Dragon Dance!" Iris cheered with fire in her eyes.

"Yeah!" the tiny tusked dragon cheered.

"Axew start with scratch!" Iris commanded.

Axew showed his tiny claws and lunged at the green monkey.

"Avoid the attack Pansage." Cilan said with his eyes closed.

Pansage only had to stretch one of his arms to keep Axew at a safe distance, while Axew was flailing his arms around like a ninny.

"Come on Axew keep at it!" Iris encouraged. Axew kept trying to push harder, but that was only met with Pansage giving an amused yawn.

"Come on Iris, get the led out, have Axew battle for real!" Ash yelled getting bored from the fight.

"Ash be quiet and let me battle! I know what I'm doing!" Iris snapped at her friend leaving him to grumble.

"Axew use Leer!" Iris ordered. Soon the tiny dragon pokemon was trying to glare a hole into Pansage's head, which actually did work, making the green money jump with a bit of a shiver, which caused both Axew and Iris to laugh. Cilan and Pansage caught their giggles and laughed along with them.

Ash smiled, but looked away to see how Cheren and Bianca were doing with Pikachu.

Cheren's Snivy was using Bainca's Munna like a volley ball.

"Cheren, tell Snivy to stop doing that to Munna! Your being so mean!" Bianca whined, while her battle friend looked at the blond annoyed.

"Bianca, it's a called a pokemon battle! Not a pokemon cuddle off!" Cheren grumbled while rolling his eyes.

"That's still no excuse! You're being mean, so that means you're not being my friend! If you were my friend, you'd let me win the match! It's only logical!" Bianca cried out using some form of insane logic.

"WHAT?! T-That's not how it works Bianca!" Cheren stammered, getting confused by his friend's "Logic."

"No, no, you've made your choice. And since you're not my friend, I don't have to hold back! Munna, psybeam!" Bianca commanded suddenly gaining a serious aura around her. Cheren could barely process his Snivy landing on the ground in a weaker stated.

"ALRIGHT YOU WANNA GO! LET'S GO! SNIVY GET THE LEAD OUT!"The four eyed trainer shouted as he was in full battle mode.

"Eekkk!" Munna gasped as the male Snivy was using quick attack to bounce on the trees while attacking munna multiple times. Bianca caught her floating friend, and Cheren and Snivy high fived one another. Bianca in retaliation threw out her Pignite and chased the two around in circles. Pikachu and Ash watched and laughed a bit.

Purrloin however was looking a tad irritated.

"Great, while everyone here is having the time of their lives and getting nowhere, Team Plasma is most likely advancing in their plans. If I remember from the files, N rose to power at the Unova League…I'm going to have to get all five of them in. Better chance of stopping N from becoming Champion, and I'll need to figure a way to get one of those legendary dragons on our side" the dark type thought annoyed working on her plans. "If we don't...then nothing will have changed, and Unova marches to Ghetisis's twisted designs." Purrloin thought as a cold beat of sweat went down her body as her mind returned her to a future dictatorship, war, lies, and broken dreams.

The cat looked around to find that while being lost in thought both Bianca and Cheren's pokemon were fainted on the ground while Cheren and Bianca were chasing after each other. Axew had fainted around a small hole in the ground with Pansage pulling him out, with Iris and Cilan's help. The cat looked around, not seeing her trainer or Pikachu before they suddenly all heard two loud explosions, one from a thunder bolt, and one from an burst of aura.

Purrloin shook her head, as did Cilan, and Pansage

"I think now would be good time to start lunch." The gym leader stared.

"Agreed." The forest monkey imputed.

An hour later Cilan had Ash, Pikachu, and Oshawott go get fresh water for everyone's canteens. Bianca with much help from Munna, and Pignite had gotten firewood, and Cheren was setting the table. Ash's and Cheren's Pidoves, and Snivys were monitoring in the sky and ground by the campsite for any threat, whether it be hostile wild pokemon, or Team Plasma grunts, at Purrloin's request. Cilan had Cheren help him set the table while he and Pansage cooked. Ash's Tepig had helped with the fire along with Pignite.

Axew and Iris were bit from the campsite, both were trying their hardiest to try and work on Dragon Dance. Iris had thought about this; waiting to get some more information would have been better, however after remembering the accomplishments of her old teacher, and Johto's Dragon Master's Claire and Lance, it felt like she had to outdo all of them.

"Come on Axew, I'm really feeling it! The will be the time when we get it right!" Iris should pumping her fist in the air as she filled her pokemon with determination.

"Alright Mama, let's do it!" Axew cheered.

Purrloin watched the two try to perform Dragon Dance, they tried a quick and fast dance, but both fell out of rhythm, and it failed. They tried a slow dance, but the energy vanished before it could reach the full charge. They tried, and failed, and tried, and failed once again. Axew and Iris were on the on the ground, breathing heavily, their bodies covered in sweat.

"GAHHH! I don't get what we're doing wrong Axew!" Iris cried out in frustration.

"I'm sorry Mama." Axew mumbled feeling disappointed. The dragon felt a hand patting his head. He looked up to see Iris give him a warm smile.

"It's not your fault Axew, I just need to figure out a plan." Iris told him as Purrloin rubbed her head on the edge of Axew's tusk.

"Iris, are you alright?" She heard Cilan's voice as he walked over to the wild child. Ash and Pikachu came with him with a water canteen.

"Hey Cilan, hey Ash." Iris mumbled putting on a proud, but small smile. Ash handed her a canteen, she took it, smiled and gave Axew some water before drinking herself. Purrloin pounced on Pikachu, and in spite of his protests she snuggled with him.

"So, how's the Dragon Dance coming along?" Ash asked innocently. Iris gave a small scowl then a quick smile.

"Oh we're just fine. Just dandy." Iris said. Her mouth and voice said one thing, but the rest of her said something else.

"Well at least you only made five holes in the ground instead of seven, so that's improvement." Ash slightly snickered.

"Yes, and I do believe failure is a result, an unwanted one but a result all the same..like burnt toast." Cilan joked.

"Grrr, who asked you two!? Little kids, I'm surrounded by little kids! Why me?! Why can't I get this?!" Iris grumbled while hugging Axew to relive stress.

"Iris, talk to us." Cilan requested simply.

"I just…I just can't seem to get Dragon Dance right. It's driving me crazy! Dragon Rage came around, but now this! I'm supposed to be a dragon master, this should come quicker! All the other dragon masters were able to pull off Dragon Dance, no problem, so why isn't it happening for me? I'm from the Village of Dragons for crying out loud! Oh Zekrom, and Resheram, what if I never get this right?!" Iris said exasperating herself.

"Well at least you know what you're working with with Dragon Dance. I still have no idea how this aura stuff works." Ash admitted..

As the two teenagers sighed in annoyance, Cilan looked rather amused by this, and patted them both on the head.

"Well it seems you two are very similar after all." Cilan stated with a smile on his face.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!" Both Ash and Iris snapped glaring at their well meaning friend.

"I err…well, what I mean is that..Iris you shouldn't compare yourself with other dragon trainers. No meal is the same, you and Axew have your own taste, and flavor. Trying to use the two of you, as ingredients, but using another method from another recipe would give mixed results at best. You wouldn't bring out the best aspects of the meal." Cilan stated.

"What?" Iris, Axew, Pikachu, and Ash asked, the food metaphor going right over their heads.

"I think rather than worrying about your progress, or comparing yourself to others, you and Axew need to go at your own pace, instead of working yourselves to the ground, or worrying about the what ifs. The same goes for Ash and his pokemon too." Cilan told them in much simpler terms.

"Alright…my own pace. Sounds good, thanks Cilan." Iris said her face beaming.

"Anytime, now come along you two. Lunch is almost ready, you must be hungry." Cilan said.

"Race you!" Ash said as he jumped out.

"Nah Ash, I'm going to go at my own pace. You can be a little kid and race all you want." Iris said teasing her friend.

"Aw come on, that's boring." Ash pouted, Iris in turn gave him an amused smile.

"Such a little kid." Iris teased, much the annoyance of her friend as she started to walk slowly, then run faster, having Ash catch up, and the two started to race anyway. Cilan watched, smiled, and shook his head.

Everyone enjoyed the lunch Cilan had made, though Cheren hadn't touched the veggies that the moss haired gym leader had put in front of him.

"Cheren was something wrong with the meal?" He asked.

"No offense to your cooking Cilan, but I hate vegetables." The rookie trainer admitted, looking at the greens with distain.

"I'll eat them!" Bianca volunteered as she ate them in the blink of an eye. Ash and Iris were wondering if the bouncy girl even tasted what she ate sometimes.

Cheren smiled but Cilan looked less then pleased.

"Well I can understand that you don't like them, but please try to eat them from now on. I'll be sure to cook them in a way that is more pleasing to your taste buds." Cilan requested.

"Fine." the boy agreed.

Axew was sitting with the other pokemon, enjoying their bowls of poke chow. Still Axew wanted an apple.

"I'll get one for Mama too." Axew thought to himself as he walked out of the campsite while everyone was busy eating. The tiny green dragon looked up at the trees and after a bit of looking he found a tree with the fruit he craved. Axew used his tusks and claws to climb to the top. On the branch, Axew with a few tugs pulled down two apples. As he was about to climb down, Axew tripped and fell into a nearby bush. Inside the bush besides a panicking and stuck Axew was a pair of glowing angry eyes.

"Okay, so you've told us those Team Plasma guys are gonna try and take over Unova, I can buy that, and I wanna kick their asses. Still I'm not buying that Ash's Purrloin is from the from the future…and that she's from a time where Plasma took over, and turned Unova into a dictatorship…but if, and that's a big if…Does she know what happens to us?"" Cheren asked.

It had been a few days since the Dream Foundry, and the three older trainers had somewhat filled them in on what they saw, and what Purrloin had been slowly filling them in on who and what she was. Iris had made sure to use her talisman to make sure, and sadly Purrloin whenever she had talked about it was one hundred percent telling the truth, which got everyone nervous. Now Pikachu was starting to join Ash with his lack of sleep thanks to the two seeing their deaths. Everyone looked over to Purrloin, then to Ash for translation. The pokemon, by decree of Lady Snivy were listening as well, since she was just brought up to speed by a few of the others.

Purrloin looked at all five humans and the band of pokemon. She sighed.

"You died in a prison camp" Purrloin pointed at Iris, making her gulp both Ash and Iris went pale.

She pointed her claw at Cilan which made him flinch.

"Same with you." The cat pokemon said bluntly which got Pansage to hold on this his friend of dear life.

"I'm sorry, Richu, Hilda, Horxues and future Ash did everything we could to get you out. Ash and Pikachu had a sudden feeling of guilt.

Cilan read the faces of his pokemon and other friends.

"It's okay Ash you don't need to tell me, I think I've gotten a rather gruesome message already." Cilan told them, Bianca and Cheren gave disturbed looks.

Purrloin turned to Bianca and gave a very sad frown. The blond gave her a panicked look.

"NO! DON'T TELL ME, DON'T TELL ME! I DON'T WANNA KNOW!" She cried out as she stuck her fingers between her ears.

"Lalala, I can't hear you! Also Cheren is a dumbo for asking a scary question like this!" Bianca kept going, while insulting her friend who was taken aback.

"Hey at least I wanna know something so I can fix it, rather than doing whatever you're doing you dunce!" Cheren snapped as his teeth started turning into sharp fangs, his Snivy also started to pull out his vine whips.

"MMMMMMAAAAAMMMMAAAAA!"Everyone heard Axew scream. Iris ran to where Axew was screaming.

"AXEW!" Iris yelped as she ran at high speeds to where the dragon in distress was, the other following quickly. Past the campsite, Axew's tusks were stuck in between the front antenna of a long, lean, multi-legged, and intimidating looking purple and black bug pokemon. It's yellow eyes stared at them all with a fury.

Ash, Cheren, and Bianca all checked their Pokedex to find this pokemon was a high leveled Bug/Poison type by the name of Scoliepede. Cheren gave a wicked grin, as his glasses started to shine, while the rest were far more worried about Axew.

"MAMA!" Axew cried out as he kept struggling to get loose. Iris ran to his rescue, but the poison bug opened its mouth and shot out poison sting. Everyone dodged out of the way. Iris ran and jumped into the trees. Cheren pulled out his Pidove. He wanted this pokemon.

"Hey, you have my Axew on your head, if you'll just let me get him, we can be on our way." Iris said trying to reason with the bug pokemon.

"GET OUT!" Scoliepede roared firing poison stings at Iris's tree, forcing her to leap to another branch.

"Well talking won't work," Pikachu muttered. Everyone got out of the way of another round of poison stings.

"You guys distract it! I'll get Axew!" Iris ordered taking charge.

"Can do!" Ash told them, pulling out his staff.

"Pidove! Fly in the sky then use Gust!" He ordered. The flyer did as he was told and started blowing gusts of wind, slightly annoying and irritating the massive bug. Bianca looked like she was shaking in her shoes. The large bug gazed at the blond and charged her, but Pignite got in the way and pushed it back using Flame Charge. Munna followed quickly with a psybeam, both attacks damaging Scoliepede's body harshly, but Axew still wouldn't come lose.

"Thanks guys!" Bianca thanked her pokemon. Ash had Pikachu, Tepig, and Oshawott use Volt Tackle, Ember, and Aqua Jet on the rampaging pokemon, while Cilan had Pansage underground using dig.

All these attacks connected, however the Scoliepede had used protect, shielding itself before countered with Poison Tail, smacking Ash's pokemon into Bianca's. Before they could recover, Scoliepede began spinning rapidly like a wheel and rammed into all five of them using Steamroller. The attack knocked out Munna, Oshawott, Tepig, and Pansage. Pikachu and Tepig could still fight, but not for much longer. Axew looked like he was going to throw up, as his normal green, turned to a sickly green.

Iris swung on a vine, and with a battle cry jumped on top of the large bug, and with a quick chop snapped Axew's tusks off, while landing by her friends.

"It's okay Axew, Mama's here." The dragon trainer assured her son comforting him, as his tusk actually started to grow back,. He gave a very tried smiled, but their happy reunion was cut short by the screams of their attacker.

"Okay, now what?!" Ash asked.

"No idea…just keep fighting it." Iris said as Ash, Cilan, and Bianca returned their fainted pokemon. Ash sent his Pidove to join in with Cheren's Pidove, but all they were doing was dodging incoming poison stings. Purloin was also using Shadow Claw, but her attacking pattern was turned to dodging thanks to steamroller.

"Iris, Bianca and I are out of pokemon that can do any damage, do you have anything other than Axew?" Cilan asked feeling rather useless.

The purple haired girl bit her lip, and felt another familiar poke ball by her pink sash. Both Cheren's and Ash's Pidoves were starting to tire, and Purrloin felt like she was about to faint if it weren't for Ash's aura staff parrying that last poison tail. That action caused Ash to lose his staff. Iris's eyes widened as Ash was now in the line of fire.

"You dumb little kid!" Iris cursed as she had no choice.

"Excadrill go!" Iris shouted, as she threw her poke ball. What came out of it was a short, but powerful looking brown furred mole pokemon with a large sharp metallic claws, and edges on his head. Red pattern markings could also be seen on his fur.

He looked around, spotting Iris, and gave a scoff, and a look of utter disrespect. In a flash, the ground steel type transformed into a large pod. Scoliepede looked insulted as it used double edge on it, damaging himself. That got the pod spinning around like a drill and rammed into the powerful bug type using Drill Run, damaging his new foe greatly. Seeing his chance, Cheren threw a unused poke ball. As the pokemon was caught Cheren danced with joy as he had a new strong pokemon. The others were just happy that it was over.

"Hey Exadrill, thanks for the save buddy, o'll pal." Iris said with a nervous smile. The pokemon gave his trainer a dirty look, and spat in her face before returning to his pod. Iris simply wiped her face with one of her sleeves and returned the pokemon back in his ball.

"He still won't listen to me." Iris sighed sadly.

"Oh great, another Charazard and Mamalswine." Ash thought to himself.

End of chapter.