Brock's New Friend!
Episode 25: Part 4
"Who'd they say they are?" Swampy said utterly confused.
"Team Rocket," Ash growled. "They're the bad guys."
"Pika pika!" Pikachu agreed, getting into a defense stance.
"I'm onto your game!" Swampy declared at the three. "You crooks came here to try and steal my Mudkip I've been raising for the Pokemon League, now didn't ya?!"
"So Mudkip huh?" Jessie smirked when she heard that exact information they were looking for.
"Aha! So that's the treasure you're protecting!" James exclaimed.
"And those Mudkip are really rare Pokemon too!" Meowth added.
"Think of the waves of joy washing over the boss when we deliver them!"
"Think of the waves of promotion washing over us!"
"Yay! We'll be big time executives!"
"Is there something wrong with those three?" Swampy asked glancing over at the others.
"You know this wouldn't have happened if you haven't given them so much information the first place!" May scolded him.
"Oops..." Swampy puts his hand on his cheek, forgetting that he says so many things in one sentence. "You're so right May. My grandma use to get so mad at me for that."
"For a minute I thought we could get away with it and just knock them out of the sky again, but it seems like that's gotta wait..." Aria sighed, shaking her head.
"But being secretive has never been in my nature! Not one bit!"
Aria jumped, startled by his screaming again as she collapsed to the floor in shock.
"For example I probably shouldn't mention this but if you would have broken the dam over there the water would flood swamps leaving the baby Mudkip with no place left to live!"
"You did it again!" Max exclaimed at him.
"You might think about breaking that habit Swampy!" Ash added.
Aria got up off of the ground, face palming.
"How'd I know this was going to happen...?" She sighed once again.
"Yeah I know that much but for some reason it doesn't seem to help!" Swampy panicked, shaking his head.
Seconds later without them realizing it they saw that James had called out his Cacnea and told it to use Needle Arm but instead launched him into the dam and broke it with only the holes of where his bod was left.
The water began to pour out of it and everything was beginning to get horrible real fast.
"This is terrible!" Swampy exclaimed, his face filled with horror.
"Those Mudkip are in big trouble!" Ash told them.
"We've got to help them!" Max agreed.
"We need to block that hole as well!" Aria added in, running ahead of the group.
"Aria! Wait up!" Ash told her before he started to run with her. Soon enough the group began to follow them as well.
Mudkip was still staring at Brock but as soon as he was about to take a step forward the three of them could hear something from the distance.
"What's that?" Brock questioned.
"That wasn't there earlier." Steven pointed out, noticing the direction it was heading in. "Wait a minute, that's the path that goes to waterfall!"
Brock stood up, pulling out a Poke Ball to aid the baby Mudkip that the current was heading for.
"Fortress use Rapid Spin to stop the water!" Brock told his Pokemon.
"Lotad!"
"Metagross!"
"Take care of those baby Mudkip!" The two male trainers yelled.
Lotad jumped into the water, picking up any of the baby Mudkip in its leaf while Metagross used Psychic to lift them out of the water and onto the land. Brock and Steven jumped into the water to also help out.
They bring them up to the land and glance around in hopes they got them all but there was two left sitting on a rock sticking out of the water.
"Alright Lotad!"
Brock was caught off when the older Mudkip jumped into the water and swam to them, getting them onto its back and coming back with them.
"Fortress!" His Pokemon called out, unable to hold the water back any longer.
"That's enough Fortress!" Brock told it. Fortress stopped and floats back over to them and the water begins to fill the area.
"We need to get to higher ground!" Steven says as the Mudkips hop onto Metagross and flies higher up the hill. Brock and the other Mudkips follow along behind him.
Once they reached a far distance they glanced down at the hill as the water current began to rapidly increase.
"Thanks you guys, you were great." Brock said to his Pokemon.
"Metagross a job well done again." Steven said as he returned him to his Poke Ball.
"You did well too Mudkip, you're something special." Brock said the older Mudkip.
"Huh?" Brock's eyes widen when he heard a small cry for help. The two trainers instantly spotted one baby Mudkip trapped in the water, slowly being pulled into the stronger current.
"There's one more left!" Steven exclaimed.
Suddenly a body jumped past them and landed directly into the water.
"What the?!" Their eyes widen when they realized that the person who jumped into the water happened to be Ash's older sister.
"Aria!" Brock cried out. "She's gonna get washed away by the waterfall!"
They chased after her as she swam her way towards the Mudkip and manged to grab it into her arms. Ash and the others managed to catch up to them and noticed Aria trapped in the current.
Aria looked up and noticed that everyone was trying to figure out a way to rescue them but she had a different plan in mind.
"Brock catch!" She threw the baby Mudkip over to him which he managed to catch in his arms. Aria suddenly felt a strong force pull her under the water and she felt herself falling off of the waterfall.
"ARIA!" Everyone cried.
They peeked over the edge, hoping she was okay and...and...
"There she is!" Ash pointed out as they spotted her hanging onto a rock that was sticking out of the waterfall.
There was a wound on the side of her head that was leaking blood out which meant that she had hit her head on the fall.
"I'm not giving up that easily!" She tells them, looking up at them. She winced her grip tightening on the rock when she felt her fingers slipping.
"Aria hold on!" Ash called out to her.
Suddenly trees could be heard falling apart and a robot could be spotted in the distance. It was shaped like a gardener and was scooping up the baby Mudkip with two large shovels and places them in a large bag.
"On no, the Pokemon League trusted me to raise their Mudkip and now looks what happened!" Swampy exclaimed.
"Stop it Team Rocket!" Ash yelled at them.
"Gah!" Her hand started to slip from the rock and she didn't have much time left until she would fall. "Don't worry about me! Go help the Mudkip!"
"We're not leaving you there!" Max exclaimed.
"May and Steven, we need you to rescue Aria while Ash and I save the Mudkip!" Brock told them.
"Alright!"
The group run ahead with the older Mudkip following behind them as May and Steven tried to come up with an idea to quickly save Aria from falling.
Suddenly Steven noticed Aria's bag on the floor and he instantly came up with an idea.
"That's it!" He opened her bag and pulled out a Poke Ball. "Ivysaur come out!"
Ivysaur appeared before them but was confused when he realized it was Steven that called him out and not Aria.
"Ivysaur?" It said confused.
Aria bit her lip, her mind telling her that she was exhausted and nearly about to faint. All of the blood lose was getting to her head and everything was turning into different shapes. At this point she had no feeling in her arms and her hand slips without her realizing it.
"Aria!"
Arms reach out and catch her swiftly. Steven sighed with relief when he had manged to catch her in time.
Ivysaur had used the Vine Whip to wrap it around Steven's body so that he was able to jump down and grab Aria before she had fallen down to her doom.
"Steven! Did you catch her?" May called to him worriedly.
"Yeah! She's okay!" Steven looked down at Aria frowning when he realized she had lost consciousness. "She just passed out."
May grabbed a hold of Ivysaur's vines and started to pull with it to get the two of them back up. It took only a few minutes until they were safely back on the hill, panting from all of the fright that had just taken place. Steven was on his hands and knees taking multiple deep breaths.
"She's going to be okay..." Steven panted, looking down at the black haired girl laying on the ground beside him. "She's alright..."
All of the commotion had finally settled when the others finally managed to get rid of Team Rocket and regulate the water flow back to normal. All of the baby Mudkip had resumed to their normal lives, playing and swimming in the water.
Brock had knelt down to Mudkip with a smile after all of the hard work they had done together.
"Wow Mudkip, I am so proud of you!" Brock praised him.
"Mudkip!" It spoke to him.
"Check out how close Brock and that Mudkip have become." Ash pointed out. "It's great."
"And think of how shy that Mudkip was at first." Max added in.
"Excuse me Brock," Swampy asked. "I'd like to ask you a favor, okay?"
"Sure what is it?" Questioned the breeder.
"That Mudkip can't make any lasting friends stay here. But now that little rascal got a friend, and that's you. I'd be happy happier than I can tell ya if you'd considered taking Mudkip along with you."
Brock's eyes widen. "Yeah?"
"Brock that is so awesome!" Ash tells him.
"Yeah Brock!"
"That's totally cool!"
"I'd love to Swampy!" Brock looks down at Mudkip with a bigger smile. "So Mudkip how do you feel about coming with me?"
"Mudkip?" The water Pokemon tilts his head to the side, curious yet confused.
"Come on, what do you say?"
Mudkip stares at him a little bit longer before smiling jumping into his arms.
"Yeah that's the way! From now on it's gonna be you and me together all the time Mudkip!"
"Thank you Brock, make sure you take care of that little guy for me!" Swampy tells him.
"I will! You can count on me, okay?" He looks down at Mudkip in his arms.
"Mudkip!" He agrees, nuzzling against him.
"Seems like I missed all of the fun." The group noticed Aria was walking back over to them with her arm over Steven's shoulder to help her walk. She had a bandage over her head that blocked the wound she gained from the fall. "Congrats Brock. I'm glad you got to be friends with Mudkip."
"I agree. I believe this will make a great friendship between the both of you." Steven adds in, smiling at them. "You did great Brock."
"Thanks guys." Brock smiles back at them as his new bonded friendship with Mudkip had begun in their journey together.