OSPREY….SWOOOOSH
UO: Ready to go ACTOR CHECK
Drew: Ready
Gabby: Present
Tori: Here
Max: Here unfortunately on a reduced paycheck
UO: You wrecked my car and I don't pay you I don't make money
May: I'm here
Brock: Wait we don't get paid
UO: Shut up I am just borrowing you guys from the very popular shows I don't own you guys or Kamen Rider. If I did I would change a lot of things in your show and bring Kamen Rider to the U.S. Wait where's Ash and Misty
Ash: I'm here (gang notices kiss marks)
UO: Damn man you and Misty were busy
Misty: Sorry I'm late (blushes at her friends gaze)
May: No fair Misty, I wanted some of Ash
UO: Alright keep it PG; you aren't old enough for lemon writing
Max: What's a lemon?
Everyone: WE'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU'RE OLDER MAX
UO: On with the show please before it breaks down. Also Flamers will be 100% ignored if you don't like it don't read it. If you review do it constructively.
Normal: Dialogue
CAPS: Attacks
Italics: Thoughts and flashback
Bold: Yelling
Bold and Italics: Yelling in head:
Underline: Dates and locations
(A/N Starting with this chapter until probably chapter 26 or 27, I will be using Battle Frontier episodes and the film. Twenty-eight at the latest but I will start Sinnoh by thirty so I will be skipping completely unneeded episodes and putting more original content in. This one I am going to go up to May's second contest)
When we last left our heroes they just finished their adventures in Saffron City. The convention hall in which the Saffron contest was to take place was taken over by Team Rocket's monster goons and had taken multiple people hostage. The gang manage to infiltrate and take out the soldiers guarding the hostages and May, Tori and Gabby were able to defeat the monster Team Rocket summoned. Afterwards Officer Jenny attempted to arrest the riders but were let go after some persuasion. The next day May competed in her debut Kanto contest and was able to win with her Squirtle and Combusken over her hated rival Harley. Afterwards the group had to intervene in a family squabble over a dojo and a dining cart but were able to get the two arguing family members to settle it peacefully and now they were off to the Battle Arena.
Which is where we find our heroes on the road to the Battle Arena; unfortunately there is a little problem.
"Captain's Log star date 2004.04.30, today Max got us lost for the umpteenth time. We are attempting to find the pokémon center but we have no knowledge of landscape. Food low, energy depleted, Gabby about to pound me into oblivion because I am acting like captain Kirk from Star Trek, all hope-OW" Drew started going into a monologue but Gabby nailed him on the head. "Star date 2004.04.30 Ow that hurt Gabby" Drew said breaking character.
"Well stop acting stupid, that's Ash's job" Gabby said getting a protest from said trainer.
"I am trying to make light of a situation that we keep finding ourselves in Gabriella" Drew said getting a huff from the blonde.
Once again ladies and gentleman they were lost and you wonder when they would give it to someone who could navigate (A/N: I swear the animators for this series loves to get them lost frequently)
"Alright guys I know it's getting late we need to find shelter that storm is coming in." Brock said. Pikachu perked up and started running off into the distance.
"Pikachu, get back here buddy come on this is no time to wandering off" Ash said as he chased after his companion. The rest of the group groaned and chased after Ash.
After a few minutes of running, they caught up to Pikachu. Taking a look around they saw they were some sort of abandoned town.
"Looks like some sort of ghost town" Max said
"GHOST TOWN!? You mean l-like full of ghosts?" May asked scared.
"No May…towns like this happens all the time especially mining towns when whatever they were mining ran out. This town looks like one of them" Drew said looking around. They walked around and approached the mine. Whereas Ash and Drew approached the mine with their flashlights, Tori and May were more hesitant to approach it.
"Ash what the heck are you doing there are going to be ghosts in there" May said.
"Drew are you nuts? That mine could fall" Tori said exasperated
"Would everyone calm down? God there are no such thing as ghosts" Drew said.
"What about Ghost-types" Max asked.
"NOT HELPING MAX" Everyone else yelled causing him to shrink.
"You would think with the training they had, they wouldn't be scared right Ash" Drew said. Upon hearing nothing he turned his eyes to seeing Ash backing up white as a sheet.
"Ash?" Drew called turning his focus to his friends who were also shaking in fear.
"There is something behind isn't there?" Drew deadpanned. A nod from his friends confirmed it.
"It's some sort of apparition isn't it" another nod.
"I am going to turn around and he is going to have glowing red eyes and a scary voice" Drew said turning around and seeing glowing red eyes. With a growl it said "BOO!"
"Right" Drew said calmly. "RUUUNNN AWAAAY" In a blink of an eye he left an outline and a dust cloud. The group let out a loud scream and started running too. The gravelly voice started laughing and revealed that it was Team Rocket with some sort of Haunter looking monster laughing. The laughing was cut short when their stomachs growled and they collapsed in hunger.
With the group they were all catching their breath in a hotel. "What…the…heck…was that?" Gabby said.
"I don't…know" Misty said as they finally calmed down. Brock looked outside and saw that the storm they were trying to outrun had reached them. "Looks like we are stuck her until the storm let's up.
"You mean we are stuck...IN A TOWN FULL OF GHOSTS?" May screamed and both she and Tori screamed.
"Girls calm down; there is nothing we can do about it. You know I feel like we are in Scooby-doo heck you guys" Drew pointed at everyone except Max. "Make it look like we have the group here now.
At Ash's group's confusion, Tori explained "Scooby-doo is an animated detective show that has been around for a long time. Now that I think about Drew is right. Brock is the leader like Fred and he comes up with the plans.
"What about us" Misty said pointing at herself and May, who was hugging Misty's arm tightly.
"Misty is Velma always very smart hard to believe in any of the nonsense that surrounds them. May is Daphne the unfortunate damsel in distress, don't know why she always ends up being captured" Gabby said.
"What about me" Ash asked.
The earth trio looked at each other and grinned
"Constantly eats" Tori started
"Always running" Gabby picked up
"Has a mascot that gets treated better than he does" Drew kept it going
"Shaggy and Scooby" they said finishing together. At Ash's confusion, Drew elaborated "Shaggy is Scooby's owner and they are always hungry and they always are the bait in the traps."
"That describes Ash to a tee" Misty giggled and Ash pouted only for Misty kissed him on the cheek.
After calming down they went to sleep in their sleeping bags. All except May who despite having Ash's arm around her was still wide awake in terror. The lightning flashing outside only added to her fear as she tried to burrow into Ash's side as much as possible. Just then she heard music down the hall which sent her heart racing. She tried to wake both Ash and Misty but were dead to the world. "Ash…Misty come on wake up there is something going on in the house" May panicked but her bunkmates were dead to the world.
"May…what's going on" Drew said sitting up and putting on his glasses without disrupting his girls sleep startling her.
"Oh Drew, it's just you…uh what are you doing up" May calmed down and asked her companion.
"Stinking storm kept me up I don't do well in thunderstorms. Anyway what's up" Drew answered.
"There is some really weird music playing in the house" May said and true to her word music was playing down the hall.
"Man we have some heavy sleepers don't we May they aren't even waking up. Hang on" Drew said crawling over to his bag and pulling out an air horn. Motioning May to cover her ears he pressed down on the button. (I don't know what the noise is in letters so use your imagination)
It got the desired effect as everyone shot up and shot angry looks at the smiling boy.
"Now that everyone is awake shut up and listen." Drew said and they did so. They also heard the music. Getting dressed they headed to where the music was playing behind one of the doors. Cracking open the door and peering inside the group saw an unusual sight. There were several psychic pokémon that were dancing to music from an old phonograph in the corner. May, wanting a better look tried to climb over people but inadvertently caused to pile to fall and sent the psychic pokémon scattering into hiding.
"Great job May" Gabby groaned sarcastically. After recovering they noticed an Abra in some sort of green sphere. Approaching it Brock and Ash got a shock when they touched it.
"Abra must be in some sort of Safeguard" Brock said shaking his hand to get rid of the numbness. Max looked around and spotted a picture frame and walked over to it. Wiping off the dust he saw the psychic pokémon along with several people. In the photograph the psychic pokémon especially Abra were looking very happy.
"Hey guys take a look at this" Max said holding out the photograph. They all looked at and looked sadly at the sphere. Just then Abra's body glowed and a projection started. In it the psychic pokémon were all working alongside miners who once inhabited this town. They appeared happy. Then the mine closed and the miners left. Abra was seen running after a truck which was the last one to leave. The little boy was crying and so was Abra as the truck sped away.
The projection ended and there wasn't a dry eye. They looked at Abra who was crying in his sleep.
"They miss their trainers, they were forced to leave him behind" Tori said sniffling.
"Dancing must be their coping mechanism" Gabby said wiping her eyes.
Ash then had a brilliant idea. "Hey why don't we give them a little party you know to cheer them up?"
"That's great idea Ash" Misty said kissing his cheek.
After some moving around and preparing the room looked like it was made for dancing.
Ash nodded "Alright now to coax him out of hiding" he said and started the phonograph. As the music started playing the psychic pokémon who were hiding started to poke their heads out.
"It's working Ash but maybe they could use some more motivation" Drew said as he stepped over to Tori. "My lady if you be so kind" he said with a bow. Tori blushed and took his hand and started to dance. Ash took Misty's hand and they started dancing as well. May and Gabby stood on the sidelines waiting for their turn. Soon the psychic pokémon came out and enjoyed themselves as the jovial mood from before returned. The star of the show was a Kirlia who danced a beautiful ballet number while the rest watched and clapped along with beat. After a couple of songs the humans finished their dance and stood off to the side and watched the pokémon dancing.
"That was beautiful" May said grabbing Ash in a hug and kissed him. Misty turned him around and did the same thing. "Where has the clumsy kid I knew gone" Misty breaking the kiss Ash laughed "He's still here just a little more mature Mist" he said.
With the earth trio Drew was watching the dancing. He suddenly got a memory flash of a similar situation but in a much more opulent setting. Looking around he saw Ash and his girls in fancy dresses similar to dresses from Europe. He must say they looked really good in the red and blue gowns.
"Drew?" He turned and saw Tori and Gabby in similar outfits except they were in silvery-blue and a golden yellow dress.
"Drew?" He heard his name again and he blinked and he was back in the room and the clothes had returned to normal.
"You were zoning out what's up" Gabby asked concerned. Drew waved it off "Nothing. Just felt like we were somewhere else."
The two girls nodded and went back to watching the dancing. Suddenly a blue blob entered the room. When the gang got a good look at it, it was Team Rocket's Wobbuffet who looked a little red. In its hand was a flower which he gave to Kirlia to delight of those watching, especially May who commented on the romantic gesture. All of a sudden they heard an explosion outside. The whole room emptied into the courtyard only for the psychic pokémon to be captured by a net along with Pikachu.
"Where the heck did that net come from" Ash said but seen got his answer when they hear an obnoxious laugh which got them on guard.
(Insert them)
"Team Rocket what the heck are you doing here" Ash called out pulling out Raikou along with everyone else pulling out their weapons.
"Oh clueless twerps we come in to help out these poor ghosts. You see when the miners were here they were disturbed by all the activity. When they let they thought they could get some peace the psychic pokémon continued to dance the night away and now they want some payback." Jessie said. Then she noticed Wobbuffet trying to free the captives. "WOBBUFFET, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING? STOP IT!" Jessie yelled without success as Wobbuffet freed the captives. Kirlia was the last one out and it thanked Wobbuffet with a kiss on its cheek.
"GRRR…HAUNT CLAW TROOPERS ATTACK" Jessie yelled and a purplish Haunter looking monster appeared. The gang quickly went into their respective transformation stances as they approached and activated their belts.
STANDBY LEO/ORION/KAMEN RIDE
HENSHIN
COMPLETE/ORION/SIRIUS/EVOLVE
The armors formed and they pulled out their respective weapons and charged the horde
As they went to fight them May and Tori ended up fighting the main monster which was bad because most of their normal attacks couldn't reach them. What was worse is that it was constantly taunting them and attacking them repeatedly which got them even more riled up.
"Hehehe….you girls can't stop me" he taunted.
SOLARBEAM
SATURN'S STORM
The two girls fired their attacks but Haunt Claw was grinning like a mad man
"Now you see me…now you don't" the monster taunted and vanished dodging both attacks.
"Where did he go?" May asked in frustration, only to get an answer from behind them. Before they could respond their opponent struck.
SHADOW CLAW
Both Claws struck them in the back sending them into a wall.
"TORI/MAY" Their male companions called out but they were distracted as more troopers kept them at bay.
With the two girls, they struggled to get up. "What are we going to do Tori" May asked as they struggled to attack Haunt Claw.
SHADOW BALL he announced and sent them scattering away from them and separated the two.
"I don't know May Sirius would be able to pick up a trail but it's a ghost it doesn't have a scent" Tori called out while thinking 'What am I going to do most of my cards rely on sight and the one card that could help is useless because I can't get a bead on him.' Just then her card case in her spellbook started glowing. Opening up the book she saw a card she hadn't seen before. It was some sort of cat with two protruding claws. On the card it said "Lynx"
"Lynx? Is that a constellation?" Tori wondered and feeling like she had nothing to lose she flipped her driver open and inserted the card and closed it.
KAMEN RIDER: L-L-LYNX
After the light died the only noticeable change to Sirius was her armor took on a more feline appearance and her wrists had a pair of cat claws over it.
"A light show won't save you, DARK PULSE" Haunt Claw yelled and fired. Tori suddenly got a brain wave from her driver and concentrated. Suddenly she disappeared and the beam hit the tree.
"Where did that girl go" Haunt Claw said looking around. He had his back turned when Tori reappeared behind and swung her staff knocking him back. Firing another attack Tori just disappeared again and reappeared this time striking with her claws.
"What was that you said" Tori said tapping her chin in thought "Oh Yeah…Now you see me, now you don't" Tori said and behind her mask she stuck out her tongue.
"Two can play that game girly" Haunt Claw said as he disappeared and tried to strike Tori only for her to do the same thing.
This went on for about fifteen minutes with May tried to keep up and getting a little dizzy. Haunt Claw reappeared.
"This is getting ridiculous. Hm" He noticed May watching and a little disoriented. "Well now I know the perfect way to find you" He trailed off as he disappeared to attack May.
Tori reappeared just Haunt Claw disappeared.
'Oh No I need to warn May but how?' Just then her suit sent her information and she focused her eyes. All of a sudden the world became much more focused and she could see every little thing. Even the outline of their opponent who was now prepared to deliver a debilitating blow to her.
"MAY! FOUR OCLOCK BLOCK HIGH!" May snapped out of her dizziness and swung Mori above her.
CLANG
The blade made contact with a stunned Haunt Claw and then May fired a Flamethrower which sent him bouncing back. May ran over to Tori and was in position to finish him off.
"Ready Tori" May called out holding up Combusken's card doing a Sky Uppercut.
"Time to bust this ghost May" Tori said taking out another card and inserted into her driver while May scanned her card
SKY UPPERCUT: MAXIMUM ENERGY
FINAL KAMEN RIDE: L-L-LYNX
Tori's claws and May's hands started glowing as Haunt Claw staggered to his feet. Seeing them charging up their attacks he tried to run.
Tori saw this "You're not getting away that easily take this LYNX STRIKE CLAW (Think Strike Laser Claw except two claws on her hands)
"Right Behind you Tori SKY UPPPERCUT" May followed after her. Tori jumped in the air and Haunt Claw put his hands up to block high. May got inside his guard and nailed him on the chin sending him flying. Tori came and struck through him. Tori landed and crossed her arms while May lowered the fist she used to launch the uppercut.
"Show's over" Tori said as the monster exploded behind them.
Powering down the girls walked back to the group. Ash had just sent Team Rocket flying and had powered down when the two girls walked up.
"May you're alright thank goodness" Ash said walking up and hugging her. Tori got a hug from Drew as he walked over. When he let go he turned to the ghost pokémon and the psychic pokémon who looked ready to tear each other apart.
"Now what, the psychic pokémon won't stop partying and the ghosts don't like it and want to stop them," Drew said looking at the two opposing sides.
Max looked at the two sides and had a brilliant idea "Hey does Safeguard block against ambient noise?"
Minutes later the room the psychics were dancing around happily. Abra's Safeguard had expanded to include the entire room and Abra was still sleeping soundly. The ghosts were pleased and expressed their gratitude as they went back to mine as the sun came up.
"See now everyone is happy" Mas said.
"Yeah…yawn…I guess. I'm tired wake me up when get to the pokémon center" Tori said slumping against Drew's shoulder. May did the same thing with Ash.
"Great they are asleep" Drew said.
"Well they did fight a long battle with that monster" Brock pointed out.
"No…she beat me to it and now I have to carry her Brock." Drew deadpanned. This resulted in a face fault for all standing members of the party.
"If you weren't carrying Tori I would smack you, Gabby said picking her face up.
"Well then thank you Tori for falling asleep. Come on we can all sleep at the Center. Max you better have better directions.
"STOP BLAMING FOR THE DIRECTIONS!" Max yelled getting the rest of the group to laugh as they finally got back on the road.
Five Days later
After a brief stay at a residence that apparently belong to James, the male member of Team Rocket's Aunt and Uncle when May's Munchlax got a really bad tummy ache. The gang saw a more compassionate side to Team Rocket as apparently James' Chimecho had been seriously ill so they worked out a truce between them while they were there. While there Jessie came up to them and explained some disturbing information
Flashback
"Alright Jessie what do you want to talk about" Drew asked. They had taking one of the sitting rooms to discuss something.
"Keep your shorts on twerp, sorry, Drew." Jessie growled then softened.
"Whoa using our real names, you must mean business" Misty huffed from the couch.
"Yes it is Misty." James said. "Where do you want to start?" Brock said.
"I guess when we met our employer would be nice Jessie." James said out loud.
Jessie looked at her teacup. "I guess we met him around the time you were in Fallarbor Town. We…were in a pretty serious debt. Giovanni, our boss may have billions in illicit money but he grew tired of our incompetence. So we…took the offer to clear our debts. Now we realize after that fiasco at the pokémon league that we were now working for people that didn't care for us. We please our boss but at the same time we are betraying him by working for another man." Jessie said tearing up slightly. James wrapped an arm around Jessie.
"What we are trying to say guys is that this monster we are working for, Glenn, he has power and money to not only create these monsters but could potentially kill both of us. Twerps we may be adversaries but we have humanity. Chimecho being here being taken care of my Nanny and Papa is a perfect example." James said sorrowfully.
"We figured that out but what do you want us to do" Ash asked.
Jessie turned to the group watching them. "I want you to defeat both Giovanni and Glenn. I know you have the power but Glenn is an entire other level, while Giovanni is more than likely going to cut a deal with him once we mention it to him. Glenn makes the champion Lance look like a young trainer. He destroyed entire mountains to make sure he gets the pokémon he needs. In return, I can hack all of the accounts of Team Rocket, there has to be billions in there. I think you can put that money to better use.
The heroes looked at each other and discussed it briefly. When they finished, Ash and Drew turned to the Rocket duo.
"Money is not the object here you two; however it will be a nice thing to remove that money from villainous hands." Ash said.
"Justice is what we care about. If we do this we could finish both of them off in one fell swoop and we, meaning Tori me and Gabby could go home. But regardless from what we have theorized Glenn might be one of the Generals that we are after." Drew said.
May walked over to Jessie and James "We need to train but I think we can do it. We will free you. You are redeemable we can see that."
Jessie and James teared them and said thank you before they broke down completely. After composing themselves they discussed plans for the future. After a couple of hours of discussion they agreed on the surface to remain enemies. They also agreed to let the two sides meet and for the duo to arrange the meeting. When they finished the mood lightened considerably especially when Jessie started teasing Ash and Misty.
"Well, Ash and Misty I always thought you two would get together." The mentioned two blushed, but May smiled and walked over hugged both. "Oh what's this little miss coordinator has the love bug too and I can see Misty doesn't mind sharing." May blushed as she snuggled into Ash. "Let's just say we have more to gain not going at each other's throats. We just equally like him." May said as Ash smiled and kissed her head. "What about you two" Misty asked from Ash's other side. The two blushed grabbed each other's hands. "I guess you had more personal reasons for doing this." Drew said from his position between Gabby and Tori. The two rockets just nodded. "Who am I to judge, as a popular song goes where we are from nobody wants to know they are not alone. (Nickelback "Gotta Be Somebody" don't own) Everyone has someone out there. We are just lucky they are in this room." Drew said kissing the tops of the girls heads
"Great…I'm the only one without a girl and I'm the only one that tries" Brock said dejectedly which got everyone laughing.
Flashback end
The day after their discussion James was forced to leave Chimecho behind but gained a new companion in Mime Jr. They went their separate ways promising to keep in touch with any change in plans.
Now they were on the road to the Battle Arena and their training regiments went up. It was now three days since the increase in training, most of their bodies could barely move after they finished the first day and could only walk into their rooms at the pokémon center before collapsing in exhaustion. Now after a day of rest they were back at it. After Push-ups, sit ups and stretches with their weights on now they were sparing. Brock was up against Ash in the current bout. Brock had his weapon of choice an Poleaxe going up against Ash's Katana. They were also using moves they had learned through their training. Misty was refereeing the spar while the rest were watching from the sideline having some lunch that Drew made.
Said cook was observing from the sideline eating some of the soup he made when May walked up to him and sat down pulling her legs up and wrapping her arms around them.
"Something on your mind May" Drew said not even taking his eyes off the fight.
May just turned her to head to watch the match. Off to the side noted that all of their pokémon were doing their own thing. One noticeable figure was another Marshstomp. Brock's Mudkip had evolved the previous training day and was now getting used to his body.
"You know when I started my journey with Ash I never knew much beyond my home. Heck until we reached Rustboro I didn't know what to do. I went into contests and I liked it. Ash had been supportive of me because he knew what he was doing somewhat and he didn't try to put me down. I guess that admiration turned into a crush but it wasn't until this incident with Jirachi that I had fallen for him he saved me from being a fake Groudon's meal."
"Ah yes, Ash told me about that, something about Max befriending a legendary wish maker and were almost stopped by a magician." Drew said getting a nod from May and she continued now with her head on her knees
"There was this legend associated with a comet that only showed up once a millennium. If I made the same wish over seven nights with a charm it would come true. Do you want to know what that was?" At Drew's curious glance she answered "To find a way to make my feelings known to Ash. He told me about this girl who he missed a lot. I guess it was Misty. I just wanted Ash to know about my deeper feelings. In a way I have you three to thank. I didn't finish the charm but shortly thereafter we went to the Mirage Kingdom and well here we are. To think I would get to see so much thanks to you guys." May finished.
Drew sighed "May you don't have to thank us. I think deep down Ash's heart is too big to hurt you or Misty. But you do realize there may be others."
May nodded "I know as long as they are willing to open their hearts to others and are willing to help protect Ash I don't have a problem. Besides what boy would resist two or even four girls that would willingly share him. Especially when said girls get older and more beautiful?
Drew was knocked over at that and May giggled. When the boy recovered he shook his head "May you are a devious little minx. Who corrupted this little Beautifly your parents are going to kill me."
May waved her finger "What they don't know won't hurt them."
Before Drew could formulate a response Brock had fired a Mud Shot which Ash dodged but the attack did something. A cry of pain was heard by all in the clearing.
"That didn't sound good" Ash said and Brock winced. They all ran to sight of the cry and saw a bipedal pink sheep looking like it got hit hard by the attack it was a Flaaffy. Next to the ailing sheep were her trainer and her partner.
"Flaaffy" it weakly cried. The group walked up to the trainer and Brock started apologizing
"Miss I'm sorry is your Flaaffy Ok? Here let me help" Brock said quickly.
"No don't, I got the perfect medicine at my Grandma's come on." The group followed while her male companion carried Flaaffy. After a short distance they came upon a wooden building which the girl walked into followed by the boy. When the travelers went inside there was a bunch a vial which appeared to be some sort of clinic. The girl went to the one running the store which they took to be the girl's grandmother. The old lady gave the girl some medicine which she turned around and gave it to Flaaffy who drank it. Instantly the wounds healed and Flaaffy gave out a happy cry.
Brock and Ash took this time to introduce the group. "We are sorry we were training and it got a little carried away" Brock started.
"I'm Ash, this is Brock, my friends here are Misty, May, Max, Drew, Gabby and Tori" he introduced them in turn who gave a short greeting at each turn.
"Pleasure to meet you all my name is Cadee, this is my granddaughter Mariah and this is McCauley an assistant in my shop.
Before they could get any further Brock and surprisingly his Marshstomp went to go hit on her. "Mariah you are the prettiest thing-OW" Before he got too much farther Misty and May pulled the hopeless romantics away grumbling the whole time.
"It's nice to meet you all" Mariah said recovering from Brock, while McCauley tried to bow in greeting but he inadvertently knocked stuff over. He tried to catch some of it but they were knocked in the air. Some of the group who was nearby caught all of the medicine and placed it on the counter.
"Thank you children for saving the medicine" Cadee said. Turning to the boy she sighed. "What am I going to do with you McCauley, I am having serious doubts turning the store over to you and Mariah" Cadee said and walked away. McCauley sulked away.
An hour later the group separated. McCauley minded the store while Cadee took everyone except Ash behind the shop to show them how the medicine was made. Cadee crushed the berries mixed them and put them in a vial and then inserted pins into the rubber stopper and order her Mareep to use Thundershock. The sheep nodded and sent a steady charge. They group waited in anticipation as the Mareep continued. Cadee saw something and made her move.
"Alright Mareep stop" the sheep did so and she picked it up. The group was amazed at the medicine made.
"I can see what she probably did" Drew trying to explain it. "The electricity in Mareep's attack probably neutralized any acidic properties and purified it. So it can be safe for any pokémon or possibly humans.
Cadee acknowledged that was correct and the group dispersed throughout the store. One of the Mareep however followed after Tori. She noticed the lamb and bent down to pet it
"Well aren't an affectionate one" Tori said rubbing the coat which got Mareep to happily cry.
"I see this one has taken a shine to you hasn't it." Tori looked up to Mariah walking to her. She knelt down to pat Mareep.
"We breed our Mareep to produce medicine and other products but this one has always been a feisty one. I think she is a little restless being here. I was wondering if you could show her the world maybe he could get some prospective of what he wants.
"Oh no, I wouldn't want to take something valuable away from you" Tori said waving her hands. Mareep took the opportunity to nuzzle Tori's legs which got the girls to giggle at the affection
Mariah looked up to see Ash and Drew training their pokémon. "Which one is yours?"
"What"
"Your boyfriend which of the two boys is yours" Mariah pressed again.
"Oh…It's Drew the one in the red and gold hat" Tori pointed out as Manectric unleashed a powerful Thunderbolt. Mariah sighed
"McCauley is a good man his heart is in the right place but he doesn't have patience right now and his confidence is waning. I don't know what is going to happen to the store when she retires.
Tori sighed as she sat down next to the lamb "Drew…is probably one of the strangest people I ever met" Mariah raised an eyebrow at that. "He does so many things that I feel like I am talking to an adult, heck his knowledge and his ability to break down stuff is amazing. Other times I have a hard time believing he is my age. It's not his fault mostly. He has something of a….what's the right term for it…mental condition. Outside of me and Gabby, the blonde girl, he has few friends. I am impressed at how he has made friends, especially with the others in our group, but I am concerned what will happen after we leave this world, we aren't from here let's just say that and leave it" Tori said cutting of Mariah line of questioning. "Back to my original thought, his father explained to us what it is heck I trust you with this he hasn't even told his friends, his behavior hasn't necessitated an explanation, but I have a feeling we are going to have to soon. However I wouldn't have him any other way he is just a person who just needs a good friend and Ash has provided that." But what I am trying to say is that you just need to be there for him alright Mariah?"
Said girl nodded "Good now" she was cut off by a strange feeling and stood up quickly startling Mareep. "Tori what's wrong?" Mariah asked scared
"Mariah run we need to get back to your grandmother's now something is coming." Tori said materialized her staff.
Same time as Mariah and Tori's conversation
Drew and Ash were training off to the side. McCauley was watching them practice and was amazed at their pokémon's ability. He saw Drew's Manectric fire off a large Thunderbolt which destroyed the rock.
"That was amazing you train your pokémon so well" McCauley said when the dust settled.
"Thanks Manectric has been working really hard lately. Sigh…and I know why" at McCauley's questioning look he continued. "He has only lost once…just once and it was to Ash and Pikachu here in the finals of the Ever Grande Conference. You want to know how he lost?" McCauley nodded. "When it came to down to final clash between both of their Thunder's collided and despite Manectric being the stronger of the two Pikachu somehow found the strength to overcome him and won. It was one second, but that's the difference between Ash winning and me challenging the Elite Four." Drew walked over to Manectric, "I didn't show it Ash but I took that loss really hard, I told the girls that night to leave me with my pokémon. I sat in my room like a coach and I told them that I couldn't have been more proud of them but Manectric took it the hardest and was in a depression. I hugged him to let him know it was ok. And we sat there for twenty minutes as he cried into my shoulder and cried into his fur. My pokémon surrounded us and they told Manectric that it was alright. I didn't know how long it was but apparently I fell asleep. Next thing I knew I was in a bed and Tori and Gabby were hugging me with evident signs they were crying." Turning toward the electric type and scratching his ear Drew finished "Manectric has been itching for a real fight I am going to be using him for the Battle Arena no question."
Ash nodded, "I didn't know you took it that hard. I guess with the celebration I didn't notice."
Drew shook his head "Don't worry about, its over we are here and we move on.
McCauley looked down "I wish I had your confidence but I am just an idiot. Every time I mess up Cadee gets made. I make these potions but nothing seems to please her. Too much charge, not enough berries, not enough time charging, it just never ends. Maybe she's right maybe I'm not cut out for this."
"Now what kind of quitter talk is that? You know if I talked like that I would still be at home sulking after I lost my first two leagues" Ash pointed out with Pikachu who happily agreed. "Heck if I gave up when Pikachu wasn't listening to me at the beginning of my journey I wouldn't be here. It takes practice pal.
McCauley sighed "I guess but its Mariah I'm worried about. If I can't do this then I think Mariah might be done with me.
Drew sighed "It always involves a girl doesn't it." He chuckled "I can see how you do this for her that is very brave of you. We all have our special someone out there. Some of us are lucky to have more than that." Before McCauley asked Drew tensed.
"You feel that Ash" Drew asked.
"What…what is going on?" McCauley asked.
"Yeah I can…and it looks like it's coming this way. McCauley get back to the pharmacy. Tell Misty and Gabby to come out here. Tell May, Max and Tori to defend the store. Go" Ash called out McCauley nodded and ran. Gabby ran up bow in hand.
"Where is it" Gabby asked looking around.
"I'm looking Gabby don't rush it" Ash said with his eyes closed. This was something Ash started picking up around the time of their championship run in Hoenn. This was seen as a byproduct of their training with their elements but apparently Ash picked up more of it and started training this Aura, as they called it. One of the first things he worked on was what they dubbed Aura sight which allowed them to pick up something hidden. The drawback was that he hadn't trained it enough to pick up much beyond thirty feet and his eyes had to be closed. (I saw the movie I think that is what Lucario had to do to sense Aura and I'm making this true in this).
Ash concentrated his focus soon he picked out something in the bushes.
"Ten feet at two o'clock heading for the pharmacy." Ash called out pulling out Raikou.
"We need to get back let's go" Drew called materializing Leonid and unsheathing it. They took off hoping to get there.
At the pharmacy there was a battle going on. The three heroes there were fighting off troopers. These were different than the ones they fought before some of them had a snake like appearance. This could be because of their boss who look like a giant Arbok.
"Yesssss my minions attack destroy this pharmacy. Destroy this live saving medicine so that I may spread fear.
"No you don't PETAL STORM." May called out sending a wave of petals around cutting through some of snake like troops.
"AIR RENDER" Max called sweeping through some of the petal to confuse the soldiers even more.
Tori was back at pharmacy trying to hold back any that got close. Her shield was holding out and the two civilians were amazed at the fighting skill as she bashed them and fired spell after spell at the snakes. Remembering that snakes were cold blooded she fired a couple of ice spells she had and it worked wonders as they considerably Once the last of those heading towards the pharmacy she turned to the two women.
"Stay here do not leave this store." Tori said running into the melee. There were now about 6 or 7 along with the boss.
"Grrrr…you minionssss are wortttthleesssss, SLUDGE BOMB." King Kobra, the monster fired at May and Misty who were fighting off the remaining troops. They saw the attack and jumped away. May moved closer to the pharmacy. King Kobra saw this and growled "Out of the Way Girly POISION FANG" He opened his mouth and the fangs glowed purple. May having just recovered from jumping was frozen to the spot. She felt her body being moved and she landed on her side. She looked up and her eyes widened in horror and screamed. King Kobra had indeed landed the bite but Tori had pushed her out of the way and take the bite. The scream alerted all of those in the clearing and the three who had just ran in. Drew saw this and screamed
"NO TORRIIIII!" he charged at the snake and wrangled him away. He knelt down to Tori who was starting to shake.
"Tori…stay with me. Don't die on me" Drew cried.
"I didn't want May hurt…cough…I had a good run." Tori said coughing up a little blood.
"Don't talk that you're going to be alright" Drew cried out
Tori smiled sadly. Drew laid her down gently. He turned to McCauley "Can your medicines cure poisoning in humans."
McCauley nodded hesitantly "I think so but it might take fifteen to twenty minutes."
Drew nodded "Go. Make this medicine. Tori has less than half an hour due to the cobra venom."
"But….But" McCauley stuttered. Drew grabbed his collar "This is your opportunity please save her. I'm begging you save her." Drew let him go and he ran to the pharmacy.
Drew turn towards the group "Keep her breathing that venom is going to start paralyzing her diaphragm. Ash, Misty, May please keep her alive. Gabby we have a snake to kill." Drew said in an authoritative voice as both pulled on their transformative items.
STANDBY LEO
OPHINCHUS
HENSHIN
COMPLETE/OPHIUCHUS
Zodiac and Orion Ophiuchus were not up against King Kobra.
"POISION STING" King Kobra launched the purple missiles. The two just whipped their blades and in a blur of speed deflected all of the stingers. Zodiac quickly charged in with his sword and Kobra launched towards him. He blocked with his sword seeing the poison dripping from the fangs. Kobra backed off and laughed as the two riders rese
"You do well to avoid my fangs. Your friend is fighting for her life, my venom can kill a Taros. Soon your friend will be doomed and they will know who the real master is.
Drew growled "Tori is a fighter. She has put up with colds, flus, and my stupidity anything that can be thrown at her. She will be fight this until it kills her.
Kobra laughed. "I wouldn't get my hopes up. Unless a miracle happens and an antidote can be created your friend will die hereeee. And I will make sssssure you join her. SSSSSLUDGE BOMB." Kobra fired a purplish black blob was fired at the two riders. They stood in between three tending to Tori. Said girl widened her eyes as much as possible.
"No…don't…Drew….Gabby" Tori weakly said as she coughed.
"Save your strength Tori" Ash said. The girls were was crying as they tried to keep her breathing. Meanwhile at the pharmacy, McCauley had just finished making the medicine and now was charging it.
"Come on…this needs to work…please" McCauley said. He watched and then saw something. He ordered Ampharos to stop and he picked up the medicine. "I hope this works a life is on the line."
Out on the battlefield the two riders were unharmed from the poison barrage. This was due to the fact there was a big shield in front of Zodiac and Orion. Zodiac had also changed slightly. His armor was thicker around the arms and legs and was bronze in color. The symbol on Zodiac's chest had changed from Leo's symbol to a combination of an M and a cursive L.
King Kobra growled "What's with the shield my poison can melt anything ACID BREATH." He fired a green breath at his shield which slid off with no effect.
Drew chuckled "Virgo, the virgin, or the maiden. Much like a maiden protects herself behind her defenders, this shield can withstand as much as my energy allows. So an attack like your will not penetrate. And it can do this" Drew lifted up the shield and tossed it sending King Kobra for a loop.
"Grr….you will pay for that." Kobra yelled. Zodiac caught his shield and shook his head. "No you won't because it's already checkmate for you.
"Wha-Ooof" Kobra tried to respond by this time Gabby had snuck up behind him and grab is and planted his face on to the ground. Gabby held her dagger underneath as Drew returned his shield to its sword form.
"Do you the only definitive way to kill a snake." Zodiac emotionlessly said. "It is to cut its head off, Orion hold him down." The huntress nodded and held him down as he lifted the sword up.
"No…have mercy…please." Kobra pleaded. But it was to no avail as he stabbed him in the mouth. Zodiac turned around as Orion got off of him and walked beside.
"Sorry….all out of mercy. Yippe Kaya mother" the last part was drowned out by the explosion.
They powered down and walked over to Tori who was barely holding in there.
She opened her eyes and saw her companions "Hey…did you…get him… (Cough)."
"Yeah…we got him." Drew said tearing up. Just then McCauley pulled up with Cadee and Mariah. McCauley handed him a vial "I did the best I could." Gabby lifted up her head "This might not taste good but it will help you Tori can you move your jaw." With great effort Tori did so and Drew poured the mixture in. Ash and Misty helped by moving her throat to get the mixture in. Tori fell back gently and the group tensed as they waited for her to hopefully recover. After a few minutes, Tori opened her eyes.
"Drew?"
"Yeah Tori" Drew leaned closer and so did Gabby.
"You were right….that medicine tasted horrible…guess it was good for me."
Drew and Gabby teared up and grabbed her in a hug as she started to feel better. The two embraced her as they cried afraid to let go in case it wasn't real. The others cried as their friend recovered.
Drew turned to McCauley "Thank you…without you, we would have lost her." He said as he bowed towards him.
Cadee walked up to McCauley "I have never been more proud to be wrong. This pharmacy is in good hands with you and Mariah." The two pharmacists grinned and hugged each other in joy and thank Cadee.
May walked over to Tori and bowed "I'm sorry, Tori if I wasn't faster you wouldn't have been hurt."
Tori smiled "I'm sure you would have done the same thing May."
Taking that as apology accepted she gave Tori a big hug "I'm just glad you're ok I could have killed you."
Tori smiled and returned the hug. After they separated, something nudged Tori's legs. She looked down and saw it was the Mareep from before. She knelt down and rubbed her head.
"You were worried weren't you Mareep." The lamb nodded and cried its name in happiness.
Mariah walked over "Do you remember what we talked about? I think Mareep doesn't want you hurt while it can help it."
"Is that what you want to come with us? You do realize we will put you through the ringer training wise right." Mareep nodded with and enthusiasm.
"Alright then welcome to the team, now what to call you" Tori wondered. She looked at Drew and smiled. "Mareep from now on you will be Lambi because you are fluffy like a stuffed animal and because you remind of someone I care about." Drew smiled at that reference and after resting for a day they left for the next town.
Three days later (The anime after the episode with the pharmacy goes to Battle Arena first, then May getting Eevee's egg then her second Kanto contest. I am going to do all three events but the order is going to be shuffled. First will be May's contest, second is going to be the arena which will end the chapter. I will lead off next chapter with the day care.
The group after making sure Tori was okay left towards May's next contest. They had to stop a couple of time because during the attempts to keep her breathing her chest got sore which impeded their progress when she coughed. They finally got to May's contest and she managed to register the previous day. Now they were in the contest hall and May was ready for the contest only she had a little problem. Her intended Appeal pokémon Squirtle was missing and she was looking for it.
"Squirtle, Where are you? Momma is worried about you." In her haste she inadvertently ran into a woman and child.
"Oh I'm sorry I'm just looking for a Squritle have you seen it"
"No we are looking for someone as well, my husband actually. Sorry I'm Mandy this is my son Jason (Never gave one in the anime)."
Just then May's friends showed up.
"Hey May show's about to start where have you been" Ash said.
"Sorry guys but Squirtle disappeared; I'm trying to find him."
"Could…this be him?" Brock said showing Squritle behind his leg with flowers on his head.
"There you are Squritle where have you been. Never mind let's get on stage" May said returning the turtle. "Hope you find your husband Mandy" May called out as she rushed on stage.
A few minutes later the Silver Town contest began to a raucous applause. Lillian introduced the judges and just as they were about to start the contest an assistant ran up to her ad whispered in her ear.
"Well folks it seems we have someone who got held up. Let's just wait a couple of minutes." Lillian announced to the murmurs of the crowd.
Just then a man ran up and tripped running up to the stage. This got the crowd to laugh.
"Sorry I'm late" the man said.
"Are you Jeremy, sir?" Lillian said.
"Yes mam" he replied.
"Then come on up and let's get this show on the road" Lillian announced and the show started after that.
After a few performances it was May's turn.
"Squirtle time to take the stage" she announced sending out the turtle.
"Squirtle use Ice Beam and spin around" May called out. Squirtle ducked into his shell and spun rapidly causing the ice beam to break apart and landed with the ice falling like rain around Squirtle who bowed to the crowd.
"Squirtle looks really cute with that Ice Beam" Brock said in the stands. Misty went starry eyed at the scene and Gabby and Tori were squealing causing the two trainers to sigh at the girls reactions.
Back in the arena May was finishing her performance "Now Squirtle use Bubble." May called out. Squirtle launched several bubbles and created a tower on which Squirtle landed on a larger bubble above the tower. "Now Ice Beam on the bubbles." Squritle fired the Ice cold beam which burst all of the bubbles and caused the air to sparkle to which Squirtle landed right in the middle of it. This sent the crowd into a frenzy almost assuredly landing May in the knockout round.
"That was beautiful" Ash said in awe. He then had a sudden flash of May in a similar environment as she finished an intricate dance and the people were cheering a beautiful performance. Ash shook it off as they continued to cheer.
"Well now a performance like that will be hard to top, now let's bring out our last contestant Jeremy.
The crowd laughed and the heroes chuckled at that.
"Well this will be good for a few laughs" Drew said shaking his head. But all the laughter died down as a loud guitar solo blared throughout the hall. Looking at the source people realized this was the same bumbling person from before except he was decked out like a rocker.
"Is…that the same guy from before" Max asked astounded.
"Hard to believe but yeah. No offense to May but ROCK ON BUDDY" Drew said rocking out to the solo.
Back on stage Jeremy was prepared for his performance. "Alright Butterfree time to rock this place to the core." He said taking one of the poké balls off the guitar head and threw releasing the butterfly.
"Now Butterfree, dazzle them with Stun Spore and Poison Powder." Jeremy yelled strumming a tune on his guitar.
Butterfree launched the Stun Spore one way and the Poison Powder the other way giving off a perfect contrast.
"Now Protect" Jeremy gave off one last note and Butterfree glowed green. Before the performance could finish Mandy and Jason ran up on stage disrupted the performance.
"Jeremy what the heck are you doing here." Mandy yelled.
"Mandy…what are you doing here?" Jeremy stuttered. In the stands some of the fans started to boo at the interruption.
"Stop this contest nonsense at once and come home can't you see that your distancing yourself from your family.
"Are we really having this conversation now? Mandy you ruined my performance."
"I don't care you have a job and this coordinator dream of yours is nothing more than a young person's dream." Mandy yelled.
"Is she stupid she should have waited till after the performance or at least this contest" Drew groaned.
On stage Jeremy took his wife's verbal lashings hard. "Maybe your right, maybe I should listen to yo—""STOP!" May ran up on stage and up to Jeremy.
"If you do this then you might not get another chance. You like this don't you then don't give into her demands like that. You need to follow your dream"
Jeremy looked at May and then the audience. He bowed to the audience "I'm sorry my appeal got ruined. I want to create the best performance possible. Please forgive me and accept what I did."
Slowly the crowd started to clap and the whole audience cheered for Jeremy's performance. Mandy huffed and stormed off with Jason in tow.
With the appeals round done May and Jeremy both got in. May won her match decisively with her Combusken. As Jeremy was preparing for his match Mandy and Jason were walking through the corridors to the exit. She walked right by Drew who followed her and was leaning against the wall.
"Is that it?" Mandy stopped at his voice. Drew looked up at her. "You are married you should be supporting his endeavors" Drew said looking a little disappointed in her.
Mandy huffed "He should be at home; he has a salary job he needs to support this family."
Drew didn't back down "Do you have dreams mam?"
Mandy backpedaled "Wha?"
Drew pressed further "Simple question, do or did you have a dream?"
Mandy looked down at that question unsure. Drew stepped off the wall. "Come with me, I want to show you something." Mandy and Jason looked at each other and followed him.
Drew took them backstage and to an area with a view of the stage. Jeremy had just started his contest battle with his Venusaur.
Mandy and Jason watched as their husband/father battled. Mandy noticed Jeremy was smiling and then thought back to when she met him when was a rocker trying to make it big. She felt captivated by him. When he gave up his dream to become a pokémon trainer she supported him. Now she was killing his dream of being a coordinator.
"I remember when Venusaur was an Ivysaur. He gave up his dream of become a rock star to become a trainer…he wants to become a coordinator and now I am trying to crush…oh what have I done" Mandy covered mouth and her eyes watered.
"Now you see…he is having fun. People who don't follow their dreams become depressed. You said he gave it up once." Drew said walking away.
"Wait" Drew stopped and turned to Mandy who was still teary eyed. "Thank you. But you talk about dreams, what is yours?" Mandy asked curiously.
Drew just turned around and looked at his hand and clenched his fist. "Let's just say that dream…is a long way from now but I hope to obtain it someday." Jason's cheering alerted them to Jeremy winning his match.
Drew walked away but not before saying a parting shot. "He could use some people in his corner cheering. May is pretty good." He walked away leaving the two lost in their thought.
A half an hour later the arena was prepped for the final round. Just before the match, Jeremy walked over to May.
"Thank you for keeping my confidence up. May" Jeremy said.
"No problem. Tell you the truth I had a similar problem
Lillian got on her Mic. "Alright it is now time for the finals of the Silver Town contest. On my left is May from Petalburg City. On my right is Jeremy from right here in Silver Town. Five minutes on the clock and BEGIN!"
"Combusken take the stage."
"Rock on, Venusaur. Let's open this show up with a Razor Leaf."
"Combusken counter with Fire Spin." May called out. The attack burned through the leaves and headed straight for Venusaur.
"Venusaur break through that with Vine Whip." Jeremy said strumming his guitar as Venusaur launched his vines which dispelled the flames.
"Oh man May's points are dropping" Max groaned as his sister's points dropped and the crowd cheered.
Jeremy cranked up his guitar "Alright time to kick it up a notch. Venusaur use Frenzy Plant."
Venusaur stomped on the ground and a bunch of vines quickly shot towards Combusken who couldn't move out of the way fast enough and got thrown back with a lot of force. Combusken was able to stand after that attack but May's points had considerably dropped.
"I'm surprised that Combusken was able to stand after that" Brock commented.
"I think the type matchup saved him" Gabby pointed out.
"Frenzy…Plant? Guys I think I know what that move is." Drew said. When they looked at him he explained "There are currently three known moves with similar power to Hyper Beam and there may be more. These moves are Blast Burn, Hydro Cannon and Frenzy Plant. They have power comparable to Hyper Beam, they also have the drawback." Ash nodded at that and yelled towards May "MAY! THAT ATTACK IS LIKE HYPER BEAM!
On the field, May heard that and realized he was right.
'An Attack like that; had to have taken a lot out of him' "Combusken move in with Quick Attack followed by Peck." Combusken nodded and charged in fast and got several hits on Venusaur.
"Grr…I knew the drawback of the attack would cost me. Come on Venusaur, get up" Jeremy yelled.
"Combusken keep it up." But to her dismay Venusaur recovered and pushed the rooster away.
"Time to finish this, Venusaur use Frenzy Plant again." Jeremy rip a chord and as Venusaur launched the vines again.
"Combusken use Firs Spin block the vines." Combusken did so but the vines kept coming.
"Combusken move in with Quick Attack" May called out quickly.
"Gotcha now finish it Venusaur" Jeremy called out. The vines launched towards Combusken hitting him and dropping May's points to one.
"Combusken jump on the Vine and the use Sky Uppercut." Combusken landed on the vines and in a surprising show of speed and quickness he dodged all of the vines and nailed Venusaur under the chin. The blow was enough to knock it out.
"Unbelievable folks. May with her last point has knocked out Jeremy's Venusaur and has won the Silver Town contest." This got her friends to cheer very loudly as the crowd applauded another great match.
Jeremy sighed as he returned Venusaur. "Guess its curtains for my coordinating career." He turned and was surprised to see his family walking up to him.
"Mandy…Jason." Jeremy said in surprise only for Mandy to hug the life out of him. Mandy separated and spoke.
"Jeremy…I'm sorry. I was destroying your dreams. I fell in love with a rebel and I guess it's still there.
"Mandy…thank you." Jeremy smiled at that.
"Hey dad….when I grow up I am going to be a rock star and pokémon trainer just like you.
Jeremy grinned "Rock on Jason let's go practice" Jeremy said as Mandy groaned "Great…another one" Mandy shook her head and smiled. She turned to see Drew looking at the scene he smiled and tipped his hat towards her as he watched May accept her second ribbon of the Kanto circuit
Two days later
We now find our heroes at the pokémon center in Silver Town. Ash and Drew went over some last minute strategies and Ash had switched one of his pokémon out for the upcoming battle. As they are leaving they are surprised to see Scott in the center.
"Hey boys" he hollered "You excited for this match" Scott grinned at their excited nods. They soon left and headed towards the Arena. After a few minutes of walking they came up on a large door they assumed was the Battle Arena.
"Hello? Anyone here" Ash called out.
Drew sighed. "We really need to work on your tact Ash." Drew cleared his throat "Excuse Me, we have two challengers for the Battle Arena." Just then the huge metal doors opened. Inside multiple disciples walked up behind a blonde woman in a red black gi top with blue pants.
"Ah excellent, new challengers. My name is Arena Tycoon Greta it is a pleasure to meet you" Greta and the rest of the disciples bowed. To their immense surprise, Drew bowed and was followed shortly by the rest of their group except Scott who looked just as surprised.
"The honor's ours Master Greta." Drew emerging from the bow and introduced his friends.
Greta smiled "A group knows proper curtsey and respect. I like that this match will be fun." She stomped her feet and a roulette wheel popped out of the ground.
"To decide the match all challengers must spin this roulette wheel to determine what type of battle this will be. It can be a one-on-one, a two-on-two or three-on-three. Now then who will go first?"
Ash raised his hand and stepped up to wheel and pulled the lever. The wheel sun and stopped on two on two.
"Right so your fight will be two-on-two. Drew was it? Step on up." Greta said as he did so. He pulled the lever. It spun and spun and landed on three on three. Drew sighed at that.
"Alright so one two on two and one three on three I got my pokémon ready to go if you would follow me please let's get this battle going" Greta said with fire in her eyes. Ash had the same fire as they headed towards the dojo.
They entered the dojo and Greta took off her shoes. "No shoes in the dojo sorry we can't proceed until you do." The group nodded and removed their shoes and socks and followed after her.
As they walked Drew noticed two familiar crops of hair.
"Guys you go on ahead." Drew said as he drifted towards the familiar crops of hair.
When he stopped he noticed they were cleaning the floors pretty hard. "You're not fooling anyone Jessie, James, Meowth."
The three stopped and looked up. "Sorry, but we came here to learn some basics of Kung Fu. I didn't realize how hard it was." Jessie said
Drew sighed. Then asked something that was bugging him. "What do you know about an attack on a pharmacy last week?"
James realized what he was talking about "Oh yeah, Glen figured he could start creating panic by attacking some medicine stores. I heard that he was not happy when his Arbok creation was destroyed with no damage to the facility."
Jessie scoffed "That thing was abomination to Arbok. I should know I had one."
Drew nodded "Alright then, I figure he is keeping you on a short leash, have you arranged the meeting?"
"Hey Twerp, relax, we will arrange the meeting. We figured we give him some time to cool off. He wasn't happy after that fiasco." Meowth
Drew nodded again "Yeah he wouldn't after his monster got decapitated but he nearly killed Tori. Anyway, keep me informed." Drew started walking away but then stopped "You didn't have to do this. You are now caught on three sides. You work for one; you are bound to a second and allied with a third. You are running a great risk to yourself. What is your real motive?"
Jessie answered "We do this because we are doing what we think is right. We realized the Giovanni's vision will lead to ruin and Glen could easily enslave everyone. We take the risk because no one else will."
Drew sighed "For what it's worth thank you. Keep it up, see you on the battlefield." Drew said walking away. James turned to Jessie. "Jessie are you sure we should be doing this?"
"James, justice come in all forms and the ways to that are numerous. Whereas they stand head on, we work in the shadows. Come on we need to finish this." Jessie said motioning to floor. The other two nodded and started scrubbing the floor.
At the arena battle ground Ash and Greta were on opposite sides of the battlefield and about to start. Drew noticed Greta had a Medicham and a Haryiama. What got his attention was that Ash had his Snorlax and his Grovyle out.
He walked over to where the group was kneeling down on the floor. "Anything I missed guys."
Tori shook her head as he kneeled down next to her. "No other than the fact Scott commented on Ash's choice of pokémon."
Drew turned to the rotund man at the end of the line. "You will find Scott, that Ash is more unpredictable with his choices.
"Alright Haryiama time to fight" the sumo pokémon jumped into the ring.
"Grovyle let's go" Grovyle nodded and stood waiting. The ref motioned the fight to begin.
"Alright Grovyle start off with Bullet Seed." "Haryiama block it and then charge in." Haryiama blocked all off the seeds and with surprising quickness charged in.
"Grovyle dodge and fire of another Bullet Seed." Grovyle did so but Haryiama caught him by the leg and slammed him to floor on its back earning a wince from the gather spectators but were relieved when he stood up.
"Grovyle use Quick Attack to get in close." "Haryiama dodge it quick" "Grovyle use Leaf Blade when you get close." Grovyle's speed got him in close and struck the fighting type with enough force to send it back.
"Again Grovyle." Grovyle charged in but Greta had a gleam in her eye. "Haryiama Focus Punch." Haryiama charged the fist up and before Grovyle could move in Haryiama launched the attack and nailed Grovyle sending him into the ceiling. Grovyle landed with a thud knocked out.
"Grovyle is unable to battle" the ref announced as Ash went over to his friend to check on him. Seeing no injuries he brought Grovyle over to his friends, where Tori and May looked him over. Scott took this to make a comment.
"With Grovyle out how will Ash get through two tough pokémon with a normal type like Snorlax?"
Drew looked at him and then back at the field. "Scott you need to learn that Ash is so unpredictable it's predictable. He would not have done this without a reason. You would be surprised what he has won with."
Back on the battlefield
Snorlax waddled onto the battlefield and the battle commenced once more.
"Haryiama use Arm Thrust." Greta called out Haryiama charged in fists glowing. "Snorlax Harden quick." Ash yelled Haryiama's attack appeared to bounce off of Snorlax.
"Again Haryiama" Greta ordered. "Snorlax dodge and use Headbutt." With surprising quickness for one of its size Snorlax dodged and crashed his down on Haryiama.
"Haryiama use Focus Punch." "Snorlax use Harden again." The Harden didn't work as the Focus Punch nailed the normal type sending Snorlax to the floor.
"Finish it with Focus Punch." Haryiama charged up and went forward towards Snorlax. "Snorlax dodge it." Snorlax recovered quickly and jumped into the air causing the hand to be lodged into the arena floor. "Now Use Ice Punch." Snorlax's arm grew a light blue and nailed Haryiama sending it into the wall knocking him out.
The group cheered at the surprise victory. Drew gained a grin at Scott's amazed look.
On the battlefield Greta recalled Haryiama. "This fight is just the fight I like. Now Medicham time to fight." Greta grinned and sent out the psychic fighting type.
"Alright Snorlax ready to go again?" Snorlax nodded. The ref signaled the battle to resume.
Greta opened up the fight. "Medicham use Focus Punch." "Snorlax use Harden." The Harden didn't work so well and Snorlax skidded back and then was hit with a kick.
"Focus Punch again Medicham." Greta ordered. Ash had to do something he realized. "Snorlax Hyper Beam quick." Snorlax fired the red beam but missed and when hit he sent into the disciples. Ash's friends stood up when Snorlax was sent flying, worried about the large pokémon.
"Snorlax are you alright." Groaning Snorlax stood on his feet. "Alright…now use Ice Punch." Snorlax moved in hand glowing.
Greta didn't miss a beat "Medicham you use your Ice Punch." The two attacks collided but Snorlax was worse off as he froze solid, with his head being unfrozen. Ash tried to think of a way to get out of this. He was then hit with a bolt of inspiration.
"Snorlax use Rest." Ash called out confusing the spectators. Snorlax quickly fell asleep. Greta ordered Focus Punches to break the ice. Ash was patient as Snorlax took his nap. Just as Medicham broke the ice Snorlax woke up.
"Snorlax use Hyper Beam." "Medicham dodge it quick and then use Ice Punch." The beam missed and Medicham landed its fist in the middle of Snorlax's stomach.
"Hyper Beam again." Ash called out. But Snorlax couldn't fire it. Greta took advantage. Medicham keep using Focus Punch." Medicham attacked with vigor and Snorlax took it. All the while, Snorlax charged up another Hyper Beam. Ash waited and waited and just as Medicham fired one last Focus Punch he saw. "Snorlax fire the Hyper Beam at the ground." Snorlax did so launching him into the air. Medicham looked shocked as Snorlax took to the air. "Now use the momentum and use Body Slam." Medicham couldn't move fast enough and Snorlax crashed into Medicham knocking it out.
"Medicham cannot battle. Snorlax and challenger Ash Ketchum win." The group cheered especially the two girls attached to Ash. Ash ran up to Snorlax and hugged him as much as he could. Greta recalled Medicham. "Congratulations, Mr. Ketchum on a great battle." Ash nodded and walked back to the group. At the same Drew started walking towards the battlefield, hat already off.
"Great win man." Drew said walking past Ash and high fiving him. "Yeah, good luck man you might need it" Ash said walking over to group and kneeling down. Misty and May kneeled next to him and kissed him on the cheek, and wrapped their arms around his. Ash grinned and thanked them.
On the battlefield Drew had already released his three pokémon. It was Manectric, Swampert, and Swellow. A disciple brought out three pokeballs. Greta released the pokémon inside. When the flashes died down a Heracross, a Breloom and a Manectric were revealed. (She has all three in Emerald)
"Alright go Heracross" Greta called out as Heracross took the field. "Manectric battle time." As he mentioned before Manectric would be used in this fight. The ref signaled to begin.
"Heracross use Rock Tomb." Heracross punched the ground and rock spires grew out of the ground.
"Manectric dodge it and the use the spires to charge in and use Spark." Manectric's speed out ran the rock tomb and charged in and hit Heracross.
"Heracross use Reversal." Heracross grinned and grabbed Manectric and through him towards the wall. Manectric though landed on his feet on the wall.
"Manectric Shockwave then use Bite." Manectric fired off an electrical wave which hit Heracross. Manectric charged in and bit Heracross on the arm. "Now suplex him." With great flexibility, Manectric lifted Heracross and slammed him into the ground behind him. The impact knocked out the bug type.
"Wow that was cool what was that?" Max asked. "That was a suplex done correctly this can set up a lot of different moves in wrestling and is a legitimate move in that style as well." Gabby explained.
Greta recalled Heracross and sent out Breloom to continue the fight. "Breloom use Headbutt." Breloom charged in intending to end this match quickly.
"Manectric use Thunderbolt then use Spark." Manectric fired off a Thunderbolt which didn't deter Breloom and then was covered in an electric charge which did do some damage. Breloom was pushed back and sparked signaling a paralysis. Manectric though didn't escape unscathed as he glowed purple.
"Damn it got to finish this quick. Use Thunder quick Manectric." "No you don't Breloom use Focus Punch." Manectric fired off the attack but Breloom's Focus Punch countered until it was a stalemate and smoke was through up. When the dust was cleared Breloom was lying on the ground knocked out. Manectric was panting but was grinning. Drew's other pokémon were cheering as Manectric had defeated two of three all by himself."
"Wow, Manectric is powerful." "This is his first meaningful fight since the Ever Grande Conference he wants to prove he can still be the best on his team. But being poisoned might be too much for him to take on three." Tori said holding her hand up to her mouth.
Drew called over Manectric. "Hey buddy, can you still fight?" Manectric nodded but with a grimace. Drew patted Manectric's head. "You know I can stop this match if I have to. Swampert and Swellow can easily mop this up. You don't need to prove anything." Manectric nodded and walked up to battlefield to face Umbreon and the fight continued.
"Umbreon use Psychic." Greta called surprising the group. Umbreon's eyes glowed and Manectric was lifted up. "Manectric fight it and use Shockwave." Manectric was able to fight it off and fired the attack hitting Umbreon.
Greta wasted no time and ordered a Faint Attack. Umbreon disappeared and nailed Manectric sending him back towards Drew.
Manectric struggled to get up and Drew knew what he was about to do might make Manectric hate him.
"Proctor stop the match, Manectric is" But he was cut off by Manectric barking and barely standing up. He barked more and gritted its teeth. Drew looked shocked and so did the rest of his friends who had looked on in worry.
"Challenger what do you wish to do?" The ref called out. He shook his head. "Nothing sorry ref. Manectric you can do this.
"I like your Manectric's determination but it will not work. Umbreon use Faint Attack." Umbreon disappeared.
"Manectric use whatever you have in the tank and charge up a Thunder and hold it the best thing you can." Manectric panted but nodded as he charged up a Thunder. Both of them closed their eyes. They snapped open as Umbreon reappeared.
"NOW" Manectric let loose a loud roar and fired his Thunder created a flash of light that blinded everyone and destroyed part of the roof. When their eyes cleared, they saw an amazing sight. Umbreon and Manectric were still standing but they were on their last legs panted incredibly hard. Greta was stunned, Drew was speechless and everyone had wide eyes. After a couple of minutes, Umbreon keeled over knocked out.
"Umbreon is unable to battle, Manectric is the winner." But this was lost on Drew as he ran towards Manectric who was about to fall over. He caught him and cradled him. He had tears in his eyes as Manectric weakly opened his eyes.
"You did it…please be ok." Manectric smiled and fainted. Tori quickly ran up to them and grabbed Manectric and examined him. Tori looked up at him "He will be fine, he is incredibly exhausted though, I gave him an antidote."
Drew nodded and sighed in relief. Greta walked over. "Thank you both for an amazing battle. Here you two go" Greta held up two gold medals, "the Guts symbol, the proof you won here and the fact that you showed Guts while facing adverse conditions.
"Thank you very much." Ash and Drew took them with great enthusiasm. They took their victory poses as their pokémon allies stood behind them.
The Battle Arena is now behind them and now they head towards their next challenge. But their enemy has been revealed and now they have a new ally in the shadows. What will happen? Tune in for more Journeys of the Dreamer.
A/N:
End of Chapter
Man that was brutal to do. Anyway that is Chapter 19. Next update is Bleach Grand Prix but that might be a little while. Two reasons one school is cranking up. Two Pokémon X and Y came out Saturday and I might be distracted by that.
New Powers:
Lynx: The Lynx which is a big cat. This constellation is faint and was done primarily to fill a gap near Ursa Major. It's said only a lynx-eyed person can see it. Tori's powers with this card revolve around invisibility being able to turn invisible and pick out stuff that might not be seen.
Virgo: The virgin or the maiden. One of the twelve astrological zodiac signs and the sign of those born September 23rd to October 22nd. One of the largest constellations in the sky behind only Draco. This constellation is rich in deep sky objects like Black holes and Galaxies. This is also where the first pulsar a large radio signal from a black hole was detected. Virgo's powers revolve around defense. By pumping power into the shield he can theoretically block anything. Drawback is that he is limited with offensive moves.
Preview: Our heroes head towards the Battle Dome and then the Battle Pike. Along the way they have to deal with egg stealing bandits and motorcycle kidnappers. What will happen find out?
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