OSPREY…SWOOSH
UO: Sorry Guys I was on a trip so it was a while before I updated Bleach Grand Prix.
Ash: Its alright. (Brushes hair out of Dawn's face.) It let me get to Dawn a little better.
Dawn: (Mumbles incoherently)
May: Dawn is cute. (Nuzzles her cheek)
Misty: Don't hog her May (Growls playfully)
Anabel: Please don't fight
UO: Help me. Anyway is everyone else here?
Drew: Yep.
Gabby: Yes
Brock: (On Phone with Suzie) Just a minute.
Tori: Ready
Max: Good to go.
UO: Alright a nice calm chapter opening this time. Before I get the disclaimer I have a review reply.
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Anyway disclaimer please.
Tori: UnitedOsprey1991 does not own Pokémon or Kamen Rider. He would be a Trillionaire, Kamen Rider would have a faithful American adaptation and Ash would at least have the four girls here and he would age.
UO: Damn right on with the show
Normal: Dialogue
Italics: Thoughts, Flashbacks, and telepathy.
CAPS: Attacks
Bold: Yelling and Belt Noises
Bold and Italics: Yelling in head:
Underline: Dates and locations
Chapter 35: Aura Release
International Police Headquarters: Two Days after the last chapter
A middle aged man in a suit and tie and a brown trench coat walked into a dark room with many monitors. His name was unknown to most but to the higher-ups he was called Looker.
He stepped up to the monitor. "Special Agent Looker reporting for duty."
A voice sounded through the room. "Good day agent Looker. Today's meeting regards new developments with Team Galactic case."
A monitor changed to a video of the attack at Veilstone. "We have reason to believe Team Galactic has a new benefactor someone calling themselves Dusk." A video of the Eterna Museum attack is shown. "In addition they have employed the services of the notorious Hunter J. It is believed that this Dusk gave her the armor she used in the Eterna attack." Dracul is shown on screen. Another image of Dante is shown getting onto the Team Galactic helicopter. "The riders designated Dracul and Dante are also a part of this organization.
"What do you want me to do?" Looker asked.
"From our observations there appears to be two different teams of these Armored Riders." Images of the ten hero riders are shown then the battle between Aura, Dusk and Zodiac is shown. "We need to determine these ten riders' loyalties and if possible detain them for questioning."
The images fade away and the civilian forms of the heroes are shown. "We have reason to believe these ten have a connection to these Riders they are always seen nearby but we have no way of knowing that. They always show up in the cities these riders. Their files are in front of you."
"Too much to be a coincidence. Where are they heading now?" Looker ponders
"With two of their party being coordinators, their next destination is more than likely Lake Valor for the Wallace Cup. So you may wait or you may intercept them along the way."
Looker nodded. "I'll wait. An event like this is a valuable target."
"Very well. Good luck." The monitor disappeared. Looker looked down to view the files on Ash and his friends.
"Hm…two gym leaders. A Top Four Coordinator…a Kanto Battle Frontier Brain…Battle Frontier Champions…Winner and Runner-up for the Hoenn Lilly of The Valley Conference…a doctor in training…a photographer…and a boy too young to be a trainer. What about them makes them dangerous?" Looker said. He then noticed something in Ash's folder. "Seen with a katana." Looking through the files he noticed on half, they had them seen with weapons.
"Curious. Could be something related to their training. I better get to know them before I past judgment." He looked at the photos again. "They look like great kids, I am shocked they would be involved with this. There has to be something else going on." Looker said walking away.
Road to Lake Valor: Morning three days after Veilstone (Elements of DP063)
When we last left our heroes they had snuffed out an attack by Team Galactic, at the same time it was revealed that Ash's rival Paul had joined with Glenn as Kamen Rider Dante. Trying to remove a rider, Dante attempted to kidnap Dawn as Hanabi but was saved by Ash as Aura. His prize for saving Dawn was her admission of her feeling towards the Prince of Thunder.
The sun was starting to rise when Dawn's eyes fluttered open. She blinked a couple of times to shake off the delirium of sleep. She felt arms surrounding her body and from her vantage point she sleepily smiled at the sight. Her face was pressed against Ash's chest on his left side with his left arm going beyond her position. She could see Misty with her hair down on his right shoulder. One of Dawn's hands was in the hand of Anabel who had taken up the spot across from her. She felt the cool air and she shivered slightly. The two arms around her stomach shifted and she purred at the feeling of her hair being petted. May, as they had found out, love to pet the girl's hair almost like a mother would care for her child.
"Morning." May's sleepy voice sounded as she laid her head on the shoulder. "You cold."
"A little." Dawn admitted. May giggled and with a little movement rolled Dawn onto her chest and continued to pet the young girl's hair. "Yesterday was fun." May smiled.
Dawn could only giggle. Yesterday they had stopped at a milk café. All of the girls had helped out a group of sisters with their Miltank and serving at the café. Ash and Drew volunteered to help as well but when revealed they only had girl's uniforms, Drew backed out. Ash though was convinced to help and it gave Drew and the rest of group some laughs at seeing Ash in a maid's uniform. In Drew's words. "I'm scared that you actually pulled that off even with the training we've gone through." Which got everyone to laugh. (Am I the only one that thought that?)
"You know…we could dress like that again. We could get more costumes and show them off." May said with Dawn imagining all the different costumes and she blushed at the appeal to them. "And you know what? We can get you to model them. Your beautiful hair, pretty face, your dainty looks, you look like a dress-up doll."
Dawn blushed. "I…wouldn't mind." Dawn said to May's delight. "When I woke up my powers I found myself dressed like a ballerina and then my skin turned the color of porcelain almost like a dress-up doll."
May just hugged her new girlfriend close. "I said it before, I could feel like I could break you with a single touch. Your skin is a healthy but pale color. I bet I can give you some of that make-up and some blush and you would look so pretty."
Dawn blushed and buried her face into May's growing bust. "I'm not pretty like you and Misty or even Anabel."
A shuffling was heard and Misty had crawled over. "I think you are pretty. If I had half the beauty you have when I left home, I would have been more confident in the face of my sisters."
May looked at Dawn with a sad smile. "If it's about the contest thing…I went through a similar slump. But I persevered. You can do it too. You just need something to spark it."
May looked up at the brightening sky. "Maybe we just need a day to bring out your confidence. You know make-up, clothes, hair, Make you feel like a new woman."
Misty grinned. "I think so too. We just need a place to stop and do it."
"I hope I'm not invited to that." Ash said opening his eyes.
"I thought you were awake you sneaky guy." Misty said playfully. "As for inviting you I hope you mean as a model?" She said getting the girls to laugh at his pout. "Sorry Ash, we want what we have planned with Dawn to be a secret. But I promise you it'll be worth it."
Ash smiled and kissed each of the girls, stirring Anabel awake as they got up for breakfast. They looked over the camp to see their friends waking up.
"Dawn, even if you are with me romantically, we protect each other. We are family first, regardless of who's with who."
Dawn looked over the camp. Max was reading with Drew who was teaching him as much as he knew from his world. Tori was working with her pokémon and Gabby's even playing with some of them. Gabby was working on breakfast with Brock. Looking over to their right she had to smile. Pikachu, Buneary and Luxio were playing with each other almost like they were mates already.
"Then train me." Dawn said. They looked over to the bluenette. "Train me to protect all of you." Dawn said looking up with determination.
Ash chuckled and kissed her head from his position behind her. "When we are done with you, not only will you be able to fight with us but can be one of the people that we can return too. Not everyone can be a fighter. I know you want to help, but maybe you and Anabel can be our medics."
Dawn smiled. "As long as you come back…I will become the world's best doctor if I have to."
May giggled. "One step at a time."
"Can you can it with the PDA? Especially with my sister?" Max gagged only to be bopped on the head.
"Easy there Max. You know May can handle herself." Drew said as he stood up. "How are you feeling Dawn?"
Dawn stood up. "Never better. I'm hungry."
Brock shook his head. "If there is one thing about this group I've learned is that a healthy appetite is standard."
"Better that the girls have an appetite than be twigs like some of those models. I like girls with some meat on their bones." Drew said.
"I don't whether to be insulted we eat like him or flattered he doesn't care if we eat a lot." Gabby said.
"Let's go with flattered and tell him needs to learn tact." Tori said.
"Love you too girls." Drew said cheekily as they sat down to breakfast. After eating they packed up and started walking down the path.
Over the next several hours, the walk was quiet and they let out some of their pokémon to walk with them. The trainers watched as they interacted with environment with smiles on their faces and even Drew who was the most serious of people could not help enjoy the scenery.
Ash was hand and hand with Misty and Dawn with a wide smile on his face. Misty looked at Ash and smiled. "What's the smile about?"
He looked to the red head. "Just appreciating life. Beautiful girlfriends, friends that I treat like brothers and pokémon that would follow me to the ends of earth.
Pikachu who had been walking ahead over heard them and gave out a happy cry. Buneary who had been bounding along beside them shared his enthusiasm.
Misty giggled. "Long way from us arguing every step of the way. Especially when you got us lost."
"No it was you, and your so-called perfect directional skills.
"No it was you!"
"No You!"
"No You!"
Dawn who was seeing this argument for the first time panicked and looked around, only to receive disinterested looks.
"This is nothing Dawn. Think of this as their flirting." May said casually.
As to emphasis the point the couple kissed and then went back to walking together. Dawn picked up the other hand and felt a squeeze in return.
Dawn looked around and gasped. "I know this area. One of my friends has a hot springs hotel around here."
Everyone slowed down. "You think they'll let us crash there tonight? I mean we've been traveling all day." Drew asked.
Dawn nodded. "I'm sure. Just need to make sure she's home and all."
The group followed Dawn to what looked like a Japanese Inn. Going inside they saw a brown haired girl about the same age as Dawn with a brown pig looking creature.
The girl turned around and spotted Dawn. "Dawn is that you? How's little Dee Dee doing?"
Dawn puffed up her cheek. "I thought I told you guys to stop calling me that?"
Ash grinned. "Oh I would love to hear this Dee Dee." He teased.
BAM
Ash was now in a tree after Dawn took Misty's hammer from her hammer space and sent him through three trees.
"I give that an 8. Ash you need to learn to let things go." Drew called out.
"Duly…noted." Ash moaned.
"So…Leona was it I guess we haven't introduced ourselves. I'm Misty and the idiot that got knocked into the tree is Ash." Misty said thumbing in Ash's direction. Everyone else introduced themselves.
"So Leona, your family runs a hot spring inn, do you mind if we stay the night?" May asked sweetly.
Leona's look saddened. "You can definitely stay the night but the Hot Springs might be a problem."
Leona led them to the springs. When they got there they saw the springs were nice but the water levels were something to be desired.
"You see about a week ago something stopped the water from flowing down. My parents went to investigate it a couple of days ago. If we don't do anything, this inn will have to close." Leona said sadly
Dawn had a flashback to when Leona teamed up with her to help put down a bully in kindergarten.
"Leona, we'll help find the source of this problem as your friend." Dawn said with determination.
Leona smiled. "Thanks Dawn. Here my Swinub can help us find the water." Leona said.
Dawn looked at the pokémon and pulled out her pokedex. Swinub, the Pig Pokémon. Swinub love mushrooms that grow under the dead grass, searching for them by smell and often discovering hot springs in the process.
Minutes later they were walking on the trail up the mountain. Leona walked next to Dawn.
"So Dawn I haven't see you in a few contests. I saw your friend win a couple but you seem to be absent."
Dawn looked down. "Those early losses really shook me up. I had a lot of things on my mind and I'm still working out a couple of things but I hope to be back on the scene soon."
Leona smiled at that. Swinub then made a noise to indicate they found another spring. They followed them to a clearing where they saw several dark-colored creatures and a much larger Ludicolo looking creature.
"W…What the heck are those things?" Leona gasped. She scanned the woods and widened her eyes. "No Mom and Dad?" Leona said in horror. Indeed Leona's parents were locked up with their Wooper.
Before Leona could freak out a hand was placed over mouth and she was dragged into the tree line.
She looked and saw it was Dawn who had grabbed her.
"Leona, we can get your parents out." Dawn whispered.
"How?" Leona whispered.
"Just watch and be sure to keep what your about to see a secret." Dawn said as she looked over to the other side of the path. Drew was looked at the scene and then back over to them. He held up two fingers and pointed to her side and then at the trees. Feeling a hand on her shoulder she saw Misty nod and they climbed up into the branches.
Now above their opponents they looked and saw May and Max in the trees across from them. Looking down Dawn saw Anabel and Brock protecting her friend below her. In the bushes below Drew was next to Gabby who had her bow out. Tori was behind them muttering an incantation to prepare to help her friends.
Soon the Ludicolo creature moved aside and they could see three other figures guarding the cages.
"Hold on. Ash get their attention." Drew whispered. Ash nodded and pulled out a small knife and reflected the sun. It soon hit the figures revealing them to be Team Rocket. Dawn watched in shock as Team Rocket walked over to where her friends were. She observed them dropping something in the bushes and walking away.
Drew read the note. 'Sorry for not helping you. It's been hectic to get away from Glenn. Anyway they have a possible attack on Lake Valor. A big contest is coming up there. Don't know who is leading the attack. The creature with us is called Fiesta Water.'
Ash looked at his fellow prince. "Did it say anything?" Ash whispered.
Drew shook his head. "Nothing on this case. Gabby get ready to shoot." He whispered. The blonde pulled back and got ready.
Team Rocket walked over to talk to the monster and the monster growled ordering the troops to fan out find their targets.
Dawn gulped as they got closer. Misty held the girl's shoulder and squeezed it. Dawn took a deep breath and held Sylveon ready to strike. The troopers approached the tree line looking for their opposition.
Drew raised his hand to motion Gabby to be ready. A few tense moments later, the troopers approached the bushes. Drew waited until the last moment and then dropped his hand. Gabby unleashed an arrow striking the lead trooper.
Before the others could react, those in the trees dropped down stabbing them through the head. With complete surprise achieved those in the bushes charged in leaving Anabel, Tori and Gabby to provide ranged support.
Clearing through their opposition fast, Misty and Dawn were able to get to cage with Team Rocket nowhere in sight.
"Dawn is that you?" Leona's mother asked.
"You've grown to be a fine young woman how's your mother, it has been a while." Leona's dad said.
"No time to explain Mr. and Mrs. Hoshi. (Made it up it didn't say what their names were) We are getting you out of here." She said looking for a key. Finding none she held up Sylveon.
"Stand back." She said as she pointed her sword at the lock. "BUBBLEBEAM." She fired off the water attack. The bubbles destroyed the cage freeing the couple.
Misty nodded but she snapped to attention when she saw out of the corner of her eye a large stream of water coming at them. She brought up her hand and bent the water away from them.
"So my prey has come to play. WATER GUN."
Misty and Dawn grabbed the couple and jumped out of the way. Placing them near the tree line where they could reunite with their daughter they pulled out their belts. Having finished off the troopers, Ash had prepared to go help them when he was pulled back slightly.
"Do you trust them?" Drew said.
"I do." Ash said without thinking.
"Then let them fight. You might not be there every time. Besides this is a good test to see how Dawn fights with a partner." Drew said sheathing his weapon.
Ash nodded and put away his weapon.
With the combatants, Misty looked at the younger girl. "Ready?"
Dawn nodded. They put their cards in and their belts formed. Dawn twirled around and raised her hand while Misty raised her hand palm up.
HENSHIN
EVOLVE
Sending out their shields they deflected the razor leaves that were coming at them and they fell back onto the girls. Now as Triton and Hanabi they pulled out their weapons. Despite their opponent having a type resistance, the girl's speeds were keeping Fiesta off its feet."
ICE BEAM
ICE BEAM
COMBO: ICE SHOWER
The girls fired off the dual Ice attacks. The monster got frozen momentarily but broke free.
RAGING TORRENT
The monster fired off a massive water attack that was quickly frozen by Triton.
Hanabi looked over to Triton. "Distract him for a moment." Hanabi said as she grabbed one of her Pachirisu cards.
Triton nodded and spun her trident. "STEAM SHOWER." She sent a hot water attack from the prongs in her trident scolding her opponent.
DISCHARGE
Hanabi pointed her sword down and stabbed the ground unleashing and electrical shockwave at her opponent shocking and paralyzing him.
Triton looked at Hanabi and gestured to finish it off Hanabi nodded and scanned her finishing cards.
BOUNCE: MAXIMUM ENERGY
DRILL PECK: MAXIMUM ENERGY
COMBO: DRILL SPIRE
Hanabi gracefully jumped and spun in the air. Pointing her sword down, she dropped fast and pierced through the monster appearing behind him.
"If you threaten my friends it will be a curtain call for you." Hanabi said whipping her sword to the side as the creature blew up.
Powering down she turned and saw Leona and her family walking over to her.
"That was awesome guys. You were like those superheroes on T.V!" Leona said.
Dawn giggled. "Yeah I guess you can say that." She looked over to Misty. "Thanks Misty."
Misty smiled and high fived Dawn. Mr. Hoshi cleared his throat. "Thanks you all of you. As a token of our thanks, your stay tonight is free. We just need to clean up the springs a little and it will be ready for operation.
Dawn bowed. "Thank you. But you didn't need to reward us."
"Nonsense. It's the least we can do." Mrs. Hoshi said.
Dawn nodded and they headed back to the inn. Two hours later after training their pokémon, which included a battle between Leona and Dawn and Ash and Misty to restore Dawn's confidence, and a training session with their weapons and powers which amazed Leona, we find everyone save Leona's parents in the Hot springs in their swim wear. Ash and Drew were leaning against two of the rocks with their girls cuddled up to them. Some of the girls were napping but Misty and Dawn were awake and talking with Leona with Ash and Drew relaxing.
Ash broke through their conversation. "So Leona what is the deal with this Dee Dee name."
Leona grinned. "Oh that's a funny story you see—"was as far as she got before Dawn attempted to drown Leona. "Don't you dare!" She shouted. Leona came up sputtering. "Sorry. Anyway I need to go help my mom with the food catch you later." Leona said stepping out and wrapping a towel around her body.
Dawn huffed. "Stupid nickname." Dawn's grumbling was cut off when Misty wrapped her arms around her. "It's alright Dawn you don't have to tell us." She said smiling. "It's just a name. Nothing to be made about." Dawn eased her tension and let Misty carry her over to Ash and laid her on his chest next to a snoozing May. Anabel occupied the other shoulder and was keeping her eyes half lidded.
Dawn sighed against Ash's muscular chest. Drew opened his eyes and gazed at her through his sunglasses. "Hey Dawn?"
"Hm?" Dawn perked up slightly.
"That was mature of you, to try to refuse the reward." Drew said smiling.
Dawn looked down shyly. "They are my friends. I would have done it regardless." She said. She squeaked slightly when Ash pulled her closer. "It's not about the reward it's about the people we help. I am glad we are learning that now."
Drew looked up at the setting sun. "You know we should come with a list of ideals. You know a creed to live by. How to fight, what to fight for?"
Ash looked up in thought. "That's not a bad idea. We can work on it while we are traveling."
Ash and Drew started talking while Dawn the only girl conscious slowly dozed off with the combined warmth of the springs and the embrace of Misty and Ash's arms.
When she awoke she found herself dressed in one of the inns robes and resting on Misty's lap.
"Hey there sleeping beauty." Misty's voice said from above her.
"Hey there. What time is it?" Dawn said sitting up and stretching though Misty was quick to wrap her arms back around her.
"It's about 630. According to Ash you fell asleep after we did and when he left the spring, the boys carried us to our rooms." Misty brushing Dawn's hair.
Dawn looked and saw May doing Anabel's hair.
"Where's dinner?" Dawn asked.
"Out in main hall, come on we can eat and then come back. This is the first really serious girl time we've had in a while and I for one don't want to waste it." May said.
Dawn softly smiled as they went to eat dinner, the Hoshis spreading out a feast for them. The girls took up positions near their guys and smiled as many stories were passed around and food was shared.
After dinner the group split off by gender. The girls went into their room and brought out their make-up kits, well May and Tori did. They did what most girls did at sleepovers when it came to this but when it came to Dawn they went all out. Nails, hair, face, they wanted to make sure Dawn looked absolutely beautiful not that she needed help in their opinion.
"Now we need to find a new dress for Dawn. Something that says she is a confident but shy girl." Gabby said.
Dawn who was at their tender mercies watched as they fussed over her. When they brought a mirror, she couldn't believe the job they did to her. Her nails were done a nice pink and her eyes were give a light eye shadow. But it was her cheeks that brought her pretty face. She asked for some blush on her cheeks and they did a beautiful job. The blush made her naturally shy demeanor come out.
"It doesn't matter, Ash loves you girls no matter what." Tori said smiling.
May giggled. "We know. It's just we like to have to have our own dress that says we are Ash's girls but at the same time we are not afraid to be independent of him." May said fluffing up Dawn's hair.
"I wonder. May try to put her hair into twin ponytails." Misty asked. May did so and now she looked like one of the Trainer dolls.
"Come look at this." Misty motioned the girls over to a magazine she was reading. On the page was a girl in a dress that looked like it was a Victorian era dress that came to their waist with a parasol, stockings and shoes."
They looked at the picture and then at Dawn. "You think she can pull it off?" Anabel asked.
Misty took the magazine and showed it to Dawn. "I think you would look great in this. I mean you look aristocratic."
Dawn looked at the picture. "Wow. They look cute." She said.
"I think I've seen this in some of Drew's anime. I believe it's called Lolita? A subculture in Japan, the country where your games and cartoons come from. Something about invoking the Victorian era clothing. The Victorian era according to Drew was when Japan opened up to the west. (A/N: That was 1855. Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1901)
"You think I could pull it off?" Dawn asked curiously.
All of the girls nodded. "I think it will be cute but I think we should wait until we don't have to travel as much."
Dawn sadly smiled at that. "Speaking of travel, were you serious about traveling back to your world Gabby. What about our parents?'
Gabby sighed. "We've talked about this and I really hope we can bring your parents. I know how much all your parents, or guardians mean to you even if they can be pains." Gabby said looking at Misty.
Dawn smiled. "Thank you." She said closing her eyes. The atmosphere was broken by a knock on the sliding door. Anabel being the closest walked over to see Ash and Drew at the door.
"Hey you two. How was the guy's night" Anabel smiled.
"It was fun we played cards. Just wanted to say good night. It's almost midnight believe it or not." Ash asked.
The girls were surprised, where had the time gone.
"We thought we stop by for a good night kiss from our ladies." Drew said tiredly.
The girls got up to kiss their respective boyfriend. When Dawn stepped up Ash widened his eyes and blushed. "You looked great Dawn." Ash said.
If the make-up didn't hide she would have been red-faced but Dawn smiled. "Thanks Ash. Just a little make-up done by the others."
Ash chuckled and kissed her. "Hmn…Cherry. Good night my little Buneary."
Dawn watched as Ash and Drew left for their room and then she walked back to her bedspread and fell to her knees. "Wow." Dawn said in a daze.
Misty giggled and hugged Dawn from behind. "I told ya you have nothing to worry about. You are pretty no matter what. Now then it's late, so you are with me tonight." Misty said making themselves comfortable. The others grabbed their partners and went to sleep as well.
Dawn yawned and followed the others to dreamland.
Three days later (Elements of DP071 and 072 and the game Shadows of Almia)
"How many times do we keep getting lost?" Misty growled. Our heroes had once again gotten lost three days after their stay and Dawn's friends hot spring inn.
"I don't know. Somehow we keep reading the map wrong." Gabby said looking at Max and Brock who had control of the maps. Looking around the others had decided to take a break and sat down next to some trees. Drew had has hat down, Tori was doing some light exercise, Ash was trying to get Turtwig to learn Energy Ball, Anabel was petting Latios and Dawn was sitting down on a log holding a parasol to keep out the mid-day sun. Dawn admittedly had fair skin so when she saw the parasol she thought she could use it to protect herself. When Drew mentioned it could hide her rapier with some adjustments she was sold on it.
The direction argument had dragged almost everyone into it save Anabel and Dawn who decided to keep out.
As Dawn was enjoying the scenery she heard some rustling. She looked over and to see an injured pokémon falling out of the bushes.
Dawn's gasp snapped the bickering group out of their arguments to see what it was. It was a small humanoid pokémon that looked like a small bipedal dog. It was covered in bruises like it had been attacked.
Ash pulled out his pokedex Riolu, the Emanation Pokémon. When sad or scared, Riolu's aura becomes stronger as a way of signaling its allies.
Ash moved to try to comfort the small pokémon but it suddenly lashed out with Aura Sphere. And connected with Ash sending him into a tree.
"Ouch. What the heck we are trying to help you Riolu?" Ash called out. Riolu fired off another one but this Ash caught the attack surprising the pokémon.
"Riolu there you are!" A male voice sounded. They turned to see a brown haired man in a red and yellow uniform and was wielding something on his wrist.
Before the man could get any closer he was stopped. Having several weapons pointed at you from seemingly harmless trainers would do that.
Riolu collapsed on its feet causing the group to look at the fallen pokémon.
"Riolu!" The unknown trainer said but was kept back.
"Don't move." Drew said holding his sword near the person's throat. "Who are you and what do you want with Riolu.
The man gulped. "I…I'm Kellyn. Top-ranked Pokémon Ranger. I was sent to make sure Riolu got back to his home."
Drew looked over at Anabel. "Is he lying?" Anabel opened her eyes. "No, he's trying to help." They all lowered their weapons but did not put them away.
"How is he?" Ash asked Tori.
Tori looked up. "A lot of scratches. He looks like he's been captive recently based on the bruising around his neck."
Kellyn nodded. "I know. The country this Riolu lives in contacted us. He was kidnapped about a week ago. We have not been able to identify who is responsible but we believe it is Hunter J."
At this the whole group cursed. "I take it you've run into her before?" Kellyn asked.
Drew looked at the ranger. "If it is J, we might have a bigger problem. J has teamed up Team Galactic and another benefactor. Your mission may as well be ours at this point."
Kellyn widened his eyes. "J is teaming up with Team Galactic this is bad I got to call my superiors." Kellyn said getting on his communicator.
"This is Top Ranger Kellyn calling HQ we have a situation."
"Kellyn is that you? How's the mission?" A chipper voice said.
"Rhythmi not the time. The mission has taken a turn get me the commander.
"Kellyn is that you? How have you been man?" A male
"Keith, this is serious. The Riolu I am protecting its being targeted by a much larger group. J is with them.
"That is bad. I am sending back-up stay safe." Kevin said.
"Will do." Kellyn said hanging up.
"Is back-up coming?" May asked.
"Probably. But our mission is to keep Riolu safe." The ranger said.
Drew was about to respond when everyone turned to towards where Riolu came from. A mechanical hand shot out missing everyone as Drew dragged Kellyn down.
The group watched as several of J's henchmen along with some dark troopers showed up.
"Ash, Tori get out of here! Kellyn go with them. Protect Riolu!" Drew said as the others pulled out their weapons.
Tori carried Riolu as Ash grabbed Kellyn. They proceeded to run while their friends held off their opposition.
They got some distance away and stopped to catch their breath. Riolu choose this time to wake up and tried to attack Ash.
"Riolu please stop." Ash said holding Riolu out. Riolu stopped struggling. "None of us are going to hurt you."
Riolu looked deep into Ash's eyes and then nodded and hopped down. Before they talk Riolu snapped to the right and fired off an Aura Sphere into the trees.
"Impressive. Never knew a Riolu could learn Aura Sphere." Said a snide voice. They turned to see several armored men approached.
"Did your friends fail?" Kellyn asked.
"No they look like they haven't fought anyone. They must have gotten around in an attempt to flank us." Tori said spinning Aquarius around. Ash pulled out Raikou to help fight them off. Kellyn though spotted a pack of Ariados. He held up his wrist slyer.
"Vantonage Styler! GO!" He said launching what appeared to be a top and encircling the spider. He weaved his hand and spun the top around. Soon the circle was absorbed into the Ariados and they immediately perked up.
"Use String Shot on those men and wrap them up." Kellyn called out. The Ariados did so and soon the ten men were detained. Kellyn spotted a Nincada and did the same thing as the Ariados and had it use Dig. The men instantly fell into the hole allowing the group to escape.
Reuniting with the others they had a chance to catch their breath. Kellyn released the pokémon he used and reached for something in his bag. It was a wooden statue that caused Riolu's eyes to light up.
"You have to fear. You will get home safely." Kellyn said as he wrapped the bag around the small pokémon's neck.
Ash suddenly had a vision of Riolu and an old man who carved this statue. Ash looked at Riolu with a sympathetic smile. "This your treasure. The man who made it must have be a great father figure to you."
Riolu looked shocked but just nodded.
Kellyn pulled out a potion and sprayed it on the wounds that was covered by Tori. "I thank you for watching him. Please tell me your names.
The group introduced themselves to Kellyn this time on friendlier terms. Brock looked up into the sky. "The sun's setting we need a protectable shelter."
"I agree. We are currently being hunted and the only to get out of this is to outsmart J." Ash said.
They walked around and found a suitable spot within the trees that was near a cliff face. Setting up camp they set up a watch system and had a tense dinner. Once dinner was had the group settled into where they were going to sleep.
The first shift with Misty and Max passed uneventfully. The second shift had Ash, Kellyn and Drew. The three sat on the fire looking around and trying to pass the time.
Kellyn decided to break the ice. "How did you fight off those men? Are your pokémon that strong?"
Ash shook his head. "We haven't really shown you our abilities but we didn't use our pokémon at least to be beat those troopers."
"What Ash is saying we trained a lot using different abilities we learned from our pokémon and we taught ourselves some moves." Drew said holding out his sword. Kellyn was impressed at the care of Leonid.
"So how do you think we can take down J or at least prevent Riolu from being captured?" Kellyn asked.
As if summoned, Riolu woke up and staggered over to Ash and fell asleep. Ash chuckled and started to stroke him. "If we are going to protect Riolu we need to stop the client." Ash said.
"Thinking logically? Where the heck did you put Ash I know?" Drew said chuckling.
Ash pouted. "But it's true if the client is some dissuaded from getting Riolu then the mission fails."
Drew looked up at the stars. "Guess that's a good plan B. Plan A is force J to retreat. It will be difficult especially since she has an ace in the hole."
Ash nodded. "The Dracul gear."
Kellyn looked confused. "Wait I don't understand? What is J's trump card?"
Ash and Drew's eyes met and they both looked at Kellyn. "If we tell you this does not get repeated at all." Drew said seriously.
Kellyn gulped. He saw the weapons pointed at him and if they are as trained as he thinks they are it wasn't going to be pretty if he spilled.
"Fine. I promise."
The two boys nodded and started explaining about the history they had learned, about the powers they had obtained, about the Guardians and everything they had done up to this point.
"Wow." Kellyn said after the information overload he just went through. "So J has one of these gears?"
Ash nodded. "From what we gathered it's one of the dark gears. We know who the other two are. One is a trainer that I consider a rival. The other is the benefactor we talked about."
Drew looked at Kellyn. "This is to let you know that there are armored figures that aren't with us."
Kellyn nodded. Drew changed the subject. "So why did you decide to become a ranger?"
Kellyn looked up at the stars. "Would you believe I was saved by one?" He looked at the two boys who motioned him to continue. "My family was out fishing one day and there was a bad storm. I fell out of the boat in the waves and the rangers who were there to help out jumped in and saved me using a Mantine. It was thanks to the rangers that my goal in life was set." Kellyn said
Ash smiled and then felt Riolu shift and look up to Ash. "Hey there Riolu."
Riolu looked at Ash and then reached into his little knapsack to pull out the figurine. "You really like that statue don't ya. It's your personal treasure."
Riolu nodded. Ash looked over to where everyone is sleeping and in particular his sleeping bag where his girls were curled up. "I have a few treasures of my own that no amount of gold could replace."
Riolu looked at him curiously and then placed a paw over Ash's heart. Kellyn widened his eyes. "I've never seen such a powerful connection between a Riolu or Lucario and a trainer. You must be something special."
Ash looked at Riolu. "A strong connection huh? Man I wish I could take you with us." Ash said.
Drew shook his head. "I guess it isn't meant to be." He took out his watch. "Its getting late. Time to wake up Anabel and Brock."
"No need. I can stay up for another hour." Kellyn said.
"You sure?" Drew asked.
Kellyn nodded. They shrugged and walked over to their bags. When Ash got to his he had to chuckle. Misty and May were wrapped up around each other and Anabel and Dawn were wrapped around their waists with their heads on their stomach. Ash knelt down and kissed their heads as he crawled in. On instinct the girls wrapped themselves around Ash as Ash closed the bag up. Riolu had walked over as he was doing so. "You can sleep here if you want." Ash said. Riolu nodded and crawled next to Anabel who opened her eyes.
"Ash…?" She said blearily.
"Its alright Anabel. Just let him sleep." Ash said.
Anabel nodded and hugged Riolu gently to her chest and went back to sleep. Ash soon fell into an uneasy sleep.
Next day
The group was tense the next morning as they broke camp. They walked for a few minutes and then Kellyn got a call on his Styler.
"Kellyn here."
"Kellyn thank goodness. I caught you." A female voice said. From the wind in the background she was moving quite fast.
"Solana they sent you to back me up?"
"Affirmative. I am with Officer Jenny. We believe we have a bead on Hunter J's current location. I'm sending them now."
Kellyn nodded and looked at his device. "Okay it looks like we can get there in a couple of hours thanks Solana."
The call ended and he relayed it to everyone. They quickly ran in the direction Solana had given them.
Soon they came across a lake with two decent size boats. Ash, Dawn and Misty released their water types to help push the boats across. Everyone had their weapons out and Tori and Misty were scanning the water for threats.
"So tell us Kellyn why is this Riolu so important?" May asked.
Kellyn looked at May. "This Riolu is needed for the Paradise Kingdom. He is going to be the guardian of the kingdom one day."
"Is this what Riolu wants?" Anabel asked.
Kellyn looked at Riolu who was looking at Ash with fascination. "Maybe not anymore. Something has definitely changed in him."
Before anyone could respond Misty darted her eyes to the water. "We got company in the water. I sense multiple auras."
Everyone looked at the water to see bubbles approaching them. Three jumped out of the water. They had oxygen tanks and had hunting knives. They were charging at the boat but Misty was ready for them as she launched three ice missiles. Two were shot through the chest causing the oxygen tanks to explode, but the third got hit in the shoulder and kept charging at the boat charging at the boat. Before it could reach the boat Dawn pierced the skull. As it disintegrated, Dawn turned to Misty.
"Got your back Mist!"
Misty looked at Dawn and then smiled before they spotted more coming at them. Getting May to help them, they protected their side of the boats.
On the other side, Kellyn got a Floatzel to hold off a Sharpedo while Ash, Drew and Gabby picked off the water borne troopers dubbed Frogmen. Max who was hitting those who got close heard flapping and he looked up.
"Guys we have incoming!" Max pointed. Drew and Ash looked and growled. In addition to the flying enemies, J had showed up on her Salamence.
"Damn it. J is here." Ash growled. And they were in a poor position to block. J ordered her Salamence to use Hyper Beam. Ash and Drew quickly charged up their swords.
THUNDER SLASH
INFERNO CROSS
The two attacks launched and met with the Hyper Beam. The collision through up smoke which allowed J to fire her beam weapon at Riolu. Block though saw the attack and deflected it into the water. J growled and ordered her minions to attack. From their limited space they could not fight as effectively as they wanted too. This allowed J to sneak around and fired another beam at Riolu. This time the empath pokémon saw it and fired an Aura Sphere which deflected the beam but knocked Riolu's statue into the water. The little guy panicked and dove in. Ash spotted him and jumped in after in him with Buizel and Pikachu to the dismay of his friends.
"That crazy idiot! Piplup, Starmie, Squirtle double time!" Drew called out slashing one of the flying enemies and then jumping into the water after him.
With Riolu and Ash
Riolu blearily opened his eyes. He sat up and then panicked looking for his statue.
"Don't worry Riolu I have it see?" Ash said holding up the figurine. Drew chose this time to make an appearance.
"Glad to see you are okay. Ash what have I said about charging recklessly.
Ash waved it off Riolu gingerly grabbed it as Ash tied his knapsack around his neck. The moment was short-lived as Pikachu's ears perked up.
Ash looked in Pikachu's direction. "Damn it. Come on Riolu." He said as the group ran further into the forest.
The henchmen were about to pursue when J held up her hand. "No! I have a better idea. Pull back to the ship. Salamence fly up and use Flamethrower on the whole forest!"
Salamence flew up and unleashed the white hot flames on the forest in an attempt to snuff out the heroes.
With Ash's friends
The whole group were making their way through the woods when Anabel felt something off. She looked up and gasped.
"Guys! Look!" She pointed out. They watched in horror as J's Salamence unleashed its mighty Flamethrower. Soon the smoke was thick and the tree around them were catching fire.
Those with water-types unleashed them but the fire was too intense and the smoke made it confusing.
May became separated in the confusion and was holding onto Squritle as the flames surrounded her.
She hugged Squirtle. "Don't worry Squirtle, Mama's here. If we can't get out of here then at least you'll make it…(cough)…" May said with tears in her eyes.
Squirtle looked at his trainer…no his mother and partner and made a choice. He leapt out of May's hands and unleashed his Water Gun.
"Squirtle what are you doing?" May cried out for her pokémon.
"Squirtle. Squirtle." "I'm saving us Mama." He said firing off more Water Guns and Bubble Beams.
"No Squirtle don't!" May Called out coughing at the end.
Squirtle ignored her and kept on firing.
"Squirtle." More
"Squirtle!" More
"SQURTLE!" MORE"
With a loud roar Squirtle glowed white and grew larger in front of May's eyes. When the glow died down, Squirtle was now a Wartortle.
"Squirtle?" May asked. "No Wartortle." May said smiling through the tears.
Wartortle nodded and started glowing blue indicating his ability Torrent. He leaned back and fired a more powerful attack then Water Gun.
"That looked... (Cough)…like a Hydro Pump." May said coughing as the newly evolved pokémon put out the flames. With fires around them put out Wartorle walked over to his trainer and collapsed.
"Wartortle…" May said hugging the tired pokémon to her chest. A few moments of comfort later she felt something on her cheek. She looked up to see rain clouds developing. A strong downpour started and soaked the forest putting out the fires.
"May? Are you alright?" Misty's voice sounded.
"I'm… (Cough)…over here!" May cried out as loud as she could. A few moments later the group say May in the scorched earth. Misty was the first one there as she hugged May.
"I'm glad you are alright." Misty said as she kissed the forest girl's cheek. Anabel and Dawn joined the hug until May started coughing. Tori was immediately on the job to clear up the breathing troubles.
Kellyn and newcomer Solana watched the interaction with a smile. Then they heard jet engines roar and everyone looked up to see what was assumed to be J's ship. They saw something open on the carrier and two figures fell.
Anabel who her empath connection gasped. "No. It's Ash and Drew they are falling out of the plane.
The other girls panicked as Kellyn sprang into action by capturing two Staraptor and flying up to intercept them.
Minutes before
Ash and Drew had snuck on board to J's ship. In the middle of trying to get out of the fire, J had snuck in and captured Riolu and sped away. They were able to get out of the fire with the help of Buizel, Chimchar and Flygon and were able to track J's ship and sneak on as they were taking off.
Now they were sneaking through the ship looking for Riolu. They passed some of her other captures and knew they couldn't do anything at the moment to save them. They finally got to where Riolu was and was about to pull the case away when then heard a sinister chuckle.
"I knew there were rats on my ship. Who knew it would be two pesky riders?" J said walking towards them with a gun pointed at them and her Drapion ready to rip them up.
Ash got into a defensive stance but Drew kept his cool. "Go ahead and shoot us." Which shocked Ash but he kept his stance. "But do you feel lucky you can shoot us and not Riolu." He asked as he stepped in front of the statue with his arms out.
J growled. "Drapion get them." She ordered angrily. Drapion charged only for him to get blocked by the warrior's respective blades. They jumped back ready to attack when J smirked.
"Got You!" J said pulling a lever. Ash and Drew were confused until the heard sirens and the floor start to give way. Looking down they saw they were on a hanger door. Before they could charge at the hunter they fell through the hatch.
J scoffed and then put her hand her headset. "Move out we are wasting time." She said as the hatch closed.
In the air Ash and Drew were frantically trying to find a way to prevent themselves from becoming pancakes.
"Got to figure out something!?" Ash said trying to reach for his poke balls with Pikachu hanging on for dear life.
Before they could think of a plan they were caught by two Staraptor who were being used by Kellyn.
"You guys like to get in trouble don't you?" Kellyn said with a smile.
The two growled as they flew down. After a brief reunion and making sure the two were okay, they immediately set out to follow J in the direction Drew saw her fly off.
While on the Dodrio that Solana and Kellyn had captured, Ash was still feeling mad.
"Riolu…I will get you back and destroy Hunter J." He gripping Dodrio harder.
Misty who was riding with squeezed him. "We'll get him back. J won't get away."
Ash snapped out of his thoughts and looked at his red haired girlfriend. He nodded and looked ahead. Suddenly Ash's eyes glowed blue. Seeing a blue line he followed until he got to a clearing where J was landing to meet with his client. Snapping out of the vison he turned to the other.
"I just had some sort of Aura Vision. I know where Riolu is. We got to pick up the pace." Ash said urging his mount to go faster.
Kellyn looked over at Drew. "Your friend seems energetic."
Drew chuckled. "Ash's sense of moral justice is stronger than mine. I am proud to say he is my brother in arms. All of us are siblings in arms but there is something to be said to have a guy like that backing me up."
Kellyn was reminded of his classmates and smiled. "Yeah, I know the feeling."
Soon enough they reached the clearing where J was conducting her business with a middle aged man who was handling Riolu.
"Gabby get their attention." Drew ordered as they sped through the bushes. Gabby nodded and fired several arrows that struck around J and her client.
J growled. "You riders are harder to kill than cockroaches. I will leave you with something to protect our merchandise." She said snapping her fingers causing several troopers to appear and as well a Kaijuu that look like an Aggron.
J quickly walked away to the powered up J. Ash tried to run after her but was held back. "Forget about her, we need to get Riolu now!"
Ash looked at the departing jet and the Hunter who was on the ramp watching with a sadistic smile. Ash growled and turned around to run after Riolu while their friends were holding off the troops with Kellyn and Drew backing him up.
Soon they reached a cave that Ash's aura told him Riolu was in. Walking in they had to jump out of the way of rocks falling and closing the caves. The client sneered.
"Metal Horn attack him." The man said.
Kellyn watched as Drew and Ash stepped forward and pulled out a phone and a belt buckle.
"Kellyn this is how we fight. Ready Drew?" Ash said.
"Always." Drew said pressing the Taurus button while Ash inserted the change Pikachu card after Pikachu transformed.
STANDBY TAURUS
HENSHIN
COMPLETE/EVOLVE
The two boys were transformed into their armored forms and attempted to fight Metal Horn. Despite Zodiac's increased strength and Aura using his best type match-up cards, Aggron's natural defenses made it hard to penetrate. Aura looked to see the man trying to leave. He broke away from the fight and went and tackled him knocking Riolu's cage into the air. Aura looked up and leapt for the cage catching it right before it hit the ground.
"You are okay Riolu I gotcha." Aura said deactivating the cage.
Riolu looked and realized the armored warrior was Ash and hugged him.
"Great Riolu is out of harm's way. Now could you, I don't know, HELP ME OUT HERE!" Zodiac called out.
Aura nodded and was about to go when Riolu grabbed his hand.
"Riolu? You want to help? I don't think you can." Aura said.
Riolu nodded and tapped his belt. Instantly Riolu was transformed into a card that Aura caught.
Looking at the card, it said Soul. Aura nodded and held it near his belt buckle to scan it.
SOUL
Instantly Aura was enveloped in a blue aura. When it died down Aura now black gloves and boots and the armor became a darker blue with yellow striping. The helmet gained a black wrap around mask much like Riolu. This was Aura Soul Form
Aura looked to the fight where Zodiac and Metal Horn was locked in battle. He suddenly gained a lot of information and held up his hand.
AURA SPHERE
A blue orb fired from it and connected with Metal Horn. Aura was amazed at the shot. With the momentum in his hands he got into a stance and scanned another
QUICK ATTACK
He immediately charged at the staggering beast and pulled back with his glowing hand.
FORCE PALM
He connected with a vicious right hand and knocked the monster through the collapsed entrance. Their friends were finishing up their fight when they saw the monster fly out.
Aura calmly took out his blade and scanned the cards after charging them with Aura.
THUNDER
LEAF BLADE
COMBO: LIGHTNING BLADE
He got into his stance and disappeared. He appeared behind Metal Horn sheathing his blade.
"Game Over." He said. Suddenly multiple slashes appeared on the monster as it collapsed and blew up.
Powering down Ash looked at Riolu with a smile. "Thanks Riolu." He said with the emanation pokémon returning it.
Officer Jenny eventually came and rounded up the man and cronies. At the same time Riolu's owner came to take Riolu away. With a sad farewell they left Riolu and the Rangers.
Riolu's owner looked down at the pokémon. "Go." Riolu looked up shocked. "That boy, Ash. He has a much greater destiny in store for him I can tell. I think you would better serve with him then with the Paradise Kingdom."
Riolu was shocked and then nodded. He sprinted calling out in his Aura Link. Ash turned around and saw Riolu running towards him. He looked at the owner who smiled and waved. Ash nodded and caught Riolu as he jumped towards him as his friends looked on.
With a new pokémon and a new form the heroes continue on their journey. But evil lurks around the corner. What will happen at the Contest find out next time?
END OF CHAPTER
UO: God I wanted this out Sunday. Life got in the way no other excuse.
New Forms
Aura
Soul Form: Combining with Riolu allows Ash to access Soul Form. In addition to increased power it would allow him to fight with Aura once he trains it properly.
Preview:
On the way to the next contest, Misty faces her temple test in an environment that could kill her. Then the Wallace Cup comes at Lake Valor but someone crashes the party and threatens thousands. Will the Princess of Water protect the contest? Find out next time
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