Blaze Of Glory
PikaDarkness
Chapter 19
Oh Blast Of Team Rocket PLEASE!
"No! That's cheating!" Jeff cried, pushing Emma jokingly. "You do not steal my cards in a game of go fish!"
"You do in my modified version!" Emma said happily, waving Jeff's cards infront of his face. "It's called 'I steal your cards and throw them in a pond and you go fish'!"
Jeff shook his head at her cheekiness. "God I wanna strangle you and your smart-aleck comments sometimes."
"Too bad you won't because I won't let you!" Emma threw the cards at Jeff. "Just because I'm smarter then you there is no need to be jealous! And I'd probably beat you when it comes to strength as well!"
"Really?! Why don't we test out speed before strength?" Jeff gave chase; he won in the speed department. "you should've listened to the story last night! I told you I was keeping up with the bus!"
"How fast was it going? 1km per hour?" Emma asked, elbowing her way out of Jeff's chokehold.
"Funny… but no. that was how fast your mother walked while pregnant with you! And only two weeks in and I was very confused." Emma cried out in pure offence. Jeff laughed jubilantly. "Now let's test your speed."
Emma chased Jeff, she stopped dead when he leapt over the banister, and Jeff amazingly landed on the lounge… and did a front flip landing on his feet.
"Oh my god!" Emma cried, running down the stairs. Jeff looked proud of himself. "Did you just get your inner teenage urge to do that?"
"Rephrase that I don't think you said it right." Jeff looked confused at her.
"Oh you have a filthy mind!" Emma punched Jeff's stomach lightly; Jeff laughed and responded with his own punch.
Knock, knock. Always when you don't want it. Jeff answered the door. No surprise that Delia and the kids at the door.
"Hi come in!" Jeff held the door wider. Delia ushered the kids in first before herself. Delia seemed to give Jeff flirtatious eyes. Jeff was uneasy, either he remembered the last time Delia got naughty idea's he got mad at Emma she ran away and they both got hit by a truck, or the realisation of four kids, two teenagers and two just shy of 11 and 12.
"Um don't let us break your moment Delia." Emma shook her head in a 'do you realise we are still here?' kind of way. Jeff shook his head and turned to Emma wordlessly thanking her for breaking Delia's gaze.
"Oh sorry." Delia looked windswept.
"Delia, excuse me, but if you care to notice there is no bugs in the house we kind of wanna keep it that way." Delia now noticed she was blocking the doorway stopping Jeff from closing it.
"Wow it's like I fall into trances a lot. Sometime's I don't know when their going to happen."
"Yeah right." Emma muttered under her breath. Jeff wanted her to run away, not Emma- he couldn't kick her out! Delia, he didn't want her to 'grace' him with her presence today.
"I wish you called to tell us you were coming." Jeff rolled his eyes at Emma as he passed her to get into the living room, Emma snorted and turned away. Delia looked a bit offended.
"Oh we mean no insult, its just we weren't in the mood for visitors today." Emma explained.
"Oh I'm sorry, we could just leave." Delia pointed to the door.
Jeff waved his hand. "Don't worry about it; you came all this way it'd be useless to send you back straight away." Because you'd be back tomorrow.
Delia smiled, Emma just wanted to kick the crap out of her, hopefully she'd learn to leave them alone, Jeff wasn't a cheater, she didn't need to call and come over all the time, besides other then Delia Jeff didn't have any other females (He was friends with, Emma doesn't fit into the dating category.) he'd mess around with.
"I'm going out the back, you guys coming?"
"Pika!" Ash's Pikachu jumped off Ash's shoulder where it always took its refuge.
"Looks like Pikachu's in full arms over playing outside how bout the human companions of the Pokemon?"
"Fine but as long as we have a six on six battle." Ash crossed his arms.
"Ash, I travelled all over the world in a year winning competitions and everything, do you really want to battle me?" Emma raised her eyebrows.
Ash looked at Jeff who nodded. "She did travel all over, did you ever hear of Emma Hardy in any record books?"
"Yeah…"
"That's her." Jeff pointed at Emma who looked in admiration at the roof. "I didn't expect to see her in every competition they held in one year, she was one of the best. And a Pokemon master for a few months before she gave it up… I don't know why though."
"I didn't like all the pressure, the tabloids were all over me and they were trying to hook me up with this Sinnoh guy who was a jackass, I just needed to resign and come back, being at home is the good life, Pokemon Master is a temporary prize, your family is for life." Emma grinned. "And I only have one family member, and I couldn't stay away for longer then the year I was gone."
Brock looked at Emma with awe, there was so much he didn't know about her, and he needed to! If he was going to be with her he needed to know these things, he couldn't just be with her and turn a blind eye to her accomplishments, personality and background.
"Do you really want to face her?" Jeff asked. Ash nodded. "This I have to see."
Emma and Ash were positioned on either sides of the lawn, both with determined looks.
Brock was referee. He looked from the former trainer to the current wanna-be Pokemon Master. "You ready?" Both nodded. "Then. Begin!"
Ash called out his Pokemon first. "Go muk!" "Go Charizard!"
"Sludge bomb!" Ash commanded, Muk obeyed, Emma didn't call out a defence for the sludge bomb had no apparent effect on Charizard.
"Fly! Then spin in circles!" Emma cried: Charizard obeyed. "Now keep the spinning and use flamethrower on yourself!"
Jeff grinned; he knew what she was doing. Ash however was confused. "Now drop out of the sky!"
"Muk dodge it!" Too late, the flame wheel crashed down on muk, knocking it out completely.
"No!" Ash cried, and then recalled Muk. Then Ash called out his Charizard.
"Return Charizard!" Emma recalled her Charizard. "Go Mudkip!"
Ash was befuddled; he had never seen this Pokemon before.
"Charizard fly!" Ash commanded, he knew it was a water Pokemon, and fire was weak against water.
"Just use water gun around in the air! use it until you can get an open target!" Emma really was good, who knew a year was all it took her?
Mudkip did as it was told, Charizard grew weakened by all the moisture.
"Ash! You need to recall Charizard!" Misty shouted at Ash, who nodded.
"Return Charizard!" Ash needed a grass type for this. "Go Bayleef!"
"Return Mudkip!" Emma startled Ash yet again, she wasn't only battling him, she was analysing his every move! "Go Blazikan!"
Jeff was surprised as well as everyone else that Emma managed to catch a Pokemon like that, one that was only sighted in Hoenn.
"Bayleef razor leaf!" Ash ordered Bayleef agreed.
"Knock down the razor leaf!" Blazikan used its hand and squashed the razor leaf. Ash was stupefied. "Flamethrower"
That was it for Bayleef. Two down for Ash, four more to go - Emma's Pokemon were raised well, it was obvious. "Go Pikachu!"
"Return Blazikan!" Emma held the Pokeball out. "Come on out Pikachu!"
"THUNDERBOLT NOW!" Ash cried
"VOLT TACKLE!" Emma shouted. Volt tackle?
"Pika, pika, pika, pika, pika, PIKA!"
"pi-ka-CHU!" The thunderbolt hit, but the volt tackle connected, making the thunderbolt work in Emma's favour, Ash's Pikachu was worn but loyalty to Ash made him get up.
"Return Pikachu!" Ash commanded. "Go Squirtle!"
"ASH?! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!" Misty screeched. "WATER CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY YOU IDIOT!"
Ash appeared to have realised his mistake. But his - oh damn he had geodude!
Emma looked like she was slackening, but Ash didn't want her to lower her defences so he could benefit no matter how much he wanted to beat her. "No holding back Emma, just kick me around!"
"I want you to win at least one!" Emma shouted back
"No, just battle!"
Emma nodded. "Pikachu! Dance!" Pikachu began to shake it, Ash was confused, apparently her Pikachu was female, and Ash's was male. Ash's Pikachu was hypnotised. Squirtle was hypnotised to, "Quick now thunderbolt!" Pikachu set the thunder off at the speed of light. Ash couldn't believe he fell for it.
"Snorlax come on out." Ash called his Pokemon out, the heaviest and sleepiest he had.
"This is a challenge… Pikachu stay out of range!"
Suddenly both Pikachu's were captured in two metallic claws. "What the-?"
"Prepare for trouble."
"And Make It Double."
"To Protect The World From Devastation."
"To Unite All People Within Our Nation."
"To Pronounce The Evils Of Truth And Love."
"To Extend Our Reach To The Stars Above."
"Jessie!"
"James."
"-"
"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" Emma screamed, startling Team Rocket, they looked offended at not being allowed to finish their motto.
"Well that's a new twerp." Meowth observed, Wabbofet burst out of its Pokeball.
"Wabbofet."
Jeff got mad at that. "Don't call her a twerp!"
"Who might you be?" Jessie asked, she had hearts in her eyes. James and Meowth rolled their eyes, Jessie fell in love with almost any guy.
Jeff didn't respond, he just wanted to get his daughters Pokemon back not fraternize with a criminal. "I said who are you?!" Emma pushed Jeff out of the way as Jessie fired off a thunderbolt they forced from both Pikachu's.
"Blazikan go!" Emma released her Pokemon. "throw me up there!"
Blazikan was shocked but obeyed its master. Emma was chucked up, she didn't make it into the balloon instead she just managed to grasp the basket.
Emma put her feet on the basket and pushed off back flipping to one of the metal claws. "Pikapichu!" Yep this Pikachu was hers.
"Time to get you- AHH!" another thunderbolt was forced from her Pikachu hitting Emma full on. Jeff and Brock shouted "No!" Emma was far from giving up, she now knew she needed to get in the basket and free the Pokemon.
Emma shimmied up the hand and now was gripping the basket with her finger tips knowing she'd fall to her death should she slip. Getting in safely Emma growled at them all.
"Who are you?" Emma asked threateningly. They hiked the collars of their shirts and drew themselves out proudly. "I don't have all day!"
They darkened. "We are team rocket!"
"What a funky name you gotcha self's! or are you part of an organisation? Like Team Aqua and Magma?"
"If you heard of them why not us?" Jessie asked, slouching.
"You aren't big in any of the regions and I should know, I've been to them all." Emma crossed her arms. "Now release the Pikachu's!"
Jessie and James laughed.
"Taste my fury swipes!" Meowth was kicked in the face before he could use the attack. He made a sound like a squeaky toy.
Jessie launched herself at Emma, flipping her to the outside of the basket.
Jeff felt his heart skip seven beats. Suddenly Emma fell.
"Charizard go!" Ash cried. "Catch her!" Charizard did as it was told, flying up and underneath Emma, setting her down on the ground. Jeff immediately raced to her.
Ash ordered Charizard to break the cable wires holding up the claws and when it did their Pikachu's were released, being caught by the fire Pokemon.
"Blazikan!" Emma shouted, "Jump then Blaze kick!" the balloon burst.
"TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"
"WABBOFET!"
Charizard lowered the two electric Pokemon to the ground, each scarpering to their trainers.
"Hopefully we won't see them again." Jeff commented.
Ash rolled his eyes, "Oh please, they haven't left us alone since I started, their always after Pikachu, now they've seen yours their probably going to be stuck on you like a wart."
Emma grimaced, those thugs on her back all the time? No thanks!
"Come on lets get inside." Jeff pulled Emma to her feet. It started to rain a few moments later, they were so preoccupied with the battle and rescuing the Pikachu's, they never once noticed the storm clouds. Thunder and lightening accompanied the rain. Emma stood at the big living room window watching it all.
"Didn't Jeff ever tell you to stay away from windows when a storm was happening?" Brock asked coming to stand next to her.
"He did, I just love the look of storms, and the beauty is amazing it's like when the sun comes out after raining and how it brightens everything up and making it look a hundred times better."
"You don't need the sun to look good." Brock smiled, Emma smiled back.
"Thank you." Emma looked Brock directly in the eyes, the swirling thunderclouds and lightening made the mood that much better.
"Have you thought about my offer…about us?" Brock asked hesitantly. Emma sighed.
"I have, look Brock I'm not ready to handle a relationship! I can't push fast forward to skip parts of my life to be with you! If you can't handle that then I'm reconsidering ever getting together." Emma turned away, but Brock grabbed her.
"Why aren't you ready, I think I deserve an answer to that."
Emma groaned. "Why did you say that you would wait for me if you didn't mean that?"
"I can't wait forever!" Brock cried.
"I told you I wasn't going to keep you waiting long! I needed time to get my thoughts straightened before I made my decision!" Emma pushed Brock away. "Now I don't want to be with you."
Before Brock could say a word Emma turned and ran from the room, upstairs and into her bedroom.
There was a knock on her door a few minutes later. "Go away!"
"Please let me in." it wasn't Brock it was Jeff.
"Come in then." Jeff walked in, a sad smile, Emma knew now why he was in here. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Yes you do." Jeff differed. Emma looked up at him, feeling foolish now. "You want to talk about it all but you just don't know how to open up, once again you find yourself scared out of your mind."
"You read me like a book."
"No I don't, I raised you Emma, and don't you think I know you by now?" Jeff raised his eyebrows. Emma smiled and nodded, blinking back tears.
"Brock wants me to be with him, but I don't want a relationship I just want to be friends, I told Brock I wasn't ready for any love business, he said he'd wait but now he just brought it up again and we got into a fight."
"I understand why you want a friendship not a relationship." Jeff looked at her knowingly.
"How would you possibly understand? You and mum were fine! She might have said those things about you but you guys ended up fine!"
"I was scared stiff, I felt like I had to give more of myself to the friendship then the relationship and then with you, I felt like I wasn't putting in half of what I was supposed to and I ended up burning myself out." Jeff shook his head biting his lip. "Don't assume you can't talk to me about these things, I've been through this stage before and I'm here to help."
"Apart of me wants to be in the relationship like it's the right thing to do." Emma burst out, feeling relieved she said it.
"What does the other half say?" This question was serious, Emma considered it for a moment.
"The other part just wants to grow up first, to at least be 18 before I get a relationship… is that bad?"
Jeff shook his head. "I'm glad you're waiting, it was something I never did and I'm thankful for that because I moved at the pace I wanted to and I'm proud of you for thinking with your heart not your head, because your heart is telling you to wait when your head wants to rush things through."
"You even sound like a mum, I thought you were my dad." Jeff chuckled.
"I'm just telling you what you don't want to hear." Jeff raised his hands defensively. Emma laughed.
"I don't care whether you're still my dad or mutilating into mum, I'm just glad you're my parent!" Emma hugged Jeff, thankful for the advice he gave her. "And why did you rush things through with mum?"
"Because" Jeff thought for a moment figuring out how to elaborate. "I didn't know back then that I wouldn't have a lot of time to be with her, we got married and she was married to me for the rest of her life, she had you at 16 while I was 15 and we had a house and everything… to us we weren't rushing through with anything, that's the pace we wanted to go at."
Emma nodded.
"You see Emma, people have there own pace, some run through life and never look back to smell the roses, some go moderately fast, but they take appreciation to what they have and what their making, some go slow, taking their time until they feel comfortable to take it to the next level." Jeff looked down at her, hoping she understood.
Emma nodded, she did understand because Jeff had made it perfectly clear to her. "Your pretty wise dad."
"I do what I can and wise doesn't really fall under my category." Jeff grinned. "do you want to come down?"
Emma shook her head. "I'm kind of tired, can I go to sleep?" Jeff nodded.
"Go for your life and remember listen with your heart." Jeff put a hand over her heart. "Not your head."
"And that I can talk to you about anything." Emma added, Jeff kissed her forehead.
"Right." Jeff got up from the bed and walked across the room. "Goodnight."
"Night." Emma yawned and fell asleep.
Brock was sitting on the lounge, when Jeff came down the stairs he jumped up.
"Brock she isn't ready, she's moving at her own pace. Either you accept that or you back off and leave her alone." Jeff walked out of the living room and into the spare room to try and find the dustpan (before Brock asked him to talk to Emma he dropped half a bag full of salt he knocked out of the cupboard.) Brock fell back on the lounge, pondering what Jeff said, he felt stupid now for trying to rush her if she wasn't ready not because he'd be on the wrong end with Jeff but he'd be one short step away from losing Emma.
***
Emma rubbed sleep from her eyes as she walked downstairs, it had been a couple of hours since she fell asleep now she felt refreshed.
Brock was sitting on the lounge with Ash and Jeff, Misty was feeding her Pokemon out the back.
"Aye Emma come and sits down." Ash beckoned Emma to sit down. "Alexandra vs. Chase, wanna watch?" Of course they were watching battles.
Brock looked at her, Emma looked away and smiled at Ash, "No thanks I'm just going to get a drink and go outside, you watch Alexandra she was my travel buddy but I went to the top but she goes in every competition twice just to show how good she is and she is very talented- learn from her."
"What about Chase?" Brock asked. Emma glared at him.
"I used to date him he was in the public eye for being the former Masters little brother, he's sweet and doesn't try to rush others into things that didn't feel right to others."
Jeff grinned at Emma who was still glaring at Brock. Brock got up. "I need to talk to you." Brock grabbed her arm, Emma pulled away.
"What could you possibly say to me what could be so confidential?" Emma asked. "I think Ash and Dad should hear about it. Delia and Misty as well."
"Look I'm sorry for making you rush into things, I shouldn't have brought it up and I should either wait for you or forget you." Brock tried to grab her hands but she didn't allow him too.
"No Brock, you said that you wouldn't rush into things the first time, tell me Brock what did you do hours ago? Broke your word!"
"Come on be fair-"
"I AM being fair! Why don't you try being fair? That goes a long way!" Emma pushed Brock in the chest, Brock grabbed Emma and shook her. Jeff leapt up and separated them.
"Calm down you two… if you continue to act this way I won't have you both in the same room." Jeff looked sternly at the pair, who looked in opposite directions. "Now sit down and watch the TV if you have any problems take it outside!"
Brock and Emma sat down on the lounge, Jeff was sitting between them wishing that he wasn't because he felt anger and hatred fly in from both sides it was unnerving to feel it.
Emma couldn't handle the match anymore and got to her feet.
"Oh come on stay!" Ash pleaded, Emma shook her head.
"What's the matter? A battle is like a relationship now?" Brock asked coolly, Emma had enough.
"No its not because then I would hate battles, because they remind me of you!"
"Wow that hurt are you losing your grip on these come backs?" Brock asked crossing his arms and raising his eyebrows.
"No, I am losing my grip on everything else."
"Oh y-"
"ENOUGH!" Jeff shouted, startling them both. "Would you both cut this stupid squabble up? Its no good to fight about this because its getting you nowhere!"
"Why? I was being fair! I was listening to my heart- isn't that what you told me to do? Listen to my heart not my head!? I cant be expected to make everyone happy, I need to do something for myself!" Emma turned on Jeff now, taking all her anger out on him.
"Yeah I told you to listen to your heart but now your listening to idiocy! The both of you!" Jeff got up from the lounge standing between them, his hands raised. "Look Brock if you love Emma you'd respect her wishes! Emma if you love Brock, you'd be able to see where he's coming from!"
"Dad I can! But I have to do what feels right to me! Looks like even you don't understand!" Emma then turned and ran upstairs, slamming her bedroom door the second she entered it.
"Why do I have to deal with female hormones?!" Jeff muttered as he took off after her.
Emma shouted at him to go away as he knocked on her door, Jeff wasn't going to stand for this and let himself in.
"I told you to go away!" Emma yelled, Jeff sighed angrily making the 'urgh' sound.
"You're a handful sometimes!" Jeff sat down on her bed, shaking his head. "Come on cheer up."
Emma was lying on the bed on her stomach her head buried in her pillows. She said something but it was indecipherable.
Jeff sighed and rubbed her back, he hated when he had to deal with female hormones like this, why couldn't Andrea be with them? She knew about this stuff.
"Look, I know you want to stay true to your heart…" Jeff broke off, wondering how he was going to say that wouldn't end up with Emma screaming at him. "But sometimes…"
"Sometimes you have to do something for someone else." Emma finished. "But then who are we looking out and taking care of? If we take care of others needs to much you forget your own and you become upset and obsessed, no one has to take care of everyone else all the time."
"I have to take care of you all the time." Jeff poked Emma's ribs. "and I take offence of you saying I am a nobody!"
Emma grinned. "You don't have to take care of me all the time."
"Oh yeah?" Jeff put his hands on his hips looking at Emma as if she was joking. "With all the trouble you get into I find that hard to believe!"
"What about you? All the accidents you've had in your life? The stupidest was the phone!" Jeff blushed crimson, Emma pointed at him exultantly. "Not to mention the bike crash you told me about!"
"Getting hit by a car running away and getting into a fight with a crazed babysitter isn't a good enough reason to look out for you?"
"Yeah your right on that one." Emma decided, eyes half closed. "But I take after you, so…" Emma threw it away with a shrug slapping her thighs.
Jeff opened his mouth in insult. "Now that hurt…" Emma couldn't look away when his pout came into play, there was something captivating about it. Emma awed and hugged him. "Don't do that!"
"Too late!" Jeff sucked up the air with a 'soooh!' then exhaled forcefully.
Emma punched Jeff's head lightly. "Sometimes I hate you."
"Feelings mutual." Jeff grinned. "Now get down there and make good with Brock!"
To Be Continued…
Nothing like a good fight to release ones anger- at least that's what I figure (I'm a hardcore WWE fan Jeff Hardy is my favourite wrestler so I gave my character his name just because I could and I love the name Jeff and Hardy is something that resembles me so…) This story is rather short compared to Chapter 18 but its almost just as good, did you like how I made Emma one of the best Pokemon trainers the world had ever seen? I thought it might be nice to just throw it in.
When this story is up do you want Jeff Andrea and Emma's prequel then the sequel then Jordon Delia and Ash's prequel then the third? I could keep going with a fourth sequel but I'm not sure if you'd like me to keep going.
Anyways gotta get Chapter 20 done then finish up Chapter 21 to all Dawn fans she's in next chapter and if you guys want May just ask.
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