When we last left our hero Ash was fighting for his life against the onyx attack. I wont delay you any further here is the anticipated conclusion

Ash running at top speed the onyx once again about to reach its target, onyx strikes forward lunging , Ash quickly turns 90 degrees to right and the onyx collides into part of a rubble wall as the remnants collapses onto it. Ash runs a bit further waiting to see if his pursuer has given up his murderous mission. Ash panting heavily waiting, there seems to be no sign of movement. While Ash catches his breath in relief it's a short lived release as the Onyx begins to stir again whipping its snake like body to wiggle out of the trapped rubble. As its exits out of the shifting rocks it once again locks on to its target and begins chase again screaming loudly as if to say "you will not defeat me I will kill you". Like a robot programmed to endlessly pursue it target to the ends of earth until he or it is destroyed. Ash now incredibly pissed off and exhausted shouts out loud, "Okay Fuck This Shit!" Ash quickly used his keen mind usually reserved for battle strategy on his own survival. Holding his hat down Ash runs at full speed towards the onyx as it barreled closer to him. In a split second before he would be crushed by creature he sidestepped and as the creature passed Ash jumped on the back of the Pokémon, holding tightly and covering its eyes at the same time. The creature screamed in anger and frustration writhing and unable to get its target as it rode forwards crashing through objects of half crushed houses and walls. "How do you like this Shit! Huh?! You Fucker!" As he rode on top and they continued to crash through areas of pewter city together. This continued for Ash for what seemed like forever until …

"ASH!" he heard a familiar cry from an old friend. "Brock" he said to himself quietly. "Lead him this way we will get him!" Ash nodded and held on tighter as Brock and the group the appeared population of people from the town including his younger brothers made noise to direct the Onyx towards them. Slowly the creature anger shifted to the new target when Ash stopped covering its eyes. As it approached them Ash had worry what their plan was until Brock yelled to Ash "jump off now!" he did so quickly as the Onyx went toward them quickly bucked and fell through a deadfall trap that was set by the group set to the creatures weight and size. Ash fell off rolling to prevent injury and the creature was trapped the group quickly went to work throwing steel nets to prevent its escape and pinning it down. As the creature screamed and squirmed trying to escape and attack Brock approached it with a sharp and heavy rock Pick Axe in hand. "Brock do it now!" "We can't hold on much longer" the group members cried out. With Tears in his eyes he picked up axe and said sorrowfully "I am sorry buddy" he stood over on top of its head quickly swung back thrustd it down and forward and pierced the creature through the eye and directly into the brain case with all his might. The Pokémon howled in pain as the sharp edge piercing the eyeball and sinking in halfway deep to ensure he would complete his task in one shot.

Upon waiting to see if the creature would move after the strike it twitched slightly after impact and died promptly. Realizing the troubles were over all group stopped holding the net, Brock dropped to his knees and held his head close to the dead creatures head crying into its face. A deep cry that he moaned loader then the death cry of the Onyx and snot dripped from his nose endlessly hiding his face ashamed to show his emotion to his family. "Ash watching this entire display could only feel beside himself. He quietly approached the group and asked one of the brothers "was that…" "Yeah it was his Onyx" the brother said sinking his head. Ash now confirming the knowledge wanted to comfort Brock in some way but realized in a situation like this its best to leave a man alone and let him in his own time come around.

After an extended period of grief Brock retreated into a nearby base the group had set up inside one of the buildings in the city. He separated himself from group to resolve his feelings. In the meantime Ash was acquainting himself with the group that was in the camp. "Are any of you relatives of a girl named Maya?" Ash announced to the Group, two individuals stepped forward. A strong man approached of incredible bulky mass muscle around the age of forty with silver hair, what you would imagine an iron man emerging from the wilderness that was as tough as nails. Also there was a younger man with purple hair that was kind of scrawny with scruff on his face and an overall blank expression. "That would be us, who are you?"The older man said. "My name is Ash, I was sent here by your daughter to find you" the large man put his hands on ash's shoulders and laughed "Hah that was awfully nice of you to do though you don't know us youngster I dare say I like you already." Ash slightly smiled and shrugged his shoulders "forgive me Ash in my excitement I forgot to introduce myself; my name is Thompson that kid over there is Bradley. Nice to meet ya" he said extending his hand out in friendship. Ash willingly replied and shook his hand back "same" as they shook the grip around ash's hand tightened and he felt it buckle and crush under the incredible grip, Ash slightly bent down in pain and seeing this Thompson released his grip. "Sorry Ash sometimes I don't know my own strength, especially of late fighting these creatures sorry" Ash shaking his hands to relieve the pain "it's all right".

During this interlude Brock finally emerged from his solitude. "My apologies everyone I just needed some time to myself, Hello ash how are you?" Brock showed his usual smile to try and hide his recent pain of losing his partner. "It's great to see you man, been a hell of a time lately, can't imagine stuff you've been thru lately" Ash said sympathetically. "Trust me you don't know the half of it. Thanks for helping us deal with our recent problem "He said with genuine gratitude but at the same time a small glint of sorrow could be seen in his eyes. "Now it looks like we can go back to our original goal" "what do you mean Brock". Brock held his head low and tried to stay calm telling the story "to sum it up some of our townsfolk along with my younger brothers in the initial attacks ran into the forest to seek shelter, while me and my older brothers and citizens who could fight sought to eliminate the attackers". He continued "but we were going after them that is when it happened. My onyx was helping people to escape and attacking the invaders when it was attacked by an infected Sandshrew leapt up and cut his eye. We didn't know about the disease till it was too late and within a few brief minutes onyx twitched and thrashed and turned on all of us." He started to turn pale as Ash had a hard time digesting this information. "It makes me ill to say but it wasn't pretty and the result is what you see here" he pointed at his now dead Pokémon. "Now everyone lets pay our respects and bury him…" Everyone complying with Brock's wishes picked up shovels and tools to bury onyx in the pitfall trap. The group covered it with dirt and hold a small procession funeral. This sparked Brocks emotion more but in a sense helped him to move on and put the past behind him.

Now it was pitch dark out and everyone was gathered by new formed campfire, with night watches leading first shifts of patrols until the next shift started in early morning hours. Everyone gathered eating their rations of leftover food; the group had made a nice meat stew that was more then enough for everyone. Of course created using one of Brocks many signature recopies. Everyone sat around eating their fill and talking about the good old days, and what will they do when things return back to normal. Some generic comments thrown out were "when this is over I am going to really start living my life and open a store like I wanted too" or "I will aspire to rebuild things better for everyone" "shit I just wanna get laid again" all the guys in the group laughed a few of the women moaned at the sense of humor but couldn't help but understand the male mentality of the comment. "So Ash what's your plans" group members asked eager for his answer "After this crazy shit is over …. I don't know ill have to get back to you on that. For now I just wanna focus on ending this and making things back to normal I feel will take awhile. What about you Thompson?" Ash wondered what the elders answer would be. He sat quietly for a while and responded definitively and truthfully "I wanna see my daughter smile again, and give her a happy life that she deserves to live. A better life for her and my son" He pats Bradleys back hard causing him to flinch slightly. "And I will do it with these two hands" He said clenching them tightly again and again into powerful fists. "Very admirable" Ash Agreed with his hand on his chin shaking his head up and down. Then suddenly Brock rose up with intention to announce something important to whole group "Eat hearty and rest up tonight! Tomorrow were going into Viridian Forest and getting our people back!" A unanimious roar of cheer and agreement rose up and boomed into the nearby mountains. Brock finished and turned to Ash "will you come with us Ash?" He said extending his hand. Ash suddenly sprung up from the ground and took his hand and shook it tightly and firmly "as if you even have to ask buddy" he said beaming a smile that caused Brock to do the same and they shook hands.

Now Ash has finally found Maya's family he has one more goal to accomplish before he can move forward. That is to rescue the survivors in Forest. But what surprises and dangers lie ahead within for him and the group? Stay tuned to find out in the next chapter!