Chapter 5: A fatal direction

A/N: I'm so sorry this one is late. I was busy from 9:00 Friday morning until about 7:00 Sunday evening. I was on the computer once Saturday, but forgot.

Blam! Charizard was slammed to the ground, and then his opponent, a rhydon, leapt on him, pinning him down. He struggled, but this massive creature, larger than him, was able to keep him pinned. The rhydon's owner called out an attack and the creature started to stomp. Over and over, it crushed the dragon's chest, until his owner called him back.

Within a few moments, he was back at the hospital. He looked around and saw two strange people walk in, followed by a meowth. One was a lady with bright red hair; the other was a guy with blue hair. They walked up to the charizard's owner, and started to talk. After a moment, the charizard noticed something strange. The meowth was actually talking in the human language!

"Hey," the charizard called to him, "What are they saying?"

The meowth glared at him despicably. "None of you're beeswax."

"You're talking to my trainer," the charizard growled, "Of course it's my business."

The meowth sized him up. "You will be a nice addition to the cause," it said, then walked off.

Cause? What cause? The charizard's musings were cut short by being recaptured into his ball. Moments later, he was sent back out, directly outside the hospital. His owner leapt onto his back and gave instructions. He flew.

A few hours later, he hovered beside a small island, not far off the mainland. He saw that the island was almost completely covered by a castle, but looked abandoned. However, when he reached the front door, it opened, seemingly by itself. He flew inside and saw other doors opening before him. Following the path, flying barely off the ground, the charizard flew deeper and deeper into the castle. After a while, he reached his destination. He landed and had a few moments to see a room filled with giant glass tubes before he returned to his ball.

A few minutes later, ball time, he appeared again, this time looking at an ugly mutated-looking thing. It was much taller than him, and it looked a good bit heavier. It was purple and white with a long, fat tail. Covering its head, arms, and legs was metal armor plating. It didn't look happy.

The charizard looked around. On every side, hundreds of balls were being thrown by just as many people, unleashing pokemon everywhere. The creatures appeared, landing on what appeared to be a mass of brown hills. The charizard looked down. He was standing on one too. It was a tauros. The charizard heard a voice and looked up. The rhydon owner from before seemed to be controlling the creature. "Attack! Fly!" called his owner. The fight began.

The fight ended quickly. The strange, mutated creature waited for a moment as everything else charged it, then casually waved its hand. Pokemon flew through the air, launched by the invisible wave of power. In one sweep of his hand, the mutant had destroyed most of his opposition. What was this thing? The charizard dodged the first wave, and then next few also because he had gone up so high. Now there were only two pokemon left. No, make that three, a dugtrio burst out of the ground under the creature, but was promptly thrown away. Seeing the distraction, the charizard zoomed down, going faster and faster and… he stopped. At the last second, the creature had thrown up its hand and stopped him. As it focused on him, a farfetch'd made its move, but was also stopped. Suddenly, a machamp launched out of the ground, hitting the creature and sending it flying. As it flew through the air, it slammed the farfetch'd and the charizard into the machamp's side, crushing the three together. As he faded out of consciousness, the charizard saw the strange creature clench up for a moment, and its wounds disappeared.

Much later, the charizard woke up. He looked around. The machamp was gone, but the farfetch'd was still on the ground. It was still breathing, but not everything in the field was. The stench was unbearable. He got up and checked himself out. One leg appeared broken, but the rest of him seemed fine. Suddenly, he wondered why he wasn't in his ball. Where was his slaver?

He looked around, and then saw him. The man who had caused him so much trouble was crushed under a six-hundred pound bolder, also known as a golem. Strangely, he felt no uncontrollable force pushing him to roll it off. That's when he knew that the boy was dead.

Suddenly, he heard a human cry. "A charizard!" He spun around, and saw a human charging toward him, alongside a blastoise. He flew off, far from the death, far from the stench.

He flew up onto the castle towers, and surveyed the area. So much death. So much destruction. Then he heard an explosion, saw men flying through the air, dying. The monster came out. Its armor was gone, but it was unmistakable. It turned around and looked at him. The charizard quickly few away.

He flew home. It wasn't hard to find the general area, but once he was there, the search became much harder. Everything was so much smaller than it used to be. Eventually he found his old home. His mother and the sandslash were gone. Suddenly, it started to rain. In the old familiar way, he slipped his tail inside the hole, and watched the rain fall down.

A/N: A new challenge every week! This week's challenge: How many tie-ins to what pokemon story did I have? What characters did I have that I didn't make up? What was the TM I referred to in my disclaimer way back in chapter 1? I love reviews.

Anyone for a poll? My profile has a poll on what I will write next. A popular idea is more likely, but not necessarily where I will go next or ever.