chapter 5: attack and counterattack!
it was night on the ferry to viridian city, when seven cloaked figures walked over the deck.
"hey! ya done already old man?" one of the seven people was picking the lock of the engine room, but got interrupted by appearently one of the younger members. the older man had a stern voice.
"not yet, laddie. this stuff requires time and patience, ya know? ya should not just ram it in and hope for the best. "
"that's what she said." said another member, before getting smacked on the head by two others.
"listen up you idiots. we have one hour to take the pokemon we need, and we need to nick as many of 'em as we can. as soon as the engine stops fan out. kill anyone who resists, and take their pokemon, got it?"
the five who weren't busy, saluted, and simultanously responded with a disciplined: yes sir!
the door opened with a soft click, and the older man went inside. a few seconds later, the engines stopped rumbling, and the remaining six figures threw their cloaks on the ground.
"move out!"
they split up in groups of two.
the first group consisted out of two women. both about 17 years old. one of them had black hair with blue streaks, while the other had pink hair with red streaks.
"I'm gonna try lucky number 13, dearest sister." said the first one. the other nodded, while she opened the door. only to see a figure sleeping underneath the sheets, and a pikachu sleeping on top of a small pile of pokeballs.
the second sister walked over to the pikachu, and attempted to pick him up, to take him with her, until.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. he has the habit to subconciously shock people who touch him." the pink haired sister flinched, and looked back. on top of the sheets was a young, handsome, barechested man. he had a few scars over his arms, and chest, but the thing that really drew her attention was his eyepatch. she jumped back towards her sister, and they both held a pokeball up.
"we're team void. give us your pokemon, or we'll send you to your fucking grave!" they simultaneously said.
Ash flashed a smirk, and slowly got up, towering above them. his upper torso vanished into the shadow, so the only thing visible, was his glowing blue eye. he reached for the pillow, and pulled a pokeball from underneath it.
"tell me your names, my lovelies..."
the girls shuddered at the pitch black tone he used.
"we're Sonia and Aya, the twin furies of the void. why do you want to know? who are YOU?"
they threw up their pokeballs, and in a flash, an espeon, and an umbreon appeared.
"why I want to know? I guess I just like to keep record of whose asses ik mutilate. lend me your power, GARCHOMP!"
the mega land shark pokemon flashed a feral grin at the two vulpine pokemon, and the two girls gulped. unlike a regular garchomp, this one did not have claws. now normally this would be a massive relief, however instead of regular claws, Ash's mega garchomp had scythe-like blades attached to it's arms, much like a kabutops. it's lower jaw was more pronounced and angular, while it also had more spikes covering it's torso. a lot more spikes. all-in-all, it was a pretty intimidating sight.
"e-espeon! use psybeam!" Aya exclaimed, fear overtaking her rational thought process.
"umbreon! night slash!" Sonia yelled, almost as afraid as her sister.
Ash sighed.
"garchomp. stand your ground, and smash umbreon out of the way."
garchomp took the full hit of espeon's psybeam, hardly damaging the tough creature and umbreon jumped at garchomp to tear him a new hole. garchomp cocked one scythe back and twisted it around, smashing the black with the blund side and ramming it right back into espeon.
"good. use dragon pulse." Ash stated curtly, wanting to get this over with.
garchomp did as he was told. before the foxes could even try to stand up, garchomp already charged a purple ball in his mouth. he shot, and the white/purple pulse of energy hit dead-on, knocking both pokemon out at once.
the two girls' eyes widened at the brutal force of nature known as mega-garchomp, before grabbing hold of second pokeballs.
"nidoking, megahorn!" Sonia shrieked.
"nidoqueen, venoshock!" Aya roared, fear now truly gripping at her heart.
Ash grinned. "garchomp, I'm bored. let's end this quickly, ok?"
garchomp closed his eyes, and grinned. "GAAAARRRR!" he gathered orange energy in his mouth, and opened it.
"end this. draco meteor!" garchomp fired the ball in between his two opponents, and let it explode. both nido's smacked into the walls, and the girls' eyes widened up again. in any other situation, Ash would have laughed, but it was late, and he wanted to get back to sleep, so he just stared at them.
"h-how did he..." Sonia's face was a perfect example of complete shock. Aya then dropped down.
"I-I thought he looked familliar..." she mumbled as her face became a picture of despair. "it's HIM!"
"who?"
"the one-eyed demon of sinnoh..."
"y-you don't mean..."
Ash grinned at the girls, and coated his fingers in a blue aura, before teleporting behind them. he whispered into Sonia's ear.
"your sister's a smart one..."
he then poked her neck with the aura infused fingers, and repeated the action with the second sister. they both slumped down. unconcious. Ash looked at the vests they wore, and the marks. a crimson V with a set of gears in the middle. he grabbed hold of the vests, and ripped the marks off. now the vests had a large hole in the back, showing the girls' bare backs.
"void, huh?" he mumbled emotionlessly before he heard a loud explosion, and he ran onto the main deck.
as he turned around a corner, he was met with a horrible sight. a middle-aged man, was impaled by two sharp pieces of metal. he stood there, in a crouching position, over an unconcious four, or five year old girl. the man looked up. Ash reached out with is aura and could feel that he didn't have much longer to live. blood dripped from the man's mouth as he spoke up.
"p-please... take...my daughter... save her..."
"don't worry... I'll protect her with my life... I promise..."
the man smiled before coughing more blood.
"bring... her to (cough!) eterna city... ask for... Raiga... Mcmullen..."
Ash memorized the name, and the location before he nodded.
"thank... you..."
with that, the father blew out his last breath, and collapsed on the ground, and died with a smile.
by now, tears leaked out of Ash's good eye, and his face became an immense scowl.
he grabbed a cherish ball, and a pokeball in one hand, and threw them both up into the air.
"metagross, lugia. I need your assistance."
both pokemon appeared in a flash, and both bellowed a furious roar.
"metaaaaaaa... meta, gross."(those bastards... I'll kill them.)
"they shall feel the wrath of the lord of the sea. NO MERCY FOR MURDERERS!"
Ash's eye was turning into a deep cerulean colour, and he gritted his teeth as he growled lowly.
"team void... you'll pay for this..."
as Ash made his way through the chaos on board of the ferry, he instructed lugia and metagross to help any passenger they could find.
"me-meta"
"as you wish, my liege. but what about you, and the child?"
Ash scratched his chin as he debated for a bit, and pulled another cherish ball out.
"come-on out, latias!"
in a bright flash, the red eon pokemon appeared with a very worried look on her face. "la? tas-lati?"
Ash sighed at the antics of his friend. "latias. I need you to take this child away until I come and get you okay?" latias nodded while Ash lifted the unconcious girl on latias' back. after the dragon flew away he turned to his other companions.
"I'm gonna look for Roxie, Flannery and Anabel. I have a dark feeling that they might need my help, ok?" the two psychics nodded, and took off in seperate directions.
Ash ran through the separate fires, and used his aura to pinpoint the locations of his students. the three of them were surrounded by eight other presences. as he broke through the door that separated them, he saw that four people with the same outfits as the twins, surrounded the girls.
"HOLD IT! ONE MORE STEP, AND THE CHICKS DIE!" as if the man wanted to put force befind his words his ursaring began to charge a hyper beam. the other three people did the same with their raichu, druddigon and bibarel.
Ash put his hands up, and looked dead-serious.
"can't we discuss this like normal people? or do we have to be violent?"
the man scoffed. "friggin' idiot! do ya think that ya can do anything in your position now?"
"I can't..." Ash admitted and the void members began laughing.
they all stopped when Ash suddenly grinned like a madman.
"...but he can!"
as if on cue, Ash's darkrai floated through the roof, and shot a dark pulse at the four pokemon. the force behind it caused them to lose their focus, and the hyper beams exploded, knocking them all out at the same time.
Ash coated his arms in aura energy, and punched the first one out cold. the other three tried to jump Ash at the same time, but got intercepted by another dark pulse by darkrai.
"no...one...touches...my friend..." he growled. Ash grinned and patted him on the head.
"thanks darkrai. appreciate it."
the dark legendary nodded, and glanced over to the three girls. "are you... alright?" the girls nodded in unison. anabel and flannery sweatdropped as Roxie jumped at Ash with sparkling eyes and a nearly-drooling mouth.
"Ash! WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU CATCH A LEGENDARY POKEMON?! THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL!" she grabbed his hands, and looked up at him with puppy-eyes.
before he could explain himself, the sound of an explosion filled the room. the ship started rocking. Ash ran out of the room, and saw that someone blew a hole into the ship's side. he also noticed a small boat speeding away from them. the emblem on the side of the small boat resembled a red V with a set of gears. overtaken by anger, he focused his aura between his hands. a small spherical shape of energy collected between his fingers, and he threw the sphere with all his might. the sphere connected with the rear of the small boat, causing the boat to explode. the person inside quickly jumped into the water, only to be scooped up by a VERY angry lugia.
"look what the cat dragged in. WRONG TERRITORY BUDDY" he roared, forgetting his normal gentlemanlike tone of speech for once and with his tail he flung the man straight into the wall of the ferry with a sickening splat. Ash raised both his arms into the air, and yelled "HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES! GOOOOAAAALLLLL!" on top of his lungs. earning a few chuckles from lugia, the girls and darkrai.
afterwards, Ash scanned the ship again. except for the seven people that he knocked out, it was completely empty. metagross, darkrai and lugia gathered in front of the rest, and Ash recalled his legendary pokemon.
"metagross, do you think you have enough energy left to teleport all of us to latias' location?"
the spider-like golem thought for a little while, and nodded. his eyes started glowing, and in a flash they all stood in a small patch of forest. latias noticed Ash, and signaled him to come closer. they saw that the little girl was still unconcious, and metagross was drained because of the constant teleporting of passengers.
"Anabel, do any of your pokemon know how to pinpoint teleport?" the girl nodded.
"espeon does, but she can't teleport as many people as metagross... sorry."
Ash smiled. and he told the girls he had to make a call. he sent salamence, dragonite and bearctic over to the captured void members to keep a eye on them.
conversation:
"hey C.C? it's me Ash..."
"hello sir... why did you call me on such an ungodly hour?"
"because the ferry got attacked, metagross got drained and none of my other pokemon know how to pinpoint teleport."
"oh dear." she shook her head. "why don't you just ask Anabel to teleport the four of you?"
"because we have seven suspects in custody, and one little girl who has yet to regain conciousness. espeon can't handle that kind of pressure yet."
"(sigh...) fine. just send me the co-ordinates, and I'll be there in a few minutes."
"C.C..."
"yes Ash?"
"have I mentioned that I love you?"
"I already agreed. you can stop sucking up to me."
"okay..."
conversation end.
after the group waited for a few minutes, a flash appeared, and two figures became visible. a young woman with light green hair that flowed along her back, dressed into a white dress and a gardevoir stepped out of the light.
the woman glanced over to the group, and threw another pokeball into the air. an alakazam emerged.
"gardevoir, alakazam. teleport us and this scum to the viridian police center please." without another word, the entire group vanished into thin air, and re-emerged in front of the police center. alakazam used his psychic to levitate the group inside.
"it was fun and all" she said with her voice dripping of sarcasm. " but I'm heading back to bed. I haven't even gotten out of my sleepwear yet, and I don't want Lelouch to worry about me again."
Ash waved her goodbye, and picked the girl up. he glanced to Roxie, Flannery and Anabel.
"I guess we gotta crash at Cynthia's tonight..." he sighed.
they walked for about twenty minutes until they arrived at the viridian grand hotel. the group went inside, and the bellboy looked at the clock with disapproval written all over his face.
"excuse me? it's two in the morning. we don't-"
"my name's Ash ketchum. I need to speak with Cynthia shirona." Ash interrupted bluntly.
the bellboy raised an eyebrow at the rude young man.
"lady Cynthia is probably asleep right now. please try again tomorro-"
Ash grabbed the bellboy by the front of his jacket, glared and growled.
"I don't have fucking time for fucking games, okay you half-asses fucknugget? call. Cynthia. the fuck. up, NOW!" his eye glowed bright blue, severely intimidating the bellboy. who was desperately trying to keep himself from pissing his pants.
"o-o-of c-c-course sir... r-right away sir." he quickly made the call.
"miss shirona? yes I know what time it is but- yes ma'am. no ma'am. a certain Ash ketchum is here to see you. yes. eyepatch? yes. he has company of four girls. yes four. okay I'll tell them."
the man hung up.
"t-top suite, sir." he stammered out before the group took the elevator up and knocked at the door. a very angry Cynthia opened the door.
"Ashura satoshi ketchum. it's two in the fucking morning. there had better been a bloody murder or else there will be one." she hissed venomously.
Ash's scowled and walked past her. so did the other three.
"we were attacked. this girl's father is dead, and we've discovered yet another lunatic organisation. is that enough reason?"
Cynthia closed the door, and sat down to listen to the story. when he finished telling about the failed pokemon heist, she calmed down, and had a similar expression as Ash's.
"I've never really heard of void..." she held the ripped insignia's up. "but this CANNOT be good..."
A/N: TWO CHAPTERS REWRITTEN IN TWO DAYS, WOO! I'M ON A ROLL HERE! NEXT UPDATE WILL PROBABLY BE MY SNK STORY.