ML54: Hey guys, next chapters here. And I'd like to thank Dustchu and Fireflare249 for their suggestion and I'd like to give a special thanks to Chief of Avia For defending me against my first flamer, Luckenhaft.
Mew: *Rolls eyes* He wasn't even good at flaming. He gotfacts of this story wrong and was surpirsed to see Pikachu as a girl, despite putting that in the story's description.
Oshawott: Yeah, ignore him buddy and keep writing since he, literally, the first flamer you've had.
ML54: *Smiles* Yeah, thanks guys. I don't own Pokemon, stating the obvious.
Separated
The group decided to try and get to Castellia City as soon as possible once they found out about Emolga's broken ankle. But everyone wanted to stay out of their Pokéballs mainly because they were trying to find out exactly HOW Emolga managed to break it.
She was riding in Iris's arms right now, so only Axew had the opportunity to ask, but he was with Scraggy right now, playing tag. They let Mime Jr. play as well since the little Psychic-type was friendly. So Emolga sighed in relief and started to fall asleep.
Pikachu was with Meowth talking about some of their less miserable moments with Buneary and Sparky. "Remember that incident with that musical ball."
"Oh how cood I forget!" Meowth remarked, face-palming himself. "Dat ting had us dancin' for Arceus knows how lon'." Pikachu laughed, remembering how embarrassing the situation was for the pair of them having to dance together.
"I don't think this is a story we need to hear." Sparky commented, grinning. Meowth is a lot more fun to hang out with when he wasn't a criminal. He heard the laughed from Pikachu die down and turned to see that she had walked over to Oshawott. Buneary giggled.
"She's very eager to get him to like her, isn't she?" The Cat-Scratch Pokemon looked over and nodded.
"Yup. But it's workin'." Buneary stopped a bit, eyes widening a little.
"Really?" Sparky nodded, pointing at Oshawott. Or more specifically his light blush. Buneary's eyes it up and giggled even more, hopping over to Snivy to tell her. The second mouse watched after her sighing.
"You like watcha see?" He jumped, having forgotten that Meowth was there and tried to shake his blush away quickly.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." He tried to reply, convincingly, to the grinning cat.
"Don' lie ta me. I can tell you like 'er." He shrugged. "Besides, she is cute." Sparky glared at him, cheeks sparkling.
"Paws off!" He quickly put his own paws over his mouth as the words left causing Meowth to grin in triumph.
Iris glanced down to see Oshawott pointing up at Emolga and giving off a cute little pouty look. "You want to speak to Emolga, Oshawott?" Emolga heard that and tried to get Iris's attention to tell her no, but Oshawott had her hooked on his cute look.
"Damn! I must of rubbed off on him!" Just as she thought this, Oshawott was hefted up so he was in Iris's hair like Axew would do. He smiled at her slightly.
"Hey..." Emolga said, awkwardly. Oshawott nodded, smiling.
"Hi. You'll be glad to know that I've found a way for you to make it up to me." Emolga rose a pokebrow but nodded for him to continue. "I, well...I want you to give Tepig a chance."
"A chance at what?" Oshawott rolled his eyes, but glanced around to make sure that Tepig wasn't around. Thankfully he was talking to Pansage right now.
"I want you to...well...go on a date with him." Her eyes snapped open further as the otter explained his unusual request. "It's just that...Tepig's a nice guy and...he told me he likes you a lot and..."
"Why'd he tell you?" She asked, curiously.
"Because he told me when I still believed I had a chance. He was telling me because...well if the two of us became mates he said he'd feel guilty for having feelings for his team-mate's mate..." Oshawott then smirked a bit. "But since that's no longer an issue, I was thinking that you and him could try."
"I don't think so..." Emolga replied, glancing at the Fire-type. "I...I don't think he's the kind of guy I'd go for...he's not the best looking..."
"Beauty is only skin deep." Oshawott replied. "I know you well enough to know you're not as vain as the others think you are. And Tepig is a really good guy. I'm not telling you to be his mate right away...I'm just asking you to give him a shot."
"But..." The Dual-type tried to argue, but found nothing. Her mind was telling her that this was a great opportunity to get back on good terms with the otter...and Tepig was really caring about her well being with her foot.
"Look, I've never gone on a date before...I've always been shot down straight away...And you could tell how much it hurts me...I just don't want Tepig to go through that..." He continued when Emolga said nothing. "But I feel that, if you do give him a chance and it goes badly anyway, then he'd understand why you turned him down..."
Emolga sighed, but smiled a bit at Oshawott's reasoning. He was just looking out for his friend's well being. "Okay...If or when he asks, I'll give him a chance."
"That's all I ask." Oshawott smiled, jumping down to stand next to Pikachu once more.
Soon the group made it to the outskirts of the forest and to the bridge that would take them to the city...
But five men stood in front of them, blocking their path towards the bridge. These men all wore a black, skin tight outfit and a black hat with a grey mouth guard. "Hold there!" One of them men ordered, holding his palm out with a Pokéball in the other.
"It's Team Plasma!" Ash called out, causing confusion to display in Richie and Dawn's expressions.
"Who?" The five in front faltered at Richie's question, but managed to maintain their composure.
"We are Team Plasma, and we fight to free Pokemon from us humans! We fight to liberate all Pokemon! Now release them at once!" The Pokemon in front of the group glared, defiantly as their trainers did so.
"No way would we do that!" Dawn yelled, Piplup standing by her side to match her pose. "Our Pokemon are our friends! Our partners! There's no way we'd just release them!"
"Fine!" The grunt to the far left responded, throwing three Pokéballs into the air. "Then we'll have to separate you by force! Go Swoobat, Krokorok and Vanillish!" The three aforementioned Pokemon appeared in front of that grunt as the other four all released the same three except the final grunt, their leader, who also sent out a Zangoose.
"Uh oh..." Pikachu let out, glancing back at Seviper who had spotted the rival Pokemon and his eyes showed an uncontrollable rage.
"ZANGOOSE!" Seviper cried, charging the Normal type with a Poison Tail. The Zangoose spotted the snake and showed equal rage.
"SEVIPER!" Zangoose cried, throwing his claws into Seviper's Poison Tail with a Crush Claw.
"Boss...Maybe that wasn't such a good idea..." One of the grunts mentioned, watching the two rival Pokemon try to rip each other's throats out.
"I don't care! Just liberate those Pokemon!" He yelled back.
Soon, a full scale battle was taking place. Iris had to put Emolga down to command Axew and Excadrill properly, but she was forced away from the injured Pokemon with an Ice Beam from one of the Vanillish.
Luckily, Tepig had stood firm in front of the squirrel, making sure to protect her from anything that came their way.
"Rocky! Rock Blast!" The Roggenrola fired off a few rocks to push back the oncoming Swoobat. "Riptide! Razor Shell!" The Oshawott with the bad ear nodded and slashed the Krokorok who was about to use Crunch on Snivy while she was subduing another Krokorok.
"Buneary! Dizzy Punch!" Buneary grinned and smacked one of the ice cream like Pokemon away from Sparky.
"Yamask! Will'o'wisp!" Yamask nodded at Jame's command and fired off dark balls of flames which hit a couple of Krokoroks, inflicting a burn status.
"Axew! Dragon Rush!" Axew charged and smacked a Swoobat away from Scraggy, who was grateful for the help as she was focused on a Vanillish on her right and her left.
"Tranquil! Air Cutter!" The bird nodded and fired off a few gusts of wind, allowing Seviper to free himself from the Zangoose's claws. He then had a pause when he looked at the Zangoose.
"Wait...All of those Plasma Pokemon are my enemies! Ignore the Zangoose and help your friends!" He berated himself and smacked a Vanillish away from Amoongus with Poison Tail. Jessie was extra relieved to have her Pokemon back to normal.
Wobbuffet started to panic a bit, seeing all these attacks flying around left right and centre and decided to try and finish it up.
He rushed to the centre of the field as everyone launched their most powerful attacks at once and cried out. "WOBBUFFET! (MIRROR COAT!)" Suddenly, all the attacks went straight back into the directions they had come from and caused a massive explosion.
Unfortunately this explosion caused the Plasma grunts and their Pokemon to fly towards the city, but also caused Wobbuffet and the rest of the group to scatter amongst the forest.
Pikachu's eyes fluttered open, groaning in pain as a sharp pain was felt on her head. She rubbed her scalp, flinching a bit as she did so. Luckily, she wasn't bleeding, but she had a pretty big bruise on her head.
She sat up to find herself next to a river bed in a small, forest clearing. Not big enough for the whole group, but a lone trainer and their party of six Pokemon could probably rest here.
She walked over to the water's edge to get a quick drink, her throat feeling particularly dry when she noticed something coming to the surface.
Thinking it was a Magikarp or something, she started to lap at the water before her eyes snapped open in realization...
...you don't get Magikarp in the Unova region.
She dashed back as a red Basculin shot forward to try and get a bite out of her. "Damn! Missed!" It, or rather he, exclaimed, jumping out of the water. "Guess it'll be the old fashion way. Aqua Jet!" Suddenly, that same fish shot forward.
Pikachu stood her ground though. "THUNDERBOLT!" She cried, about to shoot out the electrical charge she was well known for...
...and a tiny spark flew off her cheeks.
Before she could contemplate what had happened, the piranha like Pokemon hit her in the abdomen, causing her to hit the tree behind her. "AAHHH!"
"That's good! Stay still, meat!" He hissed, clamping his jaws over her arm. She cried out, flailing about, trying desperately to launch a Thunderbolt to protect herself.
She felt her blood start to pool around her new wound and, with as much strength as she could manage, she punched the fish in the eye. "OW!" She took this opportunity to clutch her arm in pain, trying desperately to stop the bleeding. "You little Bitch!"
He turned and his eyes landed on her neck. "Please...Just let me go..."
"No can do, circle of life and all." The Basculin replied, nonchalantly, rushing forward...
...and straight into an outstretched scalchop.
The fish's eyes widened as Oshawott stood in front of Pikachu, holding his weapon into his chest, before pushing him away. "You want a meal, go somewhere else! She's with me!"
"Y-yes...S-sorry sir..." The Basculin then dived back into the water and up the stream. Pikachu glanced at her saviour, smiling in relief.
"Th-thank you Oshawott..." He grinned back, before noticing the blood and dropping all positive emotions immediately, concern and fear replacing everything he had before.
"Oh Arceus, Pikachu that doesn't look to good..." She was going to reassure him that she'd be fine, but she passed out before she could.
"PIKACHU!" He cried in fear, seeing the girl fall limp against the trunk of a nearby tree. He felt panicked at this point, wondering what to do and where to go.
"No! First the wound! You have to be strong!" He told himself, grabbing some leaves and vines that were around, conveniently.
He got down onto his knees and used a weak Water Gun to clean the wound. Once clean of the blood, he saw the jaw marks of the Basculin, the red marks standing out against her yellow fur.
He sighed, before washing the leaves with Water Gun to wrap her arm in. He was just going to have to hope that it won't get infected. It'd help if there were some Sitris or Oran berry trees around. But he'd have to make due.
He then wrapped the vine under her arm, just below her wrist, and around her neck to help keep it elevated. Leaned back to admire the sling he had managed to fasten out of leaves and vines.
But that wasn't going to wake her up, but she was breathing normally so that was a good sign.
He sighed looking around the small clearing. They seemed to have been knocked out for a while. He, himself, had woken up when he heard Pikachu screaming. But the sun was starting to go down and the temperature was going to drop.
"This is bad..." He thought to himself, looking at the injured mouse. "We're alone in the forest and it's going to be night soon...We need to find shelter..."
With that thought in mind, he lifted up Pikachu, bridal style, and started to carry her towards the hilly area just ahead of him, hoping to find a burrow for the night.
ML54: Review please, but NO flamers.