Episode 19: Trapped!
Episode 19 in my Fan Fiction series about the Pokémon journey of Ash and Angie. Involves some MorpheusShipping (Ash and Angie liking each other) so if you don't like that idea, stop reading here. The rest, I hope you enjoy this fan-fiction.
Ash and his friends had been able to travel quite some distance yesterday, after Ash had beaten Sabrina. It was as if his new Marsh Badge had given him wings, and Angie and Tracey had to slow him down a few times, because they could barely keep up with him. They had finally stopped and made camp, just a few miles or so from the entrance to the large section of tunnels, that travelers used to get through the mountain. The weather had been fine up till now, but during the night, some clouds filled with rain had drifted over. Thankfully, their tents were put up under a few old, and rather dense trees, so most of the heavy rainfall never reached them.
The next morning Ash, Angie and Tracey had to clean up a few fallen leaves, and an occasional small branch here and there, but nothing had been damaged. Ash and Angie made breakfast together, while Tracey made a few quick sketches of the skyline, that displayed some beautiful shades of color as the sun climbed higher. After they had enjoyed their breakfast, and packed their belongings together, the journey went on, to the entrance of the maze of tunnels in Mount Moon. As they were walking, Pikachu suddenly stopped and raised it's ears.
"Pika?" Ash's little buddy uttered.
"What is it Pikachu?" Ash asked.
Pikachu looked around for a moment, then lowered his ears again, and walked on. But a few meters further, Pikachu stopped again. Suddenly everyone heard some rustling of leaves, and some small sparks formed on Pikachu's cheeks. There was definitely something or someone out there. Then suddenly out of the bushes along the path, jumped a familiar legendary Pokémon!
"Suicune!? What is it doing here?" Ash said, very surprised.
"Hi Suicune, great to see you," Angie greeted it.
"Maybe it came back to thank you for saving it," Tracey answered Ash's question.
"No, it's something else..." Ash remarked, "I can't explain, but I have a bad feeling about this. Pikachu, can you ask Suicune why it is here?"
"Pikapika!" Ash's Pokémon buddy answered, and it started an animated conversation with Suicune.
Then Suicune turned around, and jumped a few meters ahead.
"Does it want us to follow, Pikachu?" Ash asked.
"Pikachu!" was the answer, as Ash's Pokémon made a few steps in the same direction the Suicune had gone.
"Okay, let's follow Pikachu!" Tracey said.
Suicune could move much faster than our friends, so it waited a moment every once in a while, after it had made a few jumps ahead.
"That Suicune is really in a hurry...pfff..." Ash huffed, trying to catch up.
"What's the matter Ash?" Angie asked teasingly, "getting a little out off shape? Maybe you should train more along with your Pokémon."
"I...am.... in.... great shape," Ash said, although it was clear that it cost him some trouble to say this while running.
Then Suicune stopped, just in front of a rocky wall.
"Now what? You don't want us to climb that, now do you?" Ash said while using this stop to catch his breath again.
"I wonder why it brought us here..." Tracey said.
"Hey guys, is it just me or does it look like there was a tunnel here?" Angie remarked.
"I think you're right, Angie," Ash said, "you can still see sort of an arc in the wall. I guess it collapsed."
Pikachu raised it's ears again, then slowly walked to the place where the supposed former entrance to the tunnel was and put it's ear against the rocks. Pikachu jumped up and raced back to Ash, making all kinds of gestures, and then dragging him to the place where it had been listening. Ash also put his ear against the rocks and...
"Angie! Tracey! I believe they are Pokémon trapped in here!" Ash yelled.
"Let me hear this," Angie said as she also listened closely, "you're right! I can hear different Pokémon in there!"
"Now I get it," Tracey remarked, "these Pokémon probably went hiding in that cave to be safe for the heavy rain of tonight. But the rain caused part of the rock to start sliding down, and it blocked the entrance of the tunnel."
"And Suicune found out about this and came looking for help," Ash continued, "and since you've already helped it once before," he said while looking at Angie, "it came to us."
"Suicune, you're the best!" Angie said as she padded it softly on the head.
"But how are we going to get these Pokémon out?" Tracey asked.
"I have an idea!" Ash said, "Buizel, come out and do Sonic Boom on those rocks!"
"Bui, bui!" Buizel said, as he prepared to make his attack.
"Everyone step back!" Tracey warned them.
The first blast didn't have much effect, but the second blast was much stronger, and the rocks blocking the entrance were blown aside, leaving a small opening. Buizel did another Sonic Boom, and then the opening became big enough. A few seconds later the first Pokémon came out, happy to be free again.
"Look, an Azumarill! And there, a few Oddish!" Angie said.
"There were sure a lot of Pokémon trapped in here," Ash remarked, as more different Pokémon came pouring out, while Suicune was watching.
Tracey had grabbed his sketchbook to capture this special moment. It wasn't everyday that you met a Suicune, and this situation was even more special. Then our friends heard three familiar, yet unwelcome voices.
"That's a nice little collection of Pokémon you've got there," Jessie said.
"Team Rocket!" Ash, Angie and Tracey shouted simultaneously.
"Stay away from those Pokémon!" Ash shouted.
"Oh. We'll stay away from them alright..." Meowth said laughing, "but our little net won't!"
Meowth pressed a button on his remote control, and a large net came falling down from above, covering all the Pokémon that had just come through the opening in the collapsed tunnel entrance, and were now standing closely together, to warm up a little.
"Hey, let them go!" Angie yelled.
"Seviper, do Haze!" Jessie responded.
The thick smoke from Seviper left our friends gasping for breath, unable to see anything.
"Staravia, come out and do Gust!" Ash said, with his mouth covered, to avoid inhaling the black smoke.
The smoke was quickly blown away, but Team Rocket was already in their Meowth-shaped balloon, with the big net containing all the Pokémon that just had escaped from the tunnel.
"We've got to cut open that net before they are too far away!" Ash said.
"That sounds like a job for Bulbasaur!" Angie shouted, "come out and do Razor Leaf!"
A stream of sharp leaves was hurled towards the net, but they just bounced straight off it.
"Hahahaha!" James laughed, "this time we did our homework properly, and this net is fully grass-type proof."
"Naa naa naanaa naa!" Jessie mocked, sounding like a little child at kindergarten.
"Sui...Cune!" it sounded as the legendary Pokémon prepared to do Ice Beam.
"James? Is our net protected against ice-type attacks?" Jessie asked, a bit worried.
"I... I don't know... Meowth?" James said.
"Well...eh..." but the feline Pokémon didn't have to answer that question anymore as the net started to make crackling sounds, and then fell apart, releasing the captured Pokémon.
"Hey, those are our stolen Pokémon!" Jessie yelled, "Meowth, do something!"
"Alrighty!" was the answer.
Suicune was jumping up to do Ice Fang on Team Rocket's balloon, but as he was about to hit it, something that looked like a giant Poké Ball appeared on the underside of the balloon, and scooped it up.
"Well, you know what they say, better have one Suicune in a ball, than ten other Pokémon on the ground," Meowth said laughing out loud.
"Are you sure?" James asked.
"Absolutely," Meowth answered, "just imagine the boss working at the office on a hot summer's day. Just as he is about to faint because of the heat, his own personal Suicune passes by and does Blizzard, cooling the Boss down again. And then he'll say: "I've really got to give a brrr... big. .. reward to Meowth and his friends, for brrr... getting me this refreshing Suicune."
"We're going to get promoted!" the three villains cheered together.
"No way, that's not going to happen, Team Rocket!" Ash shouted.
"You stay out off this! Can't you see we're busy gloating over our impending promotion!?" Jessie sneered.
"The only promotion you will get is a bump on the head!" Angie yelled, Bulbasaur, do Razor Leaf on their balloon!"
"No, Angie!" Tracey yelled as he stepped in front of Bulbasaur, "if that balloon drops out of the sky, Suicune may get hurt also."
"But how are we...?!" Angie grumbled, with one fist clenched.
"I think I have something for that," Ash said, "Gliscor, I choose you! Do X-scissor on that giant Poké Ball!"
"Gliscor gli!" Ash's Pokémon answered
"Staravia, do Gust so Gliscor can get up there!" Ash continued.
Carried by the strong winds Staravia caused, Gliscor closed in on Team Rocket's balloon, and did X-scissor on the fake Poké Ball that Suicune was trapped in. But it didn't seem to have any effect...
"Do X-scissor again Gliscor! This time give it all you've got!" Ash shouted, while his friends kept their fingers crossed.
"Gliiiissscorrrr!" it sounded as Ash's winged Pokémon friend did another attempt.
This time small cracks appeared in the shell of the ball, and a few seconds later it came apart, in a thousand pieces. Suicune fell out, landed gracefully on it's feet and jumped back to our friends.
"Now it's our turn, Bulbasaur!" Angie shouted anxiously, "do Razor... huh?"
"Cune..." the legendary Pokémon uttered as it pushed against Angie's leg.
"I think Suicune wants to help you with your attack on Team Rocket, Ange," Ash remarked.
"Great! Thanks Suicune!" Angie said, now even more enthusiastic than before.
Suicune did Ice Beam, puncturing Team Rocket's balloon, and causing the villains to come crashing down. Then Angie ordered Bulbasaur to do Vine Whip. And before Team Rocket had time to recover from that attack, they were hit with a freezing Blizzard from Suicune
"It's certainly refreshing to brrr.. have a Suicune around..." James said, shaking with cold.
"I brr... have a feeling we won't brrr.. be around very long," Jessie stuttered.
"My poor little paws are frozen," Meowth complained.
"Let me thaw you out!" Ash yelled with a knowing smile on his face, "Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
"Bulbasaur, do Solar Beam!" Angie shouted.
Suicune added a Hydro Pump to the other attacks, and the resulting explosion sent the three members of Team Rocket blasting off again.
"Nice teamwork with Suicune, Angie!" Ash gave her a compliment.
"Yeah, it really looks like you two have some kind of bond together," Tracey remarked.
"Well, Suicune did most of the hard work, and of course Gliscor," Angie replied as she tried to avoid all this praise because she started to blush a little already, "speaking of which, where is Gliscor anyway?"
Everyone looked around, when suddenly a little branch fell down on Ash's head. Gliscor was stuck in a tree, and was about to come down again.
"Huh... Gliscor, look out where you.. !" Ash yelled, but before he could finish his sentence, his Pokémon had fallen down on top of him.
"I think you still need to work on Gliscor's landings, right Ash?" Angie teased him.
"Aww... I guess you're right..." Ash answered.
After Angie had helped him up again, it was time to say goodbye to Suicune. Angie caressed it one more time, and then Suicune turned around, and leaped away swiftly and gracefully.
"Bye Suicune, and once again thanks for your help!" Angie shouted as she and her friends waved her legendary Pokémon friend goodbye.
The wild Pokémon that had been trapped, had also disappeared in the woods, to go back to their homes again. So our friends decided to move on, trying make up for the lost time and get as far as possible, before darkness would set in again. If they would encounter no more delays, it might be possible to get to the entrance of the central tunnel through Mount Moon in time, and travel through the mountain tomorrow, on to Pewter City. But as for today, there sure had been enough adventure already.
My 24th fan-fiction story already. I apologize for any typing errors, or grammatically not 100% correct sentences. Remember, I am not a native English speaker or writer. I tried to make this story as close to the Pokémon series as possible, so that the characters will react roughly the same in this fictional story as they do in the series. Comments are always welcome, you can use the review function on this FanFiction site for that.
Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any trademarks of Pokémon. Any similarities to the works of others is purely accidental, and not meant as an infringement on anyone's achievements.