Episode 20: Little Girl Lost!
Episode 20 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.
Yesterday, Ash and his friends did manage to reach the entrance to the maze of tunnels that run through Mount Moon. After making sure they were well prepared to go inside, our friends entered the seemingly never ending darkness. Angie sent out her Shinx, and asked it to do Flash, to lighten up the tunnels.
"That's much better," Ash said.
"Yeah, now we can at least see which hole we fall into," Tracey mocked.
Ash had picked up a map from the Poké Center in Cerulean City, to make sure they didn't get lost. But even with a map it proved to be tricky to find out which way they had to go.
"I am pretty sure we've been here before," Tracey remarked as he looked through the pages of his sketchbook.
"Nah, all those rocks look the same, according to the map we are going in the right direction," Ash said with his overconfident voice.
"Well, how can it be that the rock on this sketch I made about an hour ago, looks exactly like the one you see over there?" Tracey asked, clearly doubting Ash's map reading skills.
"Uh... well..." Ash stuttered.
"Don't tell me we're lost, okay?" Angie said to Ash, "next time I'll take that map!"
"Well, then we will get even more lost," Ash countered her remark.
"Oh yeah!?" Angie said, looking deeply insulted and angry at the same time.
"Guys? I really don't think that this is going to get us anywhere, so can you two save this for when we get outside again?" Tracey intervened, "that is, if we ever get outside..."
"Huh?" Angie and Ash both looked up, a bit frightened now.
"Fine, now that I've got your attention," Tracey continued, "maybe our Pokémon can help."
"That's a good idea!" Ash said, "why don't you let your Marill try to get us out of here? It can hear extremely well, so maybe it can hear from what direction sounds from outside the mountain come?"
"Well, that might work," Tracey admitted, and he sent out his Marill.
Tracey instructed it to what to listen for. Marill stood there for a moment, in deep concentration, and then raced off.
"Wait Marill, not so fast!" Tracey yelled as he tried to keep up with Marill, with Ash and Angie closely behind him.
"I wonder if it can find a way out!" Angie wondered, sounding a bit worried.
"Ah, don't worry Ange," Ash said in a reassuring way, "Tracey's Marill is an excellent tracker."
After running for about ten minutes, Marill stopped. Tracey, Ash and Angie could finally catch up with the fast Pokémon, but were a bit disappointed at what they saw.
"This is not the exit..." Ash said.
"Who knows were we are now, perhaps even more lost than when you were trying to read that map," Angie stated.
"Hey!" Ash yelled, ready to start another round of arguing about his map reading capabilities.
"Help! Anyone there!?" it suddenly sounded.
Ash and Angie stopped their bickering immediately.
"It came from over there!" Tracey said.
"Shinx, can you shine in that direction?" Angie asked.
The dark corner of the tunnel suddenly turned bright as a result of Shinx's Flash, and they saw a little girl, sitting down on the ground, holding her ankle with her right hand. She had been crying, her eyes being red and swollen, and a tear was still visible on one of her cheeks. Our friends ran forward.
"What is wrong?" Ash asked.
"Are you hurt? Angie added.
"It's... it's my ankle," the little girl answered, "I tripped and then it suddenly hurt real bad!"
"I think you've sprained it," Angie said in a caring voice, "can I have a look at it?"
"Please don't touch it!" the girl yelled in panic.
"It's okay," Ash said, as he came closer, "this is Pikachu, he is my best friend. You wanna say hi to it?"
"Hi Pikachu," she greeted Ash's Pokémon, "Can I...touch it?" the girl asked Ash, not thinking about her injury anymore.
"Sure, go ahead," Ash answered.
"Well Ash, I was right, she has sprained her ankle," Angie said, as she completed her quick examination while Ash was distracting the girl's attention from her painful ankle with Pikachu.
"You are Ash?" the little girl asked very surprised, "do you know Brock?"
"Yeah, I do," Ash answered, "we even traveled together for quite a long time."
"So you're the Ash that defeated Brock's Onix then?" the girl asked, still not fully convinced.
"Uh...yes..." Ash replied.
"I'm Suzie, Brock's lit... eh... younger sister," the girl introduced herself.
"Now that you mention it, she does like a lot like Brock," Angie remarked.
"So you were one of those kids that jumped on my back when I was battling your brother back then?" Ash asked.
The girl blushed a little, and nodded.
"Hey, I am not mad at you or so," Ash assured her, "I know you just wanted to help Brock and Onix at that time."
"Okay," the girl said, looking much relieved.
Ash introduced Angie and Tracey to Suzie and Angie put a small bandage around Suzie's hurt ankle. However, the girl was still unable to walk.
"Bulbasaur, come out and carry Suzie with your Vine Whip," Angie commanded.
The grass-Pokémon made some sort of cradle with it's vines, and scooped up the little girl with it.
"Now all we have to do is find a way out," Angie said.
"Oh, that's easy," the girl remarked, "I've come here with my big brother and my father for so many times, I can find my way around here with my eyes closed," she laughed.
"Well, Ash here can't even find his way around here with his eyes open, and a map," Angie teased.
"Grrrrrr..." Ash grumbled, hurt in his pride.
"Then show us the way out please," Tracey intervened, "I think we all want to see daylight again, right guys?"
"Right!" Ash and Angie said simultaneously, instantly forgetting their little strife.
With the little girl as their guide, they quickly reached the exit, and emerged from the mountain, but this time on the west side now.
"Aahhh, fresh air!" Ash shouted.
"Pikaaaa!" Ash's little friend agreed with it's trainer.
"Shinx, come back," Angie said, as she made her Pokémon return to it's Poké Ball to rest a little from shining it's light all the time during their presence in the tunnels.
"Now where do we go from here?" Tracey asked.
"Well, I think we'd better get Suzie back to her home in Pewter City," Ash proposed.
"Yes please, my mum and dad will probably be very worried by now," Suzie answered, with a guilty look on her face.
"What were you doing in there by the way, all alone?" Angie asked.
"My dad says I'm not old enough for my first Pokémon, but I really want my own Pokémon," Suzie explained, "so I took a few Poké Balls, and went to Mount Moon, to catch a cool rock Pokémon, like Geodude, or maybe an Onix like my big brother. But inside the tunnels, I slipped, and fell. After that I couldn't walk anymore."
"And my Marill must have heard you crying, and led us to you," Tracey completed the story.
"Now let's get to Pewter City!" Ash said, all ready to go.
Suddenly a large shadow covered them.
"Huh, it's not going to rain again, now is it?" Angie wondered.
"Hahahaha!" it sounded from above, and everyone looked up.
"Surprise!" Meowth shouted from the Team Rocket balloon, that was hovering above our friends.
"We figured you had to come out on this side sooner or later, so we just flew over Mount Moon and waited for you to appear again," James explained.
"And now the waiting's over," Jessie added, "Listen... is that a voice that I hear?"
"It came from the mountain, loud and clear," James improvised.
"Through the tunnels," Jessie continued.
"Past the rocks," James added.
"In your ears!" Meowth said it's line.
"Bringing Chaos at a breakneck pace," Jessie spoke.
"Dashing hope, putting fear in it's place," James said.
"A rose by any other name is just as sweet," Jessie spoke again.
"When everything's worse, our work is complete," James continued.
"Jessie!" she introduced herself.
"James!" her companion did the same.
"And Meowth, now that's a name!" the catlike Pokémon managed to get a word in again.
"Putting do-gooders in their place..." Jessie continued.
"We're Team Rocket..." James spoke once more.
"...in your face!" the three villains now said together, followed by Wobbuffet closing the motto by saying it's name.
"I thought they were doing that other motto lately," Angie said to Ash.
"Well, since we haven't been too successful lately," Meowth explained, "we decided to try this one again. It's a first performance here in Kanto. What do you think?"
"I think it's still nothing," Ash said, and Angie and Tracey nodded to agree with him.
"What!?" Jessie yelled, "Meowth, teach them some manners!"
"I'm on it," Meowth acknowledged, pushing one of the buttons on a small remote control, "meet our new and much improved Golem-bot 4000!"
A robot shaped like a Golem stood up from the side of the mountain, where it had been well camouflaged, looking just like a very large boulder. With a swipe of it's paws, it quickly scooped up Marill and Pikachu, and put them in a little storage container attached to it's belly.
"Oh... Pikachu!" Ash shouted.
"My Shinx is still to tired Ash, and Bulbasaur is carrying Suzie," Angie said, "Tracey, can you do something?"
"Scyther, come out and do Slash on that robot!" Tracey reacted.
The mantis-like bug Pokémon flew up and tried to hit the robot, but Meowth pushed another button on it's remote control, making a large net that bug catchers would use, appear on the end of the robot's arms. With a swift move Scyther was caught in the net and also put away in the storage container.
"Not as pretty as a Beautifly, but this one will still be a nice addition to our little collection, right James?" Jessie said to her partner.
"Indeed, Jess, now do you twerps have any more Pokémon we can steal from you?" James asked with a mocking voice.
"No way you're getting away with this, Team Rocket!" Ash shouted, as he was wondering which of his Pokémon would be strong enough to take on that giant robot.
"Rhydon! Do Take Down!" they suddenly heard a heavy voice shout.
An unknown Rhydon came charging past Ash, Angie, Tracey and Suzie, and crashed into the Golem-shaped robot. The container on it's belly sprang open, and Pikachu, Scyther and Marill jumped out.
"It's daddy!" Suzie yelled with joy, recognizing her father's voice and his Rhydon.
"That's right, but I'll get to you later, young lady," Suzie's father spoke to her at a very strict tone, and then he asked Ash, "will you help me finish this?"
"Right, Mr. Flint!" Ash said as Pikachu jumped on his shoulder, "Tracey, are you ready too?
"Ready when you are!" Tracey answered.
"You two get the balloon, and leave that fake Golem to me," Flint instructed our two friends.
"Okay, Scyther, do X-scissor on that balloon!" Tracey ordered.
"Grotle, I choose you!" Ash yelled, "help Scyther with your Razor Leaf!"
Flint's Rhydon knocked the Golem-bot over, and the combined attacks of Grotle and Scyther proved to be too much for Team Rocket's balloon, causing it to crash down on top of the heavily damaged robot.
"Okay, who's idea was it to spent all our money on this pile of junk?" Jessie asked, after which all three members began pointing at each other.
"Junk?" Ash asked, "I think we have some cleaning up to do then."
"Right!" Angie agreed as she made Bulbasaur put Suzie gently down on the ground, next to her dad.
"Marill, do Hydro Pump!" Tracey said.
"Bulbasaur, Solar Beam!" Angie added her share to the combination.
"Pikachu, do Thunderbolt!" Ash commanded.
"Uh...oh!" the three villains yelled in fear, before they were hurled up high into the air.
"All of a sudden I don't care anymore about who's idea it was..." Jessie remarked.
"Me neither," James said, "I feel so light now..."
"That's because..." Meowth started.
"...we're blasting off again!" all three Team Rocket members shouted simultaneously.
"Bon voyage!" Ash yelled.
"Please do forget to write when you get there!" Angie added.
Our friends called back their Pokémon, while Flint was checking how Suzie was doing.
"I believe she only sprained her ankle, when she was walking inside Mount Moon," Angie explained to Flint.
"Inside Mount Moon!? What were you thinking, running off like that to go wondering around in those tunnels?" Flint asked, looking rather angry.
"Oh daddy, I just wanted my own Pokémon so badly," Suzie cried, "so I went to catch a cool Geodude or another strong rock-type Pokémon. Please don't be mad at me..."
"So..." Flint started, as his expression softened a bit, "you really wanted to catch a rock-type Pokémon, you say. Sure you don't want a water-type one, like that cute Marill Tracey has, for example?"
"No way, I want to become just like you and Brock, rock Pokémon are the best!" Suzie said enthusiastically.
"Well, it's heartwarming to hear this, and I'll talk with your mother about it. But first you must promise me that you'll never run off like that again, young lady. Do you understand?"
"Yes daddy," Suzie said, with a timid voice.
"Okay, now come here," Flint said with a caring voice as he took his daughter in his strong arms, to carry her.
"Can we come alone too?" Ash asked, "we're also on our way to Pewter City."
"Well, the least I can do to repay you for saving my little girl is to invite you all to dinner, so please, follow me," Flint invited our friends.
They gladly accepted Flint's invitation, and together they walked to Pewter City where new challenges would certainly await Ash and his friends.
My 25th fan-fiction story. 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.