Ch 6: A Fight Between Friends

Rick POV

Karly Rushed at me; "Fire Punch!" She screamed as her fist became shrouded in flames. I tried to run but she was too fast, her fist connected with my back propelling me forward at a startling speed. I hit the wall and a small crater appeared with me in the center. My entire body hurt, but I wouldn't give up. I ran towards her yelling "Brick Break!" She looked startled, and as I hit her, a small screen around her body broke, yet she seemed relatively unharmed. "CONFUSION!" The words were instantly followed by a blazing headache, but the headache subsided in a few seconds, and I felt stronger. I jumped at her and used Scratch, it connected, and she smirked darkly, I felt my entire body being ripped apart; I was still in one piece, but my body wasn't hurt too badly.

I got up and I was filled with more rage than ever. I appeared in front of Karly and began to slash wildly at her. Eventually something knocked me into a wall and I blacked out.

Aeruthael's POV

I saw Rick Slashing crazily at Karly, at first I thought he would stop, but after a full minute, I realised something was wrong. "Close Combat!" I ran up to Rick and threw a flurry of punches at the side of his head and he flew into a wall. I picked up an unconscious Karly and walked into town, knowing the many cuts on her body couldn't be healed by me alone, I went to the Health Clinic and left her next to a Caterpie Attendant.

I ran back to the hut to confront Rick. He was still knocked out. I sighed and brought him to the Infirmary too, telling nurse Butterfree to keep him in an isolated environment. She took my advice and all I could do was wait.

Rick POV

I was in a strange shifting field of colors, they were bright and cheerful, and then I remembered what I did and everything became dark and gloomy. I could only replay the memory of me cutting into Karly, her blood... I began to cry. I cried and cried in remorse. I didn't belong in this world, and all that I've done is hurt the only person in the world that was kind enough to teach me about it. I should die, it's the only way to stop myself from killing anyone else; yes, I must have killed her, with the amount of blood... I shuddered and tried to cut myself up, but nothing happened. Then another memory came into my mind, a memory of reuniting Karly with her Grandfather. The Field regained some color.

I made a mistake, but everyone makes mistakes. I just need to learn and try my best to control my anger.

My eyes flew open, and I saw I was in a metal room with a butterfly wrapping a bandage around my head. "There, done now to..." She broke off as she noticed me staring at her. She pushed a button on the wall, "Aeruthael, he's awake." She released the button. "Goodbye, please try not to put any more pokèmon the ICU, okay?"

Aeruthael entered the room and Butterfree left. "Do you know what you've done?" He said it coldly and quietly.

"I-I'm sorry, I killed her, didn't I." I said looking down.

He laughed, "You didn't kill her, but she's in critical condition." His demeanor became cold again, he sighed; "I shouldn't have let you two fight, if I had known Karly had learnt Fire Punch, I would have caused her to stop."

"I'm so sorry, you can kick me out or do anything to me." I said.

"Why would I do that? You should be taught about our world, not punished because you don't understand it." He said with a hint of compassion in his voice. "I should have told you that she considers the training area a place of love and kindness, by calling it a place of learning, you insulted her beliefs."

He helped me to my feet and we went to a room with two large doors shut tight, there was a light on above the door, as we approached the door, the light turned off and five Caterpies and Nurse Butterfree flew out, "She'll be fine, she can leave tomorrow; just don't let her get into any more dangerous situations for the next week. That means no Rescue Team activities, unless the activity is shopping for supplies." Butterfree said.

"May we come in now?" Aeruthael asked.

"Of course, she's awake right now so you can talk to her."

"Thanks." We walked into the room

Karly's POV

My entire body ached as I drifted in and out of consciousness. I thought I could hear Rick and Grandpa talking to me. but everything faded to black.

7 days later

I was asleep in my house, worried about how our teamwork would be affected by our fight, hopefully I could forget about the fight during our missions. The ground started to shake, and I ran out of the house. I saw a large shadow pass overhead and heard someone screaming from help above, where the shadow was. The earthquake stopped and I returned to my bed, I lied awake for about five more minutes, then I closed my eyes.

Rick POV

The Next Day...

I woke up, I had a strange dream the night before where there was an earthquake.

"Would you please help us."

"Huh?" the voice seemingly came from the center of the room, but no one was there.

"This is the residence of Rick the Pawniard and the base of the Rescue Team Team Psi-Blades, right?"

"Well yes but-"

"Oh we're sorry, we forgot to come out and show ourselves." A group of three moles popped out of the ground, the one in the front had a monocle, The one behind and on the left had a black top hat, and the one behind on the right had a bushy white mustache. "We are Dugtrio, and we need your help; last night after the earthquake, a Skarmory abducted my child Diglett. He took him to the top of a dungeon called Mount Steel. Thank you, goodbye" They popped back underground before I could say a word. Ooooo-kay. He didn't give me time to say no so I guess..." I heard a knock on the door and I answered it.

"Hi Rick." Karly was the one who knocked.

"Do you want to still be-" I began.

"Yes!" Karly interrupted, answering my question. "Did you check the mailbox?"

"I don't think we need to, a Dugtrio popped in when I woke up and asked us to save his son on-

"Mount Steel, Where you need to defeat Skarmory." Dugtrio popped up between us, "Again, thank you kind sir and madam, goodbye." He popped underground again.

"That was... sudden." Karly said eventually. "He didn't even give us the chance to refuse."

"As if we would refuse." I said with a grin, I then remembered she can't see my mouth and began to blush. We left to go to Mount Steel and arrived at the entrance.

"Ah, I do say, thank you for coming!" Dugtrio popped out (If you can't guess he has an english accent and talks really annoyingly, like Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys), "My son is on the 8th floor. Good luck." Dugtrio disappeared underground again.

Mt. Steel

We advanced through the dungeon, Karly took care of the steel type pokèmon with Fire Punch, while I took out all the Rock types with Brick Break, We got into trouble when we found some Meditite, but Karly took them out with confusion. We emerged in a large room, across the room from us was a small mole, I recognized it as Diglett; and as I was about to cross the room I heard a loud shriek and a bird made of metal flew down at me and tried to pick me up, I dodged by ducking to the ground.

"Who are you?" The bird, a Skarmory, asked us. "Wait a second, You're a rescue team that has come to rescue this brat, well you won't get him. He and his kin have been keeping me up with their earthquakes."

"You're right that there have been earthquakes." I said, "But do you really think someone as small as him could cause an earthquake?" I motioned to Diglett.

"CAW! No more talk, if you want this worthless kid back, you'll have to beat me."

Karly and I tried to defeat it with a combination of Brick Break and Fire Punch, but Skarmory was too fast for either of us to hit, I managed to get a lucky blow in here and there but instead of hurting skarmory badly, it seemed to do almost nothing. We were on our last legs when...

"THUNDERBOLT!" A voice screamed from behind us, and a bolt of lightning hit Skarmory, he then fell to the ground and seemed like he couldn't move.

"Fire Punch!" Karly called as she teleported in front of Skarmory; it's eyes widened in fear and he tried to run away, but he couldn't move. Karly's fist made contact with his head, and he promptly faded. We turned around to see who saved us.

"Hey guys." It was Evan, and he had the stupidest grin on his face. "I heard about what was happening, and I thought that you two might need some help with that big bird." He laughed, "I just didn't know you two would have that much trouble, it seemed as though you two were two different entities fighting separate battles rather than what you acted like during our battle." He realised something that made his smile fall off his face. "Oh... I'm so stupid, I forgot about the incident." I visibly cringed at that. "I'll just..."

"Stay? Please?" Karly and I asked in unison, neither of us could bare to see Evan beat himself up like this.

"Besides, we have the badges, so you might get stuck here if you don't come with us." I said. I turned to Diglett, "Okay, little guy I'll come get you and we can use my badge to get out of here; okay?"

"O-okay..." Diglett sounded shaken and scared, I went over to him and lifted my badge, it shined and Diglett disappeared.

"See you two back in town." I said, faking joy in my voice, my badge shined again and I saw a flash of light, then I was standing next to the job board at the Pelipper Post Office.

A/N: Merry Late Christmas! I planned to get this out on christmas but... well it didn't happen as you can see. I was just playing PMD Red Rescue Team, and the weirdest thing happened, the order of events in my game were a lot like the events in this fic, I mean in that one day where you get the tour of Pokèmon Plaza, I had to do a job where I saved a Rattata from Thunderwave Cave, just like in Ch. 5. I had a good Christmas, review your favorite present, mine was an adapter for PS2 Controllers to plug into PCs. Have a Happy New Year!