Episode 43: Black thunder.
Let's get the party rolling, the next chapter of the series.
Colin walked back into the church to look at the papers before noticing the other lot of paperwork, he placed his hand on his chin and smirked for a moment, "so they were in such a rush they forgot to sign the paperwork," Colin remarked before picking up the certificate as he heard the noise of someone landing outside, the royal guard turned around to see Alex standing behind him, 'seems like they noticed soon after they left,' Colin thought to himself as he pulled out a pokeball. The two guards glared at one another not backing down, "You want this paper?" Colin asked the enemy while holding out the certificate in front of him.
Alex looked at the paperwork and nodded, "Colin, you have something that doesn't belong to you," Alex addressed the royal guard while pointing over to the paper in his hands, "hand it over now," Alex demanded as he got ready to the pull out a pokaball.
Colin shook his head and snickered at the opposing guard, "Over my dead body," Colin replied as he threw out his pokeball to show off a yellow horse like pokemon with flames billowing out for its mane, Alex took a step closer but Colin didn't budge, "stop right there Alex, you take another step then this paper will be torched," Colin threatened his rival.
"You play dirty, you filthy bastard," Alex declared with a smirk, "what will it take to convince you that everything you worked so hard for now stands for nothing?" Alex asked before bursting out into laughter.
"I should ask you the same question," Colin replied before nodding at his fire type pokemon, "Rapidash, erase Delia's and Chris's marriage with Flamethrower," Colin instructed his pokemon after the commanded the fire horse pokemon unleashed a powerful burst of flames, Alex tried to run towards the paper but as tackled to the ground by Colin, "sorry Alex, but this time I will help history change," Colin told the opposing guard.
The two guards watched as the paper was engulfed in flames destroying it in an instant, leaving only the charred remains of the paper to fall to the ground, "what have you done?!" Alex asked in a rage before punching Colin knocking him away, he jumped up and charged towards the royal guard getting ready to tackle him, Colin kicked Alex in the stomach knocking him back, he recalled the pokemon and started to run away from the fight, "get back you coward!" Alex yelled out in a furious rage.
"If you want me so badly, then come and chase me to Hoenn!" Colin yelled in reply before exiting the church yet again to get away from the angered guard, 'if everything goes as planned I can take him out no problem,' Colin thought while running away from the church and towards the dock, he hit the ground as a blast of lightning flew passed his head and into the distance, he looked back to see Alex's Electivire powering up for yet another attack, 'that's it Alex come and chase after me,' Colin told himself before smirking at his opposite.
"Come back you filthy coward!" Alex yelled out while continuing his chase, he recalled his powerful pokemon and ran towards the royal guard.
Colin called out his Rapidash and climbed on, "let's go Rapidash,"Colin instructed his pokemon, the horse like pokemon ran at full pace towards the pier of the city. The royal guard looked up to see a ship getting ready to leave before a blast of flames zoomed passed his head, he looked back to see Alex also riding on a Rapidash of his own, he turned his focus back to the ship as it was leaving the port, "now Rapidash, jump on the ship," Colin instructed his pokemon.
The fire type pokemon ran towards the end of the pier with the ship in site, the fire type jumped off the pier and towards the ship, "he will not make it," Alex said with confidence as he watched his foe getting closer, he watched in disbelief as his enemy barely landed on the ship, "I will hunt you don Colin!" Alex yelled out in anger while recalling his pokemon, 'bastard's just lucky I don't have a water type with me,' Alex thought while recalling his pokemon.
On the way to Unova region
Ash and Salvia were riding on the back of a large white dragon type pokemon towards the next region of the master's challenge, "Ash, do you really think everything will be alright between us?" Salvia asked while looking over the trainers shoulder to see the stars blinking in the inky black sky, "when we started out, my dad couldn't stand the fact you were the one taking the responsibility to look after me," Salvia explained quietly.
'My friend you should take the chance to get some rest,' Reshiram told its trainer calmly.
"Salvia, we will talk about it tomorrow," Ash said quietly while falling back to rest on the vast white pokemon's back.
Salvia continued to sit on the pokemon back looking up to the night sky, "Ash, I am scared that my uncle is going to hurt the people I care about," Salvia proclaimed while placing her hand on the trainer's shoulder.
Ash looked up into the bright blue eyes of the royal, "you have nothing to worry about, we have been through some nasty stuff," Ash replied smiling proudly, Ash looked up to see the night sky dotted with the stars while trying to think of a way to keep his love safe, 'I will not let anyone hurt her,' Ash thought while turning his gaze back to the princess, "come on Salvia, you need some sleep, we will begin our journey the moment we land," Ash told the royal with a smile while placing his left hand on the bluenette's hand which remained firmly on his shoulder.
"Alright my prince, I will get some sleep, just stay close to me," Salvia replied while crawling next to Ash and placing her right hand over his chest and resting her head near his shoulder, "sweet dreams," Salvia requested sweetly as she began to fall asleep with the trainer's arm moving around her.
"Reshiram, take it easy alright," Ash told the dragon type pokemon quietly before falling asleep.
'Yes my friend,' Reshiram acknowledged as it slowed down to continue its flight towards the Unova region, 'I hope Zekrom is in Unova, these two will need all the help they can get,' Reshiram thought quietly while continuing the flight towards the region, keeping at a steady pace to make sure that Ash and Salvia didn't fall off the legendary pokemon.
Salvia opened her eyes for a moment to see Ash sleeping next to her, 'I just hope we can get some sort f peace going,' Salvia thought before resting next to Ash and falling asleep.
'Don't worry princess, I will assist you and Ash as much as I can,' Reshiram told the princess through her thoughts.
Eight hours later
Ash was sitting up watching the sun rising over the horizon, "you know buddy this is rather relaxing," Ash commented with a smile before looking over to Salvia who was still fast asleep on the back of the legendary pokemon who had continued the flight towards the Unova Region, 'Reshiram, how far are we from the Unova Region?' Ash asked his legendary partner.
'Not too far off,' Reshiram replied calmly. the dragon type pokemon continued to fly before it noticed some smoke coming from the distance, 'look in the distance master,' Reshiram instructed the trainer.
The trainer squinted his eyes to see what Rehiram was telling him, "Reshiram, I have no idea what you are talking about," Ash argued before he eventually noticed a cloud of smoke approaching them, "where is that coming from?" Ash asked while the large pokemon rushed in the direction of the smokes origin, 'keep following it Reshiram,' Ash instructed the vast white pokemon.
Salvia woke as the sounds of the tail turbine blasted behind her, "Ash, what's going on?" the blue haired princess asked her husband.
"Hold on Salvia, there is a problem," Ash replied as he grabbed for his pokeball.
"Wait up Ash, I might have something in my bag that might help," Salvia said while grabbing her backpack and opened it, the princess dug her hands inside the small bag searching for an item that might help them, she moved everything around in her bag until she finally found the item that was needed, she pulled out a pair of binoculars and handed it to Ash, "I thought it would be smart to have these," Salvia commented before Ash nodded and took the item from her hands gently.
"Thanks Salvia, that was great thinking," Ash complimented his young wife. He placed the binoculars over his eyes to see what was going on, he scanned the area until he spotted a plane with smoke coming from the engine, "oh wow, there is a plane with one of its engines blown right off," Ash described solemnly, 'Reshiram, you need to hurry to the plane,' Ash told the dragon type.
'Right,' Reshram replied to the trainer's instructions before zooming through the sky towards the stricken aircraft.
Ash got one of his pokeballs and got ready to call out his pokemon inside, "Salvia, this could be dangerous," Ash told the royal with a grimace, "Charizard, I choose you," Ash called out a large orange pokemon with a flame at the tip of his tail.
Ash stood up as the legendary pokemon slowed down to allow for its friend to walk on its back, the trainer knelt down and picked up the princess, "Ash, what are you doing?" Salvia asked in shock as her husband walked to the side Charizard was flying, Ash threw the bluenette on the side as the powerful fire type caught the royal, "Ash, don't go!" Salvia screamed out in horror not noticing the electric type jumping on the flame pokemon, she watched as the vast white pokemon flew off towards the plane, "Ash, please come back!" Salvia screamed out again.
Ash looked back to see the fire type keeping his young wife safe, "I am sorry Salvia, but it would be better if you stay back for now," Ash whispered to himself as the legendary pokemon caught up to the plane, 'Reshiram, I need you to get me to the door side of the plane,' Ash instructed the pokemon of truth. The vast white pokemon flew towards the plane before noticing a large black pokemon approaching the aircraft, 'hey Reshiram, what is that pokemon?' Ash asked his partner legendary pokemon.
'That would be Zekrom,' the vast white pokemon replied confidently. The powerful pokemon got closer to the plane and noticed that the door was open, 'Ash, someone must have escaped,' Reshiram told its friend while trying to move away from the aircraft.
"No Reshiram, get me closer to the door," Ash instructed the pokemon of truth.
'Are you crazy? You would be putting yourself in danger,' Reshiram questioned the pokemon trainer.
"I know, I will be fine," Ash replied with a smile.
Meanwhile in the distance Salvia was sitting on the back of the large orange pokemon with Raichu behind her, Salvia grabbed her binoculars to see what was going on, she looked in the distance to see Ash jumping off towards the plane, "Ash you crazy fool!" Salvia yelled out in horror as she watched the trainer land in the plane much to her relief, "Charizard I need you to fly us closer to the plane," Salvia told the powerful fire type pokemon.
Charizard increased the speed of the flight and headed towards the aircraft, she watched as the plane dip slightly and seeing Ash's legendary pokemon get under the aircraft to keep it from falling any further, 'Salvia, you need to keep your distance,' said a mysterious voice in her mind.
"What was that?" Salvia asked herself as she placed her left hand on her head.
'It's me Reshiram, my friend threw you on Charizard to keep you safe,' the dragon explained as another pokemon got closer to the aircraft.
"I want to help!" Salvia told the dragon but it didn't respond this time around.
In the aircraft Ash looked around to see the people looking at him, "who are you young man?" a man wearing a suit asked the trainer with a frown.
"My name is Ash Ketchum, a trainer from the Kanto region," Ash commented with a proud smile. Ash looked around to see more people wearing suits some with young families, 'what's going on?' Ash asked himself while walking around as the plane jolted knocking the trainer off his feet, 'Reshiram, what in the world is going on out there?' Ash asked the legendary dragon type pokemon.
'The last engine has fallen off the plane,' the legendary dragon replied with solemnly.
The plane tipped to one side causing the children to scream out in horror, Ash gritted his teeth in frustration and tried to keep his balance by holding on to the seats of the aircraft, he slowly made his way to the front of the plane to talk to the pilots, the trainer looked out the door to see Charizard trying to help keep the plane steady, "Salvia, what are you doing here?" Ash asked the princess in anger while watching Charizard trying to lift the wing.
"I will be fine!" Salvia yelled in response.
Ash nodded and continued to make his way to the cabin, he opened the door to see one of the pilots knocked out and the other injured from an attack, "hey what happened here?" Ash asked in shock.
The other pilot looked around to see Ash walking in, "we were attacked by a man in Sinnoh's royal outfit and a woman with long brown hair," the pilot replied much to the horror of Ash, "he then ordered a black pokemon with a single blue eye to destroy the engine on the right," the pilot pointed out before noticing Ash taking up one of the seats next to him, "you have no experience in flying a plane," the pilot said with fear as the trainer grabbed one of the control units.
"We need to glide the plane down into the water," Ash replied while moving the control unit, 'Reshiram tell Salvia to let go, I am at the controls of the aircraft,' Ash told the dragon.
'Alright, I will let go, you intend to glide the aircraft into the water,' Reshiram replied while moving away from the stricken machine, 'Salvia get away from the aircraft, I will connect you to Ash through my powers,' the vast white pokemon told the princess.
'Ash, please help these people, comeback to me safely,' Salvia instructed the trainer while the fire type let go of the wing.
The controls suddenly moved in Ash's hand causing the plane to dip towards the ocean, "shit, better get control now," Ash complained before looking into the red and white eyes of a large black pokemon, the pokemon flew up and got under the plane to help Ash keep the plane steady, "about time Zekrom showed up," Ash commented with a smirk, he moved the controls while trying not to move it suddenly.
"Keep it steady," the pilot told Ash while the plane slowly moved towards the body of water, the pilot grabbed the map and looked at it quickly, "doesn't seem like we will make it to the land," he said with panic building in his voice.
"Matters not, if we can get closer to land, it means we won't have to worry about getting the rescue team to search too far for this plane," Ash replied with a confident smile, the plane continued to lower itself towards the water.
'You said nothing to worry about, you have a lot to worry about, I have just come from a battlefield,' a mysterious voice echoed through Ash's mind.
'Zekrom, is that you? And what do you mean by battlefield?' Ash asked the pokemon as a shockwave pulsed through the air.
'Nuvema Town is in the midst of a large scale battle,' Zekrom replied as the sky started to glow red as explosions ripped through the, 'Hilda, Hilbert and N are holding the line, but there are a lot of people that need defending,' Zekrom pointed out leaving Ash with an uneasy feeling in his mind.
Ash returned his focus to getting the plane to land in the water, his focus remained unbroken until a powerful attack exploded near the right wing of the plane tearing it off, "this isn't good, we will have trouble landing, without a wing," the pilot panicked.
Ash glared from the corner of his eye but continued to try his all to bring the plane safely into the water, "shut up and help me glide this plane into the water," Ash ordered the more experienced pilot while more explosions continued to surround the plane, 'Zekrom, tell Reshiram and Salvia to pull back for now, it is starting to get a little dangerous,' Ash commented as more attacks continued to approach the plane, "what's so important that they need to bring this plane down?" Ash asked the pilot next to him.
"This plane is filled with some of the most important people in the Pokemon World, they are a delegation set to have talks about the recent activities of Team Plasma, Team Rocket and a man by the name of Chris," the pilot replied while placing his hands on the controls of the aircraft, the two continued to try and gain controls of the aircraft. The two men continued to guide the plane down through a sea of explosions and attacks.
"Well this is just great, now I need to save these people," Ash commented with slight irritation, 'Reshiram, hold those attacks off,' Ash instructed the legendary pokemon. The vast white pokemon zoomed passed the plane and unleashed a powerful burst of attacks defending the aircraft while it was descending towards the ocean, 'instruct Salvia to call out her Gyrados as well,' Ash told his pokemon while continuing to save the people on the plane, the plane continued to push through the explosions which were now starting to rattle the aircraft.
"Charizard we need to get out of here," Salvia told Ash's fire type pokemon, the flame pokemon swung around and flew away from the desperate site, Salvia looked back with fear in her eyes, trying to hold back tears as the plane Ash was in got closer to the water's surface, the fire type also looked back to, "Ash will be fine Charizard," Salvia told the powerful flying type while making it to a safe distance.
The three watched as the aircraft started to skim across the water and a large black pokemon flew away from the aircraft, suddenly a powerful attack smashed the tail of the plane away causing the plane to shift from side to side out of control, Salvia gasped in disbelief as the plane, 'Ash needs you to call out Gyrados,' Reshiram told the princess.
The young royal nodded at the fire type and pointed towards the plane quietly, she pulled out her pokeball calling out a large red serpentine pokemon to help out with the rescue, "let's help out Charizard," Salvia instructed the large orange pokemon still shaken up from the site of the plane landing in the water. She watched for a moment as the plane floated on the sea surface trying to get closer as the attacks become more obvious as to where it was coming from. Salvia took a quick look at the beach front and noticed that her uncle was there calling for the attacks, "Uncle Chris, was he planning this all along?" Salvia asked herself while the fire type was dodging the attacks.
'Don't worry about them Zekrom and me will push them back,' Reshiram's voice echoed in the bluenette's mind.
"Right," Salvia replied as she watched the legendary duo charge towards the beach front surrounded in a bright aura. The fire type continued to move towards floating aircraft.
Ash picked himself up after the bumpy landing and looked around, he spotted the pilot on the ground with blood coming from a gash on his head and blood staining his shirt, "oh man this is a mess," Ash commented while slowly walking towards the door of the cabin crew, the crown prince looked back for a moment and stared at the injured pilots, "they will be fine for now, but I need to check on the passengers," Ash reminded himself before opening the door, he walked out and closed the door, he noticed the sea water breaching the plane with the delegates panicking.
"I hope you're happy now," one of the people said with anger.
"Shut up and prepare to jump to safety," Ash instructed the before noticing five powerful water type pokemon at the sides of the sinking plane, "get on the water pokemon you will be fine, I will attend to the injured pilots," Ash told the people as they got ready to get on the water pokemon. Ash rushed back to the pilot's cabin and picked one of them up, Ash walked up to the door and looked around to see a Lapras, he placed the pokemon on the transport pokemon before heading back to get the other pilot, he threw the pilot on the shell of the blue pokemon before hearing the screams of a little girl in the passenger area.
The water was building up as parts of the plane started to break apart, "hold on little girl I am on my way!" Ash yelled out to the little girl, he swan towards her as quickly as possible, Ash grabbed the little girl and smiled at her, "can you hold your breath?" Ash asked the girl with long black hair. The female nodded and got ready to listen to Ash, "good, not stay close, I don't want a family to worry about losing their daughter," Ash acknowledged while he started to swim before the plane's passenger area was almost full of water, "alright no hold your breath," Ash told the girl before gasping for air to duck under the water, the girl did as she was instructed before Ash dove under the water's surface.
Salvia watched as the plane as almost gone unable to hold back any tears knowing that Ash hadn't surfaced from the plane as it began to sink, Salvia looked away unable to hide her anguish, "why are you so reckless Ash?!" Salvia cried out.
"Because I want to stop a war," Ash replied with a smile and the little girl in his arms, "well are you going to get me out of the water or what?" Ash asked the princess while extending his hand out for help, "well I am not going to rescue myself am I?" Ash questioned.
Salvia looked down and wiped away her tears, "alright Charizard, let's get Ash out of the water," Salvia told the powerful fire type pokemon. The powerful fire type pokemon flew down and picked up Ash and the little girl, "Ash, who is that little girl?" Salvia asked the trainer while flying towards the safety of land.
Ash looked down as the girl started to sleep in his arms, "I rescued her from the plane, she was on her own when I saved her," Ash commented with a frown while looking further towards the land, "if we can, we need to find her family," Ash said quietly while the cold winds blew into Ash and the little girl, 'damn that's bitter,' Ash thought while he shivered in reaction from the winds.
"Ash, are you alright?" Salvia asked her husband with concern.
"Nothing to worry about, just a little cold," Ash replied with a chuckle. Ash looked over to his trusted pokemon and nodded, "get us to land as fast as possible buddy," Ash instructed his pokemon while he kept still in the claws of the dargonic pokemon.
After making land Ash noticed that they were in the middle of a battle between a small army and the much larger enemy forces who were getting pushed back into the sea by two legendary pokemon, "Ash, we need to get out of here," Salvia decreed with concern. Salvia ran a head while Ash ran with the little girl in his arms. They rushed through the ranks as the battle raged behind them. Salvia looked back to see Ash run passed an explosion, he jumped and did a flip landing safely next to Salvia, "why is it you seem to be getting all the close calls today?" Salvia questioned with a relieved smile.
While Ash and Salvia were looking back a man with long green hair wearing a white shirt with black jeans approached them. He had to women one with long pink hair while the other had long blonde hair, "you two need to get to our base, the two legendary pokemon will meet us there," the man said with confidence as he looked down to see the sleeping girl in the trainer's arms, "we gathered the survivors from the plane, make sure she finds her family," the man said as a blast of electricity crashed down on the enemy forces.
"Thanks N, Concordia and Anthea, you three stay safe," Ash said with a smile while running with the little girl in his arms.
Salvia ran ahead before she was grabbed and pulled back to get in the gaze of the leader of the army, "make sure Ash stays safe," N instructed the princess before letting her go and allowing her to catch up with the trainer.
"Of course, I will make sure he doesn't do anything stupid," Salvia remarked while hearing another powerful burst of electricity.
"Mom, Dad I love you always," the little girl said with tears flowing down her face leaving the trainer in shock with the words he had just heard.
I hope you all liked this episode, please tell me what you think of the episode, because I am going to make sure it picks up within the next few chapters as well.
With first episode of the war ending with what seems like the first casualties being the little girl's family.
Who is the little girl that Ash rescued? What is her name?
The little girl will actually help with some massive development during this saga, what will it be, this saga will reveal all.
Next time episode 45: the new mission begins