Pokémon – Final Battle
Flooded hope
Four days had passed since Ash and Brock had started out to Pallet town, normally this would only take around two days, but with the current state of the world it took twice as long. Ash had asked Professor Oak to send all his fire types to him, luckily it had managed to light a safe path through the, now lava covered, Hoenn region. Darkness really had swallowed the entire world Kanto was just as dark as Hoenn. Ash could only imagine what other regions looked like.
The lava shift hadn't affected Kanto yet, it was good to be home Ash hadn't come back since he left for Shinou. Brock on the other had only left to see Ash at the Shinou Tournament and it was a good thing he did. They were only a twenty minutes from Pallet town, both Ash and Brock became restless as they came closer to their home towns unsure of what may have happened to them. The plan was simple, go to Professor Oak's lab, tell him and the other professors what they knew and choose a team of Pokémon to fight J. That was the plan, plans rarely work out perfectly.
The first sign that they were nearing Pallet town was the sea to the left, or it should have been to the left. The sea had seemed to move it now stretched in front of them. They walked forward despite of the change in the sea. It wasn't until they saw the second floor of Ash's house directly in front of them that they realised something was wrong, his first thought was where was his mum, he hoped she had got to Oak's Lab before the water rose. The entire town had been flooded and rain continued to pour down, in the distance there was the hill that homed the professor's lab. At the minute it was above the water level, a thick fog covered the town, making it impossible to navigate safely. Ash and Brock couldn't just walk through the water, or even swim through, the water level was too high and the distance too great.
There was no visible way across to the hill, seeing as professor Oak had Ash's water types it made the situation even harder than it should have been. The only way to the other side of Pallet town was to go around, this wouldn't be that hard normally but in the current condition it would take another day. Ash was growing worried they wouldn't have that long, the water level was still rising, they were stood on a small ridge and the water had just hit their feet. Brock was aware of his concern he dared not think about his family in Pewter City.
At the far end of the ridge they were stood on Ash noticed a large flat rock, it would make the perfect boat if it wasn't made of solid rock. All they needed was something that floated around the same size as the rock, but what?