Road to Becoming a Pokemon Master, With My Brother?
Hello ladies and gentlemen, Pika-Bones is back with a new chapter of "Road to Becoming a Pokemon Master, With My Brother?" Firstly I just wanted to thank you for your support, very much appreciated.
So shall we begin? I bring you chapter 3! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own the pocket monsters (obviously)
Chapter 3: Thunder Punch!
It was a beautiful sunny morning in Vermillion city with few clouds filling the sky. Paul and Ash entered the city; their journey so far had few interruptions. They made good time by powering through the few obstacles they had and only making a few quick stops and moving quickly and often. This was no sightseeing trip through Kanto, they were on a business trip.
"Let's get to the Pokemon center and get ready to board the ship." Paul instructed, "We have a couple of hours before the next ship leaves so that should give us some time". Ash and Pikachu both nodded and they headed towards the Pokemon Center.
Paul went to get a room for a couple of hours to clean up. "I'm going to call Oak" ash called out to Paul. "Do whatever you want" Paul answered without hesitation. Ash picked up the phone and dialed in the professor's number. After a few rings somebody picked up and Oak appeared on the screen, "Hello my boy, where are you? How have things been so far?" Oak asked Ash with a good amount of energy. "Where in Vermillion, things have been well, no trouble yet." "Pika pi" Pikachu followed up.
"That's great, you made it there already, you guys made quick work of it, the ship should be leaving in a couple of hours" Oaked looked at his watch while saying the last part, then out of nowhere Ash's Bayleef came from offscreen and took out Oak, "bay-bay-bayleef!" she cried.
"I miss you too Bayleef, don't worry I'll get you here with me so you can see Kalos alright?" Ash's words seemed to have calmed down Bayleef. "Heh, I was worried about telling her you left" Oak got up and dusted himself off and got back onto the screen. "Yay, I remembered on the way here that I forgot to tell them I was leaving" Ash became sad for a bit before Oak told him, "Don't worry Ash, your Pokemon understand, I told them were you were going and that you were in a hurry". "Thanks proffesor and Bayleef, tell the others I'll see them real soon." "Bayleef!" cried the leaf Pokemon and she quickly left for the Pokemon ranch.
"So how have things been with Paul" Oak asked. "The same I guess. We haven't talked much, which is probably a good thing" Ash answered with a hint of sadness. "Well I guess it can't be helped, but don't give up, like I said you two can become friends, no matter how different" Oak reassured Ash. "Friends huh, I guess I haven't been trying as hard as I can, but is it worth the effort?" Ash was deep in thought until Oak brought him back. "Ash is everything alright" Oak asked worried. "I'm fine, and your right, I'll keep trying" he smiled at Oak to assure him. "Well then, good luck my boy, and take car. Thank you again for doing this favor for me, I appreciate it and thank Paul for me to." "Of course any time, bye" both waved at each other as the screen went black again.
After Paul washed up, Ash did the same. Then they got a quick bite at the cafeteria and left for the ship to Kalos. As they were walking to the harbor Ash broke the silence, "It looks like no one knows about the mega stones or they just don't care so far." Paul kept walking without answering, as a few things passed through his mind.
It had been true that they haven't run into any problems, but that didn't mean nobody wanted them. He remembered a few times while they were moving between cities that he felt uneasy, that something or someone was watching and following them. Maybe he was just paranoid, then again in the past his instincts have been good to him.
He finally responded to Ash's comment, "Well we can't let are guard down, the ocean liner to Kalos is still left. It seems quite a few people are going to board it, it might be the best place to snatch them".
"Sure, but they can't really jump us on the ship, can they?" Ash asked. Paul responded as they kept on walking, "With all the people, they could create a commotion, and in that commotion they could take the stones from us, and if they were just thieves in it for the profit, I wouldn't be surprised if they would try to make it a bigger catch by stealing the Pokemon as well. No matter, we just have to take care of them and be ready for anything."
They arrived at the harbor and found their ship. It was decent sized ship, It wasn't a luxury cruise ship by any means, but definitely not cheap. "Wow, didn't expect this, reminds of a boat I boarded when I came to Vermillion the first time, it didn't exactly go to well" Ash remembered the S.S. Anne and how everybody in the ship was jumped by Team Rocket. "Oh yeah, what happened?" Paul asked with the smallest hint of interest.
"We were jumped by team rocket, I traded my Butterfree, then traded for it back, we fought off team rocket, the ship sank and got caught on a ledge before going to the ocean floor, my friends I were still in the ship at that point, we escaped the ship, we became stranded in the ocean, a group of wild Gyrados showed up and attacked us with dragon rage, we were sent flying and landed on an island, we were separated from our Pokemon, we saw giant Pokemon 10 times their normal size, we ended up on a roller-coaster, we found our Pokemon, we were chased by the giant Pokemon, we were sent flying off the rollercoaster, the giant Pokmon turned out to be mechanical, we landed in the water, and then we finally made it back to civilization and found my mom and professor Oak at the beach" Ash took a deep breath of air after the mouthful of words.
Paul took all the information in, kept looking forward, and kept his poker face, "Seems legit".
There was a crowd waiting to board the ship. Ash and Paul were waiting at the edge of the crowd when Ash noticed somebody he thought he remembered. He entered the crowd pushing, shoving, and slithering his way through, "excuse me, coming through". Then all of the sudden the crowd of People opened up and Ash found who he was looking for, and sure enough it was her, his auburn eyes met her sapphire eyes, it was May.
Ash couldn't help but feel overjoyed to see his old friend, but something seemed different. She looked beautiful, for the first time in his life May just looked beautiful to him. He never felt like this before and he didn't know what he was feeling. She still looked like the person that he traveled with in Hoenn, but she was different in a way, more mature. She was wearing something different since the last time he saw her. She wore a red shoulder strap shirt over a black under shirt, white shorts over her black swimmer trunks, yellow, black, and red shoes, and she also rocked a new headband with the same design of her bandanna. She looked ready to dive into the water at any time.
"Ash! It is you, what are you doing here?" May walked up to Ash excitedly. It took ash a long second to respond since he was still lost in her Sapphire eyes, "Oh, um I'm running an errand for Mr. Oak, I'm also planning on entering the Kalos Pokemon league. I didn't expect to see you here either May." "Pika-pi" added Pikachu
"I missed you too Pikachu" May put her arm and shoulder out and Pikachu hopped on to her shoulder, "Your as cute as ever Pikachu" May giggled and gave ash one of her cute smiles that threatened break him, "It was sudden but apparently there's this group of sponsors in Kalos that want me to wear one of their original designs in one of my contest, I guess people are starting to recognize me as high level coordinator" she gave Ash a wink and a peace sign.
"That's great May, of course they would recognize you, you're the best coordinator I know." The compliment made May blush a bit.
May reached into her yellow bag and pulled half of a Pokemon contest ribbon. The center of the ribbon or more accurately half of the center was filled by a shining gold sun shaped symbol and it was completed by a pink and white stripped ribbon tied on the back, "Do you still have it Ash?"
Ash then took out the other half of the ribbon, "I always have it on me". They put the two halves together to complete the ribbon. The ribbon's age was evident, it worn and torn, but it still looked pleasant to the eye.
"So last I heard from you was last month" May began as they put away their halves of the ribbon, "you told me about you and your mom bringing someone new into the house hold, but you never got the chance to tell me more" May was curious to hear about Ash's brother.
"Yeah, well it went something like this" Ash was about to lie through his teeth, he wasn't sure why, maybe because he wanted to impress May or maybe because he just hated Paul, anyway this was how how was going to tell it, "I was in the viridian forest and it was pouring, as if Arceus wanted to wash all evil from the earth. I was racing to get home to see my loving mother once again, and that's when I heard it, a pour, desperate soul, sobbing, with nowhere to go, no one to care for him. I found him, dirty, lonely, and cold. I picked him up and carried him on my shoulders, all the way back to pallet, running and running, not stopping for anything even though I was exhausted" Ash paused for a second for dramatic effect, "I reached my mother's house, but she wasn't there, probably at a friend's house, stuck by the storm. So I carried him in to the house, fed him, clothed him, I even let him sleep in my bed, I stayed by his side 24/7 making sure he was okay, protected him, but he turned out to be an arrogant, ungrateful brat, who has no respect for Pokemon or people…"
Unbeknownst by Ash, Paul had found him in the crowd and was standing right behind him, somehow making his presence unknown to both of them. Paul stood nonchalantly for a while listening to Ash before deciding to bring the hammer down. Paul's left hand descended onto Ash's head and put his story to an abrupt end.
"You fed me huh" Paul put more weight onto Ash's head, "dumbass, you can't even boil water" Paul didn't scream or yell, he had a small smile but his anger could be heard in his words. "Paul, wai-". "And who was crying" Paul did not let Ash go, "because the biggest cry baby I know is you". "Paul, wait I'm sor-sorry" Ash began pleading because it hurt so much. "Ungrateful brat? I can tell you who's ungrateful."
"Hello, my name is Paul" Paul then turned his attention to May, without letting Ash go. "When I returned to Kanto from Sinnoh after the Pokemon league, I decided to visit the orphanage I spent most of my life in" Paul's anger was still drilling Ash into the ground and May was staring in confusion, "but unknown to me they closed it down, so those who worked with the orphanage figured that I was still too young to live on my own without anybody to supervise me, provide foe me, etc. So Mrs. Ketchum learned about me and welcomed me into her home with open arms and has done all I can ask from her. Ash here though was quite upset when he learned of me."
"I was not upset, I was shocked, huge difference" Ash was only able to muster until he passed out. "Well it was nice to meet you, what was your name again?" Paul asked way too nicely. "Um, May, May Maple" she was sweating a bit and her eye was twitching, this situation was definitely freaking her out now. "May, nice name, well looks like it's time to board the ship, after you" since they had started talking, the crowd had disappeared onto the boat. "Uh, thanks" May could only say that much as she boarded the boat.
"Come on, we have to get on" Paul told Ash, half expecting him to get up.
"Really!? great now I have to drag your dumb ass on" Paul grabbed hold of Ash's collar and dragged him on board.
"What?" Paul asked one of the ship's attendants who was looking at Ash "He's fine". He found their room and he tossed ash on to the bed and left him there. 15 minutes later the ship set sail for Kalos, it would be a 3 day ride.
Ash came to a couple of hours later and felt groggy. He got up and took in his surroundings "wait, I'm on the ship?' Ash then remembered what had happened before, "Oh yeah, that."
Then, the door to the cabin opened up and Paul entered. He quickly went into the bathroom. "Hey, Paul I just want to tell you something. I'm sorry." Ash could here Paul in the bathroom washing up.
Paul then came out, "sorry about what? What happened on the harbor? There's no reason to be sorry". Ash seemed confused, "but I lied and I made you look like somebody you're not".
"It doesn't really matter, it's not like were friends, this is just a business trip were unfortunately I need to carry your sorry butt around. Anyways I'm not like you, I'm used to nobody having my back. See you" Paul left the cabin.
That last comment made Ash feel worse. How can somebody can live their life with nobody there for them. Paul was right; Ash had never felt alone in the world, there was always somebody backing him up, someone who cared. He looked at his pal Pikachu who was sleeping on the bed. What he did was wrong, no matter how much he despised Paul.
Ash paced around the cabin, deep in thought for a while. He was also trying to shake off the beating Paul gave him earlier. His head had a decent sized bump, so he put some ice on it, though it was kind of late for that now. "One things for sure, I didn't expect him to be so strong" he thought as he sat down and kept the ice on his head.
Then a light knock on the door made brought Ash back from his thoughts. He put away the ice, put his hat back on, and opened the door. It was May, and Ash quickly felt better by just seeing her, though he was still upset at himself. "Hi May" Ash said softly. May returned his greeting with a small smile, "Hi Ash, I saw Paul earlier and he told me you I could find you here, just wanted to see if you were okay". "Thanks May."
Then an awkward silence followed, Ash couldn't find anything to say and it seemed as May couldn't say what was on her mind, they avoided each other's eyes and looked in all different directions. May finally broke the silence, "You want to go for a walk on the deck, it's a beautiful night." "Sure thing" Ash began, then he realized what she said about it being nighttime, "wait its night already? I guess I was in that cabin longer than I thought".
"Ya" May giggled, "It's pretty late actually; most of the passengers are sleeping already."
"Well let's not waste any moonlight, let's go" Ash said enthustically.
They walked around the boat, mostly in silence, then they arrived on the front of the ship. May was right, it was a beautiful night. The sea was calm and the moon and stars lit up the darkness of night, and May, well she looked beautiful in the moonlight.
First Ash felt like he needed to apologize, "May, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied to you, I don't know what got into me, it was stupid. I'm supposed to be trying to be Paul's friend". May looked at Ash "it's okay, I'm going to guess both of you are not too fond of each other which is understandable, but maybe you're going at it the wrong way. Ash, you're probably the easiest guy to be friends with. If you just be yourself you can befriend anyone, you've been doing it since you began traveling. You don't even have to try."
Ash was surprised at what May told him, and the more he thought of it, the more it seemed true, but something still bugged him, he knew Paul never really had a family, so maybe being friends wasn't enough, maybe he needed to be more than just a friend to try to get through to Paul, but what did that mean?
"I tried to apologize but I think I really upset him, even though he says he doesn't care and he doesn't show it. He also said something that made me feel lucky to have you and everybody else I know as a friend, the world is unforgiven, must be tough to have to go through it alone. I have to make it up to him, somehow, but I have no idea, he kind of shuts everybody out for the most part."
"Don't worry Ash; I'm sure you will find a way. You might be careless when it comes to other people's feelings sometimes" Ash was about to object but May cut him off with a single finger to the lips, "but ultimately, you're a kind and caring person who puts others well-being in front of his own, be it Human or Pokemon."
The moment May's finger touched Ash's lip, his heart got logged in his throat and no words could come out. "Ash how's your head." Ash swallowed hard and managed to get out a barely audible, "It's fine".
"Can I check?" before Ash could answer May took of his hat and put her hand on his head, "Oh, I can feel the bump, it's small though, it should go down soon". May continued to play with Ash's hair and he was as frozen as a statue and as red as a flopping Magikarp. No one had ever touched him like this and his heart raced faster than his fastest Pokemon, but for some reason he was just focused on May's sapphire eyes.
"I have to tell you something" May began, "I've been trying to build up the courage to tell you this for the longest time, but I could never, but now seems like the perfect moment".
"What is it?" Ash managed to throw out there, he really didn't know.
She was finally going to do it; she was going to tell Ash how she felt. She let her raw emotions take over, it was as if some part of her had enough of waiting, took the controls, and was about to tell Ash for her.
Paul came back to the cabin around the same time Ash left with May. He entered the cabin and saw that Ash wasn't there, "Where is he? His friend mouse is here. Is the key stone here?" he searched for the mega stone in the cabin but he could not find it, "He must have it on him". He exited the cabin and looked for Ash around the ship, "I swear, if he loses that stone I will throw him of this ship, into the ocean, and have the sharpedo eat him. And I don't care if there is no Sharpedo in these waters, I will find a Sharpedo to feed him to."
Paul made it to the bow of the ship and right before he turned the corner, his eye caught Ash and May at the railings, "What the hell are they doing here?"
"What I need to tell you is" May neared her face to Ash, with Ash still lost in her eyes, "I lo-"
"Kaboom!"there was a loud explosion coming from somewhere on the ship and the ship rocked for a couple of seconds before settling down. "What was that!?" Ash broke eye contact with May. May stepped back nervously, "Wait, was I really about to say that?"May quickly covered her mouth with her hands, "Oh no I think I did, there's no way he didn't pick that up".
The ship began to come to the stop and smoke began to come out from somewhere. "I wonder what happened." Ash then saw from a large yellow Pokemon with black stripes, two tails, and red eyes came down onto the deck. "Electavire!"
"It's an electivire" Ash whispered to himself. Then from behind the Electivire, 4 strange men appeared, all of them wearing black. Then the one in the front spoke up, "Give us the key stone boy, and nobody gets hurt" his voice was not deep, but it was an assertive voice. "Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about" Ash said innocently.
"Don't play with us boy, we know professor Oak gave you that key stone, now hand it over. It's simple, you give it to us and we leave you and your friend here alone, deal." The man in black gestured towards Ash.
"Ash, what are they talking about" May asked worried. "You know about that errand I'm running for Mr. Oak, this might have something to do with it" Ash whispered.
"We already got the mega stone from that other trainer that has been traveling with you" he took out the mega stone Paul had and showed it to Ash. Ash took a step back, "Wait! How do you have that. Paul was taking care of it."
"What the hell! How do they have that, I had it in my bag the whole time, I never left it anywhere, except…" Paul then remembered being challenged to a battle by another trainer at the battlefields on board. He accepted the challenge, and in result he left his bag on one of the benches, "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!" Paul banged his head with his hand. "Why did I even accept that stupid challenge, and why would I do something like that, I would never do anything that careless."
"It was quite easy actually, the poor kid looked distraught, he got careless and it was easy from their" the leader of the group arrogantly played with the mega stone in his hand.
"Distraught! What does he mean I looked distraught, I don't care what anybody thinks of me, especially not Ash."
Ash grounded his teeth, "Well looks like that I'm going have to fight them off" Ash reached for his Pokeballs and May followed his lead.
"Oh no, we can't have that around here now can we?" The leader took out from his coat a metallic disc and activated it. It suddenly caused Ash's and May's pokeballs to escape their grasp, "hey! what the?" the Pokeballs floated away from their owners and landed in the hands of the men in the black coats. "Thank you very much for your donations. I love this thing, it's made specifically to attract pokeballs, makes our job much easier. Put these with the others."
Ash then realized that the other 3 men all had bags and that they must be filled with other pokeballs. Ash clenched his fist, "So I guess your all in it for the profit huh. You make me sick. Willing to separate trainer from Pokemon for a profit, what kind of heart do you have".
"That's very nice kid, but I'm losing patience, you lost, hand over the key stone, somebody's going to give us a pretty penny for it" he demanded simply.
"Looks like I need to step in just need to…" Paul reached for his pokeballs, there was nothing their "I left them with Nurse Joy…" Paul proceeded to curse himself out, "I really hate myself right now".
Paul shook his head violently "never mind that now, I need to find a way to get those mega stones and pokeballs back. I need to catch Ash's attention first". Paul began to wave his arms, trying to get Ash's attention.
"I'm waiting boy, give up the key stone or I'll have to get electavire here to take it." "Come on, there has to be something I can do." It was then when Ash saw Paul waving his arms, "What the hell are you doing". Then their eyes met and somehow Ash knew exactly what Paul wanted him to do. "Hey you want this stupid rock so bad" Ash took the key stone from his sweater, "go fetch" Ash threw the mega stone high and far into the night sky towards the other side of the ship. This surprised everybody, except Paul.
"Electivire! go get the mega stone" yelled out the leader of the thieves. Electivire quickly obeyed and chased after it.
"Ash, now!" In an instance Paul and Ash bolted from their current position and rushed the thieves. They were taken off guard and both trainers had a shot to take out their target.
"Almost there!" both of them thought simultaneously then, "Dammit!" Both of them got their feet tangled up as they crossed each other's path and they both hit the floor.
"What are you doing! You were supposed to go after the guys with the pokeballs!" Paul yelled at Ash. "No, you were supposed to go for the guys with the pokeballs, I was going for the mega stone you lost!"
They were both at each other throats, then the deck shook, "Crap!" Electivire was back. "Thank you Electivire" Electivire threw the key stone to the leader, and the Electivire began to walk closer to Ash, Paul, and May, "now would you be so kind as to show these three the exit, send them flying with your Thunder punch, make sure their no longer a nuisance."
"Uh, guys any ideas" May asked nervously. Electivire charged up its electricity, "I'm out of ideas; it's been a rough day" Paul said simply. Electivire cocked its arm back, "I've got one". Electivire striked at the three, when without warning Ash jumped right in between Electivire's Thunder punch, and Paul and May.
Electivire's fist impacted Ash's lower back and sent 100,000+ volts through Ash's body, "arrrgh!".
"Ash, No!" yelled May as she tried to reach for Ash, but the sparks from the thunder punch didn't allow her to get close enough. Paul's eyes widened, "What are you doing? You're taking a direct Thunder punch to your body."
"Tch, is he stupid or something" the lead thieve thought to himself.
"Pa-pa-paul! Now!" Ash struggled to send his message to Paul. "Wait, is he doing this to give me an opening" Paul quickly reacted and once again charged the 4 men.
"What, again! Stop him" demanded the lead thieve. "Yes sir" The thieves began to reach for their own Pokeballs, but they never had a chance to use them.
Paul reached the middle thieve and shoulder tackled him, "arrrgh!" The thieve was launched backwards and was sent into the railings where he was knocked out, causing him to release the bag of Pokeballs and littering the floor with the red and white capsules.
"Get him!" The thieves began to surround Paul. He quickly reached for the nearest Pokeball to him. "GO! Please be something decent" Paul threw the pokeball into the air, and a bright light followed which formed into a black winged, blue bodied, vampire like pokemon, with two claws, two pointed ears, and a scorpion like tail that ended in two pointed spikes, "Gliscor!" cried the fang scorpion Pokemon.
"I didn't bring my Gliscor, is that Ash's?" Gliscor proceeded to stick out its tongue to the side as it glided in the air, "yes, yes it is".
"Gliscor I need your help, it's an emergency! Use screech!" Gliscor quickly saw Ash crumpled on the floor near Electivire's feet, "Gliscor!?" and followed Paul's order.
Gliscor let out a high pitched, ear splitting sound causing everybody on the deck including Electivire, to cover their ears and scream in pain.
"Let's see, what other moves does this thing know again" Paul quicky thought."Gliscor!" Paul yelled, "Let's get Ash to safety, X-scissor on the Electivire". "Gli-Gliscor!" Gliscor's claws turned light blue as it charged Electivire, it then swiped them in an "X" formation, hitting Electivire in the face, causing it to stumble back and made it angrier.
"Forget them! We got what we came for, go!" The thieves began to run towards the starboard, where their escape boat was.
"May!" Paul called out. "I got it!" May ran to the closest Pokeball and chucked it into the air, "take the stage". Out of the Pokeball came out a four legged purple scorpion like pokemon, with pincers on its two front limbs and pincers on its tail. It also had 2 large fang like protrusions coming from its mouth, "Drapion!"
They Drapion appeared in front the thieves, stopping their progress. "Hey, where did it come from." "No matter, we need to get this to the boat, cover me" the lead thief instructed.
May caught up to Drapion, "Drapion I need your help, it's an emergency."
"Go Houndoom" called out one of the thiefs. "Go, Marowak" called out the other. Both a black and orange canine like Pokemon with two horns and a light brown Pokemon holding a thick club and wearing a skull appeared in front a Drapion.
Drapion was still confused about what was happening, until it saw the two pokemon appear in front of it. It looked that there was going to be a battle, and it wanted part of it.
The thief with the mega stone and key stone ran past others. "Drapion! stop him" Called out May. Drapion began to head for the thief before a flamethrower from the Houndoom stopped it in its tracks, "Tch, looks like we're going to have to clear them out first".
"Heh, go ahead and try little missy" snickered one of the thieves. "You don't know who your messing with bub, now Drapion use…" May pointed towards her opponents, "wait what moves does Drapion know." She sweat dropped.
"Well, this is going to be easy, Houndoom, Crunch!" The other thief followed suit, "Marowak, use bone rush!" both Pokemon rushed Drapion.
"Wait!" cried out May. She took out her pokedex as quickly as possible to check Drapion's moves, but it was too late, Houndoom and Marowak were already almost on top of Drapion. Drapion though would have none of it.
Drapion's pincers started to grow purple, then it blocked the attacks with a cross poison, sending the two Pokemon flying back in the process. "Wow, it's strong, really strong, it fought off those powerful attacks like nothing." May said impressed.
"Gliscor, you have an opening, go and get Ash out of there" Gliscor wasted no time and dove for Ash. Electivire answered with a Thunder bolt but it had no effect on the ground type.
Gliscor reached the almost unconscious Ash, who was still covered in static from the Thunder punch. "Put him at a distance, and quickly, Electivire's about to attack again." Gliscor found a spot away from the battle to place Ash and returned to face Electivire.
"Electivire!" It's fist starting glowing bluish white and lunged at Gliscor. "Watch out for that!" Gliscor quickly spread its wings to evade the attack. "If it gets hit with that ice punch, it's over."
"Houndoom, use Flamethrower" Houndoom proceeded to move to Drapion's left side and launced a blazing hot Flamethrower. "Marowak, use bonemerang" Marowak proceeded to move to Drapion's right side and threw its Bone Club at Drapion looking to cause some serious damage.
"Dammit, their attacking from both sides" May became worried. But Drapion didn't see the issue, it ducked to evade both attacks, and the attacks continued on their course, hitting the other Pokemon, "Maro!" "Hound!"
"Wow, it thinks for itself in battle as well, its trainer must be strong" May thought to herself.
But the the other Pokemon had not given up; they got up and continued to attack, "Marowak, Headsmash!" Marowak then charged at Drapion with its head down, and became shrouded in a bluish aura. "Drapion!" cried out the scorpion like Pokemon as it was hit. Houndoom then followed up with a Flamethrower that also landed its mark.
"No, wait Drapion" May called out to Drapion before it retailiated with an attack. Drapion looked back at May, "I see that you're strong but you're outnumbered, we need to work together. I can see how you like to battle, let me take the lead" May placed her hand on her chest.
Drapion hesitated for a second before nodding, "alright let's do this, Pin Missile!" Drapion proceeded to launch a stream of pins from its glowing white pincers at the opponents. "Evade!" called out the thieves. The Pokemon began to try and dodge the whizzing pins, but they're were too many and they were quickly overwhelmed.
The Pokemon weren't yet down though, "Marowak use head smash again" Marowak charged at Drapion once again. "Drapion dodge that" Drapion quickly ducked its body and let marowak pass by, "now grab it with your tail!" Drapion snatched Marowak out of the air with its tail, "now toss it into the sky". "Drapion!" "Marowaaak!" Marowak was tossed high into the night sky.
"Houndoom, use Flamethrower!" called out the other thief. "Hound" cried Houndoom before launching its attack. May's eyes widened, "Cross poison, attack that Flamethrower!" Drapion proceeded to go right at the Flamethrower.
An explosion followed and Drapion was covered in smoke. May gave a smile before giving her next command, "Drappion grab it". Much to the surprise of the Houndoom and its trainer, Drapions limbs shot out of the smoke and grabbed it, "Toss it in the air as well" May gestured towards the sky. "Houndoooooom!"
"Now" May spun on her heel, "use cross poison and send it in the air. And then follow up with Pin Missile". Drapion followed, even though it had never done a maneuver like this before. "Drapion!" The cross poison and Pin Missile collided with the two Pokemon in the sky, which caused a barrage of purple fireworks to occur.
"Wow, pretty" May cooed. The thieves looked in shock at the fireworks and their Pokemon, who came back crashing on to the ship.
"Fireworks? What IS she doing?" Paul had seen the fireworks caused by Drapion's combination of Cross Poison and Pin Missile, "This isn't a contest appeal" Paul thought to himself, but he quickly got back to his battle. "Gliscor, stone edge!" He directed, Gliscor's eyes proceeded to glow white and it became surrounded by white rings which formed into rocks, it then launched them at Electivire.
"Electivire!" Electivire countered though with thunderbolt. Both attacks collided with each other in midair and exploded on contact, Paul then ordered, "use X-Scissor and end this aleady!" Gliscor glided through the smoke and went for the kill with X-Scissor. But Electivire was not going down so easy.
It grabbed Gliscor as it came in close, much to the surprise of Gliscor and Paul. Then its fist began to glow blue and it used ice punch. "Watch out!" It was too late; Gliscor was hammered by the Ice punch and was sent flying into the water.
"Dammit!" Electivire then turned its attention to Paul, "well, my goose is cooked". Electivire prepared to hit Paul with a Thunder Punch, when Gliscor came shooting out of the water. Gliscor then became surrounded in a light purple aura. "Gli-Gliscor!" Gliscor crashed right into Electivire, who took a ton of damage, while Gliscor proceeded to spin away, and land on the deck on its tail, tired and wet, but still up.
"That was Giga Impact, but how did it come back, it was hit with an Ice Puch and landed in the water."
"I guess Ash's Pokemon have a knack to keep fighting" Paul thought to himself as he remembered how Pikachu kept fighting to the bitter end against his Raichu.
Electivire was on its knees. "I guess that's it, it can't fight anymore" Paul referred to the Electivire. Electivire was about to faint, but it fired a last ditch Flamethrower. "Gliscor!" Paul called out urgently. Gliscor was able to get out of the way, but Paul quickly realized that the Flamethrower was headed Ash's way. He turned, only to find Ash wasn't there anymore, and the Flamethrower passed by harmlessly. "Wait, where is he?"
"I might lose all the pokeballs, but I got what I came for" The lead thieve was about to board the escape boat when, "You're not going anywhere with that" a voice behind him made him turn around, "You!?"
The thief was surprised at what he saw, Ash was standing, electricity could be still seen on his body, "he was hit with that Thunder Punch, how is he still standing".
"You're not leaving here with that.I was entrusted to deliver those stones, but more than that" Ash clenched his right hand into a fist, "you were willing to separate trainer from Pokemon, friend from friend." Ash began to walk forward towards the thief.
"Boy you better get back away or I'll break your neck" he took out a metal stick from his back pocket which enlarged when he pressed a button.
"You were willing to hurt people for your greed" he grounded his teeth, "you were willing to hurt my friend, and you were willing to hurt my brother".
"Don't you dare get any closer" he raised his metallic object with his right hand, ready to strike Ash.
Ash's auburn eyes suddenly lit up and he charged him, "This is for May, for Paul, and all you tried to hurt tonight, human and Pokemon!"
The thieve swung at Ash, but Ash avoided it, "huh, you're slow, I guess when fight someone like Paul as much I do everybody else seems slow" Ash smiled, "Hold this Thunder punch for me, Bitch!"
Ash connected with an uppercut to the chin, and the thief crumpled to the floor.
Right after that Ash became weak, his breathing got heavy and his eyes became dull again, he fell to the floor right after, and started to go in and out of conscience.
He then heard footsteps coming towards him, and then he heard Paul's voice, "What are you talking about, 'This is for Paul' and 'you tried to hurt my brother'. Didn't I tell I don't need you, that I don't need anything from you, that I don't need you to be anything for me".
Paul neared Ash and reached for him, "Ouch" he was shocked when he tried to touch Ash. "I don't need a brother, I don't need you to do anything for me, and I don't need your help. You're the one who needs help right now" Ash slowly started to black out.
Paul picked up Ash despite the pain from the electricity and began to walk back towards the main part of the boat.
Then everything went black, but Ash's ears picked up one more thing, "but thanks anyway".
Hold that chapter for me! Damn that took longer than I thought it would. This chapter proves that my chapter length will be all over the place. I hope you guys are okay with that, please bear with me.
I was actually thinking to pull some cliffhanger cheese in the middle of the chapter so I could split this into two shorter chapters, but I thought against it. Tell me if that was a good idea or if keeping it at one chapter was good, if you so wish to.
But that's all from me for now; remember to review, fave, follow, and all that good jazz. Stay beautiful people; this has been Pika-Bones, peace! (Yes, I do yell peace for real at the end of every chapter. I also do a peace sign as well. Is that weird? Oh well, byyyeeyeyeeeyee)