Reunion, Chapter 4: Battle for the Egg!
This small story also found it's roots in the MorpheusShipping thread on Bulbagarden, where we were discussing how Angie might make another appearance now that Ash is traveling the Unova (Isshu) region. Member CrazyYanmega, also know under the same name on this fanfiction site, and the author of some great MorpheusShipping fanfics himself, mentioned a way how Angie could turn up in Unova. Unable to write at the moment, he suggested someone might make a fic about it, and I volunteered, since the idea appealed to me. As can be expected, this short story also involves MorpheusShipping (Ash and Angie liking each other) so if you really don't like that idea, perhaps you should stop reading here. The rest, I hope you enjoy this fan-fiction.
"Now what!?" Ash shouted, as he tightened his grip on the egg.
Angie instinctively grabbed hold of Ash's arm, while Pikachu jumped in front of the two trainers, it's cheeks sparkling with electricity. Shinx did the same, ready to defend it's trainer and friends. Suddenly two of the egg containers that were standing on the shelves surrounding our friends, were lifted up into the air, and started hovering above Pikachu and Shinx! A hatch at the bottom opened, and then both containers dropped down on top of the two electric Pokémon!
"Hey!" Ash yelled, before realizing what was happening. "Pikachu, do Thunder!" he added, hoping his little buddy would be able to free itself this way.
"Shinx! Do Thunder Fang!" Angie commanded likewise.
Pikachu unleashed a powerful blast of electric energy, but to no avail, the container stayed shut, totally unscathed. Shinx didn't have better luck with it's attempt to escape, the container withstood it's attack with no damage as well.
"That won't work..." a voice from behind the door said mysteriously.
"What is going on!? Who are you!?" Angie shouted.
"What is going on is the question, so twerpish indeed!" a female voice spoke.
"The answer to come as we fill the need!" a male voice sounded.
"Bringing the blinding white light of evil into the future!" the female voice spoke again.
"Thrusting the hammer of justice down onto the black darkness of the universe!" the male voice recited.
"And carving our names in the Rock of Eternity!" the female voice added, as the door swung open again.
"The fiery destroyer, Jessie!" the well known female Team Rocket member spoke, while stepping though the door, and taking on a proud pose.
"And with thunderous emotion, I am James!" the bluish haired villain spoke, as he followed Jessie, and took position on the opposite side of the door opening.
"Wisest of the wise, Meowth!" the feline Pokémon chimed in, as he cut through the middle, and took position between his two partners in crime.
"Now gather, under the name of Team Rocket!" the three shouted, to finish their motto.
"Fine... that's all we need right now..." Ash sighed.
"Aaah, now I'm really mad!" Angie shouted, "I'm already in enough trouble with this egg we disturbed, so I suggest you take a hike and go do your scheming somewhere else... now!"
"Wow... Angie..." Ash stuttered, as he watched his Summer Academy rival get all heated up and standing up so fiercely against Team Rocket.
"Nice... well spoken," Jessie complimented Angie's words, while slowly applauding, "but why should we do what you tell us to do? All I see is two brats and a few captured Pokémon..."
"And this new region gives us greater strength than ever!" James boasted.
"Taking this egg will add even more power to our cause!" Meowth added, as he activated a large grappling hook, that was mounted on a long fast extending arm.
The hook latched onto Ash's collar, and lifted him up in the air, then shaking him up and down vigorously, until he couldn't hold on to the egg, and it came falling down.
"No!" Ash and Angie shouted, as they saw the egg plummet towards a seemingly certain bad fate.
"Yamask! Use your mask to catch that egg and bring it to me!" James ordered, as he threw a Poké Ball up.
The ghost Pokémon raced forward, scooped up the egg just in time, and brought it back to it's master. Angie tried to stop this, but another arm extended from the device Meowth was operating, and within seconds, she too was lifted up from the ground, her feet dangling.
"Well done!" James praised his Yamask.
"Now, let's put some proper distance between those twerps and us, shall we!?" Jessie shouted, as she took out a Poké Ball as well. "Woobat, use gust!"
Meowth unlocked the hooks that held Ash and Angie up in the air, so they dropped down. But before our two friends could get up on their feet, and charge at the Rocket trio, they were hit with Woobat's gust, and thrown backwards hard against a wall.
"So long! And thanks for the gift!" the three Team Rocket villains yelled, as they quickly ran towards the exit with the stolen egg.
"We can't let them get away with that egg!" Angie shouted, with a touch of panic in her voice.
"They won't! Don't worry," Ash assured her, shortly putting his hand on her shoulder, although he was not really certain they would be able to do so.
Ash quickly checked his still captured Pokémon. Breaking the container was not an option, it was too strong, and Ash didn't want to risk Pikachu getting hurt. Then Angie noticed a small button on the bottom of the container, and pressed it. The container fell apart in two halves, releasing Pikachu. Immediately the little mouse Pokémon jumped in Ash's arms. Now aware how to free their Pokémon, Angie was able to release her Shinx within moments.
"Now let's get that egg back!" Ash shouted.
"You got it!" Angie agreed.
Both kids ran in the direction Team Rocket had disappeared, and after a few winding corridors, they saw an open door. That must have been where the villains had escaped, Ash and Angie figured, so they raced forwards. But just as they stepped outside...
"Hey!?" Ash shouted, as he fell down in a big pit that had been dug just outside of the door.
"It's a good thing we decided to dig this hole as an extra insurance for our getaway," James remarked.
"Yes, good thinking, Meowth!" Jessie added.
"Auww... digging a hole is lame, but then throwing something on top of me after I fell in, is really low, even for you guys!" Ash shouted, as he had much trouble getting up again.
"Pika-pika!" Ash's electric Pokémon clearly agreed with it's trainer.
"Excuse me!" Ash heard Angie's voice shout in his ear, "but that 'something' you are referring to is me!"
"Sorry then, but can you please get off me now," Ash tried to apologize, while at the same time quite willing to get back his freedom.
"Don't worry, I'll be gone asap!" Angie snapped at him, although she wasn't totally unhappy being so close to Ash.
"Sorry, we can't stay for tea and a friendly chat, we have an egg to deliver to the boss," the three Team Rocket villains said, laughing out loud, while trying to make their escape.
"Well, I don't think that is very funny!" a female voice said.
"And definitely not a display of good taste at all", a male voice added.
Iris and Cylan stepped in front of Team Rocket's path, with a determined look on their faces.
"I get the feeling that egg doesn't belong to you!" Cylan said, as he pointed his finger towards the stolen egg.
"Don't you guys ever stop!?" Iris added, with a little sigh of disappointment.
"No way, we're just getting started to take over Unova!" the trio responded.
"Not if we can help it!" Iris and Cilan replied, standing firm.
Cilan immediately sent out his Pansage, and ordered it to do Dig, to make a tunnel, to help Ash and Angie get out of the hole they had fallen into. Meanwhile Axew emerged from it's usual hiding place, in Iris' hair, and looked menacingly at it's opponents. In response, James sent out his Yamask, and Jessie released her Woobat.
"Yamask, Shadow Ball!" James ordered.
"Woobat, do Air Slash!" Jessie added, to make her Pokémon aid in the attack.
Woobat's attack hit Axew head on, throwing it over. This caused the Shadow Ball to barely miss Axew, hitting the ground instead, producing a large dust cloud.
"Oh, Axew!" Iris shouted, coughing a little because of the dust that was thrown up. "Guys, I could really use some help here!" Iris then yelled.
"Right!" Ash said, as he and Angie were now again free from the trap Team Rocket set up for them. "Pikachu, do your Thunderbolt!" he ordered.
"Shinx, help Pikachu with Spark!" Angie commanded, willing to help her friend.
"Pansage, do Bite on Woobat!" Cilan also stepped in.
Pansage's attack hit Woobat hard, and before it was able to recover, it was hit by Shinx's Spark, leaving it dazed on the ground. Pikachu's powerful Thunderbolt seemed to finish the battle in our friends' favor, but just before it was about to hit, James' Yamask stepped in, and skillfully deflected the electricity back towards Ash and friends, the latter barely able to dodge it! This was an unexpected setback, leaving our friends puzzled how to stop Team Rocket, and retrieve the stolen Pokémon egg...
"Ah, this is even better than Wobuffet's 'Counter' move," Jessie gloated.
"Osha-Oshawot?" Ash's little water Pokémon suddenly appeared on the battle scene, wondering what all the noise was about.
But before Oshawot was able to see what was going on, it had to jump for cover, as Ash had ordered Pikachu to do another Thunderbolt, which was just as easily deflected by James' Yamask, as it had done a few moments earlier.
"Oshawot, look out!" Ash shouted, as he knew how vulnerable it was to electric attacks.
A little scared, Oshawot immediately ran towards Ash for cover, and hid behind his right leg.
"Hey, wait a minute..." Ash said, "Oshawot, you can help us beat Team Rocket."
"What do you have in mind?" Angie said, while Oshawot was looking at it's trainer, with the same wondering look on it's face as she had.
"Oshawot, aim your water gun to the air!" Ash ordered, and as he saw that Oshawot didn't understand the purpose of this move, he added, "trust me, I've got a plan."
Oshawot obeyed, and sent a large jet of water up high, where it diverted, and the water came down as a intense, but very local, rain shower.
"Fine, you've just ruined my hair!" Jessie complained, as she was getting complety soaked.
"And our new outfits just don't look as stylish as they do when dry!" James added.
"That's phase one, now time for phase two," Ash said, smiling a little. "Angie, ask Shinx to do another Spark. And Pikachu, I think Team Rocket deserves a nice Electro Ball, right buddy?"
"Pikaaa!" was the clear answer from Pikachu, as the electric mouse Pokémon nodded to his trainer.
Although not everyone was sure about Ash's plan, Angie did as he asked her, and the combination of Spark and Electro Ball resulted into fiercely sparkling ball of electricity being sent in Team Rocket's direction...
"Yamask, you know what to do..." James said casually, not aware that something was different now.
Yamask tried to deflect the electric attacks like it did before, but being also totally wet because of Oshawot's 'shower' move, the electricity moved around the mask, and engulfed the Pokémon, as well as it's trainer and fellow Team Rocket members. Then there was a loud explosion, and the villains blasted off in the sky, the stolen egg getting hurled in the direction of our friends.
"Fine, now my hair is really ruined!" Jessie complained.
"One thing though, you can barely see the burn spots on these new black outfits, very convenient," James remarked.
"Just a minor setback, but remember, Team Rocker will still rule Unova!" Meowth said firmly.
"You haven't seen the last of us!" the trio shouted, as they fired up their jetpacks and flew further and further away.
"So long! Please don't come back!" Angie shouted. But then her face suddenly grew pale. "The egg... where... where is it?" she stammered.
"Up there!" Iris yelled, as she looked up, "and it's falling down really fast!"
"We've got to catch it somehow, or it will break!" Cilan added.
But before anyone could make a move, Oshawat ran forward, jumped up, and caught the egg with it's tail, landing safely on the ground with it! Then it slowly walked back towards Ash, and presented the egg to him.
"Nice move, Oshawot!" Ash praised his Pokémon, as he took the egg from it's tail. "You really seem to have a habit to save the day," Ash added.
"Oshawot-oshawot" the little Pokémon replied, dancing around, it's eyes twinkling because of it's master's nice words.
"Now that we have the egg back safe and sound, what shall we do with it?" Angie wondered, knowing they were not off the hook yet.
"And now you can give it to me," a stern sounding voice spoke, from behind our friends...
(To be continued...)
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. I hope I succeeded in doing that. Comments are always welcome, you can use the review function on this FanFiction site for that.
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