Ch 24: Galen's revenge (please review)
"If it isn't the little twerp who made me fail at something for the first time in my life" Galen said. Ash couldn't believe Galen was in the jungle with him. Had Galen gotten lost because of the storm like he had.
All Ash knew was there was somthing off about Galen. His left eye was twitching , his uniform was torn up, wrinkled, and very dirty. Not to mention his very creepy looking smile. "After I failed I couldn't go back to my commanders, not while your still alive. When I kill you They'll be pleased with the best field agent again" Galen said before he started laughing.
PIkachu woke up and saw what was happening. "Pikachu!" He shouted before he shocked Galen with electricity. Galen got off Ash but unstead of crying out in pain he simply laughed a crazy laugh.
Whe Galen stopped he took out two pokeballs and let out two houndoom. "Houndoom use flamethrower" Galen said. "PIkachu dodge it" Ash said. Pikachu easily avoided the flamethrower, too easily. It was then Ash realized Pikachu wasn't the target, he was. Ash jumped out of the way just in time.
Agent Galen started laughing again "Why did you move little boy" He said. "Pikachu use thunderbolt on them both" Ash said. "Pika CHu!" Pikachu shouted as he zapped both houndoom. "Houndoom use fireblast" Galen said. "Dodge it!" Ash said.
Pikachu managed to avoid one but the second one hit him. "Pikachu!" Ash said. "Hit him with firefang" Galen said. "Pikachu use quick attack" Ash said. Pikachu hit one of the two houndoom first but was bitten by the second's fire fang. "Pika" Pikachu said in pain.
Ash reached for his pokeball satchel when he remembered he left his pokemon in his bag. "Dam it, Pikachu quick use thunder" Ash said. Pikachu grit his teeth then unleashed a massive bolt of electricity on the houndoom biting him. The houndoom was knocked out, but Galen didn't return him to his pokeball.
This caught the attention of the second houndoom who looked back at Galen. "Don't just sit there use flamecharge" Galen said. Houndoom surrounded himself with fire then ran at Pikachu. "Double team" Ash said.
Pikachu quickly made copies of himself around houndoom. Houndoom didn't hit the real pikachu. "Pikachu use quick attack" Ash said. "Overheat" Galen said. With great speed the houndoom blasted pikachu with a powerful overheat. Agent Galen started laughing again. "Did the pikachu get burned" "I don't know I think you should go easy on the little guy" He said in another voice. "Shut up who asked you" he said back in his normal voice.
Galen's behavior made Ash even more scared. "Houndoom use flamecharge" Galen said. "Pikachu use fusion bolt" Ash said. Pikachu glowed blue with electricity then blasted the second houndoom with electricity knocking him out.
Galen started laughing again as he took out the two houndooms' pokeballs. Instead of returning them he simply tossed them off the edge of the tree as he continued to laught. "Bye bye" he said waving to Ash and Pikachu.
Galen threw out 3 more pokemon , his shiftry, his absol , and his exploud. "Razorleaf, psycho cut, and hypervoice" Galen said. "Pikachu double team" Ash said. Pikachu made copies of himself. The psycho cut and razorleaf hit the copies but the hypervoice hit Pikachu. "Pikachu!" Ash said.
"Oh Galen do go easy on the poor thing" Galen said in another voice. "I said but out this is my revenge" Galen said in his normal voice. "Shiftry use leaf tornado, Absol use flamethrower, exploud use hyperbeam" Galen said.
"Pikachu wait" Ash said. The 3 blasts were now right in front of him. "Dodge and use fusion bolt" Ash said. Pikachu jumped up with incredible speed at the last moment then glowed blue and unleashed fusion bolt on the exploud knocking him out.
Galen didn't return exploud either he simply continued laughing as he tossed the pokeball away. "We aren't done yet, we only want to end you" Galen said. He tossed another pokeball letting out a Hariyama. "Ok ok ok, use focus blast, flamethrower and leafstorm" Galen said.
"PIkachu run!" Ash said. PIkachu tried to get away but after all of the fighting he was getting worn down and was hit by all 3 blasts. "Pikachu!" Ash screamed. PIkachu coughed and struggled to get to his feet.
"Alright alright now finnish the job, perminatly" Galen said. All three of his pokemon turned to him looking confused. "DO what I say, end that Pikachu!" Galen shouted. "What!?" Ash said. Galen's pokemon hesitated "Do it now!" Galen shouted.
As Galen's pokemon prepared to attack Ash sprinted over , grabbed pikachu, then ran.
"Come back , we only want to play with you" Galen said before laughing again. Ash ran as fast as he could across the tree's path when suddenly he saw a bullet hole hit the tree trunk side in front of him.
As turned around and saw Agent Galen had a pistol out. "Please stop, please" Galen said.
Ash sprinted even faster as another bullet flew past him. Ash put Pikachu on his shoulder and climbed up even higher. He saw a few swellow flying above him and got an idea. Using aura he sent a message to the swellow asking them to help him.
The swellow saw Galen and flew at him pecking him. Galen tried to sho them away but they wouldn't let up. "He told you to leave us alone" Galen said in a strange voice. "get rid of them!" Galen screamed to his pokemon.
The absol, Hariyama, and Shiftry all used attacks in the air at the swellow. The swellow quickly flew away after the attacks nearly hit them. Depsite that , Ash and Pikachu managed to make it to another part of the tree. Ash continued to run when he reached an edge. Below him was a bed of vines, and below that was a dead fall to the ground below.
"Dead end" Ash said. Suddenly he heard Galen and his pokemon coming from behind him. Ash desperatly looked for a place to hide and saw one. It was a thick collection of leaves and vines. Ash hid in the bushel as Galen approached them. "Come out come out wherever you are" He said waving his gun.
Galen shot a round randomly then started laughing before he shot another. "We just want to play with you" Galen said in another voice. Galen fired another 2 shots and continued laughing. "Please come out, I promise I won't hurt you" He said in yet another voice.
Galen fired 3 more shots then reloaded. When Ash saw he was reloading he thought it a good time to try and make a break for it. Ash sprinted out from his hiding place and tried to get out of that part of the tree.
Just before he could make it the absol got in between him and the exit. Ash backed up "There you are" Galen said pointing his gun at Ash. Ash closed his eyes and embraced Pikachu.
Just before Galen could pull the trigger he was hit with a machpunch which knocked him down and sent the gun flying back into the bed of vines. Ash heard this and opened his eyes to see it was lucario.
"Lucario!" Ash said. Lucario backed up and got inbetween Ash and the other 3 pokemon. Galen got back up and said, "Get him with flamethrower, leaf tornado, and forcepalm". Galen said. Lucario saw the 3 attacks coming and used detect.
Lucario then easily avoided the 3 attacks. Lucario launched three auraspheres each hitting their mark. "Hit him again" Galen said. His pokemon came at Lucario again , but Lucario used extreme speed to avoid their attacks then used close combat on Hariyama.
When Galen saw each of lucario's moves he saw how much Lucario used his feet. Galen then had an idea. "Absol use firefang and Shiftry use leafstorm, on the leg" Galen said. Lucario tried to dodge but Hariyama grabbed him by his left leg and threw him to the ground.
Absol and Shiftry both hit lucario's right leg. "Lucario!" Ash shouted. Lucario grunted in pain then responded by using focus blast on Hariyama knocking him back. Lucario landed back on the tree ground. His right leg was hurting but he could still fight.
"Ha ha ha ha, is his leg hurting I don't know is it?" Galen said in a new voice. "It is it is" he said in another new voice. "Use leafstorm, forcepalm, and icebeam, aim for the leg again" Galen said. Lucario used detect again and manadged to avoid the forcepalm and leafstorm but the icebeam hit Lucario's right leg.
" Quickly use flamethrower on his leg" Galen said. Lucario tried to move but his leg was frozen. The fire hit him and his right leg breaking the ice and inflicting great pain on him. Lucario fell to one knee. "Lucario!" Ash said.
Ash suddenly felt Lucario send an aura message to him. Lucario told him to take Pikachu and run. That he would hold them off so they could escape. Ash looked down at Pikachu who was still very hurt. For a breif moment thinking only of Pikachu he thought of running.
"No" Ash said. "Pikachu I'm sorry" he said putting Pikachu down in some leaves and vines. Ash sent another Aura message to Lucario saying he wouldn't leave him. Lucario gave a frustrated look at Ash. "I think it's time to finnesh them all off know" Galen said. "I agree" Galen said in another voice.
"Finnesh them all off" Galen said. Ash sent an aura message to absol to Galen's pokemon asking them to stop. Galen's pokemon didn't respond, it was clear Rocket X must have trained their pokemon to be completely obedient.
Absol , Shiftry, and Hariyama all came at Lucario to attack him. Lucario tried to get up but his right leg was too hurt. Ash looked back at Lucario's leg and saw blood starting to come out as he tried to get up causing him to grunt in pain again.
Ash stepped inbetween Lucario and the 3 pokemon coming at him. Ash took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Lucario looked up at Ash and could feel Ash was summoning aura. Lucario gasped when he saw Ash actually form an Aura sphere between his hands.
Ash's eyes were still closed but he could still see the absol, Hariyama, and Shiftry through their aura. He waited until they were close enough then launched the aurasphere knocking them back. "What did he do?" Galen said.
"I don't know Ask Jim" Galen said in another voice. "I think he knows magic" Galen said in yet another voice. "Don't just sit there get them" Galen said. The three pokemon came at Ash and Lucario again. Ash closed his eyes and summoned another aura sphere keeping them back.
"Keep attacking keep attacking" Galen said. Absol, Hariyama, and Shiftry all came at Ash and Lucario one more time. Lucario extended his left paw to Ash who took it. The two combined their aura and created a massive aurasphere which knocked all three of the attacking pokemon back so far that they almost fell off the tree.
"You idiots, fine we'll do it, ok Jim, Pam, Daniel, Mike. Let's kill them!" Galen scream. "Ready!" He then said 4 times each in a different voice. Galen took out two large combat knives and ran at Ash laughing as he did it.
Ash and Lucario summoned another aurasphere and launched Galen back. Galen landed in the bed of vines and saw his gun. "Ha ha , there you are precious" Galen said as he moved through the vines toward his pistol.
Ash hurried over and saw what Galen was doing. Ash looked at the vines where the gun was resting. "Wait Galen stop!" Ash shouted. "I'm sorry kid I really am but I've never failed an assignment before and you made me start" Galen said as he climbed. "But don't worry I'll make sure your little Pikachu doesn't suffer" Galen said.
"No Galen wait you don't understand you'r going to" Ash started when Galen got to his gun. "Ha ha ha ha, we're going to kill you know" He said as he raised the gun. Just before he could fire the vines he was on snapped. Ash had seen the vines were too thin and tried to warn Galen.
Galen fell through the bed of vines, dropping his gun and then toward the ground hundreds of feet below. Ash saw Galen fall and heard his screams of terror get future away as he fell. Ash let out a relief breath. Although Ash was glad he and pikachu were safe but even he couldn't wish something like that on someone.
Even if they were trying to kill him. Ash turned back toward Lucario and Pikachu. He noticed Galen's pokemon get up. They started at him for a moment then each went off in another direction.
Ash went back over and picked up Pikachu before looking at Lucario's leg. Lucario's leg was still bleeding with torn skin and perhaps even a fracture. "Lucario I need you to lay down" Ash said. Lucario did what he said and got onto his back.
During his 5 years of training at home cooking wasn't the only thing Brock taught Ash. Ash wished he had his bag. He had a few potions and antindotes in the bag. Ash still had a few oran berries in his pocket. He handed one to Lucario and another to pikachu who was also very hurt.
Ash looked around and saw one of Galen's dropped knives. Ash picked it up and cut off part of his tee shirt he was wearing under his shirt. He looked around and saw a few pecha berries growing on the side of the tree.
"Alright exactly what I was looking for" Ash said. He went over and picked a few then walked back to Lucario. Ash wrapped the cloth around Lucario's right leg and handed him two pecha berries. "Eat them they'll help fight off any infection" Ash said. Lucario took the pecha berries and ate them.
Lucario started to look like he was in less pain. Ash turned back to Pikachu who looked a little better too. "Pikachu feeling any better?" Ash said. "Pikachu" Pikachu said with a smile as he finished the oran berry.
Ash looked back out toward the jungle and saw the rain lightening up. "Well the storm is dying down and we should be safe for tonight let's get some sleep" Ash said. He gathered some more leaves and vines for Lucario and Pikachu to rest on.
Lucario looked at Ash and sent him an aura message saying "Thank you". "No thank you" Ash said with an aura message of his own.
Ash laid down next to them and easily fell asleep after the long and terrifying day. The next morning Jason and May were traversing through the jungle. "Ash!, Pikachu!" May shouted. Jason looked up and saw a few tailow flying above them. "There we go" Jason said. He tossed the capture mechanism into the air around the tailow.
He then took out his capture controller and twirled it around. "Capture Tailow" Jason said. When the process was complete the tailow flew down in front of Jason. "We need to find a young man, maybe 15 years old. He has a pikachu with him" Jason said.
The tailow nodded and flew off. "Alright with air support we should find them that much faster" Jason said. As May and Jason kept searching May saw something on the ground in front of her. "Is that" May said. She ran over and picked up Ash's hat.
"It's his hat" May said. She then saw a few yards in front of them a massive tree hundreds of feet tall. "Look at the size of that tree" May said. "That's a mother tree" Jason said. "A what?" May said. "A mother tree is the first tree grown that's acorns are what plant the other trees in a forest or jungle" Jason said.
"So this tree was the first one in this jungle" May said. "Yes it's probably hundreds it not thousands of years old" Jason said. The tailow were flying around the massive mother tree searching the upper levels and branches. One of the tailow saw on the upper level Ash and Lucario resting.
The three tailow flew back down to Jason and the one who saw Ash pointed his beak up at the tree. "Tailow" He said. "I think Ash is in the mother tree" Jason said. "Alright tailow thanks for the help" Jason said. The three tailow flew off as Jason began to scale the tree.
As a pokemon ranger he was trained to climb trees like this and when he reached the upper levels he tied a rope around part of the tree. "May climb up here" Jason said. May climbed up the rope up to the area Jason was on. " Alright let's split up and find him, but be careful we're very high up" Jason said.
May carefully searched through the tree walkway. "Ash! Pikachu!" May said. Ash heard something that woke him up. He opened his eyes and looked around. "Pikachu did you hear that?" Ash said. Pikachu also woke up and looked around. "PIka pika" Pikachu said.
May continued searching through the three until she saw Ash and Pikachu below her on another area. "Ash!" She said. Lucario was still asleep while Ash looked at the cut up t shirt he put over his right leg. "I don't know how we're going to get Lucario down from this tree" Ash said.
"Maybe I can find someone like a pokemon ranger in the jungle" Ash said. He closed his eyes and began to feel the aura around him. He found someone , a very familiar aura that was very close. "May" Ash said. He opened his eyes and saw her right in front of him.
Before he could say anything She grabbed him by the shoulders and kissed him. When she withdrew she continued to hold him tight. "Ash I was so worried about you and Pikachu" May said. "May It's good to see you're alright too" Ash said.
May turned to Pikachu who was also happy to see her. "Pika pika" Pikachu said. May then noticed Lucario behind Ash and Pikachu. "Lucario , what happened to his leg?" May said. "We were attacked by field agent Galen. He went insane trying to kill Pikachu and me. He probably would have gotten us if it weren't for Lucario" Ash said.
"Galen had 3 of his pokemon attack Lucario at once. That's what happened to his leg" Ash said. Lucario woke up and saw May "Oh Lucario you're up , this is May my girlfriend" Ash said. "Hello" May said. Lucario showed a faint smile "There you are" Jason said. He quickly came down to them.
"Ash if I presume" Jason said. "Yeah are you a pokemon ranger?" Ash said. "Yes my name is Jason Draught" He said. "He's the one who helped me find you" May said. "Woah! What happened to that Lucario?" Jason said rushing over to Lucario. "It's a long story" Ash said.
"Alright i'm going to call for an air lift to take him to a pokemon center" Jason said. After an hour a helicopter took the group to the pokemon center in Lavaridgetown. Ash and May were waiting inside while Ash told her and Jason what happened with Galen.
"He shot at you !" May said. "What happened to Galen?" Jason said. "He fell off the tree trying to get to his gun" Ash said. "Oh" May said. "Is there anychance he , might have survived?" Ash said.
Jason didn't answer. Nurse Joy came out of the operating room with Pikachu in her arms. "I have very good news. Your Pikachu is fine and your Lucario will make a full recovery" She said. "Thanks but he's not actually my Lucario" Ash said.
Pikachu jumped from nurse Joy's arms onto Ash's shoulder. "Well my work here is done, I need to get back to the jungle and make sure there aren't any hurt pokemon" Jason said. After Jason left the pokemon center Ash and May were outside the center with Lucario.
"Well Lucario thank you again for saving Pikachu and Me, I guess this is goodbye" Ash said. Lucario smiled then shook his head. "What?" Ash said. Lucario reached down and took an empty pokeball off Ash's satchel.
"Ash does he want you to catch him" May said. Lucario tossed the pokeball to Ash and smiled again. "Alright you ready pikachu" Ash said. Pikachu put on his battleface and said "Pikachu" confidently.
He jumped down from Ash's shoulder as Lucario got into his battlestance. "Pikachu use thunderbolt" Ash said. "PIka CHu!" Pikachu shouted as he shot a bolt of lightning at Lucario. Lucario used detect and avoided the attack. Lucario then used extreme speed to run at Pikachu and unleashed a furry of close combat.
"Pikachu dodge it" Ash said. With lightning speed Pikachu avoided every one of Lucario's strikes. "Pikachu use quick attack" Ash said. Pikachu came at Lucario , but Lucario was just as fast avoiding the quick attack.
"Wow they're both so fast" May said. Lucario concentrated then conjured up an aurasphere. "Pikachu use double team" Ash said. Pikachu made copies of himself but Lucario could see which was the real one with his aura sight.
Pikachu was hit by the aurasphere and knocked back. "How did he know which was the real pikachu?" May said. "His Aura sight, I should have thought of that" Ash said. Lucario ran at Pikachu preparing to use metal claw. "PIkachu use irontail to counter" Ash said.
PIkachu's tail turned metal and he bashed his tail against Lucario's tail. The confrontation was a draw but now Lucario was right where Ash wanted him. "Quick Pikachu use thunder!" Ash said. Pikachu unleashed thunder shocking Lucario.
"Perfect alright go pokeball" Ash said throwing an empty pokeball. The pokeball hit Lucario and he went inside. The pokeball shook and rattled flashing. "Come-on" Ash said. The pokeball opened up and Lucario came back out.
"Shoot almost had him" Ash said. "Pikachu use thunderbolt" Ash said. Lucario used detect again and avoided the thunderbolt. Lucario used extreme speed and rushed at Pikachu with forcepalm. "Dodge it" Ash said.
Pikachu avoided the attack but barley. Lucario used metal claw slashing pikachu and knocking him back. "PIkachu quick use thunder" Ash said. Pikachu unleashed thunder but Lucario avoided the attack and retaliated with an aurasphere.
The aurasphere hit Pikachu knocking him back again. "PIkachu!" Ash said. PIkachu quickly got up and faced Lucario. Lucario came at Pikachu again to use closebombat "PIkachu wait for it" Ash said.
Lucario continued comeing until he was right in front of Pikachu. "Fusion bolt!" Ash said. Pikachu glowed blue and unleashed fusion bolt , stopping Lucario and making him falter. "Alright Pokeball go!" Ash said throwing the pokeball Lucario tossed to him.
The pokeball hit lucario and he went inside. Ash and Pikachu cautiously watched the pokeball shake and flash. "Come on" Ash said. The shaking and flashing stopped and the pokeball was still. "Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted excitedly.
"You did it!" May said. Ash picked up the pokeball and held it high. "Oh yeah, I caught a Lucario!" Ash shouted.
