A/N: Alright this chapter will be awesome! (I hope!) Ash is trying to stall the others, specially Calem, but Serena has other plans. When disaster breaks how will things go down?
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon
Chapter 3- Lumiose Chaos
Professor Sycamore's lab:
The gang and Ash were guided down the hallways of the lab. Ash then saw something that caught his eye. "Froakie…" Ash said as he stared through the window of the ER looking at Froakie. Froakie was on a bed that had a glass covering. Inside, Froakie was being monitored by Sophie as the electrocardiogram gave Sophie readings on Froakie's condition. It seemed like if Froakie was attacked by something before Ash caught sight of him at the rooftops of Lumiose City.
"Pikapi," Pikachu said with a hint of sorrow. Ash looked at Pikachu and also frowned. Pikachu also cared for the aquatic frog and it was obvious that they both hoped he would make a full recovery.
"Froakie will be fine, Sophie will take care of him and he will be out in no time!" Sycamore assured to which everyone else was dumbfounded. This was a thief legitimately showing signs of worry to a Pokemon. It did give Serena a hint of sorrow to see Ash in such a terrible condition, but it was as if she knew Ash had not changed deep inside.
The group then walked out of the lab and into a large glass dome which had an ecosystem like feel to it as there was grass, trees, streams, and even berry shrubs. The group then saw a lot of Pokemon playing and wandering around. "Wow look at all the Pokemon!" Trevor shouted as he looked around with sparkling eyes. He then grabbed his camera and began to photograph a lot of the Pokemon that were wandering around.
"Amazing I have never seen that one before!" Tierno pointed out as Shauna and Calem went and petted a group of Helioptile that were with their mother Heliolisk. As they petted the normal/electric Pokemon, they noticed how friendly the Pokemon were to them.
"Wow… Dragonite, Tyranitar, Metagross, Garchomp, and Hydreigon all in one lab," Ash started in wonder as he looked at some of the Pokemon united in one group. Ash obviously knew them from past memories as he turned to Pikachu and said, "Pikachu look, pseudo-legendary Pokemon."
"That is right, these Pokemon are very strong and their stats can rival those of a legendary Pokemon!" Sycamore responded from behind Ash. Ash then turned slightly startled by the sudden voice to the Professor as he kept explaining with hand motions. "Amazingly, my research has lead me to discover that Tyranitar, Metagross, and Garchomp can achieve something beyond evolution. They can mega evolve!"
"Wow, that must be amazing, I wish I could know how to use it," Ash replied in awe as he heard the term "mega evolution". It seemed like a strong combination of power for Ash's team and if Ash could harness that power… Thing is, Ash never had really thought about even adopting that power before, much less actually traveling since he just stayed in Lumiose and attempted to thrive with his wild Pikachu.
"It takes a strong bond and a stone," Sycamore replied simply. This made Ash look into his pocket and take out a case. The word "stone" had reminded him of a certain stone he treasures.
"Professor, what is this?" Ash asked showing Sycamore the stone he had in his pocket. He wondered what it was, so he thought that the professor would be a great person to ask. The stone glistened in front of the professor showing off the DNA symbol.
Sycamore grew wide-eyed, "T-That's a k-key stone… if you find a Pokemon you have a strong bond with you could mega evolve, if it is holding the right stone of course." Sycamore then examined the stone before giving it back making sure it was, in fact, a keystone, and sure enough, it was.
"Awesome…" Ash stared at the stone in wonder. Little did they know some people have been overhearing their conversation.
Outside the dome:
"Hey, we can use this to control those pseudo-legendaries and cause havoc!" someone said "It would be a great way to… how can I say it, slack off work and not have to deal with Xerocic's orders." That person had an orange suit and a pair of red goggles that covered his eyes. His shirt also had a fire like symbol to it.
"I have the special collars," another person replied with a smirk while peeking inside with a special pair of goggles that could see through walls. This person was a girl, but the attire was definitely similar to the one that the other guy had.
Back inside the dome:
Back in the lab, Serena was glancing at Ash and Sycamore, she wanted to go up to Ash and ask if he remembered her, but she knew that something was not right, why would he be a thief and here in Kalos? She shook her head in disbelief, it probably was not him, but she could try and ask for Ash's name.
As soon as Sycamore left to talk with Trevor, who was photographing some Azumarill and Marill, Ash was alone with his Pikachu. Serena noticed this and on their own, her legs began to drag her to him. As soon as she was in close proximity to Ash, Serena spoke up, "ummmmm, h-hey."
"O-oh uhh hi," Ash replied startled as he turned around to the honey blonde, not because he was surprised, but because it was Serena that was talking to him.
"I never got a name, I just wanted to introduce myself, my name is Serena, what's yours?" Serena asked with a smile trying to make herself look welcoming because she knew that the person she was talking to was a very private individual.
"My name? Ummmmmm… My name is…" Ash started trying to not say his own name. It seemed awkward for Serena so she took it a step further and asked Ash a question he flinched at.
"Have you heard of someone called Ash Ketchum before?" Serena asked out of the blue. Of course, Ash had heard that name before, but not formally in a while. It was something that was foreign to him that someone was talking to him again normally.
"..." Ash was standing there speechless when suddenly…
"BOOOOOOOM!" a large explosion was heard rattling the entire lab and grabbing everyone's attention. Smoke came from the side of the dome as two people were revealed standing in the hole with poses. The two figures then grabbed a gun like machine and aimed for the pseudo-legendary Pokemon that were in the lab by themselves. When the figures pulled the triggers, then red collars shot out and clasped the necks of the pseudo-legendary Pokemon.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu shouted as he ran with Ash to the place where the explosion sounded like it came from. The others followed as they saw the pseudo-legendary Pokemon have blood red glowing eyes. This made everyone flinch as the pseudo-legendaries did not look as friends as before. Garchomp put his hand out in a battle stance while Dragonite clenched his fists.
"Hey! Who are you people?!" Sycamore shouted at the orange dressed men. Now more visible to the group, the orange-dressed people clicked on a button on the remote that made it look like the pseudo-legendary Pokemon wanted to kill.
"Hahaha, team flare just wanted to have a little fun," one grunt replied, it was the girl and she was smirking and putting a hand on her hips.
"Ta ta!" the other exclaimed as they both left after hitting a button causing the pseudo-legendary Pokemon to clench their heads with their hands and give out a terrible cry of pain. With that, the Garchomp shot a hyper beam in the direction of the trainers inside of the dome. The trainers ducked as the dark electric beam passed over them and then caused a large explosion from behind completely destroying part of the ecosystem. Then, the mind controlled pokemon flew out of the existing hole and into the city.
Everyone stared in disbelief as the five legendary Pokemon started battling and spread out all over the city while using their moves to destroy it.
"Pikachu let's go after them!" Ash exclaimed as he ran out the door only to be stopped by a small blue aquatic frog.
"Froa!" Froakie exclaimed as he looked at Ash with determined eyes and nodded. Ash already knew what Froakie needed.
"Froakie, want to help?" Ash asked while pumping his fist at the water type.
"Kie!"
"Then let's go!" Ash replied as he ran through the giant hole, Pikachu and Froakie went after him easily able to keep the pace.
"Be careful!" Sycamore told Ash as Ash bolted out. Ash may not have heard it, but at least Sycamore wanted Ash to know it was dangerous outside.
"I am going to help as well, let's go Chespin!" Calem exclaimed as he released Chespin and ran out. The others were left in disbelief at how someone who looked like he hated Ash was running out to help him.
"Squirtle come on out!"
"Bulbasaur you too!"
"Charmander we have to help!"
The pokeballs opened and revealed the Pokemon. After the Pokemon got notified of the situation, they followed their trainers out into the chaos.
The others left leaving Serena terrified, but she needed to be there for her friends. "Fennekin, let's work together," she stated as she revealed Fennekin and ran out to everyone else. "We won't give up until the end!"
"You always motivate us with those words Serena," Shauna, Calem, Trevor and Tierno agreed, Ash did not hear it since he was obviously too far ahead of the group.
Back at the city people were fleeing the scene as debris flew from the mind-controlled Pokemon causing havoc. Ash was running towards the Pokemon that were all battling near Prism tower. Calem was not far behind him and the others were trying to catch up.
"Glad to see the guy that tried to stop me helping me do something crazy," Ash said to Calem with a sarcastic smile.
"Whatever man," Calem responded with a smirk. Something about Ash's determination made him more confident and daring.
Battle music begin!
"I will take on the Tyranitar, you take on the Garchomp!" Ash declared as Ash and Calem split ways. When the others saw this they split evenly as well. Shauna and Trevor went with Calem and Serena and Tierno went with Ash.
On Calem's side of the battle, Shauna and Trevor were using their starters to attempt to contain the Garchomp.
"You guys have to relax, if you keep attacking, you will cause more damage to the city!" Calem instructed. "We just need to make sure we can safely take out its collar."
Shauna decided to take the initiative, so as she put her hands out, she said, "Bulbasaur use vine whip to restrict its movements!"
"Saur!" Bulbasaur cried as it used the vines to grab Garchomp. Garchomp tried to escape, but the vines prevented the movement for enough time for Calem to do his part.
"Chespin you too!" Calem called out while putting his fist out.
"Chess pin!" Chespin shouted as he stretched out his vines towards the Garchomp.
While both grass typed had Garchomp secured, Trevor tried to remove the collar, "Charmander use scratch to remove the collar!"
Charmander charged the Garchomp with a white glowing claw, but Garchomp fired a hyperbeam right at Charmander, who barely avoided it causing a large explosion behind Charmander that was in such close proximity to the trainers that they had to shelter their heads in order to prevent getting hit by falling debris. Unfortunately, this explosion caused Chespin and Bulbasaur to become startled and loosen the grip or the land shark Pokemon and Garchomp jumped on top of the rooftops and fired another Draco meteor into the sky. The ball of fire streaked across the sky and exploded into many falling meteors.
"Take cover!" Shauna exclaimed and the three trainers protected themselves and their Pokemon by putting their hands over their heads to prevent taking too much damage from the falling rocks that were ignited in fire. "Ugh, this is going to be harder than I thought!"
With Ash:
On Ash's side, Ash saw Tyranitar in the distance and began to sprint with more intensity, "I see it!"
"How will we get it down?" Tierno asked suddenly as he watched the rock and dark type's position. He was right, the Tyranitar was on top of a building looking down on the city.
"grrr… Pikachu use thunderbolt!" Ash exclaimed while putting his hand out.
"Pika...CHUUU!" Pikachu shouted enveloped in electricity and this shooting an electrical beam at the rock pseudo legendary.
"Squirtle help with water gun!" Squirtle looked at the rock type and aimed with his mouth. After that, the small turtle expelled a jet of water from his mouth towards the pseudo-legendary Pokemon.
"Fennekin push it with ember!" Serena shouted while putting her hand out. Fennekin made a battle cry and shot a burst of fire from her mouth towards the pseudo-legendary Pokemon.
The attacks collided with a large explosion and Ash questioned if that actually did the trick and finished off the giant monster-like Pokemon. But Ash was wrong as he saw Tyranitar get up extremely easily and smirk down at the group… But Tyranitar suddenly started to have lightning sparks coming from it making Ash's eyes widen. Suddenly Tyranitar dropped to one knee with the lightning marks and Ash pumped his fist.
"It's paralyzed! That's it!" Ash shouted. "Pikachu break the collar with iron tail!" Pikachu's tail glowed white, but just when it was going to hit, a large blue shooting projectile came from the side of Tyranitar and slammed into him pushing Tyranitar down several streets in a large explosion. This left Pikachu and the others dazed as they looked left to see Tyranitar getting up to fire off a hyper beam at the Pokemon that had just attacked him: The Metagross that had used meteor mash.
"Take cover!" Serena exclaimed as she saw a random Draco meteor from Dragonite above them shatter into a lot of meteors. The meteors fell and Ash, covered Pikachu and Froakie as Serena protected Fennekin and Tierno put himself above Squirtle as the attacks came. Dragonite was in a fierce battle with Hydreigon and the orange dragon definitely was attempting to cause large amounts of damage to the three-headed dark type.
"That's it! We need to get together with the others!" Ash exclaimed a change of plans as the others nodded and went the direction Calem, Shauna and Trevor went earlier hoping that the situation would be easier.
When they met up they found out that they were having trouble with Garchomp. Garchomp was charging up a hyperbeam that could have been devastating until Ash came along.
"Quick, Froakie use your frubbles to close Garchomp's mouth!" Ash exclaimed while putting his fist out.
"Fro!" Froakie replied as he put his webbed hand in his cervical area and launched his frubbles that stuck to Garchomp when it was about to fire the draconic beam making the Garchomp hit itself in an explosion that happened in the ground dragon's mouth. Garchomp fell back to the ground completely dazed after the explosion and the others saw the opportunity.
"Now Pikachu use iron tail!" Ash exclaimed with a confident tone and raising his hand.
"Pika chuuuuu!" Pikachu replied as he made his tail stiffen up and glow white. With it he ran a couple strides and destroyed the collar in a very clean cut across the width of the neck device,
"Good to see you came here!" Calem shouted exhausted while sinking to his legs to pant. Garchomp fell over exhausted and completely dazed. In a stretcher, Nurse Joy came with Officer Jenny and they both worked together to put Garchomp in an ambulance and take the land shark to the nearest Pokemon center, but the pandemonium was still going on.
"Well, we still have four more and they are battling over there!" Serena pointed out in time to see two Draco meteors light up the sky near prism tower and disappear from the field of view from our heroes through the buildings. Not only that it, the ground started to shake randomly which startled the six trainers.
"Guys, the plan is this, since our Pokemon are not as strong as these pseudos then we need to combine our power and attack one by one, then Pikachu will use iron tail and break the collar, we will take them on one by one and our main goal is to hit them with status conditions!" Ash explained as everyone listened intently.
"Sounds like a plan, who do we go after next?" Trevor asked with a serious tone as he checked on his Charmander for any bruises or scratches.
"Tyranitar, we paralyzed it," Tierno asserted quickly.
"What are we waiting for, let's move!" Calem shouted and the gang started to run towards the direction that Ash's group had come from originally. As they neared the situation, they saw a large blue Pokemon using a barrage of pink beams to interact with the large dinosaur like Pokemon's dark lightning barrage of energy. The attacks met in the middle and struggled, but then both attacks gave out and an explosion followed. It was Tyranitar and Metagross both locked in an intense battle.
Back at Serena's house:
Grace heard a knock on the door. She was obviously not expecting any visitors at this time.
Grace opened the door to see her friend Laura standing there. Laura looked very alarmed as she was shaking from something and it was clearly 70 degree outside which was illogical.
"Laura good to see you, please come in," Grace said politely as she let her friend walk in. She had black hair and green eyes. Laura also had some nice pink. As soon as Laura walked in, her walk broke into a spring into the living room and slightly confused, Grace heard Laura shouting inside her house.
"Thank you," Laura replied with a slight amount of urgency in her voice and ran towards the living room. "Grace turn on the TV QUICK!"
"Ok…" Grave started as she turned on the television while using the remote. "OH MY GOSH! What is going on!?" Grace nearly dropped the coffee on her coffee table in front of the television set. The scene was basically smoke arising from the Paris-based city and a lot of clear damage to the city itself.
"Four strong Pokemon are rampaging Lumiose City, there was five, but one was controlled. Our children are in there, though!" Laura explained with worry through her body language. Laura's hands were shaking with extreme intensity for worry at the trainers, or rather, their children.
"What do you mean?... Serena and Calem are fighting the Pokemon!?" Grace asked. Grace looked at the TV in time to see Serena command her Fennekin to use ember on a Tyranitar that was attempting to launch a barrage of blue stones at a Metagross. At that moment, Grace nearly fainted knowing that Serena was actually battling in the pandemonium.
Back in Lumiose:
"Great, now Pikachu use iron tail before Tyranitar comes back!" Ash exclaimed while pointing at Tyranitar who was charging up a hyper beam. Pikachu made his tail glow white and get hard as he jumped into action towards the Pokemon that was known to destroy mountains. This time Pikachu successfully managed to break the collar with one swipe. Tyranitar then slumped over and fell on his back. Seeing the dinosaur down, Metagross charged up a meteor mash at the heroes who turned their attention to the steel and psychic type.
"Fennekin use ember!" Serena ordered seeing the large attacking Pokemon turn blue with his its fists.
"You too Charmander!"
Both fire attacks collided and then Metagross. Metagross recoiled a little before putting his hands together once more and charging the blue aura again. This time, though, Metagross grew on fire meaning that it was burned and then Metagross slumped to the ground in pain. "Pikachu now! Use iron tail!"
"Pika… chu!" Pikachu shouted and hit the collar with his white tail and snapped the collar that went around the head of the Metagross. Metagross slumped and fell exhausted next to Tyranitar completely unconscious.
"Take them to the Pokemon center!" A new voice broke through. It was Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy who had come to look at the recent damage. After seeing the two monsters on the ground, Nurse Joy got to work as Officer Jenny turned to our heroes. "Thanks for the help, we have to make sure they get helped!"The others nodded towards the two women who were taking care of the Pokemon and then they turned towards Prism Tower.
"Only two more to go!" Shauna exclaimed with worry. Hydreigon and Dragonite were still battling close to the top of Prism Tower.
"We have to get up there," Ash stated while turning to his Pokemon and nodding. Ash then began to run towards the tower with his Pokemon, but Professor Sycamore came behind the gang and grabbed Ash to stop him from running to Prism Tower.
"It's too dangerous!" Sycamore shouted with extreme alarm and a determined look to keep Ash safe.
"Hydreigon and Dragonite are the ones in danger, I have to go up there!" Ash retaliated while he shook his head. The others looked at Ash with disbelief, he was risking his life for another. 'We saw him steal and now he is saving a life?' everyone else thought. The others definitely had not expected this much change in Ash's character in such a short amount of time.
Ash then let Sycamore's grip soften and took a break for it. Pikachu and Froakie followed with determined faces as they entered the tower from the front. Ash then ran up the stairs and got to a trapdoor that leads to the top. When he opened the door he saw a hyper beam pass right in front of him which made him retaliate and dodge at the last second.
"Pikapi!" Pikachu screamed.
"Fro!" Froakie also shouted in worry for the raven haired teenager's safety.
"I'm fine guys, now let's save these Pokemon!" Ash replied as he got his composure back together after the surprise and pushed himself up from the trap door to take on the two dragons head on with the Pokemon on his side.
Serena's house:
"It appears there is a boy on top of Prism Tower!" a reported exclaimed completely in shock. "Not only that a girl, seems to have gone up after him as well!"
"That boy, what is he doing?" Laura asked completely confused wondering if the boy with raven hair that appeared with two Pokemon at his side was the trainer of the Pokemon.
"I have no cl-... wait is that Serena behind him?" Grace asked in shock as she saw a honey blonde girl show up from the trap door with a Fennekin trying to catch up with the raven-haired boy.
Back at Prism Tower:
Ash looked out and saw Hydreigon immobilized from the same hyper beam that nearly hit Ash. Ash then put his arm out, "Pikachu use iron tail!"
Pikachu jumped off the edge and charged his iron tail and hitting Hydreigon's collar and snapping it off. Pikachu was still in freefall so Ash had to act quick, "Froakie use your frubbles to catch Pikachu!"
"Frooooo kie!" Froakie exclaimed as he launched the frubbles and caught Pikachu, only to also almost go out of the edge, but Ash caught Froakie. To Ash's surprise, another pair of hands grabbed him from behind and helped get Pikachu and Froakie to safety. Hydreigon started slowly falling down towards the earth at a safe speed that slumped down to the Officer Jennys that were at the bottom of the tower completely in awe at what Ash was doing.
"Serena! Why are you up here?!" Ash exclaimed in complete worry as he saw Serena behind him with Fennekin.
"To help, look out!" Serena shouted as she tackled Ash to get out of the way of a fire blast that hit the ground ahead of them. Serena then put on some determined blue eyes and examined the orange dragon "We have to stop that Dragonite!"
Serena and Ash got up from the ground and focused on Dragonite until, "Pikapi!" Pikachu shouted as the ground had given way and he was in free fall.
"Pikachu!" Ash exclaimed as both Ash and Froakie dove after Pikachu.
Serena out a huge gasp, she looked away, she could not see Ash die like this. She could not bare see him die a terrible death.
Down in the ground everyone gasped in shock as they saw Pikachu fall and Ash and Froakie diving after him.
Serena's house:
Both Laura and Grace had gasped at watching Ash dive.
Lumiose City:
What happened next left all of Kalos holding its breath.
Ash and Froakie caught Pikachu and Ash put both Pokemon on his arms. "Froakie quick use your frubbles to launch ourselves up!"
Froakie launched his frubbles that latched onto the side of Prism Tower and then the tension came and made the trio completely arc back up towards the top of the tower. Using the amount of kinetic energy they have received, Ash and Pikachu were heading towards the Dragonite at immense speed.
"Pikachu we have one shot! Iron tail!" Ash exclaimed as Pikachu used his white glowing tail to slam into the collar that was causing damage to Dragonite. "Froakie keep using your frubbles to slow us down as we fall!" The three were still in the air on live television and to all of the people watching. Froakie came through though and somehow used the buildings to bring Ash and Pikachu down safely Spider-Man style.
Ash POV:
Froakie slowed our descent, but I still felt a great amount of G force affecting us as we were about to hit the ground. I put both Froakie and Pikachu in my arms and prepared for the worse as I front flipped.
I then felt a huge amount of force push back at me as I collided with the ground and rolled. I could feel the rolling and wanted to stop but could not. If I did one bad move I could risk the lives of both the Pokemon I hold in my arms and I will never do that. I then felt myself stop and I looked up completely sore. I turn towards the top of the tower and see Serena holding her chest with a relieved look on her face with Fennekin.I then lower my gaze and see Dragonite fall just in time to be rushed by the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys that have been guarding the bottom of the tower.
I see some of the people that were helping and began to stand up, but my vision then got blurry as I lost my balance.
I fell to the ground and my entire vision went black as I lost all sensation throughout my body.
Normal POV:
"PIKAPI!" Pikachu shouted in worry as he tried to wake up Ash.
"FROAKIE KIE!" Froakie also exclaimed in urgency seeing Ash in this condition and doing the same thing as Pikachu.
"Quick! Get him to my lab!" Sycamore shouted as everyone went for help. Tierno, Trevor, and Calem got to work instantly with worried looks on their faces and they carried Ash off the ground.
"Pikapi…" Pikachu said in a depressing mood. Pikachu and Froakie followed everyone carrying an unconscious Ash back to the lab.
Serena was getting down from the Tower, but her thoughts mainly pointed in this direction: 'He has to be him!'
A/N: Intense huh? Who would have thought of five instead of just Garchomp and this time Ash actually used his own capabilities in hand to save himself instead of having a Blaziken save him. You know? I never thought that Frubbles would be that useful!
Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!
Also, I am going to respond to a couple reviews:
Hunter: Oh god bro, you should have said "FIRST!"
St Elmo's Fire:
Gotcha on changing the fic to the anime category. Also, I used grammarly for this chapter, so tell me if the grammar is better xD!
Guest 1:
Armour for the win right?! ;)
Guest 2:
I already have Ash's team planned out as I have already written up to Chapter 24 at the time that I am writing this. Ash will not have an Alolan Pokemon for now, but he does have a strong team of six that reflects some other regions (Kanto, Hoenn and mostly Kalos though). As for giving Ash Type: Null, maybe we could fit that into Ash later on. Also, Ash's team will be mostly his ultimate team that does not include Alola in my opinion.
As for others having Alolan Pokemon, Serena will be a big one and we will figure that one out in the near future!
Also, thanks for enjoying the fic so far, I may take some of your considerations into account in the future!
Quickly, if you are a guest and review, I will try and comment by calling you by the number of the order in which you reviewed, so next time I get a guest, I will call them "Guest 1" again. It is just impossible to track everyone down.