Short yet action packed chapter. I hope everyone enjoys it! Leave your responds in the reviews, as usual!

"Lukas, WAIT!" I shouted while ducking when a thunderbolt shot right past me. Both Lukas and Espeon wanted to attack and had almost jumped in the heat of battle right away.

"WHAT?" Lukas asked in a sort of panic while looked back at me with some kind of determined fear in his eyes. Espeon didn't hear anything and headed for battle.

"Strategy" I said. "Otherwise we're doomed!"

"Don't have a clue what you mean, pika-pikachu!" Lukas said. Espeon was out of reach and didn't translate for me anymore.

"Work as a team!" I said while looking at the colony. There were at least thirty snakes attacking, probably more. I didn't have a clue this group of pokémon was that big. "If you attack one, I'll give him the finishing blow, if I attack one, you give the final blow!" I said while looking at the ground. I found myself a thick yet agile branch which would give me a good punch.

"Got that?" I asked.

"Pika!" Lukas answered while nodding. I stuck out my hand and gave Lukas a final high-paw and then we got into battle. We jumped into the colony grounds and both looked around. A ekans saw that we got into the battle and attacked us. Lukas didn't even hesitate and used quick attack on the ekans, which evaded his attack and turned around to attack him. Bad choice because I followed behind Lukas bashing the ekans with a stick. Lukas quickly turned around and used another quick attack to finish him off. The ekans fell on the ground and received another slam on the back of his head followed by my full weight when I jumped on his neck with both of my feet in an attempt to crush him. Bad luck I could just missed his head. The ekans didn't move and we quickly watched the battle. It was a complete chaos. All pikachu were attacking everyone and other way around. We quickly made our way to Volt, who got hit by a quick tackle.

"Lukas, do Iron Tail!" I said. Lukas complied immediately and jumped in the air, his tail starting to glo...

"Wait, did Lukas know Iron Tail?" I thought when Lukas tail didn't glow and he gently rammed it into the head of the arbok. The arbok wasn't amused and stomped Lukas with his head as soon he touched him. He flew almost twenty meters before hitting the ground. Volt just got up and also attempted a Iron Tail. This time the attack worked, but the arbok evaded it and wanted to attack Volt again.

"Oh no you won't!" I said and just before the arbok attacked I kicked him on his tail. He stopped, looked at me and the launched a poison sting at me. I could barely avoid it, but now it was my turn and I ran towards the snake-pokémon. I gave him one hell of a bash into his head with my just found stick and the arbok fell to the ground but quickly got up, before being attacked by Volt with a Thundershock. The pokémon looked surprised and looked straight at something behind me, but I couldn't tell what it was. Dodging a ekans that tried to tackle me, I finished the arbok off by grabbing his neck and twisting it, breaking it. Handy, those pokémoncenter skills. After I touched him, my hand felt paralyzed, which would explain why he didn't move anymore. I quickly checked around and saw that Lukas was up and fighting already, so I decided to join him. I looked at Volt.

"Wanna team with Lukas?" I screamed when an explosion occurred somewhere further in the colony. Volt nodded and ran towards Lukas and I ran behind him.

We fought a couple of pokémon together before Volt went away to help another pokémon. Lukas and I were standing somewhere in the middle on a relative safe place. I looked over the field. They had attacked with full force, so it appeared. I could see at least three dead ekans which were killed by pikachu. I got a frightful feeling, I hoped that no pikachu would suffer the same fate and that none of them would die. But then I saw something at the other side of the colony. A group of pikachu in a circle and inside... Pichu. At least eight. They probably weren't able to reach the nest on time when the attack hit. A couple of arbok and ekans tried to make their way through the defense that the pikachu had put up by creating a circle around their kit and attacking anything that came close. There was no question which way we would go. A quick look to my left confirmed this when one pikachu nailed another ekans by almost cutting his head off with a Iron Tail. Those pichu had to get out of there as soon as possible. While I was checking the situation, I wasn't paying attention that well and if Lukas hadn't shouted at me, I was hit. I jumped away just on time and evaded a electro ball that was shot by another pikachu but had missed it's target.

"Thanks, Lukas, let's head that way! The pichu must go inside!" I shouted when an explosion occurred near the ring of pikachu that protected the pichu and behind me where the electro ball that had just missed me exploded against a tree. One pikachu had blocked a Poison Sting shot by an arbok with thunderbolt. Both attacks had collided and had exploded.

"Let's go, quickly!" I said. Lukas nodded and quickly ran in front of me and I followed him. Lukas proved to be quicker, manoeuvring easy between all battling pokémon. I had a harder time getting through. Ducking to evade several attacks, stopping several times to prevent myself from getting hit, I made my way to the ring of pikachu. I was happy I made it. Lukas was already there and was defending together with the other pikachu. Vera, one of the main babysitters, was clearly happy to see me.

"They need to get -" kkkkAAAAA- CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! A electro ball shot right over my head and into a incoming arbok that dodged it but was attacked by another thunderbolt.

"They need to get inside!" I shouted. Vera nodded and pointed at the nest entrance. Guarded by a couple of snakes, I understood what she meant. Getting them inside wouldn't be easy.

"Shall I take the pichu while you cover me?" I asked while looking at the pichu. The poor creatures were all close together and didn't look very happy, but rather terrified. I quickly sat down and picked one up at it's scruff. That spooked the pokémon and it screamed and wiggled.

"Hold still you!" I said while I moved it towards my head and putting it inside my sweater. As soon the pichu detected my smell and voice, it quickly crept close and held tight. Their instincts did their job, happily. I grabbed another pichu with one hand and then gave it to my other. Within seconds, I had four more pichu inside there. I placed another on in my sweater and then I had two pichu left, who were now looking up at me. If I placed more in my sweater I wouldn't be able to walk properly so I had to think of something. I then got a idea. Like a real pikachu, I grabbed the last pichu that I had in my hand in my mouth and bit her scruff. The pichu didn't budge, it didn't feel anything. I grabbed the other two quickly and said "GO!" quickly. It didn't sound like "GO" at all, but Vera got the message. She shouted something to the other pikachu which immediately followed me and Vera and covered me, including Lukas. On our way to the nest I saw two dead ekans and also a pikachu which was badly wounded and probably poisoned. I couldn't do anything in this state so I just moved on. When we reached the nest the pikachu in front had managed to strike through the defense that was created there and I quickly sat down and pushed the pichu inside the nest. I looked at Vera.

"Get all pichu together in one room and only defend that room, understand? Like the last time they attacked!"

Vera looked at me and nodded. Another pikachu went along with Vera inside the nest and then the pichu were safe. Just as we moved on into battle with the rest of the group that had protected me, a ekans tried to get into the nest. He was stopped by three pikachu at once that bit his tail and tried to pull him out. The ekans stopped and I grabbed the end of his tail. Because the ekans couldn't really get his grip in the tunnels, he couldn't resist my pulling and I easily pulled him out of the nest before I turned around and swung the snake pokémon around.

"That's for the pichu-" I said while swinging him to the ground.

"-that's for the pikachu -" I said while slamming him to the other side.

"-that's for your attempt to get into THIS COLONY! -" I shouted angrily while slamming the poor pokémon in the ground for the third time.

"-and this is because I don't like you!" I said while I swung the snake towards the ground for a final time. With a large bang he landed on the ground. Just after it landed, three pikachu fried it using thundershock. The pokémon stopped moving after it was almost turned into ashes, only some parts of it's body showing any sign of purple.

"Well done guys, now take them out one by one! You can easily overpower them if you work together!" I shouted before we moved on towards the next pokémon. It was still chaos around us, but the pikachu were slowly winning the battle, and together with this group of strong pikachu, we took out a lot of enemies very simple by attacking them from all sides making them unable to dodge. Since most of the pikachu could evade the attacks very well, there were no problems in attacking any of the snakes, or so it appeared. After a while, the enemies also discovered our tactic and one of the arbok shouted something. After this "order" all of them joined forces and teamed up and continued their fight in little groups. This was very unusual for a pokémon. Arbok and ekans weren't known for teaming up. Pikachu were, when they needed to, but not every time they battled. I looked at the arbok that had shouted at the others. I followed its movements and attacks for a while at a safe location (well, it wasn't exactly safe, but less dangerous) and then I called some pikachu, including Lukas.

"That's their leader..." I said while pointing at the arbok. "If we take him out I think we've won!"

The other pikachu looked at the arbok. One of them said something and the others answered quickly and then they started running towards him, with me behind them. We ran past a couple of pikachu that were too injured to continue. Two of them looked at me with a face that said "help us..!" but I couldn't help right now... It felt terrible to leave them behind like that.

We quickly reached their leader. He and two others had formed a team and were attacking multiple pikachu. With the pikachu team that just joined, the pikachu could circle them. Then they stopped attacking and watched angrily. This glare was deadly, it made me (and some pikachu) shiver on their feet. But some others didn't and I could hear them calling out something. Then, all of a sudden, dark clouds formed above my head. I looked up for a second to realise a thunder attack was coming soon. I got away from the leader and focussed on another ekans, that was busy attacking a female that almost lost the battle. She was poisoned and was barely able to move. She defended herself using Thundershock but she was almost exhausted. I kicked the ekans and grabbed his neck. It was a small one, so I could easily grab him and throw him away. He landed on the sand and decided he wouldn't fight me further so he quickly went to fight somewhere else. The female pikachu looked at me and said something so softly that I almost couldn't hear it. But I had no time to take a break or to help her, because the heat of the battle was moving my direction. A massive thunder attack came out of the clouds and hit the pikachu in the circle with the three arbok in the middle. After a couple of seconds, the attack faded and three pikachu fainted. The two strongest pikachu were still standing and two appeared as if nothing happened and Lukas was barely able to keep standing. The arbok however were harmed but not out. They attacked one of the fainted pikachu all at once. One was thundershocked by one of the stronger pikachu and he managed to lure him towards himself. The other two however attacked the pikachu with bite. I looked at the pikachu which didn't budge because it was passed out, but it got two nasty bite wounds. Lukas saw this, shouted something and leaped into the air. Once he was at his highest point, I saw that his tail started glowing and Lukas nailed one of the arbok by slamming into it, sending it flying backwards and making it faint. After that, he tried to walk towards me, but he was slow and he hobbled slowly. He couldn't think clear anymore. I could see and sense that if I looked at his body language. He managed to get away about ten meters from the circle before the last arbok saw him and started to chase him. Lukas heard him coming and turned around to dodge, but he was no match for the arbok which used poison sting on him, now he was close to defeat. Lukas took the full hit and then remained on the ground motionless before I managed to get to him. Using all my powers I managed to overpower the arbok and defeat him by attacking him from all sides with another stick I found while dodging his attacks, from which one nearly hit me. After I gave him his last blow, he fell to the ground, exhausted and unable to fight further. I quickly checked on Lukas which was still passed out. He was breathing and his heart rate was normal for as far I could feel it right now. I looked at the last arbok that was lured away before he could attack the fainted pikachu. He was almost beaten by the two strongest pikachu from our colony. We had almost won. I sighed and then pain hit me. I wasn't paying attention to anything while checking Lukas. Another arbok took the advantage and bit me in my leg which immediately started to turn a bit purple and felt very painful. I screamed in pain while I tried to get the arbok off me and he let go and prepared for battle. One ekans joined him and they both tried to overpower me. I took a step back and forgot about Lukas. I stepped on Lukas and tumbled backwards on the ground while I tried not to step on him and regaining my balance. Happily I didn't fall hard, but both snakes came closer to me while I tried to crawled backwards with my hand and feet. I could only use one of my feet, because the other one hurted me so bad I didn't want to use it. Both pokémon came closer before suddenly a pikachu jumped over me and used Iron Tail to attack the arbok. His attack was a direct hit and the arbok fell backwards, fainted. The ekans slid a few meters back and hissed fiercely towards the pikachu, which appeared to be... Volt. He looked harmed and had bleeding paws, but he continued his fight while the arbok got back up. He attacked the ekans with agility. The ekans evaded the attack and used a poison sting towards Volt, but he managed to dodge that attack as well by using the agility attack in his advantage. He ran a short circle and launched his attack on the ekans again and this time, the ekans could not dodge. Volt did massive damage to the young ekans, which turned out to be the same one that tried to attack that female earlier. The ekans fainted when Volt finished him with Iron Tail directly after his agility attack. He then turned to me, panting heavily. I ruffled through his fur and his head. He looked quite mad but thankful at the same time and tried to smile at me, but his body was too much in attack mode for him to be able to do that. Then he whined and fell down, one paw was barely able to hold his weight. He lay before me and he released soft screams of pain because of his front left paw. He closed his eyes trying to seize the pain away, but then he gave up and plopped down, still whining. I watched around and saw no more snakes that could be dangerous. The ones that were still there were either chased away or killed by still fighting pikachu. I heared a loud hiss and all the enemies looked at one ekans. Then they looked at one of the arbok, the one that was beaten by Lukas. Then they fled as quick as they could.

I quickly sat down next to Volt and picked him up. He looked mad at me. He didn't like contact with a human, at least, not like this. That would hurt his pride as guard. But he had nothing to say and I placed him on his back on my both legs and gritted my teeth, also in pain. As long I didn't move my leg, it didn't hurt that much, but now I moved it a bit to get Volt comfortable, I felt a heavy pain going through my leg. I also closed my eyes and took a slow breath indicating I was also in pain. Then the pain lowered a bit and I looked at Volt's paw. It was badly hurt with multiple bite wounds and one big cut. I looked at it. It was at least broken. It was also bruised and Volt was unable to use it. I wanted to move the paw a bit, but Volt stopped me.

"PIKA PIKA PIKACHU!" he shouted angrily warning me to not touch that.

"I have to, I need to know how you're hurt." I said while touching it and turning it in a position I could check every angle. Volt wasn't too happy about this and whined and gave me an angry glare, but he didn't resist anymore.

"Broken." I said. "I'll need to fix that up..."

Just when I said that Espeon appeared. She looked in kind of shock.

"You need to come, quickly..." she said.

"I can't really move, I got bitten and... DAMNIT" I said while I moved my leg and pain erupted.

"That looks bad..." Espeon said. I sighed and looked around. More weakened or probably poisoned pikachu were moving around to check if their mates or friends were alright.

"Alright, -" I said while I gently put Volt down, making sure no weight was put on his paw. "- try to walk on your back legs, not on your paws and legs." I said to Volt. He nodded. Then I tried to stand up. It went alright considering I was poisoned. It hurt badly, but using trees and tree trunks I could move around slowly. I looked around and saw wounded pikachu everywhere. A couple didn't move. Hoping that they weren't dead, I thought about what to do.

"Poison..." I whispered. Both Volt and Espeon looked at me.

"EVERYONE!" I screamed. "I WANT EVERY PIKACHU THAT FEELS SICK OR THAT IS INJURED RIGHT HERE WITH ME!" I said while moving towards my backpack. I sat down in my sleeping bag and looked in my first aid kit while two pikachu already came to me. They both looked alright but were both poisoned. I quickly checked the kit and found two antidotes. Both pikachu flinched when they saw needles that were packed sterile, but I quickly grabbed one of them and held him steady. I quickly injected the antidote and almost threw the pikachu aside grabbing the next antidote and injecting the other pikachu quickly.

"Those wounds can be done later-" I said quickly, "- I need to do the badly hurt pikachu first."

"Are you going to..." Espeon started.

"Damnit, no more antidotes..." I thought. "Yes I am...! Where do I get... Oak." I said while getting my phone. I bonked the emergency button and I waited. What would happen? Would Oak come and get me immediately or would he call me? I just waited until his face appeared.

"What is it?!" he said in small panic.

"No time to tell!" I said.

"What happened to you?!" he asked. "You look like you've been fighting!"

"Guess what!" I said almost angrily. "I've got no time to tell. I need antidotes and I need lots of them. Do you have antidotes?" I asked.

"Yes, I do have antidotes in storage." he said slowly while thinking.

"I need... I need..." I said while quickly looking around me. Pikachu were starting to gather. A lot of them had poisonous symptoms.

"Shit... Not the entire colony...!" I thought. I looked over the pikachu and saw about thirty acting like they had poison.

"I need fifty!" I said quickly. "And I need them right here right now!" I added.

"Fifty?! NOW?" he said. "But... But..."

"NOW!" I said. "I got at least twenty pikachu poisoned!"

"Alright alright!" he said. "I'll be there as soon as possible."

"Great, and hurry!" I said before stopping the video chat and looking around.

"There will be a man in a white coat coming soon, don't attack him." I said loudly. The pikachu looked at me but then didn't care. They were too busy with other stuff like cleaning themselves, grooming mates or getting rid of arbok and ekans.

"How can almost the entire colony be poisoned?!" I asked to some pikachu. It was Espeon that gave me the answer.

"It was their strategy." she said. "They wanted to poison all pikachu, or at least most of them and come back later to finish the battle. They hadn't expected us to be that strong."

"Well you guys were strong, but AAARRRGGG..." I whined when my leg hurt again.

"You should go to a pokécenter- erm... hospital..." Espeon said.

"I know, but I can't in this state." I said. "I'll be fine, trust me. Arbok poison isn't deadly for someone like me, it will slowly disappear in a couple of hours. For pokémon like pikachu and pichu it's deadly if you don't give them a antidote quickly." I said while looking at the clock. The whole battle had lasted for about thirty minutes since I had joined it although it felt like forever.

"Are there any dead pikachu...?" I asked Espeon. She sighed and nodded.

"As far I can tell, there are four killed..." she said while looking down.

"Shit..." I said while looking at her. "Who?"

"Well, Sparktail is killed..." she said while thinking.

"Which of the ten?" I asked her. Multiple pikachu were named Sparktail in the colony.

"That aggressive one." she said.

"Damn, he was one of our best fighters!" I replied.

"Yes..." She said slowly and sighed again.

"And the other three...?"

"Tommy died." she said. My heart stopped.

"Our... Our leader died?" I said.

"Yes, they went full force on him. He wasn't able to stand them." she said. "Then an old female died, she couldn't hide herself quickly enough and..." Espeon said slowly.

"And what? Who's the last one?" I asked her.

"It's... Oh, Lukas' mother died!" she replied emotional. I was left speechless.