Disclaimer: As per Usual, I do not own Pokemon at all, but rather just enjoying writing stories about it
Compared to earlier on, the living room was quite dark due to the lack of any light, but the only source that provided the eye to see what was happening was from the window in the wall, was limited due to the shades pulled down on it. Sitting in the corner of the room, there was a trail of smoke coming from a lone cigarette from a figure sitting down on a chair with its leg's crossed.
Pulling the cigarette from its mouth as the cigarette was finally finished, it was tossed to the floor and stamped on, leaving a small amount of ash on the floor. The person pulled out a pokeball from a pocket lazily, before revealing a humanoid pokemon from the ball.
"Wake him up….. Now" the person said to the Machoke that analysing its new surroundings. Flexing his fingers, the Machoke's right hand began to glow white and he strode over to the slumped over figure sitting in the chair. With a quick motion, the hand was brought down on Oak's cheek with a loud crack, causing the professor to moan as he slowly came round.
"Huh? Wha….. What's going on here" Oak spluttered before he spotted the Machoke leering at him. In his entire lifetime of researching the Kanto pokemon, he had seen many Machoke's in his life, but he had never seen a more buffed up Machoke like this before. Even though they were known to be very powerful, and he had seen the extent of their power first-hand, the muscles on this one exceeded the normal ones as they were bulging quite regularly; probably from the oxygen that was being pumped into them. Oak knew that a simple punch to his face would cause a lot of serious damage, as with the state he was in now, he knew that it would be better to not antagonise it.
"Ah, so the famous Professor Oak finally wakes up. How are we then Sir?" The man in the corner said with a slight chuckle, before he getting up whilst concealing his entire body hidden in the shadows as he walked around the room slowly.
"Oh I'm very well thank-" Oak began before stopping; What on earth was he doing? He had almost started talking with this…person without even thinking of the situation he was in. If he had started going on as if nothing had happened, then it would have been easier for any information to have been gotten out of him. "Who are you and what do you want?" Oak snapped at him, trying to intimidate him slightly, even though he was the one that was scared.
"Oh, getting straight to the point now aren't you." The man chuckled as he continued to walk around the room slowly. "At the moment you don't need to know who I am at all, as it won't do you any good at all. But your right in one thing though, we should get to the point as quick as possible." He said before stepping out of the shadows.
The man was quite tall with a lean body whilst being dressed in a black uniform with a few white spots around it. Nothing really stood out from him apart from one thing; his hair was a deep purple with the middle part combed all the way back. He also had a little bit if stubble beneath his chin which was also a bit purple.
"Let's get to the point straight: Where is He? And if you're wondering who I'm talking about, I mean Ash." he said with raised eyebrow, before he gave a chuckle at Oaks reaction. Oaks mouth was wide open with shock; how on earth could they of known Ash was here? He knew he couldn't say anything about Ash; he had to protect him from whoever this man was. He had no idea if he was an assassin or was working for someone else, but he couldn't reveal anything as of now, especially with Ash coming back into his life as well.
"I...I don't know what you are talking about. I don't know an Ash. I've been on my own all day, tending to some pokemon a trainer left for me to care for while he is travelling." he said, but he knew that his attempted lie hadn't worked when Petrel had simply laughed at the feeble attempt, before putting his face right next to the professors.
"I'll say this again. Where is Ash and where is he going? It's fine if you don't want to answer me, but be aware that I will find out one way or another." Petrel asked before tapping on one of his pokeballs to show Oak that he wasn't afraid of using force to get the answers that he wanted.
"I'm telling the truth; I don't remember an Ash come here at all today, let alone in the past. The last time someone called Ash came into this building was about 4 years ago" he muttered before he began sweating; why on earth was these questions being asked, but more importantly what did they want to know about Ash?
"Well then, according to my… unique sources he had said that an Ash was here today, talking to you, but it looks like I have to make you remember what exactly happened instead." he said began pulling another pokeball, and in a flash of light a Houndoom appeared in front of Oak with its teeth glaring. "Give the professor a little demonstration of your power please." Petrel said with a smirk, and Oak flinched when a ball of fire was fired past his face and onto a chair next to him, instantly turning it into smouldering embers.
Meanwhile outside, a certain energetic water type pokemon was prancing around the yard; Totodile was too filled with adrenaline to take a nap at the moment. Out of all the pokemon he was the one that used to skip nap time in order to play with Ash when they were at Mt Silver, but now they were all on their own; there was no one to play with.
However the bright light that escaped through the door caught his attention, and bundling over to the door, he opened it and bounced right in, before he was staring at Petrel with the Machoke and Houndoom right in his face.
"Houndoom, crunch now. We don't need any distractions now. It's still a starter, so this should be an easy job for you." he said, before he placed his attention back on the professor, intent on getting some answers as soon as possible. Houndoom didn't need telling twice. It had been too long since he had the chance to have a play thing to chew on; his mouth widened revealing the array of razor sharp teeth with droll piling around in his mouth. He pounced straight away at the water type, the feeling of fresh blood driving it on to kill.
However it seemed like Totodile was having other idea on his hands; with a massive grin on his face as he bounced from one foot to the other, he glowed a deep orange as he took in a deep breath. The Houndoom had been too busy thinking about killing to actually notice the dull colour at all, before its mouth was clamped shut by both hands of the Totdile. With a sadistic grin forming on his face, he begun swinging the Dark type around in a circle, before it was flung across the room at an incredible speed. With a sickening crunch as it hit the wall, the Houndoom gave a small whimper as it slid down the wall, before finally slumping down on the floor unconscious.
"Hmmm. An interesting move from a water type; perhaps I underestimated Ash's pokemon by a lot for it to defeat my Houndoom. No less, it won't dampen my mission at all." He said while returning Houndoom before putting his hand on his belt as he begun to think about what pokemon to choose next.
However, he didn't even have the time to summon out his next pokemon as he was stuck in the face with a quite powerful water gun. He was sent to the floor before he started groaning at how all of his clothing was wet.
The Machoke gave a roar when he saw that his master had been attacked without any reason at all; he began focusing his rage all at once into his body as he prepared the focus energy. Taking in a deep breath, his arms began to glow a deep white as he rushed forward at the Totodile as he tried to attack it with the Cross Chop. However at the same time as the Machoke was prepping its Focus energy, Totodile had glowed a bright Blue light….before his body had a dull glow over it. Bouncing from side to side with the new vigorous energy inside of him from the Dragon Dance, he rushed at the incoming Machoke at an incredible speed. One minute he was facing the fighting type, the next he was behind it attacking it with it glowing claws. This continued multiple times with Totodile seemingly vanishing in the air, to appearing somewhere else in no time at all.
Eventually it was all too much for the fighting type, as with one final swipe to its body, its stumbled down onto one knee, and with a groan he collapsed to the floor, unable to fight anymore. Petrel picked himself up, shaken from the Water Gun attack before returning the Machoke. He was amazed that the Totodile was still dancing around as if nothing had happened at all to it. Yet for such a small things its power was undoubtedly very powerful.
"You might be lucky this time Oak, but you better tell your little Ash that he better beware. He won't be as lucky next time" he spat before rushing out of the room. In his haste he hadn't noticed the badge that was before hidden on the lapel on his uniform had fallen off from the attack was now on the floor, glinting slightly from the light.
Totodile bounded over to where the professor was, and with a swift swipe, the ropes that bounded him together fell to the floor easily. Oak slowly got up from the chair as he rubbed his arms together from where the ropes had been too tight against his frail body, before taking in a deep breath that finally it was all over.
"Thank you Totodile" he said and water type gave a big smile before he returned back outside to try and find someone to play with. Oak watched him leave before he went over to the badge which he had spotted from where Petrel had been moments before. He bent down and picked it up, puzzled by its appearance. It was a black badge, easily hidden by uniform, but when it was looked at, it had the appearance of a black hole it seemed with little white dots in random places.
"I must inform Ash of this event" Oak thought whilst pocketing the badge, before going back outside to check on the pokemon to see if any of them had been hurt from the intrusion.
Ash had finally arrived at Viridian, but was annoyed that it had taken him longer than he thought it had. Maybe instead of walking he should have ridden on one of his pokemon instead so that he would have got there in an hour instead of the 3 hours it had taken him.
Ash didn't mind at all, even though to be honest it had allowed him to remember all the good times he used to experience when he was young. It was actually nice seeing it all over again and it brought a smile to his face.
The first thing Ash did was he went straight into the poke-centre and began to book a room. Although he was used to living outside in the wilderness, he wanted to enjoy a bit of luxury for a bit now. When he passed his pokedex to the nurse Joy on duty, she didn't even bother to give him a second glance before she returned his pokedex back and hoped he enjoyed his stay.
Mumbling thanks, Ash turned around and began making his way to his room when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Turning round he saw that it was a face that he remembered from a long time ago. Even though Ash remembered Gary, he didn't seem to recognise Ash.
"Hey there stranger. I'm guessing you're new here then I presume? I'm the Gym leader here and I've battled everyone living here so I know a new face when I see it" he said before putting out a hand. "Gary Oak. Gym leader of Viridian"
"Red Satoshi; Pallet Town" Ash said grasping Gary's hand and shaking it. "You're right I am new here. I've been away for a long time, so it's been a while since I've been here" he said looking around.
"I see. Do you fancy a battle? I'm free for the next hour or so, and I fancy a battle. How about it?"
"As much as I would like to, I have to go and rest up. My Pokémon and me have to get some sleep" he said, pointing to his belt and Pikachu who was by his feet before he turned around and began walking away.
"Oh I see, you're a chicken then? Too afraid to face a gym leader? Pathetic" Gary shouted after him, and it was the last word which made Ash stop and turn around.
"Oh, it's not that I'm afraid. It's just I'm afraid of me crushing you completely" he said with a smile.
"Oh is that right then? I challenge you Red, right here, right now."
"Fine, I can use a bit of practice. Pikachu, let's do this."
Author Note: So yeah, a rather short chapter this time, but this one had a lot of re-editing in it with what was happening. I'd also like to put something forward as well; I have AS exams starting in a few weeks time. This won't stop me posting up some chapters, but it might mean that in order for me not to get too stressed with editing and revision, I might have to bump the posting time to maybe 2 weeks possibly. It all depends on how everything is going.
So see you next time folks, and don't gorget to leave a review or comment ont he story so far.