Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, If I did Ash would age, and he would win everything.
A/N: Is Ash Gay? Seriously, What more does Serena have to do for him to notice her. I wish all my ex were like her, you can tell exactly what she is thinking. Yet as usual Ash is completely clue-less. Good job he knows what to do with girls in this story. Anyway after a little break here is chapter 44, Please enjoy.
I was planning to put up a notice saying I have decided to abandon this story, for an April fools pranks, however in the end I decided that would give most of my loyal readers a heart attack, not to mention my PM box and emails would be filled with complaints and very angry reviewers. So I decided just to give you a new chapter instead. :)
Valencia Island
Ash ran as fast as he could, he could still see the smoke clouding the sky. He kept looking behind him to make sure that Sabrina was with him. He could tell she was out of breath, but she was still keeping up with him. Ash turned his head back in the direction of the various sirens coming from the small town. Only a few more minutes and he would be there. Ash raced around the corner, and through the city gates. His fears were confirmed as the Pokemon Centre was now on fire and emergency crews were doing all they could to keep the flames from reaching anything else nearby. Ash noticed Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny was in a discussion. Ash wanted to know where Lapras was so he raced up to both women.
"Nurse Joy what happened?" Ash could tell Nurse Joy was shaken up by the whole ordeal, she was wrapped in a blanket. vacant expression on her face.
"Three masked figures entered the Pokemon centre and caused an explosion. They then stole your Lapras and made a get away in a van. I was just in the middle of giving Officer Jenny a description, although I couldn't exactly see their faces. I did noticed one was a Pokemon shape though. In fact it looked like a Meowth."
Ash growled, he now knew who was responsible for stealing his Lapras. It seems Team Rocket had followed him to the Orange Islands and still wanted to cause trouble for him. Well he would make sure they got it when he found them, he would beat them so bad, that they would be begging him to blast them off. Ash looked to officer Jenny.
"Do you now how they escaped? Lapras is a big Pokemon, they must have had some sort of truck? Or transport waiting."
Officer Jenny too felt sorry for the young trainer. This was the boy who had rescued the Lapras from that gang and now it had been stolen. "Nurse Joy was just giving me a description of the van. She said it was blue and big and was heading North. I have most of my officers looking for it now."
Ash shook his head, there wasn't many places they could go, after all they were on an Island, so If Ash had to guess then they were hiding out somewhere and waiting till the attention had died down. Ash pulled a ball from his belt.
"Pidgeot I choose you!" The Normal flying type appeared from the ball and opened it's huge wings. her eyes then locked with her trainers.
"Is Everything okay Master, you look worried." Ash sighed, then stroked Pidgeot feathers gently.
"Lapras has been stolen, I need you to see if you can see a Blue truck anywhere near here. The trees grow quite tall on this island so a birds eye view would be best. If you find them report straight back here."
Pidgeot nodded her head before taking off from the ground and flying towards the sky. Ash then turned back to both Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy. "Pidgeot will see if she can see anything from the air. By the way officer Jenny did you catch the other gang?"
Somewhere On The Island
Jessie, James and Meowth were hiding out in an abandoned factory. After they had stolen Lapras, they had planned to transport it back to the boss, however they had forgotten all they had for transport was there Magikarp Submarine, no where near big enough to carry an injured Lapras. So they had decided to hide here and try contact the boss to see if he would wire them some funds or if he would provide them some sort of transport to get the Lapras to him. Jessie plugged the monitor in, and turned it on. The screen went fuzzy before a image of their boss was on screen. he did not look to pleased.
"You three! What are you three doing? I send you to keep an eye on the boy, and you decide to blow up a building. You had better have a good excuse, for your actions."
Jessie gulped. "Well you see sir. The brat has caught a new Pokemon, and we thought that if we stole it, then we could give it to you."
Giovanni lounged back in his chair, looking at the three clowns on the monitor. The only reason he had sent them on this mission was so that he didn't have to deal with them back at HQ. "What Pokemon have you stolen then? Show me!"
Jessie turned the screen so Giovanni could see a huge tank, inside was Lapras who was not looking too good. Jessie then turned the screen back. "You see, it would be a perfect addition to your collection."
Giovanni lowered his hand down the side of his chair and began to stroke his Persian, who suddenly began purring from the attention it was getting. "Exactly how are you planning to transport this Pokemon? If I remember correctly the only transport you have is a submarine. Too small for a Pokemon of that size." Giovanni noticed the nervous expression on the faces of his three minions. It seems they had once again jumped the gun and had done something without thinking it through. "You three don't have a clue do you! Of all the incompetent morons I have working for this company, you three are the worse! I will send a transport plane to the island, make sure you arrive on time, Here are the coordinates be there in exactly one hour."
The screen suddenly blacked out leaving Jessie, James and Meowth looking at the coordinates their boss had given them. it look like the pick up point was only a few miles north of their location.
Outside Hidden Location
Pidgeot was circling the island, so far she had been up here for an hour and still no sign of the truck Ash had described to her. She was about to return back to Ash, when she noticed the abandon Factory complex. She could see a big blue van outside one of the building. Pidgeot dived down for a closer look, she settled down on one of the roofs and looked into the building where the truck was outside. She spotted Lapras in a tank and Team Rocket just sitting around. Pidgeot took off, she had finally found them, and couldn't wait till she told Ash.
Valencia Town Centre
Ash and Sabrina was helping with the clean up of the Pokemon centre, when Ash noticed Pidgeot was circling just above. He could tell by the way she was flying that she had found something. Ash turned to officer Jenny, who was also helping with clean up.
"Officer Jenny, it looks like Pidgeot has found them, she wants us to follow her." Officer Jenny looked up and noticed the Pokemon was indeed waiting as if it wanted to lead them somewhere. She quickly had a few words with her colleagues and then lead Ash and Sabrina towards her car. Once everyone was buckled up, she drove off with Pidgeot leading above them. It wasn't long before they came to the old abandoned factory buildings. Just has they were pulling in a blue truck sped right past them and turned right, heading towards the very top of the island.
"All units I need assistant now! Suspect truck spotted, and heading towards top of mount Valencia. In pursuit now." Office Jenny noticed that Ash had gotten out, there was a bright flash, before her eyes widened , there standing beside the car was a Charizard.
"Officer Jenny, I will ride Charizard and see if I can cut them off. Sabrina do you want to come with me or stay with officer Jenny?"
Sabrina unbuckled her belt. There was no way she was going to let Ash handle this on her own. "No way am I sitting in this car, why you get yourself into trouble again Ketchum."
Ash smiled and helped Sabrina on to the back of Charizard. "Okay Charizard, let's go and rescue Lapras!" Charizard roared before taking off and flew towards Pidgeot. Soon both flying type were flying at top speed trying to catch up with the truck. They were soon right behind it, Ash knew he could attack the track directly, but Lapras could get injured further, so he needed another idea. Ash looked down and noticed the truck was having a rough time trying navigate up the mountain pass. This gave him an idea.
"Charizard lets get in front of them. Pidgeot use Air Cutter to take out those tyres!" Pidgeot flapped it's huge wings before sending two razor sharp wind blades at the truck. Both blades sliced the back wheels and then sliced the front. The truck was now bumping up and down, as it tried to remain on the mountain pass.
Ash had already got in front of the truck and had spotted an intersection, where they could stop the truck and rescue Lapras. "Okay Charizard touched down here, and remember that truck is not to get past you." Ash and Sabrina jumped off, just as the truck came around the corner. Charizard growled before bracing himself. The van crashed into him, however with his strength Charizard was managing to slow the truck down. he could see the surprise look on the three Team Rockets faces, now staring out of the windscreen at him.
Within Van, a few minutes ago
Jessie and James and Meowth, were bouncing all over the place. The truck they had stolen had no seat belts and so there was nothing preventing them from bouncing around in the truck cabin. The pick up point was on the top of this mountain, and they had only 10 minutes to reach the summit. Just then they heard the sound of both set of tyres blowing out. Jessie was doing her best to keep the truck on the mountain path.
"James I thought you said you checked all the tyre before we left. All four have just burst."
James was doing his best to hold on as now the tyre had blown, the bumps on the mountain pass had gotten worse, and he was hitting his head constantly on the ceiling of the truck cab. "Honestly Jessie, I did. All four tyres looked fine before we left. Maybe this rocky terrain has caused the tyres to blow. Look out there something on the path ahead"
All three members noticed a Charizard, and behind it was two kids who team Rocket could see were the two twerps. "Blast that kid, he is trying to rescue his Lapras. Well he won't stop us this time." Jessie slammed her foot onto the gas pedal causing the truck to accelerate. However no matter how hard she pushed the truck, the Charizard wasn't moving. eventually the truck stopped.
"Okay you three get out of that truck now, before I have Charizard BBQ your arse." The three Team Rocket members climbed out of the truck, however their eyes never left Charizards who was now producing small flames around its fangs to prove that Ash wasn't kidding. Once they were away from the truck Ash and Sabrina got to work. Charizard would keep Team Rocket busy while they dealt with Lapras. Ash and Sabrina could already hear the sirens coming towards them. Ash used all his strength to open the back door of the truck. he climbed in and could see that Lapras was still in her tank, but she looked a lot worse than she did before they had left this morning.
"Don't worry Lapras. Everything is fine now. Your safe." Ash noticed Lapras opened her eyes and looked at Ash. She could see the concern written all over his face for her well being.
"Thank you Ash."
Ash smiled he was happy to get Lapras back, however just then he could hear the sound of a plane overhead. Ash climbed out of the truck and then looked up. The Plane was flying towards them, on the side of it was a huge red R, Ash noticed when it got a bit closer, it suddenly turned direction and flew away from the island. Obviously that had been their escape route. Ash noticed officer Jenny had pulled up along with a few other police cars. He watched her climb out.
"I want those three arrested now!" Three officer ran past her and then began to cuff Team Rocket. Ash watched as one by one they were led to awaiting police cars. Ash was hoping this was the last he would see of them, but knowing his luck, they would out on bail soon, and then they would come after him again. Ash noticed Nurse Joy had gotten out of one of the cars and was now making sure that Lapras was okay.
"Mr Ketchum, we need to get your Lapras to a Pokemon Centre right away. Unfortunately mine is still in need of repair so it will have to be on one of the other islands. I would suggest for now you put Lapras back in her ball, at least that way you can transport her."
Ash lowered his head, it was easy saying he would have to go to another island, but he didn't know where to go. Just then he noticed officer Jenny walked up behind him. "If you need a Pokemon Centre then there is one on Mikan Island. If you flew on your charizard then you could be their in fifteen minutes. If you leave from here and carry going west you will see it soon enough. It also has an Orange League gym on it."
That seemed to perk Ash up. He could get Lapras healed and challenge for his first Orange League badge. However Ash shoulder suddenly sank. They couldn't leave without informing Brock. Just then Ash noticed his Pokegear was vibrating. Taking it out of his pocket, he noticed it was Brock calling. He pressed answer and there was Brock on the screen.
"Hey Ash, I hope you don't mind, but I have decided to stay with Professor Ivy a little longer. I am sure you and Sabrina can manage without me, plus it will be good for you and Sabrina to get use to travelling alone. think of it has preparing you for when you embark on your league quest in Johto."
Ash put on a fake smile, however behind that fake smile, he was upset that Brock had decided to leave him and Sabrina, high and dry. Well at least he now knew that Brock was happy and he and Sabrina could continue their journey around the Orange Islands, without worrying about him.
"Hmm that's great Brock. Well you know where I am if you need to call. Keep in touch. Bye" Ash switched the Pokegear off and noticed Sabrina was stood behind him with Pidgeot and Charizard.
"Guess Brock not coming with us then?" Ash could only nod at Sabrina question. He then walked towards the truck and climbed inside. Lapras was in the middle of having a final check up by Nurse Joy.
"Well, she is okay to travel, long as you keep her in the Poke ball then she will be fine. When you get to Mikan Island say hello to my cousin won't you. " Ash watched Nurse Joy climb out of the truck. he then opened Lapras Poke ball and watched as the Pokemon was sucked inside. Ash then climbed down from the truck and walked over towards his Pokemon and Sabrina.
"Right Officer Jenny said Mikan island is west of this point, so Sabrina if you want to ride Pidgeot, I will ride Charizard. Pikachu, you ride with me." Ash noticed his little friend who had stayed quiet most of the day just nodded. Ash climbed on Charizard back and watched Sabrina climb onto Pidgeot back. Soon as both teens were secure the Pokemon flapped their wings and took towards the direction, Officer Jenny had given them. unaware that both would be facing new challenges very soon.
A/N: Okay Next Chapter, Ash will arrive at Mikan island and challenge for his first Orange League gym badge. Now as many of the fans will now, the Orange League matches are a little different to normal gym matches. So be prepared for less battles taking place.