"You aren't focusing." Sabrina coldly stated as she saw the floating rubix cube move even slower than before.
"S-Sorry," Ash weakly said as he lifted it back to his hand.
The two were currently walking through Mt. Moon on their way to Cerulean City, meanwhile, Ash was having trouble doing things he had much easier time doing yesterday.
Sabrina had a feeling that the young new psychic was distracted.
"As I said before, psychic powers are based mostly on mental strength. Emotions may push certain bursts of power, but they are dangerous and hazardous to people like us where we can hurt ourselves by whims. It is best to remain completely emotionless."
Ash was silent as he heard that. Was that really the way to master these powers? But then again, he's been feeling all kinds of bad ever since he's been thinking about his reasons for wanting to be a Pokémon Master.
His friends had more reason to become a Pokémon Master than just wanting to be one. And his mother had always told him that simply wanting things out of simple want was never a good enough reason. He wished he could explain why he wanted to be one, but he couldn't really put it to words than other just wanting it really bad. And the more he thought about it, the more he felt kind of ashamed for pursuing it so passionately when others had at least more reason and drive for theirs.
These thoughts were even eating into his training in both his powers and for his partners.
'That doesn't sound really nice.' Riolu, who was walking beside Ash, stated out loud.
It was at that point that Sabrina put her hand out to stop the boy from moving. "Wait," She said before narrowing her eyes at the surrounding area.
"What's up?" Ash asked.
Sabrina continued to glare as it seemed like she was gathering power.. "We're being watched."
"Pokémon?" Ash looked around and saw no one before looking to Riolu.
The fighting type simply closed his eyes and sensed the area. 'Weird, there is this strange group of Pokémon around us but there's also...'
The blue Pokémon didn't get a chance to say what he was going to say when around the group, blurs of pink rushed for all of them, screaming as they did so.
With a throw of her hand, Sabrina froze all attackers mid air before the group. It was revealed that their attackers was a group of Clefairy. What was strange about this group besides they were trying to attack the group, but they were also covered up with many ripped pieces of metal over them like makeshift armor and such.
One of the larger Clefairy tried to struggle out of Sabrina's hold but it was a futile attempt. 'What kind of mysterious hold has prevented us from assailing our target!?'
Sabrina felt a twitch in her right brow after hearing the rather animated accent of the fairy type trying to attack them. However, she still wanted to be in control of the situation. "I'll be asking the questions here, why did you attack us?"
'And why does that one have an apple on his head?' Riolu pointed over to one random Clefairy among them.
'Ha! You earthenoids will never understand the mechanizations of our mentally superior race! Years would pass before you can even fathom how we are stealing shiny objects for our own gain!'
Ash blinked before replaying the fact that he did just say what they were doing. "Uuum?"
Sabrina quickly interrupted her student. "Don't ask what I know your going to ask first.."
It was at this point that Riolu pointed behind them towards one of the rocks in the area. 'I still feel one more coming our way.'
The expert psychic among them felt the presence too and quickly snatched the creature turning a corner.
However, it was not a Clefairy that greeted them, but a rather tired looking Jigglypuff.
'My apple,' The new pink Pokémon called out as he seemingly reached for the red fruit despite being held in place by Sabrina's psychic power. 'My perfect apple.'
Ash felt bad for the small newcomer and swiped the apple off the head of one of the attacking Clefairy's. He then handed it over to the Jigglypuff who seemed to gasp at having his apple returned and seemed to have water start forming in his big, puffy eyes. 'My perfect apple! I'm so happy, I can sing!'
Despite the elated joy of the new Pokémon, the leader of the Clefairy scoffed. 'Ha! Pitiful pink thing!'
'Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle pink?' Riolu asked out innocently before the rather passionate Clefairy continued.
'You have never heard true Clefairy music before this very moment! Behold as I show you what true singing is all about!'
Surprisingly, the Clefairy had a pretty decent voice.
"Huh, he's not… not..." Ash began complimenting before he found his eye lids were much heavier than before.
It didn't take long before both Ash and Riolu fell to the floor sleeping.
Sabrina realized that the foolish Clefairy was actually using a Sing attack that made everyone who hears the voice sleep! She quickly tried to throw the fairy type away but it was too late, her sleepiness was overwhelming her and she ended up dropping everyone else.
The lone Clefairy stopped singing as he then realized that his captors were down and out, along with the rest of his men.
'… A-ha! I totally knew that was going to happen!' Even though no one was listening, they could still hear the BS of such a claim. 'Now my brethren we must mug them all of their electrical belongings!'
The passionate Clefairy was only met by the sounds of snoring of multiple sleeping figures. 'Okay, this might take a while longer than I thought.'
Ash was feeling his head aching when he woke up. The teenager was wondering why he was on the floor until memories came flooding back to him. He snapped his head up and saw that all the Clefairy were gone, it was just him, Sabrina, Riolu, and that Jigglypuff.
Wait, his back felt lighter than usual— "My backpack!" The raven haired teen cried out as he realized that his belongings were missing.
His cry woke up the others. Sabrina especially was hard on herself for letting a fool make a fool out of her as well besides stealing her Pokémon.
"Riolu," Ash turned to his fighting type. "Where are they!?"
The little fighter quickly tried to use his powers, as did Sabrina, but Riolu was the one who said what both had found out. 'They aren't in range anymore.'
"What!? But they have all our stuff!" Not only his necessities, but his badge, the Team Instinct Gear, and the Rainbow Feather was still in there! He couldn't let them keep those things!
'Aaww! They stole my perfect apple again!' The Jigglypuff whined sadly before puffing up with an adorably mad face. 'I'm gonna get them this time!"
Jigglypuff ran off before stopping in his tracks and turning towards the others with a confused look on his face. 'Aren't you coming?'
It took a few seconds for Ash to realize what the other pink puff ball was trying to say. "Wait, you know where they went?"
'Yeah, I've been tracking them for a while ever since they stole my food!' That would explain why the Jigglypuff was found coming after the Clefairy group. 'You wanna come? It'll be fun, friendly friend!'
Ash got back up and looked to his other companions.
"Unfortunately, we don't know where those creatures ran off too, so there really isn't much of a choice." Sabrina commented on their situation.
This was the cue Ash needed as he pumped his fist. "Alright! Lead the way, Jigglypuff!"
'Yay! Imma gonna get the apple back with friends!' It seemed like Jigglypuff was rather easy going as he then led the people after the strange group of technology stealing Pokémon.
The group ascended higher and higher until Riolu and Sabrina started sensing a large amount of Pokémon in the distance.
Sabrina made everyone sneak around and hide behind a large rock overlooking the large amount of beings before them.
Surprisingly there was a lot more Pokémon than just the Clefairy, there were many other types of Pokémon gathered around and none of them looked too happy.
"What's going on here?" Ash asked what everyone was wondering.
"… Riolu, have you spotted the Clefairy that stole our items?" Sabrina asked the fighting type while viewing the area.
'No, they're all too clumped together and… wait… what's this weird air I'm feeling?'
As the emanation Pokémon said this, further beyond the group of Pokémon was a crowd of poison types that walked with all the swagger of people who believed themselves untouchable. Even among that crowd, there was a Nidoking that looked bigger than the average one that had some kind of cut right above his left eye. Around his neck was a glowing gold orb that even Ash could feel a power he had never felt before, which was saying something considering all the weird powers he was meeting over the course of his journey so far.
"What is that Nidoking wearing?"
Ash found an answer to his whisper when he heard Sabrina say, "It's a Life Orb, an item that gives power to all moves at the price of sapping a small piece of energy from the user, I've only seen that rare item once, but they're usually purple, not gold."
'It must be some kind of treasure!' Jigglypuff happily yelped before Riolu and Ash shushed the pink puffball.
Yet, Ash noticed that the presence of the large Nidoking made everyone else seem to cower in fear. These few actions gave the teen a bad feeling rising from his stomach.
The Nidoking stepped forward. 'People of Mount Moon!' He cried out with a voice that echoed through the area with such force there were some vibrations felt by those close to him. 'Today we celebrate freedom from the previous King's tyranny!'
No one cheered at all.
"Well this is something I never expected," Everyone glanced towards Sabrina as she said this. "A hostile take over. I've heard some worse off Regions have more criminals in charge of government but who would have thought Pokemon could have political coups as well?"
The Nidoking went on. "To ensure my reign, we shall now begin the execution of the prince!"
"Execution?" Ash repeated. It wasn't because he didn't know the word, it's just he wasn't expecting to see a real one outside of the many television dramas he and his mom watched along with her new boyfriend.
Everyone watched as they saw a male Nidoran be dragged out in a metallic rope by one of the tougher and meaner looking Pokémon. He seemed to be gaged as well as he angrily glared over to the much bigger Nidoking.
'His execution shall be to be tossed off the mountain!' The Nidoking cried as only his warriors seemed to concur out in joy.
Sabrina noticed the opening just behind the Nidoking. Indeed, there was a cliffside that seemed to have a large drop that would hurt anyone that didn't have the ability of flight. Still what did this have to do with all the Clefairy stealing their goods? Speaking off them, Sabrina spotted the Clefairy not too far from the Nidoking commanding this large group of Pokémon were they stealing their gear for them?
"We should wait until those Clefairy are separated before striking." Sabrina knew that attacking them with this many Pokémon would be hard for even her. Not to mention there was something off about that Nidoking that she didn't quite understand.
Yet there was something else that bothered her: Ash made no attempt to respond to her.
She looked to where the boy was—or as she soon found out, where he no longer was. It wasn't just him, both Riolu and the Jigglypuff had vanished near her. The Psychic soon found herself furious at both Ash for trying to naively play hero in this, and herself for not realizing the boy was naive enough to play hero at this situation!
The psychic user then noticed Ash and the two Pokémon sneaking their way towards the cliffside. As The Nidoking and his loyal followers pushed the male Nidoran closer towards his doom.
"If he didn't steal my powers somehow, I swear!" Sabrina snapped as she felt the need to stand up.
Meanwhile, Ash, Riolu, and their new companion were stalking through the stalagmites as if they were embodying all spy movies he had seen before, slowly making their way towards the son of the previous 'tyrant' albeit a bit over the top with how the boy and the two creatures were trying hugging each rock a little too hard.
'And with this!' The scarred Nidoking roared as he pushed forward, imposing over the smaller creature from his evolutionary line even though he was still a few feet away. 'Is the end of my brother's legacy!'
An Arbok then whipped it's tail to smack the bonded poison type off the cliff. However, to the surprise of everyone, the Nidoran was found floating mid air.
'Wow friend!' The Jigglypuff was holding Ash's leg as he saw him use his powers to keep the poison type mid air and safe. 'You have powers!'
Riolu noticed Nidoking and his devout followers looking around as they saw the floating Nidoran. 'Alright, Ash, what's our next move?'
The confident and brave face on Ash's face turned into one of realization. "Oh shoot. I didn't think that far ahead."
A Loudred serving under Nidoking's guard turned and pointed over to the rocks Ash and the two Pokémon were hiding behind. 'There! They are interfering with the execution!'
It did not take long for the Nidoking to turn with a look straight out of a demon from hell towards those interfering with his execution.
"Well there's always the running plan!" Ash didn't hesitate to yank the Nidoran towards him and caught the little purple Pokémon in his arms. No sooner than they got him, Ash and the other two bolted from where they were.
Instead of being baffled at the appearance of strangers, the Nidoking made the move that was detrimental to that of the travelers.
'CAPTURE THEM!' Nidoking roared before inhaling. There was a gleam from the golden life orb the evolved poison type was holding before he unleashed a powerful Blizzard right for the trio.
However, a large amount of rocks were thrown to intercept the attack and prevent Ash and the smaller creatures from being frozen solid by the rather powerful attack.
Ash and the others looked back and then realized who among them could pull of such a move. "Sabrina!"
The older psychic user had a look on her face that was worse than the Nidoking. "You will be punished for doing this later on."
Ash swallowed his spit as his imagination seemed to be coming up with many worst case scenarios that he knew were weaker than what she had actually planned.
Sabrina turned sharply as she threw her hand out to erect a barrier of psychic energy. No sooner than she did this, the walls rocks collapsed and out of the smoke, the Nidoking strode forward with obvious anger in his eyes.
'Uuuhh!' Riolu quickly grabbed his head. It seemed like there was a spike of energy coming from he Nidoking that didn't seem natural.
'Give me the child!' Nidoking barked as electricity actually started to dance around his hands.
Sabrina's eyes started to glow as she too felt a massive spike of power she was not expecting from one random Pokémon. She mustered another barrier as a large wave of electricity was shot at her and the others. She wasn't expecting such a powerful electrical attack to hammer her forcefield with enough power to cause it to crack and shatter as the attack finished.
"What the hell?" Sabrina gasped at the sheer power she was witnessing. Her eyes widened as Nidoking's maw started trembling with smoke and bright orange light starting to erupt form inside.
Ash saw this as well and with how even Sabrina seemed overpowered, he quickly yelled, "Sabrina! We need to go!"
His plan was solid, but it came too late. Nidoking launched the biggest Fire Blast the two trainers had ever seen right for them.
For one second, Ash felt something off. It took his brain a quarter of a second later to realize that Sabrina had lifted him up and pushed him away just before she tried to bring up another barrier to hold the attack.
"Sabrina!" Ash yelled out as he started falling through a stalagmite, knocking it over and making it a makeshift sled that started carrying the human and the three tiny Pokémon down a slope away from the attack.
The older psychic, as she felt her barrier cracking under the sheer force of the flames, sighed. "That boy and his bleeding heart!"
The fires exploded, causing a shockwave that blew Sabrina away and made her slam into the wall.
The Nidoking let loose a mighty roar when he realized the Nidoran escaped. He pointed to where the younger kids escaped and looked back to his henchmen. 'Find him you fools! He can't get away!'
However, as they passed by the unconscious human, they had found that the four had already disappeared.
'… They're going the other way.' Riolu turned back towards Ash and Jigglypuff as they removed the bindings on the Nidoran.
'You have my thanks, peasants!' Despite the tone in how he called them peasants, the Nidoran seemed rather grateful at the rescue.
Yet that was a point where Ash had to ignore in favor of looking to Riolu. "You said that Sabrina is still alright?"
'I still sense her, but she's moved somewhere where there's some kind of strange interference in the air. I mean it's not the same as the feather, but it's kinda annoying how I know my kind can sense energy easily, but here I am feeling a completely alien form of energy almost every other day.' The little fighter huffed and folded his arms, obviously disliking how the proud abilities of his species seemed to be reduced to more of a hindrance as he was met with another strange set of circumstances that impaired them somehow.
"Man I really messed up." That was an understatement if one could say. The boy had foolishly tried to stop an execution without much thought, earned the attention and wrath of a very powerful Nidoking, and had lost Sabrina who was definitely more powerful than him, and all of that was his fault to boot!
Fighting back more bad feelings, Ash looked back to Nidoran. "What exactly was that all about?"
The look on Nidoran's face darkened as he moved his head down. "My uncle… he did something..."
And then he began to tell his tale.
To understand my tale, you must understand the tale of the Moonlight Kingdom.
Long ago, before the humans first learned to travel towards the base of this mountain, there was a Nidoking, leading his tribe through this mountain. The first tribe was hungry, weak, and tired. Long have our people forgotten where we came from, all we knew was that we had to leave wherever we had come from, we had to leave even though the group was not fit for travel.
It was on this mountain, that my ancestor choose to stay for the night. However, at the dead of night, the clouds parted and my ancestor could see the moon closer than he ever could in his life, and the light of the moon seemed to shine on a special treasure that was later called The Orb of the Moon. Inspired and empowered, the first Nidoking had decided to set up a new home within the mountain and used the orb to ensure his people would flourish.
Ever since then, the descendants of the king had led the kingdom as they saw fit, each passing the orb to the next king. The problem appeared when some months ago, something fell from the moon and landed somewhere not to far from our kingdom, my Uncle claimed to investigate first, but when he came back he was so much different and overthrew my father. I could not believe that he was jealous of my father the entire time.
Excuse me, human? What was that about a, "The Pyroar King?"
? … Very well, I will continue. He had stolen the orb meant for the betterment of the kingdom, and corrupted it somehow. It was no longer purple, but now it was this bizarre and eerie gold color. I believe those strange pink outsiders were the ones who caused all this. Somehow, they were the ones that enabled my uncle to overthrow my father and there must be a way to defeat him and save my father's kingdom!
"Peasants!" That peasants thing was going to have to change. 'As king, you must assist me in usurping my uncle! He must pay for killing him!' Everyone could hear the anger and fury in the small poison type's voice.
'No friend!' Jigglypuff spoke up. 'To kill your uncle would only make you the same as him! You have to usurp him and let him live!'
'He killed my father!' The Nidoran cried out in a voice full of rage… that was followed soon after by tears falling down his face and him gasping and hiccuping. 'He… he just… he just…'
Anger and shock could only last so long. It seemed like, with how Nidoran was struggling greatly to clean up his tears, they wouldn't stop. The weren't tears of anger, they were the tears of a child who dearly loved his father.
This struck a cord with Ash as he to lost his dad, but he never really knew him in the first place...
Riolu suddenly winced. 'I think someone heard us! There's a group heading this way!'
Ash quickly turned back to Nidoran. "Your Majesty, we need to go!"
Nidoran sniffed before forcing a nod and the four once more ran away back into the forrest.
After Ash and his friends escaped a safe distance away, the trainer started to think. "Your Majesty, you said that your Uncle only started this because of a comet crashing nearby your kingdom right? Can you direct us over there?"
'Why would we go there?'
If Ash remembered correctly, there was an interesting entry about those particular pink Pokémon. "I have a theory that the Clefairy we met before saving you might be involved with all of this, but when I met them they didn't seem that all malicious. We need to go where your uncle met them and find out what he did to become super powerful."
He obviously had more to say, but with limited options, they all made their way. As Nidoran led them all towards their destination, Riolu suddenly jumped in surprise and told everyone to slow down and follow him towards higher ground.
Curious, but knowing that Riolu had the scanning ability, the other three followed the fighting type high.
No one knew what they were expecting when they would come to that point, though among what was running on their heads, a crashed UFO was not one of them. It was a flying saucer with a huge, gaping hole on one of the sides and scattered, weird looking machinery all around the crater in dug in to.
All around, Clefairy were sadly moving around while there looked to be other, tougher looking Pokémon standing around the edge and watching them.
'Hey wait a second, those surrounding the Clefairy,' Nidoran stepped forward to look better. 'Those are my uncle's men that he brought with when the crash first happened.'
"They're corralling them." The young man noticed. "Either that or they're prisoners of some kind."
It was then the boy felt a palm from Riolu. 'Ash, over there! It's the Clefairy that put us to sleep!' Ash followed the point towards a rather defiant looking Clefairy glaring angrily at the other bigger Pokémon watching his species. He was carrying a box—with his bag and items!
That more than likely meant that Spearow and maybe even Sabrina's Pokémon were there. If they had their help, things might turn around and they could all beat that Nidoking…
"If that's true, we need to get down there somehow. But the place is full of Nidoking's men and Clefairy. How would we get past them?"
To the surprise of all, Jigglypuff jumped ahead. 'Don't worry friendly friends! I have an idea!'
'Should we really be letting him do this?' Nidoran asked the human as they all watched from the cliff.
"You know, I keep asking that question even though they're already doing it."
Said plan in motion was about to have first contact. As the saying goes, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
An Ekans looked towards the right and then… tilted his head. He turned his head towards a nearby Raticate. 'Hey does that Clefairy look different to you?'
'Look man, if they're pink and somewhat roundish, they're all the same to me.' The evolved normal type couldn't sound more disinterested if he tried.
Jigglypuff with leaf pointed ears and a scribbled on tail from a marker march in while being a bit bloated. It was a surprise that no one noticed that the bloated puff ball seemed to take shape of a Riolu.
So going back, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. However, it seemed if the plan was so stupid that it was dead in the first place that would mean that it could actually work.
'Don't mind me scary people!' Jigglypuff probably didn't need to talk in a muffled manner, but did so. 'I'm going back to doing enslaved people things!'
'Just keep doing free labor, Alien!' Just so we're clear: these are creatures so innocently unaware of political circumstances of human society. Let's also recall this was stated literally by the Raticate.
'Okie Dokie!' Jigglypuff and the bulge seemed to half float, half jump their way towards the inside of the broken spaceship.
Ash blinked as he saw the puffball go inside the broken flying saucer. "Man, my luck isn't just bad, it doesn't make a lot of sense either."
Being born for less than half a month or so, one would think that they couldn't wait to see what kind of unexpected twists life had in store for them. For Riolu, it feels like he got the short, or deformed end of the stick. What would getting a deformed end of the stick even mean in the first place? Is it deformed, or where all the other deformed and he got the normal one? Questions for later. Point was, the newborn fighting type was fairly sure the list of things he had seen in a lone month was already topping those who have lived 100 years.
Considering him being allowed to be eaten by a Jigglypuff and stumbling into an alien aircraft, it was hard for him to think otherwise.
Eventually, Jigglypuff did 'spit out' or opened his mouth for a slightly damp Riolu to step out.
The blue fighting type then tried to shake his body some what to remove some of the goo on him, only to have his fur fluff out when he did so. 'You know, I kinda wonder what your body is actually made off since I pretty much only felt a mouth and no stomach in there'
Jigglypuff looked at his puffball body. 'You know, I never questioned my anatomy until you pointed that out. Where is my stomach located? Or my brain for that matter? … Good question, friend!'
Riolu simply brushed it off and noticed that he and Jigglypuff were now currently in the broken space ship. 'I guess now we find Spearow or any of Sabrina's stronger Pokémon in here and storm the place against that Nidoking.'
The space ship was actually impressive… if it wasn't filled with dirt, burnt metal, and had dented walls that looked pretty bad.
Riolu and Jigglypuff started sneaking around until Riolu seemed to be distracted by something and led the puffball towards a certain area.
It seemed like a strange Clefairy-catered engine room where this large, glass like contraption was in the middle that was patched up somewhat crudely with duck tape while some of the machinery that was broken had certain human tech replaced awkwardly.
It was then that Riolu noticed the aura of the Clefairy being all alone and picking up some of Ash's tech stuff.
'There's only one of him. We can take him, Jigglypu—where are you?' The fighting type was surprised to look behind him and not spot his supposed partner and crime.
'What's wrong, friend? You seem sad.' The blue Pokémon snapped his head back to already see Jigglypuff in his poor disguise talking to the lone Clefairy.
'Of course I'm sad! That purple spiked, beast has kidnapped our leader! We can't even begin proper repairs to our ship because he's blackmailing us to make him and his army stronger. He even had us increase the power of that strange orb he brought in.'
Riolu instantly thought back to the golden Life Orb the Nidoking used. It was enhanced with alien tech?
'That's not right! We should get him back!' Jigglypuff pouted as he heard such sad things.
'How!? He has an army of those nasties surrounding us and we're not that good in a fight!'
'We can help with that!' Jigglypuff then reached for Ash's bag and picked up the Poké Ball and threw the sphere before Spearow came out.
The bird blinked before looking at the two pink creatures and the place where she was released. 'I am fairly certain Ash is behind this circumstance somehow.'
'Hello, friendly friend! We need your help to save all other of our friends from a super duper evil tyrant with alien enhanced powers!' Jigglypuff spoke to the flying type.
'And with that opening line, I am now certain Ash is involved somehow.' Spearow looked around and raised a wing. 'Riolu! Come here and explain what madness we are involved in now!'
While outside, just waiting for the two to come back out with Spearow or Sabrina's Pokémon, prince Nidoran suddenly stood up in a startled manner. 'Oh no.'
Ash, hearing the tone and seeing the sudden movement, quickly looked into the direction of where the royal poison type had just glanced. "Who is that?"
'One of my Uncle's greatest fighters, Ursaring. And he's heading towards the inside of the UFO.'
Ash started to panic. However, he had to calm down. It was obvious that Ursaring didn't know they were there, and if Riolu and Jigglypuff were still in the UFO, all they had to do was get Sabrina's Pokémon and they would stand a better chance. All they had to do was wait and not be reckless—wait, what was that cracking noise?
To the young boy's surprise, the cliff both he and Prince Nidoran were standing out was not as stable as they imagined it was. The two ended up screaming as the platform they were on dropped and started sliding down the cliffside. As they landed, Ash, who was holding on to Prince Nidoran, flew into the air and landed with a thud on the ground.
"Ow-ow-ow-ow!" Ash cried out as he felt his sore backside. However, that pain was ignored when he realized that everyone was now looking towards him and…
'Prince Nidoran!' The Ursaring cried out and pointed to Ash and the poison type, 'Seize him!'
Ash stood up and quickly moved away from a Primeape and Graveler trying to tackle him and placed Prince Nidoran down. "We need to get to the UFO!"
The Prince started to scurry as more and more of Ursaring's men raced for him. Ash and Nidoran started to make their way past the henchmen trying to swarm them. The newbie psychic was even able to use his powers to push away those trying to get to him, or for heavier target, lift and throw a metal object to hit them in their blind sides to keep running past them.
They were in the home stretch into the UFO when they both jumped back and saw Ursaring land in front of them.
'Sorry, your highness,' The Ursaring, Ash noticed, was wearing strange metal gloves that didn't look normal. He lifted them up, and they started sparking with electricity. 'It's time for your delayed execution!'
'Peasant!' Ash turned at the name and got his hand out to catch a small, thin, cylindrical device. 'Do battle with that traitor, in the name of the king!'
Ash, the thirteen year old, looked up to the six foot tall, three hundred pound creature with electro gauntlets and a wicked smile on it's face. "Yep, Emily's Uncle and Sabrina are scarier."
Ursaring roared before rushing Ash with those weapons of his. The teen, jumped back and put out his hand to push back the Ursaring. However, the large normal type was to heavy to be pushed back or bothered by the psychic wave, and just seemed angrier. Ash tried something else, grabbing a random object and having it rush fast for the head of the normal type. However, the towering bear simply smacked the fast moving metal away, making Ash's limited move set even more limited.
Ash then noticed the cylindrical stick he was thrown had a button on it and he pressed it—
Zhoom!
Ash then noticed the red laser sword that just popped out of one end. Psychic powers and a super advanced plasma blade? "You have no idea how happy you've made the sci-fi fan inside of me!" Ash elatedly screamed before using the advance weapon to slash at one of Ursargin's gauntlets.
However, his elation was stopped when Ursaring grabbed the laser part of that blade, yanked it out of a surprised ash, and broke the weapon in two.
Even for someone as cheerful as Ash, he couldn't help but frown at that. "Well that was fun while it lasted." Ash said before jumping back from Ursaring again. It seemed like he needed to use his powers again if he had any chance at beating this guy. But how? He tried before… wait. He tried using his power to overpower someone obviously stronger than him. Sabrina taught him how to use his powers to use even the small part of control…
Ash smiled as he put a hand out and used the force of his new psychic power. Ursaring didn't see the dirt fly up from below him and into his face, causing him to flinch and then move his powered up gloves near his face.
The result was a funny image of Ursaring shocking himself before fainting into the ground.
Ash couldn't believe that worked before he noticed everyone else staring around him. It was then that Prince Nidoran ran on top of the fallen Ursaring and shouted, 'Clefairy! You are no longer slaves to my uncle! Rise up, and free yourselves!'
Even though he was young, he had said that with such command that the other pink Pokémon felt invigorated enough to follow his lead, especially since they saw the leader of their wardens fall.
Soon the Clefairy did attack, infected with courage and hope to see those oppressing them could be defeated. Their numbers and determination swept the tides and made it so that even Nidoking's men were overwhelmed by the pink force.
Among the chaos, Nidoran turned to Ash. 'You have done well, Peaseant. But please, I need your help to save my people. Will you help me?'
Ash nodded, he would never turned down someone in need and he also had to save Sabrina, even if she was going to punish him later on leaving her in the first place. "Don't worry, your majesty. Your uncle won't know what hit him!"
And with that, the two went off to join in the fight to free the Clefairy.
+Author Notes+
This is part one to a mini arc of the Ash's Bizarre Misadventure Series. It's a sort of cross between the Lion King meets E.T. in Pokémon form. Just typing that out makes me feel all giddy at how this one is going to go. It should end by the next chapter, where we're going to find out a little more details on what is going on.
I hope you enjoy this story of misadventures. Have a great day!