THE POKENINJA, ADVENTURES OF THE MAELSTROM POKEMON

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Chapter 11: A Shocking Encounter

It had been several days since Ash and the gang left Castelia city after his victory Burgh and acquiring the Insect Badge. Along the way, the gang reunited with Bianca who decided to join them on their journey to Nimbasa city for the next gym battle. Naruto had to use Substitute to avoid getting glomped by Bianca when she saw him again much to Kurama's amusement.

After a bit of traveling along the road, the gang decided to stop on top of a hill for a while and have lunch before continuing on.

"That was good as always Cilan, I'm completely stuffed," said Ash, having eaten to his fill.

"I agree with Ash, the food was delicious as always, especially the ramen," said Naruto smiling happily at having eaten his favorite food.

"Indeed that was a gourmet meal, I rate it five stars," said Bianca.

"Even thought it was a hard work, it was worth it," said Cilan.

"Although I don't why a Pokémon like Tokala is eating ramen?"

"Let's just say that I'm a Pokémon with exquisite tastes," said Naruto with his chest puffed out.

"Excuse me to say that it was the only food you could afford, that's why you got hooked on it," said Kurama, making Naruto deflate.

"Well if you thought that was good, then get ready for the gourmet dessert," said Iris, she went behind them and came back later with a tray full of apples much to Bianca's surprise.

"Fruit? Like from a tree?" Said Bianca skeptically "I'm sorry but that's not dessert, dessert is something covered with whipped cream and filled sweet chocolate," Bianca spoke with a look of longing.

"I don't know about you, but I believe naturals is where it's at," said Iris.

One of Ash's Pokéballs opened up to reveal Oshawott who walked over to Iris to pick up an apple and take a bit out of it.

"Well I rate these apples five stars myself," Oshawott nodded in approval much to Iris' joy.

"You see? I told ya," Iris picked up an apple and tossed it over to Axew "Here Axew, catch!"

"Thanks Iris," Axew reach out to catch the apple, but it bounced off his nose and rolled down the hill "Wait come back!" Axew ran after the apple.

"I'm sorry about that Axew!" said Iris.

"I'll go and make sure that he doesn't get himself into trouble," Naruto got and went after the young Pokémon with Iris and the others soon following behind.

"Wait please slow down!" Axew was still running after the apple which had caught the attention of a Pokémon who was sitting on the branches of tree.

When the apple finally hit the bottom of the hill and stopped rolling, the Pokémon glided down to the apple and picked it up. It was about to eat it when a voice called out from behind.

"Excuse me, but that apple happens to belong to a friend of mine," it turned around to look at an Axew and a Pokémon it had never seen before.

As Naruto looked at the Pokémon, he noticed that it closely resembled a flying squirrel with yellow cheek patches, it has wing like flaps connected to its three-fingered arms and a black tail which was in a jagged shape.

"I've never seen a Pokémon like this before, I'd better wait for Ash to show up and scan it with his Pokédex in order to get some info," thought Naruto.

Sure enough, Ash and the others had caught up with him and also saw the Pokémon.

"Whoa, what kind of Pokémon is that?" Ash brought out his Pokédex to scan.

[Emolga, the Sky Squirrel Pokémon. Emolga lives in the trees and uses its cape-like membrane to glide through the air.]

Emolga looked at them before setting her eyes on Iris who was still holding the tray of apples.

"Hmm, if I can guess, that girl is Axew's trainer. If I were to be nice to Axew, then she might allow me to eat some of those apples," Emolga smirked deviously which no one noticed except Naruto.

"That Emolga is up to something, I'd better keep an eye on her," thought Naruto.

"Here you go, I was just about to give it back to you," Emolga handed the apple over to Axew and petted his head with her tail.

"Thanks, that's very nice of you," Axew smiled at the kind gesture, Naruto couldn't help but smile as well.

"That's very nice, here have one," Iris held out the tray for Emolga to pick out an apple. Emolga was happily about to take one when Naruto sensed someone coming.

"And here she comes," thought Naruto as Bianca swooped in and grabbed Emolga into a bear hug much to her agony and displeasure.

"Ooooohh, you're soooo cute! From now on you're my Pokémon!" Naruto and everyone else sweatdropped at her proclamation.

"Jeez talk about ownership rights," said Kurama, Naruto chose not to respond to the fox.

"No way, I'm nobody's Pokémon!" Emolga struggled to get out of Bianca's grip.

"You may say that, but I don't think Emolga agrees with you," said Naruto.

"Besides you would have to battle in order to catch it," said Iris, Pikachu nodded in agreement.

"Okay, if that's the way it's going to be," Bianca placed Emolga on the ground and took out a Pokéball "Minccino, let's go!" then threw it to call out her Pokémon.

"Now that the stage is all set, Minccino use Doubleslap!" said Bianca, Minccino swung its glowing tail at Emolga who dodged the attacks frantically. "Now use Hyper voice!" Minccino let lose a powerful scream at Emolga who had to cover her ears from the attack, keeping her in one spot.

"Now just stay right there, Minccino use Tickle!" Minccino was about to perform its attack when Emolga released lightning from her body, hitting Minccino as well as everybody else.

"Emolga is using Discharge!" said Cilan.

"I know it may not compare to the Chidori, but it still smarts!" said Naruto, whose fur was bristled from the shock. Bianca slowly got up while covered in soot from the attack.

"I'm not letting you get away! Minccino use Attract!" Minccino launched heart shaped projectile at Emolga who surprised everyone by launching the same attack which overpowered Minccino's attack and kept on going.

"Was that Attract?" asked Iris.

"I'm guessing that Emolga can use it too and since she's female, it's guaranteed to work on Minccino," said Naruto. The attack hit Minccino, who started to ogle at Emolga with hearts on his eyes, forcing Bianca to call it back to its Pokéball. Emolga used this opportunity to fly away from them.

"Wait, come back!" Bianca ran after Emolga with Axew close behind while holding a pair of apples.

"Axew wait!" said Iris, running after them as well.

"Come on guys, we've got to go after them in case anything happens," said Naruto who took off after them with Ash and Cilan following him. Soon they caught up with Bianca and Axew who were looking around for Emolga.

"I can't seem to find that little cutie anywhere," said Bianca "But I'll definitely catch her," then she ran further into the forest.

"I hope to find Emolga, I want to give her a present," said Axew.

"What do you mean by that?" asked Iris.

"It seems to me that Axew wants to Emolga an apple for being so nice to him," said Cilan.

"That's right," said Axew happily.

"Then we'll both look together," said Iris, Axew happily jumped into her before they started leaping through the trees.

"I'm coming along too," Naruto went after them, leaving Ash and Cilan behind.

After gliding for a while, Emolga finally landed on the branch of an apple before looking around and was relieved that she wasn't being followed.

"I've finally lost them, but I was so close to getting those apples if it weren't for that girl and her Minccino," Emolga started to pluck apples from the tree and eat them out of frustration but paused when her mind wandered to the Pokémon that she saw before running off. "I've never seen a Pokémon like him before, he looks just like a Ninetails and his tails looks so cuddly," she shook her head to clear her thoughts and resumed eating.

Meanwhile, Iris, Axew and Naruto were still looking for the sky squirrel Pokémon, Naruto was using his senses to try and locate the Pokémon while Iris was searching through the forest.

"Where could Emolga be, she couldn't have gone that far," said Iris.

"Well according to the Pokédex, we should check the treetops since Emolga are known to live in the trees," said Naruto.

As they continued looking, something fell from above and they looked to see that it was an apple core. Axew drew their attention by pointing upwards, Naruto and Iris looked up to see Emolga relaxing on a tree branch.

"It's Emolga, we finally found her!" said Iris, Emolga turned to see them.

"I found you! This is for you!" Axew climbed out of Iris' hair and threw apple at Emolga for her to catch much to her confusion.

"Why are you giving me an apple?" asked Emolga.

"Axew wanted to give it to you, it seems like he really like you," said Naruto.

"Hmm, maybe if I were extra nice to Axew, she might give me more apples. I still have a chance," thought Emolga before smiling at them and was about to eat it when they heard loud voice.

"Here we go again," said Kurama with an annoyed sigh.

"I found you!" Bianca came running towards them.

"Oh no, not her again!" Emolga grimaced at the sight of her again.

"Minccino, come out and use Doubleslap!" Bianca called out her Pokémon again who then proceeded to attack Emolga. She tried to dodge several times but Minccino knocked the apple off her hands which annoyed her to launch an orb of electricity, shocking Minccino and sent it flying into Bianca's arms.

"Was that Volt switch?" said Iris.

"Hah, there's no way that you're going to catch me!" Emolga jumped down from the tree and stomped on Bianca's head before gliding away with a smirk on her face.

"Wait come back!" Axew jumped from Iris' hair and ran after Emolga into the bushes.

"Axew wait! Don't run off like that!" Iris and Naruto ran after them to make sure that they don't get into any trouble. They exited from the bushes to see Axew jump and grab onto Emolga's legs as they flew right off a cliff.

"Hold on, I coming to get you guys!" Iris jumped after the Pokémon to grab them and landed on a ledge, but their combined weight was too much and it broke, sending them sliding into the deep forest below. Naruto quickly jumped off the cliff and ran down the wall while following the trail until he found them as they were getting up from their descent.

"Are you guys okay?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah we're fine but where are we?" said Iris looking around the forest, soon they started hearing sounds.

"I don't know where we are but all I know is that we're not alone and the sources of those sounds are not friendly," Naruto looked around as he saw white glowing eyes which belonged to Pokémon he hadn't seen before, they closely resembled bats in his eyes. "Which Pokémon are they?"

"They're Swoobat, and it looks like we've trespassed into their nest," said Iris fearfully.

"Which explains why they're so angry, they think that we're intruding their territory," said Naruto, taking a fighting stance. The Swoobat unleashed a high pitch sound which forced Naruto and Iris to cover their eyes out of pain, this almost lead to Emolga using Discharge to shock everyone around her, causing the Swoobat to fall to the ground while stunned.

"Quick let's get out of here!" Emolga pointed in a direction for the others to follow.

"Okay, we're going," Iris and Naruto recovered from the shock and started running away from the Swoobat. After building a distance between them did Naruto and Iris finally stop to rest. "Thanks for the help, but none of this would have happened if you hadn't gotten us into it in the first place"

"It's not like I intended it," Emolga shrugged her shoulders.

"Hey look over there," Axew pointed out to a nearby lake.

"We can rest over there," they walked over used the water to clean the dirt off, although Axew ended up splashing water on Emolga. She was tempted to give Axew a shock with Naruto watching nearby. Emolga decided to wave it off by firing a green sphere into the water.

"Wow, that was so cool," Axew said with stars in his eyes.

"I have to admit it's an interesting attack, what's it called?" asked Naruto.

"It called Hidden power, it's a unique attack which varies in type based on the Pokémon using it," said Iris.

"So other words, other Pokémon using the same move will have different effects, these Pokémon are truly something to learn about Kit, their potential is great and it makes me wonder how the Legendaries would be," said Kurama while deep in thought.

"We'll just have to meet one in order to find out," thought Naruto, he turned his attention back to the others.

"Naruto can also do cool things too, I've never seen anyone else do stuff like he does," said Axew happily which caught Emolga's interest.

"Thanks for the compliment Axew," said Naruto using one of his tails to pet Axew's head much to his delight.

"Really, how you show us one of your abilities?" said Emolga.

"Okay then," Naruto walked to the edge of the lake and then channeled chakra to his feet, he took a few steps and soon was standing on top of the water in the middle of the lake. Iris and Emolga were stunned while Axew was cheering for Naruto who gave them a foxy grin.

"That is so cool Naruto! Can I have a ride on your back?" asked Axew excitedly.

"Of course, hop on," Naruto walked back to the shore and Axew jumped onto his back, then he started to walk on the lake and they could see the water Pokémon underneath them. Emolga watched them for a while before gliding over and landing on Naruto's back. "What's the matter?"

"I thought what you and Axew were doing looked like fun, so I wanted to try it out," said Emolga looking away from him while Axew was happy at having Emolga join them. After running on the water for a while, Naruto stopped and started looking around before running back to the shore.

"Naruto, what's the matter?" asked Emolga.

"They're back again," said Naruto, no sooner he said that, than the Swoobat appeared from the trees.

"Oh no, it's the Swoobat again!" said Iris.

The Swoobat charged at them, but Emolga used Discharge to shock them however more of the Swoobat were still flying towards them.

"We have to get out of here!" Iris ran off with Emolga and Naruto close behind. Soon they were forced to hide from them behind a boulder near a cliff wall. "I'd never thought that they would follow us this far, it's best that we wait for them to leave,"

"Yeah, it's not like we have many options," Emolga shrugged her shoulders and Axew mimicked her, Naruto and Iris chuckled softly while Emolga simply smiled at them. "They're really fun to hang out with,"

They waited and waited, but still the Swoobat didn't leave much to their ire.

"They are really persistent, I'll give them that," said Naruto.

"More like stubborn," said Emolga.

The Swoobat gathered together and started releasing high pitched sounds which forced Naruto and the others out into the open. The Swoobat launched Charge beam at them but they quickly dodged the attack.

"We're gonna have to fight back, Iris call out your Pokémon!" said Naruto, taking a battle stance.

"I can't, he doesn't listen to me!" said Iris looking depressed.

"We'll deal with this later until then," Naruto turned to Emolga "It's just you and me against them,"

"Got it!" Emolga launched Hidden power at the Swoobat, knocking them back, then she used Attract at them.

"Emolga wait, you'll hit Naruto too!" Iris shouted out, but Naruto used Substitute to avoid the attack while several of the Swoobat were affected with the others not being swayed. "I guess some of the Swoobat are females,"

"Emolga watch out!" some of the Swoobat flew at Emolga who immediately used Discharge to hit everyone. "This is the third time that I'm getting shocked today!" this also knocked the male Swoobat out of the effects of the Attract.

"There are too many of them!" said Emolga, one of the Swoobat came from behind and launched a Charge beam, but Naruto had already seen it and quickly grabbed Emolga with his tails and jumped out of the way. "Wow, his tails are so soft," she cuddled the tails unconsciously.

"Are you okay?" asked Naruto worriedly.

"Y-yeah I'm fine," Emolga turned away from him trying to hide the pink tinge on her face much to his confusion while Kurama was laughing in his mindscape.

"Kit just got another one, I can't wait to see what will happen between the three of them," thought Kurama with glee.

"What are we going to do Naruto?" asked Iris looking the Swoobat as they approached.

"We'll just have to take them out with quantity instead of quality!" Naruto placed Emolga on the floor much to her disappointment and focused on his chakra "Multi Shadow clone!" Several puffs of smoke appeared and faded away to reveal copies of Naruto standing amongst them.

"Alright guys, take em out!" at Naruto's command, the charged at the Swoobat and started using Extremespeed and Crush claw to attack them. "Emolga let's finish this!" Naruto and his clones used Crush claw to launch the Swoobat into the air and Emolga used Hidden power to blast them away.

"Way to go guys, you did it!" said Iris happily.

"Yeah, now let's get back to the others," Naruto led them back to Ash and the others by tracing their scent. When they met up, Naruto noticed that they were covered in dirt. "What happened to you guys?"

"Bianca was trying to find Emolga but we ended up getting chased by a Scoilepede and a Galvantula," said Ash while Bianca rubbed the back of head sheepishly.

"Makes me glad that I didn't stay behind with you guys," said Naruto.

"But why is Emolga with Iris?" asked Bianca.

"It looks to me that Emolga likes Iris and wants to be with her," said Cilan much to Bianca's surprise and disappointment.

"I would really like to be your Pokémon," said Emolga, then she took a glance at Naruto who was talking to Pikachu "And I get to be around him more often too," then Iris took out an empty Pokéball and used it to capture her.

"Yay, now we have a new friend!" Axew jumped around happily with Naruto and the others looking on smiling.

"Oh well, better luck next time," said Bianca.


The next day, the group were back on the road with Iris and Axew feeling at having a new friend join them. Bianca then walked up next to her and spoke.

"Hey Iris, let's have a Pokémon battle between your Emolga and my Pignite," Before Iris could reply, Ash also spoke up.

"Me too, I would like to see how she stacks up to Pikachu,"

"A battle between two electric types is an interesting recipe," said Cilan, Naruto was also interested, seeing how he battled alongside Emolga against the Swoobat.

"But I asked first, and remember that I was planning on catching Emolga first!" said Bianca.

"And I also remember that you weren't able to do so," said Naruto with a smirk.

"Okay Bianca, I'll accept your challenge," said Iris much to Bianca's excitement and Ash's disappointment.

Later on, the group went to a nearby clearing where Iris and Bianca faced off with Cilan serving as the referee.

"Okay Emolga, let's go!" Iris threw out her Pokéball to call out Emolga who did a cute pose upon appearing.

"Before you start gushing over Emolga, remember that you're having a Pokémon battle Bianca," said Naruto with a deadpanned expression.

"Oh right, Pignite come on out!" Bianca also tossed out a Pokéball to summon her own Pokémon.

"Iris has the first move, battle begin!" Cilan signaled the start of the battle.

"Emolga, use Hidden power!" said Iris, Emolga launched a green sphere of energy at Pignite and scored and scored a direct hit.

"So you're not holding back huh, Pignite use Heat crash!" said Bianca, Pignite charged at Emolga while covered in flames.

"Emolga use Attract!" Emolga launched several hear shaped projectiles at Pignite which connected and made it ogle at her.

"That's a pretty good strategy Iris, attacking mentally can be just as effective as attacking physically," said Naruto, then he turned to Emolga "Your Attract is as strong as ever,"

"Thanks Naruto," said Emolga happily.

"Whatever," Bianca called Pignite back to its Pokéball "But my next Pokémon will be Minccino!" then she threw out another Pokéball to call out Minccino. "Alright, counter Emolga's Attract with yours!" Minccino launched heart shaped projectiles at Emolga with doing the same which resulted in both attacks cancelling each other.

"Minccino must have gotten stronger to be able to cancel out Emolga's Attract with its own unlike before," said Cilan watching the battle with interest.

"Now use Tickle!" Minccino quickly dashed up to Emolga and used its tail to tickle her.

"Quick use Hidden power," said Iris, however Emolga raised a paw to form an orb made of lightning to hit Minccino and dashed away from the battlefield, then a blue beam of light shot out from Iris's pocket a faded to reveal a dark brown body with diagonal red splotches and at the end is metal blades with fins which look like they're meant for digging.

"I guess that's the Pokémon that is refusing to listen to Iris," said Kurama.

"It must be as I sense anger from it, but I'm rather curious about the move that Emolga just used," thought Naruto.

"That was Volt switch," said Cilan with a look of surprise.

"But I don't remember saying to use it," said Iris.

"Iris where's Emolga?" asked Bianca.

"She's right behind Iris," said Naruto, using one of his tails to point in a direction. Everyone turned to see Emolga laughing at them.

"That's strange, normally Volt switch sends the user back into its Pokéball and then switch another Pokémon into the battle but not this time," said Cilan.

"I guess Emolga's Volt switch is a little different from normal," said Ash.

Iris called back the Pokémon to its Pokémon before walking over to Emolga "Emolga, what the point of battling when you're just going to use Volt switch to avoid it. I hope that you'll listen to what I say since we're doing it for practice,"

Emolga looked up to Iris with puppy eyes while Naruto quickly looked away.

"Nothing can persuade you more than the puppy eyes," thought Naruto.

"You should know best since you had been using on the third Hokage to treat you to ramen when you were five years old, so you know how lethal it is," said Kurama with a smirk.

"Please stop with the tears okay?" said Iris, Naruto saw Emolga smirk when she turned away from her.

"Like I thought, she's a trickster," thought Naruto.

"It takes one to know one huh kit?" said Kurama, Naruto knew that he couldn't deny it since he's a prankster by heart.

"Alright Emolga, let's try this again and you don't have to worry since you have me on your side," Iris picked up Emolga and placed her back on the battlefield, much to Emolga's displeasure.

"Alright then Minccino use Hyper voice!" at Bianca's command, Minccino was about to launch its attacks when Emolga used Volt switch to change places again, but this time a beam shot out from Cilan's pocket to reveal Pansage who seemed to have been to sleeping. When the attack hit Pansage, it irritated it enough to retaliate with Solarbeam which knocked out Minccino in one hit.

"Minccino is unable to battle, therefore Pansage is the winner," said Cilan with a sweatdrop "But the recipe was followed as expected though,"

"That was totally unfair," Bianca whined a bit before returning Minccino to its Pokéball "But now you'll have to face my Pignite!" then she called the fire pig Pokémon back into the battlefield.

"You know Iris, I'm starting to think that Emolga doesn't want to battle," said Ash.

"He's right, Emolga seem to be doing whatever she wants," said Bianca.

"I know, but I want to continue since is a way of training for me," said Iris.

"What you mean?" asked Ash, Cilan answered for him.

"She means that a trainer must build his relationship between him and his Pokémon which will enable the Pokémon to reach its full potential,"

"That's right," Iris then turned to Emolga "So let's try this one more time, okay?" Emolga didn't look pleased.

"Do I have to?"

"Let's pick up where we left off, Pignite use Heat crash!" Pignite charged at Emolga while coated in flames.

"Emolga, use Hidden power!" however, Emolga lazily used Volt switch again and this time a beam shot out of Ash's belt to reveal Snivy this time.

"Now it's Snivy who got switched into battle," said Ash, then Iris walked up to him.

"Hey Ash since Snivy's out, can I borrow her to battle? This might make Emolga see how much fun battling can be," said Iris.

"Please say yes, it sounds like so much fun," said Bianca, Ash was about to refuse when Naruto spoke up.

"I don't think that will be the case since the Pokémon in question is not around to watch,"

They looked to see that Naruto was right as Emolga was nowhere to be found, Iris went to look for her.

"That Emolga seems to be the lazy type like that Nara friend of yours," said Kurama.

"It may seem so," thought Naruto.

"Hey Ash, why don't we have a Pokémon battle between Snivy and Pignite while we wait for Emolga," said Bianca.

"I'm all for it," Ash turned to Snivy "Hey Snivy, what do you think?"

"It's not like I have anything better to do," Snivy shrugged her shoulders, upon seeing Naruto she smiled a bit.

Back at the field, the battle was underway.

"Pignite, use Flamethrower!" said Bianca, Pignite launched a stream of flame from its mouth at Snivy.

"Snivy, use Leaf buzzsaw to cancel it out!" said Ash, Snivy jumped into the air and spun while using Leaf blade, deflecting the flames.

"Snivy is becoming more proficient with those techniques that we taught her," thought Naruto happily.

"Alright Pignite, use Flame charge!" Pignite sped towards Snivy while covered in flames.

"Snivy, use your Leaf storm counter-shield!" Snivy spun in one place and summoned the leaves around her to form a cyclone, Pignite tried to break through but was forcefully repelled by the technique.

Meanwhile Iris was still looking for Emolga and turned to see Ash and Bianca battling. "They're really having a heated battle alright, where could Emolga have gotten to?"

"You still looking for Emolga?" Iris heard a voice and turned to see Naruto standing next to her.

"Naruto, what are you doing here?" asked Iris.

"Actually, I'm a shadow clone, the boss sent me to help you find Emolga and she's up on that tree," the clone pointed upwards with one of its tails, Iris looked to see Emolga sleeping on a tree branch then the clone dispelled itself.

"Emolga why don't you come down from there?" said Iris, Emolga glanced at her and was about to go back to sleep when she heard Naruto's voice.

"Keep it up Snivy, you're doing great," said Naruto, Emolga saw Snivy smile at the words and got annoyed.

"Who is she to get Naruto's attention?" thought Emolga with puffed up cheeks, she didn't notice Snivy use Vine whip to bring her over to the others.

"Hmm, so instead of a Volt switch, we've just witnessed a Vine whip switch. It's a new recipe," said Cilan.

"That's sounded very lame Cilan," said Naruto with Kurama nodding in agreement.

"Emolga you're going to battle this time and you're not going to change my mind," said Iris.

Naruto and Snivy noticed the glint in Emolga's eye and quickly jumped away from the group right before she used Discharge to shock them and mess up their hair.

"What's with that Pokémon?" said Naruto, Snivy merely shrugged in response.

Later on, the gang had set up the table for lunch and Ash brought out his Pokémon to eat with them. Emolga had quickly eaten up her apple and started to look around.

"I wonder where Naruto is, maybe he could share his apple with me," thought Emolga, she saw Naruto sitting under a tree eating and was about to approach but scowled when she saw Snivy eating next to him. "Why is she sitting next to him? It should be me not her!" she was about to walk over to them when she noticed that the other Pokémon hadn't finished eating their apples and had a mischievous look on her face.

Naruto and Snivy were eating peacefully under the tree when they heard fighting among the Pokémon and went over find out what had happened with Ash and the others already there.

"Alright, what's going on and why are you fighting?" asked Ash.

"Someone stole our apples," said Tepig with the others nodding in affirmation, Naruto relayed the message to the rest.

"If so then who would do it?" asked Iris.

Snivy looked carefully and noticed that Emolga had a satisfied look on her face and her belly bulged out a bit. "So that's it," she then used Vine whip to lift Emolga into the air before them.

"Hold on, you mean Emolga stole their food? But how?" asked Iris.

"It makes sense actually, the Pokémon who had their food stolen were all male so Emolga must have used Attract on them and when the effects wore off, that's when the fight broke out," said Cilan.

"How can you can you prove that Emolga was the one who did it?" asked Iris, trying to defend her Pokémon.

"Aside from Pikachu and Axew who were close to you when you were eating, Emolga was the only one not complaining plus I can sense emotions and I sensed Emolga's guilt," said Naruto looking Emolga who was looking away from him.

"They wouldn't have found out if it weren't for her," thought Emolga as she glared at Snivy who stared back at her as if saying 'I've got my eye on you'.

After feeding the Pokémon this time, the group decided to take a nap. Emolga woke up and made sure that everyone was asleep before wandering off, not knowing that Axew had woken up and followed her and Snivy was watching from the top of the tree branch.

"What is she up to?" she thought.

Emolga was strolling through the forest when came across an apple tree and was about to approach it when she heard Axew appear from behind.

"Emolga, what are you doing out here?" asked Axew.

"I was just about to get some apples, I'll get you some too," Emolga used Hidden power to hit the trunk of the tree and knock down some apples.

As they went to pick them up, they heard something heavy fall to the ground and turned to see a Pokémon closely resembling a simian with red fur, white shoulder ruffs, cream colored face, toes, fingers and a fluffy tail resembling a flame.

It looked at them angrily, Axew was frightened but Emolga ignored it and kept on eating the apple before throwing the core at the Pokémon's face, angering it further.

The simian Pokémon started swinging its fists at Emolga who easily dodging the attacks all while was laughing at it.

"There's no way you can catch me," Emolga was about to run off when she noticed that Axew was still around "I can't leave Axew behind, he could get hurt,"

The Pokémon saw Axew and was about to punch him when a vine wrapped around it. Everyone turned to see Snivy who was on top of a tree, looking down on them. The Pokémon launched a Flamethrower at Snivy, but she dodged and landed in between them.

"What are you doing here?" Emolga glared at Snivy.

"Making sure that you don't get into more trouble than you already have, and you're not backing not of this fight," said Snivy. Emolga looked at the grass snake Pokémon for a moment before sighing and walking up next to her.

"Just don't get in my way," said Emolga.

"Same could be said to you," replied Snivy.

The two Pokémon get themselves ready as the simian Pokémon charged at them.

Meanwhile, Pikachu was waking the Ash and the others from their slumber.

"Ash, Naruto wake up!" said Pikachu while shaking Ash.

"Pikachu, what's the matter that you're waking us up?" asked Naruto, stretching his body as he got up.

"Axew and Emolga are gone," said Iris after looking around.

"So is Snivy, where could they have gone?" said Ash.

"Kit, I sense anger in the direction of those trees west of here," said Kurama.

"That must where they are," thought Naruto "Guys come on, they're this way!" Naruto took off with the others close behind after calling their Pokémon back to their Pokéballs.

"Take this!" Emolga shot a Hidden power orb at the rampaging Pokémon, it quickly retaliated with a Flamethrower but Snivy intercepted the attack with a Leaf blade. Both Pokémon had been switching between offense and defense when engaging the wild Pokémon.

It fired another Flamethrower which connected with Snivy which sent her colliding with Emolga and the both fell to the ground. The Pokémon approached them, ready to attack again when they heard a loud voice call out.

"Dynamic entry!" the Pokémon received a kick to the face which came from Naruto who was in his Combo mode, he turned to check on the others "Are you all alright?"

"Yeah we're fine, a bit scorched but fine," said Emolga happily which annoyed Snivy for some reason.

"That's good, you can leave the hothead to me," said Naruto as he took a fighting stance against his opponent. Ash showed up and used his Pokédex to scan.

"Who's that Pokémon?" he wondered.

[Simisear, the Ember Pokémon and the evolved form of Pansear. Simisear loves to eat sweets, which sustain the fire that burns inside its body]

"Alright buddy here's the deal, you turn around and walk away without fighting or you fight me and suffer a humiliating loss, pick one," said Naruto, Simisear took a step forward and growled at him.

"I guess that he's choosing the latter, that's a good thing as we need the workout," said Kurama with a grin which was mirrored by Naruto.

Play Music: Pokémon Black OST; Battle! Wild Pokémon

"Me too, now let's get it on!" Naruto charged at Simisear who about to use Flamethrower, but Naruto appeared before the wild Pokémon with his fist buried in its stomach as he had used Mach punch to counter then he followed up with a Mega kick to build some distance between them. Naruto dashed towards Simisear who swung its fist at him but he avoided it with a sidestep and used Close combat to inflict damage, but Simisear recovered quickly recovered and was able to punch Naruto and send him flying with a glowing red fist.

"That was a Dynamic punch and a powerful one at that," said Cilan with a look of shock.

"That Simisear must be a strong around here," said Ash.

"I hope Naruto will be okay fighting against Simisear," said Bianca looking worried.

Emolga watched the battle with feelings of guilt, "This is all my fault, if I hadn't annoyed that Simisear, none of this would have happened,"

"It may not compare to one of Baa-chan's punches but it still hurts," thought Naruto as he recovered in midair and landed on his feet.

"If he's that strong then you'll just have to match up your power with his," said Kurama.

"Got it," a red aura covered Naruto as he used Work up to increase his attack power then he charged at the simian Pokémon.

Simisear used Flamethrower to try and hit Naruto, but he kept dodging left and right until he was several feet from it. Simisear tried to use Dynamic punch again but right as it was about to make contact, Naruto evaded at the last second and used a powered up Mega kick which connected with the stomach of the wild Pokémon, causing it to hold its stomach in pain.

"Finishing up!" Naruto reared his fist back as it glowed with energy, then he swung it at Simisear's chin with Sky uppercut which sent it flying upwards and jumped after it. At the peak of his jump, Naruto spun several times before slamming into Simisear with a powerful Mega kick which sent it flying a great distance away from them.

"None of this would have happened if you had just backed off!" Naruto called after the Simisear.

End Music

As he turned, Naruto saw Ash and the others walk up to him as he reverted to his Polymorph mode.

"That was amazing Naruto, you were able take Simisear on with little trouble!" said Ash then he turned to Snivy "You were just as great Snivy,"

Snivy smiled softly at the compliment before looking at Naruto "I'm just glad that he didn't get himself too hurt from the fight with Simisear,"

"Indeed that was quite an exquisite recipe I've just witnessed," said Cilan.

"You were so cool, Naruto!" said Axew happily.

"You were also great Emolga, the way you battled was amazing," Iris said, then she saw Emolga approaching Naruto and Snivy with two apples in hand. She handed one to Snivy.

"Consider this a thank you, nothing more than that," said Emolga, Snivy looked at her for a moment before taking the apple.

"Fine, but I'm not losing to you," said Snivy.

"The same could be said for you," said Emolga, then she walked over to Naruto and held the apple out to him much to his confusion.

"Why are you giving the apple to me Emolga?" asked Naruto who was confused.

"It's my way of apologizing, if I hadn't annoyed the Simisear none of this would have happened," said Emolga with a downcast look.

Naruto grinned and took the apple with his tails "Thanks but there's no reason to be upset as I was also a troublemaker back when I was younger so I understand where you're coming from. Plus I don't want to see a sad look on a cute Pokémon like you," Emolga blushed a bit from being called cute, then he turned to Snivy "And you were just as great Snivy,"

"Thanks for the compliment," said Snivy with a smile.

"Kit knows how to compliment a girl but is not so sharp at noticing their feelings, geez how dense can this guy be?" thought Kurama before curling up to sleep.

Later the group were back on the road with Snivy and Emolga walking with them.

"It's quite interesting with how so many Pokémon having different personalities which has different effects when they're with their trainers," said Bianca.

"You're right and I find it to be a perfect challenge for me," said iris proudly, then they overheard Naruto talking to Ash.

"So Ash, got any plans for the incoming fourth gym battle?" asked Naruto, Ash was about to answer when Bianca cut in on their conversation.

"Hold on! When did you get your third gym badge?" asked Bianca.

"We won it over at the Castelia gym," Bianca was surprised when Ash showed her his badge case.

"If that's the case, I'm heading over to challenge the Castelia gym to win a badge so I'll see you guys later," said Bianca as she took off.

"We hope to see you again," said Iris.

"Okay guys, let's get going," said Naruto, and the group walked on with Snivy and Emolga at both sides and glaring at each other. "Why do I have the feeling that I'm not catching on to something?"


This is Hussbek online with another chapter, I'd like to apologize for the long wait but it's because I'm back in school so I was seriously sidetracked. Anyway I hope you'll like this chapter, I hope you read and review as always.

This is Hussbek from Ghana.

Signing out.