The ordeal
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Chapter 2. The ordeal.
The next morning, they both ate another silent breakfast, still tired from the night before. Both of them had heard the others moans from the other room late into the night, as Pikachu had wanted another round and so had Machamp. After breakfast, it felt like de ja vu as the two made their way to the door and said their goodbyes once more. Ash waved goodbye to his mum as he walked out of pallet and into route 1 with Pikachu on his shoulder to start his journey into the unknown.
As he walked he tried scanning the grass to either side of the path with his pokedex to look for a new pokemon to catch. He wasn't having any luck unfortunately. The only pokemon he had seen was a lvl 2 Pidgey that had flown away and was so weak that he hadn't bother giving chase. It had been two hours when he finally found a decent looking wild pokemon. A lone Spearow was eating seeds on the path in front of him. He scanned it with his pokedex, and found that it was a fairly high level for route 1, being level 4. Other than that it was fairly ordinary but he decided to catch it anyway. He ordered Pikachu out in front of him to start the battle, and the Spearow looked up angrily at him as it was interrupted from its meal. Its eyes focused on Pikachu. He started the battle by telling pikachu to use a thundershock. The weak electrical attack found its mark, hitting the sparrows wing as it took flight. The bird was far from done, and immediately sped towards pikachu landing a quick attack and retreating before the mouse could retaliate. The two now were facing each other and glaring at each other. But Ash noticed that the spearow seemed to be favouring its rightwing, and its left was working harder to keep it airborne. He remembered the first thundershock Pikachu had landed on its wing and decided to capitalise on that first hit by ordering another thundershock on its wing once bird managed to spin slightly to the side and dodge the attack before it again tried landing a quick attack on Pikachu. However this time Pikachu was ready, and not needing a command she nimbly leapt to the side to dodge and let out a stronger thundershock, hitting the Spearow once more on its left wing. This was too much for one wing to handle and the bird began to plummet to the ground with its wing hanging limply at its side.
As the injured Spearow hit the ground, Ash threw a Pokeball at it, and watched in anticipation as the ball clicked 3 times and stopped signifying that he had caught the Spearow. He and Pikachu jumped for joy and high fives each other before he picked up Spearow and clipped the ball to his belt. They kept walking down the path, and soon the path was joined by a small stream that began to widen the closer they got to Viridian city. They had been travelling for 5 hours and were almost within sight of Viridian when Ash noticed a huge swarm of birds fly overhead towards the other side of the river. He thought this was really strange and began to follow them, quickly throwing his pack across the river and swimming across with Pikachu. They ran after the flock of birds and Ash scanned them to find that they were all Spearow. He knew Spearow were very territorial and he wondered who or what had pissed off the entire flock like that. As he watched the flock apparently reached what they were chasing and some of the Spearow began splitting off and dive-bombing at a figure he could now make out on the ground. As he neared he saw that it was a heavily injured Squirtle! He ordered Pikachu into battle as spearow was still injured and told Pikachu to use a thundershock that split up and take out as many Spearow out in each attack as he could until they were all knocked out.
Pikachu complied and let out a powerful bolt of electricity that zigzagged across the sky and split up into multiple bolts. As the bolt hit the flock it began jumping from bird to bird and instantly knocking them out. Luckily they were all low levels with none seeming to be above level 3. Over half of the Spearow were knocked out in just that one attack, and Pikachu let out one more bolt to get rid of the rest of them. With the flock out of action Ash slowly walked over to the injured squirtle.
He was upset at how injured the poor pokemon was. Its shell was scratched and chipped from all of the attacks the spearow had landed on it. and blood was dripping out of its shell from its left and and tail holes. Its face was bruised and as Ash cradled its head in his arms it let out a weak cry. He took one of the potions he had out of his bag and started spraying it on the worst injuries. Soon the Squirtle was feeling a little better and the bleeding had stopped. It was still way too weak for him to just leave there on its own and he tried to decide what he could do to help it. He knew Squirtle were rare in the wild and so assumed that this one was a trainers that had gotten lost. So he took out his Pokedex and scanned it.
Squirtle, the Tiny Turtle Pokemon. After birth, its back swells and hardens into a shell. Powerfully sprays foam from its mouth.
Type: Water
Gender: Male
Size: 1 foot, 3 inches
Weight: 20 pounds
Level 8.
Attacks: Tackle, Tail whip, Water gun and Dragon Pulse.
Status: Wild, recently released by unknown trainer.
Ash was extremely surprised to see that not only was the squirtle a wild Pokemon, but it knew Dragon Pulse! That was an egg move, and very rare on a squirtle, it must have been bred with a powerful dragon type parent to know that move. But Ash was also angry as to why anyone would ever release one of their pokemon, especially a rare starter type with a powerful egg move like Squirtle. He looked around for the signs that there might have been a trainer nearby but couldn't see any signs of one being here. He then made a decision that he would catch this Squirtle and take it to the Pokemon centre in Viridian. Then he would release it unless it wanted to come with him on his journey. He took out a Pokeball and gently tapped it on squirtle. IT gave no resistance as it was captured and Ash felt guilty at catching such a rare and powerful pokemon while it was already injured because of something else. But he still needed to get it to a Pokemon centre so he clipped it to his belt and started hurrying back to the path that would take him to Viridian city.
As Ash made it back to the river, he threw his bag to the other side once more, but before he started to swim, he noticed that there was someone else nearby. A red Bicycle was leaning against a nearby tree and a bag was lying next to it. He also saw a seemingly abandoned fishing rod
lying next to the river. As he crossed the river he noticed that the current was a lot stronger than it had been earlier, and he wondered if someone had been here and fallen into the river to be sweet downstream. He reached the other side and started examining the abandoned camp. The pack didn't have a pokedex in it, but there were three pokeballs and some clothes. Unfortunately there was no way of knowing whose bag it was. So he picked up the rod and bag, strapping them to his back and getting on the bike he started peddling down the path looking at the river to see if someone really had fallen in.
The further he travelled the stronger the current got, and the more worried he was that someone really had fallen in and had been washed away by the current. He kept his eyes peeled on the waters surface as he rode but still couldn't spot anyone. But just as he was starting to give up he heard a familiar squawking and looked ahead to see three large birdlike shapes circling in the sky ahead of him. He rode as fast as he could towards the three circling birds and quickly scanned one of them to see what they were. According to his Pokedex they were all Fearow and over level 20 which meant that he would have a hard time beating them in a battle with just Pikachu. As he drew nearer he saw yet another figure on the ground underneath the circling birds. He finally reached the sight and saw that it was a young girl around his age with bright orange hair. She was soaking wet, and it looked like she had crawled from the river. HE realised that this was probably the trainer that had been swept down the river and that the bag and rod on his back as well as the bike he was riding were probably hers.
As he reached her, one of the Fearow started a dive bomb directly towards the girl lying on the ground. Pikachu leapt into action jumping from the bike and releasing yet another powerful electric shock that hit the bird directly in the face just before it hit the girl. IT was blasted off target, and face planted the ground right next to the unconscious girl, its drill like beak becoming impaled and getting stuck in the ground. Ash told Pikachu to go over and tackle it until it was unconscious and Pikachu did so gladly, angry that a fellow Pokemon would attack a helpless human, especially one so pretty for no good reason. After two solid blows from Pikachu's tackle the Fearow stopped moving giving Ash the opportunity to throw a Pokeball and catch the bird before the other two that were still circling could react.
Once it was caught, he quickly clipped it to his belt and set to work loading the girl onto the bike behind him so they could escape before the other two Fearow attacked. He knew they had been lucky in taking one down, but Pikachu was tired and drained now and he doubted that she would be able to take down another two strong pokemon. So he placed the girl over his knees as he mounted the bike and started peddling as fast as he could away from the two dangerous birds. As they raced down the path, the city came into sight in the distance. Ash could see it getting nearer and nearer with each passing second, but as he heard a furious squawk from behind him he was getting worried that they still might not make it in time.
His fears became reality as the bike was struck from behind by a very strong gust attack and the bike was blown off the path into a ditch on the side of the road. Ash felt blinding pain in his shoulder as he landed with the bike on top of him, hard. He felt himself falling unconscious from the pain and as his vision darkened he was sad that his journey had ended before it had even begun. And that he had failed to save the poor girl from the vicious bird pokemon. As his eyes closed for what he assumed would be the last time, a flash of bright red light appeared from somewhere nearby and he heard Pikachu yell defiantly.
Pikachu perspective.
Pikachu watched helplessly as Ash's eyes closed and he slumped unconscious under the wreckage of the mangled bike. She turned around angrily determined to save her trainer from the stupid mangy birds that were trying to kill him. She let out the last of her power in a desperate thundershock attack, and watched as it hit one of the oncoming Fearow right it its stupid face, and almost cheered when it also bit the dirt a few meters away from the wreckage. However her legs failed her as she tried turning to take out the final spearow. She was completely drained. She couldn't move anymore. She could do nothing but watch hopelessly as the last bird bore down on her defences trainer. She closed her eyes not bearing to watch Ash get impaled, but opened them again as she heard the familiar sound of a pokeball releasing a Pokemon. she tried looking around for a trainer, but couldn't move her head enough to do so. She couldn't smell or hear a trainer in the area. But what she did hear was a defiant cry of "Squritle", and then a powerful sounding blast of energy. And finally a heavy thud. After that she had fallen asleep completely exhausted.
She had woken up several hours later and found that she could move her body once more. Sitting up and shaking her head to clear it she remembered Ash, and frantically looked around for him. She finally saw him, not in the ditch with the wreckage of the bike, but a few feet away under a small gnarled tree. She smiled as she also saw the girl they had saved clutched tightly in her masters hands as the two clung to each other in their sleep. Then she looked around for their saviour. First she noticed the unconscious forms of the two asshole Fearow that had attacked them. She walked over to the closest one and furiously tackled it as hard as she could. No one attacked her trainer! No one! She then kept looking around the area for Squirtle. She wasn't sure if it was another trainers Squirtle, and the trainer had saved them or if it was the same injured Squirtle that she and Ash had found earlier. But either way she was extremely grateful that the Squirtle had saved them all.
She finally saw him, a few meters to the left of Ash. As she saw him she knew that it was indeed Ash's squirtle, and that he had somehow forced his way out of his pokeball in order to save them, while still being injured! She was amazed that he had managed to do that in his weakened state. She slowly walked over to him so as not to startle him and sat down beside him. "Thank you so much for saving Ash, I don't know what I would do without him." She said to him quietly in Poke speech. He looked over at her and then quickly looked away a blush forming on his face. She was confused by this, but waited for him to answer before she asked him about it. "It's no problem, I cant exactly let my new master die now can I. Besides, I couldn't let my cute new team mate die either." Pikachu grasped as he said that and looked over at him. He was blushing furiously again and shyly looking away. Now it was her turn to blush as he looked back at her nervously. She realised that he was a very shy Pokemon and admitting that she was cute was probably hard for him. Although she couldn't blame him, she was super cute. Acting on impulse she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed even more than before and actually shuffled further away from her after that looking at her timidly. "Wh-What was that for?" He stammered. She just smiled at him and said "Well how else was I meant to thank my cute new team mate for saving our master?" He fell over when she said that, probably fainting from embarrassment causing her to smile. She stood up and felt that enough of her energy had been restored from her sleep that she could start trying to build a shelter for Ash and the girl or try to wake them up.
She walked over to where the two were lying and gave them both a small zap to try waking them up. Unfortunately they both remained unconscious still recovering from their ordeal. So she looked up at the gathering storm clouds in the sky and sighed. It would be a long night. She looked around for something to build a shelter out of and spotted a few large looking trees that would provide more cover than the one they were under now, but nothing else that would be very useful in keeping them dry through the night. She walked back over to squirtle and shook him to get him to wake back up.
His eyes widened as he saw her and he blushed again before she said "cmon Squirtle, we need to get Ash and that girl over to one of those other trees before the storm hits."
He nodded and the two got up together and started dragging the two unconscious humans towards the relative cover of a group of larger trees further away from the path. They reached the trees, and put the two trainers up against one of the trunks, in the most sheltered looking place around. Then Squirtle had the idea of building a fire and lighting it wither Pikachu's thundershock, and she thought it was worth a shot. So the two began walking around picking up any loose sticks on the ground to build a fire with. They worked for an hour collecting sticks and building a fire, and just after they had built it together and it had finally caught fire from a thundershock the storm hit. The fire provided some comfort to the two Pokemon as the huddled next to it and as far away from the rain as possible.
As the night went on the storm didn't let up. The two Pokemon made idle conversation, and Pikachu kept teasing Squirtle about his shyness and threatening to kiss him again. He was quite a shy Pokemon, and easily embarrassed by her straight forward way of doing things. But he seemed to "come out of his shell" quite a lot as they conversed. He told her about his last trainer, a boy named Paul. He had come to Kanto from Sinnoh a few years ago and caught Squirtle and taken him away from his family. Paul thought that just because Squirtle knew dragon pulse that he would be very strong even as a level 5 pokemon. Unfortunately Squirtle had not lived up to Paul's very high expectations, and after only a few weeks of travelling with Paul, he had release Squirtle telling him that he was weak and to go find himself a weak trainer.
Pikachu was appalled at the way Paul had treated Squirtle and pulled him into a hug to try and comfort him. Squirtle was obviously scarred from his experience with Paul, and had hidden from any other trainer he saw because he thought they would just try to use him again. Pikachu felt really bad for the Poor Squirtle, and could now understand why he was such a shy Pokemon. She huddled closer to him and leaned her head on his shoulder as he kept telling her about his life. He had lived in hiding on route 1 because no other Squirtle's lived there and no one would think to look for him he had successfully avoided unwanted attention for the 3 months he had been living there since Paul had released him.
However yesterday, he had been out scavenging for food, and gone a bit further than normal. He had finally found a few oran berries and had started eating them when a Spearow had come out of no where and snatched them from him. He had gotten angry and squirted it with water getting it to drop the berries. He didn't really pay attention to it after it flew away, but after he had eaten and was heading home he had heard the same Spearow yelling at him from the distance. The Spearow's while flock had come to get revenge on him and he had run away in fright. But unfortunately couldn't make it to the river in time to escape. Thats when Ash and Pikachu had come and saved him from the Spearow's.
But he knew that there would be at least one Fearow in the pack and Ash hadn't taken it down yet. So as he was captured he had bided his time and tried to heal as fast as possible so that he could help repay Ash by defeating the Fearow when it came to attack him. And once the Fearow had attacked he had waited for the perfect time to come out of his Pokeball and surprise the Fearow with his strongest dragon was surprised at learning this and gave him another kiss on the cheek for saving Ash, this unfortunately caused Squirtle to faint once again. And so she decided to call it a night and went to sleep as close to Ash and Squirtle as possible.
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The following morning, roughly 12 hours later.
The bright morning sun filtered through the leaves of the trees they were sheltering under. The suns warmth woke Ash from his deep slumber. He opened his eyes slowly and was surprised at his surroundings, not remembering how he got here. He felt a wait against his chest and looked down to see the girl he had saved yesterday with her head on his chest and her arms wrapped around his waist sleeping peacefully. He looked around and saw Pikachu curled up just to his left with her tail tucked cutely around her body. And next to her he realised with a start was the injured Squirtle that he had saved yesterday. How did he get out of his ball he wondered. Then he wondered if Squirtle was the one that he had seen in the red flash of light right before he fell unconscious. HE decided to wait for the others to wake up to ask questions. And looked around at the rest of his surroundings. They were huddled under the trunk of a large tree with a few other trees surrounding them. The leaves were dripping water all around the ground, and the remains of a fire were a few meters away. He could see that path a few hundred meters away and could see the girls mangled bike as a twisted lump of red metal leaning against one of the other trees nearby.
He decided to get up and inspect it. So he slowly and gently removed himself from the clutches of the girl and rested her head on his backpack. Then he walked over to it and winced at the sight. It was a write off. There was no way it would ever be rideable again and it was all his fault. He sighed guiltily and turned to go back to where his pokemon and the girl were sitting. Only to find that the girls eyes were awake, wide with shock and staring at him. Her mouth was agape and she was clearly struggling to ask the hundreds of questions going through her mind. He took her silence as a chance to finally look at her properly.
She wore short blue jeans that showed off her long shapely legs, they had red suspenders that stretched over her shoulders and held her yellow vest in place. He could see the straps of a training bra underneath the suspenders that held her bra in place covering her fairly small C cup breasts. She had a very pretty face with beautiful green eyes, and she had her bright orange hair tied up in a spiky ponytail. She was really hot he realised with a start.
He was snapped out of admiring her body when she coughed. "Well, you done checking me out yet? Pervert." She snapped at him. Realising what he had been doing he raised his hands in surrender and tried to defend himself. "Uh sorry, I just hadn't got the chance to look at you properly since I saved you yesterday. Its a good thing I did though, It would be a shame for such a beautiful girl like you to drown or get killed by a bunch of lousy birds." She blushed as he called her beautiful, and looked away while she though of a snappy retort. However to her surprise she couldn't come up with one as she turned back to look at her supposed rescuer. She had to admit that he was handsome. His dark brown eyes seemed full of concern and compassion as well as mischief. And his shaggy looking black hair framed his chiseled face really well. She blushed again despite herself before managing to ask "Did you really save me? The last thing I remember I was fishing for a Squirtle in the river and then I fell in."
"Um well, I didn't see you fall into the river, and I didn't pull you out of it. But I was coming back to the path when I saw an abandoned camp and a fishing rod near the river. The current was really strong so I thought whoever was there might have fallen in. I took all of the stuff and got on the bike I found there and peddled down the river as fast as I could. I eventually found you washed up near the shore of the river unconscious. Unfortunately there were 3 vicious looking Fearow circling over you. And just as I got there they started to attack. Luckily my Pikachu managed to take one out and I caught it. Then I put you on the bike and rode to Viridian as fast as I could. But as I was riding one of the Fearow hit the bike with a gust attack and we got blown into a ditch. I fell unconscious but I think my Pikachu and Squirtle knocked out the other two Fearow, pulled us out of the ditch and brought us over here." As he finished telling the story he saw a bunch of emotions rush through her face and he worried that she wasn't going to believe him. Then much to his surprise she leant over and kissed him on the cheek. Pikachu who was watching from where she lay giggled as the girl pulled the exact same move she had on Squirtle. It looks like ill have competition when it comes to Ash she thought to herself.
Ash was shocked at the way the girl had reacted. And then realised that he still had to tell her one thing. He winced as he stepped to the side and revealed the state that her bike was in. She looked at him, and then looked back at the bike before promptly thumping him on the head with her bag and storming over to her bike to inspect it. Ash rubbed his head and the already forming lump as he went over to her to try and apologise. "I'm really sorry about your bike, I was trying to get you back to Viridian safely and had to use it to get there faster. It got wrecked when the Fearow hit it with gust and we crashed in the ditch. She turned around and looked at him. Seeing the sincerity in his eyes she decided that it was just a bike, and after all he had been trying to save her life when it was wrecked. So she stood up and pouted at him. "Well i guess it isn't really your fault. But now that I don't have a bike I cant get around quickly. And I don't want to go walking everywhere alone."
He looked at her curiously before she smiled at him and said "Looks like ill just have to stick around with you then_…. umm you still havent told me your name by the way."
"Uhh my name is Ash Ketchum and id love some company if you want to stick along. I only have a few pokemon at the moment but i'm on a journey to become a pokemon master and soon enough there'll be plenty of pokemon around to keep us company.
She looked at him then held out her hand. "Nice to meet you Ash, Im misty waterflower and Im going to be the strongest water type trainer in the whole world. Also thanks for saving my life I guess." Ash took her hand and the two shook, looking into each others eyes and silently agreeing to achieve both of their goals and help the other achieve theirs. Misty started looking around for her bag and fishing rod, finding them next to her bike and thankfully not wet from last nights storm. She looked over to Ash and watched as he gently woke up a small yellow pokemon that she assumed was his Pikachu. The pokemon happily squeaked at her trainer and jumped up to sit on his shoulder. As she looked around the remains of the fir pit her eyes landed on a small blue pokemon with a shell. She gasped and ran over to it. "Oh my god Ash your Squirtle is adorable! Iv always wanted a Squirtle, at least if I travel with you ill be able to see one at work every day." Ash looked over and smiled at the excitement she had in her eyes. "Yeah he's a pretty cute little guy, I actually only caught him yesterday, just before I found your camp actually. He was being attacked by like 40 Spearow and luckily me and Pikachu here manage to save him." He said while scratching Pikachu affectionately on his ears.
"Wow" You actually caught the Squritle of route 1. Im impressed. My sisters told me that there has been a rare and powerful Squirtle living here for the last couple of months. Thats actually the whole reason i'm here, to find and catch that squirtle. But it looks like you beat me to it" She said pouting again. Then she smiled as Squirtle woke up and looked at her in confusion before happily spraying her with water. She just looked at him and laughed, with Ash, Pikachu and Squirtle all joining in.
End of Chapter 2.
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