Chapter 2 – Hell on Earth

Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu appeared next to the Pokémon Center in
Fuchsia City.  “Blissey, return!” Ash declared, letting the recall beam
de-materialize Blissey and suck her back into the Pokéball.  The street was
so quiet you could hear a pin drop.  The whole city seemed deserted.  “Ash,
everyone’s probably gone into the Pokémon Center bomb shelter.  They were
built in the 20th century because of increasing fear of nuclear war.” Brock
stated. “We aren’t going to find anybody around here.”  Ash nodded and the
started to walk through the abandoned streets of Fuchsia City.  Cars were
stopped dead in the middle of the road, keys still in them.  Bicycles lay on
their side with the wind spinning their wheels.  Doors were left ajar,
lights were left on in homes.  Once Team Rocket had started to attack it
seemed everybody just stopped what he or she were doing and ran to hide.  
The few left were looters.  “Lets stop at the General Store first.  We may
need some stuff.” Ash said walking into the dimly lit store.  There was no
clerk present so Ash took the items he needed and left the money behind the
counter.  Before he left took a glance at the TV to see a picture of Celadon
City almost completely leveled.  ‘Team Rocket must have used H-Bombs…Holy
shit…’ Ash thought.  What he left the store with was 50 feet of rope, 3
sleeping bags, 5 lighters, a Swiss army knife, some canned food,  40
potions, 30 super potions, 20 hyper potions, 10 max potions, 5 X-Speeds, 5
X-Defense, 5 X-Attack, 5 X-Special, 5 Scope Lenses, 5 Full Restores, 3 Max
Revives, 5 Burn Heals, 5 Ice Heals, 5 Paralyze Heals, 5 Antidotes, 5
Awakenings, 10 Revives, 5 Guard Specials,  5 X-Accuracy, 5 Dire Hit, 10
Elixirs, 10 Ethers, 5 Max Elixirs, 5 Max Ethers, 10 Max Repels, and some TM
Powders.  All in all it was around $3000.00.  His backpack was full to the
max and he called Misty and Brock over so they could share some of the stuff
with him and he didn’t have to carry every last bit of it.  “You guys know
about the rule allowing you to only carry 6 Pokémon, right?  Do you think it
counts anymore?” Ash inquired.  They all looked at each other and grinned.  
Ash pulled up his Pokédex and started entering in all the Pokémon that he
had at Prof. Oak’s lab.  Almost immediately, more Pokéballs appeared on his
belt.  Misty borrowed his Pokédex and transported the Pokémon from her gym
over to her belt and so did Brock.  Ash had left a lot of the Tauros at
Prof. Oak’s because he decided they might be helpful to his mom, Prof. Oak,
and Tracey.  Having everything set, they started towards the base.  Pikachu
was doing a lot better and was now following behind the group searching for
anything that might be trouble.  *Ash!  Someone’s following us!  They’re in
that alleyway!* Pikachu cried, his ears twitching.  Ash looked rather
surprised but took a Pokéball from his belt and threw it into the air.  “Go
Deathwing!” Ash shouted, “Use a Smokescreen to force whoever is in their
out!”  The large Charizard nodded and was about to do so when they heard a
scream from the alleyway.  “NO!  Please don’t!  I’ll come out!” a voice
called from the alleyway.  With that, a kid exited the alleyway holding a
red mountain bike.  She looked to be about 7 and her eyes were puffy from
crying.  “It’s just a kid…” Ash whispered, horrified at what a smokescreen
could to do a kid that age. “What’s your name?”

“Allison.  But everybody always calls me Ally.  My parents and I live in
Celadon City, but when there were explosions and they sent me down to
Fuchsia along Cycling Road.  They said they’d meet me here later, but they
never showed up!”

Ash grimaced remembering the broken buildings and scattered survivors from
the picture at the General Store.

“Listen Ally, we’ll do our best to help you find your parents if you come
with us.  After we do some things, we’ll head up Cycling Road, okay?”

“THANK YOU MR. KETCHUM!”

Ally ran up to Ash hugging him tightly.  Ash smiled and stated, “I didn’t
know you recognized me.”  “I did, I just was to busy worrying over my
parents to say anything.” Ally replied.  Brock moved over to Ash and
whispered into his ear, “Ash, I thought Celadon was nearly leveled.”  “Ixnay
on Eladoncay!” Ash hissed at Brock.

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   Giovanni deRocketti stood in front of 1500 rockets.  “This is it men.  We
have the world in our grasp.  Nothing can stop us I tell you, NOTHING!  Go
after the other capitals of the nations and crush any and all resistance you
encounter!  Today is our day to shine!  Kill the weak and any strong men or
women and children bring to me.  We need more workers and they should all be
helpful.  I fear that many of you will die against the U.S. army, but I have
no doubt in my mind that you will die fighting for our cause and helping to
achieve our dream.  The U.S. has sent a massive counter strike against us in
retaliation and wiped out 10 of our best fleets and some of our militaristic
vehicles.  But they aren’t the only ones to watch out for.  The World
Pokémon League has sent out the Elite Seven with weapons and their own
Pokémon.  Watch out for them and other renegade trainers.  Failure is not an
option, do you understand me!?” Giovanni declared.  “Sir, yes, sir!” the
soldiers shouted in response.

   “GO!!”

   The soldiers saluted their leader and marched out of the room with head
held high.  “I have the world in my grasp…we shall conquer!” Giovanni roared
to no one.

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   Sabrina vonDamien watched from the clouds as Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu,
and Ally walked towards the Fuchsia military base.  “Mewtwo has told me not
to interfere with this… Be careful, oh Chosen One.” She whispered.  A flash
of blue psychic energy surrounded her, and she was gone.

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   On some deserted island a figure sat in a newly built castle.  There was a
flash of light and Sabrina appeared there.  “Mewtwo, why do you stop me!
They need our help!” Sabrina cried.  Her eyes glowed full of blue, her
psychic aura expanding with her anger.  “Because young one, your feelings
for the Chosen One will get in the way.  We will help when we need to.  But
we must prepare ourselves.  Giovanni has taken over Silph Co. and now
possesses the Masterball technology.  May God have mercy on all our souls
for if the Chosen One fails, we are all doomed.

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   Our heroes had just arrived at the military base to find 20 civilians armed
with assault rifles standing outside of it.  “Halt!” the guy who was
obviously the leader yelled.  All 20 of them aimed their rifles at the
group.  “Easy guys, we’re here to help.  We escaped Goldenrod City.  My name
is Ash Ketchum.” Ash declared with his hands up.  The guy laughed and
replied, “Yea, and I’m Santa Claus!”

   “Fine, I’ll prove it.  Pikachu, Thunder Ball.”

   Pikachu nodded and started gathering electricity.  He held out his hands
and a giant ball of electricity formed in front of him.  “CHU!” Pikachu
screamed as he released into the sky.  The ball up about 100 feet before it
stopped and exploded with a brilliant flash making it look something like a
super nova.  “Holy flying fuck, you are Ash Ketchum!” the leader gasped.
“Come inside we’ll need your help.”  Just as the leader said that, another
civilian came running up, out of breath.  “Thousands of Team Rocket members
are over that hill…” the guy said collapsing from exhaustion.  “Get him
inside!” another man yelled. “Tell Janine about this!  Get these three
people some weapons and get that little girl into the basement!”  The
civilians nodded and everyone ran inside.

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   “It has begun…” Sabrina whispered.