Episode 29!

Authoress falls to the ground, utterly exhausted.

In a sudden poof of smoke, Ash appears. “Hey! You can’t die now! The story’s almost done!” He starts to poke her.

Pika-chan poofs in …and proceeds to shock the poor writer out of her wits.

Authoress: “Hey!” Sits bolt upright and begins writing frantically.

Pika-chan and Ash sigh in relief and lean back to watch the show. Unbeknownst to them, Authoress sticks out her tongue and crosses her eyes as soon as their backs are turned.

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon. It belongs to Nintendo, Shogakukan comics, Game Freak, 4Kids, etc. I do own Destiny, Charlotte, and Pika-chan too!

Timeline: 2 days after Episode 28

Ranma – yep, the judge is a girl. Not telling you who it is, though! Oh, and I changed chapter 4 of ‘Dragon’s Love’ to a new and different chapter. *Wink*

Tmp – Ash was the only one glowing because Moltres and Zapdos were inside his heart. The secret cards are… its explained in this part. Yes, Missingno was one of the cards and Mew is too. Destiny shows up in the Final Judgment and yes, the card will be created much later. Kirei means pretty/beautiful. No, Ash doesn’t ‘know’ the judge personally. He found out about the final judgment in episode 17, it should be up now; I forgot to put it up the first time…

Dawn the Espeon – can you handle the excitement?

The Eevee master – wow, you’ve got a lost of questions and I’ll try to answer them the best I can. Todd didn’t go to the movies. Yes, the judge is like Yue, doesn’t know that she’s the judgment maker while in her other form. Kirei = pretty or beautiful. Missingno is a secret card, it’ll be explained in this chapter. Yes, Gary disappeared because he didn’t have light in his heart. Ash will change his cards before the Johto arc, because I feel like it. If I ever get Ruby or Sapphire, I will do the Houen cards but after the Johto card arc!

MapleCharisma –This is yet another vote for pokeshippy or Ash/Sabrina? I’ll try…

Pokemon Reader – of course I’ll continue! Hehehehe.

Note: It took so long because I asked for 8 reviews and I only got 6… but as not to keep you guys in suspense any longer, I’m posting this part since I feel nice… so next time, more people should review! *Glares* I know more than 6 ppl read this!

Episode 29: Revelation of the Hidden Power

Both Ash and Gary were chasing the Mewtwo card, in their own way. Ash was riding Ponyta, and clutching his wand at the same time, while Gary was riding his Arcanine, the mirror firmly clenched in his hands. Neither was giving the other an edge.

“Grr! He’s trying to crowd you off the road! He’s playing dirty!” Pika-chan declared.

“Well…” Ash thought for a second, before chanting and focusing his chi. * Wings for Ponyta… * Instantaneously a pair of white wings grew from Ponyta’s back. “Let’s take the air then!” Ash’s magic improved as he caught more cards, and now it was quite high. He just needed more practice.

Gary noticed this and scowled. “Pidgeot, go!” He hopped onto its back and joined the hunt, muttering angrily under his breath.

Ash was getting seriously annoyed. He released Sunny and pointed at Gary. “Sunny, Thunderbolt!”

“Pidgeot, fight back with Whirlwind! Blow them out of the air!” Gary replied, not giving up without a fight.

Sunny smirked and used Thunder. The Pidgeot cawed and began trying to evade the lightning bolts. She was mostly successful, as she only got slightly singed.

“Sunny, Match Thunder.” Ash said, knowing that this was an extremely accurate attack.

Instantly, blue lightning bolts shot from all directions and hit the Pidgeot dead-on. Gary began falling.

But he wasn’t giving up either. He shone his mirror on the Scyther card and hopped onto its back, before speeding towards Ash at 60 Mph.

Ponyta panicked. What do I do?! She asked frantically. She felt a little queasy in the air.

Ash sighed, and let her back into the poke ball. He immediately began falling to earth, but Pika-chan caught him with her teeth.

“I’m going to transform.” She said, before her wings surrounded her. When they parted again, she had grown from a tiny winged Pikachu into a slender, about five feet tall creature. She was a shimmery pale gold, with long feathery white wings. She had pale rose swirls on her back where the stripes on a regular pikachu would have been, and the tips of her paws were cream-colored. Long ears, like those of an Espeon, extended from her head, tipped with ice blue fur. The tail was also tipped with blue, but she still kept her sparkling brown eyes. Her cheek pouches were red-gold.

Ash stared. Pika-chan had told him that she could regain her true from after he captured Zapdos and Moltres, but he had never guessed it would be this. Now the name ‘Eternal winged Pikachu of greatness’ really seemed fitting.

“Hop on.” Pika-chan said pleasantly. Ash climbed onto her back and they continued flying up towards Mewtwo.

Just as they got there, Mewtwo whirled around and began sending out an immensely powerful Psywave towards them. Ash clutched his head, but still managed to summon his first pokemon card.

“Moltres!” Ash gasped out, before he keeled over. Pika-chan immediately flew him down to a vacant roof and began shaking him to wake him up.

Meanwhile, up in the air, a terrific battle was going on. Moltres was pecking at Mewtwo, trying to hit him in the eyes. Meanwhile, Mewtwo was just swatting her aside like a rag doll. Moltres kept attacking, but her flames seemed to be vainly bouncing off his protective bubble.

“Oh no.” Pika-chan said. “Even with me nearby, Moltres’s power is still too weak. My presence should be boosting her energy, and it is, but alone Moltres cannot summon up enough magic to defeat Mewtwo. That means the second guardian must be around here, boosting Mewtwo’s power.”

Skymew had splashed Ash in the face with Water Gun, to try and wake him up. Now, his vest and t-shirt were absolutely soaked, but he was still out of it.

< He seems to be extremely unconscious. > Sunny said. < Normally, water is very effective in waking people up. >

Ponyta whinnied loudly to try and wake him, but her efforts were useless as well.

“Unless Mewtwo got him with Hypnosis…” Pika-chan mused. “Wait! That might explain it! But we’ve got to wake him up somehow. Check if he has any Awakenings in his pack.”

There were none. And Todd had gone off to Vermillion to visit an aunt a week ago, so he hadn’t been there to videotape.

< Wait… I have an idea. > Skymew said. < Is the fruit basket in there? >

“Yes, why?” Pika-chan asked.

< Because there are some natural fruits that can cure sleep, like Mint Berries and Metallica Fruits. > Skymew said. She extracted the basket and spoke to it for a few minutes. Finally, it produced a pale green berry.

“Here you go, Ash!” Pika-chan said, shoving it into his mouth. Ash began chewing. After a few moments, his eyes fluttered open.

“Good! You’re awake!” Pika-chan said. “Now let’s try again.” Moltres, beaten, had returned to card form. Ash looked at it sadly before picking up a different card.

“Zapdos!” Zapdos charged out and began circling Mewtwo.

Meanwhile, Gary was still riding Scyther and peering through his binoculars, trying to figure out Mewtwo’s weakness.

Alas, Zapdos’s thunder didn’t do much more damage than Moltres’s flames did. He succeeded in partially paralyzing Mewtwo, but then he was hit by Psychic, and, wracked with pain, resumed card form.

“Zapdos!” Ash cried. He hugged the card to his chest. Closing his eyes, he tried to figure out which type would be good against mewtwo.

“Scyther, Slash!” Gary yelled. Scyther danced in next to Mewtwo and managed to slice its left cheek, before being blasted into a building, with Gary on it.

“Ow!!!! My head! My head!” Gary said rubbing his head and glowering at the psychic pokemon, which was still wreaking havoc in the sky.

Ash suppressed a chuckle, even though it was a serious situation, seeing Gary get blasted into a building was tension relieving.

“Missingno.” Ash finally said, with dread. The black shadow pokemon came out and literally swallowed Mewtwo. Ash’s eyes widened to the size of saucers and he turned to Pika-chan.

“Missingno can beat Mewtwo?”

Pika-chan looked into his eyes seriously. “Missingno is one of the eight ‘secret cards’, they’re the wild cards in this deck. So yes, it can beat Mewtwo.”

“The other secret cards were…” Ash checked his pockets. “Missingno’s one, then there’s Mew, but I don’t have that one yet, Charcolt, Sapasaur, and Rainer, Pikablu, Flareth, and MQ.”

(Authoress’ notes: Do these sound familiar? Hehehe, I’m using all the fake ‘cheatable’ pokemon, well, Missingno’s real, and Mew is too, but… I remember when I was playing blue version and I tried to get these. MQ is a glitch, like Missingno. Charcolt, Sapasaur, and Rainer are respectively the 4^th stage evolutions of the Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle chains. Flareth is what you get if you talk to the girl on Celadon who asks for a drink 100 times in a row. Pikablu… I bet you guys all know this one.)

“The other secret cards are easier to get.” Pika-chan said. “But you usually can’t get them unless you unlock the keys.”

“Can you stop talking in riddles?” Ash asked.

“You can get them, but they have a will of your own. They usually come to you right before the final judgment.”

Ash sweatdropped. “O-kay…” He looked up and noticed that Mewtwo was losing to Missingno. He sighed in relief.

“Return to your true form, pokemon card!” Ash shouted. Mewtwo was captured and it floated down.

Ash smiled, vastly relieved.

He climbed back on Pika-chan’s back and the two of them floated back down to good old terra firma.

“Let’s go to the pokemon center.” Pika-chan suggested.

“Good idea.” Ash recalled his pokemon, and quickly ran to the center. Afterwards, he went to take a long, hot shower, followed by a three-hour nap. Sunny and Pika-chan, who was back in her small form, also snoozed.

After a while, they woke up. Ash headed downstairs to get dinner. He smiled and turned to Pika-chan.

“It’s finally over! Where do you guys want to eat?”

< Let’s hit the Charmeleon Café! > Sunny suggested, which the others seconded.

“Okay. But that means I’ll have to wear more formal clothes.” Ash sighed and dug through his backpack. But he had no luck, as he only had his regular t-shirts and jeans, as well as Todd’s costumes. Finally, he decided to wear the khakis from his Primeape costume, with a light blue shirt. It didn’t look too bad. He also combed his hair and put on a clean light gray sports jacket.

When they arrived, Ash ordered pokemon buffets for his pokemon and some Cinnabar Volcano burgers and chili for himself. They all enjoyed their meals, even when Pika-chan accidentally ate too much and had to discretely revert to her true form under the table.

< This food is great. > Sunny said, from where she was happily crunching fried calamari and cod filets. Butterfree was enjoying his bowl of honey pudding, while Oddish had some nice chopped greens mixed with tree bark and flower petals.

Yep! Ponyta said from her trough, filled to the brim with poke food and delicacies a horse might enjoy.

We should do this more often. Pidgey flapped her wings for emphasis. Ash quirked an eyebrow at her, but smiled.

“You’re right. It is nice.”

Meanwhile, Gary and his cheerleaders were at another restaurant. They were morosely drowning their sorrows in bowls of clam chowder.

“I can’t believe he got Mewtwo.” Gary fumed silently.

“I know.” Ruby said. She was angry that all their cheering had been wasted. Emerald and Sapphire felt the same way.

“But why? What did I do wrong?” Gary thought for a long time, but he could not form any cohesive thoughts. Finally, he got up and left the restaurant for a breath of fresh air.

Gary walked over to the pokemon department store. Maybe he could work off some of his anger in a few good pokemon battles. But when he had gotten to the top floor, he still hadn’t found any challengers. He stopped to get some drinks at the vending machine.

“I’m thirsty? Can I have a drink?” A little voice asked from beside his elbow. Gary turned and saw a little five-year old girl with hair in pigtails standing there.

“All right.” Gary said reluctantly, handing over a bottle of Fresh Water. But as soon as she had taken it, her form started to blur and reform.

Gary’s eyes widened. * It’s a pokemon card! * He thought. He quickly pulled out his mirror and his stack of cards.

The ‘girl’ re-solidified into a pokemon resembling a Flareon, only thinner, with tufts of fur at its paws and two tails. It was dark red.

“FLARETH!” It hissed, before leaping at Gary. Gary barely dodged out of the way, earning a scratch on his left cheek.

“Seaking!” Gary said, calling out the goldfish pokemon. Seaking appeared in the ground in front of him and began flopping around, spewing water everywhere. Gary’s black suit was absolutely soaked.

“Argh! Seaking, what are you doing? This suit is dry clean only! Attack the Flareth!”

Seaking tried, but Flareth booted it into the vending machine.

“Grr. Wartortle, go!” Gary said, shining the moonlight across the mirror onto the card. Wartortle immediately bashed into the Flareth, before attacking with Surf. Flareth tumbled into a lawn chair and table.

“Heh.” Gary said, shining the mirror directly towards Flareth. Flareth panicked and tried to run, but was frozen and resumed card form.

Gary picked up the card. “Well, it’s not a total loss. I’m going to change, and then I’m going back to the restaurant.”

Ash tensed, knocking over his plate of fruit. Pika-chan squealed and got out of the way.

“What did you do that for?” She hissed in a whisper.

Ash shuddered, feeling a sudden sense of coldness invade his body. With his heightened senses, he could feel the disappearance of a previously occupied sphere of energy.

“Gary just got one of the secret cards…”

“Oh no.” Pika-chan said. The mood ruined, they quickly packed up and headed back for the pokemon center.

End Episode 29!

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