Episode 50! The big five o!

Disclaimer: Shadow does not own pokemon. Pokemon belongs to Nintendo, Game FREAK, 4Kids, Shogakukan comics, etc. shadow owns Destiny, Charlotte, Pika-chan, Vulpix-chan, Eterneon, and some other stuff. If you want to borrow anything, e-mail me and ask, or drop a review.

Notes: Italics indicates pokemon talk, <> indicates telepathy, and ** indicates mental musings.

Timeline: 3 days later… 10 days in all… timeline repairs?

Tmp – Rockets can’t see the wings. Pika-chan and Vulpix-chan can manifest as a normal Vulpix and Pikachu, remember? Angel is the second guardian of Charlotte’s Sun card set. The judge, while Vulpix is the decision maker. Um… remember how Todd had a Kangaskhan? Teresa’s love for Ash will be an important plot device later. Remember, Ash doesn’t know!

Ranma – Hi! You can call them Chosen, or Card Masters (since they aren’t catching anymore) if it makes you feel better. I don’t like using card captors either, so I usually use Chosen. Gracias!

Silver#2 – I will, as soon as I get some more reviews!

Severus’ Potions Mistress – Hi! Well, TR won’t stand much chance against two Chosen… it’s fun putting Ash in costumes! *Bright Smile*

Eevee99 – Thanx! *Hugs Vulpix-chan* vulpix-chan: HELP! I’m being squashed!

Inami – Hmm…one thing at a time! Eriol is powerful enough to travel to Charlotte’s world, but… he’s not the one testing Ash! Someone else is… also, whoever it is, is checking on Ash’s progress, and I’d say the poor kid is already having enough trouble changing cards already. He will get more tests when he returns to his original pokéverse though! And your secret is safe. *Smile*

Episode 50: The Return of Destiny

“Muk, use Sludge Bomb!”

“Kingler, use Guillotine!”

“Fearow, use Drill Peck!”

Teresa ducked behind a tree. How had they gotten into this? They had just been riding along, when a group of punks jumped out of the nearby bushes and demanded their money. Charlotte and Ash had immediately gone for their poke balls, but a blast of Superglue had closed down that option quickly.

Now, the two were glued together and rather angry about the situation.

“Can you reach your key?” Charlotte whispered as the three aforementioned pokemon knocked out the two guardians before they had a chance to transform. Angel had gone on ahead, unfortunately.

“Maybe…” Ash said, trying to reach up to his neck. Then, he shook his head. “I think my hand is glued to my waist.”

“Great.” Charlotte muttered. “Well, I guess we’re stuck then.”

A few minutes later, the punks returned, looking very satisfied indeed. Their eyes glinted as they watched their captives try to free themselves.

“It’s no use.” The leader, Spike said. “You’re stuck there ‘till the sun explodes. There’s no way you can get out of this!”

“Oh yeah?” Charlotte asked. “You think you’re so great, don’t you? I bet we could take you on, if you hadn’t cheated!”

“Yeah!” Ash said, not knowing what she was doing, but deciding that anything was better than being glued to the forest floor.

Spike laughed hoarsely. “Quit lying, kids. Or maybe you’re not kids, I’m sure the boys would like to have some fun with you, heh, heh, heh…”

Ash winced. Whatever they were planning did not sound good at all.

Teresa stayed hidden. She didn’t want to give her position away, plus she was still taping…

When Spike moved over to stroke Charlotte’s cheek, she spat in his face. Ash did the same to one of the green-haired leering males who were trying to get a hold of him.

“Feisty, aren’t cha?” Spike asked as he wiped his face. “But you’ll have to do better than that, I’m afraid. We’re not letting you go this easily.”

Ash groaned. * Shoot, what do we do now? I wish I could transform! Stupid spells… *

Charlotte suddenly noticed something. < Ash, wait. Do you think you could reach my key? I can probably get yours. They didn’t think about that! >

< Right. > Ash said. The bikers continued to talk and laugh among themselves, now satisfied that their captives were properly restrained.

“Great idea, boss!” One said.

“Right on!” Another said.

“So, who gets first dibs?” The third wanted to know as he leered at the captives, who glared back at him with fire in their eyes.

“Me, of course.” Spike said as he walked forwards. “After all, it was my idea.” The others muttered a bit but all stepped back.

Ash waited until he was close before reaching over and grabbing Charlotte’s sun key, with his teeth, just as she grabbed his star key.

“Now!” Charlotte said. Ash nodded and they both threw their keys up into the air. “RELEASE!”

The punks stepped back, uncertain.

The waves of magic that surrounded their transformations quickly destroyed the superglue like it was butter.

Ash smirked as his staff materialized in his hands. “Pidgeot!” He called, as the beige and white wings sprouted out of his back. “Let’s Fly!” He took off into the air. Charlotte followed on her own pidgeot.

“Snorlax!” Ash called, changing the pokemon card into the Ash card. “Use Strength!” Snorlax nodded and slammed its fists into a nearby boulder, sending rock shards flying at the unfortunate thieves.

Teresa breathed a sigh of relief and continued to tape. This was good! What was even better was that Pika-chan had put a permanent protection spell over her a few days ago so she could tape in peace.

“Vaporeon, Surf!” Charlotte called. The pokemon card nodded and immediately began drowning the poor souls.

“P-please don’t kill us.” Spike begged.

“Why?” Ash asked. “You tried to kill us!”

“No! I mean, we just wanted to have a look at you guys, we wouldn’t have killed you, honest!”
“You would have, after… damaging us.” Charlotte said coldly. She turned to Ash. “It’s your choice. I would have killed them in an instant, but…”

Ash hesitated. “Do we have to?”

Charlotte shrugged and pointed to Pika-chan and Vulpix-chan, lying bruised and battered on the forest floor. “Look what they did.”
Ash ran over to Pika-chan. “Are you okay?” There was no response. Ash shook the little guardian timidly. “Pika-chan?”

Still no response.

This was enough to make Ash snap. “I can’t believe it! You hurt people and pokemon just for the fun of it!” The star in his staff shone blindingly white, as Ash poured all of his pain and frustration into it. From the shimmering strands of magic, a card shape began to take place…

Ash didn’t seem to notice. * If only I could have transformed… I could have saved her! *

Charlotte noticed what was going on and decided not to interfere. Soon, a card floated in front of Ash’s wand, almost touching it.

Ash swung his wand forwards, eyes completely blank as the magic poured into his body. “DESTINY!” The card shimmered and exploded in a veil of shimmering sparkles, covering his body. When the light cleared, Destiny stood there, golden eyes blazing angrily, armor shining in the noonday sun, razor sharp white wings poised and ready to attack.

The thugs paled. Ash didn’t even give them time to attack before two Hyper Beams and an Aeroblast took care of them by blasting them through the forest clearing easily and sending them to their deaths.

As soon as the attack was over, Ash fainted and the card’s magic wore off. It floated into his pocket. Charlotte quickly hurried over and used her own Wand of the Water Guardian to partially heal him. After awakening the guardians and having a quick discussion, they decided that he should be allowed to sleep, so his body could heal itself naturally.

Pika-chan kept watch over him as night fell…

Teresa stared. * I never knew Ash was that powerful! How is this possible? *

“How?” Pika-chan kept asking.

“What do you mean?” Vulpix-chan asked. “He’s a card master now, right? So he can create cards.”

“But this is different from what he used…”
“That’s probably cause he was just changing Clow Cards into ‘Ash cards’, instead of using raw magic to create a new card.”
“Will he be okay?” Teresa asked anxiously.

“Probably.” Charlotte said as she read his magic aura. “He won’t die, if that’s what you’re worried about. But it will take time for his magic to restore itself.”
Teresa sighed. * I wish I could do something… *

Soon, it was too dark to see. Vulpix-chan lit a fire and they dozed off next to it. However, Teresa looked at Ash for a good while before she finally fell asleep. *Ash, please be okay… *

End Episode 50! So, what do you think? The Destiny card finally appeared! Hehehehe! So, Ash is doing pretty well, ne? C&CC please! Flames will be donated to baby Charmanders that can’t light fires yet!

Note: Go read ‘Betrayal, etc.’ this is also by me, it has the prophecy of the triple guardianship, which is pretty important in later episodes of this story…

Does anyone know what ‘Wataru’ means? *Lance’s Japanese name* I couldn’t find it online…

Or ‘Ryuu no Meijin-sama?”