Hi! Episode 135! Poor Ash and Lance…
Disclaimer: NO. DO NOT OWN POKEMON. Is that clear?
Destiny, Hope, etc. are mine.
Championshipping alert! *Smiles*
Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics
indicates translated pokemon speech. Yes!
Giselle = bad
Ash = good
Xaero – thank you!
Jarzard – hai… tell my network that. It’s being a real pain.
SS2 Megami-sama – aw…. Oh well, I can wait! Why can’t you just create an ff.net account? All you need is an e-mail address…
Link Masters – I didn’t mention the leader last chapter? Ah well, it will be mentioned in this one. Ash is not snapping yet, actually. Lance is closer to madness then he is in truth, although that is later on…
Aragorn the Ranger – thanks! Finally sent in my college applications! *Cheers*
Incomplete13 – not really… yet…
Mallory Cartwright – its only a day late… please, I’m a busy person and my network is usually having problems, which is why I don’t update that fast.
Dominic Wong – sure, I’d love having a CCA website, just give me the address and the credit for creating the series. As for the fanart, I’m drawing my own on pokemon tower, but really, all of the Kanto pokemon are up for grabs if you want to draw your own version of cards for them.
Psychic Sabrina – hi! I like darkness, I started off writing angst fic after all. ^-^ Well, at least its ‘Card Captor Sakura’ where you are, right, not the Nelvana dub?
*Strangles Nelvana*
Episode 135: The last badge
“HELP!” Ash screamed, as some unknown woman glomped him.
The lady looked surprised and released him. “Sorry. I thought you were my son, Travis.”
“What?”
“Well, he left a few years ago, and he has a pikachu just like you!”
“Oh.” Ash
said. “Sorry, but I’m not him.”
Just then, an armored Scyther tank drove up.
“Prepare
for trouble!”
“And make it double!”
“To protect
the world from devastation!”
“To unite all peoples within
our nation!”
“To
denounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the
stars above!”
“Jessie!”
“James!”
“Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!”
“Surrender
now or prepare to fight!”
“Meowth, that’s right!”
Ash narrowed his eyes. * So they’ve replaced Amy and Jake, first with Susan and Shawn, whom I… exterminated, and now with this team. Who is this Kamon? *
“All right
kid, the boss wants you and your pokemon, so step aside!”
“I don’t think so!” Ash said.
“Fine then! Arbok, use Poison Sting!” Jessie commanded.
“Wheezing, use Sludge!”
A spray of poison needles and gallons of sludge came pouring out of the scyther’s chest.
Ash quickly threw out a pokemon. “Eterneon, shield us with your Reflect!”
Eterneon nodded and coated them with the attack, so Team Rocket’s mechanisms failed miserably.
“Darn it! Arbok, use glare on that new pokemon!”
“Wheezing, try using Smokescreen!” A haze of smoke coated the area. At the same time, Eterneon froze.
The reflect began to fail.
“Dragonair, go! Use your Twister to blow them away!” A familiar voice yelled. There was a roar of assent and the machine flew off into the sky.
“Now use Thunderbolt!”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
LOOKS LIKE TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF AGAIN!”
*Ping*
Ash looked up and saw Lance, standing on Darkstar’s back.
“Thank you, Crystal.”
“Your welcome.” Lance said, jumping down and recalling dragonair in a flash of red light.
Luanna stared in disbelief. “You
two make a good team.”
‘Thanks, Miss.” Ash said. “But
can you tell us where the gym is?”
Luanna laughed. “I’m Luanna,
the gym leader! I’ll take you to the Kumquat gym.”
“Wow!”
“Here at the Kumquat gym, we have two on two battles.” Luanna said.
“So you use two pokemon and I use
two pokemon?”
“Precisely.” Luanna said.
“I’ll be cheering for you, Red, so you can’t lose!” Lance said.
Ash blushed. “Okay, Crystal.”
“Marowak, Alakazam, go!” Luanna said.
“All right!” Ash said. < Who wants to battle? >
< I’ll go. > Pidgey sent.
< Me too. > Butterfree added.
< Very well. > Ash pulled out their poke balls. “Pidgey, Butterfree, go!”
“Marowak, use Bonemerang! Alakazam, use Disable!”
Butterfree quickly fluttered in front of Pidgey and used Safeguard to protect them both, while Pidgey launched a Whirlwind Attack to throw Marowak out of the way. Marowak went flying.
“Alakazam, Hyper Beam!”
Ash closed his eyes. <
Pidgey, Butterfree, use Protect! > They nodded, and two identical rings of
stars protected them from the devastating normal-type.
Alakazam began recharging for another Hyper Beam.
Pidgey immediately used Faint Attack. Butterfree, on the other hand, used Sweet Scent, immobilizing Alakazam – so that when Marowak’s bone came sailing back, it hit Alakazam in the head.
“Oh no!” Luanna said. “Quick! Alakazam, use Recover!”
Alakazam nodded and did so.
Just then…
The roof of the gym blew in. Out jumped Giselle, in a black Team Rocket uniform.
“Prepare for trouble!”
“And make it double!”
“To promote the acts of devastation!”
“To suppress all peoples within our nation!”
“To renounce the evils of truth and love!”
“To extend our reach to the stars above!”
“Giselle!”
“Mitchell!”
“Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!”
“Surrender now, or prepare to fight!”
“Geodude!”
“So…” Ash said. * She has joined Team Rocket. So now it is truly war between us. Very well. How many agents are there anyways?! *
Ash pulled out three pokemon cards and released them. “Pidgeot, Scyther, Arcanine, go!”
Arcanine immediately released a flamethrower attack, enveloping them. Then, Scyther used Slash to destroy the weapon they had used to cave in the roof. Finally, Pidgeot released a Whirlwind to blow them away.
It only took 3.89 seconds.
Ash sighed. * This is truly pathetic… but I’m afraid of what Giselle might have told Team Rocket about me. I must be careful. *
Lance gave him a reassuring look.
Luanna finally picked her jaw up from the floor. “Well, I don’t really see any point in continuing this match.”
“What?”
“After seeing the way you have
battled, I am confident that you are worthy of my badge.” Luanna said. She
pulled out the Jade Star badge and handed it to him.
“Wow!” Ash said, with starry eyes.
Lance hugged him. “You rule, Red!”
“I know.”
“Modest, aren’t you?” Pika-chan asked. “Oh well. You can use the prize money to buy more food!”
“Pika-chan!” Luna scolded.
“What? I like food.”
Ash sweatdropped. * Sigh. *
They left Luanna’s gym behind and headed to a coffee shop.
“I’m worried.” Ash confided.
“What’s wrong?”
“Team Rocket knows who I am. Look at how many pairs have attacked in the past few days.” Ash said. “And who is this ‘Kamon’?”
“So you can’t compete in the Orange League?”
“I’m afraid not.” Ash said. He swallowed. “Can you take my place?”
“Of course.” Lance said. “But you might have to change your appearance to prevent Team Rocket from following you around.”
“But Giselle can follow my aura, so no matter what I do-.”
“No.” Pika-chan interjected. “There are several ways to change auras.”
“Really? Why didn’t you say so earlier!”
“Because they’re not… um… easy to talk about in public.” Pika-chan said, blushing.
Ash looked worried. * Why am I suddenly getting a bad feeling about this? *
“Kind of like chi transference.” Lance said. “There are several ways to do so. They include, but are not limited to, me blocking your aura with mine, us meshing our auras together, or you changing yours.”
Ash was just wondering what was so bad when Luna piped up.
“Don’t do the meshing aura, because that involves you two-!”
Lance clapped a hand over Luna’s mouth.
“Being together!” Pika-chan chirped happily.
Ash blushed bright red as he
realized what Pika-chan was trying to say. “Pika-chan!?”
Lance looked down. “Hentai.”
She muttered, swatting Luna.
Luna pouted.
Sabrina popped out and gave them both deprecating looks. < Amateur baka guardians. >
“Hey! I resent that!”
“Me too!”
< You could be more delicate? >
“That’s your job!” Pika-chan said, reiterating an earlier point. Sabrina shrugged as she shook out her glowing red wings and sat down on a convenient boulder.
“Okay, I’ll just change my aura.” Ash said. * Ugh… Pika-chan… you didn’t have to say that! *
“Don’t listen to her.” Sabrina said.
“Could have told me sooner…” Ash sighed.
“Now that involves a ceremony…” Lance began.
End Episode 135! Poor Ash! *Sighs*
Flames will be used to forge Watery, who will flood Nelvana’s HQ!
*Brandishes scythe* Nelvana must die!
Anyways… POLL! Who likes ‘Rocket Child’ that I just put up?