Episode 142! EEEK! Evil evil finals…

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Notes: <> indicates telepathy, ** indicates thoughts, italics indicates translated pokemon talking.

Lance is a boy, as Ash is a girl…

Aragorn the Ranger – thank you!

Xaero – Ash seems to suffer a lot in my fics. *muses*

Ranma – Oak kind of disgusts me for some reason.

Tjal – I see

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Tmp – Oak joined Rocket for reasons unknown. I thought Ash had no other pokemon with TR, but just in case, they returned to him.

The Pokemon Reader – flu? Poor you! *hugs* I’ll try to update soon, but I have finals

Link Masters – I liked your fic. But Lance can be pitied…

Digifan1 – ok!

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Jarzard – yes, you should update… but I’m a busy person.

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Episode 142: Destiny begins calling

“Why?” Ash asked Pika-chan, who was sitting next to her. She was still at Whitney’s house, having accepted their hospitality and offer of training.

“I don’t know.” Pika-chan answered honestly. “Unless Kamon is a mage…”

“He might be.” Luna said. She and Lance were also sitting on the bed.

“There are many dark magicians.” Lance said. “I think Pika-chan already told you. For every magician that successfully walks the path of light, many more fall to the darkness.”

“Of course, most of the time, they just squabble amongst themselves, so only a few are problematic.”

“Or they are too weak to control their powers.”

“Still.” Ash said. “Why? I can’t believe Professor Oak would sell out…but then I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, he did do illegal experiments on pokemon.”

“Hmm…” Lance said, putting a hand under his chin.

Ash sighed. She formed a ball of green scrying energy in her hands. “Show me Pallet Town.”

The ball glowed, and created a scene.

Ash gasped. It had been worse than she had imagined. There was virtually nothing left. All the buildings had been torn down, and the entire area was a mess of ashes.

“No…”

Lance quickly blasted her with Sleep Powder. Ashline glared, but soon fell asleep.

“Why did you do that?” Pika-chan asked.

“Pika-chan, she’s your Chosen. You should know. She was going hysterical.” Luna said, in a snide tone.

Pika-chan glared and sparked her cheeks.

“Not now.” Lance said, irritated. “You have better things to do than quibbling.” A sudden dark aura flared around the ice guardian. “I mean it.”

The guardians glared lightning bolts at each other, but looked away, chastened.

“That’s better.” Lance said. “I hope she has sleepless dreams tonight.” He tucked Ashline into bed and soon fell asleep himself.

Two flashes of light surrounded Ash and turned into cards, then vanished.

The next morning…

“Hey Ashline! Guess what? Pallet Town has been destroyed! It was on the news this morning! Wasn’t it horrible?” Whitney asked.

Ashline nodded. She was dry-eyed now.

“She’s entering an emotionless state.” Lance explained to Pika-chan. “It’s like this. Anger burns, but rage is cool. And she’s past the anger stage.”

“Fire and ice.” Pika-chan said thoughtfully. “The first two… but what of thunder?”

“Thunder is the madness that comes after the rage.”

Pika-chan shivered. * Then I hope it doesn’t progress that far. *

Whitney looked curious. “What’s wrong?”

“Ashline is from Pallet Town.”

Whitney gasped. “Oh! I’m so sorry!”
“It’s okay. At least I know my parents are in a better place now.” Ash said, sighing.

“Oh…”
Lance reassuringly sent her some magic energy, which her tired body absorbed eagerly.

Ashline looked a little bit better.

“I’m sorry.” Whitney repeated.

“It’s okay. There’s nothing I can do to change what already happened.” Ash confirmed. “So why dwell on the past? It’s not going to help the future.”
Whitney nodded. “Well, if you want to be left alone today, I can understand…”

“No, we can still train.”

“All right then, let’s have breakfast first.”

After a delicious meal of pancakes, sausages, and eggs, the two girls headed out to the hills to train.

Ashline closed her eyes and began to hum. What she didn’t know was that it was a form of protection. Lance recognized the tune and smiled.

“Things should be a bit easier now.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s simple, Luna. That’s the calling song. I would have thought that you would know.” Pika-chan said. * Ha! I know something she doesn’t! *

Luna growled.

Lance sweatdropped.

“Milktank, go!”

“Cubone, go!” Ash said, sending out the pokemon card.

“Interesting choice, Ash.”

Ash nodded. “All right, Cubone, use Bonemerang!”
Cubone nodded and hurled his bone at Milktank, who used Rollout to bounce the bone right off. Then, it continued rolling at Cubone.

Cubone quickly jumped over it.

“Cubone, use Growl!”

Cubone began growling, reducing Milktank’s attack power.

Milktank countered with a Tail Whip to lower Cubone’s defense.

“Cubone, use Fire Blast!”

Cubone nodded and formed a ball of fire, which he then hurled at Milktank.

“Don’t panic, Milktank, Rollout through it!”

Milktank went into ball form again and rammed into Cubone, sending it flying.

“Great!” Ash said. “Cubone, return.”

“That was pretty challenging.” Whitney said. “I didn’t know Cubone could learn Fire Blast.”

Ash shrugged. “Well, diversifying is good.”

“I know.”

“Excuse me!” Milton said, running up. “But you girls have to see this!”

Ash and Whitney followed. Soon, they came to a stream. It was chock-full of various water pokemon.

Ash gasped. * There are pokemon cards here! *

“Wow…” Whitney said, bug-eyed.

“I’m going to catch some.” Ashline said. She pulled out a pokemon card. “Weepinbell, go!”

Weepinbell popped out.

“Weepinbell, douse them with Acid and then use Sleep Powder!”

Weepinbell spat out a ton of purple acid and followed up with sleep powder, drenching all the pokemon.

Ash pulled out her wand. “Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”

There was a bright flash of light, and several cards drifted into her hands. Ash stared. * No way! How is this possible? *

< You’re broadcasting attraction waves. >

< What? >
< Pokemon cards are attracted to your aura. But that song you were humming is a spell that intensifies you aura by five hundred percent. >

< So I’m actively attracting them now? >

< Yes. > Lance concluded. < So within a few weeks, all the Johto cards should be in your hands. >

< I’m glad. >

“Let’s try one of my new water pokemon.” Ash said.

“Clefairy, you’re up!”

Ash released the pokemon (Ash) card. “Marill, go!”

The little bubble mouse chirped and wagged its tail.

“Clefairy, use Doubleslap!”

“Marill, use Bubblebeam to slow it down!” Marill nodded and quickly finished Clefairy off with two more Bubblebeams. Clefairy fell over, with swirls for eyes.

“Darn.” Whitney said, disappointed.
“You need to find some way to make Clefairy faster.” Ashline said. “I know!”

She dug a TM out of her backpack. “This is Swift.”

“You’re giving it to me?” Whitney asked in shock. “But I haven’t even repaid you for curing our Milktanks!”
“Don’t worry. We’re friends, right?” Ashline asked.

“Yes, but…”

The two continued to train. Soon, another pokemon card reared its head.

“AAHHHH! What’s a giant bug doing here?!”

Whitney dashed for the barn.

Ash stared. “What’s this?”

“Pineco.” Lance said. “Bug-type, but it evolves into a steel/bug type.”

“Steel?”

‘I’ll explain later. Right now, just catch it.”

“Right!” Ashline said. “Magmar, go!” Her wand appeared in a flash of white light.

Magmar growled and began using Fire Punch. Pineco really had no chance.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!”

*FLASH*

The Pineco card drifted into her hands.

Pika-chan snapped a picture, and sighed. * The road ahead is getting dangerous. Ash has to catch the cards as fast as possible… and I mean seriously this time! *

End Episode 142!

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I have a Government AP final tomorrow; ugh… it’s really hard. Well, I’m going to go study! See ya!

Poll: Who is going to be gone over the Christmas holidays, and where? *Just so I’ll know…*