Episode 183! I know this is weird, I wrote it on a sugar-high… again. If the formatting doesn’t work and weird numerical stuff pops up, please go look on my web page where everything is normal!
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Nintendo owns pokemon.
Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics for the pokemon talking.
Ranma – ok! I understand
Briememory – I didn’t know about Deoxys, methinks it’s a real alien.
SS2 Megami-sama – hi! Sure, we can have Stan the talking blob…
Link Masters – yep!
Heero – yes, unfortunately it might be vaporized if it attacks…
Digifan1 – okay!
Episode 183: Randomness is very random
When the blob finally broke free from its icy prison, it began to wail an elegy. Or at least that was what it sounded like.
Charlotte flipped out a card. “Reality!”
The card immediately glowed and the blob’s language suddenly became comprehensible. Indeed, it was a lament.
“OH, woe is our country, for our prince has fallen in battle!”
And that was basically the gist of the whole thing.
“Looks like his name is Stan.”
“Really?”
“Yes, but can he say anything else?”
There were a few minutes of silence occasionally interspersed with more wailing.
“Sheesh, should we really concern ourselves with this?” Ash asked after a long caesura.
“Probably not.” Charlotte said. “Let the aliens deal with their own problems.”
“There are aliens?”
“Well, what else would that be?”
“Good point…”
“We can’t help you.” Ash finally said. “Good bye.” Without further ado, he banished the blob with a well-placed teleport ring spell and sent it away.
“Hope that wasn’t anything important…”
“I doubt it.” Charlotte said. “But since the Zangoose has just run off with your book on ice-type pokemon…”
“What?!” Ash released Rapidash, and took off after the Zangoose. A few minutes and a Dodrio attack later, Zangoose had relinquished the food and obediently accepted its fate as an ‘Ash card’. That was after Ash had fed it six boxes of cookies to pacify it.
Pika-chan was still bemoaning the loss of food. Personally, Ash wasn’t too angry, at least he had gotten a card out of the deal.
But he was sealing live pokemon to do it… sometimes…
Was that light or dark? Or was he becoming shadow like he was supposed to?
Suddenly, he didn’t have ready answers anymore.
“Ash? Ash?” Charlotte asked, snapping the trainer out of his meditative state.
“Oh, sorry Char-chan.”
“It’s okay,” Charlotte said, inclining her head. “You should take a rest, there’s a lot of stress at the moment…”
Ash nodded and succumbed to the realm of dreams.
In the dream realm, he played with his pokemon cards, and rested. He wasn’t sure how long it would be before he woke up again.
Ash raced after the fleeing Meowth, he was playing a rousing game of freeze tag with his pokemon cards, and at the moment he was ‘it’. So far, he had frozen Charmander, Azumarill, Venusaur, and the fleeing Pidgey card. But Umbreon had frozen him first.
“Gotcha!” Ash said, grabbing Meowth by the tail, before running off. Meowth closed its eyes and counted to twenty, before running after the nearest fleeing inhabitant, the Rattata card.
However, at this moment, Rattata dashed up a tree, so Meowth instead turned its attention to the laughing Squirtle card, and tagged it. Squirtle froze immediately and played dead, until the unwary Zigzagoon card woke it up, before Squirtle froze it instead and ran off.
Afterwards, Ash swam in a warm pool with his water pokemon for a few hours, and then ate a delicious meal with Chansey and Togetic, before going off to and playing a few games of chess with the talented Alakazam.
When he finally exited the plane, he felt much better.
“How long has it been?”
Charlotte checked her watch. “Oh, only about two hours.”
“What?! Impossible!” Ash said. “I was there for a few days!”
“Time moves strangely and differently in the realm of dreams. It’s a special place created for the cards to live, and for their masters to join them.” Charlotte explained. “If it did not run on a different template, then our lives could vanish in a blink.”
Ash considered this for a few minutes before nodding. “So I can slip in to join them whenever I want?”
“Yes. You didn’t know?”
“Not really. I only suspected.” Ash said. “But I’m glad I know now.”
Charlotte nodded and began making a simple dinner of chicken noodle soup and jelly sandwiches.
“My peanut butter!”
“Oh no you don’t!” Vulpix-chan said, thwapping Luna over the head with a frying pan. “It’s mine!” She snatched the peanut butter away and applied liberal amounts to her apple slices before tossing the confectionary stuff to Pika-chan, who grinned and flew off.
Luna chased.
“I wonder why she didn’t take Luna?”
“Probably because Luna isn’t a dragon…”
Luna scowled at this, and created a light screen maze to trap Pika-chan inside of. Unfortunately, at that moment Sabrina freed Pika-chan with a handy ice arrow.
“Why are you helping her?!”
“She’s my partner for our set.” Sabrina said. “And I like annoying you.”
Luna frowned and stalked off.
Angel ran after her.
“Perhaps Angel will be useful in making Luna more reasonable.” Ash said, interestedly.
“I thought…” Charlotte cut herself off. “Never mind.”
“What is it?”
“Matters of the heart are so difficult… that’s why I don’t deal with them.”
Ash blinked.
“I’m sure you’ll figure it out after the test, lightning guardian.’
“Really?”
“Well, if you don’t, then that could be a problem.”
Ash blinked.
“Let’s do some more training.”
“Okay!” Ash cheered, before he quickly changed into black boots, dark blue pants, and a dark blue jacket. “I’m ready!”
‘Did you put the spells on these?”
“Um… no…”
“Then you can use a costume!” Pika-chan joyously proclaimed and dragged Ash behind a bush. Ash emerged in a dark green jacket with a silver phoenix embroidered on the back, over a black velvet tunic and black pants, feet tucked into silver boots, and hands in green sleeves with silver-inlaid purple jewels on them.
“This probably will be destroyed after the fight anyways.” Ash mused as he muttered a quick ‘Release’ and summoned his staff. “Ready!”
Ash immediately shifted into Whismur and started using uproar.
“Smart,” Charlotte said succinctly, before turning into a Tyrogue and going at him with Low Kick. Ash quickly changed into Abra and teleported out of the way, before sending a psybeam at her.
Charlotte shifted into Flareon, taking the brunt of the attack, and then breathed out a Smog attack, causing Ash to become poisoned. Coughing, he reversed transformation and used Hydro Pump to flood the area.
Charlotte quashed her hydrophobia temporarily, transformed into a Fearow, and flew at him, beak whirring in Drill Peck. But Ash just grinned and went incorporeal, taking on the form of a Gastly, before using Hypnosis.
Charlotte’s eyes fluttered closed and then she fell asleep, landing with a splash in the water. This served to wake her, but she immediately panicked, before she turned into a Tentacool and started filling the air with Poison Stings.
Ash winced at the state his outfit was getting into, apparently protection spells did not prevent clothes from damage, and filled the water with Hydro Thunder. A few seconds later, Charlotte jumped out of the water and instead of using a pokemon attack, threw a brace of shuriken at him, forcing him to do a rapid series of midair dodges. Ash quickly used the Scyther card as a sword and blocked most of them, and that was when the Sharpedo, which had been lurking in the water, jumped out and clamped down on his leg, dragging him into the newly created lake.
Ash fought off the shark pokemon with a few well-placed Thundershocks, before breaking the surface, gasping for air. Charlotte followed up by filling the air with beedrills and sending them all at the water, causing Ash to dive underwater again. Ash quickly activated the Dragonair card, and then spat out a Fire Blast attack, toasting most of the offending bugs, before retreating to the safety of the watery depths again. He next shifted into a Lotad, and innocently floated on the surface while lily pads created by the ever-helpful Paras card joined him.
Charlotte narrowed her eyes, before using the Reality card to tell which one he was, and then she aimed a Aerial Ace attack at him, sending Ash fleeing out of the water, before shifting into a Golem, who tackled her into the water.
Charlotte came up spluttering and announced that a break would probably be a good thing. The guardians agreed and pulled out a wide array of delicious snacks.
“Your hydrophobia is definitely a disadvantage.”
“What can I say? It’s a weakness I have to deal with.”
“I’m glad I don’t have one like that, no offense…”
“No.” Charlotte agreed. “You can’t ‘see’ your weakness like I can mine. But its still there, lurking in the back of your soul.”
Ash stared as Charlotte stirred her hot chocolate and glanced into the distance.
End Episode 183! Ehehehe, ^_^
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Completed 9/19/2003, Started 8/24/03
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