Unexpected Consequences Part 4

By The Brock

Darkness, blank, nothing. He thought he was just asleep, with no dream. He heard voices that sounded familiar, but were not clear to understand what they were saying.

"What’s going on?" he thought. He tried to see if he can touch or feel something with his hand. He reaches out. Nothing so far. He takes another step...

"Is it dark in here?"

Voices of the unknown suddenly became clear. It was David.

"Ash don't move one bit." Ordered David.

"Why?" he asked. This was becoming very confused for the youngster.

"You’ve turned blind........

And so it continues......

Silence... nothing else came up after that comment of discovery. "Blind? But how, I was ok a second ago." He slowly thought. The fact hasn’t come to his head that it happened. It was real.

"Ash, I know this was sudden and unexpecting, but this can be cured quickly." Said David. "But first, let’s get you settled down."

"Settled? SETTLED?!" He shouted in anger. "How can I SETTLE if I can’t SEE?!"

"Ash calm down!" shouted Misty. She really never saw him this angry. She put Togepi to so she can confront Ash. She puts his arms on his shoulders.

"Wish I would, Misty, but as you can SEE, that I’m BLIND! You stupid redhead!"

‘SLAP!’

Ash was down on the ground, touching his cheek of where the slap connected, shocked and confused of why she did, was told the reason. He would look up to see her emotion, but darkness still evolved around him.

"How dare you call me such thing, I was only trying to help, you didn’t need to take it out on me!" she shouted in anger. She storms out of the room in anger, forgetting Togepi who was still in the room. Brock ran to catch up with her.

"Ash, you dinnae need tae make that comment tae her, she wis only trying tae help." David said unhappily. "That was uncalled for!"

Ash sighs in frustration. He makes his back up on his feet, resisting the help from David. "How did this happen?" Anger, boiling up inside him. Out of all the problems he had to deal with, even unknown feelings for Misty, this was the worst. How to deal with it, he doesn’t know, but for now for him. His Pokemon Career may be over....

"It was a virus." David said quietly. He continued speaking. Ash wasn’t in the mood at all. Just turning blind was enough to put him into deep thought.

"There is a.....grrr" David whacks him on the back of the head. "Oi! Pay attention ye idiot! This is important for yeself and Pikachu!"

Ash angrily rubbed his head.... "How is it important?!" He shouted.

"Because there is a cure!" Shouted David. "But there will be a risk involving.... ye Pikachu.............."

"Why did he have to be that nasty Brock? I was only trying to help!" she said in anger. Feelings were still there for Ash of course, but since this unexpecting scene happened, it’s foiled into a more difficult situation for her.

Brock could do nothing but support her about how Ash is feeling at the moment. He was a little angry at Ash for the behavior, but he wouldn’t blame him for turning blind so suddenly.

"He just turned blind Misty. How do you think Ash feels when he turned blind before he erupted?" He asked calmly. Misty on the other hand, was not.

"Well he still didn’t need to take it out on me..... I was only trying to help.... oh Brock why did this have to happen to Ash?" Tears swept down her cheek. "How is he going to cope this?"

"I don’t know Misty, I don’t know........." Silence came to the tow, as Brock gave Misty a hug of comfort as she was the most upset..........

"Ash will pull through, he always does. Let David sort him out, and I’ll fix you something up to make you feel better."

"Thanks Brock." Misty said, smiling to one of her best friends....

"What about my Pikachu?" David asked. He was calmer once David’s Pikachu give him a thundershock.

"I have a thunderstone here. And we have two Pikachu, yours and mine."

"Yeah?"

"Ye hold the thunderstone. And both the Pikachu..... use a Thunder Attack on ye." David said, he closed his hands like a grasp, but only for Ash and David’s Pikachu to hear a crackle. David wasn’t pleased at all, but it wasn’t about Ash.

"What was that crackling sound." Asked Ash.

"Oh, err nothing." David wasn’t expecting him to hear that.

"Back to the cure. Why using Thunder attack?" Ash asked.

"Think of it as a battery charger. Because your Pikachu was yae first Pokemon, and to evolve it you need a thunderstone. Well, there was one time about 2-3 years ago, maybe on T.V or newspapers, there was a report that two Pikachu used a Thunder attack on the Thunderstone, with a certain trainer...... holding it." He hesitated. "It’s a cure from blindness if you have a electric Pokemon as a start, it doesn’t have tae be two Pikachu, it can be two Electrabuzz, or two Jolteons, or even two Electrikes, as long they ken thunder."

"Electrikes?" Ash was confused of that last comment.

"Once you get your sight back, I’ll take ye tae Houen, where we can work together and help you gain badges. And battle me fae a Pokemon Master License." He smiled.

Ash heard what he said. Gaining his eyesight back... meeting new Pokemon. This was not over just yet!

"Ok, let’s get this sorted!" Ash shouted in determination, standing up of his seat, only to briefly to forget that he was cross-eyed. "Wahhhh."

"Ash!" David said as he made an attempt to catch him. Just.

"Eh he he. Sorry about that." Ash said in embarrassment as he made his way back to feet.

"Once ye Pikachu recovers, we’ll train him to my Pikachu’s level. Which is level 90 at the moment." He said proudly.

"90?!" Ash said in shock. "Mine is in level 60 at the moment. Wouldn’t be at that level if it weren’t for Team Rocket making non-stops attempts of catching Team Rocket. My other pokemon are at level 45-55." He said. "What level are you other Pokemon?"

"60-70." David said. "

"If we are going to train Pikachu, is there any chance of raising my other Pokemon up as well?" Ash asked.

"Aye, nae probs." David smiled. "Now, as you already know we have to train your Pikachu to prevent a greater risk for you and him."

"How’s that?"

"It depends on his Thunder attack. It’s the most powerful attack of electric types, at the moment. Me Pikachu here, has been learning a new attack, but nor him or me dinnae ken what it is yet. So until then, we have tae be patient, ain’t that right mate?"

"Pika!" David strokes his Pikachu in content.

"If the thunder attack isn’t powerful enough to produce electricity through your body, the Thunderstone will flow powder through the thunder, without the Pikachu knowing, and evolve them, into Raichu, within their free will. My pikachu dinnae want to evolve a while back. His reason I dinnae ken, but I’m happy as he is, when I asked if he was wanting to evolve since he was very strong."

"Pikachu won’t be happy when I tell him this, he doesn’t want to evolve. If he does, I don’t mind, but I don’t think he wants to evolve at all." Ash said, worried for his best non-human friend.

"Your Pikachu won’t evolve if you’re worried Ash, he’s a strong ‘un. We’ll tune him up a bit and he’ll be stronger than you can imagine." David smiled.

"Yeah. But first things first. Let’s find Misty, she forgot her Togepi." Ash said as he heard togepi crying, obviously calling for its mother.

"You wanna do it, might as well practice of how to overcome your blindness until Pikachu becomes strong."

"Yeah. No point whining about it."

"Pikachu, get Togepi will ye?"

"Pika!"

"David?"

"Yeah?" said David

"How did this virus occur?"

"It occured... when my Pikachu battled.... Groudon.."