Empathic Adventures

Empathic Adventures

EP015: Happy Shinny Cases

by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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An airplane flew across the waters that separated the Kanto region from the Unova region. Two trainers sat in their seats, waiting for the aircraft to get to their destination.

"All the time I was with her all she could talk about was Ash," Drew remarked.

"I don't know why Dee Dee decided to stay with Ash...it doesn't make any sense," Kenny bemoaned.

"Don't worry, we'll both get our answers soon enough," Drew assured and Kenny relaxed back into his seat. They still had another half hour before they would land, and once they did, he'd find her and convince her to come with him instead of Ash.

'May, you're wasting away with that trainer,' Drew thought to himself. Unlike Kenny, who had feelings for dawn, Drew was more concerned that he was going to lose his best rival to May's love for Ash.

"Well, fancy seeing you boys on this plane."

"Gah! Harley! what are you doing on a plane to Unova?" Drew asked.

"simple, I want to see the end of this love story," Harley grinned. Drew glared and Harley grinned more which made Drew more angry.

'Wonder if I could throw him off the plane,' Drew wondered and sighed. They were going to have a hard time now if Harley was going to follow them.

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"I just don't get it," Iris said as she and Cilan walked a few paces behind the cluster of girls that were around Ash.

"Are you jealous?" Cilan teased.

"Jealous!? What reason would I have to be jealous?" Iris fumed.

"Well, Ash treats those four far better than he does you.
. It's as if they were all four his girlfriends," Cilan continued to tease.

"Oooooh, I'm going to catch it," Bianca said, unable to contained her excitement. She grabbed a pokeball and let the pokemon that was inside out.
"He can't have four girlfriends!" Iris fired back.

"Jealousy isn't a flavor that fits you," Cilan continued his teasing.

"Hey! wait up!" someone called out to them. The group turned to see a woman running up to them.

Anabel bit her lip. She was getting a bad feeling. Her feeling was justified when the young woman stumbled, Iris dodged her but that left Ash wide open for a direct on collision and the two fell into the river.

"Wartortle, fish them out!" May shouted and the water type retrieved Ash and the other woman.

"I'm so sorry," she apologized. I'm such a klutz at times. I was sent by professor Juniper to give you a message, that is, if you are Ash," she said,worried that she had found the wrong person.

"Yeah, I'm Ash," Ash said, accepting a towel from Angie. The woman brought out her Xtransceiver and a message began to play.

"Ash, It's Juniper. When I heard that you had won your fist badge I realized that I didn't give you a badge case so I sent Bianca with one. Good luck with the rest of your gym battles," the message and the professor's face disappeared.

"Where is it," Bianca, moaned as she dug through her purse. Angie and Anabel rolled heir eyes, being a couple of tom-boys they were glad they didn't carry purses that overloaded.

"Ah-ha!" she said before finally bringing out the case and handing it to Ash. The black haired trainer put his badge in the case. However, before he could put the case away, a pokemon snatched it away and dashed off.

"Hey!" Ash shouted and Pikachu chased after the thieving pokemon.

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"Why don't you ask for another badge? I'm sure you could get a replacement," Bianca said as the group ran after Pikachu.

"No way. Each badge I win holds the memories an feelings me and my pokemon had when we won that badge," Ash countered and Anabel smiled at Ash's answer.

"I think Pikachu found our thief," Dawn pointed out.

The group came to a stop, seeing a pokemon with its tail out, rubbing Ash's now clean badge case.

"Guess it likes shinny things," May observed. Bianca brought out her Pokedex to see that the pokemon in question was a Minccino. Bianca brought out a pokeball and released her own pokemon.

Now it was Ash's turn to pull out his Pokedex to find that the pokemon that Bianca threw out was a Pignite.

"Pignite, tackle attack," Bianca started. However, Minccino avoided the move.

"Ok, try Flame Charge."

Pignite collided with Minccino, who then climbed up a tree, put down the case and used Hyper Voice. This stopped Pignite and Minccino used Tickle, making he pokemon useless.

"Return," Bianca said, disappointed.

Ok Pikachu..." Ash began but Oshawot came out of its pokeball, wanting to battle. "You want to battle Minccino?"

Oshawot made an affirmative sound and Ash nodded.

"Ok, use Tackle."

Oshawot used the move, but Minccino jumped and Oshawot missed.

"Hey Oshawot, use Hydro Pump," Bianca excitedly called out.

"Uh, Bianca, my Oshawot doesn't know Hydro Pump," Ash said. "But you do know Razor Shell!"

Oshawot snapped out of its confusion and used Razor shell, but Minccino was gone, having climbed up another tree.

"Try Razor Shell again!" Bianca encouraged.

"You are going to confuse him Bianca!" Anabel cried and sure enough, Oshawot sighed, not knowing whether or not to use the move. This allowed Minccino to get behind Oshawot and Tickle the water pokemon. Minccino then used DoubleSlap and Ash was forced to return Oshawot.

Snivy, go!" Ash called out.

"You've got a lot of pokemon, Ash" Bianca commented.

"How many do you have?" Cilan asked.

Pignite is my only pokemon," Bianca said, her cheeks pink. Anabel, Angie, Dawn, May, and Iris sweat dropped at that statement.

"Your only pokemon?" Iris asked disbelievingly.

"Ok," Anabel said and took out a pokeball, which the rest of the girls mirrored, "if Ash can't take that Minccino then we'll have to deal with it so that it doesn't escape with Ash's badge case."

"I was forced to train at home because my father wouldn't let me be a trainer. I just started my journey and only just got my second badge," Bianca explained.

"Snivy, use Attract, Ash called out.

Minccino, in a surprising move, uses his own Attract, attracting Snivy. Ash returned his plant type and Pikachu charged into the battle.

Pikachu started off with Iron Tail but Minccino avoided it. Pikachu used Quick Attack to chase after the pokemon. The two then collided with each other, using Iron Tail and DoubleSlap.

Landing back on the ground, Minccino used Hyper Voice and Tickle again. However, Pikachu was able to withstand the combination attack.

"Alright, use Zap Canon Pikachu!" Bianca cried happily.

"Bianca," Anabel, Dawn, May, and Angie all sigh out.

"What?" Bianca asked, confused.

"Ash's Pikachu doesn't know Zap canon," Anabel explained, hoping that the girl would stop ordering Ash's pokemon.

"Then what electrical attack can Pikachu do?" Bianca asked in frustration.

"Thunderbolt!" Ash called out and Pikachu shocked Minccino. As this was going on, Bianca realized that she needed a pokeball. She finally pulled a dusty pokeball from her purse. Minccino, not able to resist, quickly came over to the ball, and while dusting it, activated the ball, capturing it.

"That was the strangest way I've ever seen a pokemon be caught," Anabel remarked.

"Minccino can't stand dirty shinny things. It has to clean them and that was what did it in," Cilan said with a grin.

"Careful Ash," Dawn and May warned as Ash went up the tree to retrieves his badge case.

"Hey, no need to..." Ash began, but slipped and hit the dirt. The two coordinators were the first to help him up.

"No need to worry huh?" May said and Ash sighed. They needed to get to a center.

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"Ah, the lovely scenery," Harley said and Drew felt the need to choke him out rise within him.

"Why are you following us!?" Drew exploded.

"Hey, no need to act like an Electrode," Harley replied.

"Let's just go find Dee Dee," Kenny growled, having learned quickly why Drew hated the other fruity coordinator.

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"You've been admiring that case ever since you beat Bianca," Dawn said, getting frustrated by Ash overly admiring his case.

"Such a kid," Iris said.

"Hmmmm, wonder where Angie got off to?" May asked.

Don't know...c'mon, let's take Ash back to our room," Anabel said and with the coordinators towing Ash, the four wen to their room.

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"You poor thing, Angie said, looking down at the sick Cubchoo.

"I see you found Cubchoo," Nurse Joy said and came over to Angie who started rubbing the ice type's ears.

"How did it get in this condition?" Angie asked.

"I can only guess that it was abandoned. you see, this one is a runt of its species. The trainer probably thought it too weak and left it behind."

"I've got experience with taking care of sick runts...can I..."

"I'm so busy that sometimes I forget the little guys here. If you can help..."

"Don't worry nurse Joy, I'll take care of him," Angie said and gently lifted the ice type into her arms and went to were the other aura sisters were.

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May tapped her foot impatiently. She understood that they should wait for Angie before they pounced on Ash, but what in the world was that girl doing? The door opened and Angie finally came in, carrying a pokemon in her arms. The three girls all gathered around Angie who sat on the edge of the bed.

"He's an abandoned runt...he's sick and I wanted to take care of it," Angie explained. Anabel felt of its forehead and nodded.

"It's an ice type...its temperature is too high," Anabel commented.

"Hey, what's going on?" Ash asked coming out of the bathroom in only a towel.

"Angie found this cute..." Dawn began and Anabel pressed the button on Ash's Pokedex, letting Ash know that it was a Cubchoo.

Ash came over and rubbed the small ice type on the head. Anabel felt the aura come off of Ash and go into Cubchoo. The ice type fell asleep in Angie's arms.

"guess no fun today huh?" Ash asked and the others nodded. There were more important things than having some naughty fun with Ash.

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Hope you liked this one. And, now, you see some original plot points rearing their ugly heads. Cubchoo will be Angie's Ash's powers were reacting to the needs of a sick pokemon. Let me know what you thought and continue to suggest ideas and pokemon for Angie. She only needs two now.