Empathic Adventures

Empathic Adventures

EP029: Plucking an Iris

by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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"Ma'am, we're picking up the transponder signals of agents Jessie, James, and Meowth," an underling informed J.

J slammed her fist on the arm of the command chair, "grrrr, ok, monitor their activities. The moment that we have an opening, grab the girl."

"Yes ma'am!" the crew said as one.

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"Scratch!"

"Dodge and use Headbutt!"

Once again Ash and Iris were battling with their Scraggy and Axew, respectively. Scraggy dodged the Scratch attack and used Headbutt.

Axew winced as it held its head in pain.

"Ok Axew, use Dragon Rage!"

"Uh oh," Angie grinned, knowing what was coming next.

"You think Axew will pull it off this time?" May asked.

"Not a chance," Dawn said. Anabel just smiled, knowing that Iris was once again showing that she too was a kid buy ordering her pokemon to use a move that he couldn't control yet.

Axew once again bit down on the ball of energy, causing another explosion.

"Well, it appears that the unusual flavor of Dragon Sneeze has returned," Cilan remarked with a grin.

"Axew's attack is not a sneeze!" Iris fired back. "I just need to be patient...dragon types require a lot of patience to train."

"Yeah, ask Lance, he's a dragon trainer from Kanto and the champion of both the Johto and Kanto leagues," Ash said.

"Wait, you know someone who is the champion of two leagues?" Cilan asked.

"Yep,he has a Dragonite," Ash added.

"A Dragonite? We don't have those around here," Iris said.

"Now is he still a kid?" Angie asked and Iris tried to hide her face with her hair as she hugged Axew.


The group turned,seeing the bushes rustling and Ash had to duck out of the way of a Flame Thrower.

"Druddigon."

"Oh wow!" Iris celebrated as Ash scanned the dragon type with his Pokedex.


"Hmmmm, Druddigon, a spicy flavor this dragon has," Cilan noted.

"Look out, it's about to attack again!"Anabel shouted.

"Pikachu, Electro Ball!" Ash commanded and the Electro Ball and Focus Blast met with an explosion.

"Ok Druddigon, you want to battle!?" Ash challenged.

"Wait! Hold it!" a girl's voice cried, stopping Ash from calling out another attack.

"Huh?" Ash dumbly questioned.

"Druddigon, I've been looking all over for you," the girl said.

"This is your Druddigon?" Iris asked.

"Yeah, hey!" the girl said as her Druddigon ran off.

"Hmmmm, was their something wrapped around its ankle?" Anabel questioned.

"Yeah, it look like some sort of a cord," Iris answered.

"Come back!" the girl shouted.

"Hey, you might need my help!" Iris shouted and ran after the girl.

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"Are they still in the area?" J asked.

"The target and Jessie and James are still in the area," the underling reported.

"The moment those fools are gone, ready the capture unit," J ordered.

"Yes ma'am."

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"Take it easy Dragon, I'm just want to help," Iris said.

"It's angry that's for sure," Anabel noted.

"There," Iris said after removing the cord. "This cord was hurting it."

"I don't know how a cord would have gotten wrapped around Druddigon's ankle. Oops, I'm Emmy. Thanks for helping my Druddigon," Emmy said great fully.

"Hey, it's always nice to help a fellow trainer of a dragon type, especially a Druddigon, but what I'd like to know is how that cord got caught on Druddigon in the first place," Iris asked. "Oh, This is Ash, Anabel, Angie, Dawn, May, and Cilan," Iris quickly introduced and the others blushed a little, having made the same mistake that Emmy made.

"Ok, but how did you know that Druddigon would be here?" Angie asked.

"Druddigon's body temperature drops when it stops moving, so I figured it would stop in a sunny spot," Iris explained.

"Well now, all you got to figure out is how to make Dragon Sneeze into Dragon Rage," Angie quipped.

"It's not Dragon Sneeze!" Iris said with a blush on her face.

"Ready to drop the cloak, this battle won't take much longer," J said. When Team Rocket was sent packing, J made a cut throat motion and a underling pressed a button on the control board.

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"You did it Axew!" Iris said, hugging the pokemon to her. Then a roar of rockets engines and a scream from Iris alerted everyone that J had struck.

“What in the world!?" Anabel asked as a larch capture hook snagged Iris around her middle and quickly hoisted her up as the ship took off.

"Ahhhh!" Iris screamed as she, along with Axew, were pulled into the air ship.

"J!" Ash shouted.

"Uhhhh," Emmy asked.

"Listen Emmy, you better head on with your journey. J is too dangerous for someone as inexperienced with pokemon as you are. J is a ruthless, cut throat bit... Angie began.

"Ok, you don't need to finish that," Anabel said, sparing the younger girl from Angie's rant.

"Why did she take Iris though? Shouldn't she have take one of us or Ash?" May asked.

"Hmmmm, maybe..." Cilan began.

"What?" Ash asked.

"J might have mistaken Iris as another girl that you care for, just like you care for Anabel, Angie, Dawn, and May," Cilan explained.

"This is a trap," Anabel began.

"Yeah, but who knows what J will do to Iris," Ash growled.

"Then let's get her back. She might be annoying at times, but I wouldn't want J capturing my worst enemy," Angie said.

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"Comfortable?" J asked the captured Iris who was in a cramped capture unit.

"What are you going to do to me?" Iris asked, putting up a brave front.

"That boy has surrounded himself with a bunch of girls that he cares for, including you," J began.

"Me, be with that kid? Are you kidding me?"

"Don't try to say anything that you think will save your hide, little girl, J taunted. "Out of all of those girls that travel with that punk you are the weakest when it comes to pokemon strength."

"Axew, use Dragon Rage," Iris requested.

"Axew?"

"Look, I'll be fine, just break us out!"

Axew used Dragon Rage, but the walls of the capture unit shimmered and then a force crashed against Axew, sending both pokemon and human into the far wall.

"Whatever energy you use on the capture unit will be amplified and reflected back, so you aren't going anywhere," J chuckled and Iris felt the ship land. "Now, we wait for your boyfriend."

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"She wants us to go in there," Dawn said.

"Trap or not we go in there and get Iris," Ash growled.

"You ok?" Anabel asked.

"It could have been one of you instead," Ash lamented.

The four surrounded Ash and hugged him. It was an awkward hug, but the four managed it anyway.

"Let's go get Iris," Anabel said and ash nodded.

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"You have a very foul, vile, evil flavor," Cilan growled.

"Release Iris, now!" Ash demanded.

"Then you and your empath need to give yourselves up," J suggested with an evil glint in her eye.

Pikachu, use Iron Tail on..." Ash began.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. those walls absorb the energy of any attack, but instead of your yellow mouse feeling it, Iris and that Axew of hers will be the victims," J grinned.

"Now what?" Dawn asked.

"Hope this works," Ash growled. "Iris, get against the far wall," Ash requested.

"Ok," Iris said, trying to keep the fear from creeping into her voice.

"Ash, what are you about to do?" Anabel asked in worry.

"This," Ash growled, his body now engulfed with his aura.

"What are you doing?" J asked.

Take a good guess!" Ash shouted and charged.

"Salamence, stop him!" J shouted.

"Mamoswine!"

"Blaziken!"

"Raikou!"

"Braviary!"

"Pansage!"

Ash pressed forward as his girls' pokemon and Cilan's pokemon blocked Salamence. His body crashed against the wall, the energy of aura foreign to the barrier. Iris had been worried that she would get hurt again, but apparently, the energy that Ash was putting out wasn't something that the barrier could use.

"Out of my...way!" Ash shouted and his aura broke through the capture unit wall. Iris, found herself falling against Ash.

"How...how did you do that!?" J asked.

"You ever, ever pull this again," Ash growled and Pikachu blasted an Electro Ball, making a hole in the hull of the ship.

"You'll pay for this!" J shouted as the group leapt out of the hole.

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The ember of the campfire died slowly. Everyone was asleep except for Iris, who was still up.

'That aura...that was Ash's? And...what am I feeling? What happened when that energy touched me. He's a kid but I...I...want him but I don't want him...what is wrong with me?'

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Thanks goes to Wrathe, for giving me this idea that has appeared in this chapter. Let me know what you thought of this and give suggestions on now the internal conflict that Iris will be having.