Reborn Into Pokemon With An Odd System - Volume 1 Chapter 25
The next morning he felt something shaking his arm over and over, since he was so used to having Zweilous waking him up that he instinctively began reaching out to pet where he thought the other head would be.
He felt something a bit bounce but didn’t pay it much attention since he was half asleep and continued ‘petting’ it. Suddenly he heard a scream and immediately woke up and saw someone’s hand about to slap him.
After so many close calls while fighting with Scizor and Lancer, he had developed some sort of reaction. He quickly used the back of his wrist and stopped the slap then he pulled the person by the hand and threw them into his bed.
He was about to twist the person’s hand but then he got a glimpse of the yellow top and blue shorts and quickly noticed what he had done. At the moment he was on top of Misty who was upside down with her hand on her back.
Max quickly let her go of her and jumped out of bed. The shocked girl just looked at him and began massaging the area where her hand had hit his wrist. Max sighed and sat down “Sorry about that, I just heard you screaming, and next thing I knew a hand was flying towards me.”
She began to shrink into a ball and looked away from him. Max took a deep breath, shrugged, and stood up from the bed. He walked up to Ash who like always was still sound asleep, he grabbed one of the kid’s legs and began to drag him. The rest of Ash’s body fell and he hit his head on the ground, the hurt kid looked around wildly “Who was that? Just wait till I get my hands on you.”
He looked up and found Max looking at him with an evil grin as if daring him to repeat what he just said.
Ash gave him a nervous smile, got up, and began to check his pack. After some time of awkward silence, the spikey-haired kid walked towards him and gave a thumbs up “I’m all ready to head out, do you want to come with me?
Max nodded “Yeah, I was going to pass through the forest might as well do it with some company.”
Ash laughed and nodded “Yeah at least now if you meet another pokémon then you won’t have to fight it yourself.”
Misty who seemed to have gotten out of her shock stood up and looked at the kid “What do you mean fight it himself?”
Ash looked at her and was about to talk but Max covered his mouth “It’s nothing just something that happened in the past.”
Misty looked at him with a look of suspicion but just shrugged it off and joined them as they walked into the forest.
After about 20 minutes of entering the forest, Ash pointed at a Caterpie and ran. He gave the poor innocent pokemon a weird showdown and threw the pokéball. The ball began moving and showed a flashing red light. When it stopped he jumped around all happy and began running around Pikachu, the yellow furball got dizzy and started walking disoriented.
Max laughed and picked it up, with everything that happened he noticed that he hadn’t gotten a chance to pet the chubby pokémon who was the face of the pokémon series. He petted it’s head and put him back down.
Ash ran beside him and showed a wild smile “Looks like I beat you, Max, I caught my first Pokémon before you hehe.” Max just sighed and shrugged, Misty walked beside him and looked at Ash “Shut it, It doesn’t matter which one of you caught one first, what matters is how good of a trainer you are and sadly for you that requires having a brain.”
The spiky-haired kid was about to talk back to her but with one glance at Max, he quickly turned around and began stomping away.
They kept on walking the rest of the day but still weren’t able to reach the end of the forest. When the sun began to go down they put their sleeping bags down and collected some wood for a campfire. He brought out Charmander and Zweilous and gave them their pokémon food. Ash did the same before he got closer to the flaming lizard and began to pet it.
Max smiled and brought out some canned food that he had in his bag and began cooking. He could tell that Misty was curious about Zweilous. When they had all had their fill they washed the plates with river water and went to sleep.
When the moon was high Max could hear Pikachu and Caterpie have their heart to heart speech that he remembered from the anime, after they had finished he stood up and walked towards the two pokémon. “Pikachu do you think that you could help me with something?”
The yellow furball tilted it’s head “PIKA, PIKA”
He walked towards the river and the electric mouse and the caterpillar followed. He walked a good distance from the camp and brought out the 3 ft long Magikarp. The two pokémon looked at it surprised since they didn’t remember seeing it when they ate.
Magikarp swam to the shore and began jumping in and out of the water. He got in the water and began petting the small fish, “Hey buddy I’m going to need you to trust me with something okay, in a bit you’re going to feel some electricity going through your body. I’m going to need you to last as long as you can okay?
The pokém gave one last jump out of the water and then swam next to him. Max nodded and looked at Pikachu “Can you give me as little electricity as you can?”
Pikachu looked at him a little worried but nodded and whispered “PIKACHU” a small continuous ray of electricity hit the crown on Magikarp which was out of the water.
As soon as the yellow lighting touched it the fish began to slightly splash around. After a few minutes, Max looked at Pikachu and smiled “Try giving twice the power”. The pokémon stopped and took a breath and continued the attack but this time the ray of lightning was a little more than twice the size.
Since Max was immune he didn’t feel any changes but Magikarp, on the other hand, was splashing wildly. After a few minutes of struggling the fish got knocked out, Pikachu began to freak out but Max told him to be quiet and stay.
He began using heal on the fish as he stroked it. When Max used his healing ability nothing noticeable happened, the only way that someone would be able to tell was if he was bruised or cut. Anyone who watched him healing Magikarp would simply believe that he was trying to take care of his hurt pokémom. After about 3 minutes the fish opened his eyes and began to swim as if nothing had happened.
Max traced the figure of its crown and smiled “That’s it, I know it hurts but if you can get used to it right now, then I doubt that it will hurt you as much in the future.”
He had Pikachu continue slightly increasing the amount of electricity that it used as he constantly healed Magikarp, he made sure to only heal it enough so that it didn’t get knocked out. After about an hour the mouse pokémon was out of energy. He walked out of the river and patted Pikachu “Thanks buddy sit tight I’ll get something for you to eat so that you can get some more energy.”
The yellow fur ball nodded and sat down on the grass touching its feet and talking to Caterpie and Magikarp. Max went close to camp and got some sodas and breakfast bars for his storage and headed back. He opened two sodas and passed one to Pikachu, then he opened 4 chocolate breakfast bars and handed them to everyone. He sat down with all of them and enjoyed his soda and the bar..
When they were done the process was repeated another 3 hours and they called it a night, he changed into his favorite black and red gradient camo hoodie and black jeans and went to sleep. The next morning they got up and put their camping equipment away. As they were packing something swooped from the sky and grabbed Caterpie.
When Max looked up he found that the thing that swooped down was a Pidgeotto and now it was trying to fly away with Caterpie. Ash just stood there watching and yelling at Pidgeotto like an idiot and Max once again saw how much he could screw the story. He quickly walked up to Pikachu “Use Thunder Shock since it’s still in range.”
It nodded and closed its eyes “PIKA, PIKA, PIKACHU!!!”, the big ray of lightning hit both Caterpie and Pidgeotto and they both began falling. Ash finally unfroze and threw a pokéball at the falling Pidgeotto and ran to catch the Caterpie.
Max had to give the kid credit he could seriously multitask, when the red light stopped flashing Ash began to jump around “I got it hehe, now I really am ahead of you Max.”
Misty smiled at Max and turned to Ash “You have to be more careful, things wouldn’t have gone that smoothly if it hadn’t been for Pikachu. Don’t forget that you are the trainer and should give your pokémon instructions.”
Ash lowered his head and nodded “Yeah guess your right.”
Suddenly they started hearing the Team Rocket pitch, the three of them turned around and found Jessie, Meowth, and James. The thing that he immediately noticed was that Jessie now had her hair loose like he showed her and not that weird swirl. She now looked her age which seemed to be her early 20s.
He nodded and gave her a thumbs up causing her to slightly blush. After the three had finished their introduction they brought out Ekans and Koffing. Max sighed and looked at the poor Caterpie who was unconscious after being picked up and shot with lighting and thought “Looks like I’m going to have to improvise.”
He picked up the pokéball that belonged to Pidgeotto and tossed it over to Ash. The kid caught it and they looked at each other and nodded “You take the fat one and I’ll take care of the worm.”
Ash smiled and gave Max thumps up and brought out Pidgeotto, Max reached his right-hand pocket and took out Zweilous’s pokéball from his storage and brought him out. As soon as Team Rocket saw it they looked at each other excited. James smiled and pointed at Max “Give us that pokémon and the other brat’s Pickachu and you can go.
Max smiled and began to whistle his orders, over the years he found out that due to the pokémon’s blindness it had an uncanny sense of hearing. Zweilous could somehow always differentiate his whistle from the rest. As soon as he heard the orders Zweilous turned both its heads and locked onto Ekans. Both of them began charging a Dragon Breath, Jessie was about to order Ekans to do something, however, she stopped cold after Zweilous did step 2 of the plan.
As Jessie opened her mouth, the hairy blue pokémon used Double Team and surrounded Ekans with 10 other copies. The poor purple worm began looking and was shocked and as soon as the 10 copies appeared Zweilous let it rip releasing 20 Dragon Breaths, Ekans was lost in a ball of purple and blue light as all of them collided together..
He had developed the move to beat Lance’s Scyther, sadly the damn pokémon decided to use that and evolve which ruined his chance at victory. Team Rocket had their eyes open still not believing what they had seen. Max smiled and thought “You shouldn’t have messed with a team that has had to survive daily torment for years from the devil himself.”
He called back Zweilous and sat down looking at Ash “Anytime man, you just missed a perfect opportunity to attack while it was shocked.”
Ash shook his head “That wouldn’t be fair”
Both he and Misty sighed and at the same time and said “You’re too innocent”
Just like in the anime Pidgeotto was a badass, now that it didn’t have to worry about the purple snake, it beat Koffing with a series of Quick Attacks and Wind Attacks. Once the pokémon were defeated Pikachu sent a Thunder Shock and sent Team Rocket flying. Max still couldn’t understand the physics about it but decided that he was in a new world and that he had to respect the rules and make sure that it didn’t happen to him.
They finished packing and set off for Pewter City again.
