Pokemon Journey

Kanto XIII

     After leaving Cinnabar Island Ash, Alain, Max, Bonnie, May and Paul all made their way back to Pallet Town by Prof. Oak's request, which Ash was not all that thrilled about especially because of all the news she got about that thrice be damned woman

"Ash please calm down" Bonnie said as she tried to calm her guardian/big sister down even going to Alain for help

"Ash it's just for a day most of us were victimized by that woman and well Alain is just as vengeful as any of us because that woman tried to kill you" Paul said as he saw Pallet Town in the horizon "And I doubt that we have time to turn back now"

"Oh gosh" Ash said as she pulled up her hood just like everyone else

     As they made their way towards the Lab they heard an all too familiar voice that had their blood boil and almost murderous, Ash herself just started shaking her aura flared out ready to strike at the woman only for Alain to force her to walk towards the lab. Once they got there they all just collapsed onto the sofa nearest the door

"Forgive me for requesting such a difficult favor" Prof. Oak said sadly once he saw their state

"It's quite alright professor we know you wouldn't do this if it wasn't important or if there wasn't another way" Ash said as she pulled down her hood

"Quite right Ash and yes it is important, Ash Venasaur has been poisoned somehow" Prof. Oak said as he led them all to the ranch where three Nurse Joys were checking on her Venasaur who looked so weak

"Ash" May said as she saw Ash's eyes become watery

"What type of poison is it?" Alain asked Gary who was reading over some reports

"I don't know but it's parasitic based and is more or less a specially made poison for grass types" Gary said sadly

"We can help Venasaur right?" Bonnie asked looking at Venasaur sadly, she knew her big sis loves Venasaur very much heck he was one of her first pokemon

"I'm contacting all grass type experts all over the world for now we wait for a response and keep Venasaur protected especially since those traitor just happen to be in town and low and behold they have that water witch with them" Gary snarled angrily

"How did she get out I thought that Pokémon Abuse has a minimum sentence of 3 years and theirs attempted Pokè homicide that lasts for 5 years so all in all she has about 8 years in jail and it's only been 1 year at most" Paul said he too was enraged

"Delia bailed her out" Gary snarled as he typed responds for the first Grass type expert Erika

"But her bail was 50 million Pokedollars" Max said in shock

"Yeah well Delia married a rich man, he disappeared about a few weeks ago and she got the money" Gary said

"Hey Where's Ash?" Max asked before May pointed over to Venasaur

"We need to find a cure and fast or else she may just go into self destruction" Gary said looking at his friend worriedly

"What do you mean?" Alain asked not taking his eyes off his girlfriend

"It happened after the first time Ash traveled with them. I would randomly see him heading off to the forest in early mornings at first I didn't think anything of it until one night when my Blastoise dragged me out of bead and took me to him I saw him cutting himself mumbling about being weak, stupid, pathetic, a loser and how the world would be better of he didn't exist. I stopped him tried to convince him to travel with me instead which he agreed to by the end of the night only for him to say he changed his mind the next day. It went like that through Kanto and Johto I knew that they had something to do with it I just needed proof but then I saw that he was happier in Hoenn so I relaxed you know he didn't stop talking about you two he was like proud sibling when it came to you two then Sinnoh he kept saying that he was determined to make Paul see him as an equal that's all he every wanted from his Sinnoh journey that all changed in Unova though he went back to cutting himself now he had phrases like little kid and other things he almost carved it into his arm his Sceptile and Servine stopped it thankfully, Kalos that's when he was happiest when ever he called all he takes about was Bonnie this and that that I though that he was you older sibling not that jerk and later on he went on and on about you Alain. You guys held his horrible practice down and destroyed it but with everything that's happened recently I'm worried that she could go back to it"Gary sighed his eyes shining with tears

"Those guys really were toxic to her weren't they?" Bonnie asked even if she knew the answer

"Didn't help that the horrible woman would use a psychic type to tamper all his memories" Gary said pulling out a folder and handing it to Alain

     When Alain finished reading the folder he gave it to Paul and stormed out of the room towards Ash who had just left Venasaur's side

"Alain?" Ash asked as she was pulled into a tight embrace by her boyfriend before he kissed her passionately

"Never think for a second that I don't need you Ash please don't forget us. I can't lose you please, I love you so much " Alain said as tears slipped from his eyes and on to her jacket

"Gary told you didn't he?" Ash asked getting a teary nod from her boyfriend "Alain I can't promise that I won't revert back to that time if something happens but I can promise you that I will allow you all to help me as much as you want and besides those traitors are gone now. I know that you guys will pull me out of my depression with simple actions so I'm not overly worried about it"

"You forgot about us Ash we won't let you do that to yourself" Mew said as she and Pikachu nuzzled her

"Ash we'll be able to get Venasaur back to full health don't worry" Alain said when he finally let her go

"I hope so" Ash said

     It took a few days but they found Venasaur's antidote but it needed various different plants some of which took days to ship and some needed to be found. In a bout a week they had the antidote ready and administered it to Venasaur.

"Oh prof. Oak" the disgustingly sweet voice of Delia Ketchum now known as Delia Richfilth rang through the labratory

"What is it" Prof. Oak said angrily

"Oh I just brought these flowers over for Venasaur and I want to say advance condolences he doesn't have much time left" She said before laughing as she walked away leaving a bouquet of dead roses on the door

"Why that..." May growled out as she heard the voice of the woman who had almost killed them

"Prof. Oak is everything alright?" Officer Jenny asked as she ran over to the older professor

"Yes she didn't do anything too bad and she's wrong Venasaur is doing well now all he needs is some time to relax" prof. Oak said as May and Paul into view

"Wait this happened before?" Paul asked

"Yes in fact she is constantly harassing prof. Oak all the time even trying to stab him, burn the lab and poison the pokemon. She is a criminal but we just can't get enough evidence plus the fact that she just buys her way out of jail is just so frustrating" Officer Jenny said her frustration clearly evident in her eyes

"Professor if it's not safe for you here, why don't you just move?" May asked worried

"I do plan on moving to Viridian City in fact we were in the past stage of packing when Venasaur got sick" Prof. Oak said sadly

"I'll talk to Gladion and see what he thinks we can do about this" Paul said before pulling out his Holowatch