Dark Shadows

By Childsnake (me)

Disclaimer: I own none of this brilliant idea (Pokemon), but the story line is mine. Ha! I'm smart, lalalalallala…

It has been five years since Ash began his journey, his dream to be a pokemon master, and a lot has changed. All psychic pokemon have evolved in a new way and now they're called Dark Shadows. They look almost the same as they used to, but each and every one now has a zigzag lightning shape in a dark shade of purple, that spreads over a part of their body. They are no threat and people just ignore them so they just wander around.

But then things changed. One year later a great darkness spread over the world for some unknown reason and the Dark Shadows became evil, and to make matters worse, they teamed up with Team Rocket. During this time Ash, Misty and Brock split up. Brock went home to protect his family. Soon after, Misty left, she was called back by her sisters, Daisy had been attacked and captured by Dark Shadows and they needed someone to rescue her. And Ash by him self completed his dream and became the pokemon master after defeating Gary who was the former champion, in a one on one pokemon battle, Pikachu vs. Umbreon, then all alone he went home to be with his mum.

It has been an extra three long years after they separated and the world has changed drastically.

Part 1. Malignant

A lone traveller, wearing a dark blue coat, wandered along the empty streets. The traveller wandered down allies only to end up at dead ends and have to turn around. The traveller obviously didn't know the way around the city, not that you could call it a city any more. The once lively Saffron city was now reduced to ruins, the few buildings that were left standing were inhabited with wild pokemon. The traveller observed the surroundings, it was starting to get dark and the rubble was getting darker showing shadows in every form, the shadows seemed to move with every minute that passed. "I can't believe Sabrina is living here," the traveller said in a tomboyish tone obviously belonging to a female. She looked down a dark alley and started to head down. Before she took more than three steps, her senses twitched. She span around just in time to see a shadowy form jump down behind her. The traveller glared at the three Rockets landing in front of her then at their pokemon. Electric. No Dark Shadows. They descended toward her, forcing her to walk backward, until she felt the cold dampness of a dead end wall against her back.

"What a sexy lady you are…" one with a Raichu in front of him said.

"And alone too…" the guy with an Ampharos added in.

"It gets boring, just wandering around," Electrabuzz's trainer said huskily.

"What do you want?" she said strongly the slightest bit of fear welling in her heart.

"Ooh and brave, I think I like you," Raichu's trainer replied. As he reached out to touch her, she hit his hand away.

"Don't touch me."

"Oh no, we can't do that… Electrabuzz get her," he ordered.

"Buzz buzz," Electrabuzz jumped forward and quickly grabbed on to her arms pulling them behind her back.

"Get away," she growled, glaring at them.

"You're in no position to be ordering us around."

She struggled to free her arms, "Go away."

Riachu's trainer laughed "We're gonna party tonight," he reached forward to pull her coat off. But she was ready for him, she lifted up her legs using the Electrabuzz as support and kicked the trainer in the face. Just as she freed her arms, he yelled out for his pokemon.

"Rai!" Raichu said as he charged up to attack.

At the same time the woman pulled out a blue poke-ball from under her coat, and called out her pokemon, "Go Starmie".

Starmie emerged in a flash of white light.

"Starmie, Bubble beam att – "

"Raichuuu!" Raichu interrupted her, and used his thunder attack, first on her Starmie then on her. Pokemon attacks use to be banned on humans but that rule had long ago vanished.

She dropped to the ground in pain and cried out "No," as Starmie fell and hit the ground.

"Good job Raichu," Raichu's trainer congratulated him.

In a flash of red and white light, Starmie was returned to its poke-ball and Poliwrath was sent out,

"Poliwrath, Mega punch." Poliwrath jumped forward and tried to hit Raichu but Electrabuzz jumped in front and blocked the punch.

"That all you got? Electrabuzz show her a real Punch!"

Electrabuzz pulled his arm back and hit Poliwrath with a Thunderpunch, sending him crashing against the woman and sending them both through the rubble remains of a wall and into a wall on the other side. She slid to the ground with an unconscious Poliwrath on top of her. She shut her eyes tightly and hugged the pokemon, a small tear escaped her eye, "No, Poliwrath. Help me."

A blue light shined next to the weary trainer and a portal was formed out of it. She opened her eyes at the sound of gasps coming from the other trainers, and looked up to see a sparkling blue water pokemon, slowly emerge from the portal. She opened her mouth in awe. The pokemon turned and faced the traveller, and bowed her head, "You called, Mistress, for help. I shall now help you." The pokemon's sweet voice rang in her head. The pokemon lifted her head and fired three blasts of water at the three pokemon, sending them flying on to the road. Team Rocket took one look at the water beast, then at their pokemon lying unconscious on the road and quickly ran away.

She rose and returned Poliwrath to his poke-ball, and looked carefully at the water pokemon, her eyes widened in recognition.

"You're…you're…" the woman began, and then whispered "Suicune…"

Suicune bowed her head again "That is right, I am the legendary pokemon Suicune, now lets go." Suicune bent down on her knees, the woman walked forward and hopped onto her back.

Another traveller dressed in black loose baggy pants and a short sleeve black top and a small brown back pack slung carelessly over one shoulder was wandering around, but this one seemed to know were he was going. He turned around a corner and stopped. Standing in front of him was three Rockets.

"All right! a new challenge!" the guy in the middle said, they all pulled out poke-balls out and threw them to the ground,

"Go Ampharos."

"Go Electrabuzz."

"Go Raichu."

He looked at the three pokemon and spoke quietly.

"Pikachu, I choose you."

A yellow blur jumped out of his back pack and a small rodent creature stood in front of him crouched on all fours, prepared for battle.

"One against three? You don't stand a chance."

He smiled slightly "Don't underestimate us. Pikachu, Thunder Shatter," he said softly.

Pikachu started powering up, electric sparks began to show through his cheeks, then the sparks disappeared, to reappear in his tail making it glow a bright yellow. Pikachu jumped up and span two hundred and seventy degrees in the air with his tail in front of him, lightning started to shoot out of his tail, hitting each pokemon five times, causing them to fall to the ground in pain.

"Noo, how did you do that? Not that it really matters. Electrabuzz, Thunderpunch"

A loud crackling sound rang through the air causing Electrabuzz to stop in his tracks. A black mist went over the pokemon and their trainers, then as quickly as the mist came, it left, leaving behind all new, different pokemon. Electrabuzz had a lightning zigzag going across his face covering one eye, Raichu had one covering half his tail, and Ampharos had one going down his back. All of the Lightning zigzags were in a dark shade of blood red, the same as their eyes.

Electrabuzz ran towards Pikachu with his arm pulled back glowing with energy.

"Pikachu, agility," the traveller ordered quickly.

Pikachu jumped out of the way of the slow punch but was no match for the speed of Raichu, who had sneaked up behind Pikachu and when Pikachu jumped Raichu followed suit, and knocked him to the ground with his tail.

It was silent as Raichu and Electrabuzz walked back to Team Rocket and stood proudly next to their trainers. The traveller ran forward to pick up Pikachu. The silence was broken by a whispered sole word,

"Blizzard."

Team Rocket looked up at the sound of the voice and saw ice spikes raining down on them, hitting them and their pokemon, freezing them into ice statues. Pikachu's master looked up and saw a blue water pokemon and a figure wearing a blue coat standing on top of a crumbling building. A closer look revealed that the figure was a woman.

"Who's that?" he whispered, as he studied the face of the woman. Pikachu jumped up to his shoulder,

"Pikapi, chu pika chu" Pikachu chattered.

"So you think that was the woman we saw earlier?" he questioned.

"Pika," Pikachu agreed, nodding his head.

The same traveller was wandering around, dark tall trees were everywhere, he went around a corner and was completely lost. Pikachu jumped down and sniffed the ground.

"What is it Pikachu? Can you smell something?"

"Pika Pika, Pikapi."

"A person?"

Pikachu quickly ran off following the scent, with his master behind him. At one point he nearly lost sight of Pikachu, when he turned a sharp corner. As the trainer came round he tripped over him and landed flat on his face.

"Pikachu…" he warningly said, as he stood up facing him.

"Pikachu." Pikachu said pointing behind him. He turned and stared, there sitting a few meters behind him, on a large rock with her eyes closed, was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She had long red hair that reached her waist and wore a blue robe that covered down to her feet.

"Pikaaa" Pikachu said in awe, he slowly made his way towards her with his master beside him. He took every step carefully so not to alert her of his presence. He kept on walking with Pikachu next to him, his little paws making no sound against the soft grass, and despite his best attempts to walk quietly Pikachus' masters' feet made loud patting sounds. Suddenly one foot caught on a stone and he stumbled forward and fell right in front of her. She opened her eyes and looked down at him, as he slowly looked up at her.

She jumped up on to the rock then back-flipped into the water. He got up and walked over to the water and looked down seeing nothing but his reflection.

"Pikachu, who was that?"

Hearing no reply from his little buddy he looked up at Pikachu who was sniffing the rock where she had been sitting.

"Pikachu?" he questioned.

He didn't reply, but then jumped on to his trainers' shoulder and shook his head.

The woman jumped on the back of the pokemon and the pokemon quickly jumped away. He ran in the direction she had gone, calling for her. But she jumped away from him, moving from building to building. He saw that they were running out of buildings to jump to and he thought fast. He sent a silent message to Pikachu, and the little mouse responded quickly, swiftly jumping up to his shoulder then into his bag, his little head poked out and then his paws holding a small red poke-ball. He 'pika-ed' triumphantly and his masters' hand reached back to grab the poke-ball.

"Thanks Pikachu," he thanked his long time friend, and pressed the poke-ball, to return it to its rightful size. He threw the ball below him, jumping up at the same time to send out Rapidash. The same Rapidash that he rode, and won a race for a friend of his, Lara Laramie. The fire horse appeared underneath him, he fell down on to Rapidash and kicked her into motion, riding after the woman.

The woman had run out of buildings and had jumped down to the street.

"Mistress, they're still behind us and getting closer," Suicune's sweet voice sounded in her head, she cast a look over her shoulder to see him riding a Rapidash and gaining speed.

"What should I do, Mistress?" she asked.

"Keep going," came the swift reply, "we can lose them."

The trainer riding Rapidash spoke to Pikachu. "You know what to do," he held out his left arm and Pikachu ran across it to sit on his palm, he flung Pikachu up and forward into the air,

"Pika…chuu." Pikachu fired a thunderbolt at the woman and her pokemon, hitting dead on, Pikachu fell down, into his master's arm, who pulled Rapidashs' reins to a stop. He looked across at the pokemon, who had screamed at the impact and span around to face him.

"Suicune, Hydro pump," the woman ordered. Suicune lifted her head and fired a Hydro pump at Rapidash, hitting it. The impact forced the rider to leap in the air as his mount went flying into a nearby wall and was knocked unconscious. The rider landed holding his small electric pokemon, Pikachu jumped out of his arms to land on all fours, tail straight up in the air, ready for battle.

"Who are you to attack me like that?" she asked rudely.

"Who are you to intrude in my fight," he asked back just as rudely.

"You were losing," she stated calmly.

"I was fine, I called have won easily."

"Nobody, and certainly you alone could not have beaten three electric dark shadows," she spoke a tone that said resistance was futile.

He looked at her, carefully taking in all details, she was slim and tall, reaching about 5'9. She was wearing a light blue top, blue flare pants, and small heeled black boots and over all that was her dark blue coat. She had long red hair that reached down to her waist and her blue-green eyes were glaring at him. She was aware of this inspection and narrowed her eyes even more.

"Enough of this, Suicune, Ice beam," she lifted her arm and pointed at Pikachu. Suicune lifted her head and opened her mouth sending out a cold bluey-white stream of ice.

"Lightning wall," the responding attack.

As the blast headed towards them, Pikachu sent up an electric wall blocking the attack.

She growled and looked him over starting with his black boots, to the baggy black pants and black top, then to his ragged over grown black hair sticking out, slightly covering his chocolate brown eyes. He was slim but still athletically built, tall, 6'1 feet tall.

Her eyes widened in recognition but she shook her head and narrowed her eyes.

"Mist," she ordered Suicune to attack again. Suicune's coat began to glow light blue and let off a light mist that slowly got thicker and thicker.

He closed his eyes lifting his arm to cover them, and when he opened his eyes she was standing right in front of him, her blue-green eyes staring at his.

"Pikachu – "

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," she interrupted, pointing to her left, he followed her pointed finger and saw Pikachu being held in the air by a Golducks' psychic attack. He gritted his teeth.

"Now, who are you?" she asked pleasantly, he looked her straight in the eye, his chocolate eyes filled with fury.

"I am Ash."

She shook her head and mentally kicked her self, how could she be so blind, only one person had an abnormally strong Pikachu.

"Four years is a long time."

Ash was confused and had no response and just watched as Pikachu was dropped to the ground at a hand signal from its trainer, and Golduck returned to his poke-ball.

"Sorry Pikachu," Pikachu shook his head to wave off the weird after feeling of psychic attacks, and ran over to Ash, ignoring him and jumping up and into the woman's arms with a happy 'Pika!'

"Long time no see," she greeted him, Ash blinked and looked at the woman.

"Misty?" he asked shyly.

"For years is a long time, Ash."

Attack – Thunder Shatter

Pokemon – Pikachu

Description – Electricitiy gathers in Pikachu's checks then travels down to his tail, letting out a chosen amount of sparks.

Attack – Lightning wall

Pokemon – Pikachu

Description – Pikachu sends out a strong electric wall that will block any attack.

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