Birds of a Feather

Writen by Arti Cuno

Part Fourteen

"You hold his arms and I'll get his legs!" Arti yelled to Professor Oak.

Gary was laid back on a table kicking and screaming trying to get away from one of the doctors. The doctor had jokingly said Gary's arm would have to be cut off and that started Gary's fit. Arti held onto Gary's legs pinning them to the table while Oak grabbed his arms and held him so he couldn't move.

"This is tourture!" Gary hollered thrashing about.

Arti finally jumped up onto the table and sat on Gary's stomach. "Behave! That idiot was joking! He's only going to put yer arm in a cast!"

"I don't care!" Gary continued holloring, but stopped thrashing. "Why can't you fix this for me!"

Oak released Gary and stepped back a bit leaving Arti to hold him down. Arti leaned down nose to nose with Gary and looked him in the eyes. "What are you doing?" he asked, looking back into her eyes.

"You're gonna stop causing a scene and calm down. You'll behave and let the doctor put a cast on your arm. Okay?" Arti said, still staring in his eyes.

"Uh huh..." Gary replied, completely hypnotized.

Arti sat back up and hopped off Gary and stood beside Oak. "There, he'll be fine now.. for a while. I can only hypnotize a person for a half an hour tops."

Oak looked down at Arti with a raised eyebrow. "Hypnosis?"

Arti nodded. "I could have been mean and used Dream Eater too."

An evil grin came across her face, a look that could scare just about anyone. "Is-is there something wrong?" Oak stammered.

"Gengar!" Arti growled at Oak looking ready to attack him.

Oak quickly stepped away from Arti expecting her to lash out and use a ghost attack on him only to have her fall to the ground laughing. Oak ran to her side and looked down at her. "What's wrong?"

"Y-you should have seen the look on yer face!" she giggled, holding her sides. "I wish I had a camera!"

Oak made a strange face and walked out of the room just as a doctor walked in to put a cast on Gary. Arti stopped laughing just as quick as she'd started and frowned. "Fine, be that way... I was only joking around..."

Arti teleported herself so that she was sitting on the side of the table Gary was laying on. She waited for the doctor to finish with his arm then snapped her fingers waking him up. "C'mon, hon. Let's go back home."

Gary grogily sat up and looked around. "Huh?" he asked. "Home?"

"Yeah, home, my house." Arti said, poking him in the side.

Gary pulled back then pulled Arti up close to him with his good arm. "Be nice and teleport us back, then. I don't feel like walking."

Arti pulled herself onto Gary's lap and kissed him. "Lazy." she teased, nose to nose with him again. "I might make you walk and teleport myself back home."

"You wouldn't dare," Gary smiled, then kissed Arti on the cheek.

"Says you!" she winked and teleported away.

"Hey!" Gary yelled, but before he could say anything else he was telepored away too.

Ash stood out in the front yard of Arti's house training his pokémon battling them one against the other. Pikachu and Squirtle were out first.

"Squirtle, Water Gun!" Ash called.

"Squirtle!"

Squirtle used his water gun attack on Pikachu but before the water hit the electric pokémon Ash turned to Pikachu. "Pikachu! Agility! Then give him your Thundershock attack!"

Pikachu dodged Squirtle's water then came running at the turtle. "Pika-CHU!"

Pikachu sent bolts of electricity out at Squirtle. "Squirt?" Squirtle asked Ash, really asking what he was supposed to do.

"Uh, pull inside your shell!" Ash instructed.

Squirtle went into his shell avoiding the electric attack then popped his head out looking around. Not seeing Pikachu, he came out of his sell all the way only to find Pikachu sitting on his back. "SQUIRTLE!" Squirtle yelled, trying to get away.

"What ARE you doing?" came Gary's voice from nowhere.

Ash stopped Pikachu and Squirtle from battling and looked to the front door of the house to see Arti and Gary standing there. "Hey, you're back! How'd you get past me?" Ash hollored.

"She teleported us, Stupid." Gary snapped. "But the question was, 'What are you doing?'"

Ash called Squirtle back in his poké ball and Pikachu jumped onto Ash's head. "I was warming up my pokémon! Arti, I challenge you to a pokémon battle!"

Arti stepped forward. "You won't win. You know that but still you want to fight?"

Ash nodded. "I may not win but it'll give me plenty of experience! Not only for the next time we meet but the challenges I have ahead of me!"

"Stop being so mellowdramatic," Gary yawned. "It's getting boring."

Ash fell to the grouns with Pikachu on his head wailing. "I'm not mellowdramatic!"

"Actually, you are." Brock said, coming from the house with Misty. "We heard the fighting so we guessed Gary was back."

"Brock!" Ash whined, jumping to his feet.

"Knock it off!" Arti screamed, fire shooting up around her from the ground. "We're going to the gym and getting this OVER WITH."

A group of Arti's bird pokémon (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, MissingNo., Houou, and another that was green and looked like it was a grass type) landed around her, glaring at Ash, Misty, and Brock.

"I'll be nice and teleport everyone to the gym, making you're time to suffer before the battle short." Arti smirked.

A light started to shine around everyone, including the birds, then the all disappeared only to reapear in the gym. Ash looked around remembering his last horrible defeat. If Arti had done that only with her "low leveled" pokémon then what might happen with her birds?

"Three pokémon battle." Arti declaired. "Battle starts now."

"Alright!" Ash exclaimed pulling a poké ball from his belt. "Go, Pidgeotto!"

Arti smiled and took a poké ball from a sack on her belt. "I'll be nice toy you thiss time and give you the advantage. Go, Butterfree!"

"Butterfree?" Ash, Misty, and Brock all asked.

A butterfree came from Arti's poké ball and fluttered around for a moment. Ash looked right at the pokémon then he saw something. A yellow ribbon around it's neck! "Hey! That's MY butterfree!"

Ash ran out onto the gym floor and ran upto Butterfree hugging it. "Butterfree!" he yelled happily. "I missed you buddy!"

Arti looked pissed off from the other side of the gym. Her hands were clenched tight at her sides and she was growling. "That's MY butterfree! I caught it a week ago!"

"It is not!" Misty jumped in. "Ash raised that butterfree from a catterpie! We let Butterfree go to have babies with its mate and we put that same yellow ribbon around its neck!"

Arti's expression softened. "It's really yours?" she asked Ash.

Ash nodded. "It's really mine."

Arti looked down at her poké ball then threw it to Ash. "Here. Take it. Butterfree's yours. And thats a master ball. I suggest you switch Butterfree to another poké ball and reuse the master ball. Concider it a gift. From what I've seen of this butterfree you've done a good job raising it. I've taught it new attacks since I caught it though... I suppose I should tell you what..."

"Butterfree knows new attacks? Cool! Hey, Butterfree! We should thank Arti, don't you think?"

"Freeeeeee!" Butterfree agreed.

"I taught him Psychic with my new TM I bought, and then I raised his levels so he learned all his attacks he'd normally learn. That inclueds his most powerful one, psybeam."

"Yeah!" Ash yelled, jumping up and down with Pikachu bouncing beside him.

"Well, on with our match," Arti interupted. "Forestra, go!"

"Forestra!" the grass type bird screeched, flying into battle.

"Do you still choose Pidgeotto?" Arti Asked. "I'll give you the benifit of the doubt and let you choose another and not have Pidgeotto count as the first."

"Hmmm." Ash pondered. "I'll choose Butterfree!"

Ash called the circling Pidgeotto back and let Butterfree flutter into battle.

"Alright, battle begins now." Arti declaired. "Forestra, Razor leaf!"

"Stra!" the bird squaked, flapping her wings causing a gust of razor sharp leaf to go flying about.

"Butterfree! Counter attack with Psybeam!"

"Freeee!" Butterfree squeeled, using his most powerful attack and causing Forestra to fall from the sky.

"Forestra!" Arti called. "Return! Go, Moltres!"

Moltres squaked and took flight replacing Forestra.

"Haha! I might actually win!" Ash said, getting full of himself. "Butterfree! Psychic!"

"Moltres! Wing Attack, followed up with Fire Spin!"

Moltres swooped behind Butterfree then, as it climbed into the air again, smashed its wing into the bug. Moltres flapped her wings kicking up a tornado of fire then trapping Butterfree in it.

"No! Butterfree! Return! Go, Squirtle!"

Squirtle was called into battle and looked around not expecting a flying pokémon as an enemy. "Up above you, Squirtle!" Ash said, pointing upward. "Use your Water Gun!"

"Moltres, Sky Attack!"

Moltres began to glow while she dodged Squirtles multipul water attacks. The fire bird dove suddenlt speeding to the ground, but, instead, slammed into Squirtle sending him across the room, defeated.

"Not Squirtle too!" Ash whined. "Uh, go, uhhh, Pikachu!"

Pikachu wondered out into battle and let sparks from his cheeks. "Pika!"

"Moltres, comeback!" Arti ordered. "Zapdos, go!"

The stubby winged Zapdos waddled ontn the gym's battle area not bothering to fly. He waddled right upto Pikachu and leered the smaller electric pokémon down.

"C'mon, Pikachu!" Ash cried out. "You're my last hope!"

Zapdos let out an ear percing cry that sounded like the crackling of electricty.

"Zapdos! Thunder!" Arti commanded.

"Chuuu." Pikachu whimpered and cringed.

Zapdos again cried out then electricshocked the pikachu. Pikachu wailed in pain then fee to the ground with swirlies in his eyes. "Piiiiikachuuuuu..." he whimpered.

"There!" Arti exclaimed, jumping into the air. "Still undefeated!"

She teleported across the gym to shake Ash's hand. "Good try, Ash! Forestra is one of my weaker birds though, but, none the less, you managed to defeat one out of three. That deservs something."

Arti reached into her pocket and pulled out another two poké balls. "When I said about the Master ball you looked a bit confused I noiced. You can't buy these anywhere. They're garenteed to catch anything you throw one at. I'm giving you my last two I have with me. Make sure you put them to good use."

Ash stared in awe at Arti's kind gesture. "You're just giving these to me?" he asked in disbelief.

Arti smiled. "Of course, Silly. They're yours now. I said when we first met I believe in you, well, even after my sudden rages at you, I still do. You'll be a master yet!"

Ash placed the master balls in his pocket for later use. "I won't let you down!" he declaired. "I will become a Pokémon Master!"

Misty and Brock stood behind Ash, both of them smiling. Ash turned to them. "Well, it's only half of our day gone. Why don't we start onto Cinnibar Island now? We can stop in town and grab a few things then move on." Ash suggested.

Misty nodded. "Good idea. We've got a long way to go to get to Cinnibar."

Arti snapped her fingers then Ash, Misty, and Brock's things were all read for them and sitting on the floor beside them. "That'll cut back on your time even more. I've already teleported the things you'll need for the trip from the pokémart to your backpacks."

Ash looked up at Arti again. "You didn't have to do all this..."

"Don't tell me I have to send it all back!" she winked. "I just used the last of my teleportation powers!"

Ash smiled. "Thank you, Arti. You've done too much for us. We'll be back again, sometime soon I hope, but untill then..." Ash picked his backpack up and put it on his shoulder. "Good bye!"

Ash looked to see Brock and Misty had already started walking and were ahead of him. He ran off waving back with Pikachu close behind him. "Pikachu!" Pikachu called back waving.

"Pika pika pi chu!" Arti called back to Pikachu. "Bye, Ash! And give Blane a good beating! he's too stuck up as it is!"

Ash left the gym leaving Arti and Gary there by themselves. Ash caught up with Misty and Brock only as they were at the town limits. He smiled proudly after winning two master balls and getting his butterfree back.

"Life's been good lately, hasn't it Pikachu?" he asked, the little elecetric mouse as it scampered to his head.

"Pi! Pikachu!" Pikachu agreed laying down for a nap as they all continued their long journey to Cinnibar.

The End

Author's note: After this story the next in the Series is "True Colors Prussian"