Hocus Pocus 1.5 chapter 6

“Hang on, Misty!” shouted Ash. It would be okay to talk now since just about everyone has fallen off.

Ash was trying his best to hold on to the edge of the hot-air balloon basket, but it was hard for him to hold on when his new paws are short and stubby.

“I am hanging, Ash!” shouted back Misty, who in fact was still holding onto Ash’s Pikachu tail. “Just try to pull yourself back up into the basket!”

“Easy for you to say!” said Ash, straining himself to talk while hanging. “But you’re not the one with Pikachu paws!”

“Oh, just shut up and try!” shouted Misty.

Ash groaned and tried to reach up with his other paw and grab the basket. However, right as he lifted his free paw, the paw that was hanging on slipped off.

Ash scrambled in mid-air and quickly caught hold again to the basket, but this time with his other paw.

“Misty!” shouted Ash. “I don’t know how much longer I can hold!”

“Just hang on!” shouted back Misty.

Then, she had an idea.

“Ash! Let me climb over you and get into the basket!” said Misty

“What? And leave me dangling here?!” shouted Ash.

“No, you idiot!” shouted Misty. “If I wasn’t hanging here for my life, I would’ve punched you so hard by now! I meant that after I’m in the basket, I’ll pull you up too!”

Ash shouted at Misty to hurry up and do so. Misty tried to climb over Ash, but it was hard for her to get a firm grip on his furry body and it was hard for Ash to hold on when someone that weighed more than twice of his new body weight was climbing and pulling down on him.

Misty reached up to the top of Ash’s tail, grabbed, and pulled herself up. Ash had to bite his own lip just to try to stop the pain that went through his body when she did that. Misty reached up again and grabbed Ash’s stomach, almost squeezing the air out of him. However, when Misty brought up her other hand, the grip she had on Ash’s stomach let loose and gave on her.

Ash quickly reached down with his free paw and grabbed Misty’s hand before she fell. But, Ash’s other paw that still hung onto the very edge of the basket gave away too after having Misty’s weight forced back upon it.

They both fell like rocks from an mudslide. Straight down towards the ground at a breakneck speed.

Ash and Misty both screamed as they fell to their deaths.

As Ash fell, his life seemed to flash before his eyes.

The day he was born.

The day he said his first word.

The day he saw a Pokémon for the first time.

The day he rode his first bike.

The day he lost his first bike.

The day he got his first Pokémon toy.

The day he got ready to start his journey as a Pokémon trainer.

But, the most important memory that flashed through Ash’s mind. . . was the day that he had first met Pikachu.

Pikachu.

Will I ever be able to see it again? Thought Ash. Will it be experimented on for the rest of its life because I wasn’t able to save it? Will I ever be able to hear it call me?

Pikachu shifted in the bag. A strange feeling was washing over it for some reason. Colby saw its uneasiness and wanted to help.

“What’s wrong, Pikachu?” he whispered.

Pikachu didn’t look up at Colby nor any of the other Pokémon around it, but instead Pikachu looked up, as if it was able to look outside of the bag.

And it muttered one word.

“Pikapi.”

Colby didn’t know what that meant, but that expression on its face showed that it was missing something. . .or someone.

Colby leaned his hand over and softly petted the small, electric mouse, trying his best to comfort it.

“Don’t worry, little guy,” whispered Colby. “In the end, it’ll all be all right. You just have to have some hope.”

Now, Pikachu turned its head over to face Colby, then faced away and looked up in the distance again.

“Pikap—”

Suddenly, cutting off what Pikachu was about to say, there was a small THUD, and then the feeling of weightlessness overcame everyone. They were falling!

Colby couldn’t tell if he was falling backwards, forwards, sideways, or anything, but it was a for-sure feeling that they were falling straight towards the ground. The Butterfrees in his stomach told him so.

But the real question was what to do. It was hard to think at all while falling. Colby’s mind whirled so much from trying to think of anything while everything was going on that he couldn’t even think straight. All of his thoughts were just his fears of what might happen to them.

Then, the ground finally hit them. . .all of them. . .but it felt closer than any of them had thought. Of course, it still hurt a bit from the fall, but no one was injured or seriously harmed in any way.

“You idiot! How could you drop the bag?!” shouted a feminine voice.

“Well, I’m so sorry! You try carrying a full bag of Pokémon along with a kid while jumping over trees!” shouted back a more masculine voice. “Why are we even jumping over these trees anyway? It’s both stupid and tiring!”

Pikachu couldn’t see through the thick bag, but it could definitely tell who’s voices those were.

“Well, if I’m not mistaken, it was in-fact your idea, Dutch!” argued back Cassidy.

“For the last time! My name is Butch!” shouted Bunch. . .Clutch. . .not wait. . .Bob. . .no. . .Butch! That time was right.

Colby seized this opportunity and crawled out of bag, pulling Pikachu, Vulpix, and Staryu out with him.

“Why don’t you just shut up for once and get these Pokémon to the Drop-Off already?!” argued Cassidy, still not yet noticing the escaping Pokémon.

“Okay then,” said Butch, jabbing a finger at his partner. “Why don’t you carry the bag filled with Poké Balls, three grown Pokémon, along with a teenaged twerp!”

“What?” said Cassidy, turning away with her hand on her chest. “Shouldn’t the real men have to do that? I mean, lifting heavy objects isn’t a lady’s work.”

Once all of the Pokémon were out of the bag, Colby picked up the bag (which was still filled with the Poké Balls) and hoisted it over his shoulder.

“‘Lady’s work’?!” shouted out Butch, turning red from anger. “I don’t see one ‘lady’ out here. All I see is some little ‘girl’ that refuses to pick up a bag!”

“Well, excuse me! That darn bag is part of your—”

Cassidy pointed over to where the bag used to be, expecting it to still be there, but paused in her sentence as she and Butch noticed that the twerp and the three Pokémon had gotten out and were trying to steal their own bag.

“Hey! Stop right there!” shouted Cassidy.

“Like I would,” said Colby, teasingly, and dashed off.

Pikachu and Vulpix dashed right behind Colby while Staryu hopped along behind them.

All of Ash’s senses came back to him. He was still falling, but his memory flashes went away.

No! He thought. It can’t end like this! I just wont let it!

Ash looked around him, trying to find anything to help him and Misty.

Ash looked back up at the turned basket. Wasn’t there something, anything to help them?

Just then, Alakazam leaped out of the basket and dived downward towards Ash and Misty. Alakazam! I forgot all about it!

The Psychic reached out and grabbed Ash’s paw, then reached out with it’s other hand to grab Misty’s, and pulled them back close together in the air.

And that’s when it hit Ash.

“That’s it!” shouted Ash as he free fell. “Alakazam is a psychic! Alakazam, use Teleport!”

The Pokémon was already ahead of Ash. By the time Ash was done saying his sentence, Alakazam started to glow brightly. Soon enough, Misty began to glow next to it and Ash’s vision was filled with nothing but white light.

But Ash could tell that they hadn’t teleported yet. Before, Alakazam teleported him a short distance over to Team Rocket’s hot-air balloon and when it did, Ash saw a bright flash and a funny sensation came over him. Right now, neither of them have happened yet, only bright light.

“Could it be charging?” thought aloud, Ash.

Ash suddenly thought why he had forgotten about Alakazam in the first place. What had it been doing the whole time on the balloon?

Then, there was the bright flash that shown even through the white light that covered Ash’s vision. And just as quick as when the flash turned completely on, it turned off. . .and Ash could see the ground. This time, the ground was much closer.

However, it was still very high for Ash and Misty.

And their decent continued.

“Wait, we’re still falling!” shouted Misty, terrified.

Thanks to the laws of gravity, all three of them fell at the same time. Luckily, Misty landed on some branches of some of the trees around them while Alakazam caught hold of one branch and swung down to the ground, safely, on it’s two feet.

Ash, however, fell straight downward, completely missing the trees around him. He quickly fell to the ground. . .but with something cushioning his fall right as he touched-downed.

“Oof!”

Ash was completely safe, but whatever broke his fall sounded in pain. Ash looked down on whatever saved him.

It was a long thing, covered in some kind of dark cloths, and ended at a black point at the top. Before the point at the top, there was some long, orange fur coming out of it, but no other fur existed on any other spot of the thing.

“Um. . .hello?” said Ash to the thing beneath him.

The branches that Misty fell on quickly gave away, making her fall down to the ground as well with an “Oof!”.

Alakazam held on to some cord looking thing in one of its hands. It looked a bit ripped up and ruined, so Alakazam threw it over it shoulder, getting rid of it.

The thing beneath Ash groaned and slowly got up. Ash quickly got off of it, but he mostly just fell off since his body was so small and the thing just stood up beneath him.

“Oh. . .my head. . .”

Misty got up from where she fell, rubbing where she fell on, and looked up at the thing. . .then gasped in shock.

“Lily?!” Misty gasped.

The Poké Witch turned her head around and faced Misty.

“Oh, hello there, Misty!”said Lily, dusting herself off. “Fancy seeing you here.”

“But. . .what. . .what are you doing here?” asked Misty, still shocked.

“Well, it’s kind of a long story but—”

The Poké Witch stopped and gasped at herself once she saw Ash on the ground where he fell off of her. She immediately picked him up in her arms and held him tight.

“Oh you cute, little Pikachu! It’s good to see you again!” Lily said as she cuddled with Ash in her arms. “You’re so soft and small and cute and cuddly!”

“Lily, it’s me!” said Ash as the witch kept hugging him.

But Lily didn’t hear him at all, she just kept loving on him and telling him how cute he was. . .

“Uh. . .Lily. . .that’s not. . .” stubbled Misty, trying also to explain to the witch.

“Alaka!” shouted Alakazam.

Lily stopped, but not when Misty said something, when Alakazam said something.

“Oh, hello there! I didn’t know Alakazam live around here,” Lily said, still holding onto Ash.

“Lily! It’s me! Ash! Put me down!” shouted Ash.

Finally, the witch looked down at Ash after hearing him. Her eyes quickly widened.

“Ash?” she gasped. “Oh, wow! It really is you! And you’re still a Pikachu!”

“Yes. . .that’s what we’ve been trying to say. . .” sighed Misty.

Lily smiled again at Ash in her arms, then looked around as if expecting someone else.

“Well, I see that you and Misty are here, but where is Brock and your Pikachu?”

“Well,” started Misty. “We were together, but we got separated once we were looking for—”

“Pikachu!” shouted Ash, both finishing and interrupting Misty’s sentence. “We gotta hurry up and go and find it!”

“Hold on,” said Lily. “You lost your Pikachu? The one that helped make the potion before?”

“I didn’t loose it! Team Rocket came and stole it from me!” stated back Ash.

Lily frowned.

“No, that isn’t a good thing. . .that Rocket Team weren’t very nice people as I recall,” said the witch.

“No, they’re not,” said Ash. “Which is why we need to go right now! We need to go find Team Rocket and save Pikachu and the other Pokémon!”

Lily gasped.

“They stole other Pokémon?!” she asked, astounded.

Misty and Ash nodded their heads.

“They stole Ash’s Pikachu, my Staryu, Brock’s Vulpix, all our Poké Balls with our Pokémon in them, and even kidnaped a friend of ours that we had just met,” explained Misty.

Lily raised her hand to cover her mouth as she gasped again.

“That’s terrible! They even kidnaped one of your friends?!”

Misty nodded again.

Lily placed Ash back down on the ground, dusted herself off some more, and began to rummage through her bag.

“Then we need to get going right now!” said the witch.

“We know, but we don’t know where we are, where Team Rocket is, or where Brock is,” said Misty.

“Two of those things are easy, silly,” said Lily, still rummaging through her bag. “Now where did I put that—Ah! Here it is!”

Lily pulled out a small bottle filled with some strange orange liquid out of her bag and held it out in front of her.

“This,” the witch started, still holding the bottle. “will help you find your friend, Brock.”

“How?” asked Ash from below Lily.

Lily looked below herself and down at Ash, so she could see him.

“Well, this is just a small concoction I made a couple weeks ago. . .before we met,” said Lily. “This can make any psychic Pokémon or human be able to sense the whereabouts of things or people that they have already came in contact with.”

“I get it,” said Misty. “If you give that potion to Alakazam here, it will be able to know where Brock is!”

Lily smiled and nodded her head.

“That’s right! However, it just needs some psychic energy added to it before it can be drunk,” said Lilly.

Ash turned around and faced Alakazam, who was behind him.

“Alakazam, could you find our friend for us?” asked Ash.

Alakazam looked down at Ash. . .but didn’t say anything.

“Please,” Ash pleaded. “If you find Brock for us, then we can go find Colby and the other Pokémon.”

As soon as Alakazam heard the name of its trainer, its whole face changed expressions. It nodded its head strongly towards Ash, already holding out its hand for the potion.

“Alaka!”

“Thank you,” said Ash, smiling.

Lily walked over to Alakazam and handed it the potion.

First, she had to tell it to use Psy Beam into the potion so it can activate. When Alakazam did just that, it brought the potion to its lips and chugged it down.

“Woah! Careful there!” warned Lilly. “You don’t want to choke on it!”

But Alakazam didn’t care. In a matter of seconds, the whole bottle was empty.

There was no POOF! or any fog coming out of the bottle, nothing even seemed to be happening to Alakazam at the moment.

“Did it work?” asked Ash.

“Of course it did, silly,” said Lily. “You might not be able to see it actually work, but I’m sure Alakazam can feel the results.”

Sure enough, Alakazam closed its eyes and began to glow brightly. Then, there was a bright flash, and it was gone.

“Where did it go?” asked Ash, astonished.

“To go find your friend. Now with the potion in its body, its psychic powers have also been increased tenfold!” explained Lily.

“But I thought that Alakazam has to have already been to a place to be able to teleport back there,” said Ash.

“True,” admitted Lily. “But because Alakazam can sense exactly where your friend is, it’ll be just as good as if it had already been there before!”

Ash couldn’t say that he completely understood all of this magic/psychic stuff, but he nodded his head to show that she can stop explaining.

“Alright, so while it’s doing that, lets hurry up and look for Team Rocket!” said Ash.

Colby leaped over to the side with the bag still slung over his shoulder, dodging the long line of flame that erupted from Houndour’s mouth. He landed on some soft grass, but that didn’t mean that it didn’t hurt.

He quickly rolled over to his back, protecting the bag filled with Poké Balls.

“Wait a sec,” he thought out loud. “We have a Staryu with us now, and Staryus are water type! Staryu!”

The water Pokémon came over to the teenager’s side and stood its position.

“Staryu! Use. . .use. . .use. . .um. . .”

Darn it. . .I can’t remember what attacks Staryus can use! Thought Colby. I can’t even remember that one move. . .what’s it called?

“Houndour, use flamethrower again!” called out Cassidy.

The hound opened its mouth again and released another long line of flame that headed straight for Colby.

“Staryu! Use. . .um. . .whatever water attack you know!” shouted Colby, desperately.

The Staryu didn’t move. Instead, it got hit with the fire attack head-on, pushing it backwards a bit, but not completely hurting it much.

Colby leaned up where he was.

“Staryu, I know I might not be your old trainer, but you need to fight back if you want to see her again!” shouted Colby.

The star Pokémon turned back to give Colby a small glance. . .then did a motion that looked like it was nodding its head. Colby nodded back.

“Now, Staryu! Use. . .uh. . .what was that toy we played with before? . . .Water Gun! That’s it! Lets go!”

Finally, Staryu pointed down its top point and shot out a stream of water aimed at Houndour.

“Houndour, dodge it!” commanded Cassidy.

Houndour leaped over to the side, barely missing the water-stream.

Cassidy turned and gave a mean glare to Butch.

“What are you doing standing around?” she jabbed. “Get going and help me out here!”

Butch gave a glare back, but didn’t say anything. Instead, he grabbed another one of his Poké Balls and threw it out to the field.

“Go, Cloyster!”

The Poké Ball opened up and released a white light that quickly formed into a fully grown Cloyster.

“Wait. . .those are water types too. . .water conducts electricity!” realized Colby. “Pikachu. . .um. . .what’s that other move called?. . .uh. . .Thundershock!”

Pikachu leaped over to Colby’s side and sparked to life as it filled its body with electricity. Then, it closed its eyes and released an enormous blast of the electricity that slammed straight onto the Cloyster.

The Cloyster’s body glowed brightly as the electricity was poured into it. Some sparks went astray and straight into the air.

“But, Ash,” said Misty. “We still don’t even know where Team Rocket is.”

Suddenly, a bright, yellow light flashed on the other side of the woods. Everyone turned towards it to see what it was.

It was electricity!

“Pikachu!” shouted Ash.

Already the small Pika-trainer was running towards the electricity on his two feet. . . soon just to be tripped over himself from simply running.

“Ash, you have to remember: you’re a Pikachu now and will be for awhile,” reminded Lily as she ran up to Ash’s side.

“I know that,” said Ash, sternly.

Ash quickly got back up to his two feet, but then got down on all fours just as he had seen Pikachu do.

Suddenly. . .Ash realized that this position felt. . .comfortable. . .He leaped into the air and dashed away into the forest, going much faster than he thought he possibly could.

The Cloyster fainted down to the ground instantly, not showing any resistance to the attack.

Butch grinded his teeth together from anger of losing so quickly, but nonetheless returned his Pokémon to its Poké Ball. From there, he grabbed another one of his Poké Balls and threw it out to the field.

“Go, Hitmontop!”

Again, the Poké Ball opened up and released a white light that (this time) formed into a Hitmontop.

“Hitmon!” said the Hitmontop, standing on its head.

“Houndour, tackle that Staryu and get the bag!” commanded Cassidy.

“Hitmontop, you also use tackle on that Pikachu!” commanded Butch next to his partner.

Both of Team Rocket’s Pokémon dashed towards their assigned Pokémon that they had to attack.

Colby quickly got to his feet and called out to the Pokémon that he had with him.

“Staryu, try using Watergun again right as Houndour attacks! Pikachu, dodge Hitmontop’s attack with your own Quick Attack and hit it from behind!”

The two did as they were told. Right as Houndour was about to slam its head onto Staryu, Staryu sprayed out a Watergun that not only pushed Houndour away, but also did some major damage to it.

Pikachu leaped over to the side as Hitmontop spun on its head to try to hit it and vanished from view. Then, in less than a second, Pikachu reappeared right behind Hitmontop, bit this time had its head already slammed into Hitmontop’s back.

“Now, Vulpix! Use Flamethrower on them both!” shouted Colby.

Vulpix opened its own mouth and shot out its own long line of fire, this one slamming onto Hitmontop, which was pushed so hard back that it slammed into Houndour that was next to it with Vulpix’s fire still pushing them back.

The two Pokémon kept going until they were both forced upon a tree. Vulpix stopped its fire as soon as the two hit the tree.

A large cloud of dust quickly covered up Houndour and Hitmontop when they hit the tree, almost cracking it in half and cutting it down with their force.

Butch groaned again and pulled out Hitmontop’s Poké Ball to return it. . .but stopped as Cassidy placed a hand in front of him. She did not look back at Butch, but just kept her eyes where the two Pokémon where, covered in the cloud of dust.

“Wait,” she told Butch, trying to see through the cloud.

It took awhile for the cloud to clear up. Everyone stood still as they awaited to see if this battle had to continue. Colby started to sweat from nervousness. He couldn’t think straight again. One side of his mind told him to run, the other side told him to stay and fight.

Pikachu also stood where it was, panting from the two battles it has had to do in only a few hours. The thought of its trainer still lurked in the back of its head, but Pikachu knew that it couldn’t do anything right now.

Finally, the cloud cleared.

Both Houndour and Hitmontop. . .

Were standing and ready to keep fighting.

“Alright!” shouted out Cassidy. “We’re still going!”

Colby looked down at the three Pokémon next to him. They all look enormously tired from all of the fighting they’ve done. Colby himself still didn’t feel too good after being squeezed by an Arbok and being electrocuted by the same Pikachu that wants to help now.

“Come on, ya'll,” encouraged Colby, getting in his stance. “We can do this. . .We just have to keep going!”

And this one took a long time for me to post as well...AND I'M SO SORRY!

you see, I've been grounded this whole time, plus we just got a new faster internet and it's taken me awhile to fingure out how it works, so I'm really sorry again! I hope ya'll liked this chapter, though!

BTW I bet some of ya'll are like "He forgot about the cord on Alakazam's head!" Well...no I didn't!