Pokémon the Movie: The Journey of a Slate

"Hey, A Luo, hurry up and catch up!"

It was afternoon in Black Gold City. Two figures were running on the mechanical-style street. The girl in front turned around and shouted to the boy to urge him. At this time, the girl showed a liveliness different from usual.

The gentle sunlight cast a golden glow on the grey city, and the girl looked extremely beautiful and full of energy under the sunlight, as if she was telling the passers-by about the beauty of youth.

Aislo chuckled helplessly. He was obviously the most curious one, but he did not stop his pace. Instead, he quickened his pace and chased after the figure in front.

The elves on the roadside turned their heads and smiled at the two of them, and Aislo and Mary responded one after another. This city called Black Gold City became unusually lively.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

A small yellow figure was walking in a shabby alley in a panic, its pointed ears drooping limply, its eyes dull and lifeless, as if it had lost hope in life.

"Pichu!" Pikachu suddenly staggered a few times and fell into a small puddle. The splashing water spread all around, and the originally beautiful yellow hair was stained with black and gray filth.

"Pichu..." Pichu tried his best to turn his body over, and looked at the azure sky with lifeless eyes in confusion. He didn't know why, the sky was so shining, but it seemed dull in his eyes.

[It would be better to die like this... die in this corner where no one pays attention to me...] Pichu slowly closed his eyes, still recalling the boy's hysterical roar in his mind.

"I don't need a loser like you. It's so hard for you to defeat a Rock-type gym. Red Pikachu is so powerful..." Pikachu couldn't remember the rest of the words, but after another scolding, the boy named Tomohisa kicked him out and left without looking back.

He tried to catch up, but was greeted with another powerful kick. After the cycle, Tomohisa quickened his pace and ran away.

"Chana!"

A sudden shout awakened the sinking Pichu. He opened his eyes and saw a gray-blue figure about the same size as him.

"Chana!" [Hey, are you still alive? ]

It was an arm wrestler. He was standing with his arms folded across his chest, looking down at Pichu. His red eyes looked so bright in Pichu's eyes.

"Pi..." Pichu replied weakly.

"Cha?" [Are you still alive?] After receiving the response, Armstrong bent down, picked up Pichu, and ran towards the Pokémon Center.

After Wanli's figure completely disappeared in the alley, a figure dressed as a miner slowly walked out from a corner. That person was Hyota.

"It seems I don't need to worry about this little guy anymore." Piao Tai crossed his arms and left the alley. After all, there were still a lot of things to do at the mine.

……

Five minutes later, in Black Gold City, Pokémon Center.

"Hey, is it Armstrong?" Miss Joy in the Pokémon Center didn't seem surprised to see Armstrong coming. She just took Pichu and walked into the room to start treatment. Armstrong closed his eyes and leaned against the door frame to wait quietly.

Miss Joy moved quickly. After a while, a brand new Pichu appeared in front of Armstrong. Armstrong also took out some paper Alliance coins from somewhere, handed them to Miss Joy, and left with Pichu.

"Huh? I've told this kid so many times that he doesn't need to pay..." Joey looked at the banknotes in his hand helplessly, then looked at the two small figures that had walked out of the door, and didn't say anything else.

On the streets of Kurogold City, Wrist Force was holding Pichu's hand, not knowing where to go.

"Cha?" [How come you are still so listless even though you are alive?] Armstrong frowned and asked the distracted Pichu.

"..." Pichu didn't answer.

"Chaha?" [Look at you... How come you were abandoned by your trainer?] After thinking for a moment, Armstrong's frown relaxed. He had seen many Pokémon like this or expressions like this.

"..." Pichu still didn't give an answer, but the tense body for a moment told Arm Strength that he guessed right.

"Cha." [How useless.] Wrist force taunted mercilessly.

"?" Pichu looked up in confusion, his big eyes full of bewilderment.

"Chana, Kaha!" [The relationship between Pokémon and trainers has always been one of mutual choice and mutual achievement, and Pokémon like you who are unilaterally manipulated by the trainer, if not useless, what are they? A puppet?] Armstrong still had that indifferent expression on his face.

After hearing this, Pichu fell silent, wondering what he was thinking about.

Arm Strength saw this scene but did not disturb him. Although this guy has not completely recovered, it seems that he has at least reflected on it, so there is still hope.

...After a long while, Pichu was the first to break the silence, "Pichu?" [Why did you save me? ]

"Cha? Naha." [What else could it be? Of course I want you to work for me to pay off my debt. I spent a lot of Alliance coins to treat you.] Arm Strength spoke as a matter of course. Most of those Alliance coins were earned by him working for humans, but it took him a lot of effort.

"Pichu..." [Okay, I understand.] Pichu nodded.

Pichu raised his head and swayed to follow Armstrong's steps. He had lost his goal and didn't know what to do after surviving, but now, Armstrong gave him a goal.

"I'll work for him first and pay off his debts before thinking about anything else." Pichu thought.

"Chana!" [Hey, idiot, stop thinking, stop!] Pichu was awakened by the loud shout of the wrist force. The little guy looked up hurriedly, and saw two figures in front of him. The two people had slender figures and skin as white as snow. Pichu was stunned for a moment.

It was almost dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the two figures, adding a touch of softness.

"Pichu..." [So beautiful...] ​​Pichu stood there stupidly, and suddenly felt that the two figures looked familiar. They seemed to be similar to the two figures he had glimpsed before passing out in the gym battle not long ago.

"Is this... Tomohisa's Pikachu?" Mary lowered her head to look at the cute little guy in front of her, and couldn't help but reach out and touch his head.

"Well, it seems that he has been abandoned." Aislo nodded, and after spreading his perception to take a look, he felt a bit of disgust towards Tomohisa.

It was because there were still many hidden injuries in this little guy's body, which were obviously caused by unrestrained training, just like when he first met Ibrahimovic in the Crown Forest.

"That guy..." Aislo frowned and called out in his heart, "Yveltal, help me."

[No, you want to help with this? What's your relationship with him?] Yveltal was puzzled, but he still released the energy and dispersed the violent evil attribute fluctuations, injecting the attributeless energy into Pichu's body, and even distributed some of the wrist strength beside him.

Aislo looked at this scene with envy. After all, the technique of converting evil energy into energy of other attributes was something he had never mastered before.

【Why, you want to learn? ∠( ? 」∠)_】

【Uh-huh!(???)】

[You wishful thinking, with your current physical condition, why do you want to learn this? Have a good sleep, you can dream about anything. (▽∧▽)]

【Oh...(?_?|||)】

[Okay, okay, it’s not that I can’t teach you~ But everything has to wait until your body stabilizes. ? – _ – ?]

【Yeah! ＼(?▽?)ノ】

[I really can't do anything about you...＜(￣︶￣)＞]

Ignoring Eslo who was happily chatting with Yveltal, the two Morubeks had already jumped to the ground and stretched out their little paws to stroke Pichu's head.

The boy and girl squatted down and observed the interaction of the little ones. At this moment, Pichu suddenly turned his head and saw that Wanli had already walked away.

"Pi!" [Wait for me!] The little guy didn't care about anything else and hurriedly chased after him.

"Cha." [You have a conscience.] Wrist force paused for a moment, turned around and looked at the figure running towards him with his short legs.

The two little ones walked towards the sunset, or rather, towards the new sunrise, towards tomorrow's sunrise.

Aislo and Mary looked at each other, then turned and left with a smile.

"It's getting late, let's go to the Pokémon Center first."

"Ah."