126 The Unown
Larvitar liked travelling with Ashlyn; he saw Ashlyn as his mother. So far he didn't like Misty, Volkner, and Brock because he was scared of them; it was only Ashlyn and Tesla that he wasn't afraid of.
While on the way to the Pokémon Preserve, Larvitar had met many different Pokémon and found out what adventures were like. Along the adventure, Brock's Pineco evolved into a Forretress and Misty's Marshtomp evolved into Swampert. The gang had also met their old friend Casey. They found out that her Bayleef was now a Meganium, her Flaffy was now an Ampharos and she had captured her own Elekid, so Casey was happy.
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Now the gang were walking up a mountain area, but then Ashlyn suddenly stopped in her tracks. "I sense a Psychic energy nearby." She said.
She and the others looked up to the sky and then a purple light glowed in the sky, and then an Unown, in the shape of the letter G, appeared and landed to the ground.
Ashlyn touched the Unown. She suddenly read Unown's thoughts and feelings, "It feels sick and it feels sad from being separated from the other Unown in the dimension." She explained.
"Poor thing." Misty said with concern.
Ashlyn looked up Unown on her Rotom phone:
[Unown, the symbol Pokémon. Unown use telepathy to communicate with each other. Many different shapes of Unown have been discovered.]
"But there aren't any Pokémon Center nearby." Misty pointed out.
"We'll have to take care of Unown ourselves." Brock decided.
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Unown was now sleeping in a bed, with a wet flannel on its forehead. Tesla and Larvitar watched over it.
"Unown will probably make its way back to its dimension once it's better again." Ashlyn guessed.
"That's a relief." Misty said.
Ashlyn remembered all the abilities that Unown had; like crossing between dimensions, making strong psychic bonds with humans and making one's mind a reality. Ashlyn was also watching Larvitar keeping an eye of Unown.
"It's good to see that Larvitar is starting to look up to other Pokémon." Volkner said.
"Yes even though it's still shy with humans." Brock agreed.
"You know, ever since we got Larvitar I have been wondering," Ashlyn said, "I've been wondering what had happened when Larvitar was stolen from the Pokémon Preserve area. And I also hate to think what the poachers are like and I do hope that Larvitar's mother is okay."
"I've been wondering about that too and I have the nasty feeling that those crooks must be really bad, and there's no doubt that Larvitar's mother is really worried about her child." Brock stated.
"It's all the more reason for us to take Larvitar back to the Preserve area." Misty said.
"I agree and we should start heading over there first thing in the morning." Volkner said.
Everyone agreed to that plan.
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Next morning Unown was feeling well again, which made the gang relieved. Larvitar was the happiest of all and began talking to the Unown at once. Just then Unown touched Larvitar's head and then it began to glow.
"Hey what's going on?" Misty asked, panicking.
Before Misty's question could be answered the Unown glowed really bright and then everyone disappeared.
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Ashlyn woke up in a strange area; there were broken green egg shells everywhere. She, Misty, Volkner, and Brock were all floating on top of egg shells. But Tesla, Togepi and Larvitar were not with them.
"Where are we?" Misty asked.
"I think we are in a different dimension," Ashlyn said, "I mean Unown glowed very bright when it touched Larvitar, and it must have teleported us to this dimension. The only question is what dimension is this?"
Suddenly Tesla and Togepi turned up, but they were humongous. But Larvitar was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Larvitar?" Ashlyn asked.
"Raichu. Rairai Raichu Rai. (I don't know. We didn't see him when we woke up here.)" Tesla replied.
"Then we better go find him." Ashlyn decided.
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The gang started to search for Larvitar. Ashlyn and Volkner rode on Tesla while Brock and Misty rode on Togepi.
Suddenly the area changed into another area; the area was now filled with Elekid heads and the Electabuzz team theme song was heard. Then the gang started seeing images of the adventures they were recently in and then they ended up back where they started. Just then they saw an enormous green egg, with cracks and a black thorn on the side of it.
"This is Larvitar's egg." Ashlyn said.
Ashlyn looked through one of the cracks and saw an image of herself. Volkner, Misty and Brock saw images of themselves too, but Volkner, Brock and Misty were in black and white.
"I think this is how Larvitar sees us through his eyes which means we must be in the mind of Larvitar. I mean all those things we saw were memories of Larvitar." Brock suggested.
"It makes sense. Unown touched Larvitar's mind when it glowed, so now Unown is showing us Larvitar's mind." Ashlyn stated.
Ashlyn went to see what the black thorn was, but as soon as she touched it the thorn sucked her in. Volkner, Misty, Brock and the Pokémon tried to help Ashlyn, but they got sucked into the thorn too.
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The gang were now in another area, but this time Tesla and Togepi were back to normal size.
"Thank goodness you're back to normal." Misty said as she picked up Togepi as Ashlyn picked up Tesla.
"What kind of area is this?" Volkner asked.
At that moment an enormous machine appeared out of nowhere and then a web net thing came out of the machine and surrounded the area.
"What's going on?" Ashlyn demanded.
Just then the gang heard a voice saying; "I'm scared."
"That voice," Ashlyn said, "I think it's Larvitar's, but he sounds scared."
Just then the machine grabbed an egg and then the gang saw three men holding the egg.
"Who on earth are they?" Misty asked.
"If I'm not mistaken, I think this is Larvitar's memory of the day he was stolen from the Pokémon Preserve as an egg. And those three men are the no good poachers who stole him." Brock concluded.
Suddenly they heard a roar and a Tyranitar appeared.
"Mummy!" Larvitar called out.
"That must be Larvitar's mother!" Misty gasped.
Just then Tyranitar was attacked by some blasts.
"Hey stop that!" Ashlyn shouted.
The gang could only watch helplessly as Tyranitar got hurt by the blasts and got a scar on her chest, and then she started to disappear from sight, while Larvitar was still calling out "mummy".
"It's because of that forced separation from its mother is the reason why Larvitar is afraid of humans." Brock stated, angrily.
"If I ever meet those poachers, I will give them a beating they'll never forget!" Ashlyn growled.
"I'll join you on that." Volkner growled.
Just then the memory faded and then Larvitar appeared, but he was surrounded in black thorn patches.
"What happened? What are these?" Misty questioned.
"The black thorn on Larvitar's must represent Larvitar's awful memories and he's still petrified by them." Brock answered.
"With all the horrible things he went through, it's no wonder Larvitar is afraid." Misty said.
"Yeah, I don't blame Larvitar for that." Volkner agreed.
Ashlyn could see that Larvitar was trying to fight back against the horrible memories, because Larvitar was struggling to free himself from the thorns. She was still shocked at what Larvitar had witnessed as an egg. Her fists clenched at the look of Larvitar being in pain.
Without a second to spare, Ashlyn and Tesla ran up the hill of thorns to help Larvitar, and the others followed. It wasn't easy of trying to get to Larvitar because the thorny branches kept on trying to stop them. And then Larvitar got covered by a block of ice. Ashlyn ran up to the ice and punched it to try and set Larvitar free.
"Larvitar don't give in to those painful memories of yours!" Ashlyn called out "Remember all the good and fun times we had together!"
"Rai!" Tesla yelled.
"That's right, not all humans are bad, Larvitar!" Brock shouted.
"Yeah we aren't bad!" Volkner said, "and you met some more good people while we traveled together!"
"Please Larvitar, wake up!" Misty called out.
With one final punch, Ashlyn set Larvitar free from the block of ice. When Larvitar opened his eyes and saw Ashlyn, he happily jumped straight into Ashlyn's arms.
"Oh Larvitar, thank goodness." Ashlyn hugged Larvitar.
"Rairai!" Tesla cheered.
At that moment the gang found themselves back at the giant green egg and the black thorn disappeared.
"This must mean that...Larvitar trusts us." Brock concluded.
"Toge Toge!" Togepi chirped.
Suddenly the egg began to glow, and then the gang were transported out of the dimension and back into the real world and their campsite. The gang were relieved to be back in the real world. The Unown turned up and it was happy to see everyone again.
Ashlyn looked to Larvitar, "Listen Larvitar, no one is going to hurt you again, and we're going to take you back to your mom." She promised.
"That's right." Volkner agreed.
"You can count on us." Misty added.
Larvitar stared at Volkner, Brock and Misty. The two looked at Larvitar with nervousness. Volkner slightly flinched.
"Is he going to harden again?" Misty asked, slightly afraid.
Instead of hardening up, he smiled at them. Volkner, Misty, and Brock were relieved by Larvitar's smile.
"I think Larvitar trusts us now." Volkner said.
"I think so too." Brock agreed.
Misty and Larvitar held each other's hands. Ashlyn turned to Unown.
"Thank you, Unown. If it weren't for you, we never would have known Larvitar's feelings or help him get over his fear." Ashlyn thanked Unown.
Unown smiled happily at the gang.
At that moment a portal to the Unown's dimension opened up in the sky, and there was hundreds of Unown searching for their friend. The stray Unown said goodbye to the gang and went back into the dimension.
"Okay everyone," Brock said, "Now's the time we continue on to Mt Silver and take Larvitar home."
The gang agreed with Brock's words.
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So with the Unown back into its dimension and Larvitar free from his bad memories, the gang continued onto Mt Silver to reunite Larvitar with his mother.
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Pokémon Caught: Heracross (M), Furret (F), Stantler (F), Meganium (F), Typhlosion (M), Togetic (F), Feraligatr (M), Steelix (M), Ampharos (F), Girafarig (F), Misdreavus (F), Inteleon (M), Rillaboom (M), Shiny Greninja (Genji)(M), Shiny Chestnaught (Cybele)(F), Kommo-o (M), Goodra (Nessy)(F), Meowstic (Orin)(M), Meowstic (Bella)(F), Thievul (F), Gothitelle (F), Rapidash (F), Houndoom (M), Shiny Noctowl (M), Zeraora (Raiden)(M), Alolan Raichu (Nariko)(F), Marshadow (M), Murkrow (M), Elekid (F), Celebi (Moriko)(F), Shiny Corsola (Coraline)(F), Ho-Oh (Aveline)(F), Phanpy (Tantor)(M), Latias (F), Latios (M)
