Chapter 17: CHAPTER-17
Somewhere inside team rocket base:
A commotion woke Noah up and he finally gained consciousness as he slowly stood up.
'My bag is not with me.' He noticed that all his stuff have been taken by team rocket.
He then looked towards the commotion and saw the protagonists arguing with a old man who have started balding.
The old man said something about the power of rage and how was going to use it on both the Pikachu that was trapped in some device.
The man theturned around and approached another device which looked like a computer.
'perfect chance.' Noah slowly approached the cage's bars.
Did he forgot to mention that they are in a cage?
Brock being the first one to notice Noah's presence turned around but was stopped by a finger holding his lips shut.
Noah removed his shoes before wand took out a small red-white ball and it expanded the moment he clicked on the button in its centre which expanded its size.
The others eventually noticed Noah but kept their silence seeing that Noah had a plan.
Noah then threw the ball through a gap in between the bars.
The ball opened and shot out a red light which released a orange chicken with anger issues.
It was obviously Noah's combusken.
The man heard the noise of a pokeball and quickly turned around but was met with a fist to his face.
Combusken turned around and seeing that the cage had a code he gripped at the bars and forcefully opened it.
The moment they got a chance to escape Ash ran out and destroyed whatever stuff that looked important.
And because of this both the trapped Pikachu escaped.
They both ran into their trainers arm and looked at Noah with gratitude.
The others also were grateful as Ash said:"Thank you but can I know your name?"
This time both Brock and Misty listened carefully to know about this mysterious trainer who seems to be on friendly terms with a lugia.
"Do you read the news?" Noah asked with a smile.
"No?" Ash said hesitantly and started to recall any famous person he knows that matches Noah's description.
He knows no one except prof.Oak and gym leaders.
"I figured, anyways I'm Noah." Noah said and was about to tell them to hurry up but he was stopped by the vent above him almost smashing his head in.
'The fuck?' Noah looked above and saw a little boy with a lanturn jumping down.
The boy landed right besides Noah and asked loudly: "Are you guys okay?"
The protagonist nodded and started introducing themselves and they boy to Noah to avoid any misunderstanding considering the boy almost killed him.
" I am Ash and this is Pikachu." Ash said and pointed towards the yellow mouse on his shoulder.
"I am Misty." The orange-haired girl said.
"My name's Ritchie." The boy with the spiky haired Pikachu said.
"My name's oliver." The kid that almost killed Noah introduced himself.
"My name's Brock and are you by any chance and archeologist?" Brock seems to have figured out Noah's identity.
"Yeah, and you must be pewter city's gym leader." Noah offered his hand as both of them dapped.
A crisp sound echoed in the room.
They seems to have hit it off.
'I really met the main characters of this world.' Noah wanted to laugh and stepped back.
He then took a close look at all of them.
Ash was asking Misty about what an archeologist is and she was explaining it with arrogance and berated him for not knowing what it was.
Ritchie was looking for any hidden injuries on his Pokemon.
Oliver had a worried expression as he looked at the door.
Brock was looking at him with respect and seems to have trouble talking with him.
This time Ash asked Noah, "Where did you hide your Pokemon?"
This was a question everyone except Brock had but did not voice them out.
"Oh about that." Noah sat down and removed his shoes.
He emptied it down as seven small pokeballs fell down on the floor.
"That's..... Actually smart." Misty was too stunned.
"Guys we have to hurry up!" Oliver quickly interjected.
They quickly came to their senses and everything started to leave.
Noah was also with them and they did not ask his opinion on saving lugia.
He came with lugia so he should have some connection with it and wanted to save it right?
They ran through the corridor to find where lugia was caged.
And the creepy old doctor was stripped of his lab coat by Noah.
'I mean I am supposed to be a professor in the future so I should already start practicing.'
Noah ran with them as his earring dangled around rapidly.
Ash noticed Noah's familiar earring but did not voice out anything.
Finally as they reached a forked path some rocket grunts appeared infront of them.
The same people who obstructed them before was their leader.
"You guys go on ahead! I will take care of them." Noah informed them and slowed down.
He took out his pokeballs and released lapras.
"Lapras water gun!" Noah wanted to use water pulse but considering they were underwater he wisely decided not to.
A stream of water shot out from lapras' which pushed away the grunts and opened a path for Ash and his friends.
The did not waste the chance and sprinted towards the room where the baby lugia was held captive.
As they were a few steps away Ash quickly turned around and shouted: "Noah the headba-!"
"Yeah I know!" Noah did allow him to finish.
Ash was a bit hesitant about leaving Noah alone but he turned around and continued on his mission.
'Ofcourse I know about the rage headbands.' Infact Noah wanted one.
'It increases aggression in Pokemon and what Pokemon other than a gyarados is perfect for if?' Noah was hoping for it to work.
It will indeed not work.
After the near death experience with zapdos magikarp understood how insignificant his existence was and gave up all worldly pleasures and started preaching about his epiphany to other pokemon he would meet outside his pokeball, he even tried it with Noah but Noah doesn't speak fish.
In short he became fish Buddha.
Noah stalled the grunts with his lapras and waited for Ash and the others to rescue lugia and it's baby.
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A few minutes later.
A huge rubble was moved by lapras and combusken as Noah came out from the almost destroyed surroundings.
'Can these fuckers atleast do one job properly?' Noah now understood why it took Ash twenty years to become a champion.
He did not know what happened all that he can say is that someone messed up and the grunts he fought went to reinforce their defence but before they got there lugia was released.
'I am pretty sure it was the gag trio.' He saw some people blasting off into the sky because of lugia's aeroblast.
He started to walk through the destroyed hallway looking for the main characters and lugia.
'Ho-oh sent me here for something and I will also get rewarded for it.' Noah was sure this was the case.
This was also the only reason he was staying here.
Finding lugia isn't that hard he just had to follow the sound of aeroblasts and screaming.
'I am done with this region after visiting the dragon cave.' Noah was genuinely tired.
'I mean what else is here?' He started to think about anything interesting in this region.
'pokemon league? Nah I ain't gonna participate.'
'Safari zone? I will catch a dratini or dragonair from dragons cave.'
'Ruins of alph? Already explored.'
'Ordinary?' Noah suddenly froze.
His jogged memory started to become clear as memories of what happened in the slowpoke well appeared in his mind.
'No way.' He was shocked beyond words.
'Wait calm down and think this through.' Noah did not know about the existence of something called ordinary in both the games and anime.
If someone said it's because he didn't watch it that would make no sense because if something that was not included in the games was added to the anime it would gain too much attention.
'I mean Ash greninja and tobias is something like that.' Noah started to walk but slowly.
'Slowpokes are psychic types.' He started to make some theory for his memory lose.
'Psychic types can attack the human minds of even control it.'
'So maybe they did it?'
'But why? He led me all the way there for that?'
'Unless the person who wrote the text asked them to do it.'
'He should also be someone like me.'
'But why did he do that?'
'This thing known as ordinary may be what he called himself.' Noah recalled back his Pokemon as he saw Ash trying to calm lugia down.
'I will think about this later.' He approached lugia and stood infront of it.
Right now Lugia was completely berserk and shooting aeroblast wherever he could.
The others seeing Noah appear right infront of lugia with no protection was scared for his safety and shouted at him to retreat.
Noah sighed and cleared up his throat.
"IF YOU WERE A BETTER PARENT THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!" Noah yelled calmly.
Not at all.
"I MEAN WHO WOULD EVEN FALL FOR THAT? IS YOUR INTELLIGENCE THE SAME AS YOUR CHILD!?"
"AND YOU FELL FOR FUCKING TEAM ROCKET! I WOULD'VE MAYBE ACCEPTED IF IT WAS EITHER GALACTIC OR TEAM PLASMA BUT THIS IS FUCKING TEAM ROCKET!"
The remaining grunts who heard what he just said winced in shame.
They wanted to refute but did not want to get punched in the face.
Yeah during the fight Noah approached them and started throwing hands while combusken and lapras stalled their Pokemon.
He was really desperate for that headband.
Unfortunately they were all destroyed because of lugia.
Noah continued his berating-
"HO-OH HAS AN ENTIRE LORE ABOUT HIM GIVING ETERNAL HAPPINESS, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? BAD PARENTING ADVICE?"
"EVEN GHETSIS WAS BETTER THAN YOU! THE SAME IDIOT WHO TAUGHT HIS FULLY EVOLVED POKEMON FRUSTRATION!"
Even Noah had no idea what he was saying but he went with the flow.
Lugia finally stopped it's rampage and stared at Noah.
It came back to its senses and calmed down.
It's eyesthen darted towards its child.
It thought for a moment and made a decision as it screeched towards the sky and suddenly picked up both Noah and its child and flew into the sky.
Noah did not struggle or yell he just accepted it.
He was too tired to be suprised.
Meanwhile Ash and his friends watched this whole ordeal from the sidelines.
"You sure he would be okay? I hope lugia forgives him for all that insults." Misty asked particularly no one and said her opinion.
"I am pretty sure Lugia's eardrums bursted after the first word." Brock said while crossing his arms.
"I hope we can meet him again and lugia has regained its sense so don't worry about it."
Ash said while Pikachu nodded in agreement on his shoulder.
The team waited until Lugia's figure faded into the distance and they turned around to leave.
They had a journey to continue on and this wasn't the first time something like this happened.
They had their dreams to chase and on the way they might even meet some familiar faces like Noah.
The meeting between Noah and the protagonist can be said to have an influence on both.
Who knows they might even battle as rivals.
Or sworn enemies.