ML54: This was going to be a one-shot, but found that there was SO much to this idea! So this may be a two or three-shot. More likely a two-shot. Anyway, I hope you like it.

Uxie: They'd better. There's a lot here.

ML54: It took me a while to write this chapter. And it took 12 pages on Open Office.

Snivy: MewLover54 doesn't own pokemon

Critical Condition

Oshawott, the blue bodied, white headed otter pokemon with a scalchop on his stomach jumped as a yellow stream of electricity was fired towards him from Pikachu, the red cheeked, lightning bolt tailed, yellow mouse pokemon. "Phew!" He let out a sigh as it missed.

He then turned and leaned back. "Water Gun!" He fired a stream of water at the mouse, as Pikachu just jumped to the side and somersaulted out of the way.

He then jumped towards the otter pokemon. "Iron Tail!" He called, as his tail glowed a bright white and swiped at Oshawott.

"Razor Shell!" Oshawott retaliated, pulling his scalchop off his stomach, which had blue energy ejecting out of it in the shape of a sword. The two attacks had collided, but Oshawott had managed to push Pikachu off of him. See, due to Pikachu being in the air, he had nothing to help him stay in position.

Pikachu had slammed, painfully, on the ground. "Water Gun!" Oshawott had declared, firing the water jet again, hitting Pikachu again for good measures.

Pikachu picked himself up afterwards and panted with exhaustion. "THUNDER..." He started until Oshawott cut him off.

"PIKACHU, WHY EXACTLY ARE YOU ATTACKING ME?" Oshawott had finally decided to ask, tired of avoiding Thunderbolts, Electro Balls, Iron Tails and Volt Tackles. It was really starting to take a toll on him.

Pikachu glared, scaring Oshawott a little. "Don't play dumb with me! I know what you're trying to pull!" Oshawott's eyes widened with fear as Pikachu stepped, threateningly forward. "You were flirting with Buneary!"

Oshawott tilted his head to the side. "All I said to her was good morning, Buneary." He shrugged. "I say good morning to everyone. That doesn't mean I'm flirting with everyone." Pikachu growled at him, causing him to step back a little more, nervously.

"I know you said beautiful. Not Buneary!" He then pushed Oshawott against the tree, Iron Tail on his neck Oshawott gulped. "Remember this, and this only. Buneary is MY girl! So don't go trying to pick up my girl!"

The little blue pokemon shook his head, waving his stubby arms frantically. "I swear! All I said was a greeting! You must have misheard!" He knew it was hopeless trying to calm Pikachu down. After Dawn had come to the Unova region to travel with Ash, Iris and Cilan. Pikachu started to lose trust in Oshawott.

"I know I didn't mishear anything! Especially when it comes to you! You're even more flirty, shameless and hopeless as Brock was!"

"I'm sure that comment would have insulted me more, had I had ANY idea who Brock is." Pikachu applied more pressure into the Iron Tail, causing Oshawott to choke a bit. Him and his big mouth!

"You get the point! Just keep your sorry ass away from Buneary or I won't go easy on you next time!" He released the otter pokemon, who gasped for air for his deprived lungs.

As Pikachu left, Oshawott placed a paw to his stomach and unhooked his scalchop, hugging it close to him. Pikachu had changed so much after Dawn came with that Buneary.

Now he held nothing against Buneary, she was nice. But the mouse pokemon had made it his job to protect her from everything, even if she had no need for protecting. Including him.

He let out a defeated sigh. He best keep to Pikachu's order, less he get Volt Tackled. He was lucky to have evaded most of his electric attacks, but he had a big bruise on his thigh when he was hit by Iron Tail.

He got up to walk back the the clearing that their trainers were probably waiting for them. He had no idea that the friendly Pikachu could be so...Aggressive. But it was probably the same as when he had tried to flirt with that Lillipup, and it's mate had attacked him.

But he had, honest to Arceus, not been trying to flirt with Buneary! She was pretty, yes, but he knew he had no chance when he saw the massive Beartic Hug she gave to Pikachu. But yet, Pikachu still held the belief that Oshawott was trying to get Buneary.

As he took a step, he hissed and wobbled on it. It must have been more serious than he had thought. He limped towards the clearing.

Pikachu got to the clearing, not looking back. How dare he try to flirt with Buneary! Everyone knew that Buneary belonged to him!...or not. He hadn't actually got around to asking her yet. So while he was working on a way to ask, he made sure that none of the males outside her own team get too close to her.

But Oshawott shouldn't come within twelve feet of her. He knew what he was like, shamelessly flirting with every pretty face he sees.

Just as he was going to see how Buneary was doing, he felt a vine hold him. He turned to see the green grass snake, with arms and legs known as Snivy. "You should just ask her out you know. She likes you, loves you even! She's not exactly subtle about it."

"It's not that easy! I get nervous and fluttery around her." He huffed and looked away. "Anything else."

"Yeah, have you seen Oshawott? I haven't seen him since he greeted me this morning." Pikachu snorted.

"Probably still in the forest. Idiot tried flirting with Buneary earlier." Snivy raised an equivalent of an eyebrow.

"All he said to her was good morning Buneary earlier. If that's flirting, he's more shameless than I thought." Pikachu's eyes snapped open.

"Wait! He didn't say good morning beautiful?" Snivy actually laughed at that.

"He said that's a word he reserves when he finds 'the one'. If he said anything along those lines, it would have been pretty or something." Pikachu wasn't listening at this point. He was extremely nervous now, especially with the state Oshawott was in after he left him.

"Oh Arceus, what have I done?" Pikachu cried, rushing into the forest. Snivy, startled, ran after him.

"Wait! What do you mean what you've done?"

"OHH~~ Not paralysis!" Oshawott had complained, dragging himself across the forest, now having no idea where he was going. He was in SO much pain, it was unreal. He had checked his leg again, and it turns out that it was cut open quite badly, almost straight down to his artery. He was lucky it didn't cut his artery.

But it doesn't help that the cut had dirt and fungus spores in it. He was starting to feel very whoosy and had tried to pick up the pace, only to feel the harshness of the static ability of Pikachu.

He entered a clearing and looked around, seeing no trainers. He spun, head throbbing when he did, and was cut off.

"Well, Well. What do we have here?" A huge red headed, blue bodied, rough skinned dragon pokemon known as Druddigon asked, mockingly.

"I-I'm so-orry miiiiiister dragogon. I'm just t-trying to fi-find my trai-trainer." Druddigon chuckled, darkly, taking a step forward.

"Oh, I'm afraid that's not possible. See it's been a while since I had a nice, juicy Oshawott to eat." Despite his condition, Oshawott's eyes widened in fear and he jumped away.

"N-no! Please! I won't taste good!" The dragon eyes the already spilling blood with humour.

"The way I see it, I'll be doing you a favour. Either I can kill you now, or I can just wait and watch you suffer before you bleed to death." Oshawott's eyes started to swell with tears. Never had he been so scared. But, as he thought about it, who exactly will miss him.

Every female pokemon he flirted with rejected him. His closet friend on his team now hates his guts and Ash had plenty of other Water type pokemon. And he was in a LOT of pain. It hurt even more knowing it was Pikachu that caused this. The pokemon that he had trusted the most.

Well, almost the most.

"Snivy..." Oshawott whispered. He had trusted and admired the Grass type the first time she joined the team. He realised that he had tried sharpening his skills a bit after she had joined. And he had been less willing to flirt with female pokemon (Though he still did.).

He had found himself thinking about the Snake quite a lot of the time. He just couldn't get her out of his head. He looked down at the realisation finally occurred to him. "...I love you..."

He unhooked his scalchop and, with much MUCH difficulty, put up a defensive stance. "If I'm going down. I'm going down fighting!" He declared, weakly. Druddigon smirked.

"So I see you went with option one, good choice." He then charged. "GIGA IMPACT!" Oshawott's eyes widened as he dived out of the way. The Dragon type rushing past.

"Water Gun!" He fired his trusty beam of water out of his throat, only to find that it was a lot hotter than usual. The predator let out a cry as the frying hot water attacked his scales.

"That was Scald..." Oshawott whispered, amazed with his luck. He noticed that the Druddigon had landed in the pile of blood that Oshawott had left. As the predator turned, he growled in a blood lust like state. Oshawott gulped.

"Delicious! At least Oshawott's are always worth the trouble!" Oshawott noticed that he wasn't moving very much. He then remembered the side effects of Giga Impact and smirked.

"Aqua Jet!" He then surrounded himself with the water and smashed into the dragon's face, and landing safely on the monster's other side. Only a small amount of pain on his leg.

"Flamethrower!" He turned in time to see the flame hit him dead on, throwing him against a tree. He cried out as his head hit the tree behind him.

"Ah! I always love me a cooked meal!" He purred out as he advanced on the weakened otter. Then, Oshawott cried out as the dragon sunk his teeth into his arm. The otter flailed helplessly and screamed in agony as some of his flesh was ripped off his arm. "And for burning my hide, I'm going to make you suffer!" He snarled.

Oshawott whimpered, but managed to get his scalchop with his left paw. "Razor Shell..." He said, weakly, slashing the side of the Druddigon's face with his trusty weapon.

"ARRG!" The Dragon released him and stepped back, holding the side of his face in pain.

Soon, Oshawott's body had had enough. His right arm was now starting to pour blood as well. This loss of blood, suddenly causing him to feel weak, and start to pass out.

"WHY YOU LITTLE!" He heard the dragon bellow. "HOW DARE YOU?" He advanced forward and bared his fangs. "See you in the Distortion World!"

"VOLT TACKLE!" Suddenly, a yellow blur had rushed through the bushes and smashed into the dragon's side, sending him into a tree. Snivy rushed out after the blur and spotted her friend.

"OSHAWOTT!" She had screamed with worry, wasting no time to getting to him side. She glanced over and saw Pikachu finish the Druddigon off with Electro Ball.

She then focussed her attention on the bleeding Water type. "Oshawott! Hang in there! You're going to be okay!" She reassured his, semi-conscious body, wrapping his good arm around her, and held him tightly with her hand, clutching the wound to stop the bleeding, using one of her vines to do the same with his leg.

She then saw Pikachu bound towards them, eyes widening at the sight of Oshawott. "No..." Pikachu said, pathetically.

"Pikachu! We need to get to Ash! He'll know what to do!" Pikachu gave her a look. "Alright! Iris and Cilan will know what to do!" Pikachu nodded as the two rushed as fast as they could to the camp site.

At the camp site, the group of four had packed up all the tents and were ready to head for the next town. "Alright everyone! Let's get to Nimbasa City!" The green haired, well dress pokemon connoisseur Cilan had declared, returning his Dweeble and Pansage to their respective pokeballs. (I haven't seen the series for a while, so forgive me if I don't know all of the pokemon.)

"You guys too, return!" Iris replied, returning Emolga and Excadrill to their balls, picking up her Axew.

"Alright, time to return for now guys!" The blue haired co-ordinator Dawn announced, returning Buneary, Pachirisu and Cyndaquil to their balls and Piplup bounded to her feet. She had left Ambipom and Mamoswine with her mom, since Ambipom liked to help her mom with the house work and Mamoswine just wanted to sleep.

"And you guys too. We'll call you soon." Ash added, returning Tepig, Tranquil and Scraggy as well. Then he turned to return Snivy and Oshawott and realised. "Guys! Where's Oshawott, Snivy and Pikachu?"

"You lost Oshawott again!" Iris exclaimed, stupendously. Oshawott liked to wander off, so she figured that Ash would have kept an eye on him.

"Yeah! But this time Snivy and Pikachu are gone too. So you can't really blame Ash. They might have gone a little to far out, and didn't hear us say we were heading out." Ash gave Dawn a smile of gratitude and then turned.

"GU...!" He stopped himself when the three missing pokemon burst into the clearing.

"PIKAPI! (ASH!)" Pikachu yelled, frantically, pointing at Oshawott who was barely hanging on.

"OSHAWOTT!" Ash screamed, kneeling down to Oshawott's level to check the injuries. "GUYS! WE NEED TO HURRY! OSHAWOTT'S BLEEDING REALLY BADLY!" He picked the Water type to return Snivy to her pokeball.

But Snivy shook her head, and jumped onto Ash's shoulder, using her vines to keep pressure on Oshawott's wounds. "Ash, Snivy will probably help Oshawott! Let's just go!" Cilan reasoned, urgently. Ash nodded and took off at a break neck pace to the entrance to Nimbasa City.

Once in the Pokemon Centre, Nurse Joy had immediately dropped what she was doing and called for the surgery Audino stat.

Snivy had, reluctantly, let go of Oshawott so the Audino could take him. He had fallen unconscious a few minutes prior. As soon as she let go, blood started to seep out of the wound and his leg wound revealed a greeny like substance.

"AUDINO! EMERGANCY SURGERY! GO GO GO! HE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME!" The Audino nodded and rushed Oshawott into one of the rooms. The rest just stared at the door, Snivy and Pikachu started to tear up at the thought of losing their friend.

Well, Pikachu was anyway. Snivy had always held strong feelings for the silly but sweet otter pokemon. Sure it bugged her when he flirted with anything with a pulse. But it never made sense why until a few days ago. It wasn't that he was flirting with others. She was jealous that he wasn't flirting with HER.

That's when she first knew she loved him.

"He put up a fight at least..." She glanced to see Pikachu next to her. "He had hit that thing with at least three attacks before being knocked down. A Razor Shell, Aqua Jet and a move I'm not familiar with." Snivy nodded and turned away from him, angrily.

"Why would you do this?" She demanded, quietly. "I mean, even if he WAS flirting with Buneary, he definatly doesn't deserve this! He could never deserve this...Why?" Pikachu looked at his feet, as if they'd answer for him.

"I don't know...I just didn't want Bunea..." Snivy cut him off.

"Oh Buneary! Buneary! Buneary! Just go and ask her out already! We all know she likes you! And yet you're still acting like a fucking coward! Say what you want about Oshawott's flirting, at least he has the guts to go through with it! And now you feel so insecure about Buneary that you hurt Oshawott up to the point to where he could hardly defend himself! Then left him alone! I used to think you were better than that!" The trainers stared at the emotional Snivy, yelling incoherent things. She then turned and stomped next to Piplup and crossed her arms as a message that she doesn't want to talk anymore.

Pikachu trembled, physically, before bursting out crying, beating his own head in. It was his fault and he knew it! He didn't deserve to call himself a leader. Leaders aren't suppose to let their own team mates get hurt. And they CERTIANLY didn't hurt them themselves!

Axew, the little green dragon pokemon with big eyes, stared at the two in curiosity, not knowing what they were talking about having ignored them, before walking over to Piplup. "Where's Uncle Oshawott?" Piplup looked at the infant and she paused. How was she going to explain this to him?

"Um...He's very sick right now. So he went with the doctors to get better." She responded. As she did, the group sent out the rest of their pokemon.

When they materialised, they immediately sensed the tension and saw Pikachu thrashing around in Ash's arms, repeating that it's his fault. They also saw Snivy stare, unblinkingly, at the double doors to an operating theatre with the red light on.

"Hey Axew, go play with Scraggy while I talk to the grown ups. Okay." Axew smiled and ran over to play with the yellow pokemon with the pants that don't stay up for very long.

"What's going on?" Tepig asked, looking around. "And where's Oshawott?"

"You're surprised Oshawott's not here?" Emolga joked. She froze though, when Snivy and Piplup glared at her. "Hey who died?!"

"Oshawott could be dying!" Piplup hissed at the flying squirrel pokemon. "Now enough with the jokes!"

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! Hold up! What do you mean Oshawott could be dying?!" Tranquil asked, with worry filling her whole voice.

"Snivy and Pikachu found him in the forest earlier with a massive cut on his left leg and right arm. T-they were bleeding really badly. One I think was infected. And he had burn marks all over his fur."

"He was attacked by a Druddigon." Snivy explained, filling in the gaps. "Oshawott tried fighting back, but only got three hits in."

"Wait! Oshawott is quite a stubborn and tough pokemon..." Cyndaquil offered. "...He should have easily been able to beat an overgrown lizard!"

"Well, Pikachu kind of battled him earlier and might of left a bit more damage than he initially thought." Snivy explained, not going into any detail. She knew he deserved it, but she didn't want the others to think of him as a monster. They trusted him.

Well, she and Oshawott wouldn't anymore.

After hours of tormentous waiting, everyone just staring at the double doors that Oshawott was wheeled through hours before hand, the red light finally turned out. The four humans and many pokemon looked up to see the Audinos and Nurse Joy bringing Oshawott out on a transportable bed.

They rushed to meet Nurse Joy in the middle. "How is he Nurse Joy?" Dawn asked first.

"Snivy snive! (Please say he'll be okay!)"

"He's stable. But he'll be unconscious for a while. He has a few muscle contusions and a couple of broken bones. I'd suggest no battling for at LEAST a month." She replied, handing the trainers some pills. "He'll need to take these pain killers with each of his meals for the first week, then during the second only 2, 1 every 12 hours. And then during the third, he'll probably only need to take one with lunch. Then during the fourth week he should start with light training, and he should be as good as new by the end of the month." Cilan had wrote it all down on a note pad he used to take orders on in his old gym.

"Anything else?" Ash asked, Pikachu staring at the, once, strong and proud Oshawott.

"Absolutely NO going into his pokeball. Careful when carrying him. And, when they're on, you'll need to make sure his casts stay really clean. And make sure he doesn't use any of his own moves either. It could cause his functions to give out." Ash nodded. "We'll like to keep him here for a week, so you don't have to do the three painkiller a day regime. Then you can be off. We'll take off his bandages by the end of this week as well, so getting him walking at least by them."

"Well, I have a gym battle. It's sort of lucky I wasn't going to use Oshawott." He then faced the nurse again. "Do you think he'd be able to watch the battle?"

"I'll have to send one of the Audinos with you, but I suppose that would be okay."

"Snivy. Are you okay?" Emolga asked the Grass type in concern as Oshawott was wheeled into a resting room. Snivy sighed.

"I guess." She replied. "Why are you concerned? You should be loving my suffering and misery."

"That's not the reaction you'd get from someone who guesses they're okay." Emolga reasoned. Snivy glared at her. "Look. I know that you like him." Snivy stumbled.

"How'd you know?" Snivy hissed. Emolga shrugged.

"The way you glare at me everytime Oshawott flirts with me is a Hell of a give away. A Snivy, green with envy."

"I'm always green." Snivy corrected. Emolga sighed.

"It's a figure of speech." The snake smacked herself over the head for her own stupidity. "Anyway. I was just going to say that I felt bad for him." Snivy snorted.

"At this point, who doesn't?" Emolga shook her head.

"Not just the fact that he was attacked. But since he was so excited about seeing the Pokemon Musical." Snivy raised an equivalent of an eyebrow. "He said he used to watch it in Professor Juniper's lab. He's always dreamed about seeing it live."

"Oh... As soon as Ash has his badge, we'll be leaving and Oshawott won't be able to see it." Snivy suddenly felt a whole lot worse about the situation. Oshawott's dream has suddenly been crushed.

And it was all Pikachu's fault.

Pikachu had also heard what they had talked about and felt too ashamed about anything. "Are you okay Pikachu?" Ash asked his long time partner and friend. Pikachu felt everyone stare at him now.

"PIKA! (I'M SORRY!)" He had screeched out through his tears as he jumped out of Ash's arms and had done something that had shocked everybody.

He had gone inside his pokeball!

"No way! As long as I've had him he's never gone inside his pokeball, no matter what the situation was!" Ash yelled out, picking the pokeball up, trying to bring him out again, but Pikachu was sticking in there like glue.

"Why is Pikachu acting like this?" Iris asked, concerned about the mouse.

"What's wrong with Pikachu?" Buneary asked Snivy. Now Snivy felt cornered. She was never one to lie, she hadn't lied earlier she just didn't give details. But, as much as she felt he deserved it, she didn't want to risk Pikachu's chances with Buneary.

"He must blame himself for going too rough on Oshawott during practice." Snivy answered with a shrug. She felt dirty for lying, sure, but Pikachu seemed traumatically sorry for what he's done. So she had no right to ruin his life. He just needed to control his jealousy.

"Alright everyone!" Nurse Joy announced, causing everyone to look up. "He's starting to come to now, so if you'd like to see him, come right on in."

"YAY! Uncle Oshawott's getting better!" Scraggy announced, causing the others to smile at her innocence.

Oshawott stared at the ceiling, sort of out of it. The painkillers he was on were REALLY strong. He kept laughing to himself, seeing funny shapes. When the others came in, he smiled goofily. "Osha! (Hey guys!)"

"He's on a very strong painkiller, so may be a little delusional for a while." Nurse Joy explained, seeing the confusion on their faces as Oshawott tried hitting imaginary Digletts in the air, saying.

"Osha! Osha! Wott! (Whack a Diglett! Whack a Diglett! Whack!)" Axew jumped up excitedly.

"Axew! (I love that game!)" Oshawott glanced at the dragon type, and backed up just as quickly.

"OSHA! (PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!)" He cried, trying desperately to get away from the harmless infantile pokemon. The Audino in the room panicked, trying to decipher what was wrong.

"Axew, Ax. (I'm not going to eat you.)" Axew tried to respond, only to be drowned out by the shouts of the otter pokemon.

"Axew! You're scaring him!" Iris scolded her Dragon type pokemon, picking him up. When he was off of Oshawott's bed, the Water type seemed to calm down a lot. "Why's he scared of Axew?"

"Snive Snivy. Vee. (Oshawott was attacked by a Druddigon. That might be it.)" Snivy told the Audino, who nodded and wrote it on a note pad for Nurse Joy to read.

"Oh dear! Apparently Oshawott was attacked by a Druddigon. He might have developed a phobia of Dragon type pokemon."

"Why would a Druddigon attack Oshawott?" Ash asked, wanting to know the reasoning behind Oshawott being brutally beaten.

"The Druddigon around this area have been know to eat Oshawotts. In fact it's their favourite thing to eat." Nurse Joy replied, looking sympathetic to the trainer to the unfortunate blue pokemon. "Now, I'm sorry, but this part of the Pokemon Centre is for pokemon only during night shift."

"Alright. You going to be okay by yourself Oshawott?" Ash asked. The little otter smiled goofily, nodding his head.

"OOOOSHAAA! (YOOOOOU BEEETT!)" Snivy looked at the out of it pokemon with determination.

"Like Hell I'm leaving him by himself!" While the trainers returned all their respective pokemon to their pokeballs, Snivy jumped out of the way of the red beam, and stood there defiantly. "I don't care if I have to use force! I'm not leaving Oshawott alone."

Luckily for her, force was not needed. "I think Snivy wants to stay here with Oshawott." Cilan deduced, holding Ash's arm in place. "Is that okay Nurse Joy?"

"Well, if it's okay with Audino." She turned to her helping hand. "Is it okay?"

"Audi! Audino. (No problem here! I'm sure she won't get in the way.)"

"Alright! Keep him safe Snivy. Goodnight." Snivy smiled and thanked Audino and Nurse Joy, resting on the chair next to his bed. He turned.

"HEEY SNIIVY!" He called out, giggling. "I have a funny name, don't I? Oshawott. I always liked the name Angelo. Because it's the words angel and jello melded into one!" He continued, laughing at his own joke. Snivy let out a small smile, he was acting very...cute right now.

"Now I need to talk to you real quick Ash." Ash turned to face Nurse Joy. She flipped through her charts. "We looked at the wound charts and the Druddigon was responsible for the broken bones, arm injury and burn marks. But his leg wound came from another source."

By now, all four of them with Axew still in the arms of Iris, were listening. "Well, what had caused Oshawott's leg wound."

"AX! EW AX! (Yeah! Tell us! I'll teach them!)" Nurse Joy glanced at the chart.

"Well, it appears that the leg wound was caused by an Iron Tail attack." Ash's heart stopped hearing that.

"Iron Tail. A strong ingredient for a massive disaster." Cilan commented. "The guide book of the Nimbasa Woods explained that the Druddigon in there couldn't learn Iron Tail."

"But Team Rocket don't have a pokemon with Iron Tail..." Dawn started.

"...and there aren't any Team Plasma members in Nimbasa City anymore." Iris finished.

"Then that means that..." Ash could hardly believe he was saying this. "...that Pikachu must have done it!" He saw their doubtful looks. "I know, I don't believe it myself! But Pikachu is our only pokemon with Iron Tail..."

"...and Pikachu has been rather distant with Oshawott as of recently." Cilan picked up. "There's only 3 pokemon we could ask, and 2 of them we can't see until tomorrow."

Ash pulled Pikachu's ball off of his belt and threw it, meaning that Pikachu HAD to come out. Then, in a flash of white light, there stood the yellow mouse, eyes red as Hell. "P-Pikachu. I need to know. Did y-you attack Oshawott?"

Axew, for a young one, was watching this all unfold, and his eyes held disbelief. "Axew... (Pikachu...)"

Pikachu didn't look up at them, but nodded. He just wanted to go back in his pokeball. He knew his trainer and best friend would be angry at him. "I-I thought so..." Pikachu looked up to see no anger, but something that made him feel ten times worse. Ash was refusing to look at him, but looked extremely disappointed.

Then he looked and saw Axew right in front of him, glaring daggers at him. "AXEW! (HOW COULD YOU?)" He hardly knew what was happening until he was Dragon Pulsed in the face.

"AXEW!" Iris cried, picking the youngster up, looking as Pikachu picked himself up.

"Ax! Axew ew!" (He deserved it! He hurt Uncle Oshawott!)" Axew protested, trying to get to the yellow mouse to attack him again. Iris, try as she might, couldn't hold on for ever and Axew had used Crunch.

Axew had Pikachu's arm in a vice grip, Pikachu didn't bother to cry for Axew to let go. He deserved it, and a whole lot more. "Axew! Stop please!" Iris pleaded to her little baby dragon. Axew, reluctantly let go. Only because Iris had pleaded. And he didn't want to get paralysed.

Ash held out the pokeball, and returned Pikachu to it. "I can't believe he'd do this." He said to himself, walking away. "I'm going straight to bed guys..." He had told the astonished trio. Ash, miss dinner, that only happened when Ash was REALLY upset.

"Rock, paper, scissors!" Oshawott and Snivy had called together. "You know, one of us has to stop picking rock." Snivy explained, as they saw that the two had picked rock again.

"Well, how do we decide?" Oshawott asked, then put his good arm up. "Oh! Oh! I know! Pick me!"

"It was your question." Snivy giggled.

"We should play rock, paper, scissors!" Snivy rose an equivalent to an eyebrow.

"So... To decide who should stop using rock... We play the game we've been playing for the past 10 minutes." Oshawott tilted his head.

"We've been playing rock, paper, scissors. Did I win?" He asked, hopefully. Snivy was about to answer, but saw his cute look and smiled.

"Yes you did."

"YAY! I am the rock king! All bow before the rock king! Except you, your nice!" Snivy looked at him softly.

"Thank you rock king."

"HEY! Can I tell you a secret?" Snivy looked at him curiously.

"Sure, if you want." Oshawott beckoned her closer.

"I kind of like someone... Really badly! Do you think you can help?" Snivy looked a bit down.

"Oh yeah sure." She knew this was going to be one of his temporary crushes who he's crazy about for, like, three days. Then as soon as she rejects him, he'll sob for an hour then move on to the next girl.

"Well... She's one of my bestest buddies in the WHOLE world. Almost as much as you. But you let me be rock king, so you just beat her." She smiled, at least she was better.

"She's really nice and caring and helpful and green and slender and grassy..." Snivy's eyes widened a little at the description.

"Her name is Snivy... She really is beautiful..." He said the last bit to himself really, but she heard it anyway. Her heart had started to pound against her ribcage, she was blushing furiously and she was sweating. It didn't help that he was SO close. His lips almost touching her ear hole.

He then pulled back. "So can you help me? But don't tell her I told you." He continued. Snivy stared at him and almost fell over. He had NO idea that he had just admitted to really liking her. He even used the word beautiful!

"Oh...Um...Well, you should just tell her. I mean, look at you! You're the rock king! The greatest pokemon of all!" She was desperate for him to tell her his feelings for her when he knew who she was.

"You make a great argument. Do you think I should open with that?" Snivy would have laughed if the scene wasn't so surreal. Here she was, giving Oshawott advice on how to admit his feelings... FOR HER!

This has certainly been a hectic day!

ML54: I just had the though in my head, because in the anime and a lot of these fics, we always assume that Pikachu was the peace maker. So I just had the thought of, what would happen if Pikachu made a BIG mistake?

Tepig: They probably would have never made it into an episode if THIS is what happened.

Oshawott: REVIEW! REVIEW FOR THE ROCK KING!

Axew and Scraggy: ALL HAIL THE ROCK KING!

ML54: No flames please. As I said, I haven't watched the anime for a while.