Amourshipping : Love, Loss & Loyalty

Curious

"There wasn't any way I was gonna be able to win. Their Pokemon were so powerful... And my Pokemon aren't trained for a long, drawn out fight. So, I had to run... I took all of your Pokemon too, because I didn't want them to get hold of them." Miette had explained her reasoning for why she left them in explicit, unaltered detail. The guilt the blue haired girl felt was unreasonable, illogical, as well as unrequired. "I'm so sorry. I didn't want to, but I didn't feel like I had a choice."

"You didn't." Ash reassured her, with a hand sympathetically on her shoulder. "I'd have probably done the same in your position."

"That's garbage." The baker sighed. "You were already putting up a fight before you got sent over the cliff..."

"Yeah, when it was an even fight. I couldn't have taken them all on by myself. I'm not a God of battling."

Having been led back to the town, and to the Pokemon center, Ash and Serena had had their wounds seen to by a medical professional. Serena's wounds were negligible, only needed a few band-aids and plasters. Ash's wounds required some disinfectant. His leg had gotten an infection, but it wasn't a serious case.

Although, treatment of that wound certainly hadn't been pleasant. There had been clenched teeth and grunts through the pain.

Paul being there had surprised the Kantoean. He knew that he and the Sinnoh native seemed to run into one another a whole lot whenever they were both traveling the same region, but this seemed to be the shortest gap of them seeing one another he had on record. A couple of days at most.

Still, he was grateful. He hadn't needed to go out of his way to help search for the two of them with Ninjask. Ash would even go as far as to say it was somewhat out of character for Paul to have done so. Still, he wouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

"I keep telling you that." Paul said flatly. He was stood a bit away from the group, leaning against a wall, with his arms folded. He wasn't so much engaged with the conversation as he was listening to it, only occasionally contributing to it. "There's only so much a person can do in a situation. I told you he would have done the same.

"If you hadn't gotten out of there, all our Pokemon would have been taken." Serena reasoned with Miette calmly. She understood her friend hated the feeling of being completely helpless in a situation. But she also did think, in her heart of hearts, that Miette did the right thing.

"I'm a bit more concerned with Synthcorp now." Ash muttered, sitting down opposite Miette. "It's a good job you reported it was them, but now no one who works for them can even be found. They've basically become invisible."

"It's a good thing you told the police about them, Miette." Serena told her friend kindly. Miette looked at her with a weak smile, but it was clear it hadn't been enough to raise the blue haired baker's spirits.

"Now the police have an idea, you should let them handle the situation." Paul told the group. He was given three sets of eyes staring at him in return, so he decided to elaborate further. "From what I saw, Synthcrop are absolute savages. All you people would be doing is putting yourself in danger, as well as hindering official police attempts to stop them."

Although Ash hated to admit it, the purple haired Sinnoh native had a valid point. Synthcorp had two members that Ash was aware of, Sierra and Beta, and both were tough like steel. He dreaded to think what the other members of that group would be like, and how strong they would have to be. If everyone was to the same battle standards as Sierra and Beta... They wouldn't stand a chance.

"I don't like it, but he's got a point." Ash conceded. "With our strength... We would only get in the way..." Although, he knew one thing very well.