Pokemon Gates to Infinity the Novel Series

(Deleted episode) Safari Zone

Having adopted a new member into the family our heroes are finally entering the Safari Zone where they can hopefully catch some new friends, but will they meet a new friend along the way?

Tomo and Molly were walking ahead of the group holding hands with smiles on their faces. Tomo was looking around in such wonder and excitement, why wouldn't he? This is the first time he got to travel around and not hide from his parent's wrath, and an added bonus he got a new family that loved him for him.

Behind them the gang had smiles on their faces happy to see the kids were happy.

"I'm so glad to see Tomo smiling." Ash said.

"Pika (Yeah)!" Pikachu agreed.

"Its nice to see a smile on his face rather than a sad frown." Misty smiled at the children.

"They're probably excited about going into the Safari Zone," Brock pointed out, "I gotta admit I'm excited about it myself."

"Same here," Ritchie agreed, "I wonder what kind of pokemon will be there?"

"Pikachu (Me too)." Sparky agreed with his trainer.

Tomo and Molly start singing a song making the group smile at them again not knowing what kind of song it is their singing but know it's a very pleasant one. As they kept walking they saw a building nearby, but simply ignored it and kept on walking while the two children kept singing their song, or they wanted to until a man slammed the door open, "SHUT UP!" he bellowed scaring the kids making them cease their singing.

Ritchie frowned at the man, "Hey what's your problem? You scared them!" he found a rifle pointed at him all of a sudden making him freeze up.

"you want to get shot?" the growled then saw that the rifle was grabbed by someone that turned out to be Ash, his eyes were glowing blue looking absolutely unhappy with the man right now.

"If you harm my family. you regret this."A voice that didn't sound like Ash's threatened making the man step back. As he did he noticed the barrel looked as though it was about to be melted if he kept holding onto it.

Ash then smiled innocently at him, "Well now that we've cleared that up, can you tell us if we're in the Safari Zone?"

The man composed himself, "Yeah you are. My names Kaiser the warden of the Safari Zone. Follow me." He turned and walked back inside the building.

Ash looked at the others, "Let's get going then." He grabbed both children's hands and walked inside the building with the others following him thinking about what just happened.

They were inside the building looking around Kaiser's office and seeing a bunch of pictures hanging from the wall. Kaiser's rummaging caught their attention, "All right then," he brought out a basket of Safari balls and set them down on the table, "These are Safari pokéball's. You can only use these while your in the Safari Zone, no other pokéball's are allowed," he brought out some fishing rods, "You can also use these to catch water pokemon."

Ritchie leaned in for a closer at the Safari balls and fishing rod, "The Safari balls looks cool."

Sparky nodded, "Pika (They do)."

Misty then looked to her right and saw a photo of a young Kaiser next to a pokemon she didn't recognize and brought it down so she could get a better look at it, "This pokemon...."

Ash looked at the picture and smiled, "A Dratini."

Tomo looked at the picture, "That's a Dratini?"

Ash nodded, "Yes, the final evolution is Dragonite a powerful pseudo-legendary pokemon."

"Wow..." Tomo said.