Just Glue Some Gears On It (And Call It Steampunk) & Recommended Fic · 8:13pm Oct 7th, 2017
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Little Lost Raichu by CommanderX5 - https://www.fimfiction.net/story/387081/little-lost-raichu -
Roxy soon found herself surrounded by Pikachu. There were tons of them and they were everywhere! Roxy was led into a fairly large clearing in the trees, where some simplistic huts had been constructed out of grass and wood. There were a few wooden platforms and ladders made of grass leading up into the trees, where there were one or two treehouses also constructed. It really was a village, and its inhabitants were Pikachu.
"Makari?" she whispered.
"Yes?"
She turned back towards the other large Pikachu, tried her best to smile in a friendly way, and shook his paw. "H-hi…" she stuttered, but then composed herself, "Hello Bamaka. Thank you for welcoming me. I…" She paused and considered her words carefully. "I am…thankful for the shelter you all provide."
Bamaka, however, simply looked confused. He looked down at her with a furrowed brow for a moment, making her glance around awkwardly, before he turned his gaze to Makari.
"What is the meaning of this??" a voice shouted above the crowd. Roxy immediately knew who it belonged to.
Roxy squeezed herself into the crowd, though taking care to stay towards the back, and looked ahead to see Natoka standing in the middle of the gathering. His forelegs were folded across his chest and he looked very cross. Ozu was standing nearby, but he seemed to be letting the bigger Raichu do the talking.
"Say it again…" she said in such a quiet voice that she barely even heard herself.
"Say what?"
"What you just said."
He looked perplexed for a brief moment, then skewed his lips. "I was merely saying that the sadness will pass, and yet you will still have all of the skills you have gained to live in this forest and survive out here."
"But I don't want to live in this forest!!!"
"…Miri?" Roxy squeaked as the two parties continued to speak, "Who…Who are those two…"
"They are members of one of our neighbours, the Earth Tribe."
"Earth Tribe…" Roxy repeated quietly, staring at the two newcomers. After a moment, her eyes shot open wide in realization.
Ground-types!
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"Where do you think you are going?!" he demanded, "Your training for today is not over!"
Roxy gave him a distressed look, frowning at him as if he were saying something insane. "It's raining!" she exclaimed, hoping this would get him to move so that she could spend less time getting drenched.
Taka raised an eyebrow and crossed his forelegs. "Are you serious?"
"C'mon, Taka! I'm getting wet!" she pleaded.
"Okay, I thought I could do this…"
"You can."
"I-I dunno if I can do this…I-I-I'm not ready…"
"Roxy, trust me. You will be fine. We are not even going very far."
"B-but, Makari…"
The taller Pikachu sighed and frowned, looking down at her with his forepaws on her shoulders. He was trying to reassure her, but things were not quite going as planned.
Taka looked at her with a curious expression for a moment. "You do realize what just happened, don't you?"
Finally having caught at least half of her breath, Roxy tilted her head at him and replied, "No, what?"
"That was the first time you were able to avoid getting hit…entirely."
"He was right about you."
Roxy's ear twitched and she turned to look at him again. "Huh?"
"My brother," he said as he turned to look back at her, "He told me, many moons ago, that there was something special about you. I can see now that he was right."
"He…did?" Roxy muttered, feeling a mix of emotions rush through her.
"…Miri?"
The Audino glanced up, slightly surprised from the sound of somebody at her door. "Oh! Roxy, I did not hear you…"
Roxy glanced in Mareepishly, not saying anything.
"…Is something wrong?" Miri asked, "Come in, come in. Talk to me."
The day passed by in a haze, and Roxy honestly spent almost every minute lying limply on her side, blankly staring out at nothing. She was empty. Completely out of fuel. She had no motivation, no drive, and no energy.
"Makari was there since I was an egg," Taka spoke, "Whatever happened, and whatever the world threw our way, we were always brothers and we were always there for one another. We knew everything about each other." Taka then turned back to the sunset. "Then suddenly, you drop right out of the sky, and he becomes obsessed with you. Suddenly everything is about you. Night and day. Your every whim is of utmost importance."
Roxy hesitated, not sure how to respond. "I…I, uh…"
It was done. She had abandoned all of her friends.
There was a loud crunch that nearly made Roxy jump out of her skin. Her frantic eyes scanned their surroundings until she saw a tree not too far away snap and fall to the ground. It made a tremendous, frightening crash as it hit the forest floor. One brave Pikachu ran forward to the tree to investigate.
Taka grunted quietly and then returned to looking down at Roxy. He then took a step to the side, allowing her to see the training area behind him, and gestured outwards with his paw. "Show me what you are capable of."
Roxy blinked, glancing at him and the many targets and objects. "Wh-what?"
"I said, show me what you are capable of."
Roxy was confused as to what was going on. Then a jolt of fear suddenly ran up her spine and nearly made her stop in her tracks. Was it the Earth Tribe? Were they attacking??
A few rather speedy Pikachu ran past her, and she tried to hear what they were saying. Everyone sounded worried, but not as if they were in danger. Rather, they sounded more concerned about something. "What-?" she tried to ask a Pikachu that ran by far too quickly.
"Where?" one shouted to his friend.
"Roxy, you…you have to eat something," Makari whispered.
The other Pikachu stayed nearby for a good ten minutes, the latter half of which was spent in silence, before he gave up and left. Roxy hadn't moved an inch. She paid no mind to the abandoned fruit lying at her paws.
Roxy could swear there were voices in her head. You killed him, they said, You destroyed him. You made him bleed, you made him hurt, and you took his life. Who else's life are you going to take?