Friendship, magic and pokémon

by daniboyi


chapter 24

Sorry for long waiting time again. School is crazy with exams and semi bad grades...
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A few days had passed, since Ash for the first time in months had gotten contact with his old family in his own world and he had introduced his friends to his mum one by one, most of them hitting off quite well and being friendly with each other. Ash was just getting home towards the city after having another meeting with the boys, as in Spike, Big Macintosh, Pikachu and Charizard.

He wandered through town, as he greeted a few of the passing ponies with a smile as Pikachu was on his back as usual. He met a few ponies he talked with at times, including Derpy Hooves and the always disappearing and appearing Time Turner, or Doctor Whooves as he preferred to be called all through Ash never saw why.

His attention was then altered as he noticed Pinkie zooming across the ground with something that looking like a Umbrella attached to a ring around her head to keep her head covered and he frowned confused, but walked closer and asked, just as Twilight also got closer, apparently wanted to ask the same thing.

“Pinkie. Why are you hiding and wearing that umbrella hat?” She looked up confused and gasped as she saw her two friends standing outside cower and immediately pulled them under the table with her.

Ash just rolled his eyes, used to this behavior as Twilight groaned, having fallen into the ground roughly as Pinkie said with a scared tone “Twitchy tail! Twitchy tail!”

Ash and Twilight both looked confused at her even more unusual behavior and Twilight asked “What are you talking about?”

She looked at her like she was asking the dumbest question in the world and she explained, looking up in the skies “When I get a twitchy tail it means that something will fall down from the skies!”

Twilight looked dumbfounded, while Ash looked at her with wide eyes, few memories from his times with Pinkie going through his mind, where Pinkie would have a shake or a twitch at random spots of her body and suddenly something unusual happened around them. He nodded after a few seconds, as Twilight said “Pinkie. That is just ridiculous. You mean to tell me that you can predict the future with a twitching tail?” She asked.

Pinkie looked at her with a smile “Of course not silly head! It is not just my tail, but all kinds of parts of my body! Like when my hoof trembles it means somepony is going to be sad, and when my tongue twists it means you should watch out for dogs.”

“Watch out for dogs…?” Twilight repeated with a disbelieving look as Ash shuddered, guessing Pinkie’s tongue had twisted, once he was with Fluttershy at her place. It took him several hours to get the smell and stains off his leg.

Pinkie nodded and Twilight groaned and rolled her eyes “This is not possible Pinkie. I am sure whatever happened with those episodes was coincidences and nothing more!” and she walked out from under the table, and Ash winced hard as a large pot with a flow fell down and hit Twilight right in the head, knocked her out instantly. Pinkie just sighed and said “Let us get her fixed up. I really wish someponies just would listen to me instead of not believing me. Would make everything easier.”

Ash snorted amused and said “Well. I have seen enough weird stuff to believe you fully. Just warn me if something like the dogs happens again please.” She blushed and nodded quickly, remembering that special episode.

He smiled to her as they both carried Twilight to get home with some trouble, a few ponies send them worried looks, but all Pinkie had to say was “Twitchy Tail.” And they understood with a nod and an amused smile. Ash looked at her and said
“Looks like most ponies believe you.” He stated with a sly grin.

She nodded happily “Yeah. They learned. From experience.” Ash gulped again, winced at the thought of what kind of things that happened to the ponies. They entered the library and laid Twilight on the couch, as Ash sighed with a tired smile and said “I think I go make some tea. Want a cup Pinkie?” She nodded happily as Ash left the room, as Twilight gave a small groan in her sleep.

He returned into the room a few minutes later, and saw Twilight with bandages around her head and Pinkie smiled happily,
as Twilight looked annoyed by it all as she obviously still denied the whole Pinkie-being-able-to-predict-future thing, as Pinkie continued to talk to her without any hesitation “See Twilight. I told you it was really real. I have always been able to get these small twitches or trembles that predict the future. I call it the Pinkie-senses!”

“But it doesn’t make any sense!” Twilight groaned frustrated and winced as a new wave of headache got to her “Nopony should be able to predict the future with just twitches and feelings! It is not logical!”

Ash smiled to her easily and said, as he put down the plates with the cups of tea “Not everything can be explained by logic Twilight, take it from me.” She looked curiously up at him, and he continued “I have seen many things in my journeys like ghost, ancient evils and other dimensions. Many of those thought to be only legends and rumors.”

Twilight looked shocked at him, as Pinkie tilted her head, a bit confused, as she asked “You have seen ghosts?” He nodded slowly, and she grinned widely and asked, suddenly up in his face with a huge grin.

“How were they like?! What were they doing?! Why did they contact you?” He backed up nervously and said.

“Mostly they were not the good kind of ghost and often tried to do evil things.” She pouted and he continued to mention.
“But not all ghosts are bad. I have met good ghost as well. I even tried to be a ghost myself once.” This just spurted out of his mouth and he looked quickly at the shocked Pinkie and Twilight.

“Y-You have been a ghost?” Twilight asked shocked, as Pinkie gulped hard, whimpering as she couldn’t even imagine Ash being dead and gone from her.

He hugged Pinkie lightly and said to them both “Don’t worry, I wasn’t harmed at all. It is the ghost pokémon of my world who has the ability to pull the soul out of a living body and even put it back in, if the body is unharmed and it doesn’t take too long before that.” Pinkie looked at him with a smile, as Twilight sighed relieved and said “That still doesn’t prove that the Pinkie-senses is real.” Ash bit his lip to stop himself from groan and nodded in agreement “It doesn’t. But coincidences can only happen so often. I say we watch Pinkie here.” He held her closer “and watches if she has more of these episodes.”

Twilight thought for a second, as Pinkie looked excited about spending the whole day with one of her friends and her coltfriend as she grinned happily, and Twilight said “Sure we can do that. Sounds reasonable enough I guess.”

Pinkie smiled happily at the prospect of her having two friends, who would follow her around all day and keep her company, and she began to bounce excited up and down as she said rapidly “Ohmygosh! Two friends who will be with me today! We are going to have so much fun!” Twilight and Ash both smiled amused at the sight, albeit Twilight let out a small sigh, still not quite used to Pinkie’s everlasting energy source and knew it would get on her nerves by the end of the day.

After Twilight had recovered, she took both Ash and Pinkie down in her basement where, to Ash’s surprise and shock, were a small laboratory like in the movies with a crazy doctor or something like that. As she lead Pinkie over to one of her devices and hooked her to it, Ash couldn’t help but ask nervously “Are you sure this is safe Twilight?”

Twilight nodded without looking back at him as she said “Completely safe Ash. Tested it on myself a few days ago with no negative effects. I would never let a friend test it out without knowing it is safe.” Ash sighed in a bit of relief, while trusting
Twilight with his entire heart, he never was quite easy with technology, as he had seen what kind of evil that stuff could be used for.

He watched as Twilight began to research Pinkie’s physical and mental readings, for when she had a reaction to her senses. Except it never happened, as they sat there in a few hours with no reaction at all, Pikachu was by now asleep on Ash’s back and Pinkie was also bored as she let out a huge yawn, Twilight suddenly groaned in frustration and shut down the machine “Nothing! I get nothing! Why don’t your so called Pinkie-senses work now?” She asked Pinkie frustrated, who looked at her innocently with a small smile.

Ash walked over to her and said “Maybe it is the location Twilight? Pinkie said it was when something happened, that her Pinkie senses were activated. I just say that, what could possibly happen down in this basement?”

Twilight looked at him a bit shocked, before she groaned and facehoofed as she said “Why didn’t I think of that first?!” and she began to walk towards the door to the library again, after she had unplugged Pinkie from the strange machine.

Pinkie grinned as she jumped out of the machine and said “This is so exciting! I can’t believe Twilight let me try one of her machines! She never let me do that!” Ash grinned amused, but secretly thought Twilight with good reason forbid Pinkie from using her machines as they all walked out of the basement and upstairs.

Just as they were about to walk into the main room of the library, began Pinkie to shiver and her ears flapped three times and two times she blinked and she said “Three flaps and two blinks! That means watch out for fire!”

Twilight looked at her with a bit of disbelief and said with a sigh “Pinkie. I have this library 100 % fire secured. Nothing short of the sun itself, could set this tree on fire…” as she walked out of the door into the library, as she walked through the open door, she let out a cry in shock as a massive green flame was shoot right in her face, frying a bit of her mane.
Spike, who was the one that made the fire, was pale as he looked frightened at Twilight, who twitched her left eye in annoyance and a bit of anger, as she took a deep breath and forced a bit of a restrained smile “Spike. Why?”

He grinned nervously, as Pinkie peaked over Twilight’s shoulder and Ash winced at the sight of her charred face “Sorry Twi! I got a bit of dust in my nose and sneezed!” as he looked nervous.

Twilight looked at him for a few seconds, before she sighed and smiled a little to him “It’s ok Spike. Just be careful next time. You could hurt somepony with your fire breath.” He smiled to her and hugged her briefly, before he returned into the library to dust off the books as one of his duties.

Soon after left Ash, Pinkie and Twilight the library, after Twilight had done her mane back to normal with a swift little spell, and were walking in the park, enjoying the weather happily, as Twilight kept a note block and a pencil ready to document if Pinkie got any new cases of ‘Pinkie senses’.

Ash was very amused by the small thing between Pinkie and Twilight, as Pinkie was just happy and eager to prove her senses, while Twilight was dead-set on disproving them as scientific impossible and against all kinds of logic, as the future could not be predicted by weird body shakes and movements, so he decided to follow silently and only interfere is something bad was about to happen.

The day continued like that for a good part, Ash had tons of fun watching the two, while Twilight got into all sorts of accidents and it was first when Pinkie stopped in the middle of a bounce things got serious.

“What is wrong Pinkie?” Ash asked concerned, never having seen Pinkie stop like that, so suddenly.

“A doozy!” she cries out in a bit of excitement and begins to shake and tremble hard at the spot.

“A doozy?” asked Twilight skeptically with a raised eyebrow “What does that mean? That the sky will fall down?”

Pinkie was immediately in her face and said “NO! A doozy is something you never expect! It is the most powerful and exciting of all my senses. It never fails to surprise me!” as she grinned and bounced around, with an occasionally twitch or shake.

Ash smiled amused and said “Can you feel where it comes from or where it will happen?”

“Froggy Bottom Bogg! There is where the doozy will happen!” she said excited before her eyes and Twilight eyes widened in shock “That is the place Fluttershy is right now!” they both yelled and Ash said with a wide look “Oh shit.”

They all ran towards the Froggy Bottom to see if anything bad happened to the sweet innocent pegasi, who is their friend. They arrive not more than twenty minutes later, as they looked around for Fluttershy, but unable to find her as they yell out “FLUTTERSHY!”

They keep yelling for a few minutes, before a voice behind them said curiously “Twilight? Pinkie? Ash? What are you doing here?”

They all turn around and sighed in relief as Ash grinned and said “We were just worried about you, you had been out here for a while, and Pinkie got what she called a doozy that something will happen out here.”

She looked surprised and said “But it is rather calm out here…” it looked like she was about to continue, but was interrupted as Twilight yelled out.

“AHA! This proves it!” she said with a grin as Ash gave a small groan ‘not the right time Twilight’ he thought as she continued “You told us there would be something unexpected out here, but there is nothing! This proves that I was right about your

Pinkie-senses just being weird coincidences and lucky timing!” she grinned proudly, not having noticed the large hydra appearing behind her, raising from the swamp as Fluttershy shrieked in fear and hid behind Ash as Pinkie said with a nervous look “You might want to turn around Twilight…”

She did as she said, a bit in disbelief and she shrieked loudly as she saw the huge hydra, with all three heads glaring at them hungrily as it let out a fierce roar and Ash yelled “RUN!” the girls didn’t need to be told twice and immediately ran in the other direction of the hydra, as Ash ran with them, but a bit behind to stop if he needed to keep the hydra at check if it came to close.

Eventually they reached a cliff side, where there only was a deep fall into a pit filled with spike shaped rocks and boiling sump water. The girls all paled and looked down at the fall and back at the hydra, Ash kept his eyes on the beast, waiting for it to move as he said to the girls “Get across that cliff now!”

Pinkie immediately bounced over on the small platform of a pillar in the middle, and jumped from that over to the other side.

Fluttershy simply flew over easily, albeit scared, and just as Twilight bit her lip, but jumped over to the pillar as well and onto the other side easily. Ash turned around and was just about to jump, when a bobble of acid gas exploded near the pillar and it crumbled into the pit. The girls gasped loudly and looked at Ash in panic as the hydra gets closer.

“ASH!” Pinkie screamed in worry, looking actually afraid for Ash as he turned around and looked at the hydra, who grinned down at the snack of a pony in front of it. Ash just grinned and looked back at Twilight “You asked me about the power of Aura, Twilight? Better get a good look, because I am about to show you.” Twilights eyes widened in surprise over what he said, and she grinned excited.

Suddenly his whole body tensed, as if he released some sort of pent up energy and with a blink of an eye a blue aura flared around his body, as it covered his whole body. He grinned and looked back at Fluttershy and said “Sorry for this, but I have to hurt this hydra to get it to understand and stop attacking.” She whimpered a little, looked sad, but nodded and looked away. With that Ash went into action, with his speed and strength enchanted by the aura in his body, he charged at the beast, jumped up and gave it a circle kick right in the throat. It roared loudly in pain as it was hammered into the ground and Ash looked at the beast, which glared back at him and tried to strike him with one of its three huge heads.

He grinned, not noticed Pinkie’s and Twilight’s gaping looks at him as they were unable to believe, what he was doing. He jumped away from the head as it hit into the ground with a loud dust cloud. Pikachu finally took action and ran over to Ash and sent a large thunderbolt against the hydra, as it made it roar out in pain and glared hard at the two offenders. Ash gritted his teeth, as he felt his energy run from his body rapidly and he looked at Pikachu and grinned “Double attack?” the rodent nodded with a grin, a shine in his eyes, as they both turned back towards the beast, Pikachu began to load a large storage of electricity, while Ash aura began to flare and a sphere of pure aura energy formed in front of him. He grinned and yelled “NOW!” and his did a backflip, kicking the sphere towards the hydra head on as Pikachu released thunder attack. The two attacks mixed with each other halfway as they turned into a sphere of aura in the middle of a sideways twister of thunder as the attack headed towards the beast. When the attack collided with the beast and it exploded with a heavy dust cloud and as soon it was cleared, the hydra had been knocked unconscious and was on the ground. He grinned to Pikachu, as the mouse pokémon jumped onto his back, and he jumped back over the cliff with an aura enchanted jumped.

He landed safely on the other side and immediately found himself in the largest and tightest hug to date as Pinkie cried out, both excited and worried at the same time as she said loudly “OHMYGASH! That was so totally awesomely cool! You went all boom and pow on that meany hydra! While Pikachu went all ZAAAP!” Ash chuckled amused and hugged her back gently.

Twilight sighed in the background and said “At least we discovered what was causing the doozy.”

Pinkie grinned and turned to her, as in on cue, she began to shake heavily and bounce up and down hard “T-T-T-That w-w-w-wasssn’t the d-d-dooozzzzyyy!”

Twilight turned to look at her “W-What?”

“It wasn’t the doozy!” Pinkie said louder this time as she was shaking hard and bounced up and down on the spot

Ash looked back at Twilight worried, as he knew she got a bit of a temper when pushed too far, and this could be one of those times where she was pushed way too much, as he watched her eye twitch and repeat “T-That wasn’t the doozy…? W-Wasn’t the doozy?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA COULD BE A BIGGER DOOZY THAN A FRIGGEN HYDRA ATTACKING US?!” as she said this she had jumped into the air and turned into an inferno pony of death and destruction, like an very angry mini-Celestia as Ash stepped back in shock, seeing the fire in her eyes and the inferno mane from her head, but not able to believe what he saw.

Suddenly she fell to the ground again and said defeated “I give up….”

“What?” asked Pinkie confused.

“I give up.” She repeated. “I can’t explain why you are right in your predictions and how they work. All I know is that, they do work and is true… So what I said is… I guess I believe you.”

Suddenly Pinkie began to twist, inflate and bounce rapidly, doing all sorts of things as she stopped as fast as she started and she said with a smile “THAT WAS THE DOOZY!”

“What?!” both Ash and Twilight asked confused.

“It was the doozy that you believed in me! I never saw that one coming! The dooziest doozy of all the doozies.” She grinned and walked off happily, both Twilight and Ash letting out a small groan and follows her.

Ash grinned to Twilight and said with an amused smiled “I didn’t know you could turn into a Rapidash?” The last thing Ash saw that day was a hoof against his face.