Chapter 6 - Regret
Little Lost Raichu
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Chapter 6
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Regret
Cheerilee took her gaze away from the retreating creature and focused her attention on the well-being of her students. Being a teacher was something she took very seriously, doing her best to provide the youth with knowledge, helping prepare them for the future, and give them good examples of how to behave.
However, being a teacher meant keeping her students safe. It was a trust given to her by parents who entrusted their children's safety under her care, and she had failed them all.
“Can you stand, Featherweight? Does it hurt?” she asked, now staring at a rounded white furball. How a colt with such a feeble body-build could puff up into such a large, fluffy ball was beyond her comprehension. She extended her hoof, only to yank it back when an electrical spark jumped the gap, due to the static charge still making Featherweight's furry coat stand on end.
“Just a little…” Featherweight responded, trying to comb his disobedient coat back into order. “But it wasn’t all that bad.”
Cheerilee sighed in relief, but the worried expression remained on her face. In the end, she was just a pony and had her fair share of mistakes in her life.
One of them being her passive approach when dealing with bullying. It didn’t take long to find out about the bullying problem caused by Diamond Tiara with Silver Spoon’s assistance, yet she turned a blind eye to it, hoping the fillies would resolve it between themselves, though it took way longer than she would have liked.
Another mistake being the terrible fashion choice during her youth.
Yet her past mistakes certainly were no match for allowing her students to get electrocuted by some sort of a large rabbit-rat hybrid at the school playground. Was it her fault though? How could she have expected that kind of danger was awaiting the fillies and colts near the school. Would one quick look through the window or supervising her students during their break be enough to prevent this disaster?
Now haunted by guilt, Cheerilee approached another student with Featherweight accompanying her.
“Wuuuh… ish shure was a socking excellence…” Twist said, poking the aperture on her teeth to make sure it wasn’t damaged.
“Don’t you mean shocking experience?” Featherweight asked.
Twist nodded. “Yesss… shocking experience…”
Cheerilee rewarded herself with a weak smile, seeing as her students were shaking off their initial confusion and now talking with each other. None showed any significant injuries or complained about them. Well… except one.
“Whose brilliant idea was it to bring such a dangerous animal to the school ground?” Diamond Tiara asked sarcastically as she massaged her back. She looked between Spike, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo; the only ones who were spared the unpleasant experience. “I have a hard time imagining the assistant of the princess pulling a stunt like this.”
Scootaloo looked to the side. “It was... my idea,” she murmured, though loud enough for the rich pony to hear her.
Diamond Tiara narrowed her eyes and frowned. “Are you serious?” She stomped. “I would expect something like this from the old troublemaking C.M.C, but not from the mature version.” She held her forehoof on her chest and added, “To be honest, I’m shocked.”
Silver Spoon chuckled. “Was that meant to be a pun?”
Diamond Tiara rolled her eyes.
Cheerilee took a deep breath and approached Scootaloo, mustering all her patience and understanding into her mind and voice. “Scootaloo, would you be kind enough to explain why you thought any of this was a good idea?” She gestured over to the students behind her, trying to keep her expression strict, but compassionate.
“Well… I didn’t think it was a good idea, but a fun one.” Scootaloo blushed and smiled sheepishly, the face of her teacher being anything but amused. “What I meant was… Starlight told us that Raichu… that’s the name of the critter… that she can use electricity, but doesn’t remember how…”
Cheerilee tilted her head to the side in confusion.
Scootaloo glanced at Spike in search for help, but the little dragon dropped his hands in defeat.
“Fine… I’ll explain, but it’s not a short story...”
“Raichu! Raichu!” Twilight’s words echoed through the hallway, almost copying Raichu’s way of speech. “If you can hear me, please come out. You’re making me worried!”
Starlight strolled next to the princess, looking around in search for their missing guest.
“We searched everywhere. Oh, it’s no use,” Twilight said, darting her eyes in anxiety. “I told her not to leave the castle. Why would she disobey me? Did I offend her by asking her to read too much?”
“Twilight, even if she wasn’t eager to read all those books, she didn’t seem that displeased,” Starlight said, placing her forehoof on Twilight’s shoulder in a calming manner.
“Awww… but what else would’ve upset her?” Twilight asked and lowered her head as her hoof scuffed the floor. “To make matters worse, Spike’s gone too. Maybe he noticed Raichu was missing and tried to find her?”
Starlight raised an eyebrow. "You mean that Spike, your dragon who has never seen the sun rise, woke up before both of us, found Raichu was missing, and searched the entire castle before going outside? No way.”
Twilight rubbed her chin. “Well… he’s still young and sleeps a lot… but what else could’ve happened?” She narrowed her eyes and looked at her student authoritively. “There’s only one way to find out. I’ll search outside from the sky, asking ponies if they saw Spike or… a long-tailed creature.” She poked her student’s chest. “Can you keep searching inside, in case we missed something or if they’ll return?”
Starlight saluted. “On it.”
Twilight nodded, spreading her wings and flying towards the closest window, not wanting to waste time with the main door.
Starlight resumed her walk. “Spike! Spike!” Barely a minute passed before a crashing noise caught her attention. “Spike, Raichu, was that you!?” She sprang into a full gallop, running towards the source of the noise.
Once she reached the staircase, she noticed a small hole at the main entrance. In a flash of teleportation, she reappeared in front of the large door, now seeing from a closer viewpoint that the hole had an odd shape, including small holes that reminded her of Raichu’s ears. The wooden fragments were scattered on the floor. There was only one creature she knew -not including Rainbow Dash- that could charge through the door at such high speed.
“Raichu!” she shouted, turning around and following the trial of wooden splinters. After a moment of trotting, she noticed the trail heading for the door to the basement. “Oh, bother.” She took a deep breath. Either Raichu was terrified of something and ran back here in the search for shelter, or something very bad had happened. Whatever the case, it was up to her to resolve the problem.
She whimpered and her ears drooped. Her last attempt to help Raichu almost resulted in frying her brain, making the poor critter afraid of her. To make matters worse, she always completely failed in talks that required a more… gentle approach.
She was soooo going to screw this up.
Dust, spiderwebs and darkness filled the basement, which was rarely visited by Twilight and never by Spike. A perfect place to find a hiding spot for a game of hide and seek.
This time, however, it served as a desperate shelter where nopony would search.
The corner at the deepest part of the basement was a perfect home for the pests no one liked, a useless pest like her.
Raichu climbed up into the crack in the wall, the one she’d used for the game of hide and seek with great success. This time however it was going to become her new home. A perfect place where she wouldn’t bother ponies or hurt the innocent. As she squeezed deeper, her fur pressed against the soil and pebbles. Thanks to her yesterday’s digging, there was just enough space to accommodate her.
There was still an option to return into the scary forest and live among the dangerous beasts, a place fit for a monster like her, but being a coward, she couldn’t bring herself to put her paw in that terrifying place.
Too afraid to live among monsters, she decided to instead live among pests. She was small after all, so eating leftovers from the kitchen would sustain her without the need to steal.
Raichu stopped squeezing herself into the crack and closed her still watered eyes as her spotless fur was now covered in dirt. Comfort was something she didn’t deserve.
Within the peace and quiet of her hiding place, she could focus on gathering her thoughts and consider her situation, which in a sense backfired as the memory of her crime started haunting her. The faces of excited fillies flashed in her mind, only to change into faces of pure shock as electricity went through their bodies. Since her eyes had been closed during her electrical surge, it was left to her imagination to fill the holes in the worst way possible.
She started sobbing again, her throat dry and eyes slightly red from her non-stop crying.
When she was facing danger and hunger, the ponies fed her. When the memories of her past were blocked, the ponies weakened the magic seal so she could remember, at least in part. They gave her shelter and cared for her, and how did she repay their kindness? She smashed them into walls, damaged their trees, left holes in the ceiling of their homes and electrocuted their kin.
I know you feel irritated. I know you just want us to go on an adventure already, but it’s not the time yet, the familiar voice echoed in her head, the voice of the girl she fought so many times in her dreams. More memories resurfaced, temporarily replacing the images created by her guilt. Being a Pichu again, she was standing before a white, sturdy-looking door, and she was filled with anger and annoyance.
Please, just listen to me, the girl spoke again in a saddened tone. I don’t want you to be just one of my pokemon. I swore that we would be partners, equals. But we first need to be able to communicate with each other. She pointed at the nearby table with paper and pen lying on it. Two chairs were near the table, one with a few books stacked like a tower to make up for Pichu’s tiny size. I know it’s boring, but you were making so much progress. We need only a few months for you to learn how to write and for me to learn more from books about pokemon’s abilities, strengths and weaknesses. I want for us to be as prepared as possible.
Pichu crossed her forearms and sent out jolts of electricity, pushing the human girl back a bit with the recoil of her attack. After being defeated and captured by the determined human, she expected to work under a competent trainer. They were supposed to travel, face challenges, have great battles and solid training. Instead, she was stuck in some sort of bunker built into the lower part of the mountain, learning how to read and write. This girl wasn’t a trainer but a pathetic bookworm.
Raichu opened her eyes in haste, breathing rapidly. Was this the reason why she was so mean to that young girl in the past? All her pranks, tantrums and electrocuting, just because the human tried to teach her how to write?
With a firm swing, she slapped herself in the face, which wasn’t easy in the limited space. Was it even fair that she wanted to punish her past self when her present self deserved even worse?
“There you are.”
Raichu glanced to the side, noticing the face of Starlight peeking into the crack. The unicorn’s horn flashed with magic as the blue aura pulled her onto the floor. The spreading dust caused them both to cough and clear the air with her limbs.
Once it settled, Raichu and Starlight looked at each other in silence, barely seeing one another with the horn being the only source of light.
“Listen… I don’t know what scared you, but if you want to talk about it… I’m all ears,” Starlight said, levitating over a few scrolls, ink and quill before placing them in front of Raichu and lowering her horn closer to provide more light. “Or in this case, my eyes are open.” She sat and tapped her forehooves together. “I’ll keep my distance and provide light from further away if it’ll make you feel more comfortable.”
Raichu blinked a few times and looked between the gifts and the scary pony. She had a lot weighing on her heart and writing her fears and feelings for Starlight to read would certainly help. On the other side, writing about her horrible deeds would result in hate and banishment. It’s only a matter of time until she finds out… I may as well admit my crime and accept what I deserve.
After taking a deep breath, she grabbed the scroll and quill, taking a few steps forward and sitting next to the unicorn who stared back in surprise. Even if this pony caused her the greatest amount of pain, that was just a side-effect of helping her unlock her missing memories. It would be unfair to fault this pony for her action when she herself did something a hundred times worse.
After wiping her face of tears with her dirty paws, she started writing, opening her very soul with the help of the paper and words. The quality of her writing was… questionable at best… as the usage of feather quill was harder than using a pen in her dream. Her blurry vision due to watering eyes only made it harder as she left a few splotched blotchy marks, forcing her to rewrite many words in a quick succession.
Starlight waited patiently, something she was actually good at thanks to her former use of persuasion. This time however she felt nervous, having every right to be. The large critter next to her was writing non-stop for the past five minutes, putting more emotion into the scrolls than she’d expected.
Very soon, she would need to read it, address the issue and cheer up the depressed Raichu. She needed to choose her words very, very carefully.
She yelped, flinching slightly upon feeling a paw poking her foreleg. “Y-you’re done?” she asked, looked down at the presented scrolls in Raichu’s paws. Starlight gulped, taking the scrolls with her shaking hooves. What horrors had happened to make Raichu cry? What kind of issues and emotions were hiding in these numerous pieces of parchment? She took one quick glance at the depressed critter, who supported herself against the wall and grabbed both legs between her paws, curling herself into a ball.
Taking a deep breath, she started reading. Her fear and stress slowly vanished, replaced by a weak smile. After a minute of reading, Starlight chuckled, and next started laughing. “That’s it?”
Raichu raised her head and looked at the unicorn, asking in a sorrowful tone, <What’s so funny?>
Starlight lowered the scroll and smiled, speaking in a somewhat relaxed tone, “And here I thought it was something really really serious.”
<This is serious!> Raichu yelled, stomping her feet, baring her teeth and clenching her paws. Her tail swung left and right in aggravation, occasionally hitting the wall.
“S-sorry,” Starlight apologised. “What I’m trying to say is that, you’re worrying over nothing. Your problem is actually something I can relate and help with.”
Raichu calmed down, now staring at the unicorn curiously.
Starlight gestured with her forehoof, inviting Raichu to sit on her legs. The critter shook her head in refusal.
“Suit yourself.” Starlight’s smile didn’t vanish. “Long story short, ponies forgive everything. You have nothing to worry about.”
<What?>
"I think the best example of forgiveness you're going to find today is... me." Starlight Glimmer's bottom lip trembled for a moment, but she kept her eyes looking directly at Raichu. "Before I met Twilight Sparkle, I thought Cutie Marks were the reason for everything bad I could see in Equestria." Raichu's bafflement must have shown in her face, because Starlight added, "Cutie Marks are what ponies get when they discover their special purpose in life. Mine..."
She turned and showed her rump to the puzzled pokemon. "It's for magic. Powerful magic. A little ironic that I used my talent to remove the magic from... never mind. In any case, I talked to confused ponies who also were suffering in the world and convinced them to let me remove their cutie mark. Without their talent, I was able to bring them to my town, where more lonely ponies like them could make them feel at home. Welcomed. Loved. They thanked me for taking away what made them special, and that made me want to take away everypony's cutie marks, making an entire country of ponies all equal to each other in every way."
<What?> Raichu took a step back and screeched in shock, <What!?> She pointed at Starlight and narrowed her eyes. <Stop joking around!>
Unsure if Raichu was complaining or asking questions, Starlight continued, “After Twilight and her friends liberated my village… with the help of a few of my own former followers, I was filled with anger and swore vengeance. I practiced combat with my magic, spied on Twilight and studied dangerous spells.” She smiled awkwardly, her voice now more nervous. “Without thinking about the consequences, I traveled in time and ruined the friendship between Twilight and her friends, causing catastrophic changes to Equestria. Twilight went back in time to stop me… Let’s just say that she convinced me to abandon my revenge.”
Raichu placed her paws on her hips. <Are you really serious?>
“Don’t look at me like that. I’m not kidding. I tried to push my beliefs on ponies against their will, mess with their minds and could have destroyed Equestria by altering time itself. Do you know what happened next?”
Raichu shook her head, though images of imprisonment, heavy chains, and banishment into a forest filled with dangerous monsters developed in her mind.
“She took me as her student, not only forgiving me for my past… mistakes… but also started teaching me about friendship,” Starlight said with a wide smile. “Twilight and her friends are national heroines. They faced many dangers and foes together. They once defeated Discord who tried to spread chaos through Equestria, and with Fluttershy’s help even reformed him.” She pointed at Raichu and added, “While hurting fillies and colts with electricity seems terrible, it’s nothing when compared to what I did.” She once again gestured for the critter to sit closer.
Raichu took hesitant steps, carefully climbing up and perching herself on the unicorn’s leg, who embraced her by the shoulder in return. They looked in each other’s eyes curiously.
“Think about it. If they forgave me, you’re golden." Starlight pressed Raichu's head into her chest, feeling an odd kinship with the critter. “What’s more, I made my mistakes by my own free will, and yet I was still given a second chance. You, on the other hoof, hurt the young ponies by accident.” She stroked Raichu’s head gently, feeling tears sink into the fur on her belly.
“You’re just now slowly recovering your memories, so you have no idea how to control your powers. What’s more, the moment you suspected that you could hurt somepony by accident, you asked us to prevent it.” Starlight raised Raichu’s head and gently touched her bare neck. “If anything, Twilight and I failed you. The collar we made was rushed and too weak to prevent this accident.” She lowered her head, looking deeply into Raichu’s oval eyes. “I’m really sorry. Will you forgive me?”
A few seconds passed while Raichu’s eyes watered, but this time, they were tears of relief. In an instant, she pressed her head into Starlight’s chest, pushing against it and nuzzling it. Her paws and legs wrapped as far around the pony's belly as she could and brushed back and forth in the thin coat.
Starlight’s smile widened as she maintained the hug, letting the critter vent her emotions while wetting her fur with tears. A note to myself; once this is over, we both need a bath, she thought as she examined Raichu’s body. Outside of dust, which was quite common in the basement, she noticed a rich amount of soil cling among the orange fur. Merely being hugged by Raichu did her own fur no favors.
After a few minutes, Starlight gave Raichu a nudge. “A-alright… enough with the hugs.” Her plea was ignored as Raichu maintained the griplock, not letting go of her belly, and Starlight didn’t have the heart to break the embrace with her magic.
After what felt to be ten minutes, she noticed the grip weakening and that Raichu wasn’t moving. A closer examination showed that Raichu was napping, asleep in her embrace. Starlight smiled and lit her horn, lifting Raichu onto her back for the short trip to the bathroom.
And so Raichu's fear of Starlight is gone, and instead their friendship bloomed. I hope that this chapter awoken an emotion or two in you all and I'm looking forward to your feedback.
On a side note, one of my proof-readers send me this art after assisting with this chapter
Quite fitting in my personal opinion.
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and thus, Raichu anderstand that if her error was not as bad as a nationnal cataclysm, she would be forgiven, so she became a punk, and made the life of twilight a hell, the end.
XD, great chapter anyway, hope to see more =)
EDIT: sorry for the her/he confusion ^^'
8542610
Raichu is female so no his, use her.
Sadly, there is no way that Raichu could be a punk, if she tried, she would end up being in all sort of experiment from psycho Twilight
Sad Raichu pic is sad :(
Good thing the children don't actually hurt. Pony body must have been durable.
8537584
I bet this is the same way how Raichu see her spider friend. Though in this case Spider is more green and very poisonous, so also a bit more intimidating.
8542610
Are you kidding? Until now this Raichu experienced a lot of guilt for every time she did something bad, accident or not, and she feel to be in large dept to ponies for all the kindness they showered her with. It would go against her personality to do something bad just because she wouldn't be punished.
If anything, she would punish herself. Also, just because Starlight ensured Raichu that she would be given a second chance doesn't mean that the guilt is gone. There's way more to it in the following chapters.
And yes, this Raichu is a female.
8542636
Psycho Twilight make her apperance only on the highest level of stress or lack of sleep. Also, her experiments wouldn't be anything that Raichu wouldn't handle. She seems to have some serious survival abilities after all.
8542688
It is, though not even half as sad as Raichu in this chapter.
Is Raichu voiced in this story? I don't mean just saying her name, I mean do we hear her thoughts?
Boo Booo!
*sees art*
HNNNNNNGG!
I can’t say that Raichu’s past was bad. I mean every Pokèmon has a different nature and they can have different opinions whether to trust humans or not.
Any emotional reaction to this for me was rather heavily tainted by my strong dislike of Starlight and the constant and total lack of consequences for her actions.
Mostly it made me mad, remembering/thinking about all that, but that's entirely my own personal bias against a canon character, and no fault of yours or the story's.
Great work keep it up
8542786
Yeaaaaah... it's looked like a good joke when I writed this at midnight...
And for the He/She confusion, it's due to the french language (and the tiredness). when in english we use the sentence 'A pokemon' for all gender, in french we use 'UN pokemon' for male, and 'UNE pokemon' for female. But the male is used for the generality too, so we use 'un raichu' frequently, more than 'une'. so when I writed, I remembered it was a girl, but forget to use the good pronouns.
sorry again, please don't hurt, here, take this picture of a pichu with her trainer X'c (not mine)
https://pre00.deviantart.net/45c4/th/pre/i/2016/279/d/4/5_oct_2016___pichu_trainer_by_allynia-dak33he.jpg
Oh my god, that picture made be so sad
8542772
The show itself often show proof that ponies not only have a lot of strength, speed and magic, but also have great durability (which is necesery in a world filled with monsters).
CMC themselves got themselves in a lot of trouble and took many risks, yet for fillies, they were pretty tough.
8542906
She's actually just using words made of her own name. I just put what she wants to say in between <...> so that readers can understand her. If you pay a close attention, you can see that ponies around Raichu are mostly quessting what she's trying to say, ignoring her speach or studing her body language.
To make it simpler, whenever you see something written in between <...>, just imagine that pokemon speaking it use words made of its own name.
8543034
I take it you disliked this chapter. May I know why?
8543073
It becomes even more silly when the anime tries to apply game rules which happened often in season 1. No wonder the writters of the anime decided to ignore game rules in following seasons.
8543109
To be fair, Raichu in chapter 6 is waaaay more depressed and broken than the Raichu on the art. Just read it again and use your imagination and I'm sure you'll come up with some heart-breaking scene.
8543191
True, but this is not what Raichu herself thinks. At the moment she's more mature and developed and most likely changed over the years, yet her memories are at the moment very limited. Since at the moment this Raichu feel sad and guilty over every accident she cause or even for being a burden, from her perspective the way she acted as a Pichu in the past was inexcusable. She's basically regreting mistakes of her past all over again since her memories return to her at slow pace.
You can say this Raichu is judge her own actions harsly, she's very self-critical.
8543444
But this chapter is mostly focused on Raichu and her struggle, Starlight just did her best to cheer up Raichu and show her that the situation isn't as bad as she thinks.
In a sense, Starlight use herself as a proof to Raichu that ponies are too forgiving for their own good. Just try not to focus on her all that much.
8543556
Thankies.
8543580
It's okay. The joke wasn't bad or anything, I just felt it didn't suit this chapter considering what transpired in it. I wasn't offended or anything.
8543619
This picture display only 1/3 of depression that Raichu felt in this chapter. If you pay closer attention to Raichu's actions and emotions when she crawled into crack in the wall, I'm sure you can imagine a way more depressed Raichu in your mind. Give it a try.
8543034
No I don’t dislike it! I’m just saying that not all Pokèmon have the same thought about being friends with humans. Something they keep their distance from humans or want to be left alone.
8543444
I'm kind of interessted in what you mean exactly when talking about consequences and Starlight.
I mostly only dislike it to have a teasing and allknowing Starlight in fanfictions.
8543646
It's a good thing that I'm pretty bad at thinking up stuff like that.
I only really get emotional if there's something I can look at or certain heart-strings are pulled.
8543781
I think you replied to the wrong person. Regardless, I agree with you, not all pokemon would be interested in being captured and taken for an adventure. Still, it's in pokemon's nature to improve themselves, be it rivality, sense of survival or self-fullfilment. Many pokemon wouldn't mind joining a human as long as he would help them improve. In case of this story, the Pichu had high standards and ambitions, so she was very disapointed by wasting time to learn how to write.
8543802
I think he's refering to the fact that Starlight was never punished for her crimes (taking over a village, vengence, traveling in time and changing the timeline). In this chapter she basically tells all her 'mistakes' and point out that she wasn't punished for them and isntead becaome Twilight's student. He must really not like that fact.
8543848
okay I can understand him not liking that, but sometimes I really don'T care, not sure why but with her I had nothing against it so far.
Maybe this is me having her as a favourite character, even if I don'T like how she is portrayed all of the time. edit: and I'm talking about every version of her.
8543646
Hence the HNNNNNG, rather than an ordinary D'awww.
It was a pun. Surprising=shocking
And I want to huggle and cuddle poor raichu until she's better, taking care to make sure her tail stays in the ground and that I don't touch her cheeks.
4 parasprites can lift a pony or chew through metal and wood, Fluttershy's spider is strong enough to slam cubboard doors together. Buuuuut I guess I get what you mean.
8543877
I hope the way I presented Starlight thus far was to your liking.
8544129
Don't worry, the strom of emotions is almost over and it will get calmer very soon.
8544527
I had something to drink right now, I I keep it simple before I say something stupid.
Yes I can't complain about how you have written her so far. I may not like her changing from evil to being the nicest person in Equestria sometimes, being more like an angel than even Fluttershy, but I like what you did here.
my this sad Raichu image is heart breaking
8543877
8543848
Pretty much that^
I dislike Starlight because she was introduced as a megalomaniacal dictator, and then got worse by swearing vengeance on the ones who broke her brainwashing and attempted to unmake their entire reality (with universally disastrous consequences each time she succeeded) for as petty and idiotic a vengeance (reading a newspaper from the past 5 years or talking to literally anyone about any recent world-shaping events would have made it obvious how badly that would screw the world) as to make the Mane 6 never meet each other.
She did all that because; as her character defining trauma/tragic backstory, "Her best friend largely ignored her/moved on after he got his cutie mark and therefore, cutie marks are evil."
Then, after doing all that for such trivial reasons, everyone forgives her completely and wholeheartedly for both those actions and all her future mistakes (mind-controlling the Mane 6; individuals vital to Equestria's national defense), which in reality should have been proof she was pretty much exactly the same as she was when she was the villain. All either completely without consequence, actively rewarded, or punished with a slap-on-the-wrist. And now she's a main character/protagonist?!
Forgive my rant, she just grinds all my gears in exactly the wrong way. I can enjoy stories with her in them or even as a main character just fine, I just have to mentally treat her as an AU version of the canon one whose backstory/actions/anything makes more sense. As Commander said, hearing it all actually stated outright just triggers me a bit.
Again, my personal issue with/bias against a canonical character and events, which exists only through my own fault (and the show's writers... grumblemumblegrr) aside, I greatly enjoyed the chapter and am liking the story.
8547626
I admit I liked her as a villain.
sometimes those are the best reasons, I mean at least there is the saying "less is more or something right?", but i understand if you didn't liked it.
It's alright, I react like this with characters like Cadance or what was his name.... sometimes, even with Crysalis, but it why they often enough show a version of her that I'm not completely fond of.
8545062
It's quite fitting, considering the events that transpired in this chapter.
8547626
To be fair, I just wanted to point out that it's in ponies nature to forgive to cheer up Raichu, and who's better for this role than a living proof of their forgiveness.
I also dislike the fact that Twilight's motivation for her manipulative takeover of a village is very weak and poorly handled. I wish they would give us something stronger and more meaningful that wouldn't make Starlight look like a big overpowered baby throwing a tantrum.
As for Starlight being punished for her deeds, lack of it didn't bother me in the least. I mean, it's what ponies do, they screw up and forgive. Equestria is full of dangerous artefacts and mind-reforming spells are avaible in a local library. I think extreme ammount of forgiveness is neccesery in a world where everyone can accidendly doom entire country.
What I have trouble standing for is that Starlight is waaaay too OP for no reason. In Twilight's case, she's a very studious and talented unicorn who was learning magic from the princess while having access to Canterlot archives. It actually is sad that with all great reasons why she should be a powerful mage, she often fail whenever trying to resolve problem with her magic. Even after becoming an alicorn, which makes perfect sense for a massive power boost, her magic actually seemed nerfed for the sake of the story (she even forgove she can use magic just to force unnecesery drama when she was inside the Everfree Forest).
Starlight however, the only explanation we get is that her magic gets stronger with her emotions, and that she studied dangerous spells for years, but how she got access to such spells, how did she master them so easily? Why she's such a talented mage and master in combat? She even won against alicorn Twilight in 1 vs 1 battle a few times in a row while levitating herself at the same time. I bet if it was Starlight vs unicorn Twilight, the writters wouldn't make Starlight as OP as she was in the finale.
I also dislike the fact that everyone just stood in place and let Chrysalis escape, even though she stated that she'll do everything in her power to destroy Starlight's life and have her vengence. Yeah, it's bad enough that Princesses gets beaten and captured everytime a big bad appears, but for them to just let a villan escape despite having numbers advantage is just ridiculous.
So long story short, I don't care much about Starlight not being punished, but rather how OP she's and how unfairly nerfed Twilight is as an alicorn. The only head-canon explanation I have is that Starlight practice her combat magic a lot, while Twilight is focusing too much on theoretical knowledge, but the fact that Starlight managed to finish Starswirl spell on her own kind of ruin this. (Their attempt to justify the idea that Starlight is talented at magic while Sunburst is the theoretical genious doesn't hold water, considering how easy Starlight can make and mix spells out of nowhere).
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yes it does fit perfectly
Oh God, that image made want to hug that Raichu. Damned be the shocks, it needs a hug, damnit.
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Pity it's not a pokemon/MLP crossover. If it was, you could upload it here, and this side is the best in terms of finding audience and decend feedback. Also, didn't expect to ever hear about a pokemon fanfic making a teacher cry. I wonder what it was about.
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I find your idea ironic, considering that "shocks" are the reasons why she's so depressed in the first place. (You want to hug her, but it is her electricity that she unleashed unintentionally when hugged by a bunch of fillies and colts that broke her heart).
Look on the bright side, Starlight already ended up in a ten-minutes long hug with Raichu. Raichu actually fell asleep while maintaining a vice-grip.
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Well, in short:
It was about a trainer who had an Aron as a starter. As it grew into Aggron it bonded well with its trainer and they became partners. Brothers, if you will. As they both grew older, the trainer found love, married and had children, all of which the Aggron cared for like he was part of the family. When its trainer turned 40 he fell ill and eventually passed. The Aggron felt like it had failed its trainer so it made a promise to protect its trainer's grave.
At day it stood guard, and by night it slept around the grave, never leaving its trainer's side. Seasons passed but it remained by its trainers side until winter when the trainer's family found the Aggron dead in its sleep, forever guarding the trainer's grave.
I called the story, Bond of Steel.
I am really liking this story so far. It is quite interesting and being about my fav pokemon us a big help. I hope to read more soon.
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So this is a "dog waiting for his owner until death" king of story. Those are usually very deep and emotional.
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Raichu is your favorite as well? Cool. Do you like alola version of Raichu as much?
I hope that the backstory of this Raichu will be to your liking.
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Actually, it's Lily
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Though I can't deny that she have quite a lot in common with Emi. It's a good catch on your side.
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It knew its trainer died. But it felt like it had failed to protect him. So he guarded the grave until its death... Now that I think about it, that couuld've been that kind of story.
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the Alolan Raichu, in appearance, not as much, but i do like its dual Electric and Psychic types, it was a very powerful pokemon. I just wish they buff its defence and special defence a little more.
I love the original Raichu's appearance so much though.
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To be fair, the way it surf on its tail looks really cool, and in pokemon refresh, alola Raichu is very cute and charming. For me, alola Raichu is almost as great as normal Raichu in terms of design. (At least in game, in the anime, alola Raichu didn't impress me all that much. They sure didn't give the pokemon justice in it).
To be fair, Alola Raichu have plenty of weaknesses (bug types and dark types seems quite popular in gen 7, which put this Raichu at big risk since it can't endure anything without focus scarf). It's ability is good only in competitive play in a team focused to support alola Raichu, but in 1 vs 1, this ability is practically useless.
Anyway, personally what I think Raichu needs is more hp (you can always increase low defense with EV, but without more hp, it's bulk is just too weak). Also, attacks like Volt Tackle that relly on attack stats do a lot of recoil damage, which is why almost all electrick pokemon go for special attacks. With better hp, Volt Tackle would actually be worth something for a change.
Same here, just wish the anime didn't show Raichu as a bully whenever fighting Pikachu. The sad part is that those are the most memorable episodes, not many remember episodes where Raichu was actually helpful (I think in two episodes Raichu saved Pikachu from Team Rocket, but not many remember these).
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i won't even watch Sun and Moon anime because of the animation change and Ash looks horrible considering how he looked in X&Y and XYZ.
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To be fair, Sun and the Moon go away from the adventure-format and focus a lot on comedy, and the animation isn't bad, just redirected (in terms of face expresions and displaying emotions, Sun and the Moon excell. (Though I can't deny that Ash's look and act less mature than in previous seasons, which is a shame).
I find it funny that while most fans don't like Sun and the Moon anime for style change and focus on comedy, the game (Sun and the Moon, and it's improved and expanded version Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon) are the best and most innovative games. It's like both anime and the game took risks, and while anime failed, the games succeded.
Still, in defense of Sun and the Moon anime, I can say that episode with all three starters, Team Rocket interaction with giant bear-like pokemon and Lily's moments are very good. It's worth checking at least these specific episodes.
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I might give it a go eventually. But it might be a while, i have been someone who has watched the show when it first began airing here in the UK, thats nearly 19 years.
I did't like the Sun and Moon games that much because of how different they were from the formula we grew up with. I will be getting Ultra Moon later today and i'll be getting some eggs from a friend so i can have my ideal team from lv1. One of the eggs contains a Pichu and one contains a Fennikin.
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The way I aproached Pokemon Moon was that I tried to make my favorite pokemon as good as possible as early as possible, so I tried to do SOS battles with lots of Pichu to catch one with good IV (And later on I used berries to lower unnecesery EV and I got item from battle royale for lossing over and over that increase hp and sp. atk EV after each battle).
Sadly, alola Raichu is very vunerable and doesn't have the greatest stats, so I try to get a good IV Pichu to make up for the weaknesses. In Ultra Moon I think SOS battles are impossible until you get adrenaline orb, so I hope that Pichu you'll get from an egg will have some decent stats and nature (Raichu with nature that lower attack but increase speed or special attack is the best, and investing into lots of hp and a bit of defense EV help him survive a bit longer).
Personally, I found Raichu very easy to level up (he was always ahead of the rest of the team), but against strong opponent it went down quickly if I wasn't careful (volt switch was extremely useful as it allowed me to do damage and switch to pokemon with better bulk and type advantage).
The problem in pokemon moon I encountered was that Pikachu learned thunderbolt on lv42 (or was it 39, not remember), and to use exclusive Z-move, I needed thunderbolt. In ultra moon and ultra sun there should me move tutor, so it should help your Raichu learn thunderbolt without the need to dely evoloution. Also, i'm not sure, but I think you can choose to evolve Pikachu into Raichu or alola Raichu, but I'm not sure if that's true. (Nasty Plot, Volt Switch, Thunderbolt, Grass Knot) seems good for regular Raichu, while (Nasty Plot, Volt Switch, Thunderbolt and Psychic) are better for alola version. Alola Raichu can also learn reflect, but I'm not sure if it is worth using on pokemon with such a weak bulk. (Electro ball works extremely well on alola Raichu in competetive gameplay as long as you have another pokemon who set up electrick terran. With speed advantage your attack have 120 or 150 power, but it needs solid teamwork).
On a side note, almost all let's players choose Rowlet and no one pick up Popplio (who's my favorite, Primarine have greatest typing and solid offensive), what started you'll pick?
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I have a friend who raises pokemon for competitive plays, he knows all about the EV values and stuff so my pokemon should have ok to good values.
I don't like the look of the final evolved forms of the grass and fire type pokemon starters so i chose Popplio as my Starter because Primarina is gorgeous. Same reason i choose Fennekin because Delphox is cool looking and the fire/psychic combo made it ultra powerful. Also, since Pokemon Sapphire, i only train females.
This chapter made me really sad.
Still love the story. Keep up the good job
Hnnnng!
*falls over backwards*
Mlp not "friendship is magic" but forgiveness is automatic
Seems quite powerful for a standard Raichu. Wouldn't have been surprised if she had been a Shiny.
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Shinies aren't more powerful.
d.furaffinity.net/art/prinzeburnzo/1323195251/1323195251.prinzeburnzo_sadraichu.png is the lost image linked in the author's note as it is no longer on the artist's DA account.
Somebody please pass me the insulin! I'm getting diabetes from reading this.