Austin slowly opened his eyes. "Morning Charmander." He said giving a smile at the lizard who looked down, seeing the bandaged arm and the lizard looked ashamed as he turned away.

"Char." Charmander murmured a brief apology only to flinch as he felt a hand on his head and Austin began to rub him.

"You don't have to be sorry, I'm just happy that you're alright." Austin said to the fire Pokemon.

Standing up, Austin looked at Bulbasaur and frowned.

"Were you up all night?" Austin asked as Bulbasaur looked away.

Giving a sigh, Austin pulled out a Pokeball.

"You should get some rest." Austin said to him. "Thank you for keeping watch for everyone."

"Saur." Bulbasaur looked as if he wanted to protest before he yawned and that caused him to give a nod, allowing himself to be returned.

"Hey Charmander, I'm going to go for a walk, do you mind telling Pikachu if he wakes up before I'm back?" Austin asked as Charmander looked surprised that Austin asked him as if he were more than a simple creature before giving a hesitant nod. "Thank you."

Thank you.

Thank you.

Those two words echoed in his head as Austin left the room.

It was the first time anyone thanked him, especially for something so small.

Looking outside as the sun was shining, seeing the rain water drip off the trees, he saw Austin leave a few moments later.

But his eyes widened as he saw Damian leave a bit later with an annoyed look on his face, following Austin.

He knew that look.

It meant that someone was going to get hurt.

Pushing himself up, Charmander moved to wake up Pikachu. "Mander Char." Charmander said causing Pikachu's eyes to open in exhaustion.

"Pi?" Pikachu asked rubbing his eyes.

"Mander." Charmander said that his trainer was in danger.

All exhaustion left Pikachu's face at that.

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"Fearow come on out." Austin let the giant bird Pokemon out with a cry. "It was raining badly last night so I couldn't let you out to fly, but it's nice out so I figured you would want to."

Fearow gave a nod, not really caring but he was happy to have a chance to stretch his wings as he took off flying.

Austin had a smile on his face as he saw Fearow clearly enjoying himself despite acting as if he wasn't and he watched for a few moments in silence.

Austin was then sucker punched by Damian who grabbed the Pokeballs off of his belt.

"I told you to watch your back kid." Damian said holding Austin's Pokeballs in his hands. "I figured I owed you for that punch you gave me earlier."

Austin glared as he stood up. "If your 'friends' weren't there I would've done worse." He spat out glaring at the guy who pulled out a Pokeball.

"Yeah, well let's see how tough you are without your Pokemon." Damian sent out a Machoke causing Austin to back up. "Go on, try to punch me and get your Pokemon back."

"You're nothing more than a coward." Austin said glaring at him as the guy was smirking.

"And you're a dumbass kid." Damian returned.

"ROW!" Fearow shot down with an Aerial Ace, slamming into Machoke who gave a cry of surprise as he was sent back, spreading his wings to keep it away from Austin.

"What the hell?!" Damian asked as he didn't see Austin let Fearow out earlier.

"Fearow?" Austin asked in shock as the Fearow was glaring at Damian.

' I think I actually did get through to Fearow.' Austin thought looking relieved as Damian snarled.

"It doesn't matter, I have an army of Pokemon able to beat you down." He said as he sent out a Graveler. "Beat that oversized Pidgey down."

Fearow glared as he looked at Austin giving a nod.

Austin smirked knowing that Fearow will listen. "Fearow use Agility." He ordered as Fearow became a blur right as Machoke and Graveler were about to tackle it. "Now Aerial Wing!"

Fearow appeared right behind the Machoke and slammed into him sending him flying right into a tree, but he got up and performed Rock Throw with Graveler as Fearow dodged using Agility in a way that made it look like he was teleporting.

Austin mentally compared it to the Instant Transmission from DBZ, or how it looked from his eyes even though it was nowhere close in reality.

"Come on hit that damn bird." Damian said clenching a fist. "Smack Down."

"Steel Wing to break through those rocks." Austin said clenching a fist as Fearow slammed right through them showing his power. "Now Fury Attack on the Machoke."

Just like with Team Rocket in Viridian Forest, he was going to focus on one at a time.

Machoke got to one knee as Fearow flew back and Damian looked ready to lose it before he gained an idea. "Rock Blast on the kid!"

That caught Austin off guard as the Graveler fired rocks at Austin who didn't have enough time to dodge as it was coming too fast.

Fearow saw that and his eyes widened, using Agility to intercept, the rocks collided with his left wing causing a loud snap to fill the air as he slammed into the ground.

' Oh no .' Austin thought as he wasn't expecting for Damian to go that far.

"Fearow!" Austin cried out as he saw the wing was bent at an awkward angle.

"Finally grounded that damn thing." Damian muttered as the Fearow was struggling to get up with a broken wing. "What don't know when to quit?!"

"Row." Fearow stood his ground before Austin ran out in front of Fearow.

"Enough." Austin said in complete hatred as he glared at Damian, his eyes began glowing red a bit.

That caught the guy off guard before he glared right back. "Machoke, snap him with a Karate Chop."

"Row." Fearow tried to move but the broken wing caused him to fall down.

' move.' Austin screamed in his mind knowing that would kill him.

Austin felt his legs shaking before he heard something crackling.

"CHUUUU!" Electricity shot out, enveloping the Machoke as he was sent flying back before Pikachu ran out giving Damian a glare.

"What the-?" Damian was cut off when something bit his hand causing him to cry out as he dropped Austin's Pokeballs to see that Charmander was holding on. "Charmander get off!"

He began punching Charmander and that caused Austin to glare as he ran forward. "Pikachu Sword Strike on that Graveler!" He said as the electric mouse complied, sending the Graveler flying right into the Machoke.

Damian managed to get Charmander to let go with another punch but Austin tackled him, knocking him back before grabbing his Pokeballs.

"Butterfree use String Shot on him." Austin ordered as the purple Bug Pokemon came out and obeyed, wrapping Damian up tightly as he began to protest.

"If you don't let me go-." Damian was cut off by another punch to the face and Austin didn't stop punching until he visibly got tired. Damian was knocked out from this beating along with having a broken nose , broken teeth and two black eyes.

Giving a sigh, Austin ran over to pick up the unconscious Charmander and then check on Fearow.

"Can you walk?" He asked Fearow as he didn't know if returning him to his Pokeball with a broken wing would be a good idea or not.

Fearow gave a slow nod as he began to get up again and Austin got under his good wing to help him walk.

"Butterfree, please make sure that he doesn't get loose." Austin said as the Bug Pokemon gave a nod.

With that done, Austin began to walk back to the Pokemon Center.

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"I just called Officer Jenny to pick Damian up." Nurse Joy said as Austin gave her the story with Fearow now in the ER room with Charmander again.

"I can't believe that creep just tried to attack you." Misty said looking angry that they weren't around to help out.

"Were you hurt anywhere Ash?" Brock asked only for Austin to shake his head.

Yellow gave a sigh. "That's good."

"I'm more worried about Fearow and Charmander." Austin said looking down.

"Charmander will be fine." Nurse Joy said before looking down. "Fearow however will need time for his wing to recover, you'll have to leave him in a quiet place until then."

Austin looked disheartened at hearing that as Fearow was the only one besides Pikachu who has been with him since the beginning and Fearow has just finally began listening to Austin again.

Now he had to leave him?

But he gave a nod as he thought more about Fearow's injury, one that he got protecting him.

"I know a place." Austin said looking at her. "Will he be fine being returned to the Pokeball?"

"Once he's out of the ER it should be fine." Nurse Joy told him before she left to go work on him.