A-New-World- A-New-Hope

"Ina why the hell do you smell like blood?" Nick just stared at Ina, "Like seriously ya smell like blood? What did ya do Ina?"

"I honestly don't know?" she looked at nick with an honestly confused expression like she was just as confused as him. "I washed before I came with you, Hey Cherry what kinda soap do you have at your house?"

Cherry dash rolls her eyes for a second, "Only soap I have is mint." both Nick and Ina become silent. She blinks, 'is that bad or something?'

"Well that explains it, Ina is allergic to Mint of most any kind, but why does it make her smell like blood?" He sniffs the air again, "Ahh now I'm smelling it from two locations Ina and ahead of us," It took him a few seconds to understand what he just said. "Oh fuzz, Why can't my life be easy I can't even transform into any other forms but Ice. I am also useless in a fight because of my near-death from energy loss. Sorry, Ina, this will be a solo mission for you." he grumbled something along the lines of, "Wish I had my Rifle or Revolver." Ina's ears perked up when she heard that, Nick was one of the few people who actually used firearms, but he only used them as a last resort, He preferred hand-to-hand combat best.

If he wanted to use his guns this was serious, But the only thing Ina can do was obey and hope they can do something later to help Nick stop feeling so useless. "Yes babe, don't worry I will make sure the pokemon are safe." Then she sprinted in the direction of the smell of blood, she was ready to kick some evil Pony ass! That was until she felt a sharp sting on her neck, almost instantly her body felt heavy she fell into the snow and slid. 'w-what h-happened?' She would soon pass out, but before she did she realized they had captured her. The ponies are using sleeping darts to capture their prey, the last of her thoughts was, 'Nick....'

An hour as passed and Nick was visibly concerned, his patience was running thin. "You know what?! I give up on waiting! I won't let my Best friend and love get hurt because of me being scared! Cherry give me an Apple!" Cherry quickly threw an apple to nick and he caught it in his mouth and bit it in half with ease. He basically ate the apple whole, the look on his face was full of determination. "Let's go-" before he finished his sentence he heard double 'pfft', he instantly recognized that sound. His body moving with years of practice and training kicking in at once, he backflipped over the darts but he was not used to landing on all fours so he lands on his back. He rolled over quickly and instantly spotted the surprised looks of ponies carrying dart guns, He got onto his paws and launched into motion. His body moving on instinct instead of moving my conscious demand. His years of training completely blocked out his mind and his body was moving like a rabid animal.

He launched off the ground and uses a bite directly on the ponies' throat, his ears perked when he heard a 3rd 'pfft'. Again his body moved on instinct, but this time something smacked him in the back of the head. They were likely expecting him to fall over unconscious, but his training prevented that at least for a few seconds. He spun around to see a 3red pony and he growled, the 3 stallions all backed up in fear, honestly, they looked like they didn't expect this. Nick was holding back trying hard not to kill anyone but it was getting harder and harder to remain conscious, 'no choice'. His body took one careful step forward, then the ponies' worlds became a blur.

One stallion slammed into a tree shattering his spine, that much was obvious, his back bent in an unnatural way. His breathing was labored but very much alive, he wouldn't be able to walk again. The second stallion landed in a snow pile upside down, very unconscious, blood was leaking from his throat where Nick bit him. The third pony had it worse off because he might have snapped his neck killing him instantly, But Nick didn't see any of this after he used his repulse, his body stopped functioning correctly and bassed out on the spot.

What nick did was he used his natural speed and strength to hit each of the ponies 3 times in the stomach/ chest shattering ribs but also used the last hit to send them flying. He didn't think he could do it properly, he thinks he can though with those results.

Cherry Dash looked in awe and horrified at the power Nick just expressed, he could do that but she didn't know. He always seemed so happy and careless, but it became obvious that he is a trained fighter, with years of practice and experience. He can be deadly but also so kind, It also became apparent he doesn't like those abilities, something about them frightened him.

That's when nick fell to the ground breathing hard, but what caught Cherry's attention was the blood leaking from the back of his skull. He took a hit and it was a bad one, Cherry shook her head and rushed over to Nick's side. The injury was worse than what she thought, broken skull plate, No shattered skull plate. The only thing is that the injury was already healing, 'How is that possible he shouldn't be able to heal from this kind of injury!? He should need a hospital but they are closing up and the fur around the injury is starting to heal again.' Then she noticed something, the injury didn't heal, it just fixed it enough to allow Nick to function again with a few side effects like extreme pain and blurry vision. He wasn't even remotely fine just okay enough to continue fighting.

Nick groaned and woke up, shaking his head. He quickly noticed the concern on Cherries face and he smiled, "I am okay don't worry about me I took worse" 'this might be true but even I notice I don't have long before my brain does a total shut down. Then I won't be helpful to anyone so I have to do this now and worry about my injuries later' The reassurance didn't relax cherry in the slightest, he sighed.

"I will be fine for a little bit okay?" She quickly nodded, Nick found a stick on the ground and grabbed it in his paws then tried to walk only to fall on his face. He chuckled, "Eynope, I suppose that won't work hehe not bipedal anymore. so how will I defend myself? I cant use repulse again with this injury, all my others techniques are near useless, unless I have the energy for them. Which I don't, and my injuries slowing me down, so what to do?" he slowly looked around and smirked at what he saw, a Pony-made spear. 'Perfect just what I needed, a spear something I can actually use properly.' He quickly jogged over to the spear and pick it up in my mouth it was time to start fighting for his love. His anger and wrath erupted from his body, even Cherry an untrained pony felt the power behind it.

"Let's go we have pokemon to save." Cherry could only nod, something didn't feel right though.

Slowly Ina opened her eyes, she was still feeling drowsy. No not just drowsy, 'Come on Ina your love needs you don't sit around while he could be getting killed or hurt' She moved her paw only to notice she was chained down, 'chains really how cliche, these ain't even steel this is copper! Well easy for me to escape from, just need them to get up to 2k degrees F' easy!' She starts to breathe out a massive amount of heat directly on one chain near the right side of her head, the chain starts to gradually get hotter and hotter until it the chain glows bright yellow. Then she pulls the chain as hard as possible, all at once and, snap. She looks at the shackles and smiled, ' Idiots shouldn't use copper stuff is not as durable as steel or even bronze.' She just smirked and started to heat up the other chains on her left, she kept going until the chain also became Yellow hot then she snapped it. 'hehe dumbasses why anyone would use copper is beyond me

she uses all her strength to literally shatter the last two copper chains on her back legs, ' now how to get out of this room?' Said room was dark and the only light coming from a barred door, it smelt of spoilt water. It was obvious where the ponies kept other prisoners in the past, she can see blood on the ground where the ponies hurt their prisoners. Ina was determined not to become one of those, Ina slowly walked over to the barred door. 'Hum copper again? Are they poor or something?' she just shrugged and started to breathe out fire again but this time like a blow torch, over the years of training with nick she learned how to use her flames like a blow torch when they needed to investigate the human activity. She just hopes that Nick didn't get captured also, he would be useless, she faces pawed hard. 'He's not useless just haven't learned how to fight like us yet.' the lock on the door popped off, the notice was loud, loud enough to wake up one of the pony guards. Ina's body moved on instinct faster than her mind comprehend the situation.

She breathed fire into pony mares lungs, she tried to scream but it came out a choking gasp, she fell over and trashed on the ground. A few seconds later the thrashing quiet as the fire burned through her lungs and into her heart killing her instantly. Ina, while she had killed before, this was the first time she killed in such a manner and it bothered her deeply, but she pushed it out of her mind for now. She started to creep through the hallway, her ears perked up as her predatory eyes picked up movement in the dark hallway. She heard ponies talking the closer she got to the intersection of the hallways, something cliche like we will take the new one to the boss, which is very unlikely with her like this.

She launched off the ground and into the hallway intersection right in the path of two very surprised earth pony guards, she couldn't help but smirk. Then the earth ponies visions became white with white-hot flames, the ponies fell on the ground screaming in pain. "That will teach you better than to mess with me!" She walked over the burning ponies on the ground swaying her nine tails happily, she looked around and saw the second prisoner wing. Then her world was filled with a loud explosion that seemed to continue for eternity. She looked around dazed, what she saw caused her jaw to drop, Standing over her was a smug-looking Absol.

To her surprise, the Absol spoke, "So did the 'Boss' send you after me well you can tell that bastard I won't fall for his mind-control!" The Absol tried to blast Ina back but Ina spun her body in a manner normal pokemon don't learn, a form of martial arts created by Nick for Ina. Ina lands on the front paws and flipped back onto her back paws, to say the Absol was surprised was an understatement. Then He snarled, "Really your not a normal mind-controlled thug are you!?"

"Mind control? Is that what happened to the Pokémon, interesting I suppose Nick wasn't that far off target then." The Absol jaw dropped, and he started to sputter incoherent words.

"I suppose you were captured by the ponies too huh?" The Absol simply nodded, "Good wanna work together, you seem capable of fighting." The Absol, sighed and rolled his eyes but smiled.

"Fine I suppose, maybe I will learn to trust you, 'cause you don't seem half bad" That accent is the same one Nick sometimes lets slip, but Ina let it go for now anyway.

"Let's go help some Pokémon!" The Absol smiled and shook his head, he was obviously a nice Pokémon.