Origins
Part 2
Two days later, the Team Rocket members that had captured the three fire pokemon were loading their catch onto their ship, the S.S Rocket, to be sent back to Kanto for Giovanni. The pokemon were in pokeballs, filling wooden crates, being placed in the cargo hold. From inside their pokeballs, the three fire pokemon spoke to each other.
"Tepig?" said Chimchar, wondering where his friend was. "Charmander?"
"Chimchar, are you there?" asked Tepig.
"Yeah, but where's Charmander?" replied Chimchar.
"No matter, you two." said Charmander. "I'm right here."
"We're glad to see you." said Tepig.
"Man, these things are impossible to break out of..." said Chimchar, trying to break free from his pokeball.
"They're pokeballs..." said a Skorupi from a neighbouring pokeball. "Once you're caught by one you're never getting out unless some goon opens it for you."
"Who's that?" asked Tepig.
"I don't know, but we just need to keep calm." replied Charmander. Just then, the cargo hold's doors shut with a clank, and it was now very dark.
"Why is it so dark?" yelled Tepig.
"Gothitelle needs to see this fray, it would really make my day!" said a voice coming from the ceiling.
"Yesss, it would, missstresss Gothitelle." said another voice, that sounded like an Ekans.
"Ekans, Ekans, slayer of Espeon, who is the strongest pokemon?" asked Gothitelle.
"It'sss obviousssly you, Missstressss." replied Ekans.
"All the weak ones are in here, when I beat them, they'll shed a tear!" Gothitelle laughed, as they went back to the wheelhouse.
Eight hours later, the ship docked in a port called "The Villain's Dock." The boxes were loaded into a huge machine that sorted pokemon by their type. The three fire types could feel their pokeballs as they were put on the conveyor belt. Peering from a very small hole in his pokeball, Tepig watched the ball in front of him reach the end of the conveyor belt, and fell over the edge into a big tube.
"I don't like the look of that machine, guys..." he said, as the three fire types got closer to the hole.
"There's no stopping this thing, we're going in there." said Charmander.
"We've gone from the frying pan and into the fire..." said Chimchar, as they all fell down the tube, helplessly. They could feel the world spinning around in circles from their pokeballs. They went rolling down the pinball-like machine until they came to the back of a line of pokeballs. In front of the line were seventeen separate chutes. Each one was coloured to match the type of pokemon. (e.g Grass=Green) The three friends watched a pokeball holding a Vibrava being shot into the Cobalt Blue chute. It rolled down the tube until it went out of sight.
"We're all Fire types, we'll stay together." said Charmander, as he watched a pokeball holding a Klink being shot into the gray chute. Soon it was their turn. Tepig's ball went first. He was very scared as he had no idea what the machine would do. A white light shined on his ball. It was scanning him to find out what type he was.
In the Control Room, Gothitelle and Ekans were watching the monitor, while the members of Team Rocket were resting. They saw the X-Ray of the ball with a white shape that resembled Tepig inside it.
"A Tepig, I spy with my eye, he won't be laughing but sure will I!" cackled Gothitelle.
"Hur hur hurrr! Into the fire type chute for thisssss one..." said Ekans. He hit a red button with his tail and Tepig's ball was sent rolling down a long, dark chute. His ball raced down a fast tube that shot him into a room, filled with pokeballs containing fire pokemon. It wasn't long before his two friends joined him.
"Ugh, that slide made me dizzy." said Chimchar.
"Same here." replied Tepig. "What about you, Charmander?"
"Not really." Charmander replied. "But it seems it's over, we'll probably be heading out to sea soon..."
Meanwhile, a pokeball containing a Squirtle had fallen out of line. It rolled into a chute that led to the control room. Gothitelle and her minion were still watching the monitor before the pokeball landed on the console. The white flew out of the ball and became Squirtle.
"What's this, An escapee? You won't get away, wait and see!" said Gothitelle, as she used Psybeam. Squirtle retreated into his shell and the force knocked him away unharmed. He got out of his shell to counter attack.
"Water Gun!" He screamed, firing water at her. It drenched her clothes and she glared at him.
"Ekans, Ekans, he drenched me, defeat him and fill me with glee!" she said, as Ekans jumped into the air and bit Squirtle on the head!
"Already done, Missssstressss Gothitelle..." he said as his body wrapped around the shell, and pinned him down as his poison seeped into his head. When he let go, Squirtle fell to the floor. Gothitelle picked up his pokeball and recaptured him. She then looked at the ball, and frowned at it.
"I know we're strong, but this thing's weak, let's throw it in the sea and leave his ball to leak!" she laughed, as she threw the ball in the sea, and landed in the mouth of a huge cave. (And that's where that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Wartortle" came from...)
Fifteen minutes later, the members loaded the sorted pokeballs back onto the ship, and set sail for Kanto.
"Come on lads!" said one of them. "Set the course for Viridian City!" As the ship left Villian's Dock, The three fire types couldn't help but wonder. What did they ever do to get captured, forced to ride a deadly machine, and be made to do bad things for the rest of their lives? Gothitelle couldn't be happier relaxing on a sunbed. Ekans was chatting with some of the other Team Rocket pokemon, near the crates of pokeballs.
"We threw that Sssssquirtle into the sssssssea!" he laughed as the others joined in. The din they made was unbearable.
"I'm so sick of their laughter." said Chimchar. "I wish they would just shut up!" he yelled. Ekans and a Croagunk heard him and went over to the boxes.
"Be quiet, prisssoner..." Ekans hissed, waving his tail left and right.
"How about you do the same!" shouted Tepig.
"Yeah!" yelled Chimchar. "We've had enough!"
"Watch it!" shouted Croagunk, making his hands glow purple.
"You pokemon have closed the door to your heart!" roared Charmander. As he said that, the two poison became shrouded in a dark aura. Gothitelle watched as they entered Hyper Mode.
"Stop that rage, I say, or I will make you pay!" she said, but they didn't listen. "Okay, you've made me mad, when I'm done, you will feel bad!" She fired Psyshock at them but it had no effect, it just made them turn around. They were going to use shadow rush, as their aura grew stronger.
"By all that fighting, that doesn't sound good." said Tepig.
Meanwhile, Lugia was resting under the sea, right under the ship. It got up and turned black, due to the presence of Shadow Pokemon nearby. It turned evil and its crest became different. It screamed in rage and swam up to the ship. It was going to destroy it. Back on deck, the two shadow pokemon were fighting Gothitelle.
"What's gotten into you? You're going to tear me in two!" she said as they grabbed her arms.
"This is bad, really bad." said Chimchar, watching the fight from a crack in his pokeball. The fire types then felt the ship shake.
"What was that?" asked Charmander. The ship shook again, this time a lot more furiously. The evil pokemon stopped fighting as felt the shake too. They all heard a loud screech as Shadow Lugia smashed its way through the ship. Debris went everywhere, knocking out Gothitelle's minions and throwing the crates overboard.
"This is our chance!" said a Sharpedo as its pokeball opened to let it out. "Let's blow this joint!" Various pokeballs opened up releasing all kinds of pokemon. The three fire types, though, were still in their pokeballs, which rolled into the sea as the ruined ship sank with Team Rocket heading for the lifeboats.
"Tell boss that our mission failed, we can't capture them on this dying crate..." one of them said. Gothitelle was at Shadow Lugia's mercy as it charged up its Hyper Beam. Gothitelle fell to her knees, begging not to be killed.
"Mercy!" she screamed, before Shadow Lugia fired the beam, and blew up the ship and everything on board, including Gothitelle. The burning wreck sank to the dark depths.
Only the the three pokeballs remained, floating in the sea, under the gaze of the purified Lugia, as its rage was drained from the beam. It flapped its wings soared back into the sea. It created a big wave.
"Look out, Charmander!" shouted Chimchar and Tepig, but it was too late, the wave pushed Charmander's ball away from his friends!
"I will miss you!" shouted Charmander from his ball, as he disappeared from view. The tide then pushed his friends further from him.
"Come back, Charmander!" shouted Tepig.
"Don't go." said Chimchar sadly, as the tide sent them in the direction of a faraway island.
The two pokemon travelled by sea for a very long time, mourning the loss of their best friend, who helped them in their hours of need.
Six days later, near the shore of an island, two pokeballs washed up on a lone rock in the sea, like if it was a little island. They opened up to reveal Mudkip and Oshawott, battered and bruised from the tragic shipwreck.
"That was a very nasty journey, but we made it to land." said Oshawott, washing her fur in the sea.
"Looks like we just hit a rock, but at least we're free." said Mudkip, watching as the Wingulls flew over them.
"We should have the energy to swim to that island over there..." Oshawott replied, as she pointed to the island. They jumped into the water, and made it past the reef, until they swam into a red Gyarados. It looked at them and growled at them before the two pokemon dived down to get away. the Red Gyarados dived after and fired Dragon Rage like crazy. It sent Oshawott flying into the jungle and sent Mudkip towards the beach, the beach that started A Pokemon Adventure.
