Episode 4\The VictorVille horror
I blacked out about five minutes later, when I awoke, it was about 8:00am. Phoebe was still in the passenger seat, still playing Pokémon Black 2.
Phoebe"C,mon Emboar, why won't you listen to me?"
Me: "What, whats wrong? You started a new game?"
remembering that I chose Oshawott as my starter.
Phoebe: "Oh yeah, sorry, um, yeah, but I can't, um hey baby!"
I was still somewhat tired at this point, just got up, you know.
Me: "Uh...Phoebe, how long have you been playing that?"
Phoebe: "Since you gave it to me."
Me: "Oookkaaayy, um let me see?"
She handed me the ds, and I looked at her save, all of her Pokémon were fully evolved, level 40, and she didn't have a single badge.
Me: "They're not listening to you because you don't have any badges, by the way how did you get them to level 40 before the first gym?"
Phoebe:" I didn't think they would be able to defeat the first gym until they were all fully evolved, so I kept defeating wild Pokémon until they each got to level 40, but it got harder after level 20 because they stopped listening to me"
Me: "You do realise the first gym leader only has a lilipup and a patrat right?"
Phoebe:"What, how is he a gym leader then that's just lame!"
The ds' battery gave out.
Phoebe: "Oh no I didn't save!"
Me: "Oh, well, at least that means I still have my save file"
Phoebe: "Yeh, I guess so, hey do you think we could at least get into the city now?"
I got out and took another look at the city of Victorville, it looked abandoned, no people, nor sign of the national guard, not even a single car on the streets, I did see a gas station though, so maybe I could stop there and get some more fuel, and maybe even some food.I got back in my truck and said "Looks clear, not a person in sight, you can even stay out if you want."
Phoebe: "Good, so now were finally getting somewhere"
I drove back onto the road and entered the city, it was dead-silent, not a single living thing in sight. We went to the gas station first, even though my tank was still 75% full, I decided it would be best to keep it full.I let CapnMagnum out, and used him to generate electricity to power the pumps, so I could fill it up. Fortunately the pumps worked, and I was able to refill the tank. Then I recalled CapnMagnum, and after telling Phoebe to wait in the truck, went inside the main building. The station was still well-stocked with soda, chips and candy bars, although the soda wasn't cold, oh well, I took as much as I could carry, as the entire town was apparently without electricity, there wasn't anything else I could get besides, soda, chips, and candy bars, so I took as much as I could carry, and even called Phoebe in to help. Then, out of nowhere a Donphan came crashing through the wall. Glass shattered everywhere, and various drinks spilled all over the floor. Phoebe dropped everything she was carrying, as the Donphan stopped just short of her and was staring her down, as if it wanted to fight. I was in shock, trying to grasp what the hell just happened, some kid, he couldn't have been much more then 10, walked through the giant hole in the wall that the Donphan had made.
Kid: "What are you doing here? All this stuff belongs to me."
Me: "Really, you expect me to believe that?"
Kid: "Yes I was supposed to be the only one left in this town, I hid with my donphan while they were evacuating everyone else"
Me:"oh, so this donphan is yours then?"
Kid: "Yes and so are all those candy bars your carrying, as well as the ones your Gardevoir just dropped on the floor, look at this, it smashed them all!"
Me:"It was your fault she dropped them."
Kid:"Oh so it's a girl, ehehehe, what kinda guy uses a girly Pokémon?"
Phoebe: " The kind that could kick you butt all day long you little whelp."
Kid: "What the hell?, she can talk?"
Me: -saying to Phoebe- "To be honest, I'm surprised that donphan hasn't killed him, seeing how egotistical he is!"
Kid:"What?"
Me: "listen kid, this store doesn't belong to you, I saw it, and raided it, and you didn't do a dam thing about it until we were about to leave."
Me:" and seriously kid, what about your parents?"
after I said that, the kid fell to the ground and started to cry.
the donphan walked over to the kid, I guess it was trying to console its trainer.
Me:""You gonna be ok,kid?"
The kid just burst into tears "My parents are dead!"
Me: "How?"
Kid: "Gengar."
Me:"What Gengar?"
Kid: "Last thursday...sob...I was trying to transfer my Pokémon because I...sob... heard that they could become real, and I transferred my donphan first see, because it was my strongest?"-glancing briefly at his donphan-"and then I tried to transfer this gengar...sob... that I got in a trade from my friend, who is...sob...also dead."
Me: "and?"
Kid: "It tried to kill me, I think it tried to use shadow ball on me, but my donphan tried to protect me, and when it realized it couldn't have me...sob..., it went after my parents,and it ...sob...killed them, and then it killed our neighbors, and...sob... and then my friend,and then they started evacuating the city, because all these people were dying and nobody knew why."
The kid screamed "Why didn't it listen to me?", and then he just kept crying.
I was slightly annoyed at the kid, for crying so loudly, but what was I gonna do?I couldn't just take the candy and soda and leave him,his gengar was sure to find him eventually, and even though his donphan seemed pretty strong, I knew Gengar was immune to ground type moves, do to the fact it can levitate. So I knew it couldn't fight it off forever. I also couldn't just leave this gengar wandering around, killing everyone it met.I knew I had to help him, so I asked.
Me: "Do you have any idea where this Gengar might have went?"
Kid: "I don't know, I haven't seen it since friday morning."
Me: "Kid you shouldn't have stayed here, you realize that could cost you your life?"
Kid: "but I have my donphan here to protect me."
Me:"look, kid, that donphan may be strong, but its a Ground type, and if you payed a damn bit of attention, you'd know that Gengar is immune to Ground type attacks."
Kid: "It doesn't know just ground type attacks though it also knows rollout."
Me: "It doesn't matter kid, Gengar knows hypnosis it'd put your donphan to sleep before you could get the full effect out of it."
Kid: "but..."
Me:" Face it kid, its been a miracle you've even been able to survive this far, and if you don't leave this town, "your" gengar is gonna find you, and I shouldn't even have to mention what it will do to you when that happens."
Me:" Cmon kid, I'll take you back to the safe zone, your better off there, let me deal with gengar."
After saying this, Phoebe glared at me, it wasn't until I heard what the kid said next when I realised my mistake.
Kid: "But they'll take my donphan."
Damn he's right, I can't separate him from his Pokémon, but what was I supposed to do? He was risking his life every second he remained in this city, yet if I brought him back to the safe zone, they'd kill his poor donphan for sure, I had no choice but to let him stay.
Me:"Ok kid fine, you can stay here, but just keep hidden, while Phoebe and me try to find this gengar of yours, and put and end to its killing spree."
Kid: "Whos Phoebe?"
Phoebe:"Um, I am."
Kid:"oh, um hi, hehehe, a guy with a girly Pokémon with a girly name"
Me: (facepalm) "Lets go Phoebe, I want to find this thing by noon, so we can be outta here and in the next city by nightfall."
Phoebe: "Coming baby."
We both got back in my truck, only to hear the kid say "Wait a minute, you can drive?"
Me: -while starting the engine- "Um,duh, who's truck did you think this was?"
Seriously, my truck was likely the only vehicle in the entire city, all others must have been driven out during the evacuation last night. It was now about 9:30am. We left the kid and his donphan at the gas station, I honestly had no idea were to find this stupid gengar, so I just decided to drive around the city until something happened,Phoebe must have got bored with this, as she started to talk.
Phoebe: "Hey um Cj?, isn't gengar a ghost type?"
Me:"Um, yeh why?"
Phoebe:"Aren't psychic types like myself, supposed to be weak to ghost types?"
Me:" Yeh but, gengar is also part poison type, so it's also weak to psychic attacks, so you just have to be sure to hit first, ok baby?"
Me: "and besides that, I'll also send out HellBlade to back you up."
About a half hour later, we didn't see a single thing, houses, more houses, the street, street signs, the occasional tree, kid in the road...wait a minute..WHAT?, I slammed the brakes, narrowly avoiding the kid, it was a different kid then the one we met this kid didn't seem to have a Pokémon.I put the driver's side window down.
Kid no2: Have you seen Lucas, he's my friend, he said his parents were killed by a gengar I traded him a few days ago, I haven't seen him since friday morning."
Me:"We saw him, but he told us that Gengar killed you."
Kid no2: "That nots true! I ran away from it and it stopped chasing me and started going after my neighbors."
Me: "Also, how come you didn't leave during the evacuation? especially since you don't have any Pokémon to protect you?"
Kid no2: "I had a Pokémon, an ampharos, but it wasn't fast enough to get away."
There was something off about this kid, he had a habit of smiling in a bone chilling manner, I couldn't quite place my finger on it.I glanced at Phoebe for a second, but she didn't seem to notice anything wrong about him.
Phoebe:"So, you wanna see Lucas? Get in we'll take you to him."
Me: "We will?"
Phoebe: "Yes of course we will."
Something must have been off with Phoebe as well, but I still couldn't figure it out.I decided to play along.
Me: "Well then I guess we will!" -Trying to copy the creepy-ass smile everyone just decided to show for some strange reason.
So, the strange kid got in the back and we took him to the gas station. The other kid must have been hiding because he wasn't there anymore.
Me: "Kid, where the hell did you go?"
Phoebe:LUCAS!
Kid No2:LUCAS!
Me: "Cmon Lucas, we found your friend, you could at least come out of hiding or something."
Unknown to us at the time, Lucas was standing on top of a building adjacent to the gas station. He threw a pokeball off the side of the building, releasing his donphan onto the street below.
Lucas: "Donphan, rollout!"
Lucas: "THATS NOT MY FRIEND,MY FRIEND IS DEAD,I SAW HIM GET KILLED,THAT KID IS MY GENGAR"
Me: "What, Phoebe, how did you not notice this?"
The other kid smiled, once again in that same, disturbing grin.
Kid No2: "ever heard of hypnosis?"
The kid's skin turned into a deep purple, his body changing form into that of a gengar , I knew something was off about this kid, but Phoebe didn't seem to notice, but apparently that was only because gengar used hypnosis on her somehow.
Gengar: "Sorry doll but I have to go now"
Gengar vanished shortly before donphan would have hit him, he hit Phoebe instead, who was apparently still hypnotized, knocking her down.
Me: "Dammit Lucas, why did you have to make such a stupid move?"
Gengar reappeared and started running towards the building Lucas was in, apparently, he was hell-bent on killing him.
Me:"You ok baby?"
Phoebe: "What happened? Why are we back at the station?"
.Apparently she snapped out of whatever hypnotic trance she was in.
Me:"I think you got hypnotized,oh yeh, and we found Gengar, and then you got hit by Donphan"
Phoebe: "what?"
I helped her up, feeling relieved she wasn't hurt too much.
Me:"Are you ok?"
Phoebe: "I think so."
Me:"Good, now come on lets kill this demonic bastard."
The kid's donphan rolled passed us, still going after Gengar. Gengar stopped running for a second, watching the elephantine creäture rolling towards him.
Donphan: PHAAAAAAAAAAN!
Gengar just stood there, smiling menacingly, as always, I was really starting to hate his donphan was merely inches from colliding with him,Gengar used an attack, I think it was shadow punch, except, his arm went through Donphan's chest, and ripped the poor beast's heart out. It was never this bloody in the game. Donphan collapsed on the ground, obviously dead.
Lucas: No! Donphan!.
That moment was just plain scary, At least it solves the question of exactly how gengar killed all these people, not even I knew that he could do that. Until this point, Me and Phoebe were just standing by my truck, watching the battle,planning our next move, but now with Donphan dead, it was up to us to save this kid's life. I sent out CapnMagnum, and told him to lock on to that killer gengar. I waited for Gengar to get to the top of the building, Then I commanded CapnMagnum to use thunder. It hit gengar directly, but to my surprise it didn't kill him, he seemed to just be shrugging it off. He kept walking, closer and closer to Lucas, that same demented grin on his face.I grabbed HellBlade's pokeball, and had CapnMagnum take it up to the top of the building, he handed the pokeball to him. Then he got between Lucas and Gengar who tried to do the same thing to CapnMagnum that he did to Donphan, but when his arms went through him, he didn't feel anything. CapnMagnum felt a little bit of pain, and then it used Thunder at point-blank range, knocking Gengar off the other edge of the building.
CapnMagnum: "ZOOOOONNNNNEEEEEE!"
Lucas: What the hell am I supposed to do with this?"
Me: USE IT!
He pressed the button, HellBlade came out, unaware of what was going on. Gengar floated back up to the top of the building, seemingly unscathed.I told Phoebe to use Psychic to telepathically linked my mind with HellBlade's.
Gengar: "Oh! look, you have a little doggy, let me take care of that for you."
Me: DO IT HELLBLADE!
HellBlade: Do-oom!
Gengar was about to use another shadow punch but,HellBlade used Fire Blast at point-blank range, which held gengar back, he couldn't pass through the flames. CapnMagnum joined in with another Thunder attack.
I told Phoebe to wait at the base of the stairs, as I made my way to the top of the building.
Gengar:-whilst being burned and electrocuted- "You stupid, insignificant, pathetic excuses for Pokémon,why wont you let me kill this little whelp?"
I finally made it to the top of the building, damn that was a lot of stairs.
Me: "Because it's not right you floating bastard!"
Both CapnMagnum and HellBlade stopped attacking. Gengar turned around to face me.
Gengar: " not right huh?, well let tell you something kid" gengar starts walking towards me "is immediately trading a Pokémon as soon as you catch it right? Is trading for a Pokémon, watching it evolve, and then just leaving it to rot in the PC right? and let me ask you something personal kid, do you really think that little relationship you have with your gardevoir is right? I bet you're wondering how I know about that right? Well guess what "CJ" I know all about you two, I could see it in her little head when I hypnotized her. She doesn't really love you, you know, she'll end up turning just like the rest of us pokemon with any common sense, oh, and one more thing, do you think sending the world into this post apocalyptic nightmare, just so you two could be happy together is right?"
Me: "LIES!"
Phoebe "No,its true,Cj, I don't love you, I wish we never would have met."
I noticed something, that Phoebe was yet again in another trance,the fact that gengar's apparently trademarked grin was on her face gave it away, knowing this, I looked gengar directly in the eye and smiled.I sucker punched him in the eye, knocking him back a few feet. It didn't hurt him much but it did break his concentration, and thus freeing her of the trance she was in.
Phoebe: "Huh?"
Me: "Psychic, NOW!"
I ducked, grabbed HellBlade's pokeball and returned him then Phoebe released an extremely powerful psychic wave, knocking Gengar down, also she accidentally knocked Lucas off the building, but CapnMagnum saved him, and brought him safely to the ground. As far as I knew, Gengar was finally dead, his mind obliterated by Phoebe's powerful psychic attacked. We went back down the stairs to the ground, meeting Lucas at the entrance of the staircase, he was crying again, over his donphan this time. We ended up burying the poor beast. It was now about 3:00PM, and we just finished loading Gengar's body into the back of my truck.
Phoebe: "Why are we doing this?"
Me: "Because we have to show the National guard were not all bad."
Phoebe: "By showing them a dead body?"
Me: "Yep!"
We took Lucas a few miles down the highway, until we came acrossed another national guard roadblock, as he no longer had any Pokémon, it was best to return him to the safe zone, and for once he agreed. We dropped him off about a half mile from the roadblock, along with Gengar's body, and instructed him to show our kill to the guards. He agreed, and we left him there and went back to Victorville. We spent the night in an abandoned apartment in that same building we killed Gengar in. Preparing for the even harder battle with an articuno we could be facing tomorrow.
