Chapter 6 Icy Rescue!
Jasmine woke up in her icy prison and noticed Maritza on the floor with shorter hair and covered in scratches and her clothes were torn.
"Maritza!" Jasmine exclaimed and went over to her and nudged her.
Maritza groaned and said, "Marty, quit hogging the poffins! Lily wants some too!"
She sighed in relief that she was alive. And then looked up to see through the ice bars in the cage and found that they were trapped in a cage.
"Well, well, the Olivine princess woke up!" she heard.
"What did you do to Maritza?" Jasmine asked.
"Well, she refused to join Typhoon so I taught her a lesson." Ike answered.
"Like if anyone would want to join your team!" Jasmine yelled.
Ike grabbed her neck through the bars and yelled, "You will of course! Imagine us ruling the world with at least one great gym leader on our side?" Ike asked.
"Screw you…"
"What?"
"I said screw you!"
He pulled her forcefully and had her hit the bars and threw her back into the cage. She screamed and passed out.
"You damn bitch! Just rot in there and die with that girl! Now onto other plans." Ike said and looked out the icy windows to see Marty, Harper, and John were on their way and smirked.
John, Marty, and Harper were walking when they John went to his knees and held his wound again.
"John! You need to get to the Pokemon Center!" Marty yelled.
"No, I will be fine." He said.
They heard footsteps and someone yelling, "Marty! Harper! John!"
They saw Rusty and Eliza running towards them.
"Rusty! Eliza! You two are okay!" Harper exclaimed.
"Yeah, that one girl we fought in Typhoon was pretty easy." Rusty answered.
The both of them noticed John was pale and bleeding.
"John, you're bleeding." Eliza said.
"I'll be fine, come on let's rescue Jasmine and Maritza." He said.
They nodded and headed towards the hide out. They entered and saw the cage that held Maritza and Jasmine.
"Jasmine! Maritza!" eliza yelled.
Jasmine woke up and saw them and said, "guys…"
She saw Ike pulling out his sword.
"Look out!"
Rusty saw him charging at them and pulled out his sword and blocked.
"Fast as ever Rusty!" Ike exclaimed and laughed.
"Eliza, you and the others go and try and free Jasmine and Maritza!" Rusty yelled.
Eliza nodded.
"No, I want to fight Ike with you…" John said.
"No, you're coming with us you stubborn ass!" Harper yelled as she grabbed him and they went over to the cage.
"Never thought John would survive this far, I'm surprised." Ike said.
"Don't be, he's willing to take the risk of death in order to rescue our friends in your little prison." Rusty said.
"Very well, I guess I have to do it then! Go Walrain! Icy wind!" Ike exclaimed and sent out his Walrain.
Walrain used the icy wind attack and it clouded the whole room especially when the others got to the cage.
Rusty heard Eliza's screams along with the others'.
"Eliza!" he yelled.
"Now, you all won't escape so easily!" Ike exclaimed and cackled.
Rusty noticed the limp in Ike's leg and thought, No way, he still has that leg injury? Hmmm!
"Since you have a Pokemon with ice attacks, I have one too!"
"Hmmm?"
"Go Zuzu! Use blizzard!"
Rusty's Azumarill came out and used her attack and it countered with the icy wind and cleared it away.
"Not bad! Now Walrain use water gun!"
"Do the same Zuzu!"
Both Pokemon started to fight each other with their water guns.
"Now Flare and Red use flamethrower!" Marty yelled as he sent out his two fire Pokemon.
Both of them melted the bars on the cage and it released the girls.
"Whoa, it looks like Ike did a number on Maritza." Harper said.
"Grrr! I am going to make Ike pay!" Marty yelled.
"Whoa, calm down, we should get her and Jasmine to safety." Harper said.
"Right." He said.
They got the knocked out Maritza up and Harper managed to help John and they ran out.
Rusty managed to take out Walrain since it was exhausted from freezing the whole area. Ike returned it.
"It looks like you lost! Now surrender!" Rusty yelled.
"N-never! Like if I would ever surrender in this region! I just started!" Ike exclaimed and started to charge at him.
"Zuzu quick and use roll out!" Rusty yelled.
Zuzu did and hit Ike and caused him to go down.
"Gotcha!"
"Vulpix use smokescreen!" Alice yelled.
The whole area was covered in smoke and Rusty coughed.
Ike was rescued by his teammates and got away.
When the smoke cleared, Rusty saw him gone and said, "Damn it!"
He met up with the others at the Pokemon Center and reported what happened.
"Damn! We were so close too!"
Rusty nodded and asked, "How's Jasmine, Maritza, and John?"
"John lost some blood but Maritza will be fine, her injuries were not bad." Marty answered sadly.
"It will be okay man, she will pull through." Rusty said and put his hand on his shoulder.
Marty smiled slightly and frowned again.
"Now what?" Harper asked.
"I better report this to the rangers back home, they won't like what I have to say." Rusty said.
"You don't have to McLane, everyone knows about Typhoon!" they all heard and saw a middle-aged man.
"Sargeant Raise! What are you doing here?" Rusty asked.
"I came here to relieve you of your duties as captain." He answered.
Rusty went wide eyed and gasped.