Episode 7: Stone Crushed Part 1

The evening before the Rhyhorn race, Mabel is practicing with her Rhyhorn, Stone Crusher, Bliss is sitting on the fence watching her race around the track. Mabel and Stone Crusher are going pretty fast. Mabel and Stone Crusher stops running.

"Alright boy, that's all for today and ready for the big race," Mabel says.

Stone Crusher growls in reply.

Mabel and Stone Crusher walks to Bliss who is sitting on the fence.

"Wow Mabel, you and Stone Crusher are very fast!" Bliss says in amazement.

"Thanks you Bliss. Stone Crusher is amazing," Mabel says.

"I'm sure you and Stone Crusher will win the race for sure," Bliss says.

Mabel laughs, "I'm sure that Stone Crusher and I do have a good shot of winning, but there are some tough competition this year."

"Tough how?" Bliss asks.

"Well, there were a few competitors who work hard to raise their Rhyhorns for the races. There is this one racer who is the best next to me. Sadly, I uh, hear things…" Mabel says.

"Like what?" Bliss asks.

"Well, like I said he's a great racer and has a pretty fast Rhyhorn. Because of his success begins to rise lately, he gain some skeptic and that is wins are done through cheating and other dubious methods," Mabel says.

"So people thinks he's a cheater?" Bliss asks.

"I'm afraid so," Mabel says.

"Hmm, well it's nice just to assume someone cheating without any clues, but he is going to try to cheat tomorrow, then you better be careful," Bliss says.

"Good idea. I don't believe in gossip, but I better be careful tomorrow," Mabel says.

"Great, I'll see you tomorrow," Bliss says, heading back inside.

"Okay, see you tomorrow," Mabel says.

Mabel takes Stone Crusher to the stale while Bliss head inside for the night.

Later in the night, everyone are fast asleep even the Pokemon are sleeping. Stone Crusher is happily sleeping in the stale of nice soft hay and in a warm night. What Stone Crusher is unare is that someone is sneaking close to him and has a giant shadow by its side. The person smirks with a plan in mind and shows a silver tooth.

The next day, Bliss, and the adults are having breakfast. Bliss is excited because today is the Rhyhorn race and hope that Mabel and Stone Crusher will win. She is so excited, she is eating her food fast.

Professor Sycamore laughs, "Bliss, try not to eat so fast before you get sick."

Bliss swallows her food, and says, "Sorry Professor, I'm just so excited for the race today."

"I could tell. I'm excited to see the race too," Sycamore says.

"Yes. The race is one of the biggest events in the ranch. I'm sure Mabel and Stone Crusher are even more excited," Travis says.

"I know. I also know that she's going towih. She and Stone Crusher are a team. They can do anything," Bliss says.

"I don't know about anything, but those two have been together since the beginning and they never been apart," Sophie says.

Bliss looks at the window to see Mabel running to the house.

"Here she comes now," Bliss says.

Everyone turn to the door to see Mabel slams the door and taking deep breaths.

"Mabel, what's wrong? You look like you ran a mile or something," Travis says.

Mabel panics, "Travis, it's awful, just awful. Stone Crusher has disappeared."

"What?!" Everyone exclaim.

Mabel shows the stable Stone Crusher the Rhyhorn is supposed to be staying in. They see the place empty, all it there is some hay and some impression of where Stone Crusher used to see.

"I went over to give Stone Crusher his breakfast, but he was gone," Mabel says.

"This isn't good, the race s today and Stone Crusher has disappeared," Sophie says.

Sycamore asks, "Are you sure you haven't seen him gone off anywhere in the middle of the night?"

"That's not possible. Stone Crusher is a very heavy sleeper. Not even, attacks can wake him up. Well, except water," Mabel says.

"You have a point. There doesn't seem to be any sign of water being spilled here," Bliss says, looking around the stable.

Bliss looks around, "There doesn't seem to be any sign of a struggle. Someone must have been able to carry him off."

"It's kind of hard to carry Stone Crusher. He's pretty big," Travis says.

Sycamore says, "Unless someone used a psychic pokemon or a large grass Pokemon like a Venusaur to carry Stone Crusher."

"What can I do? The race is today! Who would want to kidnap Stone Crusher?" Mabel asks.

"Hmm, we can't know for sure unless we look for more clues," Bliss says.

Bliss begins to walk out, "Let's go outside and find some more clues."

As Bliss leaves the stable everyone else look at the girl with interested expression on their faces.

"I have to admit, I didn't know that Bliss is such a detective," Sophie says.

"You can say that again. She's right on top of the mystery," Cosettle says.

Bliss looks around outside to see if she can find any clues. She secretly uses her super vision to get a better look on the ground. Suddenly, Bliss stops to see a two different set of footprints.

"Hmm, those footprints look like a man's print, and it's around a size ten. No, maybe eleven," Bliss says, looking at the shoe print.

She then looks at a different set, "And this one is definitely a Pokemon footprint. It's certainly not a small one, I have to say around the same side as a man."

The professor and the others walk outside to see Bliss standing besides the different prints.

Sycamore looks at it, and says, "Yeah. That does seem to look like a man's shoe print, and the other definitely belongs to a Pokemon, not a very large one either."

"But who would take Stone Crusher?" Cosettle asks.

"Hmm, competition in the race is pretty tough this year. Stone Crusher is a great Pokemon and the favorite to win. Maybe someone decided that they'll have a better chance of winning with him out of the way for a while," Mabel says.

"You're right. You told me that there was this one racer that people suspected of cheating in the wake of his success. Maybe he took Stone Crusher so he'll have a better chance of winning," Bliss says.

"You might be right, but we can't confirm it without much evidence," Sophie says.

"It seems that the prints on the ground are our only lead," Travis says.

Suddenly, Sophie has an idea, "I know what we can do."

In short amount of time, Sophie is holding a floor with a kind of plaster inside. Bliss is looking curious at it while Sycamore and the others are getting things ready.

"Whatcha doing Sophie?" Bliss asks.

"I'm making a mold that will give us an imprint of the shoe print and the footprint of the Pokemon. All we have to do is pour it in, and wait for it to dry," Sophie says as she pours the plaster in the prints.

"That's amazing. We can figure out who footprint it belongs to," Bliss says.

"Yes. but before that, we need to identify the trainer, we need to identify the Pokemon," Sophie says.

"Right," Bliss answers with a nod.

Not long after the two seperate prints are dry, bliss takes the prints upstairs and look at the computer. Professor Sycamore is here to help her out.

"Alright, all we need to do now is to scan the footprint of the Pokemon and we'll get an exact match," Sycamore says.

Then he asks, "Can you place the print on the scanner?"

"Okay?" Bliss says.

Bliss places the print on the scanner and it begins to scan the print. Bliss and Professor Sycamore look at the computer and see the model of the print of the screen. Soon, it gives them a picture of the exact match of the foot print.

"Wow! The scanner really work," Bliss says in amazement.

"Great. Now all we have to do is click on it, and it will give up the picture of the mystery Pokemon," Sycamore says.

Sycamore clicks on the Pokemon footprint on the screen. Then it reveal a yellow and brown color Pokemon standing on two feet, has a white long mustache on its face, and holding spoons in its hands. On the right side, it says about it's type, height, weight, and other information about it.

Interested, Bliss says, "It's an Alakazam."

"That's right. Alakazam it's a psychic type Pokemon and it's about the same size as a grown person. What's more, they have metal spoons to help them perform powerful psychic attacks," Sycamore says.

"So it's an Alakazam that manage to take Stone Crusher without making a sound?" Bliss suspect.

"That possibility cannot be ruled out. If it is an Alakazam it might be that it belongs to a trainer or it could be wild," Sycamore says.

Bliss says, "We should look at the race track and see if anyone has a Alakazam ."

"That's is a good idea, but we need to hurry. The race will be starting late in the afternoon," Sycamore says.

Bliss nods her head. She then looks at the picture of the Pokemon. she wonders if the Pokemon is wild or if it belongs to someone. If it is wild, why would it take Stone Crusher and where did they go? If it does belong to anyone; who owns an Alakazam? Why would the trainer do this? And mostly, what's the motive of taking Mabel's Rhyhorn, Stone Crusher?