Me: Hello there!
May: Can this end soon?
Me: Well, actually, I thought it could be different stories or something, like this end as you guys go to Pyrite or something.
Wes: Nah, try not to do that.
Me: Whatever, anyway, time for...
Ash:NO!
Misty: What's with the outburst?
Ash: We have to distract him from writing this so he can't torture us.
Me: Thanks for telling me.
Ash: No problem.
Drew: You idiot, you don't just tell him a plan!
Rui: How much longer until they all realize that Drew and May, and Ash and Misty like each other?
The people mentioned: WE DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER!
Wes: That's what Paul and Dawn said, but look how that turned out.
Paul: Shut it already.
Rui: Look at what happened to me and Wes. Everyone over Orre said...
The people mentioned: WE GET IT!
Wes: Yeesh, no need to yell.
Me: Anyway, let's just get on with chapter 8. Warning, spoilers for Paul's Pokemon. And I don't own Pokemon.
Slumdog Hero
Paul's POV
What a night last night was. So much stuff I can't even review it. We woke up the next day in the sand. Apparently, we collapsed a little ways into the desert. So, we got up and Wes went to go get his bike from his hiding spot. It was just under a lot of sand. We all continued on the bike or our Pokemon.
We got to Pyrite Town with plenty of day left, but it wasn't a pretty sight all the same. We landed at the town limits and Wes parked the bike. Some dude with green hair and goggles came up to us all. "Who's your friends Wes?" the guy asked raising an eyebrow at the girls. "Guys," Wes said to us, "meet Rouge Cail." He gestured to the rouge. "Hey Cail," said Ash, "my name's Ash, and this is my buddy, Pikachu." "Pfft," said Cail, "of course it's a Pikachu, no need to state the obvious." Ash didn't like that, but Misty stepped. "I'm Misty." "Hi, I'm May." "The name's Drew" "I'm Dawn." "Paul." I said that last one. Short, sweet and to the point. I know the ways of these rouges.
He smirked. "Anyone for a battle?" he asked casually. "Sure," Wes said, "let me get the Furret I snagged from you and..."
"You had no right to steal it from me!" Cail was pissed. Wes smirked. "Whatever dude, just battle one of those weeklings. The lowest leveled is probably Paul." He set me up for this, so why not take it?
"Hey, I'm stronger than all of you!" I challenged. "Is that a challenge?" asked Cail cooly.
"You bet."
Normal POV
Wes stepped in. "Gentlemen, to your sides." Paul and Cail went to either side. "This is a standard Orre double battle. You must use all Pokemon on hand. Paul sends out first." Paul decided for a moment.
"Torterra, Magmortar, stand by for battle!" he called, throwing out his two Pokeballs. The Pokemon appeared, and they looked eager to battle. "Go, Gardevior and Granbull!" The two "G" Pokemon came into the battle. "Begin!" shouted Wes. (A/N: Cail's Pokemon sets are of Colosseum, not XD: Gale of Darkness)
"Gardevior, use psycic! Granbull, use take down!" Granbull charged at Torterra and Gardevior threw Magamortar into a dumpster's side. "Torterra, Frenzy Plant!" The frenzy plant burst from the ground, catching Granbull of guard and knocking it into Gardevior. "Granbull is already unable to battle!"
"Worthless," said Cail, taking Granbull back. "Gardevior, psychic. Go Machcamp!" A huge wave of power smashed into a recharging Torterra. Machamp appeared. Torterra still hung on. "Magmortar, flamethrower!" Magmortar jumped above Torterra and launched flamethrowers from it's cannons. "Psychic!" The flamethrowers were sent at Torterra. "Stone edge!" Torterra created stone edge around itself, but still got taken down. "Torterra is gone!" "Use rock tomb!" Magmortar sent out rock tomb as a wall between it and Cail's Pokemon.
"Go Honchcrow!" Honchcrow came out above Cail's Pokemon. "Night slash!" It came at Gardevior. "Thunderbolt!" "WHAT! Duck!" Gardevior sent out a shock wave, but Honchcrow dodged and hit it with a night slash. "That's the end of Gardevior!" "Cross chop! Come back Gardevior!" Honchcrow was sent into the wall, demolishing it, as Gardevior was returned.
"Go Shiftry!" Shiftry was sent down on top of Magmortar. "Faint Attack!" It smashed its leg directly on the humanoid. "Bye bye Magmortar."
"Come back. Now, Weavile, stand by for battle!" The dark type was sent out against the dark type.
"Sky attack!" Honchrow sped at Machamp. "Rock slide!" Machamp hit the ground and rocks kept fliying out in front of Honchcrow. Just like with the 6v6 battle with Ash, the sky attack eventually ran out and Honchcrow was down before the last 5 rocks. "Flying low are we? Honchcrow is outta here!"
Honchcrow was called back and Electivire sent out.
"Weavile, use blizzard!" The ice attack spread out so it could hit both Pokemon. "Extrasensory." The attack made the Blizzard disappear into thin air. "Grrr, Ice Beam!" "Giga Drain." The giga drain easily blew away the ice beam and struck Weavile. "Weavile is down for the count!"
This is going to be the last Pokemon to send out, thought Paul. "Ursaring, stand by for battle!"
"Giga Drain!" "Focus blast!" "Earthquake!" The focus blast and giga drain nullified each other. Ursaring barely stood after the earthquake, but did.
"Thunder!" Everyone had forgotten about Electivire.
"Machamp is out!" "Faint Attack!" "Ursaring is gone, baby gone!"
Electivire versus Shiftry.
Paul's POV
My Pokemon suck. They can barely hold their own to one on one. Electivire can easily win this though.
"Finish it off with faint attack!" This time, it was slow, for it was still lowish on health.
"GIGA IMPACT!"Cail's eyes widened. Electivire charged at Shiftry with purple and orange energy.
Done.
Rui's POV
"Shiftry is unable to battle, the winner is Electivire and the victory goes to Paul from Sinnoh!" called Wes. Paul looked disappointed and Cail looked pleased. "If I had my FURRET," he said, "you would have lost." I decided to talk. "Well, we have it, so too bad." Cail just turned around and went over to his post.
"Anyway," started Wes, "let me show you guys around." We looked to the left. "This," I said, "is Fateen's fortune telling. She is pretty good at it when we visit, but some people try to change their fortunes." Ash seemed intent.
"We should take a look. I really want to see my fortune."
Wes didn't have the patience. "No time," he said. "Now, let's visit some friends."
Wes' POV
We walked into the police station. The travelers went to the right when we walked in. "Not a big place, is it?" said Dawn. I ignored her. "Hello Sherles," I said to the chief. "Wes, my boy!" Sherles exclaimed, "Wonderful to see you again!"
I heard the door open behind me. I turned around to see who it was and the person slammed into me.
"Sorry chief," he said, spinning in circles. "There's been some sort of disturbance at the Colosseum and Miror B had stolen the equipment he used for the dance last night beforehand." He straightened up and looked at me with surprise. "Oh, sorry Wes!" he said. "Nice to see you too, Johnson."
Sherles, still sitting, scolded Johnson as usual. "Johnson, the news is old. You also shouldn't run into Wes as often as you do." "Sorry Chief!" Johnson said, bowing. He seemed nervous as usual. Towards Sherles of course.
"In case you missed it," Rui said the the group, "This is police chief Sherles and officer Johnson." The police turned to the group and bowed a greeting. "Pleasure to meet you," they said. The guys and girls went through the introductions and were shown through the station. We were all surprised to see the one prisoner in the cell.
I hate this guy. This enemy was tough, and caused me a lot of trouble.
"Wes..." May said. Misty finished the thought, "Is that you in the cell?"
I snorted. "This slime may look like me," I responded, "but he isn't me. His name is Fein." Fein jumped up to the bars. Everyone except me jumped back.
"So we meet again," he said. "So, you can be caught," I said to him. He disappeared from my grasp for the seven years its been since I beat him and snagged his Togetic. "What did yah in?" I wondered aloud. He breathed upward, hitting his hair with the air. (A/N: rhyme not intended.)
"I was dressed up as you the other day, when that pre-gym leader contacted Sherles as I was trying to get information out of him. The leader said you visited him a couple minutes ago, so he tackled me before I could move." I laughed. The group had already gone outside, so this was good. "Looks like being me has once again backfired on you." That made him angry, but he couldn't do anything. I walked away laughing.
I got outside and saw the group was wanting to move along. Ugh.
"There's a store right there, but it doesn't sell much," Rui said. I perked up.
"And this building on the far left," I said, "we are going into."
Rui's POV
We went inside. A burly man and silver-headed guy were debating about some sort of conflict. At least I knew them well enough to not stop them.
"Shouldn't we stop them?" asked Dawn. "No," Wes replied. The talk ended soon after. The silver-headed man turned to leave and saw the eight of us. "Wes! Rui! Great to see you again!" he exclaimed. The burly man noticed us from this. "Wes! Rui!" he shouted, surprised. "I see you've brought friends!" We nodded. "Nice to see old friends again," I said.
Wes spoke next, "Duking, Silva, meet Ash, Misty, Drew, May, Paul and Dawn." The group waved and said hi. The friends at the desk nodded the introduction.
"Guys," I said to the travelers, "Duking here runs the Colosseum." I could see eyes light up. Duking saddened. "I wish things were better," he said, sorrowfully. "By the way, Silva has been running it for two years now. Also, some crazy things are happening at the Colosseum."
Wes' POV
My eyes lit up at this. "What kind of crazy?" I asked. Silva looked at me like I was crazier than the events. I think I was.
"Knowing you," he said, "you would face this head on." I chuckled and nodded. "I don't care," said Duking, "If you can fix this, Pyrite town can have back the little joy is has." Wow, this is like Duking getting his Plusle stolen.
"So, what is happening?" Misty asked. Duking thought of how to word it. "Well, Wes knows him," he started. "Oh boy," Drew interrupted, sarcastically. "Another 'friend.'" "...He happens to have been a former colosseum master, but the colosseum was destroyed." "Oh," said May, "he's an actual good guy?" I could answer that.
"No, he was another criminal. He was refered to as 'The Deep King' before The Under was filled in. His name is actually Agnol." With that, I ran out of the building. I could barely hear Rui and the others yelling for me to stop, but I wanted to take this guy down again. I ran right into the colosseum...
Normal POV
Everyone shouted at Wes to stop, but no one went after him. "It's too dangerous," Silva said, "He has the whole place on watch." The room was full of worry.
"Will he be alright?" asked Dawn. Paul's eyes narrowed.
"I hope so," said Rui, doubtfully. "I just hope he doesn't get into too much trouble." The room went silent. Then typing was heard.
"Duking," asked Ash, "What are you doing?" Duking hit a button and looked up. "I sent a message to Wes, hopefully he'll respond."
They all waited, hoping for a response. The PDA pinged. "It's from Wes," Duking informed them. They gave sighs of relief. Duking opened the message.
"Hmmm," he wondered. "What, what does it say?" worried Silva. "That's the thing," said Duking, confused, "There is no message." Hope was once again drained. "But there is a picture."
"Wes doesn't take pictures though," said Rui. "He doesn't even write a response."
"Well," Drew said, "Open the file!" Duking pressed the button.
"Guys," he said, shakilly. "You'd better see this." They crowded around him.
The king was holding a bloody, unconcious hero.
Wes' POV
I slowly opened my eyes. I hurt if I did it too fast. These guys hate me. Just because I was the reason the Under is filled in, doesn't mean they should take it out on me. Well, I guess it does, seeing I would do the same thing.
Anyway, the point is, when I entered the colosseum, I was jumped by Agnol. He beat me pretty well, cause I was knocked out fast. My rope was fastened well around, with a smigion on the tight side (A/N: a saying from the ranger games.) My Pokeballs were gone, along with my PDA and other items. Great.
Some peons came in. They were dressed like they were part of Cipher. "Don't look so tough now, do you?" one said with disgust, leaning down to my level.
I spat on his face.
His partner brought him up and he punched me in the gut. His partner let go and I fell in pain.
"Remember me?" he asked. I shook my head. There were too many peons to remember them all. "Maybe it's the outfit. The king wants us all to wear it." He then showed me his outfit he prefered to wear. "Still don't know?" he asked. I shook my head. "Here's a hint," he scowled. "I defeated Eagun at the relic." I then knew.
"Now remember?" I tried to say his name, but it came out stuttering. "S...S...Skr...ub?" "That's right," he spat. "Now, when you're like this, I can beat you."
"THAT'S ENOUGH SKRUB," boomed a voice from behind him. He turned around, surprised and frightened, and spoke, "King, sir! He's all yours!" Skrub and his buddy fled the room.
I had gained back some energy, enough to throw off Agnol, but not enough to beat him.
"When your friends come," he said, "we'll be ready for them. Then we will rule Pyrite. And unlike Miror B, we will keep it like that."
I made myself look weaker than I was.
"Just so you know," Agnol said with dignity, "you've been out for over an hour." That threw me off. That meant Rui and the others haven't tried to save me. This made me angry, and that gave me energy. I noticed he'd updated his outfit. It seemed like a combination of the four admins I had defeated seven years ago, he even threw in a scarf Venus would say "looked adorable." Still, a very weird outfit all the same.
"You noticed these were gone, didn't you," he stated, holding all the items he took from me. I didn't change expression or say anything. "Now, you won't be needing these. Ever." I showed no outer fear, but I was terrified inside. He came at me as spores entered the room. He noticed it out of the cornor of his eye, so he turned to see past the door, but no one was there. I took this chance to take his scarf with my mouth and slam him into the spores. He grew tired trying to get to me, and eventually fell asleep. The spores approached, so I slammed against a wall and covered my mouth and nose with the scarf. The spores dissapeared, and I gasped for air.
A burly man walked into the room. He was my savior. There was a group of people behind him, recalling their Pokemon. I was glad to be rescued but...
Me: Cliffhanger!
Wes: Who do I see?
Paul: Shouldn't you know?
Wes: No, I shouldn't. That would be weird.
Me: Anyway, guess who it is!
Ash: Ummmm, I don't know anyone from Orre.
Misty: He wasn't talking to you, he was talking to the readers!
Me: That's right, so see yah next time!
