Oh No, Not Again
Chapter Ten: Organize the Escape
When I woke up I was stuffed in a cage barely big enough for ponyta.
I knew this because in the cage to the right of mine was a ponyta, laying in an obviously uncomfortable position. My hands were tied together tightly in front of me. I took the time to look around. There were cages as far as the eyes could see. They were arranged in rows, almost like a library, stacked all the way to the ceiling and the floor space was only about three foot between each row of cages. I studied the door of the cages, they were padlocked closed. I looked around. Most of the cages were filled with pokemon.
Our group's pokemon were caged across from me. Pikachu, Voltage and Tama were stuffed in a cage together. Shika, and Crogunk were stuffed in a cage just above theirs. Ace was in a cage by himself. As were Chansey and Sudowoodo. They all looked at me in relief as they saw me wake up.
A sudden burst of fire surprised me and I turned to look at the Ponyta. It had tossed it's head wildly, the flames of it's mane growing recklessly. I yelped scooting backwards to the left side of my cage. I was grabbed gently by a green vine and pulled towards the front left side of my cage out of Ponyta's range. I turned to look at the pokemon beside me. It was a Ivysaur.
"(You okay?)" The voice was male, sounding like a young teenager.
"I'm fine." I whispered back.
"(You can understand me?)" He asked.
I nodded.
"(My name's Fushinoko. I was stolen from my trainer almost a month ago.)" He told me. "(That Ponyta was here before I was. I think she's nearly insane from being trapped like she is.)" He told me.
I looked around, most of the pokemon looked depressed. I frowned thoughtfully.
"If I could just get out." I muttered to myself.
"(You have a plan?)" A male voice came from above me. I looked up and ended up staring at a solid sheet of metal, the bottom of the cage above me.
"I'm more of a plan-as-you-go type of person." I admitted sheepishly. "If I could get my cage open I probably could find the keys for the rest of the cages. Or even just open them the same way as I open mine." I said thinking of various plans. I looked down at my hands. "These ropes are the first things to go." I muttered out loud.
A soft tug drew my attention back to Fushinoko. "(I could get these off.)" He stated looking to me for permission.
"Without cutting me in the process?" I asked nervously. I didn't want to try to escape with blood leaving a trail.
"(Of course. My trainer taught me Cut, so she could get rid of those small trees that get in the way.)" He told me at my questioning look.
"Cut away." I told him closing my eyes, not wanting to watch the process. A second later the ropes went slack and fell from my wrists.
I openned my eyes and smiled at Fushinoko. I looked around for something I could use to get out of my cage.
"Does anyone here know ice beam?" I asked curiously. If someone did we could use the same techinique Ash did in the anime and do a rapid heating and cooling process to weaken the metal and thus break it easily.
"(I do.)" A small child-like voice stated from a cage just to the left of Pikachu, Voltatge, and Tama's cage. It was a very small Squirtle. She was obviously young, probably hatched only a few weeks before her poke-napping.
"Ponyta?" I asked turning to the cage on the right. She had calmed down some. "Do you know flamethrower? Or even ember?" I asked her gently. She simply nodded.
"Okay then, let's get this jailbreak on the road." I stated. "Ponyta, you need to use flamethrower to heat the bars of your cage really hot okay?" I asked.
She took a deep breath and started breathing fire. It was a very concentrated stream and soon the metal glowed orange with heat.
"Okay!" I told her. "Squirtle you need to use Ice Beam on the metal. Try not to hit ponyta, okay?" I told her hoping the gentle orders would work. She nodded. Then a thick stream of ice hit the metal where Ponyta had previously used her flame thrower as the metal quickly cooled.
"Heat it up again." I told Ponyta.
It took four of the cycles before I thought it was weak enough. "Okay, Ponyta use tackle on the cage." I told her. She hit the cage hard. Once, twice, three times then the door burst and fell to the ground hard.
"Okay now start on my cage." I told Ponyta and Squirtle. Soon I was out of my cage and I began searching for the keys while Ponyta and Squirtle continued letting pokemon out the other way. I found the keys hanging on a hook by the door way and quickly began unlocking cages as I headed back to the place where my pokemon were.
Dozens of pokemon followed me as I continued to let them out. There were pokemon from every region, and of every type. Oddly enough the Seviper and Zangoose that were trapped near one another were able to work together well enough not to attack one another. Which was odd considering they were mortal enemies.
Nearly an hour later all of the pokemon had been released and we were all standing in the middle of the room. The larger pokemon had managed to push the cages out of the way to make a space big enough so we could have room to plan.
"Okay, I need everyone to group yourselves by type! If you have a dual type please stand with the type you know the most moves of!" I called out above the chatter. They quickly followed directions. Obviously feeling that if I had gotten them this far I could manage to free them completely.
They grouped together as ordered. There were 25 fire types, 27 grass types, 30 water types, 15 ground types, 2 steel types, 12 electric types, 4 poison types, 15 normal types, 7 flying types, 3 psychic types, 1 ice type, 5 fighting types, 4 ghost types, 5 dark types, 4 dragon types, 1 rock type, and 5 bug types. And me, the girl who could understand pokemon.
The fire types were as follows: 3 Charmanders, 2 Growlithes, 1 Arcanine, 4 Vulpixes, 1 Ninetales, 1 Ponyta, 3 Cyndaquils, 2 Flareons, 3 Slugmas, 2 Torchicks, 1 Torkoal, 1 Tepig, and 1 Darumaka.
The grass types were: 4 Bulbasaurs, 2 Ivysaurs, 5 Oddishs, 7 Bellsprouts, 3 Hoppips, 1 Seedot, 2 Chikorita, 1 Treecko, 1 Deerling (Shika).
The water types: 4 Squirtles, 2 Wartortles, 4 Poliwags, 4 Seels, 3 Krabby, 3 Vaporeons, 4 Staryus, 2 Totodiles, 1 Marill, 2 Mudkips, 1 Corphish.
The ground types: 7 Geodudes, 3 Sandshrews, 1 Diglett, 1 Cubone, 1 Phanpy, 2 Trapinchs.
The steel types: 1 Beldum and 1 Klink.
The eletrics types: 4 Pikachus (including Voltage and Ash's Pikachu), 3 Pachirisus, 1 Jolteon, 1 Voltorb, 1 Mareep, 1 Shinx, 1 Blitzle.
The poison types: 1 Seviper, 1 Crogunk (Brock's), 1 Nidoran (f), 1 Nidoran (m).
The normal types: 2 Eevees, 4 Rattatas, 3 Meowths (one of which was Tama), 1 Chansey (Brock's), 1 Teddiursa, 1 Zigzagoon, and 2 Skittys, and 1 Zangoose.
The flying types: 2 Pidgeys, 2 Pidgeottos (one of which was Ace), 1 Taillow, 1 Spearow, and 1 Noctowl.
The psychic types: 1 Abra, 1 Ralts, and 1 Espeon.
The ice type: 1 Glaceon.
The fighting types: 2 Machops, 1 Mankey, 1 Makuhita, and 1 Meinfoo.
The ghost types: 1 Ghastly, 1 Misdrevus, 1 Duskull, and 1 Shuppet.
The dark types: 1 Umbreon, 1 Poochyena, 1 Absol, and 2 Purrloins.
The dragon types: 2 Dratinis, 1 Bagon, and 1 Axew.
The rock type: 1 Sudowoodo (Brock's).
The bug types: 1 Caterpie, 1 Weedle, 2 Wurmples, and 1 Burmy.
I took a deep breath as I studied them. It was going to take a small miracle to make it out of here without being discovered.
"How many of you belong to serious pokemon trainers?" I asked. A handful from each group stepped forward. There was the Arcanine, the Ninetales, and the 2 Flareons from the fire group. The 3 Vaporeons and the 2 Wartortles from the water group. The 2 Ivysaurs and Shika from the grass group. The Cubone and the Trapinchs from the ground group. The Beldum from the steel group. Voltage, Ash's Pikachu, Jolteon, and Blitzle from the electric group. Seviper and Brock's Crogunk from the poison group. Tama, Brock's Chansey and Zangoose from the normal group. Ace and Noctowl from the flying group. Espeon from the psychic group. Glaceon from the ice type. All of the fighting types. Misdrevus and Duskull from the ghost group. Umbreon, Absol and Poochyena from the dark group. All the dragon types. Brock's Sudowoodo from the rock type. And none of the bug types stepped forward. 54 pokemon that were well trained. The others were probably kept as either contest pokemon or house pokemon.
"Okay," I sighed. Nearly one-third of the pokemon were battle ready, the others weren't.
"Flareons you guys are going to guard the water types that aren't battle ready. They're weak against grass types and you'll be needed to take care of them. Arcanine and Ninetales you guys stick by me. I'm going to need some heavy hitters." The four pokemon nodded in understanding.
"Vaporeons you stick next to the bug and grass types, they're weak against fire and you'll need to guard them. Wartortles you stick around to provide back up." More nods.
"Ivysaur and Fushinoko you two stick near the the fire types. Shika you stay near me." Again more nods were my answer.
"Cubone, Trapinchs, you guys guard the electric types. Beldum stick near me. Glaceon stick near me. Fighting types stick with the dark and steel types. Misdrevus and Duskull stick near the fighting types as back up. Electric fighters stick near the grass, bug, fire and ground types. Seviper and Crogunk stick near me. Tama, Chansey, and Zangoose stick near me. Ace, Noctowl, you guys are going to be scouts. Take Espeon with you, she knows Psychic. Dragon and Dark types stick near me. Sudowoodo stick near me." I divided the group up.
They quickly moved into formation as ordered. The weaker pokemon in small groups behind their protectors. I took my position at the front. I quickly asked the front pokemon with me their move set and they quickly gave me a run down and I memorized as much as I could.
"Alright. Let's do this." I stated taking a deep breath.
A/N: Next chapter is the escape. Did I put too much information? Tell me what you think.