Alex gripped the pokeball that held Charmeleon, it was weak, but at least it could use fire attacks to hopefully melt the towering machine they faced.
"Get ready for this," snickered the scientist. The lens on the face of the robot glowed a red-orange and the pokeball that was in the right arm launched from it and on to the floor. After bouncing back into the air the ball sent out in a white flash a small brown Pokemon, well, on the back. It had a rusty colored shell, six small, yellow insect-like arms, a dark front with glowing red eyes.
"Kabuto," the mysterious creature said.
"What is that?" Alex asked as he held up his pokedex.
Kabuto, a Water and Rock Type, Kabuto lived thousands of years ago as prehistoric Pokemon that were mysteriously wiped out, but now they can be revived. This Pokemon are cave dwellers that like to fight in the dark where it has the advantage.
"How can it be alive? I didn't see any fossil reviving machine in here or anything like that, I think," Alex said.
"Seeing as you are not smart enough to see it, I'll explain," the scientist said, smiling, "this robotic trainer is also a fossil reviving machine. You see, this machine was specifically designed for this mission, with it, we can revive fossil Pokemon and make a fortune selling them on the black market, but not all the fossils are in there, stored in the main body are the three fossils that were the most powerful, according to our computer. We want to keep the best for ourselves as they will make excellent workers."
"That's great that you told them our plans, now can we just get going? Seriously," grumbled Nick, the one who appeared in charge.
"Eh? Oh whatever, Robo-Trainer, continue with your fight," the MAD scientist said. The robot's lens glowed again and started speaking.
Kabuto, use Water Gun, it spoke. Kabuto blasted water from where it's mouth must be in the dark part of it's body at Lucas and Alex.
Jumping to the side Alex yelled, "Hey! We haven't even sent out our Pokemon, I won't take that, go Charmeleon!"
"What are you doing?" Lucas said to him, "Charmeleon has a double weakness to Kabuto!"
"Seeing as the gym leader here is a rock type user, I want to get some training done before I face him, and besides, Charmeleon knows Metal Claw, that beats rock," Alex coolly replied.
"Whatever, Bulbasaur! Come out and use Razor Leaf!" commanded Lucas. His grass Pokemon formed and raised it's back legs to release dozens of leaves from the bulb on it's back.
Kabuto use Water Gun to dodge the robot said. Kabuto faced the ground and released another jet of water, except this time it was used to fly into the air and out of harms way.
"Charmeleon when that comes down use Metal Claw," Alex told his Pokemon.
"Char," it replied. Once Kabuto was in range Charmeleon's claws glowed that silver color and it ran at the fossil Pokemon. Since it's back was to Charmeleon it couldn't do anything and was helpless to the super effective attack. Kabuto squealed as it was practically flung from the hit and smacked into the floor. Now the robot's left arm aimed at Charmeleon and shot an infra-red light at it.
Subject is at 47% of it's strength, searching for weak spot... weak spot detected, Kabuto, use Ancient Power at Charmeleon's stomach area.
Wondering what this attack was everyone waited to see Kabuto create perfectly round stones out of thin air that contained a golden glow around them, they were then shot forward, all aiming at where Kabuto was told to shoot at.
"Uh oh... Charmeleon get out of the way!" screamed Alex. Charmeleon ran from where he was just standing and if he hesitated any longer he would have probably been blown back by flying projectiles of doom! As each rock hit the floor it made a small crater that eventually connected with other small craters as they all struck the same area. Now in the middle of the field was a rut that acted pretty much like the borderline of the middle of a battlefield. Charmeleon panted and looked at Bulbasaur for help.
Switch to: The Pokemon's point of view
"How do we, *huff *, beat that thing? Although my Metal Claw really, *huff *, hurt it that isn't enough," gasped Charmeleon.
"I think we'll have to make some team attack, maybe if we do something like that we can take it down," guessed Bulbasaur.
"It'll have to do, but we can't get it through to our trainers so we'll have to fight on our own."
"Agreed."
Back to: The trainer's point of view
Alex tried forming a plan in his head when he saw Charmeleon and Bulbasaur running at Kabuto, "Wait guys! Stop!" But too late, Bulbasaur sent out it's vines and grabbed them around Charmeleon, then sent it into the air soaring. Charmeleon used Metal Claw and was heading straight for Kabuto, which was foaming at the mouth, starting a Water Gun attack. Before it could launch the attack though, Bulbasaur still had it's vines out and swung them at Kabuto. Kabuto wasn't expecting this and was about to get hit if it wasn't for the Robo-Trainer using it's sensors.
Kabuto, duck down, it commanded. Kabuto fell down on to it's legs and just avoided getting smacked to the wall, but you can't say the same for Charmeleon, who didn't plan things right. The poor fire type didn't take much damage from the vines because it wasn't super effective, but the wall sure hurt. Both Pokemon returned back to their trainer's side.
"That didn't work, but good try," Alex praised, patting his Pokemon on the head.
"How about you help us get untied and we can actually help fight!" Derek grumpily said.
"Yeah, that actually would help."
"You think?" So Alex had his Pokemon cut the rope that trapped his two friends, and they stood up and stretched after being hunched up on the floor.
"Aaah, that's better, now, before I help, does anybody have a revive with them? My Pokemon are out," said Quinton.
"You are pretty useless, you know that Quinton," insulted Alex, pulling a revive from his bag. He handed it to his friend and focused back at the battle, seeing that Derek had Wartortle out and it was already attacking Kabuto.
"Let's let the others handle this for now, seeing as they were 'sitting this out'," suggested Lucas.
"Yeah, I'm with you," agreed Alex. They walked back to the doorway and sat down, watching more for their entertainment. Quinton joined in the fight and had his Nidoran use Double Kick on Kabuto, but only one kick made contact, the other accidentally knocking back Wartortle.
After seeing Kabuto beat up their friends Pokemon for a while they got back up and sent back out their Pokemon to fight.
"Alright Charmeleon use Metal Claw!" shouted out Alex. Charmeleon ran up from behind everyone and thrust down it's arm for the finishing blow. Kabuto flew back and was out cold before it even landed.
Charmeleon beamed with pride at winning the fight, but Wartortle was mad at it for taking the glory. "Nice Alex," Derek said while glowering.
"Awww, why thank you," Alex said in a stupid voice. Just then Kabuto was returned and another pokeball came halfway out of the launcher arm.
Omanyte, come onto the field, the robot announced. The pokeball flew onto the field to reveal a large, light tan shell with a small sky blue face coming from the front. The face had several short tentacles where the mouth must be hiding under.
Water Gun at Nidoran the robot said. Omanyte blasted water from underneath the tentacles and the attack made Nidoran tumble backwards until striking the wall, which by now the room had all of it's walls cracked.
"Bulbasaur use Razor Leaf!" said Lucas. The grass type sent another barrage of leaves at the enemy, and this one was slower than Kabuto. Omanyte couldn't move in time and fell on it's side, now it was 100% immobile.
Everyone had commanded an attack at Omanyte and with the combined power the match ended faster than the one before.
"Hah! Even if you defeated those two fossil Pokemon I still have one more, and it is even more powerful than Kabuto and Omanyte's strength combined!" cackled the scientist, "Now Robo-Trainer, it's time to revive our secret weapon!"
"It's not going to be so secret anymore," pointed out Nick.
"Oh be quiet, don't rain on my parade."
Nick was going to respond back but stopped as a loud whirring noise came from the Robo-Trainer. They knew it was reviving the fossil that was stored in it's body and was going to use it against the four trainers. However Alex wasn't going to let this happen.
"Shellder come on out! Use Icicle Spear at that robot!" called out Alex. He tossed a pokeball several feet in front of him and out came his purple bivalve shell Pokemon. Remembering the command it was told Shellder's shell opened up more and the water type spit several icicles at the robot. They shattered when they hit the machine and did nothing.
"You think you can stop it with that?" taunted, you guessed it, the scientist.
"Well maybe not Shellder alone, but how about this? Charmeleon use Ember and after that use Icicle Spear Shellder!" Alex commanded. Fiery bullets came from Charmeleon's mouth and struck the front side of the Robo-Trainer. Although the attack didn't harm the machine it left most of the front side red hot, Shellder came in and again used Icicle Spear.
Now that the metal was hot the icicles cut through it like butter, (not sure if the science of what just happened is real... don't judge me.) Electricity sparked and the lens began to blink out of control, the machine violently shook until it fell to pieces in an explosion. Scrap pieces of metal shot everywhere and people from the other room screamed.
"We have to put out the flames and get the people untied! Oh yeah, don't forget the fossils!" Lucas said. They broke up, Alex went to untie the captured people, Derek to use Wartortle and put out the fire, and Lucas and Quinton to get the fossils from being stolen.
Once everything was under control, the people free, the fire out, the fossils safe from being taken by the grunts, the four trainers faced the the two Rockets in the room.
"Okay," Lucas said, picking up two pokeballs, "you're trapped, you can't use your 'secret weapon', and we have your Omanyte and Kabuto right here."
"That may be the case, but we're not ones to get captured so easily!" Nick said. Just then, as if on cue, the ceiling broke and after avoiding the falling rubble, they looked up to see a helicopter with a ladder dangling from the side. Two Grunts waited on the roof of the building for Nick and the scientist to get up using the ladder from the helicopter as it moved down for them to board.
"See you suckers!" Nick shouted down as he waved bye. The helicopter took off when the Grunts got in and gave the okay, and was soon just a speck in the great blue sky. Things became very silent as everyone stared up towards the gaping hole, only to be broken by police officers running to the room.
"What's all the commotion? And why is Team Rocket gone?" asked an officer.
"They had helicopters, they used them to get away, and it worked," grumbled Lucas.
"Well was anything stolen?" the officer replied.
"Team Rocket wanted to steal the fossils, we stopped them, but they revived two and almost had one other restored, other than that I think everything is all right, besides this room," explained Alex.
"That's alright, we can get it repaired over time," someone said, a man in a blue-grey business suit came up, "let me introduce myself, I am the head of the museum, and I understand we couldn't have saved everything from damage. You kids have proven yourselves to be quite the powerful trainers, now you should get going, we'll take it from here, and could I see those fossil Pokemon? I believe they are museum property, and they will make nice attractions." Lucas handed the pokeballs over to the man and walked out of the security room.
"Hey Lucas wait up!" Alex said, "What's wrong? Aren't you glad we at least stopped them from stealing?"
"That's okay, but I hoped to get them arrested after what they did to my family," Lucas said.
"Sure Team Rocket took over your family's ranch, but it wasn't probably the ones that were here," said Alex.
"Yes it was, I remember Nick's face, he was the one who commanded the whole operation, look, I don't feel up to battling right now, you go on ahead. Tell the others this too, you can take on the gym and then leave without me, after all, we were going to split up after Pewter City."
"O- okay, I will tell the others, but are you sure?"
"Yes"
"Alright then, see you whenever," Alex said as he walked off. He was not used to seeing Lucas like this, but he wasn't going to be a bother and try to help him, he knew this problem would only be solved by himself, so just let him be.
"Hey Alex, what's up with Lucas," Quinton asked as he and Derek walked up to him.
"I don't know, but he said we can go on and leave without him once I get my badge, he said it's okay. I actually think he needs this time to be alone, after all he said to me that Nick was the one who was in charge of taking his family's Tauros ranch."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Oh, then you're right, we should let him be, how about we get our Pokemon healed and then watch you battle the gym leader," thought Quinton.
"That sounds like a plan to me, man, Charmeleon and Shellder must be tired, they could definitely use a healing," agreed Alex. Now that they were all agreed on the plan, they walked down the steps of the museum. The crowd from earlier was dispersing but there was still some groups of people waiting to see if anything would happen. The three turned around to take a look at the museum, from here it looked as if nothing happened, but if anybody took a look inside they would see things out of place, burn marks, and the remains of a battle.
"Well, there's nothing we can do now, let's just get to the Pokemon Center," Alex said as they took there last look at the museum.
"Well that didn't work as we planned," Nick said.
"Eh, who could predict some trainers, especially that young, getting in our way," the scientist replied.
"So I guess I'll have to report to the boss that our mission was a fail."
"Not quite, you see, amidst the chaos of the Robo-Trainer's explosion, I dug through it's remains and found this," the scientist said back, holding up a small oval shaped piece of amber. He laughed wickedly as Nick could only guess why, it didn't matter, as long as he had something good to report he wouldn't get chewed out. The rest of the ride went in silence as the helicopter flew in between two mountains and off into the night sky.
