Chapter 20: I Choose You!
Ryan, Dustin and Zach slowly walked through the aisle of Wal-Mart. They saw no sign of life.
"So do you think Lan did this?" Zach asked. "I mean he unleashed the Gremlin. Is it not possible that he unleashed Pokémon as well?"
"I never thought of that. It's possible." Dustin stopped. He heard a noise. He put his finger to his lips to tell the others to be quite. He pointed to his left and started to slowly walk over to an island of clothes. He slowly moved some clothes aside. They looked to see a huge tan ball of fur.
"What is that?" Ryan asked as two red eyes opened the ball of fur jumped out tackling Dustin to the ground.
"It's a Primeape!" Zach yelled. Now they could see the ball of fur was a Pokémon. A huge powerful Pokémon, which danced on Dustin's chest in victory.
"No you don't!" Ryan said as he ran towards Primeape, but before he could the Primeape jumped over him, and Ryan landed on the ground. He quickly got up. Dustin rolled over and got up.
"Where the Mightyena?" Zach asked as he heard low growl from behind him. He slowly turned to see the dog like Pokémon, glaring his teeth right in his face. Zach stepped back slowly.
"DUCK!" Dustin yelled. Zach didn't look and just dropped to the ground as a ball of energy hit Mightyena in the face and launched him back. "Direct hit! Huh?" Dustin then knocked over by Ryan and the Primeape as he struggled with it.
"Take this!" Ryan said as he did a leg swipe and hit the legs of the Primeape. The Primeape fell to the ground as the Mightyena started to lunge towards Ryan.
"No!" Zach yelled as pushed his hand out and a burst of sand appeared from across the store and hit the Mightyena with extreme force. The Pokémon went flying into a wall and hit the floor hard. It left a huge dent. The Primeape ran over to it, checking the status of the other Pokémon.
"Come on guys, let's put it together!" Zach said. Dustin and Ryan stared at him blankly.
"What are you talking about?" Ryan yelled.
"Combine our attacks to win!"
"This is not Power Rangers!"
"Well why not."
"Shut up!" Dustin interrupted.
"Come on, just think of it! The Sand-Clay Kamehameha!" Dustin did a face palm. "PLEASE!"
"He won't shut up till you say yes." Ryan said as he shook his head.
"He's right." Zach admitted.
"Fine." Dustin put his hands to his side.
"Wait, how does it work?" Ryan asked.
"Dustin will do the Kamehameha, I will make sand go at high speeds swirling around the Kamehameha, and Ryan you will have the clay spiders run up and in front of the Pokémon before the beam hits."
"Seems convoluted if you ask me." Ryan said.
"Plus we have to yell 'Combination Attack: Sand-Clay Kamehameha!'" Zach smiled.
"I hope no one see's this." Dustin said, putting his arms to his waist, readying the Kamehameha. A ball of energy formed.
"You ready Ryan?" Zach asked excited.
"You know it." Ryan said sarcastically. He had a few spiders ready.
"Ok! Go!" Zach yelled.
"Combination Attack: Sand Clay Kamehameha!" Zach was the only one that yelled it. Dustin unleashed a huge beam towards the Pokémon. Sand spun fast around it. The Clay spiders scurried with speed and jumped in front of the beam, causing an explosion. A cloud of dust covered the area.
"Hey, not bad." Dustin said surprised.
"You didn't yell the name of the attack!" Zach said angrily.
"Yeah….." Ryan said looking away laughing. Zach glared at him.
"Sorry Zach. I was, was, focusing on the attack itself." Dustin said, thinking of an excuse.
"The smokes clearing up." Ryan said as they looked into the smoke. Then suddenly the Mightyena and Primeape leaped from the smoke ready to attack.
"Shadow Claw!" a deep voice yelled from behind the smoke. Two large black claws came through the smoke, grabbing the Pokémon by their heads and dragged them back into the smoke. Dustin took a step forward, trying to wave the smoke away. As he did he saw the two Pokémon, knock out from whatever dragged them back.
"What happen?" Zach asked as he looked at the two, now knocked out. "What was with those black claws?"
"That was me." The deep voice said again. From the wall, a pure block hole appeared. A dark creature emerged from it. Dustin's recognized it.
"Darkrai?"
"Yes, I have taken the form of Darkrai."
"Taken the form? What do you mean?" Ryan asked.
"You think you're the only ones with powers. These two are humans, as am I." Darkrai looked down and the Mightyena and Primeape started to glow, and in a quick flash of light, two humans took their place.
"Freaky." Zach commented.
"So you're human too? Who are you?" Dustin asked.
"A friend. That is all you need to know for now." The Darkrai disappear into the black hole again, and the hole vanished.
"So now we have Pokémon here. Great, just great." Ryan said, throwing his hands up in the air.
"Ryan, go get Brandon, we are taking the back door out of here." Dustin said as he looked around. Ryan started to run upfront.
"What are you looking for?" Zach asked curiously.
"I need to find rope or something to tie these guys up with." Dustin looked around. Zach looked at the two men, pass out on the ground, they wore nice suites. Which Zach found odd.
"Why did they go on a rampage? I mean they look like business men." Zach asked.
"Maybe they can't control themselves in Pokémon form?" Dustin said, opening a package full of rope.
"But Darkrai could." Dustin fell silent as he tied the hands together of the two men. Ryan was running back to them, alone.
"Brandon is gone. He's not answering his cell phone." Ryan said worried. Dustin pulled the last knot.
"Could he be in the store?" Dustin asked.
"I don't know, but we don't have time. The police and animal control are on their way in." Ryan said looking back.
"We have to get out of here. Brandon can take care of himself." Zach said as he started to run towards the back doors.
Dustin didn't feel right leaving him. But he had no choice. Dustin shook his head and ran off with his friends towards the back door.
Dustin looked back at Wal-Mart from across the street, at the front of the mall, and so a lot of commotion. He looked back to see Zach and Ryan were already inside. He followed them to the living area.
"So Brandon just left?" Tyler asked as Dustin walked in.
"Good riddance." Lauren said, scoffing at him. Nate gave her a weird look.
"Now we have to watch out for Pokémon now. This is getting crazy." Zach said. Dustin saw that Katherine was missing. Ryan noticed his look of worry.
"She's in the bathroom." Ryan said casually. "But we need to be careful." Lauren turned on the TV.
"Why are you turning that on?" Zach asked. They looked on as the news was going.
"It looks like two members of the Mayor's office were caught at a local Wal-Mart. Causing thousands of dollars in damage." They all looked wide eyed.
"The Mayor, again. No wonder they were attacking us so violently." Dustin said. Lauren turned the TV off again.
"We need to figure out what the Mayor is up to." Nate said. The door opened and Katherine came out, looking puzzled.
"What about the Mayor?"
"We think he's up to something, but were not sure." Tyler said.
"Like what?" Katherine asked.
"Well for one, when I was on a mission last night, one of the Mayor's Aid's attacked me. He also had Vegeta's Powers." Ryan said as she looked at him blankly.
"She doesn't know anime." Lauren commented.
"Well he had powers." Ryan said.
"Plus the Mayor's wife was murdered early this morning," Nate added.
"Finally we just had to stop a few men in Wal-mart, according to the news; they were members of his office," Zach said.
"Ok, you guys are crazy." Katherine said laughing.
"Ignore her." Lauren said, waving her hand, and then putting it on top of Nate's.
"Well we have to go. It's almost one Lauren. Mom will freak out if were not home soon."
"It's almost one! We have to get going to." Dustin said looking at the clock. The morning had gone by fast. They all got up and headed for the door.
They got out side and Dustin locked the door.
"You are welcome back, the both of you, anytime." Zach offered.
"Thanks, but it's a little weird here." Katherine Laughed. "Where are you guys going anyway?"
"Recruiting." Dustin said with a smile.