Chapter 21, Roy and Bill part 2
"Wow, we met very little resistance on the way here," Torchie said as he and Roy made their way to the foot of Pokemon Tower.
"By little resistance you mean grunts with weak-ass pokemon!" Roy was pumped and ready to kick more ass, but the plan was to wait for Bill before moving ahead. "The strongest pokemon they sent at us was that Bastiodon and it didn't stand a chance!"
"Well it's me, what do you expect, hahaha!" The two were very confident after their battles on the way here. Five trainers and 10 pokemon weren't enough to even marginally slow down Roy and Torchie.
"I wonder where Bill is."
A giant stream of fire comes blasting out of the second story of the Pokemon Tower, followed by a falling Rocket Grunt and his Zigzagoon.
"Does that answer your question Roy?" The Blaziken turned to his trainer and smiled.
"ALRIGHT! LETS GO!" The two dash up a few flights of stairs before coming face to face with the destruction the Ninetales had caused. the entire second floor looked ashen and there were still some small fires burning on the wooden pillars. "Dude, if you keep this up the whole building is coming down!"
"Yeah! I know! But we gotta save those people first before we make this tower collapse…"
"YOU'RE PLANNING ON DESTROYING THE TOWER?!"
"No, but if it happens, it happens, and at this rate it's going to happen!"
"Well come on! We need to save the people on top if the tower's coming down!"
"You don't think I know that already?" The four of them (Torchie and Ninetales too) started dashing up the staircase to the third floor, then the fourth, and finally the fifth, where most of the townsfolk were being held against their will. There they saw two Rocket members not wearing the normal black uniforms, but two grey ones that looked somewhat similar. They turned, facing the two trainers now.
"What do you think you're doing here?" Said the male. He had short, sky-blue hair and an extremely gruff voice.
"It looks like they're causing us a bit of trouble, isn't that obvious Butch?" said the female. She had long blonde-orange hair down to the middle of her back in two large ponytails.
"It's called a rhetorical question Cassidy, haven't you ever heard one before?"
She glares at her partner harshly. "Shut up you stupid Dunsparce."
"Whoa, whoa, easy on the profanities!"
Bill looks over to Roy, "These guys are goofier than us!"
"There's nothing goofy between us," Roy replies fiercely.
"You two should be careful, we are Butch and Cassidy, two of the strongest pairs in Team Rocket," the woman said as she alluringly walked towards the two boys.
"You should watch yourself, or your pokemon will be gone before you know it," said Butch, who was still standing in front of the cowering people of Lavender Town.
"I'll take you on girl, Bill, take the guy."
"Oh, feisty now."
"Watch it Cassidy, he might get you with that scary looking Blaziken of his!" The two began to laugh.
This time Bill spoke up, "You won't be laughing when we are through with you two. Now draw your pokemon or let these people go."
"AHAHA! WHAT A WONDERFUL CHALLENGER!" Cassidy whipped a pokeball out and a Sharpedo ferociously flew towards the Blaziken. The Blaziken reacted with insanely fast speeds and uppercutted the Sharpedo through the ceiling. Not missing a beat, Butch tossed out an Octillery at Bill's Ninetales, who intercepted it with a Fire Spin, it was trapped but it wasn't being hurt at all. As the Sharpedo flew back down into the room and bounced on the floor it charged at Blaziken who was just regaining its footing and formed a giant spear of water with itself. Octillery fired massive shots of mud and gunk at the Ninetales who gracefully dodged each strike, and as the Aqua Jet from the Sharpedo made contact with the Blaziken, Ninetales had cast a Hex at the Octillery.
Octillery was un-phased and still stood strong against the onslaught of Ghost-type attacks, knowing fire wouldn't do much more to it. Torchie had taken massive damage from the Aqua Jet and stumbled backwards as Sharpedo fired a Dark pulse at the stumbling Blaziken. It wasn't very effective but it was enough to make it fall over. The Octillery took fire at the Blaziken with an Octozooka, and its only hope of escape was-
The floor beneath the Blaziken and Sharpedo had fallen through along with their two trainers. The destruction from Bill's earlier battles had finally started to take its toll on the structural integrity of the building. The startled Octillery hadn't noticed that the fiery barrier it had been surrounded by wore off as the Ninetails ran up to it and threw it across the room with an Extrasensory attack. After bouncing off the wall a Flamethrower consumed the room around it, giving Octillery massive burns, but still not doing much damage. Before Octillery could react it was thrown across the room again by Extrasensory. Another Hex attack struck the Octillery and did much more damage this time than the last time it struck the Water pokemon, and it was down for the count.
"Dammit, how the hell did you do that?"
Bill intensely looks across the room to his opponent and the crowd now cheering behind him, he turns his back to go up the next flight of stairs and says, "Because I love hard battles!"
Blaziken is too slow to land a single Jump Kick, Thunder Punch, or Sky Uppercut, and before long signs of fatigue are starting to set in. It's fast enough though to dodge more Aqua Jets and Hydro Pumps, but Torchie is slowly starting to lose this fight.
"Did you really think you could win kid!?"
"I can with help from my friends!" At this line his Gabite comes out of its ball and stops an incoming Water Jet from landing on the downed Torchie.
"That's not fair kid, and you know it!"
"I didn't think Rockets were one to fight fairly!"
"YA GOT THAT RIGHT KID!" A man hanging from a rope outside of a broken part of the wall had thrown a Black ball at the Gabite. The Gabite tried to dodge but was struck with it and dematerialized into the Black ball.
"Oh NO YOU DON'T!" Roy snapped his fingers and Porygon 2 came out of its ball immediately sensing the situation and using Psychic on the Black ball, and launching it back towards the spot where Gabite stood. "Torchie, grab it!" Blaziken rolled out of the way of another attempt at a water gun attack and dove straight at the black ball. It was then picked up and thrown across the room by a Psychic attack, the man out the window had released a Xatu from its ball which was now flying next to him.
"Grab the ball and let's go!" The Rocket Grunt said.
"NOOOOOOO!" Roy had commanded the Porygon 2 to use Hyper Beam not at the Xatu, or the Sharpedo, but straight at Cassidy. It made direct contact with her torso and launched her through the wall and out onto the mountainside that is one of the walls of the Pokemon Tower. The Porygon 2 took aim at the other Rocket Grunt, and fired a Tri-attack directly at him. The Xatu had no time to react as the man was thrown off of his rope down four stories to the ground below. Roy returned Torchie and Porygon 2 to their balls and walked over to the Black ball, released his Gabite, and smashed the ball under his foot. The Gabite returned itself to its ball as well, and Roy was left standing alone in a horribly torn apart room of the Pokemon Tower. People from the floors above started running past him down the stairs, not taking much notice of him. Bill rescued all the other people earlier, and is now escorting them all out.
"Hey Roy… What's the matter?"
"I almost lost him…" Bill notices the broken ball underneath Roy's foot.
"Oh, well at least you saved him, right?"
"I almost lost him… I almost broke my promise…"
"It's okay now, what's the problem?" Roy fell to his knees. People are still scurrying past but not as many now.
"I almost lost him… I almost…" Bill hoists him up over his shoulder.
"Alrighty, let's go. Sweetie, make sure everyone else leaves the building." Ninetales nods at its orders. "Come on buddy, let's go."
"…. almost…." Bill carried Roy out of the building, and Ninetales escorted all the civilians out. The Zeppelin was already on its way out of sight by the time they had all left the building. People were shouting, proclaiming that Bill and Roy were heroes, but all Roy could think of was how he almost broke his promise.