Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon. Nor do I own the A-Team. Or Gundam Seed Destiny.
Dark Murderer, you're amusing me. You really should stop eating that much sugar.
My vacation is almost over, so I might not be able to update for a while.
CHAPTER 25: MT. CHIMNEY PART 3
Brendan was listening. Listening to the Magmas who were talking about some machine.
He was currently lying on his head in a luggage rack, hiding. He had pins and needles in his legs.
The bandage around his left arm was almost completely torn apart. Blood was coming through. He bit on his lip.
It couldn't take much longer before they reached Mt. Chimney…
The cablecart shook, and stopped. The Magmas opened the door, and left the cart.
Wally was the first one to move. He got up, and lowered his head, gazing upside-down into the cart.
"This place is deserted. Let's go!".
Wally jumped down. Brendan quickly followed. Only May didn't move.
"May?" Brendan asked. "Great, she's asleep! May, WAKE UP!". Wally: "Ssst! Shut up!".
Brendan grabbed May's shoulders and shook her up. "Come on…wake up…and fast, coz w may get caught…WAKE UP!".
Footsteps could be heard. "Someone's coming this way! Hide under the couch!".
Wally and Brendan both threw themselves against the ground, and rolled underneath a couch. They could see feet walking into the cablecart.
"Nobody's here…" a cold, hard voice said. The feet walked away, out of the cablecart.
Brendan and Wally heard some buttons being pushed, and then a heavy switch got moved.
A shock went through the cablecart, which began to move again. Brendan swore.
He quickly got up, saw that the Magma had gone away, and opened the door. Then, he grabbed May by her shoulders.
"WAKE UP!" he yelled. Still, no response.
He lifted her and tried to carry her on his right shoulder. Tried to.
He walked towards the door, and looked down. The cablecart had just left the building, and was now on his way down. Below him, was only a rocky cliff.
Brendan bent through his knees, and jumped when they neared a small tree, on a not-so-very-steep part of the cliff. May still hanging over his shoulder.
He landed on his back, slid down and managed to wrap his left arm around a low branch. Wally landed next to him, and grabbed one of the tree's roots. Brendan's left arm was bleeding again.
May opened her eyes. She had just been dreaming about riding on top of a huge white horse. With dandruff.
"May! Wake up!". "Hm?". "Latios, finally! Grab a branch!".
May rubbed her eyes. She noticed that she was lying very uncomfortably…
"What branch?" she asked. "Hurry up! I'm slipping away!". "Huh?".
May looked around. Brendan was…carrying her? What the…
Brendan began to slide. May immediately grabbed a branch and pulled herself up.
"Finally…" Brendan murmured, grabbing the branch with his right arm, previously occupied with holding May in place.
"What happened?". "Well, while you were having your beauty sleep, Wally and I arrived at Mt. Chimney's top. But before we could get you to wake up, someone made the cablecart go down again!".
"…and then?". "So, we jumped. And that leaves us here, hanging onto a half-broken tree, twelve metres below Mt. Chimney's top!" Brendan said sarcastically.
"All right, you don't have to get angry and all that…".
Wally: "Could you two please stop? We'd be better off if we go and find a way up!".
"Okay, but HOW?". "Good question…".
- ten minutes later -
They reached the top again. After climbing up, they heard a pokémon cry, followed by a huge explosion.
Wally: "There's a battle going on!".
Running towards the crater, they saw that Wally was right.
More then six Magmas were having a battle against… a Beedrill.
The Beedrill's trainer, on closer inspection, was the Nidoking-guy. "Sting, use Twineedle!" he ordered.
Beedrill was flying between the opponent's pokémon, dealing stabs when they lowered their guard.
Beedrill's opponents failed to hit him at all.
"Now, Triple Kick!". "Can a Beedrill do Triple Kick?"Wally whispered. "No!" Brendan replied.
Ignoring the basics of pokémon movesets, Beedrill made a triple 360 degree spin, kicking all his opponents with his hind legs.
"Fly up!". Beedrill started to fly upwards.
"Hyper Beam!". Beedrill stopped and fired a white-hot yellow beam from the tip of his poisonous barb.
The following explosion knocked all his opponents out cold.
Beedrill quietly got returned, an then his owner ran away, towards Mt. Chimney's crater.
"What happened?" May asked, after the smoke had cleared. "He won, of course!" Brendan yelled, running after him.
"Get them! Hurry!" someone yelled. May looked back.
Now, some members of Team Aqua appeared from behind some trees. They ran towards the Magmas.
"Guys, we'd better be going…" May said, "within minutes this place will turn into a battlefield!".
A Magma: "Seviper, Bite that green-haired kid!". "Help!" Wally yelped, jumping aside.
"I choose you, Ralts! Confusion!". The psychic blow knocked back Seviper. "Seviper, use…".
Suddenly, the ground shook. Then, everyone heard rumbling. Small rocks shot out of the crater.
"What's happening!" Brendan yelled above all the rumbling.
"Don't know! You two go on, and I'll catch up with you later! Ralts, Psychic!".
May and Brendan ran around the volcano's crater.
"Ralts, Teleport!" Wally yelled. Ralts disappeared and reappeared a few metres away, avoiding Seviper's Toxic attack. "Now, Confusion!".
The psychic attack did connect, but Seviper seemed to be at a horribly high level. It looked like he didn't take any damage at all.
"Seviper, Constrict!". Ralts got grabbed, and Seviper began to strangle him. "Teleport!".
But Ralts, pain surging through every part of it's tiny body, couldn't even focus.
Brendan and May stopped. They had reached a large, flat plateau on which a strange machine was standing. Next to it, stood a Magma.
This one didn't wear the usual cap, but instead let his long, red hair fall down, reaching his shoulders.
He was having a battle against the Nidoking-guy, now using a Dragonite to battle the Magma's Rhydon.
"Rhydon, Horn Drill!" the Magma ordered.
Brendan recognised his voice. It was the same, cold voice he heard in the cablecart.
"Alpha, Fly!". Dragonite jumped, and remained airborne. Rhydon's attack totally missed it's target.
By now, large chunks of rock came flying out of the crater. Large clouds of smoke appeared.
The Nidoking-guy now noticed Brendan and May.
"Hey! You two! Listen! See that machine over there? Shut it down, or else this volcano will erupt! What are you waiting for? Get g-". "Rhydon, Rock Throw!".
Rhydon hurled large rocks towards Dragonite, who was already badly damaged.
"Alpha!" N-guy yelled as he saw his pokémon fall.
"Rhydon, Horn Drill!". "Evade and Ice Beam!".
Dragonite got hit, but not before he fired an ice-cold beam at Rhydon.
"Return!" the two trainers yelled, returning their pokémon.
"Go, Destroyer!". "Charizard!".
The Magma turned around, facing Brendan and May, and yelled "Stop those two!".
Another Magma appeared from behind the machine. It seemed that he was the one controlling it. He grabbed a pokéball.
As did Brendan and May.
"Together?" May asked, smiling. "You bet!" Brendan said, giving her the thumbs up.
"Flame!". "Muddy!". "Attack!".
"Go, Camerupt!".
"Ralts, try to focus!".
Ralts tried, he really did. But he couldn't. He felt his power flow away…
Seviper closed in, fangs ready to strike. Poison was dripping from his teeth…
Ralts struggled. Seviper tightened his grip. He opened his jaws…
"Camerupt, Magnitude!".
The ground, already moving, now started to shake ferociously. Both Flame and Muddy fell down.
Muddy: "That hurt! Taste my Water Gun!". Muddy used Water Gun, damaging Camerupt.
May, knowing that a Fire-type attack wouldn't be effective, ordered Flame to use a Flying-type attack instead.
"Flame, Peck!". "Hah, not very effective! Camerupt, Stone Tomb!".
Flame got hit in mid-air, and fell down. She laid still.
"Muddy, Water Gun again!". Muddy again fired a high-speed blast of water, but it didn't damage the high-level Camerupt much.
"Camerupt…EARTQUAKE!".
Now, the ground got torn apart. Huge shockwaves hurled both Muddy and Flame in the air.
"And now Fire Blast!".
Camerupt hurled a huge fireball towards the two tiny pokémon.
They flew through the air. The fell down. Into the crater.
The underground rumbling intensified. Searing hot lava got blasted out of the crater.
Brendan jumped, pulling May with him, and laid flat on the ground.
Chunks of white-hot lava flew over their heads.
"Flame!" May screamed, tears in her eyes.
More smoke appeared. Rocks cracked. Steam escaped.
"Camerupt, one more Earthquake!".
Again, huge shockwaves appeared. Brendan and May got hurled backwards.
"Damn!" Brendan yelled as he got flung back.
Brendan looked down. Below him, he could now clearly see the lava.
Everything seemed to move slowly…
He was going to fall into the crater…
He saw May… he grabbed her hand…
Now, everything moved to fast.
Brendan looked down again.
He looked at a ledge, now coming closer.
He reached out, bit on his lip, and closed his eyes.
If only he could reach the ledge…
Ralts felt something. Something cold. Sticky… it was dripping onto his head…
Ralts looked up, and stared at Seviper's fangs.
"Viper!" Seviper said.
Two red eyes stared at Ralts…so this was the end…
Brendan's hand found something hard and cold. He curled his fingers around it, and braced himself.
He slammed into a rock and felt a jerk on his left arm.
Two hands clinged onto his left hand.
His right arm now carried the weight of both him and May.
Brendan opened his eyes.
"Damn…" Brendan whispered, "May! Are you all right?".
"I'm fine!" May yelled from underneath him.
'Why did I ask that?' Brendan asked himself.
He then looked up. Blood was running down his face…he could barely see…
"May, can you climb up?". "No! There's nothing to climb up on!". "Climb up on me!".
Brendan felt a hand grab his leg, then another hand grabbed it.
Brendan could now hold onto the ledge with both arms, but his left arm…
He felt May climb up.
After grabbing the ledge, May pulled herself up.
"Can you get up?" May yelled above all the crashing and raging of the volcano.
"No! I can barely use my left arm!".
His left arm's wound had opened up again, the bandage was about to fall off, and a searing pain spread through Brendan's arm.
He felt two hands grab his right arm.
She tried to pull him up…
Brendan kicked around with his legs, until his foot found a stone.
Carefully, he moved a part of his weight onto the stone.
With his other foot, he tried to find another stone.
Looking down, he saw one just above his middle. If only he could reach it…
Brendan swung his left arm up and grabbed the ledge.
"Help me pull myself up!" he yelled.
May bent through her knees, and grabbed Brendan around his armpits.
Blood streamed down his left arm as he tried to pull himself up.
Putting his unoccupied foot on a stone, he pushed and managed to lift himself up enough to lay down on his belly.
He grabbed another rock for support.
When he looked around, he saw that the N-guy was still facing the same, old Magma.
They were using a Nidoking and a Charizard. Brendan looked to the right.
There, the other Magma was tending to the machine, his Camerupt still on guard.
The Magma turned around, and noticed Brendan and May.
"Camerupt…" he yelled, laughing, "Fire Blast!". Camerupt inhaled.
May looked at Brendan. Brendan looked at May. They both closed their eyes.
"Fire!" the Magma ordered.
"No you don't!".
"I'm one crazy chicken who is going to kick some Camerupt ass!".
"Yeah! I'm…well…let's go!".
(start humming the A-Team theme now)
Some boulders exploded. Out of the smoke came two tiny pokémon, running.
They were glowing white, and…growing?
While running, now on two legs, Muddy fired a stream of Muddy Water, badly damaging Camerupt.
Flame, currently developing arms, jumped.
She flew a few metres, stopped glowing, having fully evolved into Combusken, and Double Kicked Camerupt.
Who fell onto his side.
"Together?" Muddy, now a Marshtomp, asked.
"Yeah!" Flame replied.
They inhaled, and fired a Flamethrower and Muddy Water at the same time.
Knocking out Camerupt.
Brendan, with new hope, pulled himself up and ran towards the machine.
The Magma there tried to stop him, but ran away when Flame and Muddy attacked him.
May hurried towards the machine, too.
Ralts couldn't see clear anymore…the whole world had gone purple…
Wait…did someone say something? It sounded…it remembered him of sheep, hills filled with grass…and…haggis?
Of course!
"Gree man!" Ralts yelled, bashing his head forward.
Between Seviper's eyes.
"All right, Ralts!" Wally yelled.
"I'm gonna win this one!" Ralts yelled, glowing white.
He started to grow.
Unleashing a powerful Psychic attack, he lifted Seviper and threw him against a rock.
"Kirlia!" Kirlia yelled. "(translation:) Now let's get this party started!" he yelled, eyes glowing purple.
He waved his arm, and fired a Psybeam, knocking out two Magma-pokémon at once.
"Charizard, Blast Burn!" Maxie (coz he is Maxie) yelled.
"Destroyer, Hyper Beam!" his opponent yelled.
The two pokémon roared as they unleashed their most powerful attacks.
The following explosion threw both the pokémon and their trainers backwards.
In mid-air, N-guy returned his knocked out Nidoking.
N-guy slammed into a rock wall.
Maxie, with nothing behind him, got thrown back, and fell off the volcano.
His Charizard spread his wings wide, and dove after him.
N-guy tried to and succeeded in standing up, and then sped towards the machine.
Where May and Brendan stood.
"How can we get this thing to shut down!" May said, examinating the keyboard.
"Don't know! Brendan yelled, ducking since another piece of rock flew out of the crater, in his direction.
Now, Brendan began to kick the machine.
"That won't work!" N-guy yelled, having arrived at the machine.
He grabbed a lever and pushed it down, opening a hatch. He reached inside the machine, through the just opened hatch, and pulled out a odd-coloured rock.
The volcano's roaring immediately stopped.
Lava flows ebbed away, the smoke began to disappear, and the ground stopped shaking.
"Finally…" N-guy whispered. Then, he fell down.
"Hey! Where are you going! Come back!" Ralts, correction, Kirlia yelled.
The Magmas, having noticed that the eruption had stopped, returned their pokémon and made a run for it.
The Aquas chased them.
"What's the problem with him?" May asked, nudging N-guy with her foot. Brendan: "Is he dead or something?". May checked his heartbeat.
"Of course not. Guess he's just asleep.".
"May?". "Yeah?". "I wanna ask you something…".
"We did kick some ass, didn't we, Flame?". "Yes we did!". "Um… Flame…". "Eh?". "I've always wanted to ask you something…". "Speak up, Muddy!".
"Come back and fight like a… like a… like a Kirlia, yeah!". Nobody listened.
Wally quickly lifted the swearing Kirlia, and ran towards Brendan and May.
"Hi, guys! Did you know that Ralts evolved into… what's happening here!".
"Flame, I've always wanted to ask you this…um…". Say it!". "Which was first, the chicken or the egg?".
"What did you want to ask, Brendan?". "Do you have some bandages? My arm is about to fall off."
Wally: "What happened to you, Brendan?".
"Well, let's see… I've been blown away by an earthquake, I've climbed out of a volcano's crater, I've…".
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. You're beaten up and totally wrecked… but why is HE lying there?" Wally asked, pointing his finger at N-guy.
"He stopped this machine-thingy," May said, "which caused the volcano's eruption to come to a halt. Afterwards, he fell down and didn't get up.".
Wally: "He isn't… is he?". Brendan: "He's just asleep.". May: I wonder what his name is…".
"Well, shall we get going?" Wally said, looking at the now clear midnight sky. "It must be past midnight…".
"Before we go," May said, hands against her side, "shouldn't we wake him up or something?".
She nodded in the direction of the N-guy.
Brendan: "Muddy?". "Tomp?". "Use Water Gun on the guy over there, but not too hard, OK?".
Razor opened his eyes.
He was standing in a large meadow, surrounded by Nidoran.
He patted one of them on the head.
A loud rumbling could be heard.
The Nidoran began to run.
A huge wave crashed down, devouring both him and the Nidoran.
"What the…". "Ah, you're awake. Good morning!". "May, it's two 'o clock AM.".
"Shut up, Wally. And, how are you feeling?" she asked N-guy.
"Um… wet?".
Brendan: "Why the hell did you black out? A volcanic eruption was going on!".
"Ah, my head… well, firstly, the eruption had stopped before I fell down. Secondly, I've been awake for 48 hours now. Can you blame me for falling asleep?".
Then, the N-guy stood up, turned around, grabbed the rock he had pulled out of the machine, and walked towards the crater.
He looked down. "All safe…" he whispered. "Thanks for helping, by the way." He then said, grabbing another pokéball.
He threw it, and his Dragonite appeared.
"Can you fly, Alpha?".
Dragonite flapped his wings, and nodded. Then, he lowered his head.
"What's your name?" May asked.
"My name?" He asked while climbing up on his Dragonite's back.
"It's Razor. And you are?".
"I'm May, and these two here are Brendan and Wally!".
"Aha. Well, goodbye." Razor said.
"Alpha, Extremespeed!".
With a loud bang, Dragonite shot through the sound barrier. A second later, he was gone.
"Razor…" May said.
"Guys…" Wally said, "Do you know what time it is?". Brendan: "You just told us, Wally.".
"Oh yeah, you're right. But anyway, I suggest that we go and walk down Route 112 to Lavaridge, and go get some sleep.".
"That's fine with me…" Brendan yawned.
- - - - -
And that's the end of a feel-good chapter!
Surprised I gave myself a role in this fanfic? I've got it all planned, you know.
It'll take me a bit more time to post my next chapter, since my vacation is now over.
Don't worry, next weekend I'll see if I can post some new chapters.
One, of course, featuring Lavaridge's Gym battle, and the other one…
Well, Brendan, May and Wally plan to go to the Hot Springs!
If I receive many reviews, I may update faster!
But I can't promise anything, since I've got other priorities as well.
Like school work and watching Gundam Seed Destiny.
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