"Keep digging, we're bound to find something soon," Sketch ordered the Armourens. They were in Union Cave, which Sketch knew had once been home to many powerful monsters, far superior to his own, and he was searching for something that could help him to mutiny against Nyura. He was wearing what he called the "Classic Beige Explorers Uniform 2".
"I just hope that witch with a "B" doesn't wake up anytime soon," he said to himself. Nyura was taking one of her monthly sleeps, and Sketch was using the time to his advantage. Suddenly, the drilling stopped, and one of the Armens slowly approached Sketch with a tablet in its hands.
"Yes! This is perfect! Excellent work! You can take a five-minute break. The rest of you-" Sketch began, but he paused, when he faintly heard a cry in the distance.
"Sketch!" the voice he recognised as belonging to the Ice Queen called.
"Oh, great," he sighed as he was frozen and teleported.
"SKETCH!" she yelled again, and he clamped his hands to his ears, "Where have you been? I've been waiting to attack the Rangers! You know my sleeps make me extra-bloodthirsty!"
"I-I'm sorry, my Queen. I was using the time you whilst you were resting to try and devise new plans, and in the Union Cave, I found this," he said dramatically, handing her the tablet, and she, Manyula, Sudos, and Krowa looked at it.
"What is it?" she asked.
"It is a drawing of an ancient monster. I believe it possesses immense strength, far superior to anything we've ever used!" he continued excitedly, and he zapped the tablet, causing it to transform into the monster it had depicted. The monster resembled a large bumblebee, covered in black and yellow stripes, and singer-like tail at the end, which ended with a large red orb. It had short legs, as the torso made up most of its height, and the head had a smaller red orb on top – an Ampharos monster.
Po-ke
(Green + blue rangers pose) The
evil's...arisen! (Nyura and her cronies pose, their names appear on
screen saying who plays them) Poke Rangers Johto! (Poke Rangers and their Zords are
introduced, with their names shown to show who plays them) Po-ke
Ran-gers! (The Rangers flying on their Hover Boards/Wing Blades) In
this strange new place! (Eddie + Sabrina look at Goldenrod city in
awe, other rangers look up impressed behind them) To…the… (Both
Megazords, both Ultrazords shown battling)) Poke Rangers
Johto! (Johto!) (As above) Po-ke (Legs shown again)
Ran-gers (Pink + yellow rangers
pose)
Johto! (Red + white rangers pose, all rangers leap
forward)
(Backing music, battle scenes shown)
It must be...imprisoned! (They're
shown behind bars)
The world is...in danger! (Hundreds of monsters
are shown attacking)
It needs the… (Six multi-coloured legs are
shown)
Poke
Rangers Johto! (As above)
Poke Rangers Johto! (As above)
There must not
be a trace! (Donny, Carl, Whitney and Rei shown at Golden Youths
bar)
Of the evil…that taints the Earth! (Nyura and her cronies
shown opposite Rangers)
So Celebi…must give birth! (Celebi and
Miborg shown with the morphers in case)
Poke Rangers Johto! (Johto!) (As
above)
Poke Rangers Johto (Johto!) (All six Rangers shown in Johto
Evolution)
Ran-gers (As above)
Johto! (Rangers shown fully before series logo)
A/N: That should have been way more dramatic if I'd continued it, but I think it's long enough already. Watch out for a certain recurring number coming up in the monsters speech…
Chapter 37; Battle Shock
"What – what's going on? Where am I? The last thing I remember was being destroyed, but that was 90 years ago! Then everything went – brown," the monster said confusedly.
"Hello, monster. I am the Ice Queen, Nyura, and I'd like to recruit you for my army," Nyura said, stepping forward, and Sketch scowled.
"Well, that depends – do you fight for all that is evil?" the monster asked.
"Not exactly, only my own evil deeds," Nyura said, and the monster smirked.
"I like your attitude. I'm in," he said.
"What is your name?" Nyura asked.
"Bolterbee."
"Bolterbee, your first assignment is to destroy the Poké Rangers!" Nyura yelled, and the monster roared.
"The Poké Rangers! They were the devils that destroyed all those years ago! I will destroy them with great vengeance and, and pleasure!" Bolterbee cried.
"Well I highly doubt it was the same team that destroyed you then, they would have died after 90 years, we fight the Johto Rangers," Sketch said snidely.
"Yes! It was the yellow Johto Ranger who destroyed me! I was fighting another team of Rangers, I can't remember their name, but I defeated them with ease, then the yellow Johto Ranger, Sabrina Mason arrived and destroyed me!" he roared again.
"My Queen, the yellow Ranger is called Sabrina Mason!" Sketch said in shock.
"Indeed? Well then, Sudos, Manyula, take the Armourens down, I have a plan," Nyura smiled wickedly.
Shortly after, in Goldenrod…
The Rangers were easily beating the two monsters and the foot soldiers, using Johto Evolution, but none of them seemed to care. Suddenly, after having taken countless attacks from Kris, Manyula Slashed him down, and he ran at Sabrina, who'd just knocked out an Armouren with her Thunder Stunner. She turned slowly to see the monster about slice her open, and she screamed. Eddie heard her (as it was near impossible not to), and jumped in front of her, taking the blow, ripping a huge gash in his suit, and a decent sized one on his torso, which trickled with blood.
"Excellent! Lets finish them!" Sudos yelled, raising his sword, but Manyula grabbed his wrist.
"No! We have our orders! Its back to the castle!" Manyula barked, and the angry pair and Armourens vanished.
"Eddie!" Sabrina screamed, as he demorphed from pain, and she followed suit, with the other Rangers simply removing his helmet.
"We've gotta get him to a hospital! Greg cried.
"And tell them what, "Oh, you know doctor, this sorta thing happens when you're a Poké Ranger"! And what about his records! They're sure to check his medical records, including birth certificate! Does he look 117 to you! No way, we're taking him to the Sanctuary, now!" she yelled, and they teleported.
At the Sanctuary…
"Oh dear! This is bad! Oh dear! I hope he'll be ok! Oh, I knew this would happen!" Miborg cried, pacing around the table Eddie was lying on, covered in bandages.
"I shouldn't have forced him into being a Ranger! This is my fault!" Celebi cried, banging his head on the great sphere.
"Don't say that, it's not your fault at all! I should have just fought Manyula off. I don't know what came over me, it's my fault!" Sabrina cried.
"No," Eddie said in a hoarse whisper, waking up on the spot.
"Eddie! How are you feeling!" Sabrina asked.
"Not too good, but I'll live. Anyway, its not your fault, its Manyula's, and Nyura's fault, they're the ones we're fighting, they did this to me," Eddie said, slightly louder and less hoarse.
"He's right, it's nobody's fault except theirs," Kris said, but Sabrina still felt guilty. Suddenly, the danger alarm started going off.
"Oh great, what now?" Kurtis asked.
"Manyula's back with another monster, although this one's giving off different readings to her normal monsters…quite similar to those Dark Dactyle gave off," Miborg said in a puzzled tone.
"Well, time to go to work," Eddie said, straining as he sat up.
"You're kidding! You're not fighting in this condition!" Sabrina cried.
"Relax, I'm fine, and if I really need to, I've got the Battlizer," he said.
"You're not going anywhere, Eddie, even if you were feeling better, you wouldn't be able to fight, as your Ranger suit still needs to be fixed up," Miborg told him.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of it," Kris told him, adding "Ready?" on the end.
"Ready!"
"Morph, I choose you! Johto Ranger power!"
"Johto Rangers! How nice it is to meet the four of you at last!" Bolterbee yelled once the Rangers had arrived in the city.
"What are you talking about! There are six Rangers, even if one of us isn't here!" Anna yelled.
"Yes, but I've already met your red Ranger, and Sabrina Mason!" he hissed viscously, shocking Sabrina greatly.
"Chill, Sabrina, I bet Nyura just told him or something to psyche you out," Greg suggested.
"I'm afraid not Rangers, this monster was destroyed by the yellow Rangers 90 years ago," Manyula told them.
"90 years?" Greg said under his breath, but nobody heard, as the two monsters and a swarm of Armourens began attacking.
"Weapons, ready!" Kris called.
"Psychic Shooter!"
"Wave Blade!"
Sabrina paused briefly, before calling "Thunder Stunner!"
"Vine Whip!"
"Wing Bla-ARGH!" Kris cried in pain, as Bolterbee had stunned him before he could summon his weapon.
The Rangers slashed and shot away, but whilst the Armourens fell with ease, and they affected Manyula pretty strongly, whoever was facing Bolterbee (he kept on shifting, trying to get to Sabrina) didn't stand a chance, and one by one, the Rangers fell to his extremely powerful Thunder Wave.
"Oh boy! What do I do!" Sabrina said, panicking, as Bolterbee flew at her, but suddenly, he, Manyula, and the Armourens, and she gave a sigh of relief, before realising her friends were hurt.
"Oh, guys! We'd better get you to the Sanctuary, too!" she cried, pressing the teleport buttons on each of their morphers, before pressing her own.
Back at the Sanctuary…
"This is my fault too! I should have helped them!" Sabrina cried, pacing the room.
"Sabrina, please, none of this is your fault!" Celebi yelled, and she fell silent.
"But what do I do if he comes back? I'll have to fight him on my own," she whispered.
"Well from what he said it looks like you destroyed him before," Eddie said, before adding, "And if he comes back, I'll be ready to fight with you," as he stood up, but he felt immense pain in his ribs.
"Oh no you wont, you're still hurt, and your powers aren't repaired yet," Miborg told him.
"And besides, he might have been destroyed by me, but I haven't gone through that yet, that was 90 years ago and I left 100 years ago, I must've fought him when I got – get back," she said, before adding "plus, he's fought me before, he knows how I fight."
"Sabrina, I understand things look tough, but I have faith in you," Celebi told her.
"We all do," Eddie added.
"Thanks, guys. So what's up with the others, how come they're still morphed?" Sabrina asked. The four Rangers of the present day were still morphed, lying on tables perfectly still. Their chests weren't even moving to show they were breathing.
"They're completely stunned, they can't demorph, and I've tried everything, Full Heal, Full Restore, Paralyze Heal, Cheri Berry, Lum Berry, nothing works! I guess the only way to cure them is to destroy Bolterbee," Miborg told her, and they heard a ringing in the background.
"What's that?" Celebi asked.
"It sounds like a video-phone," Sabrina said. Miborg approached the console making the noise, pressed a flashing button, and Bolterbee came on screen.
"Yellow Ranger! You and I shall battle, one last time, on the Olivine beach, in ten minutes. Be there, if you ever want your friends to move again!" he laughed, and the message stopped.
"Are you going to go?" Miborg asked.
"Well I've hardly got a choice, have I?" Sabrina said, gulping.
"Yes you have! You don't have to go and fight him, Sabrina! I'll go for you!" Eddie yelled, and he looked angrily at Miborg, who was about to argue.
"No. This is something I have to do. I'm gonna go and battle him, and destroy him. Again," she said, and she teleported.
When she arrived, Bolterbee wasn't there yet, so she decided to take advantage of the time, and morph.
"Morph, I choose you! Yellow Ampharos power!"
"Johto Evolution – activate!" she added, just to be safe, and t finish off, she summoned her Thunder Stunner, just as Bolterbee arrived.
"Well, Sabrina. Once again we shall do battle, only the outcome shall be different this time around," Bolterbee said tauntingly.
"I don't think so!" Sabrina argued.
"I do!"
"Nuh-uh."
"Uh-huh!"
"Uh-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!" Bolterbee argued, and Sabrina laughed at his slip-up.
"You may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war!" Bolterbee called angrily, and he was about to rush at her, when she called out to him.
"No stunning!"
"Oh, don't worry, I want to have the pleasure of ripping you, limb from limb!" he yelled back viscously, and he ran fast at her, with his stinger over his shoulder, blasting out Thunder Bolts.
"Shock Wave!" she called, but Bolterbee's attacks overpowered hers, and she fell down.
"Come on girl, get it together!" she whispered to herself, and she got back up.
"Go! Zap Cannon!" she yelled, and a powerful ball of lightning shot from her weapon, stunning Bolterbee.
"No fair, we had a deal!" he hissed.
"Now to finish this!" she called, as her morpher started beeping.
"Sabrina, I'm sending you the Cinder Sabre for the Forest Fire Double Attack!" Eddie told her, and his weapon appeared in his hand.
"All right! Forest Fire Double Attack!" she yelled, crossing the weapons. Bolterbee was struck by lightning and flames, and shortly burned to ash on the ground.
"I did it!" she yelled in triumph, dancing around like a maniac, but she received a call from the Sanctuary.
"Sabrina, you've destroyed Bolterbee, yeah?" Miborg asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Oh dear! Oh dear!" was all she heard, so Eddie took over.
"The others are still stunned! Something's wrong!" Eddie said.
"And I think I know what," Sabrina said to herself, and, right on cue, the ashes were hit by an Ice Beam, causing them to change back into the monster, only mega-sized.
"Ampharos Zord!" she called, summoning her Zord from its GS Ball-like container.
"You may have won two out of three, but the one that counts will be mine!" he roared.
"No way, I'm taking this, three out of three! Thunder Punch!" Sabrina called, and the two hands collided.
"Please! Try this! Thunder!" Bolterbee yelled, zapping the sky, and the sky zapped the Ampharos Zord, and Sabrina flinched.
"How do you like those apples!" Bolterbee asked.
"Time to finish this! Spark!" Bolterbee yelled, rolling himself into a ball, crackling with electricity, and rolling towards the Ampharos Zord.
"Perfect! Volt Tackle!" Sabrina cried, rolling her Zord into a more powerful electric ball, and as the two collided, a huge explosion occurred. When the dust had cleared, only one was left still standing – Sabrina.
"You win…" were Bolterbee's last words, before he collapsed.
Later, at the Sanctuary…
"You were great, Sabrina, you totally kicked his butt!" Eddie told her.
"Thanks, but I'd never have done it without your support. How are you guys feeling?" Sabrina asked.
"A little shaken, but I'll live," Kris said, and the others nodded in agreement.
"What! Carl, can you believe this guy!" Donny yelled loudly, attracting the Rangers attention.
"What's up, guys?" Kurtis asked.
"Can you believe it, this sucky loser from Hoenn says he doesn't believe we've saved the Poké Rangers countless times! Listen, "Dear Psyduck Ranger and Snorlax Ranger, I'm sorry to say that I don't believe you've saved the Poké Rangers, and destroyed a monster simply by poking it with a large poking weapon. Furthermore, I do not believe you have ever morphed. Your fried, Yankee Fan 2." Can you believe that!" Carl asked.
"No, its amazing, I cant believe that somebody wouldn't trust you guys," Anna said sarcastically, but Donny and Carl thought she was sincere.
"Hey Greg, what are you doing?" Sabrina asked, noticing Greg at a computer.
"I'm trying to find out what I can about the year 2016, we've been hearing loads about it, and Miborg says he doesn't know anything, and neither does Celebi!" he told them.
Meanwhile, at Nyura's castle…
"Well, it seems you're not the only one who makes incompetent monsters, Sketch, " Nyura sighed, sitting down, saying "I need a vacation – and I know just where – and when – to take it!" she yelled, laughing maniacally.
A/N: How about that, YF2, we live in the year 2106! And I'm Donny…
Coming soon: Chapter 38; No Place Like Hoenn Part 1
Oh boy! You know what's coming next! See ya!