Chapter 37: Gliscor vs. Bulbasaurtwo!
Blasting Off!
"Good for you," said Miles said. "Let the battle begin. Gliscor, use Night Slash!"
"Gliscor!" it yelled.
Gliscor spread its wings and it descended upon Bulbasaurtwo, about to snap his head off with one slice of its claw!
"Dodge it," Shane ordered.
Bulbasaurtwo quickly side-stepped Gliscor. Gliscor zoomed a few feet past Bulbasaurtwo. Gliscor then turned around confused to see he had not hit his target.
"Use Tackle!" Shane cried.
"Bulbasaur!"
Bulbasaurtwo jumped with all its might into Gliscor!
BAM!
He flew thirty feet away and hit a conifer tree in an upside down position.
"Nice one!" Shane said.
"Get back up!" Miles yelled at his Pokemon.
The Gliscor hovered back into the air, pumping its wings for a second, before motionlessly hovering in the air again.
"Gli…scor," it said, breathing hard, giving Bulbasaurtwo a demonic glare.
"Pika-CHU!"
From Pikachu's body emitted a bolt of lightning at Weavile!
"Dodge it!" Miller ordered.
Weavile agilely jumped into the air, the Thunderbolt blowing apart a conifer tree instead. Weavile landed right behind Pikachu.
"Weavile now use Slash!" Miller yelled.
"Vile!"
SLICE!
It slashed Pikachu's back, leaving bloody scratch marks that barely pierced the skin.
"Vile…?" it asked, confused it would do so little damage.
Pikachu looked up at Weavile and gave it a murderous glare.
"Vile…"
"PIKACHU!" he roared and his body gleamed with a coating of yellow electricity that surrounded it.
Pikachu tackled Weavile head-on, charging it straight into the mountain cliff as the electricity covering its body fried Weavile.
"Weavile!" it cried in pain as it was charged straight through the mountain.
"Pika! Pika!" he said.
Revenge.
"I'm warning you Click!" Miles yelled. "Gliscor is a Flying-type Pokemon, which is super-effective against Grass-types! Hand the super clone over and I spare both of you!"
Shane turned to Bulbasaurtwo and gave him a cocky smile.
"Well what do you think about that?" Shane asked.
Bulbasaurtwo gave Shane another confident smile. Then he said to both Miles and Shane:
"I say we school your old teacher."
Gliscor had managed to begin hovering again and was back into the fight.
"Use Tackle, Bulbasaurtwo!" Shane ordered.
"Bulbasaur!" he cried.
He charged full steam at where Gliscor hovered a few feet above the ground!
"Aerial Ace!" Miles yelled.
Gliscor started sucking air into its wings. Then, as it surrounding its body with wind, it flapped its wings once and flew downward at Bulbasaurtwo and hit head on!
CRASH!
"Scor!" it cried.
Take that you little runt... It communicated.
"Saaaaaauuuuuur!" he cried in pain.
It was like being hit by a rolling boulder! Bulbasaurtwo's body was flung thirty feet into the air! Then his body tumbled downward and he hit the grassy plain. He couldn't even move a single toe claw without feeling extraordinary pain.
"Bulbasaurtwo!" Shane cried in panic.
"Are-are you okay?" he asked with tears in his eyes.
"No," Bulbasaurtwo said.
"No…?" Shane said.
"Hah!" Miles laughed. "I told you not to mess with Team Rocket! Now you're going to die Shane! You're going to die and your Pokemon, the clone that you stole from us, is going to do our bidding!"
Miles looked directly into the eyes of Bulbasaurtwo.
"You're a clone," Miles said. "You were made to serve Giovanni! Gliscor, Night Slash! Make sure the clone is barely alive and the kid's dead as a doornail!"
"Gliscor," it said and nodded.
It flew at Bulbasaurtwo, its claws wide open again and ready to slice him into pieces.
While Gliscor attacked, Shane spoke to Bulbasaurtwo.
"You have to get up," Shane said.
"I can't fight anymore," Bulbasaurtwo said. "It hurts to just move."
"I'm going to die," Shane said. "And you'll be a slave of Giovanni, just as Mewtwo would. You can't just lay down like this!"
"I wish I had a…choice…"
"If Amber were here what would she say?!" Shane said. "If you were the one who thought Mewtwo and the others were dead what would Mewtwo do?! You said you wanted to be the strongest Pokemon ever! Are you going to give up, when Mewtwo, me, and the world all depends on you surviving, winning us seven gym badges, and taking Mewtwo home!"
Bulbasaurtwo was silent. Though the pain was killing him, Bulbasaurtwo slowly stood up.
"Well what is it going to be?!" Shane yelled in fury.
Bulbasaurtwo looked Gliscor straight in the eyes, ignored the pain, and then drew the vines from both sides of his bulb. They were slender, a beautiful shade of bright green and stronger then before. Gliscor slashed with his left claw at him but Bulbasaurtwo whipped his vine in between the claw, stopping it in midair. Gliscor then slashed with his right claw but Bulbasaurtwo used Vine Whip again.
Vine and claw locked in place Gliscor and Bulbasaurtwo glared at one another.
"Gliscor! Gliscor!" it yelled.
Let go of me you clone! Gliscor yelled.
"No!" Bulbasaurtwo yelled. "Not until you pay the blood on your hands!"
"Gliscor!"
It pulled its claws away from his Vine Whip.
Now die!
SLASH!
Bulbasaurtwo used Vine Whip, catching the attack but barely because it was so fast this time!
Bulbasaurtwo used Vine Whip as fast as possible!
WHIP!
Bulbasaurtwo's vine was intercepted by Gliscor's claw! They began hitting each other with their attacks, striking as fast as possible!
"Come on, slice him Gliscor!" Miles yelled.
"You can do it Bulbasaurtwo!" Shane cried. "Keep it up!"
They fought, Bulbasaurtwo's vines hitting against Gliscor's claws, looking for an open spot to strike at!
SLASH! WHIP! SLASH!
Their attacks became blurs, so fast they were going on pure instinct!
WHIP!
Both of them could barely keep up with the other's attacks!
SLASH!
They fought on, putting all their power into the attack!
WHIP! SLASH! WHIP!
At first it seemed like it would continue on forever but actually Gliscor's Night Slashes had the same strength. Bulbasaurtwo had been building up power in his Vine Whip so that attack was stronger than the next.
Now, Gliscor was on the defensive, now only using his Night Slash to protect against the Vine Whip. Then, after building up enough power, Bulbasaurtwo was used his Vine Whip to knock away Gliscor's claws!
WHIP! WHIP! WHIP! WHIP!
Bulbasaurtwo whipped Gliscor with his vine in the gut! Then in the wing! Then in the other wing! Then in the face!
"Gliscooooo!" it cried in pain.
It lifted itself into the air, hovering into the air.
Bulbasaurtwo withdrew the vines.
"Get back down there and fight!" Miles ordered.
"Great!" Shane said. "You got him on the run! Now use Vine Whip!"
"Bulbasaur!" he cried.
He drew the slim green vines from the sides of his bulb to stretch all the way up to Gliscor, to discover the bulbous ends, being that close to the sun, had developed and grew into an unopened flower where the red petals were beginning to show. The buds had replaced the larger ends.
"Gliscor!" it cried in pain.
The vines wrapped around Gliscor's body very similar to that of ivy on a wall. They seemed to adhere to its skin, sticking to it like a climbing vine on a vertical surface. It made a glen of Gliscor's body.
"NO!" Miles yelled.
"Bulba-SAUR!" he cried.
He pulled himself up with the support of the Vine Whip wrapped around Gliscor and was flung into the air. Gliscor stayed in the air, in pain though as the vines stuck to him, and Bulbasaurtwo was lifted from the ground from his body's support.
"Gliiii!" it kept crying agony.
Let me go!
When Bulbasaurtwo was hanging five feet from where Gliscor hovered in the air he put all his force into it and began whirling his body in midair!
"Bulba! Bulba! Bulba!"
Bulbasaurtwo started whirling the vines that caught Gliscor beneath him, then whirling the vines with Gliscor in them over him three times!
"Gliscor!"
Then after the third time Bulbasaurtwo forced the vines to launch Gliscor to the ground!
BAM!
There was a huge cloud of dust that erupted! Bulbasaurtwo hung there, suspended with the vines in midair, a hundred feet in the air. Then, when the dust cleared, it was seen that Gliscor hit the ground so hard that there was an imprint in the earth of himself. He laid there motionless.
Bulbasaurtwo lowered himself down to the ground, on top of the body of his defeated opponent.
"We did it!" Shane said, running up to Bulbasaurtwo.
He took Bulbasaurtwo into his hands and lifted into the air.
"We really beat them!" Shane cried. "Our first battle with a Pokemon trainer and we won!"
"Bulba!" he cried happily.
"I knew you could do it," Shane said. "All you had to do was believe in yourself."
"You think this is over!" Miles cried. "Go! Machoke!"
He through out a Pokeball and came from it a Pokemon with blue skin, black pants with a yellow belt around the waist, and had a lot of muscle bulk.
"Machoke!" it said.
"Use Focus Blast!" Miles cried.
"Machoke!"
It put its hands together and from it came the sight of red energy.
"Kick his butt?" Bulbasaurtwo asked.
"Kick his butt," Shane replied.
Bulbasaurtwo jumped down from Shane's hands and into the grass.
"CHOKE!" he cried as he blasted red energy from his hands.
The blast hit Bulbasaurtwo! At impact it exploded from his body, causing a huge crater to be formed.
"How does it feel to have your Pokemon destroyed, Click?!" Miles yelled.
"I wouldn't know," Shane said.
After the smoke cleared from the explosion, Miles saw Bulbasaurtwo was barely damaged.
"But…how…you…what?" Miles's eye started to twitch violently.
"Vine Whip!" Shane said.
"Bulbasaur!" he cried.
From Bulbasaurtwo's bulb flung a Vine Whip that lashed Machoke and made him fly into the cliff, sixty feet behind him.
"Awesome!" Bulbasaurtwo yelled.
Miller's face was pure perplexity.
"And now…," Shane said. "This is for ruining my childhood with your filthy militaristic, criminal organization. Vine Whip once more Bulbasaurtwo."
"Yeah!" Bulbasaurtwo replied. "The Rocket goes bye-bye!"
"What?!"
Bulbasaurtwo tied his vine around the Rocket, lifting him into the air.
"Have a nice flight," Shane said.
"Mommy," he said.
Bulbasaurtwo flung the Team Rocket Executive through the air but even as far away as he was Bulbasaurtwo could still hear him scream:
"Team Rocket's blasting off!"
I wonder what that means. Bulbasaurtwo thought to himself.
"PIKACHU!"
Bulbasaurtwo and Shane whirled around.
They saw Pikachu shoot a lightning bolt at the Haunter Executive Miller owned. (Weavile's body was laying still not very far away.)
"Haunter!" it cried as its body fried.
It fell down to the ground, its body instead of shifty and mysterious becoming totally motionless.
Pikachu then stared at Miller with a murderous rage.
"Pika!" Pikachu cried, a ball of electricity growing from its tail.
"No I-!" Miller cried in panic.
"Pikachu! Pika!" it said as it whirled its body and the ball of lightning flew at Miller.
BOOM!
Where Miller stood came an explosion of electric energy! It blinded Bulbasaurtwo for a second.
Where Miller once stood was a crater fifty feet wide and twenty feet deep and ashes fell.
Pikachu nodded at the sight.
"Chu," it replied.
Pikachu went over to its fallen trainer and began picking the Pokeballs up from Red's belt.
Pikachu leaned over Red's body weeping.
"Is there anything we can do?" Bulbasaurtwo asked.
Pikachu looked Bulbasaurtwo in the eyes.
"Pika pika. Pikachu. Chu chu pika."
Go and destroy Team Rocket. Show no mercy for the murder of my beloved trainer and untold others. Do not only defeat them but destroy them.
"Saur," he said and nodded.
Pikachu swiftly ran away, carrying the Pokeballs.
"Pikachu. Pikachu pika."
I will go to my trainer's hometown and tell his family what has happened. Farewell.
Shane looked at Bulbasaurtwo. Shane took his Pokedex out and looked at it. Bulbasaurtwo saw tears in his trainer's eyes.
"Well," Shane said. "We made some money. Apparently from defeating Pokemon trainers the Pokedex will immediately record our winnings and add money from their bank account to ours. We could use some money."
Bulbasaurtwo understand what Shane meant but suddenly he felt woozy, realizing he may have defeated Gliscor and Machoke but hadn't recovered from the damage he had received. Without warning he collapsed.
"Bulbasaurtwo!" Shane said.
"I need to rest," he said before he lost consciousness.