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Rise of the Champions

Bandits 1 Saga

Episode 35, Machoke Man!

"Okay, now what you're going to do is talk about what happened to each other!" I said for the eighth time. Linoone, Raticate, and Furret looked away again, and Ivysaur tightened his grip even harder. Ivysaur and I were trying to solve these three Pokemons' problems, but it got it the point where they were even attacking each other! Ivysaur used his vine whip to wrap the three Pokemon, giving them no choice. (Note: Because Ivysaur is here and all, and because I am a very lazy author and don't want to say "BLAH BLAH BLAH," Ivysaur translated, right after the Furret spoke, I'm just going to have the Pokemon talk, but keep in mind that Ivysaur is still translating!)

"It's because of that stupid Furret!" Raticate said.

"Yeah, he ruined our lives!" Linoone said.

"That's not true!" Furret defended.

"What's going on here?" I asked. Realizing that I had control of the situation, they decided to comply.

"Furret is the reason that we lost our leader, and why we've been reduced to being Bandits!"

"Explain," I said gently. None of them replied. I snapped my fingers. Ivysaur tightened his grip further.

"Now this is what I'd call a forceful therapy!" Ivysaur joked. Nobody laughed. He muttered a few curses to himself and kept quiet.

"We were high ranking members of the CCWPBR!" Raticate said.

"CCWPBR?" I asked.

"Central City Wild Pokemon Bandit Resistance!" Linoone said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"And what's that?"

""It's a bunch of wild Pokemon that don't appreciate the Bandits moving in on our forest and ruining it!" Raticate said. "And we we're the highest ranking members now!"

"Our old leader was Granbull, who recently changed sides mysteriously." Furret said. Raticate and Linoone looked at Furret furiously. "She should know the truth!" He explained.

"Anyway, Granbull set up a meeting, and the Bandits came and stormed the place, shooting all the members they could, and captured the rest!" Furret continued. "And since Granbull came peacefully, and smirked when we were all being attacked, we knew then that he was traitor!"

I was stunned. Soon, I heard a blast from outside. We all looked at the door, which was opening! The door opened to reveal Chad, standing right next to his Umbreon, who was standing on an unconscious Bandit.

"It seems that you have everything under control here," He smirked, pointing at Ivysaur and his prisoners. "I guess all you needed to do was wait for us, huh?" He walked in the room, and observed it for a bit. "You've been in here for about five hours now."

"It's really been that long!" I asked. I thought it was only about two hours!

"Yeah, nice job."

"Ivysaur, you can let them go now," Ivysaur obeyed. I turned over to the three normal types. "You can come with us, or you can stay here and bicker until you die, for all I care! So, what's it gonna be?" The three Pokemon looked at each other, and nodded. They followed us, running down the long hallway.

Vinny's POV

"Thomas, what are you doing here?" I asked. Thomas and Derek looked like they waiting at a bus stop or something.

"We've been waiting for the elevator," Derek said. Speaking of the devil, the elevator popped. I recalled my Heracross, while Thomas recalled his Arcanine. The four of us crammed inside the elevator.

"Wait, we forgot about Kristen!" Thomas suddenly said.

"What?" I asked.

"We sent Kristen to go up the stairs to find you!" Thomas pulled his hair. "She's gonna be so mad at me for forgetting about her, possibly even kill me!"

"It's all right, Vinny takes verbal abuses from Kelsey all the time!" Gary pointed out. "And he's still alive!"

"That's something he really didn't need to know!" I yelled.

Chad's POV

"All right, tell us where Ricky Fartin is!" I yelled. I had my foot down on his face. The Bandit was terrified.

"I don't know man, I'm just a grunt!"

"Umbreon, use shado…"

"All right! I'll tell you!" He cried. "He's in the underground facility under the arena of Central City!"

"He's where?" Kelsey asked. The captured bandit looked at her.

"I ain't sayin nothing!" He looked us with a different form of defiance.

"Well well well, looks like my prisoner escaped." We turned around and a saw a TV screen light up, revealing Ricky Fartin, the mastermind behind this plot. "I expected you to rescue her, so I decided to keep myself at a safe distance!"

"So you're afraid of us, is that it?" I asked. He shook his head.

"I just thought that it would be more spectacular battle if we fought in the tournament grounds, don't you think so?"

"Wait, if you're talking to us in a TV screen, how can you know what we are saying?" Kelsey asked out of the blue. "I don't see any cameras anywhere, so how can you see or hear us?"

"Umm… Well… Beats the Hell out of me!" Ricky said. "Just because I run this operation doesn't mean I have to understand the equipment!" He yelled at her, as if she was calling him stupid.

"Can we get to the point, please?" I asked.

"Right, meet me at Central City Pokemon Stadium, and we'll talk. The direct secret entrance is the door to your right. Ciao." The screen went blank.

"Let's go," I said.

"But what about the others?" Kelsey asked.

"Go find them if you want, I have a date with a Bandit." I walked through the secret entrance, while leaving Kelsey the opportunity to find our friends.

Vinny's POV

"Why did I have to pick this door?" I asked myself as the Machop were moving in on Derek and I. We entered the nearest door, but were trapped by about a dozen Machop!

"How are we gonna get outta this mess?" I asked, circled by the Machop.

"How else?" Derek asked. "We fight!"

"Gotcha, go Heracross!" I cried.

"Go Torchic!" Heracross and Torchic stood by side, ready to take out the mass of Machop.

"Horn attack!" I cried. Heracross swung his massive horn at the nearest Machop, but the tiny fighting type managed to grab his horn, and swing him around.

"Those are some seriously powerful Pokemon!" I said.

"I know!" Derek said excitedly. He pulled out an empty Pokeball from his bag.

"Hell no!" I cried. "Why is it that you want to seem to capture gang Pokemon while Gary wants to capture killer Pokemon?"

"I don't know, maybe I just don't want to turn down a game like this!"

"You think this is a game?" I cried.

"We could make it a game!" He said excitedly. "First one to capture that Machop wins!" He pointed to the Machop that threw my Heracross like a rag doll. He was flexing his muscles right in front us, mocking us.

"You can have him, I just wanna pound his face in!" I yelled. "Heracross, use horn attack on that Machop!" Heracross stood up, and charged at that evil Machop. The other Machop didn't feel like standing around all day, however. They each grabbed a piece of Heracross, and started to punch it. Heracross then opened his wings, and flew into the air, causing some the Machop to let go. I guess they were afraid of heights.

"Torchic, ember now!" Torchic sent out fireballs at Machop. Machop managed to punch them all, but burned his hand. He shook it around furiously, trying to get the air to cool them down.

"Just as I guessed, peck attack!" Torchic pecked at Machop with her beak, and knocked him back a few feet.

"Heracross, horn attack!" Heracross landed, and brought his horn right down on Machop's back!

"MAMA!" It cried. "MAMA!" he yelled running to a door on the other side of the room, and opening it. The door erupted to tiny splinters as a Machoke came rushing out of the doorway.

"MAMA!" the little Machop cried, hugging its mother's leg. "Machop Ma MaChop!" Machoke looked furious at Heracross and Torchic, and stared at the two of us.

"MACHOKE!" She cried. Machoke was then struck by a flamethrower attack right in the chest. We turned to see Kelsey, Ivysaur, and Quilava, and a Furret, Linoone, and a Raticate standing in the doorway we came!

"KELSEY!" Derek and I replied. "You're back!"

"Sure, Kelsey gets all the attention!" Ivysaur yelled. "I want some attention too!"

"Oh, hey Ivysaur, nice seeing you again," I said without any enthusiasm at all.

"By the way, Machoke would like to know why you were attacking its baby," Ivysaur said, ignoring my teasing.

"It attacked us first!" I cried.

"My baby can do no harm!" Machoke yelled, picking up its son and hugging it. Machop looked at me and stuck his tongue out. Machoke then set her "baby" down and charged at us. The twelve Machop stood behind, with smug looks on their faces. Those Machop had some serious attitude problems!

"Heracross, brace yourself!" I warned. Heracross stood ready and Machoke and Heracross' hands locked. Machoke was stronger, but Heracross' oddly shaped hands were hard to keep a good grip on, so the struggle was about even. The two Pokemon pushed into each other, but neither moved anywhere.

"Derek, we should take out those Machop!" Kelsey suggested. All the Machops' smiles faded. Quilava and Torchic ran at the Machop, but the Machop weren't so intimidated. They were heavily outnumbered.

"Heracross, horn attack!" I yelled. Heracross brought his horn down on the top of Machoke's head. She flinched a bit, and Heracross took advantage of the situation! He pushed her back, knocking her off balance.

"Mega horn attack!" I ordered. A green aura surrounded Heracross' horn, and the attack struck the surprised Machoke in the stomach, landing a critical hit! The mother fell to the ground, and fell to her knees. Machoke then fell on her belly, beaten. Heracross, worn out by the stress built up by all the commotion, collapsed too. I recalled my much worthy Pokemon and let him rest. Heracross was the first Pokemon I ever caught, and I knew he would never let me down. I looked at Quilava and Torchic; surrounded by nine Machop, while two others were lying on the ground. The badly lit room was dark, and our eyes were already used to the darkness, giving me an idea.

"Everyone, close your eyes!" I cried. "Electrike, flash attack!" As soon as Electrike was sent out of his Pokeball, he charged himself with a large flash of light! Even with my eyes closed the light still hurt my eyes.

"Let's get outta here!" Derek yelled. We rushed out of the room, and I recalled my Pokemon. When we left Derek gave me a part on the back. "That was a pretty brilliant plan coming from you!"

"Was that an insult, or a compliment?" I asked.

"It was a compliment," Kelsey finished. "It was pretty smart, actually!" I grinned.

"Well, I guess all of those days sleeping in class really paid off, didn't they?" I responded, trying to sound modest.

"Are we gonna get outta here or what?" Ivysaur asked. We walked onto the elevator while Thomas and Gary walked out a door next to us.

"No sign of her in here," Gary reported. He then took a look at us. "I've found her!" he yelled. Thomas ran out of the room.

"Look's like you saved her!" He said. "Man, did I choose the wrong doors!"

"Actually, Chad saved me!" Kelsey said. "I was the one that saved these two from a wild Machoke and Machop!" Our faces turned red.

"I get it, not only did you not save the prisoner, but the prisoner saved you!" Gary said, feeling the need to explain the obvious.

"Well, at least I was able to defeat that Machoke!" I bragged. "And I helped us get out of that mess!" We walked out of the hallway. We had to practically shove ourselves in the elevator to fit, and Furret, Linnone, Raticate, and Ivysaur really didn't help us out. We finally exited the entrance of the tower, right after we saw Thomas get verbally abused by Kristen.

Meanwhile, Chad walked out of the secret passageway, and found himself in the center of the Pokemon Stadium, where only a few hours ago he was fighting Vinny in the semi-finals.

"Welcome, Chad!" Ricky said. "It looks like we'll be having an interesting match, won't we?"

"Let's make this a five Pokemon battle!" Chad announced.

"Six Pokemon!" Ricky replied.

"Fine by me," Chad agreed. "Lets go!"

Preview:

Vinny: Here it is, the final battle of the Bandits 1 saga!

Gary: As you may or may not know, it's Chad vs. Ricky!

Derek: Something weird is happening to Ricky guys, he's really starting to pump up his muscles!

Kelsey: Next episode, ROTC 36: Facing the Champ; Ricky's Last Stand!

A.T. Hello, I'm LostLight17 here to bore you with info and waste a minute out of your lives. Don't you just love it when I decide to write a story just slightly longer? I would! Anyway, in the next episode, another secret will be revealed about the Bandits involving the Admins, and who they truly are. As far as the Evolving Pokemon goes, I'm not sure I should have evolved some Pokemon so quickly. Because I'm not planning on evolving any of the Pokemons' final evolution till MUCH later in the series. I don't want reviews saying; Hurry up and evolve Charmeleon, I want to see Charizard or anything else along those lines. I'm planning on making a different story, but I'm not sure what it will be called.