Chapter 53- A Random Twi Needle
A Beauty kneels down next to Erika and slides forward a board with several Pokeballs on it.
"Thank you very much." She looks back to her challengers. "I will be using these three Pokemon. Shall we begin?"
"Finally! Go, Driller!" She has her Pokemon Harden six times before it starts, so he is ready to go.
"Fight, Victreebel." Erika calmly throws a Pokeball around the one floating in the air. From it, a yellow and green spotted Pokemon emerges.
The large, upside down bell shaped Pokemon before them gives out… some sort of… rolling pitch cry… how do I describe it?
"Trying to give an onomatopoeia for Pokemon cries is ridiculously hard. I find it easier to just go with the anime and have them say their name."
Good idea. So the Pokemon screams its name out as it flaps the long leaves it uses as arms near the base. The mouth at the top of its head salivates as it stares down Driller, and a long vine twitches as it readies the spike at the end of it.
Missingno throws his hands in the air. "Too many descriptions! Move the fight along already!"
The Victreebel strikes at Driller with its spiked vine. He narrowly avoids it, and points a spear at his foe.
Driller used Twi Needle!
One large, green projectile pierces the large Pokemon, sending it to the floor.
It's super effective!
Enemy Victreebel fainted!
Cassandra stares at the defeated Pokemon. "Wow, that was fast."
"Well, it is a Grass/Poison type. Bug type moves do four times the damage."
She turns to face Missingno. "It doubles against Poison types? You would think that Poison would deal double against Bug."
"It does that too." He rubs his chin. "The strange happenings of Gen 1. Is there no end? By the way, her Tangela is already attacking."
Cassandra looks back to the battle, where a ball of blue vines is striking out with one vine after another. Somewhere in the middle of it all, two eyes glare out of the creeping plant. Driller is still managing to dodge each attack, but before he can aim an attack of his own, he has to dodge again.
Cassandra clenches her fists. "This is bad! If it grabs him, we'll be in a tight spot."
"Especially since in Gen 1, attacks like Wrap and Bind don't allow the opponent to attack back while in effect." Missingno perks up. "Right, Driller just leveled up to 25 and learned Rage."
"As a sixth attack?"
"Yup."
"Driller, do it!"
Driller used Rage!
He bursts through a tangle of vines and screeches… buzzes… forget it, it screams its name.
"BEEDRILL!" He flies in to strike at the eyes.
And is captured in a mass of blue vines.
Enemy Tangela used Bind!
"Hey Driller! That Tangela thinks you're a wimp!"
Driller's Rage is building!
Enemy's attack continues!
Driller's Rage is building!
He isn't hurt very much each time, but his howling becomes louder and louder. After a few more times, he stabs his way out of the attack. He plows through some more vines, and stabs the foe's body. It flies back and hits a tree, where it becomes stuck in the dent it made.
It's super effective!
Enemy Tangela fainted!
Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "I know he was really powerful by now, but that seems a little too much."
"That's because it was a super effective attack."
"How is that? Rage is Normal type."
"Maybe, but Twineedle is Bug type, and that move's description is that it stabs with a spear. So wouldn't anything that uses the spears also be Bug type?"
"That… sort of makes sense."
Erika sends out her last Pokemon. The Flower Pokemon shakes the large red petals on its head, preparing to use-
Driller used Rage!
It's super effective.
At his attack, the foe flies back and crashes into the Tangela, completely breaking through the tree and into the wall in the back.
Enemy Vileplume fainted!
You crushed Erika!
Cassandra fist pumps as Driller flies up and down in little circles.
Erika remains kneeling, the floating Pokeball still in the same place. "Oh! I concede are remarkab-"
"Boring part! Narrator, use that long bar thing that symbolizes a timeskip."
So, are we back to doing this?
Missingno shrugs as he wanders around the outside of the Pokecenter. "Just sometimes. With boring parts like how we get the RainbowBadge and leave to heal up Driller. I mean, there was that part in between where we fought with a bunch of Pinsirs to avoid a nuclear disaster… but no one wants to hear about that."
I want to hear about that!
"Well, what happened was- Hey! Cassandra's done."
Jerk.
Cassandra exits the Pokecenter with Driller in tow. "So, I guess we can move onto the next gym now." She glares at Missingno. "Are we going to take the normal route, where I can train Beedrill, who is apparently still only level 25, or are you going to do something crazy that will take us directly there?"
Missingno laughs. "I guess we'll leave our fate to chance." He pulls out a round, golden Pokedollar coin. "Heads, I use a Rocket Punch. Tails, I gain the power to control all black holes." He flips the coin into the air.
As it falls, Cassandra snatches it in midair. She pockets the money and walks towards the western exit.
"Wait! That's cheating!"
