Chapter 53: Big Fight in the Radio Tower! Search for the Card Key!


"You better not underestimate me, young man," Captain Falcon said to Ian.

"We don't-a have much time to deal with him," said Mario. "We have to stop-a da music from being played as fast-a as possible!"

"Don't worry; dealing with the likes of him shouldn't take long. If you're worried why not some of you go up ahead?"

"Okay, I'll go up ahead!" said Sonic.

"You're not going anywhere!" said Ian as he stretched forward his oversized sleeves.

"Ow! It hurts!" cried Peach, shielding herself with her arms.

"Yeouch!" Mario jumped back as if he was hit by something.

CF saw something and quickly reached his hand forward and grabbed the air, and it turned out that he was grabbing onto some metallic tentacles. "Ha! Got your weapon!"

"What the?! You can see my Octopus ARM?!" gasped Ian.

"The speed that you swing these things with sure is something, but to the trained eyes such as mines, I can see them with ease!" CF gripped hard and broke the tentacles just like that.

"Ha! It's useless! The Octopus ARM can reproduce even when it is destroyed!" said Ian as more metallic tentacles came out from his sleeves.

"Leave this guy to me," said CF. "I'm gonna teach him how to fight like a real man."

"I'm off!" said Sonic.

"You're not getting pass me!" Ian swung the whips again, but Sonic avoided them with ease thanks to his monstrous speed, and he ran pass the two Chess members and ran up to the stairs. "What the?!"

CF used this opportunity to charge forward and hit Ian, but he quickly countered with his tentacles. However, CF was able to grab hold of all the tentacles and prevent them from moving around. "Go!" he said to the others.

"Okey-dokey!" said Mario, and the others followed him up the stairs.

"I don't like how this kid is boasting about this strength either," said Ganondorf. "I'm gonna teach him that he's messing with the wrong people!"

"Well, a little help wouldn't hurt!" said CF.

-

The other six Smashers made it up several floors and beat up several Rocket grunts along the way.

"Hiya!" Mario did a flying kick into a grunt and sent him crashing backwards.

"Get them, Arbok!" shouted a grunt. But the Arbok was made a short work when Sonic rammed into its body with a strong force. "Um…"

"Get them, Riolu!" yelled Yoshi as he threw Riolu forward like a cannonball. He flew into the face of grunt and knocked him down and continued flying forward and knocking down more.

"Get them, Golbat!" said a grunt as he sent out a Golbat.

"Pichu!!" Pichu fired a beam at the Golbat and shot it down with ease.

"Noooo!!"

"Mach Tornado!" Meta-Knight spun around at a very fast rate and flew all over the place, whipping up the grunts and made them fly all over the place too.

CRAAAAAASH!!

"Show them what your horns are made of, Stantler!" commanded a grunt. The Stantler lowered its head and charged forward, and Peach countered it by tossing herself at the Stantler and hitting its head with her butt.

This resulted in an explosion of beautiful pink hearts and the Stantler and sent flying back to his owner.

CRAAAAAASH!!

After beating up all the enemies, they ran up to the next floor and repeated the same thing.

POW!! CRAASH!! BAM!! SMAAAAAAASH!! BAM!! WHAM!!

Eventually, they came up to a floor that doesn't have any stairs that lead upwards; instead, there was a large metallic door in front of them. "Theez door doesn't look-a like eet can be opened easily," said Mario.

"Leave it to me!" said Sonic. He charged at the door and spun against it rapidly, but after a while, he hopped back and rubbed his spikes in pain. "Ow, it burns… This door is too hard to bust down…"

"Let me do it!" said MK. He flew at the door and swung his sword against the surface rapidly, but it left behind no scratch marks. "It's not working…"

"There must be some other way to open this door!" said Peach. She searched around the door and found a controller next to it. "There's a controller here. Looks like you need a card or something."

"Where's the card?" asked Yoshi.

"The card is not here…" said a beaten up TR grunt. "The card was taken by three of us members into the underground market of Goldenrod City…"

"You sure?" MK asked him.

"Yeah, I'm sure…"

"What do we do? We came all the way up here already," said Peach. "Do we have to run back down to the underground area and find the card key?"

"Leave this to me!" said Sonic. "I'll be back in a jiffy!" And he ran down the stairs at a really fast speed.

"Hope he comes back fast," said Pichu.

-

On the lower floor…

"Ha! How'd you like that?" CF said to Ian, who is beaten up and very tired.

"You really are strong…" said Ian. "I really underestimated you…"

"Then get out of our way before we kill you!" said Ganondorf.

Then Sonic zoomed pass them really fast. "Uh? Wasn't that Sonic just now?" asked CF. "What's he doing running back downstairs?"

"An opening!" said Ian, and he swung his tentacles at CF again.

However, Ganondorf got in front quick and grabbed the tentacles just before they hit CF. "Are you forgetting me?"

"Dammit!"

Ganondorf crushed the tentacles and then ran at Ian and kicked him in the stomach hard.

KICK!!

"Yaaaaa!" He flew back into the wall after getting kicked.

CRAAAAAASH!!

"Just give it up, kid," said Ganondorf. "There's no way you can beat us!"

"Argh…" growled Ian.

"Let Loco deal with them, Ian," said Loco.

"Very well… Show them what you've got!"

"Ha! The little girl wants to mess with us now?" asked CF. "Don't make me laugh!"

"Loco has been underestimated," said Loco. "Loco is not happy."

"If you're underestimating Loco because to her appearance, then you're making a big mistake!" said Ian.

"Show me your moves!" said CF.

"Loco will show you my Darkness ARMs," said Loco as she took off the luggage around her back and placed it onto the floor.

"What have you got in there?" asked Ganondorf. "Little toys?"

Loco got out a small necklace-like thing that has a decoration that looks like a man tied up in chains. "Negzero!"

All of a sudden, CF and Ganondorf were both frozen in place and couldn't move at all. "What the?! I can't move!" gasped CF as he tried to move his limbs, but they were like frozen in ice and won't move.

"Me too!" said Ganondorf.

Loco reached in the luggage and got out a large straw man that is bigger than the luggage itself, yet for some reason was able to fit inside it. "Straw Doll." She placed the straw man onto the floor and then got out a hammer and a large nail. "Loco will start with you," she said as she pointed to CF.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" asked CF.

"If I'm not mistaken, it must be voodoo of sorts!" said Ganondorf.

"What?!"

"This is what you get for underestimating Loco!" said Ian.

Loco placed the spike at the right arm of the straw doll and then hit it hard with the hammer. CF then felt tremendous pain in his right arm. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!"

"Falcon!!" gasped Ganondorf.

-

Sonic ran out of the radio tower and went past the trainers and Pikachu as they were battling Palkia and ran for a building with the sign next to it saying, "Underground entrance."

He went inside the building and ran down the stairs into the dark basement below. "Anyone home?" he shouted as he felt his way through the darkness. "Where are the lights?"

Suddenly, light filled up the whole room and blinded Sonic temporarily, and then three TR members appeared before him.

"Ha! We knew you would come here! I'm Ken!"

"I'm Ryu!"

"And I'm Harry!"

Sonic clapped his hands and said, "Neat entrance!"

"We bet you're here for the card key, right?" asked Ken.

"It was part of our plan to hide it away in order to delay your movements towards the higher floors of the radio tower!" said Ryu.

"But you're not going to get it from us that easily!" added Harry.

"My friends are waiting, so let's end this fast!" said Sonic, getting into fighting stance.

"You will never make it out alive to see your friends again! Go, Elekid!" shouted Ken as he threw his Pokeball.

Ryu threw out a Pokeball and shouted, "Girafarig, get him!"

Harry threw out his and said, "Spinarak, go!"

"I'm going to deal with your pets? No big difference!" said Sonic.

The Elekid's plug-like head emitted electricity and fired a beam, the Spinirak shot out web from its mouth, and the Girafarif fired an eye beam. Sonic ran in their direction while moving left to right to avoid the attacks, and then he leaped over the Pokemon and went for the TR members instead. He flew right into Harry and kicked him in the face and knocked him to the floor.

CONK!

"Ow! What was that?!" he shouted.

"I don't have much time to waste, so I've decided to take the key from you right away!" replied Sonic.

"You're not getting it without a fight first!" said Ken. "Elekid, use Thunder Punch!" The Elekid jumped at Sonic with its fists surrounded by electricity, but Sonic rolled aside and avoided the attack.

The moment he did, the Girafarig came charging at him with its head lowered, but Sonic hop onto the back of the Girafarig. "Gimme a ride, horsey!" The Girafarig shook and jumped around violently and managed to shake Sonic off into the air, where he flipped around and landed a kick into Ryu's face.

"Ow! Watch what you're doing!!" he shouted.

"Okay, give me the card key now and I'll go easy on you!" said Sonic, reaching out his hand.

"We're not!" shouted Harry. "If you like to run around a lot, then we're going to make sure you don't run around anymore!"

"Ha! Taste our ultimate team work!" said Ryu.

"Spinarak, form a cage over them!" Harry said to the spider Pokemon. The Spinarak fired several webs into the air until it turned into a large web cage, and it fell down and closed Sonic and Harry inside.

"Trying to trap me?" asked Sonic.

"Elekid, charge up the cage!" Ken said to his Elekid. The Pokemon touched its plug-like head against the side of the cage, and electricity surged throughout the cage.

"I see… You're trying to trap me inside this electric cage to prevent me from running around?" asked Sonic. "Smart plan!"

"Thanks for the praise, but now it's over for you!" said Ryu as he hopped onto the back of his Girafarig. "I'm going to take you down from in here!"

"Bring it on!"

"Psybeam!"

The Girafarig fired a beam from its eyes, but Sonic leaped aside to avoid it, and then the Girafarig charged forward immediately afterwards, but Sonic was able to avoid getting hit again. "Can't hit me!"

"Dang! This guy is fast! Use Swift!" said Ryu.

A portal of sorts appeared in front of Girafarig and several star-shaped projectiles shot out at a super fast speed. In fact, the speed of the projectiles was so fast that Sonic couldn't avoid it in time and he got hit in the body and was pushed into the side of the cage.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

"AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!"

"Ha! How did you like that?" asked Ryu, laughing.

"That sure got me," said Sonic, getting back up again. "But not enough to get me down!"

"Swift again!"

Girafarig shot out star-shaped projectiles again, and Sonic quickly jumped up to avoid them. However, the projectiles still hit him in the feet and he fell clumsily onto the floor afterwards, and the Girafarig used this opportunity to headbutt Sonic into the side of the cage again.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

"Yeow!!"

"Ha! You're done for!" said Ryu.

"Nope, not yet!" said Sonic as he stood back up the second time.

"You sure have strong endurance, but this is as far as you go! Charge him down!" Ryu said to his Girafarig. The Pokemon lowered its head and ran forward at a very fast speed.

When it was near, Sonic quickly fell on his back and kicked both his legs upwards and hit the Girafarig underneath the body and flipped it into the air above him, and both Ryu and the Giragarif flew straight into the side of the cage.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

"Oh no! Stop the electrical charge!" Ken shouted to his Elekid, and it quickly pulled its head off the cage.

The cage was made weak again after all those electrical charges, and it collapsed onto the floor and disintegrated, and Ryu was zapped out of consciousness. "How dare you?!" growled Ken angrily. "Elekid, use Zap Cannon!"

The Elekid charged up and fired an electric ball at Sonic, and Sonic avoided it by jumping up into the air. "Homing Attack!" He curled up into a ball and hurled himself at the Elekid and smacked it hard in its body, knocking it away.

"How dare you?!"

"Spinarak, shoot him with webs!" Harry said to his Spinarak. The Pokemon aimed and fired a string a web at Sonic. Once again, Sonic avoided it and the webs ended up hitting Ken.

"Hey! Watch where you're shooting!" he shouted

Sonic ran at the Spinarak and gave it a kick in the face and sent it flying. "No!! How can you do that?!" shouted Harry.

Sonic grabbed him by the collar and did a judo throw and tossed Harry straight into the tied up Ken.

BONK!!

"Waaaa…" they both fell onto the floor unconsciously after hitting each others' heads hard.

Sonic dusted his hands and said, "That was too easy! So easy that some people would probably complain about it!" He walked up to the unconscious Team Rocket members and felt around their uniform until he found the card key inside Harry's pocket. "Found it!"

"You're not getting away!" shouted Ken as he tried to move, but couldn't due to being tied up.

"Sorry, have to go!" said Sonic, and he ran off.

"Wait! Come back here!!"

-

Back in the radio tower…

"Three nails already and you're still standing," Loco said to CF, who is now suffering tremendously due to her voodoo skills. "Most people would just die after the second arrow. Loco is impressed."

"I'm going to… get you… for this…" growled CF angrily.

Ganondorf tried to move his body, but he couldn't. "Damn! What is this black magic?! It's so powerful!"

"Now that you cannot move, I'm going to enjoy torturing you!" said Ian. He swung his tentacles at Ganondorf and hit him over and over.

WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK!!

"Ow! Stop that!" shouted Ganondorf.

"I won't stop until I'm satisfied!" said Ian with delight. Loco got out the fourth nail and hammered it into the straw doll again.

"YEOW!!" screamed CF as he felt pain surging throughout his body the moment the nail was hammered.

"Argh! I have enough of this!" growled Ganondorf angrily. He began to struggle even more and the Triforce symbol on his hand glowed. "RAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Using all his strength, he was able to break out of his restraint.

"What the?!" gasped both Ian and Loco, and then the Negzero ARM shattered into pieces.

"Impossible! How can someone break through the Negzero using sheer strength?!" gasped Loco, who for the first was showing fear on her face.

Ganondorf lifted up her arm and charged up an energy ball, and then threw it at Loco. She quickly ducked down and the energy ball hit the straw doll behind her and blew it up.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!

CF was able to move again after this, and he dropped onto his knee out of pain and exhaustion. Ganondorf took a deep breath and calmed down, and ran to CF to hold him up. "You all right?"

"A bit painful…" he replied.

"This is scary… They broke through my darkness ARMs with ease! Loco is scared!" said Loco in a scared tone.

"They're really stronger than we thought!" said Ian. "We can't deal with them any longer! We must get away fast!"

"Loco agrees."

"You're not going anywhere!" shouted Ganondorf, but a green light engulfed the duo and they disappeared afterwards. "They got away…"

"I'm afraid I need to rest here for a while," said CF as he sat down on a chair. "The pain really is unbearable. You go up and help them, and I'll catch up later."

"Okay." As Ganondorf began to leave, Sonic ran past him and went up the stairs. "Wasn't that Sonic just now?"

-

The others were still waiting next to the metal door and Sonic finally showed up. "Sorry for the wait, but I found the key at last!" he said.

"Good-a for you!" said Mario.

Sonic placed the card key into the slot on the door's controllers, and then the door slid open, allowing the Smashers to go through. "Let's-a go!" said Mario, and they all ran through the door.

Shortly after they left, Ganondorf came up and went through the door. "Of all times for the elevator to be broken…" he grumbled while panting heavily.

-

"The 17th floor…" said Peach as she climbed up the stairs.

"The elevator just had to be broken in a time like this…" said Yoshi, panting heavily.

"Exercise is good for you!" said Sonic, who isn't showing signs of tiredness at all.

"Hey, someone is tied up there!" said MK.

"It's DJ Mary!" said Pichu.

They ran up to Mary and took the gag off her mouth. "Thanks for helping me, Smashers!" she said. "I tried to stop Team Rocket from taking over this place, but I couldn't do much…"

"Where are they now?" asked Mario.

"On the highest floor! You must stop them fast!"

"Okey-dokey! Leave eet to uz!"

And the Smashers ran up the second floor. "Hey! Untie me first!" cried Mary, struggling around in the chair she's tied to.

-

On the 19th floor…

The Smashers found themselves face to face with two more TR members.

"Congratulations on coming this far!" said the woman with a mask covering the right side of her face. "I am Shum."

"I'm Cart!" said the main with a mask covering the left side of his face.

"Get outta our way!" said Mario. "We have to act-a fast!"

"Under the Mask of Ice's command, you are not allowed to go past us!" said Shum.

"We, the Team Rocket Executives, will kill you here!" added Cart.

-

Outside…

The trainers and their Pokemon were all very tired as they stood before Palkia. "None of our attacks are working…" said Blue. "Palkia really is a powerful legendary…"

"Its ability is Pressure, so our stamina will drop fast when fighting it," said Green.

"Our Pokemon are really tiring out now," said Yellow. "I'm afraid we can't hold much longer."

Even Pikachu is showing signs of tiredness. "This is going to be hard."

"I'm not going to lose to this guy just because he's a legendary!" said Gold. "I'll show him what I'm capable of! Explotaro, Flame Wheel!" His Typlosion curled up and fire appeared around his body, and he hurled himself at Palkia.

Palkia opened its mouth and released a stream of water that hit Explotaro and knock him onto the ground.

"What the?! Explotaro!"

"Palkia is water type, so it's no surprise he can use water!" said Green.

"Damn! How are we going to take this guy down?!" said Red.

"Don't fret! We are here to help you!"

The trainers all turned around and were surprised to see the people who have to come to assist them. "It's the gym leaders of both Kanto and Johto!" exclaimed Crystal.

Sure enough; the gym leaders of both the continents are all there, each standing with their signature Pokemon (which will be marked in paranthesis)—Brock (Onix), Misty (Starmie), Lt. Surge (Electrivire), Erika (Bellossom), Janine (Ariados), Sabrina (Alakazam), Blaine (Rapidash), Falkner (Skarmory), Bugsy (Heracross), Whitney (Miltank), Morty (Misdreavus), Chuck (Poliwrath), Jasmine (Steelix), and Clair (Dragonair).

"We're here to help you!" said Brock.

"Much as I like water type, that thing is too disturbing for my liking," said Misty.

"My electric Pokemon will zap him into submission!" said Lt. Surge loudly.

"As the gym leader representatives of both countries, we have the responsibility to stop evil from taking over!" said Erika.

"I wasn't able to help much when my hometown was ruined by wild Pokemon, but this time I'm going to make up for it!" said Janine.

"A legendary… No big deal," said Sabrina.

"So that is the legendary Palkia…" said Blaine.

"Team Rocket is going to pay for what they've done! We must put a stop to this at once!" said Falkner.

"Let's bring down that monster together, Heracross!" Bugsy said to his Pokemon.

"You monster! You'll pay for ruining my hometown!" said Whitney.

"So it wasn't just a dream I had last night," said Morty.

"C'mon! Let's show this oversized punk who has the harder fist!" shouted Chuck, punching the air.

"I'll… I… I… I will… try my… best…" said Jasmine.

"A dragon Pokemon, you say? My dragon are better than you!" said Clair.

Palkia just glared at the newcomers angrily and roared out a challenge to them.


TO BE CONTINUED

This may be the last chapter before the trip, but if you're lucky another one may come out before that, though the chances may be slim. I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Trivia:
1. In the manga, the gym leaders weren't only gym leaders; most of them had other occupations. Brock, Misty, and Erika actually have ties with the government and work for them in some ways. Lt. Surge and Sabrina were former Team Rocket members. Blaine was the one responsible for Mewtwo's creation. Falkner is a police officer. Bugsy is an archaeologist. Also, Chuck is Green's former trainer.
2. Ian and Loco are actually some of the weakest members in the Chess Pieces, so it's no surprise they'd lose so easily. I'll get into details regarding Chess someday in the future.