Chapter 18

Where we last left off, Team RWBY made it to Greendale Town that is the half-way point to the Onsen Resort. Yet they get an unexpected surprise when Ruby's fear of spiders (well, spider-like Pokemon) got the better of her and she dragged her team towards the town. But while there, they see Neo and his newly evolved Charmeleon. Neo (not Neo Politan), a trainer that retrieved his Charmander from Prof. Acacia and has a bit of an attitude. If you forget, he has spiky black hair that looks like it is pointing upwards with one blue streak on the left side on a purple streak next to it, tan skin, piercing orange eyes, a black jacket with five stripes on the sleeves to the collar (red, white, blue, green, and yellow), a silver colored zipper, dark blue cargo pants with pockets on the sides, and black sneakers with red flame patterns on the sides that has a permanent scowl on his face. Yet when his eyes meet Team RWBY's, it means that there is gonna be a battle.

Song: Pokemon Theme (Version XY)

Artists: Ben Dixon and the Sad Truth, John Siegler, and John Loeffler

I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause

(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
(Pokémon!)
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Yeah, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all)
Gotta catch 'em all
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokémon!

Neo just stares at Team RWBY as if he is very angry at them for some reason. Team RWBY just stare back at him and wonder what to do.

"Hey!" Neo says. He pulls out Charmeleon's Pokeball out and says, "When two trainer's eyes meet, they have to battle!"

Charmeleon nods in agreement.

Ruby is a little intimidated and hides behind Yang.

"Come on you hags! I don't got all day!"

Yang's eyes turn red as she shouts, "HAG!" She pulls out her Pokeball and says, "That's it you little-"

Blake stops her as she holds her down and covers Yang's mouth.

Weiss says in an anger voice, "Excuse me, but we are in our teens! I don't know where you get your attitude from young man, but clearly your parents never raised you properly!"

The boy gets angrier as he shouts, "I DON'T NEED ANY PARENTS YOU STUPID, WHITE, ICE COLD WITCH!"

Arthur then enters the picture, "What is going on?!"

Everyone looks at the direction from the forest and see Franklin.

Ruby gets shy and hides behind her teammates.

Yang on the other hand points her finger at Neo, "That kid there is insulting us!"

Neo looks and goes, "Franklin?" He starts to give a sinister smirk as he whispers to himself, "Finally. A worthy challenge."

Franklin looks at Neo and goes, "Really? You know um..."

"Neo." the boy responds.

"Neo. You should know better than to say awful things to ladies. Including those that are older than you."

Neo points his Pokeball at Franklin and says, "Franklin! It is time for us to battle! It will be a three on three battle, no substitutions! Just you and me!"

Franklin gives a disappointed sigh as he says, "Alright. Better to teach this kid a lesson." He cracks his fingers and pulls out his first Pokeball. "Okay then. Let's do this."

Yang goes, "Wha-? He wanted to challenge us!"

Blake places her hand on Yang's right shoulder, "Just let it go, Yang."

Weiss is still upset as she cross her arms, "I just hope that Franklin will teach that brat a lesson!"

Neo throws a Pokeball and says, "Go, Seviper!"

A Seviper pops out and Black freaks out. She hides behind Yang and Weiss.

Yang looks at Blake, "Are you...afraid of snakes?"

"No, not really." Blake says in a nervous voice.

Franklin pulls out a great ball and throws it, "Go, Astronite!"

The great ball opens to reveal some sort of dark and rocky body with some normal brown rocks on its neck and feet along with a right arm being in pieces yet floaty, and has a symbol on its face.

"What Pokemon is that?" Ruby says as she pulls out her Megadex.

Astronite. The traveler Pokemon and the evolve form of Cometeor. Rock and Psychic-type. Astronite can exist anywhere, even in the vacuum of space. They are said to roam across the universe, orbiting stars and colonizing asteroid fields.

"Now that is cool looking." Yang says. "That Pokemon really-" Ruby covers Yang's mouth. Yang starts to grump.

'What the heck?!' Neo thinks to himself and is disappointed. 'I was expecting his Sylveon or Alolan Ninetales! I wasn't expecting that thing. Although I still have a few dark-type moves for my Serviper.' Then orders, "Use bite!"

"Use flash cannon!" Franklin orders.

Astronite uses flash cannon on Serviper. It hits Serviper and caused it to go flying towards Neo but passed by him from his left. Serviper has fainted and returns to its Pokeball.

Neo looks at his Pokeball and says to it, "Darn it. I'll give you your harsh training later." Then he pulls out his next Pokeball and says, "Go, Rockroach!"

The Pokemon comes out and is ready for battle. Rockroach looks like a mix between a cockroach and a rock which freaked Weiss out and hides behind Yang.

Yang looks at Weiss, "Seriously? I know my semblance can be used as a shield but come on."

Weiss is nervous and scared, "Sorry, but I hate cockroaches. Especially ones that look like they can easily bite by fingers off. I mean, that thing looks like it can eat half a cat!"

"Astronite, return!" Franklin recalls his Astronite then pulls out a great ball and goes, "Go, Machamp!"

Machamp comes out and is ready for combat.

'Dang it! I just had to use the 'no substitution' rule for this battle!' Neo curses the fact that he made that rule about not switching out Pokemon while having a type disadvantage. Rockroach is a bug and rock-type while Machamp is a fighting-type.

Yang whistles, "Dang. Wish that was a person and not a Pokemon." Yang starts to lick her lips, "Because those handsome muscles."

Ruby then says, "Then I get Franklin!"

Yang yanks Ruby and squeezes her between her arm and armpit while saying, "Dream on!"

Neo orders, "Rockroach! Use fury attack!"

Rockroach's pincers and front legs started to glow white and lunges at Franklin's Machamp.

"Use bulk up!"

Machamp's body becomes surrounded by a crimson aura and flex its body, causing its muscles to thicken and shine. Rockroach uses fury attack on Machamp but Machamp's bulk up raises not only its attack but its defense as well that the fury attack doesn't seem to phase Machamp.

"Use quad punch!" Franklin ordered.

"Huh?" Neo went.

"What's a quad punch?" Ruby asks.

Blake explains, "Because it has four arms which means four fists."

"Oh." Ruby gets it.

Machamp's eyes started to glow white as its four fists started to gather energy. Its upper left fist is surrounded by yellow electricity and produce static electrical sparks. Its lower left fist starts to glow purple. Its upper right fist is surrounded in red-orange flames. Its lower right fist is surrounded by swirling energy which changes from white to light blue.

"What type of move is that?!" Neo asks as he starts to get nervous.

Machamp then runs up to Rockroach and launch a fury of punches at Rockroach. Rockroach is feeling the full force of those punches but its ability is sturdy which allowed it to survive and keep on fighting. However, the Pokemon later gets encased in ice.

"What the-?" Neo is surprised. "Just what was that?!"

"Quad punch."Franklin starts to explain. "It is a dragon-type move that my Machamp and I developed that uses a combination of different punch moves and poison jab. Once Machamp is done unleashing a fury of punches like fury attack, it induce one random status effect. In this case, freezing. Although, sometimes it involves paralysis, burning, poison or confusion. But the punch types are random."

Neo goes, "Wait! Stop, stop, stop, stop! You developed that move?!"

"Yeah, but only works for Pokemon that have four hands."

Neo is completely speechless on what he just found out.

Yang approaches, "You developed a new move? How did you do that?"

"Can you please wait until-"

Franklin's sentence is interrupted by the sound of sirens coming from the town. Everyone stop what they are doing and noticed the sirens. Someone on the PA system says, "Attention! An Ultra Wormhole has been detected! Everyone please head indoors until trainers with Ultra Balls have captured the Ultra Beasts or the Ultra Beasts returned to the wormhole. There are three Buzzwoles in the area! Please stay indoors! Any Pokemon in the area, RUN!"

Franklin goes, "Ah, crude! One Buzzwole is enough to wreak havoc! Three of them ensures total destruction in the equivalent of a single Guzzlord!" He looks at Neo, "Sorry, Neo, but we have to continue this battle later!" Then Franklin runs off into town with his Machamp following him.

"HEY!" Neo angrily shouts. He growls while grunting his teeth at the fact that Franklin just left.

Ruby says, "Come on! Let's go!" Ruby and her team runs into town while leaving Neo in the dust.

Neo was about ready to lose his temper. However, he calms down and thinks for a moment.

In Greendale Town, Team RWBY tries to catch up with Franklin as they enter in the town. Unfortunately, they lost him.

"Where did he go?" Yang says as everyone look in all directions.

Yet while doing so, a car gets thrown across the street while damaging a few street lamps. It spooked them with Ruby being in Yang's arms. The four girls looked at the direction of the tossed automobile and hear something stomping down the street. What they see is some heavily muscular, mosquito-like, anthropomorphic, four legged, black and white creature marching down the street while it stands over seven feet tall. It stopped midway in Team RWBY's view and slowly turns its head at the four.

"What's that?" Weiss asks while still standing and looking at the Pokemon.

Blake pulls up her Megadex while still looking at the creature. What the Megadex tells them is that it is the Buzzwole.

Yang goes, "Oh I get it. Buzz-wole. As in a swollen bug." She laughs, "That's a good one."

The Buzzwole in front of them cracks its shoulders before cracking its knuckles as if it is itching for a fight.

Yang puts Ruby down and cracks her knuckles, "Well, I've been itching to use my knuckles for a while now." She gets into battle position, "BRING IT ON!"

Buzzwole also takes into battle position and is ready to rumble.

Both of them lunge at each other with Yang attempting to make the first move by uppercutting its abdomen. But Buzzwole moves out of the way and punches Yang towards a car. But Yang gets up and proceeds to attack Buzzwole as the rest of Team RWBY watch.

Weiss asks Ruby, "Should we-"

"No." Ruby bluntly answers. "When she gets like this, there is no stopping her. Plus, she needs something to unleash all of her frustration."

There are sounds of asphalt and concrete being cracked, garbage cans being tossed, vehicles getting crushed, wings buzzing, Buzzwole throwing ice and thunder punches at Yang, and Yang making fire crackling sounds from her flaming hair.

But then Yang says with an angry tone, "YOU RUINED MY HAIR!" The Buzzwole cut off a piece of Yang's bangs.

Buzzwole then starts to get scared as the red-eyed, hair flaming vixen approaches the Ultra Beast. It backs away slowly with Yang stomping her way towards it. Yang then lunges and punches the Ultra Beast with just her left hook which is followed by a flurry of attacks. The Buzzwole crawls away covered in bruises but Yang grab one of its legs and throws it around. Then does her own seismic toss before kicking it in the butt. The rest of Team RWBY are frightened and just back away slowly as Yang keeps on punishing the Ultra Beast. The Buzzwole cries in defeat as it begs for its life on its knees and begs.

Yang pulls out her Ultra Ball, "Alrighty then. Be prepare to get captured!"

The Buzzwole bows in agreement right before getting captured. Yang laughs at her so-called victory while being all smug.

Yang has caught a Buzzwole.

"Ruby?" Weiss says in a monotone voice.

"Yeah?" Ruby responds in the same tone of voice.

"Your sister scares me."

Blake says in the same tone, "Same."

Ruby says, "Try living with her for fifteen years."

Both Blake and Weiss go, "Yikes."

Over where Franklin is, his Machamp used quad punch and knocks the Buzzwole into the wall and seems to be paralyzed. It has yellow static electricity on its body.

"Well, well." Franklin says as he approach the injured Buzzwole, "This is actually the first time I get to meet your kind face-to-face." He smiles, "You definitely live up to your reputation. You almost had us there for a moment. I would definitely love to have someone strong as you on the team and would like to welcome you to the family." Franklin extends his hand, "Would you like to join?"

The Buzzwole thinks about it with its head down for a moment. After much consideration, it raised his head up to look at Franklin and offered its hand.

"Welcome aboard!" Franklin pulls it up on its feet and hugs it. Then he looks at his Machamp, "Say hello to your new comrade in arms, Machamp!"

Machamp then shows of his muscles and posses with all of his muscles bulging. Buzzwole does the same. Both of them acknowledge each other's strengths and shake hands.

"Good job!" Franklin congratulates the two on their new friendship. He pulls out his Ultra Ball, "Alright then! Welcome to the family!" He throws the Ultra Ball and captures the Buzzwole.

As for Neo's case, he and his Charmeleon face off against the last Buzzwole that seemed to have demolished a dome-shaped structure for fun. The whole roof of the dome seemed to have been demolished with some of the interior reduced to rubble. There seems to be some preparations for a Pokemon Contest but have been destroyed. But judging by the destruction, it looked like the three Buzzwoles came out of here.

"Charmeleon, use flamethrower!" Neo ordered.

Charmeleon shoots out jets of fire at the Buzzwole from its mouth. But the Buzzwole manages to dodge it and follows with a dynamic punch. Charmeleon dodges.

"Use dragon rage!"

Charmeleon creates a light blue orb of energy inside of its stomach. It then fires a powerful blast of blue and black energy in the shape of a dragon at the Buzzwole. Buzzwole has its guard up and tries to block the dragon rage yet the dragon rage does a critical hit with a big explosion. The Buzzwole is covered in scratches and bruise marks from the attack. As Neo prepares to use an Ultra Ball, the Ultra Wormhole opens and Buzzwole sees it as a chance to go home.

Neo realizes the situation, "Oh no you don't!"

Buzzwole flies up towards the wormhole as Neo throws the Ultra Ball. Unfortunately for Neo, it missed and Buzzwole returns home.

Neo punches the ground, "DANG IT!" Neo is upset that he didn't catch an Ultra Beast.

After punching the ground hard and his fist all bruised up, he calms down and takes the Ultra Ball on the ground before having Charmeleon returning to its Pokeball.

He sighs, "Guess that's that. Dang. I was hoping to catch a super strong Pokemon before I head towards one of the gyms." He sighs again but looks up at the wormhole. He thinks to himself, 'Next time, I should catch an Ultra Beast that is stronger than that Buzzwole.' He then walks out of the ruined dome, 'After all, strength is all that matters in this world.'

Once everything has calm down, people and Pokemon started to come out of hiding with the Ultra Wormhole closed up. Everyone started to make repairs on the town with a few vehicles being repaired or replaced. Over at the Pokemon Center, Franklin and Team RWBY are there with Officer Jenny and Vivian Meridian.

"WHAT?!" Franklin screams out in shock, "THE CONTEST IS CANCELLED!?"

"I'm afraid so." Vivian confirmed. "Those three Buzzwoles did major damage to the Greendale Dome where the Ultra Wormhole was."

Officer Jenny says, "From the extent of the damage, it looked like they were having a strength contest of their own."

Franklin bends down and mopes. "Aw man. I was looking forward to it. I had a new routine and everything." He is giving off a gloomy aura.

"Sorry." Vivian apologizes, "But we will let you know when the repairs are done and the contest will be ready."

Franklin joins Team RWBY over at the cafe area and sits. He says to them, "Turns out that the Pokemon Contest has been cancelled in this town."

"That sucks." Yang states.

"You're telling me."

"But there are others." Weiss pointed out. "Ultima is a big region after all."

Blake then states, "You also caught an Ultra Beast."

Franklin gives Yang a weird look, "Yeah but, I'm surprised to hear Yang managed to beat-up one of the most toughest Pokemon that there is. Have you been pumping iron or something?"

Yang brags, "I do love to keep my figure."

Weiss looks at Franklin, "By the way."

"Hmm?"

"I do have some questions about raising Pokemon."

AN: Hello again! Hope you enjoy this new chapter. Now for some Q&A.

Milly: Well if you get right down to it. There are all sorts of manipulations called kinesis. Like Pyrokinesis, Psychokinesis, Electrokinesis, Aquakinesis, and so on that can be manipulated through the mind. (For those reading, I'm referring to the Psy-Men which is a Pokemon equivalent of X-Men that I made up.)

The Rev: Yeah, pretty funny. But please refrain from using anymore swear words, this is a kid's fanfic meant to be enjoyable for all ages. But if you want to have swearing, please do it on The Rising of the Post-Apocalyptic Shield Hero. That series is meant to keep people occupy until then. As for the sequel of Survival on a Strange Planet, it may have to be around January of 2020. One, well two, reasons being is because I would like to add some characters from RWBY Volume 7 coming up in November and the second is that I would like to take some time off in December to spend some time with my folks. You know, holidays and that. As for the title for the sequel, it will be: Survival in a Strange Galaxy.

BTW - Today's my birthday! WOO!