The Charizard took to the sky with the trio on its back. Below them, the valley shrunk as they reached an incredible height.
The descent began almost immediately as the Pokémon spotted the mischievous members of Team Rocket in the distance, flying a grey, red-striped helicopter with a large net attached to the bottom of the vehicle.
The Team Rocket members had already captured many Charizards and placed them in the net. They struggled within an angry, writhing mass. Taki squinted her eyes and saw there was also a girl with green hair in it as well.
"There's a kid in that net!" yelled Taki.
"What?!" shrieked Louis.
Louis struggled and pulled out a pair of binoculars from his backpack. Much to his shock, he spotted the girl trapped by the net as well.
'You have got to be kidding me,' he thought.
"They've been trying to take us away from here for a long time," said Charizard, angrily.
"It ends today!" it roared.
With incredible speed, the Charizard flew over to the helicopter. It started to build up flames inside of its mouth, preparing to stop the helicopter from getting away.
"Don't burn the kid!" squeaked Taki.
From her point of view, the Charizard growled at her. Louis tapped Taki on her shoulder to get her attention.
"It said 'It's okay, I won't'," he said.
Inside the helicopter, an unexpected radar blip appeared before the pilot.
"We're being followed!" exclaimed the co-pilot.
"Not for long," sneered the pilot.
Suddenly, the helicopter lurched with whirling chopper blades at the group. Rotor whop began to brush Taki's face just as the Charizard took evasive action, swooping below the chopper's tail and back up the other side, narrowly avoiding the spinning blades.
"Are you out of your mind?!" yelled Taki at the pilot.
The Charizard growled in rage.
"Now they've done it!" it said.
At that moment, the Charizard launched a large fireball at the helicopter's tail rotor, fusing wire to metal and melting vital components.
A loud explosion from the tail section sent more components falling to the earth, followed soon by the rest of the helicopter, now spinning uncontrollably.
"We're going down!" yelled the pilot in a panic, his world spinning three-hundred and sixty degrees as their vehicle spun and fell.
Louis looked down at the girl and the hoard of Charizard in the net.
"BRACE YOURSELVES!" he bellowed.
The net's occupants huddled together.
The ground rapidly approached as the helicopter fell. The net landed first, followed by the careening hunk of metal.
A beating of Charizard's wings heralded the group's arrival. The trio dismounted from the large Pokémon and spotted the two occupants of the helicopter's cockpit emerging from the vehicle. They looked quite dizzy from the group's point of view. The Charizard shifted its attention to the trio and spoke.
"Keep them distracted," it said.
With that, Taki, Totodile, and Louis approached the two members of Team Rocket.
"Hey!" called Louis.
The two members took off their helmets, revealing that it was the golden-haired girl and green-haired boy from the day before.
"Oh wait, it's just those two from the forest," grumbled Taki.
"Oh yeah, I remember them," responded Louis gruffly as he approached.
"Cassidy...and Butch, was it?"
"It's Butch, you-..." paused Butch, holding his head in dizziness.
"...oh, that's what you said," he finished.
Louis had an idea on how to keep them distracted.
"I have one question for you," he started.
"You call yourselves Team Rocket. There's two of you. Where's the rocket?"
Both Cassidy and Butch blinked in confusion.
"What?" they said.
Unknown to the Team Rocket members, the Charizard approached the net joint, previously out of reach of the net's occupants, and ripped apart the metal clasp that fastened the net.
The rope-like prison sprung open, and from it, emerged the girl with green hair, wearing a red two-piece, followed by seven, VERY unhappy, Charizards.
"Was that enough time?" called Louis, glancing behind him.
He saw the seven, angry Charizards, with the girl riding on one of them. Flames billowing from each of their mouths.
Louis grinned and stepped out of the way, bringing Taki and Totodile along with him. Cassidy and Butch looked on in horror.
"Oh no," whimpered Cassidy.
As one, the Charizards exhaled a vast cloud of flames, engulfing the helicopter. Moments later, it detonated. The force of the blast, knocking Louis, Taki, and Totodile onto their backs, obscured their view.
As the flash died down, Taki glanced around, searching for Team Rocket.
"Hey, where'd they go?" questioned Louis.
A quick movement skyward caught Taki's attention. She gazed up and saw the two members of Team Rocket hurtling through a cloud.
"Up there!" exclaimed Taki.
Louis looked up and saw the two figures in the sky.
"Oh, there's your rocket!" he shouted, mockingly.
This earned Louis a smack on the back of his head from Taki.
"Ow," he said.
"How far are they going?" asked Totodile.
Behind them, the Charizard's growling began to ease.
"Hopefully as far as possible," it said.
"Aaaand boom goes the dynamite!"
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