The PokeParty

Chapter Four: Pikachu! Great Buggy Showdown!

Onix.

"Come on you guys," I said to the others. "We'd better leave. Most of the Pokemon in here obviously haven't been trained very well."

"What was that?" a Rhyhorn asked from a few yards away.

"You heard me," I answered. "The majority of Pokemon in this cave have extremely poor trainers, and you're one of them."

"ROAR!" the Rhyhorn came charging at Phanpy and Larvitar!

"Geo!" Geodude picked up Larvitar and Phanpy just in the nick of time. Crobat and Forretress followed Geodude out of the cave, but I had some business to finish with that Rhyhorn. It was friends with the Steelix who was teasing the two Charmander babies earlier.

"Rock Slide!" I yelled, stomping my tail on the ground and causing small boulders to fall out of the ceiling of the cave.

"Avalanche!" some Golem yelled. "Get the Triple P!" I wasn't sure who the Triple P was, but it didn't sound pretty, so I ran out of there as fast as I could!

The others and I were about to head over to a forest path when two huge Machamp came strolling our way. I'd see Machamp before, but these guys were huger and more muscular than any I'd ever seen! I noticed some small golden badges on their left chests that said in huge red letters "PPP". Underneath that, were some smaller silver letters that read "PokePlace Police.

"Are you the Onix that caused the Avalanche in Big Cave?" the bigger one asked me. Immediately I denied.

"No, sir, of course not!" Then I got an idea. "In fact, I happened to spot that it was a Steelix who caused that! Steelix and a Rhyhorn!"

"I knew it," the bigger one said to the slightly smaller one. "Those two have been causing nothing but trying since they got here, those blue pills don't have much effect on Rock Pokemon. Good thing the trainer will be picking them up in an hour, otherwise we'd have to have them completely removed."

"Thanks," the smaller one said to me, and they went running off into the big cave.

"Phew!" I let out a sigh of relief.

"Why'd you lie to them, Onix?" Phanpy asked, poking at my rocky tail. "It was you who said Rock Slide, wasn't it? And you were doing it to get away from that Rhyhorn!"

"You'll understand when you're older, Phanpy," I sighed. "Now let's take this path so we can find Pikachu and the others. There's a lot of weak Bug Pokemon we'll find on the trail, but that's not a-"

"Scy!" A Scyther jumped right in front of us out of nowhere!

"Ahhh!" we yelled.

"Onix, nice to see you again!" it smiled. "Ah, and there's Geodude and.Golbat evolved! But I don't recall these three."

"Oh, hey!" I laughed. "You're Tracey's Scyther! Yeah, Golbat evolved. This is Brock's Forretress, and Ash's Phanpy and Larvitar."

"Nice to meet you," Scyther bowed. "You can come out now, Venomoth! Marill!"

"Venonat's evolved!" Crobat noticed excitedly, fluttering around with Venomoth. Scyther explained that Tracey had dropped them off with Prof. Oak because most of the trainers who's PCs were run by Prof. Oak's Pokemon were all here. Since Prof. Oak didn't have any work to do what with the fact that there were no Pokemon to take care of, he decided to take Tracey out to lunch and drop Tracey's Pokemon off at PokePlace.

"Yeah, and I heard if PokePlace is successful this week, they'll start making one for ever town in Johto and Kanto!" Marill added.

"That's not all, Marill," Venomoth reminded. "I heard Tracey and Prof. Oak saying that if PokePlace becomes more popular than Pokemon Centers, PokeMarts, and the Pokemon Police Force, they're going to add some to each island of the Orange Island! That's where we're from!"

"Cool," Forretress said, not really caring. "So do you want to come with us? We're going to try and find Pikachu and the others. I think it'll be sort of hard though, since it's night time."

"Yeah, the sun just set," Crobat said.

"You're in luck!" Venomoth chirped. "I found a Hidden Machine on the ground and now I know Flash! It'll give us tons of light, but it might wake up some Pokemon in here. Oh well! Follow me!"

Crobat and Venomoth fluttered in the lead while Scyther and I walked together right behind them. Phanpy and Larvitar sat on my head while Geodude, Forretress, and Marill were sitting on my tail.

"So how far is it?" Scyther asked.

"Well," Geodude answered. "We don't really know exactly where they went, but I'm sure they've met up with some friends, and some sort of instinct tells me they're just after this trail."

"Hey, I'm picking up something familiar!" Crobat announced. "Pokemon..hm..Pokemon we've met before!"

"Can you tell which Pokemon they are?" Forretress asked curiously.

"Yes, but only if everyone's quiet," Crobat answered, and we all fell silent. After a few more seconds, Crobat identified them. "One's a big grass Pokemon. The other two are common normal types. The last two I know are an Elekid and a Beedrill."

"Oh, that must be Casey's Pokemon!" I replied. "But I don't think Tracey's Pokemon know them."

"Nope," was Scyther's reply.

"Venomoth, flash your light over to that bush on the left!" cried Crobat. "I sense them right behind it!"

Venomth did as he was told. Almost immediately, a Beedrill and Pideotto came zipping out, and a Raticate was crawling out from underneath it. They eyed us suspiciously, and then an Elekid and Meganium walked out from behind the large bush. They too, narrowed their eyes at us.

"What's their problem?" Larvitar mumbled.

"We challenge you to a five on five Pokemon battle!" the Elekid announced without warning. Larvitar sighed. He and Elekid used to hate each other, but now they were friends, and Larvitar still didn't get it.

"Geez, five?" Scyther gasped. "Well, we'll have to lead some of us on their way to Pikachu and the others, I can never turn down a Pokemon battle."

"Crobat, you lead Larvitar and Phanpy out of here, I don't want them getting hurt, even though these guys do belong to a weak rookie trainer-"

"She isn't a rookie anymore!" screeched Raticate. "She's trained us to our full potential!"

"She's still a Rookie compared to Ash!" Marill yelled. "And I think I'm going to battle you!"

"Alright with me!" Raticate growled.

"Can I go with Crobat?" asked Forretress. "I'm too tired to battle, it's late!"

"Go ahead," replied Geodude. "I have a craving for some Beedrill butt to kick!"

"Don't make me laugh!" Beedrill flew right in front of him as Phanpy, Larvitar, Crobat, and Forretress raced on their way. "I'll battle you, Elekid," challenged Scyther. "You challenged me directly first." "I'm fighting the moth," Pideotto laughed.

"Psybeam!" Without warning, Venomoth sent a huge colorful beam out of his head and shot Pidgeotto to the ground! She looked badly injured. "Psybeam!" Venomoth repeated. "Boy was that easier than I thought! Look guys, I have to get going, Crobat and the others need light to guide them!" And with that, he fluttered away.

"How is that possible!?" Raticate boomed. "I don't understand, Casey worked hard to train Pidgeotto to her full poten-"

"Tracey's Pokemon are automatically trained every day with Tracey's help," Scyther explained. "We run wild and free outside where Prof. Oak works."

"Professor Elm could cream Professor Oak!" Elekid whined, sending a huge electric shock at Scyther, who flashed it away with one swipe of his scythe.

The battle had now officially begun. The more electric attacks Elekid used, the more Scyther swapped away. Now Scyther was swiping like crazing at Elekid, who was trying to protect himself, but instead found himself running backwards with each swipe. Finally, Scyther slashed Elekid down the middle and he fell backward onto the ground, on his back. It looked like Scyther would win for sure.

Meanwhile, Marill was soaking down Raticate with some mad water attacks. Raticate looked like someone had just tried to down him! His shaggy, untrimmed fur was now sopping in water. Raticate shivered, hardly moving, when suddenly Marill did a nice body slam attack and Raticate stopped moving completely!

Geodude and Beedrill were throwing attacks left and right. Beedrill's attacks hard hardly any effect on Geodude, but Geodude could easily reach up and pull Beedrill down to the ground. All seemed to be going pretty evenly Geodude used Rock Slide, completely crushing Beedrill and sending him fluttering down.

I had the most difficulty defeating Meganium, since she had the advantage. She'd use Vine Whip and I used Bind so we were both trapped! The real victory was when she started powering up to use Solar Beam. Too bad it was nighttime so she couldn't use Sunny Day! Just when she was about to finish powering up, I sent my best most massive Rock Slide on her. But that wasn't all! I sent them in great amounts, over and over and over until she lost her concentration in the Solar Beam and just fainted.

"They're finished off, now let's go!" Scyther called out. "We need to catch up with the others!"

"Just goes to show how weak Casey is," Marill spoke lightly. Scyther rose up and started flying quickly through the air, Marill jumping on his back. I raced after him with Geodude holding on tight to the horn on my head.

We zoomed past the puny bug Pokemon who'd watched our victorious showdown and flew between trees like bolts of lightning. Scyther slashed at any loose branch or twig in his way, and chopped down loads of leaves, causing a commotion. I whipped my huge rocky tail at anything that could have been following us.

Up ahead I could barely make out a Pikachu running toward a Larvitar and Phanpy.we'd made it! Pikachu was waving to us!

"We're here!" Marill jumped excitedly.

"Hey!" Pikachu ran up to us along with Bulbasaur and Cyndaquil.

"You guys look pretty badly beat up," Bulbasaur pointed out. Scyther's scythes were scratched from the electric attacks and I had whip marks on my tail. Geodude and Marill got lucky. "You should take a rest."

They led us to a secluded clearing where all of Ash and Misty's Pokemon were. "We were just about to set up camp!" Cyndaquil chirped. "The PPP are gonna start serving night food in a few minutes."

After that we got busy. Marill ran off to play with the rest of the water Pokemon. Crobat and Venomoth found some trees that had good firewood on them. Scyther cut up the trees, and Kingler shaped them into firewood. We decided we wanted it to be a big fire, so Muk washed over the pile a few times to collect gas. Cyndaquil did the honors of lighting the fire, and we were all set! We sat on large sealed logs and got long twigs so we were reading for some raw food to be served.

Finally, the PPP arrived. They fed some weird-looking food to the water Pokemon and some seed-like things to the flying Pokemon. They were Hitmonlee with PPP badges on their chests. After giving us some hotdogs and marshmallows, they ran off to feed the next group of hungry Pokemon.

"Well now I see why you never stay with Ash for every long!" Crobat laughed. "You have to keep going back to Charizard Valley to take care of these little tykes."

Staryu, Goldeen, Totodile, Psyduck, Politoed, Kingler, Corsola, and Marill were at the edge of the stream playing around. Buttefree, Pink Butterfree, and their kids were flying around with Venomoth, Crobat, and Noctowl. Charizard, Charla, and their nine Charmander were now asleep on the grass. I was about to fall asleep lying right behind them, along with Geodude and Forretress.

The only Pokemon who were fully awake were Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Cyndaquil, Heracross, Togepi, and Muk. They were together around the fire, roasting marshmallows. All the while, even thought the scene was pretty peaceful and crowded, I couldn't help but get that familiar awful feeling that we were being watched.I could sense eyes behind me, I could sense figures behind me, but all the same, I was too tired to get up and see what it was.

Suddenly, without warning, disaster struck! Four Pokemon ran out from behind a dark shadow formed by a large tree. One of them, smaller than the rest, was running around crazily and knocked some hotdogs down on the ground! It started to grab them with it's paws as another one, floating in the air, slowly crept over to the water Pokemon.another one, larger than the others, slithered over to were Pikachu and the others were sitting. They hadn't noticed the cat-like Pokemon that was stealing their hot dogs. The fourth Pokemon stood there as straight as a board, watching the other three cause mischeive.

Wait! What was I thinking? These Pokemon were stealing, and probably trying to hurt my friends! "Pikachu, watch out!" I cried out.

"Huh?" Pikachu turned around and jumped at the sight of the Pokemon! I new Pikachu could actually see what Pokemon it was, but from where I was sitting, I could only make out the shadow. In less than a second, Charizard jumped up from where he was lying in front of me and flew at the tall snake- like Pokemon.

"RRROOOOAAAAARRRRR!"

"Char? Char.bok!"

It was Arbok! Charizard bit into his tail and whipped his head away with his tail. After releasing his teeth from Arbok's skin, Arbok went flying back into the trees. Chariard flew in after him, but all I could see was vivid fire coming from a deep shadow of trees.

The floating Pokemon was Weezing! Without warning, Weezing sent smoke clouding everywhere! Before Venomoth and the others could flap it away, Charla got up to protect Charmander, who were coughing at the smoke. With three huge flaps of her wings, she blew the smoke away and chased after Weezing, tumbling over him and Body Slamming him into the water. I was left to keep the Charmander safe while the other Pokemon sat there looking very unprepared.

"I'll take care of this!" Scyther yelled, flying after the fourth Pokemon, Wobbuffet. "Scy!" Scyther slashed at Wobbuffet while Wobbuffet sat there meekly. After a few more slashes, Wobbuffet used counter attack, sending Scyther flying through the air!

It was our four strongest Pokemon against Team Rocket's Pokemon. When I saw that Charla was out of the water and looking into it, I knew that Weezing had probably drowned. Arbok came flying out of the forest, limplessly falling into the campfire. Charizard came out with a roar, and Charla dragged a drowned Weezing out of the water. But what about Meowth?

Pikachu was using his most powerful electric attacks, hitting Meowth with every jolt until Meowth fainted, scratched badly from the electricity. Ask for Scyther and Wobbuffet, well, Scyther was now winning! Wobbuffet was nearly fainted when two Hitmonchan working for the PPP arrived.

"I can't believe this commotion!" one said. "Those two Pokemon look dead! The other two are fainted. We need to take them to the emergency center, stat!"

They picked up the burned Arbok, the drowned Weezing, the battered Wobbuffet, and the electrified Meowth, narrowing their eyes at Charizard and Charla, who had only been trying to defend the rest of us from danger. Before we could explain to the PPP what happened, a loud siren went off from nearby.

"Oh no!" one of the Hitmonchan sighed. "Not another emergency! And that's the siren for natural Pokemon disaster near the pasture! Ugh.we can't go, we have to take these guys to the center! Could we have you two go?" They pointed at Pikachu and Charizard.