By Splash
Notes: One of my long planned out scenes... quite drama-ish ^_^ And er... newbie-time over! I'd say I was intermediate right here...
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January 4, 2048
Some of the trainers that went to the winter camp came back to pick up their Pokémon today. Growlithe, Mankey, Tauros (the one that was not part of the trio), Gyarados, and Bulbasaur, and we had a little good-bye party before they went. I'm going to miss Bulbasaur!
Everyone's so tired from celebrating so much these past few days so it was very quiet around the topia. The three Chars were buffing up to get ready for another showdown with Vaporeon. Mewtwo went to the Pokémon League to patent his communicator block idea. He'll probably be back in a week, since he has to go to Indigo Plateau and back gliding through the air.
Meanwhile I've been put on charge of Pokétopia…
January 7, 2048
Today was NOT a good day to be a leader of such a large group of Pokémon. Everyone in the topia was having a nice, relaxing day when ZANG! A bolt of lightning hit a millimeter from my resting foot. Guess who happened to be soaring through the sky…
" Wow!" said Meowth, who was lounging on a beach chair next to me, " I've never seen all three legendary birds flying with each other! What a beautiful sight!"
I shut my eyes in disgust of Meowth's ignorance, " Baka! Don't you know that they're coming to attack us? Can't you see that look in their eyes?"
" Well, SORRY for not being able to see half a mile away in the sky!" Meowth exclaimed, staring at me with an angry face. I didn't pay attention to the expression, but instead relaxed and took a look below the canopy where we were lounging. None of the other Pokémon were aware of the enemies above.
I had promised that I would never let Mewtwo's inventions get into the wrong person's hands. With my developing ability to read minds, I can only hear thoughts from a certain distance. However, even though the birds were so far away, I could tell that they were highly intelligent and were looking for things to steal, such as Mewtwo's valuable inventions.
Suddenly, Charizard yelped out a cry of attack! He was the next to see the legendary birds and he instinctively flew up to them to attack. Other flying Pokémon decided to join him in battle. But then against ice and electric elements are strong against flying Pokémon…
" Hey, get out of our way! We've got orders from Boss to fetch some goodies to sell!"
Huh? These legendary birds could talk! Quite amazing, but now they'll be harder to beat. Let's see how well the Pokémon of Pokétopia deserve to be called, " rare."
The three Chars were ready to battle anything after buffing up so much before. Unfortunately, so were the three birds. There was a moment of stillness between the two trios. They stared and growled at each other, trying to scare the enemy away, but no one backed off.
SLASH! Charmeleon suddenly lunged out from Fearow's back and swiped his claws at Moltres. But the attack didn't even TOUCH him, for the legendary birds that are level 65 and above have their own barrier, like a level 70+ Mewtwo does. Charmeleon tried to Slash and Slash, but he couldn't get through the shield that blocked Moltres.
" Kah! You'll never get through the barrier! It's almost invincible!" Moltres mocked, pushing Charmeleon back onto Fearow head first with his barrier. ALMOST invincible, eh?
Suddenly, Aerodactyl chomped on Articuno's tail! Being a strong Pokémon, he could catch Articuno off guard. Articuno didn't wince of cringe at all, but instead he (yes, HE) laughed and spit on Aerodactyl's beak, which instantly turned into a large ball of ice. The ball caused Aerodactyl to freak out, letting the tail go and falling down onto the ground.
The Articuno snickered an evil snicker and warned to all of us, " You weaklings better stay away, or else you'll get it just like that pathetic prehistoric Pokémon! Got that alliteration?"
I guess nobody here besides Meowth and I knew what an alliteration was, which really disappointed the three birds, but they didn't bother to notice a few slackers on the canopy. They were targeting for other things…
Charizard, raging with anger, smashed his head into the barrier, trying to break through to get to Moltres, who was still laughing at Charmeleon. After much struggling, he was able to shove through the first layer. Zapdos was the group's main defense system, with his great Reflect move. It was quite impressive for Charizard to even get through THAT! In return, Zapdos rebounded from his group and got separated.
The Zapdos got back up to see that he was surrounded by hordes of evolved, rare, Pokémon. Each one of them had an instinctively difference expression. Too bad for Zapdos that he can't handle fifteen angry Pokémon! One bird, two more to go!
Charizard was still trying to get Moltres, now using his arms as well. Articuno was fighting off other attacking flyers and Moltres tried to back off the persistent pusher. A normal Charizard would've tired and given up by now, but this one was too stubborn and kept going. I had a good feeling that something was VERY special about this Pokémon…
WHAM! Charizard had broken the barrier! He crashed into Moltres's stomach and in surprise grabbed anything near, which happened to be Articuno's tail (again). The whole group was shocked, with Moltres wondering how Charizard broke through, Charizard grabbing the birds to stay aloft, and Articuno yelping and flapping madly for Charizard to let go. If you looked at it from bottom view it would've seemed like the three stooges suddenly sprouted wings and had a flying contest.
Eventually, all three flying Pokémon lost their balance and began to plummet to the ground. Charmeleon on Fearow and Charmander on Beedrill followed, trying to break their fall. Fearow and Beedrill weren't strong enough to hold up all three Chars, but they managed to land with a slightly painful THUMP. Articuno and Moltres didn't get saved, poor guys. Moltres hit the ground on his back and Articuno, well, he landed head first, making him dizzy. I could see the stars whirling around his head!
Moltres shook, trying to get back up, but didn't have enough strength and collapsed again. " Sorry, boss," he mumbled, " Look's like you're going to have to fetch those inventions. We failed you…" the fire-bird's head, barely off the ground, fell back down and closed its eyes.
" He's not dead, is he?" Meowth said in shock, watching Charizard glory over his victory with the other Pokémon below.
Again I winced at Meowth and said, " NO, HE'S NOT DEAD!" ok, perhaps I shouted it… " HE'S JUST UNCONSCIOUS!" straight into his ear… " DO YOU THINK GLIDING TO THE GROUND ON YOUR BACK'LL KILL YOU?" very loudly…
" It's a possibility!" Meowth calmly sang, now back in his cheerful mood.
Arguing with Meowth wouldn't get me anywhere. The Pokémon here have passed my test, so now it's my turn to take over. I lightly jumped over the balcony (Mewtwo had his own cottage that was rather tall) and landed directly next to Moltres. He was surprised to see me…
" Boss!" he cried out, his eyes wide open. I guess he WASN'T unconscious! " Oh, you're not him!"
" Say, then who IS your boss, eh?" I asked, looking down on his face and blocking his sunlight.
" What's it to YOU?" he roared, " I just mistook you for my Mewtwo boss, that's it! What are you anyhow? You certainly don't look like any Mewtwo I'VE seen- hey, what's with that weird face?"
A Mewtwo, is it? It couldn't be the one I know, could it?
Suddenly, a wavering image appeared in front of me. Slowly, it gathered more and more particles, revealing a figure of a Mewtwo. I was even more amazed, for its face looked so recognizable to me…
" So, how are things going at the Topia?" he asked me, " Mewthree-goom?"
Mewthree-goom. That's the title that… HE gave me…
" MEWTWO!" I shouted angrily, " What are you doing? You're asking these guys to risk their lives to steal YOUR things?"
" They aren't my things!" What? But… " They were made by my counterpart! My good side!"
" What difference does it make? Just ask him if you want to make a deal with him!"
" Rrrrr… don't you get it?" the Mewtwo jerked his head to be face to face with me and narrowed his eyes, " My counterpart won't allow me to get those inventions, so I have those three birds to do the job FOR me! I- AUGH!"
Suddenly he grabbed his head with both hands, collapsed to the ground on his knees, and struggled to gain control! Which side was the actual original, the good or the evil side? I could only hope and believe. In the end, the original will win.
" Mewthree-goom! Help… me! Get… Meowth to come… over and- AUGH!"
I knew who was speaking then, " And what?"
" Forget Meowth! Just… AUGH! Get Meowth! Hurry- AUGH!" Mewtwo fell to the ground on his stomach, still struggling.
Why did he need Meowth? There wasn't anytime to ask, so I quickly flew back up to the canopy and grabbed Meowth. Sure he was squabbling like mad, but for once I didn't pay attention to it.
" Would you let me go already?" he shouted once he was on the ground again, " Why'd you- Mewtwo! It's been quite a while since our last trip to the vet, hey? Time for your yearly shot!" What was he talking about?
Meowth turned to face Mewtwo, closed his now-calm eyes, and focused on Mewtwo. Then, his charm began to glow, as if it were about to do an Explosion attack. But, instead of exploding everyone to bits, the charm simply calmed down once more after about a minute.
" There!" Meowth said, opening his eyes, " All done! Wake up, buddy!"
" Huh? What happened? I must've fainted… the patent! I still haven't gotten to Indigo Plateau yet! Oh, no!" Mewtwo jumped back up, and without resting, started to lift off.
" Mewtwo," I stopped him by grabbing his tail lightly, " Please answer a few of my questions before leaving. Who's the bad side, first off?"
He floated there for a moment hesitating to respond, but finally asked me to let go of his tail so he could sit down. Sighing, he began to explain. " There is supposed to be no such thing as an evil Pokémon, but the evilness IS there. After all, there cannot be Heaven with Hell, right?"
He continued, " A Mewtwo's evil side is very, very strong because of genetic corruption over the generations, but mine is exceptionally strong. It's so strong that it can overpower ME! Meowth here has a very special ability. His charm contains a life source that help one's good side stay in control, for a certain amount of time, that is. With all these exciting things going on, I kind of lost track of my last checkup!"
" Ah, I'm starting to get it now!" I said, now smiling with more satisfaction, " So who are these three birds whom you seen to know so much?"
Mewtwo sighed again, " That's a long story. Do you want to hear it?"
" I've got LOTS of time."
Taking a deep breath, Mewtwo relaxed himself into a subconscious mind-stage. " A long time ago, when my evil side had taken over me, I ran into a pack of Charmeleon. The leader told me to back off, making, ' me,' angry. I send all the Charmeleon flying, except for one Charmeleon, the runt that was almost the size of a Charmander. I felt sad for the crying critter, so I befriended it and had him steal food from the marketplaces. My evil side just wanted to use him."
I didn't know how this was going to lead to his meeting of the 3 birds, but I kept on listening, " On our travels one day, we ran into a big cave that we thought was empty. Moltres, the leader of the 3 legendary birds, stopped us and attacked. During the battle, Charmeleon evolved into that big Charizard that's here in this topia. Together we won against the Moltres, who took me as their new boss."
" But since Charizard was no longer a tiny Charmeleon, I didn't really have much of a use for him, at least the evil side didn't. Just when I was about to finish off the lizard, a Meowth sneaked in and attempted to get away with some of my apples. I forgot about Charizard and grabbed the Meowth by the tail."
" I still remember that. That hurt, no da!" Meowth whined.
" Hey, it wasn't me, OK?" Mewtwo groaned, looking normal for a split second.
" Anyhow, Meowth began to release his life source in panic to see if it did anything, and it did. After reviving, I left the 3 birds to build up a new and better life, and this Topia is just the one I like."
" Tsk, tsk, tsk. Mewtwo, there's only one thing I have to disagree on," I told the depressed cat.
" What's that?"
" I wouldn't call that a long story! When you compare that to some other places, it would actually be considered as a short story!"
The large mutant cat sat there for a while, surprised at what I had said, and then began to laugh happily. Why did we need to worry so much, anyhow? As long as Mewtwo's ok, I am, too!
Charizard, who had been knocked out for a while now, grumbled to get back up. Suddenly, he let out a giant wail, grabbing his neck in pain. It sounded different this time, though, as if something had changed a lot. Mewtwo hovered over to him to lend a hand.
" Gese, what happened to you?" he said as he took a look at Charizard's cuts.
" Ask the birds."
Everyone stared at Charizard in deep shock, including the three legendary birds that woke up very recently.
" Did he-" Zapdos...
" When did he-" Articuno...
" HOW did he-" Moltres...
" SUDDENLY START TALKING?" All 3 in unison!
Charizard look around at all of the glaring eyes, blinking in confusion. The difference in Charizard at the moment was something I had suspected for a very long time...
Charizard laughed when he noticed his new ability, the ability to speak!
" It must've awakened after that crash," Mewtwo told us, " I always knew that you were completely different than the others. In fact, you're probably the first and only talking Charizard!"
" Really?" Charizard's eyes lit up and his antennae (or whatever they are, horns I guess) sprung. Then, he stumbled up, spotting the 3 birds first.
" Hey, don't give us that dirty look! We aren't trying to hurt you anymore!" Moltres shouted, giving a dirty look back at Charizard.
" That evil Mewtwo was controlling us," Zapdos added, nodding.
" Boy, did I hate that Mewtwo..." Articuno mumbled under his breath.
January 8, 2048
Another batch came in today, probably because the weather's getting pretty cold. Geodude, Golem, Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Rattata, Raticate, Growlithe, Arcanine, Kadabra, Alakazam, Mankey, Primeape, another Pikachu, and a few others. Another Scyther (Nicknamed Strike) came riding on top of a Blastoise, claiming that it was a Yoshi because of it's exceptionally longer tongue. I found that very unusual.
Charizard (who amazingly has lots of energy left, even after battling so much yesterday), challenged Vaporeon for yet another match, hopefully uninterupted this time. Vaporeon almost back out, but Charizard let her have a partner to battle with.
Meowth was VERY hopeful that she'd choose him.
Vaporeon chose a Flareon that came in with an Eevee today instead of the lovestruck cat.
I analyzed all of the levels of the fighters today again:
Vaporeon: 52
Flareon: 43
Charizard: 62 (Quite a large jump from the last time I checked!)
Charmeleon: 37 (Huh?)
Charmander: 21
Reading Charizard's mind, I knew that he had planned for Charmeleon and Charmander to fight Flareon, and that he would fight Vaporeon himself. I try not to read other's minds, only when I need to or really want to.
" Why'd she chooser that lousy new fire guy?" Meowth complained to Mewtwo, " I could beat up those Chars ANY day! In fact, I'm going to beat up that Flareon and show 'im who ought ta be Vaporeon's teammate!"
Meowth built up his courage for about a minute and stomped to where Vaporeon was living. She was busy cleaning Vulpix and obviously Flareon was helping. Watching from a short distance, I saw Meowth march into the room.
" Hey, Flareon! I wanna challenge you to a match to see who REALLY deserves ta be-"
FOOM! I could only see a gigantic flame coming out of the door like a huge flame-thrower.
PLOP! Meowth fell down outside of the door, " Guess I need to work on my surprise attacks…"
A relaxed Flareon stepped over Meowth's corpse and headed out to battle, followed by Vaporeon and a curious young Vulpix. The twitching body of Meowth mumbled out strange words I had never heard of.
Oh, well, onto the battle!
Charizard kicked off the match by lunging out suddenly and giving Vaporeon a good Slashing. Flareon, however, refused to stop protecting the water Pokémon and charged after Charizard. The other two fighters realized this quickly, and rushed into the mob to separate Flareon/ Dust was flying here and there on the hard, sandish ground as the battle raged on.
Soon after Flareon bit and tackled and Charmeleon/Charmander Slashed and Scrathed, both teams gave each other a short distance of about 4 feet and began to compete with their flamethrowers. The pressure on all of their flamethrowers were so high, they were all having trouble keeping traction on the ground! Flareon, who couldn't get a good grip on the ground without claws, began to slowly shuffle backwars. Flareon noticed this, and when he did he freaked out and lost his concentration on his Flamethower.
FOOM! Flareon was really charred! But he wasn't ready to give up yet, though it was obvious that a trainer would call him back in his condition.
Meanwhile, Charizard and Vaporeon weren't getting anywhere. Everytime Charizard tried to burn up Vaporeon, Vaporeon washed the fire up with a Water Gun. Every time Vaporeon attempted to drain Charizard, Charizard blocked every hit! As I looked around the audience I noticed that most of them were watching the three lower leveled fire Pokémon, since THEY were getting somewhere, at least!
Flareon was REALLY getting the best of Charmeleon's Slash attack. His Sand-attack didn't really have any effect against the lizard, though Charmander was severly blinded by it. Still, the Flareon kept on defending himself.
Charmander was going CRAZY trying to get the sand out of his eyes. He finally gave up scratching the first off and began digging at the ground, still blind. He was a REALLY fast digger, and in half a minute, the last flicker of the flame on his tail went underground.
Charmeleon thought about what else to do besides Slash. Flareon wanted to do a different attack. Before they knew it, they were both leering each other. Of course, since Flareon had more experience, he was able to win this little battle, causing Charmeleon to go blind, too. Flareon gave him a nice, clean tackle, hurling the enemy halfway across the dirt field.
Now Flareon needed to deal with Charmander before Charmeleon was unblinded. He instantly found the hole where Charmander was digging. By now, all the dirt in Charmander's eyes were gone, but he still couldn't see much in the fark (at least in front of him where his tail light couldn't reach). He dug straight for a while, to get into a safer spot.
Flareon was too large to fit into the hole Charmander made, do he decided to simply burn him out. The flame-eon Pokémon sucked in air, and let out a huge Flamethrower right into the tunnel. Inside, Charmander freaked out and madly Slashed his way to the surface. In the matter of seconds, he was out of the ground and his head was… ramming Flareon in the stomach?
Charmander rammed and rammed Flareon really hard until, PLOP! Flareon had swirls in his eyes and was unconscious on his side. Charmander gave him a satisfied snort and headed to Charizard, who was flying around dodging Vaporeon's Water Guns and Bubblebeams.
Charmander lashed out at Vaporeon, claws sharp and mean. Vaporeon used her tail to block the scratching. Charizard saw this from the sky and smiled, glad to see Charmander helping and finding an opportunity to strike Vaporeon. To bad Vaporeon was too budy fiddling with her tail!
Charizard straightened out his wings and took a deep dive at Vaporeon. At 25 feet away (from Vaporeon), Charizard began skimming the ground, barely 2 feet away from crashing into it. At 10 feet away, Charizard released a humongoud Fire Blast that he had been preparing during the dive. Charmander had seen Charizard coming and got far enough to avoid the flames surrounding Vaporeon.
Not being able to stop, Charizard crashed into Vaporeon, causing a huge mess. Charizard's original idea was to whiz past Vaporeon and swoop back up, but it seems like its not working, heh, heh!
Meanwhile, Charmeleon had finally opened his eyes and in an angry rage, charged at Flareon, even though it was already down. He sprinted and then leaped high into the air about seven feet away from Flareon, and he began to fire Spin the poor Pokémon.
WHAP! Charmeleon rebounded and somersaulted backwards.
Flareon was still battling? That was a really strong Tail Whip for Flareon's condition!
Charmeleon staggered back up, growling defensively to keep Flareon away, but Flareon ignored it. His tail slowly moved to the front of his face, ready to Ember his enemy, but Flareon used his Quick Attack and knocked Charmeleon down again.
Now Charmeleon was in just as bad of a condition as Flareon!
Frustrated that he couldn't land any hits on Flareon, Charmeleon decided to randomly attack the opponent. However, each time Charmeleon tried to get Flareon, Flareon defended himself by lowering Charmeleon's accuracy with Sand-Attacks.
Charizard and Vaporeon were in a HULGE tangle, even more of one when Charmander decided to join! Flame tails were flaring here and there, claws and paws were batting other tails, wings were smacking everything, and the noise was unbearable!
ZOINK! A strange noise! Charizard, Charmander and Vaporeon stopped scrambling and twitched their eyes to face the direction of the peculiar sound. What was it? It was CHARMELEON!
Charmeleon was glowing! Charizard smiled, Charmander stared with amazed expression, and Vaporeon was completely confused. Charmeleon was EVOLVING!
The flame on his tail grew more intense, the stub on the back of his head spilt into two longer stubs. Charmeleon was getting taller, too.
At the end of the evolution, the new Charizard gave out a huge roar and literally beat the lights out of Flareon. Flareon tried with all his will and might to struggle back up, but was barely able to open his eyes and lay back down, unconscious and half-alive.
Vaporeon saw this and shoved out of the tangle to Flareon's side. Mewtwo's Superball was immediately sent out, sending out a healing beam that made Flareon's visible injuries disappear instantly. Vaporeon smiled in a relieved manner as the rays went on to fixing the inner body injuries.
After rejoicing for only a second, Charizard (the new one) was scolded by Vaporeon. The Charizard replied that it was the law of the jungle, and that Vaporeon was supposed to know the risks of battling.
The larger and older Charizard stepped up to back up his brother, " Perhaps if you never took Vulpix away nobody would've suffered."
Vulpix and Eevee, who saw every bit of this, scrambled out of their seats, leaped into the arena and raced to Flareon and Vaporeon. Charizard spotted Vulpix and asked it to join him.
Instead of agreeing, Vulpis gave Charizard a nasty glare, turned his back onto Charizard and sat there. It didn't take long for Charizard to realize it.
" Ack, forget it. Forget it!" Charizard said, shooing away Vulpix, " The only real reason I challenged Vaporeon was to avenge myself! Looks like I've done that today, thanks to little bro here!" he noogied his brother on the head.
Notes: One of my long planned out scenes... quite drama-ish ^_^ And er... newbie-time over! I'd say I was intermediate right here...
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January 4, 2048
Some of the trainers that went to the winter camp came back to pick up their Pokémon today. Growlithe, Mankey, Tauros (the one that was not part of the trio), Gyarados, and Bulbasaur, and we had a little good-bye party before they went. I'm going to miss Bulbasaur!
Everyone's so tired from celebrating so much these past few days so it was very quiet around the topia. The three Chars were buffing up to get ready for another showdown with Vaporeon. Mewtwo went to the Pokémon League to patent his communicator block idea. He'll probably be back in a week, since he has to go to Indigo Plateau and back gliding through the air.
Meanwhile I've been put on charge of Pokétopia…
January 7, 2048
Today was NOT a good day to be a leader of such a large group of Pokémon. Everyone in the topia was having a nice, relaxing day when ZANG! A bolt of lightning hit a millimeter from my resting foot. Guess who happened to be soaring through the sky…
" Wow!" said Meowth, who was lounging on a beach chair next to me, " I've never seen all three legendary birds flying with each other! What a beautiful sight!"
I shut my eyes in disgust of Meowth's ignorance, " Baka! Don't you know that they're coming to attack us? Can't you see that look in their eyes?"
" Well, SORRY for not being able to see half a mile away in the sky!" Meowth exclaimed, staring at me with an angry face. I didn't pay attention to the expression, but instead relaxed and took a look below the canopy where we were lounging. None of the other Pokémon were aware of the enemies above.
I had promised that I would never let Mewtwo's inventions get into the wrong person's hands. With my developing ability to read minds, I can only hear thoughts from a certain distance. However, even though the birds were so far away, I could tell that they were highly intelligent and were looking for things to steal, such as Mewtwo's valuable inventions.
Suddenly, Charizard yelped out a cry of attack! He was the next to see the legendary birds and he instinctively flew up to them to attack. Other flying Pokémon decided to join him in battle. But then against ice and electric elements are strong against flying Pokémon…
" Hey, get out of our way! We've got orders from Boss to fetch some goodies to sell!"
Huh? These legendary birds could talk! Quite amazing, but now they'll be harder to beat. Let's see how well the Pokémon of Pokétopia deserve to be called, " rare."
The three Chars were ready to battle anything after buffing up so much before. Unfortunately, so were the three birds. There was a moment of stillness between the two trios. They stared and growled at each other, trying to scare the enemy away, but no one backed off.
SLASH! Charmeleon suddenly lunged out from Fearow's back and swiped his claws at Moltres. But the attack didn't even TOUCH him, for the legendary birds that are level 65 and above have their own barrier, like a level 70+ Mewtwo does. Charmeleon tried to Slash and Slash, but he couldn't get through the shield that blocked Moltres.
" Kah! You'll never get through the barrier! It's almost invincible!" Moltres mocked, pushing Charmeleon back onto Fearow head first with his barrier. ALMOST invincible, eh?
Suddenly, Aerodactyl chomped on Articuno's tail! Being a strong Pokémon, he could catch Articuno off guard. Articuno didn't wince of cringe at all, but instead he (yes, HE) laughed and spit on Aerodactyl's beak, which instantly turned into a large ball of ice. The ball caused Aerodactyl to freak out, letting the tail go and falling down onto the ground.
The Articuno snickered an evil snicker and warned to all of us, " You weaklings better stay away, or else you'll get it just like that pathetic prehistoric Pokémon! Got that alliteration?"
I guess nobody here besides Meowth and I knew what an alliteration was, which really disappointed the three birds, but they didn't bother to notice a few slackers on the canopy. They were targeting for other things…
Charizard, raging with anger, smashed his head into the barrier, trying to break through to get to Moltres, who was still laughing at Charmeleon. After much struggling, he was able to shove through the first layer. Zapdos was the group's main defense system, with his great Reflect move. It was quite impressive for Charizard to even get through THAT! In return, Zapdos rebounded from his group and got separated.
The Zapdos got back up to see that he was surrounded by hordes of evolved, rare, Pokémon. Each one of them had an instinctively difference expression. Too bad for Zapdos that he can't handle fifteen angry Pokémon! One bird, two more to go!
Charizard was still trying to get Moltres, now using his arms as well. Articuno was fighting off other attacking flyers and Moltres tried to back off the persistent pusher. A normal Charizard would've tired and given up by now, but this one was too stubborn and kept going. I had a good feeling that something was VERY special about this Pokémon…
WHAM! Charizard had broken the barrier! He crashed into Moltres's stomach and in surprise grabbed anything near, which happened to be Articuno's tail (again). The whole group was shocked, with Moltres wondering how Charizard broke through, Charizard grabbing the birds to stay aloft, and Articuno yelping and flapping madly for Charizard to let go. If you looked at it from bottom view it would've seemed like the three stooges suddenly sprouted wings and had a flying contest.
Eventually, all three flying Pokémon lost their balance and began to plummet to the ground. Charmeleon on Fearow and Charmander on Beedrill followed, trying to break their fall. Fearow and Beedrill weren't strong enough to hold up all three Chars, but they managed to land with a slightly painful THUMP. Articuno and Moltres didn't get saved, poor guys. Moltres hit the ground on his back and Articuno, well, he landed head first, making him dizzy. I could see the stars whirling around his head!
Moltres shook, trying to get back up, but didn't have enough strength and collapsed again. " Sorry, boss," he mumbled, " Look's like you're going to have to fetch those inventions. We failed you…" the fire-bird's head, barely off the ground, fell back down and closed its eyes.
" He's not dead, is he?" Meowth said in shock, watching Charizard glory over his victory with the other Pokémon below.
Again I winced at Meowth and said, " NO, HE'S NOT DEAD!" ok, perhaps I shouted it… " HE'S JUST UNCONSCIOUS!" straight into his ear… " DO YOU THINK GLIDING TO THE GROUND ON YOUR BACK'LL KILL YOU?" very loudly…
" It's a possibility!" Meowth calmly sang, now back in his cheerful mood.
Arguing with Meowth wouldn't get me anywhere. The Pokémon here have passed my test, so now it's my turn to take over. I lightly jumped over the balcony (Mewtwo had his own cottage that was rather tall) and landed directly next to Moltres. He was surprised to see me…
" Boss!" he cried out, his eyes wide open. I guess he WASN'T unconscious! " Oh, you're not him!"
" Say, then who IS your boss, eh?" I asked, looking down on his face and blocking his sunlight.
" What's it to YOU?" he roared, " I just mistook you for my Mewtwo boss, that's it! What are you anyhow? You certainly don't look like any Mewtwo I'VE seen- hey, what's with that weird face?"
A Mewtwo, is it? It couldn't be the one I know, could it?
Suddenly, a wavering image appeared in front of me. Slowly, it gathered more and more particles, revealing a figure of a Mewtwo. I was even more amazed, for its face looked so recognizable to me…
" So, how are things going at the Topia?" he asked me, " Mewthree-goom?"
Mewthree-goom. That's the title that… HE gave me…
" MEWTWO!" I shouted angrily, " What are you doing? You're asking these guys to risk their lives to steal YOUR things?"
" They aren't my things!" What? But… " They were made by my counterpart! My good side!"
" What difference does it make? Just ask him if you want to make a deal with him!"
" Rrrrr… don't you get it?" the Mewtwo jerked his head to be face to face with me and narrowed his eyes, " My counterpart won't allow me to get those inventions, so I have those three birds to do the job FOR me! I- AUGH!"
Suddenly he grabbed his head with both hands, collapsed to the ground on his knees, and struggled to gain control! Which side was the actual original, the good or the evil side? I could only hope and believe. In the end, the original will win.
" Mewthree-goom! Help… me! Get… Meowth to come… over and- AUGH!"
I knew who was speaking then, " And what?"
" Forget Meowth! Just… AUGH! Get Meowth! Hurry- AUGH!" Mewtwo fell to the ground on his stomach, still struggling.
Why did he need Meowth? There wasn't anytime to ask, so I quickly flew back up to the canopy and grabbed Meowth. Sure he was squabbling like mad, but for once I didn't pay attention to it.
" Would you let me go already?" he shouted once he was on the ground again, " Why'd you- Mewtwo! It's been quite a while since our last trip to the vet, hey? Time for your yearly shot!" What was he talking about?
Meowth turned to face Mewtwo, closed his now-calm eyes, and focused on Mewtwo. Then, his charm began to glow, as if it were about to do an Explosion attack. But, instead of exploding everyone to bits, the charm simply calmed down once more after about a minute.
" There!" Meowth said, opening his eyes, " All done! Wake up, buddy!"
" Huh? What happened? I must've fainted… the patent! I still haven't gotten to Indigo Plateau yet! Oh, no!" Mewtwo jumped back up, and without resting, started to lift off.
" Mewtwo," I stopped him by grabbing his tail lightly, " Please answer a few of my questions before leaving. Who's the bad side, first off?"
He floated there for a moment hesitating to respond, but finally asked me to let go of his tail so he could sit down. Sighing, he began to explain. " There is supposed to be no such thing as an evil Pokémon, but the evilness IS there. After all, there cannot be Heaven with Hell, right?"
He continued, " A Mewtwo's evil side is very, very strong because of genetic corruption over the generations, but mine is exceptionally strong. It's so strong that it can overpower ME! Meowth here has a very special ability. His charm contains a life source that help one's good side stay in control, for a certain amount of time, that is. With all these exciting things going on, I kind of lost track of my last checkup!"
" Ah, I'm starting to get it now!" I said, now smiling with more satisfaction, " So who are these three birds whom you seen to know so much?"
Mewtwo sighed again, " That's a long story. Do you want to hear it?"
" I've got LOTS of time."
Taking a deep breath, Mewtwo relaxed himself into a subconscious mind-stage. " A long time ago, when my evil side had taken over me, I ran into a pack of Charmeleon. The leader told me to back off, making, ' me,' angry. I send all the Charmeleon flying, except for one Charmeleon, the runt that was almost the size of a Charmander. I felt sad for the crying critter, so I befriended it and had him steal food from the marketplaces. My evil side just wanted to use him."
I didn't know how this was going to lead to his meeting of the 3 birds, but I kept on listening, " On our travels one day, we ran into a big cave that we thought was empty. Moltres, the leader of the 3 legendary birds, stopped us and attacked. During the battle, Charmeleon evolved into that big Charizard that's here in this topia. Together we won against the Moltres, who took me as their new boss."
" But since Charizard was no longer a tiny Charmeleon, I didn't really have much of a use for him, at least the evil side didn't. Just when I was about to finish off the lizard, a Meowth sneaked in and attempted to get away with some of my apples. I forgot about Charizard and grabbed the Meowth by the tail."
" I still remember that. That hurt, no da!" Meowth whined.
" Hey, it wasn't me, OK?" Mewtwo groaned, looking normal for a split second.
" Anyhow, Meowth began to release his life source in panic to see if it did anything, and it did. After reviving, I left the 3 birds to build up a new and better life, and this Topia is just the one I like."
" Tsk, tsk, tsk. Mewtwo, there's only one thing I have to disagree on," I told the depressed cat.
" What's that?"
" I wouldn't call that a long story! When you compare that to some other places, it would actually be considered as a short story!"
The large mutant cat sat there for a while, surprised at what I had said, and then began to laugh happily. Why did we need to worry so much, anyhow? As long as Mewtwo's ok, I am, too!
Charizard, who had been knocked out for a while now, grumbled to get back up. Suddenly, he let out a giant wail, grabbing his neck in pain. It sounded different this time, though, as if something had changed a lot. Mewtwo hovered over to him to lend a hand.
" Gese, what happened to you?" he said as he took a look at Charizard's cuts.
" Ask the birds."
Everyone stared at Charizard in deep shock, including the three legendary birds that woke up very recently.
" Did he-" Zapdos...
" When did he-" Articuno...
" HOW did he-" Moltres...
" SUDDENLY START TALKING?" All 3 in unison!
Charizard look around at all of the glaring eyes, blinking in confusion. The difference in Charizard at the moment was something I had suspected for a very long time...
Charizard laughed when he noticed his new ability, the ability to speak!
" It must've awakened after that crash," Mewtwo told us, " I always knew that you were completely different than the others. In fact, you're probably the first and only talking Charizard!"
" Really?" Charizard's eyes lit up and his antennae (or whatever they are, horns I guess) sprung. Then, he stumbled up, spotting the 3 birds first.
" Hey, don't give us that dirty look! We aren't trying to hurt you anymore!" Moltres shouted, giving a dirty look back at Charizard.
" That evil Mewtwo was controlling us," Zapdos added, nodding.
" Boy, did I hate that Mewtwo..." Articuno mumbled under his breath.
January 8, 2048
Another batch came in today, probably because the weather's getting pretty cold. Geodude, Golem, Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Rattata, Raticate, Growlithe, Arcanine, Kadabra, Alakazam, Mankey, Primeape, another Pikachu, and a few others. Another Scyther (Nicknamed Strike) came riding on top of a Blastoise, claiming that it was a Yoshi because of it's exceptionally longer tongue. I found that very unusual.
Charizard (who amazingly has lots of energy left, even after battling so much yesterday), challenged Vaporeon for yet another match, hopefully uninterupted this time. Vaporeon almost back out, but Charizard let her have a partner to battle with.
Meowth was VERY hopeful that she'd choose him.
Vaporeon chose a Flareon that came in with an Eevee today instead of the lovestruck cat.
I analyzed all of the levels of the fighters today again:
Vaporeon: 52
Flareon: 43
Charizard: 62 (Quite a large jump from the last time I checked!)
Charmeleon: 37 (Huh?)
Charmander: 21
Reading Charizard's mind, I knew that he had planned for Charmeleon and Charmander to fight Flareon, and that he would fight Vaporeon himself. I try not to read other's minds, only when I need to or really want to.
" Why'd she chooser that lousy new fire guy?" Meowth complained to Mewtwo, " I could beat up those Chars ANY day! In fact, I'm going to beat up that Flareon and show 'im who ought ta be Vaporeon's teammate!"
Meowth built up his courage for about a minute and stomped to where Vaporeon was living. She was busy cleaning Vulpix and obviously Flareon was helping. Watching from a short distance, I saw Meowth march into the room.
" Hey, Flareon! I wanna challenge you to a match to see who REALLY deserves ta be-"
FOOM! I could only see a gigantic flame coming out of the door like a huge flame-thrower.
PLOP! Meowth fell down outside of the door, " Guess I need to work on my surprise attacks…"
A relaxed Flareon stepped over Meowth's corpse and headed out to battle, followed by Vaporeon and a curious young Vulpix. The twitching body of Meowth mumbled out strange words I had never heard of.
Oh, well, onto the battle!
Charizard kicked off the match by lunging out suddenly and giving Vaporeon a good Slashing. Flareon, however, refused to stop protecting the water Pokémon and charged after Charizard. The other two fighters realized this quickly, and rushed into the mob to separate Flareon/ Dust was flying here and there on the hard, sandish ground as the battle raged on.
Soon after Flareon bit and tackled and Charmeleon/Charmander Slashed and Scrathed, both teams gave each other a short distance of about 4 feet and began to compete with their flamethrowers. The pressure on all of their flamethrowers were so high, they were all having trouble keeping traction on the ground! Flareon, who couldn't get a good grip on the ground without claws, began to slowly shuffle backwars. Flareon noticed this, and when he did he freaked out and lost his concentration on his Flamethower.
FOOM! Flareon was really charred! But he wasn't ready to give up yet, though it was obvious that a trainer would call him back in his condition.
Meanwhile, Charizard and Vaporeon weren't getting anywhere. Everytime Charizard tried to burn up Vaporeon, Vaporeon washed the fire up with a Water Gun. Every time Vaporeon attempted to drain Charizard, Charizard blocked every hit! As I looked around the audience I noticed that most of them were watching the three lower leveled fire Pokémon, since THEY were getting somewhere, at least!
Flareon was REALLY getting the best of Charmeleon's Slash attack. His Sand-attack didn't really have any effect against the lizard, though Charmander was severly blinded by it. Still, the Flareon kept on defending himself.
Charmander was going CRAZY trying to get the sand out of his eyes. He finally gave up scratching the first off and began digging at the ground, still blind. He was a REALLY fast digger, and in half a minute, the last flicker of the flame on his tail went underground.
Charmeleon thought about what else to do besides Slash. Flareon wanted to do a different attack. Before they knew it, they were both leering each other. Of course, since Flareon had more experience, he was able to win this little battle, causing Charmeleon to go blind, too. Flareon gave him a nice, clean tackle, hurling the enemy halfway across the dirt field.
Now Flareon needed to deal with Charmander before Charmeleon was unblinded. He instantly found the hole where Charmander was digging. By now, all the dirt in Charmander's eyes were gone, but he still couldn't see much in the fark (at least in front of him where his tail light couldn't reach). He dug straight for a while, to get into a safer spot.
Flareon was too large to fit into the hole Charmander made, do he decided to simply burn him out. The flame-eon Pokémon sucked in air, and let out a huge Flamethrower right into the tunnel. Inside, Charmander freaked out and madly Slashed his way to the surface. In the matter of seconds, he was out of the ground and his head was… ramming Flareon in the stomach?
Charmander rammed and rammed Flareon really hard until, PLOP! Flareon had swirls in his eyes and was unconscious on his side. Charmander gave him a satisfied snort and headed to Charizard, who was flying around dodging Vaporeon's Water Guns and Bubblebeams.
Charmander lashed out at Vaporeon, claws sharp and mean. Vaporeon used her tail to block the scratching. Charizard saw this from the sky and smiled, glad to see Charmander helping and finding an opportunity to strike Vaporeon. To bad Vaporeon was too budy fiddling with her tail!
Charizard straightened out his wings and took a deep dive at Vaporeon. At 25 feet away (from Vaporeon), Charizard began skimming the ground, barely 2 feet away from crashing into it. At 10 feet away, Charizard released a humongoud Fire Blast that he had been preparing during the dive. Charmander had seen Charizard coming and got far enough to avoid the flames surrounding Vaporeon.
Not being able to stop, Charizard crashed into Vaporeon, causing a huge mess. Charizard's original idea was to whiz past Vaporeon and swoop back up, but it seems like its not working, heh, heh!
Meanwhile, Charmeleon had finally opened his eyes and in an angry rage, charged at Flareon, even though it was already down. He sprinted and then leaped high into the air about seven feet away from Flareon, and he began to fire Spin the poor Pokémon.
WHAP! Charmeleon rebounded and somersaulted backwards.
Flareon was still battling? That was a really strong Tail Whip for Flareon's condition!
Charmeleon staggered back up, growling defensively to keep Flareon away, but Flareon ignored it. His tail slowly moved to the front of his face, ready to Ember his enemy, but Flareon used his Quick Attack and knocked Charmeleon down again.
Now Charmeleon was in just as bad of a condition as Flareon!
Frustrated that he couldn't land any hits on Flareon, Charmeleon decided to randomly attack the opponent. However, each time Charmeleon tried to get Flareon, Flareon defended himself by lowering Charmeleon's accuracy with Sand-Attacks.
Charizard and Vaporeon were in a HULGE tangle, even more of one when Charmander decided to join! Flame tails were flaring here and there, claws and paws were batting other tails, wings were smacking everything, and the noise was unbearable!
ZOINK! A strange noise! Charizard, Charmander and Vaporeon stopped scrambling and twitched their eyes to face the direction of the peculiar sound. What was it? It was CHARMELEON!
Charmeleon was glowing! Charizard smiled, Charmander stared with amazed expression, and Vaporeon was completely confused. Charmeleon was EVOLVING!
The flame on his tail grew more intense, the stub on the back of his head spilt into two longer stubs. Charmeleon was getting taller, too.
At the end of the evolution, the new Charizard gave out a huge roar and literally beat the lights out of Flareon. Flareon tried with all his will and might to struggle back up, but was barely able to open his eyes and lay back down, unconscious and half-alive.
Vaporeon saw this and shoved out of the tangle to Flareon's side. Mewtwo's Superball was immediately sent out, sending out a healing beam that made Flareon's visible injuries disappear instantly. Vaporeon smiled in a relieved manner as the rays went on to fixing the inner body injuries.
After rejoicing for only a second, Charizard (the new one) was scolded by Vaporeon. The Charizard replied that it was the law of the jungle, and that Vaporeon was supposed to know the risks of battling.
The larger and older Charizard stepped up to back up his brother, " Perhaps if you never took Vulpix away nobody would've suffered."
Vulpix and Eevee, who saw every bit of this, scrambled out of their seats, leaped into the arena and raced to Flareon and Vaporeon. Charizard spotted Vulpix and asked it to join him.
Instead of agreeing, Vulpis gave Charizard a nasty glare, turned his back onto Charizard and sat there. It didn't take long for Charizard to realize it.
" Ack, forget it. Forget it!" Charizard said, shooing away Vulpix, " The only real reason I challenged Vaporeon was to avenge myself! Looks like I've done that today, thanks to little bro here!" he noogied his brother on the head.