SUPER
POKéMON
The group must face off against
Group Missile for a badge!
Episode XXXV
The Rocket Gym
Jay Barial
Chapter One: Back to Lavender Town
After their encounter with Planto and meeting back up with Patrick, the group decided to head back to Lavender Town to check up on Litatra, Mewie, Pichu, and Soslow.
As Jay entered the room, Litatra leaped onto him. As Ultram and Agua followed, their Pokémon leaped on them too. To Jay's surprise, as Dee entered, Mewie leaped onto her.
"Ah, I'm glad you're happy to see me Mewie," said Dee happily.
Jay cleared his throat. "What about me Mewie?"
"Mew-mew," murmured Mewie, blowing off Jay for Dee.
Ultram snickered. "Heh, Mewie's more happy to see Dee than Jay, now that's sad that Jay's Pokémon's more excited to see someone else!"
THUD!
"Ow!" cried Ultram, after Jay and slammed him in the head.
Dee picked up Mewie and handed it to Jay. "Here Mewie, I think Jay wants to spend some time with you."
Jay frowned. "Thanks Dee." He took Mewie and put it on the ground. He glanced at Dee. "Well, it's time to send Professor Oak the Boda Plant."
Agua and Ultram both sighed. "Oh no, here it goes."
"Why am I sending my Planto to your professor?" growled Dee. "He might try to keep it!" She held up Planto's Super Ball. "If Professor Oak wants to see and study the Boda Plant, we'll have to go back to Meager Village!"
Jay nodded. "Just as I planned. I'm sure there's a gym somewhere back home, plus I heard Chris left his gym so we can earn another badge there!"
"So it's settled," said Ultram. "We're all going back to Meager Village!"
* * * *
After waiting awhile, Ultra, Pikachu, and Fire Orb were greeting by their trainers as the stepped outside of the center. The trio of Pokémon had been guarding the bikes.
Jay glanced down at Ultra. "I have some good news for ya Ultra?"
"Tra ra tra?" asked Ultra.
"We're heading back home!" said Jay.
"Ra?" wondered Ultra. He thought a moment, a little confused, then it dawned to him. "Tra ultra tra!"
"No, not your home," said Jay. "My home. Meager Village."
"Jay," said Agua, "check your map on your noisy Pokédex."
"I ain't noisy!" shouted Jay's Pokédex, as he drew it from his pocket. "Anyway, here's a map of where you are." A small map appeared on the screen. "If you want to get back to Meager Village, you have to head back to the path you were on if you were to have just left the Imitate Kingdom. You ride through the forest at the end of the path. When you emerge from the forest, you should coming through the back entrance of Meager Village."
"Perfect," said Dee. "We can stop in the forest to rest. It'll be a perfect spot to stop and check out some Pokémon there."
The group nodded, getting on their bikes. They put their Pokémon in the basket and headed back to the route that'd lead them home.
Chapter Two: The Rocket Plan
"Excellent," growled Fire Kat.
Mike, Nick, and Kelly all sighed. "Now what?"
Fire Kat hopped off the ledge viewing over the Pokémon Center of Lavender Town. "The twurps are heading back to Jay's hometown, Meager Village. And their only way to get there is through the Darkest Woods."
The three humans took a moment before they realized what Fire Kat was talking about. "Oh!"
"Yes, oh," mumbled Fire Kat. "Sometimes I think you idiot Rockets just aren't cut out for this job. Yes, oh, the Darkest Woods in the location of Teria's gym/Team Rocket Scientist base. We can ambush Jay, Dee, Agua, and Ultram there, steal Ultra, Pikachu, Fire Orb, Litatra, Pichu, Mewie, and Soslow, along with the rest of their Pokémon, and delivery them right to the boss, and we'll be in the clear!"
"For once, we may be able to pull this off," murmured Mike.
Nick sighed. "For once . . ."
THUD!
"Ow!" cried Nick, rubbing his head after Fire Kat and Kelly had hit him. "I was just repeating what Mike said."
"Yes," said Mike, "but you said it like it'd never, ever, happen."
"I repeated the way you said it," mumbled Nick.
THUD!
"I don't enjoy this team," mumbled Nick, rubbing his head from Mike hitting him. He sighed. "Let's hop back into the Gyarados-sub and head back to our base."
"First bright thing you've said this whole episode!" said Fire Kat. He sighed as he looked at the Gyarados-sub. "I wonder if we could possibly get a form of transportation further away from the water, like our Fearow-jet!"
As Kelly slipped into the jet, she sighed. "Well, we're finally returning the base where we all first met, remember."
"Yeah," said Mike, walking into the sub. "Memories."
* * * *
It had been several days and the Team Rocket Gyarados-sub surfaced in a small lake in the Darkest Woods. The four Team Rocket members slowly wandered towards Teria's gym/lab.
Mike, Nick, Kelly, and Fire Kat all slowly stopped walking as they reached the gym. Half of the gym looked normal, had a sign hanging on the outside of it, and looked fine. But the other half of the gym, which was partly underground, had been blown apart.
"What happened to the gym?" wondered Kelly. "And where's Teria?"
The four continued walking towards the gym. Nick then began frowning as he recognized a group of people approached. "Damn."
"What?" Mike glanced at Nick then towards the group of three people and frowned. "Oh no, it's them."
"Well, well, well," said a familiar voice, "if it's not Team Rocket's Mike, Nike, and Kelly." Nelly slowly revealed herself from the shadows, followed by Kike and Mick. "Oh yes, and Fire Kat, that's right."
"Group Missile," hissed Kelly.
"Well then you've heard the news," said Mick.
"What news?" asked Fire Kat.
Kike smirked. "This experiment our boss was working on blew up in his face, killing most of his men and scientist- including Team Rocket's Jerrod- and destroying the lab of the gym."
"Where's Teria?" asked Mike.
"He got hurt in the accident," said Nelly. "He's in the hospital."
"Then what are you three doing here?" asked Fire Kat. But before they could answer, Fire Kat moaned, "No . . ."
"Oh, that's right," said Nelly. "The boss put us in charge of the gym." She held of the badge. "We're in charge of the Liberty Badge of the Rocket Gym."
Chapter Three: The Challenge of Herakurosu
Jay, Dee, Agua, and Ultram had been biking for awhile now. They were riding through the Darkest Woods, when they decided to stop for awhile.
Jay was sadly watching Dee play with Mewie (Litatra was occupied with Ultra who were playing a game). Meanwhile, Agua was trying to see what some of Soslow's attacks were, while Ultram, Pikachu, and Pichu all decided to go check out a nearby lake.
Ultram yawned sleepily as he wandered towards the lake. "You know, you guys are the best traveling Pokémon." He picked up Pichu. "You're the coolest baby Pokémon Pichu." He picked up Pikachu. "And you're the coolest older Pokémon, Pikachu."
"Pi chu pi cha!" said Pikachu and Pichu, saying that Ultram was the coolest human they knew.
As Ultram was walking down toward the lake, he suddenly tripped over a small rock and went rolling down a small hill. Pikachu, carrying Ultram's Pichu, rushed after him. Ultram eventually stopped when he slammed into a tree. "The pain . . ."
Then, a Pokémon fell from the tree and landed on Ultram.
"Ow!" cried Ultram.
A buggy Pokémon looked curiously at Ultram.
Ultram's eyes widen up and cried out in terror. "AH! It's a Herakurosu!" He tossed it away from him and backed away. He quickly selected a Super Ball and hurled it towards Herakurosu. "Ultimate, Borlax, I summon you!"
"Ult!" growled Ultimate, as it emerged from the ball.
"Lax," roared Borlax, wandering from the ball.
"Hey fighting buggy," growled Ultram, "stay away from me! I'm not in the mood to be bugged-out!"
"Kur!" Herakurosu leaped at Ultimate, horn first, and gutting Ultimate in the stomach, knocking it out on the ground.
"Mega horn," murmured Ultram. "Ultimate, sorry bout that. Return!" He recalled Ultimate into its ball, then glanced at Borlax. "Body slam."
"Borlax lax!" Borlax leaped into the air and bashed the bug. Borlax rolled of Herakurosu, who had become paralyzed.
Ultram smirked. "That's what you get for bugging me out! Borlax, headbutt now!"
Borlax lowered its head and leaped at Herakurosu sending it flying across the forest into the lake.
Ultram smiled. "Borlax, hyper beam!"
Borlax absorbed energy into its mouth, then shot a powerful beam of energy at Herakurosu blasting it into the water.
Ultram smiled. "I know Jay will be jealous of this catch! Poké Ball, go!" Jay threw a Poké Ball and Herakurosu entered the ball. It rolled around for a second then stopped. Ultram smiled and held up the ball. "I caught Herakurosu!"
Dee and Agua both rushed over to Ultram. "Agua heard you shouting, so we decided to leave the Pokémon with Jay and check to see what you were screaming about."
Ultram hugged his Borlax. "Nothing, a Herakurosu just surprised me. Borlax was able to help me out here!" He frowned. "You left your Pokémon with Jay?"
Agua thought for a moment. "Oh, I see. Yeah, that was a bad idea but we weren't sure what had happened to you, Pikachu, and Pichu." She slowly picked up Ultram Pichu. "Let's head back up then."
"Good idea," said Ultram, picking up Pikachu.
Chapter Four: An Old Enemy
A New Friend
As Jay sadly watched Dee play around with Mewie, he had decided that it was too painful to watch another one of his Pokémon drift to his friends, so he decided to sleep.
But strangely, the dream seemed really real. Almost like it wasn't a dream at all.
"Jay," whispered a voice in his dreams. "Jay! I'm here for a rematch."
Then, in Jay's dream, a stadium appeared before him. Suddenly, Jay was on one side of the stadium arena, and on the other side was a familiar looking man.
"I am here for my final wish as a ghost," said the mysterious voice. "And my wish, was to rematch one of the true skilled trainers that I had faced."
"Who are you!" cried Jay.
"My name was Jerrod," said the ghost.
" . . . Um, who are you?" asked Jay slowly.
Jerrod flinched. "I was a member of Team Rocket! We me at the base outside of the Ultra Forest and on the Arachnid Island."
"Oh, the ground-type guy," said Jay. "What happened?"
"I was an elite Team Rocket member, and was guarding Teria at his secret gym/lab out here," explained Jerrod's ghost. "He was being aided by this mysterious, supreme, Super Pokémon Monster creature- he called himself The Master."
Jay frowned. "I'm familiar with his work."
"He used me as an example," said Jerrod. "He killed me in order to threaten the other Team Rocket members." Jerrod sighed. "From what I've heard, it worked. Of course, The Master destroyed the lab sending Teria to the hospital."
"Whoa, news gets around when you're dead," murmured Jay. "Who's in charge of the gym now."
"Teria called in some Group Missile people to take over the gym," said Jerrod. "This shall be a one-on-one battle, all right? You may select any Super Pokémon you have on your team."
Jay nodded. "I'll select Ultra then." Mysteriously, Jay's Ultra appeared in front of Jay. "Cool."
"And I'll use my first Pokémon!" said Jerrod. "Marowak!" In front of Jerrod, appeared a Marowak.
"I hope I can make this a match for you to remember," said Jay.
Chapter Five: Dream Battle
"Marowak, bonemerang!" ordered Jerrod.
"Psytoss now," ordered Jay.
"Wak!" Marowak hurled his bone and it went flying towards Jay's Ultra, but it used its psychic powers to turn the bone around and hit Marowak.
"All right Ultra, ultra shocker!" ordered Jay.
"Tra!" Ultra leaped into the air and shot a giant blast of electricity at Marowak, but the ground Pokémon deadened the electricity with its bone.
"Headbutt!" growled Jerrod.
Marowak came rushing towards Ultra, and Jay quickly shouted, "Agility!"
Ultra leaped out of the way of Marowak and landed on the other side of the bony Pokémon. Marowak tried headbutting him again, but Ultra was too quick for him.
"Leer!" ordered Jerrod.
"Marowak!" The bone Pokémon's eyes lit up and slowly scared Ultra into slowing down.
"Skull bash now!" commanded Jerrod.
"Ultra, teleport!" said Jay.
But Ultra was too slow, and Marowak bashed headfirst into Ultra and sent it tumbling backwards.
"This isn't working," murmured Jay. "Ultra, psyblast!"
Jerrod smirked. "Agility."
Ultra created a blast of psychic energy and shot it at Marowak, but the ground Pokémon leaped out of the way. Marowak continued circling around Ultra, who was still trying to shot its psyblast at Marowak. This only confused Ultra.
Jay frowned. "Ultra no!"
"Bone club now!" said Jerrod.
Marowak stopped and hit Ultra dead center in the head and the electric/psychic mouse slowly fell towards the ground.
"Ultra, metronome!" said Jay.
Ultra slowly walked up and slowly waved his fingers, trying to think up an attack.
Jerrod smirked. "Earthquake!"
Marowak slammed his bone into the ground, creating a deadly earthquake. Ultra ended up going flying back into Jay's arms.
"Ultra!" cried Jay. "Are you okay?"
Ultra nodded.
Jay smiled. "You won Jerrod. Marowak's the winner."
Jerrod smiled and nodded. Ultra and Marowak both disappeared, as did the stadium. It was just Jay and Jerrod floating there.
"Well Jerrod," said Jay, "it's a match I hope I'll always remember." He held out his hand. "Maybe . . . we'll meet again one day."
Jerrod held out his hand. "Maybe, one day."
They clasped hands and then there was a sudden bright flash of light.
"Wake up!" Ultram shook Jay several times. "Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
Jay frowned. "I was having the nicest dream."
"Were you in it?" asked Agua, as she and Dee approached Jay and Ultram.
Jay nodded.
"Must have been a nightmare then," muttered Agua.
Jay ignored Agua and pulled out his Pokédex and asked, "Hey 'dex, is there such thing as a Team Rocket Gym around here?"
"You mean the Rocket Gym?" asked the Pokédex. "Oh, sure, it's here in the Darkest Woods."
"Good," said Dee. She glanced at Fire Orb. "Our Pokémon should be able to stop Teria and his Pokémon one more time."
Jay sighed. "I have a feeling . . . we won't be facing Teria."
Chapter Six: The Experiment
"Mew," said the rare Pokémon's master, "you have failed me too." The Master walked over to the Mew. "It seems that my three commanders, you, Psycho, and Haunter have greatly failed me."
"I know." Mew bowed down at The Master. "Um, I don't suppose that whole Planto thing is the real reason why you're in a bad mood."
"My three commanders have failed so now I must result to spying on Jay and powering up the experiment," said The Master.
"What are you going to do to me?" asked Mew curiously, slowly floating away.
"Well, you, Psycho, and Haunter are going to be training to face Jay later," explained The Master. He nodded and began glowing. Suddenly, a portal opened up and Mew gave a sad sigh.
"I really wish I didn't fail," muttered Mew. "Jay and his Ultra will pay for what I must go through- damn training sessions." Mew hovered into the portal.
"In the meantime, Mewtwo, Charizard, Vileplume!" The Master turned to the three Pokémon. "You three are the Pokémon that'll help me later in the future."
Mewtwo bowed down. "I am only here to sever you, my master."
"Mewtwo, as my second in command," said The Master, "you must seal off all entrances to Mew's hideout, and our base. You must not leave any trace of us."
Mewtwo nodded and teleported off.
The Master turned to a Fearow of his and a Weedle of us. "Find Jay and the others in the Darkest Woods. There, drop off Weedle and let him watch the upcoming battle." The Master then turned to a cloaked figure. "This shall excellent data for you to have."
"Yes, my master," said a somewhat familiar voice. "When shall I reveal myself to Jay and the other enemies."
"When the time comes you are experienced enough," said The Master. "And a time when they are all gathered in one place. In the meantime, you will train hard with the data given to you."
* * * *
Teria lay in the Scarlet City hospital, resting for awhile.
He had created the ultimate weapon to stop the threat at hand, but he had never thought a greater threat would appear and become the ultimate enemy.
"Jay must be able to defeat The Master's experiment," murmured Teria weakly. "But, in the meantime, I should really be worried about my gym. Once Mike, Nick, and Kelly hear about me in the hospital, they'll surely go and ruin things there."
Chapter Seven: The Team Rocket Gym
Jay, Dee, Agua, Ultram, Litatra, Mewie, Pichu, Soslow, Pikachu, Fire Orb, and Ultra all searched the forest until they discovered a giant building that looked like half of the building had been blown apart. On the front of the gym was a giant red R.
"Looks like we're here," murmured Jay, holding Litatra and Mewie and with Ultra by his side.
Dee, who had Fire Orb at her side, said, "Looks like we missed some fun, eh?"
"Yup," agreed Agua, who was holding her Soslow. "I guess we should just go in, challenge them, and shut down the gym."
"Can we do that?" asked Ultram, holding Pichu and having Pikachu by his side.
"Guess so." Jay slowly walked towards the door of the Rocket Gym. He opened it up and revealed a dark and empty arena.
The others slowly followed Jay in.
Then, a familiar voice growled, "I'm glad you could come to this battle." A light appeared in the middle of the gym and there was Teria.
The others all gasped. "Teria!"
"I'll show him who's the real boss around here!" growled Ultram, rushing towards Teria, with Pikachu darting next to him. Ultram tried tackling Teria but just ended up flying through him.
"It's an illusion," whispered Agua.
Ultram slammed into them floor and began moaning. "I'm beginning to have a feeling that this isn't my day." Ultram slowly got up, but a cage dropped from the ceiling trapping Ultram, Pikachu, and Pichu. "This really isn't my day."
The others rushed towards the captured Ultram.
"Are you all right?" asked Dee.
"Oh, I'm fine," growled Ultram. "I'm just, ya know . . . TRAPPED IN A CAGE!"
Jay glanced around. "I know you guys are in here! I've been informed! Get out from hiding Group Missile!"
Suddenly, Kike, Mick, and Nelly walked out from hiding.
"Well, well, well," said Kike, walking over to Ultram's cage. "It's a reunion. It's so sweet. Annoy twurps are back together with the group of thieves that can steal any Pokémon!"
"Well the exception of our Pokémon!" growled Ultram.
"Look who's talking!" Nelly kicked Ultram in the face, shutting up the Pokémon gym leader. "You fell right into Teria's automatic trap."
"Which gives us a little edge," said Mick.
"Prepare for trouble," said Kike.
"And you can make that our trouble," Mick said.
"To bring out the world's devastation," said Nelly.
"To bring this world to our nation!" Kike said.
"To show our evils of truth and love," said Mike.
"While we extend our reaches past the stars and above!" Nelly third.
"Kike!"
"Mick.
"And Nelly."
"Group Missile's blast around the galaxy faster than the speed of light!" cried Kike.
"Surrender now, or we'll be forced to fight!" continued Mick.
"That's right!" finished Nelly.
Chapter Eight: Group Missile's Challenge
"We challenge you to a gym match!" growled Jay.
"Let me clear something up," said Nelly. She held up the Liberty Badge. "This shall be your badge, only if you can defeat us in a special three on three trainer battle."
"Three?" repeated Ultram, from the cage.
"Oh yeah, I forgot! Go Venustoise!" Kike hurled a Super Ball onto the ground, revealing his Venusaur/Blastoise mixture. "Ice beam!"
Venustoise shot a beam of ice from its hydro pumps, freezing Ultram.
"Now that Ultram's on ice," said Mick, "we have something to wager for. If you win, you get the Liberty Badge and Ultram. If you lose, we get your Pokémon!"
Jay turned to Dee and Agua. "What do we do?"
"We have to save Ultram," said Dee, "at any cost. We have to accept their deal."
Agua sighed. "This can't be good."
"Fine, we'll accept," said Jay. "Let me guess: We each choose one Pokémon and you all choose one Pokémon, and the side with the remaining Pokémon standing wins, right?"
"Puh," snorted Nelly. "We have a much better idea. There will be three separate battles. Each battle will have three Pokémon. And then, there will be a fourth battle with the winners of the previous battle. Whoever wins the last battle, wins it all. Deal."
Jay sighed and glanced at Dee and Agua, who were both nodding. "Fine, deal!"
"Nelly will face against Dee, Kike against Agua, and Jay will battle against me," said Mick. "We will also battle in that order. Whenever Nelly and Dee are ready, the battle will begin."
Nelly snapped, and three Team Rocket members pulled away the cage containing the crying Pichu, the worried Pikachu, and the frozen Ultram. "We shall begin whenever you wish."
"I'm ready," said Dee. She walked over to her side of the arena.
"Raichu, go!" ordered Nelly.
Dee smirked. "If you think you can use electric Pokémon against my birds, I have somethin to tell ya, I have other Pokémon!" Dee threw the Woolie Ball into the arena. "My Pokémon will be you, Woolie!"
The evolved Pikachu and the small doll Super Pokémon appeared on the arena.
"Raichu, thunder!" growled Nelly.
"Rai!" growled Nelly's Raichu, leaping into the air. "Chu!" Raichu shot a large blast of electricity that absorbed into the doll Super Pokémon.
Nelly raised an eyebrow. "You chose the right Super Pokémon, but can it absorb this? Thunder ball!"
Raichu's eyes lit up and it shot a ball of electricity at Willie and it absorbed the attack, but, surprisingly, Dee's Pokémon ended up getting paralyzed.
"Willie!" cried Dee. She frowned. "String shot!"
Nelly shook her head. "Can't touch this. Agility!"
"Rai!" Raichu leaped up, dodging Willie's attack. Since Willie was paralyzed, Raichu had the upper hand.
"Body slam!" ordered Nelly.
"Chu!" Raichu leaped into the air and body slammed Willie crushing the doll Pokémon, but right on contact, Willie released the electricity paralyzing Raichu.
"Mega kick!" said Nelly.
"Harden," said Dee.
But Willie was still partly paralyzed, but being paralyzed wasn't slowly down Raichu, and the electric mouse kicked Willie across the room.
Chapter Nine: Dee versus Nelly
"Face it, your Willie's defeated," growled Nelly. "You chose the wrong Pokémon."
"It's not over until it's over." Dee glanced at Willie. "Are you all right?"
Nelly smirked. "Won't be after this. Take down!"
Raichu darted at Willie and bashed it into the wall.
"No!" cried Dee. She fell to the ground weakly. "Willie . . . no."
Suddenly, there was a flash of light and Raichu was hurled across the arena. Where Willie helplessly lay, a strong Woolie stood.
Dee nodded and smirked. "Good job Woolie! Triple punch!"
"Wool!" growled Woolie, leaping at Raichu and punching the electric mouse with its three fist.
"Comet punch!" commanded Dee.
"I don't think so, light screen," said Nelly.
But Raichu was too slow and didn't put up the screen in time. Woolie leaped at Raichu and began punching it with its six arms.
"Confuse it with agility!" said Dee.
"Stop it with your thunder attack!" growled Nelly. "Nothing can withstand that!"
"Rai . . . chu!" growled Raichu, as it powered up for its powerful electric attack and ended up shocking Woolie, but the doll Pokémon absorbed it.
"No, Raichu," murmured Nelly. "Light screen now!"
But Raichu stood paralyzed.
Dee smirked. "Perfect. Mega punch!"
Woolie leaped and punched Raichu in the gut and gave off an electrical blast. The electric mouse fell weakly to the ground.
"Raichu return!" ordered Nelly, recalling her Pokémon. She selected another ball. "Now it's time for you to face one of my best! Morpher!"
She hurled the ball into the air revealing the transformation Super Pokémon. "Morph morpher morph!"
"Transform into Magmar!" said Nelly.
"Morph!" growled Morpher and began transforming. "Mar!"
Dee frowned. "Can't be good."
"Fire blast!" ordered Nelly.
"Agility, now!" said Dee.
Nelly's Morpher shot a star-shaped blast of fire at the doll Pokémon and it tried dodging it with its speed. But Dee's Pokémon wasn't fast enough and got hit by the fire blast attack.
"Woolie, return!" said Dee, recalling the Woolie into the Woolie Ball. She thought for a moment which Pokémon she'd use. "I'll use you, Lugia!"
Nelly froze. "Damn it. Morpher change back."
"Hydro pumps!" ordered Dee.
Lugia's attack hit first and slammed Morpher into the wall and slowly changed back. As it did, Morpher fainted.
"Fine, Morpher return." Nelly held out the Super Ball and the red beam of light recalled Morpher into the ball.
Chapter Ten: Who Will Win?
"Go Ultimate!" Nelly threw a Super Ball and revealed the fully evolved Ultra. "An electric Pokémon against a flying one, who will win?"
"Lugia, air beam now!" ordered Dee.
Nelly smirked. "My Ultimate's strong. Light screen now!"
"Ult!" Ultimate held out his hand and created an invisible wall, as Lugia focused air into a beam of energy. Lugia shot the air beam at Ultimate hoping the break the light screen, but it didn't.
"Shoot," growled Dee. "Air blast isn't breaking through."
"Ultimate shocker!" growled Nelly.
Dee frowned. "Don't give up Lugia!"
Ultimate charged up for a powerful attack and created a giant blast of thunderous electricity that shot up towards Dee's Lugia. Dee's flying Pokémon was quickly hit with the blast, electrocuted, and fell to the ground paralyzed.
"Lugia," murmured Dee sadly. She shot her head up and glared at Nelly. "Lugia, return!" She recalled Lugia into its ball and quickly drew a Super Ball. "You're going to regret doing that. Go Rocker!" She threw a Super Ball containing her lesser-used rock-type Pokémon.
Nelly shrugged. "Rocker won't be able to stand up against Ultimate's psychic attacks. Ultimate, confusion attack!"
Dee turned to Rocker. "Try the new attack."
Rocker jumped into the air, spun down towards the ground, and drilled underground, dodging the confusion attack.
"Grrr," growled Nelly. "Ultimate, watch your back. Use your psychic powers to hover up into the air."
Ultimate began to glow a strange bluish color and hovered up into the air.
Dee smirked. "Rocker, dig attack now! Use all your strength to become airborne!"
"Ker!" Rocker suddenly broke through the gym floor and went flying upwards. Rocker bashed right into the floating Ultimate and sent it falling to the ground.
"So, power's your game huh?" Nelly gave a twisted smirk. "Psychic attack."
"Rock quake!" ordered Dee.
Rocker leaped into the air and used its rock-hard body to crack the ground and create a giant earthquake.
Ultimate began to glow and shimmered. Ultimate used its deadly psychic attack on Rocker and . . .
"Shoot," growled Dee, as her Rocker fell to the ground. "Rocker, return!"
Nelly smirked as she recalled her Ultimate.
"And Nelly has won the match," said the Team Rocket ref. "Nelly will continue in the final three-way match."
As Dee and Nelly stepped backed, Agua and Kike walked forward ready for a match.
Kike smiled and nodded. "We all know your specialty: water Pokémon. It won't be tough to figure how to defeat you. Go Venustoise!" Kike hurled a ball into the air revealing the Venusaur/Blastoise combo.
Agua glanced back at Dee and smirked. "You think your stupid Venustoise is going to defeat me? I'll use you, Butterfree!" Agua threw a Poké Ball that held her butterfly Pokémon.
Chapter Eleven: The Second Match
"Free-free," growled Agua's bug Pokémon.
Kike nodded. "You chose a bug Pokémon with psychic abilities against my Venustoise. Good call, but you won't defeat me. Let's start things off with a poison punch attack!"
"Butterfree, counter with razor wing!" ordered Agua.
Venustoise leaped at Agua's Butterfree who tried to evade the attack and counter, but ended up getting punched and poisoned by Venustoise.
Agua frowned. "Damn."
"Vine grip!" ordered Kike.
Venustoise's vines shot out and gripped Butterfree, forcing it to the ground.
Agua smiled. "Razor wing!"
Butterfree began flapping its wings variously and sliced through Venustoise's vines. Butterfree (who was still poisoned) hovered upward.
"Psychic attack," ordered Agua.
"Reflect!" said Kike.
"Stoise!" Kike's created a barrier and easily reflected Butterfree's psychic attack back at the bug, but it didn't harm Butterfree at all.
"Venustoise, burn powder now," said Kike.
Venustoise inhaled and shot an orange powder out of the plant on its back and towards Butterfree.
"Whirlwind it back!" said Agua.
Butterfree quickly flapped its wings and blew the burn powder back towards Venustoise, but automatically used its whirlwind to blow it back.
"Who's whirlwind will give in first?" wondered Dee.
"Well if Pokémon represents the trainers," said Jay, "then Kike has a lot of air to last a lifetime, while Agua's too stubborn to give up trying. Since Butterfree's poison, it'll probably drop first."
"Thanks, Jay," sneered Agua. She smirked. "Butterfree, spin attack!"
Agua's bug Pokémon spinning around, creating a more powerful force and blew the burn powder to Venustoise. As soon as the powder touched Venustoise, it ignited with fire.
"Good job Butterfree," said Agua.
But as Agua congratulated her Pokémon, Butterfree fell to the ground next to the burning Venustoise.
"Return!" said the two trainers at once.
"What are the odds," muttered Nelly. "A tie match. Let's see who'll win this one."
"Blastoise!" Kike threw a Poké Ball revealing a new Pokémon in Kike's collection.
"For this one," said Agua, "Ice Orb we need you!" Agua hurled a Super Ball into the arena and it opened up to reveal the Orb.
"Water against ice," murmured Kike. "But remember, water can easily melt ice."
"And ice can freeze the water," growled Agua. "Ice Orb, ice beam."
"Let's show Ice Orb what it's all about," said Kike. "Blastoise, hydro pumps!"
"Iccce," hissed Ice Orb and shot a beam of ice at Kike's Blastoise.
"Blast." Blastoise's shell opened up and revealed its two hydro pumps. The water Pokémon shot a blast of water at Agua's icy Pokémon.
Chapter Twelve: Kike versus Agua
Ice Orb's ice beam quickly froze of the hydro pumps, stunning Kike for a moment. "Grrr, Blastoise dodge the attack!"
Before Ice Orb's ice beam hit, Blastoise quickly dodged out of the water of the beam.
"Power slam," ordered Agua.
"Match it with your strength attack," said Kike.
Ice Orb hurled itself towards Blastoise, while Kike's Pokémon used all its strength to try to push Ice Orb backwards and into the ground. But surprisingly they equally matched each other's strength exactly.
They pushed against each other for awhile, not moving an inch until . . .
CRACK!
A small crack formed on the side of Ice Orb. Agua's Pokémon had already weakened. Blastoise took advantage of the moment and slammed Ice Orb into the ground.
"Good job Blastoise," said Kike. "Finish it off, mega punch!"
"Revive yourself with your ice armor attack," ordered Agua.
Ice Orb began to glow, and a new coat of ice covered the Orb.
Blastoise leaped at Ice Orb and gave it a deadly punch. Unfortunately, the punch was so powerful it cracked right through the shield and crushed Ice Orb sending it flying up into the air.
"Explosion!" ordered Agua.
"Withdraw!" ordered Kike.
As Ice Orb was hurled into the air, it began to glow and exploded in a devastating blast. But, Blastoise had already slipped into its shell. Ice Orb's explosion had created a thick smoke/mist not being able to see what had happened. When it had cleared, Ice Orb lay helplessly on the ground and Blastoise was still in its shell.
Kike gave a satisfied smile, until Kike heard a loud groan from inside Blastoise's shell.
"Stoise." Blastoise popped out of its shell, badly injured, and had also fainted.
"Return," said the two trainers at once again.
"Damn," said Jay. "Two ties."
Kike smirked. "Well, you can't defeat this Pokémon. Go Flamed!" Kike threw a Super Ball that revealed her deadly Charizard/Dragonite Pokémon.
Agua nodded. "And I have the perfect Pokémon, for you. Go Gyaronix!" She threw a Super Ball, until she realized that she had accidentally thrown the Poké Ball carrying . . .
"Gyarados!" cried Jay and Dee.
Suddenly, there was a small grunt from the frozen Ultram. "It's official: I'm trapped in her forever."
Chapter Thirteen: The Final Round- Deadly Power
Agua thought for a moment. "I could have sworn Gyarados wasn't on my belt. What could have happened."
Jay had a suddenly flashback back from the Imitate Kingdom.
(NOTE: This footage did not actually occur in the episode.)
Jay had nodded off in the Pokémon Center and had awoken in the middle of the night.
"Hey," he mumbled, "it was Agua who switched the signs at the Lost Forests." He chuckled. "I'm so slow sometimes."
Jay hopped out of bed and waddled towards Agua's Super Balls and Poké Ball. Jay picked up Agua's Super Ball containing Gyaronix and headed downstairs. He called up Agua's Pokémon on the computer and switched Gyaronix's Poké Ball for the Poké Ball Gyarados- her wild Pokémon- was in.
Jay whistled innocently.
"Oh well," murmured Agua. "Gyarados, prove your power against Flamed."
Gyarados yawned, then coiled up and fell asleep.
Agua sighed and looked sadly down at the ground. "Gyarados' won't even attack like Jay's Flamed."
"Flamed, let's show Gyarados where you get your name from," said Kike. "Raging fire!"
Flamed inhaled, then shot a super powerful flamethrower at Gyarados that roasted Agua's Pokémon.
Gyarados' eyes opened up angry, and Gyarados gave a mighty roar. Gyarados lunged at Flamed and bashed its tail into the dragon Super Pokémon.
"Yeah!" shouted Agua. "Gyarados is battling!"
Kike shrugged. "It's going to take more then a little tail to beat me. Flamed fire beam!"
"Gyarados, try fighting its fire beam with your . . ." But Agua stopped when Gyarados turned back and growled angrily at its trainer. "I was just gonna suggest hyper beam attack against fire beam, but you don't have to."
Dee sighed. "It's like Gyarados is controlling her."
Gyarados opened its mouth and inhaled collecting energy. Then, Gyarados shot a powerful beam that blasted through Flamed's fire beam and bashed into Gyarados.
Kike nodded. "I see how it is. You'll just have to beat Flamed's slash attack."
"Counter with . . ." Agua stopped when Gyarados growled at her again. "I mean . . . maybe countering with a bite attack would be an interesting idea?"
Flamed lunged at Gyarados, but the serpent managed to slide its way out of the attack and bit into Flamed's shoulder.
"Thunderwave!" shouted Kike.
Flamed lit up with electricity and paralyzed Agua's Gyarados. Then, Flamed tossed the serpent around and slammed it on the ground.
"Use your most powerful dragon attack!" ordered Kike. "Flamed, dragon force!"
Kike's Flamed glowed with a strange aurora circling around it. The aurora grew around Flamed and moved behind the dragon Pokémon. The strange aurora gave a mighty roar and Flamed dived down at Gyarados followed by the aurora. It was like being bashed by a dragon Pokémon, then another dragon Pokémon ten times stronger.
After the attack, Gyarados finally fainted.
Chapter Fourteen: Two on One
After Agua's match with Kike, Jay fought against Mick's Pokémon. Super Orb defeated Gengar, while his Wurm fought Marowak, then Ultra finished off Fossillen with a simple ultra shocker.
Now it was Jay against Nelly and Kike. It was the final round that would decide Ultram's fate and if the group would earn their Liberty Badges.
"All right, you may use one Pokémon," said Mick, off on the sidelines.
He glanced down at Ultra. "Okay Ultra, do your stuff."
"And we shall use our remaining Pokémon," said Nelly. "Electabuzz, go!"
"Charizard!" Kike threw a Poké Ball onto the arena.
In front of Jay's smaller Ultra appeared the larger flame Pokémon and electric Pokémon.
"Buzz," growled Electabuzz.
"Char," growled Charizard.
"Tra!" cried Ultra weakly.
"Let this match begin!" ordered Mick.
"Charizard, flamethrower!" said Kike.
"Use your thunderbolt," said Nelly.
"Teleport!" shouted Jay.
Group Missile's two Pokémon shot their attacks at Jay's Ultra, but the small psychic/electric mouse easily teleported out of the way, and reappeared behind him.
"Ultra, psyblast!" ordered Jay.
"Reflect," said Nelly.
Ultra hovered up in the air the exploded with a blast of psychic energy that shot towards the two Pokémon. But Nelly Electabuzz created a reflective light screen and the psyblast attack shot back towards Ultra.
"Disable!" ordered Jay.
Ultra closed his eyes and the psyblast attack disappeared.
"Now!" shouted Kike.
Ultra opened his eyes and there was Charizard right in his face slashing away.
"Shocker attack!" shouted Jay.
Ultra sparked up for the attack, but Charizard had already slashed the altered Pikachu away and it ended up shocking the wall.
"That's not fair!" cried Jay. "It's two against one. It's impossible to win."
"Try to remember that next time when you're battling two against one on a weaker enemy, like Team Rocket or Group Missile," growled Mick.
Jay frowned. "Well Ultra's stronger than you think. Thunder shield!"
Ultra hopped onto the ground and charged up with electricity and created a sphere around him, protecting him with electricity.
"You think that can protect you!" growled Nelly. "Try this out for size. Thunder!"
"Fire blast!" growled Kike.
Jay sighed. "Please work. Ultra use your metronome!"
Electabuzz and Charizard shot their two powerful blasts of energy at the thunder shield and overloaded it. The thunder shield then created a deadly explosion from being overloaded.
Smoke filled the arena and when it cleared . . . Ultra wasn't there.
"Huh?" wondered Jay, Nelly, and Kike.
"Ultra, if you can hear me use your ultra shocker!" shouted Jay.
Chapter Fifteen: Conclusion
Suddenly, a small puddle appeared on the floor and then Ultra appeared from the puddle and leaped up into the air and created a deadly blast of electricity that took down Charizard.
"Ultra must have used acid armor to escape from the thunder shield," said Agua.
"Charizard!" cried Kike. She glared at Jay, then at Ultra. "Show Ultra what you're made of! Take down now!"
"Can't forget Electabuzz, thunder punch," ordered Nelly.
Side-by-side, Charizard and Electabuzz ran towards Ultra.
Jay smirked. "Combine your agility and teleport attack!"
The two Pokémon chased after Ultra, but the mouse started running away. When they were finally catching up to it, Ultra teleported away, and reappeared behind them running away.
They turned around and continued running after Ultra, but whenever they keep catching up to it, it teleported away.
"You can't keep this up forever Barial," growled Mick. "They'll catch it eventually."
"Mick's right Jay!" shouted Dee. "Try something different."
Jay nodded. "Something different." He smirked and shouted, "Ultra combine your three attacks: Agility, teleport, and double team!"
Suddenly, five different Ultra were being chased and teleporting away.
"Char?" wondered Charizard.
"Buzz?" wondered Electabuzz.
"Don't just stand there, attack!" shouted Nelly and Kike.
So the Pokémon tried lunging at Ultra, but the mouse was too quick for them. They kept on trying until they ended up confused and attack each other. After attacking each other they fell to the ground.
"Finish them off, psyblast attack!" shouted Jay.
All the various Ultra formed back together into one Pokémon. The Super Pokémon leaped into the air and shot a giant blast of psychic energy at the two Pokémon, knocking them out.
"Return!" ordered the two Group Missile members.
"Yeah, we won!" shouted Jay, Dee, and Agua.
Mick snorted. "Like we'd just hand Ultram and the badge over." Mick tossed the Liberty Badge into the cage with Ultram. "Time to fly!"
Suddenly, there was a whirling sound on the roof and the top of the gym opened up. There was a helicopter hovering over the gym. A mechanical arm grabbed the cage with the frozen Ultra in it, and Group Missile hopped on top of the cage. "We're flying off again!"
Chapter Sixteen: Saving the Day
"Pika . . . chu," growled Ultram's Pikachu. "Chu . . . Chu . . . Chu!" Pikachu was trying to break Ultram out of the ice by shocking him. Eventually . . .
"Cold!" cried the defrosted Ultram. He looked down below his cage and saw the forest going by. "Oh no." He glanced at Pikachu. "Team Rocket?"
"Cha," replied Pikachu with the shake of his head.
"Group Missile?" suggested Ultram.
"Chu," said Pikachu with a nod.
As Ultram was completely coming to, he noticed that he had four gym badges in his hands. He glanced around at the barred cage. "Looks like it's time to break out. I summon you, Herakurosu!" Ultram threw the Poké Ball up towards the top of the helicopter window and the fighting/bug Pokémon appeared.
There were three cries of terror as Ultram's Pokémon used fury attack and tried breaking open the window.
"Maybe we could be of some help!" Jay on his Winger, and Dee on her Planto, flew up towards the helicopter. Jay flew towards the helicopter and shouted, "Looks like a job for Winger! Razor wing!"
Winger sped up and used its wing to slash by the helicopter creating an explosion in the side of the vehicle.
"Kuro!" Herakurosu finally broke through the glass and lifted the three Group Missile members and spun them around inside of the helicopter.
"Pikachu, Pichu, it's up to you," said Ultram. "Pikachu, thunder. Pichu, thundershock!" Ultram glanced upwards. "Herakurosu leap down onto the cage!"
Herakurosu put down the thieves and hopped back down onto the cage. The two electric mice sent their electricity towards the helicopter.
"Planto, disconnect them with your razor leaf!" shouted Dee.
As Pikachu and Pichu shocked the helicopter, Planto's leafs cut through the mechanical hand holding the cage. Meanwhile, the electricity was over charging the helicopter and it exploded.
"We're blasting off again!" cried Group Missile, flying out of the helicopter.
"Ah!" cried Ultram, Pikachu, Pichu, and Herakurosu.
But before they hit the ground, the cage landing in a strange, soft, liquidy, padding. It was Agua's Whirlpool.
Agua smirked. "I know, you're welcome."
* * * *
"Ultra, psyblast attack!" shouted Jay.
"Fire Orb, fire blast!" ordered Dee.
"Diver, water wave!" said Agua.
"Pikachu, thunder!" commanded Ultram.
After getting all the Team Rocket members out of the building, the group decided to get Teria's gym out of the way, and destroy.
Ultra, Fire Orb, and Pikachu's attacks created a giant explosion that automatically caught on fire. Luckily, Diver put out the fire with its water wave attack.
"Slow!" Soslow hovered up to Agua and gave her a hug.
"Pi!" cried Pichu, leaping into Ultram's arms.
"Lit ta!" cried Litatra, leaping into Jay's arms.
"Mew!" Mewie hovered to Dee and hugged her.
Though Jay was happy to still be with Litatra, Mewie had drifted off towards Mewie. But he wouldn't show that he truly cared. "Well guys, we've gotten rid of the Rocket Gym, and earned the Liberty Badge too." He picked up Ultra and pointed forward. "Tomorrow, we shall continue onward and reach Meager Village!"
* * * *
"Boss, we're sorry," said Group Missile. "Your gym was destroyed!"
"Thanks to those idiots, Mike, Nick, Kelly, and Fire Kat, right?" growled Teria, from the hospital.
"No," said Group Missile. "They left when they heard you were in the hospital."
Teria gave a confused look. "Huh?"
Suddenly the doors opened and there were four shouts. "Boss!"
Teria turned around and was suddenly hugged by Mike, Nick, Kelly, and Fire Kat.
"Boss, are you all right!" cried Fire Kat, still hugging him.
"Arg!" growled Teria. He pushed them aside and leaped out of bed. "Why couldn't you just mess things up over there."
"We were worried about you," said Kelly.
"Well worry about me later," growled Teria. He walked out of the hospital.
"We won't stop until you're one hundred percent!" said Mike and Nick.
"How about I send you new Pokémon if you let me be!" cried Teria. "And a new Fearow jet! Then will you leave me alone!"
"Okay!" Team Rocket darted out of the room.
Teria sighed and sat back. "Those idiots." He closed his eyes. "It won't matter if The Master's plan continue. We'll all be destroyed . . ."
Jay has finally returned home. And now he must battle in a seven-way battle with his Meager Village rivals, including Blake. He also discovers something shocking about what has happened to his hometown since he's left, and it could mean a deadly defeat. Find out this and more in Onward and Forward.