SUPER
POKéMON
Jay decides to help a kid with
his troubled starting Pokémon.
Episode XXXVIII
Taming the Sandshrew
Jay Barial
Chapter One: Thundeer
Jay and Dee swiftly called their trusty bird Super Pokémon and they took flight into the air in search of the loose Thundeer.
"Who would have thought that Thundeer would have been able to escape," murmured Dee on her Planto with Fire Orb by her side. "I guess you'll get to use that Mecha Ball now, to try to capture Thundeer, right?"
"Maybe," said Jay on Winger with Ultra by his side, "but for some reason I don't think we've have to resort to that."
As Winger and Planto continued flying around the Lost Forests in search of Thundeer, a blast of electricity came from ahead.
"Here's Thundeer," said Jay. "Winger, evasive agility! Fly in towards Thundeer!"
"You too, Planto!" ordered Dee.
The two Super Pokémon went at top speed, dodging the incoming shocks, and managed to come closer and closer towards Thundeer. Eventually, Thundeer stopped attempting to shock them, and stopped moving.
"All right Winger, fly down!" ordered Jay. "But don't attack Thundeer!"
The two Super Pokémon flew towards the ground, right in front of the giant electric beast, known as the all mighty Thundeer.
"Deer," it growled.
Jay held Ultra in his arms and climbed off Winger. "Thundeer! Do you remember me? It's Jay! From the Lost Forests." Jay slowly made his way towards Thundeer. "Don't you remember me."
"Thund deer!" Thundeer released a deadly blast of electricity, but Ultra was quickly enough to teleport him and his trainer out of the way.
"This doesn't look!" shouted Dee, as she enlarged Planto's Super Ball. "Planto would be our best bet against the electric beast."
Jay shook his head quickly. "If I could tame Ultra, then Thundeer should be a snap." Jay slowly made his way towards Thundeer, and whenever it shot electricity at it, Ultra would be able to teleport the young trainer out of the way.
"Deer," growled the angry Thundeer. "Thund . . . deer!" This time, Thundeer shot two bolts of electricity at the trainer. So this, Ultra had to counter with its teleport attack, and then shot its ultra shocker attack at one of the bolts and caused an explosion- but didn't harm either Jay or Thundeer.
"See Thundeer," said Jay, "we don't want to hurt you!"
"Ultra tra ra!" shouted Ultra to Thundeer. "Ra ul ra tra ultra ra ult tra ra ul!"
Thundeer waved its antlers around and released another blast of electricity, but Ultra teleported him out of the way again.
Dee sighed and replied, "Jay, this isn't going to work!"
Then, Thundeer charged at Jay, but Ultra leaped out of its arms and created a light screen to try to block the incoming Pokémon. But, Thundeer's antlers swung at Ultra, shattered the screen, and sent Ultra flying back against a tree.
"Ultra!" cried Jay as he turned towards his injured Ultra. Then, in shear terror, he slowly turned towards the giant electric beast, known as Thundeer. "I . . . I know you won't hurt me Thundeer. You have to trust me."
Thundeer gave another loud, booming roar and swung its antlers at Jay.
"Ult!" Before either Jay or Thundeer could react, Ultra leaped in front of Jay and Thundeer's antlers hit the Pokémon instead and it went flying. But as soon as Ultra touched Thundeer's antlers, Ultra released a powerful wave of electricity and paralyzed the rare Pokémon, forcing it to fall to the ground.
Chapter Two: Mewtwo's Move
"Ultra!" Jay rushed over to the small, injured, electric Pokémon, while Thundeer tried to recover from the attack. Jay picked up the small Pokémon in his arms and asked, "are you all right?"
Ultra opened his eyes and gave a little nod. "Tra ra!"
Thundeer waited a moment and then had feeling once again. It started to shake a little and it swung its antlers in the air. It was simply confused: Why would one who controls a Pokémon care so much about a Pokémon- a spliced Pokémon even.
"This is taking too long!" Suddenly, Jay shot a glanced upward towards the sky and a large shadow loomed over him. It was in the shape of a larger distorted Mew; it was none other than The Master's Mewtwo. "You Barial are confusing The Master's new pet Thundeer."
"It's Thundeer's chose who it wants to go with!" shouted Jay to Mewtwo.
"Funny." Mewtwo held up its hand and created a dark ball of energy and hurled the blast of energy at Jay and Ultra, but the psychic Pokémon teleported the duo away.
Jay reappeared in front of Winger and placed Ultra on his Pokémon. "Don't think you can beat us Mewtwo! It's us against you!"
"Yeah," said Dee, as she enlarged Lugia's and Articuno's Poké Balls. "I bet my Pokémon would love to prove their worth against you."
Mewtwo shook his head sadly. "I came with a plan." Mewtwo twirled his hand and chuckled. "For you, my dear Dee, I have a simple trick. Light screen!"
Suddenly, there was a bright light surrounding Dee and when the light cleared away she was encased in a light screen bubble.
"Now, only your pathetic plant can 'prove its worth' against me," replied Mewtwo, "cause you seems to be caught in a small problem of your own." Mewtwo turned to Jay and chuckled. "And now for you! I shall call forth the ones who in fact freed Thundeer. We hoped Thundeer would just dispense of you, thinking that you were just some annoying trainer. But, I guess Thundeer sees the same thing that The Master sees in you: Power. Dugtrio, attack!"
Before Jay could even react, tons of Dugtrio starting popping out of the ground, causing a giant earthquake attack. The attack critically harmed Thundeer, whereas Jay was swiftly picked up by Winger and went airborne.
Dee sighed and slammed her fist against the screen. "At least I'm not affected by the quake." The older girl glanced up into the air and shouted, "Planto, try to break through the screen!"
Jay started wiggling and squirming, trying to break free of Winger's grasp. "Let me go! I need to help Thundeer, Winger!"
Ultra shook his head and cried, "ultra ra ul ra!"
"He won't attack me!" shouted Jay and finally broke free of Winger's grasp and fell to the ground, but luckily grabbed a tree branch before falling down.
"Don't think a little tree will save you," replied Mewtwo with a chuckle.
The ground around the tree, which was already shaking, began shaking harder and harder and the tree began to start to tip over. But, instead of simply falling down, the tree began swaying back and forth and tossed Jay up into the air, and then the tree started falling down.
Chapter Three: The Change . . .
"Deer! Deer! Deer!" Thundeer, who was actually able to harm several of the Dugtrio (not all- very few in fact) with its powerful ultimate shocker, suddenly turned his attention towards the falling tree that held Jay in it. "Thund deer!"
"Jay!" cried Dee from her light screen bubble.
Winger swiftly dived down towards Jay, but Mewtwo teleported right in front of the flying Pokémon and it hit a thick light screen that was surrounding Mewtwo and was blocking Jay's Pokémon from reaching him.
Thundeer galloped towards the falling Jay and jumped into the air and released twin shocker attacks. One of the attacks blasted the falling tree, while the other attack hit Mewtwo off guard and forced it to the ground.
Winger tried to fly to catch Jay, but the flying Pokémon knew he'd be too late.
"To!" Planto's vines shot out and grasped Jay before he hit the ground. The grass/flying Super Pokémon tossed Jay onto Thundeer's back, allowing Jay to "protect" the Pokémon.
"Don't think . . . ARG!" Mewtwo slowly arose from the ground, still somewhat hurt after Thundeer's deadly shocker attack. "Don't think that you can just beat me like that pathetic attack! Dugtrio, full fissure quakes!"
"Attack! Water wave attack! Enormous splash!" From back towards the direction of the gym appeared a Charizard and a Pidgeot. In the arms of the Charizard was the familiar girl with the blue hair, hurling two Super Balls down to the ground. Miles' two Pokémon were carrying himself, Jeff, Ultram, and Agua to their rescue.
Waver and Whirlpool both appeared from out of Agua's two Super Balls. Whirlpool enlarged and released a giant wave of water that splashed down onto the ground, washing up some of the Dugtrio.
Meanwhile, Waver hurled itself up into the air and splashed down onto the ground creating a giant tidal wave that washed over the other Dugtrio.
Charizard let go of Agua, and she bounced onto her water-sack Super Pokémon, Whirlpool. Soslow and Mewie swiftly followed after her. Charizard landed, letting off (loud-mouth) Miles, while Jeff and Ultram got off Pidgeot.
"Well, you're all here," replied Mewtwo darkly. "Oh yeah. Now I can get rid of you all at once!"
"It's just you, Mewtwo!" shouted Ultram, who was holding Pichu and Litatra in his arms and Pikachu at his side.
The psychic Pokémon shook his head sadly. "Oh my! You defeat me. Damn!" Mewtwo turned away and started floating up. "You idiots think that I didn't come with a back up plan! Come on out, Charizard!" Suddenly, from the surrounding trees, Charizard flew up into the air.
"Well, that is pretty smart of Mewtwo," replied Dee. "Even though it is an idiot Pokémon working for The Master." Dee started to slam her fists against the invisible light screen bubble. "Could someone please help me!"
"All Charizard, ignore those other Pokémon and aim for flames at Thundeer!" ordered Mewtwo.
Chapter Four: Fighting Back
Jeff turned to Miles. "Dude?"
Miles nodded with agreement. "Dude."
The two trainers selected their remaining balls and hurled them in front of Thundeer. Venomoth, Golomoth, Muk, Arbok, Yanyanma, and Beedrill appeared in front of Thundeer, and Charizard and Pidgeot followed.
"Whirlwind attack that flaming flames back, now!" ordered Miles.
"Block it. Toxic." That was of course, Jeff.
Miles' four Pokémon began rapidly flapping their wings and cause a giant whirlwind and some of the fire away.
Meanwhile, Jeff's Super Pokémon and three Pokémon used their poison attacks to surrounding Thundeer and the poison exploded, causing it get rid of some of the incoming fire in the outer explosion, not harming Thundeer.
This left only some incoming flames that Thundeer's electric attack took out and its powerful antlers were able to block.
"Planto, use your Boda leech seed attack, now!" ordered Dee.
Planto released a giant seed and it hit the screen and quickly sprouted. The vines wrapped around the light screen bubble until the vines cracked the screen and Dee was able to break through it.
"My turn! My Pokémon will be you, Articuno, Lugia!" Dee tossed two Poké Balls up into the air and revealed his legendary ice Pokémon and the rare Pokémon of the sea.
"We need you, Gyaronix!" Agua threw a Super Ball to the ground and out appeared her Gyarados/Onix mix.
"Electric Orb, Electabuzz, I summon you!" Ultram threw a Super Ball and a Poké Ball on the ground to reveal the electric Super Pokémon that Jay had given him and the electric Pokémon he had won at the Bug Tournament.
"Stop those Charizard! Articuno, ice beam attack! Lugia, hydro pumps!" shouted Dee.
"Gyaronix, knock them out of the sky! Rock slick attack, now!" ordered Agua.
"Electric Orb, charge up for your ultimate shocker!" ordered Ultram. "Electabuzz, thunderbolt 'em, now!"
As Dee's two Pokémon started knocking the Charizard out of the sky, Agua's Gyaronix slithered around from the ground below. When it finally found its target, Agua's Pokémon used its harden attack, and began sliding towards it. When the target had entered a clearing of trees, Gyaronix used its full force to hurl itself into the air and it swiftly knocked out the Pokémon.
Then, Ultram's two electric Pokémon darted over towards Thundeer and attacked any incoming Charizard. But, all five Pokémon knew they couldn't stand up against a whole army of Charizard!
"Thunder now! Thunder now! Thunder!" From the sky above appeared a bright yellow, electric, legendary Pokémon. It was Derek on his Zapdos. And Zapdos' high voltage was helping them out as it easily fried all the Charizard.
"All right, now I'm just seriously pissed off." Mewtwo appeared in front of Zapdos. "Get out of my way!" The psychic Pokémon used a psytoss attack and hurled Zapdos to the ground. Mewtwo turned to Thundeer and used its psychic powers to toss Jay off the deer's back.
Chapter Five: Thundeer's Decision
"Thundeer!" cried Jay as he hit the ground.
Mewtwo shrugged. "This is going to be easier than I imagined." Mewtwo created another ball of dark energy and was about to hurl it at Thundeer when some sort of attack hit Mewtwo right in the back. Mewtwo spun around and there was that same strange blue creature from before, and it was still hiding its identity.
But this time, the glowing, blue sphere began to glow even brighter until it appeared in its natural form. It looked incredible similar to Serebii, except it was blue and any parts of it that were plants were gone. In its small hands, the Pokémon held a small pike or a weapon of some sort.
"This would be Sere-Sea," said Jay's Pokédex, as he pulled it from his pocket. "It's a psychic-water Super Pokémon. Created recently, Sere-Sea was an altered form of Serebii using some technology from the Aquatic Gem to cloned Serebii. Sere-Sea is ten times more powerful than Serebii, except with powerful psychic and water attacks. In addition, its special attack is its psychic water beam, which is powered by the rod in its hands."
Mewtwo snorted. "Funny. A little Super Pokémon couldn't be mew!" Mewtwo hurled a ball of dark energy towards Sere-Sea, but the Pokémon swiftly disappeared and reappeared behind the Mew-clone. Sere-Sea swiftly attacked Mewtwo with a series of strikes from its rod and used its agility to dodge any incoming attacks from Mewtwo.
"Chu!" growled Pikachu from the ground. The small electric mouse Pokémon charged up and shot thunder attacks at Mewtwo.
"Tra!" agreed Ultra. He hopped off Winger and starting shooting ultra shocker attacks at Mewtwo.
Lugia and Planto nodded and took to the air and used powerful attacks to try to stop Mewtwo.
Mewtwo chuckled, as his light screen protected him from any of the new incoming attacks. "So sad."
"Thundeer," said Jay slowly, "the only way to break through Mewtwo's light screen bubble is if you use your ultimate shocker attack." Jay sighed. "I believe in you, and I know you can do."
"Deer," said Thundeer with an agreeing nod.
"All right," said Jay. "Ultra, use your ultra shocker! Thundeer, ultimate shocker!"
"Lugia, air beam attack now!" ordered Dee. "Planto, vine grip attack now! Fire Orb, raging fire!"
"Thunder, now!" shouted Ultram and Derek.
Agua glanced around and shrugged. "Sere-Sea! If you use your psychic water beam attack, you can break through the screen."
Sere-Sea glanced down at Agua and nodded. "Sea. Ser ra!" Sere-Sea held out its rod and it began to glow. It released a beam of water/psychic energy and it hit Mewtwo's shield.
Pikachu and Ultra joined together and released their powerful shock attacks, along with Fire Orb who released a streaming blast of fire, but they weren't breaking through.
Then, the three mighty, flying, Pokémon headed straight towards Mewtwo. Planto's vines wrapped around the screen and tried to crush it, while Lugia shot a stream of powerful air energy, and Zapdos flew over Mewtwo and released a powerful blast of electricity. All this wasn't break through the screen.
Thundeer charged up and released its powerful ultimate shocker attack. The seemed to charge up the other attacks and suddenly . . .
"ARG!" The screen shattered and all of the attacks hit Mewtwo. All the attacks seemed to because a unique surge of energy that was terribly harming the Pokémon. But, Mewtwo's teleport attack made it possible for the psychic Pokémon to escape from any more harm. Mewtwo gave another loud roar and teleported off, taking with him all the Charizard and Dugtrio.
Chapter Six: Close Friends' Goodbyes!
The sun was setting on that day. The Master turned around and slammed its fist into the wall, cracking it. But suddenly, The Master's fist released ice and it covered the wall.
"What are you doing?' asked Mewtwo slowly.
The Master, whose eyes were brightly glowing red, turned to Mewtwo and growled, "what do you think I am doing! I'm sealing off the cave!"
Mewtwo looked at The Master in confusion as it continued freezing the walls of the cave. "Why would you want to do that?"
The Master, who was seriously enraged at Mewtwo, shouted in angry, "why do you think! They have both Thundeer and Sere-Sea! Possibly their new strongest Pokémon!" The Master then made his way towards Mewtwo. "And, there's a reason all this happened! And it is because of . . . you!" The Master slammed Mewtwo against the cave, and started to crack the newly frosted ice. "They're learning how to use their powers to destroy me! So now, Mew, Haunter, and Psycho will have some company!" The Master opened the portal. "You need some training!" The Master used its psychic powers to lift up Mewtwo.
"No-no!" cried Mewtwo. "What will you do now! You have no protection!"
The Master continued freezing the cave. "Jay won't disturb us, since he doesn't know our location." The Master turned to Mewtwo and smirked, just as The Master and Teria's experiment, who was hidden away in a cloak, walked up to The Master. "Besides, he is all the protection I'll be needing."
The Experiment lifted his mouth up just enough to let his mouth show. It began to shimmer with a psychic aurora and an array of psychic energy went flying towards Mewtwo, pushing him all the way into the portal.
* * * *
Jay, Dee, Agua, and Ultram, along with Pikachu, Pichu, Soslow, Fire Orb, Mewie, Litatra, and Ultra, all stood at the exit of Meager Village. Along with them stood Derek, Miles, and Jeff, along with Thundeer and Sere-Sea, who was on Thundeer's back.
"Well, Thundeer," said Jay, "thanks for helping us stop Mewtwo- again. You don't know how annoying he's beginning to get."
"You too, Sere-Sea," said Agua, "and all the times you've helped us before."
"Sea," replied Sere-Sea.
"Deer," said Thundeer.
Ultra, Pikachu, and Fire Orb walked over two powerful Pokémon. They all started going off, talking to the two other Super Pokémon.
"Are you really going to let Thundeer go?" asked Ultram.
Jay shrugged. "It's up to Thundeer." He glanced back at his three gym leader friends, Dee, Agua, and Ultram. "Soon, you three will leave, just as Jeff and Miles must depart somewhere-"
"Where there are babes," interrupted Miles.
"And Derek most return to his gym," Jay started again.
"Where there are babes," repeated Miles.
"Okay, shut up," said Jay harshly. "It's suppose to be a sentimental moment." Jay thought about what to say next. "Okay, now I've lost my train of thought!" Jay turned to Thundeer. "Anyway Thundeer, if you want to join up with me, it's up to you."
Thundeer nodded eagerly.
"Sea," said Sere-Sea sadly.
"Sere-Sea," said Agua, "if you don't want to remain alone, I'd be able to train you. I train water Pokémon . . . Or, I don't even need to train you! You could just be someone to, you know, hang around with."
"Sea!" Sere-Sea hovered in front of Agua and landed on her shoulder. "Sere!"
The two trainers smirked happily.
"Well Dee," said Derek, "I got to return to the gym. Come back soon, all right?"
Dee nodded. "Of course. Besides, I'm eager to battle against your Zapdos. Wonder if my Articuno could be it?"
Derek smiled. "Probably. It's been with you since it was an Artic." Derek turned around and hurled a Poké Ball into the sky, revealing Zapdos. "It still needs training though." Zapdos landed on the ground and Derek climbed aboard and took off. "Bye sis!"
And finally, the group turned to Miles and Jeff. "Ah, let me guess, a good bye kiss?"
Jay and Ultram immediately stepped back.
"Uh," said Dee and Agua slowly.
"We saved you from that Mewtwo," said Miles. "We are entitled to something, right? Hug, kiss, something!"
Dee and Agua glanced at each other and chuckled. Dee stepped forward. "If we ever meet again, we'll kiss you. In the meantime." The two girls held out their hands.
The two guys shrugged and shook 'em. Miles and Jeff headed down the road back into the Lost Forests.
Ultram sighed. "Well, now that that's over, let's head back home."
"Yeah." Jay held up his newly received Meager Badge. "I'm only several steps away from the league."
By the end of the next week, Dee, Agua, Ultram, Pikachu, Pichu, Soslow, and Fire Orb departed to Scarlet City so they could earn all their badges from the mini-games in the Pokémon League . . .
Chapter Seven: Jay versus Melissa
About a month later . . .
"Ultimate, return!" Melissa recalled her fully evolved Ultra into its ball and swiftly selected a new ball.
Both Jay and Melissa were training for the Pokémon League games. Melissa was testing out her Pokémon against Jay's powerful Thundeer. She was using her "main team," which so far contained Ultimate, Tentablast, Alakazam, Hitmonlee, Pidgeot, and Bakufuun. Only two more left.
"Attack, Meganium!" Melissa threw a Poké Ball, and revealed a fully evolved Chikorita.
"Meg ga!" growled Meganium appeared from its ball.
"Deer," growled Thundeer deeply. "Thund deer."
"Meganium, body slam!" ordered Melissa.
Jay chuckled. "Not going to beat Thundeer's horn attack!"
Meganium tried jumped into the air and body slamming Thundeer, but Jay's Super Pokémon rammed its antlers at the plant Pokémon and it flew backwards.
"Beat it with your razor leaf attack, now," said Melissa.
"Deaden the leafs, thunderwave!" shouted Jay.
A small shock of static electricity was released from Thundeer's antlers and hit the leafs. The shock deadened the movement of the leafs- paralyzing them basically- and they fell to the ground.
"Body slam!" ordered Melissa.
"Thundeer, create a thunder shield," said Jay.
Thundeer began to glow and a sphere of electricity surrounded Jay's newest Super Pokémon. Meganium leaped at Thundeer, but ended up hitting the shield. The shock electrocuted the plant Pokémon and it fell to the ground.
"Meganium, get up!" cried Melissa. "Then clear the skies!"
"Thundeer, focus energy attack," said Jay.
While Meganium pulled itself together, the fully evolved Chikorita's antennas began to glow and shot a beam of light up into the sky that completely cleared the sky of any clouds and the bright sun poured down on them. Thundeer began to focus the electrical energy surrounding the Super Pokémon into its antlers and it began to glow with an electrical aurora.
"Solar beam!"
"Thunder!"
Meganium shot a beam of solar energy at Thundeer, but the electrical deer's thunder attack showed the solar beam and caused an explosion. But, not only did it cause an explosion, but the rest of the electricity went passed the beam and shocked Meganium, knocking it out.
"Return Meganium," said Melissa, as she withdrew and drew out a Poké Ball. "Go, Venusaur!"
"Saur!" growled the giant plant Pokémon as it emerged from its Poké Ball.
"Before it can recover, solar beam it!" ordered Melissa.
Jay shrugged. "No electric attack! Light screen, now!"
Instead of risking losing electricity or failing the attack, Thundeer closed its eyes and created the mystical invisible wall. The beam of solar energy hit Thundeer's light screen and it keep on pushing and pushing against the screen until . . .
"Take down attack, now!" ordered Melissa.
"Shocker attack!" shouted Jay.
"Deer!" Thundeer waved its antlers around, but they didn't respond. There wasn't a strong enough electrical charge for the thunder-deer to use its shocker attack.
In the end, Venusaur shattered the light screen with its take down attack and caught Thundeer of guard.
"Wrap attack!" ordered Melissa.
"Drive it away with your horn attack!" shouted Jay.
But Thundeer wasn't fast enough. Still shocked by its failure, Thundeer didn't react quick enough and missed Venusaur's incoming vines. The vines wrapped around the electric Pokémon and began squeezing it.
"Grrr," growled Jay. "Try a thunderwave!"
Thundeer gave off a strange electrical aurora and the static went straight through Venusaur's vines and paralyzed the Pokémon, freeing Thundeer.
"Horn attack," said Jay.
Thundeer rammed straight into Venusaur's side and stuck its horns into the plant Pokémon.
"Thunder!" ordered Jay.
From its horns, Thundeer released a deadly blast of electricity into the plant Pokémon, badly harming Venusaur.
Chapter Eight: A Small Favor
"Venusaur return!"
"Thundeer return!"
The two trainers from Meager Village recalled their giant, four-legged Pokémon back into their balls and walked over to each other.
"Nice battle," said Melissa. "Your new Thundeer's strong." Melissa stuck out her hand.
Jay nodded. "Your Pokémon are strong. They should do well in your battle in the League Games." Jay grasped her hand and they shook. "Shame about us losing the seven-way battles though."
Melissa wrinkled her nose. "Yeah, that sucked." The young girl glanced at her watch and sighed. "Let's head over to Oak's lab. I need to heal up my Pokémon and get over to the Lost Forests in three hours to meet Wesley and April."
* * * *
With Litatra and Mewie at home, Jay only needed to watch after Ultra and Fire Orb, which had been given to him when Dee had departed, as he and Melissa headed over to Professor Oak Jr.'s lab.
After a while of waiting, Oak emerged from the back of his lab holding five balls for Jay and eight balls for Melissa.
"Everyone fully healed professor?" asked Melissa curiously.
"Everyone," said Oak, "except there was a small problem with Thundeer."
Jay's head shot up in horror. "What is it!" He grabbed Professor Oak Jr. shoulders and cried, "what's wrong with me Thundeer!"
"Orb fire or," murmured Fire Orb.
"I am not overreacting!" shouted Jay angrily.
"Emotional," murmured Oak. "Actually, it appears the medicine that I normally heal Pokémon with isn't working for Thundeer." Oak pulled up Thundeer's chart. "But from the time it got here to now, its health has increased. You have to let your Thundeer rest and self-heal itself."
Jay nodded. "So, I don't want to get Thundeer too banged up in the League Games. If I do, I probably have to let it heal for a day or two, huh?"
Professor Oak nodded. "Also, I have a favor to ask of you Jay."
Melissa turned to the door. "I'd love to help out with favors, but I have to go meet Wesley and April in the Lost Forests. We're doing some training then heading up to the Pokémon League soon."
"Bye Melissa," said Jay, as she departed. He turned to Oak and asked, "what's the favor you want me to do?"
"Well, over in Scarlet City," said Professor Oak, "a much of new trainers were going to get a talk about training their starting Pokémon. I was also going to suggest that if they were having problems with their Pokémon, I'd talk about a good way to get them to understand each other. But . . ." Professor Oak Jr. pulled out a chart with Thundeer's picture on it. "This new information on Thundeer's so interesting and important, that I can't make it."
"So," asked Jay.
"Tra ra-ra ultra ul!" growled Ultra. "Ul-ult!"
"Fi fire orb-orb!" growled Fire Orb. "Fire Orb!"
"First, I am no so slow!" growled Jay back at his Pokémon. "I knew he was building up to ask me to take his place! I'm not stupid."
"Orb fire orb," replied Fire Orb.
"Tra," agreed Ultra.
"Thanks, I'm not that stupid," said Jay translating what Fire Orb had been saying.
"Could you take my place?" asked Professor Oak Jr. "Besides, your Ultra was troublesome when you left here. Young trainers would probably want to hear from a trainer closer to their age. Besides . . ." Oak waved his finger back and forth and shook his head. "Maybe you can learn a thing or two that'll help you be able to train Flamed."
Jay immediately flinched at the words "train Flamed."
Chapter Nine: Sabotage
Jay walked through the archway of Scarlet City. It was the same familiar archway that Jay and Agua had stepped through and suddenly their Pokémon disappeared. It was their first encounter with Gastly, who ended up being a member of The Master's plan.
"Memories," murmured Jay slowly, as he put down Ultra and picked up Litatra and Mewie. Fire Orb was hovering right by his side. "Don't you miss them Ultra?"
"Ul ra?" asked Ultra.
"La tra!" explained Litatra.
"Mew!" said Mewie.
"Orb!" shouted Fire Orb.
"Yeah, Dee, Agua, and Ultram," answered Jay. "And I'm also talking about Pikachu, Soslow, and Pichu."
"Ra ul tra," replied Ultra. "Ult tra."
"Fire . . . orb!" said Fire Orb.
"Okay," said Jay. "Yeah, let's go."
* * * *
After dropping off Litatra and Mewie at the Pokémon center, he continued walking through the large city of Scarlet. Jay eventually made his way to a small school in the center of the town and wandered in. As soon as he entered, twenty young kids, probably three or four years younger than Jay, all stood up and rushed towards him grabbing Jay's Ultra out of his arms. Fire Orb was too high up, out of reach of the little kids.
"An Ultra!" "How, his Ultra's cute!" "I wanna get another Pokémon!" "I want a Super Pokémon!" The kids all rushed Jay, put it wasn't until a girl, around Jay's age, hushed and calmed down the kids.
"Thanks," said Jay, as he picked his Ultra up. "I'm Jay Barial from Meager Village, I'm here for the talk."
"I'm Nancy," she replied, introducing herself. She glanced at his Fire Orb. "You train Orb?"
"Actually, this Fire Orb is special," said Jay. "It was given to me by Ash of the Elite Eight. It was trained by my close friend Dee, until she left and I was to prepare for the Pokémon League."
"Really?" Nancy smirked. "I train Orb and its evolutionary forms. Most trainers from here do." She slowly walked towards Jay with her arms behind her back. "All the kids and their new Pokémon are ready and eager to hear you and your Ultra talk."
Jay smiled. He glanced over towards the wall where most of the Pokémon were resting, chatting, or waiting. He say Oddish, Squirtle, Flame, Pikachu, Ratoran, Orb, and a wide range of other Pokémon including a Waninoko from the Johto continent. Also, he noticed a Sandshrew had separated itself and was curled up in a corner. "I'm ready to start the talk."
* * * *
"Well, well, well," murmured Kelly, "Jay's here!"
Mike snorted. "And just after Teria got out of the hospital."
Team Rocket peered in through the sunroof at Jay talking to the younger trainers. Of course, as usual, Team Rocket was more interested in the Pokémon that the trainers had.
Kelly snorted. "Yeah right. 'Care and love your Pokémon and it'll obey you.' I've done everything and my Ratoqueen only sometimes listens to me, and my Alakazam rarely listens too me."
"I think, it's getting kinda personal," said Nick.
"No it is not!" Kelly grabbed both boys by the ear and dragged them down to the ground below where Fire Kat was waiting. "We are going in there and stealing all of those Pokémon!"
"That's what I've been saying," replied Fire Kat. The fire-type Super Pokémon snorted and pointed to the door. "Ready your Pokémon!"
* * * *
"And so," said Jay, "it's because I showed Ultra I actually cared about it, not just wanting it to be a tool, that we were able to become friends."
The crowd of young trainers, along with Nancy, and clapped and cheered happily.
"Well, well, well!" shouted a voice from the doorway of the building. "How ironic! The one who caused the AngelFire shipwreck because he couldn't control his Flamed, is giving a lecture to young kids about getting Pokémon under control." Jay's eyes shot towards the doorway and there was Kelly, accompanied by Mike, Nick, and Fire Kat behind her. "This should be fun."
Chapter Ten: The Return
"This is going to be so much more simple," replied Kelly. "Since you know, your gym leader friends aren't here to help you anymore." She chuckled evilly and slowly walked towards the trainer. "So, that makes you and your Pokémon virtually helpless."
"Yeah right," replied Jay. He glanced down at Ultra and Fire Orb. "Ready?"
"Do it Nick!" ordered Kelly.
"Dugtrio, Rhyoking, attack!" Nick tossed a Super Ball to the ground and a Poké Ball to the ground, revealing to powerful ground-type Pokémon. "Order Ultra and Fire Orb to attack, and we'll crush it with ground moves. Including fissure! How will Ultra and Fire Orb handle that, Jay? Will he be able to save all the helpless Pokémon here?"
Jay stopped his two Super Pokémon, before they could attack.
"Mike, do your stuff," ordered Kelly.
"Everyone, come on out!" Mike tossed two Super Balls and a Poké Ball up into the air revealing Gaser, Smogger, and Gengar. "Smokescreen attack, now! Gengar, use your shadow ball on any escaping Pokémon or trainers!"
Gaser and Smogger covered the room with the poisonous gases, which gave Jay to perfect opportunity to clear it away.
"Winger, Stung, I choose you!" Jay threw two Super Balls up into the air and out popped his flying Pokémon. "Together, whirlwind attack!"
"Stung," buzzed Stung.
"Wing ger!" agreed Winger.
The two Super Pokémon swiftly began flapping their wings and started to clear away the smoke, but around Smogger, a thick shielding of smoke surrounded it. The smoke seem to be giving off a strange radiation, like it were glowing or something. Then, the smoke became thicker and thicker until it finally became one with Smogger and . . .
"It evolved!" said Mike. "Excellent timing! Smogger has finally evolved into Smoggie!" The poison-type trainer glanced down at Fire Kat and nodded. "Fire Kat, raging fire attack! Create a combo with Smoggie's oil attack, now!"
Smoggie shot a stream of oil towards both of Jay's flying Super Pokémon. Then, Fire Kat shot its raging fire attack and it quickly caught the oil on fire. The duel attacks hit Winger and Stung at full force and they quickly caught on fire and fell to the ground.
"No," murmured Jay. "Return now!" Jay quickly recalled his Pokémon and tried to grab Psyghost's Super Ball but- "I only have Ultra, Fire Orb, Thundeer, Winger, Stung, and Flamed's Super Balls! I should have switched Litatra's and Mewie's Super Balls."
"Nothing you can do now, Barial," replied Kelly. "Hand over your Super Pokémon, and we'll let your little trainer friends go."
"Yeah, right," muttered Jay. "You couldn't miss this chance to steal all of these Pokémon! Besides, your boss would fire you if you only took Ultra and Fire Orb when you could have taken all these others."
Team Rocket stood silently for a moment and sighed. "He has a point."
"Shrew!" Suddenly, from the ground below, the small Sandshrew popped up and rammed into both Gaser and Smoggie. The Sandshrew managed to use one of its stronger ground attacks and managed to badly harm both Pokémon.
"Gengar, shadow ball!" ordered Mike immediately.
"Gar!" Gengar created a ball of ghost-type energy and hurled it towards Sandshrew. The attack hit the Sandshrew and it hit the wall hard.
"Sandshrew!" A young boy rushed over to his mouse Pokémon, but the Sandshrew curled up in a ball, seeming to want try to ignore him. "Sandshrew . . ."
"Don't make another move," growled Mike, "or Gengar over there is going to use its shadow ball attack, and well, you can kinda piece together what'll happen."
"See, what can you do without your gym leader friends," replied Kelly slowly. "Can't even take out us."
"Yeah, well at least I could probably train one of my Pokémon!" growled Jay. "And at least half of my Pokémon listen to me, unlike you!"
Kelly swiftly selected Alakazam's Poké Ball. "Bring it on!"
"No need for that," replied a voice from the door. "Disable attack! Water wave attack!"
Suddenly, a psychic Pokémon stopped Kelly dead in her tracks. It was the sign fa powerful disable attack.
Jay nodded. "Everyone, gather over here! Ultra, light screen now! Fire Orb, protect us with your fire wall!"
All the little kids gathered around Jay, and the psychic/electric mouse Super Pokémon guarded them by creating a light screen bubble. Then, fire circled around within the screen, creating a wall of fire inside of the light screen
Then, from the door, a giant Waver emerged and hovered above Team Rocket. It splashed down upon Team Rocket, taking out the gases and the rest of the Pokémon. Luckily, Ultra's light screen was strong enough to withstand the water wave attack with the backup of the fire wall attack.
"Soslow, finish them off, confusion attack, now!" ordered the familiar water trainer.
The small pre-evolved Slowpoke in her arms began to glow and so did Team Rocket. It used its psychic powers to hurl Team Rocket through the sunroof and send them blasting off again.
"Waver, return!" said Agua, recalling her Super Pokémon.
Chapter Eleven: The Sandshrew
"So Agua, how have you been?" asked Jay at the Scarlet City Pokémon Center.
"Good," replied Agua as she sat down. "I was heading back to Meager Village- just like I said I would." She held out the six badges. "Plus, I have the six qualifying badges for the mini-League games competition in the Pokémon League."
"Ultram still lagging behind?" asked Jay.
Agua chuckled. "Yup. He always wanted to stop back in Current City to pick up Ultra and Raichu at his gym." She shook her head. "He's still trying to get over the fact that you have Thundeer."
Jay smirked. "How's the group coming along? You know, Sere-Sea . . . Soslow . . . Waver . . . Gyarados?"
Agua flinched at the sound of her Pokémon's name. "I tried battling with Gyarados one time, but it turned on my and I needed Gyaronix and Sere-Sea to stop it."
Jay frowned. "Flamed's still raging too."
"Rai!" A Raichu popped out from behind the counter holding Litatra while a Kadabra appeared from the back with Mewie in its arms.
Jay bent down and picked up his Pokémon. "Thank you Raichu, Kadabra." He stood up and glanced towards the nurse. "Thank you for healing my Pokémon."
The nurse smiled. "I remember you. You were here during the disappearance crisis with the Pokémon! Right before Chris left Scarlet City."
Jay sighed and nodded. "Back when Dee was here." He turned to the door and started walking towards hit.
"Slow!" shouted Soslow.
"Yeah, don't forget about us!" Agua rushed over to Jay holding his three Pokémon.
As Agua rushed towards Jay . . .
THUD! THUD! THUD!
Jay, Agua, and a young boy had all intercepted and knocked into each other. The young accidentally dropped a Poké Ball in his hand and it started rolling out of the center.
"Hey!" The boy stood up and glared at Jay. "For a public speaker, you aren't very slick."
"Oh yeah," said Jay, as he slowly got up. "You're that Sandshrew-kid."
"Grrr!" The boy stamped angrily on Jay's foot. "And you just knocked it away!" The kid pointed back towards the rolling ball.
"Oh!" said Jay slowly.
Agua selected a Super Ball and tossed it up into the air. "I'll handle this! We need you, Sere-Sea!" From the Super Ball emerged the altered water-type version of Serebii.
"Sea!" growled Sere-Sea and it flew after the rolling Poké Ball.
Sere-Sea dived down at the Poké Ball, but it hit a rock and stopped. When the ball hit the rock a giant crack appeared on the red side of the ball. The ball began shacking and suddenly Sandshrew was released from the ball.
"Shrew," growled Sandshrew.
Jay, Agua, the boy, and their Pokémon started to appear from the Pokémon Center. So, Sandshrew decided the best thing to do was to escape. It used a defense curl attack and started to roll away.
"Sandshrew!" cried the boy sadly.
Jay glanced down at Ultra and nodded. "Ultra, use your agility attack to catch up with Sandshrew!"
"Tra!" Ultra began chasing after Sandshrew using its top speed. Ultra was only slowly able to catch up to Sandshrew.
Sandshrew noticed the incoming Ultra and somehow managed to reverse directions. The curled up Sandshrew bashed right into Ultra sending him flying backwards. This left Sandshrew to continue rolling down the hill.
"No, Sandshrew!" cried the boy when he saw his Pokémon continuing to roll down the hill.
"Fire Orb, try stopping it with your fire wall attack," ordered Jay.
Fire Orb managed to get ahead of the Sandshrew and it skidded across the ground in front of the shrew Pokémon. Wherever Fire Orb touched, fire struck, until a fire wall was in front of Sandshrew. But, this was a tough Sandshrew and it just rolled through the fire wall in its defense curl.
Agua moaned. "Sere-Sea, water gun!"
Making sure not to cause any harm, Sere-Sea shot its water gun attack and put out the fire wall attack.
Then, from out of no where . . . "Ultimate Orb, light screen!"
Then, the strangest and the most mysterious of the Orb evolution appeared. It created a giant invisible screen and stopped Sandshrew dead in its tracks. Ultimate Orb hovered back to its trainer only to reveal . . .
"Ultimate Orb, return!" ordered Nancy as she held out the Super Pokémon's Super Ball.
Chapter Twelve: The Problem with Sandshrew
Nancy glanced towards Jay and the others as they rushed towards the boy's little shrew Pokémon.
"Nancy!" The little boy rushed up and hugged the older girl. "Thank you for stopping Sandshrew, again."
"No problem little bro," replied Nancy as she gave the kid a hug. "You have to be more careful Sean." She glanced up at Jay and Agua. "Hello again."
"Hi," replied Jay and Agua, both out of breath.
Sandshrew slumped back down and grumbled, "Shrew."
"Sean's having trouble with his new Sandshrew," replied Nancy.
Jay, finally gaining his breath back, he asked, "Ultimate Orb, where did you get it?"
"Ultimate Orb was a gift from the gym leader of Scarlet City," replied Nancy. "The old gym leader anyway- Chris. After Chris left, the new gym leader took charge. But, he had to leave for awhile, so I was left in charge. I was a recommendation from Chris- he even gave me his prized Ultimate Orb." She glanced at Sean. "Sean's a new trainer, and he just got Sandshrew. Sadly, he's been having some trouble with it."
"Sounds like Jay," replied Agua. "He had trouble with Ultra until he battled Blake and Ultra discovered Jay truly cared for him."
Nancy nodded. "That makes sense." She turned to Jay. "Jay, could you please possibly challenge Sean's Sandshrew with your Litatra." Nancy smirked. "I'd really appreciate it."
Agua smirked and mouthed the words, "wink-wink. Nudge-nudge" and winking and nudging as she mouthed it.
"Orb-orb! Fire-fire!" agreed Fire Orb, saying what Agua had been mouthing.
Sean bent down towards Sandshrew. "Could you possibly battle a Litatra, Sandshrew? You'd have the type advantage and I'm sure you'd win."
Sandshrew glanced at Jay's Litatra, who was in Jay's arms. Litatra waved its little hand, but Sandshrew snarled and jumped up. "Shrew!"
"Sandshrew's ready!" said Sean happily.
"Battling may form a bound between you two," replied Agua.
"Yup, that's what I did," replied Jay. "I battled Blake Oak, my rival, and my Ultra eventually came to."
Sean brightened up. "Well that happen with me and Sandshrew?"
Agua shrugged. "We'll see."
"Litatra, I choose you!" Litatra hopped out of Jay's arms and walked over to Sandshrew. The small electric mouse walked over to the shrew and waved. Sandshrew jumped at the Litatra and scratched it across the face. "Tra!" it cried. Litatra started sparking up and tried shocking Sandshrew but . . .
"Ha!" said Sean happily. "I'm winning! Electric attacks are useless against ground Pokémon like Sandshrew! Sandshrew, fury swipes!"
"Litatra, teleport attack," ordered Jay.
Instead of fury swipes, Sandshrew curled up in a ball and bounced itself towards Litatra. But, Jay's Super Pokémon managed to teleport out of the way of the angry Sandshrew. Sandshrew continued trying to attack, but Jay's Super Pokémon was too quick with its psychic powers.
"Litatra, double team it now!" ordered Jay.
"Sandshrew, sand attack!" ordered the little Sean.
Sandshrew came out of its curled up position, and started twiddling his small fingers, while Litatra was using its powers to project three images of himself. Sandshrew just managed to ignore Litatra while it tired itself out.
"Litatra, confusion attack now!" ordered Jay.
Sean's eyes widened in horror. "Sandshrew, dig attack!"
Agua glared at Jay. "I thought you'd let him win so they'd become friends."
Jay shook his head. "It's a different lesson."
Instead of digging underground, Sandshrew charged at Litatra. But its psychic abilities sent Sandshrew flying backwards. Then, Litatra closed its eyes and focused, creating a beam of psychic energy and shooting it at Sandshrew.
"Sandshrew, no!" cried Sean.
Nancy and Agua looked in horror as the beam heading towards Sandshrew.
Chapter Thirteen: The Lesson
"Dig attack!" cried Sean in horror.
Sandshrew continued to ignore Sean, and the beam hit the shrew Pokémon. After the blast, Sandshrew collapsed on the ground.
Sean rushed over to Sandshrew. "Are you okay?"
"Shrew!" Sandshrew curled up into a ball, trying to ignore his trainer. "Shrew, sand shrew-shrew. Sa rew!"
"You think all I want you to battle?" Sean shook his head. "That's not true. I want you because we can grow close and together we can grow."
Nancy and Agua walked up to Jay and smirked. "See," he replied, "Sandshrew should come around now."
"Sand shrew?" asked the small mouse.
"Of course." Sean picked up his small mouse and whispered to it, "now if you still want to battle, that's fine. But if you don't, that's fine too."
"Tra!" growled an annoyed Litatra from the ground.
"Shrew," growled Sandshrew. It leaped out of its trainer's arms, and readied itself.
"Now if you listen to me Sandshrew," said Sean, "we can work together as a team to beat Jay and Litatra."
"Ready" asked Jay.
"Ready," answered Sean. "Sandshrew, tackle attack now!"
"Match its tackle with your tackle," ordered Jay.
The two mouse Pokémon lunged at each other with a full body tackle attack. Sandshrew's attack seemed more affective since it was a ground-type Pokémon. So Jay switched attacks.
"Litatra, take down now!" ordered Jay.
"Sandshrew, defense curl now," said Sean.
The ground-type mouse Pokémon curled up into a ball, and when Litatra hit Sandshrew it bounced off getting hit with its own attack.
"Sandshrew, scratch attack it now!" ordered Sean.
"Disable!" ordered Jay.
Litatra's psychic abilities stopped Sandshrew dead in its tracks. It was stuck in some sort of frozen trance.
"Focus energy," ordered Jay.
Sean smirked. "Sandshrew, break through the disable and dig!"
"Shrew . . ." Sandshrew closed its eyes and tried to break free of Litatra's psychic attack, but it wasn't working. Litatra seemed to be able to do both attacks at once.
"Dig!" shouted Sean. "Keep on trying!"
"Litatra, psywave attack!" ordered Jay.
Litatra closed its eyes and started focusing on its next attack. At this split second, the disable attack suddenly weakened and Sandshrew managed to break through it. Sandshrew dived underground just as Litatra shot its psywaves at Sean's Pokémon. Litatra searched and searched, but couldn't find Sandshrew until . . .
"Shrew!" Sandshrew popped out from the ground and sent Litatra flying up and hit the ground.
Jay bent down and picked up Litatra. "You okay?"
"La tra," mumbled Litatra and it curled up tiredly.
"Sandshrew!" Sean bent down and Sandshrew leaped into its arms. "You did it Sandshrew!"
"Its because it didn't believe you cared about it," replied Agua. "He thought all you wanted to do is make Sandshrew battle. So, when it was hurt during battle, it was able to see you truly cared about it when you came to its rescue."
"I wish I had more Pokémon . . ." Then Sean brightened up. "Or, I wish I could get a licenses to enter the Pokémon Leagues! I'd fight in the Orange Islands Pokémon League . . . the Pokémon League . . . Indigo Pokémon League . . . all of 'em!"
Jay smirked. "I'm heading back home, to Meager Village. Professor Oak Jr. lives there and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to sign you up for the leagues."
Nancy nodded and walked over to Jay. "I'm sure Sean would be more than happy to sign up. Thank you Jay."
Jay shrugged. "Yeah it was nothing!" He inhaled and exhaled. "All in a days work. No need for a thank you."
"No, but really, thank you." Nancy gave Jay a peck on the cheek. "Here's my thank you."
Jay's dark face started to show a hint of red and he fell to his knees with a silly grin on his face. "Your welcome . . .!"
Agua rolled her eyes and whispered to Jay, "almost makes you forget about Sasha."
Jay swiftly came to his senses and nodded. "All right! Agua, Sean, off to Meager!"
Chapter Fourteen: A Raging Time
Jay, Agua, Sean, Sandshrew, Fire Orb, Ultra, and the littler Pokémon all headed through the forest. Strangely enough, none of them had noticed Team Rocket following them the entire time.
"So, Jay knows how to gain control of Pokémon," murmured Kelly. "Through their trusts."
"Something Jay and Agua both still need to learn," muttered Nick.
Kelly glared at Nick and kicked him aside. Nick went falling out of the tree in the Lost Forests, which Team Rocket was hiding out in. "Some people just shouldn't talk."
Mike nodded in agreement. "So, if your Ratoqueen and Alakazam finally listen to you, then we'd be able to defeat Jay and the others."
"Um, hey down here!" shouted Nick. "Can't get up . . . back in pain . . . ow!"
Fire Kat and Mike glanced down at Nick and shook their heads. "You are so annoying!"
Kelly glanced out towards Scarlet City. "And I have the perfect challenge . . . It'll be Ratoqueen and Alakazam versus Gyarados and Flamed."
* * * *
"So, Agua," said Sean as they were walking through the Lost Forests, "did you ever have any enraged Super or regular Pokémon."
Agua cringed and flinched. "Only one."
"And when did you get it under control?" asked Sean.
Agua smirked. "Same time Jay got his Flamed under control."
This time Jay flinched in cringed. "Yeah, um, we both still have enraged Pokémon." Jay cleared his throat. "They're both dragon Pokémon and they're harder to understand . . . course it didn't occur to me to ask Lance after I challenged him."
"You both know, there's no difference," said Sean. "I mean with types. Sure, Ultra and Sandshrew started listening to us under the same circumstances, but Ultra, Sandshrew, Gyarados, Flamed, all the Pokémon, they just want the same thing."
As they continued walking, a thick cloud of smoke started filling the forest.
"What's wrong?" murmured Jay.
Sandshrew sniffed the air and snarled. "Sand shrew!"
"Tra!" whined Litatra and Ultra.
"Sandshrew smells trouble," growled Sean.
"Trouble?"
"Make that triple trouble."
Suddenly, from the treetops above appeared two Team Rocket members and a Fire Kat.
"To pro-"
"Hey, where's Nick?" Agua and Jay glanced around.
"What do you mean, where's Nick?" growled Fire Kat.
"No one cares about Nick, he's the stupid sidekick guy," growled Kelly.
Agua cleared her throat. "He does have the best set of Pokémon though. Compared to Kelly's outta control Pokémon and Mike's . . . gaseous Pokémon."
Kelly jumped from the tree and landed on the ground. "Well, that's about to change! Jay and Agua, and challenge you to a tag match! Your two raging Pokémon against mine!" Kelly selected a Super Ball and a Poké Ball and hurled them to the ground. "Ratoqueen! Alakazam!"
Kelly's two fully evolved Pokémon appeared from the two balls and gave a mighty roar.
Jay nodded. "I accept your challenge!"
Agua stepped up to Jay and nodded. "Me too!"
"Go!" The two experienced trainers hurled the two balls in front of each other to reveal their fully evolved dragon Pokémon.
Chapter Fifteen: The Raging Battle!
"Flamed!" growled the Dragonite/Charizard mixture.
"Rah!" growled the enraged Gyarados.
But instead of attacking Kelly's Pokémon, the two dragon Pokémon turned to each other and stared the other down. Slowly, both Pokémon recognized one another from the AngelFire shipwreck. So, they decided to finish what they started.
Flamed inhaled and released its raging fire attack, while Gyarados released its hydro pumps attack. Both moves took the other out. Hydro pumps put out the raging fire, and the raging fire evaporated the hydro pumps.
Then angered them even more that they forgot about their powerful elemental moves and just decided to duke it out. Power against power. Strength against strength. They tackled and scratched and bit each other until a giant cloud of dust they kicked blocked the trainer's view.
"I can't believe someone who helped me get my Sandshrew under control," said Sean, "owns such an out of control Flamed."
Jay flinched and shouted, "Flamed, attack Kelly's Pokémon!"
Flamed's head popped out of the dust cloud for an instant and it shot its ember attack at Jay, roasting his annoying training.
"Never mind," murmured a charred Jay.
Kelly approached Alakazam and Ratoqueen. "Get those dragons!"
Instead, both Kelly's Pokémon and Super Pokémon decided to lay down and dozed off, ignoring her orders.
Kelly sighed. "Well, I guess this could be worse." She glanced at the fighting Flamed and Gyarados. "At least my Pokémon aren't fighting each other."
Alakazam started snoring and sleeping and uncontrollably, it started to levitate one of its spoons. Alakazam then wrinkled his face and started inhaling. "Al . . . al . . . ka zam!" Alakazam sneezed, losing control of its spoon and it went flying towards Jay's Flamed. The psychic Pokémon's psychic powers were amazing; it had hit Flamed right in the center of the forehead.
"Flamed," growled an angry Flamed, as it flew out of the dust cloud. This left Gyarados attempting to fight what seemed to be his opponent, but ended up just being his tail. It wasn't until the serpent bit its tail that it realized Flamed had flown away.
Gyarados, angry that Flamed had flown away, took a deep breath, absorbing the surrounding energy and focusing it into a beam. Gyarados shot its hyper beam attack up at Flamed, but it easily dodged out of the way.
Flamed then took this moment to shoot its raging fire attack at Alakazam and Ratoqueen. But, since they were asleep, they were completely off guard. Flamed's fire swiftly lit them on fire and they went running around in pain.
"Alakazam! Ratoqueen!" Kelly rushed over to her two Pokémon with giant buckets of water. She swung then around and sprayed her two Pokémon, putting them out. "Are you two okay!"
"Zam," growled Alakazam angrily.
"Rat to!" growled Ratoqueen.
"Why are you mad at me?" asked Kelly sadly.
Jay frowned. "She's using my methods to get her Pokémon and Super Pokémon to start listening to her." He glanced at Flamed. "Now all I need is a method for dragon Pokémon."
"Al la zam ka zam," replied Alakazam.
"True," said Kelly, "I may want you for fighting most of the time- but not all the time." She glanced at Ratoqueen and then at Alakazam. "I've had you two the longest-"
"Excuse me!" shouted Fire Kat. "What about me! You were training me before either of them popped up!"
Kelly glared at Fire Kat then punched the fiery feline in the face. "And it is Pokémon like that who give Team Rocket a bad name for raising Pokémon! I care for my Pokémon just like the next trainer. But it is people like Jay who ruin things for us." Kelly turned to Jay and Agua's Pokémon. "People like Jay . . . Pokémon like Gyarados . . . and Super Pokémon like Flamed!"
Alakazam and Ratoqueen had both calmed down and were listening to Kelly. Gyarados and Flamed had resumed fighting since Kelly's Pokémon weren't fighting back.
"Now," said Kelly, "if we work together, you'll be able to be safer. We'll work together and be able to overcome powerful dragon Pokémon like these. And the safer you are, the more safer I'll feel, knowing my top Pokémon are all right."
"Ka zam?" asked Alakazam.
"Queen?" wondered Ratoqueen.
"Of course I'm not lying," said Kelly. "Now, will you help me beat these sad excuses for trainers?"
"Alakazam!"
"Ratoqueen!"
Chapter Sixteen: A Deadly Revelation
"Alakazam, psychic attack now!" ordered Kelly.
Kelly's Alakazam started to glow with a strong aurora of psychic powers. The aurora expanded swiftly and hit Gyarados and Flamed slammed them aside.
"Flamed!" cried Jay.
"Gyarados!" shouted Agua.
"Ratoqueen," said Kelly, "stop those two dragon Pokémon with your earthquake attack!"
"Rat!" Ratoqueen lifted up her giant foot, preparing to stamp it down. "Queen!" Ratoqueen slammed down her foot creating a large, shaking, quaking in the earth. This caused a tree to get out of place and started to fall right towards Flamed and Gyarados.
Jay glanced at Sean, who seemed petrified at what was happening. He grabbed a Super Ball from his belt and tossed it upward. "Winger, I choose you!"
Jay's Pidgeot/Fearow combo emerged from out of the Super Ball and landed on the ground next to them. "Sean, Sandshrew, get on now."
The little kid nodded and climbed aboard holding his small shrew Pokémon.
"Winger, get Sean and Sandshrew over to Meager Village, now," said Jay. He glanced at Alakazam and Ratoqueen who were both pummeling the dragon Pokémon. "This looks bad. Hurry."
"Not so fast! Go Gengar, go Smoggie!" Mike tossed a Super Ball and a Poké Ball in front of him, and out of them emerged the two poison-type pocket monsters. "Gengar, night shade attack! Smoggie, oil attack!"
Mike's two Pokémon shot their attacks at the airborne Winger. Instead of flying away, this caused Winger to drop to the ground.
"No escape till the match is over," growled Mike.
"Rat to!"
"Zam!"
Kelly's Ratoqueen used its mega kick to attack Gyarados right in the side, while Alakazam's seismic toss sent Flamed going upward.
Suddenly, Jay heard Sean's words pop up back in his head. " . . . Ultra, Sandshrew, Gyarados, Flamed, all the Pokémon, they just want the same thing." Jay slowly realized, Sean was right.
"Flamed!" shouted Jay, attempted to approach the giant fire-type dragon Super Pokémon. "Flamed, you have to listen to me if you want to defeat Alakazam and Ratoqueen!"
Flamed roared and swung its tail around. At first, Jay thought it was trying to slam its tail into Ratoqueen gut, but it swung around and went straight towards Jay. Jay stood tall, not moving and Flamed's tail hit Jay.
"Jay!" cried Agua, rushing over to him. The tail whip attack had sent Jay flying forward at a fast rate and slammed him to the ground. She kneeled down next to him. "You all right Barial?"
"I've been better," he muttered, as he slowly rose up. He moaned as he started to move. "I know I've never been this badly bruised in awhile. Ow!"
Agua stood in front of Jay, attempting to protect him as Gyarados decided to turn its attention towards the two helpless trainers. "Gyarados, back down now!"
Gyarados roared and shot its hydro pumps at the two. The impact from the attack would possibly kill them.
"Tra!"
"Orb!"
"Slow!"
Ultra, Fire Orb, and Soslow rushed over towards their trainers. They had already started projecting the thunder shield, fire wall, and light screen to protect their trainers. The screens all managed to start to protect the trainers from the pumps when suddenly.
CRAACK! The light screen and thunder shield failed leaving the fire wall. The water broke right through the fire wall.
Chapter Seventeen: The Final Attempt
The hydro pumps attack broke through all three protective walls. The blast of water would have easily killed both trainers if they had been hit. But as the water from the attack soaked down into the ground, the two trainers and the three Pokémon had disappeared.
Suddenly, the five reappeared (or were teleported) behind the fully evolved Pokémon, giving them to the chance to get more cover. They all ran away, out of reach of the dragon Pokémon.
"Alakazam, use your psybeam on Flamed!" ordered Kelly. "Ratoqueen, fury swipes, now! Aim towards Gyarados!"
Alakazam sent its beam of psychic energy straight towards Flamed, confusing Jay's enraged Super Pokémon, while Ratoqueen jumped at Gyarados and furious scratched at it.
"Duel hyper beam attacks!" shouted Kelly.
Jay and Agua shot their heads up in horror.
"Flamed!"
"Gyarados!"
Both of Kelly's Pokémon held their hands together and closed their eyes. They started to absorb pure energy and started to focus it into a beam.
"Flamed! You can stop the beam with your raging fire attack!" ordered Jay.
"Gyarados, use your dragon rage attack!" shouted Agua.
Both dragon Pokémon glared back angrily at their trainers when Kelly's two Pokémon shot beams of energy at the dragon's sides. The blast was a powerful shock and it forced both Flamed and Gyarados down to the ground.
"No!" The two trainers rushed over to their Pokémon. They lay still and lifeless on the ground.
"Finish them of, Alakazam, psyblast attack now!" shouted Kelly.
"Al la!" Alakazam closed its eyes and shot a blast of psychic energy around the entire area.
But, Jay's little Ultra teleported itself in front of the two trainers and the two dragons and created a reflective light screen.
"Thanks," said Jay to his starting Super Pokémon. He bent down next to Flamed. "Are you all right?"
"Gyarados, why'd you do that," said Agua. "You have to listen to me."
"Poison punch!" ordered Kelly.
Ratoqueen roared and lunged straight towards Ultra's protective light screen bubble. Her giant fist slammed into the screen, but it didn't crack.
"Again!" shouted Kelly.
"Flamed," growled Jay, "you have to listen to me."
"Flame," it growled in annoyance, attempting to roll over.
Jay sighed. "Flamed, you have to listen to me! Ultra can't keep the light screen up forever! If it fails, Kelly's Pokémon could kill both of us."
"Gyarados, listen up," said Agua. "If you and Flamed work together, we can come out of this alive."
Jay glanced around. "Litatra and Mewie's recover attacks will be able to heal you."
But Flamed wouldn't listen. It simply rolled over.
"Flamed, why won't you listen to me?" said Jay. "I tried and tried. I trained you ever since you were a little Flame. You listened to me then. Then, both you and Gyarados got attitude problems when you evolved."
"Why?" asked Agua.
Gyarados gave a simply roar in response.
"Well, if you think we don't care, we do," said Agua. "We'll care about whatever you want. If you want to fight, then I'll let you fight. You want to roam free for awhile, I'll let you roam. If you want comfort, I'll allow it. Whatever you want."
"Yeah Flamed," said Jay. "We're here for you. Don't forget that."
"Queen!" Ratoqueen felt a surge of energy and she went at full speed towards the light screen. The poison punch suddenly cracked the screen.
"Mega kick them Ratoqueen!" ordered Kelly. "Alakazam, tri attack!"
"You have to choose now!" said Jay. "It's up to you both. If you don't want to listen, then so be it. If you don't listen . . . then at least get yourselves out of here safely."
"Flamed?" The Charizard/Dragonite mix slowly rose up. "Flamed flame?"
"Of course I'm not lying," said Jay. "You come before me. You're more important than myself."
"Orb!" Fire Orb shot its fire blast attack, attempting to stop Alakazam and Ratoqueen, but it wasn't enough. Kelly's two Pokémon hit the screen and it shattered.
Chapter Eighteen: It's Over!
Fire Kat and Mike waited by a tree while the battle continued. "Hurry up."
"You know, for a band of Pokémon thieves, you're not that skilled!" Fire Kat and Mike slowly turned around, but it was too late. Sand hit both Team Rocket members' eyes, blinding them. But they recognized the voice. It was Sean.
"Shrew!" said Sandshrew happily.
"Good job Sandshrew," said Sean. He glanced at Alakazam and Ratoqueen and shouted, "Jay, I'm coming!"
"Ratoqueen, fissure attack!" ordered Kelly. "Alakazam, psyblast attack!"
Kelly's two fully evolved Pokémon had an evil smirk spread across their face as they prepared themselves to attack the enraged dragon Pokémon.
"Sandshrew, go underground!" ordered Sean.
Sandshrew nodded and dived under the ground.
Kelly chuckled. "Ah, that's sweet. He knows Jay and Agua's dragons aren't going to make it through this attack . . . so he's doing the last attempt thing." Kelly rolled her eyes. "Do it!"
"Gyarados, Flamed," said Agua, "if you want to survive, you have to listen to us!" She glanced at Ratoqueen and Alakazam as they approached them. "You have to listen to what we have for attacks."
Both dragons turned their heads away.
"Shrew!" Sandshrew popped out from under the ground and tackled Ratoqueen. Unfortunately, Sandshrew's attack missed, and it just went flying up into the air.
"Rat to . . . queen!" Ratoqueen used her comet punch attack and knocked away Sean's Sandshrew.
"Flamed?"
"Dos?"
Both dragon Pokémon turned their attention towards the injured Sandshrew as Sean rushed after the small mouse. This time, Ultra and Fire Orb stepped up.
"Ul . . . tra!"
"ORB!"
Ultra released its powerful ultra shocker attack on Alakazam, but it swiftly put up a reflective light screen, bouncing the attack back towards Jay's Pokémon. Fire Orb absorbed energy and shot a star-shaped blast of fire towards Ratoqueen. But the ground type Pokémon wasn't badly harmed and rubbed off the flame attack. Instead, Ratoqueen shot its oil attack at Fire Orb, knocking it aside.
"Ultra! Fire Orb!" shouted Jay and Agua. They both glanced towards their dragon Pokémon. Jay growled angrily and shouted at his dragon, "Flamed, fine! Don't listen to me! If you're not listening, then you should be released!" Jay ran towards his injured Super Pokémon.
"Flamed," growled the Pokémon slowly. It slowly rose up without any help from any of the psychic Pokémon's recover attack and flapped its wings. "Flame flamed flame!"
Jay glanced back. "Flamed?"
Flamed gave a loud roar as a response and took flight.
Gyarados rose up and stood erect next to Flamed. "Dos!"
"I think they're listening," said Agua. "Gyarados, stop that Ratoqueen with your hydro pumps attack!"
"Flamed, attack Alakazam with your dragon force attack, now!" ordered Jay.
Gyarados inhaled and shot three giant cannons of water at Ratoqueen. The first two blows caused the female Super Pokémon to lose balanced and the third attack toppled it over.
A fiery aura surrounded Jay's Flamed, in the shape of the dragon Pokémon. The aura stepped back and started to grow. Flamed dived down first at Alakazam and slashed right by the psychic Pokémon. Then, the fiery aura roared and dived down at full speed towards the psychic Pokémon. The two blows hit Alakazam at full force.
Chapter Nineteen: A Meager Farewell
"All right Gyarados!" cheered Agua. She glanced around and smirked. "Jay, try a duel hyper beam attack!" She looked up at her serpent Pokémon. "Hyper beam!"
"Flamed, hyper beam attack, now!" ordered Jay.
The two dragon Pokémon inhaled, absorbing pure energy. They focused it into a powerful beam and released it at Ratoqueen and Alakazam. The blasts sent them flying backwards.
Suddenly, a Super Ball on Jay's belt and on Agua's belt started rattling and shaking. Thundeer and Sere-Sea suddenly emerged from their balls unexpectedly.
"I guess Thundeer and Sere-Sea could tell we needed help," murmured Jay. "Thundeer, blow them away with your ultimate shocker attack!"
"Sere-Sea," said Agua. "Thanks for coming out when we needed you. Use your psychic water beam attack!"
Sere-Sea floated over on Thundeer's head, between its antlers. It held out its rod and a beam of water surrounded by a psychic aurora shot out from it. Thundeer charged up its electrical powers and sent a blinding blast of electricity towards the two Pokémon.
The two attacks combined and headed straight towards Team Rocket. When they hit, it caused a deadly chain reaction and exploded. The explosion sent Mike, Kelly, Fire Kat, Alakazam, and Ratoqueen flying upward.
"Team Rocket's blasting off again!" cried Kelly.
Flamed, Gyarados, Thundeer, Sere-Sea, Fire Orb, Ultra, and Sandshrew all stood proudly before their trainers. Litatra, Soslow, and Mewie all appeared from hiding along with Winger.
Jay smirked and held out several Super Balls. "All right, everyone return!" He recalled Flamed and Thundeer.
"Gyarados, Sere-Sea, come on back." Agua recalled her powerful water Pokémon.
Sean picked up Sandshrew and replied, "can we head to Meager Village now."
Jay nodded. "Smooth sailing from here on right."
* * * *
"There you go Sean, you're now an official member of the Pokémon League." Professor Oak Jr. handed the young trainer from Scarlet City his license. "Welcome."
Sean smiled happily and picked up Sandshrew. "Hear that? We're part of the league now!"
"Shrew!" said Sandshrew happily.
Jay, Agua, and Sean were all at Oak's lab, healing their Pokémon and getting Sean's license. Jay knew Agua was going to depart and meet back up with Dee and Ultram and the rest of the gang.
"Slow!" said Soslow happily. "So-so slow?"
"Yeah Soslow, Agua's gotta be heading out again," said Jay, as he glanced back towards his old friend. "Sean, Agua's going to take you back to Scarlet City. Is that okay?"
He shrugged. "Sure that's fine. Maybe she could help me catch a Pokémon or a Super Pokémon?"
Jay's eyes widened. "It could happen." Then he winked.
Sean smirked and walked outside with Sandshrew in his arms.
"I figured heading over to Scarlet City would be a good idea for you," said Professor Oak. "That way your Flamed would get under control before the big league game. Enraged Pokémon have cost many trainers, even Ash, league matches."
"You set up?" asked Jay slowly.
Oak nodded. "It seemed like the perfect final test for you." He glanced out the window. "Of course, now you're the last person from Meager Village to head out to the Pokémon League." He turned towards Jay. "Which way are you getting there?"
"I'm taking Victory Road," answered Jay.
"Then you better get moving," said Agua. "That's the long way." She picked up Soslow in her arms and headed out the door. "I'll see you up there."
"Okay, bye Agua!" Jay waved as he old friend left once again. He sighed. "Well, I'll head home, get a good nights rest, and then head out in the morning time." He bent down next to Ultra, Litatra, and Mewie. "Here that guys? We're heading to the Pokémon!"
Jay departs to the Pokémon League Games for the third season finale! But there's a small problem. As Jay's heading through Victory Road, Rockster (the final legendary Super Pokémon) appears. Now, it's Jay versus Rockster! It's Jay's final test before the league games! The Rocky Roads of Rockster!
But before Jay's final test, Jay must face a more interesting test. During the week Dee, Agua, and Ultram were here, there was one little interesting adventure. While battling against Team Rocket in the forest Jay faced none other than . . . himself! It's the "Original" Jay from the Super Pokémon: Originals special versus our good ole' Jay. And with the Jay from Super Pokémon: Originals comes the Team Rocket and allies too. But, will The Master be able to make use of another Jay? Find out in the last Super Pokémon Special, Double Jay!
Coming Soon: The time has come . . . It's what Jay's been battling and fighting for . . . the day he's been wishing and hoping for . . . and that day, has come! ¤Ultra Pokémon II¤