THE
POKéMON
WARS
Prince Pikachu need some
high help.
Episode III
The Pokégods
Jay Barial
The Pokégods
The two different worlds, inhabited by Pokémon, are ruled by two sets of Pokégods, the Indigo and the Jolt. The Indigo Pokégods are the mighty Alakazam, Gengar, Machamp, and Golem, plus Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres who guard the entrances two the Indigo Pokégods secret lair. The Jolt Pokégods are the fierce Kingudora, Nyurantano, Slowking, Haganeru, and Hassamu, plus Houou and Lugia guard the entrances to their domains. And these are the creatures the Empires hope to destroy.
Chapter One: Captured
"Move," growled the Kadabra, pushing Bulbie back into the line.
Bulbie, along with at least half of the other Pokémon the Prince had sent into the battle, had been defeated and captured by the Pokénite Empire, who was leader by the Emperor Meowtha.
Commander Lickitung, who was one of the leaders of the Pokénite, was leading the captured Pokémon to the Empire's main base.
Luckily, this way, Bulbie and the others would be able to gain information about the Pokénite Empire's bases from this one, if they managed to escape.
Bulbie . . . said a strange voice, from the wind. Bulbie . . .
"What?" growled the Bulbasaur Bulbie, who was a friend of Prince Pikachu that was leader of the raid against the two Empires, to one of the guarding Kadabra.
The guarding Kadabra used psybeam on the Bulbasaur. "I did address you."
Bulbie . . . said the strange voice again.
"Did you hear that? Did anyone here that!" cried Bulbie.
Suddenly, a Spearow from the sky (one of the Pokénite's aerial guards) dived down slammed its beak into Bulbie's back. "Silence."
Bulbie collapsed on the ground in pain, with the wind still moaning, Bulbie.
* * * *
When Bulbie awoke, she had expected to see her other injured comrades surrounding her, but instead a Lickitung, Victreebell, and Meowth were surrounding her.
"What? Who are you," growled Bulbie.
"These are my commanders, Commander Lickitung and Commander Victreebell," introduced the female Meowth. "And I am the emperor of the Pokénite Empire, Meowtha." The cat smirked evilly. "We just want some information about the whereabouts of your base."
"Yeah . . . right." Bulbie suddenly realized that she was still in a serious amount of pain from Spearow's peck or drill peck, or whatever the hell had hit her.
"You see, we'll give you a deal so we don't have to do this the hard way," explained Meowtha. "You can either tell us, and you'll be under our protection, or we can bring the information out of you." Meowtha turned around to reveal a Scyther, with giant blades. "And I mean bring it out of you. If not you, then one of the others."
Bulbie rolled her eyes. "Whirlwind!" She blew a giant whirlwind at the Scyther to try to blow it away, but the giant bug leaped at Bulbie and slashed at Bulbie's plant, slicing off a leaf.
"The hard way." Meowtha turned to Victreebell. "Poison powder." She then turned to Lickitung. "Lick attack." She smirked. "Even now, you're friends are being attacked. The troops wandering in the forest will be attacked and your friends back at the village will be attacked."
As Victreebell quickly released the poison powder upon Bulbie, poisoning the poor Bulbasaur, and Lickitung licked her and paralyzed her, Bulbie sadly realized that her friends, Chara, Squirt, Prince Pikachu, and the others were doomed.
"If you don't say anything now, you're doomed." Meowtha smiled evilly as she held out her claws.
Chapter Two: The Awakening
"So . . . tired." Squirt awoke and saw a Chansey looking over him. "Where . . . where am I? Why am I here?"
"Do you have amnesia?" asked the Chansey.
"No," replied Squirt. "Not completely, I just don't remembered what recently happened. Why did I end up here?"
Chansey pulled out a small chart. "Says here that you were injured in battle against one of those nasty Empires. During the fight's conclusion, you realized that the battle was lost and you hurried back to your village badly injured. When you arrived at your village, you fainted and then carried to the Chansey Medical Center."
It had all come back to Squirt. "Oh. Where's the prince?"
"He's gone to the Pokégods to ask for help," replied Chansey. "Though, I don't think he'll find any from those four. I believe that eventually the Pokégods will become as lowly as one of us one day."
Squirt sighed. "Where's Chara and Bulbie, they're probably the youngest around here."
"Haven't seen either of them," said the Chansey.
Squirt sighed. "Then Bulbie must still be captured and Chara's still lost."
"I search party recently left to find some lost troops, your friend Chara may be among them," suggested the Chansey.
Squirt slowly got up, and felt a surge of pain. "Arg."
"You won't be getting up for awhile," said the Chansey.
"Can I walk?" asked Squirt.
"I suppose, but you won't be at full health," said the Chansey.
Squirt slowly got up. "I need to find my friends."
* * * *
While Meta was still back at the village with the other cocoon Pokémon, her friend Pidge and been sent out on the search mission from the remaining troops.
Pidge was accompanied by Spearow, other Pidgey, and a few Pidgeotto, plus led by a Pidgeot. They were in search of Chara and the others who had escaped the battle against the Pokénib and Pokénite Empires.
"Uh, sir, I believe I have spot a Pokémon approaching," warned one of the Spearow, who was sitting on a branch up ahead.
The Pidgeot nodded. "You two Pidgey and your three Pidgeotto go down a check it out." One of the Pidgey the leader Pidgeot had addressed was Pidge.
Pidge nodded and dived down first, leading the other birds.
When a strange and small creature came into sight, Pidge smiled happily. "Enemy spotted! All right bird, attack!"
The birds flew faster down towards the creature, which ended up being a Squirtle that Pidge suddenly recognized. "It's Squirt!" she realized suddenly. "Every halt!"
The birds all came to a sudden stopped. Squirt looked up. "Pidge?"
The bird smiled. "Hello Squirt, how are you doing?"
Squirt smiled weakly. "Great, I'm back and ready to go." He moaned a little. "I'm ready to help you find Chara and the others."
"Are you sure you're up to it?" asked Pidge.
Squirt slowly nodded.
Pidge signaled for one of the Pidgeotto to let Squirt get on its back, and the small turtle slowly got on.
"Let's go," said Squirt.
Chapter Three: In Search of the Pokégods
"Now, the Pokégods – the Indigo gods anyhow – are supposed to live in the icy realm of the Evolution Cavern," said Prince Pikachu, as they entered one of the shrines of the fiery Indigo Pokégod, Moltres. "There are three entrances to the main Pokégods guarded by the three lesser gods, the gods of ice, fire, and thunder. This is the main shrine of the fire Pokégod, where it actually lives. Once we get passed Moltres, we'll be able to enter the Evolution Cavern."
Prince Pikachu, followed by his bodyguard Raichuna, and the toughest Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise of the village, where in search of the Pokégods for them to protect their village.
"So, we must scale Moltres' Tower, find it, and let it pass," said the Prince. "One way or another." Prince Pikachu slowly glanced towards the Blastoise and Raichuna.
The two Pokémon both nodded, acknowledging what that meant.
"Let's go." Prince Pikachu walked forward and began to head up Moltres' Tower, followed by the trio of Pokémon and Raichuna.
As they all scaled the tower, Prince Pikachu stopped and looked around. "Does anyone else feel the sensation that someone is watching us?"
Raichuna shrugged, and as did the Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur.
As the group continued on, and reached the top of the tower, they entered a giant empty room, where Moltres was sleeping at the other end. Behind the giant bird, was a small hole that was the entrance to the Evolution Cavern.
"If we can slip past it, then we'll be okay," said Prince Pikachu.
Raichuna shook his head. "Impossible."
"The rat's right." In front of appeared a Haunter. "If you try to slip past that thing, there won't be anything left of your Venusaur over there."
The Venusaur gave a low growl, but the prince quieted him down. "Then how can we get past it."
Haunter smirked. "You can't . . . without my help." The Haunter's hand extended towards Prince Pikachu. "With the correct pay."
The Prince glared. "I help you, and I won't burn down your tower."
The Haunter snorted. "Moltres would fry your whole group first. And of course, the infamous Indigo Pokégods will crush you."
Prince Pikachu smiled. "If my plan work out, no one will be able to touch my people. Not even Meowtho himself."
Haunter gave an utterly confused look. "Okay . . . Um, anyway, if you have five nuggets, that'll do."
"Fine." Prince Pikachu turned to Raichuna, who was carrying his golden nuggets. The Pikachu gave the nuggets to Haunter. "Now do your stuff."
After receiving the nugget, the Haunter swiftly disappeared.
The Charizard sighed. "Well, well, well. You were cheated."
Then, above Moltres, the small Haunter appeared above the bird's head. Haunter let out hypnotic waves, just to make sure Moltres was in a deep sleep. Then Haunter's hands went form his body to inside Moltres' head. Moltres seem to flinch as Haunter used dream eater to distract it.
"Now, run!" ordered the Haunter.
Prince Pikachu nodded and he and his comrades followed him into the tunnel that led downward towards the Evolution Cavern.
Chapter Four: In the Night . . .
After being drugged by one of Victreebell's special sweet smelling powders, Bulbie released the correct information. Meowtha was pleased, and contacted her troops informing them where to attack the village.
They tossed Bulbie into a special room, but the doors were locked. It was as if Bulbie were in a very nice and special sweet. Bulbie wouldn't have mind, except that the only reason he was given this was for releasing the information. When the others found out Bulbie was in a sweet, they'd probably just left her behind.
Late that next night, a strange light had awakened the Bulbasaur.
"What . . . who is it?" Bulbie slowly got up and looked around. "Who's there?"
Bulbie . . . said the strange voice to the Bulbasaur. Follow the others . . . You must not let the Victreebell make you release anymore information. Here . . .
Suddenly, strange, celestial lights came spinning around Bulbie. A small shield surrounded Bulbie then faded out.
My shield will protect you from any form of status change, said the voice. From confusion to sleeping.
"I really need to cut back on the food I eat," mumbled Bulbie. "I must be going through withdrawal."
As Bulbie slowly closed her eyes, the screech of an Arbok (the alarm) filled the base. Someone was attack.
Bulbie poked her head out of her sweet, and saw Pidgey and Pidgeotto flying above, "bombing" the base with rocks. Prince Pikachu had brought help to save the captured comrades.
"Help me!" shout Bulbie. "Help me! I'm in here!"
"You're not going anywhere, my little Bulbasaur." Commander Victreebell appeared right in front of Bulbie. "Sleep powder." The commander opened its mouth and released tons of bluish powder at Bulbie. "Night, night."
But the powder had no affect. "Cut!" Bulbie's vines shot out and cut part of Commander Victreebell.
"Arg!" cried the Victreebell, as it stumbled backwards.
"Sleepy time to you." Bulbie pointed her bulb up towards Commander Victreebell, and bluish powder came out of the plan and settled on the Victreebell. "Night, night."
Suddenly, a giant boulder smashed through the roof of Bulbie's sweet. A Pidgeot flew down into the room. "I was sent here to personally rescue you. Get on my back."
Bulbie smiled happily. "Thank the Pokégods!" Bulbie waddled to the Pidgeot and climbed on.
"You should thank the Pokégods," said the Pidgeot. "The prince went to visit them, to ask for their protection over the village."
"Really?" Bulbie thought for a moment, as Pidgeot began to take flight. "I think that I was visited by one . . ."
"Maybe your were drugged," replied Pidgeot.
"Or maybe not," murmured Bulbie, as Pidgeot flew away from the base towards the village. Then, a question popped into her mind. "Why does Prince Pikachu want protection over the village?"
"Because the Pokénite Empire is heading towards the village, as we speak," replied the Pidgeot.
Chapter Five: The Search for Chara
Squirt, Pidge, and the rest of the birds had searched the forest all day, until night had finally fallen. It had gotten so dark, it was nearly impossible to see anything.
"This is hopeless," muttered Squirt.
Pidge shook her head. "Not necessarily."
The Pidgeot in the lead stopped. "Why would you say a thing like that. We've been searching all day long."
"If Chara is with them, then she'll probably still have her flame burning," said Pidge. "If her flame is still burning . . ."
Squirt lunged at Pidge. "Shut up! Of course she's still alive! We just need to find the spot she'd be hiding."
"It's hopeless," replied the leader Pidgeot. "All troops return to the village."
"No," growled Pidge. She glanced at Squirt then smirked. "We can't turn back now. Chara and the others are still out there!"
"I'm the leader, remember," growled the Pidgeot. "I say we are leaving."
Pidge turned to the other birds. "What do the other troops say about this?"
"We're following him!" shouted the birds, pointing to the Pidgeot.
Pidge frowned. "Yeah, well it was worth a shot."
Squirt leaped forward. "I will not give up this easily."
"Good for you." Pidgeot shoved Squirt out of the way.
"No!" shouted Squirt. "I won't give up! CHARA!" Squirt's shout echoed throughout the forest.
There was a small and weak shout not too far ahead. It had to be Chara.
Squirt ran past the birds, which hadn't heard a thing, and ran towards the voice. But all Squirt found was a giant tree.
"I guess the Pidgeot commander was right." Squirt sighed and turned around.
As Squirt headed back, he heard a voice cry, "Squirt . . . help me."
"Chara!" cried Squirt. The voice was coming from the giant tree. Squirt lowered his head to ram at the tree. "Skull bash attack!" Squirt rammed into the tree, and broke down a hidden door. Inside the tree, Squirt found an injured Chara, surrounded by badly injured Pokémon that had been with her.
"Squirt," said Chara weakly. Her flame was almost out, and the others surrounded her. "I'm sorry . . . the only thing I could do was bring them here . . . I didn't have any potions or anything."
After realizing that Squirt had found something and the birds had flown towards the tree, a Pidgeotto flew into the room. It flew around the bodies and scanned over them. Pidgeotto then landed next to Squirt and replied, "They're all dead."
Chara sighed. "I'm sorry . . ." Chara then suddenly coughed and slowly passed out. Her flame slowly died out.
"No!" shouted Squirt. "No! Chara, no!" Squirt's eyes watered up and cried one more time, "No!"
The tears fell onto Chara, who suddenly began to glow brightly. Chara slowly grew much larger, with her flame burning brightly again. The small female Charmander was evolving into a Charmeleon. "Char," growled Chara simply.
Pidge nodded. "Chara's evolving has helped her healed."
Pidgeot sighed. "Well that's not important at the moment." Pidgeot nodded, and the herd of Pidgeotto flew towards Chara and surrounded her. "Chara, on the account that you have disappointed the Pokégods and let others die, you are hereby punished, even to a possible death."
"What!" cried Squirt and Pidge.
"No," moaned Chara weakly. She suddenly collapsed again. The Pidgeotto lifted Chara up into the sky as they flew towards the village.
Squirt sighed. "This isn't fair."
"Don't worry," said a Pidgeotto, as Squirt boarded it. "If Prince Pikachu doesn't get the help from the Pokégods, then our village is finished."
Chapter Six: Deal With the Gods
The path to the Evolution Cavern took all day, but it was worth it when the group suddenly turned a corner and revealed a giant – empty – icy cave.
"Pokégods!" shouted Prince Pikachu. "I, the prince of the Pikachu, summon a session with you! For protection of my current village."
"Why don't you just step forward?" questioned the Venusaur.
"It is only safe for the Pokégods to enter this cave," explained the prince. "Who ever enters will be super-charged, and if charged up too much will eventually over age and die."
Suddenly, there was a giant flash of light, and a strange bubble appeared in front of them. "You may enter this for protection," said a strange voice.
Prince Pikachu, Raichuna, the Charizard, the Blastoise, and the Venusaur all entered the strange bubble, which suddenly lifted up high towards the roof of the cavern and floated in mid air.
Then, a strange face appeared in front of them, with strange markings on them. It looked like a giant Kadabra.
Prince Pikachu bowed. "Alakazam, the god of light."
An enormous Graveler-like creature was behind them and gave a loud growl.
"Golem, the god of earth," introduced Prince Pikachu.
A strange ghost Pokémon and a giant fighting Pokémon appeared next.
"The god of darkness, Gengar, and the god of the warrior, Machamp," finished the prince. "These are the Pokégods."
"Prince Pikachu, we realize your village will soon by wiped out, but what does this have anything to do with the Indigo Pokégods?" asked Alakazam, standing in front of Gengar, Golem, and Machamp. "And why are you asking me, not Machamp?"
"I am the warrior god," replied Machamp.
Prince Pikachu sighed. "Because warriors we have. But so do the Empires. We need a new kind of power."
"Psychic powers," replied Machamp. "It's always the psychic powers."
"No, we have that too with out Butterfree," answered the Pikachu. "We need protection. Your psychic powers can do that."
"Why, exactly should we help you?" asked Golem.
"Because you and the Jolt Pokégods are also in some what danger." The Prince sighed. "These Empires, the Pokénib and Pokénite, wish to overthrow you gods. Without you, they will be in complete control. So in some way, giving us protection is actually helping you."
"The Jolt Pokégods they can take," replied Gengar. "It is my own health that I am concerned about. Though, as the god of darkness, I believe these Meowth my have some purpose."
Alakazam ignored Gengar's comment. "So in a way, you and your troops will be working for us, correct?"
"Not for the Jolt Pokégods?" asked Gengar.
Prince Pikachu sighed once again. "Yes, we'll be working for you, and you'll call upon us when needed. But as for the Jolt Pokégods . . ." The Prince turned behind him to see what the lead Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise thought. They all shook their heads, but Raichuna nodded simply. "We'll need protection from the Jolt Pokégods as well."
"They are another story," replied Golem. "There is no way to reach them, though being the god of earth I may be able to help you."
"Protection from use is accessible, and we will do," said Alakazam. "We frankly don't care about the other gods."
"I do," replied Gengar.
Alakazam lifted Gengar with its psychic powers in anger. "Shut up!"
Prince Pikachu waited for the two Pokégods to stop fighting before he continued. "So, will you protect the village?"
"Yes," answered Alakazam.
"And will you bring us to the lair of the Jolt Pokégods?" the Prince asked.
"Of course." Golem stood up. "Follow me."
Chapter Seven: A Completed Deal
During their flight home, Pidge, Squirt, Chara, and the Pidgeot commander ran into another Pidgeot and Bulbie, who had just escaped from the village.
They all headed towards their village. As they all flew towards it, they could see the Pokénite's troops slowly coming up towards their village. Even if they attacked, they wouldn't have been able to do a thing. It was hopeless.
The two Pidgeot flew into the village, followed by the Pidgeotto and the Pidgey. Pidge, Squirt, and Bulbie hopped off together and stood in front of the Pidgeotto taking Chara to her cell.
"We won't let you take her," growled Squirt.
"Move, or you'll all be arrested," said the Pidgeot commander.
"Don't we have a say in this?" asked Bulbie. "We are Prince Pikachu's close and personal friends."
"Gust!" The Pidgeot commander flew up and flapped its wings, creating a giant tornado, tossing Pidge, Squirt, and Bulbie aside. "Now bring Chara to her cell, while the others prepare for the attack . . ."
But Pidgeot was cut off by the loud blast of giant blasts of fire shooting towards the village. The five blasts of fire would put the village in flames, destroying all they had worked for.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
They all looked up and saw the five blasts all explode before even hitting the village. It was like an invisible wall was protection it. It was the light screen of the Pokégods protecting their village.
The Pidgeot commander nodded. "Prince Pikachu has gotten the Indigo Pokégods' protection over the village. Now, bring this Charmeleon to the prison."
* * * *
Golem had brought them through the center of their world, to the other side. Golem opened up the entrance into an enormous sky-like heaven.
"This is as far as I go." Golem turned around and headed back towards the Evolution Cavern.
Prince Pikachu, Raichuna, and the trio of followers hovered in their bubble towards the center of the sky-like heaven.
"Welcome to the Celestial Sky, Prince Pikachu." The Jolt Pokégods suddenly appeared before them.
One of the Pokégods was the Seadra-like Pokégod Kingudora the dragon-Pokégod, the other looked similar to Poliwhirl but more frog like, this was Nyurantano the Pokégod of hypnosis, then there was the Slowbro that had managed to get the Shellder on its head as a crown, this was Slowking the king of the Pokégods, then there was of course the huge Onix covered in steel, Haganeru the Pokégod of steel, and finally the steel-version of Scyther, Hassamu the other Pokégod of steel.
The prince nodded. "Hello Jolt Pokégods, I come in an emergency."
"Those Meowth are trying to take our place." Slowking chuckled. "We know, and you want to warn us and earn some sort of protection."
Prince Pikachu nodded. "If we can."
"The only way to earn our trust is to recover the lost stones of the Pokégods," said Haganeru and Hassamu.
Raichuna gave a confused look. "How did you lose the evolution stones?"
"Well, it seems that there are another group of Pokégods out there," said Kingudora. "They stole the stones and have gone into hiding."
"Are you referring to Mew and Serebii?" asked Charizard. "The god-like Pokémon that roam our worlds?"
"No, a new enemy," said Nyurantano. "Once you have recovered the stones, your trust will be ours." Nyurantano turned to Slowking. "Return them to their realm."
"Teleportation." Slowking closed his eyes and suddenly teleported Prince Pikachu, Raichuna, and the others back to the shrine of Moltres.
"Now, we must return to the village and inform them of our new protection," said Prince Pikachu. "Then we must go in search of the stones."
To be continued . . .