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It rained on
them the next day, but, luckily, the day after that, they reached a small
town and began to search for an Inn. After they checked into an Inn
so that they would have a room for the night, Sage went off to explore the
town while Pikachu went off to buy snacks and other stuff. Sage had
not explored too long when he turned to walk down an alley and saw a
pink-haired woman and a blue-haired man wearing the exact same outfit with
a cat-like pokemon. Team Rocket.
Sage
instantly turned his back against the wall of the building, breathing
heavily. Okay. Just calm
down and walk away at a steady pace... The events two
days ago were still vivid in his mind. Slowly, he began to go back
in the direction he came from. Steady...
Steady...
"Hey, didn't you hear
something just now?" Meowth asked.
A wave of fear flooded
his mind momentarily, but he tried to remain focused, Steady... Steady...
Calm
down, he told himself
silently, Steady...
Steady...
"I did, too," Said
James.
Steady... Steady...
The Ronin clenched his
teeth, determined not to run in fright.
"It's Sage!" Jessie
screamed.
RUN!RUN!RUN!
He sped up, lost his
footing; the ground was coming closer to meet him. "Oh, sh- oof!" he
hit the concrete ground. He got up, turned to see Team Rocket
chasing after him, and ran faster.
He came to a two-way
crossing point. Left or right? Left. James suddenly
appeared in front of
him. Sage decided to go right, running faster as his fear
increased. His lungs burned and begged for mercy as he made several
twists and turns throughout the town, but he ignored their pleas.
Nothing would be able to stop him.
Meowth appeared in front
of him, holding his paw out, "Stop!" Sage still ran as if he
never heard the
pokemon. "I said, 'stop'!" Still running, Sage caculated the
speed, distance and force required. "Stop now!" Meowth felt
panic tug at his mind. The Ronin was coming closer as though he
would not quit. "Stop it this instant!" Sage was getting
closer and closer and closer...
Oh, God! Is he
ever gonna stop? "I'm telling you
to stop!" The warrior was approaching at an alarming speed.
He's gonna run right
over me! Meowth ducked,
covering his head with his paws. In one liquid movement, Sage
leaped, sailed straight over the creature and was still running away as he
landed.
Pikachu walked out of a
little store, carrying a small bag filled with goodies in one hand and a
chocolate milkshake in the other hand. Pikachu was about to take a
sip out of the shake when Sage, again in sub-armor for speed needed to
help cross the heavy traffic earlier, came running in panic, yanking his
furry comrade off the ground by it's zigzag shaped tail.
"PIIIIIIIIIIKKAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Sage, what are you
running from?" It's vision was jumping everywhere as Sage ran, making the
little animal dizzy.
"Can't you see them for
yourself?"
Pikachu then noticed,
from an upside-down point of view, Jessie chasing them, "Aw,
man!"
They were dodging things
everywhere they went and Sage, still holding Pikachu, was struggling to
get a single breath of air. His muscles threatened to collaspe if he
did not stop and his lungs felt like they had been hit by Ryo's Rage of
Inferno attack. His fear gave him the energy to keep running.
Once he stopped to catch his breath and Pikachu said, "They're right
behind us." Sage turned around and sure enough, they were still
being chased!
Now, they had entered a
highway that split the town. Sage, still holding Pikachu by the
tail, turned around again. Team Rocket was still right behind
them! If his armor wasn't fast enough to out-distance Team Rocket, a
car would. Sage caculated the speed of the cars, the speed he would
need to travel, and the distance from the highway. Then, forcing his
aching muscles to comply, he ran and jumped onto a neon-green car.
The Ronin took a deep breath and set the pikachu down, finally able to
relax.
"Sage! Don't do
that again!" Pikachu began to tell Sage all about the dangers of
jumping onto strange cars, but the warrior wasn't listening. He was
so exhausted and tired. He just wanted to fall asleep and
relax...
The furry pokemon began
to feel seasick. This car is acting just
like a boat! Moving a little to the left, then to the right, then to
the left again! Although the highway was
one straight line, the car was swerving every-which-way. Pikachu
walked over to the edge and looked down at the road below. The car
swerved again as though trying to force the pikachu off and would've
succeeded if Pikachu hadn't grabbed Sage's foot at the last minute.
Then, it safely climbed back onto the roof of the car and instantly ran
back to Sage; it's head reeling with dizziness.
"Is this driver drunk?"
It asked the warrior.
Sage shrugged, "I don't
know."
Without warning, the car
violently flew off the highway and made a sharp turn around a steep hill,
throwing them off aggressively down the muddy hill.
Pikachu instantly stood
up and began pulling twigs and leaves out of it's fur, "You see,
Sage? This is why you do not jump onto strange cars! Cause the
driver of that car might be drunk!"
"Hmph." Sage stood
up and looked at the animal, "At least we're away from Team Rocket.
Nothing can be more annoying than those idiots."
"True... That is so
very, very true..."
They surveyed their new
surroundings and noticed a small, plain, old, wooden building with two
windows, so dirty they've become opaque, one on each side of the
door. Sounds of battle could be heard coming from inside.
"Well," Sage spoke, looking for another building with
disappointment. "I guess we should go in and ask for directions back
to the hotel."
"I don't think it's safe
in there."
"Don't worry. It's
probably just some drunks fighting. It's not like there's
any-" Suddenly,
the left window shattered and a man-sized piece of
metal knocked the Ronin
to the ground. Sage quickly shoved the metal
off and dropped into a
fighting stance; the piece of metal also got up.
"Ut-oh." Pikachu was
surprised... It was a Dynasty Soldier! The soldier
swung it's sword but
Sage dodged and kicked the undead creature in the
stomach. More
soldiers appeared and the warrior began to armor up. While Sage was
armoring up, the soldiers turned their attention to the little pikachu a
few feet away. One swung a huge scythe, but pikachu grabbed the
wooden part of the weapon with it's hands. Another swung a
sword. Pikachu dodged and the sword hit the scythe, breaking it in
two. The furry creature now had a weapon to defend itself with but
was inexperienced at fighting with weapons and was also afraid of being
stepped on.
When Sage was in full
armor, Pikachu dropped the weapon and jumped on top of his helmet for
safety. The Ronin was too busy battling soldiers to object, but an
angry scowl appeared on his face. There was an endless amount of
soldiers. Whenever he thought he destroyed the last one more would
appear seemingly out of nowhere. Then, they heard a feminine voice
yell out from the building, "Sailor Jupiter, stop throwing those things
out there! There are civilians out
there."
Suddenly, the battle
between the soldiers stopped as Sage looked up to see a woman with long,
beautiful brown hair, wearing a dark green fuku. |
