Max's Quest: The Tropical League
Chapter 3 - "Wait!"
It was getting late and the gym was almost closed. The street lights were starting to turn on as they walked through the street. It was sort of beautiful; the lights glowed a yellowish orange. Vince noticed a little pond across the street of the Secta Island Gym.
"Wait!" Vince stopped Max and pointed to a small blue Pokemon. It was like a tiny, dark blue tadpole with a swirl on its whit stomach and it had no arms. "Hey Max you should catch it!"
"I need to get to the gym!" Max said wanting to get to the gym to fight for his first badge.
"But you need three Pokemon to battle in a gym!" Vince explained why Max should really stop and attempt to catch the small Pokemon.
"Really?" Max asked.
"Well you could use one if you want but you and the gym leader are allowed to use three each!" Vince explained once again. "So the odds are you have a better chance of winning with another Pokemon!"
"Alright I'll do it!" Max said accepting the information. "I choose you Charmander!" Max tossed Charmander's Pokeball in the air. It hit the ground, opened and then revealed Charmander. "Charmander use your Flamethrower!"
Charmander growled and caught the small Pokemon's attention. Charmander then released a continuous stream of fire. The attack lit up the area with it's red fire mixed with swirls of orange in the flame.
The attack headed towards the tiny Pokemon but the small Pokemon opened up its mouth and shot out a huge blast of water putting the fire out and continued on towards Charmander. It soaked Charmander and made the fire lizard Pokemon fall down.
"That's a strong Water Gun attack!" Vince pointed out as Charmander lied on the floor.
"Charmander return!" Max recalled the drenched Pokemon and tried to think for a little while. He then pulled out his Pokedex and opened it up.
"Poliwag the tadpole Pokemon!" The red gadget responded with out Max even saying a word. "Because it is inept at walking on its newly grown legs, it always swims around in water. It specializes in water type attacks!"
"Well maybe Charmander wasn't strong enough?" Max asked him self. "Donphan can get it done!" Max pulled Donphan's Pokeball from his trainers belt and hurled it at the ground. It spun then bounced off the floor. It opened and then in a red flash came out the gray elephant Pokemon. "Use Earthquake!"
Donphan leaped into the air and planted its feet roughly in the ground. Donphan slammed on the ground so hard a cloud of smoke started to form around the surrounding area. Poliwag was badly hurt.
Max then saw the opportunity, "Pokeball, go!" Max flung the Pokeball towards the badly beaten Poliwag. The half-red, half-white ball hit Poliwag on the top of the head and then opened. A red beam then came out and connected to Poliwag's body. The beam covered Poliwag and sucked it up, then closed. It fell to the ground and shook back and forth. Max waited to see if it would be a catch. The ball stopped shaking and Max had caught Poliwag.
"You did it Max!" Vince said in the darkness of the night.
"Yes! I caught a Poliwag!" Max walked up to the Pokeball and picked it up. He then held it in the air proudly.
"Hey we should get to the gym before it closes!" Vince pointed out.
"Oh yeah!" Max quickly attached the ball to his belt and then walked up to the gym door witch was located across the street. Max peeked into the two large glass windows and couldn't see any one inside.
"I think its closed!" Vince also had walked up to the door to check things out.
Then Max herd something that seemed to be coming from the left side of the building.
"Hey! What's that noise?" Vince questioned the same noise that Max had herd.
"I don't know. Lets check it out!" max was very curious because it sounded like a window opening and Max new this couldn't be cause they saw no one in the Gym.
They ran around the corner of the gym and saw a man in a black suit. He was on a latter trying to get in the gym window. Max then noticed who it was. . . It was James!
"Hey get down from there James!" Vince demanded.
"Yeah!" Max agreed.
James then stopped what he was doing and noticed his two rivals, "Don't you punks mess up my plan!"
"And what would that be James?" Max waited for an answer.
"Hmm... Let's see! I am a member of Team Rocket and my job is to steal Pokemon!" James said sarcastically. "Why else would I be here but to steal some of Secta Island's famous Bug Pokemon?"
"Not if we can help it!" Max shouted boldly.
Then James quickly got the window open and jumped in the gym.
"Let's get him!" Vince said.
Max and Vince quickly climbed up the ladder and jumped into the dark gym. They couldn't see much but it was full of trees and bushes. Also many beautiful flowers.
"Stop!" Max ran up to James and grabbed his arm.
"You will not stop me from stealing these Pokemon!" James screamed and knocked Max down as he headed for the huge greenhouse where all the Pokemon stay at night.
Vince then said, "We cannot let you take all these innocent Pokemon!" Then he helped Max up and they started chasing him again.
All of a sudden alarms started going off. The alarms were very loud and sounded like a piercing or screeching kind of noise.
"There's no way I'm going to jail!" James said. "I'm outta here!"
James quickly ran for the door but a huge steel barrier came down very fast and blocked the entrance. Then he headed for the window and the same happened. "Rats!!!" James said.
"What are we going to do Max?" Vince was worried.
"I don't know Vince!" Max replied, "I just don't know!"
The three of them could hear police cars coming closer and closer. Finally a bunch of men in police uniforms came in and started asking questions. "What are you punks doing here?"
Max and Vince quickly said, "It wasn't us!"
"That's what they all say!" the police man said.
"Me neither!" James said.
"Yeah sure!" the tall officer said. "Your coming with us to the station."
The what seemed to be head officer cuffed all three of them and took them out side. Max, Vince, and James were shoved into the police car. They were then taken to the Secta Island Police department were they were held.
The finally arrived at the small police station. Max had figured that it was already past midnight because it was pitch black outside and the gym was closed when the incident happened. Vince was getting very nervous, as was Max.
"Here we go," the officer said. "This will prove how is innocent!" He had a black VHS tape in his hand.
"What's that?" James asked nervously, knowing what it was.
"This is the tape from the surveillance camera in the Secta Island Gym!" The officer then popped the tape into a nearby TV. It was one of those small TVs with VCR combination in it. Then the officer listened and watched to the whole conversation that Max, Vince, and James had inside the gym.
"I'm very sorry for the mix up," the officer apologized to Max and Vincent. "And as for you," he pointed to James, "Your going to jail!" The officer then grabbed James by his black Team Rocket suit and took him into a room in the back of the police station.
Max and Vince were offered to stay over night if they had no were to go, which was the case. They got to sleep on tiny cots in the waiting room. It wasn't that comfortable but it was a lot better than sleeping in a jail cell.
They woke up in the morning and headed back for the gym. This time Max was going to make sure he got there. The police station was kind of far away from the gym but Max thought he could battle other trainers on the way there or even catch another Pokemon if he saw one.
After awhile of walking Max came across a trainer that was very interested in battling. She was about Max's age, was very tall and skinny, and had light brown hair. She was dressed in a light yellowish dress.
"Let's use three Pokemon each!" Max made the terms of the match.
"Fine by me!" she answered. "I choose you, Magby!" she tossed her Pokeball onto the ground releasing the small version of Magmar.
"Great! Its perfect for my newest Pokemon, Poliwag!" Max sent out his brand new edition to his line-up. "Bubble Poliwag, now!"
"Poli," Poliwag leaped into battle releasing a fierce stream of tiny bubbles. It quickly hit Magby in the head doing a lot of damage.
"I guess I don't have the type advantage?" the girl trainer noticed. "But don't give up Magby!" she encouraged. "Use your Ember!"
"Mag...By!" Magby let out a small ball of orange, red, and yellow fire. It hit Poliwag right on her swirl not doing a lot of damage.
"Poliwag Water Gun attack!"
Poliwag then sprayed a large amount of water, drenching Magby and finally knocking it out.
"Alright Poliwag! You did a great job!" Max leaped in the air and screamed in excitement.
"Magby return! Go, Oddish!"
"Max switch Pokemon Oddish has a type advantage!" Vince clearly blurted out.
"My Poliwag can't loose!" Max responded.
"Use your Absorb!" the girl trainer shouted out.
"Oddish, Oddish!" Oddish released a green bubble from its mouth, hit covered Poliwag and drained a some of her energy.
"Poliwag! Double Slap!" Max ordered.
Poliwag then turned around and whacked Oddish with its tail several times in a row. It was a critical hit and did a lot of damage.
"Awesome!" Max shouted.
"Oddish Mega Drain!"
Oddish almost did the same thing as he did with Absorb but the bubble was much bigger. This attack did a lot of damage and restored some of Oddish's health.
Poliwag started to glow kind of red.
"Is Poliwag evolving?" Max asked.
"No!" Vince exclaimed. "Its using Rage!"
Poliwag then slammed her own body into Oddish's body several times doing a lot of damage.
"Good job Poliwag! Now use Body Slam!"
Poliwag ran as fast as it could and slammed hard into Oddish one last time and knocked Oddish out in a huge upset.
"Alright I can't loose!" Max got cocky.
"That's it I choose Mareep!" she was getting mad. "Use your Thunder!!!"
The small sheep Pokemon let out a huge amount of electricity at Poliwag, knocking it out easily.
"It's alright Poliwag!" Max recalled his Pokemon. "I'll show you!" Max threw his next Pokeball onto the field not allowing the trainer to know which Pokemon he was using until it was out of its Pokeball.
Donphan popped out of the red and white ball and leaped into battle.
"Mareep use Thunder Bolt!" she told her Pokemon.
Mareep formed a huge bolt of lightning and released it on Donphan. Donphan was not effected a bit by this attack.
"Donphan use Earthquake and finish it off!" Max shouted.
Donphan jumped high in the air and came back down hard. Donphan caused a huge earthquake under Mareep's feet. Mareep was losing and finally it could not take the pain. Mareep fell over on its side and the battle was over.
"That was a good Battle!" Max shook the other trainer's hand and they parted ways.
Max thought that he should train more for his upcoming bout instead of rushing to get their because he knew if he tried to rush things he would loose his first gym battle and he would regret not training hard enough. The two were back on there way to the gym but this time they were going to take it slow.
Chapter 3 - "Wait!"
It was getting late and the gym was almost closed. The street lights were starting to turn on as they walked through the street. It was sort of beautiful; the lights glowed a yellowish orange. Vince noticed a little pond across the street of the Secta Island Gym.
"Wait!" Vince stopped Max and pointed to a small blue Pokemon. It was like a tiny, dark blue tadpole with a swirl on its whit stomach and it had no arms. "Hey Max you should catch it!"
"I need to get to the gym!" Max said wanting to get to the gym to fight for his first badge.
"But you need three Pokemon to battle in a gym!" Vince explained why Max should really stop and attempt to catch the small Pokemon.
"Really?" Max asked.
"Well you could use one if you want but you and the gym leader are allowed to use three each!" Vince explained once again. "So the odds are you have a better chance of winning with another Pokemon!"
"Alright I'll do it!" Max said accepting the information. "I choose you Charmander!" Max tossed Charmander's Pokeball in the air. It hit the ground, opened and then revealed Charmander. "Charmander use your Flamethrower!"
Charmander growled and caught the small Pokemon's attention. Charmander then released a continuous stream of fire. The attack lit up the area with it's red fire mixed with swirls of orange in the flame.
The attack headed towards the tiny Pokemon but the small Pokemon opened up its mouth and shot out a huge blast of water putting the fire out and continued on towards Charmander. It soaked Charmander and made the fire lizard Pokemon fall down.
"That's a strong Water Gun attack!" Vince pointed out as Charmander lied on the floor.
"Charmander return!" Max recalled the drenched Pokemon and tried to think for a little while. He then pulled out his Pokedex and opened it up.
"Poliwag the tadpole Pokemon!" The red gadget responded with out Max even saying a word. "Because it is inept at walking on its newly grown legs, it always swims around in water. It specializes in water type attacks!"
"Well maybe Charmander wasn't strong enough?" Max asked him self. "Donphan can get it done!" Max pulled Donphan's Pokeball from his trainers belt and hurled it at the ground. It spun then bounced off the floor. It opened and then in a red flash came out the gray elephant Pokemon. "Use Earthquake!"
Donphan leaped into the air and planted its feet roughly in the ground. Donphan slammed on the ground so hard a cloud of smoke started to form around the surrounding area. Poliwag was badly hurt.
Max then saw the opportunity, "Pokeball, go!" Max flung the Pokeball towards the badly beaten Poliwag. The half-red, half-white ball hit Poliwag on the top of the head and then opened. A red beam then came out and connected to Poliwag's body. The beam covered Poliwag and sucked it up, then closed. It fell to the ground and shook back and forth. Max waited to see if it would be a catch. The ball stopped shaking and Max had caught Poliwag.
"You did it Max!" Vince said in the darkness of the night.
"Yes! I caught a Poliwag!" Max walked up to the Pokeball and picked it up. He then held it in the air proudly.
"Hey we should get to the gym before it closes!" Vince pointed out.
"Oh yeah!" Max quickly attached the ball to his belt and then walked up to the gym door witch was located across the street. Max peeked into the two large glass windows and couldn't see any one inside.
"I think its closed!" Vince also had walked up to the door to check things out.
Then Max herd something that seemed to be coming from the left side of the building.
"Hey! What's that noise?" Vince questioned the same noise that Max had herd.
"I don't know. Lets check it out!" max was very curious because it sounded like a window opening and Max new this couldn't be cause they saw no one in the Gym.
They ran around the corner of the gym and saw a man in a black suit. He was on a latter trying to get in the gym window. Max then noticed who it was. . . It was James!
"Hey get down from there James!" Vince demanded.
"Yeah!" Max agreed.
James then stopped what he was doing and noticed his two rivals, "Don't you punks mess up my plan!"
"And what would that be James?" Max waited for an answer.
"Hmm... Let's see! I am a member of Team Rocket and my job is to steal Pokemon!" James said sarcastically. "Why else would I be here but to steal some of Secta Island's famous Bug Pokemon?"
"Not if we can help it!" Max shouted boldly.
Then James quickly got the window open and jumped in the gym.
"Let's get him!" Vince said.
Max and Vince quickly climbed up the ladder and jumped into the dark gym. They couldn't see much but it was full of trees and bushes. Also many beautiful flowers.
"Stop!" Max ran up to James and grabbed his arm.
"You will not stop me from stealing these Pokemon!" James screamed and knocked Max down as he headed for the huge greenhouse where all the Pokemon stay at night.
Vince then said, "We cannot let you take all these innocent Pokemon!" Then he helped Max up and they started chasing him again.
All of a sudden alarms started going off. The alarms were very loud and sounded like a piercing or screeching kind of noise.
"There's no way I'm going to jail!" James said. "I'm outta here!"
James quickly ran for the door but a huge steel barrier came down very fast and blocked the entrance. Then he headed for the window and the same happened. "Rats!!!" James said.
"What are we going to do Max?" Vince was worried.
"I don't know Vince!" Max replied, "I just don't know!"
The three of them could hear police cars coming closer and closer. Finally a bunch of men in police uniforms came in and started asking questions. "What are you punks doing here?"
Max and Vince quickly said, "It wasn't us!"
"That's what they all say!" the police man said.
"Me neither!" James said.
"Yeah sure!" the tall officer said. "Your coming with us to the station."
The what seemed to be head officer cuffed all three of them and took them out side. Max, Vince, and James were shoved into the police car. They were then taken to the Secta Island Police department were they were held.
The finally arrived at the small police station. Max had figured that it was already past midnight because it was pitch black outside and the gym was closed when the incident happened. Vince was getting very nervous, as was Max.
"Here we go," the officer said. "This will prove how is innocent!" He had a black VHS tape in his hand.
"What's that?" James asked nervously, knowing what it was.
"This is the tape from the surveillance camera in the Secta Island Gym!" The officer then popped the tape into a nearby TV. It was one of those small TVs with VCR combination in it. Then the officer listened and watched to the whole conversation that Max, Vince, and James had inside the gym.
"I'm very sorry for the mix up," the officer apologized to Max and Vincent. "And as for you," he pointed to James, "Your going to jail!" The officer then grabbed James by his black Team Rocket suit and took him into a room in the back of the police station.
Max and Vince were offered to stay over night if they had no were to go, which was the case. They got to sleep on tiny cots in the waiting room. It wasn't that comfortable but it was a lot better than sleeping in a jail cell.
They woke up in the morning and headed back for the gym. This time Max was going to make sure he got there. The police station was kind of far away from the gym but Max thought he could battle other trainers on the way there or even catch another Pokemon if he saw one.
After awhile of walking Max came across a trainer that was very interested in battling. She was about Max's age, was very tall and skinny, and had light brown hair. She was dressed in a light yellowish dress.
"Let's use three Pokemon each!" Max made the terms of the match.
"Fine by me!" she answered. "I choose you, Magby!" she tossed her Pokeball onto the ground releasing the small version of Magmar.
"Great! Its perfect for my newest Pokemon, Poliwag!" Max sent out his brand new edition to his line-up. "Bubble Poliwag, now!"
"Poli," Poliwag leaped into battle releasing a fierce stream of tiny bubbles. It quickly hit Magby in the head doing a lot of damage.
"I guess I don't have the type advantage?" the girl trainer noticed. "But don't give up Magby!" she encouraged. "Use your Ember!"
"Mag...By!" Magby let out a small ball of orange, red, and yellow fire. It hit Poliwag right on her swirl not doing a lot of damage.
"Poliwag Water Gun attack!"
Poliwag then sprayed a large amount of water, drenching Magby and finally knocking it out.
"Alright Poliwag! You did a great job!" Max leaped in the air and screamed in excitement.
"Magby return! Go, Oddish!"
"Max switch Pokemon Oddish has a type advantage!" Vince clearly blurted out.
"My Poliwag can't loose!" Max responded.
"Use your Absorb!" the girl trainer shouted out.
"Oddish, Oddish!" Oddish released a green bubble from its mouth, hit covered Poliwag and drained a some of her energy.
"Poliwag! Double Slap!" Max ordered.
Poliwag then turned around and whacked Oddish with its tail several times in a row. It was a critical hit and did a lot of damage.
"Awesome!" Max shouted.
"Oddish Mega Drain!"
Oddish almost did the same thing as he did with Absorb but the bubble was much bigger. This attack did a lot of damage and restored some of Oddish's health.
Poliwag started to glow kind of red.
"Is Poliwag evolving?" Max asked.
"No!" Vince exclaimed. "Its using Rage!"
Poliwag then slammed her own body into Oddish's body several times doing a lot of damage.
"Good job Poliwag! Now use Body Slam!"
Poliwag ran as fast as it could and slammed hard into Oddish one last time and knocked Oddish out in a huge upset.
"Alright I can't loose!" Max got cocky.
"That's it I choose Mareep!" she was getting mad. "Use your Thunder!!!"
The small sheep Pokemon let out a huge amount of electricity at Poliwag, knocking it out easily.
"It's alright Poliwag!" Max recalled his Pokemon. "I'll show you!" Max threw his next Pokeball onto the field not allowing the trainer to know which Pokemon he was using until it was out of its Pokeball.
Donphan popped out of the red and white ball and leaped into battle.
"Mareep use Thunder Bolt!" she told her Pokemon.
Mareep formed a huge bolt of lightning and released it on Donphan. Donphan was not effected a bit by this attack.
"Donphan use Earthquake and finish it off!" Max shouted.
Donphan jumped high in the air and came back down hard. Donphan caused a huge earthquake under Mareep's feet. Mareep was losing and finally it could not take the pain. Mareep fell over on its side and the battle was over.
"That was a good Battle!" Max shook the other trainer's hand and they parted ways.
Max thought that he should train more for his upcoming bout instead of rushing to get their because he knew if he tried to rush things he would loose his first gym battle and he would regret not training hard enough. The two were back on there way to the gym but this time they were going to take it slow.