OH NO! It's another Gym!
(Du-du-duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!)
Once they reach Viridian City, the gang finds the Team Rocket Headquarters. Will that get in the way of a new Badge, in...
Don't Interrupt
Disclaimer: Honestly. I can't be bothered to do this. So I will not tell you that I don't own Pokémon. And I will not tell you I do own Ad.
"Home!" gasped Jessie. Ahead of them was Viridian City.
"And that's a good thing?" asked James, twiddling his thumbs.
"Why?" asked Jessie.
"Well," reasoned Meowth, "we are hated by the boss. Where does the boss work?"
"Here!" finished James. Jessie thought for a moment.
"Ah. I understand." She thought for a moment. "Why are we here?"
"Another day, another Gym," said Ash, looking at Viridian City.
"You mean when we went from Fuchsia to Pallet, it took less than a day?" asked Misty.
"Er..."
"And another thing: why didn't you get an Egg card? Sorry: why didn't we go through Viridian Forest?"
"Writer's block."
"Ah," acknowledged Brock.
"Could we just get back to the story?" shouted Ash, a bit peeved.
"OK, OK," said Misty.
"Where is the Gym, then?" asked Ash.
"Probably in there," said Brock, pointing at the Team Rocket Gym.
"No way! I'm not going in there!" cried Ash. "That's where I got slapped to the bone last time!"
"Don't remind me," growled Misty.
"You're half right," said Ad.
"It's actually underneath the Gym, but we have to pass through to get to the stairs."
"Oh dear," said Ash.
He wasn't the only person to say "Oh dear". Sodid the three crouched figures.
"We're gonna be laughed at so much if we go through there!" cried James.
"Not if I can help it," thought Meowth. He pulled out a remote control.
"It's time to test the Digatron™!"
"The what?" asked Jessie.
"The Digatron™ is a new machine which can dig 14 shovelfuls a second! We can get into the underground!" explained Meowth.
"Wow! I'm redundant!" said James gleefully.
"Let's get digging!" said Meowth, pressing a red button.
"These Grunts are intimidating," said Ash, trembling.
A Grunt grunted, indicating he would have bashed his head in if this were not a family fic.
"I hope we don't get in any battles. My Pokémon are weak," said Misty, trembling equally hard. A moment's confusion erupted, ending with Misty saying, "Well, I'm not facing the Gym leader, am I?" and everyone shutting up.
"Hang on," said Ad. There was a statue of a Persian in front of him. He pushed the left eye, held it in, and tapped the right one. The wall slid open. The group cautiously stepped in, and Ad pushed the tail of the Persian, before ducking in again. The door slid slowly shut. As soon as it rested normally again, the floor wobbled. A periscope poked up through a hole in the floorboards, and it rotated. The sound of a muffled "All clear. No twerps or Rockets," was heard from the floor, and a board was sluggishly pushed upwards. Jessie, James and Meowth squeezed out of the hole, and took their bearings.
"First corridor," said James. "Long way yet. Judging by our height, we'll fall through the wall when we arrive. No more poking through the floorboards for a while, as long as we stay level."
"How come you're so suddenly being clever?" asked Jessie, puzzled.
"We had to explain it somehow." Jessie and James withdrew into the tunnel, followed by Meowth, who had been looking at the Persian statue and thinking, "Why doesn't Big G make busts of me?"
"I hate anime staircases. They're so long, they're always spirally, resemble caves and the bloke..."
"Ahem!"
"...flying adder at the front always holds a torch." Ash sighed.
"Then again, the author probably wants to stick to anime conventions."
"Concentrate on your feet, or we'll all tumble downstairs and land in a pile at the bottom," said Brock sharply. Misty stumbled, and fell onto Ash. He picked her up and put her back.
"Thanks," said Misty, as Brock said to Pikachu, "See what I mean?"
"Misdreavus!" cried Misdreavus shrilly. It floated next to a small door. Ad looked closely at it.
"This isn't the one, but let's check it." The gang piled through the door, and hung in mid-air for the compulsory three seconds, then fell through the non-existent floor. Ad and Misdreavus grabbed Ash and Misty (this, of course, resulted in Misty's bag catching light and almost falling, but Misty caught it), whilst Ash's Pidgeot held Brock who held Pikachu. They floated gently down to the bottom
"This is quicker than using the stairs"
and Ash and co landed in a pool of water. There was another door, slightly bigger this time, in the wall. Ad carefully opened the door, chucked a rock in to make sure the floor was solid, and, satisfied, stepped inside, followed by the rest. A man and woman were at the other end of the room.
"Bernard!" said the man.
"Barbara!" said the woman.
"Pleased to meet you!" said the two.
"So you're the Gym Leaders of the sixth Gym?" asked Ash.
"Aye," replied Bernard.
"And I have to beat you one at a time?"
"Aye," replied Barbara.
"Well, I'm ready to faaaaaaaaaaa!" Ash slid along the floor as if he was break dancing. Bernard and Barbara sweatdropped and rubbed the back of their necks.
"Well, um, when we made this room, we nicked some tiles from the Gym above," explained Barbara.
"The sliding ones?" cried Ad.
"It was dark!" defended Bernard.
"Never mind," said Ash, stumbling to his feet. "Let's fight!"
Everyone thought for a moment. Ash looked around, then, shrugging his shoulders shouted, "Go, Charmander!"
"Go, Nidorino!" said Bernard.
"Yeargh!" yelled the Grunt. He fell from the ceiling, and landed in the pool.
"I did say we stole some tiles..." reasoned Bernard and Barbara.
The Grunt leaped up, took out a PokéBall, and released a Koffing. It used Poison Gas, causing the room to fill with choking fumes. Misdreavus braced itself and flew against the gas.
"Everyone out of the room!" screamed Ad. The people followed the instructions, apart from Ash. He yelled, "Charmander, use Flamethrower!"
The Pokémon obeyed, but the stream of fire missed the Koffing. Instead, it set Misdreavus alight. And, by coincidence, as the Pokémon ignited, Koffing let out a jet of gas. This caught fire. So did all the rest of the gas. The room lay in bits around the crew. Ash stepped into the middle of the wreckage.
"That went well."
"Come on, let's resume the battle," said Bernard, climbing up. "Nidoran, use Earthquake!" The ground started to wobble and shake. Charmander hid under a pile of rubble.
"Now, Fissure!"
A crack opened up under the rubble as Nidoran struck the ground.
"Charmander!" screamed Ash as the pile of rocks plunged down through the gap. He ran over, to find Charmander hanging onto the edge. The lizard pulled itself up, and used Rage. Fire lit its eyes as it ran full pelt at the Nidoran. It tried to crouch beneath some stone, but to no avail. Charmander catapulted the rock into the air, and Nidoran went flying. It hit a pile of stone, which collapsed, and the Pokémon was buried under a landslide. When Bernard unearthed it, it had fainted.
"Yeah! I got the sixth badge!" said Ash, doing a V-sign. Ad tapped him on the shoulder.
"Umm, actually..."
"What?"
"Don't you remember that you have to defeat both of them?"
"Yeah, and Barbara is a lot harder to beat than me."
Whatever Ash said next was disguised by a loud rumbling sound.
Brock said embarrassedly, "Well, I haven't eaten for a while."
"THAT'S NOT YOUR STOMACH, YOU DUMB IDIOT!" A small, conical bit of metal poked out of the soil far above. It grew larger and protruded further, until it became a yellow box with a metal cone on the end. It paused for the compulsory three seconds, then fell. The crew stepped back, and the Digatron™ plummeted onto the floor. Three crumpled figures climbed out.
"To protect the world from devastation!"
This is pretty boring. But as the author, I can do this:
FAST FORWARD "Touniteallpeopleswithinournation!"
FAST FAST FORWARD "Tdnuctevlotuhnlv!" "Txtndrrchttestrbv!"
FAST FAST FAST FORWARD "JsJmTrboatsolSnoptfMtr!"
That's done with. Now, back to the story.
"Oh nuts! It's Team Rocket!"
"What an awkward time! I've got to battle Barbara!"
And with that, we say...
GOODNIGHT!
"What?"
I promised myself I'd do at least one two-parter. So here it is!
"That's not fair!"
Look, I promise I'll get the next one up very soon. So look out for Episode 17! GOODNIGHT!
TO BE CONTINUED...
The new QuickEdit feature is awesome, by the way. You see, I forgot to put in the TBC, but I can now! Great idea.