Pre-chapter Conversation
I'm standing alone in the studio, pressing rapidly on my GBA.
"Ugh! Come on, Otto! Get in that hole!" I yelled. "No, no, no! Yes… Yes… Alright!" I punched the air. "Oh wait…" I gasped. "No wait! Come on! Land the blasted Rocket Air before time runs out! ARGH!!! NOT AGAIN!!!" I stomped on the ground as Izzy walked in with Sadie on his shoulders.
"Uhhh…" My partner said. I didn't pay any attention as I put the GBA on the desk.
"Aw man! I'll never get the high score at this rate!" I groaned.
"Mind if I ask what you were playing?" Izzy asked.
"Huh?" I looked up at him. "Oh! Uhhh… I was playing 'Zero Gravity Zone.'" Izzy held his chin.
"Hmmmm… Why does that name sound familiar?"
"¬.¬ That's the name of the place featured in the latest movie and in the first normal episode to feature Noelani." I replied. "We just talked about it last chapter."
"That's funny. I thought games and cartoons weren't supposed to coincide with each other."
"I think that only goes for cartoons based on games." I blinked. "Hey wait… I just thought of something!" Izzy sighed.
"What is it this time?"
"Later. We gotta get going." I turned to the camera. "This chapter is the third of our last parodies. This one is a parody of the episode 'Pokémon Shipwreck,' in which Ash, Brock, Misty, and Team Rocket try to escape from the St. Anne. Likewise, can our hero, his rival, and our villains work together to get to safety before it's too late?"
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Rocketmon Ch. 12: Unlikely Alliances
On the ocean's surface, a Coast Guard ship is seen. At the front stood Officer Shirley. She was holding a bouquet of white flowers in her hands. Behind her stood some Coast Guard members.
"We thought that everybody safely got off the cruise liner, the S.S. Pineapple, but we just discovered that four people were trapped onboard." She started sadly. "Sam, Lars, Otto, and Reggie. It's sad that the careers of these pokémon trainers were cut tragically short. May these flowers honor your memory." She tossed the bouquet into the water among the wreckage of the doomed vessel.
"A salute!" She and the Coast Guard members saluted as Tice played the death march on a bugle. The bouquet sunk into the sea.
(A/N: She didn't mention Twister's name because he's playing as Meowth.)
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"Squid! Get up, you lame-o!" Lars yelled.
"Pika pi!" Pikachu yelled. Sam groaned and opened his eyes. He was lying on the floor—or rather, ceiling—of his cabin. Lars and Pikachu were looking over him.
"Oh man. What happened?" He asked as he dizzily stood.
"The ship capsized and sank." Lars replied. "And thanks to you going after your pokémon, we're trapped!" Sam blinked.
"The ship sank?" He looked out the window to see a school of carvanha and sharpedo swim by. "O.O;;;;;; AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! THE SHIP SANK!!!!!"
"-.-;;;; I just told you that!" Lars yelled. Sam turned from the window and looked around the room.
"And the floor's the ceiling…" He gasped. "The ship capsized too!"
"-.-;;;; And you're supposed to be the nerd?" Lars started walking out of the room. "Well, you're on your own. I'm gonna find a way out of this tub and get to the Pacific League."
"You can't just go out on your own!" Sam protested. "What if you get lost and the ship fills up with water while you're still on it?!" Lars stopped and put on a thinking pose.
"Crap… You're right. Fine. Until we get out of here, we'll…work…together!" He sighed. "God! That was hard!" He and Sam shook hands. Sam grabbed his backpack, his skating gear, and his surfboard. He started struggling with everything.
"I hate to ask, but do you need help with all that?" Lars asked.
"Yeah, thanks." Sam replied. Lars took his roller blades and skateboard. Sam put on his skating gear and grabbed his surfboard.
"Damn! I shoulda took my gear too!" Lars said, slapping his head. Pikachu jumped on Sam's helmet and the trio left the room.
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At a sunny beach, two figures are seen riding a wave on surfboards. The camera does a close up to see that it's two of our villains.
"To protect the world from shoobies!" Reggie yelled.
"To unite all surfers within our nation!" Otto yelled.
"To denounce the evils of major beefs!" They both said at the same time. "To get huge air in the stars above!"
"Reggie!"
"Otto!"
"Man! What an epic wave!" Reggie said.
"Yeah! This barrel will probably go on forever!" Otto replied.
"And it's so warm today."
"Must be because of how close the sun is." The redhead said, closing his eyes. "Burning with all its might. Burning… Burning… O.O BURNING!!!!!!"
"Something's really burning!" Reggie screamed.
"You two picked a fine place for a nap!" Twister was heard yelling. Reggie and Otto's eyes shot open. The stove above them was spewing fire!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The siblings yelled as they scrambled to dowse the flames on their heads. They ran to a broken pipe that was leaking water. They soaked their heads and put out the flames. Team Rocket ran out of the kitchen. Otto was rubbing his head.
"Oh man… What happened and why's everything upside down?" Reggie asked, holding her head.
"While you guys were out, the ship flipped upside down and sank." Twister explained.
"WHAT!?" Reggie and Otto yelled.
"We gotta get outta here!" Otto panicked.
"Chill, Ottoman!" Twister yelled. "All that we gotta do is find a way out of here and we can't do that if we're all stressin'!"
"That was strangely smart of you, Twist." Reggie commented.
"Thanks!" The "meowth" grinned. "…Hey!"
"Anyway, we'll just burn a hole in the ship and get out that way." Reggie said, taking out Arbok's poké ball. "Go! Arbok!" She released the cobra. "Arbok! Use Acid!"
"Charbok!" Arbok reared back and sprayed the floor with its attack.
"Hey, if the ship is flipped upside down, that means we're near the bottom, right?" Otto asked Twister.
"Yeah." Twister nodded. "And if a hole was made in the ceiling, which is actually the floor…" Both boys' eyes widened.
"REGGIE!!!" They both yelled, but it was too late. Arbok's attack made a hole in the ship.
"What are you guys so afraid of?" Reggie asked as she called back her snake. The ship started shaking.
"That, for example." Otto replied. Water rushed out of the hole like a geyser. The trio put their hands over it in an attempt to plug it. "Duh, Reggie! What were you thinking!?"
"Ya think we need another hole on this ship!?" Twister yelled.
"Shut up! I didn't see any of you come up with anything!" Reggie yelled back. They held on for a little longer before the force of the water overtook them. Water filled up the entire room and swept the trio along.
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Sam, Lars, and Pikachu reached a staircase. The upper part was nice and dry while the lower part was filled with water.
"Which way do we go?" Lars asked, putting down Sam's gear. Sam leaned his surfboard against a wall and got in a thinking pose.
"Hmmmmmmmm… It'll take time for the ship to fill up with water due to all the air, but we better not waste any time."
"I say we dive down to the deck! We can escape that way!"
"No way!" Sam protested. "If we dive down and come across a dead end, we're goners."
"Hmph! Well how about one of us sends a pokémon to see if it's safe?" Lars suggested. Sam shrugged.
"I suppose we can do that…" He grabbed a poké ball. "Go! Starmie!" He tossed it and the water type appeared in the submerged part of the staircase. "Starmie, dive down to the deck. If you find a way out, bring something back from outside." The pokémon nodded and dived down.
It swam through many halls filled with water and debris. Almost every passage to the deck was blocked. Starmie came to a dead end and turned around when it noticed Otto, Reggie, and Twister floating. They were barely alive. Starmie sweatdropped and thought about what to do.
A few minutes later…
"I guess Starmie can't find a way out." Sam said. Just then, air bubbles were seen coming from the surface. Lars and Sam expected Starmie to come back with good news but instead, it came back with Team Rocket, who looked very much dead!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lars screamed. Sam knelt by his friends, tears welling up in his eyes.
"I can't believe they're gone. Just like that…" He sniffled.
"Why are you blubbering over them for?" Lars asked with his arms crossed. "They've been nothing but trouble since you met them that night at the pokémon center." Sam turned to him with a glare.
"Have some respect, will you?! One of them is your—!" He wasn't able to reveal the truth to Lars because the evil trio coughed and sputtered water.
"Prepare…prepare for trouble…" Reggie said in a daze.
"Make it double…" Otto said in the same tone. The trio blinked as they saw Sam and Lars. They jumped to their feet. Otto and Reggie grabbed their poké balls. "Finally! We found you!"
"Now hand over the rat!" Reggie demanded. Sam took out a poké ball and Lars took out two.
"So, you came all the way down here for a battle?" Sam asked, getting over the fact that his friends could've died.
"You know, I still haven't repaid you shoobies for trying to steal my pokémon!" Lars yelled.
"Shoobies?! Why you—!" Twister started before Otto held him back.
"Go! Weezing!" He tossed his poké ball.
"Go! Arbok!" Reggie yelled, tossing her poké ball as well. The two poison types appeared.
"Starmie! Come here!" Sam ordered. Starmie jumped out of the water and landed in front of Team Rocket's pokémon. "Go! Growlithe!" He tossed the poké ball, releasing the dog.
"Hey, I just noticed. That pokémon looks like our old—" Lars started.
"WE KNOW!!! THAT JOKE GOT OLD!!!" The others yelled.
"Jeeze! Just making an observation!" Lars huffed before he remembered the battle. "Go! Treecko and Nidorina!" He tossed the poké balls and the grass type lizard appeared alongside the evolved poison type.
"Cool! A battle!" Otto said. Just then, the ship rocked, forcing everybody into the hallway Sam and Lars came in from a few minutes ago. The entire ship started tilting! The pokémon and their trainers crashed against the wall.
"Ugh! Don't tell me this ship is tilting on a giant rock or something!" Reggie screamed.
"Oh crap! We're done for if we don't do something!" Twister yelled.
"Quick! Starmie, Growlithe, Treecko, Nidorina, Weezing, Arbok! To the other side of the ship!" Sam ordered. The pokémon started moving.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing telling my pokémon what to do!?" Lars yelled.
"Yeah!" Otto and Reggie agreed.
"Do ya want to live or what?!" Sam shot back. The ship tilted again, making the trainers, Twister, and Pikachu crash into the pokémon. "To the other side! To the other side!" The pokémon ran back to the other side. Starmie was bouncing heavily.
"Starmie! Get back to this side!" Otto ordered, sticking his tongue out at Sam. "Now we're even." Starmie came back to them and the ship tilted a little bit more. The trainers were hanging on for dear life. Twister and Pikachu were starting to slip.
"Pika!!!"
"Guys! Call back your pokémon!" Twister yelled.
"But we'll lose!" Otto yelled back.
"And that's different from every other day how?!" Sam asked. Team Rocket glared at him.
"Just do it already!" Lars yelled, calling back his own pokémon. Reggie & Otto sighed and called back their pokémon as well. Sam followed suit. The ship tilted and balanced itself again. The group sighed with relief.
"Now that that's over with, let's agree to not have any more battles til we get out of here." Reggie said. She turned and saw the two groups glaring at each other. "HEY! Shake hands already!" Otto and Sam uneasily shook hands.
"This is a temporary truce until we get out of here." Sam said.
"Better believe it." Otto growled. Twister and Lars shook hands as well, but the brunet squeezed the "meowth's" paw hard. Twister screamed in pain.
"Lars!" Reggie yelled.
"Sorry, sorry." Lars said, letting go of Twister. The costumed boy blew on his hand while rubbing it. "And another thing, how do you know my name?" Reggie shifted uneasily.
"Uhhhh w-well… Twister here told us about the Girl's Day tournament."
"o.O Ya know, it's weird that your meowth has the same nickname as my dorky little brother."
"Dorky!?" Twister yelled. Reggie and Otto held him back. Lars gave them a suspicious look.
"And how did it learn to talk?"
"Never mind that! We gotta get out of here! Or did you forget the ship's underwater!?" Otto yelled, saving the trio from confessing. Sam grinned at the fact that Lars almost figured it out. He'd have to spill the beans later. The group went back into the staircase.
"Now we're back to square one." Lars grumbled.
"What do we do now?" Reggie asked. Otto whipped out a map of the ship from the backpack he had. He handed it to Sam.
(A/N: I probably should've mentioned this earlier, but Otto, Reggie, and Twister are each wearing backpacks.)
The blond sat on the floor and laid out the map. Because of the ship's current position, he turned the map around. The others crowded around him.
"Ok now. We obviously can't go through the deck since it's filled with water." He said.
"Gee, I wonder why!" Otto yelled, glaring at Reggie.
"You're not gonna let that drop, are you?" She asked, glaring back.
"Not until we're on dry land again."
"Focus!" Sam yelled, earning himself a glare from the siblings. "Anyway, if we burn a hole through the hull of the ship, we can get out that way." Team Rocket looked nervous at the idea, but didn't say anything. Despite the fact they were enemies, they trusted Sam's sage-like judgment.
"So let's go already!" Lars said impatiently.
"But how do we go up? The staircase is busted." Twister said.
"I know! Go! Weepinbell!" Sam tossed a poké ball above them. It opened and Weepinbell appeared on the next floor. "Weepinbell! Lift us up with Vine Whip!" The grass type extended its vines and pulled up Sam & Pikachu first. It then lifted Lars, Otto, Reggie, and Twister, one at a time. It then picked up Sam's stuff before the trainer called it back. Sam and Lars picked up the stuff and the group continued on.
Later…
"Crap! It's dark in here!" Reggie yelled. The corridor the group was walking through was pitch black.
"Pikachu, could you light up the room?" Sam asked, looking up. Pikachu jumped off his helmet and charged energy. The light from the electricity allowed the group to see a door nearby. They opened it and stepped through. They gasped at the sight. They were in the engine room, but it was on fire! The only thing that connected their side of the room to the door on the other end was a pair of rails.
"Oh great! There's no way across!" Lars yelled.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Reg?" Otto asked, grinning.
"Oh yeah, but are you sure we can do this?" Reggie replied.
"Of course!" Otto turned to the others. "We can grind our way to the next room!"
"But what if we fall?" Twister asked. "We'll fry!"
"There's no other way across." Sam said. "And the next room is where the hull is… Let's do it!" Everybody looked at him oddly.
'Oh man! What is he thinking?!' Lars thought.
'The Squid actually WANTS to do this!?' Otto thought.
'He sucks at grinding!' Twister thought.
'I hope he'll be alright.' Reggie thought.
'Oh man! What am I thinking?! I suck at grinding! I hope I'll be alright.' Sam thought fearfully.
"How am I supposed to do this?" Lars asked. "I didn't bring my skate gear with me!"
"You can use my skateboard." Sam offered. Lars grimaced at the idea of using something of his rival's, but complied. Team Rocket reached into their backpacks and pulled out some blades. Sam grinned when he saw the one-of-a-kind pikachu blades Reggie pulled out. He was about to bust her, but decided against the idea. This is a life or death situation, after all. Sam and Team Rocket strapped on their blades.
"We'll go first." Otto and Reggie said. They jumped on the rails. Otto was on the left and Reggie was on the right. Sparks flashed from their blades as they grinded down. The two Rockets held each other's hands to prevent each other from falling. The rails creaked, but they supported the siblings' weight as they made it to the other side.
"My turn!" Twister yelled as he jumped on the left rail. He successfully grinded his way to the next room. Lars gaped at the performance.
"Woah! Who knew a pokémon can actually grind!?" Sam rolled his eyes at his rival's stupidity.
"Lars, you're blind." He said simply as he picked up his surfboard. "Help me carry this down."
"You ain't the boss of me." Lars said smugly.
(Me: No, but I am and I say help him!)
"Fine." Lars grumbled as he picked up the other end of the surfboard. Pikachu jumped onto the middle of the board. Lars jumped on the left rail while Sam got on the right. Thanks to him holding on to the board and Lars grinding with him, the blond didn't have to worry about falling from imbalance. He looked up at Pikachu, who was trying to balance itself.
"Look ma! A surfing pikachu!" He yelled. The rails creaked heavily as they traveled. As soon as they reached the other side, the rails fell into the flames with a crash.
"Whew! That was close!" Otto commented.
"Hey! I just realized something." Lars said. "If we used my pidgeot instead of grinding, we woulda gotten here a lot faster and safer!"
::WHAM TIMES FOUR!!!!::
"®.® Mommy…" Lars said dizzily before falling over. The other four kids put away their mallets and waited for Lars to regain consciousness, which took about five minutes. Everybody glared at him.
"ANYWAY, now to get out of here!" Sam said. He tossed Growlithe's poké ball and the pooch made a return appearance. "Use your Flamethrower on the hull!"
"Growliiiiiithe!" Growlithe howled as it fired its attack at the hull. The steel started to melt.
"Alright. When the hull breaks, we'll escape to the surface, using a water pokémon." Sam said. Team Rocket gasped.
"Water pokémon?!" Twister yelled. Sam and Lars didn't pay any attention though. Sam tied a rope around his and Pikachu's waists. He brought out Starmie and tied the rope around it too. Lars brought out his wartortle and tied his own rope around it and himself.
"Hey! What are we supposed to do?!" Reggie yelled.
"Just grab a water pokémon, duh!" Lars replied.
"Almost there…" Sam said. Growlithe made a square-shaped hole in the hull. The piece broke off and water gushed in. The puppy ran away from the cascade at top speed.
"Growlithe! Return!" Sam held out the poké ball, which sucked the dog back in. "Let's go, Starmie!" Sam and Pikachu held their breaths as Starmie swam up the stream of water and out into the ocean.
"See ya, losers!" Lars yelled as Wartortle pulled him out of the ship as well.
"Wait! We don't have any water pokémon!" Twister cried.
"Well, this is it, team. We're dead." Reggie said, residing herself to a watery grave. Otto started snickering to himself. The other two villains turned to him. "And just what is so funny!?"
"The poor guy's lost it." Twister remarked.
"You kooks made fun of me." Otto started. "But who's got the last laugh now!? True greatness is never appreciated until there's danger." He turned to them with a glint in his eyes. "I knew we'd need this in a tight spot. Look!" And he brought out his gold plated poké ball. Reggie and Twister gasped.
"Could it be…?" Reggie asked.
"MAGIKARP!!!" She and Twister cheered.
"Thank God you still kept it, Ottoman!" Twister exclaimed.
"Damn straight! Good thing I bought this when I had the chance, even if it did cost next week's salary." Otto bragged.
"Shut up and bring it out already!" Reggie yelled.
"We gotta get outta here!" Twister agreed.
"Alright, alright! It's time, Magikarp! Go!" Otto tossed the poké ball, releasing the fish, which started flopping in the water. Team Rocket tied themselves to it. "Ok, Magikarp! Carry us outta here!"
There was just one problem though.
"Hold up!" Reggie yelled after a few minutes of waiting. "Don't tell me this thing can't swim!"
"Swim? It can't even splash right. It's the Squid of the pokémon world!" Twister yelled. Otto lowered his head shamefully.
"Otto! I'm gonna strangle you!" Reggie screamed as she lunged at her brother. Just then, the water filled in the room, sweeping the trio away. The S.S. Pineapple got knocked off the rock it was teetering on and fell into the dark abyss of the ocean.
Later, on the surface…
Sam, Lars, and Pikachu were sitting in a raft they found among the wreckage. Sam was again wearing his shoes and his skating gear was safely packed up in his backpack. His surfboard lay beside him. He looked worriedly at the water.
"Why haven't they resurfaced yet?" He asked himself. "I hope they got out safely." Lars stood up.
"There's nothing more to do now except try to get to Hawaii." He said.
"There are more important things than the Pacific League, ya know!" Sam yelled, feeling overwhelmed with concern for his friends, who may have met their untimely end. He then realized what he said.
'The Pacific League… I need to get there to find out why all this is happening. Why my friends—' He shook his head at the thought he was getting. 'No. They made it out! I just know it!' He stood up too.
"Look Squid, I don't know what your deal is with those kooks. If I was you, and God help me, I would simply turn my back on them and say 'Good riddance!'" Lars looked around. "Damn! Which way do we go?!"
"There's nothing but ocean all around." Sam said emotionlessly. Lars' words struck him hard.
'Turn my back on them?' He thought. 'I can't just do that. They may have been causing nothing but trouble for me for the last few months, but I can't just forget about them. They got me into extreme sports, after all. What would I be like if it wasn't for them?' He envisioned a life without Otto, Reggie, and Twister. A life in which he would be home almost all the time, going online, playing video games, and watching TV.
'I would be lonely. Like I am now.' He shed a tear.
"Squid? Squid!?" Lars yelled. Sam snapped out of his mournful thoughts and wiped his face, which was wet with tears.
"Huh? Sorry. I was just thinking."
"You seem to be doing that a lot." Lars sneered. "Anyway, I figured out how we can find our way to the Pacific League."
"Really?" Sam asked, surprised that Lars was actually able to think up of something by himself.
"Yeah. Remember the story of Noah? He sent a bird to find dry land." Lars grabbed a poké ball. "And we're gonna do the same thing. Go! Pidgeot!" He sent out the eagle-like pokémon.
"Go and find some land. If you do, bring back something, got it?" He ordered. Pidgeot nodded and flew off. It flew a few miles away when it noticed a trio of bodies tied to a flailing magikarp. It sweatdropped and thought about what to do.
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"Ouch… They didn't make it." Lars stated. Pidgeot had brought Team Rocket back to the raft. Sam was on the verge of bawling at the sight of the dead trio.
"I—::Sniff::—guess there's nothing more we can do…" He started shakily. "Even though they were our enemies—"
"Speak for yourself." Lars muttered.
"—They deserve a traditional burial at sea." Sam put his hands together and muttered a prayer. The living trio then pushed the dead trio towards the edge of the raft. Just as they were about to go over the edge, Otto and Reggie sprung to life, tossing Twister into the sea!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! ZOMBIES!!!!!!" Lars and Sam screamed.
"Who are you calling zombies!?" Otto yelled.
"We're still alive!" Reggie yelled. Sam ran up to them and hugged them tightly.
"Thank God you're alive!" He yelled happily. The evil duo looked at each other and sweatdropped.
"Ahhhh!!! What a wake up call!" Twister yelled as he splashed around before reentering the raft. Pikachu snapped its fingers (Ooh! It's a little devil, ain't it!?). Sam let go of Otto & Reggie and embraced Twister, nearly making his eyes bulge out.
"I thought you guys didn't make it!" He yelled.
"Ahhhh!!! Let go!" Twister yelled, pushing Sam off him. "Of course we made it, no thanks to that stupid fish!" He pointed at the flopping Magikarp. Otto stormed up to it.
"You lame-o fish! I don't wanna be your trainer anymore!" And with that, he unceremoniously kicked the pokémon into the water. It started to splash helplessly. "Good riddance!"
"I kinda feel sorry for it…" Sam said.
"Not me!" Reggie said with her arms crossed. "Let the stupid thing drown!" It splashed around for a few seconds before it flashed white, much to the surprise of the four trainers, Twister, and Pikachu. Magikarp grew to an immense size. When the light vanished, a horrible gyarados was floating in the water before them!
"What is that thing!?" Twister asked.
"Oh great, ya idiots! Magikarp evolved into Gyarados!" Lars yelled.
"I'm starting to miss Magikarp!" Reggie yelled. Sam pointed his pokédex at the monster.
"Gyarados, the atrocious pokémon. If you come across this water/flying type, which should be considered a dragon type by now, put your head between your legs and kiss your butt good bye!" Sam sweatdropped at the description.
"Yo! I'm Otto, your boss! Obey me!" Otto commanded the beast.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Oops…"
"Real nice, Otto!" Reggie yelled.
"Quick! Call it back!" Sam yelled. Otto nodded and held up the gold poké ball.
"Gyarados! Retu—" He couldn't get the command out for Gyarados used its Water Gun attack to knock the poké ball out of his hands and into the sea, where it sank. The group nervously turned towards the pokémon.
"Go! Starmie!" Sam said, tossing a poké ball. The starfish appeared. He turned to Lars. "Send out your wartortle!"
"Right!" Lars nodded. "Go! Wartortle!" He then tossed his own poké ball, releasing the turtle.
"What are you gonna do?" Twister asked.
"Our strategy will be…" Sam started. "RUN AWAY!!!"
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Starmie and Wartortle pulled the raft along while the humans paddled with oars they found. Gyarados was chasing them at top speed.
"Heave ho! Heave ho! Heave ho!" They all yelled. They must've gone about a mile further before Gyarados started slowing down. It gave a roar.
"It stopped! We're safe!" Team Rocket yelled.
"Unless…" Lars said as the sky started to darken.
"Unless what?" Otto asked.
"Unless the stories are true. Before I got on the S.S. Pineapple, I heard some sailors saying all kinds of horrible things about the gyarados." Lars replied. Sam then took out his pokédex and pointed it at Gyarados again.
"Dragon Rage. Gyarados' ultimate attack. Drawing upon the strength of all dragon pokémon in the surrounding environment, this attack devastates its opponents." The machine said.
(Me: Hmph! Some ultimate attack. It only does forty stinkin' HP worth of damage.)
"Whew… So it's nothing to worry about." Twister sighed.
(Me: Actually, it's nothing to worry about in the GAME. Since you guys are doing a parody of the SHOW, Dragon Rage is much more terrifying.)
"You just had to open your big mouth, didn't you?!" Reggie yelled. Twister grinned sheepishly at her. The sea started getting rough as multiple gyarados appeared around Otto's. The new gyarados started spinning around Otto's, getting faster and faster, until a gigantic water spout rose out of the sea. It headed for the raft!
"What are you waiting for!? Paddle!" Otto yelled.
"No one's ever gotten away from Dragon Rage." Lars said.
"This is it!" Sam yelled. The water spout crashed into the raft, sending everyone into a massive spin cycle. Team Rocket got separated from the other trio, who were hanging on to each other for dear life. "Lars! Pikachu! Don't let go!"
"Ugh! Can't hold on much longer!" Lars yelled.
"Pika!"
The force of the cyclone forced them to let go!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They screamed as they spun around and around.
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Post-chapter Conversation
"Man. Sucks to be them, huh?" I started. "Anyway, how will Sam and the others get through this one? Find out next time!"
"So what were you going on about earlier?" Izzy asked.
"Ah yes!" I turned towards him. "You see, Izzy, you brought up an interesting point before we started the chapter."
"I did?" He asked with an eyebrow raised. I grinned.
"Yep! You see, Zero Gravity Zone was the main subject of a game before the first normal episode to feature Noelani and The Big Day premiered. I had no idea that the creators can actually bring something from a game into the show!"
"Well, they are the creators." Izzy said with a shrug. "Why couldn't they?"
"I'd imagine there would've been copyright issues involved or something. Anyway, if the creators can bring a skate park from one of the RP games into the show, what's to stop them from doing an entire episode dedicated to one of the other games?!"
"Elaborate NOW!" He said excitedly.
"Gladly. You see, if the creators of the show can use Zero Gravity Zone, which was from a game, why can't they do an adaptation of another game, namely Beach Bandits?" I got excited at the prospect. "They can do an entire episode, or better yet, a whole movie on it! That could be the show's fifth TV movie or to go even further, Rocket Power's first ever feature length movie!"
"Ok…" Izzy said, scratching his head.
"It would be perfect!" I laughed. "After all, a nicktoon that totally didn't deserve it got a feature length movie."
"What? The Wild Thornberries?"
"Right." I nodded. "And Hey Arnold got one too, while Rugrats got three, count 'em, three! And Spongebob is getting one too. So why can't this nicktoon catch a break?"
"But an adaptation of Beach Bandits? It wouldn't work!" Izzy rationalized. "It would be too unrealistic because of the robots! Not to mention what about Noelani? She wasn't in the game after all."
"Well, if you have to get—" I made air quotes with my fingers. "—'realistic' about it, you can always have the movie be one big dream by Otto or someone. Or disregard reality and have the robots be in it anyway. And about Noelani, they can just write her in somewhere. The writers are talented, right? I'm sure they can figure out something."
"Whatever." Izzy shrugged. "It's not like they'll ever do it anyway."
"I know, I know! It's so unfair!" I groaned as I held my head. I sighed. "Anyway, fair readers, see ya next chapter!" I waved at the camera.