Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon. Nintendo does. This story isn't written to make profit, or even to get attention from girls. It is simply written for entertainment and to keep myself busy. The main characters are mine however (except for professor Oak and some Jenny's and Joy's) and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't use it without my approval.

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Chapter 15 – Left in the dark

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Okay, for those of you who have just joined us, we are in deep shit. I was visiting Lavender Tower on advise of the chairman of the wrinkly raisins club, Mr. Fuji, when all of a sudden all lights went out, along with the electronic ghost repressors, which meant we were being swarmed by ghosts. I personally don't believe in ghosts but these were pokémon, so I'm willing to make an exception here.

"Got any fire pokémon?" Mr. Fuji asked.

"No, not really, I got water and a leaf that doesn't listen, but no fire, why?"

"Fire is one of the things that can hurt them," he said as he reached inside his pocket, "guess it has something to do with the light."

"You got a lighter?"

"Better." He grinned as he brought out a pokéball and released the biggest bad ass dragon I've ever seen, not that I've seen a lot of dragons, but you get the idea.

"Flametail, get us out of here." Fuji ordered as the large red dragon exhaled a fiery stream. The darkness grew apart and we quickly made our way to the exit, trying to ignore the dizziness then fell over us. The dragon turned his head to find the source and shot him with a firebolt. After seconds, minutes, hours, I honestly don't know, we completely lost sense of time, we made it out.

"What… what the hell was that?" I asked after I vomited.

"One of their attacks," Fuji answered, "although I have no idea how they got out. Somebody must have cut the power to the tower."

"Not just the tower."

We both looked up at the local law enforcer (I guess the town is too small to afford a Jenny).

"It's a general black out. The electricity in the whole town is down."

"Oh great. And when will power be back on?" I asked.

"Uhm, we don't know, apparently something happened at the power plant."

"And you have no idea what?"

"Uhm no."

"Want me to check things out?" I asked, knowing the answer.

"Well…"

"Fine, I'll do it. Just point me in the direction of the damn thing."

I swear to God, I'm too fuckin' good for this world.

After they told me the way to the power plant, I entered the tunnel, leaving my precious motorcycle behind (and I just got it, fuck).

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After seeing how dark it was in there, I exited the tunnel.

"It's fucking dark in there."

"Hm, guess the lights in the tunnel are down as well," Fuji said, "got any pokémon with Flash?"

"Huh?"

"Come with me," he sighed, "I'll give you what you need."

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The house of Mr. Fuji was filled with pokémon. Both stuffed as real. He had told me he was a pokémon all rounder, he liked everything about pokémon, treating them, healing them, playing with them. It made him feel young, he said. I just didn't care. Of course, he wasn't so much into it to dress up like a pokémon, like some "fans", but you could say he cared a lot for pokémon. The closets in his living room were filled with potions, books on pokémon, videota-

"That's not important for the moment," he grinned as he quickly shut the closet, "we have other things to attend to."

"Uhm, okay."

He showed me six small devices that would teach my pokémon special moves I could use in a fight and outside.

"These are the HM's for Flash, Strength, Surf, Fly, Whirlpool and Cut," Mr. Fuji explained, "there is one more, but that one I don't have, so I can't give it to you."

"Are you sure you just wanna give them to me?" I asked.

"Don't worry," he smiled, "there copies. I've got enough."

"Copies?" I frowned, "isn't that illegal?"

"You know how much those things cost?"

Oooookay! I quickly turned my attention to the things he had given me. Apparently all I had to do was to choose the right Pokémon for the skills. For the moment I just needed one to give Flash so that shouldn't be to hard. What do you mean, only a certain kind of pokémon could learn them? What a rip-off! After a quick study of one of the books Mr. Fuji had, he decided it was best to give Shockrat Flash. I decided to wait with the other HM's until I needed them. I called Shockrat out and stood there with the device in my hand. Shockrat tilted his head a bit and glared at me, curious of what I was going to do, letting out small sparks.

"Maybe I should be doing this outside." I thought outloud, not knowing what the result would be.

Shockrat followed me outside. I placed the HM against the side of his head and switched it on. It hummed for a brief moment and died down. According to the device it had worked, but how to know, right?

"Shockrat, flash."

The pokémon grinned and started to glow. Very bright. Very very bright.

"Shockrat, enough."

He died down and sat there grinning. I sighed and put the HM's in my backpack and readied myself to go through the tunnel. I put on my shades to be sure not to be blinded by Shockrat and entered the dark cave that soon bathed in light. Well, up to the powerplant.

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I cautiously moved through the tunnels. Although Shockrat lighted up the place, the tunnels were still dangerous and I don't think those things moving in the corner of my eye are all my imagination. I made my way through the first tunnel with no particular problem, just a couple of Zubats Shockrat easily disposed off, although it got me thinking, I still don't have a Zubat. Anyway, I climbed down the ladder and emerged in great underground hall. Fuck, how big was this place anyway? I made my way to the next tunnel when a Zubat suddenly came out of the shadows. Shockrat paralysed it and I got Sabretooth out to finish him off. Then things went crazy. The ground I was walking on moved and threw me on my back. Before I could get up I saw I was walking on the biggest Onix I had ever seen. It let out a huge screech and dashed forward towards Shockrat. He was too late to jump out of the way and was thrown back a couple of meters. I reached for Blaster and cursed the fact I left War in the centre. I only had Sabretooth, Shockrat, Blaster, Flutter, Lawrence and Slasher with me. I thought this was gonna be a short trip. I should have known better and this is gonna cost me for my arrogance. Blaster charged with a bubble attack which stunned the Onix but still smashed him in the ground. Sabretooth didn't show fear and dug his claws in the joints of the big rock snake. This kind of surprised him and he flinched. I got out a pokéball and threw. The big Onix let his tail fall on the ball and crushed it. Fuck, I only had one left now. Blaster shot out another bubble and the Onix fell down. It slowly lifted its massive head to attack again and I knew it was now or never. I threw my last empty pokéball and crossed my fingers. The ball opened up and drew the giant snake in. The little light blinked three times and went red. I caught it.

"Fuck yeah," I picked it up with a triumphant grin, "welcome to my happy family, Rocksnake."

So what if I suck at names, at least I had an Onix. Things couldn't get better than this. And indeed they didn't. I used a potion to get Shockrat back on his feet. I only had two potions left and Blaster assured me he was still capable of walking so I didn't get him something. I continued my way to the next tunnel and saw the ladder leading to the upper level when I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"You're mine!"

I turned around slowly, ready to deck anyone who was behind me and saw some hiker guy grinning broadly.

"Been looking for a decent fight for weeks now."

"Uhm, now is not the time, can I get a raincheck?"

"A raincheck?" the hiker boomed and laughed out loud, "fat chance. Get your pokémon out and start fighting."

He grabbed a pokéball and got out an Electrode. Fuck, what choice did I have? I got out Slasher and the ground pokémon glared at the round ball. Slasher jumped forward and clawed at the ball. The Electrode was thrown back against the wall and looked dazed.

"Self destruct!" the hiker shouted.

The electrode jumped up to Slasher and started to glow. Slasher tried to get out of the way, but the electrode was too fast and knocked the Sandshrew out with a sudden blast of energy.

"Haha, one down!" the hiker laughed.

"So is yours," I commented as I brought Flutter out.

He reacted with a Pikachu. Flutter however didn't flinch and spread out sleepingpowder. The Pikachu fell asleep and I called Flutter back and brought out Sabretooth out. Before the hiker could react, Sabretooth was clawing and biting the Pikachu. He brought back the unconscious Pikachu and brought out a Raticate. The Raticate went straight for Sabretooth and held it tight between its claws while biting in its head. Sabretooth went limp and I had no choice to call him back. Fuck, this wasn't going well. I got Flutter out again and he poisoned the Raticate, but he still came after the Butterfree. Flutter however could always keep a step ahead but each attack from the Raticate was a close call. Suddenly Flutter changed in its tracks and tackled the Raticate. It flew against the rockwall and the hiker called him back. He got a Geodude out that started to throw rocks at Flutter immediately. Flutter could evade all but one. The pokémon went down and staid down. I called him back and called out Blaster. He could barely stay on his feet but launched a waterblast to the Geodude. The Geodude was thrown back and didn't get up anymore.

"Hehe," the hiker laughed, "that's three down for both."

He brought a Bulbasaur out and I called Blaster back. There was no way he could win it in the state he was in. Fuck, how many pokémon did that asshole have? I brought out Lawrence who started to hum his lullaby.

"No, you won't!" the hiker growled, "Bulbasaur, sleeping powder."

The Bulbasaur shot out sleepingpowder but Lawrence dashed towards the Bulbasaur and knocked him back. He kept pounding on the grasspokémon until he stopped moving. He approvingly grinned and stepped back. Suddenly the Bulbasaur jumped up and shot out his vinewhips. Lawrence got a severe beating but grabbed the vines and smashed the grasspokémon into the wall. The Bulbasaur stopped moving and the hiker called out a new pokémon. Another Electrode. Lawrence started singing his song again, but the Electrode jumped up and tackled Lawrence. This was too much for the poor Jigglypuff and Lawrence fainted. I called him back and brought out Shockrat.

"Electric versus electric," the hiker grinned, "this should be interesting. Especially with my selfdestruct."

He was right. If that Electrode used selfdestruct Shockrat would lose.

"Shockrat," I yelled, "flash and tackle."

Shockrat let out a burst of light that blinded the Electrode and Shockrat started to beat him ferociously. When the Electrode started to glow, Shockrat jumped back.

"Electrode," the hiker yelled, "right centre."

The Electrode jumped to the direction the hiker had ordered and fell right before Shockrat. Before he could react the Electrode exploded and caused Shockrat to faint. Fuck. I only had Blaster left, but he had run over all of his pokémon if I wasn't mistaken.

"Bring out your last pokémon and we can get this over with," he grinned.

I brought Blaster out who was trying to stay up with all his willpower. The hiker got his poisoned Raticate out. Fuck, I completely forgot about that one, I thought he had fainted like the rest. The Raticate jumped forward and before Blaster could react he was tackled. Blaster just fell down and didn't move anymore. The Raticate let out a victorious cry and fainted.

I lost?

"Looks like I win," the hiker grinned, "now give me my money."

I lost?

I lost?

Fuck.