Chapter 6
The Great Train Showdown
"Hurry we are almost there!" Callista shouted to Ruby as the two girls raced towards the train station.
It was 2:00pm and the train was just about to leave.
As the train began to pull away, Callista and Ruby used their last ounce of strength and bolted for the nearest door. Callista got there first and lifted herself onto the train and then she turned and helped Ruby get on just as the train began to pick up speed. They both stepped inside and shut the door behind them. They were immediately approached by a young male attendant.
"Excuse me ladies," the attendant said. "Can I see your tickets please?"
"Actually," Callista answered. "My Professor had already made these arrangements a day ago."
The attendant pulled out a small piece of paper with a bunch of writing on it.
"Can I get your name?"
"Callista," she turned to Ruby. "And this is Ruby."
Ruby waved at the attendant.
The attendant searched the paper and nodded. "Ah yes, of course. I'll take you to your seats."
The girls followed the attendant to the third car from the engine. The train was pretty small. There were only four passenger cars, each containing twenty seats, along with an engine in the front and a small storage car in the back. Callista and Ruby found their seats and settled down.
Callista sat near the window of the car as Ruby stretched out next to her.
Ruby yawned. "Yes, we finally made it."
Callista stared out the window and watched everything go by.
"Hey," Ruby said. "Are you okay?"
Callista nodded, not taking her eyes from the window. "I just can't stop thinking about those dark people. Who were they? What did they want? Are there more people out there like them?"
Ruby quickly interrupted. "Hey, it's okay. We beat them and now they are far away. Don't worry so much."
Callista sighed and again stared out the window.
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Within a half an hour, the train was already in Route 32 and was headed to Route 30.
In a small patch of trees two familiar strangers hid waiting for the train to arrive. They both wore black cloaks and low black hats on their heads, covering their faces.
"I can't believe we were beaten by a bunch of kids!" The man said as he leaned up against a dead tree trunk as his partner watched the horizon with a pair of binoculars. "When is it going to get here?"
"Shhhhh," The woman said, not taking her eyes off her view. "We have another chance to make this up to our boss and I do not want to mess this up." She lowered the binoculars and stepped over to her partner. "The train is supposed to be here any minute. Just be ready to jump on."
Finally the train appeared and moved toward them at a pretty fast pace.
"This is it," the woman said. "Now I'll count to three."
The man stood up and prepared to jump.
"One."
The train got closer.
"Two."
The train's engine roared past them.
"THREE!"
The two leaped into the first car of the train and pulled themselves up.
"Okay are you ready?" The woman said.
"As ready as I will ever be!"
"Okay, then let's do it!"
The evil duo stormed into the car with their pokeballs in hand.
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Callista and Ruby were both exhausted and decided to try to take a quick nap. Ruby was asleep the instant her eyes were closed, but Callista had difficulty getting rested. "Something doesn't feel right," Callista thought to herself as she continued to look out the window.
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"What do you want," the engineer whimpered as Garret and his Ariados used string shot to tie him up.
"All we want is your passenger's pokemon." Garret answered.
There was still a long time until the train arrived at its next stop, so Garret decided to keep the train moving at a normal speed so they wouldn't attract unwanted attention. This way everything will seem nice and normal. Garret joined Pat in the first car once he knew that the engineer was contained.
"Okay, everybody this is not a drill!" Pat yelled out to the crowd of passengers. "Hand over all of your pokemon and no one will get hurt. But if you don't........" Pat released her pokemon as Garret releases his. "You will have to answer to Team Rocket." Spearow and Croconaw appeared, threatening the passengers.
Garret walked around the car with a big bag and collected all of the pokeballs. Pat and Garret stepped over to the next car to repeat their act.
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Meanwhile, in the third car, Callista's eyes were finally starting to shut. "Maybe it is a good idea that I take a little nap," Callista thought to herself as she tried to relax. "When I get to New Bark Town I get to meet all my rival trainers so I should keep up my strength." Callista shut her eyes for a few minutes, but then they opened again. She just couldn't do it. There was too much on her mind.
"Hey Ruby," Callista put her hand on Ruby's shoulder and shook, "Ruby wake up."
Ruby slowly woke up from her deep sleep. "Huh, wha?" Ruby shook her head so wake herself up. "What's up?"
"I just can't seem to sleep. I want to get up and stretch a bit." Callista said.
"Where are you going to go? We are on a train." Ruby said.
"I am just going to walk up and down the isle of the car." Callista answered. "You know. I just need to move for a bit."
"Oh, okay." Ruby said as she got up and let Callista out of her seat.
"Thanks." Callista whispered.
"No sweat." Ruby replied as Ruby sat back down and Callista walked away.
Callista made her way towards the next train when all of a sudden there were loud screams coming from the car ahead of them. Callista was at the door when she heard foot steps heading toward her. She held her breath and flattened herself up against the wall behind the door when it suddenly opened almost hitting her. The two disguised strangers appeared and immediately stepped into action.
"Okay, everyone stay calm." The man said as his Ariados appeared with him.
"That's right." The woman held out the large bag. "Now cooperate and hand over all of your pokeballs and no one will get hurt."
One by one the trainers surrendered their pokemon and tossed them into the bag as the female thief walked down the isle. She stopped when she got to Ruby.
"Hello again," the woman said. "Are you ready to hand over your pokemon?"
"Never," Ruby screamed, "Especially not to you guys!" Ruby shot up out of her seat and raced off toward the back of the car towards the storage car.
"Ariados, use your string shot." The man ordered as Ariados used its string shot to tie up Ruby's legs together causing her to fall to the floor. The man walked up to her and picked her up. "You are not going anywhere."
The man threatened the passengers not to move if no one wants the little girl to get hurt. Callista peered from behind the door again and watched the woman drag Ruby to the back of the train.
Callista thought to herself, "I just have to help her."
The man, however, decided to go check on the other cars to make sure no one has budged. While he was walking toward the entrance door of the car, he just happened to notice movement coming from behind the door. The man walked up to it, grabbed the handle and pulled the door out of the way.
Callista gasped in surprise.
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The woman took Ruby to the storage car and tied her up to a support beam in the center of the car.
"Now surrender your pokemon to us. You have no other choice." The woman said.
"Not a chance!" Ruby shouted.
"Oh, well that's too bad. You see, we would hate to see something really terrible happen to you friend."
"You would have to find her first!" Ruby said thinking that Callista was still hidden behind the door.
"We already have." The man said as he entered the car.
"See we have your little friend right here," the woman said as the man pulled Callista forward so Ruby could see her.
"You two will pay for the humiliation you caused us when we had to call our boss and tell him we didn't have the stone." The man threw Callista to the floor next to Ruby and picked up some more ropes.
"We will be able to make all that up to him when we finish here."
The man tied the two girls together and left them on the floor of the storage car.
Callista did not know what these clowns wanted, but after what had happened in National Park she knew it wasn't anything good. "What are you two doing here?" Callista shouted as she stared at the two familiar strangers. "Who are you two anyway?"
At the same time, the two crooks pulled off their cloaks and tossed off their hats.
Standing in front of the girls stood a young blond man with blue eyes and a young girl with hazel eyes and short brown hair kept back with a white hair band. Both of them wore jet black t-shirts with a big red "R" in the front. The girl had a short black skirt and the man wore dark black pants.
"We are Pat and Garret from Team Rocket." Garret announced with pride.
"Prepare for Trouble." Pat said.
"And make it double." Garret continued.
"To................"
The car violently came to a quick stop tossing Team Rocket off their feet and straight into the front of the car keeping the evil duo from finishing their introduction.
"What was that?" Pat aggressively shouted out as she stood back up on her feet.
"I don't know," Garret answered back as he stepped to the door and opened it. "I think it's the engineer trying to attract some attention to us. But I am going to go find out for sure and get us moving again before someone notices."
"I'll go along with you." Pat said as she grabbed the bag of pokeballs, threw it over her shoulder and followed Garret toward the door. She turned to the girls, "You better not try anything funny!" And with that, Pat and Garret left to see what the problem was.
Ruby signed as she thought about the bag of pokeballs. She started thinking about the poor trainers who just lost their pokemon to Team Rocket. What if they wanted to steal their pokemon as well? What if............? Sudden movement of the ropes knocked Ruby out of thought as she tried to get herself refocused. Callista was struggling with the ropes trying to move.
"What are you doing?" Ruby whispered to Callista as Callista continued to struggle.
"I am trying to get us out of here!" Callista whispered back as she tried to wiggle her hands free.
"How? The ropes are tied too tight was can't get out of them." Ruby said again as she started to get a little annoyed with all of Callista's movement.
"Watch," Callista said. "I have an idea. I just need to loosen the ropes just a little bit."
Ruby did not see the purpose of all of Callista's struggling, but she decided to try to help. They both wiggled their hands until Callista was able to move her hands around a bit. She stretched her hand out as far as she could, since her hand were still tied, and grabbed a pokeball off of her waist. Using her fingers she gave the pokeball a small toss and called out a pokemon.
"Chikorita, come out." Callista whispered.
Chikorita appeared from its pokeball.
"Chikorita, use your razor leaf attack to cut through the ropes." Callista ordered as Chikorita nodded and obeyed. Chikorita released two razor leafs and sliced through the ropes that were holding Callista and Ruby. Callista immediately got to her feet and called Chikorita back.
"Come on we have to stop them!" Callista said as she helped Ruby on to her feet.
"Okay," Ruby said as she followed Callista out the door.
The two girls raced from car to car in search of the two Rocket members. They finally found the two in the first car of the train, closest to the engine. They were using Croconaw and Murkrow as guards to make sure that the people on the train do not call for help and they used Spearow and Ariados to threaten and persuade trainers to surrender their pokeballs.
"Now stop being difficult," Pat argued as she and a young woman, who was sitting close to the side door, struggled over a pokeball. "We are going to take this pokemon whether you want us to or not."
"How about not!" Callista announced as she and Ruby appeared on the scene.
"Hey, you can't take other people's pokemon." Ruby said.
Garret and Pat looked surprised.
Garret was the first to speak. "How did you get free?"
"That is not your concern." Ruby said.
"Give them back their pokeballs!" Callista demanded.
Pat snarled, "If you two brats think you can defeat us again you are sadly mistaken."
Garret said, "Last time was just plain luck!"
Callista glared at the two Rocket members as she reached for a pokeball. Garret also reached for his as they both prepared for battle. Before either of them could make a move, Ruby quick interrupted them.
"No, you can't battle in here there is not enough room," Ruby said. "Someone could get hurt!"
Callista looked around and saw all of the passengers hiding behind their seats.
"You're right," Callista replied as she put her pokeball away. Callista continued to glare at Garret. "But that doesn't mean I can't do it myself!" Callista charged at Garret knocking him down on the floor. The two of them rolled around the floor fighting. Callista attempted to reach for the pokeballs, but Pat pulled them out of Callista's reach.
Ruby decided to join in. "I don't want you to have all the fun!" Ruby shouted as she charged at Pat and slammed her through the side door of the car knocking her outside. Garret managed to push Callista away from him and was able to get up, grab the bag of pokeballs and rush out to help his team member. Callista followed right behind him.
Now that they were outside there was plenty of room for a pokemon battle. Ruby and Pat stopped fighting so they could watch the battle. Callista and Garret reached for their pokeballs and simultaneously tossed them into the air.
"Go Croconaw!" Garret called out his pokemon.
"Go Chikorita!" Callista released Chikorita again.
Both pokemon appeared from their pokeballs.
"Chikorita, use your razor leaf!"
"Croconaw water gun now!" Garret ordered.
Chikorita tossed several razor leaves, but they were quickly blown away by the blast of Croconaw's water gun.
Garret ordered another attack. "Tackle attack!"
Croconaw charged at Chikorita and slammed into it with a powerful tackle attack. Chikorita got tossed to the side but quickly jumped to its feet and returned with its own tackle attack. Croconaw was also tossed aside, but also recovered quickly.
"Bite attack!" Garret ordered.
"Use vine whip!" Callista called out.
Croconaw approached Chikorita with its mouth wide open. Just as Croconaw got close, Chikorita used its vine whip to close Croconaw's mouth.
"Now use your razor leaf attack!" Callista ordered.
Chikorita struck Croconaw with several razor leaves. Croconaw fell to the ground as Chikorita released its grip from the water pokemon's mouth.
Croconaw struggled to its feet and Pat decided to help out her team member.
"Murkrow attack Chikorita!" Pat shouted.
Murkrow charged at Chikorita and hit it was a strong wing attack. Chikorita got tossed aside once again and once again it struggled to its feet.
"Hey, two against one isn't fair," Callista screamed in anger.
"Team Rocket members never play by the rules!" Pat replied as she grinned.
"As long as we win we don't care how many rules we break." Garret said.
Ruby stepped up. "We'll as long as we aren't playing by any rules then there is nothing wrong with me joining in to make it even." Ruby said as she grabbed a pokeball from her waist. "I choose you Quilava!"
Quilava appeared from its pokeball.
"Let's heat things up!" Ruby shouted. "Use your flamethrower attack!"
Quilava released a red hot flame thrower attack striking both Murkrow and Croconaw.
Garret and Pat ran to their pokemon with Spearow and Ariados chasing after them.
Team Rocket tried to coach their pokemon up.
"Come on Murkrow are you really going to let those little brats beat you?" Pat said.
"Get up now Croconaw. We can't let them win again!" Garret said as both pokemon attempted to get up.
"Okay, time to finish them off." Ruby said. "Quilava use your flame wheel!"
"Quilava quilava!" Quilava charged at the team and hit them with a mighty flame wheel.
Team Rocket got thrown into the sky.
"That Quilava has quite a punch!" Pat said.
"We didn't even get any rare pokemon." Garret said as they continued flying upward.
"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" Team Rocket said together as they and their pokemon disappeared into the sky.
Quilava galloped up to Ruby as Ruby knelt down and gave her pokemon a big hug. "Great job Quilava. You're the best!"
Callista grabbed the big bag of pokeballs, raced back inside the car and started handing them back to the trainers. Meanwhile, Ruby called back her Quilava and then went to see if the engineer was okay. Once everything was back in order the train continued towards route 30.
"You sure are getting better," Ruby complimented Callista as they relaxed in their seats once again. "You really gave that Croconaw a tough battle."
"Thanks Ruby." Callista replied. "I am really trying hard."
"It shows." Ruby said. "And once Professor Elm sets up your storage box you can start catching tons of pokemon to make your party even stronger."
Callista nodded and smiled. She was pretty excited to get to New Bark Town so she can meet all of her rival trainers and show Professor Elm just how strong she has become.
The Great Train Showdown
"Hurry we are almost there!" Callista shouted to Ruby as the two girls raced towards the train station.
It was 2:00pm and the train was just about to leave.
As the train began to pull away, Callista and Ruby used their last ounce of strength and bolted for the nearest door. Callista got there first and lifted herself onto the train and then she turned and helped Ruby get on just as the train began to pick up speed. They both stepped inside and shut the door behind them. They were immediately approached by a young male attendant.
"Excuse me ladies," the attendant said. "Can I see your tickets please?"
"Actually," Callista answered. "My Professor had already made these arrangements a day ago."
The attendant pulled out a small piece of paper with a bunch of writing on it.
"Can I get your name?"
"Callista," she turned to Ruby. "And this is Ruby."
Ruby waved at the attendant.
The attendant searched the paper and nodded. "Ah yes, of course. I'll take you to your seats."
The girls followed the attendant to the third car from the engine. The train was pretty small. There were only four passenger cars, each containing twenty seats, along with an engine in the front and a small storage car in the back. Callista and Ruby found their seats and settled down.
Callista sat near the window of the car as Ruby stretched out next to her.
Ruby yawned. "Yes, we finally made it."
Callista stared out the window and watched everything go by.
"Hey," Ruby said. "Are you okay?"
Callista nodded, not taking her eyes from the window. "I just can't stop thinking about those dark people. Who were they? What did they want? Are there more people out there like them?"
Ruby quickly interrupted. "Hey, it's okay. We beat them and now they are far away. Don't worry so much."
Callista sighed and again stared out the window.
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Within a half an hour, the train was already in Route 32 and was headed to Route 30.
In a small patch of trees two familiar strangers hid waiting for the train to arrive. They both wore black cloaks and low black hats on their heads, covering their faces.
"I can't believe we were beaten by a bunch of kids!" The man said as he leaned up against a dead tree trunk as his partner watched the horizon with a pair of binoculars. "When is it going to get here?"
"Shhhhh," The woman said, not taking her eyes off her view. "We have another chance to make this up to our boss and I do not want to mess this up." She lowered the binoculars and stepped over to her partner. "The train is supposed to be here any minute. Just be ready to jump on."
Finally the train appeared and moved toward them at a pretty fast pace.
"This is it," the woman said. "Now I'll count to three."
The man stood up and prepared to jump.
"One."
The train got closer.
"Two."
The train's engine roared past them.
"THREE!"
The two leaped into the first car of the train and pulled themselves up.
"Okay are you ready?" The woman said.
"As ready as I will ever be!"
"Okay, then let's do it!"
The evil duo stormed into the car with their pokeballs in hand.
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Callista and Ruby were both exhausted and decided to try to take a quick nap. Ruby was asleep the instant her eyes were closed, but Callista had difficulty getting rested. "Something doesn't feel right," Callista thought to herself as she continued to look out the window.
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"What do you want," the engineer whimpered as Garret and his Ariados used string shot to tie him up.
"All we want is your passenger's pokemon." Garret answered.
There was still a long time until the train arrived at its next stop, so Garret decided to keep the train moving at a normal speed so they wouldn't attract unwanted attention. This way everything will seem nice and normal. Garret joined Pat in the first car once he knew that the engineer was contained.
"Okay, everybody this is not a drill!" Pat yelled out to the crowd of passengers. "Hand over all of your pokemon and no one will get hurt. But if you don't........" Pat released her pokemon as Garret releases his. "You will have to answer to Team Rocket." Spearow and Croconaw appeared, threatening the passengers.
Garret walked around the car with a big bag and collected all of the pokeballs. Pat and Garret stepped over to the next car to repeat their act.
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Meanwhile, in the third car, Callista's eyes were finally starting to shut. "Maybe it is a good idea that I take a little nap," Callista thought to herself as she tried to relax. "When I get to New Bark Town I get to meet all my rival trainers so I should keep up my strength." Callista shut her eyes for a few minutes, but then they opened again. She just couldn't do it. There was too much on her mind.
"Hey Ruby," Callista put her hand on Ruby's shoulder and shook, "Ruby wake up."
Ruby slowly woke up from her deep sleep. "Huh, wha?" Ruby shook her head so wake herself up. "What's up?"
"I just can't seem to sleep. I want to get up and stretch a bit." Callista said.
"Where are you going to go? We are on a train." Ruby said.
"I am just going to walk up and down the isle of the car." Callista answered. "You know. I just need to move for a bit."
"Oh, okay." Ruby said as she got up and let Callista out of her seat.
"Thanks." Callista whispered.
"No sweat." Ruby replied as Ruby sat back down and Callista walked away.
Callista made her way towards the next train when all of a sudden there were loud screams coming from the car ahead of them. Callista was at the door when she heard foot steps heading toward her. She held her breath and flattened herself up against the wall behind the door when it suddenly opened almost hitting her. The two disguised strangers appeared and immediately stepped into action.
"Okay, everyone stay calm." The man said as his Ariados appeared with him.
"That's right." The woman held out the large bag. "Now cooperate and hand over all of your pokeballs and no one will get hurt."
One by one the trainers surrendered their pokemon and tossed them into the bag as the female thief walked down the isle. She stopped when she got to Ruby.
"Hello again," the woman said. "Are you ready to hand over your pokemon?"
"Never," Ruby screamed, "Especially not to you guys!" Ruby shot up out of her seat and raced off toward the back of the car towards the storage car.
"Ariados, use your string shot." The man ordered as Ariados used its string shot to tie up Ruby's legs together causing her to fall to the floor. The man walked up to her and picked her up. "You are not going anywhere."
The man threatened the passengers not to move if no one wants the little girl to get hurt. Callista peered from behind the door again and watched the woman drag Ruby to the back of the train.
Callista thought to herself, "I just have to help her."
The man, however, decided to go check on the other cars to make sure no one has budged. While he was walking toward the entrance door of the car, he just happened to notice movement coming from behind the door. The man walked up to it, grabbed the handle and pulled the door out of the way.
Callista gasped in surprise.
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The woman took Ruby to the storage car and tied her up to a support beam in the center of the car.
"Now surrender your pokemon to us. You have no other choice." The woman said.
"Not a chance!" Ruby shouted.
"Oh, well that's too bad. You see, we would hate to see something really terrible happen to you friend."
"You would have to find her first!" Ruby said thinking that Callista was still hidden behind the door.
"We already have." The man said as he entered the car.
"See we have your little friend right here," the woman said as the man pulled Callista forward so Ruby could see her.
"You two will pay for the humiliation you caused us when we had to call our boss and tell him we didn't have the stone." The man threw Callista to the floor next to Ruby and picked up some more ropes.
"We will be able to make all that up to him when we finish here."
The man tied the two girls together and left them on the floor of the storage car.
Callista did not know what these clowns wanted, but after what had happened in National Park she knew it wasn't anything good. "What are you two doing here?" Callista shouted as she stared at the two familiar strangers. "Who are you two anyway?"
At the same time, the two crooks pulled off their cloaks and tossed off their hats.
Standing in front of the girls stood a young blond man with blue eyes and a young girl with hazel eyes and short brown hair kept back with a white hair band. Both of them wore jet black t-shirts with a big red "R" in the front. The girl had a short black skirt and the man wore dark black pants.
"We are Pat and Garret from Team Rocket." Garret announced with pride.
"Prepare for Trouble." Pat said.
"And make it double." Garret continued.
"To................"
The car violently came to a quick stop tossing Team Rocket off their feet and straight into the front of the car keeping the evil duo from finishing their introduction.
"What was that?" Pat aggressively shouted out as she stood back up on her feet.
"I don't know," Garret answered back as he stepped to the door and opened it. "I think it's the engineer trying to attract some attention to us. But I am going to go find out for sure and get us moving again before someone notices."
"I'll go along with you." Pat said as she grabbed the bag of pokeballs, threw it over her shoulder and followed Garret toward the door. She turned to the girls, "You better not try anything funny!" And with that, Pat and Garret left to see what the problem was.
Ruby signed as she thought about the bag of pokeballs. She started thinking about the poor trainers who just lost their pokemon to Team Rocket. What if they wanted to steal their pokemon as well? What if............? Sudden movement of the ropes knocked Ruby out of thought as she tried to get herself refocused. Callista was struggling with the ropes trying to move.
"What are you doing?" Ruby whispered to Callista as Callista continued to struggle.
"I am trying to get us out of here!" Callista whispered back as she tried to wiggle her hands free.
"How? The ropes are tied too tight was can't get out of them." Ruby said again as she started to get a little annoyed with all of Callista's movement.
"Watch," Callista said. "I have an idea. I just need to loosen the ropes just a little bit."
Ruby did not see the purpose of all of Callista's struggling, but she decided to try to help. They both wiggled their hands until Callista was able to move her hands around a bit. She stretched her hand out as far as she could, since her hand were still tied, and grabbed a pokeball off of her waist. Using her fingers she gave the pokeball a small toss and called out a pokemon.
"Chikorita, come out." Callista whispered.
Chikorita appeared from its pokeball.
"Chikorita, use your razor leaf attack to cut through the ropes." Callista ordered as Chikorita nodded and obeyed. Chikorita released two razor leafs and sliced through the ropes that were holding Callista and Ruby. Callista immediately got to her feet and called Chikorita back.
"Come on we have to stop them!" Callista said as she helped Ruby on to her feet.
"Okay," Ruby said as she followed Callista out the door.
The two girls raced from car to car in search of the two Rocket members. They finally found the two in the first car of the train, closest to the engine. They were using Croconaw and Murkrow as guards to make sure that the people on the train do not call for help and they used Spearow and Ariados to threaten and persuade trainers to surrender their pokeballs.
"Now stop being difficult," Pat argued as she and a young woman, who was sitting close to the side door, struggled over a pokeball. "We are going to take this pokemon whether you want us to or not."
"How about not!" Callista announced as she and Ruby appeared on the scene.
"Hey, you can't take other people's pokemon." Ruby said.
Garret and Pat looked surprised.
Garret was the first to speak. "How did you get free?"
"That is not your concern." Ruby said.
"Give them back their pokeballs!" Callista demanded.
Pat snarled, "If you two brats think you can defeat us again you are sadly mistaken."
Garret said, "Last time was just plain luck!"
Callista glared at the two Rocket members as she reached for a pokeball. Garret also reached for his as they both prepared for battle. Before either of them could make a move, Ruby quick interrupted them.
"No, you can't battle in here there is not enough room," Ruby said. "Someone could get hurt!"
Callista looked around and saw all of the passengers hiding behind their seats.
"You're right," Callista replied as she put her pokeball away. Callista continued to glare at Garret. "But that doesn't mean I can't do it myself!" Callista charged at Garret knocking him down on the floor. The two of them rolled around the floor fighting. Callista attempted to reach for the pokeballs, but Pat pulled them out of Callista's reach.
Ruby decided to join in. "I don't want you to have all the fun!" Ruby shouted as she charged at Pat and slammed her through the side door of the car knocking her outside. Garret managed to push Callista away from him and was able to get up, grab the bag of pokeballs and rush out to help his team member. Callista followed right behind him.
Now that they were outside there was plenty of room for a pokemon battle. Ruby and Pat stopped fighting so they could watch the battle. Callista and Garret reached for their pokeballs and simultaneously tossed them into the air.
"Go Croconaw!" Garret called out his pokemon.
"Go Chikorita!" Callista released Chikorita again.
Both pokemon appeared from their pokeballs.
"Chikorita, use your razor leaf!"
"Croconaw water gun now!" Garret ordered.
Chikorita tossed several razor leaves, but they were quickly blown away by the blast of Croconaw's water gun.
Garret ordered another attack. "Tackle attack!"
Croconaw charged at Chikorita and slammed into it with a powerful tackle attack. Chikorita got tossed to the side but quickly jumped to its feet and returned with its own tackle attack. Croconaw was also tossed aside, but also recovered quickly.
"Bite attack!" Garret ordered.
"Use vine whip!" Callista called out.
Croconaw approached Chikorita with its mouth wide open. Just as Croconaw got close, Chikorita used its vine whip to close Croconaw's mouth.
"Now use your razor leaf attack!" Callista ordered.
Chikorita struck Croconaw with several razor leaves. Croconaw fell to the ground as Chikorita released its grip from the water pokemon's mouth.
Croconaw struggled to its feet and Pat decided to help out her team member.
"Murkrow attack Chikorita!" Pat shouted.
Murkrow charged at Chikorita and hit it was a strong wing attack. Chikorita got tossed aside once again and once again it struggled to its feet.
"Hey, two against one isn't fair," Callista screamed in anger.
"Team Rocket members never play by the rules!" Pat replied as she grinned.
"As long as we win we don't care how many rules we break." Garret said.
Ruby stepped up. "We'll as long as we aren't playing by any rules then there is nothing wrong with me joining in to make it even." Ruby said as she grabbed a pokeball from her waist. "I choose you Quilava!"
Quilava appeared from its pokeball.
"Let's heat things up!" Ruby shouted. "Use your flamethrower attack!"
Quilava released a red hot flame thrower attack striking both Murkrow and Croconaw.
Garret and Pat ran to their pokemon with Spearow and Ariados chasing after them.
Team Rocket tried to coach their pokemon up.
"Come on Murkrow are you really going to let those little brats beat you?" Pat said.
"Get up now Croconaw. We can't let them win again!" Garret said as both pokemon attempted to get up.
"Okay, time to finish them off." Ruby said. "Quilava use your flame wheel!"
"Quilava quilava!" Quilava charged at the team and hit them with a mighty flame wheel.
Team Rocket got thrown into the sky.
"That Quilava has quite a punch!" Pat said.
"We didn't even get any rare pokemon." Garret said as they continued flying upward.
"Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!" Team Rocket said together as they and their pokemon disappeared into the sky.
Quilava galloped up to Ruby as Ruby knelt down and gave her pokemon a big hug. "Great job Quilava. You're the best!"
Callista grabbed the big bag of pokeballs, raced back inside the car and started handing them back to the trainers. Meanwhile, Ruby called back her Quilava and then went to see if the engineer was okay. Once everything was back in order the train continued towards route 30.
"You sure are getting better," Ruby complimented Callista as they relaxed in their seats once again. "You really gave that Croconaw a tough battle."
"Thanks Ruby." Callista replied. "I am really trying hard."
"It shows." Ruby said. "And once Professor Elm sets up your storage box you can start catching tons of pokemon to make your party even stronger."
Callista nodded and smiled. She was pretty excited to get to New Bark Town so she can meet all of her rival trainers and show Professor Elm just how strong she has become.