Chapter 6: vs. Ludicolo


The leader of Team Aqua, Archie, is sitting in a dark room, talking to a mysterious person. "So you will fulfill our dream of expanding the sea if we help defeat the forces of Hoenn, right?" asks Archie.

"Right," says the mystery man. "We will create a new empire in this world, and you can have half of it, if you help us."

"That's a good deal! So what do you want us to do as a starter?"

"Here's what you do first," says the mystery man with a smirk. "Attack Hoenn G-Force."

At the Hoenn G-Force Headquarter, Miki is getting enrolled for a work there. "It would be great to have you working with us," says Sarge. "Your ability to predict Godzilla's whereabouts will surely be helpful.

"I will try my best," says Miki.

While they are talking, some janitors entered the navigation room to clean the place. When inside, they got out a small black metal box and places it near the controllers, and then they quickly left.

Meanwhile, Roxanne is cleaning Little Godzilla's playroom. Little Godzilla is playfully digging a hole and dwelling inside it. "Hey, little one," says Roxanne. "Are you having fun?" Little Godzilla nods happily. "Hehe… Such a cute thing," says Roxanne with a smile. Suddenly, she hears a loud explosion and was frightened. Little Godzilla was also frightened and he quickly hid in the hole he dug. Roxanne runs out the room and asks a frantic passerby, "What happened? What was that bang all about?"

"An explosion has occurred in the navigation room!" replies the passerby. "About 3 navigators were caught in the explosion!"

"Who could have done that?!" asks Roxanne.

The soldiers quickly got fire extinguishers and starts putting out the flames and rescuing the survivors inside. "How did this happen?" asks Sarge.

"I believe I can answer you that," says a voice. Sarge turns to the janitors who said this. The janitors take off their uniforms to reveal Team Aqua uniforms underneath. "We are Team Aqua and we are going to kill all of you!" says a big tough-looking Aqua, Matt.

The ceiling opens and more Aqua members jump down from there. They all pull out guns and starts firing laser beams at the guards and scientists. When hit by the laser, the victim disintegrates into thin air. Guards and policeman came to fight them, but they are no match for the Aqua's laser guns.

"Why are you doing this?!" asks Sarge. "Someone promises us a great power if we wreck this place!" Matt replies. "And we'll do anything to obtain power and expand water! Now die quietly!" Matt fires a beam from his gun, but Sarge quickly rolls aside and dodges it. He takes off his left shoe and throws it straight into Matt's face, knocking him out.

Miki is ducking behind a desk, trying to hide the Aqua members. Two Aqua members came in and start looking around. "I'm sure I saw someone running in here," says on of the Aqua. "I believe you," says the scrawny Aqua, named Scott. "I did see a girl running in here. Now let's find her and zap her into bits!"

Miki must think of something fast. If the two Aqua members found her, then she's done for. She closes her eye and starts concentrating her mind. Suddenly, her earrings started shaking, and then the desk she's hiding behind levitates into the air! The two Aqua members spot Miki, but their attention is focused on the levitating desk. The desk flies straight into them and smacks the both of them out the room. Miki got up and sighs in relief. She's quite surprised that she was able to pull of telekinesis.

Sarge and Matt are having a hand-to-hand combat. Matt throws a punch at Sarge, but the general dodges it and gives Matt a blow in the face. Matt tries to punch again, but Sarge grabs his fist and twists it, hurting Matt's arm badly. "EEEEOW!!!!!" Sarge then picks him up by the arm and smashes him against a desk, breaking it. "Don't underestimate me," says Sarge. "I was a master martial artist back in my younger days, even until now."

Miki is still hiding in fear. She does not have Pokemon and doesn't know any basic fighting skills. Though she has psychic powers, it's not easy to pull off the telekinesis just now. Suddenly, a female Aqua member comes in front of her and points a gun at her. "You're going down with the others also. Hehehe…"

Suddenly, a window nearby cracks open and Sapphire jumps in, landing her shoe straight into the female Aqua's face. The female Aqua falls to the ground, but then gets back up and looks at her attacker. "You're that bratty girl who always interferes with us!"

"Yup, it's me! You and your friends are going down this time, Shelly!" says Sapphire. The female Aqua, named Shelly, got a gun and is about to fire at her, when suddenly Miki got a broom and whacks Shelly over the head. Shelly gets back up and looks at Miki angrily, and while she's not concentrated, Sapphire delivers a powerful kick straight in Shelly's back, sending her sliding across the room and banging face first into the wall. "Argh! You're getting stronger!" growls Shelly. "That's because I've been practicing taijutsu around these days!" Sapphire replies. She runs at Shelly and jumps into the air to perform a jumping kick. Shelly quickly got out of the way and Sapphire kicks into the wall, getting her foot stuck in it. "Grrr… Darn it…" growls Sapphire while trying to pull her foot out. Shelly uses this as a chance to headlock Sapphire and starts choking her.

Miki realizes that she must help Sapphire at all cost; so again, she uses the broomstick and swings it hard at Shelly's head, making her free Sapphire.

Meanwhile, Matt and Sarge are still having their own combat. Matt charges at Sarge and performs a body slam. Sarge quickly backs off to avoid the slam, and when Matt slams face first onto the floor, Sarge jumps onto his back and stomps hard, making Matt cry in pain. Matt quickly gets back up and picks up a chair and swings it at Sarge. Sarge uses a karate chop to slice through the chair and then punches Matt hard in the face, causing a tooth to fly out. With this, Matt collapse to the floor—knocked out.

Sapphire finally managed to free her leg from the wall. Shelly is trying to defend herself from Miki's swinging broom of fury. Sapphire runs up to Shelly, and delivers some powerful punches in her head, making blood shoot out from Shelly's mouth. Next, Sapphire performs a 360-degree spinning kick, smashing Shelly hard in the hip and sending her flying onto some cleaning equipments lying around. "Yeah! I win!" shouts out Sapphire with joy. "Wow! You're strong!" says Miki.

Shelly, all beaten up and bleeding, gets up slowly and painfully, saying, "It's not over yet… Until we have a Pokemon duel!"

"Bring it on!" says Sapphire while beating her own chest with her left hand. Shelly got her Pokeball and throws it. "Come out, Ludicolo!" A pineapple-shaped Pokemon appears from the ball and jumps up and down with a cheerful face. Sapphire reaches for her Pokeball and calls out her prized Blaziken. "Come out! Chaka!"

"You're in for a disadvantage," says Shelly. "My water-type Ludicolo can destroy your fire-type Blaziken easily!"

Scott got into a room that is a replica of a jungle. "I wonder if anyone's hiding here. The boss said not to leave anyone alive,"

Roxanne and Little Godzilla are hiding in the pit that Little Godzilla himself dug. "Keep quiet," Roxanne whispers to LG. "If you make a sound, he'll find us."

"You don't have to make a sound anymore," says a voice from above. Roxanne looks up and sees Scott looking down at them! When Scott sees LG, he says, "What's this new Pokemon?! It's a new discovery! I'm gonna catch it!"

"NO!!!!!" shouts Roxanne. She throws her Pokemon at Scott's face and a Nosepass comes out of the ball. "Zap Cannon!" commands Roxanne. The Nosepass fires an electric ball at Scott, zapping him badly. "YAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" And then he drops onto the ground and is paralyzed.

Chaka charges at Ludicolo and performs a Blaze Kick, but Ludicolo quickly rolls aside to dodge it. Chaka performs a spinning kick and it hits Ludicolo, who just rolled aside. Chaka then delivers some powerful kicking moves at Ludicolo, beating the water/grass Pokemon out of sense. Shelly quickly runs to the fallen Ludicolo and gives him some potion. After taking the potion, Ludicolo got back up with more strength then before. He shoots a stream of water from his mouth at Chaka, but the Blaziken jumps over the water and kicks diagonally down at Ludicolo.

"Chaka! Use the Blazing Combo technique I taught you!" commands Sapphire. Chaka hits the Ludicolo hard with his knee, sending the Ludicolo flying up and smashing through the ceiling. Chaka jumps through the ceiling and then delivers a series of quick blazing kicks at the poor Ludicolo while still in midair. Chaka then ends the combo by smashing it down towards the floor with a loud slam and making dusts flying everywhere. When the dust clears, there lies Ludicolo on the cracked floor—fainted and burned up.

"No! This can't be!" cries Shelly. "I win this time!" says Sapphire. "Now you're next!" She runs to Shelly and punches her hard in the belly, followed by kicking her below the chin. Shelly falls backward onto the floor and is too painful to get back up.

After a while, more policemen came and arrested all the Team Aqua members. "It's all thanks to you, Sapphire!" says Sarge. "You have been a great help to us!"

"Don't say that," says Sapphire blushing. "You did some great fighting also."

Gabby comes in front of them and reports, "Who you're looking at now is the heroic female trainer from Littleroot Town, Sapphire! Her father is the well-known Pokemon researcher, Birch. Once again, she has saved G-Force from the evil Team Aqua!"

Birch is watching the news from his home. "Now that's my daughter! She's the greatest!"

Ruby is at his home, also watching the news. "Cool… I've never thought she would become that strong!"

Wally is also watching the news. "I really want to become as strong as her!" he thought to himself. "Just you wait, Sapphire! Someday I will overcome your power!"

In an unknown place…

"It looks like your henchmen have failed the mission," says the mystery man. "If only that annoying Sapphire haven't interfere with us!" says Archie. "She's always messing with our plans!"

"Calm down now, Archie," says the mystery man. "Everybody can fail, so it's not a shameful thing. I have many more plans in my mind right now. The next plan will surely succeed."


TO BE CONTINUED…

Can you guess who the mystery man is? Scott, Matt, and Shelly were in the manga, so I didn't make them up. Now please show that you like this story by reviewing!