Chapter 13: vs. Baragon
Sapphire is walking alone in Route 111 Desert, looking for the second guardian. The sandstorm is very big and she has a hard time seeing. "I should've brought a goggle along… My eye is itching a lot…"
Suddenly, a man comes bumping into her and she falls backward. The man looks very frightened, and he keeps saying about a monster. "Run for your life! Monster! Monster!" Then he runs off screaming. "What's wrong with that guy?" wonders Sapphire, getting up from the sand.
She feels someone breathing into her face. She tries to look through the sandstorm, but she couldn't really tell what is in front of her. Just then, the sandstorm calms down, and she got a clear view of what's in front of her—a giant red monster! "What the hell is this!" she cries out.
The monster, Baragon, roars out loudly and slams his claw down at Sapphire, who quickly jumps backward to avoid getting hit. "So you want to fight?" she asks Baragon. "Then I'll let you fight!" She pulls out two Pokeballs and releases her Blaziken and Lairon. "Chaka! Ronono! Use teamwork to take out that beast!"
Chaka runs to one side of Baragon and Ronona to the other side. Both the Pokemon jump at the monster's head and smash it from both sides. "Now do you still want to fight?" she asks him. Baragon replies by breathing a stream of fire at Sapphire. Chaka quickly rushes to Sapphire and pushes her out of the fire's way. Ronono charges at Baragon and smashes his body with Skull Bash. Baragon's attention turns to Ronono, and the monster slams his claw down on the Lairon. Lairon quickly uses Iron Defense to protect himself from the hit.
Chaka jumps toward Baragon and performs a powerful jump kick attack at the monster, knocking him onto his side. Baragon recovers from the hit and desperately digs into the sand. "Hey! He dug into the ground!" says Sapphire. "That means he'll pop up from anywhere! I better watch out…" Just as she finishes saying this, a giant claw shoots out from the sand next to her and slashes down at her, but she jumped backwards just in time to avoid it. "Ha! Missed me!" she laughs, but then her leaf bra falls off, leaving her topless.
Baragon's claw emerges from the sand again to slash her. Chaka quickly runs in front of her master to protect her, andChaka herselfgot slashed by the claw. The Blaziken falls to the sand with a claw mark on his body.
The sand below Ronono bursts open and Baragon himself shoots out, sending Ronono flying backwards. When the Lairon lands on his feet, he charges at Baragon to perform a headbutt attack. Baragon quickly swings his tail and knocks Ronono away onto his back.
Sapphire gasps upon seeing both her Pokemon being knocked out. Her bag of Pokeballs is out of reach for her. If she tries to run there to get it, Baragon will catch her immediately since it's near him. Baragon slowly approaches Sapphire, and then he opens his mouth to get ready to breathe fire. Sapphire closes her eye, thinking that she has no hope left.
Suddenly, a burst of water is shot at Baragon's face. The force of the water is so strong that the giant monster is being pushed away! Sapphire turns toward her rescuer and found out that it is Ruby and his Swampert, Zuzu, who had save her.
"Sorry, I came a bit late," Ruby tells her. "I'll handle this monster. You go find the guardian."
"What made you change your mind to help me?" Sapphire asks him. Baragon gets up again and growls angrily at them. "Just go now!" Ruby tells her. "I'll explain it to you later!"
Sapphire got up and runs off. "I'll come back to help you after I've awaken the guardian!"
Outside the mothership, a Xilian is guarding the entrance to the inside of the ship. Suddenly, a Solrock and a Lunatone descends from both sides around him. "What are these?" he asks. The two psychic Pokemon fires a psychic beam at the Xilian, blasting him out of sense. Then the gym leaders all came to the entrance. "You did well," Tate says to the sun and moon Pokemon. "Now let's go inside and kick some aliens!" says Brawly.
In G-Force, the navigator tells Sarge that Gigan has moved from Maulville City to Mossdeep City.
Back in the desert, Ruby's Swampert is battling Baragon. Zuzu the Swampert shoots out a stream of water at Baragon and the monster breathes his fire attack. The force of the water and the fire are both very strong and both the attacks are canceling out each other.
"He's really powerful…" thought Ruby. "Even water attacks can't penetrate his fire breath!" Baragon then digs into the sand for an ambush attack.
"He's dug into the ground!" thought Ruby. "Now's my chance!" He quickly commands Zuzu to use earthquake. Zuzu stomps the ground hard, causing a violent earthquake to occur. The earthquake made Baragon come out of the ground immediately. "Hehe! Earthquake can greatly damage anyone that is hiding underground," explains Ruby. While he is saying this, Baragon strikes him with his tail, sending Ruby flying backwards and hitting a rock hard. Zuzu charges at Baragon to attack him, but the monster swings his claw and knocks the Swampert away.
Meanwhile, Sapphire is running around the desert, looking for a cave that leads to the guardian. Eventually, she found a giant rock with a crack on it. She calls out her Donphan and tells it to make a hole on the rock. The Donphan digs into the rock to reveal a tunnel behind it. Sapphire quickly runs down the tunnel until she comes to a strange writing on the wall. "Another one of these…? God dammit…"
She inspects the writing carefully and sees some arrows drawn on it. "It seems that these arrows are pointing to me a direction… Right, right, down, down, and then some strange writings again."
She moves right two steps and then down two steps. "What do I do now? Maybe I have to do something while standing in this spot?" She thought for a while and gives a random command to her Donphan. "Phadodo, dig in this very spot that I am standing on." She moves out of the way so Phadodo can dig there. When Phadodo dug about a 1 foot deep hole, the entire place starts shaking, so the both of them quickly runs to the surface.
Baragon had beaten up all of Ruby's remaining Pokemon. Ruby is now cornered against the rock and he himself is severely wounded too. Baragon approaches him to deliver the final blow, when suddenly they all felt a violent earthquake.
Suddenly, a giant drill rises from the sand, followed by a huge face. Finally, the entire the body rises from the sand and reveals itself to be a gigantic insect with drill hands! Sapphire watches from outside the rock tunnel. "Yes! I've awaken the second guardian, Megalon!"
Baragon looks at the giant insect and roars angrily at it, and then he breathes fire at the giant insect. Because Megalon is several times larger than Baragon, he didn't felt any burning pain when the fire hits him. Megalon delivers a strong kick at Baragon, sending the red monster flying into the air and then back down with a thud. Megalon then slams down his drill arm at Baragon, goring the monster to his demise. Megalon then turns away and flies into the sky.
Sapphire comes running to Ruby and asks him, "Are you all right?" Ruby turns his face away from Sapphire because he doesn't want to see her topless. "I'm fine, but please wear some clothes! Here, I've sewed a new one for you."
"But first, swear to me that you will help me awaken the final guardian," Sapphire tells him. "Fine! I will! Now please wear it! It's not appropriate for girls to be running around topless!" says Ruby. Sapphire got the clothes from him and puts it on. "Okay, now that you've finally cared about the world, let's go!"
"But I want to clean my clothes first. I hate getting dirty…"
"Never mind that! It'll get dirty again anyway!"
She grabs Ruby by the collar and pulls him out of the desert.
The giant guardian monster, Megalon, soars through the sky, heading for Mossdeep City to battle the one terrorizing there…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Yeah, Sapphire's Blaziken is female. Sorry if I made that gender mistake in any previous chapters.
