After all of the heavy plot stuff, we're finally moving ahead to the next town. Other than that, I hope you enjoy.
Diego, Renée, and Julia awoke the next morning and continued heading through the route. After what happened last night, they were eager to get to Lavender Town quickly. They reached a building that looked abandoned, the windows were broken and the sounds of wild pokemon could be heard inside.
"What is this?" Diego pondered.
"Oh! This must be the old Kanto Power Plant!" Renée answered.
"Didn't you do a project on this place when we were still in the academy?" Julia asked.
"Yup! This place use to be used by Team Rocket almost 30 years ago, during the Great Pokemon War. Once they left, the legendary pokemon Zapdos used it as its nesting ground, until an enigmatic trainer named Red made it leave somehow." She explained, the mention of Red made Diego a little mad.
"About 3 years after that, this place was refurbished and started being used again. But Zapdos kept coming back, causing problems with the machinery and causing blackouts all over Kanto. Things got so bad that the staff had to relocate to the route East of Fuchsia City."
"So this place is abandoned again?" Julia asked.
"Yup, but from the looks of it, some wild pokemon live here." Renée answered.
"Doesn't this mean we took a wrong turn somewhere?" Diego asked, he looked at the Map feature of his PokeNav Plus. "According to the map, the way into Rock Tunnel is to the north."
"There should be an escape route that the workers here used in case of an emergency, it goes right to Lavender Town." Renée assured.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Diego said enthusiastically. The trio entered the abandoned building, the inside looked just as old and decrepit as the outside, there were some cobwebs that seemed to crackle with electricity. The group seemed to take notice of this, Renée looked uneasy when she did.
"Oh no! Nonononono! Cobwebs mean spiders, spiders mean Bug-Types, and I DON'T like bug types!" She said. She continued going through the Power Plant as quickly as she could, she didn't want do deal with any bugs. Her rushing however, caused her to get stuck in another cobweb, this one was rather small however. Diego and her sister fell behind since she was going faster than them.
Suddenly, a small, yellow, spider looking pokemon crawled towards her, Julia and Diego caught up with her and saw the pokemon.
"Sis, don't move..." Julia said calmly, Renée saw the pokemon, which was biting the cobweb to release Renée. Diego scanned the pokemon with his pokedex.
'Joltik; The Attaching Pokemon: They attach to large bodied pokemon and absorb electricity, which they store in an electric pouch.'
"Eek! A bug!? Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!" Renée screamed, the Joltik climbed up her leg and onto her hand. Renée slowly lifted her hand to get a look at the pokemon, she looked at it in the eyes. Joltik seemed to smile at her. Renée began screaming and flailing her arm, trying to flick the bug off, unfortunately for her, Joltik continued to cling onto her hand.
Once Renée tired herself out, Joltik climbed onto her shoulder and began nuzzling her cheek.
"Aww, I think it likes you!" Diego teased.
"Get it off of me!" Renée screamed again, Joltik then crawled down to her waist and stole one of the Pokeballs she had. "Hey! Come back here! You little-"
Julia and Diego helped Renée out of the Web and chased after the electric bug. They didn't have to go far, as the Joltik seemed to be waiting for them.
"Why did it stop?" Diego asked.
"Who cares! Give me back my pokemon you icky bug!"
The Joltik went off again, almost as if it was guiding the group somewhere. Diego sent out his Pikachu in an attempt to stop it, for some reason though, Pikachu used an attack without Diego calling for one. It whipped it's tail toward Joltik, sending out a strange lightning bolt that electrified the ground in front of Joltik.
"What move was that?" Diego asked in surprise.
"I think Dr. Goff told us about this attack one day. It's called Livewire, it's like Toxic Spikes except it paralysis anything that it comes into contact with." Julia answered.
Unfortunately the Livewire did not effect Joltik due to its electric typing.
"Oh yeah... Livewire doesn't work on electric types or flying types..." Julia added. The three of them kept running after the bug.
After about 20 minutes of chasing the Joltik, they saw it waiting for them by some sort of generator.
"We've got you know!" Renée said, she went right up to the Joltik, she tried to stay calm but it was difficult for her due to her phobia of bugs.
The Joltik then climbed into the generator and came back out with two objects, a Thunder Stone and some sort of egg-shaped stone. The stone had another smaller gem inside of it. Flaaffy came out of it's pokeball and took the smaller gem, giving it to Renée.
"What's that?" Diego asked. Renée took a close look at the stone before recognizing it.
"It's a Mega Stone!" She exclaimed.
"Which one sis?" Julia asked excitedly. Flaaffy seemed to be strangely fixated on the mega stone.
"It's probably the Ampharosite, since Flaaffy seems to like it so much!" Renée said, petting Flaaffy. Diego picked up the Thunder Stone and sent out his Pikachu. While the twins were talking and admiring the mega stone, Diego gave Pikachu the Thunder Stone, evolving it into a Raichu!
'Looks like I did what Mom and Dad didn't...' Diego thought to himself. The bright light that was emitted by the evolution caught the attention of the twins.
"Hey, why'd you evolve Pikachu? Julia asked.
"I want Raichu to reach his full potential, and that means evolving it." Diego answered.
"Did the Joltik lead us here?" Julia pondered.
"Y'know, maybe this little bug isn't so bad. It's even kind of cute!" Renée said. Suddenly, the ground began to crumble. The group fell through the ground and into some kind of nest!
"W-what is this place?" Julia asked in fear. The three of them looked around and saw some sort of yellow bird pokemon.
"Its... Zapdos!" Diego announced. The Zapdos had awoken, it spread it's wings and flew out of the Power Plant, heading Southwest.
"That was awesome!" Renée exclaimed.
"Hey, over there!" Julia called out, Zapdos had been blocking the secret exit, but it was revealed when it flew away. They went over to the exit, but as they did Renée turned to see the Joltik, it looked sad to see them leaving.
"Y'know... you're not so bad. Why don't you come with us?" She said, Joltik looked excited. Julia took out a pokeball and caught the electric bug. The group went through the exit, Lavender Town being their next destination.
And that's the end of this chapter, hope you liked it.
New moves: Livewire
Electric type move
- power
100 accuracy
The user plants an electric current on the opponent's side of the field, it paralyses the next pokemon sent out.
This is a custom move, but I did not create it. It made its first appearance in Pokemon Zeta and Omicron, so I have to give credit where credit is due.
