White Pony: Whew... I decided to add one more chapter for this week or whenever I get the next one up. Go, Disclaimer Dude!
Disclaimer Dude: White Pony doesn't own Poke'mon, Bill from School House Rock, Candyland, or Sweet-N-Low.
Chapter Eight: Sweet Victory
"By any chance, haven't you been asking everyone that came by to take care of your Charmander?" Rita asked out of random curiosity.
"Yes, but everytime someone takes it, they come back later. Then they yell in my face, stuff Charmander's Poke'ball into my mouth, and they beat me up."
"That's not nice!" exclaimed Jessica.
"Pi!" (Yeah!) Agreed Purge.
"Is there something wrong with it?" asked Rita.
The boy began stammering nervously.
"It doesn't matter, let's go!" Jessica declared and she skipped along the pathway. Purge and Rita quickly ran to catch up with her. There, they met up with many trainers. Bazaar was the one to battle the rock Pokemon, Purge battled the water and flying-types, and Lakota fought the rest. Finally, there was one last trainer to battle then they could enter Bill's house. At first, she sent out a Pidgey, which Purge K-Oed, then she sent out an Oddish.
"Alright, Jessica, this is the perfect Poke'mon for Charmander to battle!" suggested Rita.
"Yeah? Thanks for the info, Rita!" Jessica faced her opponent and released the Charmander, "Go, Shetan!"
"Pikachu Pika." (Interesting nickname.)
"Char!" (Yeah!) Shetan cried in excitement.
Shetan turned to look back at his new trainer and his eye caught sight of the flame on his tail.
"CHAR! CHAAAA!" (FIRE! AHHHH!) Shetan shrieked in fright and he began running around in circles, trying to get away from the blaze.
Jessica, Purge, Rita, the opposing Oddish, and its trainer sweatdropped while watching Shetan run in circles and yelling in panic.
"What's wrong, Shetan?" Jessica worriedly asked her frightened Charmander, who continued screaming and running in circles.
"I don't know. Maybe something spooked him." Rita replied.
By now, Shetan had mad a circular hole in the ground up to his waist due to continuously running in circles.
"Get control of your Poke'mon and battle!" Rita bellowed.
"Shetan! Scratch!" Jessica ordered her Charmander.
"CHAAAAAAA!" (AHHHHHHH!) Shetan didn't hear his trainer's order and continued running and screaming.
"Pika!" (Shetan!)
"Maybe Shetan doesn't know his nickname. Call it by its real name."
"Charmander!"
"Char?" (Huh?) Shetan stopped running and climbed out of the circular hole he made and faced his opponent, "Mander." (Sorry.)
"It's alright. Use Scratch!" Shetan took a small portion of damage on Oddish, "Now use Ember!"
Shetan shot tiny flames from his tail and were sent raining upon Oddish. When Shetan saw the falling little fireballs, he threw himself to the ground, put his paws on his head, and he trembled in fear. Oddish was defeated and Jessica withdrew Shetan into his Poke'ball. Finally, she, Purge, and Rita could go see Bill, the world famous Poke'maniac.
"What the?" cried Rita as she eyed the strange sight before her within Bill's house. Purge walked up to the strange creature.
"Pika Pika?" (What are you?)
"What kind of Poke'mon is that?"
"Hiya! I'm a Poke'mon! No, I'm not." It said. It was merely a man in a chicken suit.
"I'm confused." said Jessica.
"Of course."
"Call me Bill. A true blue Poke'maniac!" then funky music was playing in the background. Then Bill began to sing, "They call me Bill. Yes, they call me Bill. And I'm standing here on Capitol Hill..."
Silence.
"Hey, what's with the skeptical look?" Jessica, Puge, and Rita were giving Bill a series of skeptical looks, "I got caught up in and experiment and I got mixed up."
"I can tell." said Rita.
"Can you help me out?"
"Sure we can!" Jessica chirped. Little did the group know, the experiment excuse was to cover up his real reason for wearing a chicken suit, but we'll not go into that.
"Go to the PC to activate that transporter thingy." Bill waddled into a chamber of the transporter thingy.
"Better let me do this." said Rita and she went over to the computer and pressed a few keys. Moments later, Bill emerged from the second chamber, free from the chicken suit.
"Pi Pikachu!" (Oh my gosh!) Purge yelled in surprise.
"Thanks, bud, I owe you one!" Bill said as he approached the group.
"No problem." said Rita.
"Yeah." Jessica added.
Purge had fainted.
"Did you come to see my Poke'mon Collection?" Before either girls could reply, Bill spoke again, "You didn't? That's a bummer. I have to thank you somehow."
Bill handed Jessica a ticket.
"It's a ticket to a cruise on the S.S. Anne. I can't stand fancy do's, so why don't you go instead of me?"
"But there's only two of us!" cried Rita.
"Uhhh... Look over there!" Bill cried and he pointed behind them. When Jessica and Rita looked, Bill jumped off of a cliff that appeared inside his house.
"Great." Rita muttered.
After Purge regained consciousness, she and Jessica and Rita went back to Cerulean City and Jessica healed her Poke'mon at the Poke'mon Center. Then they left the building.
"Rita, where's the Gym?" Jessica asked.
"It's the big building over there." Rita replied.
"I don't see it. That big building is in the way!" Jessica whined.
"That big building is the Gym!"
"Oh, I see it now!"
Purge laughed slightly and they entered the Gym to meet Misty, who was playing Candyland with her Poke'mon. Misty yawned and Staryu moved its piece into the winner's spot. It jumped up and down in victory.
"Hyah!"
"Another game? But we've been playing for three days straight!" Mist whined, "No, that's enough, you two! I'm done playing!"
Staryu and Starmie hung their upper bodies in sadness due to lacking real heads. Misty withdrew them into their Poke'balls.
"Hey, do you know where Misty is?" asked Jessica.
"That would be me." replied Misty.
"Let's battle!"
Misty sighed and released her Staryu, "Go, Staryu!"
"Go, Shetan!"
"No!" Rita bellowed angrily and Purge slapped her forehead.
"No?"
"I'm not starting this again." Rita growled through clenched teeth, "There's no way Shetan can beat Staryu."
It was true. Shetan hardly had any training plus he was weak against Staryu's critical Water Gun. Jessica recalled her fainted fire Poke'mon and sent out Bazaar to battle Staryu. Bazaar put away his reading glasses and encyclopedia and was ready to rumble.
"Bulbasaur!" (Let's go already!)
"Bazaar, Vine Whip!" Bazaar took out a large portion of Staryu's hit points with his Vine Whip.
"Staryu, Tackle!" Misty ordered.
It was a critical hit and Bazaar was out for the count. Purge was sent out to finish off Staryu after Bazaar was recalled.
"Thundershock!"
"PikaaCHUU!" Purge defeated Staryu and it was recalled.
"Go, Starmie! Tackle!"
This attack was also a critical hit, but Purge was still standing.
"Thunder Wave!" Purge sent out a wave of electricity that paralyzed Starmie, but it could still attack.
"Bubblebeam!" Starmie sent out a fury torrent of bubbles at Purge. She managed to dodge a few, but she wasn't fast enough to dodge them all. Purge's hit points were in the red zone.
"Chu..." (Whew...) Purge panted.
"Thundershock!"
"PikaaCHUUU!" Purge had done a lot of damage, but not enough. Starmie had a little less than half of its energy.
"Finish it off with Bubblebeam!" Starmie's Bubblebeam attack had done its job and finished off Purge.
"Geez, her water Poke'mon are tough." said Rita.
Purge was recalled somehow without going inside the Poke'ball or having to go back herself or have her trainer get her. Jessica looked at the Poke'ball containing her last Poke'mon and released it. Lakota, of course, was eating sugar.
"Tackle!" Misty ordered.
When Lakota was about to rip open a new bag of sugar, she leaped out of the way to avoid Starmie's attack. Starmie's Tackle had ripped open a large hole in Lakota's sugar bag. Starmie jumped back as soon as Lakota came charging. She happily licked up the sugar that had poured out of the bag.
"Water Gun!"
Lakota leaped out of the way again to avoid an attack. The Water Gun had hit the sugar and it was melting. Lakota rushed over to her sugar pile.
"NI! Ni Nidoran! Nidoran! Ni, Nidoran!" (No! My sugar is melting! Melting! Oh, what a world!) She sobbed. Starmie was puzzled of the Nidoran's strange behavior.
Lakota stopped crying. She looked up at Starmie and snarled angrily. She ripped open 47 packs of Sweet-N-Low, ate them, and waited for her trainer's orders.
"Lakota, Tackle!"
"NI!" (REVENGE!) Lakota bellowed before ramming into Starmie.
"Bubblebeam!" Starmie fired its Bubblebeam, but the sugar powering up Lakota gave her the speed to dodge every bubble. Starmie was baffled by Lakota's great speed.
Lakota broke into a run and skidded to a stop in the puddle of sugary water and sending it at Starmie. Starmie had been blinded! Then it realized that it had no eyes and began to wonder how it could see.
"Poison Sting!" Lakota sent out hundreds of glowing barbs at Starmie.
"Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah!" Starmie yelped every time a barb hit it.
"Tackle!" with one final attack, Lakota ran into Starmie at full speed, sending Starmie flying backwards into a wall. The impact was so strong, Starmie's body left a hole in the was. Starmie was defeated.
"We won!" Jessica rejoiced.
"Pika!" Purge also rejoiced.
"Wow!" Rita was amazed with Lakota's performance.
"Nidoran Ni Ni!" (Victory is mine!) Lakota cried. Suddenly, she began glowing.
"Rita, what's wrong with Lakota?"
"Nothing's wrong with her. Lakota is evolving!"
"No, she's not. She's a Nidoran."
"I mean she's changing."
"Lakota doesn't wear clothes."
Lakota's body was growing and growing. When the transformation was complete, Lakota's body was no longer glowing. Lakota evolved into Nidorina.
"Lakota evolved into a Nidorina!" Rita exclaimed.
"Wow." Jessica gasped in awe at her Poke'mon's new and more powerful form.
"RAN!" (MOO!) Lakota roared.
"Sometimes when Poke'mon evolve, their personalities change." said Rita.
"But I like Lakota the way she was!"
"Pi." (Yeah.) Purge hung her head.
"NI!" (SUGAR!) Lakota ripped open a fresh bag of sugar and chugged it down.
"I don't think she's changed one bit!" Jessica beamed at her Poke'mon.
"Even if she did, I don't think her obsession with sugar will ever change."
"Pikachu." (That's for sure.)
"Excuse me, you're holding up the line." Misty pointed to a long line of challengers that the group was standing in front of.
"Sorry." Jessica, Rita, and Purge apologized and they left the Cerulean City Gym.