Chapter 33: more than we asked for

Flannery:

Tabitha called out his Camerupt and told us "Courtney had a problem awhile ago and needed to replace the Camerupt that she had, the boss wasn't pleased with her. He wanted to make sure that we get more pokemon to deal with troublesome people. Like the previous Courtney and those guys, Josh and Tank. Everyone is so annoying" his tone of voice became more enraged and irritated and surprisingly, Matt stood there. Wasn't he going to call out his pokemon? I scanned the area for Matts pokemon and was surprised when there was a sudden attack from the water. A Sharpedo shot out of the water and slammed against my Margcargo with a power water attack, I was confused with my Magcargo on the edge of death. My fear only grew as I watched the Sharpedo swim around. Matt explained "did you really think any admin would go into enemy territory unprepared? I let loose my pokemon on the way here" Tabitha gave his Camerupt a command "use earth power" the earth under my Magcargo shattered and knocked them unconscious. Brawly was concerned and as was I, we were not prepared for this kind of battle. Me and Brawly have 2 pokemon each now and we haven't even made a dent yet. Brawly stepped into action "Machoke, use low sweep" they then rushed over and low kicked Camerupt, as good of an attack that was, it didn't seem very effective.

Without warning, Courtney jumped in with a new Camerupt and both her and Tabitha gave the same command "use earth power" both of the shattered and splintered the earth under Machoke, making them pass out quickly. Before either of them could make a finishing blow on our pokemon, we called them back. Brawly called out "that's not fair" Courtney looked to Tabitha who then explained "you think we'd play by the same rules you all set? We're part of a criminal organization, why would we battle one on one when the land is ours to claim" Matt and Shelly seemed disappointed, knowing they have opposite goals makes them working together all the more bizarre. Yet, despite being part of Team Magma, Madeline seemed unphased by the claim Tabitha made. Was this because they were on the same team or because she didn't care what Tabitha said? I called out my own Camerupt and gave a command quickly "use yawn" her Camerupt yawned and that made all the other pokemon out yawn too. I knew it was a matter of seconds before they would fall asleep. Brawly called out his Hariyama and gave a command quickly too "use belly drum" the attack of the Hairiyama grew with each slap to his belly. Matt gave Shelly a signal and both of them said in unison "use liquidation" this took myself and Brawly by surprise when not one, but two Sharpedo's leaped from the sea with water surrounding both, slamming into my Camerupt and leaving them badly wounded. Shelly laughed with Matt and exclaimed "so this is what it means to be a gym leader? A weak pathetic trainer who can't defend themselves" they seemed pleased while Tabitha and Courtney were less than amused. Again though, Madeline stood there completely indifferent to the other four people.

The Magma admin, Tabitha was going to make a killing move and thanks to Hairiyama getting in the way, taking most of the damage, the kill was averted. Though, Camerupt was knocked unconscious, id rather that than to witness my pokemon dying before my eyes. "thanks Brawly" I said gratefully and before I could act he responded "we don't know what they'll do next so keep your guard up" I agreed and kept my focus on this battle, calling out my last pokemon, Torkoal. Both Courtney and Tabitha gave the command "use earth power" shattered the earth under Tokoal and badly wounding them, bleeding more profusely. With a command from Matt "use aqua jet" the Sharpedo shot out of the water faster than before and delivered the finishing blow, if not for my quick thinking to use a potion, Torkoal would have been killed. Things didn't look so good, with Brawly having one pokemon left for battle. I quickly called back Torkoal as Madeline sighed and called out her pokemon, for a member of Team Magma this surprised us when her pokemon was a Staraptor. Using her pokemon she flew over our heads and gave her command "use air slash" the force of the slash was intense, slamming me, Brawly and a badly wounded Hairiyama against the lighthouse wall.

"This is getting boring, use air slash again" Madeline exclaimed with a deep annoyed tone. The waves of air almost killed Hairiyama and us along with him. Our vision became blurred as they all called back their pokemon. The last words I heard were from Madeline "load the stuff onto the boat, Team Magma can start on the construction while Team Aqua finishes the computer programming" they all gave a nod as the voices became softer. Tabitha explained "it'll take a few weeks before the submarine is read-" we fell unconscious before they could finish. I was surprised we even hung on that long before passing out.

~flashback ends~

That's when we woke up, our pokemon were being treated by Nurse Joy and we heard news of the twin gym leaders being here too. The materials and both teams were gone. Josh nodded and added "I can confirm that when I arrived at the scene, they were the only two there, clearly a battle took place and there were no signs of the meeting taking place" Norman and Courtney seemed discontent about the events that transpired while Tank and Josh seemed distracted by other things. I told them all "it looks like me, Brawly and the twins are going to be in here for about a week so we can fully recover" Norman seemed pleased to hear they're recovery time and pointed out "before you both passed out, they said a few weeks to get everything ready, that should give you time to recover and get back into the swing of things before you can battle again" this gave us all the perfect time to recover and learn from our defeat.