A/N: Apologies is this chapter is a slight bit later; had to help sort out a barbecue which doubled as both my oldest brother's 32nd Birthday party and my younger brother's 21st Birthday party. This chapter and the following one is just filled with key fights against important characters within NPMA, so it was a lot of fun to rewritie. Here's hoping you'll have as much reading it!
Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure Act 6 Continued Further!
Jolt sat in the hallway, poking the zapped unconscious Rocket, bored. After what felt like an eternity of waiting, his trainer stepped out into the hallway, now garbed in her usual blue sleeveless shirt and red miniskirt.
"Thanks for waiting, Jolt." Nanka said as she finished braiding her hair, pink Zubat-shaped ribbon tied into the right spot. "It would have been rather embarrassing to take on all these Rockets in a nightgown, not to mention how hard it is to run while wearing slippers. Speaking of which, should we start taking each and every one of them out?"
"Pikaaa!" Jolt cheered, punching the air with excitement.
Despite her cautious nature, Nanka decided that her best way to proceed through Silph. Co would be to take out the Rockets. It would be crazy to try to take them all at once though, which is why she and Ion were currently underneath a table.
"Are you ready, Ion?" Nanka whispered to her well groomed Eevee, as a lone Rocket member with an Ekans around his neck walked by the table. "It's time to test out your new attack."
Ion nodded, his fangs glistening, as he sneaked out from under the table.
"Itrud"- The Rocket had started to yell upon noticing Nanka and Ion, only to be cut short as Ion lunged towards the Rocket and his Ekans, chomping down on them with Bite.
The Rocket guard was loitering leisurely at his post, chewing on a lollipop, when a Pikachu ran up and snatched his whip from his belt.
"Oi!" The Rocket exclaimed as he turned to begin chasing after the thieving Pikachu. "Who let a Pikachu in here!?"
Grabbing a Pokéball from his belt, the Rocket sent out his grey-bodied Machop, "Hey, Matches. Get my whip back, will ya?"
The sent out Machop immediately began pursuing the Pikachu around the corner, only to suddenly be uppercut by a burrowing Sandslash. It was another successful Rocket take down from Nanka's team of Pokémon.
Nanka's plan had to been to take out lone Rocket members one by one, so when she spotted a pair of them walking in her direction, she instantly dove out of sight and into the nearest room. Having avoided the patrolling pair, much to Jolt's displeasure, the duo found themselves in a large office space with stacks of paperwork.
Despite their circumstances, curiosity got the better of Nanka, and she began reading through the Pokémon reports concerning trade evolution's and Pokémon attacks. Jolt was also curious, but given he couldn't read, soon lost interest.
'I can't believe that people were able to create a Pokémon' Nanka thought to herself as she read her tenth Pokémon report, this one detailing the supposed invention of a Pokémon known as Porygon.
"Whaaat?" A surprised voice rang out from across the office, swiftly snapping Nanka's attention away from reading, and towards the crazy-haired Juggler approaching her. "There shouldn't be any children here!"
"O-oh, well you see, I'm…" Nanka began to stammer, looking aside to see Jolt asleep from boredom, and so instead having to rummage through her mind to think of an excuse.
"Why would a kid be here…?" The Juggler mumbled to himself, keeping a fixed stare on Nanka, until his eyes opened wide with realisation. "Oh goodness! You must be a friend of the bosses kid!"
"Yep! That's me; I'm a friend!" Nanka replied quickly, leaping on the fortunate suggestion. "I was just um… l-looking for the ladies' room."
"Oh, it's down the hall there kid, around the corner." The Juggler chuckled. "Great to know that red-head has some friends. No offence, but I didn't think he had any, let alone two."
Nanka was relieved at having avoided a fight with her encounter with the Team Rocket's entertainer… as well as relieved to know where the lavatories were in the large business complex. Exiting the toilet area, Nanka kept adjusting her yellow shoulder bag, feeling uncomfortable with its weight.
'Hmmm, maybe I should use up some of the items in it.' Nanka thought, dropping the bag to the floor, causing the drowsy from boredom Jolt to snap to attention. 'I've a lot of TMs, perhaps I should teach someone one of them? Oh, maybe Stretch and this TM…'
"Okay, Stretchy!" You've now learned Mega Punch." Nanka announced with a smile, discarding the empty TM box in the closest bin. "Please try it out."
Stretchy gave a dazzling thumbs-up, before turning to face the wall and raising his leg in preparation.
"Um, Stretchy… you need to use your arms and hands for Mega Punch." Nanka noted.
Stretchy lowered his leg, looked to his beautifully manicured hands and his freshly painted nails, then looked back to his sweet faced trainer with an expression of outright shock and horror.
Seeing a Scientist comforting his nervously shaking Pokémon, Nanka ran up to them and asked, "Sir, are you and your Electrode okay?"
As Nanka approached, the Scientist snickered, "You mistook me for a Silph worker."
"Go Electrode!" The Scientist ordered as the electric Pokémon that looked like a giant Pokéball with eyes fiercely rolled towards Nanka.
"Actually…" Nanka started to say as Jolt leapt out from behind a nearby plant pot, body slamming the Electrode out of the way, "…we didn't."
"Warg!" The Rocket cried out as Stretchy knocked out his Hypno with a powerful, but reluctant, punch. "Brothers, I lost!"
The Rocket then proceeded to slump to the floor in defeat, casting a bitter look towards the victorious trainer, "My brothers will avenge me!"
"Ummm…" Nanka began to twiddle her fingers, fidgeting on the spot. "By brothers, do you mean the men referring to themselves as the Rocket Brothers?"
"Yeah! My three brothers will knock you down!"
Nanka giggled nervously, as Jolt puffed out his chest proudly, "W-well, the thing is… I, um, kind of beat them already."
"Maaachoooke! Welcome our little intruder for us!" The Rocket declared as he sent out a broad and muscular Machoke, who came out flexing his muscles, surrounded by sparkles.
Stretchy and the Machoke stared at one another, fires kindling in the two fighting types' eyes. With incredible strength and swiftness, the two powerful martial artists… posed. Then posed again and again and kept on posing; each flex and stretch making them sparkle brighter.
Meanwhile, Nanka, Jolt and the opposing Rocket had their hands over their eyes, temporarily blinded by all the sparkles.
"Jolt," Nanka said as she looked to her starter with uncertainty, "W-what do we do now?"
Jolt started tapping the floor with his foot, joining his trainer in thinking. The two of them had gone to just about every floor and beaten every Rocket they spotted. Now though, they were at a dead-end, with nowhere else to go.
"I guess… with all the doors locked and no card key… we'll have to start using the teleporters." Nanka noted reluctantly.
'Let's see… just how should I go about using these teleporters?' Nanka asked herself internally, one foot raised above the diamond panel of the teleporter.
After an internal debate, Nanka announced, "I should dip in and out of each teleporter. It'll be easier to keep track of where I am."
With a trembling foot, Nanka stomped down on the teleporter. A squeak of fright escaped her lips as she was once again flung up into the air.
Landing from the teleportation, Nanka took a dazed step forward, immediately falling to her knees. Barely regaining her senses, Nanka could do little but wait until Jolt teleported into the room.
"T-thank you for waiting, Jolt." Nanka groggily said to her shaky footed Pikachu, who only handled the disorientation of teleportation slightly better than Nanka. "Who knows what could happen if we tried entering the teleporter together? I dread to imagine."
As much as Nanka dreaded imagining what could have happened if the teleporter had gone, she couldn't help but think of it.
"H-how did we get here!?" Nanka screamed atop the snowy mountain of Sinnoh's Mt Coronet, shivering in the icy region in her sleeveless shirt and mini skirt. "J-Jolt; we're going to freeze up!"
"P-piii…" Jolt tried to talk, but was already in block, the hail having struck him with the freeze status.
That was just the worrying situation of where they could have ended up, as Nanka also worried about what could of happened to Jolt and herself physically.
"Pikkkaaa!" Jolt yelled out in despair as he noticed his tails and ears missing, the latter with replaced with disturbingly small pale-peach ones of a human.
"Eeeek!" Nanka yelped out, ticklish sparks buzzing from her blushing cheeks as her newly gained Pikachu tail lifted up her skirt. "How do I lower your tail, Jolt? How do I lower my tail!?"
Nanka shuddered at the thought of either scenario, whilst Jolt sighed with relief that neither had occurred.
"Kachu! Pi-ka!" Jolt shouted out as he ran over to pick up a small, shiny item in the narrow hallway that they had teleported to.
"Y-yes?" Nanka mumbled as she stumbled over to Jolt, only seeing the card key he was holding when she was right next to him. "Is that a card key? Great job, Jolt."
Nanka accepted the card key from Jolt with shaky hands, her body still tingling from teleportation.
'I'm never going to get used to this.' Nanka moaned as she followed Jolt to the teleporter, her Pikachu beginning to adjust to the transporting experience a lot quicker than she was.
"Bingo!" Nanka cheered as, with a quick swipe of the card key, the large electronic doors opened before her.
Before Nanka and Jolt was a room filled with beds and medical equipment, as well as lone, quivering nurse. As the young girl and her electric rodent entered the room though, coming into clear view, the nurse's frightened looked eased into a hopeful smile.
"H-hello there; I… assume a young girl like yourself is not with those Rockets. Are you?" The Nurse asked.
Nanka and the Silph Co Nurse explained their respective situations; the latter having hid in her office when the Rockets invaded, with the electronic doors firmly locked.
As the nurse had the security doors shut and locked once more, sealing themselves safely inside, she turned and noted, "You look tired! You should take a quick nap!"
Utterly exhausted from a spree of midnight battling, Nanka graciously accepted the offer.
Nanka enjoyed a couple of hours of pure bliss, snoozing peacefully, only to be abruptly awoken by her own crash landing with the floor.
In this all too familiar scene, Nanka looked up to her bed to find the usual culprit for her rude awakenings, "Jolt! Don't roll me off the bed."
Jolt was mostly unfazed by Nanka's rage, he was a little scared at seeing her bed hair flowing up in the shape of angry Tauros horns, but his primary expression was concern as he pointed to a now open doorway and said with a worried tone, "Kachu. Pikachu, Pika."
With a small yawn, Nanka sluggishly followed Jolt through the open doorway, her worries over the now unlocked door in the Rocket filled building subdued by her sleepiness. Entering the corridor, Nanka soon found the likely culprit for opening the doors; a Sandslash, her Sandslash.
"Ariiiddd. Come back to bed." Nanka drowsily mumbled, failing to notice that her energetic Pokémon was happily dancing around a teal haired Rocket member.
"You!" The Rocket snapped upon noticing Nanka, looking back to Arid, then back again to Nanka. "You two! You're that annoying Sandslash and that freaky swimsuit girl!"
"Don't call me that!" Nanka snapped, waking up from hearing the insulting remark and immediately recognising the Rocket before her, "You're that Rocket thief again!"
"Yeah, Carl, if you care to even try and remember freaky kid! You stopped me from stealing, loitering, getting payback, but this time, this time… this time…" The Rocket had started to rant, but slowly stopped, pausing briefly before blurting out, "Why are you wearing a nightgown?"
"I… I was sleeping just now. You woke me up." Nanka admitted, brushing her hair down with her hand. 'Taking on Rockets in my nightgown is happening a lot lately.'
"You were sleeping… in Rocket territory." Carl mumbled in disbelief, before exploding with rage. "I've had it up to here with you! You've been dissing me, you've been dissing the Rockets, and I even heard you've been dissing our honourable boss!"
"Does foiling their plans count as dissing them?" Nanka asked Jolt, knowing full well that Arid was preoccupied with merry dancing.
"Pi? Pikachu, Chuuu." Jolt replied with a shrug, feeling that it didn't matter if they had dissed them or not; they were Rockets, they probably deserved to be dissed.
"This is the last time you'll be dissing anyone!" Carl frothed from the mouth as he yanked a Pokéball off his belt and tossed it high into the air, "Drowzee! Take care of this disrespectful, nightie wearing, freaky Swimsuit Vigilante!"
As the all too familiar long nosed Psychic type of Carl's emerged, Arid threw up his arms in celebration; it was nice to be playing with friends after all.
Nanka was not a morning person, and in her sleepy state and irritated state, she did not consider how Arid digging up and down through the floor could alert other Rockets. She was however just awake enough to note the irony of the Rocket Theif's Drowzee being trounced by the very move they had tried to steal.
"Grrr, don't start smiling!" Carl growled as he sent out a sludgy Grimer. "I caught this fella a few days back to help me get back payback!"
"Slaaaa!" Arid yelled out with his usual happy smile as his claw impacted with the gooey purple poison type. "San?"
Arid was surprised to find his Slash attack halted by the Grimer, his claws firmly stuck in the sludge Pokémon's body, as a blue aura glowed around Arid's unmoving claw.
"Arid, you've been disabled! Get out of there and Dig." Nanka called out, her Sandslash managing to jump away and burrow quickly under…floor.
"Then we'll just hit you as come popping back up." Carl sneered, his Grimer joining in with the leering expression, as he readied a dripping fist to Pound the emerging Sandslash.
"Ummm, w-whack-a-diglett!" Nanka shouted out, an instruction that caused Carl to raise a brow, but otherwise ignored it.
As Arid popped back out of the whole, Carl's new Grimer threw out a Pound attack… and missed. Before the attack had landed, Arid had dropped back into the hole, soon emerging once again. Grimer threw out a second punch though, only to miss again, and again, and keep missing as Arid dove in-and-out of the hole.
"Grrr, just hit him already!" Carl yelled out, as both he and his Grimer grew frustrated.
Carl's Grimer decided to try and pursue Arid, poking his upperbody into the hole… to which Arid then popped out from behind him and knocked him out with a Dig attack.
"Not again! This can't keep happening!" Carl shouted, stomping his feet as he tossed out his Machop. "Machop, don't you dare fail this time! I've had enough of these two to last a lifetime."
"Machoooop!" The fighting type proudly boasted as it ran at Arid, only to quickly share the same fate as the Grimer, "Maaachop!"
"I can't believe this; losing to this bratty Swimsuit-Ghaaah!" The Rocket Thief's rant was put to an end by a swift Thunderbolt from Jolt, knocking the criminal unconscious.
"Thank gosh, I really couldn't stand another insult from him." Nanka said as she took a deep, calming breath. "Thank you Arid, and you too Jolt."
Reluctantly awake, Nanka decided to get dressed and continue defeating the Rockets in Silph Co. With an understanding of the teleporters and a card key, manoeuvring through the company building was proving easy.
Opening a locked door, Nanka stumbled upon a frightened Silph Co employee, holding a Voltorb tightly to her chest.
"Eeek! No! Stop! Help!" The employee screamed as she saw Nanka. "I won't be taken by a Rocket! Orb, use Self-Destruct!"
"Wait, wait, wait!" Nanka joined in with the screaming as she rushed over to the panicked employee and her explosive Pokéball shaped Pokémon. "Please stop! I'm not with Team Rocket!"
The teary eyed women stopped screaming, slowly lowering her raised, dimly glowing Voltorb, "Oh… you're not… I thought… never mind, Orb. It's okay."
"Vooolll…" Orb the Voltorb sighed with relief, the self-destructive energy fizzling away.
"I'm sorry, so sorry." The woman, previously prepared to blow herself up along with Nanka, apologised with a nervous chuckle. "H-here, take this. I hope this makes up for… that, just now."
The calmed employee passed Nanka a TM, worryingly containing the move for Self-Destruct.
After a nearly explosive situation, Nanka and Jolt resumed teleporting their way through the building. By now, Team Rocket had noticed several of their members defeated, and had in turn ordered in back-up. This led to many more battles for Nanka and her travelling companions as they found and rescued hostages.
"Team Rocket is in an uproar over some intruder barging their way through since yesterday afternoon." One employee remarked to Nanka as she untied his hands. "That's you, right?"
"I… think so." Nanka replied, though a thought quickly occurred to her, 'I've only been here since just before midnight. So is someone else taking on the Rockets?'
"An again…" Nanka sighed as she stepped on yet another teleporter panel; prepared for yet more disorientation.
As her tingling body was launched into the air, Nanka firmly closed her eyes. She hated the teleportation sensation, but she was no longer surprised by it, no longer screaming in fright.
As she descended from said teleportation though, Nanka felt something collide into from below. Surprised, Nanka screamed as she was flung about, crashing down.
Jolt teleported into the room, shaky, but needing only a few seconds to regains his bearings. The tingling wasn't all too different from situations when he'd release too much electricity in an attack or the dizziness from excess running, so it was all sensations he could tolerate thanks to familiarity. In any case, with quickly regained sense, Jolt soon noticed his unconscious trainer on the floor.
"Kachu!" Jolt yelped as he ran over to Nanka, poking her fair skinned cheek repeatedly.
"Oowwww." Nanka groaned, turning her head towards Jolt, and forcing her eyes open. "J-Jolt?"
"Uuurggghhh." Another groan joined in with Nanka, a boy's voice from across the room.
Hearing a familiar voice, Nanka sluggishly sat up, noticing a brown haired teen lying face down but a few steps away from her.
The boy before her lifted his head, grunting out, "N-Nanka?"
"G-Man!" Nanka exclaimed, shocked at seeing her childhood friend in the invaded company building. 'Hold on… this must be the friend in Silph Co that Mr Psychic mentioned. I… probably should have expected it to be G-Man.'
"Heh, what kept you Na…" G-Man had started to say, only for his voice to trail off, a small blush cropping up on his face, "…o-orange?"
"Orange?" Nanka repeated, unsure as to what to G-Man meant, but began following his almost embarrassed yet near mesmerised gaze directed at her legs. "The only thing I have on me that's orange are my…"
Realisation dawned upon Nanka, as she clamped her spread out legs together, spun away from G-Man and tugged down on her skirt. At the same time, G-Man had bolted up into a sitting position, also spinning around to look away from Nanka. As the two blushing teenagers sat apart from one another, avoiding eye-contact, an awkward silence hung over them.
'He saw my knickers, he saw my knickers, ooohhh it was an accident but still…' Nanka blushed brighter and brighter, trying to forget the embarrassing moment, to little avail.
'Don't think about your rival's butt, don't think about your rival's butt, rivals don't think about each other's butts.' G-Man repeated in his head, though the image of Nanka's posterior remained firmly in mind.
"A-anyway…" G-Man broke the awkward silence ensued, beginning instead an awkward conversation, "N-Nanka, why are-"
"Pika! Jolt interrupted, angry sparks buzzing from his cheeks as he stood between the still blushing teenagers, holding a paw outstretched. "Kachu, Ka, Ka, Pikachu, chhhh!"
"N-now, Jolt, it was an accident. I'm sure G-Man didn't mean to… didn't mean to…" Nanka mumbled as she held her Pikachu, steam whistling from her ears.
"Y-yeah, I didn't. I was using the teleporter and then something hit me from above!" G-Man pointed out, trying to defend himself, but still receiving 'back-off' glares from his rival's starter.
"Let's just, um, forget about it… please." Nanka remarked, her blush finally beginning to die down, and quickly asking in an attempt to change the subject, "A-anyway, why are you here G-Man?"
"Heh, y'know me, just thrashing some Rockets." G-Man boasted as he rose to his feet… backing off slightly from the still Thunderbolt ready Jolt. "Really, I should be the one asking you that question. Rushing into danger to pick a fight with criminals; sounds pretty reckless coming from you."
Nanka smiled at this comment, slowly getting to her feet as she replied, "O-oh, well Jolt had already broken in and I was told that a friend-"
"Maybe you've just gotten used to the hero shtick." G-Man added, cutting Nanka off, "Wouldn't you say, eh, Swimsuit Vigilante?"
Nanka's blush returned in full force as she begun to stutter, "Eh, I, um, h-how…?"
"Green haired girl with orange-y eyes running about in a one-piece swimsuit narrows it down a lot." G-Man said teasingly, a playful smirk on his face. "Though the rumours and sightings do vary; some say the Vigilante had golden eyes, others say she wears a bikini, everyone assumes the Swimsuit Vigilante is an adult though. Still, I wonder… should I tell anyone the truth?"
"N-no, you wouldn't! G-Maaannn!" Nanka stuttered back, embarrassed and annoyed with her friend's teasing, though she knew he was only joking… she hoped, "Fight me!"
"Say what?" G-Man uttered back in disbelief, an expression Jolt shared.
"Fight me!" Nanka yelled out again, her usually calm candle-like eyes burning with determination. "Fight me, and when I beat you, swear you won't tell a single soul about the Swimsuit Vigilante identity thing."
"You know, I was just-"
"Promise me!" Nanka yelled out again, leaning up close to G-Man and stating straight into his grey eyes.
"Okay, okay; I promise." G-Man accepted, backing off from Nanka and her soul piercing gaze in order to send out his Sandslash. "Go, Sandslash, I guess."
"Stretchy!" Nanka announced as she sent out her Hitmonlee. "Destroy him!"
With unspecific orders, Stretchy did what was natural to him, hitting the spiky backed opponent he faced with a Double-Kick. To his surprise, the Sandslash blocked both kicks, barely bruised from each impact.
"Stretchy, try using a Mega Punch instead." Nanka yelled out.
Stretchy swung his faintly glowing fist at G-Man's Sandslash, causing the heavy ground type to stagger back. Injured, but far from down, G-Man's Sandslash wasted no time in retaliating with a Slash attack.
"Slash." G-Man's Sandslash whispered quietly, as Nanka's Hitmonlee dropped down from a critical hit, fainted.
"My Sandslash ain't just tough"- G-Man began bragging as Nanka sent out her own Sandslash. -"He's strong too. Heck, he's even bigger than your Sandslash."
"T-that may be true, but my smaller Sandslash here knows Dig." Nanka retorted. "Arid, Dig please."
As the ever energetic Arid burrowed through the once well maintained office floor, G-Man grinned, "I know that, but did you know… that my Sandslash uses Swift!"
"Oh no; Arid, get out of there!" Nanka shouted out a warning as G-Man's stoic Sandslash fired off a barrage of stars down into the tunnel, homing in and assaulting Arid.
Enduring the unforeseen onslaught of stars underground, Arid emerged to strike his Sandslash opponent with a Dig attack. Once again, the more stoic Sandslash proved his toughness, taking Arid's attack to his chin with a grin on his face.
"Finish him off, Sandslash!" G-Man declared, his Sandslash raising a claw to strike.
"Arid, Slash back quickly!" Nanka shouted out in response, her Sandslash crossing claws with his larger mirror opponent.
Numerous claw swings collided off one another, but thanks to an edge in speed, Arid managed to land a swift Slash to his opponent's face. Though G-Man's Sandslash tried to endure the attack as he had all the others before, their damage had stacked up, causing the ground-type to fall down to the floor; fainted.
"Well, I'm still in the lead." G-Man said with a proud smile as he returned his fainted Sandslash, quickly sending out a majestic pale yellow fox with numerous tails. "Let's keep it that way, Ninetails."
"So pretty!" Nanka commented as she admired the shining fur of the happily posing Pokémon before her. "Did you use a Fire Stone to evolve your Vulpix?"
"Duh." G-Man retorted, before pointing over to his glamorous Ninetails, whom was holding her head up high and mighty. "Now my Ninetail's beauty matches my handsome looks. Together, this good looking duo is going to stomp you and your team, Nanka!"
Just then, Arid popped out from the floor, knocking out G-Man's Ninetails with a single hit of Dig.
After G-Man finished despairing over the quick defeat of his Ninetails, he sent out his spiky Cloyster.
"Wooowww; so many of your Pokémon have evolved since I last saw them." Nanka noted as Arid went into attack the black pearl shaped Pokémon, only for it to Withdraw into her large clam-shell body.
"Slaaa…" Arid moaned, blowing on his broken nail, though thankfully his Poison Sting had at least managed to poison the armoured bodied Cloyster.
"Yeah, between filling my Pokédex, my team and I have been training hard." G-Man explained, before increasing his volume and roaring with confidence. "We're unstoppable now! Cloyster, Aurora Beam this Sandslash away!"
As the Cloyster's multi-coloured beam knocked out Arid, the temperature of the room dropped, an icy chill flowing from the room.
"Brrr, Beauty, could you warm us up a little?" A Nanka asked as a shivering Jolt helpfully grabbed hold of the fire type's Pokéball and sent out Beauty for her.
Beauty had heard Nanka's request, giving a curt nod to her trainer, only to suddenly be Clamped from behind by G-Man's Cloyster.
"G-Maaannnn!" Nanka yelled out as her Vulpix fainted from the crushing water type attack. "I was going to warm us up."
"T-t-that was fooorrrr m-my Ninetails…" G-Man said through chattering teeth, his body trembling greatly compared to Nanka's slight shivers. "T-t-though I regret th-that. I hate the cold!"
"Piiikaaaa!" Jolt shouted out, his electric sparks blasting away any remaining chilling winds from Cloyster's Aurora Beam. "Kachu, Pi, Pikachu!"
"Thank you Jolt, and sure, go right ahead." Nanka said as her Pikachu took to the battle arena, launching a lone Thunderbolt at the dual ice and water Cloyster, with that one tremendous shock being all that was needed.
"Hey, Nanka," G-Man said as he returned his Cloyster, still brimming with confidence, "How about I give you a taster for the upcoming Gym?"
G-Man sent out his next Pokémon, a yellow moustachioed Pokémon emerging from the Pokéball's light with a cry of his name, "Kada-,"
Jolt immediately Body Slammed the Kadabra, knocking the psychic type out before he could even land.
G-Man was silent as he returned his fainted Kadabra.
"We can still win this; I saved the best for last after all!" G-Man declared, electing to ignore what had just happened with his Kadabra, and instead sending out a spiky, yellow furred Pokémon. "The best of course being my Jolteon!"
"Jooolllttteon!" G-Man's Jolteon introduced itself with a proud shout, followed by a polite bow towards Nanka and Jolt.
"Is… is that your Eevee?" Nanka's inquired as she returned the polite bow given to her with a similar one towards the Eevee evolution.
"Sure is, one Thunder Stone and bam!" G-Man explained with a snap of his fingers. "Now I've an electric type far better than yours in every way."
"Pika!" Jolt snapped back at the remark, then pointing towards his Jolteon opponent with an eager expression. "Pika, Pika, Pikaaachu."
Jolt dashed forth at Jolteon, sparks flying from his cheeks as he readied his attack. To his surprise though, Jolteon leapt away, beginning to nimbly run circles around Jolt.
"J-Jolteon is faster than Jolt!" Nanka exclaimed in alarm, having never seen her speedy Pikachu struggle to keep up with another Pokémon.
"Naturally, I told you my Jolteon is the better electric type in every way." G-Man boasted as he puffed out his chest, laughing with pure pride. "He's not just got speed and electricity though; he's got some super unique moves. Jolteon; you know what to do."
Avoiding another failed attack attempt from Jolt, G-Man's Jolteon leapt right above Jolt, raining down a shower of Pin Missiles from his fur and onto the Pikachu below.
At Nanka's suggestion, Jolt shot forth a Thunder Wave, slowing Jolteon down with paralysis. With both the speed decreasing affects and the body freezing effects of the paralysis status condition affecting Jolteon, Jolt returned to being the fastest in battle, and so was able to Body Slam the formerly more nimble opponent.
"Jolteon, fight it off! Pin Missile!" G-Man yelled out.
Heeding his trainer's words, Jolteon fought through the paralysis and fired off the bug type Pin Missile attack at Jolt. Jolt in turn fought through the onslaught of needles to deliver another Body Slam to Jolteon.
With a third Body Slam from Jolt, G-Man's Jolteon staggered back with wobbly legs. He tried to keep standing, but eventually collapsed; defeated.
"Jolteon!" G-Man shouted as he ran over, kneeling down to comfort his weakened Pokémon. "You were close, buddy. Real close."
Nanka felt her face heat up, gentle warmth and a wide smile coming to her face as she watched G-Man comfort his Jolteon. Nanka couldn't help but feel a giddy fluttering in her chest as she watched her childhood friend, showering his starter with pride and affection, even in defeat.
Tuckered out from their battle, and perhaps due to having not seen each other in a while, Nanka and G-Man sat down afterwards with their resting Pokémon.
"Promise me you won't tell anyone." Nanka said, her serious eyes demanding an answer.
"Y-yeah, sure, I promise I won't tell anyone about your 'secret identity'" G-Man agreed, leaning away from his rival's glare. "You know I was kidding earlier, right?"
"I knew… kind of." Nanka replied; a playful smile on her face as she motioned towards her still serious faced Pikachu. "Besides, if you tell anyone, I'm sure Jolt would have be happy to have a word with you."
After getting 'business' out of the way, the two friends began a pleasant conversation, almost entirely about their adventure so far.
"Hmmm, you haven't decided what to evolve your Eevee into?" G-Man remarked as he watched as Ion the Eevee went about brushing his Ninetails' nine lengthy tails.
"I... don't actually know how to evolve Ion." Nanka admitted with a nervous giggle.
"Evolution stones, obviously!" G-Man blurted out, gently prodding his rival's forehead. "Yeesh, your noggin knows nothing about how to evolve Pokémon."
"H-hey, Eevee's are rare." Nanka retorted, pouting as she lightly batted away her friend's arm. 'If Eevee evolves by stone, then I do have a Water Stone tucked away in my PC. Maybe I should give it to Ion after all this.'
After an Eevee evolution explanation filled with light-hearted insults, matched occasionally by a quick witted retort from Nanka, G-Man rose to his feet.
Stretching, he begun to complain, "Man, I was so ready to take on the Boss Rocket too."
"B-boss Rocket?" Nanka inquired with a slither of worry in her voice.
"Yeah, I heard the Rocket leader was here so my Pokémon and I was going to deck him!"
"But he's locked in the head office room and I don't have the key." G-Man sighed, looking rather annoyed as he returned each of his Pokémon. "And now I have to sneak out to heal my Pokémon."
"S-sorry." Nanka apologised, albeit with a faint smile.
"Well good luck and smell ya later..." G-Man said as he stepped into the teleporter, flashing Nanka a sneaky smile. "Swimsuit Vigilante!"
"Y-you promised! Promised!"
A/N: As always, I hope any who are reading this enjoyed this latest chapter of Nanka's Pokémon Miiverse Adventure; the sixteenth chapter I believe. It surprised me how long events in both Silph Co and Saffron City took back when I wrote this for Miiverse and it still surprises me as I rewrite these chapters for this director's cut.
This chapter marks the last appearance of Carl Grey Archer, who in the game of Pokémon Yellow, is actually three different Rockets who happen to share the same team of Pokémon. Taking advantage of this, I spun him off into his own consistent character, one whose story is not finished being told. I gained a fondness for Carl for a couple reasons, both the way I introduced subtle characteristics of his such as his love of radio and hatred of swimwear throughout his mere three appearances, along with how his introduction also served as the introduction of story focus for this series. Carl's introduction as the Rocket Thief served as the pivot point wherein I started emphasising the story as much or even more than my Pokémon Yellow gameplay experience. So thank you Carl, both for now and for the future.
This chapter also features a moment that was rather... difficult, for me to write. The scene with Nanka and G-Man was one I questioned and debated on for quite a while; the scene featured in this final product actually being the 3rd idea I had for this type of scene. Ever since Nanka and G-Man's battle on Nugget Bridge and the decision to emphasise the story more, I started planning ways to take their character interaction in a direction that hinted at more than being friends/rivals. The idea of having a teleporter accident scene between the two was something I had thought of all the way back then with that decision, but there were several ideas for this. The first idea would've resulted in G-Man atop Nanka; a result of their mid-teleportation crashing. I really wanted a scene like this between the two but I couldn't figure how make the mid-teleport crash result in them falling down in such a manner. The second idea would've involved G-Man and Nanka waking from the crash, with G-Man trying to remember what happened, only remembering something soft and orange hitting his face. Nanka would've realised what he was talking about and fought him to prevent him remembering. I ended up going with the 3rd idea, but was always worried about how such ecchi humour would be received. Thankfully, everyone seemed to either like it or pass by it without commenting; the appreciated focus was more on Nanka and G-Man's cute interactions, which I do love to bits.
Expect more cute interactions between Nanka and G-Man in future chapters, as well jokes, adventures, and action! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and continue to enjoy future chapters.