BtP 3

Author's Notes:

Come on people, I need some feedback. Do you just not know what to say to my writing?

As promised I will be changing the characters' names this chapter.

To recap last chapter: Squirty and co won the battle. Squirty sustained extreme injuries, but didn't sustain his shell. Gina, Tyrone, and Tyrantrum were freed from someone's control. Gina's plan worked and gave Squirty a new shell, while the adults went to the market. A rockslide allegedly caused by a Tyrantrum caved in the family's cave, but not before the siblings could escape. Fleeing from the rockslide, the siblings encountered four Eelektross, and Squirty got trapped under the rockslide. Tyrone and Gina appeared on the scene, and fought a Tyranitar, who fell on Tyrone. Gina went to help the siblings, and Gina and Vully were taken out by bide. The adults arrived on the scene and each went their own ways. Kenny went to the Tyranitar, on the much more dangerous side of the mountain, Thalia went to the safer side of the mountain to check for Pokèmon in need of help, and went to the battle scene.

Disclaimer: As the word implies, I cannot claim Pokémon as my own. I can, however, claim all characters' personalities in this story.

BtP Chapter 3: From Past Predation to Present Pals Pt. 3

Vully's POV:

We were captured. Gina and I, while the boys were left to suffocate and die. There weren't any more tricks to pull: we were both gagged and my tails were sealed in three layers of canvas. They had also put a muzzle on me, for some reason. My feet were bound together, and Gina was encased in some sort of dark aura cocoon, and it was terrifying her. Soon, we would be brought before our captors' master, and then what? Executed? Tortured for intel on who knows what? Things were pretty terrible for us right now.

Kenny's POV:

Is it okay for me to say that I think that Robert and I should've switched spots? His shell would be a lot better at taking a beating from these rocks than me. As well as from the various ground, flying, and rock types living on this side of the mountain. And I am better suited for taking on electric types.

I thought this as I was directly hit by another earthquake, and the dozens of rocks that followed, while the Gligar flew up higher in the air, laughing at me. I ran from the bat scorpion hybrid. Its laugh stung more than its actual stinger, strangely enough. I had no way of hitting my airborne foe as long as it kept on using earthquake from the air.

"Wait a minute, earthquake is a physical move; someone else is using it," I thought to myself, mentally smirking at the advantage I had gained. The moment was ruined with the realization that it could be another Gligar, and the two could easily stay away from each and use earthquake while I was occupied with the other. I ran, trying not to lose my balance to the shaky mountain, as well as the boulders falling down. I found the second adversary, a Mawile.

This would take a while. I ran up to the 'quaking 'mon and blazed it with kick.

"I am so on fleeck right now," I thought to myself. I was very proficient at slang, being as popular with the young whippersnappers as I was. Gosh, I just sound like an old geezer trying to sound young and cool. It turns out, that I am not on fleeck, as I was hit in the face with a power gem. Then a dozen rocks. I should not have been conscious by that point, if not from all the damage I'd taken then from my blood loss. Being a fire type does have its advantages though, such as being able to cauterize your own wounds without feeling too much pain. (You just have to go full force with your heat.)

I gave Mawile a nice little blaze kick to the face, but it was the wrong face, and it hurt. Why do Mawile literally have to be two-faced? I had planned for this, though, and with the rotational force I had built up with my first blaze spin kick, I continued rotating and delivered an even more powerful blaze kick to Mawile's face, followed by my caught leg, now released from Mawile's grasp. Inertia made that leg soar into Mawile's belly, and Mawile went flying into the biggest boulder I had seen as of yet, and knocked the boulder into Gligar. I love inertia.

Gligar was taken out, but Mawile wasn't, and was only slightly shaky. (From his earthquake attack.) One down, one to go. The Mawile grinned with his back jaw, to hide it from me, but I still saw it. I went in with a close combat ready, and gave my fairy much steel type foe (pun fully intended) quite the beat down. What I didn't see coming, however, was the frustration attack that was fired at me from point blank with Mawile's clear hatred for me, my defense lowered from close combat, and the ability sheer force combined with the minor burn I caused with my blaze kick.

"Touché, but now the honeymoon is over, and I plan on getting to that Tyranitar, whether you like it or not," I said going in to finish off the deceiver Pokémon with counter.

Thalia's POV:

Almost immediately after we split up, I found an Aipom scrabbling to keep its grip on the cliff side, as it was a long way down. I used psychic to help it back up, moving it out of the way of an incoming boulder.

"You okay," I asked the Pokémon, trying to extinguish the fear in its eyes.

"Better than those two bullies down there," The poor little guy said, bursting into tears.

"What happened to them," I asked, trying to get him to calm down, before he managed to fall off the cliff in his agitated state.

"I, I… I was just trying to get them to back off, and then the earthquakes started, and we were well away from the cliff's edge, but then the ground under our feet broke away. It crumbled to dust in the blink of an eye," he said, his condition getting worse with each word. "I got them both killed, and I could've saved them both, but I let go," he continued, calming down, looking around and seeing all the rocks falling around us.

"And if you had truly believed that, where would you be now?" I asked him, trying to be the voice of reason he decided to block out.

"Somewhere else, but with a clean conscience," He snapped, as I had successfully hit a nerve.

"And how could you have held on to both of them, without fingers, hmm?" I asked, finally making my point, that he wouldn't have saved them no matter what. Silence continued the conversation as rationality kicked in.

"Shouldn't you be helping the other Pokémon now," The Aipom asked me, " 'cause you look like

you need some help… And I think I can provide."

Stewart's POV:

"Why'd I have to go to the electric battle?" I wondered to myself, scolding myself for my utter impulsiveness. There were two fire types, and I, the water type, decided that I should be the one to join an electric type battle. Luckily for me, there was one trick no electric type had ever successfully countered.

I found four Eelektross tying a Vulpix and another Pokémon up. I couldn't quite see the second one. It didn't take long for me to realize that it was my daughter, and probably my son.

"And where do you four think you're going, eh?" I roared, deciding that it would be for the best if I avoided a battle with the four.

"Back to where we came from," one of them replied, clearly trying to dodge the question.

"And what are you doing with those two children, if you don't mind my asking," I said, not really caring if they minded my asking or not.

"None of your business, but if you must know, these two are criminals," the same Eelektross said, which was utter Ponyta poop.

"Really, because one of them is my daughter, and I know she is no criminal. A bit too mischievous for the good of all that is right and peaceful, but certainly not a criminal," I snapped, hoping that I was right.

"She was assisting this one, and therefore a criminal as an accomplice," a second Eelektross said.

"That can't be possible, though, not him, he definitely doesn't have a bad bone in his body," I said. He does have a bone condition, though.

"I believe there is a case of mistaken identity, here, good sir," A third Eelektross chirped, and moved to the side, revealing not my son, but a Jirachi. I couldn't believe it.

I even tensed, as if about to attack, or take an attack, and then they laughed. All four of them.

"I'm afraid that you won't get a battle, if that's what you're looking for," The one that looked to be the leader finally spoke, "unless if you decide to attack four Eelektross, which we highly doubt you will."

And yet, they all tensed at the exact same time. "What did you do to my son, and why did you lie about those two being criminals, eh?" I roared, knowing that this was going to go down, as I had attracted an audience. Hopefully Kenny's friends, and not some more of these goons. "Not to mention the Tyrogue that was with the Jirachi. Y'all are bad liars, you know, and certainly not the good guys you make yourselves out to be," I continued.

They all flinched at my words, and then fired thunderbolts. My audience was on my side, though, and a few stray boulders intercepted the bolts.

I used this brief moment of time to get into my shell and use hydro pump to start bowling.

"Strike," someone from above yelled, and then I heard screaming.

Two Larvitar fell directly onto my shell, which saved their lives, as my spinning redirected their kinetic energy to a wall of dirt. It hurt, a lot, as I wasn't alert. (I rhymed, mwahahahahaha.) They fainted upon impact. The four Eelektross didn't notice what I had done, and spent some of their energy trying to thunderbolt me until I fainted. I didn't, as my hydro pump had been rather weak and I pushed against it, pretty easy when you're sliding on mud. They figured out that I was not so immune to their signal beam attacks, which did quite a number on me. Then, a pile of boulders shifted slightly, and I swear I could've seen gray moving in there.

Kenny's POV:

I finally made it over to the Tyranitar, and heard something wheeze "help", and I sounded like it came from under the Tyranitar. I used strength, lifted up the Tyranitar, and saw a Tyrogue.

"What are you doing under there, huh?" I asked after a few seconds, as the Tyrogue scrambled to get out.

"If this the place down under, then why does everyone think it's so bad?" The Tyrogue wondered to out loud.

"The only place down under you've been is between a Tyranitar and its meal," I said, noting strange marking on the Tyranitar's arms and tail.

Then, the Mawile decided to continue our battle, resuming it with fairy wind.

"Stay back, if you don't want to get hurt, okay." I told the Tyrogue, who took up a battle stance instead. "Or don't, what's your name, by the way," I asked him.

"Tyrone, and I'm fine," Tyrone said, before his knees almost buckled. I didn't need to be dealing with that, I decided to end the battle with a blaze kick, which was powered up from the all the beatings I had taken from the rocks and the battles. Mawile flew into a boulder, or through one, I guess I should say, and under another one.

"Well, that was anticlimactic," Tyrone said, then fainted. I carried him back to safety, on the other side of the mountain.

? POV:

"Well, that just won't do, will it?" I mumbled to myself.

I made sure the Blaziken didn't have time to carry to carry his new friend to the other side of the mountain.

"You people won't even know it when the dust settles, and the war is lost," I said, realizing that my actions had changed some events, giving the four different names. "I didn't like the siblings' names anyway."

Stewart's POV:

I redirected my hydro pump to the pile of boulders, not stopping until they were all removed, except for the gray one, which just shuddered. Then, Jirachi and Vex woke up.

"None shall escape from this destruction so great," all four Eelektross yelled, and then fainted.

I ran over to the two bound children, and did my best to untie the ropes.

"You sure made an entrance, Dad," Vex said, looking over at Jirachi, and frowning. "No, no, oh no, it's too late," she started crying.

"What did you do to my daughter, you conniving little…"

"Nothing, it's what's behind me that matters, and the name's Gina," She said, not even trying to apologize for what she did to my family.

"I get that, and you're going down this time," I growled, but was stopped by a gray movement. A movement, that looked like someone stretching after waking up, except there was a lot of shaking.

Thalia's POV:

"What's your name, by the way?" I asked the Aipom.

"Austin," He replied.

We both saw it at the same time. A gray boulder, launched up by a hydro pump. We both heard it at the same time. Screaming, coming from above. As there were no bird Pokémon in the sky, I used psychic to stop the boulder from crashing into the mountain.

"That isn't a boulder, is it," Austin said, moving closer to investigate it.

"It's a shell, but whose," I wondered aloud, "if only Scott were here."

At that moment, I saw a tail poke out, a Squirtle's tail, even if it was a rather gray tail. Grey arms and legs followed, and then a gray head.

"Scotty?" I yelped in surprise, causing what looked to be my son to retreat to his gray home.

Kenny's POV:

I was taking Tyrone to safety, but he woke up, and pointed out that there were other Pokémon on this side of the mountain. Such as the Bidoof and Minun we saved from being crushed. I gave Tyrone an oran berry so he wouldn't faint on the spot again, and it worked. He was actually pretty helpful.

"Thank you both so much," said the mother of some Magneton triplets. Did that happen from Magnemite nonuplets? I shuddered at the thought. We hurried back over, only to find we had finally cleared out the area of anyone who would be in any actual danger. The rockslides had finally stopped, or so we thought.

Scott's POV:

Why was Mom calling me Scott? (Personally, I prefer that name to Squirty, but still) Why was Mom calling Vully Vex? What did Mom mean I desperately needed a shower? And how had my entire body turned gray? Okay, maybe those last two are related.

Anyway, it seemed Mom wasn't crazy, but simply thought my name was Scotty, and Vully's name was Vex. After coming to that conclusion, I came out of my shell.

"What do you mean, I simply mistook your name for Scotty, and your sister's for Vex? Those were your names since birth," my mom was not happy about my thoughts. I shut her out, and it actually worked for once.

"Hey, aren't you supposed to be helping the Pokémon in need on the mountain?" I asked, trying to get her to go away.

"Yes, but first you need to get out of he-"

"And go where? No one will recognize me, and they'll probably attack me on sight. You know how other Pokémon feel about oddly colored Pokémon. I'm safer up here than down there. Besides, it sounds to me like the rockslides have stopped," I interrupted my mom, and she was not happy about it, but she listened.

"I'm sorry about this, honey, I really, truly am," my mom started, throwing an energy ball at me.

Her Aipom friend intercepted with a mud shot. The damage was already done, though. I had gone into my shell, and I was stuck in there. It nauseated me knowing that she wasn't going to do that, though. Knowing that she wasn't going to curse me so I would be stuck in shell, which was now sealed shut.

Wait, how do I know that? I wondered to myself. How did I know that Austin was supposed to intercept the energy ball attack? How did I know that things were being changed around? Eh, I'm just a genius. That was the only logical conclusion.

Suddenly, my shell opened, and I saw broken glass and some sand. Weird things to be on a mountain. But it was all the explanation I needed.

Kenny's POV:

It was the day after the rockslide of Mount Po. After we finally cleared all the boulders out of the cave, we discovered nothing had been damaged. Besides almost all of the residents of the mountain, of course. Thalia and Stewart decided it was best to leave the children with me. A few weeks after their departure, we found Gina and Tyrone, lying between two rocks. Well, Scotty and Vex did, anyway.

"You two again. You know, you're welcome at my place if you prefer an actual bed to two boulders leaning precariously against each other," I told them. They accepted after a long conversation about how they didn't deserve it, and they couldn't possibly accept something like that from us after what they did to us, blah blah blah.

Omniscient POV:

Great, things have been set in motion. The Tyrogue and Jirachi are living with siblings. The Tyrogue is training with the Blaziken. The parents are gone. Soon, they will meet their destiny.

Author's Note:

Why is Scotty doubting the obvious truth so much? Who is the omniscient being? Why is Scotty completely gray? What was the glass and sand about? How was it an explanation for anything? Why did the curse on Scott's shell break so quickly? Did I seriously just turn this Author's Note section into a cliffhanger-y question section? You'll get answers eventually, (Assuming you continue reading this, that is) but not quite yet.

Anyway, I changed their names, with success. Booyah. By the way, the two bullies that Aipom thought he killed: They were the two Larvitar that crashed into the wall.

Next chapter, I will be introducing the Prophecy that our omniscient friend mentioned.

The Prehistoric Predation to Present Pals series is finally over. Yay.

If you want to send me something to be used as cover art, I would like it to be a gray Squirtle standing by broken glass and sand spilling out of the glass. Maybe by an open pokeball. Please PM first before you start, because if you actually want to make the cover art: I don't want to waste your time by telling you you did it wrong. I'll be more specific by what I mean by broken glass and sand if you decide to make the cover art. I just can't say it right here. You know, spoilers and all.

And finally,

Buh-Bye.