Author: Another two-parts-in-one Chapter. Joy.
CHAPTER 24:
Pt. 1 of 2:
Mystical Meteor Falls & Maniacal Magma Mayhem
The next day, our heroes, Roy, Melanie, and Steven, had finished getting side tracked by simple things and headed to Meteor Falls, where the dopey Magma Grunts had mumbled where their bosses were. After collecting their Pokemon, the un-gruesome twosome and the very gruesome one-some (One-some being Steven. (Snickers)) rushed to the ancient mountain range, pitted with craters.
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The three had made it into Meteor Falls, surprised that no Grunts were outside. Melanie and Roy gaped at the glorious sight; the cavern was a yellow-gray luster, craters a common sight. Many Golbat, Lunatone, and Solrock glided around. It was peaceful... Until an ominous laugh filled the air. Melanie and Steven followed Roy, and they spotted someone with some Team Magma Grunts, one male one female. The female's clothing consisted of a red hooded crop top bearing the mountainous Magma M symbol, a sleeveless one-peace shirt and skirt, a red belt, and red and black boots. Dark purple hair sprouted from her hood, nearly matching her amethyst eyes.
...But beside her was the real threat: A man about twenty, with black eyes and red hair, a red and black robe-like shirt with a small red M on the left side of the chest, black pants, and black shoes. The man held a blue-green meteorite in his hand. A bound with rope Professor was next to him.
"Finally... I can now find another way to expand the land... With this Meteorite I can and will..."
"Stop right there, dude!" Roy shouted, entering the scene, as did Steven and Melanie.
"Child, do you know who you're talking to? Maxie, leader of Team Magma, you fool."
Roy chuckled. "Doesn't ring a bell. Ya ought to hire a publicist."
"HELP ME!" the Prof. cried.
"Who are you?" Steven asked.
"Prof. Cosmo. I have a lab on cosmetic things in Fallarbor Town. These fiends tricked me!" He began crying with Anime tear streams.
"Grr! Out of our way, child! I have business to attend to!" Maxie growled, releasing the Professor.
"OH, REALLY?" came a loud booming voice. A submarine bearing the skeleton A of Team Aqua appeared from the water in the cavern, and four people steeped out, and onto the land. Two were regular Team Aqua Grunts, one female the other male. Another was someone in her late teens; she had big, red, puffy hair and a sleeveless, crop top-like blue open jacket with a black bikini top under it. Her blue pants had orange skeleton A's along the edge, blue shoes, and gleaming sapphire eyes. ...Roy's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he saw her, but then recognized her... The "Shelley" from his dream!
But last was a man about as old as Maxie with a blue skullcap with the white A covering his black hair. He had black eyes and a beard, two necklaces, one with the Aqua symbol on the string, and another, a chain one. He wore a plain black suit, shoes included.
"ARCHIE!" Melanie snarled when he saw him.
"What! Well, if it isn't the little mouse... Melanie." Shelley said in a mocking tone, crossing her arms and smirking.
"I found you! Ha-ha-ha-ha!" Archie laughed, making Melanie try to run at him to put him in a death grip, eyes turning demonic. Of course, Roy held her back.
"I deal with you later. Maxie, I will not let you expand the earth!"
"Just try and stop me!" Maxie yelled, and Team Magma dashed past all of them. "Team Roy" followed as Team Aqua got back into their submarine...
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An enormous fight had broken out when Roy, Melanie, and Steven had gotten back to Mt. Chimney, getting there swiftly on their two Skarmories. One eye-catching thing was that a Mightyena belonging to Shelley was holding off two Poochyenas and Archie's Mightyena held of three. The other fights were TM Grunt's Poochyena vs. TA Grunt's Poochyena. Although, a TM Grunt was up near the volcano's edge, along with another TM person, who wore a red cape as well as the Grunt Uniform. Roy guessed it was an Admin. And after those two was Maxie, who was in front of a strange gray machine...
Roy ran up the many stair flights to fight the Team Magma Grunt.
"Let's go, time to battle!" Roy shouted at him, holding out a Poke Ball.
"You sure? I'm a top Grunt!" TMG shouted, sneering.
"I have more power in my left nostril than you have in your whole body! Let's do this!"
"Fine by me. I choose you! Vulpix!" The Grunt threw a Magma Ball, and his Vulpix materialized in bright white light.
"Vul-pix!" bark Vulpix, a Fire-Type, with a red clump of curly hair and the same shade tail, which looked more like six tails, a light red coat of fur, a white belly, fiery red eyes, and dark red ears and feet.
"How cute!" Melanie cried.
Roy sweat dropped, then threw out his Poke Ball, calling out:
"Go Nosepass!" Nosepass came out of the Ball, growling:
"Nose!"
Battle statistics: This is a one-on-one battle with no substitutions or time limit.
Roy's Nosepass vs. TMG's Vulpix
BATTLE COMMENCE!
"Vulpix, Quick Attack!"
Vulpix surged at Nosepass, white light trailing from its tail.
"Nosepass, use Thunderbolt!"
Nosepass' red nose began to glow yellow, and a thick golden thunderbolt zipped towards the oncoming Vulpix.
"Vulpix! Use Flamethrower to deflect it!"
Vulpix opened its mouth, and a flash of red and yellow fire blasted toward the Thunderbolt, causing a small explosion, gray smoke exploding from the two attacks collision. After it cleared, Vulpix continued dashing at Nosepass.
"Nosepass, Body Slam!"
Nosepass somehow jumped toward the attacking dog Pokemon, squishing it flat, and somehow KO'ing it!
"WOW!" Roy exclaimed, running over to his Nosepass, wrapping his arms around it... But then they both toppled over, Nosepass squishing Roy.
"YOOOW!" he screamed, not noticing the TMG recall his fallen Vulpix and run away.
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After Roy had recalled Nosepass, he, Steven, and Melanie ran up to face the Admin.
"So, you are not weak..." he mumbled through a smirk.
"Don't get cocky, bub. Who are you?"
"I am one of two Team Magma Elitists, also known as a Commander. I am Tabitha, and I am gonna kick your butt!" Tabitha held out two Magma Balls, but noticed Roy sweat dropping.
"Get over all the 'I am' s. Sheesh..." Roy sighed, and brought out his Net and Ultra Ball.
"Let's go, tough guy." Tabitha sneered. He threw up his Magma Balls, calling out as red-brown light erupted from them:
"C'mon out, Golbat and Claydol!"
From the brown-red light, Tabitha's Claydol and Golbat appeared.
"Gol!" Golbat screeched.
"Clay-dol!" howled Claydol in its deep voice.
"Okay, deal with these! Masquerain, SuperSlicer, let's show him!"
Masquerain and SuperSlicer both appeared in blue and yellow light respectively.
"Masq!" chirped Masquerain, and it laid its gaze into Golbat and Claydol's, cutting their Attack with the Intimidate ability.
"Skar!" squawked SuperSlicer, its metallic coat shining.
"Well, this will be interesting..." Tabitha said to himself softly, a smirk pressing on his face.
Battle statistics: This is a two-on-two double battle with no substitutions or time limit.
Roy's Masquerain and Skarmory, SuperSlicer, vs. Magma Admin Tabitha's Golbat and Claydol
BATTLE COMMENCE!
"SuperSlicer! Start off with Sky Attack on Golbat! Masquerain, follow up with Water Pulse on Claydol!"
SuperSlicer flapped its red and silver-platinum wings rapidly, and soon glowed in red flames of some sort, and started swooping down on Golbat. Masquerain soon followed up with a shiny blue ball of water shooting from its mouth at Claydol. Both attacks hit, causing serious damage to both Pokemon, regardless of Claydol's high Special Defense.
"Nice, kid." Tabitha complemented in an evil way. "Golbat! On Masquerain, use Poison Fang! Claydol, use Psychic on SuperSlicer or whatever its name is!"
Golbat's fangs began glowing a toxic purple color, and he flew swiftly toward Masquerain. Meanwhile, Claydol's red eyes had began glowing blue, which used psychic energy to envelope SuperSlicer, slamming him to the ground for good damage.
"Skarmory! No! Grr... Masquerain, use Protect!" Roy yelled, which made Masquerain generate a golden shield, causing Golbat to stop Poison Fang at the shield, returning to its side of the field.
"Masquerain! SuperSlicer! Double Aerial Ace!"
After SuperSlicer recovered from Psychic, he and Masquerain flew at a blinding speed, becoming invisible.
After a few moments, Roy whispered into the wind... "...Now."
SLICE! SLASH! ...
Two critical Aerial Aces were just delivered to Golbat and Claydol via Airmail. The attacks from the Steel/ Flying and Bug/ Flying Elements were so great, Golbat and even Claydol fainted!
"Whoa..." mumbled Steven, Melanie, and Roy in amazement. Tabitha only growled, and both of his Pokemon turned to red energy, beaming back to their Poke Balls.
"Well, I guess you'll battle my boss! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" He ran off, and the trio came up the last flight of stairs, coming face to face with the Leader of Team Magma...
Pt. 2 of 2:
Fight for the Meteorite!
"Maxie! I..." Roy was cut off by Melanie.
"We challenge you to a battle for the meteorite! A four-on-four battle; Roy and I using only two of our Pokemon each!" Melanie shouted.
"What! Child, do you really need therapy that badly? First you join Team Aqua, then, quit, and still try bringing Team Aqua and us down! Oh..." Maxie growled, but finally said, "Fine, I'll battle." He held out two Magma Balls.
"Ready, Roy?" Melanie asked, walking to a good spot on the "imaginary" battlefield.
"Well, yeah... But are you sure about this, Mel?"
Melanie blushed slightly because Roy called her "that name" and was so concerned.
"Yeah!"
"Enough talk, children!" Maxie called, bringing them to reality.
"Camerupt, Crobat, go!" Maxie threw the Magma Balls, and red-brown light came from within.
"Cro-cro!" said Crobat in its raspy voice.
"RUPT!" yelled Camerupt, a Fire/ Ground Element with orange fur and a white-gray snout, blue rings on the sides, black hooves, and two volcanic "mountains" on the back. They erupted a bit as the giant creature roared.
"I choose Mightyena!" Melanie said, tossing an Aqua Ball.
"Yena!" growled Mightyena.
"And I choose... Nosepass!"
"Nosepass!" Nosepass shouted.
Battle statistics: You're not even listening to Melanie, a protagonist! You fools! Anyway, this is a four-on-four double battle with no time limit or substitutions.
Roy's Nosepass and Melanie's Mightyena vs. Team Magma Leader Maxie's Camerupt and Crobat
BATTLE COMMENCE!
"Crobat, Fly up!" Maxie ordered, causing Crobat to rise up.
"Camerupt, Dig down!" Camerupt quickly burrowed down, leaving a big, gaping hole.
"Mightyena! Use Shadow Ball on Crobat!"
A dark, crackling energy ball powered up in Mightyena's jaws, which launched out at Crobat. Seeing the attack coming, he easily dodged.
"HA! Nosepass, Earthquake!" Roy half-shouted, half-laughed.
Nosepass stomped his foot on the ground, causing rings to come from the center of the quake. It only hit Camerupt, but because it was super effective and doubled in strength because it was underground, Camerupt nearly fainted! It still carried out its attack, harming Nosepass a lot. Mightyena was injured some by Crobat's Fly attack.
"Mightyena..."
"Nosepass..."
"BOTH USE DOUBLE-EDGE!"
Mightyena and Nosepass began glowing in a faint green aura, and they both slammed into Crobat and Camerupt respectively, causing first the victims to faint, and then the users from the recoil. All were recalled, Melanie and Roy's Pokemon in red light; Maxie's in red-brown light.
'Time to bring out the big guns...' though Melanie.
'Time to introduce my large artillery..." thought Roy.
'Time to establish my immense armaments...' though Maxie, all holding Poke Balls; Melanie's being an Aqua Ball; Roy's a regular Poke Ball; and Maxie's a Magma and Ultra Ball.
"GOOO!" they all yelled, releasing their most powerful Pokemon. On Melanie and Roy's side, Machoke and Marshtomp appeared.
"Marsh!" called out Marshtomp.
"Ma-choke!" said Machoke.
And on Maxie's side of the battlefield, a Mightyena and another dog-like Pokemon with a big, white-yellow mane, the same color underside fur and tail, and an orange body with many black zigzag patterns on it appeared, its fiery eyes blazing.
"Grrrr...!" growled Mightyena.
"Arc-an-ine!" roared the other Pokemon.
"What is that?" Melanie asked Roy.
"A... An Arcanine!"
"Correct." Maxie said quietly.
Roy's Machoke and Melanie's Marshtomp vs. TML Maxie's Arcanine and Mightyena
BATTLE COMMENCE!
"Arcanine! Flamethrower!" Maxie called to his Fire Element.
From Arcanine's throat a flash of red fire came. After a brief moment, a beam of fire shot from the yellow-white jaws, aimed at Machoke.
"Machoke! Protect!"
Machoke crossed its arms, making a golden shield, which deflected Flamethrower back.
"Marshtomp, attack with Surf!"
From outta nowhere, a huge wave formed behind Marshtomp, and after it waved its blue arms, it came crashing down on both Mightyena and Arcanine, both taking some good damage.
"So you do have potential..." Maxie mumbled, a smirk appearing on his mouth. "Ha-ha... Arcanine, Extremespeed!"
Arcanine took a dash toward Marshtomp, soon becoming nearly invisible; it was just a blur.
"Machoke, get around Marshtomp." Roy whispered. Machoke put its body between Marshtomp and the oncoming Arcanine.
"Now, use Counter!"
Machoke was enveloped in a red aura, and was soon struck by Extremespeed, but took no damage; instead, Arcanine took double the possible!
"Yes!" Roy cheered. Melanie and Roy got closer together like a real tag team.
"Machoke, now use Earthquake!"
Machoke jumped up, and when he came down, a loud pounding noise was heard, and brown-orange tectonic movement rings sped out from Machoke, causing good damage to Mightyena and Maxie's best Pokemon, Arcanine, to faint from the super effective Ground Element move.
"NO!" Maxie yelled.
"Yes!" Roy and Melanie cheered.
Maxie recalled his Arcanine, and then ordered his Mightyena to attack.
"Hyper Beam!"
Golden particles began gathering in Mightyena's gray jaws, forming a ball. Once it was charged, a golden energy blast shot out at both Machoke and Marshtomp.
"Machoke, jump over that and hit Mightyena with Focus Punch!"
Machoke hopped over the beam, and his fists began glowing white. A powerful hit was delivered to Mightyena, causing it to faint from the powerful and super effective attack. But Hyper Beam continued toward Marshtomp!
"No! Machoke, hurry! Guard...!" Roy began, but was cut off by Melanie putting her hand over his mouth.
"No, Roy. I'll do this. I rely on you too much..." Melanie's red bangs overshadowed her eyes.
"Marshtomp... We've been through so much... So do this... Deflect Hyper Beam with..."
"HYDRO PUMP!"
A blue ball of water formed in Marshtomp's light blue mouth, which soon got two bumps on it. Those bumps became two separate blasts of water, which twisted around each other, forcing Hyper Beam back, resulting in a small explosion.
"Mightyena, return!" Maxie shouted hastily, recalling Mightyena before its Hyper Beam hit it. Melanie did the same for Hydro Pump and Marshtomp.
"So, we won." Roy and Melanie said in unison.
"Gah! I suppose I'll give up my plans for Mt. Chimney for the moment... But I'LL BE BACK!" Maxie and the other Magma Grunts ran away, as well as Tabitha. Archie called back the Aqua members as well, both Teams running into their vehicles.
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Melanie had gotten the Meteorite, and had deposited it in Professor Cosmo's lab, where they all had gotten a unique Poke Ball he had on request by Devon Corp., which was the Cosmo Ball. It was a regular Poke Ball; only the top was night sky blue with a yellow crescent on the top. It worked well on Pokemon like Lunatone, Solrock, Clefairy, and Clefable.
They all headed to the Pokemon Center, where they were to sleep. Tomorrow or so would be Roy's Gym Battle against the fourth Gym Leader!
Author: Phew, that was long-ish. Anyway, yeah, next Chapter will probably be Roy's fourth Gym Battle.