Chapter 7: D: 001 and S:001
Eric wandered out of the mansion with Florina lying on his neck, sleeping. Warmth seeped into his body from the furry little Pokemon; Eric could see why her trainer adored her so much. During breakfast, Eric and Roxie went over their Pokemon's attacks and abilities, hoping to find a decent battle strategy. Eric found that no matter which Pokemon partner he had, he would have a trouble with battles. Roxie seemed confused and always drifted back to tactics for Florina when they were trying to build up plans for Blaze.
Roxie came out next, with Blaze wobbling behind her with his arms behind his head. Just to make sure this was really happening, she looked down at Blaze. She later regretted this because out of the overgrown chicken's mouth came an obnoxious burp loud enough to drag a Snorlax out of its slumber. Normally Roxie would have burst out in laughter, but the horrid stench was wafting up into her nose. "I'm glad this arrangement isn't permanent…," mumbled Roxie as he gave wandered back to Eric.
There were two hover-scooters waiting for the pair right at the end of the sidewalk leading up to the house. Roxie was going to lift the rude Combusken into its sidecar, but it scrambled away and hoped in all by it self. Okay, maybe it was a good idea for her to learn how different Pokemon could be since she could end up with another one like Blaze… Eric gently and gracefully plucked the ferret-like Pokemon off of his shoulders and put her in his sidecar. Together they flew off into the burning sands of Orre, and started to race to the diner where they would eat lunch.
There was no denying the fact that Roxie had stopped in front of the Outskirt Stand, but Eric sure did have a fun time arguing about Roxie with it right up until they entered the little establishment on the side of the road. Eric and Roxie only stopped because the owner smiled and whispered to one of the cooks, "Cute couple, huh?"
The cook looked over to the 'couple' smiled smugly, and whispered back, "I think they heard you." They had heard him, as if his booming voice was being broadcast all over a schools public announcement system. Eric sat with Florina and Roxie sat with Blaze at a different table. Neither of the humans wanted to admit their affections for each other, so they sat at separate tables. After Florina was done with her chef salad and the other three inhaled their Moo Moo Miltank hamburgers, the foursome left, not daring to say a word to one another.
While it had taken them about three hours to drive deep into the south to the conveniently placed diner, it only took them about an hour to go from the diner to the old, broken down Shadow Lab… Eric parked his scooter first, and parked it behind an old, broken, spherical machine. As Eric pulled Florina out of the sidecar again, Roxie parked her scooter and checked to make sure that sand hadn't gotten in Blaze's eyes or anything similar to that. All four of them were fine though; so Eric asked, "Ready to go in?", as he pulled Florina around the back of his neck.
Roxie let out a sigh of relief, she though they might not ever talk again after the awkwardness that they had experienced in the Outskirt Stand. "It shouldn't be too bad, right? It says right here in the directions that we only need to see if the 'Rainbros' are still using this place and battle only if necessary..." Roxie said with a smile coming back to her face.
Eric walked up to the main door of the lab and grabbed the handle, cautiously in case it could active some kind of booby trap. Florina instinctively hopped of Eric's shoulder and got in battle stance. Slowly but surely, he turned the knob and entered into the lab with the creak of the door swinging right behind him. All around him all Eric saw were pieces of odd, silvery equipment and monitors with Pokemon and dark purple auras shining around them. There was nothing new on them though, he had seen all of these Pokemon on television after all of the records from this place were found.
Roxie ran in behind hi, tripped, and ended up hugging him around the shoulders to support herself from falling. There was no time for her to let go before she saw it, a man in an obnoxious yellow latex suit and mask fell onto her left and Blaze ran in on her right. Eric saw another man fall down; he was in green, but he could hardly make out the color of his hideous suit in this dim lighting…
The man in green said, "Halt and sate your business or prepare to leave!" Without even a second's notice he tossed out a Pokeball, and Eric could not believe what had appeared. It was one of the Electabuzz that he had seen earlier, but there was something distinctively different about it… Eric saw a silver-gray aura around it with bits of pieces of green.
The man in the yellow let out a sigh and said, "Forget it, lets just battle 'em and if they are here to help us, we'll just scoop 'em up when we're done." This guy just dropped the Pokeball off of his belt and caught it as it bounced back up. Eric noticed it as the second Electabuzz that took his parents away, but the Shadow Visor flew out over Roxie's let eye and let her see the aura of a Pokemon who cannot feel any more. Roxie did not notice that she was still holding onto Eric while her voice rang out, "Get in here Blaze!"
With the same conviction and forgetfulness Eric ordered, "Florina, lets get ready to fry those jerks! The Electabuzz on the right!" The Furret knew that this was a signal for a Fire helpful hand because of the plans it was included in earlier this morning, but she did deviate from the plan a bit. Instead of riding on the flame jets as she had before, she ran over to a carton of gasoline in a corner, picked it up, and dumped it all over the Delta Electabuzz. Before Roxie took her turn, Eric was sure to say, "It's a Delta, Grass and Steel."
Neither of the too realized that Roxie was still hugging Eric, so the battle went on and a smile curled all around Roxie's face. She would be able to pull off what Eric had last battle, a hit on a Pokemon with double weakness and help from a partner Pokemon. For a moment she hesitated, but she knew she had to try for the most damage she could. "Fire Blast!" came her cry to Blaze. Blaze was just as unsure as his trainer for the day, but it took in a deep breath and released a puff of red-hot fire large enough to swallow up a Wailord. The attack hit dead on and most likely did some extra damage because of the gasoline. The Delta Electabuzz suffered severe Burns form the attack that could have lasted for the rest of the battle, but it slapped out the flames erupting all over its fur. Right before their opponents had a chance to attack, Roxie whispered to Eric, "You have a Snag Machine in your suit, Wes told us to take any Delta Pokemon, but I think he wouldn't mind if we helped out a Shadow too."
The man in yellow laughed and said, "Aw, Greon, look, the lovebirds are whispering sweet nothings into each other's ears!" That was when Roxie finally noticed it, flashed pink, and took a swift step back. Eric liked the extra warmth and protection he felt in that hug, but he had to go on with the battle. "Give that rat a Shadowbolt!" growled the dastardly trainer. The Shadow Electabuzz rubbed its hand's together eagerly, then punched out a Flash of purple substance at Florina that buzzed all around her body and left her severely damaged.
Greon's laughter bounced off the walls of the old, forgotten lab and he barely managed to worm out, "Sunny Day!" to his Delta Electabuzz. No dobut he was trying to get ready for a Solar Beam with type-bonus, but it would never work. If anything, the attack would aid Blaze's Fire type attacks. "Yellon, this battle is gonna be a piece of cake!" he ridiculed. He quieted down a bit, though, when he saw his Pokemon flinch from its burns.
Roxie dug around in her backpack and pulled out a blue Pokeball with an odd design, a Great Ball. She tossed over to her partner and he caught it with extreme ease. Eric cold feel a wire in his suit poking into a hole of the Great Ball to exchange information on changing the original trainer number of the Pokemon he was about to catch. Once the wire disappeared back to its place in the suit, Eric threw it out with Great force at the Delta Elecatbuzz. The Pokemon was scooped up in a dim read light and the Pokeball bounced into the center of the battlefield. Greon starred, bewildered as the Pokeball wiggled thrice, then flew back into the child's hands. Eric smirked and stuck his tongue out at his opponent as he slapped the Great Ball onto his belt.
While Yellon was also stuck in the moment of the capture, Roxie had her chance to attack. Wes had told her something about Special Conditions being very immensely useful, so she decided she would accept his advice. "Dynamic Punch!" yelped out the cute girl to the beefed-up chicken. Blaze ran up to the remaining Electabuzz to deliver the punch and wobbled a bit so it might confuse the opponent on contact. Unfortunately the wobbling made the attack easier to avoid and Electabuzz dashed off to the left.
The Shadow Electabuzz flared up in a reddish-purple haze as Greon ran out of the lab and screamed, "Dang, Yellon, go on… I have to report D: 001's capture." Roxie and Eric weren't really listening though, all their attention was locked onto the Electabuzz that spilled out negative energy. The Pokemon had obviously entered Hyper Mode, causing the Pokemon to hurt itself but also allowing it to have a batter critical hit ratio.
A hideous, bone-chilling smile sprang onto Yellon's face; he realized that he could still win this battle … "A'ight, lets give 'em another round of Shadowbolt, why don't we! Shock the rat again!" This time Electabuzz analyzed its opponent before attacking and found the pace where, if the attack struck it, the 'rat' would be hurt the most. It rubbed its hands together as it did before, and sent out a burst shadow-like electricity that struck Florina right in the stomach. Florina reeled back in pain, but she winced and wen on with the battle.
Eric was ready to take his turn in the melee, and he would make the best of it. Just like Roxie he remembered Wes's advice and through the massive planning session during breakfast he remembered an attack that would be perfect. "Florina, lets try a Body Slam!" squeaked out Eric's energetic voice. The ferret was quit tired of being called a ran now, so it quickly swerved up to the Pokemon with its heart closed of to the world and jetted right into its stomach. Before the Electabuzz had a chance to strike, Florina scampered back to Eric. Eric looked over to the Electabuzz, but it was not paralyzed as he had hoped.
A curse flew out of Roxie's mouth, a particularly bad one, and she silently thew her hand over her mouth. She had realized that Eric took a risk and failed, so she would have to take a risk once more. While slowly taking her hand away from her face, Roxie mumbled, "Another go-around with the Dynamic Punch," The Combusken wobbled up to the opponent again, but this tame at a quicker pace. He even scooted to the left and delivered the punch when the Electabuzz tried to dodge.
The attack sent the Shadow Pokemon literally spinning. When it finally stopped in mid-turn, it was so dizzy that swirls could be seen in its eyes. "Finish 'em off with another Shadowbolt!" hollered Yellon at the top of his lungs. Shadow Electabuzz, however, hit himself with the attack because he thought he was aiming at Florina. His vision still had not returned from that lovely spin it took.
So that Yellon would not even have a chance to react, Roxie quietly slipped another Great Ball into Eric's hands. He held onto it until he felt the wire click out of it again. This time he tossed the ball as if it was a bowling ball, but at the last second flicked it into the air. The ball made contact with the fur of the poor Pokemon and scooped it up without one wiggle. Yellon stared for a few moments, then ran off after screaming, "I will get S: 001 back!"
Eric went to pick up his catch and Roxie just stood there, thinking. The pair they had just battled with was obviously here to get some kind of Shadow Pokemon information… Plus there was a new Shadow Operation going on… or was it a Delta Operation? Or could they really be doing both at the same time? One thing was sure; they would have an interesting mission report to give to Wes.
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Sidenotes:
-YellonYellow Peon
-GreonGreen Peon
-S-series(S: 001)Shadow Pokemon
-D-series(D: 001)Delta Pokemon
-Because I think I may forget them myself, I will now make move lists for all Pokemon that appear.
- D: 001/Electabuzz
1. Sunny Day
- S: 001/Electabuzz
1. Shadowbolt
- Florina/Furret
1. Helping Hand
2. Surf
3. Body Slam
- Blaze/Combusken
1. Flamethrower
2. Fire Blast
3. Sky Uppercut
4. Dynamic Punch
-Shoot, I just realized that Moonfire and Sunshine would have to have move sets too. Xx Their attacks may fluctuate...