Third Chapter. Serious Business.
As the member's of Blue Team partied, the new alliance between Machoke, Meowth, and Rhyperior was making an attack plan.
"So, who should we go after first?" Meowth said having written a list of the contestants. "I'm thinking the Stoutland. He may be an A-hole, but he could be a strong competitor if he ever stops complaining." Machoke said. Mewoth nodded and circled his name.
Rhyperior listened to them, but was planning in his own mind.
"Sure, Stoutland could be a large threat, but it's highly unlikely he'll actually be a team player. Give it time, and he'll be out of here soon. Now, a real threat would be Gallade, or Lucario. Big, tough, can hold their own in challenges. Yeah, those are my targets.,, However, that Zoroark or Kecleon could be an even bigger threat. Their ability to camouflage themselves is an invaluable tool for them, and a strong weapon against me.." Rhyperior said in thought.
"What about Zoroark? With that form changey thing going on for her, she can look like any one of our teammates and mess us over. Rhyperior said in his simple tone.
Meanwhile, Kirlia was conversing with Blissey and Geodude. "I'm glad that Crobat is gone, it's so much quieter and peaceful now" Blissey said content.
"Peaceful is a bit out there" Kirlia remarked, as the loud music blared from the Blue side. Geodude; "At least we don't have to listen to her stupid plans anymore. Yours were good" Geodude said to Kirlia, who gave him a smile.
"I'm really enjoying this challenge so far! Blissey and Geodude are really nice, and so are most of my other team mates!" Kirlia said with a smile.
The Blue Team were still celebrating their victory. Having run out of snacks, they were just relaxing now, starting to get sleepy. Scyther stood up, and tapped his soda can with the side of his blade,
"Attention everyone! I think it's time we gave a couple of hoo-rahs to the guy who won this challenge for us!" Everyone looked at Lucario, Pelipper, and Ditto, but before they could do any cheering, Scyther interrupted them. "I'm of course talking about Caterpie!"
Everyone looked surprised for a moment, but quickly remembered Caterpies role. . Even Caterpie Looked surprised.
"B-but I didn't do anything that big..." Caterpie said embarrassed "Are you kidding? If it wasn't for you, then we would have been overwhelmed by Machoke and the others." Lucario said nudging him, with Pelipper nodding in agreement.. Caterpie flushed with embarrassment.
"To be honest, I didn't expect to be that useful in this challenge, but thanks to Lucario, I became a star player!" Caterpie said happily wagging his tail.
Eventually everyone fell asleep, being too tired from partying, most of Blue team just slept in the Boy's house. The only one still up was Zoroark, still typing away furiously.
She wiped her forehead with her arm and muttered at her screen. She sighed and started hitting the delete button.
As she typed, someone knocked on the door. "Come in" she said not even looking away from the screen. More knocks followed.
She looked up and gave the door an irritated look. "I said, Come in!" she snapped. More knocks, louder this time.
Zoroark set her laptop aside and swung the door open.
"WHA-!" she shouted in surprise, as a gigantic metal claw grabbed her, and evil cackles echoed through the halls.
Gallade stretched out and laid down, ready to sleep. He smiled as he closed his eyes and started to drift off to dream land...
BAM!
A loud thump made his eyes jump open. He sat up, blinking away the exhaustion.
Yawning, he got up and headed to the door to see what was going on. As he opened the door, a metal claw punched him back into the room, making him hit the beds with a crash, landing on Caterpie.
"Gaaawd! How much does he weigh?!" Caterpie groaned.
Everyone woke up, clumsily staggering up. Scyther was the first one to stand firm, and saw the giant metal claw, attached to a metal sphere. "What the hell is that thing?!" Kecleon shouted in confusion.
The metal sphere hovered away, pulling a struggling Zoroak. "Let me go! Help!" She yelled, scratching and hitting at her metal restraint.
Scyther ran out, followed by Pelipper. "Gallade! Cmon, they're going to need help!" Lucario said helping Gallade up. "Ugh...Just go ahead man, my back doesn't feel so hot." Gallade groaned.
With that, Lucario sped out with Kecleon behind him.
Zoroark was striking her holder viciously, scratching it, biting it, and just plain punching it, but nothing seemed to be working! The machine flew into the Red housing, and burst open the boy's dorm.
Two holes opened from the side of the sphere, and out came two other claws, which reached in and grabbed both Meowth and Geodude!
"Ah! What the Hell?! Heeeeeeeeelp!" Meowth howled, while Geodude was still asleep.
As the machine exited the Red house, it was blasted by a torrent of water. It backed up slightly, while Lucario launched himself, and slammed it with Force Palm. It caused a small dent in the hull, but not much else.
Another claw came out and whacked Lucario away. As Pelipper launched himself at the machine, it grabbed him and flew off, faster this time to the largest building, that held a sign saying, "VR building.".
As Lucario regained his senses, Scyther ran past, "Cmon! We have it cornered!" He called. The Blue and Red Team all ran in, and were greeted with a bright light.
"2:38 in the damn morning, and we have to deal with this?! What have I gotten myself into?" Kirlia mumbled tired.
"Gooooooood morning contestants!" Latios's voice rang. He floated over to the disgruntled group, followed by Latias. "I'm glad to see you all made it here all right, minus a few of you I noticed." He remarked with a knowing smile.
"What the hell was that thing!?" Sylveon demanded, remnants of a mud mask on her face. "I'm glad you asked! Can anyone tell me where we are right now?" Latios asked. As everyone started to think and look around, Kecleon excitedly shouted out, "Were in the first act of Green Hill Zone from Sonic 2!"
"I, LOVE, old school games!" Kecleon said excitedly
"Very good! This is where your second challenge shall take place." As Latios talked, the metal sphere flew by, evil laughing was heard from it.
"I'm guessing we have to chase that?" Lucario said watching it fly off in the distance.
"Again, very good. Two of each of your teammates have been abducted, your job is to rescue each of them. You will be going through the first two acts of the first level, then you will be thrust right to the final level." Latios said gesturing to the lush green fields with loop de loops.
"Rules are as follows, the same person can't go through two acts, you can only use non speed boosting, physical moves, don't get hit by the badniks, and most of all, if you lose all of your lives, then your team LOSES! Any questions" Latias said smiling.
"Are you seriously doing this to us when we've barely gotten any sleep? Gallade said crossing his arms.
"Yup!" Latias said smiling. "But...That can't be fair!" Phanpy stuttered.
"It isn't! If your all tired, well then tough luck!" Latios said gleefully sipping his coffee
"Um...We aren't going to be hurt are we?"Caterpie said eying the nearby tree which held a coconut throwing monkey.
"What fun would that be? OF course you could get hurt, but ONLY if you aren't paying attention." Latios retorted wagging a finger. "Now, here are your first contenders, for Blue, it's Scyther, and Red it's Machoke. challenge starts in five."
"I think we'll be ok." Lucario said sitting down in front of his team, who all looked completely exhausted.
"They don't even let us rest? That's just unfair." Lucario said frowning.
"Same here, I'm pretty awake, and fast on my feet." Scyther said crossing his blades together. Lucario nodded.
Meanwhile, Machoke was talking with Rhyperior., having been (unwillingly) picked. "Damnit, I'm not fast! Why me?!" He complained. He looked dead tired.
"Those robot's looked kinda tough. Guess they thought you were good at smashing." Rhyperior said poking at an 8 bit flower. "
Machoke gave an exasperated sigh. "Eh, I guess. Either way, I can't frigging focus, our planning kept us up a while, and those Blue idiots wouldn't stay quiet. On top of that, Latias won't let me leave to get a soda or some coffee." Machoke drawled, yawning.
"I could help him, but how? I'm not exactly stealthy, and my attacks are not subtle." Rhyperior pondered. "Wait a minute..."
"Maybe if we ask the little green thing, or the red lady, they could sneak around" Rhyperior said scratching his head. "You mean Kirlia and Bisharp? Latios said only one person per act, so what can they do?" Machoke said tiredly.
"Well, Bisharp is reeeeeally fast right?" Rhyperior asked. "Like a ninja." Machoke replied. Machokes face widened in realization, a grin forming.
"Maybe the boulder isn't as dumb as I thought" Machoke said leaning back.
Rhyperior was just snickering.
"Now! Do we have our Sonic's ready?" Latios asked impatient. Scyther and Machoke stepped forward, Scyther looked determined, and Machoke looked ready to pass out.
"Good! Now, on the bang of my Luster Purge, you two start running on your respective tracks..." Latios said. Scyther nodded, and Machoke yawned.
Latios charged his attack, and fired it into the air. A small explosion and a loud boom followed, and with that, Scyther was off, while Machoke was much slower. A Buzz bomber badnik landed dead beside Latios.
"We can't get sued for that, right?" Latios asked confused.
Two TV screens popped out, and showed Both Scyther and Machoke from the sides as they ran.
Scyther was off to a great start, having killed a few badniks and even gotten to a shield. He ran up and down the first Loop de loop, and could see the first checkpoint post in sight. He grinned as he got closer and closer...BAM! Scyther was flung sprawling back.
Scyther shook his head to clear himself, and saw a couple of Buzz bombers taking aim at him. Scyther grimaced, and flew up, slashing the two badniks in half. He landed and ran to the checkpoint.
Machoke, on the other hand, was casually jogging across Green Hill Zone, not a badnik in sight.
Kecleon watched Machoke's screen suspiciously. He hadn't encountered one badnik, he was basically just taking an early morning run. Kecleon looked around and backed up. No one was watching her. She turned invisible.
"Something weird is going on..." Kecleon said crossing her arms.
Scyther was exhausted. On top of facing numerous badniks, the level was much longer than he had anticipated. He was running out of breath and had no way to live if he got hit one more time. He trudged on, panting.
As Scyther got over a hill, he saw the goal post. He ran forward, stumbling, and got past it. He collapsed onto the ground, smiling like an idiot.
"Hey buddy, what took you so long?" Machoke said standing over him. Scyther just stared at him In disbelief.
" How the...What the...He Just... GAAAAAH!" Scyther shouts exhausted.
"AND MACHOKE HAS WON ACT 1!" Latios shouted. Red Team cheered while Blue team groaned.
"Now, for Act 2, it will be...Blissey, and Phanpy. Both pokemon gulped.
"I'm not a fighter! I can't do this!" Phanpy said freaking out.
"I only know Egg Bomb as an attack move. I also can't run fast on account of...My big boned body." Blissey said glancing around.
"That fat pastry's going to make us lose, unless of course Bisharp is able to come through..." Said Rhyperior.
Latios was floating back from getting a latte. He floated past a tree, but stopped as something caught his eye. He looked and saw there were a few photographs, showing Bisharp killing a lot of badniks, slashing the Buzz bombers, head locking the Monkey bots, and waving to Machoke as he passed. Latios frowned.
"Cheat will they? We'll, time to make this game a bit more interesting..." Latios said with a grin.
"All right, you two shove off." Latios said unceremoniously. Phanpy shakily ran forward, with Blissey waddling off.
Phanpy ran forward, but skidded to a stop when she saw several enemies ahead. She shook with fear, frozen.
Back at the starting line, Blue team was watching the screen. "Come on! Just go and smash them!" Caterpie shouted exasperated.
"M-maybe coming here was a bad idea..." Phanpy said shivering.
Blissey, on the other hand, was blowing through the level. There were no enemies at all, she had gotten a shield, and she had already hit a few check points. She smiled, this was easy!
As Blissey walked, she saw a small metal box. She peered into it curiously, in it were two arrows, a blue one pointing left, and an orange one pointing right. Blissey smiled, 'this must be a speed boost!' she thought.
As Phanpy inched forward, a few of the badniks noticed her, and started to make a slow beeline for her. She froze, standing still as a statue.
Over at the starting point, all Blue Team could do was groan, as Red team cheered for Blissey.
The cheers and groans soon turned to confusion, as Blissey and Phanpy teleported. Phanpy was near the now destroyed container, and Blissey was being mauled by badniks.
Phanpy looked around wildly. She didn't see anymore robots, and ran forward.
"I...Don't know what happened...but, yay?" Gallade said confused.
"Stupid egg didn't know what a damn teleport box looked like" Stoutland said smirking.
Phanpy ran forward, and saw the goal post. She hit it, making a bell ring out and a picture of her face appear on it.
"ATTENTION! PHANPY HAS WON ACT 2!
Blue team cheered, while Red team sat in confusion. Blissey could be heard over the distance cursing and yelling.
"But...But they cheated! They must have!" Machoke said pointing at Blue Team. Latios gave him a smart smile. "You want to talk about cheating? Where's Kirlia and Bisharp?".
Everyone looked around for her, but saw no traces. Latias then brought in a TV screen, that showed Kirlia and Bisharp destroying the red courses Badniks. "Thanks to that little stunt, Red Team get's a penalty."
"What kind of penalty?" Sylveon asked curious.
"Simple. You, Sylveon, are fighting the boss, who coincidentally, is made of steel. As for Blue, Your up Onix." Latios said smiling sinisterly.
"That's just brutal." Delcatty said shaking her head.
"YAY! I GET TO PARTICPATE!" Onix said, just his horn fitting in
"How can I beat that?! It's Steel!" Sylveon said freaking out.
Ditto sat on the toilet, then turned into Sonic. "That's, no good." She/he said.
Sylveon was up first, a large metal car rolled in, equipped with a drill. Sylveon was shivering.
The car floored it, charging at Sylveon, who was barely able to dodge. The car did a 180, and rushed forward again. Sylveon jumped as high as she could, but was still hit by the top of the vehicle. She went flipping in the air.
She landed with a hard thump. She struggled to her feet, bruised pretty badly. The car was charging at her again, full speed.
A loud pop pierced the sounds of the revving engine, and the car lurched to the side. One of it's back tires had popped!
Sylveon smiled, she had found a way to win.
As the car surged forward, albeit slower and sketchier this time, Sylveon charged up a moon blast, and fired directly at the front wheels. The blast splashed across the front, popping both wheels and sending the car to a screeching halt.
Sylveon braced herself, expecting the car to start back up. But nothing happened, the car was dead in it's tracks.
"I can't believe I did it!" Sylveon cheered.
Sylveon shouted with joy, not believing her luck. As she celebrated, the car suddenly turned back on, with the drill from the front launching right at Sylveon.
Sylveon didn't even see the drill coming as it struck her in the stomach. Sylveon let out a gasp as she was sent flying, then fell to the ground, knocked out.
"Gee, now who could have done that? Latios said holding a small remote, snickering.
"Well, Sylveon failed. As soon as the car is repaired, your up Onix." Latias said picking Sylveon up.
Soon, the car was fully repaired, new tires had been put on, and it was even shined for the occasion. Onix went up, and smashed it flat with his tail.
"Damnit! We only had one of those!" Latios yelled. "You're the one who put him up against it." Latias said annoyed.
"Well...Since Onix killed our car, I'm giving Blue the victory on this one. Now go to the big capsule over there and release your first friend." Latios said angry.
Gallade ran up to the big capsule and hit the button, which spat Pelipper out.
"I could hardly breath in that thing!" Pelipper shouted gasping for air.
The Red team pressed their capsule, releasing a still sleeping Geodude.
"Yawn...What did I miss?" Geodude asked lying on the ground, while his team just stared at him unbelieving.
The contestants had moved onto a very large empty room. It was covered from head to toe in metal, and had a small viewing glass port on one side. and had the word, "Robotnik" written all over it. Latios was behind the glass window.
"Alright, this is the final challenge. You will be fighting a robot version of yourself, your only objective is to destroy it. You can only be hit three times, anymore and your disqualified. And the challengers this time are...Lucario and Delcatty." Latios said pressing some buttons on a keyboard. "Lucario, head on in." Latios said.
Lucario walked into the room. It was very narrow, not much room for dodging.
The door slammed shut behind him, and the door on the other side opened, revealing the metal sphere from earlier.
"That sphere can turn into anything, within reason" Latias said being served a latte by a robotic Cresellia.
"I am a tool, Latias does more work than I do and is better than me at making challenges and the guitar." A robotic Latios said with a snickering Latias.
The sphere started to meta-morph into a carbon copy of Lucario, and raised it's arms in a battle stance. Lucario did the same.
"This is bad. It has every move he does, and just our luck, he's weak to most of his moves." Pelipper said frowning.
The metacario launched an aura sphere at Lucario, who in turn jumped over it and ran forward, charging a force palm, and lunged forward. The attack landed right on the robots chest, making it stumble.
The metacario wasn't stunned for long, and grabbed lucarios outstretched arm, pulling him forward, and kneeing him in the stomach.
"Holy crap, am I really that strong?" Lucario said rubbing his stomach.
Lucario let out a gasp of pain, doubling over the metacario's knee, who threw the incapacitated wolf into a wall.
"Ah crap, that's two hits!" Gallade said worried. Blue team looked on in anxiety, even most of Red team looked concerned over the beating Lucario was talking.
"Ugh...Crap, That thing's too strong..." Lucario muttered staggering to his feet. The metacario was striding forward, charging another aura sphere. "Cmon, cmon! Think Luc! You have aura sphere, force palm, shadow ball, extremespe-Thats it!" Lucario shouted.
The metacario paid no mind to his sudden outburst and fired the ball of energy at his counterpart.
Only for it to collide with the wall. Lucario was gone.
"What the? Where'd he go?" Machoke asked confused. As they looked on confused, the metacario fell apart, defeated. Lucario stood over the rubble, panting.
"And Lucario wins!" Latios announced to an even more confused crowd.
Lucario walked out, smiling. Kecleon: What the hell happened in there?" The other contestants nodded and murmered in agreement.
"Well, I just pulled off the fastest ExtremeSpeed I've ever done, and hit it until it fell apart." Lucario explained tiredly.
"But speed moves are against the rules!" Delcatty said.
Latios simply shrugged. "You cheated once, Blue Team gets a freebie this time. Unless you all want another pentalty?.." Latios said, with Red Team just staying silent.
"I believe I've found my first dangerous target." Rhyperior said smiling.
Delcatty entered the room, facing a metacatty. She gulped and got ready to fight.
Delcatty ran at the Metacatty, who just sat there. Delcatty launched a fury swipes attack at the robot, landing 3 hits, and backed up. The Metacatty continued to stand rigid.
"Um...is it broken?" Delcatty said turning to the small viewing port. However, all she saw was Latios grinning at her.
Before Delcatty could question him, she felt claws rake down her side, and was slammed onto the ground. The Metacatty stood over her, staring at her.
She wasted no time crawling away and facing her opponent once more, charging up a shadow ball.
"And Delcatty has lost!" Latios announced.
"WHAT?!" Delcatty shouted, loosing her Shadow ball, which bounced all over the room and hit the metacatty, destroying it.
"Well, the robot used Payback on you. That's double the damage on you, so it hit you around 6 times, so technically your doubly out!" Latios said coming out of the room. Delcatty looked furious.
Latios pressed a button his remote control, and the metal room dissapeared, replaced by a lighted up studio room! "Welcome to the Virtual Reality room! We'll be using this place quite a bit in the future!" Latios said cheerily, while the other contestants looked nervous.
"Alright contestants, Blue team has won a second time, Red team is sucking so far." Latios said. Red team muttered, while Blue team cheered. "go ahead and press the final capsules to release your teammates, and Red team, meet me at the elimination chamber."
Lucario ran over to the blue capsule and pressed the button, and out tumbled Zoroark. Her hair was messy and she looked murderous from the cramped capsule.
"What the hell was that all about?!" Zoroark yelled at Lucario.
"Well uh, it was a challenge. You were a prisoner." Lucario said a bit nervously.
Zoroark just shook her head annoyed and got up, storming out. "Hey! Your welcome! Lucario just saved your sorry butt!" Pelipper shouted as Zoroark left the room.
"She's kinda angry, maybe she just needs to cool down?" Caterpie said on Lucarios shoulder.
Red team had gathered for yet another elimination, their votes cast, and each of them were exhausted. Latios floated in carrying a plate of Oran berries.
'You've all cast your votes, whose staying, whose leaving? Only I know! So let's get this show on the road.
Kirlia: Machoke, it was his idea for sabotage.
Delcatty: Blissey, she lost us the first part of the challenge.
Sylveon: Bisharp, she cheated.
Gyarados: THE FAT LARD LOST IT FOR US! BLISSEY!
Blissey: It wasn't my fault! How could I have known what that box was!
Bisharp: Machoke, idiot put me in danger of being on the chopping block.
Meowth: Ugh, Blissey. I could have gotten out sooner if she wasn't so slow!
Machoke: Blissey.
Geodude: Snore...
Porygon: I choose Blissey, she is bad at running.
Rhyperior: Blissey. I still have some use for Machoke, and she's pretty much useless.
"Everyone aside from Machoke and Blissey, come and get your Berry's!" Latios said setting the plate down. The safe campers all walked up and grabbed their berries with sighs of relief.
"Now Blissey, you lost your team the first part of the challenge, and Machoke, your just a cheater." Latios sneered. "How could I have known what that box was!" Blissey shouted exasperated while Machoke just huffed.
"The final Berry goes too...Machoke." Latios said throwing it to the muscular pokemon.
Blissey looekd shocked, but got up and walked to the loser car in silence. As she got in, the car sank a little, and drove off.
Inside the Blue girls room, Zoroark was typing on her laptop. As she opened a few programs she grimaced. "No no, the data's all wrong...Need to completely restart..." She said to herself and started typing again."
Chapter 3 is done! Sorry for the wait, but I was a bit busy.
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Blissey: I'm not fat!