By TeaFlower
The Disclaimer of ADVENT: You guys should know the drill by now. Rai, Vines, Terra, Gengar (character) Fearful, SAILOR and Ackers belong to me. Everything else doesn't.
A Note: This episode will be followed by another episode with different events. Please note that THIS episode follows the ACTUAL storyline… wait… there's a STORYLINE? Who knew? The next episode follows a different turn of events and involves slight romance. You have been warned.
Rai: Let's get this over with.
Ackers: ((is dancing to Cruel Angel's Thesis, which does not belong to me))
Terra: ((hits herself on the head with a rock))
Episode 12: Johto Adventures
Terra had already visited this Mr. Pokemon guy. She was going back to the Pokemon center to heal Steve up. After the visit, Terra was heading back to Elm's lab to show him some… egg… thing. When she got to the gates of the city…
"OUT OF THE WAY, SHRIMP!" someone yelled. Terra jumped back. Before her stood the pink-haired girl. "Move along, shrimp," she taunted, "You've got nothing to see here."
Terra just blinked.
"Okay, you wanna go? Fine!" With this, the girl threw a Pokeball into the air. When it landed, out came a Chikorita.
"Go, Steve!" Out came Steve. He jumped and fluttered his legs, making him look like he was trying to fly. "Steve, use Scratch!" The croc ran up to the dog and scratched it. It… fainted… "Take THAT, Utena wanna-be!" Terra taunted.
The girl growled. "I am NOT a Utena wanna-be!"
"Yeah, RIGHT. Now, why don't you go hang out with Anthy and stuff? Don't you have a duel to fight in? Look out for Nanami!" Terra started cracking up. She then turned to the audience and said, "If you have NO clue what I'm talking about, go to this site: http/utena.girl"
The girl growled once more. "My name is Gina. And I'm gonna be the best Pokemon trainer EVAH!" With that, Gina ran off, but then spotted something. "Ooh, a white rose!" She plucked the rose and pinned it over her left breast. Terra sweatdropped.
Gengar sighed. The place Ackers had led them indeed was secluded. Off of a river in Cerulean City, they had found a cave that reeked of secludedness. Not only was it far away, it was extremely natural, a perfect place for Pokemon to hide!
"Let's go, guys!" Ackers cheered, leading everyone into the cave.
Inside the cave were dark purple stone structures and lots of water. The place was beautiful. No one except Ackers knew what kind of Pokemon lived here.
"Hey, Ackers?" Rai asked.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"The native Pokemon here are simple, like Golbats, Zubats, Onixes, Gravellers, Geodudes, maybe even Marowaks?"
Ackers shook his head. "I haven't even heard of those Pokemon before."
Gengar stiffened, then clung to Ackers' tail, which obviously agitated the psychic. "Ackers, did you lead us somewhere where you don't know what we're up against?" she asked, terror coating her voice.
Ackers shook Gengar off his tail and laughed. "Don't worry, guys, I know exactly what we're up against. After all…" he turned to his friends, "… I used to live here."
Everyone just stared blankly at the cat.
Walking into the beautiful city, Terra saw a tower (which didn't attract her interest at all), houses (which were about as exciting as watching paint dry), and a gym (which was about as exciting as watching a building explode!), so she headed to the gym.
In the gym stood this guy in a kimono-thingie with blue hair. Terra stared at him. Wow. I never really noticed the large amount of people with odd sense in style… Terra thought. She walked up to the guy. "Hi! Are you the gym leader?" she asked.
The guy chuckled. "Yes, in fact, I am." He stood tall as he said, "I am Falkner, bird genius!" He laughed. "Do you challenge ME to a battle?"
Terra nodded. "Yup. I might as well." With that, an amazing battle ensued.
((cue the Pokemon Johto Battle Music))
Falkner sent out a Pidgey. Basic, but still a formidable opponent when under the right trainer. Terra sent out a Hoothoot and had her Tackle the Pidgey. The Pidgey used Gust. This went on for a while until the Pidgey fainted. Terra sent out Steve. He said one thing:
"Toda! Toda! Toda!" Hoot, who was the Hoothoot, replied with:
"Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!"
"Toda! Toda! Toda!"
"Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!"
"Toda!"
"Hoot!"
"Toda!"
"Hoot!"
"Toda! Toda! Toda!"
"Hoot! Hoot! HOOT!"
Terra sweatdropped and called back Hoot. Falkner sent out a Pidgeotto. It gusted and Steve scratched and water gunned. The bird was out.
Falkner sighed. "Wow, you're good for a rookie. Well, here's the Zephyr badge." Terra grabbed the badge and posed. "Now, go on!" With that, Terra ran from the gym.
((cut music))
Wandering into the cave, Vines got bored. The huge place was interesting at first, with its odd purple stone structures and its massive natural maze, but after a while it got dull. There were no interesting plants to eat; in fact, there WERE no plants in the cave. There wasn't something seriously interesting at all! So he decided to sing.
"O------------------H!" he began, but then he stopped, then screamed, "SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS DOES NOT BELONG TO THE AUTHOR!" and then continued the song, "Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he? Spongebob Squarepants! If nautical nonsense be something you wish… Spongebob Squarepants! … then drop on the deck and flop like a fish! Spongebob Squarepants! Ready? ... Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob… Squarepants!" Ackers turned and glared.
"Shut up, please." He said, calmly. "The Pokemon of this cave usually don't like outsiders. The last time a stray Pokemon wandered in here, I wound up eating it for supper." Ackers turned back and continued on. Everyone but Vines flinched in fear. Vines blinked, then turned to Rai, who was shaking with fear.
Trying to cheer the mouse up, Vines cheered, "Ausie! Ausie! Ausie!" Rai turned.
"Shut! Up! Please!" Rai turned back to the cave.
Vines sighed. He then thought for a moment, then broke into another song, but first, "YUZURENAI NEGAI DOES NOT BELONG TO THE AUTHOR!" then, he sang: "Tomaranai mirai o mezashite… Yuzurenai negai o dakishimete…" Gengar stopped, then started singing over Vines' horrible voice.
"Umi no iro ga akaku somatte yuku, mujuuryoku joutai, kono mama kaze ni sarawaretai… Itsumo tobenai HAADORU o, makenai kimochi de, KURIA shite kita kedo… dashikirenai jitsuryoku wa, dare no sei? Tomaranai mirai o mezashite… Yuzurenai negai o dakishimete… Iro asenai kokoro no chizu… Hikaru ni kazasou!" At that moment, Ackers went rigid. He turned slowly to Gengar and Vines.
"… guys, this is for your own safety…" Ackers whispered. "… SHUT THE FRILL UP BEFORE I MAKE YOU SHUT UP!" Ackers screamed. He was panting with rage and had a look that could kill someone. At that moment, our good friend Chu appeared. She… did NOT look happy. Her expression showed that of anger, worry, confusion, and stress all at once! Wow!
Chu turned to Ackers, who was glaring at Vines with a look that said, 'If I die, it's YOUR fault.' She looked at her friend and practically spat, "Traitor." Ackers turned to her, confused.
"What did I do?" he asked, completely oblivious to The Cave's most important rule: Never follow a human, no matter what.
Chu was still seething with rage. Rai silently thought it made a hot Raichu chick look even HOTTER, but he kept that quiet. Gengar was confused (and silently jealous), Fearful was… fearful… and Sailor was baffled. Vines, however, had a gift not many Pokemon got to have: obliviousness. Anyway, Chu glared at Ackers, and then said, "You broke our most sacred rule… NEVER associate with humans! And THESE sorry excuses for Pokemon—"
"Hey!" Gengar interjected.
"—broke that rule too! It disgusts me!"
Ackers knew he wasn't a very good liar, but he didn't want to see any of his friends this angry. "What do you mean? I… I just went away… for a while… They followed me here! I tried getting rid of them… but… they… didn't go away! Even though I zapped their minds into oblivion…"
Chu glared. "Don't lie to me. I see those numbers on your arms!" Chu grabbed Ackers' right arm and pointed to a string of numbers that looked like someone had tattooed them on Ackers' arm. 03902 "Every Pokemon who follows a human has numbers on them. And I see them on your friends' arms. Or… tails… or… wings… or… flippers… But the point is they're still there!" Ackers just stared at the numbers like it was something he'd never seen before, which is true, because he didn't even know he had numbers on his arm. No one else seemed phased. However, Vines finally realized what was going on… sort of…
"Hey!" Vines said, looking around kind of stupidly, "What the frill is going on here?" Everyone, including Chu, just stared at him. "Who're you? And… why aren't we moving on? Are we there yet, Ackers? Can I have a cookie? Did we find Terra yet? Ooh! Is that a SHINY I see?" After the random string of questions, Vines bounded off to see the 'shiny'. Chu looked at Ackers like she didn't believe what she had just heard.
"… Ackers?" she asked, not believing the giant Venasaur that ran off to find something shiny, which was a Sandslash. It was now chasing after the dinosaur.
Ackers grinned sheepishly. "Eh heh heh heh… heh… heh… yeah… long story…"
Chu didn't stop to hear the explanation to Ackers' ridiculous nickname and continued on with the next question, trying to make herself believe it was all just a bad dream. "Terra?"
Ackers blushed. "W-w-well… i-i-i-i-i-it's a l-l-long story…" he stuttered.
"I don't know what happened to you. I used to admire you, respect you! Now, you're just as bad as every other Pokemon. Get out of this cave and may you live a horrible life that ends in pain and misery and may your afterlife be cursed with nothing but sorrow!" With that, Chu ran away, crying. Ackers looked after her, with a look that said, 'Is this actually happening?' He blinked a few times.
After everything that had happened to him, from hitting his head on a rock to being captured to being put into a submission hold to having a glaring contest with a ghost to being electrocuted, you would think that Ackers could handle this.
He couldn't.
Tears welled up in his eyes. He blinked, then, feeling wetness on his cheeks, he put his paw to his cheek and looked at it. He was crying. And he knew why: His friends were the most important things in his life. To see any of them in pain was, like, torture.
Vines came by and said, "Sandslashes are easy to kill." With that, he walked toward the entrance of the cave, totally ruining the whole sappy moment I worked so hard on to set up. (sigh).
Meanwhile, while Ackers was being sad and stuff, Terra was the polar opposite. Somehow managing to build an amazing team and completely destroying the Johto league gyms in one day, Terra was back home in Kanto, going to challenge the Elite Four, yet again, to prove she IS the ultimate trainer. However, she did not know the changes ahead of her in the Elite Four.
Walking into the building, Terra noticed they redecorated. It looked nicer now, but the mart was gone. Ah, well, she very rarely shopped there. Heading into the chambers, Terra was confident she could take down the Ice/Water Girl Lorelei, the Rock-and-Fighting Guru Bruno, the Ghost Lady Agatha, and the Dragon Master Lance.
Oh, how wrong she was.
The first thing she saw was a guy with… red hair… Okay, he is NOT Lorelei. Terra thought. Maybe he's an ice guy, though… Terra approached the guy and said, "Hi!" He turned to her.
"Welcome to Pokemon League, young trainer!" he replied.
"Dude, I might be 13, but I've held the position of Pokemon Master. I don't THINK I'm young."
"… well… I'm Will! The awesome PSYCHIC trainer!" Terra slapped her forehead.
"You know, there's already a psychic gym leader."
"… I'm better than her!"
"Yeah. RIGHT."
"No, I'm serious! I got a spot in the Elite Four!"
"That's 'cause they fired the good trainers and replaced them all with sucky ones."
"Well… well…"
"The gym leaders of Kanto haven't changed since old man Logan of Cerulean died. And, from what I've heard, Logan sucked."
"… but…"
"It would be something if you were the Pokemon Champion, but you aren't. You're the first member of the Elite Four. Traditionally, the First of the Four sucks."
"… but… but…"
"So, are you ready to lose?"
Will started crying. "THERE GOES MY SELF ESTEEM! Here! Take this! Get out of here! I never wanna see you again! I QUIT!" With that, Will ran away, slamming into a wall in the process.
In the next room, there were trees. Terra thought of a bug or grass trainer, but was greeted by a familiar face: Koga. Ko-ko-ko-ko-Koga. K-O-G-A Koga. Terra walked up to him. "Hey, Koga. Long time no see, yes?"
Koga was meditating at that moment in a purple ninja suit thing. But when Terra talked to him, he snapped out of his trance, fell onto the ground (somehow he was floating), and said, "Ow!" After a few minutes of lying on the ground and blinking, Koga stood up and brushed himself off. "Terra… so nice to see you again…"
"Yeah, I haven't chatted with you in three years!" Terra beamed.
Koga sighed. "Thank goodness for that…" he muttered.
"But why did they take you and make you an Elite? What happened to Bruno and Lorelei and everyone else?"
"Uh…"
"I never really thought you were good at all. You sucked."
"…"
"I mean, poison is a good effect, but it doesn't always work. And it's got lots of weaknesses."
"…"
"Seriously, how did YOU get in here?"
"…"
"Dude, it's not fair! Lorelei was good, I'll admit. But Bruno sucked. Not as much as you, though… but…"
Koga had had enough. "Terra, shut up. Go on and fight the next trainer."
Terra blinked. "… okay…" With that, she moved on.
The next room was more of a cave thing. Terra moved forward and saw a sign that read:
Dear Terra,
I admit I suck. Leave me alone about it. You win. Oh, and Lorelei is at a big, huge party somewhere and Agatha is now hanging around Lavender town. That's all I'm allowed to say. But whatever you do… DO NOT GO LOOKING FOR THEM.
Your friend,
Bruno I-Forgot-My-Last-Name
Terra read the letter, pocketed it, and moved on.
The next room was darkly lit. Terra had a feeling she would run into someone she didn't like. Like that Utena wannabe. Ah, well… she had to continue on.
The person had blonde hair and she did not look happy. Glaring at the girl, Terra could tell this person seemed like she wanted to strangle her. Terra took a deep breath and approached the woman. The lady looked at her and said, "You must be good to have gotten this far. I am Karen, the member of the league who uses Dark type Pokemon! FEAR ME!" Terra stared at the woman.
"I happen to know my type advantage/disadvantage chart like the back of my hand, and I know I can take on an army of Darks. Let's get this over with, you annoy me." Terra replied, smiling.
Karen glared at Terra. "You have no right to be saying that to me! I'm better than you!"
Terra grabbed a pin off of her shirt. It was a Pokeball-shaped badge with 5 stars across the top and the word KANTO on the bottom. "You see this? This is the Kanto Pokemon Master badge. The Pokemon Master of Kanto wears this particular badge. And I wear this badge. I don't think you should even be talking about respect right now, seeing as how you don't seem to know that respect is a two-way street. So let's get this over with."
Karen advanced on Terra, who didn't flinch. "Listen, BRAT!" she yelled. "You listen to me and everything is fine. You lose to me and everything is fine. You disrespect me, you get hurt. You say I don't even know w… w… w…" Karen started stuttering uncontrollably. She started making beeping sounds and would say very odd things. Terra ran for cover.
Jumping behind a table, Terra somehow avoided the exploding Karen. There was a large SPLAT! after the explosion. Slowly, Terra looked up. The entire room… was coated…
… in cookie dough.
After eating some cookie dough, (by some I mean ALL) Terra moved to the last room. Somehow, she had gotten to the last room of the Elite Four, and she hadn't fought one. She made Will cry, she annoyed Koga, she terrorized Bruno, and Karen had exploded. Is it over yet? Terra thought. A shadowy figure was sitting in the distance in front of a glowing screen… and Terra could hear Mario music. Mario doesn't belong to me, for the record. Walking into the room, Terra saw our favorite dragon master playing Super Mario Brothers. He was failing.
"Lance, what the frill happened here?" Terra demanded, putting a hand on her hip. Lance jumped, then turned off the NES and looked at the girl.
"How did you get here?" he asked, obviously terrified.
"I walked."
"Oh… want a ride home?"
Terra knew it would take forever to walk back home from here and she couldn't fly, so she agreed. And off they went on Lance's magic flying Gyarados. Hey, it's part flying!
And so, Terra and her Pokemon were reunited and I decided to cut that extra chapter. THE END.
… or is it?
---Alright, people, I'm sorry for the long update. We've got another INSANELY important chapter coming up! Let's take a peek!---
Terra: Misty! I sense a disturbance in my pants!
Ackers: OH MY GOSH!
Thing: Thing!
Person: Splash! I'm up first! Let's go!
Terra: I win! You lose! Boo yaka!