Chapter 6
Gold took the advice of his friends and teleported the group to Violet City. Unfortunately for them, Abra was asleep therefore teleporting them to random places in the city. Crystal landed on top of the Violet City pokemon center. She scanned the area for Gold and Hiro. The two boys were nowhere to be found. She climbed down from the roof by sliding down the rain gutters. She called out to her friends but didn't hear them call back.
Hiro had gotten teleported into the back of pickup truck. He looked down to find that he was knee deep in dead magikarp.
"D-D-D-DEAD FISH!" No sooner had he said that, three staryu fell from the ceiling and spun in a circle around him. Yellow strips of lightning formed in between the starfishes (if that's a word). Hiro threw Highfang's pokeball at one of their crystalline centers. This disrupted their thunder wave attack and let Highfang out of the ball. During Gold's time at the hospital, Highfang evolved into a Crocanaw. Hiro beat Falkner with Highfang alone and was more confident in battles.
"Use water gun on the ceiling!" The jet of water punched through the truck's top. Shards of steel flew past Hiro's head as he ran toward his Croconaw. He jumped into Highfang's hands which spring boarded him out of the hole. Hiro landed on his feet. His worst fear had been realized; the truck was still moving. Highfang appeared at Hiro's side by shooting itself out with a water gun. The staryus; unfortunately did the same. The truck passed the pokemon center and rounded a corner. The swerving motion knocked Hiro and Highfang off balance and off the side of the truck.
Crystal was directly below them when they fell.
"Hiro? Golden Boy? Where ar- DAAAAAHHH!" She side-stepped Hiro who had fallen on his back similarly to how Gold fell last time.
"Déjà vu..." Crystal said looking don at him.
"Who's Golden Boy?" Hiro replied standing up. He wiped the dirt off his back looking completely unharmed. He returned Highfang back to the ball. "Is he your boyfriend?"
Crystal jumped back looking wildly. "Golden boy is my nickname for Gold and he's not my boyfriend." She looked away from him to hide the red in her cheeks.
"I don't know Crystal, Golden Boy seems more like a pet name to me..."
"Just shut up for once and help me find him!" she screamed. Hiro looked taken aback by her outburst. He kept his distance from her for the rest of their search.
Now let's see what Gold's doing, Shall we?
Abra teleported Gold directly above the Sprout Tower. His entire body smashed through the ancient wood. Before he knew it he had landed on a ball of feathers with talons tearing into his chest. He had landed on a Hoothoot. He pulled the bird's talons from his lower stomach and stood up.
"It's amazing how I keep getting hurt and I still end up fine," he said to himself.
"Move out of the way. We have a battle going on here!" Gold shifted his head and saw none other then Silver standing before him. He had a Gastly floating at his side. He was battling an elderly man who was staring bewildered at his now ruined ceiling.
"HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT TO MY CEILING!"
"Forget the ceiling, Old man. Finish what you started."
"Insolent little boy! How dare you-."
"Um, I think the battle's over..." Gold said meekly as he held up the man's Hoothoot by its foot. He threw it back to the old man who glared daggers at Gold and Silver. He put Hoothoot away and threw a yellow disc at Silver. Silver caught in between his index and middle fingers. He pocketed it and skulked his way down the stairs. Gold turned back to the old man.
"Uh, I'm just gonna go-."
"Oh no you're not," he said. "We repair this place with the money we get from pokemon battles." He snapped his fingers once and 10 men in sage outfits accompanied by 10 bellsprouts. Gold turned to see what pokemon he had out and frowned when he saw that he only had Abra out in the open. The men simultaneously pointed at Gold. Their bellsprouts extended their vines to use vine whip. The vines ensnared Gold instead of Abra. The men were getting revenge for breaking the ceiling of their pagoda.
"Kazam! HELP ME!" Kazam was the name Gold's mother had for the Abra before she gave it to Gold.
Kazam woke up and thought back to before Gold started his journey.
Flashback
Kazam was sitting on the dining room table in front of Gold's Mom.
"Now Kazam, I want you to go along with Gold from now on. Protect him no matter what; even if you have to lose your own life in the process."
Gold ran downstairs in his boxers.
"Mom where are my pants?"
"In the pants drawer honey. We've been over this before..."
"Thanks Mom." He ran back upstairs and into his room.
"He's going to need a lot of help from you, Kazam..."
End flashback
Kazam, now inspired by his former master's words started glowing white. Where an Abra once was; stood a Kadabra now. Kazam summoned 10 balls of light around his spoon. Gold who was being suffocated by the bellsprouts. He managed to call out an attack to his pokemon just in time.
"Hidden Power!" The bulbs of light smacked the bellsprouts in the face and surprisingly, froze them too. Gold flipped the pokedex on and looked up Kadabra.
Kadabra: the psy pokemon. The spoon it holds accounts for most of its power but if its tail is ever yanked, it will enable full powered psybeam attacks but lose mobility.
That last bit of information gave Gold an idea. He grabbed Kadabra by its tail and lifted it above his head. Kadabra's arms and legs stiffened to its side. Kadabra was rigid like a board. Two beams of multi-colored light shot from Kadabra's eyes and blew two holes in what was left of the ceiling. Gold swung Kadabra in a circle. The beams threw the sages and frozen bellsprouts out of the way like rag dolls. He had been too careless though. He had completely destroyed the room they were in. Rubble was beginning to fall on them. Gold brandished Kadabra like a sword and obliterated the giant support beam to the tower.
"NOT THE SUPPORT BEAM TOO! THAT'S THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE COME TO THIS STUPID PLACE!" shrieked the leader sage. Gold didn't have time to regret it. There was no way he was gonna pay for this; after all, he was broke. He pointed Kadabra down the rest of the support beam. Kadabra shot a psybeam down the rest of the shaft. Gold dropped Kazam and jumped down the massive hole he made.
Kazam used confusion to save Gold from falling to his death. Without the support beam, Sprout Tower was collapsing from the inside. Gold and Kazam sprinted out of there just in time to see the ancient pagoda collapse into rubbles. Gold turned to his side see a man with blue hair standing next to a Pidgeot.
"You're under arrest."
Meanwhile...
Hiro and Crystal had searched for Gold all day and still didn't find him.
"You don't think he was sent to a different town do you?" Crystal asked.
"I don't kn- whoah!" Hiro gasped as the electronic billboard behind him went active. It showed a man in a suit beside a mountain of debris, wood and concrete.
"The Sprout Tower was viciously destroyed from the inside today. Gym leader and head police officer, Falkner caught the sages of the tower with his bird pokemon just before they fell. To you, Kent." The man named Kent stood beside the sages.
"Thank you Tom. They say that a young boy about fourteen years old used his Kadabra to weasel his way out of a challenge. He obliterated the support beam to the tower and escaped from the bastion before it collapsed. It was there that Falkner arrested the boy on the support. Here is his picture."
A picture of Gold flashed on the screen. He was in handcuffs and looked like he was about kick the photographer in the genitals.
"Oh my God..." Crystal mouthed.
"Mom always said that either I or Gold would end up in jail someday. She owes me 20 bucks now..."
Crystal ignored him and ran towards the police station. The paparazzi had showed up and blocked the door. The two couldn't get to the front door. Hiro called out a Drowzee he caught recently.
"Sleeper, use confusion." Sleeper surrounded the T.V crews with a blue aura and swept them into the air. It swept them to the side and removed the aura. The group of people landed with an Earth crashing 'THUD'. Hiro called Sleeper back and strolled inside. Inside, Falkner was sitting at the desk and filing papers. Gold was banging against the bars of his cell and shouted profanities. Hiro stepped up to the desk to talk to Falkner while Crystal went to talk to Gold.
"How much do we need to bail out the idiot?"
"Aren't you the two that beat me the other day? Never mind. If you want him out it will take 20,000 pokedollars."
Hiro started to haggle with Falkner while Gold explained what happened to Crystal.
"You don't understand Crystal! They were gonna make me pay for all the damages if I lost."
"That's no excuse to demolish their tower! If you didn't want to pay then you should have just won their challenge."
"Do you really think they would have let me walk away if I won? Besides it was ten to one."
"Good trainers should be able to battle against all odds and extremes. You should have found a way to get out without blowing everything up." Whatever feelings he had for the girl left him. She was supposed to be sympathizing with him not nagging him.
"So you're calling me a bad trainer? It's not like you could pulled off anything you just said anyway."
"I'm just saying that you're not a very smart trainer, Golden Boy. And what makes you say I can't pull any of that off?"
"Your pokemon are a Chansey and a Chikorita. You're not gonna get far on those. And as long as I can remember, I've done all the battles for the three of us, not you. You might as well go jump off a bridge for all I care. I don't need you or Hiro for that matter to get all the badges and beat the champion. Because that is when we will see who's the strongest and the smartest trainer in Johto. And I don't expect you to be there with me!"
Crystal slapped Gold across the face and ran out sobbing.
"What do ya' know. A criminal and oppressive to women, you know you're not helping your chances at getting out for good behavior right?" Falkner said from behind a magazine.
"Why you little-."
"Cool it Gold," Hiro said. "Falkner's gonna let you go on ONE condition. If you beat him in a battle he'll let you leave with a badge but you'll never be allowed back in Violet City ever again. If you lose..."
"You'll spend the rest of your life re-building the Sprout Tower for community service," Falkner said.
Hiro left after about an hour. Gold spent the night in the jail cell. Falkner left to prepare the gym for tomorrow. A thousand thoughts were racing through Gold's head. They were mostly about Crystal though. He regretted what he said about being a weak trainer. The memory of her crying like that killed him inside. He then thought back to the challenge tomorrow's challenge. His thoughts drifted him into slumber.
"Wake up, scum." He was prodded by a police officer's nightstick.
"Back off..." Gold said as he swatted the stick away from him. He escorted him to the gym immediately. People on the street threw garbage at him as he walked past. Their children spat at him too, though they missed a hundred percent of the time. The guard led him to a stadium in the back of the gym. The stadium was shaped like an egg. Rows of seats compiled over them. Falkner was no where in sight. One of the gym trainers came up to him to explain the rules.
"This is going to be a three on three battle. Neither sides are allowed to switch pokemon during the match." He walked off to a room in the back to get Falkner.
"Gold over here!" Hiro had run up to him. "Don't worry too much, Falkner used a pidgey and pidgeotto on me, all you have to worry about is Pidgeotto."
"Where's Crystal?"
"She's in the stands. You know Gold, she's lonely without you. I'm not exactly a person you can talk with for long..."
"That's not making me feel better about it."
"All her other friends abandoned her because she left New Bark Town."
"How do you know all this?"
"Let's just say that girls tend to blurt things out when they're crying. Anyway she said that you don't have to apologize. But she says that the three of us are splitting up after this."
"What for?"
"She says if any of us are going to be are champion one day we have to go on different journeys."
"Ladies and gentlemen..." cried out an announcer's voice.
"That's your cue Gold. No worries dude!" Hiro ran up the steps to get to his seat.
Gold threw Pyro's pokeball to the ground. Pyro flared up its flames and walked up to the center of the ring. Falkner just arrived. He threw; to Gold surprise, a Delibird. Why would he use something like that?
"Ember!"
"Powder Snow!"
Pyro's ember won out over powder snow and hit Delibird in the face.
"Counter with mud slap!"
Delibird kicked mud in both Pyro and Gold's eyes. Gold heard the Falkner supporters laugh at him. He didn't have time to get angry right now.
"USE EMBER!" Gold screamed, wiping his eyes of the mud. The fireballs hit Delibird in the stomach this time. It immediately fainted. Gold was confused, that was just too easy.
"Cyndaquil?" Pyro stared at the bag that Delibird left behind. It rushed up to it and looked inside.
"Pyro stop it's a trap!" It was too late. A jet of ice smacked Pyro in the face. The fire mouse froze in a block of ice. Gold knew that would happen. Falkner used mud slap as a distraction so Delibird could use ice beam in the bag. He didn't know what to do; Pyro wasn't fainted so he couldn't bring it back. Falkner had trapped him from the start.
"Go Pidgeot!" The giant flew to the top of the stadium and rocketed toward Pyro. The ice shattered and stabbed at Pyro's skin. The poor thing didn't stand a chance.
"GO TRUNKS!" Gold's Phanpy nuzzled against his leg. For some reason, the crowd laughed at them because of it.
"Pidgeot use gust!" It whipped up a tornado with one flap of its wings. Phanpy was too scared to move on its own. Gold had to improvise.
"Defense curl and make your ears stand up." Trunks' ears caught the wind and pushed it into the air. Gold jumped out of the way of the tornado. "Use rollout!" Trunks ricocheted off the ceiling and then the wall behind Falkner and then into Pidgeot's back.
"Pidgeot use-."
But Trunks bounced off the wall behind Gold and hit Pidgeot in the breast this time (not that kind of breast you pervs!). The bird pokemon fell to the ground. Bird pokemon can't fly if they can't breathe. Trunks was coming back for a third time.
"Stomp attack!"
Trunks fell to the ground and nearly crushed Pidgeot's neck. Falkner called back Pidgeot and threw out his final pokemon; a Togetic.
"Fire Blast!" Trunks was shot by the flames. It was thrown behind Gold, its entire body on fire. Gold returned it so the flames wouldn't spread all over the Phanpy's body. Gold threw Kazam's pokeball to the ground. Falkner didn't wait for it to fully appear. He grabbed on to Togetic's feet and ordered a Double Edge attack. Gold pushed Kazam out of the way and took the attack himself. He was thrown into the back wall. He nearly fainted himself; he didn't think a Togetic could hit that hard.
"It couldn't," Gold realized. Falkner had grabbed on to Togetic to add more momentum to the Double Edge. "Use confusion!" Togetic and Falkner was shot against the side wall. They regained their balance quickly. Falkner grabbed Togetic's legs again. Gold couldn't let him get the upper hand again. "Hidden Power!"
The shots whizzed by Togetic and formed into ice spikes behind them on the wall.
"You should learn to aim better-."
"Confusion!" Kazam shot the ice spikes with a psychic blast. The ice shattered into smaller shards and rained down on Togetic. Togetic dropped Falkner and slumped to the ground. "Use Thunderpunch!" Kazam punched the Togetic in the stomach and electrocuted it. Needless to say, Togetic had fainted.
"Criminal or not, you're one great trainer. Here's the Zephybadge."