VulpixTrainer: Okay so now it is Monday the 24th and I'm writing chapter 17. Wow I'm nearly to chapter 20 and I thought I never would get to chapter 10. Okay now that rant is done I shall answer question and comments
TheWhiteMonk: first thank you for telling how the spelling is coming along, and also the boyfriend, I was planning on doing it a little earlier but now I see it fits well for Halloween. As for the comments about Matt understanding Pokemon and Becky's stuff, read this chapter.
Halloween Fight
(Forest, around 6pm)
"Becky Matt is waking up." Firestorm shouted in a relieved tone of voice, at this Becky runs over losing her witch hat on the way and leans down to Matt trying to ease him of the shock.
"Easy, easy Matt, you might feel strange but trust me it'll pass after about two minutes, but until then I think you should just sit there." She says soothingly as she scratches behind his left ear, making Matt just close his eyes with pleasure.
Matt after a bit opens his eyes and looks at her, this just unnerves her slightly to see red eyes just looking at her as if they where piercing her to the core, he then speaks in Ninetales sounding very calm and collected, but with a light edge of warning in his voice but Becky could understand him perfectly. "What happened? Is this part of what you did to me?" all Becky did was shack her head as she sits herself comfortably waiting for the barrage of question that would follow. "Then what happened? I mean I just couldn't have Poof I'm a Ninetales, I mean there has to be some logical explanation, is there one Becky?" his stare just then took on one of pleading as if trying to know what is going on, he was scared, anyone could tell that with the way he was twitching his tails and ears where at an unusually angle.
"Frankly I don't know, I mean just like you I was one day human, a scared little girl who thought she was going to loss her bestest friend in the whole world," this brought back to both for a brief second the silliness of there younger selves and how they talked. "Then next I was chasing nine tails that where attached to my spine." Becky then takes a breath before continuing, "But I can tell you if you concentrate intently on your human self, you will come back, if you concentrate intently on a Ninetales form, you'll go there. I also found out a cool form just last fall, that Pokehuman form, now mind you that it takes a lot of brain power and will only last about five hours." Becky then looks at Matt only to see him human in the same cloths as he was in before this happened.
"Why don't we get home and I get into my Sea Captains costume, go Trick-or-Treat, and talk more tonight, because frankly I've been looking forward to tonight since I came home." At this Matt gets up slowly with the help of his walking staff that was still where it has fallen when he had stepped fully on Becky's tail.
"That sounds like a good idea Matt, let's get going before all the little kids get all the good candy." The then both laugh as Becky picks up her hat and follows Matt who had just found out that his sense of direction has improved greatly, although he couldn't understand the wild night pokemon, that he was grateful for.
(Path, Rocket ambush point)
The two Rockets where getting madder and madder, for they have been waiting at this spot in the path for almost three hours and they where getting cramps.
"That it Rob, I going back to the Village and get some candy." A voice sounded from some Bush's that if you looked closely, you could tell that they where fake and didn't belong there. Then slime looking man around his twenty's stand up in the uniform of a typical grunt, black long sleeve shirt with a red R on the front. And the top part of black pants, the bottom being hidden from view by the bush's, a second later he falls down as if something pulled him down and another voice comes from the bush
"Henry, you are to stay here until the experiment comes this way, you heard what Giovanni said, if we come back empty handed." This voice had that of experience of what he tells and also sounds older then Henry's voice.
"But what if he went through the woods, then he would be home and we would never pick up his dormant signature, I mean what if he gets burned before we can fully get into range or something that could trigger the morph, triggers it?" Henry said in a slightly whiny voice, his showing that he hasn't been a member very long.
"Why of all…." He then stops thinks and we hear a slap of a hand against a person's back. "That is a brilliant idea, and while where at it we can snag some candy, but make sure you have that scanner out to see if he gets within about a hundred feet of us."
The bush's then rattle and the first gets up, Henry who is followed by a white bearded man without a mustache and is a little over weight while Henry shows a face that has no whiskers or peach fuzz.
(Vulpix Village, Matt's house's street)
"Come on Matt, I'm not getting any younger, so shake a tail, uh I mean rudder, or what ever you say on a ship." Becky was looking slightly annoyed that it was taking Matt such a long time to get his "Stuff" together. She turns her head up to the window on the second story house and yells again. "Do you want me to sent Ruth up there to speed thing along?" at this Becky hears the window being pushed up and Matt face peers out the window.
"NO, don't send Ruth up, in fact I just found my white beard." He then puts his arm out and in his hand was what looked like a white fuzzy cloth. "I'll see you in about five minutes at most." He then retreats back into his room and closes the window, at two minutes and ten seconds later they where both at the first house ringing the doorbell. Becky in a black robe with black pants, a broom stick in one hand and a plastic Cauldron in her other, on her head was a slightly wrinkled witch's hat, black and pointy, she also had on a fake long nose, she look slightly dirty from the tracking in the woods. Matt on the other was that of a Sea Captain on review day, a Bright white cap with the symbol of the ship line that the S.S. Anne belonged with. A freshly pressed and clean jacket with the proper strips around his sleeves and bars on his shoulders, a white shirt under the jacket, Black pants also freshly pressed and cleaned and just shined shoes, he was holding in one of his white gloved hands a cloth potato sack with the words S.S. Anne hand stamped on the side of it. They both shouted "Trick-or-Treat" the moment the door started to open
"My words a scary witch and a handsome Sea Captain we got here, I think I got some candy for you." Came the reply from the mother that opened the door, she was dressed in a simple everyday cloths and holding a bowl of candy (A/N I'm not telling what brands because they would not have Twix or Sniggers) after giving them each a piece, and a piece of Pokemon candy to the group of seven or eight pokemon all carrying plastic pumpkins in there mouths to hold there own treats in she drops her overly fake surprise tone and addressed the two, "Do you two every tire of going around the Village and wearing costumes?" this was replied by two overly cheesy grins and "Nope" and the two depart to the next house. Silently laughing the lady just shacks her head muttering "Always finding ways to make me smile." With that she makes to close the door only to have the two grunts come up saying "Trick-or-Treat" not knowing that they just missed there targets by mere minutes.
"Yeah and have you seen any more of us?" Henry asked the startled lady disarming any more suspicion, "You see we got separated from our group…" he never finished for she shoved them each two pieces each and slammed the door.
"You'll get the same treatment everywhere, kind of like a tradition, in fact it's not wise to travel in two's." a new voice came from besides them, turning the two real grunts saw about three more teenagers dressed in home-made or store bought uniforms of Team Rocket. Smiling the two thanked them and went with the group, but still was looking out for there targets.
(Matt and Becky's Street, 9pm)
"I must say that this was a good haul tonight Becky." Matt said as was carrying the sack over his shoulders like a sailor with his personal belongings sack.
"Yes I most certainly say you did, now hand over the candy or else." Came a voice from the shadows of one of the many trees lining the street
"Gang Rocket!" Becky and Matt shouted together taking battle stanches right away glaring into the shadows where the voice had came from
"Right you are, and now our motto." Came the same voice as before, there was a slight smile in the way he said the word motto.
"Prepare for fright." Came a female voice, and a teenage girl around eighteen steps into the street light
"Yeah and make it a fight." Came the same voice as before, then a teenage boy steps out also around eighteen
"To take all the little kid's candy." Came the female
"And to have all of it to ourselves."
"Gary"
"Meagan"
"Gang Rocket, stealing all the candy on the street for us." They both said that last part
"That right kids." Then the two real grunts show up on the other side of the street, not yet telling anyone that they where part of the real Team Rocket
"We'll then since you have said you're motto I assume that you want to challenge us?" Matt asked with a smirk on his face. He then nods to Becky as if it was a certain cue, it was.
The Gang Rockets didn't notice the nod from Matt to Becky; however they did say a surprising thing, "Where here for the candy, it seems that you have some bigger fish to fry this time. At this the two real grunts step up smiling, "You and us will have an all out battle, I trust that you've been training hard for Giovanni is hoping that you have strong friends to help work you us." By this time they had step up to the middle of the street.
"What are you talking about? Join you? Training for Giovanni?" it was then that at the same time for everyone there that it clicked, they where real Team Rockets, unfortunately they knew that the Gang Rockets would figure this out so Henry had his Gloom put a sleep powder on the group sending them to sleep.
"Now that they are out of the way," Robert then chuckled at his own private joke, "we can have an all out talk, but first I think I would like to see your forms." He then waves his had to Henry who aims the box at Matthew Vixen Brown, a human until dusk that day and it did nothing to him, this Made Henry to shake to box, aim again push something and yet there was nothing. "You found out how to switch before we got here?" Robert shouted nearly losing his temper, all Matt did was staring at the two Rocket grunts with a confused look on his face.
"Form? What are you talking about? I know nothing a "form" that you speak of, but it sounds like you have gotten to wrong Meowth." Matt was silently taking note of what was going on while on the outside portraying an utter look of confused and totally baffled teen that he knew he should be.
"Arggg, you will not get away from us, so what if our machine doesn't work on you or your friend. It doesn't matter, for shortly you will be knocked out and on your way to a Rocket base." Robert then laughed as he sent out a Seadra shouting out a Water Gun attack on the group, everyone dove and got out of the way, except for Matt who got it right in the face.
Still dripping wet and missing his beard, but not in pain like the grunts thought he would be in, he was though beginning to breath hard controlling his temper, but when he spoke you could hear it like a Pigdey in a quick meadow "How dare you Water Gun me at full force, if I was weaker I would be unable to go at the beginning of next spring you have asked for a battle and I will not give up and just crawl to you," He then shots his hands out calling out his team. "Matt, Firestorm, lets do a Flame Thrower, direct it to that gloom. Sir Thief lets do a Hyper Fang, and Stripes do a Swift, all at that Seadra" the barrage of attacks faints the gloom in a combine attack of two moderate in power attacks, the Seadra on the other hand withstood the two major attacks and used a Smoke Screen trying to prevent the pokemon to from attacking it,
"Flyer blow away this smoke and the Ruth do a Thunderbolt attack." Becky called throwing out two pokeballs and after the two pop out they went to work, Flyer blowing away the Smoke Screen and then Ruth using her Thunderbolt attack to faint the Seadra. "Okay now lets send these goons flying, I don't want to see there faces for a while, understand?"
"Pika chu pik" (Okay, lets do this) and with that she sends out an moderate Thunderbolt, this sends them flying into the air and flying out of sight.
I say that was very intense, although I guess I need to control this new temper of mine." Matt then laughs before falling to the cement asleep before hitting the ground.
"Oh, Matt, you big goof ball." Becky said laughing while she slung Matt's right arm around her shoulder and half walk and half dragged him to his home ready to tell his parents that he was knocked out cold by the Gang Rockets, those two never learn do they, in all my years of Trick-or-Treating, they have never gotten Matt's or my Candy bag's.
Meanwhile the two grunts had landed hard, but as luck would take it they landed right in front of a Rocket base, the ironic thing was that it was the one that they where planning on taking the two experiments to. Sighing they go in to tell the boss that they where defeated and that the pokemon switch activator didn't work.
VulpixTrainer: Well that is it for chapter 17, I hope I answered your questions TheWhiteMonk, if not just keep repeating them along with any new ones and I will answer them eventually, also I hope that this is better on grammar and spelling then the last one.
Kyle: we look forward to you thoughts and see you at chapter 18
VulpixTrainer: Kyle you once again stole my line, anyway hoped you liked this part of the story.