Vulpixtrainer: Okay, here is chapter 31 and boy, is it going to be a doozey.
Firestorm: I don't see why I or anyone else has to say this disclaimer. Everyone here knows that VT doesn't own Pokemon. So he writes these stories for others to read.
VT: Because of legal issues, I do not want to get fined or sued. That is why they are there; also, Fanfiction has asked us to write them.
Rocket InvasionMatt was staring at ten grunts as well as ten water types, three of which were Vaporeon. There were also two Gyarados, three Seaking, and two Lapras.
"Now, we are feeling generous, so we are going to give you one more chance. So, what is it going to be?" the executive said as he stepped forward, a female Vaporeon by his side. Matt had called out Flare, along with Strips, Sir Thief, Matt and Firestorm, and they were already out and in attack position.
"Strips, let's take out that Vaporeon over there," Matt ordered, pointing to a Vaporeon that was slowly crawling towards them. Strips then rushed forward, rose up on his hind legs and slammed his fist against the Vaporeon. Upon contact, sparks and electricity spread around the Pokemon, hurting it.
"Strips! So that was what you were doing all afternoon yesterday over at the Sparks," Matt yelped in shock. Frank, I know you mean well, but stop giving my pokemon moves that I haven't even seen. I mean, mom and dad are better at this.
"Fool! You have sealed your fate," the executive said. He then held a walkie-talkie up to his mouth. "It's go time! All units advance on the other two now." He then lowered the walkie-talkie and smiled. "So, let's see if you can handle all of us alone." He then raised his arm to give off his first attack orders.
(Training Meadow)
"Eve, that was good. Now let's try a faint attack," Ethan ordered. He then turned to the Murkrow perched in a tree nearby. "Okay, Dark Wing, let's work on your Haze attack." But before he could get anywhere else in his training, a Dark Ball slammed into a tree next to Ethan. Whipping around, Ethan just gaped at what he saw, a Mightyena standing next to a guy in a red business suit. His face looked young, not even in his thirties. He was, however, smiling as he slowly petted the dark wolf pokemon.
"Well, now that I have your attention, I have a proposal for you. You see, we at Magma have seen what Team Rocket is doing, and, well, we want to protect you. After all, if they succeed with their plans, we can kiss our own goals goodbye. So, what do you say?"
"NO!" Ethan shouted. "I am going to follow my big brother and enter the indigo league. I am not going to throw my life away to any crime organization, no matter what." Ethan had by now pulled out Kyle's Pokeball, but the man did nothing to attack.
"Very well, I will leave you, but remember this: if I had not come here, you would have been swamped by ten grunts. Also, your brother and his friend are being attacked as we speak." At this time a red helicopter flew overhead, a rope ladder descended to the man, and he grabbed it and soon was lifted into the air.
"What?" Ethan said. He then turned to Dark Wing. "Okay, please hold on. I was planning to show you later, but now that's not an option to think about. Eve, get over here. We need to get to Matt right away." With those words, Ethan and Eve, with Dark Wing and Kyle close by, enter the shadowed paths.
(Main path on Ninetales hill)
"Truth, Physic again. Follow up with your calm mind. Sonic, Wing Attack that Lapras," Timothy Vixen ordered as he dodged an attack from an angry Jolteon.
"Ruth, Thunder attack, then Quick Attack. Go after anyone you want. Drake, let's use a Fire Blast at anyone as well. Everyone else just use your best attack, NOW!" Becky was getting more and more unable to issue orders, as she was having to concentrate on avoiding being hit by attacks.
(Matt's Battle)
"Flare, easy, you're getting too hot. You need to cool down now. Matt, look out. Firestorm, behind you! Strips…" Matt screamed as he was hit by an Ice Beam attack, crashing onto his side. Being already being weakened from some other water attacks, he was being overwhelmed. He then slowly rose to his four paws, shaking with fatigue.
"Everyone fend for yourself. We need to watch each others' backs but conserve our energy, so let's stop yelling," Firestorm growled after dodging another Water Gun attack. However, she was hit by a Quick Attack, and she stumbled left and right before fainting.
That was it. Flare had had enough. Even after only less then a year or so, he had grown protective of this group. Suddenly, he stopped right in the middle of the field, growling, right before he opened his jaws. Soon a ball of energy similar to a Hyper Beam was forming, but instead it was of pure fire.
Well, it looks like we get to see Magma's top weapon in action. However, he has no clue that we have a machine hidden to draw this fire into its system and then shot it back as water. The executive smirked as he pushed a button. Soon the whirling of motors and gears could be heard, and a moment later a strange machine rolled into the field. At that same moment the beam launched forward, right at the Vaporeon, but suddenly it veered to the machine and hit it. At first it just seemed to do nothing, then it began to glow white, a strange noise coming from the machine.
"Everyone move out. That thing is going to blow up. That beam is too powerful." But it was too late. It blew, sending black smoke into the air and blasting off about eight grunts. The executive was sent forward, right onto Matt. A second before Matt had fallen to the ground, but suddenly there was pain, pain in a place that made the Ninetales a feared creature, one place that levelheaded trainers avoided at all cost: his tails. Growling, Matt was suddenly very different, angry eyes flashing a bright red. The other two Rockets try to run but are only tripped up on tree roots and fall down.
FOOL! You have done something unpardonable. You have disturbed my flow, and for this you will pay. You have treated me as if I have been nothing but a weak shiny Eevee, so that is what you will be. You will be in that form until you can realize for real that no one can have their will broken only by one's consent.
The Executive was fearful. He was trying his best to back away and not look at the face of the creature standing in front of him, but his hand slipped into a hole from one of the previous attacks. Face faltering, he locked eyes with Matt. He then saw a color shade of red that no one has seen and walked away from intact. He expected the worst but soon, however, he became drowsy and soon afterward fell asleep. When he awakened, the entire world seemed bigger. He tried to get up but only fell back onto four legs. He then looked himself over. He nearly fainted again, He could see a big fluffy pale white tail. His paws where the same coloration, but his mane, barely visible, was pure white.
Oh, no. Now what? I can't return to the boss. I'll be treated horrible… what now? The executive, now shiny Eevee, just began to cry and curled into a tight ball, trembling with instinctive fear, that is, until he heard a soothing voice, feminine in nature.
"Hush, small one. Do not fear, mother is here." With this, the Executive's former Vaporeon came out from under the bushes she was hiding under. "Do not worry, I will help you break this curse. You are lucky he gave that escape hatch, otherwise you, too, would have lived for a thousand years. Come, I know where we can bunk down for the night." With that, the Vaporeon picked up the Eevee in her mouth by the flap of skin on the back of his neck and walked off to find a secluded place, away from any wandering trainers.
(Becky's Battle Ground)
"Fire Beast, Fire Blast that Raichu now!" Tim shouted out to one of the last remaining pokemon. Becky was out like a light, having been slammed against a tree by a Rocket Alakazam right before Drake took it out. Now only Tim and Fire Beast were left, the rest having been fainted.
Fire Beast opened his jaw and launched a star-shaped flame right into the Raichu. Having been weakened, it collapses. At that moment, though, a black form slammed into one of the last two weakened Rocket Pokemon, making it stumble. A moment later, Ethan came running from the woods, issuing orders. "Kyle, use Scratch now. Show them that they cannot treat Becky the way they have, NOW!" Ethan was furious; he had seen Becky knocked out, leaning against a tree in a way that said that some other force had put her there than her own.
Kyle, nodding, also angry at being left out from this battle, went against the last Lapras, attacking with a series of moves that turned into a couple of slashes. The Lapras tried to knock the Charmander's sharp claws away. Suddenly, Kyle jumped back, breathing hard but smiling. Outstretching both stubby arms, he just smiled. A moment later he began to glow in a white light that surrounded him completely. He began to grow taller, a horn grew on the back of his head, and as soon as he was finished he let out a yell and rushed back in, using the new adrenaline to his advantage. He knew if he didn't do anything now it would be all over, and he was not about to let that happen. He gave one last scratch attack and the Lapras leaned back in pain. Fire Beast then ran up to give her a bite, and she fainted. The grunt recalled her, but before he could run he was trapped in a net, along with his three partners. Behind them Renard Vixen held a rope attached to the net.
(Forest, During Battle and a Little After)
"Hold on, Flare. Can you run that by me again? After the part about you being taught some move that combined a Flame Thrower with a Hyper Beam," Matt asked, having taken his human form so that he would not attract any more attention. Of course, if a psychologist was watching then he would say that Matt was not all there, for he was having a full-blown conversation with a Flareon that could only speak Pokemon.
"Flareon flare flareon eon flare flare eon eon." (Well, that's it. I don't get it either. Last time I used it, I depleted my fire sack completely and it took a month until I fully recovered.)
"Hmm, maybe it has to do with that machine. Did anything funny happen when you attacked it?" Matt was completely baffled by the new info he had gotten.
Flare was quiet for a few minuets, thinking. Then he spoke again, "Flareon eon eon, flare flare flareon eon flare eon." (Now that I think about it, it felt like a current flowed back to me moments before it blew. Maybe it restored me to before I got into a rage mood.)
"Flare, I lost it back there too. We now have a shiny in the forest that, unfortunately, people will find and chase, all thanks to me, and I just feel sick," Matt said, his voice getting a little weak. He even looked ill
(Becky's Battle Field, After the Net)
Kyle turned to face Fire Beast, fire in his eyes. "What was that for? She was mine, you hear me, all mine."
"Yeah, right," Fire Beast snorted. "You had it as well as a ditto could hold a twig in its natural form, that's how much you had her. If I had not stepped in you would be frozen in a block of ice." Fire Beast then lay down, facing the grunts and two executives, making sure that none of them could try and escape.
"Why I ought to…" Kyle didn't finish because at that moment he disappeared into a red beam of light.
"There, now stay in there. I don't want any more fighting, you hear?" Ethan scolded the Pokeball before placing it back onto his belt.
"So, did I miss anything?" Mrs. Vixen asked. She then looked around at the messy road and then she turned her attention to the Rockets. "You, my friends, are going to help clean up this mess that you caused. I am sick and tired of you going after my son in such devastating ways. You have already destroyed three trees, a glass sliding door…"
"Now honey, I say we need to take them to the police and let them handle them. I don't think they care about the damage they did to us," Tim said as he stepped up next to his wife.
However, the grunts just began to laugh, a laugh that was unnerving, almost as if they had planned on this. "Well, it doesn't matter. Your precious son will soon be wearing black, and he will enjoy it, along with his girlfriend and brother." He then went quiet as Matt came into his sight. "What? But how did you… You should be in a dark ball now!"
"THAT'S EASY! IT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT A POKEMON, THAT'S WHY!" Matt yelled at him, still angry from moments before. He then stopped and took a few deep breaths before continuing, focusing on his parents. "Please, just get them to the police before one of my team members pop out and do something rash," Matt pleaded as he shakily went over to Becky to sit down. However, when Matt got there he stopped, got down on his hands and knees and checked Becky's pulse, fear in his eyes and, for a moment, rage, but as soon as he got a pulse, he just collapsed, exhausted from the final drain of the adrenaline. A moment later he was being woken up by someone shaking one of his shoulders. His eyes snapping open, he saw Becky in front of him with Flare sitting next to her, worry and fear on her face.
"I take it Flare told you what happened?" Matt replied to her silent question in a hoarse voice. "How long was I out?"
"First, yes he did tell me. It just scares me that someone could even think up something like that, the power of both flames and a Hyper Beam combined. As to how long, I think about two hours. You slept through the police getting here, the Rockets breaking away, the police roundup, and about two people tripping over you." She then stopped to take a breath, for she, too, looked like she needed rest.
Matt's eyes suddenly went wide as he remembered one more thing, and slowly he said it, not wanting to say it but knowing that Becky would understand. "Becky, I… I turned someone into a shiny Eevee. It was the boss of the attack that came after me. I doomed him to a thousand years because I know he will not change, even though he will try. He will try and do it by cheating. He will never understand what he needs to understand so he could break it…" he then put his head into his hands, shaking his head. "Oh, what am I to do?"
"Nothing, there is nothing you can do. Do not worry, it was something you could not control," Becky reassured him. She then put up her hand to stop Matt from making any more interruptions. "I know because I, too, have done so. You see, Mom and Dad never knew that, when I was younger, I would sometimes be unable to sleep so I would guard the house in my Ninetales form. One night, someone broke in, not only planning to steal some of our things, but to kidnap our Pokemon. My human mind froze up, but then I found myself hiding in a corner that he would look in, placing my tails so he would have to step on them. That he did and, well, I turned him into a Spearow. He later roosted on our roof to try and have his revenge, so that is something you have to live with. It is something that Ninetales do naturally." She then slumped down also against the same tree. She then looked over at Matt and smiled. "I think we will have to move soon. A pretty nasty storm is coming."
Matt just nodded his head and they both helped each other make their way to the Vixen's home, that being to closest building to them.
VulpixTrainer: Chapter 31 is done and soon chapter 32 will be coming up, so hurray for us.
Kyle: You all know what to do, so I'm done.