The team, out of food and lost, is side swiped in a hit and run off of Europa and ends up in the desert town of Lo. Ellie, with poochyena by her side, is sent out to get food and ends up running across Dom Walker, a bounty head who is smuggling hallucinogenic mushrooms.
At camp, Zet presents an empty box of food to the crew.
ZET: This was the most valuable of the valuable.
ZET: It was an emergency ration for true emergencies that was saved for the last of the last resorts.
ZET: All i'm asking is who ate this?
MAX: Grudges over food sure are scary.
ZET: Max, by any chance, was it you?
MAX: If i was the culprit, i wouldn't leave the empty box lying around like that.
ELLIE: Ellie is hungry.
VIVI: May be you ate it your self, but are pretending to be up set because we found the empty box.
ZET: Untrue!
VIVI: We haven't had any thing to eat for 2 days.
VIVI: That's an emergency?
MAX: I wanna eat fried very salty ramen noodles.
ZET: We're lost in the middle of no where.
They all get on their bikes and start pedaling.
ZET: (pedaling on his bike) If you could all hold out like this a bit longer, we'll get out of Europa soon, thanks to our bikes.
VIVI: (pedaling on her bike) If only we could use our hunger as energy to pedal our bikes.
ZET: (pedaling on his bike) You keep mouthing off like that and i'll feed you to the buzzard pokemon.
MAX: (pedaling on his bike) Some salty scrambled eggs would be good.
VIVI: (pedaling on her bike) Sounds good too.
A large rectangular car crashes into the team and a nut slips from Ellie's fingers and poochyena eats it.
VIVI: (barely pedaling on her bike) That was some bad driving.
Zet starts yelling at the car.
ZET: (yelling and barely pedaling on his bike) HEY!
ZET: (yelling and barely pedaling on his bike) DO YOU HEAR ME?
ZET: (yelling and barely pedaling on his bike) ANSWER ME!
ZET: (yelling and barely pedaling on his bike) HEY!
The car speeds off the other way.
VIVI: (barely pedaling on her bike) Wasn't that a hit and run just now?
The team then passes a sign saying that the desert town of Lo is 4 miles away.
ZET: (barely pedaling on his bike) This is both bad and good.
ZET: (barely pedaling on his bike) The impact from that collision made us go off the grassy path we were riding on and now we're heading toward a desert town called Lo.
MAX: (barely pedaling on his bike) What did what to who?
VIVI: (barely pedaling on her bike) What's going on?
An hour later, the team arrives in the desert town of Lo.
ELLIE: (looking around) Woah!
VIVI: (looking around) Woah in deed.
VIVI: (looking around) What's with this place?
VIVI: (looking around) It's like a ghost town out here.
MAX: (looking around) I don't think that's our problem.
ZET: (looking around) First we have to make repairs to our bikes.
ZET: Vivi, can you go get some food?
Vivi suddenly looks uneasy and she grabs her stomach.
ZET: What's wrong?
VIVI: I suddenly feel a stabbing pain.
ZET: What are you trying to pull?
Vivi runs to the nearest big cactus tree to vomit and defecate. Poochyena pushes the empty box of food to Zet and he picks it up and examines the bottom.
ZET: (looking at the bottom of the box) This expired a month ago.
Zet puts the box down to the ground.
MAX: I'm glad i didn't eat it.
Zet puts the box down.
ZET: Serves her right.
ZET: It's poetic justice.
Both of their stomachs growl.
ZET: Lets get to it.
Max and Zet examine the partially damaged bikes.
MAX: (looking at Zet's badly damaged bike) What are we gonna do?
Ellie then pops up.
ELLIE: Ellie will help too.
Ellie tugs at the handle bars of Zet's bike and they break off and fall off.
MAX: We're fine here, so go some where and find us some food.
ELLIE: Okay!
Ellie skips off.
ELLIE: (talking to her self) Gotta get back up on my bike to go out.
Ellie slips and falls, due to lack of energy brought on by hunger. She spits on her feet and hands and gets back on. In the hot desert of Lo, Ellie and poochyena wander aimlessly. They lie down and rest for a while.
ELLIE: There's nothing here.
The same big rectangular car drives by. Ellie and poochyena chase after it.
ELLIE: (yelling and pedaling on her bike very fast) WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!
The car then floors it out of sight.
ELLIE: (yelling and pedaling on her bike very fast) WAIT WAIT!
Ellie stops, gets off her bike, and picks up a scent.
ELLIE: I smell food.
Ellie and poochyena sniff around.
ELLIE: (yelling with joy) I SMELL FOOD.
Ellie gets back on her bike and starts pedaling again. Following the trail, they find a water melon vender with a truck full of water melons.
ELLIE: (yelling with joy) FOOD!
Ellie gets off her bike and her and poochyena run up to the truck.
ELLIE: Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!
MELON MAN: That will be 10 dollars each, including tax.
MELON MAN: Cash only.
MELON MAN: No money cards or credit cards allowed.
ELLIE: I don't have any money.
MELON MAN: Then stop wasting my time, kid.
A big shiny sports car pulls up. Coffee, who is a tall attractive dark skinned woman, walks out.
COFFEE: Can i have one?
MELON MAN: 10 dollars each.
MELON MAN: Cash only.
MELON MAN: No change, money cards, or credit cards.
The man notices Ellie and poochyena salivating in front of the water melons.
MELON MAN: It's no use kid.
MELON MAN: If you want food, go deeper into town.
Coffee hands the man a 20 dollar bill and he takes it.
COFFEE: I don't need the change.
COFFEE: In exchange though.
She gives him a picture of a man, with a phone number written on the bottom.
COFFEE: If you see that man, give me a call.
COFFEE: Thanks!
Coffee takes a water melon and drives off and Ellie and poochyena stow away in the trunk of the car. Ellie also managed to put her bike in the trunk with out Coffee and the melon man noticing. The same big shiny rectangular sports car that caused the hit and run incident.
Else where and a little later, Coffee stops at a gas station and 2 cops approach her.
OFFICER 1: Excuse us.
OFFICER 2: We would like to check your baggage.
COFFEE: Some thing wrong?
OFFICER 1: A broker on the wanted list for illegal mushroom sales made a get away to this town.
COFFEE: What a coincidence.
COFFEE: I'm after that bad dude as well.
OFFICER 1: You're a bad dude bounty hunter?
OFFICER 2: We're gonna check out your trunk.
COFFEE: Go on ahead.
They open the trunk and to the surprise of all of them, they find Ellie and poochyena asleep.
OFFICER 1: Hey!
OFFICER 2: Alright!
OFFICER 2: (yelling) FREEZE!
The cops pull out their guns and hand cuffs.
COFFEE: Now wait a minute!
OFFICER 1: (holding his gun in one hand and the hand cuffs in his other hand) Stay still!
COFFEE: I don't know any thing about this.
OFFICER 1: (holding his gun in one hand and the hand cuffs in his other hand) Turn around and put your hands on the ground!
COFFEE: What are you doing?
OFFICER 2: (trying to hand cuff Coffee) Now put your hands on the ground!
COFFEE: Let go of me!
OFFICER 2: (yelling and trying to hand cuff Coffee) HURRY UP!
Ellie and poochyena wake up from the commotion. Ellie then takes out her bike and she and poochyena slip away on to the streets. She and poochyena walk farther into the town.
ELLIE: (pulling her bike along) Ellie is so hungry.
They spot the mushroom dealer, Dom, carrying a bag. He's eating a hot dog and suddenly, Ellie and poochyena rush towards him after he finishes it off.
ELLIE: Meanie!
DOM: What?
Ellie grabs him.
ELLIE: (shaking him) Gimme gimme gimme gimme chow!
DOM: Darn it.
DOM: You cut that out now!
A man dragging a coffin behind him with a rope, approaches Dom.
SHAFT: (yelling) HEY!
SHAFT: Dom, i won't let you tell me you forgot who i am.
DOM: Lets see.
SHAFT: Come on.
SHAFT: I'm the Shaft that bought mushrooms from you.
DOM: I really can't recall.
SHAFT: Do you know why i drag around an empty coffin with me every where i go?
DOM: No!
SHAFT: It's because i'm going to go home after putting your cadaver inside it.
A truck drives by and runs over the coffin. The box is now in pieces.
ELLIE: Rest in pieces.
DOM: (laughing out loud) HA HA HA!
DOM: Rest in pieces.
DOM: That's a good one, kid.
DOM: What was what for whom again?
SHAFT: My big bro ate a mushroom he bought from you and laughed so hard that he twisted his intestines to death.
DOM: (laughing out loud) HA HA HA!
DOM: That sure was a funny way to die.
SHAFT: (yelling) SHUT UP!
SHAFT: Speaking of which, it's all your fault.
DOM: That's what i call an unjust resentment.
SHAFT: (yelling) TAKE THIS.
Shaft pulls out a grenade launcher and Dom runs off and mushrooms drop from his pocket.
SHAFT: (yelling, running after Dom, and holding a grenade launcher at the same time) GET BACK HERE YOU KILLER!
SHAFT: (yelling, running after Dom, and holding a grenade launcher at the same time) DARN IT.
Shaft continues running after Dom.
ELLIE: (looking at the mushrooms on the ground) Food!
Poochyena eats one immediately.
ELLIE: Wait a minute.
ELLIE: We have to share.
Poochyena starts to hick up and begins to hop uncontrollably.
ELLIE: Poochyena!
Ellie sniffs the mushrooms.
ELLIE: (talking to her self) Are these bad mushrooms?
2 hours later, close to camp, a plate with a single mushroom lies on top of a tree stomp. Vivi approaches it. Ellie and poochyena watch from the shadows.
VIVI: (looking at the mushroom and talking to her self) Is this for real?
Vivi takes it and eats it.
VIVI: Delicious!
She walks away.
Moments later, another plate with a single mushroom is left on the tree stomp. Zet approaches it. Ellie and poochyena continue watching from the shadows.
ZET: (looking at the mushroom and talking to him self) This really can't be happening.
ZET: (looking at the mushroom and talking to him self) Can it?
Zet picks it up, eats it, and walks away satisfied.
Moments later, yet another plate with a single mushroom is left on the tree stomp. Max gives it a good look. He coolly walks by the stomp and swipes the mushroom into his mouth while walking away. Ellie and poochyena continue watching from the shadows.
A few minutes later at camp, Max, Zet, and Vivi start to act strange.
Vivi walks toward the cactus she had been using as her personal toliet, when she starts to hick up and her eyes turn dull.
Zet walks by a big bonsai tree, then he stops near it, hicks up, and his eyes turn dull.
Near the bikes, Max walks up to his bike, then he hicks up, and his eyes turn dull. He hallucinates and starts walking with out actually moving closer to his bike. He hallucinates and sees that his bike is moving slowly in front of him and away from him and he walks after it with out really moving.
Near the cactus tree, Vivi sees the sky rising endlessly.
Near the bonsai tree, Zet makes pleasent conversation with the bonsai tree and laughs.
ZET: (hallucinating) The world really is a great place.
He scratches his head.
ZET: (laughing and hallucinating) Ha ha ha ha ha!
ZET: (hallucinating) Did i just say some thing?
Max, still hallucinating, continues to chase after his moving bike, slowly. He encounters a talking croagunk and stops.
CROAGUNK: Hey boy.
CROAGUNK: This is your life and you seem to be chasing after some one or some thing you want or want back.
CROAGUNK: You know that, right?
MAX: (hallucinating) An obnoxious frog pokemon.
Max continues to hallucinate and walk.
CROAGUNK: Good luck in getting who or what you seek.
CROAGUNK: I hope you get it or her.
Ellie and poochyena watch Max stepping on the same spot over and over again, trying to get to his bike.
Near the cactus tree, Vivi sees a mouth appear on the cactus and it spits out water. Spit begins to over flow from the cactus' mouth and she is submerged in water, with dozens of fish pokemon, swimming around her. Ellie and poochyena watch Vivi swim the strokes, standing up near the cactus tree.
Near the bonsai tree, Zet continues to converse with the bonsai tree.
ZET: (hallucinating) Yeah, that's it.
ZET: (hallucinating) I now know the way of the bonsai tree.
ZET: (laughing and hallucinating) Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ellie and poochyena walk by.
ELLIE: So the mushrooms are inedible after all.
Poochyena nods in agreement. Ellie and poochyena then decide to watch "Hot Shot" on her laptop.
PUNCH: So as you can tell, it's time for another episode of "Hot Shot".
JUDY: We'll introduce you to more and more bounties this week.
JUDY: So batting first for us today is.
PUNCH: (showing Dom's picture) This man is Dom Walker.
PUNCH: (showing Dom's picture) He is wanted for selling illegal mushrooms.
ELLIE: (feeling surprised and watching Hot Shot on her laptop) That's the guy we just saw.
JUDY: The bounty reward is a good 1200 dollars.
She turns her laptop off.
ELLIE: We earn money and buy food.
ELLIE: Poochyena, you're a cow pokemon now.
Ellie and poochyena get on her bike.
ELLIE: (sitting on her bike with poochyena on her head) Here we go.
Ellie pedals off very quickly.
Else where, at the police station, Coffee is being interrogated.
OFFICER: Hey, don't under estimate the police.
COFFEE: I really don't know any thing.
OFFICER: Then why did you have a bike, a strange kid, and a poochyena in the trunk of your car?
The police man's phone rings and he picks it up.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Hello!
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Oh, it's you Sally.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Really!
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) You're so hopeless.
He turns away from Coffee.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) I told you so many times not to call me at work.
Through the window, Coffee spots Ellie and poochyena ride by.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Yeah yeah and that's it.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) I mean, i didn't mean it that way when i said "That's it.".
She quietly and carefully grabs her keys and escapes.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Yeah, like that.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) I love you Sally.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Tonight at 7 it is.
OFFICER: (talking on the phone) Bye!
He hangs up and sees that Coffee is gone. Outside, she drives away.
OFFICER: (yelling) HEY!
Else where, at a diner, Shaft slowly eats flavored ice. Siting a table away are 3 old men named Carl, Jobin, and Antonio.
ANTONIO: What's wrong with you young in?
ANTONIO: Looking like that.
CARL: Did your woman run off with out you?
JOBIN: Life is hard some times.
SHAFT: None of your business you old geezers.
Shaft spots Ellie and poochyena ride by and he tries to finish the flavored ice quickly and as a result, he gets a brain freeze style head ache.
ANTONIO: Yeah sonny, that's for eating it all at once.
CARL: They say when you're in a hurry, go around.
JOBIN: Is that right?
CARL: Yeah!
Ellie stops outside of town.
ELLIE: (looking around and sitting on her bike) I don't see him around here.
She spots the big shiny rectangular sports car again.
ELLIE: (sitting on her bike) Eureka!
ELLIE: (sitting on her bike) It's that hit and run car yet again.
In the car that looks almost exactly like Coffee's car, Dom tends to the mushrooms growing on bark.
DOM: (talking to him self) I'm sure they didn't think i was growing these in here.
He plucks one and tosses it into a full bag.
DOM: (talking to him self and looking at one of the mushrooms) This one is bad.
He throws the bad mushroom out of his car.
DOM: (talking to him self) Well, making an emergency stop here was the only miscalculation i had.
He turns around and Ellie and poochyena startle him.
ELLIE: Were you surprised?
DOM: I was.
DOM: Who are you freaks?
ELLIE: Why are you here?
DOM: That's my line.
DOM: How did you get in here in the first place?
ELLIE: The door was open.
DOM: Is that so?
Ellie pulls out and points 2 water guns at Dom.
ELLIE: (pointing 2 water guns at him) Culprit of the hit and run, prepare to get arrested.
ELLIE: (pointing 2 water guns at him) Splash time.
She pulls the triggers and water sprays out. Dom runs away. Ellie and poochyena chase after him.
ELLIE: (yelling, chasing after him, and holding a water gun in each hand at the same time) WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!
They run some more. A train is about to cross and Shaft and the water melon vender, in his truck, wait side by side. Shaft spots Dom and Ellie, while the train passes by. Dom has gotten him self on top of it. Shaft punches out the water melon vender, takes his truck, and drives after the train. He climbs on to the train and confronts Dom.
SHAFT: Don't think you can get away from me this time.
He pulls out his grenade launcher and fires at Dom and Dom dodges the blast.
BOOM!
Coffee catches up with the train and she pulls out her own grenade launcher.
COFFEE: (driving, yelling, and holding her grenade launcher at the same time) GET OUT OF MY WAY NOW!
She fires at Shaft and misses.
BOOM!
Ellie and poochyena chase after the train on her bike. Ellie, with poochyena on her head, hops off of her bike, jumps on Coffee's head, and grabs on to the train.
ELLIE: (hanging on the train) Go poochyena.
Poochyena runs after Dom and he bites one of the mushroom bags Dom was carrying.
DOM: (trying to hold on to his bag of mushrooms) Stop!
DOM: (trying to hold on to his bag of mushrooms) Let go of it now!
Poochyena tosses back the bag and it flies into Shaft's face. Shaft loses his grip and falls from the train and through Coffee's wind shield. Her car flips over and explodes. She and Shaft miraculously survive the explosion.
Back on top of the train, Ellie runs after Dom and makes threatening gestures.
ELLIE: (yelling and making threatening gestures) BOO!
A miltank is standing on the train tracks. The train suddenly starts to stop and Dom falls off the train, in front of a cow. Ellie lands on top of him. The train then stops.
ELLIE: (sitting on Dom) Gotcha!
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) Wait!
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) These mushrooms are worth 100 dollars each.
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) Let me go and i'll give them to you.
ELLIE: (sitting on Dom) Why?
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) Think about which one is worth more.
ELLIE: (sitting on Dom) I don't know.
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) Are you an idiot?
DOM: (holding the bag of mushrooms) Take the mushrooms.
ELLIE: (sitting on Dom) Okay!
Ellie takes the bag and tosses it in the air. Poochyena talks to the miltank.
POOCHYENA: Pooch pooc [translation] Thank you.
MILTANK: Mi mil mi miltank [translation] Oh it's no problem.
Else where and later, it's now sun set at camp. Max is sitting on his bike. Vivi regains consciousness near the cactus tree, with thorns in her mouth, and Zet wakes up with a leaf on his face. Ellie runs into the tent with the bag of mushrooms. She sets the bag down and tells them how much they're worth. In the tent, the rest of the team talks about what Ellie and poochyena got.
VIVI: 100 dollars each is unbelievable.
ZET: Are they real?
A police man approaches the tent outside and Zet, Vivi, and poochyena walk outside.
OFFICER: Excuse me.
OFFICER: I'm with the police.
OFFICER: I want to ask a few questions about Dom, an illegal mushroom dealer.
ZET: Unfortunately, we have no clue.
VIVI: I'm sorry we can't be of any help.
ELLIE: Ellie knows who.
Zet and Vivi cover Ellie's mouth. Zet and Vivi laugh nervously.
VIVI: (holding her hand on Ellie's mouth) Don't mind her.
Ellie struggles free.
ELLIE: In exchange, i got.
They cover her mouth again.
ZET: (holding his hand on Ellie's mouth) Really!
VIVI: (holding her hand on Ellie's mouth) She's a silly kid.
Max walks outside, still dazed from the mushroom he ate earlier, holding the bag of mushrooms.
OFFICER: Please stand still!
He tests the bag of mushrooms with a scanner and they miraculously turn out okay. He put the scanner back in his pocket.
OFFICER: They're okay.
OFFICER: Well, sorry to bother you.
The police man leaves.
2 hours later, Zet serves up dinner.
ZET: Here's dinner.
MAX: What's on the menu?
ZET: Shitake stew, shitake salad, and shitake stir fry.
ELLIE: (yelling with joy) YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!
Ellie starts devouring the food like a munch lacks.
VIVI: How many mushrooms do we have Zet?
MAX: I can't eat any more of these madness mushrooms.
ZET: Quit complaining and be thankful that we have any thing to eat at all.
ELLIE: (eating and talking at the same time) Thank you.
ZET: You're welcome.
This was another happy, funny, strange, dangerous, and action packed adventure for the team, but mostly for Ellie and poochyena. For a 6 year old and a pokemon, Ellie and poochyena have proven them selves worthy of being Bad Dude Bounty Hunters. Please type up your reviews for what you thought about this chapter! Stay curious my friends!