Pokemon Adventure 2
Mew-M Unleashed
Chapter 3: Treecko's cold hearted rival…
The next day, by mid-afternoon, the pokemon were ready for their new journey to find the MissingStones. Thanks to the one Pichu had found, they learned that the next one was at the top of Ice Mountain, a glacial peak that's always crumbling away. Oshawott had been looking through the base's telescope to find the sacred rock.
"Boys, I think you're gonna have a long trek on your journey." she said.
"Why?" asked Chimchar.
"Because the stone is at the top of the mountain, and you'd have to hurry because that monster might be on his way." Oshawott replied. Marowak was about to say something about the creature's gender, but Gardevoir hit him with a psychic attack.
"According to our calculations, a trek to Ice Mountain would take too long. That 'Cytolon' creature would have gotten his hands on it by the time you got there." said a male Nidoran.
"He's right, walking is not an option!" said Mudkip. He stared at an old collection of parts from an old vessel from their previous adventure. "Parts from the Wailmarine!"
"What?" yelled Tepig.
"If we could use the engine for a land vehicle, we could get there easily!" Mudkip continued. "Everybody start building!"
After the vehicle was finished, called the Rapidash Wagon, the team got aboard and Pichu got into the driver's seat.
"I watched how Politoed steered the ol' Wailmarine; I should be able to do It." he said. He revved up the engine and the team were ready to go.
"Wait!" called out a familiar voice. Pichu instantly put on the brakes and dust flew everywhere. The voice was Gardevoir's as she walked towards the Rapidash Wagon with the egg that she and Treecko were caring for. The egg was glowing yellow and smoke was coming out of it, signifying that it would hatch.
"The egg, it's hatching!" Treecko said. The shell dissolved into ashes to reveal a small insect-like pokemon covered in white fuzz.
"It's a Larvesta!" Gardevoir said.
"Well, Treecko, old mate, you finally hatched It." said Tepig. The little pokemon chirped at the team, like it was trying to tell them something.
"I think it likes us…" said Chimchar, unsure of what it was saying.
"Well, let's get going now." said Mudkip. "We've got a long adventure on our hands."
"Right, let's ride!" said Pichu, revving up the engine again, and it sped its way out of the village.
"Wow, this thing goes fast!" said Tepig, seeing as how far away the gate to the village was.
"I guess we'll just have to wait for us to get there, which won't take long." Totodile replied. On the road, there was one of Mew-M's troopers hiding behind a rock.
"Ha ha ha! I've got those fools right where Mew-M wants them." it said. It jumped out onto the road with his gun, ready to attack. "Hal…"
CRASH! The Rapidash Wagon slammed right into him causing him to shatter apart.
"What was that?" asked Mudkip.
"Dunno." replied Pichu from the driver's seat. "Never mind; we're almost to the Ice Mountain."
Meanwhile, at the bottom of Ice Mountain, a familiar capsule slammed into the ground like a meteorite slamming the earth. The capsule, covered in ice, shattered to pieces revealing a mysterious creature. It almost looked like Treecko, but it was black and its eyes were a soul-piercing red.
"Agent Snipe, come in, Snipe." said Mew-M on a recording from the shattered capsule. "You have genetically created to collect the remaining MissingStones and to stop the Pokeville Rescue Team and a strange liquid monster from getting them. The stone nearest to you is at the top of Ice Mountain, directly behind you. Just scale the mountain, get to the top and retrieve the MissingStone. After that, return to the M-Carrier for your next assignment. Mew-M out." The black Treecko, whose name was Snipe, heard every bit of the recording. He immediately started scaling the glacial peak, as a familiar looking wagon arrived…
It was the Rapidash Wagon. The team had come to Ice Mountain.
"I'll park it by the trees." said Pichu. He reversed it in between two trees. "Okay, everyone out." The team got out and Pichu locked the car with a key made from one of Totodile's baby teeth that fell out after their last adventure.
"Looks like we have to scale the mountain." said Treecko.
"Well, let's go!" said Chimchar, discovering a rock formation resembling stairs. "What a convenience." The team trekked onto the stairs and made their way up to the mountain's top. However, on the way to the top, up on the cliffs above them, were some of Mew-M's pokemon hybrid troopers, nasty little Koffishes, spitting toxic liquid onto the ice the team were standing on, causing it to crack underneath their feet.
Meanwhile, back at the bottom of the mountain, the liquid monster Cytolon had emerged from a hole in a tree. He squelched his way over to a crack in the mountain and seeped into it. He was going to destroy Ice Mountain, by creating vicious tidal waves underneath the entire mountain. Back with the rescue team, the team were halfway to the top of the mountain, when they spotted a cave leading inside the mountain itself.
"Hmm, I say we go this way." said Chimchar. Treecko noticed ominous howling from the cave.
"No, it's dangerous, I can hear something bad in there." he replied.
"Who put YOU in charge?" Chimchar growled back.
"What do you mean by that?" Treecko responded.
"I'm the leader of the team, not you." Chimchar answered. "Meaning that I choose what we do."
"Chimchar, you may have been the one who was on our last quest right from the start, but no-one said there was a leader!" Treecko hissed back at him.
"Guys, cool it." said Tepig.
"Stay out of this, Tepig." Treecko and Chimchar said in unison.
"I swear that Chimchar's kinda become a bit of a hot head since our last journey." Pichu whispered to Mudkip and Totodile.
"Yeah, he just wants to be in charge." replied Mudkip.
"The cave will give us shelter from that toxic stuff that we noticed on the way up here." Chimchar shouted.
"But you don't know what's in that cave unlike me, who used my ears instead of my eyes!" Treecko answered back.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" Totodile chanted, while hopping up and down. Tepig and Pichu gave him a nasty look, so he stopped. "Sorry…"
"I have an idea." Mudkip said. "One half of us go into the cave and the other half continues on the stairs. If there's a dead end on either route, the half will turn around and re-join the half that was right." The two squabbling pokemon looked at him with embarrassment on their faces.
"Okay, I pick Tepig and Pichu." said Chimchar
"I pick Totodile and Mudkip." said Treecko.
"See you around, Pichu." said Totodile.
"We'll meet each other at the top." said Mudkip.
"Got it." said Treecko, as he led his group up the stairs. Chimchar led his into the cave. From inside the cave, his group could see an underground lake underneath the bridge formed by ice. They could see the water violently bashing into the walls of the mountain's interior.
"I wonder why the water's doing that." Tepig said, that echoed loudly around the cave. The water suddenly stopped dead.
"You might want to keep your voices down." whispered Chimchar. "You know what can cause an avalanche?"
"What?" asked Pichu.
"Sounds as minor as clapping hands, or the sound of your own voice." Chimchar answered. Suddenly, from the water below them, a fist made entirely of green liquid smashed the bridge they were standing on. The team flew into the air and landed on the other side of the bridge, except Pichu, who was grabbing hold of the edge. The water started its rampage again, and a familiar and ominous face appeared from the lake.
"Cytolon!" yelled Tepig, before Chimchar shushed him.
"Remember what I told you. Don't shout, it'll cause the place to collapse!" Chimchar shouted at him.
"You just did." whispered Tepig. They watched helplessly as the ice around Pichu continued to crumble.
"Guys, help me!" Pichu cried, his shriek caused a giant icicle to fall and wound his part of the ice.
"What are we waiting for?" Chimchar roared, "I'll save you, you have the Missingstone!" But it was too late, the ledge shattered away and Pichu fell to his doom.
"Get the Missingstones!" he shouted, as he fell into Cytolon's possessed lake.
"Noooooooo!" Tepig cried, causing part of the wall to fall away and form a door to the outside of the mountain.
"Come on, Tepig, we have to go through there and join up with the others." Chimchar said, putting his hand over Tepig's shoulder. They both went through the door and went up the newly formed stairs opposite to the ones they started on.
Meanwhile the other group were busy walking up the stairs to the top. But, little did they know that Cytolon's destructive tidal waves were causing catastrophes all over the mountain.
"Er, Mudkip?" Totodile said, putting his hand on Mudkip's shoulder.
"Yes?" Mudkip responded.
"Can you hear some rumbling?" Totodile asked him.
"Yeah, I do…" Mudkip replied.
"Less talk, more walk." Treecko said. "It'll get us past all that toxic acid we've being running from. The Koffishes were still doing their attack for a while now, they weren't even getting tired. Suddenly an explosion of water smashed the wall behind them and killed them all, and caused the stairs behind Treecko's splinter group to crumble away rapidly. Treecko noticed them and so did his two team-mates.
"RUN!" Treecko roared. The three pokemon ran as fast as they could as the stairs fell away behind them, until finally, they made it to the top, and watched the stairs shatter away.
"That was close…" said Totodile, looking around the top of the peak. "Hey, look, there's the Missingstone!" he cried, pointing to it resting inside a block of ice, glowing a shade of blue.
"I wonder where the others are…" Mudkip said.
"Hey there!" Chimchar called out from the distance, with Tepig beside him. They all ran towards the frozen stone and reunited.
"Say, where's Pichu?" asked Treecko.
"Oh, he fell off the bridge in the ice cave." Chimchar admitted sadly.
"You mean…" Totodile asked.
"Yes, Pichu is dead." Tepig replied. "All because of that monster Cytolon!"
"No, it isn't, it's Chimchar's fault!" Treecko hissed. "A good 'leader' like what Chimchar wants to be takes the blame for when something goes wrong."
"Dang you, Treecko, you're just jealous that I'm the leader and you're just being a troll." Chimchar growled.
"You should have listened to me in the first place, and then Pichu would still be alive and kicking!" Treecko answered back.
"That's it; I've had it up to hear!" Chimchar roared, charging up a fire ball in his hands. "Fire Punch!" He swung his fist at Treecko but he missed and hit the ice block instead.
"Guys, stop fighting!" Tepig roared. "Look, we found the Missingstone. Maybe, if we find Pichu's corpse we can bring him back to life with it." he added. They both stopped and Treecko went over to get the stone, before something black snatched it right under his nose.
"Who took that?" Treecko growled, before he saw the thief on a nearby ledge. It was the black Treecko, snickering away at the team, holding an ice spewing Finneduck under his arm.
"I am Snipe, Mew-M's best servant and master of deception." the fake Treecko said.
"Who's Mew-M?" asked Tepig.
"None of your business, is it?" Snipe said.
"Well, Snipe, I say we go one-on-one for the Missingstone." said the real Treecko.
"Agreed, my inferior copy." Snipe said before launching his attack on Treecko. The two of them fought viciously, striking each other with moves from insane kung fu movies.
"Wow, Treeckos must be good ninjas." said Totodile. Cytolon heard the battle from underneath the ice, and he jumped out of the lake and pummelled the top of the mountain to pieces, shattering ice all over the place. Treecko launched an uppercut on his double and sent him falling to the inside of the mountain, and he got the Missingstone from him. The damage Cytolon had done caused the platform the team were standing on to crack off the mountain and slide down towards the sea.
"Hold on, everyone!" Chimchar screeched. The iceberg smashed into the rock on the way down, causing it to spin out of control and lose huge chunks of itself. It then crashed into the sea and bobbed to the surface with everyone soaking wet. They watched Ice Mountain crumble into giant boulders of ice. One fell into the sea, and created a tidal that sent the team further out to sea. Ice Mountain was gone forever.
After five days of drifting away from their home, the team wondered if they'll ever find dry land.
"Guys, look what I found!" said Mudkip.
"What?" said Chimchar, looking glum.
"I found a pokemon trapped in ice!" Mudkip replied. They all gathered round a Sandshrew with silver skin on it and a dark silver helmet on its head, plus, in its hand was a sword, crafted from wood with a silver blade inserted into it.
"Is he dead?" asked Totodile.
"We'll thaw it out when we find land." replied Chimchar.
"We've been drifting for five days and one morning; if this keeps up we'll be dead, just like Pichu." said Tepig.
"Wait, look there!" Chimchar said, pointing to a nearby island. "Land!"
"Land Ho!" said Totodile and Mudkip, jumping into the water to push the iceberg to the island.
"Oh, yes!" said Tepig. "We are saved!"
Little did they know, on the beach of the island, another capsule had fallen from the M-Carrier, releasing an enemy back from the dead…