Part 2

Grimer and friends arrived at the train station. Right away, they went to the service desk. Behind the desk was an Farfetch'd. Torchic wandered off.

"What do you need?" He asked.

"Five tickets for the 9 0' Clock train for Tohjo Falls." Grimer answered. Farfetch'd totaled the amount in his computer.

"Okay, that'll be 25 P." Grimer gave him the change. Farfetch'd grabbed it and put the money in the cash register. In exchange, he gave Grimer the tickets. Grimer thanked him and he and his friends left.

Next came Bisharp and his Pawniards.

"Seven tickets." The ticket seller typed on his computer.

"35 P" Farfetch'd said.

"Oh, we don't need money."

"Uh, yes you do, no money, no trip. It's as simple as that." Bisharp snapped his claws and a Pawniaird crossed his claws under the bird's throat. Farfetch'd was terrified.

"Give us those tickets," Bisharp ordered. "And my Pawnaird won't harm you, understand?" The Farfetch'd nodded in fright, giving Bisharp the tickets.

"Good." Bisharp grabbed them and him and the Pawnairds were off.

A Totodile, who saw the whole thing asked if Farfetch'd was giving the tickets away for free. Farfetch'd told him no and he had to pay. Totodile aww'd in disappointment.

"Okay," Grimer said. "We have fifteen minutes to wait." He looked around to realize Torchic wasn't with them.

"Where's Torchic?"

"And the troubles begin!" Treecko said. They all started looking.

Fifteen minutes later, Mudkip found the chick staring at a vending machine. She was looking at a candy bar.

"Come on candy bar!" She spoke. "Can't you see that I want you in my tummy?"

"Come on Torchic." Mudkip told her. "We got to go. What are you doing anyways?"

"Trying to move the candy bar with my mind." She answered. Mudkip was confused.

"Why?"

"Well I saw an Abra do it before me and I wanted to see if I could do it too."

"Well we got to go. The train should be here by now."

"Not until I get my candy bar!" Mudkip sighed. She took out 5 P and deposited it into the coin slot. She pressed the button for the candy bar and the bar fell to the bottom. Torchic jumped with excitement.

"Mudkip, you're my hero!" She cheered, clinging to her.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm your hero. Now come on, we got to go or we'll be late." Torchic withdrew herself and the two hurried off.

"You found Torchic!" Grimer congratulated Mudkip as soon as he spotted her and Torchic. "Great! Quick, the Silver Express is going to leave any minute." So the Pokémon hurried and went aboard all except for Pichu who saw an ad for a toy train.

"OOOOhs!" He admired. "I could play with 'dat train for hours!"

"PICHU!" Everyone called when the train stated moving. Pichu then went back to reality.

"Oh right, comimg!" The rodent ran after the train. "Hey, hold om! Slow dowm!"

"Jump Pichu!" Mudkip demanded.

"Okay!" The rodent jumped in the air, landing back on the platform.

"No, jump onto the train!"

"Ohhhh…" And Pichu made a running leap into the door with the others. He tried to gain his balance on the threshold. When he was about to fall, the others pulled him in.

When Pichu was safe, they sighed in relief.

"Now let's find our seats." Grimer told his friends. They settled into their chairs in the passenger car.

"Let's play a game!" Mudkip suggested after they had their tickets checked. "Like Hide N Seek?"

"I wamt to play!" Pichu said.

"Me too!" Torchic added. She nudged Treecko. "Treecko, you should play too!"

"Nah!" Treecko told her. "I'll pass." Pichu, Mudkip and Torchic were off.

"Stay out of the way of the conductor!" Grimer called after them.

Mudkip found Pichu right away under a table.

"You foumd me!"

She found Torchic under the table next to Pichu's.

"You found me as well, aw maaaaan!"

Next, Pichu counted as Torchic and Mudkip went off to hide.

"1, 2, 34, 64, 89, 99, 109…"

Mudkip found her hiding spot in the next car behind some luggage.

"Pichu will never find me here." She told herself.

"I can't wait to get the Luna Berry," Mudkip overheard a Pawnaird tell his boss and his friends.

"Wait, Luna Berry?" Mudkip looked around at them.

"It'll be wonderful to be granted seats of power." Bisharp agreed. "Once we bring this Luna Berry to King Pikachu, we can finally end the conflict of our people."

"We can buy a pool!" A Pawniard blurted out. Bisharp and the others looked at him. "Well, it'll be nice."

"Let's just stick to the task at hand."

"Right, sir!" All of the Pawniards chirped.

"Oh my gosh!" gasped Mudkip. "I got to warn Grimer about this!" She hurried from behind the luggage and into the car where Grimer and Treecko were.

When she got there, she found Pichu and Torchic with them. Torchic was eating her candy bar.

"Foumd yous!" Pichu told Mudkip. "You do know da rules of dis game is to hides, right?"

"I think she forgot how to play." Torchic told him.

"OHHHHS! Well, its simple. You just gots to hides while we see…"

"Grimer!" Mudkip said, ignoring Pichu. Grimer looked at Mudkip. "I overheard a Bisharp and his gang of Pawniards who are working for King Pikachu. They are after the Luna Berry."

"Wait, hold the phone, what? Luna Berry? The same Luna Berry we're after?" Mudkip nodded.

"The exact same! There's only one, remember? If King Pikachu wants it, you know what that spells."

"Pichu?" Pichu guessed.

"Torchic?" Torchic asked. Her voice muffled by the candy bar in her mouth.

"Well, whatever they are planning," Grimer said. "We got to get to the Luna Berry before they do. Come on, bring me to them. Perhaps they can give us more information. Maybe we can work this out," Mudkip nodded.

"This way!" She told them. They followed the Mudfish Pokémon.

"Come on, Treecko!" Torchic said to him. Treecko moaned.

"Why am I led into this?" he jumped down and followed Torchic and the rest.

"There they are." Mudkip whispered to her friends as she pointed the fin on top of her head at them.

"Okay." Grimer said. "Let's see what their deal is." He went to them. Bisharp and the Pawniards all looked at him.

"So, nice weather out there, isn't it? The nice, warm sun. Not a single storm cloud in sight. I think the reports reported sunny all week." Mudkip nudged him.

"Don't be a coward!" Mudkip told him in a soft voice. "Remember the task at hand."

"The task at hand? Ohhhh; the task at hand!" He then looked determined. "Why does King Pikachu want the Luna Berry?"

"That is not of your concern." Bisharp told him. Grimer began to laugh.

"You're right! It's not our concern! Well, here's the funny thing. We also need that berry to heal a friend of mine. He's in a coma and the Luna Berry is the only thing to make him his jolly self again. So, can you let Bagons be Bagons and be the kind and understanding Pokémon that you are and let us get the berry instead?"

"No." Bisharp said, sharply.

"Aw, pretty please"

"Nope!"

"Pretty please with cherry on top?"

"No!"

"Pretty please with cherry and spr…"

"Do you really believe that will work?"

"Well, maybe, not really. Wait, will it?"

"No!" He walked away and motioned his lackeys to follow him. "Come. Let's go far away from these creeps." The Pawniards followed after their leader. Grimer's friends all looked at him. Grimer looked determined.

"We can't let them get the berry first!" He told them. "Charmander's counting on us!"

Then a Mincchino in a conductor hat and a mop in his hand came by. He looked at Grimer. He was steaming mad!

"You!" He boomed. "It was YOU who left your gooey slime trail everywhere, wasn't it?"

"Well yeah," Grimer admitted. "But I'm a Grimer. I can't help it."

"Excuses, excuses! I'll get you!" The mad Mincchino started flying towards Grimer and friends.

"RUN!" Grimer shouted. And just like that, he, Treecko, Mudkip, Torchic and Pichu all started running.

"You can run!" Mincchino called after them. "But you can't hide!"

"Yes we can!" Torchic piped up. "We hid in Hide N' Seek!"

"Shhhhh!" Mudkip said, hushing her.

A Pawniard turned back to see Grimer and pals running towards them.

"They're after us boss!" The Pawniard told his boss.

"Then do something about it!" Bisharp ordered. The Pawniard nodded.

"Right away boss!" He looked at his companions who all nodded.

Then, one by one, the pawniards did their fury swipes at all at them. Grimer and friends dodged each one.

"No, no, no!" Screamed the Minccino. "No fighting on my train!"

The Mincchino took a big leap and blocked Grimer and friends at the door, preventing them from going any further. He pointed his mop at them as if it was a weapon.

"Stay back!" He warned. "You slimed your last slime trail; I don't want to have to use this thing!" Grimer and Pichu held up their hands. Torchic nudged Treecko. Treecko sighed and held up his hands too.

"Whoa, whoa!" Grimer spoke to Minccino. "Before you do anything with that mop, let me tell you again, that I'm a Grimer, it's in my nature to leave slime trails everywhere."

"And it's my nature as train conductor to watch out for this train. Now, you and your friends are going to clean this entire slime trail!"

"But, don't you see? As soon as I start moving, I'll only leave another trail."

"Then you'll be cleaning forever! You are not leaving this train until it's all cleaned. Understand?" Mincchino thrust his mop at them.

"I understand, but I keep telling you…"

"Understand?" Mincchino thrust his mop at them again.

"This Mincchino is insane!" Treecko observed. Mincchino thrust the mop at him.

"I heard that!" Treecko looked scared and gulped. Mincchino was about to hand Grimer the mop when his boss, Magnezone appeared on the scene.

"What's all this about Mincchino?" He asked.

"Sir, this Grimer has been leaving slime trails all over the floors of this train."

"Well, he's a Grimer, right? He can't help it. All Grimers do that, it's in their nature."

"That's what I keep trying to say!" Grimer piped up.

"Well yeah." Mincchino stared. "But…" Magnezone narrowed his eye at Mincchino.

"Mincchino," Magnezone scolded. "I think you have some apologizing to do!" Mincchino sighed and let his mop go limp.

"But, but…"

"Mincchino!" Mincchino sighed again and looked at Grimer and friends.

"Sorry." He told the blob. "I know it's in your nature to leave your slimy goo everywhere. I'm a neat freak and I went crazy, again I'm sorry."

"Apology accepted!" Grimer said. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're in a hurry, so if you'll just move out of the way from the door, that'd be great."

"Oh sure, sure!" Mincchino moved out of the way.

"Thanks, come on guys!" He and the others continued. "We've got to find the Bisharp, surely we can talk some sense into him."

"Pfft, yeah right," Treecko scoffed.

"How can we catch up?" Mudkip asked. "We lost precious time, they could be anywhere by now!"

"Keep running! We haven't stopped so they must be still on the train!"

"How do you know? What if they jumped off the train because they know that we're here?"

"Jus' keep running!" So they ran and ran and soon they caught up with Bisharp and the Pawniards.

"Adios!" Said Bisharp as he climbed the ladder above between cars.

"Oh no you don't!" Grimer responded. He, too, climbed up the ladder.

"Be careful!" Mudkip warned after him.

"I will!" Grimer shouted back. He looked at Bisharp. The two Pokémon were about to fight on top of a speeding train!

"It's the end of the line for you Grimer!" Bisharp shouted at him. "For, my Pawniards and I are getting that Luna Berry."

"I'll have to disagree." Grimer said. "For it is my friends and I, who will get it!" Bisharp smirked.

"We'll see about that!" Then Bisharp tackled Grimer, pinning him down.

"You know, it's really quite dangerous to fight on the roof of a speeding train. Can't we do this downstairs or something? Or better yet, not fight at all and let me and my friends get the berry to cure my best friend?"

"No! King Pikachu gave me orders to get that berry!" He tried to stab Grimer with his blades. Grimer dodged them all by morphing his slimy body out of the way.

"Okay, but fighting up here is still dangerous, man. I'm not kidding, we could get hurt…and not just from fighting each other I mean."

"Are you a coward?"

"No, I'm just saying…"

"Then fight, you slimy blob!"

"Okay, you asked for it."

Grimer then released a sludge bomb. Bisharp dodged. Grimer kept shooting his sludge bombs and Bisharp just kept dodging them. One of them hit. It sent Bisharp rolling almost to the edge!

"Yeah!" Grimer cheered. Bisharp got up and fury swiped him. Grimer tried to poison him with his Poison gas.

The two Pokémon just kept fighting, each using their attacks on the other.

Bisharp ran to the first car. He then got ready to separate the other cars with his blade. The Pawniards swiftly followed their leader, leaping over the cars with ease. He looked at Grimer. Grimer stopped in his tracks.

"Farewell Grimer!" And with that, he jammed his blade into the lock. The cars broke off.

Grimer heard Bisharp laugh as he jumped off to meet his buddies. The remainder of the train that Grimer was on leapt off the tracks and chugged towards the mountain!

The blob jumped down in the car below where his friends were waiting. Grimer quickly yelled to Mincchino.

"Tell everybody to get off the train! It's going to crash!" Mincchino looked at him, confused.

"What?" He wanted to know.

"Quick! The train is going to crash, tell everybody to get off!" Mincchino just screamed and ran away.

"Come on!" Grimer told his friends. "We got to jump off this train now!" They went to the door. Grimer opened it. They gazed down at the speeding terrain below them.

"Lucky hat," Torchic said to the hat. "Don't fail me now!" Treecko sighed.

"Oh, the things I get myself into." He groaned.

"Ready?" Grimer started. "1, 2, 3, JUMP!"

"Wait!" Pichu yelped. Everybody looked at the yellow Pokémon.

"Cam we gets food first?" Pichu asked. "They have applesauce." Mudkip grabbed Pichu's tail and pulled him with as they leapt off the speeding train.

A nearby Xatu, who had foreseen the disaster, calmly did Psychic on the derailed train, preventing it from getting any closer to the mountain. He flew to find the Pokémon who had jumped and teleported them to safety.

Grimer and friends landed on the ground. They looked up. They landed at the base of Mt. Silver!