This time I'll borrow a scene from the ORIGINAL opening of the Legend of Thunder special. And I laughed a lot while writing the backstory of that scene. Also, now will appear the last Pokemon of Enrico's team. If you want the spoiler for knowing the common theme in the nicknames, you have time until the next chapter.
by lord Martiya
TALE 11: VS CYNDAQUIL
Yeah, my job. But, first, tell me a thing. Do you know the Candracan gym leaders? Good! Are they really crazy?
Yes, I know her, she's a technopath.
Did she really ditched so much men?!
Augh. Well, at least that [ YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE WORD ] won't play with the feelings of other girls...
Talk with plants... Ah. Earth-type specialist. Well, that's common, between Earth-type specialists. Uh, that is NOT common. Even between Grass-type specialists...
Uh, that's weird.
Did she REALLY planned world conquest with her brother?!
Eaten money?!
Well, if he's a Poison-type specialist it's almost normal. Somehow...
I met him. I can tell you what he did in Sinnoh with the help of Jesse, James & Meowth and those three...
Worrying. Really worrying.
Uh... Interesting.
His name is enough.
Even hers.
Uh... Uh uh... Eh eh... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! WONDERFUL!!!
Uh... They seems like those two manga characters... Yes, them(1)!
WHAT IN THE HELL HE DID TO DESERVE THAT?!?!?!
Now that I know, I can return to my job. Poor boy... BTW, who was the girl? Ah. No wonder she ended like that.
Well, my first G-Man job was preventing a big theft in professor Elm facility. Three seniors, Wes, his girlfriend Rui and that crazy Addams (our leader in that mission. I haven't discovered his true name, yet), would attack the main group. I, the fastest with the fastest Pokemon in the group, had to seek and stop, dead or alive, eventual escaping Rockets. I could let them escape, but not with stolen Pokemon.
While Addams was going booming the poor Rockets, two B-rank agents managed to escape with a sneezing Totodile and pursued by the three Elm-sponsorized beginners of that year. After going a bit far from the beating of their peers, the B-rankers decided to face their pursuers, and went in the worst habit of the B-rankers. The motto.
"Prepare for trouble!"
"And make it double!"
"To inf-"
"CHIKORITA! VINE WHIP!"
"CYNDAQUIL! EMBER!"
"WANI-WANI! WATER GUN!"
And the two B-rankers, Cassidy and Butch, got fooled by three beginners. They weren't happy.
"How you dared to do that?!?!?!" Butch complained.
"Hey, you are the idiots who wasted time..." was the reply from the Cyndaquil trainer.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT! GO, PRIMEAPE!"
Just a moment before he released his Pokemon, I took the Pokeball from his hand, kicked his butt and then gave him back the Pokeball.
"Hi, guys. Can you prepare for trouble and make it hundredple?" I greeted them.
"No way! You're not a member anymore, we won't obey you!" Butch replied.
"Bill..." Cassidy called him.
"IT'S BUTCH! B- Oh. I see..."
While I was making fun of Butch, Snyer was holding Cassidy at claw point. I was thinking of what doing with those two idiots when the Totodile woke up and used them to demonstrate that at least one Totodile, him, can learn Mega Punch and Comet Punch, before blasting them off with a Water Gun. I was about to talk with the trainers when Addams called me by Pokegear.
"What's happening, boss?" I asked.
"The Executive is running away. Defeat him, but remember that he used to be an Elite Four in Candraca, ten years ago." Addams ordered.
I answered with a very heavy Candracan swear, and he replied telling me that he was glad that I understood the situation.
After that, I ran in intercepting course and, after finding him, Snyer managed to stop him. Apparently, he didn't expected a Sneasel able to do Razor Wind, so when he saw Snyer he didn't actived the wind shield of his jeep, only the freeze shield. He didn't love that.
"You'll pay for that." he said, after exiting the jeep (that didn't blow up like TR vehicles are alleged to do).
"Sorry, but I don't have any cash with me." I replied.
Why joking in his face? Well, he was Marco Lugarini, and I knew that he hated not being taken seriously and tended to have his mind clouded by rage. I needed every advantage against an Elite Four-level trainer. That and my beginning of the match with Aureliano, a Murkrow, did the job.
"You'll pay for this offence!" he said while unleashing his Manectric on us. "MANECTRIC, THUNDER!"
Aureliano dodged the attack and replied with a painful Nightshade on Manectric's eyes, followed by a Shadow Ball in a split-second. It endured and replied with a barrage of Charge Beams. Aureliano was forced to dodge without managing to counterattack, and then hit by a Shock Wave.
"Kill it with Thunderfang." Lugarini ordered.
Then, just a second before being hit, Aureliano replied with Toxic, blocking the enemy attack and weaking him enough for my little prank. What prank? Well, do you remember the Snag Machine, right? Yes, I snagged Marco Lugarini's Manectric. He was so shocked that didn't dodged Aureliano's Peck and was knocked down, but quickly recovered and sent in battle his powerhouse, his Electivire. I trusted Aureliano, but I was no idiot, and I didn't risked his life against an Elite Four-level Electivire, not when he was weakened, so I entered in battle Federico and ordered Snyer to be ready to back up. Then, while we were about to order our Pokemon in battle, Marco screamed and went down on his face. When his Pokemon turned to understand what was happening, Snyer and Federico bringed him down and I snagged him while hearing a powerful bang. Then I analized Lugarini's injury, and noted that the hollow point bullet striked him exactly in the right spot to permanently paralize him while not endangering his life.
"Not him... Not give me to him... Kill me!!!" Lugarini cryed.
"'Him' who?" I asked, while suspecting who shot him.
"The White Feather!"
"Sorry, but he'll claim your bounty. Ehi, wait, I'm not sorry."
"KILL ME!"
"No."
Then W.F. arrived in jeep, and, seeing me, he said: "My bounty, please."
I gave him the check and asked: "What did you did to this guy?"
"His left arm is a prosthetic, the real one was severed by an explosive bullet in the last stand of the Tiksi Rebellion. Another bullet neutered him. And he can consider himself lucky to escape me for ten years after bailing himself out of jail and running from Candraca. Now he will be tried for all of his crimes, and won't run away. And in Candraca we still have some harsh punishments for people who collected all of his crimes, like dr-"
"Understood. Just another question: why Pokemon G-Men never recruited you?"
"Because I never wanted. Look, when the Rebellion survivors were defeated we of the Army did the biggest part of the job but received none of the glory, and I can endure this, but also a fellow of mine was falsely accused of inappropriate conduct on the corpse of a rebel, and I cannot endure this. I quit the Army, for that, and I'll never work again for the government. Never. Now, can you jail him safely? My sister, my brother-in-law, my brother and I would like to watch his trial and his execution..."
"Nice. But why being a bounty hunter?"
"Because the majority of the people with a bounty did something that I really despise, and being paid for something that I would do for free is perfect. Nice to see you."
White Feather tied up Lugarini with iron wire, ordered him to thank for not using barbed tape(2) and went away with his check, leaving the criminal with me. I put him in the sidecar and went near New Bark Town with him. There I joined the group, and one of the beginners, the Cyndaquil trainer, told me that he wanted to be like me.
"Well, the name's Enrico Paolucci, yours?" I asked.
"I'm Jimmy Dani, n-" he began, but I interrupted him.
"Well, Jimmy Dani, you're an idiot."
While the shock opened his mouth enough to let Yanmas flying in, I continued: "I gave you my name only because I wanted to know yours to let you know better that you're an idiot and I consider impolite asking a name without giving my one."
Well, everybody was shocked by my little stunt, and only Snyer and Addams were able to do something. And they were laughing. But I didn't ended.
"And let me tell you that you're for sure one of the biggest idiot in the world, so big that no word in no known language could describe you, if you want to be like someone you barely know." I told him. "DISMISSED!"
Jimmy was actually turning to go away, then he realized how I treated him and reacted.
"Hey, nodoby can treat me like that!" he shouted.
"Well, call him nobody." a TOTODILE told him. Yes, another freaking talking Pokemon. And he was the crazy Totodile who beated up Cassidy and Butch.
"Damn... Enrico Paolucci, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle!"
"You're not only idiot, you're even crazy." I replied. "You're a beginner, I can hold my ground against Elite Four-level trainers."
"I don't care!"
"Your choice."
The people cleared a little area for us, and Jimmy used his Cyndaquil. I thought for a moment about using Raimondo, but I decided that such a thing would be too much and used Federico. Who, seeing his opponent, almost laughed. The poor Jimmy was sweating bullets for the little mismatch... Well, at least he knew that he won't win in a power confrontation, so he tried some strategy. His opening move was a Smokescreen in Federico's face, followed by an Ember and a Tackle. I made Federico use Counter, KOing the Cyndaquil without even attacking. It was really fun... When Jimmy went to care of his Cyndaquil, I moved near Federico and called him.
"What do you want?" he replied coldly while glaring at me.
"Give you a little advice: keep your cool, you could face a trainer who won't go easy on you only because you're a little beginning brat." I told him.
I was about leaving when the Talking Totodile called for me.
"What do you want?" I asked him.
"You." he answered. "No dates, only training."
"Why I should accept you?"
"Because we both hold a grudge against Team Rocket and I'm pretty good in finding information. You can tell it by yourself, if I wasn't good I couldn't know about you. My infos for training and meals. No Pokeball."
"OK. Your name?"
"Antonio."
And, with a new companion, I continued my crusade.
footnotes
(1)'Those two manga characters' are Might Guy and Kakashi Hatake, from Naruto. No, they won't appear, only those two unnamed characters have their form of rivalry.
(2)Also known as razor wire, is a variant of the barbed wire, normally used by militaries.