Me: Time for a new update. I figured that to make up for lost time over the past week, I'd submit the second of my three new chapters today.
Ace: I'm just glad that the problem the site had over the weekend is fixed. I hope Gantz is able to update Paper Mario: Legend of the Star Rod soon.
Servo: But isn't he and Wally on vacation?
Crow: Remember he said that his magic clipboard allows him to also add new stories to the site as well as new chapters to his existing works. He may very well update at any time while he's away.
Servo: Oh, I forgot about that.
Me: Oh before I forget, my account at Deviantart has a load of new material. Mostly I have my previous story, Mario Science Theater 3000 posted (it's a revised version, so those who weren't entirely satisfied with the original can check out the new one at Deviantart.) Also, there's some material a friend of mine made based upon my OC, Clayton Mario (which are all in my favorites section) including two pictures of him with Vivian, as well as a Pokemon Trainer card which ultimately goes along with my current story, PokeMario.
Zane: (checks NUTCASE's account at Deviantart) Well, I do see some improvement in the use of grammar in this story's prequel. Also, this Loveandcake person is a wonderful artist.
Ace: (looks at computer screen) Wow, those are fantastic! (looks at Loveandcake's Clayton Mario fanart) Awww, those pics of Clay and Vivian together are soooo cute!!!!!
Me: You can look at those later Ace, it's time for the story to continue!
Chapter 22: Spy Games
The time was 2:37 PM. A ship was approaching the Vermillion coastline steaduily. On board this ship was Kale, Giovanii's new partner in world domination. However, his true motives remain a mystery to all other than Kale's followers. On board the ship with Kale was a DR Zangoose, who had apparently undergone more enhancement when compared to other DR Pokemon. For starters, it had feathers growing out of his body, and to top it all of, it could actually speak english like a human could. This Zangoose was named Branz (pronounced Bronze, like the metal), and he was a top leader in the Dentes Rhohos tribe who did all the commanding for the DR Pokemon, and was also in charge of distributing these poor altered creatures to the members of Team Rocket.
Kale looked down at his top follower, and said, "It seems that your late night hunts have proved most effective, Branz. Our tribe's power is growing by the minute thanks to your efforts." Branz bowed before Kale before saying, "It was nothing. Soon the humans of this world will cower before us when we turn their so-called friends against them after we destroy one of their precious dwellings."
Kale smirked as he heard these words. He then said, "How exactly will the destruction be done?" Branz then said, "The one known as Gyarados, a large sea dragon who have been known to destroy ships out at sea, as well as demolish entire cities with their power, is my weapon of choice for this attack!" Kale smiled an even more wicked smile upon hearing this.
Branz continued with, "With the enhanced abilities of our DR Gyarados compared to the feeble skills of an ordinary Gyarados, imagine the profound impact it will have on the people here. After we have that fool Giovanii have his little broadcast to demand surrender, we'll be sure to take away his control and rule this world as we please. Then we can use our newfound power to takeover the Mushroom Kingdom, as well as our tribe's former home, the Real World."
Kale then asked, "What of the recent arrivals to the Mushroom Kingdom? They may not appear to be much, but they've proven to be quite troublesome so far..." Branz then said, "The strange robots, the two humans whom are like family to said robots, the ape man, and the pale-faced fool that carries his brain in a salad bowl shall also be destroyed along with the rest of those fools when we get the chance."
Kale then said, "Not that I'm doubting you, but what if our adversaries show to stop our raid?" Branz then said, "If by some off chance our attack is interupted, I've arranged a 'welcoming party' for the interlopers who decide to mess up our plans." The two turn around and gaze towards the ship's crew, which was made up of the vicious Velociraptor beasts that were the Dentes Rhohos themselves, as well as many DR Pokemon, most of which were ones from Branz's last hunt. The two gaze back towards the coastline as they await the chance to attack.
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A few short hours later, the group finally arrived in Vermillion City to try to make sense of the fortune they were told. They gathered that Team Rocket and the Dentes Rhohos were going to attack the city, but they had no idea when or where. Cambot then said,"You know, if they do attack, we might be putting ourselves at risk at having our identities found out by the general public."
Crow then said, "To be honest, I don't think we have much choice in the matter." Goombario then said, "I'd have to agree with Crow on this one guys." Everyone else saw Crow may be right on this, and considered the likelyhood of having to either deal with too much adoring attention for their brave acts, or having to be on the run to avoid having experiments performed on them as if they were lab rats. Either way, they'd have to accept their fate.
With their human disguises still on, they split up to wander the city to spot anything that might be suspicious. But before anything could be done, the pokeball that contained Zane's Mankey popped open, and the Mankey darted off. Zane then said, "How did it do that!? Shouldn't pokeballs prevent a pokemon from freeing itself after one succesfully captures a pokemon!?!"
Ash then said, "Some pokemon don't really like being confined, while others are so free-spirited that they pop out of their pokeballs whenever they want. Misty's Psyduck, Jessie's Wobbuffet, and May's Skitty are good examples." Zane then said, "Well, whatever... I gotta get that monkey before somone makes him mad. I'll see you guys later." Zane ran off to find Mankey. Aftwerwards, Meriee said, "Perhaps we should split up to search the city better?"
Brock then said, "Sunds like a good idea. But if anyone runs into trouble, try to hold out until therest of us arrive." Ash then called out Pidgeot and Charizard and told them to keep an eye in the sky while everyone else searched the ground so they could help alert the team if trouble shows itself, especially if it were to pop up in front of any of the team's members.
With everyone looking around for signs of trouble, Zane was busy trying to find his Mankey. While he was searching, he was looking towards the ground, so he couldn't really tell where he was walking and he bumped into someone as a result. The voice, which belonged to a woman whom sounded to be inher early twenty's, said, "Hey, watch where you're going!" Zane looked up and saw a woman with piercing eyes, and clothes with similar colors to that of a Seviper's scales. Zane then said, "Whoops, sorry Miss. I didn't mean to crash into you. I was looking for my pokemon, Mankey, who somehow escaped from his pokeball a few minutes ago."
The lady's features softened, and then said, "Oh, you were looking for a pokemon? Well, that explains why you weren't looking where you were going. It just so happens I saw a Mankey just a few minutes ago head into that bakery, and I thought it may have belonged to the owner." Zane ran off shouting, "Thanks lady, I gotta go!" The woman shook her head as she continued searching for whom she was searching for.
Zane walked into the bakery, and saw a number of people cautiosly staring at the runaway Mankey, who was at the moment chowing down on banana nut muffins. The owner was hesitant to do anything due to a Mankey's incredibly short temper which has been known to trigger it's evolution into Primape. Zane said to the Mankey, "Ok, I think you had enough." The Mankey looked up, and felt a little down seeing as how his trainer was not happy with him running off the way he did. Mankey walked over to Zane, and awaited to be called back into his pokeball, when the bakery owner said, "Thanks for dealing with that Mankey. Since Mankey are so short-tempered, I was afraid to get rid of it."
Zane then said, "No, I'm sorry. I had only just learned that some pokemon don't like being in pokeballs that much, and Mankey has been rather difficult when I first caught it." The store owner then said, "Here, let me repay you with something." Zane began getting embarressed by the unwanted attention, then said, "No, that isn't nessesary..." The store owner then said, "Don't worry, all I'm going to give you are the muffins he was eating. They were on the free samples plate anyway." Manky's face lit up as Zane took the box of muffins. They then left the store to check back with the others.
Speaking of which, Vivian, Yoshi (whom were both in their human forms) along with Clay were checking out the area near the Diglett Cave, which Yoshi mentioned looked like a good place for the Dentes Rhohos to hide out. Sadly, there wasn't anything there but Digletts and Dugtrios. The mole pokemon were somewhat shy, but they were curious about their visitors. After checking the pokedex, and learning they could trigger earthquakes, they decided to not try to risk capturing any as they might all attack in retaliation, and that combined force could level Vermillion City as a result.
Ash, Brock, Misty, May, and Max were checking out the North end of the city. Max then said, "How do we know that fortune teller wasn't pulling a fast one on us?" Brock then said, "Keep in mind she mentioned the Dentes Rhohos. I doubt she would be lying in that case." They couldn't find anything, and decided to check back with the others.
Servo, Cambot, Crow, Jessie, James, Meowth, Kooper, and Goombario were checking out the harbor when they ran into Zane and his Mankey, who was busy stuffing his face with banana nut muffins. Jessie then said, "Well that's one worry out of the way." Goombario then said, "Yeah, but we're still no closer to finding out where the Dentes Rhohos are gonna strike! And furthermore, we might be running out of time!" Servo then said, "Uh, guys..." Servo was ignored as everyone kept talking, but Servo again tried to get their attention, which again failed. Finally Servo yelled, "GUYS!!!!!" That got everyone's attention, and Jessie said, "What is it, bubblegum breath!?"
Servo pointed towards a nearby cove, and they saw a suspicious looking black and red colored ship heading into it, and away from public view. Those colors set off an alarm in the group's mind's: The colors of the Dentes Rhohos and Team Rocket. They snuck towards the ship to spy on the crew in case their assumption was right. Jessie sent out her Dustox to find both Charizard and Pidgeot so they could round up the other two groups and lead them to the cove.
When the small group got to the cove, they saw a number of Dentes Rhohos dinosaurs and DR Pokemon milling about the deck of the ship they saw earlier. There were two figures who were talking to each other: A DR Zangoose that could talk like Meowth could, and a very scary-looking human that made Giovanii look like Santa Clause. The group sadly could not tell what they were talking about, but despite this they quickly retreated to avoid being seen. About halfway towards Vermillion, they ran into the others again, and Servo said, "The Dentes Rhohos are in that cove. We gotta do something before they decide to attack Vermillion City!"
Max checked his pokenav to get a virtual view of the cove in question, and said, "Since only a few of us can stand a real chance against them, fighting them there wont do us any good since that cove, according to the pokenav, is rather cramped... We'd be slaughtered if we fought them there." May then said, "Well, we can't fight them in the city! How are we gonna fight them!?"
Zane had to think about this carefully. If they attacked the enemy in the cove, they'd not only be outnumbered, but they wouldn't have any room to attack. If they fight in the city, they can fight more effectivly, but they'd run the risk of being discovered by the public. Finally, he said, "I think this time we'll have to take the easy way out, meaning we fight in the city."
Clay then sighed, and said, "Looks like we have no other choice..." Luigi was a bit reluctant, then said, "I don't know... What if we get arrested and tested in some lab after showing everyone what we can do!?" Ash then said, "Luigi, we have the police on our side, remember? We don't have to worry about that. Besides, they're keeping the truth under wraps until this matter is over." Luigi then said, "What about the labs?" Crow then said while cracking his knuckles, "We'll just show them that we're too much trouble to have tests performed on!" Luigi gulped, then said, "I was afraid of that..."
Everyone quickly retreated back to Vermillion city, and then hid themselves to get ready for the battle ahead. However, they didn't know they were spied on by a DR Kecleon, who reported back to Branz and Kale the latest development. Branz smirked sadistically, then said, "It seems our 'friends' wish to play." Kale then said, "Yes, it seems so. I will be leaving for the base now, so I'm leaving this operation in your hands for now. If you do fail, don't worry about punishment. A small setback at this point means nothing." Kale then walked off and vanished in a burst of black flames.
The first major battle in this war was going to begin. Who will win?
To be continued...
Ace: Well it wasn't creepy, even though Kale and Branz were in this chapter... Thankfully it wasn't as scary as that horrific story Gantz wrote about the Dentes Rhohos initiation ritual...
Servo: Or Nutcase's Zombie Wizpig... (shudders)
Crow: I still have nightmares about that bit.
Zane: Since the next chapter obviously mentions a battle, I can't wait to see how it's done.
Me: I got inspiration from the awesome flash series, Super Mario Bros. Z to do the fight scene in the next chapter. Well, to be honest the entire chapter is the fight scene, but you know what I mean. And don't worry Zane, you get a lot of action in this chapter.
Zane: Oh yeah!
MMSB: I hope it's not written to where the Dentes Rhohos Dinosaurs use the DR pokemon to battle with like the villians do in the games, and after they're beaten they flee like little girls...
Me: What part of 'I was inspired by the fight scenes from SMBZ' do you not understand?
MMSB: Oh, I see. In that case, BRING ON THE CARNAGE!!!!!!
Ace: Settle down, you'll blow a fuse.
Me: Also, there's a very fitting musical number in the next chapter as well. Long time fans of the pokemon anime will recognize it instantly. Anyway, R&R!!!!