Episode 7: Brock and Roll
"A flashlight would be nice..."
"Hold on, I got it..."
Light shone off the dull Rocks of Diglett Cave, revealing the path through
it.
"Way to be prepared Brock."
"I've explored this cave hundreds of times, I know it up and down." Brock said, his ego showing a bit.
"Think we'll see any rare Pokmon in here?"
"Not particularly, it's mostly Diglett in here, but ya never know with
caves."
Pikachu clung tightly to Red's jacket shoulder, despite its usual tough-guy demeanor, Pikachu still didn't like ground-types like Diglett much. All was fairly calm as Red and Brock trekked through Diglett cave, until the ground began shaking under them, Red looked up and saw a stalactite from the roof, loose from the quake, break free from the ceiling and hurtle toward him.
(Insert Theme Here)
Red watched in fear as the giant pointy rock shot from the ceiling toward him, he was shoved out of the way by Brock, who had reacted to the earthquake, instinctively checking to see if his young companion was alright.. Of course he wasn't, he lived in Pallet Town, a fairly sheltered place especially compared to the rugged interior of the cave.
When the quake stopped, Brock and Red sat on the ground a few feet awayfrom each other, "You okay?" Asked Brock, standing up and putting a hand
out to the shaken Trainer. "Yeah, just gimme a sec... Does that happen a lot in here?" Brock helped Red up, they brushed themselves off and pressed on as Brock explained that the amount of Diglett in this cave can cause quakes when they evolve into their evolution, Dugtrio.
"Just the Diglett?" Red asked disbelieving, as Diglett were currently the smallest known Pokemon in existence.
"Well usually, but I'll be honest, they've never been that rough before, its usually a strong vibration at most, never a violent quake like that."
This made the trio even more anxious to get out of there, as their walking sped up, Red became more observant, perhaps it was his paranoia and
imagination... But he thought that there may be more than just Diglett and Dugtrio in this cave...
The boy jumped when he stepped on a rock that promptly disappeared beneath his foot, once again throwing him off his balance.
Brock turned to see Red, the boy looked like he had just seen a ghost.
"What happened?"
"The rock! It-... Oh..." Red hit himself mentally for being so stupid as he looked where he just stepped, there was a Diglett in a hole there, it was
looking up at Brock an Red, seemingly trying to figure out what they were doing there.
"Diglett, dig?" Diglett said, looking up at the two in the flashlight's
light.
"Just a Diglett Red... They don't normally even try to get close to humans, why's this one just loitering here?"
Another sharp quake hit the cave, the Diglett freaked out, going back underground.
After it was over, Brock looked where the Diglett used to be and spoke,
"Now I know something's up... Quakes might be uncommon...But Diglett are
never afraid of them!"
The two resolved to try and figure out what's up, being the meddling kids they were by nature, they decided, '&%$ the Police.'
The two boys strayed off the path to Cerulean, unsure how exactly they'd find a way back.
As they walked, numerous quakes shook the cave, a few close calls with falling rocks convinced Brock to take out Onix, which acted as an umbrella in case of any more falling objects.
"The quakes are gettin' closer... I wonder if-" Red was cut off by one, final major quake, and a sudden large amount of light shooting down into the cave.
The boys hid under Onix, who had taken action and disguised itself among the fallen rocks, they observed what exactly had been making the quakes... Or rather who.
WTP?
This creature is said to live in shallow waters, though when it evolves, its long, elegant body must move to larger waters, then await its final evolution when it will take to the skies.
"The test has proved successful sir, we are now ready to drill into Cerulean cave."
The two teenaged Rockets walked out of what appeared to be a massive digging drill, its silver coat of chrome contrasting gaudily against the now-exposed-to-the sun Diglett cave walls.
"Yes sir, understood, it will not take any damage. Yes. See you at base."
The girl of the Rockets with the long, Red hair put down what appeared to be a cell phone.
"This baby could dig through solid steel." The boy said, patting the side of the machine.
"And once Cerulean cave has been breached, we can take back what's ours and all of the powerful pokemon as well."
Red and Brock couldn't believe their eyes, these Team Rockets had been drilling through the cave, destroying Diglett homes and scaring them to death... Who knows how many they had harmed.
"Lets get back to-?!" The male Rocket covered his eyes as a massive amount of dust was kicked into their face.
Onix had recieved the order from Brock to attack, and did once the Team Rocket admins were unable to see.
Once the dust cleared, a loud clanging sound could be heard in the background, Onix was slamming the giant drill and denting it little by little.
"An Onix! It can't be... YOU!" The Rockets turned and saw Red, Pikachu and Onix squaring off to them.
"You meddling... Call off that Onix, NOW!"
"Dream on!" Red barked, PIkachu agreeing.
"Then we'll MAKE you! James, send out Koffing!"
The boy whose name was James, sent out his Koffing.
James and Red squared off, Koffing leering at Pikachu.
"Keep them busy James, I'm going to stop that Onix!"
"Understood, Jessie."
"Brock, go after her!"
"Way ahead of you Red!" Brock raised a second Pokeball, sending out Geodude to combat Jessie's released Lickitung attempting to attack Onix.
"Koffing, Sludge bomb now!"
The floating ball of poison launched a massive ball of poisonous sludge at Pikachu, the electric Pokemon took the hit, hard.
"Pikachu! You alright!"
Pikachu gritted its teeth, already breathing hard.
"PIKA!" It said in a commanding tone, letting Red know to tell it to attack.
"Alright... Pikachu, shock wave!"
Pikachu did as it was told, and as was the effect of Shock wave, it landed dead-on, shocking Koffing.
"Alright, now tackle!"
"Koffing, Toxic!"
Koffing shot what appeared to be a wave of purple poison gas, catching Pikachu in mid-air and knocking it back down... The little yellow mouse landed on the ground, appearing to be in pain.
"Pikachu!"
Red was frightened... Even more so as Pikachu writhed, squeaking in pain.
Pikachu rolled onto its back, scowling and grinding its teeth, trying to get back up.
"Oh you must be new here, Red was it? Perhaps you don't know what Toxic does."
Red glared intensely at James.
"Toxic releases a Poison into the nervous system of Pokemon, and the longer it afflicts it, the more painful it is... It also has this nasty habit of causing the death of small pokemon like your Pikachu, so sad." James smirked, as did Koffing as it watched Pikachu struggle.
"Pikachu..." Red stood helpless as Pikachu rolled in pain as the poison took affect, his eyes darted left to right, trying to remember what he knew about Poison-Types...
Then he remembered something, "Pikachu! IRON TAIL!"
The weakening Pikachu obeyed in pain, allowing its tail to turn steel-hard... And its eyes widening as a feeling of relief hit it.
"PikA!" Pikachu said, using its tail to launch itself into the air, striking Koffing into the ground, hard, fainting it on impact.
James' eyebrows shot up as a look of shock covered his face.
"But... how?!"
Red smirked as Pikachu, still weakening from the Poison, returned to Red's side.
"You must be new here..." Red mocked, "Ever heard of the Steel-Type immunity? When Pikachu's tail turned steel for Iron Tail, some of the Poison was taken out of its system... At least that was my hunch, and I have a weird habit of having good hunches."
James returned Koffing and ran over to Jessie, whose Lickitung had fallen to Geodude.
"Come on, it's over!"
"But, the boss!" Jessie called returning Lickitung, "Get your priorities straight, Jess! Fired or Arrested?!"
Jessie nodded, and in one of those bombs of smoke escaped with James and their Pokemon.
Brock ran over to Red.
"They escaped..." Red lamented, regretting letting their foes get away.
"Yeah, but at least we saved the cave... mostly."
Brock and Red glanced to the ceiling that had completely disappeared, caved in from the now-totaled drill's quakes.
Red and Brock were about to leave, when the weakening Pikachu jumped down and hobbled over to a Diglett hole.
"Pika! Pi pika! Pi?"
It yelled down the hole and in no time, a Diglett popped up.
"Dig?"
"Pi Pikachu?"
"Diglett!"
Pikachu turned to its friends, "Pikachu!" It pointed to Onix, who, having heard the conversation between Diglett and Pikachu, had stretched its body to the top of the cave, its head poking out enough to get them on top of it.
"Y'think Onix wants us to climb up its back?"
"Worth a shot.."
Pikachu nodded and limped up Onix' stony back up out of the cave, Red followed it with Brock trailing behind.
"Hey!" Red smiled when he and Brock made it out of the top, within feet was the exit to the cave, and the gate to Cerulean City.
Brock returned Onix to its ball, and no sooner had the rock-snake disappeared did a long vibration take inside the cave. Red and Brock observed, and were amazed as they watched thousands of Diglett and several Dugtrio fixing the roof, tracking dirt, rocks and something that only the Diglett could know... In a matter of minutes, the mole pokemon had fixed the cave and the ground was solid again.
"Amazing..."
"Maybe I oughta look further into ground-types than Rock types." Brock joked, testing the solid cave roof.
Red and Brock got up, and panic hit them both like bricks in the gut, as they saw Pikachu on the ground, shivering.
"Oh no..." Red choked, running over to pick up Pikachu.
Brock placed a large hand on its forehead.
"The poison's still going... We gotta get it to a pokemon center, or its not gonna make it..." Brock said, worry in his tone.
"Then what are we wasting time here for?! Come on!" Red slid down the rounded cave top, Brock following close behind.
Red held Pikachu tightly, as if holding onto its life itself...
They Reached the Cerulean gates in a panic, will they find a way to help Pikachu? Or Will Red's first Pokemon be his last?
TO BE CONTINUED...
Well, who didn't see that coming? Haha, gotta love cliffhangers!
Decided to post this today as a Christmas Present to all you people who waited so long... Sorry, I'm just lazy XP.
Welp, lets look at the mailbag, shall we?
Epic Jac Writes: Jac bets its an Arcanine. I hope I spelled that right. XD
Speaking of which, is a Nurse Jenny gonna say 'Arcanine, use flamethrower' when its a Growlithe?! XDD
LOL, Ash got a Snorlax! too bad it won't listen to him! Brock's line about 'You don't have enough badges to train me.' was priceless! I never understood how that worked. What? You need to have authority over it or something?
My Reply: DingDing! We have a winnah!
And... haha, Nurse Jenny? I don't think so... And I don't actually plan of having them all named Joy and Jenny... Felt lazy, so I plan on there being ONE Officer Jenny and ONE Nurse Joy. You'll see what's up once I cross that Bridge!
And yeah... Gotta throw the memelovers a bone once in a while right?
Steelrush Writes:
Heh, I wonder if "Jim Gai" even appeared in the anime at one point. :P
You also spelled pushing wrong in one of the sentences, but that's not that big of a deal.
And also, I like this a better than the original one where Ash was fighting against Brock (not Red). A common thing that wasn't appreciated by fans that existed in the original series was "pity badges".
Though there's a good chance you already know the term (or figured it out before reading this explanation), pity-badges means gym leaders giving a trainer badges out of sympathy.
I like how Red got this badge based on winning the match, and that Brock's siblings didn't get in the way this time. And also that Red actually won the match without using water to weaken Onix.
This story is already staying away from the flaws of the anime, and that's something I give you a thumbs-up for.
Overall, this chapter gets a five out of five, and I also forgot to say something I should have pointed out a few days ago.
Although you might disagree with me on this one, I thank you for not adding the concept of Misty getting her bike trashed and joining Red for that purpose, and I also thank you for avoiding the challenge of the samurai thing.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Ash's Butterfree, but like I said, your version of the anime's story is better.
There are things I disagreed with in the anime, even during since the days of the original series. And with those traits removed, you've made a real jewel in the form of text-based entertainment.
Pokemon had excellent quality at the start, and ALL of it was intended to be a masterpiece, I'm sure. This includes the anime.
Even if this isn't an anime series and will just remain a story, this is still more fun than the anime, and YOU are one of the people who deserves to be running the show with Pokemon now, not the jerks who ruined the anime.
Crobatman, you are now one of my top favorite authors. I might not be a die-hard Pokemon fan, but I still like it enough to play the games, read the fanfiction, and watch the anime.
Thank you for writing this story, you've given Pokemon fans (regardless of the level) a true gift. And you definitely have my support from here on out.
My Reply: I flippin' WISH! Jim Gai is awesome!
And... Schista, I hate it when I forget to spell check... I'll fix it.
Pity badges are NEVER going to happen in this series... EVER. Especially since when Ash got his Pity Badges, they were because he A)Cheated B)Gave Up or C) Was handicapped.
Red will have no such problem.
Thank you, and Good Day!
... Imma avoid filler episodes at all costs, and that samurai episode was the other end of a pencil... POINTLESS.
However, I wish I could incorporate Butterfree without it seeming forced, but I've run scenarios and... Nothing, no way I can do that without breaking a few rules.
THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT MAH BOI!
And I'll keep writing, no matter if someone's an old fan or a new one, my goal isn't to please everyone, it's to silence the demons in my head, and if others like the way I do it... God speed my friends, god speed.
And Steelrush Writes AGAIN!: Alright now to review episode six, first...What happened to the formatting? I'm not complaining here or anything, but did something go wrong with the document when you uploaded it?
And now for the important part of the review:
Ugh, the Snorlax roadblock. That thing was a pain in all the Pokemon games I've played that have the Kanto region, which included the Blue, Gold, Leaf Green, and Soul Silver.
I like how Red came up with the idea of battling to win the Pokeflute, and catching Snorlax as well.
Regarding the "Who's that Pokemon?" thing, I believe Arcanine is the answer.
Now, although I don't have that much on my mind right now thinking of more things to say about the story, I have one request.
Although I don't hate Cilan, please don't replace Brock with him, or replace Brock in general for that matter. Although it took some repetition out of the anime, still, I prefer Brock over Cilan.
Anyway, good job, and I look forward to the next chapter. Again, thanks for writing the story, and update when possible-
My Reply: *Sigh* I hate technical difficulties, I'll be fixing that damned formatting soon.
Ahh the Snorlax roadblock, fond memories of that piece of cuss, by fond I mean "OHMYFRIDIGNGOEDWHYTHEFLIPWON TYOUSTAYINTHEDAMNBALLYOUBALL OFLARD?!1?!"
So I taught it a lesson in my head. This episode was really kind of a filler... I know, I know, I said I'd avoid them, but character development requires some pointless moments, and catching Snorlax will be relevant in the future, promise.
I have NO intention of permanently Replacing Brock... Or Misty. Yes, I do plan to bring in Misty, though I'm gonna make her MY way.
I see little point in changing the main characters, especially if they've been all together since season 1. Which is why I was irritated when they replaced Misty with Little-Miss-Naive and her Know-it-All twat brother.
I didn't love the redheaded mermaid in the slightest before then, but you know what they say about that... Don't know what you've got till its gone.
I found Dawn to be fairly pointless and flat and Iris... Is. A. BISTITCH... I mean GAWD, how condescending and arrogant can you make her Nintendo?!
At least Cilan's a breath of fresh air... BY fresh air I mean different, not necessarily good... A connoisseur? Really? That's even more stupid than Coordinators.
Anyways, hope you guys still like my schpeal! See ya next time!
-TheCrobatman