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Chapter 4
Everyone became startled of the rumblings that were occurring inside and around the building, except Black Jack who kept his cool. He looked towards the stage and sensed something bad coming. "Alice! It's coming from that wall! Watch out!" he yelled in alarm.
Alice heard her uncle calling towards her and also and also sensed that the rumbling was coming from behind as she ran out of the way while the other contestants walked away as well. Suddenly, a huge vehicle crashed into the walls, shocking everyone in the studio.
As the dust cleared, the vehicle appeared to be a huge blue army-like tank with a white skull printed at the side of it. "Ocean…" Black Jack and Keith snarled in unison.
Team Ocean grunts ran into the scene from the huge hole of the wall and surrounded the tank. The top on top of the tank opened and another Team Ocean member climbed out while holding a megaphone. He was standing six foot tall, and was wearing much the same as his comrades but he had red sideburns, beard and an eye patch. He raised his megaphone up to his lips and spoke into it. "Black Jack and Keith Marsden! We demand that you surrender yourselves! Act otherwise, and these people shall suffer!" he yelled.
"And I thought that Brian Powell was a rude punk," Jerry said, not liking that man's attitude.
"How did they find us here," Keith whispered to Black Jack.
"They must have some spy around here looking for us," Black Jack replied. "Move, Jerry."
"You're giving yourself up to them?" Jerry asked in disbelief.
"Move it," Black Jack said as he got up from his seat.
"Black Jack, wait," Keith said, touching his arm to get his attention. "I'm sorry I dragged you into this."
Black Jack, showing an expressionless look on his face, moved his arm away from Keith and slowly moved down towards the stage while Keith followed. Everyone in the audience, knowing how strong Black Jack was, cried for him to not give himself up to them. "What is the boss doing?" Jerry asked himself, confused and saddened. Why was Black Jack following the villain's demands?
"Uncle! What are you doing?" Alice yelled as she and QT attempted to run to protect them but was being held back by Dawn and Peach, knowing how dangerous it would be to get a friend in danger.
Black Jack and Keith stepped onto the stage and they both looked up at the man with the megaphone. "Before you guys take me in I want to make a couple of favours," Black Jack said.
"Well, I am a man who allow others to have their last requests before I… you know," the man replied using the megaphone. "Now, tell me what's yours?"
"First, tell me and the other guys who you guys are," Black Jack said.
"Very well," the man replied, knowing that Team Ocean would themselves known to the world sooner or later. He turned towards the audience members and spoke into the megaphone. "My name is Rick, one of the high ranked officers of Team Ocean. We plan to take control of this world by we capture all strong water pokemon and all water pokemon masters. Then, and only then, everyone will fear us and me!"
Rick lowered his megaphone and turned his attention back to his two hostages. "Any other requests?" he asked.
"Yeah, pass me the megaphone," Black Jack said as he pointed to the object.
Rick showed a confused face but he tossed it to him. Black Jack caught it and looked at for a few seconds before holding it near his mouth and began speaking into it, getting the audience's attention. "After twenty five years of doing this, you'd think I'd get bored and give up on my life and this little hobby," he said.
He quickly threw the megaphone at one of the grunts directly in the forehead, knocking him down and out, much to everyone's shock. He then charged towards the grunts while the pokeballs attached to his belt opened, releasing his pokemon as they got ready to get into this upcoming brawl. The Ocean grunts took their chance to throw out their pokeballs releasing their aquatic pokemon.
Keith blinked numerous times in surprise but finally came to realise that Black Jack was toying with the enemy. "He lied," Keith sneered as he took out a pokeball off his belt. "Go! Skarmory!"
A large steel armoured bird materialised from a strange red energy, letting out a screech after being released from the pokeball.
"Hey! Let me have some fun here!" Jerry yelled as he ran down to the stage, taking out his and tossing it out. "Get'm, Jacky!"
The fighting-type pokemon materialised as he became released yelling out his battle cry. "Jacky!" Jerry yelled as he pointed at a large crab with a huge clamping claw. "Attack that Kingler with your Tackle attack!"
Jacky posed like a martial artist before running towards the Kingler, attempting to slam himself onto his face. The huge crab shot out a beam of bubbles out of his mouth towards the now shocked Hitmonlee, too shocked to stop running.
"Skarmory! Use Protect to protect Jacky!" Keith yelled.
The metal bird quickly flew down between Jacky and the Bubblebeam attack while an energetic sphere surrounded her. The kicking Pokemon got knocked down, but not hurt, by the sphere while numerous bubbles hit it but failed to penetrate.
After the last bubble hit the shield, it quickly disappeared. Skarmory landed safely on her feet while Jacky lifted up his legs and lower back, he quickly leapt from his higher back and landed on his feet. They both looked at each other and Jacky held a thumb up, appreciating what his newfound friend had just done.
"Wow," Keith said, sounding impressed. "What move was that?"
"I think it was called a Chinese pick up," Jerry answered. "The boss's Blaziken taught it to him." He noticed a Golduck running towards Skarmory. "Jacky! Protect Skarmory with your Hi Jump Kick against that Golduck!"
The Hitmonlee leapt on Skarmory's back and then jumped towards the opposition, he performed a spinning cartwheel-like kick, slamming his foot on top of Golduck's head, knocking him out unconscious.
Keith looked on in an impressed way and then looked back at Jerry, who was showing a small smile. "For a jerk… you're not… all that bad," Jerry said. "I think I may be a bigger jerk than you."
Keith smiled back in response. "I agree," he said. "But for a loser, you're not all that bad either."
He let out his hand to offer Jerry a handshake of friendship. Jerry smiled and shook his hand in response. They both realised that they would have to be friends at some level, not just for Alice but for themselves too. "Looks like I'll have to put with you for a while," Jerry said.
"Fine with me," Keith replied.
"Hey, boys!" Black Jack yelled from a distance. "You're missing out on some fun here!"
After hearing that, they both turned their focus back on to the battle scene.
As the battling continued, Drew saw a number of Ocean grunts and pokemon running towards and Roselia. "Roselia!" he yelled. "Use your Petal Dance attack!"
Roselia began to spin in one place so fast that she created a huge tornado, sucking her enemies into it. As they were getting caught inside the tornado, they were receiving cuts on their skins by the sharp edges of each petal that were being tossed around inside the whirlwind, feeling the deep sting by each cut and heavy dizziness in their heads.
After the tornado slowly vanished, the grunts fell and crashed unconsciously to the ground. "Ta-da," Drew said arrogantly as he and Roselia bowed to the audience.
Meanwhile, Peach, Dawn and their respective pokemon were back to back while being surrounded by the grunts. "Get them!" yelled one of the grunts.
"Coral! Use your Water Gun on the floor!" Dawn instructed. Coral quickly sprayed a fountain of water to the floor around them, making some of the unsuspecting grunts slip up and fall to the floor. They had trouble getting up because of the slippery floor.
"Obstacle one done!" Peach yelled.
"Coral!" Dawn yelled.
"Smitty!"
"Iron Tail together!" they both yelled in unison.
The tails of the respective pokemon glowed vigorously as they performed somersaults while quickly slamming their high-powered tails into each of the enemies' faces. They then noticed that there was one last grunt remaining, running towards their trainers.
He attempted to attack them with a knife but missed as the girls dodged out of the way. "Smitty! Take Down attack!" Peach yelled.
Peach ran at the speed of a shot-out bullet and then slammed her body into the grunt's face, sending him flying into the distance and knocking him unconscious.
Smitty landed on her feet and mewed happily. Peach ran over to her and gave her a huge hug. "You were magnificent, Smitty!"
"You too, Coral," Dawn said happily as she stroked her beautiful sea snake on the head. The Gorebyss let out some enjoying coos as she felt the delightful strokes. She looked over at the rest of the battle scene. "C'mon, Peach," she said. "Let's help the others out."
"Right," Peach said as she and Smitty helped for the rest of the battle.
Meanwhile, Another number of grunts and pokemon intended to attack Alice and her Togetic, QT. "QT! Use your Metronome!" Alice instructed. Hearing that attack, the grunts and their pokemon stayed away from Togetic as he moved his paws left to right, back and fourth. He stopped as his paws started glow bright blue.
After the glowing stopped, QT playfully jumped up and down, shocking Alice and the opposition. "A Splash?" yelled one of the grunts in disbelief. "That's not even an attack! C'mon, gang! Let's get him!"
As the gang of criminals attempted to attack QT, Alice yelled for her pokemon to get out of the way. QT did so as he playfully skipped to the side, making the enemy missing him completely when they tried to tackle him.
They angrily looked at QT's direction and he was still dancing. To them, that was like taunting. They charged towards him but the little Togetic skipped backwards until his back hit the tank. "Got you now, you little brat!" yelled one of the grunts as he and the others were getting closer.
"QT! Use Fly!" Alice yelled suddenly.
QT leapt into the air and started flapping his wings to stay airborne. The grunts completely missed and accidentally crashed into the tank getting themselves injured. QT let out a small giggle while Alice sighed in relieve.
Meanwhile Black Jack was pummelling away on Kingler with punches, kicks and headbutts. He then felt that someone hit him in the back with a foreign weapon but did not feel any as he turned around and saw a Golduck, who was now frightened, holding a steel chain. He looked at him with an annoyed look in his eyes. "I like it when a punk like you attacks me from behind," he said with a sinister smile on his face. "It gives me a chance to do this."
He then proceeded by grabbing Golduck by the neck and then hoisted him on his shoulder and rammed his head into the side of the tank, creating a huge dent in it.
After the damage done to the duck, he dropped him to the floor. Suddenly, Black Jack's Tyranitar leapt from the tank and crashed his over-three hundred pound-body on top of Golduck's crushing his insides.
Meanwhile, Chan was being surrounded by another group of grunts and had his back against a wall. But, he was not worried as he leaned confidently against the wall. The grunts were about to attack but Chan looked up, somehow getting them to look up as well.
As they did, a huge blue steel meteorite fell and crashed right on top of the grunts after Salamence released it from a great height. Chan had them fooled all along.
In another part of the battle scene, Feraligatr was relentlessly beating a large blue seal. Unknown to him, a grunt was slowly walking up from behind carrying a steel pipe while Nidoking was slowly walking behind the grunt with a steel pipe of his own.
As the grunt was about to slam his pipe on the blue crocodile's head Chan quickly stepped in and quickly kicked him in the head, knocking him out, making Nidoking miss the grunt completely and inadvertently hit his friend on the head.
"(Ow!)" Feraligatr roared in pain. Panic-stricken, Nidoking quickly looked round and tossed the weapon to another grunt, who unwittingly caught it with his hands.
"(Who did that)?" Feraligatr snarled angrily while rubbing his aching head. He turned around to see the culprit who hit him on the head and saw Feraligatr, Chan and the grunt, who was holding the pipe in shock.
Nidoking and Chan quickly responded by pointing at the grunt. Feraligatr believed them and angrily stomped towards the frightened grunt. "(I'm gonna tear you a new something)," Feraligatr snarled angrily while Nidoking let out a small breath, not wanting to get into another fight with one of his best friends over another silly mistake.
After much brawling, Rick looked on in horror as his comrades were getting severely beaten. When the last of his comrades was knocked out, he turned around to make his getaway but was snatched by a clawed paw and a human hand, being choked simultaneously. "Look who's left?" Black Jack sneered, who was one of the attackers holding him. "A little boy can hurt himself if he's standing on a dangerous vehicle."
His Tyranitar growled sinisterly with a nasty smile at the villain. He and Black Jack looked at each other in the eyes and nodded before lifting him up and slamming him through the top of the tank, smashing the top to pieces much to everyone's shock. Rick was knocked unconscious.
He and Tyranitar jumped of the huge tank and landed safely on the floor. "(So… anything interesting happen)?" Tyranitar asked curiously, which made Black jack look back in a surprised way. "(Before all of this happened)," he finished, getting Black Jack to understand.
"I'll tell you in a little while after this mess gets cleaned up," Black Jack said as he looked around, seeing numerous Ocean grunts and pokemon lying injured on the floor. He then looked at the badly damaged tank.
"(I think we scratched it)," Tyranitar growled.
"Don't worry, it's a rental," Black Jack replied.
"Hey, boss!" Jerry yelled from a distance, catching their attention as he and the others ran towards them. "That thing you and Tyranitar did with that Rick dude! Some people didn't like seeing that but I don't care cos I did!"
"You didn't do badly yourself, Jerry," Black Jack said, looking rather pleased for what Jerry did.
"And that trick you pulled on those pirates!" Jerry continued enthusiastically. "If we had a recording camera, you'd get an academy award!"
"Jerry…" Black Jack said.
"And I got to thank Chan for helping Jacky out with all those karate or kung-fu moves," Jerry continued excitedly, somehow ignoring Black Jack calling him. "They were fantastic and helped me out in a big way!"
"Jerry…" Black Jack said a little bit louder, still trying to get his attention.
"And let's not forget that you…"
"JERRY!" everyone yelled in unison.
"What?" Jerry responded, slightly startled by everyone's yelling.
"What he means, uncle, that you did it," Alice said as he looked up to him. "You beat that leading member."
"I don't think so," Black Jack said. "WE did it. So what if I made the finishing touch on that guy, the main thing is that we worked as a team and that counts… I'm so proud of you kids."
"You don't show it," Keith said, noticing his expressionless face.
Black Jack responded by looking at him and showed a small smirk on his face. "Keith, remember when you said that you were sorry about getting me into this mess?" he asked.
Keith nodded in response. "Well, you don't have to. I haven't fought a criminal organisation in a long time," Black Jack said.
"You're not mad at me?" Keith asked in surprise.
"No. If I didn't know about this Team Ocean, this world would be in danger. Besides, it looks like that we're going to have a bit of fun now that they're targeting us. Somehow, it brings back the good old days."
"So… this Team Ocean gang," Drew said. "Why are they after you guys?"
"I'll explain after you finish your match with the girls," Black Jack said.
"Actually…" said a man with a loud posh accent. "There will be no final match."
The contestants and their friends turned to the man's attention. The man was Brian Powell holding a microphone; he was one of the three judges judging the competition. "And why's that?" Jerry asked.
"Well, for one thing the building's demolished and a number of arrests have to be made. It's hardly ideal to have a contest battle now," Brian said as he pointed to the great big hole and the criminals. "Therefore, the contest is over and done with."
Everyone started moaning and booing, wanting to see whom the winner would be. "But," Brian Powell continued, with assurance in his voice. "After seeing extraordinary and fantastic display, I decided to give all four of these contestants the golden ribbons because of what they did for us."
Members of the audience began murmur loudly with each other, not knowing whether or not it was the right decision. Then they heard someone clapping and they turned their attention towards the clapper.
It was QT, Alice's pokemon, much to everyone's surprise. "Why, QT?" Alice asked, slightly confused.
QT chirped a lot to his trainer, trying to explain why he was clapping and agreeing with the judges decision. "Can someone tell me what's going on here?" Brian asked.
Black Jack motioned Brian to lend him the microphone. Brian slightly hesitated after seeing what he did with the megaphone. "I'm not going hit you with it," Black Jack said.
Being less hesitant, Brian quickly handed the microphone over to him. "QT says that his dream is to become the greatest performer the world has ever known," Black explained, translating what the Togetic said. "Having said that, he knows that there are other performers that are just as highly determined as he is. After seeing what happened today, he's now more determined to do the best he can to accomplish his dream. And he deeply thanks Alice, the fans and others for giving him that determination."
After hearing that, Alice started to clap her hands agreeing with what QT said, then Dawn, then Peach with Smitty mewing approvingly, then Drew and Roselia, and then others. Soon, everyone gave a standing ovation. Black Jack was the first person that finished clapping and walked towards Brian and spoke privately to him. After a few moments, Black Jack and Brian shook hands as though they agreed on something. They then walked in opposite directions with Black Jack showing a small smile on his face.
"Uncle? What's going on?" Alice asked curiously.
"Brian has gotten us a free dinner at the best and most expensive restaurant in Lilycove," Black Jack said.
"Does it have an all-you-can-eat buffet?" Jerry asked excitedly.
Black Jack slowly nodded in response.
"Oh boy!" Jerry said excitedly. "Brian and the restaurant are gonna be so sorry after I'm done with the food!"
"Wait a minute," Peach said. "What did you say to him?"
"We had words, that's all," Black Jack said, leaving the contest winners slightly confused. He turned towards Keith and Jerry and nodded towards them, hinting that he spoke to Brian about him and the other judges' attempt to end the show early, which they nodded back in response and understanding.
That night, while Black Jack and the others celebrated, Ruth sat on a roof of a building looking at the almost destroyed building that Rick and his comrades caused in the distance. She heard the news of Rick and the others arrested. "Don't you worry, brother," she said with anger and sorrow in her voice. "I'll avenge you."
The next early morning, Black Jack was outside of the pokemon center doing some exercise with his pokemon. "Black Jack," a voice called to him, catching his attention.
He turned to the person who called out his name. It was Dawn who called him out, along with Peach, Drew and his 'cubs'. Jerry was the only person who wasn't there; he was still at the pokemon center suffering from a stomachache after eating so much food the other night. "Thanks for everything," she said.
"Leaving already?" Black Jack asked.
"Yeah," Peach said. "It's a shame that Jerry isn't out here with us. I wanted to thank him."
"I'll do that for you," Black Jack replied.
"No need," Dawn said. "We want to thank him personally but we have places to go. Oh, and thanks for letting us know about Team Ocean. We'll keep an eye out for them."
"I hope so," Black Jack said.
"Hey!" Alice said. "Next time we meet, we can have a battle."
"That is a given," Drew said. "Then we'll see who the best there is out of the four of us… I.E: me."
"Drew, you and your arrogance," Keith said with a smirk on his face.
Everyone waved Black Jack and his 'cubs' goodbye as they walked their separate ways, knowing that they will meet again and never forgetting the big event they had.
Next episode: Black Jack and his cubs meet a professor who's over-protective of his disabled daughter. They also meet up with some old friends.
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Since Christmas is coming close, I'd thought I'd make a PI version of 12 days of Christmas. Here we go...
On the nth battle with Black Jack, this is what he gave to me...
12 Bones-a-breaking
11 Joints-a-crippling
10 Scars-a-making
9 Burnt marks-a-marking
8 Punches punching
7 Kicks-a-kicking
6 Body slamming
5 Cracks on the skull
4 Hyper Beams
3 Lost teeth
2 Black eyes
And a big, fat busted lip
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I have a bit of bad news everybody... after you read this chapter, this fic will be put on hold because I'm going to have a very busy month (University work and such). Apologies for the inconvenience.
In the meantime, reviews please! And happy holidays, everyone!
