Still havn't got to the fighting. Yet. Well Flame finally gets his lazy arse in gear (wish I could do the same)
Episode Eighteen: The Plan
Scout gave his report, the Nido's were in a clearing west of our position. They were dozing, although three were on lookout duty. Scout said that around dusk, the sentries would be getting tired and would be half asleep. So naturally, that was when we were going to strike.
"So, how exactly are we going to do this?" I asked, Scout laughed and explained the plan in more detail.
"Simple, about a half hour before we attack, the Rattata's will sneak into the tall grass around the clearing and effectivaly surround the Nido's. Then I signal the attack by divebombing the ones in the sentry while the Rattata's swarm the ones around the edge."
I liked the plan, however I felt one thing was missing.
"You didn't mention me, what to I do? I can't exactly do stealth, fire on tail is a warning beacon."
"Ah, You will be in a tree overlooking the field. The first attack will be a quick attack, the Rattata's will back off a little and I'll land close by you. When we are clear of the area, you tell them to surrender or we will keep foricably make them leave. If they refuse, then take a few potshots with your fireballs and I'll get us both out of the area."
Seemed reasonable, not as much fighting as I would have liked but we have to give them to option to leave because we're the good guys. If they refused, then I was going to make sure I got into the second fight. I definatly wasn't being messenger boy twice. However still something bothered me.
"What's Ekans going to be doing while we are fighting?" I asked and again Scout answered
"Good question, he is going to be taking care of any wounded we may take."
It made sense, Ekans would probably just get himself killed within five seconds of the fighting. Besides, he knew where the poison curing berries were. Well, I hoped he knew. Because if our plan went wrong, there'd be alot of injuries.
We began to move out, but me and Scout were told to stay behind by General Ekans. He proceeded to give us a pep-talk but I zoned out. I really need to stop doing that, might make my recollection that little bit more interesting. All I caught of the talk was Ekans's final words (Of the speech, not his life. You morbid Humans.) "Good luck you two, especially you Sergeant."
Ekans turned away, so I asked Scout what the hell a Sergeant was. He laughed, people seemed to do that alot when I ask things. Bastards.
"I believe that is his name for you, seeing as you are essentially leading us in battle so he gave you a military name or something. I dunno."
"Fair enough, one last question. How did you end up here?"
"Similar way you did. After our last encounter, I ended up losing my territory to a Spearow because of the injuries you gave me," Scout started, but I interupted him. before he could get any further.
"I didn't give you any injuries. You flew into the tree. I didn't touch you."
"Oh yeah, well after that I flew over pallet town. I saw your fight with that Pikachu. If there hadn't been fire and lightning flying everywhere, then I'd have ambushed you. But I kept moving and ended up here, knackered from the flight. I was half injured still, so it wasn't as easy as it used to be. Anyway, one of those Nidoran things had a go at me but General Ekans stopped him and I've been here ever since."
"Nice story, but why are you not trying to extract revenge on me for all the crap I did to you?"
"Simple. We're on the same side, and we have a job to do. If you don't mess this up then we'll call it even. The poisoning you suffered from is punishment enough. Anyway, lets get moving Sarge."
Well that made a little sense, I think. So, we headed out for the Nido's camp and got ourselves ready for the next stage of the operation. The arse-kicking stage. Those rabbits were not going to see this one coming, I was looking foward to hunting out the one that got me. Looking foward to it so much, that I was running through what I was going to do to it in my head. (I won't describe my thoughts, some of you are a little squeamish and I don't want to get blamed for the mess on the carpet.)