The title says it all, Alpha pulls off a few new tricks. I apolagise in advance for the chapters slight shorter state than many of the newer ones.
Comments please, as usual.
Episode Fourty-Four: The Vulpine's Power
"Uh Alpha?" I said, shaking myself out of the trance that the recent events had put me in.
"Yes Flame?" Alpha asked, looking down at me, "you seem somewhat shorter than usual. Less angry too."
"You just got a little bit bigger, and the lack of angry can be explained by the spitting rocks that are flying around," I said, ducking under a stray offshoot.
Suddenly, Alpha began to glow once more, but this time it was focused on the tips of his tails.
'I hope he does not get much bigger,' I thought to myself, 'He won't be able to fit down the tunnel,'
The glowing vanished, leaving blue flames in their wake. The fires shot into the air and hovered around the two of us, absorbing any offshoot that came close. I noticed that Alpha's legs were in working condition, obviously his evolution had fixed that problem.
"Well, we're safe from having a molten rock go through our head and out the other side," Alpha laughed.
"Yeah, but we're still stuck here."
"On the contrary, there is still the tunnel out of here."
"Uh, have you forgotten the molten rockpool that you were nearly incinerated by?"
"Watch and learn, young Flame. Porygon told me about a nice little move that should clear the way very nicely."
"So we're safe then?" I asked
"I only know the theory, I may not be able to pull it off. And even if I do, I might not be able to control it and it may backfire."
I thought about it for a few seconds, weighing the odds. Eventually, I came to decision.
"Screw it, have a shot. We've winged it this far. If this works, I'll call it even on the life saving crap."
"Deal, you might want to stand back though."
I took his advice, and stepped back untill I could go no further. Alpha moved closer to the rook pool and partially crouched down.
"Porygon!" He yelled, "you might want to get everyone out of the way!"
The blue flames circled around him, giving him an ethereal look. His nine tails fanned out behind him and I swear that a small gust of wind blew through the cavern. Alpha threw back his head and let loose a howl that chilled me to the core, I could feel, and hear, the raw energy crackling off of him.
He reared up onto his hind legs, focused on the target before slamming his feet on the floor. The sudden movement caused a large, and probably deadly, blast of white light to be launched strait towards the rockpool. The entire thing, from beginning to attack, had only taken a couple of seconds but the effects would definatly be remembered for a long time afterwards.
The blast was too big to fit in the tunnel, so it carved a new one in both the rock face and the steel door. I'd never noticed just how thick that door was, but Alpha's attack went through it as though it wasn't even there. It only began to lose power after that, as it formed more of a visible shape and slammed into a tree. The shockwave from the explosion nearly knocked both me and Alpha to the ground.
"Well, that worked nicely," Alpha said, panting for breath. Evidently, that attack had taken alot of out him but by Mew it worked. I walked forewards untill I was next to the ex-Vulpix. The blast had turned the air around us stale so, after patting him on the back, I lept down into the tunnel and walked out into the open air with Alpha coming up behind.
Squirtle and Pika were both staring at me with mouths a gape. I stared back before laughing, "What? I didn't do that one."
"You most certainly did not," Porygon said, "in your current state, a Hyper beam would be impossible to pull off successfully. It would probably kill you."
"I'll keep that in mind. Leave the big explosives to the crazy fox," I laughed, the feel of sunlight on my scales was making me giddy.