After his flip out in the last Episode, Flame starts a chase through the Cerulean streets. Can he regain control of himself or had he lost it completely? Will this Arc have a happy ending after all?

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Episode Sixty-One: Mission With a Motive

I lept down the vertical shaft and shot back down into Vaporeon's cave. No one had been able to follow me, I'd even lost Scout. The fire had gone out but I could still see Vapor laying near the water's edge.

"Vapor!" I yelled, running up to the Pokémon.

"Hey, you again," Vapor yawned, "Spiral is pretty pissed at you."

"She won't be the only one," I said, slamming the Pokéball on the Vaporeon's head and watching it get sucked inside.

The Pokéball shook for a few seconds but it eventually stopped moving and I picked it back up.

"You'll thank me later," I told it, dispite knwoing that its captive wouldn't hear.

I set back down the tunnel and had to hold onto the Pokéball with my teeth in order to climb up the shaft. I reached the open air and transferred the ball back to my paws, it was making my jaw hurt.

I started running through the streets again, making for the familiar building that lay near its center. I heard Scout cry out from above and the chase was on. I dashed along, dodging between Human's legs. At one point, I lept onto a table and ran along that. I was aware of the others giving chase, mainly because of Squirtle yelling at me.

I could hear everyone gaining on me, so I moved the Pokéball back into my gob and shot fowards on all fours. I spotted my target dead ahead of me but, between me and it, there was Pika. She had heard Squirtle's yells and turned to face me, looking confused.

The gap between us closed and I could here Squirtle yelling at her to stop 'that nutcase'. I lowered my head and continued to gain speed, heading on a collision course. She wasn't going to get out of the way and I didn't have the time to go round, so I put all my power onto my back legs and pushed fowards with them.

I shot over her head and landed, running on without breaking my stride.

"Sorry Pika!" I yelled as I shot through the doors of the Gym, "I'm a Pokémon on a mission."

I skidded to a halt before the pool and spat the Pokéball out into my arms, I needed to catch my breath and couldn't do that with my mouth full.

"Now, how do I work this thing?" I said, hearing everyone burst in behind me.

"Flame! What the hell are you doing?" Squirtle yelled.

"Returning a favour."

I pressed a button on the front of the Pokéball and felt the thing shaking as it began to activate.

"Go Vapor!" I yelled, throwing it towards the pool. Everyone looked on, confused as heck, as the Vaporeon appeared in a blaze of red light.

"What the heck do you think you are doing!" Vapor yelled, before noticing its surroundings.

"Giving you a change of scenery. You couldn't go out in sunlight so I just carried you around so it couldn't get you," I said.

I heard the Gym Leader walk in, the whiney voice told me that it was her.

"Hey, Vaporeon! How did you get here?" She asked, untill she spotted the Pokéball floating in the pool, "I'd never have thought of that."

"Of course you wouldn't," I muttered, "you're Human."

I turned away and pushed my way outside, the others too stunned to move. I heard someone follow me, but I didn't look back and kept walking towards the Pokémon Center.

"Uncle Flame!" Came Blacky's yells.

"I'm still leaving," I called back, afraid to look the black furred Pokémon in the face.

"And I'm still coming with you."

I looked back, stunned at Blacky's stubborness. He was supposed to be the docile one of the two kits.

"Why do you want to go with me so much?" I asked.

"Because you're my Uncle. No matter what you say, that isn't going to change."

"But you could get hurt."

"So could you. You and Squirtle taught me to stand up for what I believe, I believe that I belong with you."

"Well, how can I argue with logic like that?" I laughed, "I wasn't too fond of leaving you behind anyway."

Blacky attacked me with his Hug attack and I was nearly flattened but managed to stay standing, just.

"No hugs, gerroff," I said, "you know that I hate emotional moments"

"I dunno about that," came that sarcastic voice that I knew and dreaded.

"Squirtle."

"That's me."

"What do you want now?"

"Well sorry for existing," the turtle Pokémon said, "I guess you don't want to know that Spiral has decided to stay behind after all."

"That I can handle."

"I hadn't finished," he laughed, "Pika also thinks that it was a nice thing you did for the Vaporeon."

"That I didn't need to know!" I yelled, turning tail and fleeing. I might be able to fight, but she scared the living crap out of me.

A day later, we were all ready to go. Blacky had given his sister a tearfull goodbye hug and we were about to set off. Just before we could, however, Nurse Joy ran up and began talking to Moron. I was getting increasingly impatiant, all of the interruptions were just aggrivating me.

"Okay, so we have to go to Vermillion and pick up some special medicine so you can fix the Vaporeon's illness?" Moron asked, to which Nurse Joy nodded.

"Well, it's a good thing that we were going there anyway. I hadn't wanted to come back through here though, I wanted to go to Lavander Town first," Moron sighed.

"The oversea path to Lavander Town is closed due to storm damage," Nurse Joy told him, "but you can get there by going through the mountain passes that boarder here. There are supposed to be a fair few rare Pokémon around there too."

"Well why not?" Moron laughed and we finally set off, through the City gates and into the unknown, towards our next destination.