Well, I got this Episode done in record time. Flame confronts Asmodeus and gets a few suprises, the biggest from the most unlikely of places.
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Episode Seventy: The Dark Side's Victory
"Traitors never change," I growled, glaring at Asmodeus with as much venom as I could muster.
"Of course not. although I was never true to you in the first place," Asmodeus laughed, giving me the creeps again.
"What the hell does that mean?" I asked, stepping into the center of the alleyway just incase I needed the extra room.
Asmodeus looked strait at me and his scales glinted in the light. Charmander scales are not meant to be shiney, so something was wrong. Even though my tail flame was steaming away due to the rain, his wasn't even flickering.
"Me and Gengar here make our living by kidnapping Pokémon and ransoming them back to their trainers. Sometimes we even kidnap the trainers instead."
"You are crazy, even you wouldn't dare try something that stupid," I yelled, trying to fight back the fear that was caving in on me.
Asmodeus was engulfed in this bright light. I thought for a second that he was evolving but the light was red instead of white so it couldn't have been that. When the light faded, a pink blob was in front of me.
"I'm a shapeshifter, you can't take both me and Gengar down," it laughed, the voice exactly the same, "and you call me stupid? You are the one that thought I was your brother."
"You bastard!" I yelled, before a strange chill overtook me and I was knocked to the floor.
I rolled onto my back and looked up to see the Gengar standing above me, almost invisable in the darkness.
"The only bastard here is you," it told me, "now, will you come quietly or will we have to hurt you?"
I stayed silent for several seconds before suddenly kicking out with my legs, which passed strait through the wraith but my momentum allowed me to get on my feet.
"That's a no then," it said, the strange eyes starting to glow.
"Gengar," Asmodeus said as it somehow managed to walk up, dispite not having any legs, "let me handle this one."
The red light started again and this time there was a strange Pokémon that I had never seen before standing before me. Encased in a brown armour-like shell and with two nasty looking arm blades, it towered above me.
"Like it?" came the laugh,"I picked up this little form from a scientist a while back. Called a Kabutops I believe."
"Is it just me?" I replied, "or do you just keep on getting uglier with each transformation?"
I half expected to be on the pointy end of the blades but instead it was the Gengar that reacted with a, solid, punch that sent me crashing into a wall. Unlike when I fought (if you can call it fighting) the Raichu, this time I knew I had broken something.
'Ow,' I thought as I got to my feet once more, having to lean on the wall that I had collided with in order to keep upright.
"You were a fool to think that you could escape us," the Gengar snarled, "but I cannot kill you. But, I can cause you a lot of pain."
A strange dark purple ball appeared in its palm, very similar to the one that the Hypno had created and I could remember the explosion that had caused. I was pretty sure that I wasn't immune to those, so I braced for impact as it shot towards my chest.
I definatly wasn't prepared for what happened next. A blast of water shot between the Gengar and Asmodeus and slammed into the ball thing, knocking it off course and making it slam into the wall beside me. It caused a huge crack to appear in the brickwork but there was no explosion (thankfully. It had only missed me by inches so any explosion would have hurt)
"You guys are not very nice," came a voice that I remembered well, "picking on old Flame there without giving me an invite."
"Squirtle!" I yelled as the water Pokémon stepped out of the shadows.
"Sorry I'm late. It was hard finding you, but at least you're still alive," Squirtle called over to me, never taking his eyes off of the two kidnappers.
"You cannot stop us both," Asmodeus told Squirtle as Gengar moved towards me, "in fact, you probably can't even stop me."
Squirtle just smirked, "maybe, but I'm pretty sure that seeing your own reflection would. Assuming, of course, that your ugliness wouldn't break the mirror."
I was distracted from what those two were doing by the Gengar as it summoned another of those energy ball thingies. I knew that Squirtle wouldn't be able to bail me out this time, so I summoned my own. It easily dodged my fireball and laughed as I slumped back against the wall, the pain in my chest sapping my strength.
As it raised its hand to throw the shadow ball, I spotted a strange sight in the shadows. A small yellow circle was glowing as the owner of it dived out of its hiding place and tackled the Gengar to the floor. The ball that the ghost Pokémon was holding slammed into the ground and, this time, there was a small explosion that sent both of them flying.
"Blacky!" I gasped, as the Umbreon got up.
"Leave Uncle Flame alone!" he yelled as the Gengar stood too, "you big bully!"
"I don't know how you managed to hit me, but I'll make sure you never have the chance to do so again," Gengar said as another shadow ball was hurled, this time at Blacky.
The rings on Blacky's body started glowing again and the shadow ball stopped in midair. Gengar looked shocked as his attack vanished into thin air.
"I don't like bullies," Blacky said, all emotion gone out of his voice. His face was missing his usual smile as he stepped fowards.
"I don't care, you may be able to stop my Shadow Ball but I have other attacks," Gengar sneered as a creepy purple glow formed around him, "Night shade!"
Blacky was suddenly engulfed in this black stuff, hidden from my view. For three seconds, there was nothing. I looked at Gengar and saw it smirking. Five seconds passed and the smirk vanished, obviously something wasn't working quite as planned.
Out of the black stuff, Blacky suddenly appeared and slammed into the Gengar. Attacking with teeth, which were somehow managing to hurt the ghostly Pokémon (unless the Gengar was screaming in pain for the hell of it. You can never tell)
Blacky was thrown off again. He landed on his feet and growled as the Gengar got back up, the ghost Pokémon bleeding somehow. I had only really seen this side of Blacky when we were against the Hypno and even then it was only for a few seconds, so the sudden chance was scary. It was as if he had let his more agressive side take over and I was very glad that I wasn't in the firing line.
Blacky shot forwards again and the Gengar raised its hand, several of the shadow balls forming.
"Take this!" It yelled as it fired one after the other, in quick succession, at Blacky.
"With pleasure," Blacky growled, dashing around two that hit the ground and exploded behind him.
He ducked under a third, still gaining speed and lept over the last two. Time seemed to slow down as he arced through the air and smashed the Gengar to the ground again. This time, the Gengar retaliated and fired a shadow ball at point blank range and they were lost from my sight in the huge explosion that followed.
"Blacky!"