This Episode is probably one of the weirdest as a chaotic battle kicks off with Flame's party coming up against Team Rockets. Flame suffers a bout of fear while Squirtle gets a challange that no one is prepared for.

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Episode Seventy-Eight: Duels of Destruction

Just as I reached down for a rock to lob at the Team Rocket people, Cubone ambushed them himself. He threw his bone and it spun through the air, making that buzzing noise. The first Rocket ducked but the other wasn't as fast and was knocked unconsious.

"Gotcha," Cubone laughed, holding out his arm and catching his club. I got the remaining Rocket with a stone to the back of the head, but mine decided not to pass out. He took out several Pokéballs and threw them all to the ground.

"Oh crap," Alpha muttered as five opponents appeared, all of which were all the same species.

They were floating in the air, purple orbs. They smelled horrible, much worse than the Rocket members did.

"Koffings. Be carefull guys, these things can self-destruct," Alpha warned.

I still remembered the Voltorb when it flattened Scyther with that move, and I didn't intend to be on the resieving end.

"Blast them from a distance!" I yelled, launching a fireball at the nearest. It levitated over my attack and send out a small cloud of purple gas.

I knew that breathing that stuff would be bad for my health, so I backed away.

"I hate poison," I muttered, untill Scout shot overhead and kicked up a gust of wind and sand which blew the gas cloud away.

"I'll take care of the clouds, you shoot them down!" He screeched down at us, we all restarted our attack in earnest.

I fired two fireballs, one above the other. The Koffing was unable to avoid both and ignited. There was a small explosion and I spotted it on the ground, out cold. A second explosion caused me to turn and I spotted Alpha take down another Koffing.

"Three left," I muttered, turning towards Squirtle. He was unable to cause his Koffing to explode like me and Alpha could, so he was using the force of his water jet to keep knocking the floating Pokémon into stuff. I fireballed another that was sneaking up on him from behind and, when it levitated out of my attacks path, Cubone's club smashed it through a hole in the PokéMart's wall and into the burning building.

"Come on, I'm injured and am still taking you lot down!" I laughed, "either I'm stronger than I thought or, more likely, you are pathetic."

"They are pathetic," came a hissing from behind me. I turned round and spotted a Pokémon forming out of the usual red light, "but I am not."

I was stunned at the sight of the Pokémon that had appeared before me. It's snake body was riddled with scars and its tail ended in a very sharp looking blade. What stood out more, however, was the huge fangs that dripped poison.

"Hello, meat."

My fear of snakes, that I had thought dead, decided now to return. I couldn't move as it slithered closer. I could hear the battle still raging on behind me, but all I could think about was the massive fangs that were going to inject their deadly payload into my bloodstream.

"Flame! Duck!" Someone shouted from behind, snapping me out of my stupor. I head buzzing and dived to the floor. Cubone's club shot above, and only just missing, my head and struck the snake Pokémon. It didn't seem to have much effect, the dark blue Pokémon's scales absorbing the blow.

"You'll pay for that," it hissed as Cubone stepped up, reaching into the air and his club seemed to aim strait for his hand.

"You said that last time," Cubone smirked, "Flame, help finish off the Koffings. Me and Seviper here have unfinished business."

I didn't argue and turned away, glad to get well out of the path of that snake. I heard the Seviper hiss something and Cubone's battle started.

"What the hell was that thing?" I muttered, trying to figure out where something like that would have come from. I got nothing.

Before I could ponder any further, I was aware of the Rocket member (the one that had been knocked unconsious) getting up and taking out his own Pokéballs. As he moved to throw them, Scout appeared and divebombed the Human's face.

The Human moved his arms up to protect his eyes, releasing his Pokéballs at the same time. I watched them fly through the air and burst open. This time, I recognized the Pokémon that formed and I knew how to fight them.

"Squirtle!"

"Butterfree!"

One bug and one turtle Pokémon. No problem for me or, at least, that was the theory.

"Hydo Pump!" The Squirtle yelled, firing off a water jet that was a lot more powerfull then the Squirtle's that I was allied with.

It knocked me off of my feet and sent me flying, although I managed to land on all fours before I hit anything. Even so, it still felt as though I'd been punched and I had the wind smashed out of me.

"Solar Beam!" The Butterfree yelled, I hadn't heard of that attack before.

The Butterfree started glowing a green color and I suddenly realised that, whatever it was about to do, I was going to end up in a lot of pain if I got hit. I attempted to attack the bug with a fireball but the Squirtle shot it down.

"Nice knowing you," The Squirtle laughed, untill a shell knocked it off of its feet.

Blue limbs popped out of the shell once it had stopped moving and soon my Squirtle's head appeared. He looked at the other Squirtle and said disdainfully, "now that wasn't nice."

"Compaired to usual, I was being nice," the other replied, taking a deep breath.

I was distracted from this by the Butterfree's glowing. It had become blinding by now. Small offshoots of light were flying around. I could tell that it was ready to fire.

"This is gonna hurt," I muttered, as a giant beam of green light shot towards me.

I jumped sideways, dispite it being too late for me to get completely clear of the attack. But I felt something wrap around my shoulders while I was in midair and I was dragged out of the attack. I looked up and saw Scout carrying me, just.

"Try to keep alive a little longer, Sarge," Scout called as he dropped me back onto the ground.

I spotted Alpha standing right in the Solar Beam's path, back to the PokéMart ruins. I could see the crackling energy shooting off of his fur as the beam zoomed closer.

"Hyper Beam!" He cried, the white light slamming into the green one.

It was a duel between the two attacks. Alpha's attack cut through the weakened Solar Beam but was forced back when it got closer to the Butterfree so that both beams met exactly in the center of the gap between them.

There was a ball of energy forming where the attacks joined. It was growing bigger and brighter by the second.

"That's a bomb, isn't it?" I asked, knowing what was coming.

"Probably," Scout replied, zooming towards Alpha, "so, let me disarm it."

He spun round over Alpha's head and headed strait down the beam's path. I won't go into how fast he was going, but it was something stupid. He shot past the light bubble thing and headed for the Butterfree, screeching his battle cry.

The Butterfree kept its attack up, but raised it so that it blasted Scout. Alpha's attack shot towards the bug, but I lost sight of the bird Pokémon inside the green light.

"Oh shit, Scout!"