Well, this sure was a hard Episode to do. Mainly thanks to stupidly large amounts of homework but also due to the sheer difficulty of avoiding plot holes. But, Scyther finally speaks for more than one sentance at a time and the war gets a lot more complicated than it already was.
Comments pwease, or I make things even more complicated.
Episode Eighty-Five: Sacrifice
Three hours later and that question was still stuck in my head. I sat in the bedroom, gazing out of the window. We had all moved to a different building, further away from Rocket controlled territory. The others were in the living room discussing what they ought to do, leaving me on my own.
I was looking out across the city, staring up at the sunset. I couldn't help but feel slightly worried.
'This time tomorrow, they are going to blow all this up,' I thought, sighing out loud. What made me feel worse was the fact that we still hadn't located Joanne, Police had combed the parts of the city that the Rocket's didn't control and couldn't find any sign. That meant that she is in enemy territory. And Pika wasn't the stealthiest of Pokémon.
"I'm so damn confused," I muttered looking down at my bandaged arm, "what the hell am I supposed to do?"
"That is something Flame must decide for Flame's self," Scyther said as he stepped up beside me, making me nearly jump out of my skin. I hadn't heard him come up the stairs.
"Don't do that!" I practicaly yelled at him, making him chuckle.
"Scyther apolagises, but Flame really needs to watch Flame's surroundings more. Then there would not be a problem."
We both drifted off into silence again, untill Scyther spoke once more.
"While Alpha and the others are debating if they should retreat of fight, Flame is debating if Flame should keep fighting or do what Team Rocket wants. Correct?"
"Pretty much," I sighed, "A few weeks back then I wouldn't have cared about this city at all. But now, I dunno what too think."
Scyther sat on the bed and stared out of the window for several seconds before turning back to me.
"Flame's consious doesn't want Vermillion to be destroyed but Flame's instincts don't want to trust Team Rocket."
"Yeah. Plus Joanne and Pika are still out there. If this place gets destroyed, they would probably die. And it'd be my fault," I muttered, still trying to figure out what to do.
"Guilt is a powerfull thing," Scyther replied, returning his gaze to the window, "when Team Rocket captured Scyther, after getting Scyther unawares in an ambush, Scyther spent a lot of time alone. Scyther had pretty much given up hope of ever being free when Flame arrived and managed to break all of the Pokémon free."
I sat there, amazed that Scyther had actually spoken for such length.
"I have trouble imagining you giving up on anything," I said, causing Scyther to laugh.
"Scyther was in a cage as long as, if not longer, than Alpha. Unlike Alpha, Scyther gave up on breaking out. Then it finally happens and Scyther didn't know what to do, untill Flame risks Flame's neck to save everyone else."
"So you came with us instead of going on your own path?" I asked, still stunned at Scyther's confession.
"Scyther wanted to learn what made Flame do such a thing when Flame could easily have fled, Scyther had been alone for so long that Scyther had forgotten what other Pokémon were like. Scyther still doesn't understand everything, but Scyther realises that not understanding some things is just as good. Sometimes going on impulse is the best thing to do."
I thought about that for several seconds before nodding to myself, I'd made my decision.
"Thanks Scyther," I said, before slugging him in the face, "sorry, but I need to make it look like I was taken by force."
I left the unconsious Pokémon where he lay and opened the window, climbing out onto the ledge outside.
"If I remember correctly," I wispered to myself, "the Rocket's control pretty much the entire outskirts of the city. I'm bound to find a group of them if I head in any direction."
I shimmied my way up a pipe and pulled myself onto the roof, so I could travel the city without being noticed from those on the ground. I decided to head towards the moon and set off, leaping over the small gap onto the next building.
Ten minutes later, I still hadn't found anyone. You'd think there would be more people around, considering the fighting that had been going on. I hadn't even come across a police patrol. I had to leave the rooftops seeing as I couldn't traverse a huge alleyway in one leap.
I slid down a pipe and snuck past the house's windows, just in case there were any occupants. I was half way up the pipeline on the otherside when I heard a noise coming from the road on the otherside of the house. I shot up the pipe at double speed and creeped over to have a looksie.
"Get the little bugger!" A Rocket was yelling as two others cornered a grubby Human. One who I knew. I'd found Joanne. She was covered in dust and dirt but was still lashing out whenever the two Rockets got too close.
"Well this sure messes things up," I sighed to myself, watching the drama while hidden from the Human's view. The Rockets had decided that they were not going to get anywhere on their own and summoned their Pokémon, one Magnemite and a strangly coloured Bulbasaur. This one was blue instead of the usual green.
As the Pokémon got closer, Pika dived out from behind a dustbin and dived on the Bulbasaur. But the Magnemite knocked her off with a flying tackle. The Bulbasaur then used its vines to hold the Pikachu down while Magnemite charged up for the kill.
"To hell with it!" I said, backing up. I took a nice big run up and lept clear off of the rooftops, landing perfectly on the Bulbasaur's bulb (and when I mean perfectly, I mean on my arse. But I didn't break any bones. Which was a good thing)
"Flame!" Joanne yelled, my name causing the Rocket's eyes to bulge with suprise. My reputation had gone ahead of me.
"The last time I checked, yeah," I called back, leaping off of the Bulbasaur and using a blast of fire to get it to let go of Pika. The third Rocket decided that now would be a good time to do something and summoned her own Pokémon, a Cubone and an Ekans.
"Pika!" I yelled, facing four opponents, "get out of here."
"You've got to be kidding me," Pika called back, I could hear her electic pouches charging. The Bulbasaur managed to extinquish its vines using a handy puddle.
The Magnemite shot towards me but I forced it to veer away with a fireball, then having to duck under one of the Bulbasaur's vines. Things were going from bad to worse and I could tell that this was a losing battle.
"They'll tear you to pieces but they want me alive. If you run then I can slow them down enough to give you enough time to find the others," I yelled at her, keeping the Ekans at bay with a stream of fire.
I heard Pika sigh, let off a bolt of electrisity at the Bulbasaur and start running. Common sense had finally caused her to give up, taking Joanne with her. The Cubone pulled back its club, about to throw it after Pika, but I forced it to dive clear with a fireball.
"You shall not pass," I muttered, taking one last stand in the middle of the path. I faced three Pokémon, then realised something.
'Where the hell is the forth one?'
I figured out that answer pretty fast. I spotted a snakelike shadow fall over me and spun round, the Ekans burying its fangs in my arm. Luckily, for me this time, it had attacked my bandaged limb and its teeth couldn't penetrate the tight cloth.
I tried to make the Ekans let go with a punch to the head, although that didn't quite work. It knocked the snake unconsious, but the teeth refused to budge. So I ended up sticking my hand in its mouth and pulling each tooth free, which wasn't the most enjoyable thing to do. Let me just say that Ekans spit feels disgusting.
"So, the reports are true," came a Human voice. I turned round to see another Human had shown up, this one wearing a different uniform. A red one this time. It had what looked like a mountain range on the front, with a tunnel carved through the center. It looked familiar to me, but I couldn't figure out where from.
The Human looked down at me before returning his gaze to the Rocket's, "you expect this Pokémon to fall in battle that easily? If he wanted too, he could hold all of your Pokémon off for an hour."
"Well what do you suggest, Magma grunt?" Ane of the Rocket's asked.
'Magma?' I thought, confused, 'I have never heard of that before. But why does the uniform look so familiar?'
The strangly clothed Human laughed, "I may only be a grunt in Team Magma, but I know what I am doing. Unlike the higher ups of your organization, Rocket." He then pulled out one of those black tube things that Alpha called a tranquilizer gun and pointed it at me. I remember seeing it flash before my vision blurred and I finally fell.