Well, the battle continues and more crazy stuff happens. You pretty much can figure the entire Episode out from the title.
Comments are still wanted, maybe I need to put up a poster with that on.
Episode Ninety-Seven: Cliffhanger
Just as we lept back onto dry land, the walkway tore itself in half as the ship began to move out towards the sea. But we were not going to let the bastards get away that easily. Onix moveded fowards at a stupidly fast speed and actually used its teeth to hold onto the ship, stopping it from getting away.
"I'm glad I wasn't the one who fought that thing properly back in Pewter," I muttered as the ship tried to pull away while the Onix just held on and refused to budge. The Rocket's seemed to realise that they were not getting anywhere and began to use the Onix as a bridge to get back to land.
Me and Cubone were waiting for them, with Squirt and Vapor right behind us.
"I have a cunning plan," Cubone suddenly bursted out as he knocked a Rocket into the waves below.
"Stick with hitting people," Squirt yelled as he blasted a stream of water, knocking several Pokémon down in one do, "at least we know you can do that."
The four of us were managing to stop them from crossing, untill I spotted a strange blueish ball shaped Pokémon with leaves on its head sneak up on Squirt and summon two vines. I dived forewards and punched the Pokémon in the face, knocking it over the edge. Which was fine, untill I felt something wrap around my legs and pull me towards the edge too. The bastard had gotten me with its vines and was trying to take me down with it.
I managed to grab onto the ledge at the last second, hanging on by only one hand as my legs dangled in thin air. I glanced down and saw the leaf Pokémon get carried away by the tide, strait towards the ship's propellers. I turned my attention back towards solid ground as the air filled with screams. It was a good thing that I hadn't eaten any breakfast that morning or I would have been meeting it again.
"Hanging on above water that could kill me in many different ways," I muttered as I tried to swing myself up, "I really need to get a hobby."
"Or stop getting into these situations in the first place," Scout said as he hovered beside me, his sudden appearence nearly making me lose my grip.
"True, now how about you stop flapping around and help me here?" I yelled as I dig in my claws.
Scout vanished in a blur of feathers, heading towards the others.
"Oh thank you, dick," I replied, trying as hard as I could to hang on. My arm was tired and I really wanted to let go, dispite the certain doom. Then, thanks to Humans shoddy building work, the handhold that was keeping me alive started to crumble away.
"Life, why do you hate me so?" I asked as my claws lost their grip and I fell seaward.
"Because it is funny," came the reply as Squirt dived for the edge and grabbed hold of my wrist, stopping my fall, "Scout said you were in trouble. You really need to learn how to save your own arse. I suggest putting it on your To-do list."
"I suggest you shut up and pull before the whole platform gives way!" I yelled back, watching as small pieces of rock started falling away from the bricks around Squirt.
I managed to swing up my other paw and clutched his own and hung on for dear life, glad to be able to take some weight of my tired arm. I spotted one of the Rockets about to clobber Squirt over the head when Raichu appeared and used his glowy fist attack on the Human, in mid air, and knocking the Rocket into the sea.
"Looks like you two could use a hand," he chuckled, turning back towards the battle and unleaching his electical attacks. Pika was the next to appear, crouching down beside Squirt and grabbing hold of my paw.
"You two are a mess without me, always getting into trouble," she sighed as her and Squirt began to heave me upwards as the rocks around them fell away.
Their progress was good, untill Pika's foothold fell away and she took the plunge too. Luckily, I managed to grab her paw and stopped her reaching the tidal waters. Now it was Squirt holding the two of us up, and he was having a hard time of it.
"Who is the one in trouble now?" He grunted, trying to stop himself sliding towards the edge.
It was a futile effort. The combined weight of me and Pika was too much for him and he couldn't pull us up.
"Flame," Pika called up from below, "if you let go, there might be a chance of you making it through this."
"I am not letting go," I muttered, being pulled in two directions at once takes its toll on your stamina, "it is all or nothing."
"You and your damn honour again," she shouted, "can't you ever think about keeping yourself alive for once?"
"You want me to let you go so you can die, and then live with that?" I countered, "not going to happen. Now shut up and hang on."
Eventually Squirt found the strength to start hauling us up, mainly because Raichu had grabbed hold of his tail and was pulling as well. It became a tug-o-war. Squirt and Raichu against gravity, with me and Pika as the rope. And this particular game was against the clock as Squirt's footholds started giving way.
"Flame, you really have to let go," Pika called up again.
"I thought I told you to shut the hell up and hang on," I growled as I was pulled a little closer to the ledge, which was still collapsing. The odd rock clonked me on the head but I held on, too stubborn to let a little thing like a mild concussion beat me.
"Sorry," I heard Pika mutter before I felt something bite my tail. The sudden pain caused all my muscles to relax, forcing my paw to release its hold on her arm.
"Shit!" I yelled as I looked down to see her plummet into the water, "bloody crazy rodent. She fucking bit me."
I was getting hauled up onto dry land, unable to shake my gaze from the yellow Pokémon as she tried to outswim the current that was pulling her towards the ship's propellers.
"Most of the Rocket's have been beaten, I'll tell Vapor to go save her," Raichu said as he dived back into the melee.
Me and Squirt looked at each other for several seconds before returning to look over the edge and into the murky sea.
"Well?" He asked, "shall we?"
"I need a bath anyway," I muttered as I lept over the edge, Squirt following suit.
I felt the familiar chill wash through my blood as I hit the water but I ignored it and turned to watch Squirt's dive. Squirt crashed into the water behind me and submerged himself, coming up underneath me and allowing me to ride on his shell. I reignited my tail flame and held on.
"This is the great ship Wartortle, please enjoy your ride," he laughed as he shot off through the waves, reaching Pika in seconds, "need a hand fuzzball?"
I grabbed hold of Pika, by the tail for a little payback, and hauled her aboard as Squirt pushed himself through the water.
It was slow progress but Squirt was making progress, while I made sure that Pika didn't fall off.
"You idiots," she muttered, "you had to jump in after me."
" Of course we did," I chuckled, you had to see the humour of the situation, "we can't let the one Pokémon who can beat sense into us get chopped to bits."
"Damn strait," Squirt called as he motered towards a small platform that led back to the harbour, "besides, I don't want Flame moping around."
We finally made land and hauled ourselves up the stairs. I was exausted from drain all of the fighting had placed on me and collapsed on my stomach the moment I reached flat ground. Squirt and Pika were in a similar state, but they managed to stay standing.
"We really need to find the bastard that built that ledge and execute him," Squirt muttered, catching his breath. I could only nod in agreement, I was that knackered.
"You two are crazy," Pika said as she wrung out her tail, "you could have gotten yourself killed."
"You would have done if we hadn't dived in to save you. So don't you mention anything about our survival instincts, Miss 'I bit my friend's tail so I could drown'"
"Hey you lot, the fight's over!" Cubone called as he trotted up. He froze at the sight of us and asked in a confused tone, "why are you all wet?"