Well another Squirt Episode for you. Maybe I oughta rename this 'Tales of Flame and Squirt'.
Ah well, Squirt and Moron have to decide between Flame's life and the law. I think you can figure out the rest for yourselves, you're smart(ish) people.
Comments as usual, please... Or there will be even more Squirt Episodes. You have been warned
Episode 111: Suit Patrol
Everyone stared at one another for a few seconds untill I finally decided on what to do.
"Scyther, Cresent," I burst out, "lets go. The rest of you, stay here."
"You serious?" Scout asked, amazed at my actions, "you want us to stay in here while you have all the fun?"
"Right now, Moron is the only one here who could lose his trainer card because of Flame. I don't want to drag Joanne into this too, so you lot are out."
"What about me?" Spiral asked, even though the others were shut up by my explanation.
"You live here," I replied, "if we manage to scare off these guys then they'll come back with reinforcments. We'll be gone, but you won't. So you getting involved makes you a target."
"And I'm essentially a wild Pokémon, so they can't go after me anyway," Cresent added, "now, are we going to stand here debating this crap or are we going to kick some Human ass?"
"Slight problem with that," Scyther interrupted, "door has been locked."
There was a simple solution to that problem, I blasted the door off of its hinges with a water blast and the three of us ran for the lobby. Moron was following behind, I wasn't entirely sure why considering that he had led them to Flame in the first place.
We were half way there when Frank popped out of a sidedoor and summoned the Machop and Electabuzz.
"You ain't going to save the Charmander now," he chuckled, "I can slow you down enough."
"You're a little full of it today," Spiral said as she stepped out of another side door and clamped her teeth down on his ankle. A trick that she must have picked up from our psychotic Charmander friend.
"Spiral!" I yelled as the two Pokémon turned around to attack her.
"I'm not interfering with the goon squd," she laughed as she released Frank's leg and lept out of the Machop's path, "so I'm perfectly allowed to do this. Now get going, you got Uncle Flame to save!"
I nodded and we all ran past the fight, Scyther 'accidentally' smashing the back of Frank's knees as he went past and sending the red head crashing to the ground. I was barely managing to keep up with the faster two, my aquatic body wasn't built for speed. So I sped things up a little using an old trick I had learnt back in Pallet Town.
I pulled in my legs and slid along the tiles, using my shell as a bobsled. A little propulsion using a small water gun and I was able to overtake the other two, although it made cornering a little difficult. I withdrew my head on the final strait and used my shell to smash wide open the glass doors.
I managed to break by firing a second water gun forwards and was finally able to get up again. There were three guys in suits, one was taking out a needle out of a large black bag while the other two summoned their Pokémon. The Pokémon themselves were slightly evolved forms of two of Frank's, a Machoke and a Kadabra. Fairly powerfull Pokémon, especially if the fact that all Pokémon Control Unit workers have to have gained at least four badges. That makes at least one more badge than our team had.
But they didn't possess the ninja skills that Scyther did and they both went down in seconds. Moron finally ran into the lobby now, out of breath from trying to keep up with us.
"Withdraw your Pokémon," one of the Suits ordered, I can't be specific because they all looked the bloody same, "or we will confiscate your Pokémon licence and have you arrested."
Moron hesitated but eventually told us to stand down, but I noticed him give us a small wink. I realised why as Cresent slammed the Suit with the needle to the ground.
"We told you to withdraw your Pokémon," the same Suit as before said, slightly angry.
"I did," Moron smirked, "she ain't one of mine. She's wild, so I can't order her around."
The Suit smirked too and the Machoke somehow managed to get back up and hauled her into the air by her tail. It then socked her right in the face with its other fist and the Suit lobbed a Pokéball, sucking the stunned Pikachu inside.
"Oh fuck orders," I muttered as my own temper, usually reserved only for Team Rocket, burst into action.
A water blast to the head stunned the Machoke long enough for me to use my shell as a missile and knock it to the ground. As I popped out of my shell, the Machoke flipped onto its feet like they do in kung-fu movies. Only this Pokémon made the floor shake when he landed.
We stared each other down untill I heard the noise of a Pokéball bursting open. And there was Cresent, looking slightly different than before. Now, you are probably expecting me to say that the only difference is that she looked pissed off. It wasn't. There was another, slightly more obvious, difference.
"Thank Mew for unstable DNA," the newly formed Raichu muttered as she blasted the Machoke with a powerfull thunderbolt. This time, it did go down as its muscles went into spasms and stuff so it couldn't stay upright.
"Remind me not to piss you off," I told her as she walked over.
"I bet you say that to all the girls," she countered, frying the Suit that had lobbed the Pokéball at her as well.
But we were all distracted by Moron yelling at a second Suit, while the third was right in front of the bound Flame and still holding the needle that carried the lethal poison. Flame actually looked scared. But, I couldn't blame him for that seeing as I hate needles too.
Scyther was walking over to us, not paying any attention to our stares.
"Scyther, stop that bastard!" I yelled at the bug, who smirked and shrugged.
"Scyther doesn't need too," he muttered as he stepped up beside me and turning to look at Flame, "watch and learn. Flame, get him!"
Just as the needle went down, Flame's arm came up and knocked it out of the Suit's hand. He used his claws on it to rip off the rope that made up his muzzle and got to his feet. Now it was the Suit that looked scared.
"Scyther cut the ropes that bound Flame's limbs while everyone was focused on Squirt," Scyther explained.
"You're a sneaky bastard, you know that?" Cresent laughed, her lightning bolt shaped tail tip scratching the fur underneath her ear.
The Suit that Flame had cornered managed to summon a Pokémon of his own, a water type that I was somewhat familiar with. I was familiar with it due to it's status as a Starter Pokémon, much like myself.
"Mudkip. Flame could be in trouble now," I muttered as the two faced off.
"Flake took down four Pokémon on his own, dispite being outnumbered and came away pretty much unscathed," Cresent said, "so one Pokémon, even with a type advantage, shouldn't be a problem."
She was right, Flame knocked the Mudkip out of the way with a punch to the head and backed the Suit even further into the corner.
"Maybe we should stop him now," I suggested, "you know? Incase he is hungry."
"You can try, I'm staying out of the way," Cresent said as we all watched.
We all spotted the other Suit, the one that was still standing, pick up the needle and syringe that the first had dropped as he snuck up on Flame. We all made a move fowards but a psychic barrier blocked us in. The Kadabra had woken up and was stopping us, and he looked like he could maintain that force field for a while.
But there was one of us still inside that barrier that managed to save Flame. Moron shoulder barged the Suit too the side, managing to make it drop the syringe but losing balance and tumbling over. He rolled onto his back and propped himself up with the wall, he had landed badly and had winded himself.
"You just lost your lisence," the Suit said as he readjusted his tie and glassed, stepping towards Moron. Just as he was reaching down to grab Moron by the collor, Flame appeared again and sank his teeth into the Suit's leg. It gave Moron enough time to get back to his feet and smack the Suit in the face. Flame released his hold and spat out some blood. I could actually hear what he said next, "ick. That stuff tastes bad. I can't believe I wanted to eat that."
"He's sane again!" I cheered, I couldn't help myself.
"Hey, he hangs around you. How sane can he be?" Cresent retorted, loosing an electrical blast into the shield that seperated us from them.
"Don't start partying yet," Scyther added as he pointed with his blades, "look at that."
The last Suit had managed to grab the syringe and dived past Moron, catching both him and Flame by suprise. I cried out as the needle went into Flame's side and the plunger was pressed.
"Shit. Flame!"