Well, I was awake all night trying to figure out how to go about this Episode. But I finally smashed that annoying mental block into a bazillion pieces.
Anyway, Fervo and Flame face down the Tangela. Who is a little stronger than the last time they fought it.
Episode 124: Creeper Vines
"What the hell is that thing?" The turtle yelled as it ducked under a vine.
"A crazy Tangela," Flame yelled back as he fended off two vines with a fireball, "I can take it down if we can keep these vines at bay for a few minutes."
His plan was pretty much the same as the one we used the last time we fought the Tangela, but the Tangela wasn't going to fall for it a second time and hundreds of vines surrounded us. All of the Blue's were out of the area, having been led to a lake by Tate to clean up and rest, which left us on our own.
"How the fuck did this thing get so huge?" I yelled as I ducked under a sweeping vine and sliced it with my claws.
"I was buried in very rich soil, so I had a few growth spurts," came the reply as masses of vine caught Flame and wapped him tight, stopping him attacking with a vine muzzle, "so I can extract my revenge on you."
"Vine monster picked the wrong Pokémon to attack," the Scyther added as it sliced several of the vines binding Flame in two, freeing his jaws so he could fry the rest.
From outside the cage of vines, I spotted several other Pokémon rushing towards us but all were kept back by the Tangela. My distraction allowed it to knock me down but I managed to use my tail to stop it managing to pin me to the ground. The turtle was doing very badly, his water wasn't having any affect and his shell attacks were easily being evaded by the mass of vines.
Eventually the Tangela got bored of him and cacooned him in vines before lobbing him away, out of the cage and the battle.
"I'll deal with him later," it laughed as me and the Scyther found ourselves back to back, both of us swiping at any vines that came close.
A loud screech came from outside and a bird Pokémon blasted its way in, its feathered wings somehow slicing clean through the vines.
"Need a little help?" It called down as it kept slicing through the vines that had us cornered.
"Scout! I was wondering when you'd get here," Flame laughed before looseing a fireball at a large vine that was going after him, "damnit, how many vines has this bastard got?"
Just as Flame said that, more vines burst out of the rockface and completely surrounded us.
"Next time, shut up and just fight!" I yelled as the seemignly endless amount of vines poured forth, "don't tempt fate."
"Maybe I should have kept a few Boom Berries," he yelled back as he flame grilled several of the vines.
"The vine thingie has cacooned itself in vines," the bird called down, "we're not going to be able to take it down untill we've fought through all of them."
"It might get tricky if one more vine shows up," the Scyther added as he tore into the nearby vines, "but that won't stop Scyther."
He vanished from sight and vines seemed to just fall into pieces on their own, although I realised that he was just moving too fast for my eyes to follow. The sliced plants just piled up around us and the Scyther finally reappeared, breathing heavily.
"Okay, maybe Scyther overestimated Scyther's stamina," the bladed bug muttered before one of the massive remaining vines knocked it out with a blow to the head.
Scout was the next too fall, he was unable to evade all of the vines and it left me and Flame trapped inside the cage of vines.
"It's wearing us down," I muttered as we found ourself back to back again, "we can't keep this up for much longer."
"Well, I don't intend on letting this bastard kill me," Flame replied as he lashed out with both paws and knocked a vine to the side, "I can always blast a hole out for you, if you want to bail."
"Hey," I replied with a smile, "I'm not leaving a friend to die. I didn't back in the tunnels, I'm not going to start now."
A few minutes later, I started to doubt that decision as there was still hundreds of those vines all attacking. We were surrounded with sliced up vines that had piled up.
"Yeesh," Flame muttered as the vines gave us as small respite, "this bastard just keeps on coming. I lost count of how many I've fried"
"I can't count," I replied with a smirk, which vanished when I spotted several vines pointed at Flame. And they were Leech Seed vines.
"Shit!" I yelled as I knocked Flame to the side and felt the barbed seeds graze my sides as they shot past, strait through the space where Flame had been standing, "that was close."
"That could have hurt," Flame replied, "thanks."
"It can't have many more left. It takes ages for Leech Seeds to regrow. We better take it down before it prepares another volley."
Just as I said that, a vine clobbered me and I was flung backwards. The cage of vines let me pass and I crash landed outside of the battle.
"You okay?" Tate said as he pulled me up.
"No," I answered as I spotted the vine wall close again, "I won't be untill that bastard dies, for good."
I spotted one of the barbed seed pods laying nearby and picked it up, a plan to get back inside that battle forming.
"Tate, get the Blues out of here. If we fail, it might go after them," I muttered as I slid out my claws on my free paw.
"You won't fail," he replied, "you're one of the best fighters I've ever met, that Tangela won't be able to take you down."
"Thanks Tate," I called over my shoulder as I ran towards the vines once more, "I needed a confidence booster."
I got close enough to one of the vines to bring the barbed seed down and stab it, injecting the Tangela with its own Leech Seed. The sudden pain caused it to open the cage wall just enough for me to slip back inside. Scyther was back up and fighting, but Flame was down with several nasty gashes.
"Scyther was wondering when green lizard would show up," the bug called across as he decimated any vine that got close.
"I was wondering when you were going to wake up and help out," I called back as I grabbed some more seeds and started stabbing all of the vines within reach, "take that, you fuckwad!"
The Leech Seeds were not actually draining it of energy, seeing as it just transfered it strait back to the Tangela, but the process was causing the Tangela a fair bit of pain. Which was only amplified with each seed I stabbed it with. I was counting on passing its pain threshold. But I had forgot to take into account the fact that the vines were still attacking, even after I had stabbed them, and the only way to stay alive was to slice them in half. Which kinda removed the part that the seeds were in.
Suddenly the bird burst out of one of the piles and shot towards the Tangela's face, pulling away at the last second when a massive number of vines shot after him. He twisted and turned through all of the smaller vines while the large mass followed his every move. Eventually he shot though the center of a loop and the vines could no longer follow, thanks to them being tied up in a knot.
"Scyther," the bird yelled down, "now!"
Scyther nodded and leaped into the air, bringing his blades up towards the massed vines. The bug's blades sliced strait through the lot of them and the Tangela was left with very few vines left. I could actually see its face now, it's vine armour had been shredded. And, I still had one Leech Seed left. I pulled my arm back and focused on the white eyes.
"Let's see if you like it!" I yelled out as I threw the barbed seed with all my might.