Well, this was a slightly harder Episode to write. Mainly because I could only do it in small chunks instead of the whole thing at once like I usually do. It was actually kinda fun, so I'm going to stick with it for a while.
Anyway, if you can't figure out what is going on. Then you are an idiot that surpasses even Frank. And you didn't pay attention to my shameless advertising.
Episode 149: Welcoming Committee
I dived over to the bush and started ripping of bunches of berries, I was starved. They were familiar to me, tasty. I was wolfing them all down while Fervo glanced around. He was on edge.
"Something is up," he muttered as I grabbed another bunch and continued eating, "I have a bad feeling about this."
"S'probably your stomach saying 'feed me'," I replied, "berries?"
"Come on Flame. We're in a new place and there could be anything out there. Stop thinking about food."
"Look, I can't defend myself if I am going to pass out from starvation. Neither can you. So calm down and eat your damn lunch before I force-feed you it."
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Fervo spun around and looked into the undergrowth, while I watched with mild amusement.
"Did you just hear something growl?" He asked, slowly taking a step backwards.
"You're getting paranoid. Just relax a little; there is nothing stupid enough to attack us."
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Naturally, I was wrong. Fervo dived to the side as an energy ball was fired out of the plantation and nearly took his head off. I leapt to my feet and had to throw myself down again to avoid a second, which blasted the food.
"Fucker!" I growled, launching a fireball in the direction of the barrage. Fervo yelled out something that I missed, I was focused on the barrier that had formed and stopped my blast, "I really am starting to hate psychic types."
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I threw up a quick smokescreen to by me a little time, hoping that the psychic wasn't able to read my mind well enough to know where I was standing. It was. Fervo was pulling me back when a shockwave blew the smoke, and us, away. As he was behind me when the blast caught us, he was crushed between my and the tree we collided with. I collapsed, just in time to avoid a blue beam that caught the stunned Treecko in the chest and froze him to the bark.
"Fervo! Oh, now you've really pissed me off," I growled, turning back and pelting the undergrowth with fireball after fireball as I dashed for a small bush on the sidelines. One with tiny red berries.
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I laughed as the barrier only just managed to stop my counter attack. Its user was hidden from my view by all of the fire, but I was going to fix that as I ripped a handful of berries off of the bush and let the fireball barrage slacken. I got a glimpse of wide red eyes amongst the scorched plantation as I flicked the berries into my mouth.
"Never ever ruin a Charmander's lunch," I said loudly as I felt the spices kick in and unleashed my super fire at the strange attacker.
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I could see the barrier slowly start to disintegrate but I was running out of juice and had to stop the catch my breath. Just as the fire stream began to stop, an energy ball that was bigger than my head came flying towards me.
"You have got to be shitting me," I muttered as I dropped to the floor and felt it whistle through the air just above me. I then had to roll to the side to evade a second, and slightly smaller, attack. From the offensive to defensive. That didn't suit me at all. So I went with plan B. And my personal favourite of them all. I feinted left and shot to the right, the psychic attacking where it thought I was going to go. It recovered fast and shot an Ice Beam just in front of me, but I just blasted it with a fireball and dived through the mist, heading strait for the unknown psychic with a fireball brewing.
I could see the, for lack of a better term for my thoughts right then, thing smirk and grinned myself. I wasn't so stupid that I'd run in blindly. When I had feinted, I'd swiped a boom berry from the bush as I ran past. I stopped dead and flung myself backwards as a second shockwave rippled out underneath my feet. I rolled backwards and ended up back on my feet, flicking a boom berry into my mouth and firing a second salvo at closer range.
'If this doesn't work, then I really am going to have to go kamikaze.'
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I winced as the psychic screeched while it took to the air. Its tail had been caught in my attack. The thing was moving too fast for me to get a good look at it but it looked very familiar. As it spun around to launch another attack, I realised what it reminded me off. Mewtwo. It wasn't him but it was of the same species that much was for sure.
"Aw fuck," I muttered as it launched another energy ball at me and I leapt backwards, the attack slamming into the ground at my feet. It had inherited Mew's arseholeness. Yes, I know that isn't a word but it sums Mew up nicely. Don't you think?
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"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Was all I could yell as I dodged attack after attack, occasionally having to dive over one blast to dodge a second. I was starting to tire whereas the clone thing just kept up the blasting. Eventually I tripped and rolled onto my back, seeing another attack heading strait for my head. I was too drained to move. Luckily, I didn't have too and a chunk of ice flew through the air and slammed into it. The resulting explosion gave me enough time to climb back to my feet and glance across at Fervo, who had freed himself from the ice trap.
"Still think we can take it?" He yelled over at me.
"We have too, it's trying to bloody kill us!"
"Mew might get pissed that we fought it."
"Mew be damned!"
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We both looked up at the psychic type as it placed its paws together in the way that it used to form energy balls. Nothing happened. It looked puzzled and tried again, only to get a small spark of energy. It was looking very confused and I was about to give it a fireball while it was distracted when I suddenly felt an invisible force wrap around my throat and stop the fireball forming. Fervo was untouched, content with just watching the psychic type while I tried to breathe. The psychic type suddenly shot back towards the ground, its screeching showing that it was a rather forced manoeuvre. Something else was pulling the strings now. And I had a pretty good hunch who it was.
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The psychic was pulled below the tree line and we lost sight of it. I was still slowly suffocating, trying to prise the invisible force off of me with claws and failing. Fervo still didn't notice as he was too busy staring at another psychic. This one we knew. The biggest ass of the lot.
'You two again?' He asked telepathically, I couldn't reply but allowed myself a little satisfaction at the hint on confusion in his tone.
"Mewtwo," Fervo nodded, "I take it that you are allied with that other psychic."
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Mewtwo stared at the two of us for several seconds and I fell to the ground when the vice around my neck finally released its hold. I was slowly burning back up to full rage at the sight of the clone, after the incident in Lavender, but managed to control myself as I pulled myself back up.
"Why do you sound so suprised?" I finally said, managing a small chuckle.
'What are you doing on my island?'
"We didn't see any signs," I replied, "seeing as we just appeared here. We don't know how, or why for that matter."