A/N: Last time, in the movie, the four Pokemon professors were called on to investigate vandalism allegedly caused by Ghost Pokemon and found some very strange clues that point in such a direction. Can they figure out what they mean and figure out the motive behind the attacks? Find out, starting now!
ToonSchool: Pokebusters
Encounter
A few hours after the investigation, the day had ended as most students left the university building, bidding farewell to friends who were staying for night classes, while other students chatted with others and later walked and/or drove home together. However, in the university's Pokemon Center, some students were conversating with each other while others were at the front counter asking the pink-haired Pokemon nurse in charge to heal their Pokemon. Just then, a certain Kalosian Pokemon Professor entered the Center, that most of the girls there to drop everything and stare at him with glee as he approaches the nurse.
"Good afternoon, Nurse Joy."
The nurse turns around and sees the professor right in front of her. "Oh, hello, Professor. Would you like to rest your Garchomp as usual?"
"No, Garchomp is fit and healthy. But thank you for asking," Sycamore answered. "Actually, Nurse Joy, I was wondering if you might have any trainers with a Sableye, a Litwick, and/or a Gengar come through the center lately."
"Why do you ask?," asked Nurse Joy curiously.
"I'm sure you've heard about the incidents affecting Scrooge McDuck and his businesses lately?"
"Yes?"
"Well, me and my colleagues have been asked to aid in the investigation, and we figure the attacks are the work of Ghost Pokemon."
"Oh my. Really?"
"Yes. I just want to make sure that if our theory is true, that these Pokemon don't have trainers. If they do, I don't want them to get in trouble for their Pokemon's misdeeds, unless they were behind the attacks on purpose."
"I see. Well, I'll check the records and see what I can find."
But before she can do anything, Joy and Sycamore jumped in shock upon hearing a commotion. When they turned to the source, they saw a woman resembling Nurse Joy gasping upon seeing the Poke Balls spill from her cart. "I-I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to drop them!"
The nurse tries to pick up most of the Poke Balls from the ground in panic, which causes Nurse Joy to sigh in dismay at her associate's action. "Janine, I know this is your third day of work. But you really need to calm down and loosen up."
"I know, I know. I just can't help but feel like the sky is falling or something," Janine nervously replied.
"Um, why are there two Nurse Joy's here?," Sycamore asked, puzzled. Nurse Joy then came around the counter and walked over to the Professor.
"Oh, this is my little sister, Janine. She's here as a nurse-in-training," she replied as she escorted Sycamore to Janine. "Sis, I'd like you to meet the Kalos region's resident Pokemon Professor, Augustine Sycamore."
Janine's eyes widened upon seeing the Pokemon Professor. "I-It's really nice to meet you, Professor! It's a real honor! A privilege!," Janine panickly said as she bowed, causing her to drop the Poke Balls once more.
"It's nice to meet you Janine," he replied. "And no need to bow, I'm just a regular person."
"I'm sorry. I'm just so delighted to meet you," Janine nervously said as she tried to pick up the Poke Balls again.
"Here, let me help you," Sycamore said as he bent down to help Janine.
As the two gathered the Poke Balls, they reached for the same one and their hands touched. The two then glanced at each other and stared into each other's eyes as a connection formed between them. Eventually, the two looked away from each other in embarrassment, blushing intensely.
"Yuck! How come every movie has to have a mushy love story?!" Timmy exclaimed. "Where's the action?!"
"And where is the ghost butt-kicking?!" Buttercup added, also disgusted by the scene.
"It's not mushy! It's just good storytelling. Every movie could use a good love story. And the butt-kicking will come. Just be patient!" June explained.
"Okay... But why is Sycamore having a thing with a Pokemon nurse?! Can't he just date someone famous?" Timmy asked again. "Like another professor...?"
"Or a world-famous pop star, Britney Britney?" Cosmo said as he showed the magazine with the said singer on the cover.
"Because it would take all the attention away from the main story," Daryl explained.
"And where did you get that magazine, Cosmo?," Wanda asked, suspiciously eyeing her husband with a death glare.
Cosmo grew nervous as he stammered, "Um, well, uh… you see, uh… it's Timmy's!"
Timmy just glares at his fairy in response.
"Enough you two, now sit down and let's get back to the movie," Tony shouted at them, causing the two to comply.
After they picked up all of the Poke Balls, Janine bowed to Sycamore once more and said, "Thank you, Professor."
"Not to worry. Though, I must say, you might be a bundle of nerves, but you do know how keep your composure when you show respect," Sycamore said.
"D-Do you think so?"
"Yeah, I do."
The two then held hands as they gazed into each other's eyes, strengthening their romantic bond. The moment was broken, however, by Sycamore's phone buzzing. Taking it out and looking at it, he turned to Janine and said, "Work calls, I have to go. I'll see you around."
"Yeah, you too," Janine replied as Sycamore left the Pokemon Center. As he did, the student girls in the center clamored to get a look, lying on top of each other to form a pyramid.
"Wow, he's so handsome!," one girl sighed.
"So perfect!," said another.
"A man in a million!," added a third. Just then the girls' weight gave way and their pyramid collapsed.
As she watched Sycamore leave the Center, Janine stared at him, entranced by his kindness towards her. And as her sister went back to the counter to tend more Pokemon waiting there, she secretly took something from her pocket: a circular badge with a white ghost with a "no" sign over it. She smiled at the sight of it.
In Professor Oak's lab in the university, Oak was talking with his assistant Tracey Sketchit about the investigation into the attacks.
"But why would Ghost Pokemon commit such vandalism to so many areas?," Tracey asked.
"That's what we're going to find out," Oak replied with determination in his voice.
"And the sooner the better. I'm not sure if Mr. McDuck's businesses can take much more."
"Well, that's why he hired us to help him."
Oak then took a folder and opened it revealing records and photos of the crime scene. "And just in case, we asked the Pokemon Center to look up any trainers who own Ghost-type Pokemon who have passed through there lately. Hopefully, we may able to find new clues to solve this strange mystery."
"I see," Tracey said. "Well, what have you found so far?"
"Well, we've identified the Pokemon behind the attack, but there's just something strange about-"
Just then, Oak's phone rang. He took it out and saw that Kukui was calling.
"It's Kukui. Maybe he's got an update," he said to Tracey.
"I'll just go finish up those chores then," Tracey replied as he left the lab to give his mentor some privacy. Oak then answered the phone.
"Kukui?"
"Yes, Samuel. I have Sycamore and Willow here on a conference," said Kukui.
"Hello," both professors greeted Oak.
"So have you found anything yet?," Sycamore asked.
"So far, I've been trying to compare some of the scratch marks and foot and handprints from the site," Oak explained. "But somehow, some things here don't add up."
"What do you mean?," Willow asked.
"While we do know the scratches were made by a Sableye, they seem to be too big for a normal Sableye's claws. And other than Shadow Claw, it can't learn any other attack that stronger than Cut."
"Hmm, that is unusual," Kukui replied, puzzled at this.
"And the foot and handprints were made by a Gengar, but a really big one. I mean, some Gengar can be big, but this one is way bigger than any usual size on record."
"Like how big are we talking?," Sycamore asked.
"At least half one story."
"Oh, wow."
"And also, that waxy residue we found that's supposed to secretion from a Litwick-"
"Let me guess: too much of it to be from a regular-sized Litwick?," Willow guessed.
"Correct."
"Geez, what is going on here?," Kukui asked. Oak started to answer, but just then, he heard a strange noise coming from outside his lab. The noise quickly repeated itself, irking Oak's curiosity.
"Um, I gotta go, I'll call you guys back," Oak said as he cut the call off, and headed outside to investigate.
Outside, Oak looked around the entrance to his lab, trying to locate the source of the mystery noise.
"Hello?," he called out. "Is there someone here?"
Just then, he heard the noise again come from down the hall. He slowly crept down the hall, uncertain of what might be lurking there.
"If this is someone's idea of a joke, it's not funny."
The noise occurred again, this time coming from the bottom of a nearby stairway. Oak then slowly headed down the stairs to the bottom level.
Upon reaching the bottom, he heard the noise again, but couldn't figure out which direction it had come from. He then heard footsteps coming from down the left hall. Worried about what it might be, he slowly crept to the edge and hugged the corner. As the footsteps came closer, he took out a Poke Ball, braced himself, and then jumped out to confront whoever it was…
"AAHH!," screamed Oak.
"AAHH!," screamed Kukui, Willow, and Sycamore.
"Guys?," Oak jumped back in shock, putting away his Poke Ball. "What are you all doing here?"
"I heard some strange noise passing by my lab," Willow explained. "When I tried to follow it, I found Kukui and Sycamore here as well."
"I heard the same noise by my lab," Oak said.
"Mine too," Kukui added.
"And mine."
But before they can wonder why, they heard the strange noise once more.
"Let's wonder about that later. I'll go first, you guys stay behind me," Oak instructed as he took the lead for the other professors, remaining cautious about his surroundings.
The four walked down the halls, following the noise, and as they did, it got louder and louder.
Eventually, they traced it to a door with a sign that said "Basement", which was slightly ajar. Glancing at each other with suspicion and worry, they cautiously entered the door and headed down a dark stairway, the noise getting even louder as they went. At the bottom, they found themselves in an empty basement and looked around trying to find some kind of sign to let them know what was causing the noise.
"Hey, what do you suppose that is?," Kukui asked, pointing at something. The other professors looked and saw a strange-looking device in a corner of the basement. It was a small box that was expanded into a size of book decorated in Victorian ornaments and jewels around the exterior of the device. Inside lies a strange energy orb glowing in a purple aura.
"I dunno, but it doesn't look like one of Phineas and Ferb's inventions that's for sure," Willow replied.
"I agree. The decorations seem to be old, but the orb seems to have some sort of ancient power within it," Oak described. "I wonder what it's made of..."
But as he tried to touch the box, Oak quickly jumped back and screamed as he grips his right wrist in pain.
"Are you okay?" Kukui asked in worry.
"Yeah, I'm alright," replied Oak as he rubbed his wrist.
"It must be protected by its power or something," Willow suggested.
Suddenly, the orb's aura grew brighter, and as it did, a sudden freezing cold breeze swept through the room, catching the professors off guard. Upstairs, the breeze caused the basement door to slam shut and the door to unexpectedly lock itself.
"What's going on?," Sycamore asked, frightened by the ordeal.
"I don't know!," Kukui replied, equally frightened.
As the professors watched, the lights in the basement rapidly flickered on and off, a dark mist emitted from the box, and the orb's aura continued to glow brighter and brighter. Finally, all the lights in the basement shattered, and the cold wind, mist, and aura combined and spiraled until they blew away, leaving a mysterious Victorian woman standing in the middle of the basement. The professors looked in awe at the woman.
"Whoa," Willow said in amazement.
"Who is she?," Kukui asked curiously.
"I think you mean, what is she?," Oak corrected him. He had a bad feeling about this woman in his gut.
As the professors remained hesitant to approach the woman, Sycamore stepped up and said, "Allow me. She might be a missing person or a lost student. I think I can get her to trust me."
With any caution to his steps, Sycamore slowly approaches the woman as the other professors watch in anticipation. "Um... excuse me, Ma'am. Bonjour. Are you lost?", he asks the woman. She remained silent, staring at the professors. "Are you a student here?"
The woman remained silent.
"Can you at least tell me your name?"
The woman stayed silent, and then let out an inhuman roar at the professors and sprayed Sycamore with green slime from her mouth, knocking him down. Sycamore made an astonished expression as he sat up, and the other three professors looked on shocked at what happened before Kukui started to laugh.
"Wow, harsh rejection. But I guess your "infinite" luck with the ladies had to run out sometime," Kukui chuckled, at which Sycamore gave him a death glare.
However, the woman roared at the professors once more before pouncing at them. Reacting quickly, Oak throws his Poke Ball towards her and shouts, "Rotom, use Thunderbolt!"
The Poke Ball popped open and released an orange plasma body covered in a blue aura, which then unleashed a bolt of electricity at the woman. Hitting her, it caused her to scream in pain before falling to the ground. Upon seeing this, the professors rushed to Sycamore's side to help him.
"Are you okay?" Willow asked.
"I-I'm fine. Though, I might take a bath after this," Sycamore groaned as he looked at his now soaked lab coat. "Besides, I doubt I can ever wear this lab coat again."
"It's alright. We may able to get a sample from it. Besides, that woman wasn't your type anyways," Oak said in a positive tone.
But before Sycamore can respond, they heard a howling noise right in front of them. When they looked up, the woman suddenly lifted herself into the air. And as they watched, she began to peel off her skin and hair, revealing herself to be a pink jellyfish-like creature wearing some sort of a transparent collar and a gem on its neck. But as they looked closer, its face appeared to be deformed into a large blue mouth with red eyes and a big wide mouth as it howled at the professors.
"W-What in Xerneas's name is that?!" Sycamore exclaimed.
"T-That's a Frillish, i-it's one of the Pokemon living in Unova's waters," Oak tried to explain, but he was horrified at the sight of the deformed Pokemon. "But that's impossible, its habitat is nowhere near here!"
"And I don't remember them being able to disguise themselves as humans or use Transform," Kukui pointed out.
The large Frillish howled at the professors once more as she raised one of her veil-like arms to strike them down. However, Oak's Rotom flies right in front of them as their trainer shouts, "Rotom, use Thunderbolt once more!"
Rotom then charged and blasted another Thunderbolt at the Frillish. It hit its mark… and then fizzled out just as quickly. The Frillish became even angrier and roared at the professors.
"B-But, that's impossible! Frillish is supposed to be a Water-type," Oak muttered, horrified that his Pokemon's attack was ineffective. "She shouldn't able to withstand an Electric-type like that! This goes beyond anything that either me or you guys know about types and attacks!"
"As much I'd like to discuss more of this impossibility, can I suggest our next move?" Willow asked calmly as they backed away from the deformed Pokemon.
"What?"
Just as the Frillish was about to strike the humans, Willow shouted, "RUN!"
On his command, they quickly ran from the basement, narrowly escaping the Frillish's attack, bursting through the door (and breaking the lock) as they scream for their lives. However, this caused the deformed Floating Pokemon to howl in anger before she flies out after them.
The Frillish chased them down through the halls, roaring, and smashing, trying to get the four professors, wrecking walls, windows, doors and rooms as she went.
The professors then ducked into the university library, where the Frillish chased them, thrashing and roaring about, knocking over bookcases, smashing desks, tables, and chairs, and frightening several students still in there studying.
The professors then exited the library and ran outside with the Frillish following them. No sooner had they gone, that the head librarian peeked out of her office and said, "Shh!", before ducking back in, paying no mind to the wrecked library.
Outside, the professors ran across the campus, screaming as the Frillish continued to smash and thrash at them and howl, destroying trees, benches, and tables, and tearing up the property. The professors continued to dodge each attack until they ducked back into the university via a new hall, with the Frillish following after them.
Meanwhile, Crocker was in his office doing a newspaper crossword puzzle. He scratched his head with his pen in an attempt to think, unaware of the chaos outside.
"Let's see... This Pokemon is known to evolve into eight different Pokemon," he muttered as he taps his pen on his head several times. "Last three-letter word is "Vee". Vee... Vee, vee, vee, vee, vee, vee..."
However, his concentration was broken when he heard a noise outside of his office.
"Will you keep it down?! Today's puzzle is hard to think, you know!" Crocker shouted angrily, unaware it was the Frillish destroying some of the windows as Kukui tried to dodge her arms. "College kids...Phooey... FAIRIES!", he spasmed before he returns his focus on the puzzle.
Meanwhile, the professors continued to run from the Frillish, dodging her attacks as she destroyed more property. Eventually turning a corner, Oak noticed the campus's head Engineering Lab.
"Quick, in here!," he called to the other professors. The four quickly ducked inside, shut the door, and hid out of sight as the Frillish flew right by the room.
As the noise of the Frillish got weaker, the professors sighed with relief as Willow said, "We lost her."
"For now. But now what?," Sycamore asked, unsure of what to do with the situation. "That Frillish is apparently immune to your Rotom's Electric-type attacks."
"Not to mention it did a number on it as well," Kukui added as he pointed to Oak's Plasma Pokemon, who was now hiding under his lab coat in fear.
"Well, we can't just escape. There are still students and fellow teachers in the university right now and they could be in danger," Oak said.
As the other professors continued their conversation, Willow noticed something on one of the tables and smiled with inspiration as he approached it.
"But how? As you said, it's able to resist what should be a supereffective attack like a Thunderbolt. How are we supposed to defeat it?!" Kukui asked in a panic.
"What about this?"
Upon hearing Willow's voice, they turned around and saw what he was holding. It was Phineas and Ferb Solarbeam Replicator invention. "It's the inventions that the Flynn-Fletcher boys used earlier. They said it can replicate a Solarbeam attack, and it seems to have enough solar power to do one shot."
"Well, Frillish is a Water-type, so Solarbeam, a Grass-type attack should be effective against it," Kukui reasoned.
"And Frillish is also a Ghost-type too, so the light power of the Solarbeam should take care of it too," Oak added.
"But if we miss the shot or it doesn't work, then… we'll be in big trouble," Sycamore expressed. "This is very risky what we're doing here."
Before they can even think about this, the professor suddenly hears a thumping noise and a howl outside the lab.
"I'm afraid we got no choice," Oak said as his eyes narrowed upon seeing the door being broken down. "Willow, prepare the machine. Kukui, Sycamore, help me get it into position!"
The other professors nodded in agreement as they began to prepare the machine.
Meanwhile, not far away from the university, Pete was inside his police car listening to the radio.
"Thank you, Jenny for that awesome music review of Experia's new album, "Reignite". And I have to agree, the band's keyboardist and songwriter did it again with a fresh new beat," the DJ said as Pete lazily takes a bite of his donut before taking a sip of his coffee. "Wish we knew his true identity. Speaking of which, here's one of their new songs right now, "Hold On"!"
"Ooh, a new Experia song premiering tonight? I can't wait to hear this!" Pete happily said as he quickly turned up the volume as the new song began.
Female Singer: Running wild, the city sleeps
You're waking up and you're feeling strong,
It won't take long, and once you're gone,
Where and why as you're moving on,
When you laugh, when you do
Who's gonna tell ya where's the truth,
Will you see it, will you try
I wanna love you but I don't know why
As the song plays, Pete began to bop to the beat of the music and says, "I love this group!"
The morning colors you blue, in the night you're the king of taboo,
Though you never could explain, what's your game?
Hold on, w-w-w-w-w...
Without a warning, the song began to glitch, much to Pete's horror.
"Hey! What's going on?!," he exclaimed as he began to pound on the radio, trying to get it working again. "Come on you lousy piece of-"
Just then, Pete heard screaming outside his car. He looked up to see people running away from the university.
"Hey!," he yelled as exited his cruiser. "What the heck is going on for my sake?!"
Pete then looked over at the university and saw a giant Frillish attack it. His face immediately sunk and drooped into a shocked expression as he exclaimed, "Holy sh-"
Back at the university, the Frillish continued to bash the Engineering Lab's door, as students fled from the chaos. But at the nearby Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy was doing everything she could to try to calm them the ones inside down.
"Now, now everyone, just calm down. Everything's going to be alright," she said. Janine, meanwhile, looked out the window at the chaos unfolding, worried about Professor Sycamore.
"I just hope Augustine's okay," she said worriedly.
Finally, with a huge head bash, the Floating Pokemon finally broke down the door of the Engineering lab. But once inside, it saw Oak hold the Solarbeam replicator's mirror, but also Kukui, Willow, and Sycamore managing its dolly.
"Hasta la vista, Frilly!," Kukui said. Oak then pushed the button, and the mirror charged up, and then unleashed an artificial Solarbeam, hitting the Frillish right on the spot.
With a final howl, the Floating Pokemon quickly disappeared in a flash green light as the Kanto Pokemon Professor flew back to the others due to the recoil from the blast.
When the howl had died down, the professors looked on in amazement and stunned silence. It was finally over. The Frillish was gone. They'd done it!
"We did it," Oak said silently before he exclaimed loudly. "WE DID IT!"
The four professors then shouted and jumped up and down in triumph happy that they managed to drive the Frillish away.
"Eh-hem..."
Upon hearing that familiar cough, the professors froze in shock for a few seconds before they slowly turned around, revealing Pete in the middle of the rubble, and while he wasn't affected by the destruction, he was very enraged towards the men.
"WHAT IN BLAZES HAPPENED HERE?!," he screamed irately.
"Well, detective, my colleagues and I heard something suspicious in the halls and went to investigate it," Oak explained.
"And we ended up in the basement, and we found this mysterious orb in a box, which after we accidentally disturbed it, summoned this ghost woman," Sycamore continued.
"Except that woman was actually a disguised giant Frillish, a Water-and-Ghost type Pokemon usually found in Unova, which chased after us and tried to destroy us, and caused all the destruction around us," Kukui added.
"But we took care of it with the help of a couple of students' genius invention," Willow finished showing Phineas and Ferb's invention to Pete.
"Oh, oh... I see," Pete said, feigning an understanding to their answers. "So another Ghost-type of these beasts came around and wreck the place just like at Scrooge's businesses and construction sites, eh?"
"Exactly right!," Oak said.
"And it all happened because you let it out, eh?"
"By accident, but yes," Kukui confirmed.
"Well, in that case, I have something special to give you all."
Before they could even ask, they heard clicking sounds below them. When they looked down, they saw that they were all now handcuffed. They glanced at the cuffs and then at Pete, confused over what had just happened.
"Quad cuffs! You're all under arrest on the suspicion of multiple counts of criminal vandalism, destruction of public and private property, and reckless endangerment!" Pete declared.
Upon they hear this, the professors' eyes widen even more as they shouted, "UNDER ARREST?!"
A/N: Oooh, boy. This is not good. Pete has taken his dislike of Pokemon too far this time. How will the professors find their way out of this one? And where did that Frillish and that orb come from, and what secrets do they hold? Hopefully, we'll get some answers and a lot more on the next part, coming soon!