Rescue Bots in the world of Pokémon
Here's the next chapter of my crossover story of 'Transformers Rescue Bots' and 'Pokémon'. Sorry for the long wait everyone, I just got a little distracted with things these few weeks. I hope you all enjoy it.
"Talk"
'Thoughts'
"Com-links" or "Screen Monitors"
Chapter 10: Gaining new friends Part 2
Back at Doc Greene's lab, Doc Greene was still in the healing room as he continued to monitor Rotom's condition. Frankie was standing beside the healing chamber as she gazed down at the unconscious Rotom. Frankie just didn't understand why she and her dad were helping this Pokémon.
"Daddy, are you sure we should help this Pokémon after all the trouble it had caused us?" asked Frankie as she turned to look up at her father with a frown.
"Now, Sweetheart, we can't just ignore someone who has been hurt or injured." Doc Greene reasoned as he continued to monitor Rotom's recovery. "Especially Pokémon who might give us a headache from time-to-time. They are living beings like us no matter how different they are from the other creatures that we know."
"Still . . . " started Frankie but she never got the chance to voice her doubts.
The reason for her pause was that she began to notice Rotom waking up. The little Pokémon's eyes slowly opened as it let out a little moan. Doc Greene turned to glance at the little Pokémon for a moment before he pressed the button to retract the glass of the healing chamber. Frankie tensed as she watched Rotom slowly float up from the table as it became more aware of its surroundings. Rotom looked around the healing room in confusion for a moment before its eyes landed on Frankie. The little Pokémon and girl stared at each other for a moment. Rotom then let out a screech as it pointed one of its appendages at Frankie.
Frankie took a step back in surprise at the Pokémon's action as she stared at it in confusion. Rotom started chirping like crazy as it began to bow repeatedly towards her. It then turned and flew towards Doc Greene before stopping in front of him. It began to repeat its bowing as it continued its fast chirping. Doc Greene held up his hands in front of him as he tried to calm the little Pokémon down.
"Now, now, calm down," said Doc Greene gently. "You're not making much sense."
Rotom stopped mid-bow as it stared at Doc Greene in confusion before realization came over its face. It then used its right appendage to scratch the top of its head as it took on a thoughtful look. It tried to think of a way to tell Doc Greene and his daughter that it was sorry for its actions earlier. Doc Greene took on a thoughtful look himself as he tried to think of a way that he could understand what Rotom was saying. That was when an idea came bounding into his head.
"I think I might have an idea for our language barrier problem," said Doc Greene.
Frankie and Rotom stared at Doc Greene curiously when he turned and walked out of the room as he headed towards the lab. The two shared a look with each other. They then quickly followed after Doc Greene to see what he was going to do, or in this case invent.
With the Rescue Team
The Burns family and their Autobot partners arrived at the mayor's house, which was actually a large mansion. They all quickly noticed a long trail of overturned dirt in the front yard. The Burns family hopped out of their vehicles as they walked up to the long trail of dirt to inspect it. The trail of dirt led through the front grass of the mayor's lawn, all the way to the backyard of the mansion. A few flowers had been dug out of the ground, but other than that there was no major damage that the team could see.
"Whatever creature caused this damage was pretty big," said Graham as he knelt down to examine the dirt trail. "About 0.7 m's to be precise."
"So . . . basically we're dealing with a giant mole?" questioned Kade with a raised eyebrow.
"Or maybe a ground type Pokémon," spoke Anora on the Com-link.
Kade scoffed at Anora's answer as an annoyed look appeared on his face. Dani smirked at her older brother before she talked to Anora.
"What makes you think it's a Pokémon?" asked Dani curiously.
"Well, for one thing, regular moles only grow to a size where they can fit into the palm of your hand." Anora explained. "So, I'm sure you guys are dealing with a Pokémon that loves to dig underground."
"I'll believe that when I see it," grumbled Kade as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Frankly, I've had enough with being around Pokémon for one day."
"Um . . . you might want to hold that thought," said Cody.
Anora, Cody, Mimi and Treecko were all gazing at the main screen of the command center council. A trail of a dirt tunnel suddenly appeared from around the back of the mayor's home. They watched as it headed towards Cody's father and older siblings, who all turned to see the incoming dirt tunnel.
Charlie and his older children stood their ground as the dirt tunnel came towards them until it stopped right in front of them. The whole family was still for a moment before the head of a small brown skinned crocodile popped up from the ground. It blinked its two grey eyes up at the Burns family members curiously.
"What . . . is that?" said Kade with a raised eyebrow.
"It's a Sandile," said Anora from the com-link. "A ground and dark type Pokémon."
"I've heard about them from Doc Greene," said Charlie as the Sandile began to look around with a fearful expression on its face. "They mostly live in deserts. But how did this one get here?"
"And why is it looking around as if it's expecting to be attacked or something?" added Dani as she watched the Sandile carefully.
Treecko stared at the Sandile on the screen before his eyes widened with recognition. He sharply pointed at the screen, while crying out something in his language. Anora, Mimi and Cody blinked in surprise at the gecko Pokémon's action before Anora realized what was going on. She pointed at the screen that showed the Sandile.
"Treecko, is that the same Sandile that attacked your friend?" asked Anora gently.
Treecko quickly nodded his head 'yes' to Anora's question before turning back to the screen, along with Anora, Cody and Mimi.
Charlie heard what Anora had said. He was about to ask her what she was talking about, but he never got the chance. At that moment, the whole family heard a shout from around the corner. The sudden shout caused the Sandlie to stiffen before it quickly looked behind it. Coming around the corner of the mansion was the mayor himself with a broom in his hands.
Mayor H.B Luskey was a stout fat man who wore a brown suit, a white shirt underneath, dark brown shoes and a red bowtie. He had lighter brown hair on the lower part of his head, while he had darker brown hair on top of his head. The mayor quickly spotted the Sandile and glared at the Pokémon in anger.
"There you are!" shouted Mayor Luskey as he ran towards Sandile.
Sandile cried out in fear before it quickly disappeared into the ground again and started to dig. It dug towards the mayor, which caused Luskey to stop in his tracks in surprise as the dirt tunnel passed between his legs. Mayor Luskey yelped in surprise as he lifted his right foot up. That action caused him to fall down onto his back. Charlie and his family watched as the dirt tunnel headed towards the forest, where it disappeared into the underbrush.
"Looks like it got away," said Dani with a frown.
"Well, at least we discovered what type of Pokémon had been wrecking the mayor's lawn," said Graham with a shrug.
Charlie walked forward to help Mayor Luskey up from the ground.
"Are you alright Mayor Luskey?"
"No, I'm not alright!" exclaimed Mayor Luskey as he turned to walk towards the back of the mansion. "That little menace had destroyed everything in my backyard."
Charlie and his four older children followed Mayor Luskey around to the back of the house to see the damage. What they saw had them staring dumbfounded at what was displayed in front of them.
There were many dirt tunnels dug around the yard with a few of the flowers uprooted and lying around on the ground. But other than that, there wasn't any serious damage to the backyard.
"Look at this mess!" shouted Mayor Luskey angrily before he turned to look at Charlie and his family. "I want that thing captured and shipped off this island as soon as possible, or else!"
Charlie let out a sigh before nodding his head.
"Yes Mr. Mayor, we'll get right on it."
Charlie and his family then turned as they walked back to their vehicles. They headed back to the firehouse to hopefully come up with a plan in capturing that Sandile.
Firehouse Bunker
Everyone stood around as they began to discuss about the task that had been given to them by the mayor. Anora, Cody, Mimi and Treecko were also there as they took part in the meeting.
"How exactly does the mayor expect us to capture that thing?" questioned Kade in annoyance. "We're not exactly Pokémon Trainers you know?"
"And we don't really have much experience with Pokémon either." Graham added with a shrug of his shoulders. "We've only really responded to emergences that we have trained for."
"Not to mention that we don't even know where that Sandile could be." Dani said with a frown. "For all we know, it could have dug all the way to the other side of the island by now."
"Well, from what Anora and I saw. The Sandile had headed into the forest behind Mayor Luskey's mansion," spoke Cody with Anora standing beside him.
"Which doesn't give us many leads," said Charlie with a shake of his head. "Also, we don't have the right equipment in catching that Sandile."
"And we don't know very much about Pokémon to help us out in this situation either." Heatwave added as he shared a glance with his team members.
"This is quite the dilemma for us Rescue Bots." Chase said with a lost expression.
Anora was quiet throughout the conversation as she stood with Treecko in her arms, while Mimi sitting on her left shoulder. She was thinking back to what she had seen on the screen on the Command Center computer. She remembered how scared Sandile looked when it was glancing around in fear and how it ran away from the mayor. She wondered what could have made Sandile so scared of people. Cody noticed his cousin's quietness before he gently tapped her on the shoulder. Anora blinked in surprise before she turned to look at her little cousin with a smile.
"Oh . . . yes Cody?"
"Are you okay?" asked Cody with concern. "You seem to be thinking hard about something."
Everyone turned their attention on Anora when they heard what Cody had said. Anora became nervous underneath everyone's gazes', but soon answered as she told them what she had been thinking.
"I was just thinking back to the Sandile that you all encountered." Anora said as she looked at everyone around her.
Kade shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, so?"
"Well . . . from the way that it acted. It looked as if it was expecting to be attacked at any second," explained Anora with a light frown. "Maybe something happened to it and . . ."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever squirt," interrupted Kade with a wave of his hand. "Look, we don't have time to hear your lame excuses about what feelings Pokémon have, Okay? So why don't you just take your silly ideas somewhere else, Poké-nerd, and let us real Emergency Responders handle things from here." He then turned to look at the rest of his family. "Now let's get back to how we're going to get rid of that Pokémon."
Anora felt hurt at what Kade had said to her. She then turned and began to walk away from the group. Heatwave watched as Anora headed towards the elevator, along with everyone else, before he turned to glare down at his human partner.
"You just had to bump her off, didn't you," stated Heatwave with a growl.
Kade frowned before he looked around to see everyone else giving him disapproving looks.
"What?"
Anora rode the elevator up to the garage before stepping out. She held a gloomy look on her face for a moment before Mimi gently nuzzled her head against her human friend's cheek. Anora smiled before a determined expression took its place as she knelt down to place Treecko on the ground. The gecko Pokémon looked at Anora curiously as Mimi jumped down from her shoulders and stood beside Treecko.
"Mimi, Treecko . . . I think we should try to find that Sandile on our own and see if we can talk to it." Anora whispered to her Pokémon friends. "I want to find out why it was so scared and to hopefully help it in some way."
Mimi yipped in agreement as a determined look came over her face. Treecko crossed his arms over his chest as he thought for a second before smiling as he nodded his head in agreement. Anora smiled at the two Pokémon before standing up to her full height again.
"Then let's get going," said Anora.
Anora then ran out of the garage with her two Pokémon friends following close behind her.
Back in the bunker, Kade was getting a serious reprimanding from his family, who were not very pleased at what Kade had said to Anora.
"That was strictly uncalled for, son," scolded Charlie.
"She was only trying to help, Kade." Dani said as she placed her hands on her hips while glaring at her older brother.
"I don't see how rambling on about Pokémon is 'Helping'," muttered Kade as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Well . . . she does know more about Pokémon than we do," reasoned Graham.
"And she's also gentle with them," added Cody. "So, she's able to get close to them."
"That maybe so, but . . ." started Kade, but Charlie stopped him from saying anything else.
"But nothing, Kade," said Charlie with a hard look on his face. "Anora is a part of this team and also part of our family."
Kade frowned as he stubbornly glared at the ground. Dani let out a sigh before she turned to her dad.
"I'll go upstairs to check up on Anora," said Dani as she began to make her way towards the stairs.
"I'll come with you," said Cody as he followed after his sister.
As the two siblings headed upstairs to look for their cousin, Charlie's cellphone started to ring from within his pants right pocket. Charlie quickly pulled it out and answered the person that was calling him.
"This is Chief Burns, what's your emergency?"
He listened to the person on the other end of the phone for a moment before nodding his head.
"Okay Mr. Bunty, we'll take care of it." Charlie said before he turned off his phone and looked back at his kids again. "Mr. Bunty just informed me that he just saw the Sandile in the park. So far all it's been doing is digging tunnels, and wrecking flower beds in the process."
"Were any people hurt?" asked Graham.
"No," answered Charlie with a shake of his head. "From what Mr. Bunty told me, the Sandile keeps avoiding any people that stands in front of its dirt tunnel."
"But it'll probably attack people later on if it gets cornered." Kade said with frown.
"Uh...Dad," spoke Dani from the Com-link. "We might have another problem on our hands."
"What's wrong, Dani?" asked Charlie in a concern voice.
"Anora's gone," answered Dani in a worried voice. "We've looked all around the firehouse for her, but we couldn't find her."
"That's just great," groused Kade angrily. "Don't tell me she just upped and ran away on us!"
"Something tells me that is not the case." Chase said as he and his teammates shared a worried look between each other.
Kade looked up at the Bots with a raised eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"Anora probably decided to go after the Sandile herself, while taking Mimi and Treecko along with her," answered Boulder.
"Probably after what you just said to her," said Blades.
"Can't say that I blame her," said Heatwave as he gave his partner a pointed look. "If someone decided to brush me aside, and not listen to what my idea was then I would probably go solo too."
Charlie and Graham gave Kade a glare as the older Burns sibling looked at them before he helplessly shrugged his shoulders. Charlie let out a sigh as he pressed the button on his com-link to talk with Cody.
"Cody, get up to the Command Center and see if you can't spot Anora on the monitors." Charlie said before he turned to look at his other two sons. "The rest of us will split up into two groups to look for both the Sandile and Anora. Graham, you and Dani will search for Anora. Kade, you're with me in capturing that Sandile."
"And if we find them both?" asked Graham with a worried look on his face.
"Let's just hope that Anora doesn't do something crazy," answered Charlie with a worried frown.
With that said, the Burns family quickly set out to find their runaway family member and the trouble making Pokémon.
Anora was walking down the dirt path in Griffin Rock Park as she and her two Pokémon friends looked for the Sandile. She had heard from a few people that there had been sightings of the dark/ground Pokémon, so it seemed like the best place to start looking for it. Mimi and Treecko were walking ahead of her as they carefully looked around for the Pokémon they were tracking.
"Where could that Sandile be?" voiced Anora as she swept her gaze over the park.
Treecko suddenly stopped in his tracks and cried out as he pointed to something ahead of them. Mimi and Anora also stopped as they turned their attention in the direction that Treecko was pointing to. The two quickly caught sight of a moving dirt tunnel heading towards a group of trees just off the park path.
"Let's go!" shouted Anora as she quickly ran after the moving dirt tunnel with Treecko and Mimi following close behind her.
The trio chased the dirt tunnel through the tree line until it stopped in a small clearing. Anora, Treecko and Mimi quickly stopped as they stared at the dirt tunnel in front of them. The dirt tunnel quickly started to change into a small mound of dirt in front of them. After a minute, the head of the Sandile quickly popped out before turning its gaze on Anora, Mimi and Treecko with fear etched upon its face. Anora slowly knelt down to be at a lower height where she hoped to look a little less threatening towards the Sandile.
"It's okay," said Anora in a gentle voice as she gave the Sandile a friendly smile. "We don't want to hurt you. We just want to talk to you."
The Sandile gazed at Anora with a look on unsureness within its eyes.
"Sandile?"
"I promise," reassured Anora with a nod as she continued to talk softly towards the Sandile. "My name's Anora and these are my two Pokémon friends, Mimi and Treecko."
Mimi let out a happy yip in greeting to the Sandile, while Treecko only crossed his arms and huffed as he gave Sandile a glare. Sandile let out a whimper when it saw the glare that Treecko was sending towards it. Anora also noticed Treecko's glare and gently placed a hand on the gecko Pokémon's shoulder to calm him down before looking back at Sandile again.
"Sorry. Treecko's just a little upset because of what you did to his friend, Rotom," explained Anora.
The Sandile looked confused for a moment before realization came over its features. It quickly jumped out from its hole and began to bow its head towards Treecko, while jabbering in a quick voice as it gave Treecko its sincerest apology. Anora had to smile at Sandile's actions before she noticed something on the crocodile Pokémon's back.
"Hey, Sandile, what's that on your back?" asked Anora.
Sandile froze and seemed to sink in on itself as it stared fearfully up at Anora. Anora quickly noticed the change in the Sandile's behavior before she started talking gently to it again.
"It's okay," said Anora softly. "I just want to help you."
Anora held her right hand out towards the Pokémon as the Sandile shyly looked up at her in surprise. It stared into Anora's eyes to see if there was any deceit in them, but it only saw kindness within their depths. Slowly, it began to make its way towards Anora with hesitant steps before coming within reach of her hand. Anora sat very still as she let the Sandile come to her, while getting a better look at its back. She saw that the Pokémon's back was slightly red with shallow scratches.
'I wonder what caused that injury.' Anora thought as she let the Sandile sniff her hand.
For a moment, things were going well for Anora, while her two Pokémon friends watched with happy or cautious looks as the young human interacted with the Sandile. But that soon changed when they heard Kade's voice shouting at them.
"Anora! Get away from that thing!"
The sudden shout caused Sandile to yelp in fear before it quickly began to dig into the earth again.
"No, wait! Don't go!" exclaimed Anora.
She helplessly watched as the Sandile disappeared into the hole it created as Kade, Charlie, Chase and Heatwave came running up to her. Anora let out a sigh before standing up to look at Kade with a frown. Kade came up to her with an angry expression upon his face, while Charlie only had a look of worry on his features.
"What did you think you were doing?" questioned Kade in an angry voice.
"I had everything under control, Kade!" shouted Anora as she glared straight up at her older cousin.
"Yeah right!" exclaimed Kade. "That Pokémon looked as if it was going to bite your hand off at any moment."
"It wasn't!" yelled Anora angrily. "Everything was going just fine until you showed up yelling! And now because of you, I wasn't able to help that poor Sandile!"
Mimi yipped in agreement as her fur bristled up on her back and tail in anger, while Treecko glared up at Kade with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Listen you little-" started Kade, but he was quickly cut off by his dad as Charlie placed a hand on his son's shoulder.
"What do you mean by that Anora?" asked Charlie with a raised eyebrow.
Anora took a minute to collect herself as she took in a calming deep breath before she answered her uncle's question.
"I only got a brief glance at the Sandile's back," explained Anora. "But I saw a large wound on it. It looked as if the Sandile might have gotten into a fight with another Pokémon."
"And we should be concerned by this, why?" questioned Kade as he gave Anora an annoyed look.
"Because if we just let Sandile wander around by itself for too long, its wound might become infected." Anora explained in exasperation. "If that happens then the Sandile will get seriously sick, and . . ."
Anora didn't dare finish her sentence as she didn't want to think about the possible outcome of what would happen to Sandile. Heatwave didn't need to know what Anora was going to say. He can only guess that whatever she was going to say next wasn't going to be good.
"Don't worry, Anora." Heatwave said as he knelt down to be at eye level with Anora. "We'll find Sandile before that happens."
Anora looked up at Heatwave and smiled up at him. Kade stared up at his partner in disbelief and was about to say something, but Charlie stopped him with a hard look. He then turned to look at his niece again with a smile.
"Anora, since you know more about how to handle Pokémon, you can take part in our search and rescue mission." Charlie said in a gentle voice. "Just promise that you'll listen to me and not go off on your own again."
"Okay, I promise," said Anora in agreement.
Mimi and Treecko also cried out in agreement while nodding their heads in the process.
"Then let's get going," said Charlie with a nod. "Anora, you'll ride with me."
Anora nodded her head before following her uncle over to Chase, while Kade and Heatwave followed close behind them. Anora hoped that they'll find the Sandile soon and that they wouldn't be too late.
A few miles away from the city, in the deepest part of the forest, the Sandile emerged from the hole it had dug. Sandile took in its surroundings for a moment before it let out a groan and collapsed to the ground. It let out a whimper as it lay on the ground, while grimacing in pain at the wound on its back. Unknown to the Sandile it was being watched by a little bird Pokémon that stared down at it with curiosity.
The bird Pokémon was small with primarily brown feathers, while it had cream colored feathers on its face, underside and flight feathers. On the bird's head was a crest with the middle being a dark brown, while the outer edges were a cream color. Angular black markings extended from behind its eyes and ran down the sides of its cheeks. It had narrow brown eyes, which held a curious look with worry mixed into their depths. It had a short stubby beak and legs, which were both greyish pink in color, and white claws with two at the front and one at the back. The last feature that was on the little bird were its three short brown tail feathers.
The bird gazed down at the Sandile for a moment before it spread out its wings and lifted off from the branch. It flew up out of the trees before changing its course towards the town of Griffin Rock.
To be continued
And here you go, the next chapter.
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