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Chapter eleven: 50,000 Volts
The sun sets below the vast orange-color sky; the last rays of sunlight hit my face as it does. It's the second time I know more or less what time it is. The first time was yesterday after the laboratory incident; however, this could also be the last time I might be able to see the sun set because I heard that they were going to do something to us tomorrow. As a result, I enjoy the view, as much as I can, despite us being in a grim situation as of now.
At times when stress is at its most, I guess some people would do anything it takes to survive, but others just give up easily because they think it's pointless to fight for your own life. Which one of these options is the right one to choose? I guess it depends on the situation.
My friend Orion and I have tried to escape from this prison many times before only to be thwarted by the organization known as Team Rocket, but that doesn't mean that we should give up just because we're failing every time in our attempts. This is what I think is right, but Orion doesn't think so. His hope of ever escaping this prison was shattered yesterday by Dr. Bartoli and Cy, so he's been feeling depressed ever since we've been put into these small uncomfortable cages.
Suddenly, I can hear the metal door to my left open and I see a woman, Dr. Bartoli, enter the room. She is wearing a business suit and her hair is tied in a bun instead of her usual hair. The sounds caused by her high heels hitting the metal floor irritates my ears. She is holding two small plates of food with both hands.
Is today feeding day for us? How can this be? We practically destroyed the laboratory, which doesn't look cheap, and this is what Bartoli does to return the favor? No torturing or starvation involved, just a wicked smile and some saturated dog food to congratulate us? I guess she must have liked our performance as a team. That's all she ever cares about apparently.
"Dog food again…yay." Orion says softly, I can almost hear him sobbing.
She places the plate, with gloves on of course, inside my cage. I growl at her loudly, and she growls back at me. Her tease makes my anger build up again, "Rrrr! Rawr!" She imitates me and then giggles, "You're so adorable when you're angry." She brushes some strands of hair away from her face like always. She turns away toward the door.
"Are you just going to stand there all day? Come in, come in!" She says.
I see a man enter the room: He appears to be in his late fifties. His long brown hair is showing traces of white strands of hair all over the scalp. He is wearing glasses just like Bartoli. The only difference is that she likes to always smile, but he seems to keep a stern look on his face all the time. It feels like a Yin/Yang sort of thing.
I read the name tag on his business suit: Anthony Preston.
He looks in our direction and raises an eyebrow, "So, these two are the ones who made quite a mess in the lab yesterday." His raspy voice is deep, which sounds like a man who has smoked too much in his lifetime.
"You're familiar with Lucas of course. He was our first experiment." She points to me.
"Of course, I never enjoyed that screaming of his. I understand if he was in considerable amount of pain, but nevertheless. A man, or rather in this case…a Pikachu, needs to have proper conduct." The man walks toward me and stares at me, which makes me gulp in fear.
He turns to Bartoli and frowns even more, "I understand you want to train them."
"Yes, I no longer need to experiment on these two Pokémon. They just need to be brainwashed to secure their place in Team Rocket. I will be taking Lucas as my own, so maybe you would like the other one?"
"Perhaps, when the time comes." He retorts.
"Oh! I almost forgot to tell you. Have you seen Cy?" Dr. Bartoli asks.
"No I have not."
"Dang. You see, he's in a bad mood and must not leave this facility. He's angry about the whole operation, so I fear that he may abandon it completely. I want him to know it's all a big misunderstanding." Bartoli explains to the man.
"I am aware now. Here's my suggestion: convince him to study more of what makes the formula beneficial. Then, give him the formula once he is convinced. After all, he's just another pawn for us."
"I have to correct you on that one. He's my assistant and I don't want to force this on him. Although…I'm afraid to say that he finds our experiments to be…inhumane and-" Her voice seems to increase in retaliation due to his comment about Cy.
"He might be planning to retaliate then. Perhaps he will even try to notify the authorities of our location. We've had incidents of insubordinates, just as explained, before." He fixes his tie, "Why not use the XARM-872 to apprehend him. It seems clear that you don't want to take any chances with him."
Cy…is against Team Rocket now? He didn't seem to mind seeing us suffer inside that machine for hours on end. In fact, it probably felt like a personal T.V show for him to watch with joy. Now he was suddenly not in favor of it…why?
"The Needlebots? I'm not sure. It's best not to hurt him if we want him to stay with us." She retorts.
"He could be planning to escape by using a vehicle however." He adds, "What do you suppose we do then, Doctor?"
"The jeep…my thoughts exactly." She says quietly to herself, "He probably doesn't know that the gates are always closed at night unless otherwise opened with permission. There's no way he can leave at this hour."
"He will need a proper ID card to get through as well, which no one apart from us and the base commander has." Preston looks out the window toward the courtyard as Dr. Bartoli joins him.
"Do me a favor, since you have connections with the base commander: Let him know to please notify all Team Rocket members to begin a search throughout the entire perimeter of the base. Let them know that if Cy acts aggressively, they should not hurt him by any means! He's still my assistant!"
"Understood." He salutes as he leaves the room. Dr. Bartoli leans on the window momentarily, "I can't force this on Ansel…but he has to understand our goal here…"
The doctor soon follows the man out and turns off the lights to the room. She closes the door tightly. I sigh soon afterwards. Yet another day in darkness, like always. I guess I'm going to start talking again.
"Can you believe that? Cy is apparently a fugitive now." I tell Orion.
"Good. I hope they stuff him in a machine like the one in the lab and kill him."
"Or turn him into a Muk." I chuckle. Silence follows soon after as I sit down on the floor next to the cold metal bars of my cage, "So how are you doing over there?" I ask.
"Sad. Depressed. Miserable." He retorts.
I frown, "You've got to stop thinking like this…this isn't you Orion."
"And what do you know about me?" He suddenly says with an increase in volume from his voice, "All you know about me is that I like to read and write."
"Well…I also know that you're a really nice person and you're helpful to others. You've helped me through the worst time of my life. You're also a pain in the butt like me sometimes." I retort.
I expect a chuckle, but to no avail.
"It'll be okay, you'll see…we'll get through this." I add.
"If you say so Lucas."
"Don't give up now. Give up when you're dead." I tell him, "Ignore that last part. That was a stupid thing to say…" I slap myself in the head, "Look the point is: we've made it this far and I think that's a good enough reason to keep on going."
"Okay."
My ears droop as I groan, "This will be harder than I thought…"
...
About twenty minutes later, it is completely dark outside. It is quiet in this room unlike our old one; we are the only ones in here after all. I can hear the wind howling from outside the window as light from a nearby guard tower takes away some of the darkness inside our room. I fiddle with my short fingers in silence. That silence is broken, however, when I suddenly hear an alarm go off. Red lights like the ones in the laboratory turn on simultaneously. I jump up with panic. Because this cage is smaller, I manage to hit the roof with my head and this causes me to grab it in pain. My ears droop as I shake my head.
"Owwww!"
Then a voice from a speaker echoes throughout the room.
"Attention, all employees and guards: a malfunction in the security system has caused all-"
The voice cuts off mid-sentence as static takes over.
As the pain from my head disappears, a new pain in my ears follows soon after. This alarm was getting annoying.
The Klaxon Siren continues indefinitely, yet through all the painful noise that it was making, I almost did not hear the 'click' sound coming from the door of my cage. I blink twice before walking to the cage to inspect the odd noise. I touch the door and it opens slightly outwards. I smile, "Orion! The cages have been unlocked!" I shout with joy. I look to my left to see that the metal door has automatically opened as well. This may be our chance to escape!"
I carefully climb down the stacks of cages to reach the bottom of the floor. I look up and I still see Orion inside his cage and it's obviously open for him to escape. He's sitting down and not doing anything about this!
"What are you doing!? Come on Orion!"
He looks down at me with a sorrowful expression, "What's the point? You're only wasting your energy…"
I narrow my eyebrows at him, "Orion…if you won't even try then I won't try either. We started off as a team, so we'll stay as a team. If we are meant to stay here and suffer forever then so be it! I won't argue with you." I tell him. He looks at me again with his black Pikachu eyes and he stands up. I sigh as I decide to climb the cages back to mine in defeat. As I do so, I almost lose balance but I feel paws grab mine just in time, "I…I don't know what to say Lucas." He helps me up, "I've said this before but…you really are something. You remind me of Rigel so much."
I blink in confusion, "I thought it would be much harder to convince you…"
"Yea well…I was being callous, but then I thought about Rigel. I am sure he is looking for me, and I know he won't stop searching, no matter what. You're right…we should keep trying. Rigel has always told me this and being in this hell hole has made me forget about what he said. I've remembered now thanks to you. I'm sorry Lucas, I shouldn't have quit on you. We are getting out of here, tonight." He smiles and I smile also, "Can you climb down?" I ask.
"Of course."
"Alright."
We both make it down to the bottom. Afterwards, he hugs me briefly and that surprises me, "Thanks for the support Lucas. Let's go."
We run out of the room to find many Pokémon running rampant. We see a couple coming toward us with anger. Thinking they are about to ram us, we both try and get out of their path, but to our surprise they pass us and go after a couple of Team Rocket Grunts instead. We both look at each other and it seems that we are about to chuckle, but I instead look around for an exit. To our right, down the hallway, are stairs; however, as we make our way toward it, many Needlebots come from all sides and begin to attack every Pokémon in sight. Some fall easily to the bots. Other Pokémon such as Charmeleon's, Raichu's, and Nidorino's easily dispose of their opponents.
"You Grunts are useless. I wish I had better ones. Oh well…for those who care about their job, use stun guns and go after the specimens upstairs. You shall be rewarded greatly." This voice is different…it's Bartoli's! And I'm not sure if she was yelling at us or not. Either way, several robots come at us with lightning speed, their tranquilizers ready to fire. I decide to retaliate first. I lift my arms up and I then bring them close to my chest as electricity surges through my body.
"Take this!" I yell as I close my eyes. I destroy some of the robots, yet some still manage to get near us and they start firing their syringes. I open my eyes just in time to see several needles hit the ground near me.
"Whoa!" I jump back from many more as they attempt to strike my skin every time.
"Look out! Don't let those needles touch you!" I shout to Orion.
I sidestep with effort as Orion uses Double-Team to distract them. His speed easily confuses the dim-witted machines. With most of them focused on the fake Pikachu, both of us release a double ThunderShock toward the rest of the Needlebots. We take a very brief rest after they are destroyed.
"Come on…before more of them show up." Orion says as he pats me on the back. He starts running on all fours toward the stairs. I have trouble doing the same thing. In fact, I keep losing balance repeatedly. I groan as I struggle to run on all fours.
He stops and looks back toward me.
"…?"
He runs back to where I am, "Lucas? What's going on?" He sounds worried.
"I…I've never learned to run or walk on all fours…" I say softly.
He waves his arms around, "Well I can't give you an in-depth lesson in this chaos!"
"I'll try and keep up, I promise!" I retort.
Orion nods as he runs back to the stairs, only slower than before, and periodically checks up on me. I'm trying to walk as fast as I can on two legs but it's a pain. I've already fell flat on my stomach two times.
Then, we hear an explosion to our left which makes us jump in surprise: three Team Rocket Grunts jump out of a door that has been engulfed in flames. Two of them roll in the ground to put out the fire on their backs, but the other runs in circles: "Hot, hot, hot!" The sprinklers soon turn on above them and extinguish the fires completely, but then shut off. The grunt running from the fire sprints toward the stairs, "Screw this!"
"Hey!"
"Forget him, we've got bigger problems!"
A Charizard then bursts out of the door and roars at them.
"Who let this Charizard loose anyway!?"
"Shut up and shoot it!" the first grunt, wearing red and white armor, shouts as the other shoots the tranquilizer. The dragon simply breaths fire and melts the flying object instantly.
"Keep shooting!" He orders again to the female grunt.
"Forget it, I'm out of here!" She drops the rifle on the ground and runs toward the stairs in our direction.
"Hey! Where are you going!?"
But it's too late.
"…cowards!"
The grunt looks back to meet the Charizard eye to eye as he whimpers. The dragon exhales smoke from its nostrils on the man's face.
"Wait…wait for me!" He follows the female down the stairs.
A short time later, after making it through the chaotic hallway, we reach the stairs and carefully jump down each step. But as we do, we are suddenly attacked by several Zubats: blue bats that have purple-color wings.
"H…hey! We're on your side!" I shout as they try to bite us.
"Forget it, just shock them!" Orion yells as he uses ThunderShock. I follow his lead as the bats faint from both our electrical attacks.
He breathes deeply with relief, "They're just agitated. It's nothing personal toward us." Orion explains as he begins hopping down the stairs again.
"I don't understand. They can think for themselves, can they? If anything, they should attack the grunts not us."
He looks up toward me, "When a Pokémon's life is in considerable danger, that's when all reasonable thinking that it has turns into pure instinct."
"T-that's probably the stupidest thing you've ever said, that makes no sense! If that's the case why hasn't this happened to us?"
"…'cause they haven't threatened to kill us yet…" Orion retorts as he keeps going down the stairs. I decided to drop it for now.
"Wait! We can't just leave them here…they'll get captured again or worse!" I say as I examine the unconscious bats.
"We can't help them Lucas, we got our own problems to deal with. If we don't leave now, we might get captured again ourselves! Come on!"
I look at the bats one last time with regret. We're responsible for these Zubats not being able to escape this place tonight. I know Orion didn't feel great about leaving them behind either, but I guess he's right…we got our own problems to worry about…
I sigh softly as we continue our journey down the stairs and that's when I notice I feel a little stronger than before our encounter with the Zubats. In fact…I feel as though I've learned a new move. It feels strange. It's as if somebody has instantly uploaded all the notes necessary for learning a guitar song into your brain. As I try to determine which move I've learned, the back of my mind told me: Tail Whip.
"I feel weird Orion…stronger I mean."
"You leveled up." He simply states.
"So this is how it feels like to level up? Because apparently I just found out I can use Tail Whip."
"Yup, that's how it is."
"That's…interesting." I say, "I can't imagine how it must feel like later on-"
"Focus, we're not out of here yet." He says as I snap back to reality.
We make it to the first floor and we are greeted by blazing fires and screeching Pokémon that are attacking many Team Rocket Grunts. Some of the other grunts are using homemade fire extinguishers, but the Fire-type Pokémon are winning the battle.
I search for an exit sign nearby, but I stomp my foot in disappointment after finding none in this corridor, "I say we head left down this hallway." I tell him, "Sounds like a plan." Orion agrees.
We make our way down the empty hallway; however, we stop to hide behind a wall as we hear footsteps coming in our direction. I take a look to find two Team Rocket Grunts running down the hallway toward the direction of the fire. I start sweating all over the place, my heartbeat gets out of control and my breaths are shallow as I pray that they won't find us. Fortunately, they pass by without noticing us. We sigh with relief.
"Let's go." Orion says as I lead the way. We keep going down the steel corridor until I see two signs on the wall:
"Left - Cafeteria."
"Right – auditorium"
"What do they say Lucas?" the Pikachu asks.
"We can go to the cafeteria to the left or the auditorium to the right."
"What…cafeteria? Auditorium?"
I roll my eyes, "They're places where humans go. I say we go right."
We walk/run down yet another hallway where we are greeted by several dislodged doors with shattered glass all over the floor. Inside is chaos: people wearing suits and dresses and they're battling the other Pokémon. Yet, through all this mess I can see an exit sign on the other side. I smile, "Come on! Our exit is just over there…Orion?" I ask, confused.
I look behind me. My ears droop with fear as a shadow towers above me. It brandishes a Poké ball in its hand as he/she smiles. The shadow reveals to be none other than…Dr. Bartoli. I jump into all fours and growl loudly.
"Hello Lucas. Enjoying the fun? I hope so. I'll tell you what. I like playing games, so I'll give you a head start to run. I'll give you three seconds." She giggles. Bartoli puts Orion on her belt as she takes an empty Poké ball out.
Electricity begins to spark from my cheeks. I narrow my eyebrows as powerful lightning escapes from my body. I control my breathing.
Orion…I…won't let you down. Hang on…
Unfortunately, all my thinking disappears as instinct takes over.
"One…"
"Two…"
Intuitively, I begin running towards her on all fours, she stops counting as she presses on the ball. Almost instantly, a red beam heads in my direction, but I jump aside just in time. The doctor tries again as I jump in the air toward her. I hear the woman yelp as I hit her in the torso and electricity explodes from my cheeks. This results in Bartoli receiving 50,000 volts of electricity that is equivalent to a police stun gun, so in a fraction of a second she was down on the floor howling in pain. I quickly reach into her belt and pull out the very small Poké ball that she had put away. I set it down on the floor and I press on the switch to make it larger. Then, I jump in the air to press it again to free Orion. He looks confused but manages to see the doctor, who is paralyzed.
"You…you got her? Wow! You're awesome Lucas!" He grabs my paws and he starts jumping with joy. I chuckle, "She had it coming I guess." I say.
"Too bad that punk, Cy, isn't here with her…" He says. As Orion keeps talking, I look back toward the exit and my ears go all the way up, "Listen Orion, there's an exit I found just as you were put inside the ball. It's over there and it's open for us to escape!" I point.
"Let's hurry."
We both run through the chaotic crowd, but unbeknownst to us, Dr. Bartoli is once again conscious and she looks in our direction. She moves her sleeve up to reveal a digital watch. She presses several buttons, "Don't let them escape. Go…and…bring them to me…" She passes out.
As soon as we reach near the center of the auditorium though, a Team Rocket Grunt jumps in our way and throws a Poké Ball. The ball opens and a Rattata appears which growls at us. It's basically a rat but purple/beige in color with noticeably large teeth. Orion steps in, "Allow me." He says.
"Go ahead."
"Hyper Fang!" The man shouts as his Pokémon tackles Orion to bite him, but the Pikachu thinks ahead and uses the energy used by the rat to throw it into the ground hard. It faints automatically. The trainer calls it back.
"I'm out of here!" The human runs way as Orion cleans dust off him.
This is a breeze for Orion. He's fairly high in level…Rigel must have trained him really well.
"Very nice." I clap my paws together, "I just loving using Slam. It's the coolest thing ever." Orion puts his arm behind his back. My eyes widen as I push Orion and move out of the way. Good thing I did because about five people landed in the same spot because of an Onyx.
"Thanks."
"Come on" I say as I try to run on all fours again, but once again it's hard. I realize that I somehow learned how to run this way during Bartoli's attack; however, now I couldn't…I guess it was instincts…
…
After going through a concrete passage, we finally make it outside. Both of us, at the same time, breathe in the fresh air. It's the first time we do so since two weeks. We both look around in different directions: many guard towers have been demolished and several places along the vast prison wall are gone. We run through the courtyard as we see more Pokémon fighting the Team Rocket members. Others simply flee into the forest adjacent to the prison, which is what we're going to do. The Pokémon who do decide to stay are the much larger ones and they are assaulting everything in sight. As we run across the dangerous courtyard, something jumps in front of us once again and stops us dead in our tracks. We both look up at the slightly taller creature. It's a Mankey: a Primate Pokémon. It looks just like a monkey but its nose is pink and its paws are brown in color as well as its tail.
"I just wanna leave! Can you guys stop getting in our way!?" Orion yells in frustration.
Just as the Mankey is about to attack us, the pig monkey is hit by large amounts of water. It miraculously shakes the water off in pain as it flees from battle and then we find ourselves dodging long jets of water coming at us from the other direction. We both look to see a giant turtle with cannons on its shell: a Blastoise!
"Run!" I shout as we escape toward an untouched section of the twenty-foot tall concrete wall. We look back to see the turtle Pokémon engaging several other smaller Pokémon, that are trying to escape, instead. It lost interest in us and unfortunately it seems to be defending the damaged wall from where it is: it belongs to a Team Rocket Grunt.
"What do we do?" I ask. Orion looks around and taps me on the shoulder. He points to a hole in the ground from where the wall is.
"Look familiar?" He asks.
"A Diglett hole?" I retort.
"Cy no doubt." Orion explains.
We both crawl in the hole and manage to make it to the opposite side…freedom! We see a long dirt road that's empty for now. I automatically start walking along the side of the road.
"Lucas? We need to head into the forest!" I hear Orion shout from behind me.
This road may lead to a town…if we go into the forest we could risk getting lost…
"No, we can't. We have to follow this road. We can go find help…maybe even find Rigel." I say.
"Team Rocket uses this road I have no doubt! We can't risk it!" He shouts at me.
"It's too dark inside the forest! We'll get lost!" I shout back.
He walks next to me, "Listen…we need to go inside the forest now because-"
Then, the ground suddenly shakes as we hear a loud noise. Large amounts of dirt blinds our vision temporarily. After it clears, we step back as we see a large figure climb out of a crater that it has made.
Standing in front of us is a fifteen-foot tall robot. It has six arms protruding from its silver body. Above its body, and supported by two metallic bars, is a large head. It has a face which has wide camera-lens on each opposite side similar to a fish but no nose or mouth. From where the head is, there are square-shape 'ears' that are slightly bigger in comparison. Taken from my best analysis of the situation, inside these ears are missiles that are just waiting to be fired at us. To top it all off, the robot has the usual red 'R' symbol on its robotic body. Below the red symbol is a printed label that reads: XBRM-872. Its name is similar to the Needlebots only that the 'B' is there instead of the 'A'. On the metal disk supporting its neck we see a three digit number: 004. I've never seen this model before, so I have no idea what it's capable of.
Its wide eyes move down to see us, both were yellow in color. Shivers run down my spine afterwards. Even if I was human, this thing would still easily be much taller than I am and as a result I gulp.
It looks at both of us back and forth, deciding which Pikachu to attack first.
"What is that thing…some sort of spider?" Orion asks.
"A Spiderbot. I might be wrong." I look towards him.
It starts moving at us. Each arm impales the soil with such force that the ground shakes around us as it does so. Orion makes a decision to use Thundershock on it, but it does nothing. In fact, it's immune to electrical attacks altogether.
"This…could be a problem…" He says as he backs away, sweat falling from his temples. The robot focuses on Orion now. Its yellow pupils shrink and retaliates by producing a bright flash with its eyes. This causes Orion to shield his eyes in pain as I close them just in time. When I open them again, I see the robot jump several feet in the air above the Pikachu.
"He's above you!" I shout as I run towards the mouse. I'm struggling on two legs as I run to save Orion, but luckily I push him away just in time, but the robot's large body crashes into the ground and creates a small but powerful earthquake that causes me to fly up in the air and hit the rough dirt with force. The sharp edge of one of its arms opens and small claws come out that cling to my body with ease. It lifts me off the ground and examines me thoroughly.
"Let him go!" I hear Orion shout as he slams his body against the Spiderbot. The robot turns, it makes a three hundred and sixty degree turn by using its circular body instead of its legs. Without hesitation, it uses an extra arm to throw the Pikachu up in the air. I use Growl on it as a response but of course it proves to be useless as it turns back toward me. I can see one of its ears slightly release something: a syringe. It's preparing to use one on me. I struggle from side to side, trying to escape from its grasp.
Then, Orion once again slams into the robot, but this time he goes for the metal bars supporting its head. This causes the Spiderbot to fall sideways and release me. I walk/run toward Orion. We look at the spider's attempts to recover from its loss of balance but it keeps failing.
"That was close…you okay?"
Just after he says that, the spider retracts its claws and they are replaced by rough tires that dig into the earth. It rolls left and right until it sits vertically again. The tires withdraw and the claws return. Our eyes widen as a result.
"Run!" We both manage to say to each other as we head toward the dark forest. Behind us is a fast moving spider robot. It's dark but the lights coming off from the machine gives us enough time to avoid hitting trees and other hidden things. Thankfully, the amount of obstacles that we pass by in the forest slow down the robot immensely. Unfortunately for us, we eventually see a wall of trees ahead of us that are practically impossible to pass through.
"Turn left! It's a dead end!" Orion shouts to me. We make a sudden turn to the left, the robot does not have time to retaliate, so it unintentionally rams one of the large trees with its body. The sheer force that hits the tree causes the entire tree trunk to collapse to the ground. The Spiderbot recovers quickly and gains speed again as it moves toward our direction once more. Then, we hear it jump in the air and land in front of us as dirt flies into us. We turn around and flee in another direction. Once again it jumps but this time it grabs Orion and pins me to the ground with one of its arms.
"Looks like this is it! Sucks it had to end this way!" Orion shouts in pain afterwards because the robot had shot a syringe from its 'ear' and it injected the tranquilizer into the Pikachu.
As I try to find a way to get out of its grasp, I suddenly hear buzzing noises coming from a certain direction: Beedrills! The Spiderbot must have disturbed a nest...the tree it brought down, of course!
Distracted, it throws Orion towards a tree and releases me as it attacks the insects. I see Orion stand up beside the tree with pain. I make it to him and inspect the damage: he's removes the syringe from his neck and he's already fighting to stay conscious due to the effects of the drug.
"You alright!?" I ask him, his breathing is shallow.
"Yea...this thing…is unbeatable…just look at how he's getting rid of that swarm…" I look towards the robot to see dozens of Beedrills hopelessly hitting the impenetrable armor of the spider, their stingers break as they come into contact with the steel metal.
"Come on! Now's our chance! Hold on to me!" I say as I instruct him to jump on my back. He does so and he also puts his arms around me. We begin making our way deeper into the forest.
There was a new problem with carrying Orion: although he was a smaller Pikachu, his weight plus my difficulty to walk/run on these two short legs meant trouble. The first time we both fell into the ground was rather unexpected and rough. Not only that but he was losing consciousness as time went by, so falling asleep on my back meant he would sometimes fall down on his back and wake up while others times my new legs would just make a wrong step and cause both of us to fall again.
Eventually we did, thankfully, make it to a cliff…or rather a small canyon that's about fifty-feet down. Thanks to the first-quarter moon, we can see that there's a river and it is moving downstream violently. I look left and right to see where to go…I can't decide which way is safer.
"…go...right…" Orion instructs. I nod as we begin making our way in that direction. He yawns again as he begins to slump once more.
"Hang on Orion! I'll think of something…"
Then…disaster strikes as we feel the earth shake again. That's when we hear the sound of metal and that's when my instincts decided to take over again, so I threw Orion into the ground away from me as the Spiderbot lands on the ground next to us. Without warning, the force from the impact causes me to fall into the river and the force from the jump causes the earth beneath the robot to collapse. It falls down with me as a result. The last thing I hear is Orion, who did not fall down to the river with us, shouting my name despite him under the effects of the sleep drug. I hit the treacherous water with such force and the currents lash me around uncontrollably that I am sucked underwater as my head hits a rock at the bottom.
I pass out from the pain.
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Hey guys! Concerning the moves that both Orion and Lucas have, they are following the move set from the first 3 games: Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow. If you have any thoughts on the action sequences and how they work in this chapter, please let me know if they need to be improved in any way. Pm me your opinions if you wish. Thanks guys!
