Pokemon: Friends to the End
Chapter 23: Faced with Steelix Determination!
In a road, the heroes were continuing to Floaroma Town, where the two sisters will attend their next pokemon contest.
Suddenly, the gang hears a cry from an injured Bidoof.
"Look its a Bidoof."Ash said.
"I wonder what's wrong?"Dawn asked.
Pikachu tried to talk to the Bidoof, but the Normal Type continued to cry.
"There is wound on its head."Brock replied in realization.
"Poor little thing."Denise said sadly.
Brock takes a Super Potion out of his backpack to heal the Bidoof.
"Hold on, I can help you take care of that."Brock admitted as he took out the Super Potion spray.
But this caused Bidoof to become more scared.
Bidoof gasped in shock and looked away in fright.
"Now don't be afraid, it's just some super potion."Brock assured.
Pikachu then spoke to Bidoof in trusting Brock.
Bidoof walked up to Brock with a small smile.
"Now this will make you feel better."Brock commented.
He sprayed Bidoof's head to heal its wound.
"Look at that you did it."Dawn said.
"And now we will stick this on and we're all done."Brock stated.
He then puts a plaster on its wound.
"Its such a cute shy Bidoof."Denise remarked sweetly.
"Yeah, your right."Ash agreed as he took his pokedex.
"Bidoof, the Plump Mouse Pokémon."Ash's Pokedex said. "It gnaws on trees and rocks with its strong front teeth and lives in nests near the water."
"Like there is water around here."Dawn suggested.
"Well, if there is any water in the forest, we haven't seen it."Brock admitted.
"I bet it must've got lost from its friends."Ash said.
"Aw, I bet Bidoof must've been missing all of its friends."Denise commented.
"Its says there is a waterfall just up ahead."Brock stated looking inside his book.
"Yeah."Ash said with a smile.
"Sounds great that must be the isles, where the Bidoofs live."Dawn stated.
"Then let's go."Denise suggested. "Bidoof, if you come with us, we'll take you back to your friends.
"Bidoof Bidoof."Bidoof said with a grateful smile.
When they are about to continue walking through the forest, screams are heard behind them revealing to be Team Rocket running towards them.
"Team Rocket!"the four heroes said in unison.
Jessie smirked. "Fancy meeting you out here."
"And especially-"James started.
"Pikachu."Meowth finished with an evil smile.
Then a growling roar was heard and a wild Steelix appears behind the three baddies.
"Ah Steelix."Brock gasped.
"That thing is humongous."Denise stated as she checked on her pokedex.
"Steelix, the Iron Snake Pokémon."Denise's pokedex said."Strengthened by the pressure and intense heat of living underground, its body is stronger than steel."
"Steelix's head has three shovels stuck in it!"Dawn said in realization.
"Did you three had anything to do with this?"Brock asked.
"Excuse me, but we're the victims not Steelix."Jessie replied.
"We're spending a nice afternoon digging up a few pit traps."James added.
"But instead we ended up digging Steelix's head."Meowth commented.
Then Steelix let out an angry roar alerting the gang and Team Rocket to run away with Bidoof leading the way.
"A fork in the round!"Brock shouted.
"But why would should we go?"Dawn asked.
Then Bidoof spoke into the group pointing to a direction.
"I think Bidoof said left."James said.
The heroes approached the fork's left side of the road.
Then Steelix fires another Hyper Beam that hits Jessie and James but misses Meowth.
The Scratch Cat landed on his face and looked at Steelix.
"Okay you got shovels in your head, but was that Hyper Beam necessary?"Meowth questioned.
Steelix growled in response.
"Uh oh here it comes!"Denise said worriedly.
"Then lets go!"Ash stated.
The heroes and Meowth continue to run along through the forest still being chased by Steelix.
"Doesn't that log ever take a break?!"Meowth asked.
"Hey take a look up ahead!"Brock said.
"The waterfall!"Ash said in realization.
"Bidoof is that where all your friends are?"Dawn asked.
They spot an short cut entrance that was a gap in the rocks.
"An opening!"Denise said in relief.
"Quick let's go in there!"Ash suggested.
The heroes and Meowth went inside through the other entrance, but when Steelix tried to go through it was too small for it to fit through.
"Look that I guess those rocks are too hard for Steelix to go through."Brock admitted.
"At least, we are safe here for now."Ash remarked.
"Hey guys, check it out."Dawn said with a smile.
They see a small village that turns out to be Bidoof Village.
"Awsome, so this Bidoof's home."Denise said sweetly.
Then Bidoof called for its friends causing a group of Bidoof to go up to it.
"Wow would you look at that."Dawn said.
"Its great."Ash added.
"But I wonder why anyone came looking for that Bidoof?"Brock asked.
Bidoof then said something making Meowth look at the heroes.
"See that Steelix scared them causing all of them to hide."Meowth admitted.
"I guess that explains a lot."Denise commented.
Then everyone heard a bang coming from behind the entrance.
The four heroes and Meowth went up to see what was going on and saw Steelix trying to bash its way in.
"The opening."Ash said.
"It can't hold on much longer."Brock stated.
"We gotta do something and fast."Dawn said.
"Otherwise Bidoof Village get's destroyed."Denise admitted sadly.
"Right with my strategy skills we can't lose."Meowth added.
"Meowth!"
The heroes looked down and saw Jessie and James looking for Meowth.
Steelix blasts the two inside the Bidoof Village with Hyper Beam.
"Jessie!"Meowth called out. "James!"
The Scratch Cat pokemon rushed to its team.
"Steelix didn't smack you down!"Jessie said in joy.
"And your still in one piece!"James remarked.
The trio hugged each other.
"We're still a team and that's a fact!"They said in unison.
"Question 1, where are we?"James asked.
"Your inside Bidoof village."Ash replied.
"And they're village is in great danger."Dawn reminded with a frown.
"And its all your fault of what you did to Steelix."Brock stated.
"So I guess there is no one else to blame."Denise said firmly with her arms folded.
All of the Bidoof get angry when they heard that Steelix's rampage was all Team Rocket's fault.
In a quick haste to hide from Steelix, Jessie and James go and hide in a Bidoof's home and Steelix begins to sound angrier than ever.
"These will make a great hide out."Jessie admitted.
"And I love the colour scheme."James agreed.
"I guess they can't cause anymore trouble, if they are in there."Brock said.
"I wanna piece of that."Meowth stated as he began to walk away.
"Hold it, buster."Dawn reminded. "What about using all of your strategy skills to help us anyway?"
"Man talking sometimes is such a pain."Meowth muttered.
"What was that?"Denise questioned with a frown.
"Oh nothing just kidding!"Meowth laughed nervously.
They then heard another bang and notice Steelix was still trying to break through.
"Steelix sounds angrier than ever."Brock stated.
"One more step and it will place shovels in my head."Meowth said worriedly.
"Hey Dawn, why don't you ask Piplup to use Bubble Beam to buy us some time?"Ash asked.
"Great idea, I'm sure that will have a big effect on Steelix."Dawn admitted.
"Good luck and be careful."Denise reminded.
Dawn sends out Piplup and has him use Bubble Beam on Steelix, while everyone else sets up a barricade against the gap in which the gang entered.
However Piplup gets tired and Dawn returns him into his Poké Ball.
Steelix busts through the outside of the gap, making the gang's only protection be the barricade they set up.
"Looks like Steelix has broken in!"Brock said.
"Aw man, we're toast!"Meowth panicked.
The logs that the Bidoof put were beginning to break.
"Won't be long now."Denise said worriedly.
"Don't foget, we can still fight."Ash reminded.
"Maybe if we can take the shovels out, Steelix will be able to calm down."Dawn suggested.
"Sounds like a plan, sis."Denise agreed.
"It might just work."Brock agreed.
"But how do we get that close?"Ash asked.
"There, if we can get Steelix into the galley, we'll be able to remove the shovels."Dawn said.
"I guess it will be your job to make Steelix jump in, Meowth."Denise commented with a smirk. "What better decoy than you?"
"Have you lost your mind?!"Meowth said in shock.
"Hey Denise is right, Steelix is still mad at you."Ash said.
"And your perfect to lure it in."Brock added.
"Yay."Meowth mumbled in defeat.
Steelix breaks through the barricade and proceeds to chase Meowth toward not only the gorge, but also the Bidoof home in which Jessie and James are hiding.
Meowth makes it to the gorge and jumps causing Steelix to do the same.
"Do something!"Jessie and James shouted.
"Okay Staravia go and save Meowth!"Ash stated.
Staravia comes out and saves Meowth as Steelix fall into the gorge.
"Just like I figured."Dawn admitted with a smile.
"Well done, sis."Denise said kindly.
"Okay, let's go!"Ash commented.
When Staravia sets Meowth down next to Jessie and James, Team Rocket gets reunited and begins to taunt the out cold Steelix out of anger for chasing them all this way.
The gang tries to shush them in an attempt to keep Steelix asleep so they can get the shovels out of its head, but the three continue to rant.
Steelix wakes up in the process and blasts Team Rocket off with Hyper Beam.
"No fair, we aren't done yet!"Jessie complained.
"Can't tell their face, so how we would know?"James asked.
"If we had a talk with Steelix, we can work it out."Meowth said in shame.
"Wobbuffet!"
"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"Team Rocket screamed as they disappeared in the sky.
Steelix once again starts rampaging, however inside the village this time.
"Oh no!"Dawn and Denise said in unison.
"We got to build those shovels out!"Brock stated.
"Staravia use Aerial Ace on the shovels!"Ash ordered.
Staravia uses Aerial Ace on one of the shovels, knocking it off of Steelix's head.
"Alright, one down!"Denise said proudly.
"Staravia take down the other two!"Ash ordered with a smile.
As Staravia turns around, Steelix knocks him away and charges toward him only to smash into a rock.
Ash then has Pikachu use Iron Tail on the second shovel, knocking it off and leaving one shovel left on Steelix's head.
"Staravia return!"Ash ordered.
He returned his flying type back in its pokeball.
Pikachu use Iron Tail on the shovels!"Ash ordered.
The Mouse Pokemon goes up and uses Iron Tail to take down the second one.
"Yeah that's two!"Ash said.
"One to go!"Brock remarked.
Pikachu prepares to knock the third shovel off, however Steelix head butts into the wall causing the Electric Type falls to the ground.
"Pikachu watch out!"Dawn warned.
Steelix's anger was turned up to 11 and it relentlessly attacks the village making it too dangerous to get close to its head.
The Bidoof that Brock healed explains to the head Bidoof that they must remove the last shovel themselves.
Head Bidoof at first seems reluctant to perform the actions explained by the other Bidoof, but after looking around and seeing that its village cannot take much more of Steelix's attacks, it readies the entire Bidoof clan to ambush.
All the Bidoof jump off the cliff and onto Steelix's head, trying to pull out the shovel out.
"Hey, look at that the Bidoofs are trying to take out the last shovel!"Denise said with a smile.
"They finally figured out that they must stand up to themselves."Brock admitted.
"Look at them go!"Ash remarked.
"Pika!"Pikachu agreed.
Then Steelix was charging toward the fountain.
"Oh no Steelix is heading right to the fountain!"Brock said.
"But Steelix was always against water."Dawn commented.
"I doubt Steelix is thinking about that now."Brock stated.
"Turtwig, come on out and use razor leaf to stop Steelix!"Denise stated.
Her pokeball and her starter pokemon came out.
Turtwig comes out and uses Razor Leaf on Steelix in an attempt to stop it.
Razor Leaf works for a short while, but Steelix pulls itself together and chases Turtwig away with Hyper Beam.
It then continues charging toward the fountain and the Bidoof clan continues their attempt to pull the shovel out.
Steelix gets to the very edge of the waterfall and head Bidoof tells the gang to give it more power and as such, they successfully pull the shovel out of Steelix's head.
Steelix stops charging right at the end of the path and calms down.
Later that Evening...
Steelix went away as the four heroes and the Bidoof clan watched it.
"That's great."Ash said.
"Its amazing, when you can work in a team."Dawn remarked.
"Your right, I think the Bidoofs are gonna be just fine."Brock agreed.
"You said it."Denise commented with a smile. "So shall we get going?"
Ash nodded in agreement. "Yeah."
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Denise's Team:
Turtwig (Male): Quick Attack, Absorb, Razor Leaf and Bite
Eevee (Female): Water Gun, Shadow Ball, Attract and Thunder
Luxio (Male): Spark, Night Slash, Wild Charge and Ice Fang
Ralts (Female): Psychic, Double Team, Magical Leaf and Confusion
Hoot Hoot (Male): Peck, Reflect, Aerial Ace and Hypnosis