Chapter 8: Put on The Red Light
The morning couldn't come fast enough as the party was hungry or at least the Treecko leading the way was. He walked with a pomp that everyone in town noticed as he headed the party of trainers ahead to the door of the gym. He knew the power of the bullet seed and had one thought on his mind. "I'm gonna spam these little bullets all over the place."
"Is that trainer being led by his pokemon honey?" The same coupel from yesterday watched from the coffee table.
"Babe I told you it's none of our business, go back to your book and that pile of donuts." The man despite being on his vacation was clearly fed up with his partner and wanted to do nothing except feast in silence. However she was flabbergasted at the sight. Mitsuhide saw her looking as the party assembled in front of the gym for Slakoth's cart to be pushed through the door first. The Treecko smiled gave the woman a thumb's up as they all entered the gym.
All smiles faded as the tension arose in the room of the gym. "Roxanne's house of pain" was carved into a stone near the gym. Underneath that was the rule of the gym, "NO POLICE."
"So are these guys like criminals?" Nagamasa asked the group.
"No I think they are talking about the music group." Nagamasa shrugged as he did not understand what the Wingull meant. "You know…the band that has that song." Nagamasa and the others still shrugged. "You know…ROXANNE!"
"HEY NOT COOL!" Three geodudes immediately charged at the party as per the desires of their trainers, the grunts of the gym. The trainers looked on in pride as they saw their partners defending the honor of the gym with vigor. Mitsuhide nodded at the others and then stepped forward with a confidence that would shatter the skies. The Treecko reached back and summoned the power of the seeds and then sprayed the area in front of him eliminating the geodudes in one barrage. The trainers both stood by with their pants wetter than they were a moment ago as the party of pokemon paraded forward toward the leader who was sitting atop a rocky perch.
"STOP FIEND!" A girl who was dressed like she was trying to be a woman but all in the audience could tell she needed to modest up a tad and stop trying to present her daddy issues to the world spoke as she stood proudly atop her perch.
"Oh snap that's the gym leader." Mitsuhide spoke
"She needs a longer skirt if she is gonna stand up there." Masamune was red in his face and honestly frustrated and embarrassed for her. Kicho came over bonked the dog on the head knocking him into the floor as he was still red faced with shame.
"SO YOU'RE THE EVIL BRENDAN." She then jumped down from her bluff and glared at the party.
"Dude she's totally buying it, she thinks you're Brenden, Katsuie." The slakoth tensed up as he remembered he couldn't reply to the others and give away his tongue. Mitsuhide hushed the others as the gym leader took the silence as an affront.
"So you really are just a stone cold killer." The gym leader grew angrier as the party made no reply, she saw the slakoth dressed as a boy and fully thought him just a rude human. "So is that it, you come here to battle me for my badge and you won't even talk to me or look me in the eye. You really are sick!" She then reached for her belt and threw down her first pokemon it was a geodude. "I will defeat you and then turn you in for justice your days of evil are over Brenden!" She signaled for her geodude to move forward, but Mitsuhide chuckled as he sprang into action and moved the geodude into the wall of the gym with a bullet seed combo. The blow happened so fast that Roxanne failed to even notice it happen as she was still expecting geodude to ready up his first move and begin the salvo.
"Great shot Mitsu!" Nagamasa was thrilled by his teammate's prowess and skill with the seeds. The treecko felt confident as the geodude was recalled to his ball after implanting into the wall.
"You JERK! YOU WILL FAIL! I WILL STOP YOU!" She then threw her final pokemon out hoping this one would make the needed difference. The crew had not seen anything so unique up to this point.
"Dude what is that that?" Masamune tilted his head in pokemon before them looked like an Easter island statue and was truly a rock in the simplest sense of the word.
"Don't worry guys I got this." Mitsuhide then proceeded to fire a bullet seed barrage expecting the same decimation that occurred with the geodudes. However this pokemon was holding better against the attack. It did hurt the nosepass but he was making progress toward the Treecko.
"Guys this isn't working." Mitsu says to the others.
"Well….what if you just keep firing?" Nagamasa exclaimed. Mitsuhide turned around and gave him the middle finger as Roxanne threw a super potion onto the pokemon, who also cast harden upon itself, making it more difficult for the Treecko to break his defenses. "OKAY THAT IS JUST TAUROS POOP!" The treecko screams as he watches the nosepass go for a tackle. The Treecko falls back with a bruise on his cheek from the attack but he isn't relenting. He then switches to firing absorb attacks to bolster his health while sapping the enemy's. All in the group are excited as they notice the move is proving more a useful stratagem to abuse in this setting.
"SUPER POTION!" Roxanne once again heals the nosepass to full health. This sight enrages Masamune, Motonari, and Nagamasa, ho then in an instant sneak over around to Roxanne and then as she notices them from the sides they began to dogpile stomp her into the dirt as Mitsuhide, tired from such repeated uses of the same move in a short span of time finally lands the finishing blow upon the Nosepass. It falls to the ground and loses consciousness. The Treecko who put the team on his back in this gym now stands, the victor, and exhausted, breathing heavy. He lifts his hands in the sky to celebrate. Only to then snap out from his state of wear to see his companions stomping the gym leader into the dirt.
"YEAH YOU LIKE ROCKS! YEAH WELL HOW ABOUT YOU EAT THESE ROCKS!" Masamune hollers out nonsense as they keep beating her into the earth.
"Wait guys!" Nagamasa stops and surveys the scene as they realize Mitsuhide had beaten the nosepass. "Mitsu won!"
"Oh congrats Mitsu!" Motonari calls out.
"You guys didn't have to beat up a girl."
"Dude…she kept healing that freaking nosepass." Masamune retorted, as he kicked her one more time. Roxanne was completely out for the count and talking gibberish from the beating she had endured.
"I would have beaten it eventually." Mitsu replied.
"I don't know homie, she has like 50 more potions in her bag." Kicho says as the treecko is confused as to when she got over there with the others.
"What are you doing in her backpack?" Mitsuhide called to Kicho.
"I just figured we were robbing her?" Kicho replied as she grabbed a tm for rock tomb.
"Kicho we are not robbing her." Nagamasa calls as he kicks Roxanne in the head again. "This is gym battle."
"Are you sure because this looks like a mugging." Kicho replies as she then grabs a couple thousand poke dollars. The others keel over in shock at the moment.
"Well NOW it's a robbery." Motnari replied to his sticky handed friend.
"Whatever guys just make sure to grab a gym badge from her backpack, lets at least halfway stay on mission." Mitsuhide. Called out to the crew. The whsimur rummaged through the bag until she found a gym badge for them to hold. She then threw it to Mitsu who then gave it to Katsuie who was taking a nap in the cart.
Mitsuhide slapped his forehead as he then took the trainer card from the backpack and then added the gym badge to that very card.
"SHHEHWL AlLL." Katsuie woke up from his nap as a booger bubble popped. He then looked down to see Mitsuhide adding the badge. "Wow I did it, I guess I really am a great pokemon trainer.
"SLAP!" Katsuie had a beaming red hand print on his face as the group exited the gym. They were now 1 badge up but there were many more troubles ahead on their quest.
Later on in the day May reached the gym only to see Roxanne still seeing stars in the ground covered in bruises herself and her pokemon out could all over the place. She then took a bucket of some water and dunked the gym leader's head into the bucket.
"GURRGLLE GURGLLLE!" followed by panic awakening as the gym leader arose from her delirious state.
"WHO DID THIS TO YOU?" She spoke to the gym leader while holding her by the throat, the rage filled her eyes.
"You did." May Slapped the gym leader in the face.
"NO! Not the waterboarding. I meant who beat you up and destroyed this gym?" Roxanne still worn out from the events leaned in closer to whisper the answer, to which the eyes of May widened as she heard the name. She then threw the gym leader to the ground and grabbed a gym badge for herself, as she assumed she understood the mission of the evil trainer. "Oh I'm gonna get you Brenden!"
Meanwhile Brenden was rotting in the ground with flies and other scavengers circling around his shallow grave back near the woods. Mitsuhide and the others out on the road planning their next move are unaware of the rage brewing in the gym of Roxanne.
"Oh GOSH THESE PEOPLE ROBBED ME YOU MUST HELP ME QUICK!" Some fat guy yells as he runs up to the party's cart and grabs the rudders and pulls it off to the North with Katsuie in tow.
"HELP MITSU!" The slakoth calls out to his ally as they are all immediately alerted to the issue and give chase northward. Through the city and onto the route 115 they give chase.
"Dude that fat guy can move." Nagamasa says as he begins huffing slightly. "Oh by the way Mitsu I found another rare candy on the ground." He shows the candy to the party as they give chase.
"One day we need to talk about how you keep finding all this random stuff on the ground Naga." The treecko replies as they still run after the fat man and their cart. "Best not to ask Mitsu."
"Would you guys stay focused they have our trainer badge!" Masamune calls out as he begins sprinting ahead. The others keeled over in shock as the dog hustled onward as they realized Masamune forgot that he had Katsuie on the cart. As the dog ran faster he pondered. "I wonder what fat man tastes like?" The image of an epic ribeye fluttered into his mind an while he spent most of his life eating mainly berries the dog had to admit the trials of their journey had made him ravenous, and excitable toward the good stuff, meat.
As they entered the route 115 the dog paused in confusion. The others then bumped into their friend one at a time with Kicho gasping at the rear trying to catch up to the party.
"He went the other route down 114 didn't he."
"Yep." The party in an instant about faced and sprinted toward the East after smacking Masamune into the ground. Kicho was excited as she was the others.
"Hey guys I'm almost there." She called while breathing heavy from the running, until she realized they were all moving past and then away from her. She stopped for a second only her to realize what happened as Masamune came racing past her screaming.
"WRONG ROUTE!" The Whismur then huffed as she then once more began running after her gang. "The things I do for these people."
The gang eventually caught up to the fat man who was explaining to Katsuie the situation now that he fell over from exhaustion. "So that's why I need you rather than me, of whom this is my problem to go and get those team Magma punks." Katsuie stood quiet and tried his best to hide his face for fear of discovery, but like most adults apparently in this world the fat man was oblivious. "I like your style kid! No arguing just ready to do what us grownups tell him." The fat man then gave the slakoth a pat on the back and then keeled over as he pulled a soda from a fat roll and began guzzling it down with authority.
"Did that fat piece of human skin say Team Magama?" Mitsuhide's eyes lit up as the others were catching their breath only catching the tail end of the conversation.
"Yeah he did, aren't they the people who…..killed BRENDEN!" Even the usually mild mannered Katsuie was enraged at the realization.
"OH ITS ON!" Masamune cried as the others rallied up and knew that anyone affiliated with that brand was to die a cold and painful death.
"Yes you may even eat them Masamune." Nagamasa called to his buddy, whom he could tell was in a frenzy for flesh. The poochyena blushed as they they threw Whismur onto the cart to catch her breath as she barfed and fell over once she reached the cart.
"Off to that tunnel!" Mistuhide called as he pointed toward the route as the gang marched forward.