Chapter
3- Dark Duels in a
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After
spending the entire day travelling through the dark forest, night eventually
fell. It was surprisingly easy to get to sleep that night, considering how
creepy this place was, and that they knew something BAD was here. Since Ash was
out cold, on account of his… (ahem…) brawl with Misty, she and Brock agreed to
have one person stay up to watch. Brock stayed up, because Misty was worn out
from her fight, also because she threatened him. He sat up and held the frying
pan, watching and wishing he had a higher rank in the group.
Hours
passed, it became darker to pitch black. His head sagged, his eyes closed (you
can hardly see the difference) and his hand let go of the pan. He was fast
asleep. Around the same time he fell asleep, Ash woke up at that moment. He
struggled to see in the dark, but soon he could make out all the shapes.
Apparently Misty was sleeping peacefully, as well as Pikachu and Togepi. And
Brock, since he was sitting up with the frying pan was next to him, yet his
head hung and he was snoring, obviously he was supposed to guard, but he’s
asleep on the job.
Ash
laid his head on the ground, and stayed awake. He wasn’t tired now, and since
they can’t rely on Brock to protect them, then he’d have to be the hero. After
half an hour of lying down, doing nothing, Ash had begun to get really bored.
He crawled out of the sleeping bag, and stretched himself. Then he remembered
what woke him up. He then looked left and right, into the darkness. “Hey,
Pikachu. Wake up” he nudged Pikachu.
Pikachu
woke up, yawned and stretched. Ash smiled and stroked his head, “Morning,
buddy. How are you feeling?” He then looked at Brock and Misty, who were still
asleep. “Pikachu, sorry I woke you up this early, but there’s kind of a
problem. I heard some sounds out there, and I want to go take a look. It might
be another trainer, or whoever was being chased. Think you can come and check
it out with me?” Pikachu didn’t seem too happy with the idea, but he agreed to
go.
Quietly,
they walked out of the campsite. Ash took the flashlight, in case of an
emergency. For protection, he had his full deck of pokéballs and Noctowl in
case of ghost pokémon. Pikachu managed to pick up some kind of scent and was
following it. Ash followed Pikachu, because surely it would lead to a person,
or a pokémon, something that wasn’t inanimate.
“Pikachu!”
Pikachu said out loud, stopping and standing up. His ears moved upwards.
“What
is it Pikachu?” Ash asked, he understood what was going on. Pikachu heard some
kind of sound, and when Ash listened carefully, he heard it too.
“Pika!”
Pikachu ran in that direction, and Ash followed.
The
sound was getting clearer, there was a scratching noise, and squeaks and
squeals, as if there was a hurt animal, Ash and Pikachu followed the sound.
Then they came to an area, it looked just like the rest of the forest, dark
gnarled trees with roots sticking out of the ground. Then they saw what was
making the noise.
“A
Pikachu!” He gasped. A Pikachu was struggling; it was stuck in some kind of
trap. By the looks of it, this Pikachu’s leg was tangled up in some tough metal
wires. There were teeth marks on the wires, indicating that it had tried to
chew them to release its leg, but had no success.
Ash and
Pikachu rushed over to help the poor pokémon. As Pikachu spoke with the trapped
one, Ash tried hard and untangled the hard wires. The second it was untied, the
trapped Pikachu stepped up and looked at Ash and Pikachu. Ash and Pikachu
looked at it, it was giving them a strange look, then all of the sudden.
Without warning, the Pikachu launched a strong thundershock attack, zapping
both Ash and Pikachu. They both yelled out in pain, and Ash fell over on his front.
He was twitching a bit from the electricity, but got up.
“What
the heck is your problem!?” Ash yelled at the Pikachu
“PIKA!”
Pikachu yelled angrily at the one who attacked them. He was upset for the
ingratitude.
“His
problem…” A voice said, “…Is you.”
“What?”
Ash spun around and saw a few meters away, standing on a tree root… himself? “Who
are you?!” He yelled
The Ash
standing on the tree root looked at him strangely “You don’t recognize
yourself? You must be having some sort of identity crisis…”
“Hey,
shut up!” Ash yelled at the impostor. He pointed the flashlight at the other
Ash; he looked exactly like Ash did. The voice was a perfect match; the face
looked exactly the same, even the lines on the face were exactly like Ash’s,
and it was the same thing for the clothing. “What are you doing out here
copying me?”
“Copying
you?” The other Ash spoke, “How do you know you’re not the copy?”
“Shut
up! I’m real, and I’ll prove it!” Ash clenched his fist.
“With a
pokémon battle?” The other Ash asked
“Right
on!” Ash pulled out one of his pokéballs
“A
pokémon match, how predictable…” Other Ash pulled out a pokéball, “I’ll let you
choose first”
“Fine
then! I choose you…!” The background went green, Ash turned his cap and threw
the ball. The pokémon materialized, “Noctowl!”
“Noctowl,
I saw that one coming!” Other Ash said, the background behind him turned green,
he turned his cap and threw the pokéball, “Noctowl! I choose you!”
The
pokémon materialized, a yellow coloured, orange winged Noctowl appeared, facing
Ash’s.
“What?!”
Ash saw the colouring on the opponent’s Noctowl, “Well whatever! It may be a
rare breed of Noctowl, but not one of a kind! Noctowl! Use Quick attack!”
Noctowl
hooted and swooped to the opponent’s Noctowl. Enemy Ash called the orders to
his pokémon “Wing Attack on my mark! Ready… … … NOW!” The enemy Ash’s Noctowl
swung its wing, slamming Noctowl and halting the attack. Noctowl shook his
head, dazed. Not only was enemy Ash’s voice and looks the exact same, so were
the battle skills.
“Tackle!”
Ash yelled quickly. Enemy Noctowl was close by and Noctowl flew and bashed the
opponent with a strong hit. “Whirlwind!” Noctowl began flapping his wings
violently. Enemy Noctowl was spinning, caught in the tornado and obviously
loosing HP fast. Enemy Ash covered his face a bit, shielding his eyes from the
dust and wind.
“Noctowl!”
Enemy Ash yelled, “It may be a bit windy, but don’t let it distract you!
Agility and bide, Now!” Enemy Noctowl waited a few more seconds, then
straightened himself up, and began flying fast. With the help of agility, he
ripped through the wings, despite the injuries. Noctowl had only a few seconds
to screech out with shock when he saw the opponent flying through the winds,
and slam into him, hard and with the help of agility, did more than twice the
damage. Ash’s Noctowl fell to the ground, defeated.
“No!
Noctowl, return!” Ash growled, “I can’t lose this one!” Ash looked at him
angrily “I’ve dealt with illusions and copycats before, and I don’t believe for
a second that you’re me, or even real!” Ash yelled, “Pikachu! Attack!”
“Fine
then! Show them whose boss, Pikachu!” Enemy Ash sent his Pikachu to fight.
Both
Pikachu’s launched electric attacks, one after another, meeting in mid air,
cancelling each other out. The enemy’s Pikachu sent a spark to the ground,
causing an electric bolt to jump from the ground and bounce to Pikachu. Pikachu
launched a close range thundershock and deflected the bolt, and then he fired a
thunder attack, only to have it shielded by the opponent’s own attack.
“Careful
Pikachu!” Ash called out, “Although he’s not the real one, he’s still strong!
Use thunder!”
“Pi-ka-CHUUU!”
Pikachu shot a large bolt of electricity
“Deflect
it with your own thunder buddy!” Enemy Ash called
“Pi-KAAA!”
Enemy Pikachu fired an equally strong bolt. The two shots cancelled each other
out.
“Pikachu!
Use agility!” Ash commanded
“Swift!”
Enemy Ash yelled
Wait a
minute, where’s that faker…?”
His
question was answered with a hit on the face. Enemy Ash had swung from a tree
branch and kicked Ash in the face. Ash fell backwards, and looked up to see his
opponent.
“I don’t
think it’s fair that only our pokémon get to have all the fun!” Enemy Ash said.
Ash got up, but enemy Ash punched him in the face, jumped and did a roundhouse
kick on Ash’s face. Ash flew and fell face first into the dirt. Enemy Ash came
running towards him, ready to attack. Ash got up quickly and punched, but enemy
Ash moved his head and dodged it easily, then hit Ash again and again. “Face
it!” He yelled, slamming Ash on the stomach, “You’ll never beat me! I’m way
stronger and faster than you!” Ash got up, and punched with his left. Enemy Ash
moved his head to the right, dodging it, but that hit was only a decoy. Ash
punched with his right, straight into enemy Ash’s face. Enemy Ash fell on his
back and clenched his face where Ash had punched.
Ash
wiped his face, “You may be faster, but stronger? Never! Faster maybe, but you
can’t even take one punch while I took all those hits! I’m not just stronger, I’m
also tougher!”
Enemy
Ash sprung up from the ground with his hands and flew feet first into Ash,
kicking him on the face, “You really think so?!” Ash fell back, and enemy Ash
ran towards him, grabbed the front of Ash’s shirt and clenched his fist, “I’m trained
and know how to fight, that’s the difference that’ll win this battle” He looked
at the real Ash’s face, but Ash was… smiling?
Ash
threw a handful of dirt into enemy Ash’s face, blinding and hurting him. “An
opening!” He punched enemy Ash straight on the neck. Enemy Ash made a gagging
sound from that hit. Ash then punched him on the side of the head with a strong
hook (slow motion, sweat and drops of blood flies from enemy Ash’s face), the
stomach (slow motion, enemy Ash coughs gags from the hit), and finished off by
kicking him in the groin (slow motion, this one speaks for itself). Enemy Ash’s
eyes bulged from the last hit. He fell the ground, wheezing.
“You
were right, faker!” Ash laughed at him, “That is the difference that’ll win the
battle! I fight dirty!” Ash looked and saw the two Pikachu’s. The enemy’s
Pikachu was down and Ash’s Pikachu had won his battle.
Enemy
Ash got up, gasping for air, and speaking in a very, high-pitched voice, “This
isn’t over! I’ll be back! Pikachu, return!” He called back his pokémon into a
ball and hobbled into the darkness.
Ash
laughed and Pikachu jumped up and gave him a high five, “I guess we showed them
a thing or two!” Ash then yelled out into the distance, “Don’t come back or I’ll
do that again Faker! On the other hand, do come back! That was fun, and I
wouldn’t mind doing it again!”
The
faker then ran out of the darkness, with a wicked smile. “Hey real one!” Ash
looked at him, “You and your pokémon may be able to tell I’m not the real you,
but will the other people?” He laughed, “If I go out and do bad things, looking
like you, you’re gonna look like a criminal! Think, how all those people,
especially the bounty hunter will react when seeing you, and the great big
price on your…”
WHACK!
The
impostor Ash fell over, dazed when Ash threw a rock in his face. “Oh no you’re
not gonna go out looking like me and doing bad things! Not only is that plan
incredibly stupid, it’s overused too! Everyone knows if the hero goes bad, it’s
an evil look alike! There are more ‘don’t fall for evil impostor’ posters than ‘don’t
do drugs’ ads out there!” Ash walked over and kicked him, “However, since you
were planning to do bad things anyway…”
“What
are you going to do to me?” Impostor Ash asked nervously and sweatdropped. Ash
put his hands on the impostor’s shoulders…
Two
minutes later
“!@#!$-ING
DAMN IT!!! You !@#$@ LET ME DOWN NOW!” Impostor Ash yelled, hanging upside
down, six feet in the air, arms tied, and his legs bound together and dangling
from a tree branch. The real Ash turned around, looked at the impostor’s face
and smiled cheerfully.
“Hey,
before you challenged me, you should’ve thought of the consequences!” He looked
at him “And If you’re gonna talk that way to me, then I’m not gonna let you
down. And since you were intending to use my looks, voice and identity to frame
me for doing bad things, I oughta leave you here until autumn so you can fall
with all the leaves” Ash walked forwards to the impostor who hung upside-down
and took his pokémon league cap and examined it, “You’re really dedicated to
your faking you know that? You even went out and got yourself an AUTHENTIC
pokémon league cap! One which I could sell for big bucks online. And I think I’ll
take this too” Ash pulled out the guy’s wallet as well, pulled out the HUGE wad
of cash. As he walked away, he threw the empty wallet to the ground.
The
impostor started swearing again, but they just ignored it.
Pikachu
ran to Ash, “Pika, Pikachu” he said
“Don’t
worry Pikachu, he’ll be fine. I’m not really intending to leave him there until
autumn” Ash said, “Those ropes aren’t THAT strong. The one dangling him from
the branch is weak, and will break in a few hours. Of course, he will be
getting a nasty headache when the rope breaks, especially with those rocks I
put underneath…” Ash laughed.
As they
walked away, the only thing that could be heard in the forest was the loud
profanity, but with the ‘tree falling in the woods’ bit, no one was around to
hear it. The impostor gave up closed his eyes, the acting like Ash and running
around wreaking havoc wasn’t a very good idea, and running back to the field
just to tell real Ash his evil scheme definitely wasn’t a good idea. But what
the real Ash just did to him, beat him up, take the money, hang him upside down
from a tree, this meant war…
Ash and
Pikachu headed back to the camp. Whoever that faker was, he was probably the
guy making all those sounds in the night, trying to scare them, but now that
they knew he was weaker then them and could be beaten without too much trouble,
they had nothing to fear about this forest! Ash fixed things up good.
Back at
the camp, Brock and Misty were still asleep. Ash checked the time and saw that
it was still very early. Pikachu curled up and fell asleep, and Ash noticed the
frying pan Brock held. He was supposed to stay up and watch for the night.
“The
faker’s ropes are gonna snap in a few hours, and when they do, he’s not very
likely to be in a very good mood.” Ash spoke quietly, then scowled at Brock “Even
if Brock did stay awake, there is no way could protect any of us with that
thing” Ash said to himself, “We need a smarter plan.” Quietly, he took out a
pokéball and released one of his pokémon. (You don’t see which one, just a
small black shape.) Ash kneeled over and started whispering some orders to it
(you don’t hear them either. You just see their silhouettes from a distance)
Ash picked up a particularly large tree limb, broke the smaller twigs and
branches off and held it like a club. Then, with a bit of effort, he climbed
one of the trees surrounding them, and sat on a thick sturdy branch, holding
the club.
“If the
faker comes here, I’ll be ready”
A few
more hours passed, it was almost dawn. A bit of sunlight broke passed through
the leaves. Ash dozed off in his watch. While he was asleep, Brock woke up and
checked the time. This was the hour Ash wanted them to wake them up. He saw Ash’s
sleeping bag, his head was covered up completely.
“Why
does Ash sleep like that? Even he knows he wouldn’t be able to breathe under
the covers” Brock said, “Oh well, better wake him up before he suffocates.” He
walked over to the sleeping bag and nudged it, no response. He nudged it again,
harder. No response. “Geez, he must still be out cold after Misty hit him. Ash,
wake up!” He shook it hard, but no response came, “Oh come on! Even she couldn’t
hit you that hard!” He pulled open the covers…
“TCHRHAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIILE!”
It was too dark to see everything, but a monster’s face lit up in the darkness,
revealing a hideous face, with sharp pointed fangs, a series of bloody red
spines, dark red glowing eyes and black markings leaped up and hissed loudly in
his face.
“GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”
Brock screamed
The
noise immediately woke Ash up. Instantly, he clenched the club, and jumped down
from the tree. He could see the shape of a person, but it was too dark to see
who it was exactly. But that didn’t matter, “SO YOU’VE COME BACK, FAKER! COME
TO FOOL MY FRIENDS AND LEAD THEM INTO A TRAP?! WELL YOU JUST STEPPED INTO
MINE!!! MUAHAHAHAHHAHAH!” Ash jumped up and down, laughing manically, and
continuously whacking his head “TAKE THAT AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT…” He
slammed Brock on the head, again and again.
“Ash?!
What’s going on?!” Misty yelled, pointing a large flashlight, illuminating the
whole scene. Ash had the club raised over his head and was about to swing down
again. Apparently, the scary monster with the red spikes and fangs was
Totodile, using the scary face attack. Ash sweatdropped when he looked down.
Face flat on the ground, with several huge lumps on his head, it was Brock. “I
hope you’ve got a good explanation, because he’s not very likely to be in a
very good mood when he wakes up” Misty looked at him.
“Well
Misty… it’s like this…” Ash began to explain
(Later)
Brock
sat on the ground, holding an ice pack over his head. He turned his head and
looked at Ash, “So let me gave this straight. You walked into the forest and
saw an evil clone of you, in which you engaged in a pokémon battle and a
fistfight, leading you to setting up a trap for him in case he returns, and
causing you to brutally attack me?”
“Well…
yes” Ash nodded nervously
“Heh…”
Brock looked down and chuckled… “YOU FREAKING
“Ow…
Brock!” Ash spoke “I didn’t imagine it!”
“And
give that back!” Misty snatched the mallet out of Brock’s hands, “Don’t you
EVER use this without my permission!” She waved it threateningly in Brock’s
face
Brock
sweatdropped, then turned to Ash “Now Ash, I could understand you’re young and
have a very active imagination, but even YOU have your limits. As the oldest
one here, I feel responsible to ask, you weren’t… intoxicated with anything?”
Brock patted his shoulder “You know what I’m talking about, right? I mean…
there wasn’t any alcohol involved… or anything illegal, right? Like cannabis?
It must have been cannabis… was it cannabis?”
“Hey! I
wasn’t drunk!” Ash yelled, insulted, “And what about that cannabis remark?! I
have never been so insulted in my life! ARE YOU SAYING I EAT OTHER PEOPLE?!”
Everyone
but Ash sweatdropped, then Misty spoke up “Can we please change the subject?
Ash told us everything of what he saw, and I believe him!”
“(Yeah,
take ASH’S side over mine ya scrawny orange hag)” Brock muttered.
“What
was that?” Misty glared at him, and clutched the mallet tightly
“Nothing!
Nothing…” Brock sweatdropped backed off.
“Well
anyways, I don’t want to stay in this place any longer!” Ash said, “We’re all
packed, so let’s go!”
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“What’s
that light up ahead?” Misty asked
“I don’t
know” Ash said
“It
might be Teal Ville!” Brock said hopefully
They
all rushed ahead, but were disappointed. It was only a plain shack covered with
sheet metal and wood and stuff.
“(Tsk!)
It’s just some ugly shack!” Misty said angrily, “No doubt some hillbilly or…”
“In the
dark, you should prepare for trouble!” A woman’s voice spoke
“The
nightmares is real, so make it double!” A man’s voice rang out
Jessie
leaped from the trees, onto the shack, holding a microphone “To protect the
world from devastation!”
James
jumped out from the branch, but slipped a little, and fell to the ground.
Slowly and painfully, he climbed to the top of the shack. “(Grunt) To unite all
people within our nation!”
“To
denounce…!” (Lights turn off and speakers are out)
“Hey,
what happened?” James asked
They
looked down and saw Misty holding something.
“I am
so sick and tired of that motto!” She said, then held up an unplugged cord, “So
I pulled the plug on you guys!”
Jessie
growled, “How dare you interrupt the motto!”
“Motto
or no motto! When we’re done with you, you’ll be singing a different tune!” Ash
said, “I can see you didn’t bring reinforcements today!”
“We don’t
need reinforcements, because we got a secret weapon!” Meowth said, then
whispered to Jessie and James “Where was the secret weapon?”
“We
didn’t bring one” they answered, “The boss said he won’t sponsor our weapons
anymore, until we pay him in full for what we owe him.”
“How
much is that?”
“Well…
if we captured Articuno and Zapdos by the end of the week… we’d still owe him fifty
more pokémon, plus Pikachu” said James
“Argh!
Whatever!” Jessie turned around, “We don’t need any secret weapon! We’ve been
training hard, and our levels have nearly doubled! Why don’t we demonstrate our
newfound power?”
“We’re
not the same Team Rocket you’ve always known! We use the power of Teamwork! We’re
not only stronger, but better than before!” James called
“And in
a few more levels, I’ll evolve into a Persian!” Meowth got up and flexed his
arms in a mock muscleman pose.
“Arbok!
Wobuffet! Attack!” Jessie threw the pokéballs
“Victreebell!
I choose you!” James threw his pokéball
Victreebell
screeched, but James didn’t even shake. Instead of jumping up and trying to eat
James, it dove down and engulfed Meowth.
“I told
you! I trained it so that it’ll only attack pokémon!” James laughed
“You
could have trained it NOT to attack team members!” Meowth crawled out of
Victreebell, dashed to James and slashed his face.
“I was
always five times stronger than you ever were, and higher levels from you means
more exp. for me!” Ash said, and then turned his cap and threw the pokéball “Time
to use one of my veterans. Kingler! I choose you!”
“Co-KING!!”
Kingler growled
“Arbok!
Attack from a distance with poison sting!” Jessie ordered. Arbok opened his
mouth and fired hundreds of poisonous needles.
“Bubble
attack!” Ash ordered. Hundreds of bubbles flew out of Kingler’s mouth and hit
the needles. Each bubble popped when hit with a needle, but each needle was
erased on contact.
“Whoa!
I’ve never seen a poison sting attack like that before!” Brock exclaimed, “Arbok’s
able to use rapid fire poison sting! Ash is gonna have a hard time beating them
now!”
“Well
then let’s help him, instead of just standing around!” Misty pulled out a
pokéball and tossed it, “Staryu! Go!”
“HA!”
The starfish yelled
“Geodude!
Go!” Brock threw Geodude’s pokéball
“Geo-DUDE!”
“Victreebell!
Razor Leaf!” James shouted out the orders. Victreebell screeched, and fired two
large, sharp leaves. Geodude slammed one to the ground with his fist, and
Staryu hit the other with a water gun. But as the two pokémon countered those
ones, it left an opening. “Use multiple leech seeds!!” James yelled.
Victreebell fired a barrage seeds from its mouth. Staryu moved fast and barely
dodged them, but Geodude wasn’t fast enough. The seed opened up and ensnared
him with vines.
“Geodude!”
Brock yelled, “Ah! Not only is James stronger, he’s got the elemental
advantage!”
“We can’t
let him win!” Misty called out to Staryu, “Staryu! Show them it takes more than
elements to win this! Swift attack!”
“Ha!”
Staryu straightened up and fired bright, sharp stars at Victreebell.
Victreebell screeched in pain from the stinging stars, but other than stinging,
they didn’t to much damage. “That didn’t work! Quickly, use double edge!”
Staryu turned sideways and spun towards Victreebell like a shuriken, but this
attack meant that it’d be perfectly aligned in front of Victreebell.
“Now
Victreebell! Show them the power of a fully evolved Team Rocket pokémon! Stun
spores!” Victreebell leaned forwards and the leaf covering its mouth moved,
opening it. Then a cloud of orange powder flew out, and Staryu flew right into
it. The second it flew into the stun spores, it felt a stinging sensation, and
stiffened up to the point where it couldn’t move. Staryu dropped to the ground.
“Oh no!”
Misty yelled
“Oh yes!
Use Vine whip!” James yelled down from the roof. Victreebell spun and the long,
whip-like vine on its back stretched and hit Staryu into Geodude. Both flew and
hit a tree, then dropped to the ground.
“Ah!”
Misty yelled, “He beat us!”
“I don’t
believe it!” Brock said, “But we’re not beat until every one of our pokémon are
down!” He pulled out all of his pokéballs and threw them
“That’s
right! You’re strong, but you’re using only two pokémon against this many! Let’s
see how you deal with strength in numbers!” Misty threw all her pokéballs,
releasing every one of her pokémon. James gulped and sweatdropped nervously. He
had just bitten off more than he could chew, and he gonna choke.
Meanwhile,
there was another heated battle. Standing back to back with James, facing the
opposite direction from James’ battle was Jessie.
“Kingler!”
Ash yelled, “Bubblebeam!” He turned his head called to his other Pokémon, “Bayleef!
Vine whip!”
“Arbok,
Dig! Wobuffet! Counter!” Jessie yelled. Arbok dove into the ground just in time
to miss the beam of thick foam and bubbles, and Wobuffet raised the counter so
Bayleef’s vines bounced off and flew back and whipped the owner. Arbok came
bursting out of the ground right under Kingler, knocking him over.
“Arbok!
Bite!” Jessie yelled
“CHAARBOK!”
Arbok hissed and opened his jaws, ready to chomp the crab.
“Quick!
Use crab hammer!” Ash yelled. Quickly, Kingler swung his large claw and slammed
Arbok across the face, sending it flying and hitting a tree. But Arbok was
stronger than before, and therefore got up and could still fight. Ash turned to
Bayleef “Bayleef! Ignore Wobuffet and focus on Arbok! That way, it couldn’t do
anything!” Bayleef obeyed and didn’t attack Wobuffet. It turned its attention
to Arbok and attacked.
“Arbok!
Use… use…!” Jessie stumbled; she didn’t know what to do. Arbok couldn’t beat
those two pokémon at once, “You stupid blue lunk!” She yelled at Wobuffet, “How
come you don’t have any offensive attacks?”
“Waaaaaa-buffet!”
Wobuffet saluted
Arbok
dropped to the ground, he couldn’t take any more punishment. Ash looked at
Jessie, and James standing up on that roof, then smiled a nasty grin. “Heh… we
win.” Ash then pointed at the shack, “Kingler!”
Jessie
sweatdropped nervously, “What… are you doing?”
“Hyper
beam the shack!” Ash shouted. Kingler aimed his gigantic claw. It started to
glow and yellow energy gathered at the center, followed by a powerful beam. The
beam took a gigantic chunk out of a corner of the shack. It looked just like it
had been bitten out. The shack started to bend…
Jessie
and James sweatdropped, “Looks like Team Rocket’s…” The shack fell over on one
side, and Jessie & James fell head first to the ground. “…Grounded again…
ouch” They moaned. Ash struck a pose, he had just one his battle. Further away,
Pikachu was fighting his battle.
“SLASH!”
Meowth extended his claws and swiped. Pikachu barely moved in time to dodge.
Meowth turned his head and faced Pikachu. Pikachu launched a thunderbolt, but
Meowth jumped out of the way easily. He landed behind Pikachu and scratched
him. Angry, Pikachu swung hit tail and slapped Meowth in the face hard. Meowth
growled and swiped again, but Pikachu moved. Meowth laughed as he extended his
claws and ran towards Pikachu “And you thought you could beat me that easily… I’m
really enjoying this game of Cat and Mouse! And to think!” he slashed, Pikachu
ducked, but it hit his ear. Pikachu leaped and head butted Meowth’s face and
thunder shocked him, but not damaging him too much. He jumped back several
meters away and crossed his arms. “I’ve levelled up and increased my speed,
strength and defence! When I win this battle, I’m gonna be the bosses favourite
once again!”
Pikachu’s
ears moved up. Meowth was strong, much more than he had expected, he was in a
completely different level from the other two, and nothing like he was before.
Meowth ran towards Pikachu, uncrossing his arms and extending his claws. He was
gonna finish Pikachu off… “Pikaaa…!” Pikachu ran towards Meowth, cheeks
sparking with electricity.
“HAAA!”
Meowth leaped and slashed, “Oop?” He blinked and landed on his feet, Pikachu
was nowhere to be seen!
Pikachu
knew if he tried went for the ‘samurai finish’ against Meowth, he’d lose. He
took a much smarter one. He had jumped at the last moment and dodged the slash.
Pikachu landed from the air, right behind Meowth. He jumped and hung onto
Meowth’s back and bit hard. Meowth screamed and tried to shake Pikachu off.
Pikachu’s cheeks started sparking.
“PI-KA-CHUUUUUU”
He zapped Meowth with a powerful Thunder attack, and at that range, he had 100
accuracy.
Meowth’s
body smoked, but he could still fight. His eyes flashed as he tried to use
leer, but Pikachu ran a different direction. Pikachu ran to a tree, jumped to
the trunk and kicked off, flying towards Meowth. Spinning rapidly, sparking, he
rammed head first into Meowth, sending him flying.
Meowth
was thrown to the ground. He hit it hard, and fell face down near Jessie and
James. He raised his head and tried to get up, “Ah, shoot. And I was just about
to beat you too…” he moaned, and his face dropped to the ground. He twitched
and his shoulders jerked a bit, but then stopped moving.
“ALL
RIGHT!” Ash, Misty and Brock high-fived, they won! “No matter how strong you
are, Team Rocket…!” Ash spoke, holding up his peace sign
“We’ll
always be stronger!” Misty also held it up
(Clap,
clap, clap) Ash, Misty, Brock and Pikachu heard the sound of clapping. They all
turned around and saw who was doing it. “Very impressive,” He clapped, “As weak
as those three clowns were, they’ve gotten a lot stronger than before… and you
still managed to beat them” They looked at who it was. It was an aged man, most
likely in his 50’s. He had a pointed nose, and his hair was black and going
grey in some places. He wore a red bandana around his neck, a red beret and
white gloves that reached to his elbows. He had black pants and shirt, with a
big, red ‘R’. It was a Team Rocket member!
“You’re
part of Team Rocket!” Ash exclaimed
The man
laughed, then spoke calmly “It’s true, I am part of Team Rocket, but I’m not
just any Team Rocket Member!” He pulled out a pokéball, “My real name is
classified information, only Giovanni knows. But unlike that teenager show-off
Domino with that ‘Black Tulip’ super spy code name, I prefer to be addressed by
my status.” He looked at them and smiled, a nasty one, “You can call me 001”
“001!?”
They all yelled, and pulled out pokéballs
“You’re
a Team Rocket Elite!” Ash yelled
“And
you’re Ash Ketchum…” said 001, “You’ve become a real thorn in Team Rocket’s
side, you’ve defeated our agents by the hundreds… but you’ll find that I’m
different.”
“We’ll
just have to see about that!” Ash said, reaching for a pokéball…
001
laughed, “Giovanni will give me a nice big reward for bringing you in as
prisoners. You’ve been causing them a lot of trouble, you know? And there is a
nice big bounty on your head…”
“Get
ready…” Ash said to his friends
“I may
only have one pokémon” He held up the pokéball, “But that way, I could
concentrate more on making him stronger instead of wasting time with other
weaker ones. One pokémon is all I need. One exceedingly powerful pokémon…” he
started laughing, “POKÉBALL! GO!” 001 threw the pokéball. All Ash, Misty and
Brock could do is watch and wait to see what pokémon will come out when it hits
the ground…
What pokémon is 001 going to use? Will Ash,
Misty and Brock stand a chance against an Elite? And what about that Ash
impostor? Find out more, in the next chapter!
(TO BE
CONTINUED)