Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Death Defying Battle
An alarm blared throughout the Team Chaos base letting all the grunts know that intruders were on the loose. Vik and Chase headed down a hallway with Vik’s Scizor at their side. Soon a dark shadow appeared on the floor before them and then Darkrai emerged from the black blob. It then dimmed all the lights in the hallway.
Chase: “Dark Void. That is so
last adventure.” :wink:
Vik: “Don’t worry. We’re ready this time.” Scizor revealed to be holding a Lum Berry in its claw. When Darkrai trapped Scizor in a bubble of darkness Scizor ate the Lum Berry. The Lum Berry then neutralized the effects of Darkrai’s attack.
Vik: “Now use X-Scissor!” The edges of Scizors claws glowed with a lime-green hue. Then it sliced Darkrai with both claws crossing in the “X” pattern as portrayed in the battle animation from the games. Darkrai’s health showed on Vik’s PRi and was taken out in one shot.
Chase: “Great job. Now let’s get out of here.”
Vik: “Finished getting a Celebi yet.” Chase finished a setting on his PRi and was saving his Diamond game before switching over to the Pokemon Realization mode.
Chase: “I am now. Celebi, time to time travel!” Chase held out his PRi with the top screen opened at a 90 degree angle. The lens never lit up and Celebi never appeared.
Vik: “Did you hit “Realize” on your PRi’s touch screen?” Chase inspected his PRi’s screens.
Chase: “What’s this? ‘Unable to Realize Pokemon?’ What does that mean?”
Vik: “We can’t time travel?!”
TC Grunt: “There they are!” Chase and Vik looked down the hallway and saw two Grunts headed their way with PRi’s in their hands.
Vik: “Get ready Scizor!”
Scizor: “Scizor!” Scizor struck a pose with its left claw sticking out to intimidate the oncoming Grunts. Then suddenly it happened.
Scizor: “Zor?” Suddenly Scizor was alert about something, and began breathing heavily. “Sciiii…. Z-zor….”
Chase: “What’s wrong with Scizor?” Vik checked his PRi and nothing appeared wrong on Scizor’s status screen.
Vik: “Scizor, are you ok?” Scizor then began rubbing its head with its claws. The two TC Grunts were now near and released their pokemon.
TC Grunt: “Absol, go!”
TC Grunt #2: “I choose Marowak!” Absol and Marowak appeared right between the Grunts and Chase and Vik. Chase got his pokemon ready as well.
Chase: “OK, Torterra, let’s get ‘em!” Chase’s underestimated how big Torterra was in real life. When his Torterra was digitized out of his game it took up almost the entire width of the hallway, squeezing Chase between its shell and the wall, with his stomach and ribs taking most of the pain.
Chase: “Ow, big mistake.” Luckily Vik and Scizor had enough distance between Chase and his Torterra.
Vik: “Scizor, get ready for battle.” Scizor was still struggling with whatever was bothering it earlier. Finally it gave in. Vik Looked at his pokemon then its eyes were glowing bright red.
Scizor: “Scizor. Sci!” Scizor flew into action, but it used X-Scissor on the wrong pokemon: Chase’s Torterra! Chase had just squeezed out of the tight space between the wall and Torterra’s shell before the attack hit.
Chase: “Vik, have you lost it?”
Vik: “Dude, something’s wrong with Scizor, but the status screen doesn’t say it’s confused.” Then without warning, Espedow teleported into the hallway where the battle was taking place.
Chase: “It’s that pokemon again! It did something to Chatot so I bet it’s doing the same thing to Scizor.”
Espedow (telepathically):
Scizor is ours now. Xero has you doomed.
Chase: “Wanna bet? Torterra, Earthquake attack now!” Torterra got up on its hind legs and then slammed its forelegs and body onto the ground sending a huge shockwave throughout the building. Absol and Marowak took the full force of the Earthquake and Scizor took minimal damage. Espedow also felt the quake’s force.
Vik: “Scizor, return!” Vik tried to recall his Scizor into his PRi, but Espedow interfered by firing a Dark Pulse attack to intercept and cancel out the retractor beam that recalls pokemon.
Espedow:
Xero is in control… of everything. Scizor, X-Scissor!”
Chase: “You’re a pokemon, not a trainer!”
Espedow:
I’m BOTH!
Back in the present, AJ and Lucas had their own problem, and wit Xero himself. He had his Dusknoir using Gravity attack and the two brothers found themselves helpless.
Lucas: “Xero, you’ll be sorry!”
AJ: “What the heck do you want with us?”
Xero: “I just want one simple request, come with me for an assault on Team Chaos. Then I shall leave you and your family alone. You have my word.” Dusknoir’s body glowed dark purple and its hands pointed out toward AJ and Lucas, showing that it was concentrating the Gravity attack toward them and pinning them down. Lucas found it difficult to lift his head up just a few inches off the ground so he could face Xero. They also heard a metallic clang and banging noises as something hit the ground. Gravity was causing the house to fall apart.
Lucas: “I don’t trust you! You’ve already threatened us and wanted to kill my pokemon.” Xero just grinned once again.
AJ: “We’ll help! Just call of your pokemon before the house collapses in on us.”
Xero: “Alright. Dusknoir, let off on the Gravity.” Dusknoir stopped glowing dark purple and the whole room seemed to have taken a deep sigh of relief. AJ looked to his right from where he heard the noises earlier. Turns out several dumb bells from his father’s dumb bell set became too heavy from the intensified gravity and fell off their resting places. The 10 and 15 pound dumb bells were dug a couple inches into the carpet. The blinds covering the windows were also pulled down and stretched out. He knew his mom wouldn’t like the looks of this.
AJ: “You owe for all the trouble you’re causing.” Xero had his PRi out and recalled his Dusknoir.
Xero: “I don’t owe you a thing. Now Celebi, it’s show time!” Xero’s PRi flashed, Celebi’s silhouette appeared in light form. Then Celebi itself emerged from the light and flew around the kitchen and living room.
Lucas: “Celebi’s a legendary. Why can you use it?”
Xero: “PRi’s can be reprogrammed. I adjusted mine to help me summon Celebi, but I require more…”
Xero paused for a moment to search for the right word. “… ‘adjustments’ to call out my other legendary pokemon. Now Celebi, let us jump sixty years into the future. Take us to where Chase, Vik, Shade, Jason, and Gwen are.” Celebi flew up to the three of them and nodded. It closed its eyes and concentrated for a moment. Finally it opened a portal to the future right outside of the back sliding door and flew into it. Xero quickly slide the glass door opened to the back yard and followed. AJ and Lucas looked back to their wrecked living room.
AJ: “Mom if you can hear us, we’ll be right back.”
Lucas: “I didn’t make the mess, so I don’t have to clean it!” AJ nudged Lucas on his shoulder for making that comment. Lucas just snickered then they both went into the portal and into the future. Mrs. Beltran got up from the floor since she too was affected from the Gravity attack and gained a huge headache.
Mrs. Beltran: “Boys, be careful.” She then looked up as the portal began to fade away. She saw two large shadows of bird pokemon. They were approaching the house at mach speed.
Back at the base, within a hallway connecting an entrance to the main reception room a battle raged on. Vik’s Scizor was under Espedow's Mind Control attack and Chase was on his own against two Team Chaos Grunts.
Chase: “Torterra, use Wood Hammer on Marowak.”
TC Grunt #2: “Marowak, Fire Punch!” Torterra’s head glowed with green and then it smashed its head right onto Marowak’s fist that was ignited with flames. Both pokemon then yelled in pained after taking super effective hits, but Marowak went down first.
TC Grunt #1: “You idiot. Why didn’t you EV train that thing in Defense?”
TC Grunt #2: “Shut up, at least it’s one on one now, and that Torterra’s a goner. Marowak, return.” Marowak was called back into a PRi while Chase was trying to think what he should do. On the PRi’s status screen it showed that Torterra’s HP bar was red due to recoil damage from Wood Hammer. Then Scizor jumped up from behind.
Vik: “Chase, behind you!”
Espedow (telepathicall):
X-Scizor! Ha ha ha. Both of Scizor’s claws were glowing with a light green hue again. Chase ran out of the way and then hit the “recall” button the PRi’s touch screen.
Chase: “Torterra, return!” Scizor’s X-Scissor attack missed its target.
Vik: “Scizor, snap out of it and use X-scissor on Espedow or Absol for a change!” Scizor looked right at Vik, and then charged right at its trainer with a Quick Attack! Scizor’s body slammed against Vik from his side.
Chase: “No! Vik!” Vik was knocked back a fair distance and then slide across the floor from Quick Attack’s force. He then slowly got back up on his feet.
Vik: “I’m ok, but Chase you gotta do something about Espedow.” Chase nodded and once again released a pokemon from his PRi.
Chase: “It’s your turn Manectric! Use Discharge!” Chase’s Manectric appeared from the flash of light from his PRi. Then Manectric began to loosen electricity from its body.
Vik: “Chase wait!” It was too late as Manectric unleased a powerfull surge of electricity which hit everyone, including Chase and the Team Chaos Grunt. Luckily Vik was knocked out of range and barely felt an electric spark. However his Scizor was hit and his PRi showed Scizor’s health at about 1/3 of its full HP. Absol felt the full power of the attack and after taking an Earthquake attack earlier it fainted.
TC Grunt #2: “Time to retreat and let Jason handle them.”
TC Grunt #1: “Yeah. Absol, return!” The TC Grunts recalled Absol and made a run for it.
Vik: “Good riddance. Chase are you alright?” Chase brought up his PRi and began having it scan Espedow since it was also hit from the Discharge attack.
Chase: “I think my heart just stopped. Other then that I’m fine.” Chase was still breathing heavily since running away from Team Chaos and taking an electric attack wore him out. Electrical crackled through Espedow’s body. Chase wondered if it was Paralyzed.
Vik: “Scizor, you alright?” Scizor was just standing still gripping its head with its claws and trying to get its thoughts together. Meanwhile Chase checked Espedow’s status on his PRi. It was paralyzed and lost more then half its HP.
Chase: “Vik, I paralyzed Espedow. Scizor should have an easier time breaking free from its control.” Espedow had both of its half circle eyes shut tight, but then it snickered and then opened its eyes and stared right at Manectric.
Manectric: “Mane? Mane!” Manectric then suddenly howled in pain. Chase then checked his PRi.
Espedow’s SYNCHRONIZE Paralyzed Manectric. It maybe unable to move!
That message displayed on Chase’s PRi alarmed him a bit.
Chase: “So it has Synchronize Ability. That explains how it communicates with us telepathically.”
Espedow:
Synchronize isn’t all I do. Espedow’s body began glowing pink for a moment. Then Chase his PRi screen a second time. The PRZ sign for Paralysis above Espedow’s HP bar vanished.
Espedow’s LIMBER prevents Paralysis.
Chase: “What? You were paralyzed otherewise you couldn’t use Synchronize in the first place.”
Vik: “Xero must have hacked Espedow. But how does it change Abilitities?”
Chase: “I don’t know. You tell me.” Espedow then charged up a Dark Pulse by putting its two hands together similar to how a Lucario formed an Aura Sphere attack.
Chase: “Manectric, use Thunder Bolt!” Manectric was too paralyzed to attack. It just struggled where it stood.
Vik: “Your turn Scizor. You know what to do!”
Jason: “Porygon-Z, use Zap Cannon!” Chase and Vik were caught off guard. A ball of electricity hit Scizor thus Paralyzing it while bring its health down to a mere 4HP on Vik’s screen.
Chase: “Jason! If you wanted a battle why not approach us and challenge us?”
Jason: “Because you’re in my base. Now get out of my way as I take care of Xero’s pokemon. This is revenge for stealing file X-G5.”
Espedow:
Try as you might. You’re a born failure Jason.
Jason: “Allow me to prove you wrong! Porygon-Z, Signal Beam!”
Espedow:
I’ll deal with you later. Master Xero needs me. It then used Teleport to escape and dodge the Signal Beam.
Jason: “Well if I can’t have Espedow and Xero I’ll settle for the two responisble for messing up my last mission. Porygon-Z, use Tri Attack!”
Chase: “Come on Manectric!”
Vik: “You can do it Scizor!” Both of their Pokemon were too tired and too paralyzed to battle. Porygon-Z then formed three spheres, a red one, a blue one, and a yellow one, and was ready to fire them at will.
Lucas: “Machop, Dynamic Punch!” Seemingly out of nowhere, Lucas’s Machop rushed to the rescue with its fist glowing white. There was an explosion of energy as Dynamic Punch hit its target.
Chase & Vik: “Machop?”
Lucas: “Smojinn, cover us with a Smoke Screen!” Lucas then called out his own Prototype pokemon and then the purple and black genie pokemon appeared. The smoke near the base of its body then expanded and blacked out the hallway. Even Chase and Vik found it hard to see and became confused at the madness at what was going on.
AJ: “Grab them, Salamance!” AJ and Lucas flew in on Salamance’s back. Salamance then grabbed Vik and AJ with its claws. Scizor, Manectric, and Machop then quickly followed.
Chase: “AJ! Boy am I glad to see you.”
Vik: “Yeah thanks man.”
Lucas: “Hey what about me?”
Chase: “Thanks to you and Machop too Lucas. What was that pokemon.”
Lucas: “Gwen helped me capture that Genie Pokemon. It’s a Ghost and Fire type.”
Vik: “That’s tight.” An alarm then blared throughout the base. Red lights illuminated the halls and they flashed on and off.
Computer: “INTRUDER WARNING! LEVEL 5! ALL PERSONELTO SECTOR 3 IMMEDIATLY!” The computer continued to repeat the warning. Up ahead was a pair of double doors and there was no doubt they were locked.
AJ: “Blast those doors with your Hydro Pump, Salamance!” Salamance fired a jet stream of water from its mouth. The force of the attack blew the doors open for them. Our Heroes then found themselves in a massive room, with a glass roof several stories high above them. All the walls were metallic, unlike the previous areas Chase and Vik have visited in the base. On the west side of the room was a line of tables, with four chairs set for each one. To the north was some kind of huge super computer. The super computer itself was impressive. The monitor was a huge LCD flat screen 66” wide and 42” tall. It looked like at least a hundred of computers were linked together into one. There was one keyboard and mouse, but the tangle of wires underneath didn’t show where they connected to. The was a low hum of fans running to keep the system from overheating.
Lucas: “What is this place?” Lucas’s voice echoed in the empty room.
Commander Serph: “I see you boys discovered our computer for making the PRi’s Technology possible.” Commander Serph came from the same direction the boys flew in. Salamance landed on the ground the four of them dismounted. Smojinn, Manectric, Scizor, and Machop all stood guard for whatever the Commander of Team Chaos could pull off.
AJ: “Who’s this creep?”
Vik: “I’m not sure, but I think he’s the boss of Team Chaos.”
Commander Serph: “You’re mistaken. I’m second in command of Team Chaos.” The Commander then bowed down as if receiving a standing ovation from an audience. He acted like a celebrity being greeted by a large crowd of fans.
AJ: “Second in Command? Maybe Vik thought you said you were the Boss because of that funny English accent of yours.” Commander Serph then ran his fingers through his orange tinted hair. Then pulled out a PRi.
Xero: “Hold it!” Xero flew down on an Aerodactyl and then joined Chase and his friends on the ground. After that he quickly recalled Aerodactyl.
Commander Serph: “Xero! I see you’ve made some new friends.”
Xero: “Commander! Long time no see. All of us will take you and Team Chaos down!”
Commander Serph: “Think again! I’ll show you the power of my Alakazam!” The Commander then released his Alakazam from his PRi. Alakazam then immediately fired a Shadow Ball attack without any orders from Commander Serph on Lucas’s Smojinn.
Lucas: “Smojinn!”
Commander Serph: “Consider that a warning!” Lucas knew it was useless. He held out his PRi toward his fallen pokemon.
Lucas: “Smojinn, return. Machop, you return too.” Lucas had a feeling that Machop would instantly lose to a psychic pokemon. He figured he should play it safe.
Xero: “Ok, let me handle this.”
AJ: “We can handle this without you.”
Xero: “Oh you think so? Team Chaos is stronger then you think. I’ll handle this battle alone while you four look for the Admins.” The Commander just stood there, anticipating what the boys could possibly do.
AJ: “Why do we have to go after the Admins?”
Xero: “Just do it! We had an agreement AJ!”
Vik: “Forget it, I’m showing this Team Chaos bozo a thing or two about pokemon battling! Ready Scizor?” While riding on Salamance earlier, Vik used his PRi to access his Pearl game and give Scizor a Full Restore. Scizor was fully recovered and ready for round 2.
Xero: “Don’t do it!”
Vik: “Use X-Scissor on Alakazam, now!” Scizor leaped into action and jumped high, looked down on Alakazam, and then turned the edges of its claws green.
Xero: “I said ‘DON’T DO IT!’” Xero then did the unexpected. He ran and then stood right in front of Alakazam, now facing Scizor and the Commander with his back toward Vik and the others. Scizor was already diving from mid-air toward it's target and it was too late for it to stop. Scizor’s attacked hit Xero instead of Alakazam!
Scizor: “Z-ZOR?!” Chase and the others gasped as Xero screamed in agony from taking the full force of the X-Scissor attack. Scizor also had a shocked expression on it's own face. Tiny pieces of Xero’s brown cloak and flesh flew out. Scizor’s claws were an inch deep into Xero’s chest. Scizor quickly stopped the attack before the two claws would cross to form the top half of the “X" leaving two deep cuts shaped like mirror imaged slanted lines.
AJ: “Lucas, don’t watch!” AJ covered his brother’s eyes as Scizor removed its claws from Xero's chest. Xero then fell to his knees. As he did this he looked at the Commander, Scizor, and Alakazam and flashed one last sinister grin. Finally he fell flat onto his chest and remained silent after that. Then the Commander activated the communicator on his wrist.
Commander Serph: “This is the commander! Send a Disposal Team to the Central Hub Room immediately. We got a sack of waste here.” AJ and Chase were still shocked at what had just happened. Vik however quickly came back to his senses.
Vik: “Scizor, return!” Scizor still had that shocked expression on its face. It had seen something it was never meant to see. With it's claws already red it was hard to tell if it had any of Xero's blood on them or if recalling Scizor would clean them. The red retractor beam hit Scizor and recalled it. Chase and AJ decided to call back their pokemon too.
Chase & AJ: "Return."
Commander Serph: "Alakazam, we'll live to fight another day." All Pokemon were recalled into their owner's PRi's.
Chase: “Let’s make a run for it.” Just then Gwen and her Gardevoir appeared using Teleport.
Gwen: “Someone called for a clean up crew?”
Commander Serph: “Gwen, capture these fools.” Gwen winked at AJ and Lucas.
Gwen: “Roger Commander. Gardevoir, teleport all of us to the underground prison chamber.” Gardevoir then Teleported the everyone but the Commander and Xero’s body to the prison Chambers. The Commander took one last look at Xero before he left. Although Xero's actions left him puzzled, he decided not to care about it.
Commander Serph: “There you go boss. Xero’s gone like you wanted.”
Espedow (telepathically):
Commander... The commander stopped and looked behind him one last time. There was no one there except Xero's fallen body. For a moment it seemed like a Pokemon was watching him, but then whatever presence he sensed vanished. He continued his way out and then disregaurded the haunting voice in his head.
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Chapter 13: Distant Relationships: Krystal and her Chatot arrive at the scene with some unexpected allies. However, The Team Chaos Boss is preparing to unleash his Giratina onto our heroes.