Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Team Slack is Back

now it may sound like im jocking marshtomp but trust me he and sum other guy came up with this im just jocking him (jk ask him urself)

Andrew:arc/arb master Stanley:LookforWEX Keith:MEEEEE Michael:marshtomp

"How could it be!" yelled the enraged mob boss, slamming his metal arm on the table, busting it in half.

This didnt add to his already very bad day. He had lost three elites and one of his spies already. This meant more money and time he had to spend in finding better ones to replace the dead or lost units.

"This will cost me thousands of dollars, I want the man responsible for this to be captured and slain on the spot, if he puts up a fight then please by all means fight dirty."

The dirty old man enjoyed his power, and like all leaders with too much of it, abused it. He ordered people shot if he was angry. Soldiers feared and hated him, and Fereon new this, so he used it to his advantage, keeping them all in line. He was a rash and foolish leader. But he didnt become leader of the notorious Alpha Bandits for nothing. His skill was beyond that of any other man in the history of Pokemon battling. He had beaten every single elite four member more than once, and without any difficulty. Whenever a new one came along he would defeat him for the sheer pleasure of making the newest winner feel like a loser. Fereon was once like Keith, they both had a love for pokemon and battling, but they branched off and Keith became a fighter of the poor and innocent along with Michael, Stanley and Andrew.

Fereon saw how powerful pokemon could be and became corrupt with the idea of breeding the perfect monster. He had multi-million dollar labs doing research around the clock. He got this money over very few years, he had been a famous, or rather, infamous pokemon battler since he was 12, a true child prodigy, and he had friends in high places because of it. He used their knowledge and power over Jhoto to take it over. Bit by bit city by city, he now owned an entire region of the pokemon universe. People fought, valiantly, but lost. Eventually to appease the monster they just gave up instead of losing any more pokemon and people. He killed most of them anyway, knowing they would just rebel anyways. Those who he found where elite battlers he brainwashed to work for him. In a short 5 years he had the most secret and quick take over in the history of man. Neighboring regions had no clue what was going on, all they knew was that supplies and mail where no longer accepted in or out of Jhoto.

Team Slack also had a very large base of operations, it had been years since they fought Team Rocket in Celadon, and since no one wanted to rehabitate the battle scarred area, they bought the land and built a very tall and very deep base. Here they hired many many hundreds of poor, homeless, and helpless people, trained them, and gave them pokemon. From there these happy people would live in the base and work, lounge, and when the time needed it, prepare for massive assaults or small recon against new opponents who were against the balance of the earth. The money for this was not easy to obtain, but they managed. Keith often went around the world searching for large missions to earn good money. Michael held the largest training dojo in all of the world and only top notch battlers made it in. Andrew invented and tinkered with new chemicals, metals, and such and sold the patents for the profit. Stanley would provide security for VIP's and he was good at it.

Keith had happened to be in Jhoto before the lockdown of the entire region. He found out what was happening and hid along with a small resistance group in a small cave. Here they discussed plans to gain control of their land. Keith thought they were insane, because Fereon had thousands of battlers and he was ready fro any kind fo attack. But inside himself he knew it was the right thing to do. He wasnt able to do much at all, but whenever the group would try and make a decisive strike he was there. Dressed in black and a black cloak when his enemies saw him they turned and ran or fought. Running meant death when they got back to base. Fighting meant a meaningless death. Keith used Slacking, Electrode, Tyranitar, a recently obtained Regirock, Snorlax, and to cover water battles his trusty Gorebyss. He had things covered, generally sticking to Slacking to win an almost effortless battle every time. But today was different, he had been caught running for food for the resistance, when he happened upon 3 elites. Alone K was almost sure he couldnt win.

"Slacking, c'mon old friend you got this"

"Fool we have come to destroy you, we have been sent with our bosses personal favorites"
They each sent out one pokemon. Keith didnt like battling using more than one so he decided to go 1v3.
What he saw made him more afraid than he already was of his defeat. He saw Alakazam, Dragonite, and Machamp.

Keith had to react quickly because the Alakazam was already picking up the Slacking with its mind, higher higher, and... Seismic Toss!

"Slacking...CURL UP!"

Slacking did as he was told and slammed into the ground with tremendous force, while he was on the ground Keith instructed him to use his roll out. Slacking rolled with intense speed towards his nearest foe, Machamp. Machamp grabbed either side of Slacking, slowing him down, and then threw him up into the air, Dragonite body slammed him in mid air, and Alakazam finished it off with a powerful Psychic attack, easily tossing Slacking through the air like you would a peice of paper.

More on the next episode im tired
 
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Whilst Keith was being brutally attacked, Michael was out in the world finding new people to train, he didnt want a world with one or two exceptional battlers, he wanted a world full of them. His personal mission was to share his experience in battling with any one willing and worthy to learn it. He didnt have the strongest, nor the fastest pokemon, but they were the best. His style required patience and style, all of his pokemon were trained to handle any suprise situation perfectly, and they could, for the most part.

"Michael, you have entered Jhoto illegally, and you must either come with me to the lord of Jhoto or fight and die."

"Lord of Jhoto? This doesnt sound good, I will not go with you, and you will have to try and beat me. GO Kabutops!"

The high class Alpha Bandit was higher in rank than most Bandits, and so, he also had very good pokemon. He sent out his Salamence.

"Salamence, enjoy crushing him."

The Salamence edged forward on all fours, it was moving toward Michael, and Kabutops wouldnt let him get close. It lunged forward and struck Salamence on the top of the head. Salamence and Kabutops were locked in place, the Salamence hadnt appeared to be affected, and Kabutops was trying to dig his claw deeper and deeper into Salamence's head. A small trickle of blood came out of Salamence's head, the Kabutops tried so hard and yet couldnt damage him enough to be effective. The Salamence jumped suddenly, frightening the Kabutops, who was now stuck onto him by his talon. The Salamence turned upside down and fell out of the sky, using his wings to gain full speed. He landed with a huge crash and dust swirled around before Michael could see what happened. Finally the dust cleared, and the obvious victor was Salamence, in fact it wasnt even harmed from the fall, because it landed softly on...

"KABUTOPS! No! This cant have happened, not this easily. Fine, lets see how you deal with this, I shall also send out a Salamence. GO Sally!"

Sally dropped out of the sky and landed near Salamence. Sally seemed to have been trained well, it was larger than any Salamence the Bandit had seen before. It also appeared to be better suited for a mirror match.

"Arg...Salamence destroy the pokemon then you can kill the boy!."

Salamence took a deep breath, still sucking in air, still, still, and finally with a powerful burst of speed it launches toward Sally and let out a massive hyper beam right in his face. The beam went on for five seconds at least. Salamence finally stopped, breathing heavy, and Sally was no where to be seen. Had it been dissintegrated by the blast? No one had any clue where it had gone, the hyper beam was much too bright to look at.

Sally's cry could be heard a ways off, and Michael knew exactly what it was doing. Salamence looked up frantically to see where it was. It was charging up a most powerful hyper beam, more powerful than ever seen before. The Salamence could feel the very energy being sucked out of its body, so could Michael and the Bandit. The sun seemed to dim for a moment and for a breif second Sally could be seen. Sally fly downward with all of the force in him. Salamence was not able to see until the last moment, but Sally was in front of him, and the force unloaded from Sally's mouth alone blew Michael and the Bandit backwards. People say that on that day the world became quiet and dark, and every bit of nature seemed to be sucked to one place. The explosion finally lept out of Sally's mouth, bigger than a building in width, it hit Salamence dead on. When it was finally over, one minute later, the Alpha Bandit was completely missing and the Salamence left no remains. The crater was big enough to fit a small city.

"Wow Sally! I had no clue you could do that. I will have to test this later."

More later folks haha short but dont worry once a day or more
 
Michael walked up to the crater, and stumbled into it on accident. After about a 20 second fall he hit the bottom and stood up in moderate pain. He saw a note on the ground, pinned in by a ninja star. Upon pulling it out he opened it and read the following quickly scribbled words:

We know who you are Michael, and have come to stop you from advancing any further into this region. Turning back and leaving allows your life to continue, advancing means certain death. Your pokemon will be taken from you and you will be forgotten in this world. Your students and your friends, Keith Stanley, and Andrew will not remember you. My name is Arkon and I am a spy for the Alpha Bandits, this is your last chance, please leave.

"Hmm thats odd...it is like he wishes for me to leave for my own good. Bah forget it, I can handle myself. Too bad my radio isnt working otherwise I could send a signal for help." thought Michael.

"Slacking get up! Arg...he's not moving. Slacking return. GO T-Rex, Regirock, and Snorlax!"

Three very large and horrifying creatures came out. They were not as relaxed as normal, Slacking, their leader, had just been seriously injured, it was their turn. Regirock jumped in front of the other two, and picked up two giant boulders. Using his earth abilities he lifted them over to the Snorlax and T-Rex. Snorlax body slammed the boulder at Dragonite, it moved so quick that the cocky Dragonite didnt move out of the way in time, and got hit hard in the stomach. Taking this chance of weakness, T-Rex jumped up, and performed high jump kick, he moved too swiftly to be stopped by the Alakazam, and the Machamp might hurt himself trying, so they had to watch helplessly as he landed on Dragonite, digging him into the ground as if it were mud. Regirock finished the assault with rock slide, and Dragonite was finished.

Snorlax set his eyes on the Machamp. With a mighty leap he was in the air, and tried to fall on top of Machamp, however Alakazam caught him, just barely, and held him with Psychic.

POW right as Alakazam caught him, a large rock smacked him in the side of his head.

"Great job Regirock, Michael really did train you well."

Snorlax fell on top of Machamp, it took every ounce of strength in Machamp to hold him up, but he couldnt move. Keith's other pokemon simply sat there while Machamp slowly lost conciousness from the streign. Snorlax didnt intend to kill him so he rolled off at the last moment and T-Rex used headbutt to knock him out. Now all that was left was a slightly dazed Alakazam.

"ALLLLLLLLLA... KAZAAAAMMM!"

With every mental force in his mind Alakazam slammed Regirock 50 feet backwards, landing him into a large lake, Regirock was out for this battle. Then Alakazam froze T-Rex still, and lifted Snorlax on top of him. Now was time for Alakazam to do his finisher. The power required for the attack cause a small ripple of the earth. Now the earth was reall shaking, and Alakazam was really powering up. Spires of earth lifted out of the ground quickly crumbling under the power. Alakazam opened his eyes quickly and all of the power he charged went to the Snorlax and T-Rex. They flew, and didnt stop flying. Going and going. Up and up, and never down again. Now even Alakazam was beggining to wonder where they went when...

"Salamence...finish off Alakazam!!!"

The sun was blocked out by a large figure. It was the omen of doom for Alakazam. Salamence, carrying a masked rider appeared and flew straight down with all force in him onto Alakazam, and with a powerful claw strike, swiped Alakazam straight out of conciousness.

"We cant have let this happen, the boss wont be happy."

"You 3 wont be returning to your base unless it is in a casquet. YAAAH" said the masked warrior as he threw three ninja stars at the elites, quickly ending them.

More on the next exciting episode of Slack is Back, who is this masked warrior? What will Michael do next? When do Andrew and Stanley get included in this story? WE WILL SEE
 
"Hurry get up, reinforcements are sure to come looking for you soon." said the masked warrior.

"How can I trust you. You flew outta nowhere and just expect me to go with you? I smell something fishy here." replied a reluctant Keith.

"If you dont come with me they will surely find you, and then you will die. Come with me now for your on sake. You have no other choice unless you have a deathwish."

"Fine!"

Keith jumped on top of Salamence and they took flight. Keith was very scared of heights and the flight made him sick from fear. There was nowhere to hold on to and nothing he could do to save himself from falling. This went on for about 30 minutes until finally they landed on a secluded island.

"Welcome to my home. I will now introduce myself. I am... Arkon, of the Alpha Bandits!"

"Damn! I knew this was a trap!"

Keith didnt want to rely on his pokemon this time, so he crouched down and was ready to pummel his opponent when Arkon started laughing.

"HAHAHA dont you get it? I saved you from death, and now you want to hurt me? I am formerly of the Alpha Bandits... it appears you would know something about them?"

"Yeah I know you guys are jerks who pick on the poor and helpless for fun. BASTARDS!!!"

"Yes that is why I left. I was practically Fereon's right hand man. He trusted me more than anyone, bt then he started to go insane. He was attacking everyone, he even attacked me once with his metal arm."

Arkon showed him the giant scar on his arm, and then pointed to the slash across his left eye.

"He is a genius when it comes to pokemon, but now hes blind to what he is doing. I have secretly left the Alphas to join forces with Team Slack, the most highly revered, best team of them all."

Arkon then proceded to show Keith the island. He pulled out a small controller, and upon pressing a black button, the island waved out of sight and in its place a massive base stood. A few crew members were standing right in front of them.

"Woah...how did I not see the people?"

"I'm sorry sir but that can not be told" said one of the workers.

Keith was given a full tour of the base. It was large indeed. Once the tour was over Arkon had something to tell Keith.

"Keith, I want Team Slack to spread its deeds across this land. I now give you the key to this base, it is yours, and I am hoping to see something great out of you. Now I have work to do. We will see each other soon I think."

"What!!! But Arkon...this base is massive, are you sure that you would just give it to us?"

"Take it!" as Arkon said this he threw a small marble out of his hand and a bright flash filled Keith's eyes, when it left Arkon had gone.

"Workers, lets find my fellow team mates!"

"Sir, two are in Jhoto! Deativating radio garbler now. All messages can be sent and received."

Meanwhile, Stanley was transporting a very rich man to the opposite coast of Jhoto, the rich man heard that it was a dangerous country so he hired help.

More next time i cant think straight
 
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