Chapter4 The next day the 4 young trainers got up early and went to the beach for some training before they become members of Strike Force. "Hey they say this beach has lots of rare Pokémon!" Leo said in surprise. "I think I'll just train mine. After all, I have a lot already." Vin stated. "Ok. Well here it is! I can't wait to catch all those Pokémon!" Rae ran down to the sand. "This place is great for my water Pokémon!" Leo raced down too. "Wow it's beautiful!" Jackie glanced at the view then walked down. Vin however, was already training his Pokémon by then. "Growlithe Flamethrower that Pidgey!" "Sandslash practice your slash tactics on that Bellsprout!" "Oddish Gain some health MegaDrain!" "Meowth practice your slash attacks with Sandslash!" "Kadabra confuse any Pokémon that you sense near!" Vin shouted. "Oh my god I found a Kabuto!" Leo shouted in amazement. "What? I thought those were extinct!" Jackie shouted. "Me too!" Leo replied. "Wartortle go!" Leo shouted. Kabuto struck with a scratch attack immediately. Wartortle didn't seem to be effected. "Wartortle water gun!" Leo shouted. The super effective water gun attack nailed the unlucky Kabuto. "Now use tackle!" Leo once again drew his command. Kabuto was not happy, it hit Wartortle with green beams. "What the hell is that?" "It's Kabuto's absorb attack," Rae answered. "Oh shit Wartortle Bubblebeam!" Leo told Wartortle to use its best attack. Amazingly, the Kabuto was blasted about a good 20 feet from Leo. "Pokéball go!" Leo threw the Pokéball. Kabuto was caught at last. "Holy shit I caught an extinct Pokémon! Woohoo!" Leo couldn't stop blabbering. Over the other side, Rae caught a Pikachu and Jackie successfully caught a Doduo. "Well I think that was enough for today, let's head for the helipad." Vin stated. The 4 trainers were in luck, about 5 more trainers were going to join the small unit. Later they found out that their names were Joe, Patrick, Adam, Chris, and Alex. The new trainers boarded the ship. Flare, Razor, and Hocus were in there as well. "Okay troops we would like to welcome you trainers to Strike Force! We are a unit of the Pokemon Elite! We are now headed towards headquarters in Roford City. You have been chosen for Strike Force because you all have skill in your Pokémon training!" Flare announced. There was a small applause. "This ride is going to take around an hour so I suggest you people get to know each other." Flare said as he stepped into the control room. Well it turned out that Joe was a bug/grass trainer who had Ivysaur, Scyther, and Weepinbell. Alex trained electric Pokémon who owned Pikachu and Electabuzz. Chris trained any kind of Pokémon and has Charmander, Ekans, Butterfree, and Voltorb. Adam was what the girls thought, really cute. He has interest in all ghost types. He owns Ghastly and Vulpix. And last, Patrick was an outstanding rock trainer, this kid owns Onix, Ryhorn, and Geodude. "We're here! Everyone out!" Razor interrupted the session. The team got out of the aircraft. The head quarters was disguised as a regular gym. Inside, it was a regular gym. The element of the gym was random and everything looked normal until Flare pressed a hidden switch on the crapper. A secret door flipped open. "Step in," Flare said. Everyone walked down to an elevator. They stepped inside and went to the lowest floor. "Geese the place is freaky," Jackie hesitated for a moment. "True," Joe answered while studying the dark surroundings. "Nothing here but Zubats." Adam stared senselessly into the black view. "We're here." Hocus said. The gang got off the elevator shift. "Welcome to Strike Force HQ," Flare declared. "I know you're wondering why the HQ is a gym right?" Flare asked. Everybody nodded. "Well the PE used the gym and several other ones to make a profit to pay expenses. You all are now gym leaders as well as part of this unit. Your rooms are on the second floor, which we will introduce to you later." Flare answered. "Oh yeah that reminds me boss," Razor said. "Oh yeah the badges." Flare gave each person a badge. They were all different. "What kind of badges are these?" Chris asked. "These are your activation badges. With these, you will have complete access through the gym," Hocus announced. "Rae you have the badge of pride. Adam, you hold the badge of skill, Joe as fake as you look, you have earned the badge of luck." Flare stopped for a moment. Joe was trying not to punch Flare. "Ok excuse the interruption. Jackie you contain the badge of swiftness, Alex, knowledge is also important to training. You have the badge of wisdom." Again flare stopped for a drink of lemonade. "Leo you have the badge of darkness, and finally Vin with strength comes along bravery. You have the badge of courage." Flare finally finished. "Oh and the badges will boost your Pokémon's energy up a bit." Razor stated. "How about a match? All you against Razor, Hocus and I." Flare asked. The trainers agreed. "1 Pokémon each." Flare announced. "Flareon go!" "Alakazam attack!" "Scyther slice 'em to bits!" The Flare, Hocus, and Razor were first to send out their Pokémon. "Sandslash go get 'em!" "Ghastly attack!" "Magneton I choose you!" "Ivysaur lets roll!" "Charmander go!" "Electabuzz kick ass!" "Wartortle smash them!" "Clefairy go!" "Onix attack!" The rest of the trainers sent their best Pokémon. Before the trainers could attack, Scyther charged and sliced all of them with agility, swords dance, and slash. Flareon nuked with Fire spin, and Alakazam slammed the arena with Psychic. "Thunderbolt!" All the electric Pokémon blasted the 3 renegades but Alakazam light screened half the arena. The thunder bolt bounced right off. "Scyther agility!" Razor shouted. "Charmander flamethrower!" Chris said. Charmander had an advantage against Scyther, but Scyther was just too fast. Scyther disappeared and reappeared behind Charmander and slashed it viciously. Charmander was down. Ivysaur got a chance to leech seed Alakazam before it fainted. Soon, the young trainers were defeated by Flareon's Fire spin. "Ha! Nothing but a little teamwork! Come on team I show you to your rooms." Flare said. They went on the elevator shift again. They moved through the gym and headed to the second floor. The Gym had 4 floors in total! The first floor was the Gym and kitchen, the second were the dorms, the third floor was the healing center complete with trading unit, and finally the fourth floor was the command tower. "Ok group! Each of your dorms have a code you need to type in to get into them." Flare handed small slips to the group of trainers. "Oh cool!" Patrick said as he punched the code into the control panel on his door. The door opened automatically. "You don't see those in Rampat City!" Vin declared as he entered his dorm. "We don't have time to play now guys." Hocus butted in. "That's right we have a mission to flatten out the base in Cinnabar Island!" Flare said. "Follow me." Flare lead them to the chopper. "Ok our first target is the Pokémon Center, It is near shore and it is exactly where we are going to land ok? 3 other teams will be with us over there ok?" The group nodded. The chopper was now in the air. "Its only half an hour till we get there get some rest right now and feed these to your Pokémon all right?" Flare handed the group a bag full of Pokémon food. "what are these?" Jackie asked. "They are Pokémon food, it will make your Pokémon stronger in battle." Razor replied in the cockpit. "Oh cool!" Leo called out his Pokémon and started to feed them. So did the others. "How do you feed a Ghastly?" Adam asked. He tried feeding it to the ghost Pokémon but it slid out onto the ground. "We're here! Get ready people!" Flare shouted. "Remember the bastards use Poison and Electric types!" Hocus shouted. They landed on the beach as instructed and stormed out. The team sent out all of their Pokémon. The first wave of guards were ready to battle. "Raichu go!" "Jolteon zap them!" "Electabuzz attack!" "Magneton go!" "Pikachu attack!" "Arbok go!" "Weezing attack!" "Muk nail them!" The guards summoned their Pokémon. Growlithe struck Weezing with Flamethrower that stunned it for a moment then used Takedown and knocked it unconscious. Rae's Weezing was comparing its Poison powers with the Electric attacks, It used Toxic on Electabuzz and struck Raichu with Acid but that was not enough. Raichu nailed Weezing with Thunder. It was not effective of course, so Weezing poison gassed Raichu's body wound from the hot Acid. Raichu was out of the game now. It wasn't long before the guards were finished off. Jackie's Clefairy disabled the mercenaries so the others could tie them up. "Ok the Pokémon center is covered!" Flare declared. "Us will defend it you all do the rest got it?" Flare asked. "Got it!" Everybody raged into the battle. There were strangely some ice Pokémon that the guards used too. It wasn't long before the Electric, Ground, flying, grass, and Rock Pokémon of the team were knocked out. A bunch of Jynx Ice punched Growlithe that froze it solid. 2 Lapras Body slammed Clefairy which Paralyzed it and had to be returned. "Man we're losing here!" Leo summoned his Shellder out to fight. "Aura Beam!" Leo knocked out a Vaporeon. "Meowth Mega kick!" Vin commanded. Since fighting techniques were so effective against Ice types, Meowth took out 1 Jynx. It tried doing the same thing to Cloyster but the hard shell of it did not faze it. "Strike Force back out!" a voice called out from a roof top. "What the hell? Percy?!" Vin and Leo burst out! "Whose Percy?" Adam asked. "An friend." Leo replied. "Back out Strike Force!" Percy repeated. "Ready Trevor?" Percy asked a kid standing next to him. "Right! Hitmonlee Hi Jump Kick!" "Onix Earthquake!" Percy and Trevor commanded their 2 Pokémon to attack. Hitmonlee smacked the Cloyster into the Lapras, which sent them all flying! Onix rendered the rest of the Ice types unconscious. "Ok attack with full force! Hitmonchan, Machop, Mankey attack!" "Rhydon Takedown! Graveler Seismic toss!" Percy sent his other 2 now evolved Pokémon out to battle. The Ice types were soon defeated. "Onix bind the trainers!" Percy shouted. Onix came up from the ground and grabbed the ice trainers. Leo and Vin rushed to meet Percy. "Yo Percy where have you been man?" Vin asked. "Hey guys nice to meet you again!" Percy answered. "Allow me to introduce myself," Trevor said. "My name is Trevor I train fighting Pokémon. Pleasure to meet you." "Pleasure to meet you too!" Vin said. "You might have been wondering where I've been right?" Percy asked. Leo and Vin nodded. "I'll fill you in the story later we have some asses to kick!" Percy shouted. "You go on ahead Percy we need to heal our Pokémon seeya!" Leo shouted as they ran to the Pokémon center. 10 minutes later, they ran off to the battle field again. "Meowth Payday!" Vin shouted. 3 other Meowth did the same tactic against this Nidorino. Nidorino stumbled and struck back with horn attack! "Meowth jump kick!" Meowth smacked into Nidorino, but then the Nidorino fell in a pile of Moonstones. It began to glow! Nidorino evolved into Nidoking! Nidoking struck with Earthquake and made the 4 Meowth trip and fall over! Then Nidoking used tail whip and crushed the team of Meowth with its powerful tail! Meowth became angry, it started to glow! Meowth evolved into Persian! "Wow I've got a Persian!" Vin burst out. "Persian double team and mega kick!" Vin shouted. Persian split into 2 and delivered a powerful kick on both sides of Nidoking. The other Meowth got up and did the same thing. Nidoking was out numbered! "Hyper beam!" Vin shouted. All the Meowth and Persian suddenly fired a beam of pure energy from their paws. Nidoking was blasted with its trainer into a building with a crash! Persian was awfully big for normal standards. It was about as big as a Ponyta thanks to its expert training! Other guards decided to make a run for it. "Oh that was awesome!" Vin went up to his Persian. "Great job Persian! That was the best Hyperbeam I've ever seen in my whole life!" Vin congratulated Persian and the hugged it.