JT, Lizzie, Pikachu, Willis and I found ourselves in another ghost town. There were a bunch of rundown buildings. No living person in sight. I groaned. "Willis, are you sure that we're heading the right way? I can't wait to get to the next city. We hafta catch a boat so I can get my next badge. The city is all the way across the ocean!"
"This is the quickest shortcut," Willis said. "According to my map, this is called Dust Town. A lot of Ground Pokemon live here...
He was right. Just as we stopped walking, a bone flew at my face. I cried out and ducked down. When the bone passed I got back up. I gazed at it. I was startled. The bone came back around. I ducked down again. A haystack rolled by and the dust cleared away. A short Pokemon was standing where the dust used to be. I took out my Poke'dex. "Cubone, the lonely Pokemon. Cubone carries a bone around with it at all times and they are extremely rare. Cubone are known to hate moisture. It is a rumor that a long time ago, Cubone used to wear the skull of a dead family member on its head."
"Whoah. It sounds like Cubone is pretty rare," I said. "I can catch it, though!"
"No way," JT said. "You already have five Pokemon. I just have four. Besides, I saw Cubone first!"
We both took Pokeballs from our pockets. "Back off!" I yelled to JT.
"Drop the Pokeball. it's time for me to get my Cubone," JT said angrily. By the time we both turned around and tried to throw our Pokeballs at the Cubone, it was gone!
"See what you two did," Lizzie muttered, shaking her head. "With your arguing and yelling, Cubone got away."
"It doesn't matter now," JT said. "I should've let Woody catch it. Then we could have Cubone on our team anyway. I don't even like Cubones. What was I thinking?"
He's just jealous, I thought to myself. I wanted to catch that Cubone. I didn't know if I would or not...
"Well, since this is just a ghost town -- I guess we could have lunch here. We haven't eaten since yesterday morning," Willis pointed out.
I realized how skinny we had all gotten ever since we started our Pokemon journey. "No need for that, young'ns," a voice said.
The 4 of us turned around as 2 men approached us. They were wearing cowboy hats and Old Western clothes. Their hair was pulled down over their face, so their eyes couldn't be seen.
"We have a bar just down the street. You could go there and eat."
The two men took us to a wooden building. Inside it were about 10 people. They all looked kind of weird...
"What would you like?" one guy asked.
"I'll take a soda and -- what else do you have?" Willis asked.
"We have pie and sandwiches. A dollar each."
"What kinds of pie?" Willis asked.
"Apple and lemon."
"Sandwiches?" Willis asked again.
"Turkey + cheese and ham + cheese. We have cola sodas and club soda -- and beer."
"Beer?" Lizzie muttered.
One of the men shrugged. "Well, it is a bar. We gotta have beers."
We ordered sandwiches since the pies looked rotten. JT and Willis were already half through theirs. Lizzie pulled me aside. "Don't eat the food," she whispered to me.
"Why not?" I demanded. "I'm hungry and I want my sandwich!"
"I think it's poison," she told me. Willis and JT overheard her. They both began to spit out the food.
"How do you know it's poison?" JT asked. He held his sandwich away from him.
"Well, look at all the others," Lizzie said quietly. We turned around. Everyone else started to look really sick and tired. Their eyes were blotchy and tired looking.
"These guys don't really own a bar, do they?" Willis asked.
Lizzie shrugged. "I dunno. But I do know that we have to get as far away from here as we can and get the police."
We all nodded. But as we got up, the two men approached us. "You aren't going anywhere," they said in unison. The next thing I knew, I was struck hard from behind. I didn't see what hit me. It was moving incredibly fast. It also hit Lizzie, Willis and JT.
I groaned and fell unconscious.
I wasn't knocked out for very long. I looked at my watch. About 10 minutes. I stood up. JT, Pikachu, Willis, and Lizzie laid around me. Pikachu jumped up. I smiled at him and then looked around for a way out. "Where are we?" JT asked, rubbing his head. We were in a cell. It was small, but roomy. Kind of hard to stand up without bumping our heads, but a lot of room to move around.
"I think we're locked in a cell," I replied to JT's question. I stood up. I had to bend over to not it my head. "Hey! Let us outta here!" I banged against the wall. But I knew it was useless. Those two weren't bartenders. They were probably robbers or killers.
"Those jerks. This was a trap," Lizzie muttered. "Hey! My pokeballs are gone."
We all checked our pockets. Our pokeballs were gone! The only Pokemon we had was Pikachu. I bent down. Pikachu was really hurt. Those guys had really hurt him.
"Wait. I have an idea," Willis muttered. We all looked at him. "We blow ourselves out of here!"
Lizzie stared at him like he was crazy. "No way, Willis! I'm sure that they will let us out eventually. Then we can probably escape. But come on. We CANNOT blow ourselves out. It's too risky and we could get ourselves killed."
"We don't have many other choices," JT told us. He pointed to something in the middle of the room. It was a time bomb! "We hafta blow ourselves out of here or we'll still get killed."
"No problem," I said. "Pikachu can use a Thunderwave and deactivate it. That's all we hafta do."
"But Woody, Pikachu is hurt," Lizzie said. Pikachu was breathing heavily and didn't look very good at all. Lizzie had a point. It was really a lose -- lose situation. If we blew ourselves out, there was a big chance we would really get hurt and possibly die. If we just sat down and let nature take its course, we would definitely die. And if we dried to have Pikachu get rid of it ... well who knows what would happen to Pikachu.
"We have no choice," Willis said. He shook his head. "Pikachu has to use what he has for all our sakes."
"Pika, Pikachu," Pikachu muttered. (I think I can blow us outta here.)
I was shocked. "You can, Pikachu?"
Pikachu nodded. He walked over to the wall and faced us. Sparks shot from his cheeks and then he was surrounded by yellow light. I looked at the time bomb. Seven seconds!!!
"Hurry, Pikachu. The bomb is about to go off." Pikachu was speeding up. I realized that as he let off electricity and static around him, the stronger he got. The ball of electricity got bigger.
"Hurry, Pikachu," JT pleaded.
Five seconds. Four, three. The ball of electricity finally got big enough. Wood splintered.
Two seconds. The cell exploded as Pikachu's Thunder attack sent us flying. Smoke was around us as we went flying through the air. The next thing I knew, I looked down and saw the whole cell blow up and a huge explosion of fire.
We fell back down to the ground. I coughed up blood. The impact was a lot more powerful that I thought it was. I struggled to my feet and looked around. The others were already on their feet, dusting themselves off.
"Cubone, Cubone!" a voice cried. I turned around and saw that same Cubone. He stared at us and seemed to laugh.
I stared it down. "This time you're mine," I muttered. "Pikachu, Quick Attack!"
Pikachu charged into Cubone. Cubone fell backwards and Pikachu hit another one. Cubone was sent to the ground -- hard.
Cubone hopped back up and used a Bone Club attack. Pikachu was smacked in the head with the bone. Pikachu wouldn't give up though. He came back at Cubone with a Thunderbolt. However, that also failed. Cubone stuck its bone out in front of him and spun it around like a baton. The electricity went into the bone. Cubone then pointed the bone at Pikachu and a beam of electricity shot at Pikachu. Pikachu was ready for this. He used agility and dodged the beams.
"Good job, Pikachu," I complemented. "Now hit Cubone with a Headbutt!"
Pikachu headbutted Cubone. Cubone shook Pikachu off, though. It then threw the bone up and used Bonebarang! The bone flew at Pikachu. Pikachu dodged it when it came one way. "Good job, Pikachu," Lizzie said. Pikachu then turned around and yelled out when the bone came back. Pikachu jumped high over it. The bone slammed Cubone in the head. Cubone held its head in pain and then Pikachu jumped onto Cubone and knocked him to the ground. Cubone was out. I took a pokeball from my pocket.
"Pokeball, go!" I yelled. I whirled a pokeball right at Cubone. The ball opened and Cubone was sucked in. The ball shook once, twice, three times, four times. It stopped shaking. PING!
Willis, JT and Lizzie all ran over to Pikachu and I. "That was a great match, guys."
I bent down and picked up Cubone's pokeball. I shrunk it and stuck it in my pocket. We all turned around and stared at the bar. We ran into it.
The two men were tying up the other kids who were in the bar. They looked much better now and were struggling to get away. But then I realized the two men weren't wearing their cowboy clothes anymore. They were wearing black suits with pink R's on them.
"Team Rocket," Lizzie muttered. "I knew there was something fishy about them."
Julius smiled. "You are pretty smart, girlie." Sneasel and Graveler stepped out from behind him. Kio was carrying a net full of Pokeballs.
"Ya see," Kio muttered. "The way I see it, we can't lose. We have guns. You don't. We have muscles. You don't. We have all of your Pokemon and all you have is a Pikachu that Sneasel here, knocked unconscious.
Pikachu stepped out from behind me and glared at TR. Kio and Julius gasped.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!" I cried. Pikachu let loose a charge of electricity. It zapped Kio and Ray. Kio dropped the bag of Pokeballs. I ran over to mine which had green stickers on it. I even put one on Cubone's. We had purchased different colored stickers the week before so we could identify which Pokeballs were ours if we ever lost them. Mine had green stars. Willis had black squares. JT had blue circles and Lizzie had purple triangles.
I brought the net over to us and threw Scyther's pokeball. Scyther popped out and looked at Team Rocket angrily.
"We better get going!" Kio said. Julius, Kio, Graveler, and Sneasel jumped through a window. Scyther and Pikachu were super quick, though.
Scyther smashed into Kio and Julius. They both were sent into the air and then they landed in a dumpster.
Lizzie let Marill from her Pokeball. "Marill, Water Gun!" Lizzie commanded. Marill used a powerful water attack that filled up the dumpster. The dumpster overflowed with water.
"Cubone, I choose you!" Cubone came out of its Pokeball and tossed a bone at the door of the dumpster. It closed down and locked Kio and Julius in.
Pikachu used Thunderbolt and Marill used Water Gun. The attacks sent the dumpster soaring though the air. "Have a nice flight," I said and then slapped a high five to Lizzie.
But then something odd happened. The sky darkened and a storm started out of nowhere. We all looked up and gasped. A yellow bird was flying in the sky. A HUGE yellow bird. It was surrounded by lightning.
"Is that what I think it is?" Willis muttered.
My hand shook as I reached into my pocket and pulled out my Poke'dex. "Zapdos, the thunder Pokemon. Zapdos is a legendary Pokemon that has been seen by very few people. Legend says that when a Zapdos is angry, a storm starts."
I looked up at the storm and gasped. Zapdos shot a Thunder attack, right at Lizzie!
"Lizzie!" JT cried. He jumped in front of Lizzie.
"JT!" I cried. I dodged in front of JT and Lizzie.
"No, Woody, wait!" Willis screamed. He jumped in front of JT, Lizzie, and I.
"Pikaaaaaaa!" Pikachu cried.
"Cubone!" Cubone whimpered.
"Marill!" Marill yelled.
"Scyyyyytha!" Scyther cried.
The Pokemon got in front of us. The beam of lighting was huge! It wouldn't have mattered if we ran, we still would've been destroyed. The attack was so powerful, it ripped at my skin. We gritted our teeth. Smoke came from the ground and there was an explosion around us.
It was over. I opened my eyes. "Huh?"
Everyone was okay. Pikachu, Marill, JT, everyone.
"Are you sure you wanna leave?" Willis asked JT.
"I have to," JT said. "I have my own path to follow. I hafta become a better trainer and catch more Pokemon."
I slapped JT a high five and Willis shook his hand which led into a manly hug.
Lizzie smiled at him. She leaned over and kissed him on the lips, quickly. JT blushed. He walked away and waved at us. "Seeya, guys. I hope to see you again!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
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