Get your own Free Home Page
by: pipian
Fairly soon, Karuko and Cajava arrived at the Saffron City Gym. Again, Karuko felt the dark aura of the gym.
"I still don't like the look of this place," said Karuko.
All of a sudden, somewhat evil-sounding laughter emanated from the gym, as a Pikachu walked out dragging some clothes and Pokéballs.
"See, something doesn't look right... A Pikachu carrying a trainers' clothes?"
"You gotta live on the wild side, Karuko... You never know what's wrong until you try!"
"Well, OK..."
Karuko reluctantly followed Cajava into the gym.
"We're here to fight the gym leader for a Marsh Badge," asked Cajava to a woman with long black hair, who was standing in the middle of the arena.
"I'm her. That is very well... But if either of you lose to me, I will have the right to choose what you must give me... You should know full well to win against me. Mwahahaha! You should have seen the last poor chap I defeated... He just left."
"OK, then. I'll go first," said Cajava.
"This shall be a three on three match. Is that understood?"
"Yes."
"Then let the match begin!"
re: by syke6888 L
"Sphere! I choose you!"
"Sandshrew!"
Sabrina smirked. "That's all you got? I was so hoping for a challenge. Mr. Mime, attack!"
The strange clown appeared and started an elaborate scequence of procedures. Upon finding out that Cajava and Sphere didn't understand waht it was doing, it switched to a motion that can be understood by anyone: a Japanese Raspberry.
"Why that no-good... Sphere, Dig!" Sphere leaped under the ground, traveled trhough it, then leaped out and started to attack...
..a Mr.mime doll!
"Huh? What was that?"
"That was Substitute, the one move that lets a Pokémon leave the ring without losing. Mr. Mime, Doubleslap."
Just as the doll smashed to pieces, Mr. Mime appeared, grabbed Sphere and started slapping him over and over. Finally, Sphere fainted.
"Sphere, return! Go, Seymour! try a Headbutt!" Seymour flew through the air, but stopped short of hitting Mr. Mime. Seymour was flung through the air and landed horn first into the ground. "Seeeeel! seel seel Seeeel!" Cajava called back Seymour as well.
"Well," Cajava thought, "I only got one Pokémon left, but which one? Kaa would be trashed, and Blob was put asleep by that wild Oddish. I guess that leaves Vice."
She tossed her Pokéball and the Pinsir appaered. "Pins pins."
"Well, well, it appears you have an advantage. Mr. Mime, return. go, Kadabra."
"Vice, you're my only hope! Hit that thing with Vice Grip!"
Vice ran across the battleground, pinsirs clamping. Finally, it reached the Kadabra and smashed down. Unfortunately, Kadabra Teleported, sending vice into a pillar. The pillar collapsed, landing on Vice. Cajava facefaulted.
"I said get Kadabra, not yourself! Try again!"
Vice did so, but wound up with another pillar on his head. By the third try, all it took was a simple touch with Kadabra's spoon and Vice fainted.
"I lost..."
Sabrina smiled. "Now, time for a little fun." Her eyes glowed purple, and Cajava disappeared.
When Cajava could see again, she looked around and saw pieces of broken wood. Picking up one and smelling it, Cajava suddenly realized something. It was the kind of bedding used for Rattata homes! Suddenly, a loud shaking knocked Cajava on her behind. She looked behind her and saw a Rattata. However, it was as big as a house! It also looked darn unfriendly. "gulp..." cajava dashed off, the Rattata close behind.
She didn't know it, but Cajava was being watched. From outside the pen, Sabrina stood, watching her pet Rattata chase its new toy. She smirked.
"Now that's entertainment." She turned to face Karuko.
"So now... time to play."
re: by Pipian
"Uh... I suppose now would not be a good time to back out, would it..."
"Not unless you want to end up like your friend over there..."
"Uh... OK then... Go Salad!"
Karuko's ever-faithful Weepinbell appeared, ready for battle.
"Go Kadabra!"
Out popped the same Kadabra, having never been hurt.
"I hope this works, so Salad! Stun Spore Now!"
"Kadabra! Teleport!"
Unfortunately, Sabrina had a little bad luck, and Kadabra managed to use the wrong attack and hurt itself as Salad's Stun Spore took effect.
"OK, Salad! Vine Whip now!"
The attack managed to hit, and Kadabra was almost knocked out. Kadabra managed to snap out of his paralysis only to hit himself in the head, knocking him out cold.
"Pure luck! Well you won't be as lucky against my Alakazam! Now go!"
An Alakazam appeared and launched a Psychic to start off the second stage... The Psychic ended the second stage as well as Salad was knocked out.
Looking at her remaining options, Karuko let Flamer out.
"Hurry! Ember!!!"
"Psybeam!"
The attacks caused both pokémon to faint. (Oddly enough, though Alakazam was a higher level than the Kadabra, it had been raised on Rare Candies.)
Now down to one pokémon each, Sabrina called out, "So, you think Psychic Pokémon are the only ones I have, huh? Well how about my Haunter!!"
"OK, Volcano, you're my only hope now..." whispered Karuko as Volcano jumped into the ring.
"Night Shade!" called out Sabrina. Haunter obeyed, but the attack missed Volcano.
"Confuse Ray!" called out Karuko. Volcano obeyed and Haunter became confused.
"Lick!" Haunter hit himself and then launched out a Hypnosis.
"Oh No!" cried out Karuko as Volcano fell asleep. "Not again!"
Sabrina said two words, "Dream Eater" and the battle was all over.
Karuko looked worried.
"You don't deserve her punishment... You didn't even want to come here. But you must still be punished, so..."
"You and your Vulpix seem very close... How would you like it if you were even closer! Mwahahaha!"
Karuko's vision faded. When it returned, she noticed that she was in a cage. She yawned.
"Oh no! What did Sabrina do to me? Where am I?" She licked her red fur. Red fur?!? Then she noticed. She was now a Vulpix...
"Oh Crud!" she thought.
She looked into the cage next to her. There was Cajava continually running from the Rattata, and in the other cage, Volcano had water continually dripping on her, so she would be weakened. Sabrina entered the room.
"I see you've woken up, Karuko, is it? Are we all having fun?" asked Sabrina with a devilish look on her face.
"Heck no! This isn't fun!" yelled Cajava in her now miniscule voice.
"Oh? This isn't fun? I agree. I think you'd have more fun outside! Hahaha!"
Instantly, Karuko, Cajava and Volcano, were outside, still in their psychically changed forms.
"So what do we do now?" asked mini-Cajava.
re: by syke6888 L
"Vulpix, pix pix vul." said Karuko, then she sweatdropped.
"Oh, great, I can't understand you now. Blob... Where are you? Ackk! Sabrina took my pokéballs!"
Sure enough, Cajava had none of her Pokémon. Then, she had a small (pun not intended) problem in the form of a Meowth. A very hungry Meowth. Fortunately, A Flamethrower from Karuko stopped that. Karuko then got dwon on her belly and motioned to her back. Cajava got the idea and climbed on. As Karuko walked back to the Gym, many passers-by was surprised to see a tiny girl riding a Vulpix. Suddenly, a net came from nowhere, scooped up Vulpix and rider, and tossed them into a van. When Karuko could look agin, she saw a member of Team Rocket. Instinctively, she launched a Flamethrwer, but the Rocket had flame-retardent gear.
"Nice try, little Vulpix, I have a new home for you." The Rocket laughed.
----
A while later, the two victims were tossed into a small cage in Team Rocket HQ of Saffron.
Two dark figures appeared. Immediately the Rockets in the area saluted.
"To infect the world with devestation!" cried one figure.
"To blite all peoples within every nation!" said the other.
"To denounce the goodness of truth and love!"
"To extend our wrath to the stars above!"
"Butch!"
"Cassidy!"
"Team Rocket, circling Earth day and night!"
"Surrender to us now or you'll surely lose the fight!"
"Raticate!"
The other TR agents sighed.
Butch was the first to speak. "Okay, do we have all the Fire Pokémon in Saffron?"
One fellow agent nodded, then pulled back a curtain. Cajava was awed. There were Charmanders, Magmars, Charizards, Flareons, Vulpix, Ponyta, Arcanine, and others. "What are all these for?" she wondered.
Cassidy inadvertantly answered the question. "Good! Now we can begin our takeover of Saffron Gym! With these," she pointed to a small group of headbands, "we can control these Pokémon and block the Psychic powers!"
"How ingenious of us to combine our mind control headbands with APB technology," said Butch. Cajava had no idea what APB meant, but she guessed it stopped Psychics somehow. The Rockets went to work and soon all Pokémon, even Karuko were outfitted.
"Yes! To Saffron Gym and make it snappy!" The evil agents haeded out HQ, all fire Pokémon in tow. As they walked, Cajava went to work trying to short-curcuit Karuko's headband. She only had a short amount of time.
re: by Pipian
Luckily for Cajava (and unluckily for Butch and Cassidy), all of the mind control headbands mysteriously short-circuited at about the same time. (It just so happened that another person had triggered a newer version of the APB, which somehow interfered with the operation of the headbands, which were using older versions of the APB...) All of the pokemon that had been captured, immediately got mad and began to attack Butch and Cassidy.
Karuko woke up from her trance, hearing various fire pokemon yelling phrases like:
"Damn you person with a bad voice! Your voice is so bad!" and stuff like that...
Karuko quietly walked away from the ensuing battle, and successfully made it out of Saffron with Cajava on her back.
"Now what do we do?" asked Cajava. "I can't talk to you..."
Karuko figured out an idea... She decided that if some panda in one of her few mangas left at home could write a sign, she could too. Unfortunately, writing the sign was a bit more difficult than it seemed... Eventually, Karuko the Vulpix held up a sign that said, in scraggily writing:
"We should go to Lavender and try to get a ghost pokemon... I think they're supposed to be effective against Psychic types... Hey, if it faints, I'm here..."
"But how do we catch it without a Pokémon to battle it?"
Karuko wrote on the back of the sign:
"There's me... I'm sure we could find a little money for a Great Ball somewhere..."
re: by syke6888 L
"Sure, but it'll have to be in small change..." Cajava started laughing.
Karuko sweatdropped. The two traveled around and snachted a small hat out of the garbage. Setting it down Karuko scrawled out another sign that read...
Victim of Sabrina. Will do tricks for money.
At this Karuko tried many flips and tricks. Some were well recieved by the passers-by, others were scoffed upon. Either way, they slowly gained enough money to buy a single Great Ball and a small collar to attach it to. Karuko put on the collar and the store owner attached the ball to her. Cajava's size did not surprise him, as Sabrina victims entered his store almost every day.
Soon, a Vulpix and a small female left the world's biggest group of psychics to go to the creepiest town known: Lavendar.
That night, they were halfway to Lavendar when a loud 'Pika!' appeared. A Pikachu popped out of the nearby grass, looking very frightened.
"Vulpix vulpix pix?" (What's wrong?)
"Pikachu pika chu chu pika pi pi!" Pika pika chu pika chaaa!" (A trainer that has chased me all the way from the Power Plant! He'll catch you too if he sees you!)
The rodent charged up a tree and hid within the branches. A voice came from where the rodent first appeared.
"Damn. Where is he? I have to catch him. once I do, I'll boot Ash from the Plateau and rule the League! Ha ha ha ha!"
From those bushes came Gary Oak, looking very annoyed. To his suprise, all he saw was a Vulpix. Cajava was inside Karuko's fur, so Gary didn't see her.
"A Vulpix? Hmmph! Hey! Have you seen a Pikachu around here? It worked for Ash, so I gotta catch one. Then I'll be more omnipotent than Ash! Speak up, you raggedy-looking fox! At least point your silly-looking nose in the direction that it ran off to!"
Gary continued his verbal abuse, slowly angering Karuko. Just as she was about to flame him, Cajava whispered something. Karuko smailed as much as a Vulpix could smile, then pointed her nose up a tree.
Gary smiled. "Aha! You did see one! Okay, Pikachu, you're mine!" Gary climbed up a tree and saw....
....A hive of very angry-looking Beedrills! "AAAAHHHH!" Gary ran off, being stung by Beedrill after Beedrill. Shortly after he left, the Pikachu climbed down the tree it was hiding in.
"Pika chu pika pi pikachu!" (Thanks for your help!) Then it dashed off in the direction of the power plant. Satisfied, Karuko curled up in a knothole at the bottom of a tree and fell asleep, Cajava curled up in her fur.
TBC?
Back to Library
Get your own Free Home Page