Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Edwin had barely any time to respond to the question when the kid inside the gym came back out. "You two are in that group with the Murkrow kid, right?" Chris nodded his head. "Well, where is he? He likes to fight, get him here."

"I think he's in the center." Corey pointed to the ruckus going on inside. Edwin opened the gym door and peeked inside. "Lyle, they're here!" He looked over from his machine. "Rockets!?"

"Yeah. They're in the center now." Lyle just looked at him. "I'll keep the gym safe, you go take care of them." He didn't know what to say. Lyle just went back to his machine. "We'll be fine here. Just take care of the center." Ed nodded and closed the to the gym. He turned to Lucas and Chris. "We're on our own."

"The leader's not gonna help us?" Lucas already had his hand on the door. "No. He says he wants to protect the gym."

"Then we gotta help Frank!" Lucas was already halfway to the center. Ed followed close behind. The center wasn't that far from the gym. If anything happened, he'd be able to see it from there. As he ran, he sent out Zubat. "Gotta save Claire for old Bruce."

"Zubat! Supersonic!" The Zubat screeched loudly, turning the attention of the Rockets in back towards both him and Lucas. Aron was out as well, but it seemed unaffected by the shrieking. He was not its target, but half of the rockets' Pokemon were, and both an Arcanine and Graveler started stumbling over themselves.

[Prpl_Mage]

Things happened very suddenly.
Frank entered the pokécenter and noticed Chris, unsure of how Chris felt he avoided him and managed to sneak upstairs. Great move he thought and wondered where the nerd was at.
He walked over to his room and heard some heated voices , he didn't mind and closed the door behind him. That's when he realised that whatever it was were getting out of control.
-"Graveler magnitude!" Shouted a voice outside and people exclaimed in reaction. Afterwards there were several pokémon noises and battles going on.
Frank packed his stuff and looked out, there were rockets in town.
He betted that they were after Zapdos or whatshisface.
He was about to go down and do his annual mockingly speech when he heard the cry of a Tyranitar, those things were huge. Huge and awesome. And beside the huge and awesome part - they were strong, and durable and almost impossible to beat. He knew from own experience.

He was unsure what to do when there was shouting downstairs. Frank ran up to the stairs and watched as Chris and the nurse sneaked out back. They left a kid there, your classic youngsters.
Frank watched his raticate getting obliterated by a Persian and shoved aside.
-"There he is!" The grunt yelled as he saw Frank in the stairs.
-"Who the hell did I piss off this time?" Frank wondered loudly as he sent out Kabuto.
The persian nimbly made it up the stairs and Kabuto began fighting claws with claws.
-"This is too slow!" The grunt below shouted as he noticed the ineffectiveness of Persians claws against Kabuto's shell.
He sent out another pokémon, an ekans which attacked as well.
-"No guts!" Frank shouted from above and eyed the trainer as he sent out his Primape.
Then in the middle of the battle his phone rang.

-"Huh, hey man. Whats up?"
"We have a situation." Frank said as he gestured his pokémon to do right.
"Where are you? Need any help?"
"Center. And nope, but you might want to work out a little." Frank had the situation under control but the kid could use some more practice.
"Eh... Sure, I was going there anyway. Just a second."
Then he hung up. Frank glared at the phone for a second before folding it and placing it in his pocket again.

The Primeape made short work of the Persian and they both brought Ekans down afterwards.
-"Hey buddy!" Frank shouted from upstairs.
The grunt looked up unsatisfied as he recalled his pokémon.
-"You should of course know this already but Team rocket sucks!" Frank shouted down at him and grinned.
But he really shouldn't.

A door busted up down the corridor and a team rocket grunt appeared.
-"The hell?" Frank said worrisomely as the grunt sent out a Mareep and sent him to attack.
Frank sent Kabuto to deal with it, it had some good moves.
At the same time he noticed that the previous grunt was heading for the healing machine downstairs.
Frank didn't waste a moment and called his Murkrow.
-"Stop him quickly!" Frank shouted and focused back on the battle against the Mareep. He had made a crucial mistake - Kabuto was water, and rock gave no protection whatsoever against electric attacks.
He was taking heavy damage and was barely moving.

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The grunt - Albert, only had about 2 steps from the healing machines when the shape of a Murkrow appeared in front of him, it was blocking his path and it had a dangerous look in his eyes.
-"Allright, calm down birdy..." Albert said and backed a little and tried to find his revives.
He just found them and were about to use them on his Persian when someone crashed down behind the Murkrow. It was that trainer, Frank. He gave Albert a scary look before placing his balls in the machine.
Albert began hurrying up with his reviving and was about to do something about it when a Scarmory dived down upon Murkrow.
-"Whoa!" Albert said and backed a little looking for the owner of the Scarmory. Upstairs stood another grunt, but not of his team. He remembered this one from Saffron earlier, one of the grunts travelling with Admin Saiar Karat.
-"Who are you?" The grunt asked as he noticed Albert.
-"Team rocket is taking this place over. Let the word get out!" He shouted at him and grinned.
The trainer looked distressed and needed a way out.
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-"Primeape now!" Frank shouted and lifted Murkrow's ball up.
His furry ape leaped and gave Sarmory a nice Karate chop to the face. It staggered backwards and loosened the grip of Murkrow.
Frank quickly returned it to his ball and inserted it into the machine as he took out his healed Kabuto.
-"Rock slide them!" Frank shouted as Alberts Persian was out now as well.
Rocks rained down upon the bird and the cat but Frank knew that the bird in question was a real pain in the -.
Godamn thing. Weak to fighting but flying prevents full damage, weak to rock but steel prevents that as well. Godamn combination of suck...
Primeape gave Persian a taste of his fist and it fainted again.
The Scarmory rose into the air and dived like an arrow against Kabuto striking it with it's metal wing.
Kabuto buckled under the strength.
-"Steel vs rock..." Frank shook his head and thought he heard more footsteps.

Frank needed help, and he needed it soon. He could heal all he wanted but this bird wouldn't go down any time soon.

[drenrin2120]

Chris gritted his teeth. "I guess I don't get to choose when to fight." Even with two pokemon, chris had lucas, ed and frank on his side. There really wasn't much of a decision to made. Chris followed lucas and ed as they made there way into the back of the center. The nurse had gone inside the gym.

Chris pointed out the boxes of items to ed and lucas. "Potions, full heals. Oh! And some revives."

[ellie-is]

"Ed, you don't mind me calling you Ed, right?, Chris, you take care of these guys, I will go help Frank!"

Just as Skarmory was about to hit Primeape with the super effective Wing Attack, Aron jumped in front of him, taking the damage, which was not very effective on it.
"Now, Aron, Rock Slide!"
It didn't do as much damage as it would've done on a pure bird, but it did hurt Skarmory. Skarmory tried to counter with a Steel Wing, but that didn't really help either.
"Aron, Take Down!"
The Skarmory didn't show any signs that it was going down that easily. The grunt laughed, and then Lucas had an idea.
"Hey, Aron, ROAR!"

The small Steel Pokémon let out a terrifying roar, scaring the pants out of the other Pokémon in there. Skarmory started flying around in circles at high speed, and crashed into Murkrow. Murkrow fell, and Skarmory kept flying. He could hear both Frank and the grunt mumbling something about their useless pokés.

"Good job! Now hit that Mareep with Iron Head!" Lucas hadn't told him to use that move before, but he was sure Aron could do it already. It hardened its head and crashed into Mareep, fainting it. The grunt returned both his pokés and ran up to the healing machine. Lucas had a brilliant idea.

"Aron, now Headbutt that machine!"

An explosion of flashy lights and electricity happened as the healing machine blew up. Those were expensive, but if Team Rocket was gonna use them, it would be better if nobody did. Lucas wasn't sure why Frank didn't tell Primeape to break it.

"So... You didn't need any help?" Lucas looked over to Frank.
"Nope, not at all. I was about to kick their butts when you got in. But then you started shouting all those moves and I decided it would be better to let you train."
"Hah... Yeah, sure. Lets go help Ed and Chris, they're fighting some dudes in the back!"
"Yeah, sure. And by the way, what the hell am I supposed to do with Kabuto now that you broke the machine, genius?"
"There's another one in the gym, you can heal him later. Also, healing supplies in the back."

Frank ran up to where the other two were.
"C'mon Aron, lets go! ...Aron?"
As Lucas turned outside, he saw a flashing light, and noticed that his Aron had evolved. It was now a Lairon.
"Awesome! You're much stronger now! Guess this training did you some good after all. Lets go, we have some rockets to beat!"

The scary looking dinosaur followed him.

[X_marks_the_ed]

It didn't take long for the Arcanine to straighten itself up. While the Graveler remained confused, Arcanine's owner sent out a Mightyena. "You know what to do, make sure that thing doesn't get a chance to breathe!"

The Arcanie sprayed a jet of fire at Zubat, but it dodged quickly. The Mightyena just watched. "Zubat, bite it till it's down!" Zubat tryed to propel itself at the the beast, but it just swiped Zubat down. Almost immediately, Mightyena slashed at it with a shadowy claw. "No pesky Zubat's gonna break my team! Arcanine, Helping Hand!" The Arcanine shot a blast of fire at the Mightyena, setting it ablaze, but it seemed to like it. "Mightyena, Howl until you can't no more!"

"I gotta stop him, what was that move that kid did? Maybe Zubat can do it too. Zubat, Astonish!" The Zubat began spinning around like a top in midair, on top of that it spun around the Mightyena, striking it with it's wings at random intervals. The Mightyena had barely enough time to react. "Arcanine, Flamethrower!" Regardless of Mightyena's position, the Arcanine sprayed a blast of fire at both of them. The Mightyena lept through the flames, tackling Zubat on the way out. The Graveler came out of nowhere with a tackle right into it. Zubat was down for good.

"If that's it, scram before we..." Edwin had already sent out Clefable and Barboach. "Sorry Bruce, I'll have to get you back later." He knew there was no way he could take them all on.

[SaiKar]

"And now, our hourly weather update. Cerulean continues to be ravaged by a strange icy storm. It is commonly believed that the legendary bird Articuno is to blame, though there are no reports of any actual sightings. The coldest temperatures, where the birds is thought to be roosting, are centered around-"

"LAPRAS, WATER PULSE!"

Saiar gritted her teeth. The sounds of battle were beginning to piss her off. It sounded like that other group of Rockets had finally done something to cheese off the locals. It was none of her damn problem. Cerulean was nothing. None of this mattered. Find Articuno, capture Articuno, and then, and then...
Wait a minute, she thought. Did the trainer just yell out to command a Lapras? Lapras was a rare Pokemon - even in a city with a water-themed gym like Cerulean, it was a very uncommon catch. Team Rocket tended to snatch them if at all possible. The only Lapras Saiar knew of offhand was being trained by her own grunt Paige.
Saiar looked out her room's window onto the street below. A Rocket grunt was chasing a retreating trainer with a Lapras. A female grunt with red hair. If it wasn't Paige, it would have to have been her twin sister.

"What in the hell?" Saiar said, blinking. "Why are my grunts..."

Saiar dialed Holly's number on her poketech. "Yeah, sup?! I'm a bit busy!" came the reply through the sounds of battle.
"Holly," Saiar said. "What's going on? Why are you guys fighting?"
Her reply was barely distinguishable from the background clashes. "Some new Rocket guy came in, said we were taking over the town! Asked for our help! The other guys here are helping too! It's a pretty big fight!"
"Are we winning?"
"Uh... MAGNEMITE, Thunder Wave! Don't worry, he can't scratch your metal body. Now Supersonic! Yes, that's it! ... hey, sorry. I dunno. I'm winning, I think. Heh, this is really exciting! Team Rocket's takin' over the world!"
"Holly," Saiar said, trying to keep her voice even. "Try to find the others, and gather them around the Pokecenter. You'll do far better as a group. Don't forget the things I told you."
"Did that gloom just use poison powder on my magnemite? Wow, kinda stupid! Can't poison a steel Pokemon! ... hey, you say something? Something about a group?"
Saiar sighed. "Forget it. Good luck out there."
"Thanks!"
Saiar hung up. She shook her head. "Damn it Rockets, what are you doing? I didn't authorize this..."

Grabbing her gear (and making doubly sure she was properly clothed this time) and left the room. The center was in no less chaos than the streets below. Saiar got a good look at watching Kato lose both his pokemon to some nerd and...

Her heart stopped when she saw the other trainer downstairs. It had been years, but he hadn't changed much at all. Same breezed back hair, same cool demeanor. And, by the looks of it, he had gotten nothing but better. He and the nerd exchanged a few words and left the center, not having seen Saiar peeking from around the corner.

"Frank," she said, her voice thin and barely above a whisper. "Frank is here..."

[ellie-is]

"Ed, I got your back!" Lucas shouted. "Lairon, Iron Head on that Graveler!"
Lairon charged at the Graveler, and it flinched.
"Now, Metal Claw!"
Before the Graveler could recover, it got hit, and was down. Two super effective moves in a row from a beast with such a high attack. Too much for him.

"Damn. Arcanine, Fire Blast!"

Lairon got hit by the move but he was still up. Both trainers yelled their commands at pretty much the same time.

"Rock Slide!"
"Flamethrower!"

Both hit. Both Pokémon fell to the ground. None was fainted, but it wouldn't take too much.

Edwin ordered his Barboach to finish the Arcanine with a Water Gun.

Two down, one to go.

[A Forgotten Legend]

----Back at Bill's House----

Before they could react the Muk sent out blood curdling screech that seemed to make both their pokémon vulnerable.
"Ace!  Double Team!"  Corey's Starly became hard to see and caused the Muk to be disoriented for a short time.
"Pineco, quick, Bug Bite!" The Pineco obeyed, dealt a good hit, however it was poisoned by the Muk's slime.  The Muk did not enjoy the last attack and retaliated with Sludge. "Pineco, Rapid Spin away from the sludge!"  It missed and almost hit Corey's Starly.
"Ace, quick attack!" It hit, but Ace also became poisoned.  This was not going to end well.  Both trainers could see their pokémon being weakened from the poison. "Ace, use Wing Attack!"  The attack hit and the Muk looked slightly weakened now.
"This is our chance!  Pineco get underneath the Muk!  I know its not a great place to be, be we might have a chance!"  The pokémon reluctantly obeyed his trainer.  The Muk quickly buried it underneath its slime.  Joseph's Pineco wouldn't last long like this.  "Pineco!  Now, use self-destruct!"  The large explosion from underneath the Muk tossed it back into the wall.  It wasn't fainted, but it was greatly weakened.
"Pineco, great job, return! Go, Totodile!"
"Dile!"
"Ace, use another Wing Attack!"  It hit, but the tiny bird couldn't handle anymore and fainted.  "Good work Ace, Come back. Go Spark!"
"What if Totodile soaks it with a Water Gun attack and you get it with a Spark attack?"
"Sounds like a good idea, go for it."  This could work.
"Totodile, soak him the best you can with your Water Gun attack!"
"Diiiiiiiiiile"  The Totodile gave a good soaking.  The Muk was not pleased.  It slowly began heading towards the two trainers and their pokémon.
"Spark, use spark attack, now!" It obeyed and the Muk got quite a shock.  The noise must've woke up the sleeping pokémon because they too began to shock the Muk.  With all thier strength, the Muk finally oozed out of the building, leaving its old domain.
"It worked!" Joseph said with glee.  He had never been known to have many good ideas, but this was one of them.  As they were celebrating, one of the Pichu walked over to Joseph and climbed on him playfully.
"Hi little guy!"
"Peeechu!"
As the said goodbye to the family, the Pichu from earlier became sad.  As they were leaving the little Pichu began to follow them until finally Joseph picked it up and sat him on his shoulder.  It seemed that Joseph didn't get to catch many pokémon as this is his second one that joined him willingly.  Joseph was happy though, he had gained a new partner and this time it was an electric type.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank noticed the trainer from Pewter. He was about to ask how his clefairy was doing when the Clefable appeared.
There was just no point in talking when a battle was to be fought.
-"Well finish the punching bag already!" Frank shouted at his Primeape which set out for the Graveler. But before he was able to conect his fist - Lucas' damn chunk a' rock took the credit.
Primeape looked frustrated and set out against Mightyena with a series of kicks and punches.
Arcanine burned Lucas' poké pretty badly but it fell afterwards.
Primeape noticed the turn of events and quickly felled the Mightyena with a karate Chop.

-"No sweat." Frank said and watched as the grunt angrily walked away.
Grunts moved around and Frank greeted them all for a moment. Chris didn't seem to mind their earlier quarrel anymore and Frank was actually glad about it - there were far more important things to do right now.
Frank healed up Kabuto with some of the medicine from the pokécenter. Stupid nerd blew their endless supply of healing...
He scouted the area and noticed a few Grunts busy fighting local trainers. They could use a little extra hand here and there.
-"Guys, I'm going in." He started and gave the others a salute. "I bet I can beat more grunts that you guys" He said and started off into the chaos.

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He rounded some trainers and noticed a trainer with an Arbok. The arbok was about to finish off a Tangela when Murkrow's Night shade knocked it backwards.
-"There's a healing machine in the gym, retreat there." Frank told the trainer.
-"Oh crap, I'm screwed!" The grunt said which took Frank back a little.
-"The hell is your problem? I thought you team rockets would be ruthless..?" He said and eyed the trainer.
-"C'mon, one on one please. You beat one of mine and I walk away, no point in hurting my darlings is there?" The grunt said pleadingly.
-"Hell man, you seem to be in the wrong kind of business." The tangela trainer said as he made his way to the gym.
-"What do you say?" The grunt asked and looked at Frank.
-"Um, no? Not gonna happen, skip the act already."
-"W-what?"
-"If it isn't an act - it's simple experience for my team. Man up and let's see your pokémon!" Frank shouted and the expression of the grunt quickly changed.
-"Heh. Fine, it worked on some of the trainers." The grunt said and snorted.
He sent out a Paras to fight alongside his Arbok.
-"Murkrow deal with it." Frank said as he nowdays actually had a little, just a tiny bit of confidence in his bird.

Murkrow quickly dispatched Paras which was replaced with a Kakuna.
-"Don't even bother with that - take the snake!" Frank told his Murkrow, poison could be a B.
Murkrow went offensive as Arbok stood it's ground using Stockpile and Spit up.
But Murkrow's power was above that of the Arbok and it fell slowly.
Kakuna kept using the Hardcore-harden tactics and wondered if it even was worth it. Murkow did attack it twice and it buckled under.
-"They're too many!" The grunt said as he returned his kakuna and ran off.
-"Godamn wuz." Frank said and grinned.
He saw a Grunt with a houndour and Fearow. It was his next target but the difference between the trainers seemed to differ a lot. This one had obviously had better practice.

Frank healed up Murkrow and set out to defeat Dan.

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-"Captain?" Kinkerly called on a safe distance from the battles.
-"What is it?" Darren asked annoyed over the phone.
-"The target is out of the center, moving against your position - kinda."
-"Good news, did he beat you up or what?" Darren asked with a laugh as Tyranitar took out another pokémon with Stone edge.
-"Yeah, I even used the trick that Paige girl gave me, he didn't fall for it."
-"Good, sounded like a lame trick to me." Darren said and smiled at his victories, strong pokémon were rad.
-"Well you se-"
-"Kinkerly, no time to talk. Regroup with Albert, he needs some healing done." He said and hung up.

-"This is getting bloody amazing." Darren said and grinned, as his Tyranitar roared. It was a beast indeed and Frank would taste it.

[SaiKar]

"Admin! Admin!" Kato was calling.
"What." she replied flatly.
"Town is gone crazy! Other group of Rockets up appear, decide attack! Now locals fights any the Rockets! Fights big!" His English was deplorable, but the basic message came across clear enough.
"Yes, I know. Man up. This is what we trained for. You handled yourself pretty well in that battle."
Yeah... still, mareep lost, skarmory cuts minor." he was looking at the broken Pokecenter healing machine.
"Oh..." Saiar mumbled. She flung a few healing items at him. "Get them back in fighting shape. This is what you get for only having two pokemon on your team."
With pride, Kato said, "Johto pokes best! Hard find in Kanto, even steal okay!"
"Sure, sure..."

She stepped outside the center. The violence was worse than she had imagined. Many buildings showed damage from the fighting, and a few were even on fire despite the still raging snowstorm. The storm that reminded Saiar of her true purpose in Cerulean to begin with. Distrations...
"Rocket, you're going down!" a trainer yelled, with a kingler at his side.
With a glare of contempt, Saiar plucked a pokeball from her belt and released its beast. A gigantic rock worm 30 feet tall appeared before her. Similar in shape to the Onyx, but this one was covered in shiny metal. It gave a roar that sounded like a train wreck.
"Rusty," she said, with a glare at the kid, "kill."
The steelix seemed to interpret this command as free reign to do what it wanted. Before the terrified kid or his kinger could react, it swung it's massive heavy tail straight into the crab, delivering a powerful iron tail attack. The kinger was unconscious before it hit the ground. The kid fled at once.

"Hmph," Saiar hmped. Steelix is not the best pokemon to use in a town full of water-type trainers, but its massive size aught keep away the riff raff.
"That Pokemon... Rusty once belong to leader team Jasmine Olivine. See contest as kid!" Kato said, shocked.
"That is right. This is the same Rusty."
"How get you?"
"Team Rocket takes what it wants."
Kato just blinked.
"Come on," Saiar said. "I think I know where Articuno is. We have to find the others. Who knows what trouble they will have gotten themselves into."

[X_marks_the_ed]

"Surprise, Eddy boy!" A blast of silver struck Barboach, sending it out of its whirlpool. The whirlpool, taking a life of its own, shot after the fallen fish. Edwin turned to see him. His short, spiked hair, the big rocket jacket, and his twisted grin. Beside the monster stood a large blue tin can with red eyes on its belly.

"Bruce!" "Not now!"

"Nickel, Gyro ball it again!" Before Edwin could retort, it fired another blast at Barboach. It was down. "Hey Ed, mind if I try out for a Cascadebadge?" Without response, he strolled into the gym. Edwin tried to follow him inside, but the two grunts he came with stopped him. "Just hold tight until he gets back. He wants that thing you have with you. But after he's done inside here...." The one looked over. "That's Admin Saiar!" The other looked in the direction he was pointing.

"What's she doing here?"

"I dunno. Hey, did you hear about what happened to her in Vermillion?"

"No. What?" The original Rocket started giggling as he spoke. "Apparently, she saw one of the birds and ran after it..."

Edwin had snuck into the gym by that point.

[drenrin2120]

Chris, Lucas and Ed were left in the pokecenter as Frank went out to wreak havoc on team rocket grunts. The three of them ran outside. Trainer battles were erupting all over Cerulean. "Should we split up?" Chris asked.

"I don't see why." Lucas said, "The gym is the only place with a pokehealer. And we have that under control. If we lose that, we lose Cerulean. If we can fight off Team Rocket long enough, they'll be forced to turn around."

Ed nodded, "So we defend the gym at all cost."

Before he could say more, they watched as an angry kid challenged a clear rocket Admin. Was the kid stupid?

"You're going down, Rocket!" He said confidently. The admin was less than enthusiastic. She sent out her pokemon. A massive Steelix. The Steelix took out the kid's Kingler with ease. The Admin walked away without saying another word, an awkward grunt following her in her tracks, the one with the Skarmory.

"Wow." Lucas muttered, "Was that? I swear I could recognize that pokemon from somewhere..."

The three of them took off for Cerulean Gym. There were trainers fighting Rockets outside the door. Chris sent out his geodude and engaged a rocket with a Beedrill.

"Dudley! Rock throw!"

"Geo!" It cried as a shower of rocks came down on the grunt's beedrill. The beedrill was knocked unconscious immediately. The rocket was infuriated, but wouldn't physically move out of the way of gym's entrance. He sent out another beedrill. A second grunt joined in, sending out a mankey.

Luke stepped in to send out his Lairion. "No, don't worry!" Chris said, "This is perfect!"

Chris sent out his Noctowl. "Kon keep mankey occupied. Dudley, make short work of this other Beedrill!"

Dudley let loose another rain of rocks upon the hapless bug pokemon. But this one was stronger, it was severely weakened but managed to survive. "Get that damn bird, Beedrill!" The grunt order. "Poison Sting!"

With lightning speed, the beedril lunged up at Kon, dealing light damage to him. However, Kon was now poisoned. "Kon, use your wing attack!" Kon did, knocking out the beedrill. However, this distraction had allowed the mankey to close in on Dudley.

"Karate Chop!" The other grunt ordered and the mankey obeyed. Dudley was well trained though, he quickly curled into a defense ball, blocking a lot of the damage.

"Damn..." Chris said, "Kon, help your buddy out!" Out of the sky, the Noctowl came screeching. "Wing Attack!" Kon obeyed, dealing a lethal blow to the otherwise, poorly trained mankey.

"Ha! Piece of cake!" Chris was satisfied. But the action wasn't over, Geodude was glowing. After the shimmering light died down, a Graveler stood in its place. Chris ran over to it. "Hey! Look at you Dudley!" Dudley let a cry out proudly. Chris was feeling great about this turn of events. He called both his pokemon back and the two grunts fled.

[Prpl_Mage]

The battle raged on in the also raging storm.
-"You sure you wanna do this?" Frank asked Dan mockingly, it wasn't the first insult. Dan had been annoyed by his very presence even before he spoke.
-"Team rocket takes all, and I'm no stupid grunt. You say another word and I'll let you have it." Dan said and pointed an accusing finger at Frank.
-"Word." Frank said calmly and watched Dan's ferocious response.

The fearow entered the field almost instantly and Frank responded with his Kabuto.
-"Get it from this range." Frank told his Kabuto as the Fearow rose into the sky.
Kabuto drew rocks together and aimed them at Fearow. Fearow took the blow and Frank was almost certain that it was over already.
But the fearow continued its' flight.
-"Whoa. That's strong..." Frank mumbled as he watched the Fearow go on and land a drill peck on his Kabuto.
-"Charge up fearow! Sky attack!" Dan shouted from the opposite side.
-"Sky attack?" Frank asked unsure what to do about it.
Kabuto sent out more rocks against the Fearow which took the hit but still flew.
-"This is bad..." Frank thought and was seriously thinking about looking for an alternative solution. As soon as the bird would get the opportunity - it would dive down on Kabuto and seeing the power of it. It would probably be enough.
-"Aqua jet!" Frank shouted and Kabuto quickly cloaked itself in water and crashed into Fearow in the air. Kabuto fell, and luckily landed on its' feet.  Before it could defend itself correctly Fearow began to glow and dived with an incredible speed and struck Kabuto from above. The shellfish was sent sliding towards Frank who stopped it with his foot.

-"Get in there and finish that bird you lousy rock!" Frank said and kicked it back into the fray. There was energy left in Kabuto but not that much. But he'd be damned to lose a battle against a weak type.
Kabuto drew upon rockslide once more and scored a great hit this time. Fearow fell for a moment and finally landed on the ground.
-"Get on it!" Frank yelled at his Kabuto which quickly leaped on top of Fearows back and used his absorbing.
-"You're getting weak Fearow, use roost!" The grunt exclaimed and the bird relaxed.
-"I know this is the nerd's job... But all resistances of being in the air is lost when you land like this." Frank said and watched how Kabuto's efforts gave more than before.
-"No! Wake up fearow you lousy bird!" Dan exclaimed realizing his mistake.
-"Finish it Kabuto." Frank said calmly as Kabuto had regained his strength.

Kabuto drew power, Fearow was starting to rise into the air but was still weak. The rocks smashed into it and it fell down again and struggled to get up.
-"Again." Frank said and watched how another barrage of rocks rained down in Fearow.
It was done.
-"Dammit. Get back!" Dan said and looked at Frank.
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Next up was Abra. It came out and Frank sent out Murkrow. He expected it to teleport away as in the wild but this one was a little more of a challenge.
-"Protect yourself from damage!" Dan shouted and Abroa created a barrier around itself. Murkrow tried to breach it with Pursuit over and over again.
When he felt like he was in danger - Abra blinked to another position. But at first he didn't even seem to fight back.
-"Just embrace defeat if you're gonna be like this." Frank shouted at Dan who looked back at him angrily.
-"Go Houndour!" He yelled and Houndour entered the field as well.
-"That's more like it." Frank said and was happy that he could speed things up.
-"Get him." Frank said and released Primeape.

"Now!" Dan shouted and Abra let out a Psywave against Primeape. Primeape was pushed backwards but got back on his feet.
-"What the hell?! It's a psychic move - it should've knocked him out!" Dan shouted and seemed really angry now.
Frank knew better than to spoil the secret behind the move like Lucas did.

Houndour tried to take down Murkow with fire and bites while Abro continued to launch Psywaves at Primeape.
Murkrow lured Houndour away from Abra for just a second so that Primeape could finally get a clean hit. And once it did, it was a critical as well. The hound rolled across the ground but got back on its' feet slowly.
-"Blast them!" Dan shouted and Houndour gathered a lot of power before releasing the wide Flamethrower against Frank's party.
-"Murkrow finish that damn nancy!" Frank shouted as Abro his Primeape once more with the Psywave.
Murkrow dived against Abra which reacted by teleporting away. But Murkrow had forseen it and abused Pursuit against it. The attack struck and pierced the barrier. Abra fell and it was both Murkrow and Primeape against Houndour.

-"Godamn it!" Dan exclaimed as he started to look for a potion or something.
-"Finish it quick." Frank said and scouted the area around him for the next trainer to fight.
Murkrow drew back, pulled it's wings together and unleashed Night Shade against Houndour. the attack struck and Houdnour was flung into the air weakened. Primeape quickly grabbed it mid air and performed a Seismic toss. It hit the ground hard and didn't get up.

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-"Great job." Frank said and called them back without even looking at Dan.
-"What the hell went wrong? Why didn't Psywave finish that fighting poké?" Dan questioned no one.
-"Learn your moves before you even fight. There's no use using the same move unless you actually know what it does. Learn from your mistakes and don't be such a miserable prick." Frank said and was ready to walk away.
-"That's what Admin Saiar always says but I guess that I a little to learn. But when I do, I'll find you and you'll pay for today!" Dan said before hurrying away.
Frank was stunned. He didn't move. Lucky him that the grunt didn't see his face because it was shocked.
-"Saiar? An admin?" Frank mumbled before looking around hastily.
-"If she's that guy's admin... Then she must be here as well." He though and stared up into the snowy sky.

[ellie-is]

"Guys, go inside, see whats going on. The rockets are getting their asses kicked, but some still have to be defeated. I will see if I can get one of them alone, because a single one of them has no chance against... well, anyone."
"But why do you have to go and do the fun thing?" Chris asked
"Huh, donno. I said it first?"
"Alright, sure."

One female grunt running towards the center got his attention. "She's kinda cute... Wait, no, she's a Rocket, don't even think that. I can't even get ugly girls anyway. Hey, you, hold on! Fight me!"

"Huh... Sure."

Lucas sent out his Nidorino, and the grunt let out her Magnemite.

"Sending out a Steel type to fight a Poison type... Smarter than most grunts."
"I do my homework. Thundershock!"
"Nidorino, Double Kick!"

Nidorino jumped up to Magnemite, getting hit in the process, but landing both hits, causing some devastating damage to the low level steel type, fainting it.

"Damn!" She wasn't expecting that to happen and seemed slightly annoyed. Holly sent out her Koffing.
"Yep. Its no use sending out a Pokémon with a type advantage if you don't have the right moves to beat his type, but he does. Guess you should've done more homework!" Lucas said with a smile on his face, proud to know more than someone else, as usual. He returned Nidorino and sent out Lairon. "Even though he's weakened, a Koffing shouldn't be able to cause any major damage."

"Weird. This guy sounds a bit like Saiar, but he is nice instead of being harsh. But he isn't half as good as she is. Koffing, Smoke screen!" She knew that all his Poison moves would be useless against the steel type, so she would at least get his accuracy down. Black smoke filled the area.

"Hm. Nice one. Lairon, keep using Iron Defense until Koffing strikes, then hit him with a Metal Claw!" He looked at Holly "See what you did there? You gave me an excuse to improve my Pokémon's defense until you strike. Now your physical attacks won't be as effective, and thats all a Koffing can do against a steel type."

"What is wrong with this guy? It's like he is trying to teach me how to fight or something. He's right though... Darn." Her Koffing didn't know any good non poison moves. The only thing it could do against Lairon was tackle, which would be not very effective. Without knowing that Lairon was weakened from the other battle and seeing this as an opportunity to take down a strong Pokémon with a high defense (something Pidgey would never do), she shouted "Self Destruct!"

Koffing flew into Lairon, and before he could strike with his claws, Koffing blew itself up.

"Haha! Nice!" Lucas returned Aron, and she returned her Koffing.
"What are you laughing at?", she said and sent out Pidgey
"My Lairon was almost down anyway, and out of the two Pokés I have, one would get his *** kicked by Koffing." And then he sent out Qwilfish.

Holly almost regretted doing that, but she remembered that she was a Rocket. Regret is not an option.
"Pidgey, Quick Attack!"
"Qwilfish, use Rollout until it faints!"

The quick attack hit Qwilfish as he tried to roll into a ball, and he was sent a little farther away, but the speed he got from rolling back there only made his first hit stronger. Didn't take long before Holly realized it was a rock attack and that she was simply screwed. She tried to tell Pidgey to attack him, but a couple hits later, and it was down. Both returned their Pokés.

"Good battle. But you were just out of luck with that team. Bad types."
"Hmph. Just wait, you will see!". She ran to the center, without knowing the healing machine didn't work anymore.
"Name is Lucas, by the way! Eh. Wait. Why did I tell her my name. Duude. Damn, I will just head back to the gym." She looked around and gave the nerd's face a last look, and kept running. Not like she cared about his name. "There is something in her eyes... I don't know... Eh. Nah, its nothing, probably just things in my head. I really should go back to the gym now, they might need me and my Pokés need healing."

[drenrin2120]

"Hey, you!" Chris was about to enter the gym when a voice caught his attention. He turned around to face a Rocket kid, "You aren't getting away that easily!" Chris stepped away from the door and firmly grabbed his raging balls.

"Come on! Fight me!" The kid barked.

Chris had only two pokemon, he didn't want to be the first person to throw a pokemon out. "You're the challenger, let's go then!" The incentive didn't seem to work on the kid. He merely grinned, waiting for Chris to send out a pokemon first. The two stared at each other for a while longer.

"What are you afraid of?" The rocket taunted.

"Fine then!" Chris said with a grin and threw a ball on the field. As soon as he made this movement, the Rocket sent his pokemon out. A grimer oozed out of the ball into the battle. The ball Chris threw opened up and fizzled. There was no pokemon in it. It was Sandy's old pokeball.

"Hey, what the hell kind of trick is this?" The rocket demanded.

Chris didn't say a word, instead he sent out Dudley. Chris couldn't help but marvel at how well that worked. Now he had the type advantage. Chris's powerful graveler rumbled onto the battlefield. The rocket gritted his teeth, "Think you're smart? I'll wipe that grin off your face! Grimer, Minimize!" The grimer curled itself into a tighter and tighter ball.

Chris recognize the problem right away. Grimer had made himself harder to hit. "No amount of strategic defenses can protect you from Dudley's magnitude!"

Dudley brought its fists down to the ground, shaking the earth. The rocket and Chris had to brace themselves as the ground shook and snow flew up in the air. Unfortunately, Dudley's attack narrowly missed the Grimer. The rocket grinned, feeling more confident, "Grimer! Hit him with your Mud Bomb!"

Chris nearly facepalmed. For some reason or another, it didn't occur to him that grimer would learn a move like that. "Goddamn pokemon knowing goddamn different type moves..." He grumbled to himself as Graveler took the hit. It was super effective.

Alec grinned as he reached for a second ball and tossed it out. Chris barely had time to react before Alec shouted, "Sleep powder!"

The grimer looked back dumbly at its trainer, unaware that its trainer was not talking to it. The gloom that came out of Alec's pokeball, however, had heard the command. Before the red gleam of the pokeball faded away, a cloud of white powder rocketed out of gloom's flowery head. The powder gently mixed with the snow in the air, seemingly disappearing. Alec became concerned unsure if it hit.

Chris was furious, "Damn dirty of you." Then his Graveler began to rock back and forth. Finally, it pitched forward and fell on its face, asleep. Chris's eyes went wide as Alec made his next command.

"Gloom! Absorb!" Alec's grin grew maniacal as its gloom began to suck the life energy out of Dudley. Chris grabbed his last ball and flung it onto the battlefield. "Kon! Hypnotize that Gloom!"

"Grimer! Mud Bomb!" As Chris's Noctowl moved into a range for a Hypnosis attack, a ball of mud and icy debris flew into the air. The addiction of ice on the ball of mud made the impact that much harder. Feathers scattered as Kon shrieked and took the hit. He plummeted to the ground, flapping its wings wildly. The Grimer moved in to inflict it's foe with a poisonous touch.

"Kon! Get up! Confusion!" Kon couldn't recover fast enough from his fall from the sky. The grimer moved in close and began to encompass the noctowl with its slime. Finally, Kon was able to focus enough to use its confusion attack. Kon's eyes glowed a wild yellow as psychic waves emitted from its body and penetrated the grimer. Grimer immediately tried to flee, taking severe damage. It couldn't get away.

The noctowl's confusion attacked didn't cause it to faint, it did however manage to drive it seemingly insane. "Grimer! Ah, ****!" Alec facepalmed knowingly. The grimer ignored any order given by Alec, it was confused. It launched a mud bomb straight into the air. "Grimer! What the hell are you doing!" The grimer merely watched as the ball of mud reached its zenith then began its descent back down to earth. "Grimer!" Alec screamed in vain. Just as the mud bomb was about to collide with the grimer, Alec called it back, huffing agitatedly. The Mud Bomb exploded in the direct spot where grimer had been.

While this was happening, the Gloom had managed to weaken Graveler to the point of fainting. Chris called back his graveler, agitated it had not yet woken up. "You'll be hurtin' when you do." He whispered to the ball. "Kon, come here!"

Kon retreated back to Chris. Kon was suffering from the poison grimer had inflicted on it. Chris hurriedly pulled a full heal out of his bag and used it on Kon. Kon looked better but was still beat up. "You have the advantage of the air, finish him off, Kon!" Chris wasn't sure, but was almost positive Alec didn't have anymore pokemon on him.

The gloom was healthy, Kon was not. "Kon! Prepare a barrier!" Kon obeyed.

"Gloom! Use your Stun Spore and stop him in his tracks!" Gloom obeyed. A mist of yellow spores flew into the air. Kon's only advantage had just been taken away from him.

"Kon! Avoid that stuff like the plague!" Kon avoided area where the spores had been sprayed. In the wind and the snow, the spores didn't last long. They'd been in the air for a little while, then they be carried away by the wind or taken to the ground and buried by the snow. For a few minutes gloom would shoot spores at its target. When the spores settled, Kon would move in and peck his foe. Kon couldn't get in close enough to use Confusion without risking being afflicted with spores and other nasty powders.

Gloom was growing weak. Every time he'd use his stun spore, Kon would be just out of reach. Then Kon would swoop in and deliver a single peck before Gloom could built up enough spores for another attack. Alec was agitated, Chris was feeling confident again.

"Damn it! Don't just stand there, Gloom!" But Gloom was too weak by this point. Alec called him back in disgust. "All you had to do with stun him!"

Chris jumped with excitement, "Yes! Way to go, Kon!" The noctowl landed next to Chris, tired, but triumphant.

Alec grinned. Chris's Noctowl was weak. This would be an easy battle for his growlithe. "What are you so excited about? This ain't over yet! Go, Growlithe!"

Chris was shocked. He really didn't think Alec had any more pokemon. How did he miss that. Quickly, Chris took a potion out of his bag and used it on Kon. Kon was greatful but it only did so much. "Hopefully that's the edge you need." Chris smiled at Kon as the Alec's growlithe approached.

Kon's barrier had faded. "Kon, rebuild your barrier!" Kon obeyed.

Alec grinned. "Don't even waste your time! Flame Wheel!"

The growlithe braced itself against the ground and opened it maw wide. A powerful wave of fire shot out of its mouth, heading straight for Noctowl. "Kon's barrier won't have any affect..." Chris whispered to himself.

The snow growlithe was standing on melted as its body began to heat up to extreme temperatures. There was nothing Chris could do, it happened too quickly. The rotating blast of fire collided with Kon.

Kon barely made a squawk. Growlithe closed its mouth, ending the attack. Out of the smoke, Kon dropped to the ground. The battle was over.

"Hah!" Alec cried triumphantly, "I save my best for the last."

Chris got that sinking feeling. The same feeling he got when he was beaten back in pewter and closed up the gym. Tunnel vision set in. Sounds became unnatural to him as the rocket flaunted his victory.