Pokémon RP Kanto Quest, the adventure begins.

[ellie-is]

"Eh, so, guys, we run after them or we just stay here?" Lucas was watching the two run off.
"Man, I don't know. So, that destruction... How much?" Corey was staring at the Bird.
"Huh... A lot, yeah. If those two fight, I'd say Cerulean, maybe Saffron." Lucas was now staring at the bird.
"If the third one gets here?" Chris seemed worried. He also stared at Zapdos.
"I can't be sure, but maybe half of Kanto. If they fight here, of course. They will probably fly at high speeds all over the world using moves all over the place."
"That sounds bad..." Chris (as well as Lucas and Corey) had a vacant look on their faces. The situation seemed urgent, but being there, watching the Legendary bird in the sky... Wasn't easy to focus on small things like the destruction of half of the continent.
"Good news, though; I'm not sure if they want to fight." Lucas didn't take his eyes off the bird, though he stopped for a bit to adjust his glasses. "They might not be here to fight", he continued. "They could be here waiting for Moltres to go somewhere else and do something. Maybe there's someone whose *** they need to kick."
"Team Rocket, maybe?"
"Could be, if they saw Team Rocket as a legitimate threat to the world. But hey, all this things I'm saying about them. I'm just guessing. Little information about Legendary Pokémon that you can find in books is actually true. And most of them have never been caught, so it gets hard to research on them."
"Someone caught a legendary Pokémon before?" Corey looked at Lucas, finally taking his eyes off Zapdos.
"Yeah. Mew. Around 70 years ago, maybe more. But I'm not sure if Mew truly is a legendary. I think they were once common... Maybe they still are. There have been a lot of unconfirmed sightings in South America. I think that its just an extinct Pokémon, or something close to that. It is incredibly powerful, though. But being rare and powerful alone isn't enough to call someone a legendary, I think... Did you know that when they caught one, they tried to clone it? Took a while but they did it. Kinda. The result wasn't another Mew. Mewtwo, they called it. Really powerful Pokémon. Psychic type as well. He would hide in a cave near Cerulean after fleeing the lab... You know, I am not sure where he went to. Remember something about Red battling him... You know, that guy, he used to be all over the news, but that was so long ago, we weren't even born. Beat the Elite 4 at the age of 11, a really great trainer. Spent some years on Mt. Silver training on his own. He was amazing. I wonder if he's alive. Probably not. That, or really old... At least 70. I forgot when he was born." Lucas finally closed his mouth.

Corey had been staring at Zapdos again for a few minutes. He got bored of Lucas' lecture quick.

As they watched Zapdos in the sky, Frank and Saiar ran after him. Suddenly, a blue bird appeared far away, moving fast towards them.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank followed Saiar and her goons. Behind him were the other kids.
He really didn't have the time to cheer everyone up for the upcoming battle - he shouldn't have to in a moment like this. Legendary birds were up ahead after all.
The storm raged even more now, the rain and wind proved to be very annoying but he was also glad to loose all that snow - even for only some time.
He watched Zapdos for a moment before looking down ahead. Unfortunately he couldn't keep his eyes off a certain something and raised his gaze towards the bird again.

One part of him wanted to catch the bird - but there was no way. One part wanted to see Saiar catch the bird but for what reason would that be? The third part of him wanted to stop her for catching the bird. She wouldn't be able to concentrate as well even if they were just riff raff.
But the very last part of him just wanted to beat the bird. No capture or something, just beat it to prove his strength.
But he wouldn't know 'till they reached it.
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-"Hey Nigel!" Bob shouted from a distance as he walked up to the bridge and the man in charge.
-"Bad time, doing battle." Nigel answered and watched Joseph in frustration.
-"Darren said that all threats been taken care off. And most trainers have left town by now." Bob said and looked at the tentacruel.
-"Okay, okay. Just a little more, pretty please?" Nigel said and looked at Bob.
-"I'm just a grunt." Bob said as to show that he wasn't in charge - no responsibility on his shoulders.

[ellie-is]

Suddenly, Zapdos landed on the top of a hill in the direction of Cerulean Cave. Frank and Saiar kept running after it, and the others decided to follow. It was probably not the smartest thing to do, but they wanted to know what would happen.

Meanwhile, Joseph was battling on the bridge. Suddenly, he and the Rocket noticed something flying over their heads.
"What... What is that?" Even the Rocket was speechless.
"Looks a bit like Ho-Oh... But no, its different... And... Ho-Oh is just an old legend from Johto..."

A giant bird, covered in flames flew through the sky of Cerulean city. There was fire all around him. Anyone looking at the sky would be terrified. Fire, Ice and Lighting, all at the same time. From behind the black, thunder filled rainclouds, you could see that the sun was shining bright, and with the rain, there was also fire. From above the rainclouds, there were great amounts of snow. All trainers had ran inside the nearest building to them by now. Staying outside would be just stupid. Only a few people remained: Frank, Saiar, Lucas, Joseph, Corey, Frank and a few Rocket grunts.

Just as Frank and Saiar reached the place where Zapdos stood, the Flame Pokémon arrived from the east. Both birds looked at each other. It was incredibly difficult to distinguish if it was a look of two old friends who hadn't seen each other for years, or the look of two ferocious foes who were about to have a fight to the death.

"...Another bird? What the..." Frank looked at Saiar.
"It is Moltres... What are these birds up to?" Not even she knew what was going to happen. Her team was strong - But could she beat the three of them at once?

"Wait, who's that one? Is it Articuno?" Corey asked the other two
"No, thats Moltres! Its the third bird! Damn, we're so screwed!" Lucas said, and they kept running.
"Look!" Chris pointed up to somewhere in the north.

Articuno was there. He sat near the other two Legendary Birds. They looked at each other for a few seconds. Lucas, Chris and Corey reached Saiar and Frank. Frank wanted to ask what they were doing there, but the sight of the three birds, and all the chaos in the sky, that was too many things happening at once for him to focus on something clever and cool to say.

And suddenly, just as all that chaos started - it stopped. The tremendous winds became a gentle breeze. The rain, the hail and the fire were gone. Blue skies were above them. The three bird let out their loud cries, and started flapping their wings. They didn't go anywhere after they took off the ground - They were now looking at the trainers, as if they expected them to make a move.

Everyone just stared at the birds. Frank wanted them, but he knew his team couldn't take any. Chris, Corey and Lucas weren't even sure what the hell they were doing there any way - right now they were just too scared of the giant birds to do anything. Saiar, Saiar knew why she was there, and she knew what she had to do.

For about thirty seconds, everyone just looked at the birds, who would yell something at each other every once in a while, as if they were communicating. Then, Saiar spoke.

"Well... I guess this it, now. No going back."

She sent a pokeball into the field.

[X_marks_the_ed]

The kids that used to line up on the bridge were gone, meaning a smooth walk into the northern half of Cerulean. The snow was all powder up here. In maybe an hour or two, it would all be gone. "There have to be SOME Pokemon up here to train on." He sent out Clefable anyway. It had been killing him to get some information on the new Claire, but he was so busy with the Rockets, he nearly forgot.

"Clefable, the fairy Pokemon. Evolution of Clefairy via Moon Stone..."

According to the Pokedex, she was definitely stronger. And if that were the case, Bowser would've beaten her before even faster. She definitely needed more training. The two walked as they scoured for any sign of life. If anyone was out here, they must've still been in hiding from the Rockets. Suddenly, Ed heard a noise. "Finally!" He ran towards the source of the noise and came across a small house. If anyone was inside, he might as well let them know that the Rockets fled town.

The door was slightly open, so he wandered inside. "Hello?" The only response was some rustling. The house looked abandoned. Amongst the set of computers, he noticed something moving behind a desk. "Claire, get ready." It came out and walked up to Clefable. It was only half of her size.

"Pichu, the Tiny Mouse Pokemon..."

Clefable picked up the tiny creature, and both seemed pretty pleased. Since the inhabitants were harmless, he decided to have a look around the building. In the center of the room were two giant vessels, one of which seemed to have been forced open, showing signs of damage on the door, the floor of the vessel was covered in some purple gunk that Edwin didn't want to even look at.

After some scrounging, he found something unusual. It was a Pokeball, only broken. The top, red lid slightly off from the white half, leaving gaps half the size of his thumb on each side. It looked like the ball was thrown, and not just dropped. When he went to check if it was empty, the Pokedex freaked out. "Unknown error has occurred." He decided to pocket the strange Pokeball. Maybe he could find someone who could fix it. It's not like he could hope to buy any more with his lack of funds. As he finished up his exploration, he called Claire back. She (probably) said her farewells to the three Pichus with her and both left the house, on their way back towards Cerulean.

[coreystranick]

Corey had no words for the situation. It was eerie that there was no chaos, and the three birds just sitting staring. Yet at the same time it was peaceful.

Corey hardly noticed Saiar throw the pokeball. All he wanted to do was look at the birds. He yearned for one but knew he could never control it.

[SaiKar]

Saiar stared with disbelief, fascination, and horror. They were witnessing a legendary event, possibly something that would not be repeated in their lifetimes, or maybe a thousand years, if ever. A meeting of the three legendary birds. Were they here to protect the world, or to destroy it? It seemed like kind of a gamble to hope solely on the former. She gritted her teeth. If I had a whole group of competent rockets, we would be three legendary birds richer in an hour, and the Pokemon League would be in flames by tomorrow... But she forced the thought from her mind. Had to make do with what she had available. As always, it didn't feel like nearly enough.

"Just what the hell is the plan here?!" Frank yelled above the roaring winds.
Saiar yelled back. "Catch Articuno. Possiby prevent apocalypse. In that order."
"Mmm hmm. That's not really a plan, you know. Kind of a goal. Or maybe a prayer."

Saiar responded by throwing a pokeball. Out came Rusty.
"Sup Rusty." Frank said, grinning. Rusty responded with a metalic cry. "Moltres is gunny melt him pretty bad though."
"He's not going to be fighting Moltres. You're going to use him to hold off Zapdos."
"ME?!" Frank yelled, shocked.
"Yeah. I can't command three battles at once. You're probably the best trainer here. And I'm keeping hold of the Pokeball, so if you do somethign stupid like try to run, I'll just recall Rusty."
"I can feel the love. You think I have a shot at catching Zapdos?"
"I dunno," Saiar said, shrugging. "But I do know we have no chance if we allow them to fight together."
"What about Moltres?"
Saiar sighed. "Yeah..."

She turned to the rest of the group, still staring wide-eyed at the birds. "Hey, listen up!" she snapped. "If any of you kids wanna prove those gym badges you're toting around mean a damn thing, you will help me against Moltres. I know you probably do not have strong enough teams to actually catch it, but keep it busy as long as you can. The fate of the world is in the balance here. Paige, you have the water team, and you are basically unscratched. You have command of the Rockets. Here are my battle items. Use as many as you need to stay in the fight."
She took off her pack of items and tossed it to Paige. Even so, the chorus of complaints began almost immediately.
"Are you freaking CRAZY?!"
"I don't think I can..."
"Um, my team is not exactly optomized for taking fire attacks here."
"I'm tired."
"Isn't attacking a legendary bird some sort of sin?"
"Hey, got anything to eat here?"
"She's gotta be freaking crazy. I'm tellin' ya."
"Look, what do you want out of me here?!" Saiar cried, exasperated. "I can't coordinate a battle against three legendary birds all by myself!" She pointed at Lucas. "You said that that the birds would fight, and it would destroy a lot of the world. Well, we gotta assume that is just moments away. Look, see?!"
The birds, having lost interest in the trainers, started eying eachother. Zapdos squacked at Articuno, letting a bit of electricity fly its way, and Articuno responded by flapping up some snow.
"Reporting for duty, admin." said Holly with a gesture that may have been some sort of salute. She sent out her koffing and pidgey - wait, no, it was a pidgeotto now - and stepped forward to join Saiar. Saiar couldn't help but smile. The girl had nerves of steel, that much was sure.
The others didn't look so confident. Addresing the rest of the trainers, she said. "Run if you must. Fight if you can. This is the day destiny promised. How tomorrow will look depends on what we do here. I am going in with both eyes open."

She turned her back on the group. The birds were lifting off. Battle between the three seemed only seconds away. Yeah, we will see about that...
"Kophy, Taya! Our target is Articuno! Open fire!"
Articuno swooped towards Zapdos but was struck in mid-dive by a wave of psychic energy and a gunky ball of sludge. It squawked in indignation.
"That got its attention!" Saiar said with a wicked grin. "Hello, you stupid thing! Remember me? I'm ready for you this time!"
Saiar had no idea if she could bluff a legend. She certainly wasn't ready. But it was do or die time. With all of her efforts focused on fighting Articuno, she could only hope the others would distract and delay Zapdos and Moltres long enough...

[ellie-is]

"Man, I should probably help..." Lucas thought to himself. But he knew it would do no good. His team wasn't even near the level it would take to fight one of those, unless he came up with some crazy strategy. "Wait. Yeah. This... Oh, it will be worth a try." Lucas sent out his Paras.

The battle had started. Saiar's Pokémon and Articuno were exchanging blows. Articuno was immensely powerful - But her team wasn't too far from it. The Koffing would flout around it, firing smoke and sludge to keep Articuno busy while Espeon hit it with powerful psychic blasts. Articuno was sort of firing snow everywhere, but he had a hard time focusing on a target and actually hitting them. Frank was commanding the colossal Steelix against Zapdos. The battle seemed even - Zapdos had electric moves that could KO most foes in a single hit, but Rusty was immune to them - And powerful attacks like Steel Wing and Drill Peck were resisted by the Iron Snake's steel hide. As for Moltres... Moltres was doing very well. The grunts just weren't good enough to fight off such a beast, and their teams weren't even close to good enough. Paige had all he three of her Pokémon out, and they were firing their most powerful water attacks - But they would only annoy Moltres instead of causing any real damage. Poor Kato didn't stand a chance: a Fire Blast took out both Mareep and Skarmory at once. Alec tried to hit Moltres with a Poison Powder from his Gloom, but Moltres took it down with a Sky Attack.

And as the battle went on, the birds got angrier. The sky was once again a chaotic combination of three elements.
"Hey, guys! Stop it!" Lucas yelled, but nobody paid any attention to him. "Can't you see? THIS is what's going to end up in this whole area being destroyed! We have to find a way of calming them down, not pissing them off even more!"
Everyone heard him, but they kept going. Everyone but one of Saiar's grunts.
"Hey, you! You're the guy who beat me at Cerulean. Are you serious? Is calming them down the only way to stop all this?"
"Eh, yeah, I think. Maybe if we could beat them. But thats not possible, I mean, just look at this! Not even the admin can do this. Beating one of them would already be hard enough. We've gotta do something about this. Frank and the admin are doing well but... Really, this is not the kind of thing where we can take our chances."

Holly was skeptical at first. She was sure that Saiar knew what she was doing. But at the same time, what the nerd kid said made a lot of sense.
"Okay. What do we do? Can you calm them"
"I-I... I think I could find a way to put Moltres to sleep, but my Paras will never be able to get anywhere near it with all that fire around. Just this sunny weather is already weakening him. You think you could distract him?"
She nodded.

By this time, most of the grunts had their Pokémon down. Wouldn't be long until Moltres decided to help its brothers. And if he did that - The birds would win the battle for sure.
Holly sent out her Pidgeotto to use Agility and keep Moltres busy for as long as it could. The Bird pokémon started flying around Moltres at high speeds. Moltres proceeded to shoot a stream of Flamethrowers, trying to take it down, also hitting Dan's Fearow in the process and fainting his last Pokémon.

"Paras. Paras, do you see that bird?" The terrified look on the small bug's face indicated that indeed, he could see the legendary flame pokémon in the sky. "Look, he's busy trying to get Pidgeotto down. I want you to go there and use Spores as hard as you can. Spore can put anything to sleep - not even a legendary bird should be able to resist. Just don't get hit, please."

It was no easy task, but Paras had to listen to his owner. He ran up under Moltres, who was still busy trying to hit Pidgeotto. And then, Paras let out an enormous cloud of spores out of the two little mushrooms on its back. As soon as they reached Moltres, it tried to fight back, but he wasn't able. He fell down to the ground, as well as Pidgeotto, who was now alseep. Saiar and Frank kept fighting their birds, and didn't stop to look at what happened with Moltres.

"Wow! He did it!" Holly was surprised that Lucas' strategy had worked.
"Yeah... He did! Great job, Paras! Use Sleep Powder on him now, just to make sure that he won't wake up any time soon!" Paras did it, and Lucas called it back to the ball. "You!" he pointed at the other grunts "Don't attack him! And you, put away that pokéball there's no way you will be able to catch him!"

"Who the heck do you think you are, to order Team Rocket around like that?" The grunt replied.
"C'mon, don't be stupid. If anyone touches the bird, it will wake up, even angrier, and kick your butts. Still wanna try it?"
That explanation was enough for him. He put away his ball and called back his Pokémon.

"Good job... I'm Holly, by the way."
"Whoa, she's talking to me. Eh, I should think of something to say... Huh... Ah.... Nice to meet you!"

Now it was just a matter of time before Saiar could catch the weakened Articuno. Zapdos couldn't harm Steelix a lot, but he wasn't getting hurt a lot either - Ground attacks did damage on Electric pokés, but being part flying, he was immune to them.

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gotta go now, so I will leave this sort of unfinished, feel free to pick it up from here, anyone

[X_marks_the_ed]

The door was locked. Edwin looked inside. The nurse was there, reading a magazine. He tapped on the glass, and she came over and unlocked the door. "Sorry about that, I forgot to open back up."

"No problem. Would you mind having a look at this?" He showed her the broken Pokeball. "I figure there has to be something here for this sort of thing. I don't even know if there's a Pokemon in there." She picked up the ball and analyzed it. "There must be." She pointed a name on the ball that Ed hadn't noticed. "Rachel". "Is that the owner or the Pokemon's name?" She shrugged and lead Ed over to the main desk. She walked behind it and pulled out a small machine from under it. "You have any empty Pokeballs?" He handed her one of his Pokeballs. "Hopefully, the machine will accept it in this condition." She placed the broken ball on one end, and the empty ball on the other. She then keyed in a few things and the machine started whirring.

After a while, it dinged. "The machine says that the Pokemon inside was also damaged and that it attempted to 'repair' it."

"Repair it?"

"Some memories lost, or.....something becomes deformed."

"What happens in that case?" She shrugged again. He picked up the Pokeball that used to be empty. "The machine said it transferred safely, so I'm assuming this one is empty." She picked up both of the balls and handed them to Ed."

"I'll keep it just in case." He picked up the new ball and sent whatever was in it out. It was a success, at least he thought it was. He held his Pokedex to the Pokemon.

"Eevee, the Evolution Pokemon..."

The nurse seemed very excited that it actually worked. Clefable walked over and observed the strange Pokemon. Ed reached down and patted it. No signs of hostility, so he picked it up. "Rachel?" It looked up. "That's your name, I guess." He turned to the nurse. "Thanks, miss."

"You're welcome."

Edwin left the center with his new Pokemon in hand. The trio began heading east. Once outside Cerulean, he decided to let Rachel run around on its own, so he could make sure it was alright.

[coreystranick]

Corey couldn't decide what to do. HE stared in amazement as he watched the group fight each bird. He saw as Lucas's Paras put Moltres to sleep.

"Well, I guess it is time for everyone to see 'all' of my Pokemon."

Chris stared,"Wait your actually gonna use whatever you have? I forgot all about it."

"Well, yeah. It seems that I should all my others are sorta weak."

He grabbed the Pokeball and threw it.

Once the light left the area everyone just stared.

"THAT is what was inside the pokeball,"Chris couldn't believe that Corey had just thrown out a Gyarados.

"Why? Is it good? I had told you guys I didn't know what it was."

"How did you get it?"

"Remember when I went back in to get my money back? Well I was so pissed that I just beat the crap out of the fat man. I told him I would send out Spark to shock him until I got it back. He stopped me said sorry and just handed me the ball. Saying 'If you would have just waited this is what you would get. Things are never as they seem'. And I left."

"Wow...I don't know if that is a good story or it sucks. Either way we can use him in this battle."

"Ohh, well I'm willing to help out any way I can. Lucas what could I do with him?"

Lucas hadn't said a word but his mind kept racing trying to find a plan.
Corey waited to be told what to do. He looked back.
"You guys gonna help too?
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I'll leave it here gonna take my daughter trick or treating.

[ellie-is]

"Wow, a Gyarados... I can't say there's anything for him to do now, but that is a really strong Pokémon." Lucas said
"Really? Great."
"It might've done well on Moltres, but we gotta let it sleep now. If we wake it up he will rape us. Not literally, of course, but you guys get it. It has strong Water moves, but that can't do any good against the other birds. He has a double weakness to electric, and is weak to Ice... One hit from any of them and he would be down."
"Wait", Corey said. "Water types are weak to Ice? And what about the double weakness to electric?"
"Gyarados is part Flying."
"Wait, this thing flies?"
"No, it can't learn any Flying type moves. It makes no sense, I know, but thats how it works. Ground moves can't affect him, and he has all the weaknesses and resistances that a Flying/Water Pokémon would have... So he is classified as being Water/Flying, even though he has only Water and Dragon moves, and he can't actually fly."
"Oh... Weird. But cool."


The battle between Sair, Frank and the Legendary Birds raged on.

[Prpl_Mage]

Frank liked to control a strong pokémon once more. It could take blows and it dealt damage. Just a shame that of all things - it was fighting the electric type. He'd preferred to smash Articuno with Iron tail.

-"Rusty use Rock slide!" Frank shouted, it was important to shout at those pokémon who didn't recognize as their trainer. That's why he loved to train his own team. They learned tactics and when to utilize what after tons of battle experience.
But strength - strength is good.

The rocks rained down upon Zapdos which looped to avoid more damage. After it did - it let out Extrasensory but it did little against the massive Steelix.
The battle raged on and Frank had to throw Rusty a potion or two during the fight as he watched how Lucas put Moltres to sleep and the grunts cheering.
-"We need to clam them down" Was the words of the nerd. But what did he know about the legendary birds? He'd just read legends, these were not legends but very well and alive birds with awesome powers. He wouldn't lose this chance because of a hunch.

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-"Do it again Rusty!" Frank shouted and grinned as the Zapdos looked weak, Rock slide did a great job but it took a while for it to wear the great bird down.
The rocks struck and the solid facial expression of the steel snake matched Franks. A grin of supremacy. He'd just bested the Electric bird of Kanto with the very thing it could not defeat. It was like fighting a midget and holding him an arms length away.
-"Might as well give it a try..." Frank mumbled and grabbed one of his pokéballs.
He threw it against the bird which were sucked into the ball. But it barely took a second before the ball broke and the bird erupted again.
-"Oh well, Rusty... We're taking it down." Frank said and pointed his arm against the bird as if objecting.

Rusty pulled force, raised rocks into the air and sent them flying against the awesome bird. It was strong, it was great but it had taken too much damage by now.
The rocks struck and the bird fell down. It crashed to the ground and breather heavily.
Frank knew that it was done and walked up to it. Series of Rock slides and a lengthy battle such as this. Poor bastard didn't stand a chance with the pride or honour it felt towards fighting only the enemy before him.

-"It's your weakness." Frank started as he were just a couple of meters away from the bird. The air was heavy but there were no static.
-"You obey the rules and fight with righteousness. But what you fought was a loosing battle. You met an enemy you couldn't bring down with the powers you grasp and kept fighting instead of turning your attention towards a different opponent. That's your weakness." Frank said and realized that the same applied to him. The bird looked at him sleepily.
-"We lose with honour. But who'll remember the honourable sucker who rushed alone into the enemy's army for doing the right thing?" He reached out his hand towards the bird but felt the static returning. He quickly leaped back and watched as a bright light erupted from the bird. It looked furious but rose into the sky with a single flap of its' wings. Frank covered his face as dust and dirt swished past him. Behind his arms he grinned, the bird wasn't done.

-"So, you still have some fight in you left? Let's take you down this time as well then!" Frank yelled at the bird.
But Zapdos simply locked his eyes on Frank and let out a Discharge.
Everyone was taken back. Everyone was damaged.
Even Moltres who awoke from its' slumber.
-"Dammit!" Frank exclaimed as he watched the others. But by the time he looked back at Zapdos - it was flying away from the battlefield at high speed.
-"Godamn birds fleeing..." Frank mumbled and watched as it disappeared. For now. Frank would get the blasted bird one day. He grinned and looked forward to the battle but realized that Steelix wasn't his. He sighed and remembered that his own team was ages away from that fight and ran up to Saiar.
-"Honey I'm home!" He said and stopped a few feet behind her. She gave him a quick glare before he informed her.
-"Zapdoz left the battlefield. Where he went is unknown. Can't tell where is where in this blasted weather."

[ellie-is]

After his defeat, Zapdos flew high into the sky and fled to the West. As it did so, it let out a loud cry.

Moltres, who had just awakened, took flight as well. He yelled something at Articuno, and followed Zapdos.

Articuno started gaining height, and was about to follow the other two of his trio, when he was hit with another strong Psychic attack.
"You're not running away from me!" Saiar shouted, and at the same time, ordered Rusty to attack him as well.

Articuno was pissed. Instead of following his brothers as he wanted to - he strengthened the snowstorm, and started attacking Saiar's pokés. First, he landed a Blizzard straight on Steelix, freezing the massive Pokémon into a block of ice. And then it hit Taya with a Wing Attack, knocking it out.
Saiar was down to one Pokémon. She could use a Revive on the fainted Espeon, or thaw Steelix with an item - But she trusted her Koffing enough to take down the weakened Bird. She ordered it to attack again.

[X_marks_the_ed]

He could see them in the distance. Two giant birds. A spiky yellow one and one on fire, they were both flying in his direction. He quickly pulled out his Pokedex.

"Zapdos, the Electric Poke..."

Before it could finish, he pointed it the other one.

"Moltres, the Flame Pokemon..." He would check them out later. All of a sudden, he heard a loud whine. He looked down and saw  his Eevee glowing and morphing shape, but it looked like it was in pain. This was nothing like Clefable's evolution. Ed ran up to it and shielded it. The glowing stopped and Eevee panted a bit. He watched as the bird passed him by. When he was sure that they were out of range, he took a look at his Eevee underneath him. It seemed unharmed, but it was very exhausted. He looked at Clefable, who was unaffected by the appearance of the birds. This must have been what the nurse said about mutations.

[SaiKar]

It had been a tough battle for them all, but the plan had roughly held up. The other birds had been distracted and had fled to parts unknown. Articuno was still here. Her team was a mess. Taya was out cold - she had put up an admirable fight against Articuno, but had been hopelessly outclassed as far as defenses went. Rusty was frozen solid. That was unexpcted and bad. Kophy was holding his own, but it wouldn't last. Her battle items were with Paige, who had likely eaten a lot of them up to keep Moltres busy as long as the Rockets had. Well, that was what her task was, ever all. She'd done good.

"Looks like it's time for number four..." Saiar said, throwing a pokeball. Out came a gengar, its squat, devilish, gostly form grinning in the setting sun. "Eclipse, your moment is here. Shut this bird down! Confuse Ray and Hypnosis!"
Frank squawked, "You have a Gengar! Why the devil didn't you bring it out before now?"
"Cannot fight its way out of a wet paper bag..." she mumbled. "With all the pyrotechnics flying around, he would not have lasted. But now Articuno is alone and focused on Kophy so he can work his dark magic."
Eclipse the gengar got to work. His first confuse ray was wide, but the second seemed to hit home. He began to fire off hypnosis beams, but Articuno was resisting admirably. Still, it hadn't noticed the little ghost, and was still trading blows with Kophy, who was holding up to the onslaught far better than any weak, unevolved koffing had any right to.
"What's up with that shiny koffing?" Lucas dared ask.
Totally caught up in the battle, Saiar forgot her general disdain for the other trainers and answered, "Special Rocket project. They eased its power level up past the point where it should have evolved without actually changing its form. It took on that weird, blue shininess as a result. The thing is a wall. Dumb as a rock still, but what can ya do."
Still not put to sleep, Articuno seemed to grow tired of beating on Kophy, who had focused his moveset into rests and smokescreens. If lifted off to leave the battlefield.
"Oh no you do not!" Saiar yelled. "Eclipse, mean look! Kophy, toxic!"
Eclipses eyes flashed, and Articuno turned its attention to the ghost just in time to get blindsided by the deadly poison.
"Kophy! Buy me as much time as you can! Protect Gengar!" she yelled. Would that even work? Kophy didn't seem to know any protection-ish moves. Well, it was all the strategy she had left.
Its power will weaken quickly now, Saiar thought, but as soon as Eclipse goes down it will try to GTFO... better get to work!

She reached for her dusk balls, pokeballs that worked better at night. It was literally only dusk now, but she hoped it was close enough to count. Who knew how these things worked, anyway, or why they worked so much better at night. Whatever, they were her weapon of choice at this point. She whipped one at Articuno, but the bird smashed it to pieces almost at once. Another ball, another miserable failure.
"Geez, you're actually gunna try to catch it..." Frank yelled, eyes wide.
"Uh huh..." Saiar said, throwing balls three and four. No luck, not even close.
"How many of them do you got?"
"Ten," she answered as ball 5 broke to pieces. That one had managed to hold Articuno for a second, but not nearly long enough.
Gengar was taking a beating. Articuno was pretty messed up from the confusion and toxic poison, but was still able to clip an ice beam on the ghost. Eclipse was responding with shadow balls, his single actual attack move, with only moderate success.
She threw ball six. Damn damn damn!
Articuno blasted gengar with a mighty blizard attack, fainting the ghost and ending the mean look effect.
"Kophy! Above!! HOLD IT!" Saiar yelled as ball seven shattered.
Using levitate, Kophy attacked from above as Articuno tried to flee. Articuno swooped up to attack the koffing, finally KOing it, and shook off ball eight.
"Come on, COME ON!!!" Saiar yelled. Articuno was lifting off. She lobbed ball nine at it. It held it for a moment, longer than the others, but broke as well. The pieces fell down from above.
It was almost out of sight. It didn't matter that this was her last ball - it would have been her last chance anyway. "COME ON!!!!" Saiar gave a mighty lob that would have made a baseball pitcher proud and hurled the dusk ball into the inky blackness.

There was a mighty flash of light, and Articuno screamed out in what seemed like anguish. Moments later, a single dusk ball fell to the ground, its locking mechanism still glowing as they sealed. Saiar picked it up. She held it in her hand, saying nothing, her face blank in total disbelief.

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Their pace slowed down a bit. Eevee was tired, but not ready to go back inside the ball. Especially after being cramped inside one for so long. Ed kept his eyes open for any more strange birds. After a bit of walking, once again finding the land barren of other Pokemon species, he spotted the group of kids in the distance along with some Rockets. Assuming the worst, he charged over to them.

"Oh hey, it's Ed." Lucas said as he approached. "You're a little late to the show, there." Frank said in usual matter-of-fact tone.

"What?"

"We just possibly saved all of Kanto. The 3 legendary birds were here. If they were to fight each other, it might've been disasterous. But, we stopped them."

"So, that's why you all left Cerulean so quickly."

"Yeah, but we'll probably have to head back to the center for a bit, I think we're done here."

"Alright. I'll come with you guys." Edwin and Lucas shook hands.