Episode 4: You're Going Down, in More Ways than ONE!
Episode 4: You're Going Down, in More Ways than ONE!
I have to find a plan before her Shadows slowly diminishes my Pokémon…and I really need to go use the bathroom again… “Fine then, my move! First Raichu, use Rest to heal all the damage done to you from Shadow Seed, and Laprax, Metal Wave!”
“That’s is soooooo not gonna do ya well at all, honey, and now I’ll show you why: Bellossem use Shadow Hold and Breloom, Shadow Half!”
Breloom, thanks to its special ability it was able to strike first, and did so by striking ALL the Pokémon on the field with shadow energy to lower their HP in half. Bellossem unleashed shadow cages, which made Raichu and Laprax unable to switch.
“I guess it’s a good thing my Raichu’s slower than your Breloom and Bellossem, because now it’s my Raichu’s turn to rest!”
“Duh! Don’t you think I KNOW that already? Go ahead and knock yourself out!”
Raichu closed its eyes, causing a white aura to appear around it, healing its entire set of HP, now asleep and vulnerable to attacks for a while. Laprax used Metal Wave, causing a metallic version of Surf to crash onto Bellossem and Breloom, doing moderate damage.
“Your damage’s gonna be ya undoing, because the more damage ya do ta my cutie Shadows, the more HP’s gonna be drained from your babies and added to any super-cool Shadow Pokémon on the field, yeah!”
My plan is really, really, really working! Thanks to the Shadow Half my Breloom threw earlier, her Pokémon’s HP were halved, and so were mines! Then when she got her Laprax to attack me with a Metal Wave, that soooooo damaged them. “Time for your Raichu to go!”
More and more shadow energy orbs were drained from Mana’s Raichu, intensely lowering the electric rodent’s HP and going over to Lovrina’s side of the field, landing onto her Bellossem and Breloom- causing their health to increase, all the damage caused earlier fading away as seconds passed. Since Lovrina’s Pokémon took so much damage earlier, and the more damage caused to them meant more HP drained from the one afflicted with Shadow Seed, Raichu fainted and Mana jumped in astonishment.
“Raichu couldn’t make it this time, but you made a good battle,” she returned it and threw out another PokéBall, releasing a sea serpent having its whole body was a rich golden color with its tail fin having a mirror-like shine. “Make me proud, Melodic!”
“Are YOU SERIOUSLY thinking that oversized Weedle’s gonna take down my Shadows? NAH, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!”
“Just try me, Lovrina! You’ve been annoying me like hell since this battle began, but don’t think anymore antics of yours are gonna work again!”
Now let’s see. She has two Shadow Pokémon on the field completely fully healed, thanks to my Raichu when it was sapped by that Shadow Seed thingie. Shadow Seed doesn’t work on Steel-types or other Shadows, but it would work on Melodic since it’s a Water-type…I have to try and take it down this turn before its too late!
“If you’re done already, then allow me to show you why little girls shouldn’t be wandering off to places they shouldn’t be, because that’s bad for cute girls and they could get hurt by baddies like me! Breloom, Shadow Seed on Melodic, and Bellossem, Shadow Hold them! Make sure those annoying things go away, go away!”
“Your Pokémon are about to be the ones going away, Lovrina! Time for a battling comeback already- Melodic, use your ultimate attack, Mirror Storm! Next up is Laprax, use Thunderbolt…on Melodic!”
“What do you think you’re doing, little girl?! You’re attacking your own Pokémon! And that’s gonna be your downfall because Shadow Seed’s gonna take the rest of the HP that oversized Seviper has- attack now!”
“It’s nothing you’d ever understand about trusting your Pokémon, Lovrina. I’m gonna save daddy, brotherly, Eldes, and everyone else on the ship!”
“You may think so, but don’t forget the special ability of my Shadow Pokémon, duh! - It and ALL Shadow Pokémon on the field attack first, thanks to Black Speed, and that means there’s no way for you to protect against my babies!”
Breloom, with the special ability, struck first and unleashed a Shadow Seed from its tail, which wrapped around Melodic, already tangling shadow roots and vines around it to incapacitate the sea serpent a little. Bellossem finished Lovrina’s round off by releasing shadowy whips to hold down Laprax and Melodic from switching over.
“Now that your turn’s over, it’s time for my Pokémon to put on a cute little magic show for you, and it all starts from when Laprax uses Thunderbolt…on my own Melodic!”
Laprax began charging electric energy between its metallic head, making waves of power go through the field as it became bigger and bigger.
“What are you thinking, Hon?” All you’re doing is attacking your Melodic; if this is a magic show, then I want my money back!”
“Now watch as my Melodic, disappears- as it puts itself into a magic box to protect!”
Melodic put up a transparent crystal shield with many faces on it; if you came up close, you could see your reflection a little; the crystal barrier glowed blue and a sight to imagine as Lovrina braced her eyes from the shimmering image.
“That thing’s getting to bright…I can barely see anything, you little brat. I like, so don’t like this show and I think you better stop before your Pokémon are dead.”
What does that girl think she’s doing? Putting up mirrors for an attack…wait! She’s, like, trying to reflect the thing back at me…? Oh crap…I better do something really quick.
“Now it’s time to show them our magic, Melodic! Laprax, attack with Thunderbolt and make it a good one. Let’s make this a good act!”
Laprax was fully charged and released a HUGE bolt of energy to where Melodic was, hitting the entire crystal shield directly and making the barrier glow even more intensely, Melodic on the inside glowing golden and Lovrina brace even more. The aura of the crystal changed from blue to white, and small spears were stabbing out of it, growing more and more close to the other Pokémon on the field.
“What’s gonna happen to my Shadows…?”
“Show them what you’re made of! Mirror Storm!”
The white spikes and spears interconnected into the air with great speed, forming a barrier around everybody, then
all of them fell onto Laprax, Shadow Breloom, and Shadow Bellossem were forcefully struck by the glowing projectiles, and the number increased by the moment until all of the shots were a whole bunch of straight lines paralyzed in the sky, rainbow completely and moving around like a hundred lasers shot from a person above, the formation of a ritual. All of them eventually hit the other three Pokémon at least once and then they shattered into glass; a few seconds later, they regained their normal forms and were fainted on the ground- all three of them. The crystal shield disengaged after the attack, crushing into glass and Melodic was also shattered as well, regaining its normal form- all four Pokémon fainted.
“Thanks for doing that for me, Melodic and Laprax,” Mana returned them back into their PokéBalls. “So how’d you like my act, Lovrina?”
“Nope, sorry, not for a bit, annoying girl. What the freak did that thing of yours do to all the Pokémon on the field?”
“I have a name, you know, so call me by it! The effect of Mirror Storm activates when another Pokémon on the field attacks the user with a special attack, and it strikes last. Since you had two shadow gullies, I knew you wouldn’t attack me with any of those moves considering all they knew were shadow moves, so I decided to get my
own Pokémon to attack Melodic, triggering the special effect of Mirror Storm and cleaning the field of your Shadow Pokémon, along with a laser show. So did you like it?”
Lovrina was jumping up and down, angered at what she just saw. “What do YOU think, cornball? Magic acts are supposed to be
safe , not capable of making the things participating in it shutdown!” Lovrina returned her Shadow Bellossem and Shadow Breloom, still angered at what happened as she jumped in fury. “Besides, that fancy move of yours cost both of your oh so annoying Pokémon, so there, little brat! And I’m not calling you Mana, little girl, little girl!”
“Well you shouldn’t be attacking a little girl like me in the first place, so there. I hope you know that I didn’t cheat or anything, or used any annoying moves like you.”
“What
you call annoying is what
I call strategy, so can it, little girl! Besides, look at what you did when you pulled off that ‘cool’ attack of yours!”
“What are you talk-- ” a quake jolted heavily below her and she almost fell, getting back up and regaining her breath. “What just happened, Lovrina? Did you do that?”
“You’re playing the blame game? No! I didn’t do that! As a matter of fact, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that
you did that! Now lets get on with the battle.”
“What do you mean
me ? I’m the one standing next to the door leading outta here, and I woulda been somewhere else already if you didn’t force me into this battle. YOU’RE the one next to the control panel for this plane, so boohoo!”
“Well why don’t you take a look at this?!” Lovrina pointed over to the control panel behind her, and it showed some sparks ticking on the machine- along with the spikes and spears from the Mirror Storm attack her Melodic used.
“Uh oh…our attacks must have accidentally hit the machine…”
Lovrina wagged her finger in a disagreeing matter. “No honey, don’t put the blame on me, cause it wasn’t me, it was
you .” Another quake occurred right after Lovrina talked, knocking the valley girl off her feet this time.
“Ha, ha, ha, that was so funny! You fell, Lovrina!”
“Duh! I can so see that, little girl. But you fell a whole bunch of times already, so you better not be talking or else, and besides, soon that’s gonna happen to everyone on the plane and even the plane itself! You made my job, so much easier because of your attack, and now I think you’re still gonna lose!”
* * *
“Did you feel that quake, Jaden?” asked Michael.
“How can we feel a quake on a plane, dad? We’re in the sky right now!”
“It’s called turbulence,” informed Eldes. “Normally, it should be like when a car hits a bump, except it would be the same condition for a plane, but for some reason it’s getting more and more worse, so we have to do something, and quick.
“We need to get out of these stupid seatbelts,” said Jaden. “I told you wearing these things weren’t cool…”
“But first we’re gonna need something sharp in order to get outta them. You have any ideas, Eldes? I don’t have anything with me that works right now.”
“I do have something.” Eldes reached for something under the table in front of him, pulling out a dining knife. “This should work, and hopefully it’s sharp enough to cut us out of here so we can do something…”
“Where’d you get a knife?” asked Jaden.
“The flight attendant gave it to me when she gave me my food,” responded Eldes. “I guess it was a good thing she did.”
“Weren’t you eating ramen a little earlier?” asked Michael. “I’m sure you were…”
“Yes…and?”
“Why would you need a knife to eat ramen, Eldes?” inquired Jaden. “I never heard of that style of eating…”
“I needed a knife because…okay, you wanna be here all day or something? I thought you two wanted to get out of these seatbelts so we could get going already.”
“Good point,” said Jaden and Michael in unison.
* * *
“Err…come on, be fair, Lovrina! Stop the plane right now before someone gets hurt.”
“You must be an idiot to say that, Mana, because if you stop a plane in midair, then bad things will happen. Besides, it’s ALL YOUR FAULT the plane’s making these annoying quakes, so let’s get on with the battle already, loser. I’m sick and tired of hearing you talk about how great your ‘magic show’ was, so get.”
“Why don’t you send out your Pokémon first, Lovrina? Your Shadow Bellossem and Shadow Breloom went down before mines did, so the honor should go to you.”
“What’s the point? Like, we’re both gonna be sending out our last two Pokémon so there’s no way a person could, get the advantage!”
“Those are the Double Battle rules, just do it, Lovrina!”
“Fine then, but you’ll so regret those words…my little babies, end this up with a bang- go Beautifly and Lovantic!” Lovrina released her Beautifly…a Shadow Pokémon, and Lovantic, a Pokémon closely resembling the cuteness of Luvdisc but in the form of a cupid, complete with bow and arrow held in its hands and a white flowery garment wrapped around its head- it had small legs and arms in a chibi form, looking up cutely.
“That Lovantic thing of yours is so cute, Lovrina! I want to hug it and make it give me boyfriends and play with it all day!”
“Well you’re not gonna, stupid. Go and choose your Pokémon already, I already sent out mines like you ‘told’ me to, so go already, go already, go already!”
“Fine…don’t go and rush me! Go Ludicolo and Clovescarf!” Mana released Ludicolo, along with Clovescarf- a huge flatworm with a carefree face and a majestic golden crown on, a yellow and blue body dazzling and sparkling to the scent of the room.
“Ludicolo, Ice Beam that Beautifly, and Clovescarf use Attract on Beautifly!”
“My other strategy didn’t work, so let’s go back to my old one: Lovantic, Love Arrow on Clovescarf- you can’t beat me at the annoying game!”
“Then we’ll just see…”
* * *
“Finally we got those killing devices off,” said a relieved Jaden. “Thanks Eldes, those things might have strangled us if they were on us any longer.”
“No problem.”
“For one thing, Jaden: airbags are the things killing people all the time; seatbelts are there to
protect us. Now…do me a favor and stop bringing that up.”
“So then why did they strangle us, dad?”
“Err…that’s because they were super-locked just in case an accident happened and somebody clicked it by accident…when they were sleeping…”
“That sounds very unlikely…” Jaden laughed a little. “Anyways, we have to go and fix whatever was causing the plane to jump so much earlier.”
“Good idea. The problem must be in the cockpit, so let’s go there,” anticipated Eldes. “I sense this is more than an accident.”
The three began walking, and then Jaden looked above him and noticed a huge stack of baggage was about to topple the three as it tipped more and more.
“Watch out!” Jaden pushed Michael and Eldes out of the way, getting hit with full force by the items, but more comically than real as he chuckled getting up quickly. “Oww…my back…you two alright?”
“Why are you asking us?” wondered Eldes. “You’re the one who fell, are you okay?” Eldes and Michael gave Jaden a helping hand and lifted him back up to his feet.
The intercom spoke, this time not with Lovrina’s valley girl voice, but a more professional and serious voice,
all passengers please remain seated with caution. The minor turbulence has turned into a threat for the plane and is going worse than we could imagine- the turbine engines and some parts of the control panel are damaged. We will be making an emergency stop in the middle of the ocean, close to the Tech region the destination of this plane would have went to; you will take a ship to take you to the airport at hand.
“Oh no…it’s that serious…? What are we gonna do, dad?”
“Stay calm, Jaden. Let’s go over to the control panel.”
Eldes looked focused. “It
is someone I know…”
BOOM! The couch they just got up from, along with the table and refrigerator glowed with energy, and then exploded into a powerful and loud crash. Particles from the furniture flew and some of them hit the three, making them brace.
“What the heck was that?” speculated Jaden, his arms still bracing his face from the flying particles. “Things don’t just blow up when they want to…”
“Don’t worry, Jaden,” optimized Michael. “At least we weren’t there when it happened. A lot of harmful things here are happening…”
BOOM! CRASH! AHHH! You could now hear many random explosions coming from the other rooms- the business and coach sections of the plane. Jaden peered through the door, and noticed a lot of people got hurt from the chancy blasts.
Attention passengers, please stay calm while we try to fit the situation. Apparently a virus has snuck into the main control panel in addition to it being destroyed by an attack, and we need to-- the sound speaker, which the voice was coming from itself shattered and made itself on the ground.
“Well that didn’t help,” smirked Jaden. “Let’s keep going.”
The three ran for the cockpit.
“But first I need to go to the bathroom,” told Jaden.
“NO!” Michael and Eldes both said.
Jaden already opened the door, and he saw the toilet was completely demolished, followed by the water dripping to his feet, along with the back of the plane completely opened in the bathroom as it tried to pull him out, but he closed it just in time.
“Sorry!”
The three opened the cockpit door, a shimmer of light was there before it showed was inside- Mana and Lovrina battling with their Pokémon out already, along with surprised looks from the two battlers- Mana was happy; Lovrina got angry. Mana attempted to run away and hug Jaden, but…
“Don’t think you can just run away from this battle, missy! We’re in the middle of something here, and it’s not over until it’s over!”
“I knew it would be you…Lovrina,” Eldes spoke in a low voice. “I thought you were already gone, but you’ve come back for more.”
“So what, Eldes? You’re so on the wrong side. You should join up with Nebula, like that super-cool and super-cute brother of yours! Come on, Eldes!”
“Ardos is with you?!” Eldes was appalled, but not surprised. “I should have known he would do something like this…well stop this battle already before someone gets hurt.”
“Why should I? I’m having so much fun here playing with this cute little girl who decided it was so COOL to budge in here and play piggyback with me.”
“Let go of my daughter now!” demanded Michael. “She didn’t do anything to you, and besides, you shouldn’t even battle in here- it's dangerous with all the controls!”
“Well it looks like curiosity killed the cat, and she’s the cat, NAH! She should’ve went back to her seat after going to the bathroom, so there.”
“People are going to get hurt if the battling doesn’t stop,” Michael explained, looking at the damaged control panel with blue sparks flying out of it. “I see something happened and the control panel got destroyed…it must have been YOU, Lovrina!”
“Great, always blame it on the cute little girl with the super adorable eyes who was behind it…I’ll admit I was the one who hacked into the computer system and then destroyed the plane turbines, along with the wings, and then the…but who cares what else I destroyed? That little bratty girl over there used Mirror Storm, which destroyed the control panel without taking a hit, and because she did that, there’s like, no way to fix the thing, so this plane’s going down, baby!”
“Is that true, Mana?” asked Michael.
“Sorry, dad, it was. When we were battling, my Pokémon’s attack literally destroyed
everything on the field, and the control panel was no exception,” admitted Mana, almost crying. She then pointed over to Lovrina. “But still, you’re the one who generated a virus into the system in the first place, you meanie!”
“By the power of the Pokémon G-Men, I declare you under arrest, Lovrina,” declared Eldes, holding up a gold plated badge spelling ‘Pokémon G-Men’ on it. “You have already endangered the life of many people on this ship.”
Lovrina stuck her tongue out at Eldes. “Well guess what? Too bad, cause I don’t wanna go with you, cutiepie, and this thing’s gonna be going down one way or the other, baby!”
“Fine then, if that’s the way you want it, then let’s battle,” stated Mana.
Lovrina giggled. “You read my mind!”
Lovantic slided through the field, being the quickest one, and shot out a red arrow with a heart at the tip targeting Clovescarf, hitting the majestic critter and making anime-style hearts appear in its eyes, leaping and dancing happily.
“Oh no! My Clovescarf!”
Jaden was astonished. “Look what happened to Clovescarf!”
“Mana’s going to have to rely on luck to get out of this one,” believed Michael. “Let’s just hope Clovescarf doesn’t have any crazy ideas about Lovantic.”
“That’s a right, guys! When anything is hit with Love Arrow, it automatically becomes infatuated with any other Pokémon on the field, and just to make sure that thing doesn’t do anything crazy to my Shadow Beautifly, I’m making it love that one!”
“It may be infatuated, but don’t think that it’s not gonna get damaged by another one of my babies! Ludicolo’s up at bat!”
Ludicolo shot out an icy beam at Beautifly, but the blast stopped a centimeter before it actually hit the flying beauty, with perfect control as the beam faded away and the attack was nulled for the moment. Beautifly was charging shadow energy.
“How’d you like that? How ‘annoying’, right? Beautifly, now that you ‘interrupted’ that Ice Beam, use Shadow Wing and give it a juicy taste of life!”
Beautifly’s wings glowed a sinister ray, then unleashed a slate of darkness from it which combined into one line, the tip of the attack becoming sharp; it was moving quick and then Ludicolo was hit with the attack, dealing a big chunk of damage.
“How did your attack hit Ludicolo while Mana’s was trying to make it’s
own attack?” asked Jaden in confusion. “Unless you’re cheating…”
“How dare you think I would cheat of all people…?”
“Umm… you attacked all the citizens of this plane, you’re ambushing a little girl, and you’re working for Nebula…” listed Eldes. “Those were just some lucky guesses.”
“Fine then.” Lovrina pointed over to Ludicolo and Beautifly. “Shadow Wing is an interrupting attack, like the way Snatch works after the opponent makes their move, this works when the opponent attacks with anything. Sure Ludicolo gets to attack now, but who cares? It was really, really, really, so much fun to interrupt things.”
Ludicolo continued its attack by unleashing a blue beam of ice out of its mouth, targeting Beautifly this time, and hit the flying beauty with powerful force considering it was a Flying-type. Clovescarf tried to attack with its own attracting move as it slided forward quickly, but it was immobilized by love for Beautifly, sprouting those comical relief hearts in its eyes as it went back to its original position.
“So what’s next?” wondered Michael. “Mana’s attacks are being cancelled by the second, and a lot of other annoying things are happening…”
An outside image of the plane shows the vehicle shifting left and right- but not on purpose, as if struggling to make its way to where it should be, as a flock of Fearow avoided the jet from crashing onto them with its random accuracy. Suddenly, the tail of the plane exploded into ashes, making the people in the ship jolt back in pain as the vehicle tilted in all four directions at once, trying to command itself. The battle was shaking and the control panel- worsening by the second. Eldes, Jaden and Michael were pushed to the back of the cockpit, where a shock welcomed them.
“You wanna know what’s next, peoples? Next, the plane’s going down, and there’s like, no way you’re gonna stop it!” Lovrina laughed evilly and valley girly.
TO BE CONTINUED...
