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