How's that for a traditional episode title? Well, better than some of my others anyway.
So, today had a major development. Both for Dratini, and for the vision of the future we got stuck in. It's starting to catch up with us.
So, from the title, it won't surprise you that the latest surge caused an alert near my, Rag, and Jonny's old primary school. We rushed off, and got there just in time to see a rattata, raticate, and a charmander breaking through the wires of the fence to the playground. Something was wrong about them though. They all had glowing, solid black eyes, and seemed surrounded by a dark, swirling aura. The flame on the charmander's tail was black and grey, as if the colour had been sucked out of it.
'Well that's quite creepy.' stated Sammy, as the raticate finished biting a hole big enough for them, and they piled into the playground.
'Oh that does it!' Ragnarok was angry. 'Nobody attacks our school, especially not extra weird clearly evil monsters from another dimension! Come on everyone, let's do this!' He ran at the fence, failed to climb it, and tried to widen the hole. Happiny wandered forward, and threw him bodily into the air.
'What! Whoaaaaaaaa!'
Happiny trotted happily through the hole, and caught him on the other side. Then, without giving us a chance to find another way, she did the same to the rest of us.
When she put me down from the slightly embarassing but rather fun trip, I saw Rag launching an attack on the three shadowy monsters already. Charmeleon was claw to claw with the charmander, and Snover was taking on the rats. Pichu was hugging Rag's leg, peering out at the fights.
Rattata let out a snarl and shot past, leaping at the rats. He knocked them to the ground, but didn't seem as damaged as Rattata had hoped. Clearly normal moves weren't as effective as they should be.
Butterfree and Pidgey swept down from above, both going for the rats. Glaceon, wanting the challenge, decided to attack charmander.
'Ah, Fighting's good against normal, yeah? Here we go then!' Don ran forward with Hitmonchan.
Everyone swarmed the dark creatures. We thought victory was ours as Onix's tail slammed down towards charmander. The charmander, it turned out, had metal claw. Dodging Charmeleon, it struck upwarsds at the tail, striking it before Onix could land a hit. Onix let out a cry and reeled back. One metal claw from a charmander? What was that black stuff?
Oddish had poisoned the rats, and I saw happpiny grab raticate by the tail and through him upwards, where it was slammed by Pidgey.
Then, I heard a noise that terrified me. The school bell, calling for breaktime. Oh hell. About 200 small children were about to rush out onto the playground, and be confronted by a highly dangerous battle. How do we sort this out?
