Doom

Let me introduce you to VHS's newest member, Doom. Catching her up with everything is one of the reasons I've been a bit busy.
Sticking her arms out sideways, she leapt from the roof, doing an elegant flip as she fell, and landed on her feet in front of us. With a cry of 'Bulbaaaaaaa!' Bulbasaur leapt after her, landing in her outstretched arms. 'Months? Months?! Thanks for letting me know! WHY did nobody tell me? If I hadn't got Bulbasaur, would I have just missed it all?' She tutted, shaking her head. 'Rude! Selfish and rude.' She grinned. 'Oh well, I'm in on it now. Keep something this awesome from me again though, and some or all of you will die!'
'............thanks for the card chopping, and support...'
'No problem!'
Still smiling, she turned, and headed for the gates. 'Come on, we should leave before they wake up.'
She paused in front of Rag, who was staring from the roof to her and back again.
'Yep, I'm awesome. Can we move on? Nice battling back there, by the way, Charmeleon's clearly very strong. Obviously, the Char family isn't the BEST starter, but I like him...'
Walking back to the base, we did some catching up, and asked a few things of our own.
'How'd you get Bulbasaur?'
'Dad said there was a message for me at the lab he works in. We were confused obviously, and when I got there, there were two Pokéballs, with a note by it, saying I should choose one. The other was Squirtle. As far as I know, it's still there. If we find it a trainer, I can always go get it.'
'and finding us?'
'Bulbasaur did that. He could sense whatever that dude came through. Is that common?'
'Yeah, most of our Pokémon seem sort of tuned in to the disturbances.'
After introducing herself with her selected nickname, Don questioned it, but we backed Doom up. Hell, she was dangerous BEFORE she had a florakinetic dinosaur. Wonderful, but Dangerous.
So we showed Doom the base, the DSDex, everything, and pointed out all the secrecy involved at the beginning, getting me and Sammy out of trouble for not telling her.
Being Artistic, Doom's done a bunch of pictures of us all. Viola!

'Twister'ing by the school! Part 2

Wow, can't believe how little time I've had to post recently, sorry about that, I left it on a cliffhanger and everything. I'll catch you up after this. So, where did I leave it? Oh right, we're fighting the weird pokémon with the dark swirly aura things, and a school full of children were about to swarm out into the playground. What were we supposed to do? How could we keep everyone safe? Fortunately, Jonny had an idea. 'Onix! Wall them off!'
Onix lay down, making a huge stone wall, blocking the strip of playground with doors from the batle, just as they opened. The children started to pour out, and stopped suddenly. There were screams, cries of surprise, and I think a few fainted. Mutters and excited talk broke out, and I saw frantic teachers trying to control the crowds. Dratini was using wrap creatively, trying to strangle raticate, while both Rattatas were engaged in a heated battle (Literally, in my Rattata's case, he was using Flamewheel). The charmander was running towards Onix, but Charmeleon slammed it to the ground, clawing at it furiously. Oddish had managed to poison raticate, Snover had been hit hard, but was using Ingrain to recover health. Stuck in place, he was firing attacks as best he could.
I got Butterfree to sleep powder the children and teachers, just in time because one of my old teachers looked like she was about to demand a lot of answers. Butterfree couldn't get a clear shot of our foes without hitting our other fighters, but it was going well.
Raticate suddenly jerked it's head, and Dratini flew through the air. I leapt and caught him, wincing as I crashed to the floor.
'That looks much cooler when Ash does it.' I groaned, rubbing my side as I got up.

We heard laughter. My shoulder twinged as a glowing ripple burst into life in front of us, and a man strode out of it, sorting through a pack of cards. He had baggy black trousers, a black shirt with metal shoulder patches, and a blue design of a rectangle with a blue sphere inside it on the front. A bright orange belt, a plain metal helmet with tufts of hair sticking out, a tiny screen folded down from his helmet to cover one eye, and he something resembling a large metal fin attached to his left arm. 'That's quite enough. You have fought bravely, but now, it is time to end this!'
We all stared for about two seconds, and collapsed into fits of laughter.
I struggled for breath. 'Oh, it's SO much worse in real life! I thought you guys looked daft in the game! So you're, what, Team Magma? No, too weird even for that.....'
'I am not from any team you know of, foolish 'heroes'!'
'Right, then I think you took a wrong turn. The Yu-gi-oh Universe is back through the portal, past Digiworld, and then it's the third on your left. If you hit Neverland you've gone too far.'
We all suffered new bouts of giggles, and the man looked annoyed.
'You will suffer for your mockery!' He yelled, and put three cards in outlines on his giant fin. Each of the slots had a tiny figure above it: Model figures of the three monsters we were fighting. Images of super potions appeared in front of Rattata, Raticate, and Charmander. The images dissolved into points of light, and they looked much better. 'I also use....pluspower!'
All three began to glow red, and our fighters were thrown aside.
Dratini looked furious. He leapt from my arms, quivering.
We were still staring at the man. 'What...what are you doing?'
'Sealing your fate.'
'Thanks, that clears that up.'
Everyone looked exhausted, but Dratini was heading out towards the man.
'Oh look, the worm has come back for more!'
'You shut up about Dratini!'
'Shut up you weirdo!'
Dratini let out a cry, and wind started to whip at us.
'What is that? What are you doing?!'
'I...I think...Dratini's learned Twister!'
The Twister started to form, sucking up Raticate, Charmander, and the other Rattata, whirling them round and round, slamming them together, lifting them into the air and towards the man. One by one, the figures on the man's arm fin flickered, and went out.
'No! No matter, I shall simply use-'
He was cut short as the Twister cast his fainted creatures at his feet. We all cheered, and yelled 'Get him!'
Our Pokémon got slowly up, and started to prepare attacks. Suddenly, a leaf shot from over our heads, and sliced cleanly through the card the man was holding up. A huge volley of attacks struck him, and we heard a cry of 'Unleash Hell!' followed by a great torrent of leaves shooting by over our heads to join the mega attack hitting the card man. He was blasted into the air, and as he went, he was surrounded by a glow, and cried out 'Master! Please no! I know I've failed you, but-Nooooooooooo.......' his scream faded out as he was consumed by the glow, and vanished.
We started to turn round, looking for the source of the leaves. Ragnarok looked Thoughtful. 'It's been months since the trouble started, but this is the first guy we've met who seemed to be controlling the wild Pokémon, resulting in that shadowy effect thing-'
The rest of his sentence was drowned out by a yell. 'Whoah whoah whoah, hang on a minute!'
This time the voice helped us hone in on it's owner. We looked up at a roof of the school. Two figures were standing on it. The sun was behind them, making them silhouettes against the sky. The small, lumpy silhouette identified itself. 'Bulbasaur!'
The taller, human figure called out, her long coat flapping in the breeze. 'Did I hear correctly? Tempest, Sammy, you've known about this for months, and have had your own Pokémon that whole time, and didn't think of telling me? You two are in SO much trouble!'

'Twister'ing by the school!

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?

We would have helped him anyway....

Sorry, no cheesy title, turns out I'm bad at them. I'll try again sometime.

Now, we like to think of ourselves as helpful. So when our mysterious new friend Dragon asked if we could give him a hand with something, we said we'd do our best. But Glaceon seemed to think we should battle first. I asked Dragon if that was ok.
'Ah, but of course! In the world of Pokémon, a lot of people request a battle before assisting you in some way. I accept. One moment please.'
I started to ask whether he even HAD a pokémon, but he held up a finger for quiet.
'Moira, if you can hear me, I'm going to need my old friend, who you have been looking after so dutifully, back.'
He held out a hand, and a square of air slid away to show a White light, out of which dropped a Pokéball. It looked old, and had one of those winding mechanisms like that one in the fourth film. He opened it, and released a Dragonite.
The cartoon doesn't do them justice. Such a beautiful creature, so graceful. Wow. The Dragonite looked round, and seemed delighted to see Dragon again, flying over to give him a hug.
Soon, we were ready to battle. Glaceon was keen to go first, and hey, I wasn't going turn down a X4 advantage.
'Glaceon! Ice Beam!'
Dragonite dodged with ease, and flew forwards, landing a big hit Dragon Rush. Even weakened by type disadvantage, it was devastating blow to Glaceon, who was pushed backwards, wincing. Next we tried Icy Wind, and the widespread blast caught Dragonite, who was slowed, letting Glaceon get in a direct hot with Ice Beam. Dragonite landed, one wing half coated in ice. Then it used flamethrower. That was it for Glaceon. Plus the heat thawed Dragonite's wing. Dratini vs Dragonite was fun, but Dratini doesn't know any dragon moves yet, and Dragonite knows two, so it was a one-hit KO. So was Butterfree, thanks to bug being weak to fire. Rattata actually scored three hits, but was beaten by Dragon Pulse.
Ragnarok had a go too, and Snover managed to hit him with Icy Wind like we had, but then got hit with flamethrower. OHKO. Dragonite, it turns out, has Water Pulse, so Charmeleon didn't last long, despite managing to land two metal claws. Pichu decided to hide behind Rag, peering round his legs and trembling, so he didn't actually fight. Hitmonchan isn't good against flying types, but got in a few punches, Oddish the same managed to use poisonpowder, Onix had a type advantage, but suffered a OHKO from Water Pulse. Jonny's newest Pokémon, Pidgey, didn't last long, but Happiny surprised us all by grabbing Dragonite's tail, and spinning it round, then throwing it at the wall. Dragonite got up, shaking it's head, and used flamethrower, sending Happiny running back to Jonny, blowing a raspberry at Dragonite when it was safely in a hug.

Sorry it's taken so long to post this, Uni has taken up a lot of time.

So, now we're trying to help Dragon. He says his universe is in danger, and he needs to get back to it, so we've promised to help him get back. We have NO idea how though....


- Posted using Porygon and my iPhone

Dragons.

Yesterday was odd.





Me and Ragnarok were playing our new games (Me on White, him on Black) when I had another dimension wave thing. It was a very calm, mild wave, and I didn't feel too ill afterwards, which makes a nice change.
Obviously we checked around to see what had happened. Don called me to say there was a small, bluish creature with a huge fin wandering around on the north side of Cambridge. He sent a picture, and we identified it as a Gible. We'll have to make sure everything's ok at some point, but he lost it, so we don't know where it's gone. We'll notice if it causes trouble. The woman at the reception of the local hospital now has pink hair, so I think a Joy has arrived in our world. Me and Jonny noticed a green streak flicker in the sky for a moment, and there was a faint roar. Has Rayquaza turned up?
On my way home, I noticed there was a house with it's door ajar. Worried, I crept up to see if anything was wrong. The door swung open at my touch, and I was confronted by one big room, with a smiling man on a sofa, behind a table covered in cards. He was really friendly, a little too friendly considering we'd never actually met, but after playing the card game for and hour, a guy sitting nearby gave me a Dratini! How cool is that? The cards had numbers and Voltorbs on, so I'm pretty sure he's the guy from Heartgold.
That's not the weirdest thing that happened yesterday though. I rushed back to show the others my new Dratini, and as they came outside, hearing Rattata smashing the boulder, the air in the alley did something odd. There was a sort of ripple, that would have been invisible if not for the distortion it caused on the surrounding area, and an old man backed out of it, suddenly, as if pushed hard. He was tall, had a really long beard, and was wearing vaguely chinese robes, but didn't look very chinese. I'd guess he was english, but he isn't quite obvious enough to be sure, if you know what I mean. He stood up, looked round, and bowed. 'Greetings, my name is Dragon. You must be the VHS of this world. Ah, I recognize you all! You probably have no idea what has just happened, but I assure you-'
He saw Glaceon and Rattata. 'Ah, Moira said this world had been having some issues...'
We're letting him stay at the old shop. He had to sit down again fairly quickly, he looked so worn out! Still no idea what he's doing here though. Oh well, more later I guess.

Black and White

Very excited. Is it wrong for a 19 year old to be this excited about a new Pokémon game? Especially when I actually have REAL ones? Meh, they're excited about it too. Glaceon is disappointed by the lack of new Eevee forms, but like the look of the ice mirror and ice cream ones. Rattata keeps glaring at pictures of the chipmunk. He tends to see any Pokémon that has his part (Rodenty type near the beginning, you know, sentret, zigzagoon, bidoof ) as competition. Deerling got his approval though. Butterfree is intrigued by that fire moth one, but seems wary of it. Well, it's part fire, isn't it? Only natural.

I hope nothing Shard related happens while I'm going and getting it, I'd hate to summon a herd of angry Tauros into the shop or something. Oh well, wish me luck!

Tales of Iron!

And now for two stories of mice. Movie watching mice.

Rag told me what happened to him the other day, so I thought I'd put it up.

He was out with Charmeleon, Pichu and Snover, and was going past along a rough, rocky track. They were all having fun, until Charmeleon's head jerked up, and he paused. He turned to look at a clump of small boulders by the side of the road, and growled. A jogger ran by, ignoring the rocks and Rag's team, but Rag had been exposed to too much distortion energy to not notice the changes. One of the boulders shifted, and suddenly, they attacked, three Geodude, each leaping at one of Rags!
'Snover! Razor Leaf!'
Snover shot leaves at his opponent, and as Charmeleon dodged a rock throw, Rag ordered him to use metal claw. Pichu was quivering, tapping his tail on the floor nervously while it flickered and sparked. He ran from Geodude, looking scared, and let out a cry as a rock was thrown at him.

The rock exploded, turning to dust as Charmeleon struck it with a metal claw, having leapt to Pichu's defense. A rock slammed into him from behind, making him roar with fury as he was slammed to the ground.

'Charmeleon! Snover, Icy Wind!'

A gust of cold air weakened Charmeleon's attacker, as well as finishing off Snover's. Charmeleon got up, groaning, and as Pichu slammed his tail into the ground again, this time starting to glow a pale silvery colour, one of the remaining Geodude's started to tremble. Charmeleon grabbed Pichu and threw him into the air. The ground shook, as Charmeleon was toppled by magnitude. He looked at Geodude, raised a trembling claw, and then it dropped, as his eyes closed.

Geodude turned to Snover, but looked up, hearing a cry. Pichu descended, his tail glowing a bright silver, a metallic sheen passing over him. With a yell of tiny, adorable fury, his tail struck Geodude. As Pichu bounced off and landed, the Geodude reeled, spinning. Pichu hit him with a still glowing tail, sending him rolling into the other remaining Geodude like a bowling ball. Pichu struck him one more time, while Snover hit the other with more razor sharp leaves.

All the living boulders were defeated. Pichu was pulling at Charmeleon's arm, straining to get him up. He lost his grip and tumbled backwards, ending in him sitting and looking at Charmeleon, worried. Rag healed him up, and came back and told us about it.

My story is much shorter and less interesting, but has useful long term information.
After the aforementioned distortion wave, I found there was a small boulder in the alley outside, blocking access between the base and the main road. Useful for privacy, but not great for getting in and out. Rattata had a solution. Turns out Iron Tail works quite a lot like a pick-axe, or, importantly, Rock Smash! No annoying HM of little damage that cant be forgotten for us!
I have always hated Rock Smash, so I'm pleased by this. Makes sense though. Steel is super-effective against rock, and all the little boulders in the games are basically just rocks. Hurray!