A prophecy set in stone

So, we recently had a ripple that resulted in Lenora turning up in London. The natural history museum in London has gained an extension that can't be seen from outside, with Lenora's museum tucked away inside. She's resumed her duties there along with her husband, but says we can't battle her until she's all set up :(.

What's got us excited though is a stone slab she found amongst her exhibits. She hadn't seen it before, and as we were there sorting out a wild herd of patrat that had come through with her, she invited us to have a look. It was ancient, and it's engravings were faded and damaged in places, and in a language nobody recognised, but Porygon had a load of files about ancient Pokémon languages and was able to translate it for us:


'Disturb not the harmony of fire, ice, and lightning,

lest these titans wreak destruction on the new world taking form,

though the beast of the sea shall arise to quell the fighting,

alone it's song will fail, and so shall come a great storm.

It shall deliver to us, from chaos, a very hopeful spark,

and it shall lead the side of light, banishing the dark.'

2nd movie anyone?

Dragon departs

Dragon's gone. last week he asked to have a look at the shard in my shoulder, placed a hand on it, concentrated, and with his other hand drew a circle in the air. He said he'd finally figured out how to get back to his own world. The circle he'd drawn became a rift, like the one he fell through! He forced the shard to open it! If only I could learn to do that!
Anyway he thanked us, said goodbye, and enteredt the portal, as did the Shinx we helped out a while ago, who has since evolved all the way into a Luxray. Dragon said he thought that Luxray was going to make a new friend, and had a rather interesting destiny, so I hope wherever they went, it's happy.

Oh, and the giant Rattata problem got sorted. I may blog about it, but we've just discovered something rather interesting that may turn out to be more important. More soon.

A Towering Defense!

First of all, I'm sorry there's been so little posting from me for a while, I've been very busy with non dimensional collapse related things.

Saturday was odd. Cool, but odd. I got a call from Rag, who was at our base watching the eevees. When me, Doom, and Maelstrom arrived, he asked to borrow the DSDex, and slotted one of his games in.

'So what's this about?'

'Well, I figured that if we're going to have to fight that that big apocalyptic battle, we may as well be as tough as we can be.'

'Uh-huh.....'

'I'm activating the Rare Candies code on my AR. I'm going to try and do that thing we did with the evolutionary stones, so we can level everyone up.'

'Oooooook. Isn't that risky though? In the cartoon they made a Caterpie become huge, and it started destroying a city. And we didn't even do the stones on purpose!.'

'Oh. Yeah. But these are coming from the game, they should be fine.'

Doom crossed her arms. 'Well Bulbasaur isn't taking any. He's awesome, and we plan to level up in the usual way.'

I looked round the base, and remembered almost drowning in a sea of stones. 'Well, whatever they do, shouldn't we try it outside? We don't want a repeat of last time.'

'Good point.'

We moved out into the street, and Rag took aim with the DSDex. There was a flash of purple light, and everyone winced, expecting a shower of sweets to rain down on us.

Nothing. I opened my eyes, looking around. Out in the street there was a small pile of blue-wrappered candies, about 20.
Rag was frowning, first at the small pile and then at the DSDex's screen. 'Well, that's not right, that's what I had in the game anyway...'

We were distracted by a shimmering, ripping sound to our right. At the end of the street, a new rift had torn open, and I could glimpse a bright, flat looking, cartoony forest within it.

This view was blotted out by a writhing mass of purple which started to pour out of the rift and surge down the street towards us.

'Uhhhhhhh.......what's that?' Maelstrom asked, looking concerned.

'Rattatas' I groaned, watching them advance. On my shoulder, MY Rattata was growling, tensed. He had a fierce rivalry with all the 'early in the game' rodenty monsters, and other Rattatas most of all.

'It looks like they're coming for the candy..' Doom muttered.

'We can't take them on one-to-one, there's too many.'

I thought hard. There had to be a way....

'Got it! There's this genius I found out about online! This guy Sam, he came up with a whole new way of battling. It's like a tower defense game! We'll need to line the sides of the road.'

Me and Ragnarok took one side, Doom and Maelstrom took the other. Working round the lamp posts and cafe tables, There were three spaces near me that my Pokémon could stand. I sent out Rattata, Butterfree, and Dratini. I saw that Rag had sent out Charmeleon, and Bulbasaur and Squirtle were ready on the other side.

'Come on VHS, let's show them who they're dealing with!'

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but we've named ourselves VHS. Vigilante (Because we aren't working with the police) Heroes (Because we're saving two worlds) Squad (Because of the Squirtle Squad).

The rattata charged forwards, and the battle was upon us. Butterfree shot out waves of confusion, and Dratini was timidly sending out lots of small twisters. Rattata was repeatedly jabbing forwards, slamming into his targets.

Charmeleon was sending out a constant stream of fire, Bulbasaur was sending out hundreds of Razor Leaves, and Squirtle was using Whirlpool to mop up any foes that had got past all that.

Some of the rats started to fight back, and I saw Dratini wince, a scuff mark appearing on his tail. I healed him with a potion and he glared at the Rattatas. As the last of them came rushing through the tear in reality, he swept them up in a twister. Squirtle, Charmeleon and Bulbasaur added there attacks to it, and we watched as it knocked out all the Rattatas. As Butterfree was wafting the twister towards the tear, a Rattata, looking tired and battered but not yet unconsious, leapt from the top of the twister, and dived for the pavement. He crashed into my Rattata and raced off.

The shard in my shoulder tingled, and the tear closed up.

'Phew.' Rag smiled 'I'm glad that one closed, I'm not sure we could have coped if it stayed active.'

I was more concerned with the two Rattatas racing away from us. The wild one had just reached the pile of candies.

'Uh, you know how we were wondering whether they would have the effect from the games or from the show?'

'Yeah...'

'We're about to find out....'

The Rattata glowed, and started to swell, growing until he towered over the surrounding buildings.

'Sooooooo, cartoon.'

'yep.'

'Damn.'

Yeah, so that was awkward to explain. If you want to learn more about the genius tower defense creator that is Sam, check him out here: http://samdangames.blogspot.co.uk/

Double Trouble!

Sorry for not blogging as much recently, we're going to try harder from now on.

So, yesterday, we had what can only be described, really, as a fanboy moment.

Don and Sammy are back at their Uni's for now, but we promised we'd let them know if anything big happened. We'd got an alert, and ran outside to investigate. Just past the boulder that helps keep people away from the base, the ground gave way beneath us. Groaning, we looked up from the large pit we were in. Three shadows loomed over us, cackling. Two were human, and one was short, with a large ears and a curled tail.

'Hahahahahahahahha!'

'What's happening?' Doom yelled, trying to climb back out.

'What a question, twerpish indeed!'

'We'll answer these questions when we feel the need!'

'Bringing the blinding white light of evil into the future!'

'OHMYGODIT'SYOUGUYS!!' Me and Rag cried in unison, huge grins on our faces.

The woman faltered. 'What? Have we met?'

'DO THE ORIGINAL ONE!'

'The origi- Hey, have you been spying on us!?'

'DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!'

Everyone else knew what we meant. Me and Rag may have been the only ones to recognize the most recent motto, but those silhouettes explained everything.

The man was confused. 'But, how could-'

'DOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOITDOIT!'

The woman sighed, then chuckled. 'Fine, let's give our adoring fans what they want.

They struck a pose.

'Prepare for trouble!'

'And make it double!'

'To protect the world from devastation!'

'To unite all peoples within our nation!'

'To denounce the evils of truth and love!'

'To extend our reach to the stars above!'

'Jessie!'

'James!'

'TEAM ROCKET!' We yelled.
Jessie faltered '-blast off at the speed of light?'
James was oblivious. 'Surrender now or prepare to fight!'
'Meowth!-'
'THAT'S RIGHT!'
'Aay, Wadda you twoips doin? That's my line!'
Jessie lost it. 'Alright twerps, it's time for some answers! How do you know about us?!'
I was still grinning despite her fury.
'Let us out of this hole and we'll show you.'

An old episode of Pokémon was playing on the computer. Team Rocket were staring at it, eyes wide with shock and confusion.
'So...we're...a cartoon?'
'fraid so.'
They gawped for another second, then their faces lit up.
'But...this means-'
Jessie and James hugged each other, leaping into the air.
'We're famous!'
They drew apart, looking at themselves onscreen.
Jessie's eyes gleamed as she watched herself. 'They've captured my likeness perfectly! I'm so gorgeous!'
James agreed. 'And me! I'm ALWAYS the man!'
I pointed at Giovanni. 'You know you're just the players in his master plan, right?'
James wasn't listening. He seemed to be thinking hard. 'That Slowking....he said people were watching us......lots of people.....'
'Yeah, he was talking about us. Our universe has been watching yours for years.'
Jessie frowned. 'Well, that's kinda creepy....'
Meowth rolled his eyes. 'Awlright! When yous two have quite finished, we gots work ta do! Let's find us that Pikachu!'
Rag winced, 'Oooh, about that, Ash isn't here.'
'What?!'
'You're talking about Ash's Pikachu right? They aren't here. Sorry.'
Blank, shocked faces. 'Then.....uh....what do we do?'
'According to the show, you two are about our age, but got bad marks at school and left, and joined Team Rocket. Ever thought of going to Uni? Try and get some qualifications? You know, do something with your life?'
Team rocket considered for a moment, and then fell about laughing. Then they caught sight of the Eevees, who had come to see what all the noise was.
'Huh? Oh, James, look, are those Eevees?'
'I believe they are! And look, a Flareon, Vaporeon and Jolteon!'
'Weeell, it looks like ya got yourselves some rare Pokémons. Why don't we take off ya hands for ya?'
All the mirth in the room evaporated instantly. I stepped forward, glaring. Glaceon was at my side at once, snarling.
'I'm afraid we can't let you do that.'
'Nice of you to drop in, but you've outstayed your welcome.' Maelstrom and Doom frogmarched Jessie outside, and Jonny and Ragnarok did the same with James. I stepped in front of the Eevees, blocking Meowths way, and Sammy grabbed him by the tail, throwing him at the door.
Outside, we gathered round them in a circle.
'Pah! You twerps seriously think you can beat us? Go, Woobat!'
'You too Yamask!'
'Glaceon, Ice Beam!'
'Charmeleon!'
'Bulbasaur!'
'Squirtle!'
'Gloom!'
'Hitmonchan!'
'Onix!'
'Now, Rattata! Flame Wheel!'
They stop screaming long enough to be curious. 'A Rattata with a fire type move? That's rare!'
Boom!
'And such power! We'll be back, for your Rat AND your Eevees. We're Blasting off!'
Ping!
'Huh. they really do make that noise.'
Laughing, we went back inside.

Bye for now!

The other adventure

Hey, this is Ragnarok. Let me finally fill you in on what happened while Tempest's group was in Brighton.

Before Kirlia beamed him away, Tempest had used the DSDex to find out where we needed to get to. We'd been pointed in the direction of the fitzwilliam museum, so we set off.
More and more people are noticing Pichu now, but most of Cambridge have seen, or at least heard about, our little group, so hardly anyone that saw him was surprised, and there were even a few cheers!
We arrived outside the museum, and saw Brock on the steps, overseeing a group of men in white coats carrying boxes and various bits of scientific equipment inside.
'Hey guys! Looks like there's nothing to worry about on this one. Meet the scientists, researchers, and experts of Pewter Museum. The main lab just came through one of those disturbances. '
I looked where he was pointing, and saw a large area of tiled floor lying at an angle on a grassy area next to the museum. Workbenches and shelves were strewn about, thrown by what had clearly been a crash landing.
'The nice folk here have offered us a room to set up in. We're hoping that both sides can learn a lot from this partnership. We want to learn more about your world, and we're going to share our research and technology from our world.'
We helped them move some of the stuff in, told them where they could get new beakers and jars (All the ones they had broke in the crash) and marveled at Happiny carrying a large machine inside all on her own. We saw that inside the Fitzwilliam now seemed much bigger, like the museums in the games, TARDIS-like, with far too much building inside to fit into the outside. Looks like Brock and his scientists would have plenty of room to work anyway.
We had just come out from being shown the new lab, and were heading down the steps, when a figure in a large black coat barged past me.
'Blackmage!'
'Move it losers! I have business to attend to in there.'
'Like what?'
'I need something....fixing. Now that there are more scientists here, there is a chance someone can help.'
He pulled the brim of his hat down, and continued up.
We were distracted from following him to investigate by our phones ringing. All three of our phones. At exactly the same time.
We all checked to see exactly the same message:
DANGER DANGER VHS FRIEND UNITS REQUIRED AT ONCE RAID IN PROGRESS
Porygon!'
We rushed off, and reached the street with our alley on just in time to see two people coming out of it. There was a man carrying Tempest's computer, and a woman dragging a net containing all Glaceon's siblings!
I could tell at once they were part of the same group as the man at our old school. They were both wearing black costumes with silver belts and shoes, and both had fin thing on their arms. The man had spiky white hair with a silver sweatband round his head, and the woman had silvery blue hair that ended in a point, a bit like Jessie's.
'Ha!' The man laughed. 'The fools! Off fighting in Brighton, while we take everything we need! Nobody can stop us now!'
'Yeah, you'd think, but no.'
'What!? What are you doing here!?'
'Seriously? There are seven of us. Did you really think we'd ALL go off to Brighton if two alerts went off at once?'
The woman jabbed the man in the ribs. 'Told you!'
'Then we shall just have to teach you a lesson about interfering!'
Hitching the computer under one arm, he pulled three balls from his pocket, opening them.
A stunky, a Poochyena, and an Ariados were released, as the woman released three of her own.
Zigzagoon, Numel and Qwilfish.
We sent out two each.Charmeleon leapt at Ariados, and Snover went for Qwilfish. Onix loomed over Numel, Pidgey dived at Zigzagoon, and Hitmonchan struck at Stunky. Poochyena was running at Riolu, who was looking at his first real opponent fearfully. Closing his eyes, he stuck a paw out in front of him defensively. Poochyena charged forwards, but as soon as the tip of it's nose had made contact with Riolu's paw, the paw glowed ever so slightly, and Poochyena was sent flying into a wall. Riolu opened one eye cautiously, and stared at what he'd done. Giving a little chuckle, he headed over to Poochyena to finish up.
Happiny had made her way over to the man. She stamped on his foot, and he let out a yell, dropping the computer. She caught it, and sped off towards the base. Pichu had run over to the net, and was trying to cut it open with Iron tail. The woman saw and snarled. 'Leave it, tiny!' She sneered, and kicked him. I let out a yell as he soared through the air, and leapt, catching him mid-flight, protecting him as we crashed to the ground. I got up, groaning.
'You sick cow! You're going to regret doing that!'
'Oh really? Why?'
'Because a pattern is emerging. Everytime someone is mean to Pichu-'
A red blur shot past, slamming her to the floor.
'- that happens.'
Ariados was lying collapsed in a corner, smoking. I fed Pichu a berry, and went to cut open the net. The Eevees and Eeveelutions rushed out, and helped finish the fight, including a heavy assault on the strange man. Like the women in brighton, they vanished in a ripple of pinkish points of light once they'd lost, along with Ariados and the others. What the hell is that anyway?
That's it really. Bye for now!

Divide and Conquer

We had two alerts at the same time, so we split up. Kirlia dropped Me, Sammy, Doom and Maelstrom in Brighton, while Ragnarok, Jonny and Don looked into the one in Cambridge. I'm sure they'll let you know how they got on, but this is me detailing the Brighton adventure.

Enjoy.

I still don't like teleporting, and felt a bit ill when we arrived, so I had some lemonade while the others looked round. It seems that a side effect of the shard is that I now gain some of the healing effects of water and soft drinks, etc. Who knows, maybe I'm becoming part Palkia? That could be useful.

Sammy pointed towards a street that sloped down towards the sea. 'I reckon it's over there'

We followed her gaze and saw a dark purple cloud looming over the seafront, with bolts of energy blasting from the roof of a building.

'You may be right.'

Off we ran. Quite a few people were giving us strange looks now, the number of people that can see the truth about what's happening keeps going up. More and more people knew that the butterfly fluttering along by my shoulder was far too big, and that my dog was considerably too blue.

We had got close enough to notice that the source of the energy was a figure standing on top of the roof, when they turned to see us. Letting out a yell, they gestured, and the purple cloud began to descend towards us. As it got closer, we saw it was in fact hundreds and hundreds of bats. Zubat, Golbat, Crobat, Woobat, Swoobat, all swooping down on us. And they were all surrounded by a dark, shadowy Aura.

'What the hell are those fluffy ones?!'

'Urgh am I the ONLY one here who's played Black and White?! They're Woobat and Swoobat. Psychic instead of Poison.'

'Right.'

'Got it.'

'Pfft, they don't look so tough...'

The swarm descended, blocking out the sky as they closed in. I gulped, and took a fortifying sip of Lemonade. Dratini poked his head out of my bag, and let out a squeak of terror.

Glaceon and Rattata took that as their signal. Shooting from my side and leaping from my shoulder, they dived into battle. I lost sight of Rattata almost immediately, his own purple lost amongst the see of purple bats. Glaceon was firing off Ice Beams, each one bringing a frozen bat crashing down, only to have it's space replaced by another enemy.

It had started. We followed their lead.

'Butterfree, Confusion! Chatot, use Fury Attack!'

'Gloom, Acid! Clefairy use Doubleslap!'

'Ok Squirtle, use Whirlpool!'

'You know what to do Bulbasaur. UNLEASH HELL!'

'Dratini-'

'tiiiiii!'

'Ok,ok, hang back for a bit. It's ok, you don't have to fight if you don't want to.'

I lifted my right arm, looking at Joltik. 'You ready?'

'Jolti!'

I pointed him at a group of bats. 'Spider web! Thunderwave! Screech!'

The web caught three, sending the bundle falling to the ground, two were struck by the thunderwave, and the cone of high-pitched sound that fired deep into the swarm hit them hard, causing it to rain bats. Being super vulnerable to sound worked out REALLY badly for them.

Clefairy kept having to jump to grab a low flying bat before using Double Slap, but Gloom seemed to be doing okay against a group of woobat. Bulbasaur had a constant stream of leaves flying from his bulb as his vines worked furiously, smacking foes hard as they tried to get near. Squirtle had at least seven trapped in a whirlpool, but there were just too many. We were slowly forced towards the beach, but looking up through a brief tunnel of clarity a screech attack got me, I saw the figure on the roof better. It was a young woman with silver hair, a black headband and uniform, and one of those flat fin things on her arm.

'Oh great, she's one of those.'

'Those what?'

'That woman on top of the building, she's got one of those fin things. Like that bloke we fought when you first showed up Doom. That explains the shadowy aura on the bats anyway.'

Doom scowled. 'Right, I'm stopping this at the source. Bulbasaur, hold them off with Rock Throw while I deal with this.'
'Oh come on Doom, you can't expect us to believe Bulbasaur knows-'
But Bulbasaur knew what he was doing. Vines spinning wildly, he began hurling as much pebbly beach as he could reach. Pebbles slammed into bats, knocking them from the sky and sending them crashing into each other, the ground, the sea, it was raining purple monsters.
'Huh. Nice going Bulbasaur.'
I was going to ask Butterfree to accompany Doom to make sure she got through ok, but I saw her poke one in the eyes and punch another in the face as she set off, so I figured she'd be ok.
The swarm was getting angrier now, and were swooping down to strike us. Maelstrom had his arms over his head in defence, so didn't see a crobat barrel into him from behind. He was knocked forwards, and toppled over the edge of one of the beaches curved banks. He slid down with the noise of a small avalanche. I tried to get down to help, but my path was immediately blocked.
'Screech!'
It wasn't enough. There were always more. I caught sight of Rattata in the distance, a fiery missile hitting foe after foe, and Glaceon catching six in a blast of Icy wind.
'Come on Dratini, please, we need you!'
Dratini poked his head out of my bag and looked up at the huge cloud of shadowy creature's and trembled, but at the sight of Butterfree being slashed at, and floating slowly to the ground, exhausted, he frowned.
'Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!'
I love Twister. It tore through the bats, gathering them up and sending them hurtling round and round the vortex, slamming into each other, pebbles, shards of ice, and Razor Leaves. But the twister was getting full, and there were still bats free, and coming for us.
'Quick! Boost it with Whirlpool!'
I looked round. Maelstrom had made it back up the slope. He smiled at me, rubbing an injured arm. 'You ok?'
'I will be.'
Squirtle's attack was merging with Dratini's, making it bigger, stronger. Now filled with water, the huge, twisting spout of water proceeded to suck in the remaining bats. We were just celebrating as it moved out to sea, taking them away, when our attention was drawn to a yell above us. We all gazed up at the roof the woman had been on. Doom had joined her now, and we all saw......what happened next. Basically, Doom was angry at the woman. The woman was angry at being disturbed. Fighting happened. The woman stumbled backwards. She ran out of roof. Screaming, she plummeted, but was consumed by glowing particles of pink light before she hit the ground.
That's about it really. Kirlia brought us back and we heard about what happened here while we were away. As will you, soon.

Happy New Year!

Hello again, and Happy New Year from all of VHS. Had a good Christmas? Let me fill you in on some of the stuff that happened to us....

Big news first. Remember AGES ago, Don was given an egg? Well, it FINALLY hatched! It hadn't done a lot of travelling, so I guess it took a long time to get enough steps clocked, but Don is now the proud carer of a Riolu! Still only level 1, and a little nervous, but very happy, and keen to join in all the action. Ragnarok's really jealous that Don, who has no knowledge on Gen 4 at all has such a rare Pokémon, but he's happy for him too.
We were decorating the base for Christmas, with the sounds of Slade filling the air, when I heard another voice joining in. I wandered past Bulbasaur, using vines to lift Pichu so he could put the star on the tree, ducked under a loop of tinsel being swept towards a wall by Butterfree and Pidgey, stepped over Squirtle, spinning across the floor, polishing it with Bubble, with Vaporeon washing away the soap, caught a Bauble thrown by Maelstrom, and chucked it to Sammy, who helped Gloom hang it on the tree. I asked if they knew who was singing, but they both shrugged. Making it outside, I saw Doom and Rag decorating the front of the old shop. Glaceon and Snover were on the roof, sending burst after burst of snow into the air, with Icy Wind spreading it out across the city, covering Cambridge in a soft blanket of snow. Rag looked over at me, and jerked a head at the roof opposite. 'You can hear him from inside then?'
I peered up, and saw the Chatot that had evaded us months ago, perching on the edge of the roof, doing it's best to learn the words and tunes coming from inside. The song changed to 'I believe in Father Christmas' as I watched, and Chatot started trying to learn that one, ignoring us completely. I grinned, and raised my right arm, aiming my wrist.
'What ARE you doing?' Doom had paused, halfway through helping Dratini and Flareon stick a reindeer motif to the window.
'Trying to catch Chatot. Always thought they were cool. Ready Joltik?'
'Jolti!'
'Thunder wave!'
Chatot was hit by the thin tendril of electricity, and froze, one wing half raised, beak open in song. looking round for the source of the trouble, it focused on us, and tried it's best to swoop down towards us, it rocked a couple of few times, until it pitched over the edge and plummeted towards us.
'Spider web!'
It was pinned to the wall, and we then hit it with leech life. The paralysis wore off, and it struggled inside the web, cutting itself free with beak and talons. I needed harder hitting moves, and fast. Dratini jumped at Chatot, wrapping himself round, using, well, Wrap. Chatot used Mirror Move, hitting Dratini with leech life, and he let go in surprise, but had managed some damage. Chatot started to fly off, but Dratini frowned, and let out a cry. A twister whirled into being around Chatot, and any attempt by him to escape was stopped by another Spiderweb from Joltik. Chatot couldn't break free while caught in the Twister, and was thrown back at us, skidding to a stop at my feet. I dropped a Pokéball, and it sprang open, pulling Chatot in. It rocked a few times, but Chatot was caught! Yay!

We invited Brock over between Christmas and New Year, and he told us that Blackmage had been to the museum, and spoken to one of the fossil experts, so there's a good chance that whatever was hidden inside the fossil he 'won' (stole), he's woken it up now. I still say it looked like a broken Dome fossil, but whatever...

Kirlia's getting really worried about the future we saw. I keep pointing out we have a lot of time to sort it out, because in that Jonny had a Blissey, and Happiny shows no signs of evolving yet, and we've clearly met far more legendaries by then, but she still keeps going off to talk to this Moira person all about it. Ah well, we're doing what we can.

Maelstrom now has access to the vast number of TM's and HM's at the base, so Squirtle DOES now know Whirlpool! Could prove very useful in future.

That'll do for now, have fun, and I'll try and update again soon!