X and Y: Co-ordinates of Chaos!

I'll get better at those titles, I promise. Well, Hello! Been a long time, hasn't it? Quite a lot's happened, but I'm just going to catch you up on the 'out of the ordinary even for us' stuff, and the big events.

Firstly, we have several new additions! 

Sammy found an injured Vulpix after one of the more crazy waves, and looked after it, so it's joined her team.

Maelstrom bought what he was assured was 'a super powerful water dragon!'. The dude selling it left out the word 'potentially'. Yep, Magikarp. Shiny though.

Ragnarok has caught a venipede that he saved from a stampede of Tauros.

I caught a some guy who'd just come through a ripple being a complete arse to a Wurmple he'd caught, so Butterfree beat him up and Wurmple is staying with me.

Right, here comes the super crazy stuff:

One day the shard started tingling really hard, and a ripple appears in front of us, in the middle of the base, and it opens to become a shimmering portal. Dragon turns up in it! He says hello, thanks us again for helping him while he was here, then looks around curiously. 'Is this all of you?'

'Uhhh, yeah? I mean, Happiny's off sorting berries so she has a bunch on hand for healing, and Kirlia's gone to see Moira, and STILL refuses to take us to meet her, but it's all of us trainers...'

he stuck his head through into our world, and tilted it slightly, as if listening hard. 'Hmm, he IS gone. It seems fate looks unkindly on him in every world. A pity, I had hoped he could lend some assisstance to a problem that may be arising with our version. I shall just have to hope the matter can be prevented. Sorry to have troubled you, I must look into this at once.' Then he ducked his head back in, the portal scrunched up and he was gone! Um, basically, WHAT?!

The introduction of Kalos, the Fairy type, and all the other stuff from Gen 6 has changed a few things. Sammy's Clefairy is now, well, a fairy.  Glaceon is in a bit of a huff about all the hype surrounding Sylveon.'Woo! A new Eeveelution! And it's super effective against dragons!' Well guess what? SO IS HE. I really like the look of Sylveon, and I don't think Glaceon has anything against it personally, it's just the dragon thing. Ragnarok has tried to get my DSDex to give us the Mega stones, like it did so spectacularly with the normal evolution ones, but no luck. We think it's because of X and Y being on the 3DS, making the format (connection?) different, or something.

We had another run in with one of those Yu-gi-oh wannabes, who unleashed a swarm of pinsir on us, Charmeleon did some amazing work, helped out by Flareon and Vulpix.

And Lastly, do you remember that sword that came through a rift the day that Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon evolved? Well IT'S ALIVE. We came in one day to find it glowing, and floating, and then it's blade got shorter, the hilt changed, and it gained a big ribbon from the end of it's handle. It also seems to have a scabbard now, AND AN EYE. Creepy, but it seems friendly, so it's staying, joining 'Kirlia's gang' of unowned friends of the group.

That's all for now, see you soon!

Cold Shoulder

Glaceon is annoyed. Everyone's really excited about the new Fairy type (Well, Maelstrom thinks it's a bit silly, but since Clefairy hit him he's 'changed his mind' ) and they're saying how cool it will be to have another super effective type against dragons. Glaceon, being part of the original dragon-busting type, is a little bitter about all the attention. Poor guy. I still love him.

Also, you remember that Gabite we tried to catch a while ago, and it ran off? As part of his 'See, I'M the best against Dragons' showcase, Glaceon blasted it. Ragnarok saw his chance, and caught it. So yeah, welcome to the team.

Other than that, just normal rift ripply, universe endangering problems, nothing special. Bye foe now!

Some shocking battles!

Finally found some time to let you know how the fights with Surge went.

We were told that only his Raichu was battle-ready, so we would all be doing one on ones.
My battle was over fairly quickly. I convinced Joltik to get off my arm and go into battle without me, instead attaching himself to Raichu. With his natural ability to leech electricity from any source he's touching, and the move leech life, Raichu was running on two kinds of empty in a couple of minutes.

Sammy was next, she chose to use Clefairy and struck lucky with a Metronome. After getting Splash and Ember, Clefairy got an Earthquake, which devastated Raichu, who was then finished off with doubleslap.

Don did well too, Riolu had learnt Bulldoze in preparation and had mastered Force palm, which it turns out were the only moves he needed.

Doom only has Bulbasaur of course, but he was, as ever, awesome. Raichu leapt at him, and Bulbasaur grabbed his tail with a vine, and began slamming him repeatedly against the floor and walls amidst a storm of leaves. Another pretty short battle.

Maelstrom's was brilliant. We were all a bit worried, with him only having Wartortle, and I asked him if he wanted to borrow one of my guys.
'Nah, dude, but thanks. Don't worry, We've got a plan.'
Surge actually laughed when Wartortle strode out onto the match area. 'You think you stand a chance? You wish to take on my supercharged Raichu with a water type? And not a full grown one at that? I don't think this will last long.'
'Nope, don't think it will.'
It turns out Wartortle learnt Ice Beam. Raichu leapt up in shock as Wartortle coated the floor. We all had to jump as the Ice surged towards us, and skidded as we landed. The entire room was now an Ice rink, and Raichu slid around, trying to get a grip on the smooth, slippery ice.
'What is this? What are you doing? What do you hope to achieve? Raichu, use Thunderbolt!'
Wartortle leapt onto his stomach, sliding expertly on his shell, dodging the attack. He ended up against a wall, pressing his feet against it, taking aim.
'Anyone care for a game of Ice Hockey?' Maelstrom grinned.
'What?' Surge began to look genuinely worried, watching Wartortle, confused.
'Wartortle, Rapid Spin!'
Wartortle pushed off from the wall, spinning madly until he was only visible as a disc, a large tortoise-shell puck that shot straight at the still skidding Raichu, knocking him off his feet, sending him flying into the air.
'No!'
Wartortle kept going, ricocheting off a wall and speeding back across the floor, just in time to slam into Raichu again as he fell back down. This happened again and again, as Wortortle shot back and forth all around the room, and Raichu was repeatedly sent flying in every direction. I had to leap out of the way to avoid being knocked down myself.
'Sorry, I think he needed the angle!' Maelstrom was beaming.
The match ended when Raichu landed on Surge, swirly-eyed.

'That was impressive.' I congratulated Maelstrom as Charmeleon melted the ice in readiness for Rag's turn. Charmeleon was about to step into the match area, but felt a paw on his tail. Pichu had stopped him, and was glaring at Raichu. The rivalry he felt towards his final form was literally sparking around him. Pichu marched forwards, game face on.
'Well, what do we have here? Raichu's baby form, how cute.'
'Yes he is. Start with Charm!'
Pichu waved his paws excitedly, beaming an adorable smile. Raichu looked like he was trying to resist, but he smiled.
'Now Tail Whip!'
Raichu had now had both his attack AND defense lowered, and was gearing up to strike before he was weakened further.
'Raichu! Unleash your thunderbolt!'
Pichu was hit with the full blast of the attack, and winced, but then opened his eyes, confused, as nothing happened, except a small ripple of power seemed pass over him.
'Ha! Lightning rod! Pichu's ability converts your electric attacks into a stat boost for attack!'
'Blast! Then this is gonna be a draw. Raichu has that too.'
'Unless of course, Pichu decided that Electricity wasn't the only option.....Use Iron Tail!'
Pichu leapt into the air-
'piiiiiiiii-'
-and slammed his now metallic shiny tail down onto Raichu.
'-chu!'
Raichu reeled, then shook his head, clearing it.
'That's how you want to play it?! We've fought some of the best trainers my world has ever seen you know, and we've learnt a few tricks! Thunderbolt the ground!'
Raichu blasted the ground, sending chunks of floor exploding out towards Pichu, who quivered.
'You can do it Pichu! Iron Tail again!'
Pichu, nodded, determined, and his tail shimmered silver again. He leapt up, swatting chunk after chunk back the way they'd come. Raichu, wide eyed with horror, tried to run, but wasn't fast enough, and the makeshift rock blast slammed into him, throwing him down onto what remained of the floor. Pichu ran over and kicked him, then peered hopefully at his eyes. Raichu twitched and Pichu fled behind Rag, but Raichu's eyes turned to swirls. Pichu jumped up and down doing a little punchy dance, looking proud, and Rag got his thunderbadge.

Stormy seas! Tempest vs Misty!

Sorry for the delay, much more mundane reasons this time, although we also had a very strange wave that I'll tell you about later, but here it is at last:

Me and Misty took up our positions at opposite ends of the swimming pool. Misty sent out Seaking, I used Butterfree, who had added energy ball to his moveset. That wasn't a long battle. Next up was Starmie. Joltik didn't want to battle, so I kept Butterfree out,giving me at least a bug over psychic advantage.
Starmie launched a jet of water at Butterfree, who flew up high to avoid it, hitting back with an energy ball. It sent Starmie flying, but it used Rapid Spin to change direction mid-air, curving round to slam into Butterfree from behind. Butterfree plummeted into the water, squealing. Starmie dived after it, vanishing into the pool. I thought Butterfree had had it, but the water began to surge, swirling round in a whirlpool. The whirlpool rose upwards, spraying water everywhere. I grinned. 'Whirlwind!'
The column of water burst, revealing Butterfree in the middle. 'Free!'
'Nice one Butterfree! Now use Silver Wind!'
Starmie was struck as it leapt from the pool, and was slammed to the floor.
'Now finish it with Energy ball!'
The ball of green light hurtled towards Starmie, who began to glow with pink light.
'Starmie! Throw it back with Psychic!'
The energy was surrounded by a pink aura, and slowed down, speeding up again as it began to fly back towards Butterfree.
'Fight back with Confusion!'
Butterfree gained his own pink aura, frowning at the energy ball, which began to slow down again. It verred back and forth between them as they fought for control, the air becoming static with Psychic energy. I could feel my hair stand on end, and Misty's was becoming a frizzy afro. It was happening to everyone else too. The energy ball surged, growing in size and strength as it was boosted by the psychic torment surrounding it. An inflatable armband floated past my head, and I saw Butterfree buckle slightly.
'Use your wings too! Push it with all your strength!'
He flapped frantically, and the enrgy ball shifted slightly further. Starmie and Butterfree were totally focused, giving everything they had to the fight for control.
'Free!'
'Mie!'
'Freee!'
'Meee!'
'Freeee!'
'Meeee!'
'Freeeeeee!'
'Meeeeeee!'
BOOM!
The Energy Ball exploded, and both fighters vanished in a cloud of smoke. Coughing, I peered through it, trying to see them. 'Butterfree! Whirlwind the smoke! Flap it away! Butterfree?'
As the smoke cleared, we could see them, both lying collapsed at the edge of the pool, both swirly eyed.
I thanked Butterfree, gave him a berry, and sent out  Dratini. Misty sent out Gyarados, who roared. Dratini quaked, but stayed, looking determined.
'Try Thunder wave!'
'Tii!'
The wave hit Gyarados, bringing his thrashing to an abrupt stop. He roared, and Dratini quailed.
'Gyarados! Bite!'
Gyarados managed to lunge, sweeping Dratini up in his huge jaws.
Dratini's squealing filled my ears as I panicked. What do we do now?
Then I had it. 'Dratini, use your shed skin ability!'
Dratini scrunched up it's face, concentrating, and shot out from between the huge fangs, a sparkly sheen rippling along his body.
'Phew! I didn't know if that would work...'
Dratini dived, slipping smoothly into the water.
I thought. Ok, so thunderwave wasn't going to be much help on it's own. It is basically an electric current though, it just needed strengthening somehow. I looked at the pool, and grinned. 'Dratini! Thunder wave again! In the water, then jump out!'
'Tii!'
The electricity shot through the water as Dratini launched himself out onto one of the floating platforms. There was a sound like a bug zapper, and a slight burning smell. Gyarados raged, writhing in pain as the electric swimming pool fried him. He roared again, lunging down for Dratini as the yellow crackles of energy faded from the water.
'Dive in the water to evade!'
Dratini did, wiggling through the water like an eel as Gyarados tried to hit him.
Misty looked thoughtful. 'Ok Gyarados! Use Ice fang on the water!'
'Oh bugger'
Ice spread across the water, freezing the pool. Dratini tried to leap out, but his tail was trapped in the Ice, leaving him half in, half out. Gyarados was trapped too, but had a lot more freedom given his size.
'Right, that's my bad, I showed you how to do that.'
'Yeah, thanks, it worked well! Hyper Beam!'
'Twister!'
Dratini let loose a huge Twister, almost the size of Gyarados himself, but it was obliterated by the Hyper Beam, which blasted straight through,  smashing the ice around Dratini, sending him flying. I saw him wincing, he wasn't knocked out! But he was heading for a wall, and looked like it might finish him off. 'No!' I aimed his ball, returning him to it before he could crash.
'Thank you Dratini, have a good rest.'
Happiny tapped me on the leg, and reached up, sounding keen. I handed her Dratini's ball, and she rushed off with it towards my bag to heal him.
'Fine, you want to battle with ice? Meet a pro. Glaceon! FINISH HIM!'
Glaceon had been waiting for my signal, and shot past me, growling. He's almost as protective of Dratini as Charmeleon is of Pichu, and he was not pleased. I could tell he considered the use of Hyper Beam on Dratini, while he was trapped, was a low blow, and he did not intend to let Gyarados get away with it. He didn't even wait for me to call out a move, he just started Ice Beaming every part of Gyarados he could, quickly encasing most of him in Ice. The huge sea dragon thrashed around, almost freeing himself, but as soon as one bit of ice broke another formed. When he could no longer break free, Glaceon raced up Gyarados' back, leaping at the top, spinning in the air and delivering a punishing Iron Tail to his head. Then an Icy wind, then more Ice Beam, then an Iron tail that smashed the Ice trapping Gyarados in the pool, then one that toppled him over, then more Ice. In just under a minute a swirly eyed Gyarados Ice block was filling the pool. Glaceon gave a derisive head flick and strode away to check on Dratini. Misty was left staring, shock and confusion on her face, mouth open in shock.
'Uh...wow. That was...wow. Oh, yeah, right, here's your badge.'
yay!

Sorry again for the delay, Surge battles to follow soon.

Many Misty Matches!

Sorry for the delay, there was a blizzard, which led to ice types running riot, and Surge's gym led to this big wave of electric types that sent they city's power haywire, it's been a bit mad.

So, we all went and challenged Misty.

She beamed at us, leaping down from the lifeguard chair.

'Hi guys! This place is working out great, thanks for all the help! I've been looking forward to our battles, '1 on 1' or '3 on 3' ok?'

We agreed, and Rag went to stand at the other end of the pool while we went to sit in the stands.
'Um, I was wondering if we could do it as a triple battle?'
Misty blinked 'A triple battle? Oh, like at the world tournament. Sure!'
She sent out Starmie, Seaking and Gyarados as Rag's three leapt out onto platforms floating on the water. Charmeleon looked nervous, grabbing his tail defensively, but then locked eyes with Seaking, and snarled.
'A Charmeleon? Are you sure?'
'Certain.'
'Ok then! Starmie, use Water gun! Seaking, Horn attack! Gyarados, start with Aqua tail!'
'Charmeleon, dodge the water and use Bite! Snover, hit them all with Razor Leaf! Pichu, Thundershock!'
Pichu aimed his attack at Starmie's jet of water. Electricity blazed across it, zipping along the line of water, frying Starmie., Starmie drooped, dazed, taking further damage as Snover's leaves battered it, and Charmeleon took his chance, leaping forward and biting down. The dark move was devastating to Starmie, who trembled.
Seaking had been thrown back by the leaves, but started forwards again, aiming for Snover. Gyarados' tail had battered the leaves away as if they were nothing, and sent a small tidal wave across the pool. Charmeleon, at the side of the pool, kept biting down, just missing the water as it crashed at the edge.
'Starmie! Rapid spin!'
Charmeleon's eyed widened, worried, and Stamie span madly, throwing him off. He landed on one of the floating platforms, skidding towards the edge. Pichu yelled, jumping over and grabbing his tail. Straining to pull Charmeleon away, he was dragged along, digging his tiny heels in, slowing them. They came to a stop with Charmeleon only half on the platform, nose millimetres from the water. He got to his feet, and hugged Pichu.
'Aw! It's so great to see your pokémon help each other like that!'
Misty beamed, then remembered she was the opponent. 'Starmie, Seaking, get them!'
Starmie spun through the air towards them, and Seaking burst from the water, but let out a cry of surprise as Pichu, body crackling with electricity, jumped on top of hiim, using him as a steeping stone on his way to Snover, who was trying to hold off Gyarados. Seaking fell back into the water, sparking.
'Charmeleon! Catch Starmie with Metal Claw!'
Charmeleon ducked, thrusting his glowing claws upwards as Starmie soared overhead.
'Flamethrower!'
Starmie glowed red under the intense heat of the attack, looking weak. Seaking leapt up from the water once more, and Charmeleon spun, throwing Starmie like a frisbee, scoring a direct hit. The tangled mess of fish and star flew backwards, into the path of an icy wind Snover had just sent out. They were incased in ice, becoming a small boulder. Pichu leapt up as they flew past, using Iron Tail to slam them into Gyarados, who roared, whipping his tail round, batting Snover into the air, slamming into a window, and a wave of water washing over Charmeleon, who covered the end of his tail with a protective claw.
We gasped, all eyes on him. When the water dropped, we leaned forward, concerned, desperate to see if he was ok.
Charmeleon was still standing, the tiniest wisp of flame still flickering away at the tip of his tail. He opened his eyes, let out a shrill yell, and staggered quickly away from the pool.
Rag sped over to Charmeleon, horrified. 'Snover, we need a leaf!'
Snover, upside down against the window, looking very dazed, waved an arm, sending out a single leaf that wafted over to Rag, who caught it and held over the flame, feeding it. Misty had stopped too, looking concerned, leaving Gyarados to thrash around undirected. Pichu had bounded over, gripping Rag's arm, peering over to look at Charmeleon, trembling.
'He'll be fine, don't worry.'
more water lapped at rag's feet as Gyarados whipped his tail round again. Pichu glared, cheeks sparking with rage. He ran at Gyarados, yelling 'Chuuuuuuuuuuuu!'.
Misty turned to look. 'Gyarados! Hyper Beam!'
A huge beam of destructive light blasted from it's mouth, but Pichu dodged, darting round and leaping onto Gyarados' tail. Scrambling quickly up it's back, Pichu arrived on it's head. He grabbed the middle spike of the three pointed crown, on Gyarados' forehead, Pichu unleashed all the power he had, a huge blast of electricity, sending Gyarados into spasms, thrashing wildly. Pichu shocked again and again, holding on tight as the shaking and writhing threatened to send him flying. At last, fried, Gyarados collapsed, toppling over into the pool with a huge splash. As he fell, Pichu leapt into Rag's arms, exhausted, but pleased.
After a lot of healing, a proud Rag took his badge and came to sit in the seats with us.

I wish I could make everyone's as big and exciting as that, but no. Doom's for instance. It was her incredibly strong Bulbasaur against Starmie. The entire battle was two moves, both from Bulbasaur. Yeah, it was pretty short.

Same for Sammy's Gloom against Seaking, although that match was three moves. Seaking actually managed to hit with Horn attack, but it didn't help much.

Maelstrom and Wartortle had a slightly harder time, lacking a type advantage, but they were up against Starmie, so Bite proved useful for them aswell. That one was actually really close, with Starmie only fainting mere seconds before Wartortle collapsed, but he did it, and won the badge!

I'll upload mine separately, I didn't do a triple battle so it went on for longer.

New years resolution: Go to the gyms!

Hey all, I hope you had a good christmas and new year. Ours was fairly uneventful, no more shadow controllers, just normal outbreaks from new waves. A few more buildings have taken on a cartoony appearance, but no big world breaking collisions yet, so that's good.

The really exciting news though is that Misty and Lt Surge fell through rifts recently! Misty came through on her own, but Surge was part of a wave that more or less replaced an outdoor gear shop with his gym. The switch was pretty smooth, so there wasn't a lot of clearing up to do, and Kirlia says that Moira's handling it on the other side, so the shop staff will be ok.

We've helped Misty get set up at Parkside swimming pool, where is both a lifeguard and gym leader. There's a rota for when it's swimming only, and when it's ok to challenge her, so we're all going this afternoon.

Surge is ready for challengers too, after tweaking his gym a bit since he and it arrived, so we're hoping to go there straight after, and get both in one day! About time too, my Boulder Badge has been looking lonely.

Oh Team Rocket made another grab for the eevees, and in the fight that followed, Joltik learned Electroweb! I can't wait to try that out properly at the gym later.

Oops, have to go, work to do. I'll let you know how we all get on later. Bye for now!

The Chosen One.

Sorry, we've had a couple of outbreaks to deal with, as well as, you know, normal stuff, like coursework. Anyhoo:
Lawrence's ship was almost identical to it's cartoon counterpart. Me and Joltik had detached ourselves from the frame as it went to slot itself onto a support, and now we looked around in awe.
'When you're quite finished?'
I turned to see Doom and Maelstrom in a spinning sphere of circular frames, set just next to Rag and Team Rocket.
'Oh, hey.'
'Get us out!' Doom yelled.
'Oh yeah, sorry.'
I couldn't see any buttons or switches, they were most likely on that control panel thing on Lawrence's chair. I looked down at Joltik. 'You feed off of electricity. Fancy giving it a go?'
Joltik nodded, and leapt from my wrist, scuttling across to the circular frames. He latched onto the metal joint at the base, and began to hum with electricity. The frames flickered and stalled, falling to the ground. Joltik moved on to the Rag's frame as Doom and Maelstrom leapt down.
Joltik fell away from the second joint, looking ill, and Rag and Team Rocket were free. Glaceon ran over to me, and I stroked him as I looked around. 'I know he's evil and everything, but this place is cool.'
'Why thank you, I'm rather pleased with it.'
Lawrence was descending towards us on his grand throne, with a man dressed in black standing next to him.
'I do hope you aren't planning to interfere further? I'm rather busy you see, and my friend here is on a tight schedule.'
'I'm gonna destroy you!'
'Quite. As you can see, language is not his strong point, but his method of controlling Pokémon is most impressive.'
A small explosion blew a hole in the wall to our left, as one of the gun turrets blew up. Rattata shot from the explosion, racing out across the floor of the room.
Lawrence scowled. 'The rat! Get it!'
Rattata used flame wheel, become a disc of flame as he sped over the man's foot, setting fire to a trouser leg.
Chatot dive bombed him, stealing the card holding device on his arm. Screaming, the man stumbled backwards. Glaceon leapt up, slamming his front paws into the man's chest. The man toppled through the hole, yelling as he plummeted towards the ice.
'No! Please! I didn't fail you! I'm sorryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!'
We saw a pink glow from below, and the man was gone.
Lawrence actually frowned. 'That's unfortunate, I was hoping he would continue to distract you. No matter.'
He pressed a couple of buttons, and his holographic chess board flickered into life, showing Lugia and the three titans.
'Let's try this again, shall we? Now that the playing field is a bit clearer.'
We heard a couple of 'pfhut' noises, and new that more frames were being released.
'Chatot! Warn the Titans! And Lugia!'
Chatot flew out of the hole, vanishing into the storm.
Lawrence smirked 'You still wish to help them? I'd be more concerned with your own safety just now.'
Another turret blew up and Rattata shot out, leaping onto my shoulder.
'We're all free, why should we be worried?' I pointed Joltik at Lawrence. 'Electroweb!'
Lawrence's eyes widened in shock as he was snagged by the electrically charged web of sticky string. He started to twitch, convulsing, and snarled at me. His hand started to inch towards the button panel.
'Quick, everyone out!'
We looked out of the holes. The most recent hole showed us that we were just coming up to a ledge of rock on fire island.
'That's our best bet, come on!
'How do we get down there?'
Bulbasaur raised his vines, winding them round Doom's shoulders and pulling himself onto her back. Holding on tight, his vines wrapped round his legs, making a belt of vine at her waist, securing him like a rucksack. Then his vines rose up vertically from her shoulders, sticking out sideways at a right angle at the top. They started to spin, becoming propellers as Doom ran for the gap. 'See you down there!' She leapt out of the ship, floating elegantly towards the island. I turned to Ragnarok. 'Did you know Bulbasaur could fly?!'
'No....no I had no idea.'
'It's freaking cool.'
'Yup.'
 'Well, what are we waiting for?'
We waited until the ledge was only a few feet away, and leapt. Joltik shot a string shot at one of the ship's propeller arms that was sticking out over the island, and lowered us down.
Team Rocket had fired up jetpacks, and flew off into the clouds, cackling.
Squirtle had grabbed Rag and Maelstrom up in a whirlpool, and was spinning towards the ledge, but didn't have enough power and fell short, vanishing from sight as the dropped past the ledge.
'No!' I ran to the edge, looking for some sign of them, and blinked and squinted in a sudden blaze of white light. A huge whirlpool, twice the size of the first, rose up, a great spinning tower of water that loomed over me. It spat out Rag and Maelstrom, and as it faded away, a Wartortle bounded out of it and ran to check Maelstrom was ok.
'You evolved! Congrats buddy!'
Charmeleon surfed down the stringshot, giving the whirlpool a filthy look as it faded away.
All relatively unharmed, we ran towards a gap in the rocks, heading for the centre of the island. We found Sammy and Don there, fighting off a flock of shadow swablu, who had clearly gone on a rampage without the man to guide them.
'Tempest!' Sammy yelled 'Take it and go!' She threw the orb at me, a dull red flicker burning within it.
I missed, but Glaceon flicked it with his tail, sending it straight into my hands. I looked down at it. Nothing. It wasn't reacting at all.
'Looks like you're the chosen one Rag, I'm having no luck with it.'
Rag looked surprised, but excited. Don pointed us in the way of the beach, and we set off, Snover rejoining Rag as Vaporeon stayed to ice the Swablu.
Chatot flew past as we reached the shore, landing on my shoulder. 'Titans have been warned! Titans fighting Lawrence! Lugia says hurry to Slowking!'
'Good work Chatot!'
Most of the water was frozen now, and we skidded out onto it, heading for the beach with Smoo cave. Doom landed next to us and Bulbasaur leapt down, running alongside her.
'Whoah, Tempest, look!'
I glanced where Maelstrom was pointing and gasped. Hundreds of pokémon were arriving, huge groups of them gathering on clifftops and in unfrozen water. Some were coming through the ripple, others had clearly been here already, but they had all sensed the chaos and come to see if they could help.
'Wow! I wonder how many were already here? This merge must be getting worse.'
We were having to shout above the wind, and rain was drenching us. We heard a boom behind us, and a shot smashed the ice ahead, making us skid to a stop. Lugia flew over our heads, thrown backwards, eyes closed in pain. He recovered in the air and spun to a stop. 'You have the orbs?'
'Two, we're going to drop them off and go get the third.'
'Good, hurry.'
He flew back towards the ship, shooting a beam of blue energy from his mouth.
Snover and Glaceon were freezing over the hole, and we set off again. We came across Blackmage, still fighting, and Maelstrom stayed with him to finish them off.
Me, Rag, Doom and our pokémon reached the beach, and rushed to the waterfall cavern, where, sure enough, there was now a stone altar, and Slowking waiting for us. I tossed the fire orb to Rag, realizing too late that he was still hugging Pichu to his chest protectively. He let go with one arm and swiped. It soared under his arm and Pichu caught it, Rag bringing his arm in quickly to hug it in place. Taking it from Pichu, he held it up. We all saw it shining brighter than before.
'Cool.'
I put the Ice orb in it's place, and Rag did the same with the Fire. Only the middle holder was empty now, and through it's window I could see Lighting Island.
'Looks like you're one short.' Said Slowking conversationally. 'You'd better get going.'
I looked out at the storm, the frozen sea, the blasts of power coming from the fight between Lawrence and the birds. It was getting too dangerous out there, and the storm was building. How were we going to get there in time? If only-
Then an engine roar behind us, and we turned to peer deeper into the cave. The water twisted away through a crack in the rock wall, where tours of the caves depths could be taken in a small life boat. The boat shot out of the passage, Team Rocket at the helm. Laughing, they jerked the boat, sending it flying out of the water and over our heads.
'Oh good, I was hoping they'd nick that.'
I ran out to meet them as the landed on the beach.
'Prepare for trouble, though this may seem strange!'
'We're going to do something nice for a change!'
'To-'
'Yes, yes, good, thanks. Get in everyone.'
'Will you stop cutting us off!?'
'We don't have time! You want to help, right?'
'Well, yes..'
'Because you don't want the world to end?'
'Of course we don't!'
'Good, thanks. Lightning Island. Now.'
The engine roared again and we sped away. Butterfree had rejoined us, and Bulbasaur helped secure him with vines to stop him being blown away.
As we approached Lightning Island, Lugia slammed into the Ice infront of us, crashing through and causing a huge wave of water to send us flying through the air. Lugia sank beneath the water, and we could just make out a very faint telepathic sigh. 'I....have failed.'
'Rag looked panicked. 'Oh God! What do we do? We need him! We need his song to heal him! Do you know how to play it? We need one of those shell flute things-'
'Rag-'
'- and where's that melody girl, she knows how to play it, but nobody from Shamouti Island is here-'
-'Rag, listen-'
'-do you think it would work if we played it on something else? Do we have something else to play it on? I know the tune, but not the notes or anything, what do we-'
'RAG!'
'I- Oh, what?'
I held up my phone. 'I've got the song on here.'
'....Oh. Well alright then. Will that work? Will it be loud enough?'
'Not yet, but there's this trick Chatot's been working on....'
I plugged my headphones in, and set the song on loop. I gave the phone to Rattata, who climbed on to Chatot's back, keeping it secure. I set the headphones up so Chatot could listen, and he took off, Carrying my phone and Rattata up into the sky. He opened his beak, and the song was magnified, Chatot blaring it out for all to hear. He flew off, spreading the song, filling the sky with music. A soft glow began to shine from beneath the ice.
'It's working. Right, onwards!'
Leaving them to it, we began to climb the rocky path up to the idol.
'I can't believe this is happening AGAIN' James moaned, running with us.
'Do you remember last time then?'
'Of course! No..sort of. my head seems kinda fuzzy about it. I have so many memories, some overlap, it's making my head hurt.'
He stopped, clutching his head. 'Too many memories....help....it hurts...'
Me, Jessie and Meowth stopped. I grabbed James' shoulder and shook him. 'James! Don't think about it now! It didn't hurt before, that must mean you handle it if you don't let them overwhelm you!'
James looked up at Jessie, pain and confusion in his eyes. 'I...were we married?'
'WHAT?!'
'I don't know anymore!'
Meowth had collapsed on the ground laughing, but Jessie turned bright red, fuming. She slapped James in the face, sending him flying, red marks on his cheek.
'How DARE you!'
'Sorry Jessie....'
He sat up, confused. 'What were we just talking about?'
'....doesn't matter, just come on!'
He got up, and we tried to catch up to the others.
James sighed 'I can't believe this happening aga-'
'NO! Do not think about that. Stop it at once.'
'What?'
'Shut up and move!'
We arrived to see Doom wrenching the orb from the idol's beak, holding it up to look at it. She handed it to Rag. 'Do your thing, chosen one.'
Ragnarok took it, and stared at it. We all stared.
Nothing. Nothing happened.
'Huh?'
He squeezed it, shook it, glared at it, tapped it, waved it around, but it refused to react. He handed it to me. 'Anything?'
I took it, and we all watched its dull yellow glow.
'Nope, still not me.'
'Well what the bloody hell do we do now?!' Doom yelled.
She was answered by the sound of large wings beating, and a gust of freezing cold air washing over us. Articuno landed on the idol, surveying us with haughty appraisal.
It let out a screech, and Meowth trembled. Glaceon sent a flurry of icy shards that brushed into Articuno's wing, and it replied with shards of it's own that rained down on Glaceon.
'Meowth!' Jessie nudged him. 'What are they saying?'
Meowth was still quivering. 'Articuno is saying that it wishes to claim Lightning Island for itself, and it's gonna wait here until the fighting dies down a bit.'
'Why isn't he fighting with them?'
'Zapdos and Moltres gang up on him in the film.' I pointed out. 'He only has a type advantage over zapdos, and they both have advantage over him. He was the first to fall.'
Articuno glared at me, but Glaceon sent more shards and Meowth resumed translating.
'Glaceon's askin' for Articuno's help, saying we need to get the third orb back ta tha cave, and find out why it aint workin like tha others.'
Articuno seemed to consider, then spread it's wings wider, letting out a screeching cry.
'It says it'll help! E's gonna get ya and tha orb back ta tha cave!'
'When you say get me back, you don't mean-'
I was cut off with a yelp as Articuno dived, knocking me off my feet and sweeping me onto it's back.
'Whoaaah! Uh, see you guys later!'
I held on tight and settled into a better sitting position as we soared up towards the clouds. Lugia rose up on my left, smiling. 'I...am healed. Thank you.'
'It's an honour to help, oh great guardian.'
'It is my turn to help you. If I can?'
'We need to work out why the third orb isn't lighting up. We were wrong about the chosen one.'
'I cannot sense them through thisdimensional chaos, but they must be with you.'
'But it had to be me or Ragnarok, and it isn't.'
'Hmm. You two are already gifted trainers and confident of your power. The chosen one is often unaware of the strength inside them. They can be anyone, man or mouse.'
I thought hard.
Now of course, it seems obvious, but we were a little busy trying to stay alive at the time to work it out.
'Help the others get back, try and gather them all!'
Lugia nodded and flew off.
Articuno called out and banked sharply, dodging a shot fired from Lawrence's ship.
'Again! Right, that does it. You ok Articuno?'
'Cu!'
'Good! Chatot!'
Chatot had been swerving round to meet us, and now landed on my outstretched arm. Rattata leapt down, gave me my phone, and went to perch of Articuno's head. I opened the voice memo app on my phone. 'Ready to do a bit more broadcasting Chatot?'
Chatot nodded, opening his mouth, sending my voice booming out for all to hear.
'Pokémon of the world! I know you have gathered here because you can feel the disturbance and wish to help. The man in that skyship wants this to end in chaos, he doesn't give a damn about the world, as long as he gets to capture and control these beautiful, majestic titans, this great and noble guardian, and keep them in tiny cages for his sick pleasure! We cannot let this happen! He wants a fight, so give it to him! Pokémon of the world! ATTACK THE SKYSHIP!'
There was a faint rumble of noise, that rose to a huge roar, a vast wall of noise spreading out below me. I looked down to see the gathered masses surge forwards, hundreds of pokémon moving together with a single purpose. Swarms of bugs types and flocks of flyers rushed to surround the ship, jabbing at it's proppellors and hacking at it's armoured surface. Ranged attacks fired from all directions, psychic types floated up, tearing pieces from it with their minds. Something shot straight through it like a bullet, tearing out the other side. All of them united by their desire to help, to do as I'd asked, to stop Lawrence.'
'Whoah' I stared down. 'New favourite moment, right here.'
Articuno banked sharply, making me grab on for dear life. We were passing a rocky outcrop, where Ragnarok was fighting off a group of shadow pokémon. Snover knocked some over with a blast of ice, and Charmeleon smacked one in the face with his flaming tail. Rag was knocked backwards, and stumbled over the edge. He looked up as he fell, saw me, and threw Pichu. 'Keep him safe!'
I caught Pichu, horrorstruck as Rag fell, but Lugia swept underneath him, scooping him up and heading off into the storm.
'Phew!'
Glad he wasn't dead, I gave Pichu a comforting hug.
'I know this is scary, you're being really brave.You've always got such a spark...about...you..OH.'
I couldn't risk getting the orb out in this wind and rain, I was paranoid about dropping it, but I hoped I was right. I really needed to be right!
A huge explosion behind me announced the end of Lawrence's ship, but I saw his chair glide smoothly down towards the beach.
'Articuno! We've got to hurry!'
Articuno nodded and folded it's wings in a bit, hurtling down towards the cave. I told Pichu my plan, and he nodded nervously, but looked determined.
Everyone was gathered at the beach when I arrived, and I strode in confidently on my own, Articuno taking off to try and stop Zapdos and Moltres. Lawrence, has suit battered and torn, was standing between the others and the altar, and he'd un sheathed a sword blade from within his fancy walking cane.
'Stand back everyone, I'd hate to have to use this.'
He winced, closing one eye for a moment.
'Lawrence, what's up with you? You've gone nuts!'
'HAVE I?!'
He looked at me, his eyes manic, and one was grey with a red pupil.
'Yes, you have! Are the titans and Lugia really worth tearing two worlds apart? and what is wrong with your eye?'
'I had hoped...it would not be necessary, but you forced my hand.'
He rolled up a sleeve to show us a plaster on his arm. 'I now have the power to controls the shadows...with my mind!'
I turned to see the remaining horde of shadow aura  pokémon blocking the opening, penning us in.
'Ah, I hoped the end of the prophecy had already finished. Yay.'
Maelstrom turned back to Lawrence. 'Dude, whatever you've done to yourself, it's clearly messing with your head. Why don't you-'
'Silence! You have failed! clearly your chosen one has deserted you, or all three orbs would be in place by now! I shall remove the two you have, and destroy them! I cannot be stopped! The prophecy lied!'
He started to back towards the altar, waving his sword at us.
Pichu scrambled in behind me, squealing at the sight of the shadows and running past them to me. He saw Rag smile at him, and a determined look returned to his face. He strode past me, holding out a small paw to push Lawrence's tattered trouser leg out of his way as he sauntered past. 'Pi, Pichu Pi, Chupi!'
Chatot obliged. 'Rawk! Move aside Loser! Rawk!'
Lawrence began to laugh again. 'What's that, little one? You think you can stop me? You shock yourself when you use an electric attack! I can't be stopped now!'
'That may be true' I interrupted. 'But shall we have some fun facts before we all die horribly? I take it you're familiar with the new prophecy?'
'Of course!'
'Good, then you'll know about the bit where the great storm delivers 'from chaos' a 'very hopeful spark'. Fun fact time! A great strom is also referred to as a Tempest.'
I waved. 'Hi! The chaos that happens at the end of the world is sometimes referred to as 'Ragnarok'.'
Rags turn to wave. 'Uh..hi?'
'Now, on my way here, Rag got me to make sure that Pichu made it here safely. Pichu can get quite scared when huge stuff like this happens, but he has always, no matter what the danger, believed we would be ok. If he isn't a hopeful spark, I don't know who is.'
Lawrence went pale. 'No! But, surely-'
'Lugia told me earlier, the chosen one can be anyone, man, or-' I gestured to Pichu 'Mouse.'
Lawrence had let him walk straight past. Pichu was scrambling up, trying to reach the altar. Slowking reached out to help push him up.
'No!'
Lawrence ran for the altar, but Rag dived between him and it. Lawrence raised his sword, but dropped it with a yell as Don kicked his wrist hard.
'How dare you-'
The sword was stolen by Sammy, while Maelstrom picked up the cane/scabbard and whacked him in the stomach with it, winding him. As I ran towards Pichu, I saw Doom land an impressive uppercut to his jaw, sending him flying, slamming to the ground, groaning.
'Don't badmouth my mouse' snarled Rag, kicking him.
'Uh guys...' Jessie whimpered, huddled together with James and Meowth as they looked in terroer at the shadows.
'On it!' I threw the lightning orb. Pichu jumped into the air, and as Lawrence slurred 'Nooooooooo!' Pichu caught the orb, which blazed with shocking yellow light. He landed on top of the altar, and bent down, slamming the orb into it's place in the middle.
Green light shone from the altar, spreading across the ground, through the water of waterfall cavern, the other way onto the beach, out to sea, melting the frozen surface of the water.
'Hit it Chatot!'
Chatot began to broadcast Lugia's theme, following the magical green light as it spread towards the islands. Lugia seemed to glisten, shining with calming light as he began to sing, spreading his wave of calm over the area.
The Shadows had decided this was the time to attack. Pichu, frowned, scurried forwards, calling out. Glaceon, Rattata, Butterfree, Joltik, Dratini, Snover, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon. Clefairy, Oddish, Bulbasaur, Hitmonchan, Riolu, Happiny, Wartortle, Kirlia, Scyther, Snorunt and Metang all gathered behind him, glaring out. Meowth looked conflicted, but went to join them. Charmeleon went up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a proud smile. Pichu looked up at him, and he gestured to the others. They all looked proud, and dipped their heads slightly. Pichu looked overwhelmed, and turned back to Charmeleon, who bowed, with a flourish, then hugged him. Pichu giggled, and then with a cry of 'Piiiiiii!!' Led the charge.
I timed it. The battle took exactly 7.2 seconds.
Lawrence was trying to limp away. 'Nope!' Blackmage tackled him to the floor.
Meowth wandered back to Team Rocket, looking thoughtful.
'Meowth?! Why? What was that?'
'I know Jess, but..hes tha chosen one. We'd a been toast without 'im. I owed it ta tha little guy.'

So, yeah. That's about it. Lawrence is locked up in a Scottish jail, it was hard to find a law from our world to charge him with breaking, but 'trying to destroy the world' and something do with captivity of rare species should make sure he goes down.

Nothing spectacular has happened recently, just the odd outbreak whenever a wave happens. Bye for now!