'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!

TMs: Technically, Movies.

We've discovered something awesome.

There was another Dimension burst while we were at base, the old shop, and afterwards, some of the videos from the piles and piles left from when the shop was in business had numbers added to their spines. They all had a letter in front of them, like 'J13' and 'K27' or 'S43' or 'H22'. We've found out that these are the initial of the region, and the number of the TM. We tried a few out, and a couple of Eevees are now happily trying out Secret Power (The Secret Garden) Rattata now knows Dig (Holes (What was an old stack of videos doing with THAT on it? Too recent to be put on video, surely?))

Anyway, that's about it. Oh, and there was a lost and confused Shinx causing some accidents after the burst, but we calmed it down and helped it out. It's stayed in the area, and we make sure it's cared for. Bye for now!

The sword and the stones! Part 3

The dogs landed, growling at the birds. Happiny had been blocked from reaching us, but Vaporeon made use of her now much longer tail to whip a berry thrown by Happiny towards Glaceon, and one upwards, towards the roof. Skarmory, who seemed to be leading the pack, launched a steel wing at it's new foes, but was struck by an ember from Flareon. It reeled, peeling off into the sky. The three dogs split up, dashing off in different directions. Water guns, Thundershocks and Embers flew through the air. Suddenly, nearly all the pokémon sprang up, restored by Happiny. At once attacks were shooting out at every angle. Charmeleon and Flareon were backing Skarmory into a corner (as well as they could considering it could fly) Butterfree let off a burst of confusion in the face of two attackers who, confused, crashed into each other, then the ground. Hitmonchan was felling Murkrows one by one as Snover kept then from attacking as a flock. Pichu and Jolteon were launching a combined attack of thundershock, with Pichu sitting on Jolteon's back, giggling as it's cheeks sparked with delight. Jolteon was directing their boosted, sending his now larger attack at waves of birds, bringing them down two or three at a time. Glaceon sent out a wave of Icy wind, weakening and slowing a large group, enabling Onix to slam them with his tail. To my left, Sammy was cheering on her Oddish as it's poison became too much for another Taillow. 'Yes! Kanto 3, Wherever-these-blue-ones-come-from, nothing!'
I had to find Rattata. I looked at the roof he'd been thrown onto. It belonged to the Town Hall.
'Great, of all the places.....Butterfree! With me!'
We dodged past Vaporeon taking down birds heading for the halls windows, and the scared and confused faces peering out from them, and hammered on the door. A man opened it a crack, looking nervously out. 'Hello? Ah, you're one of the young men with the monsters aren't you? What do you-'
'Sleep powder!'
'Huh? uuuuuuuuuhhhh......'thud.
Push door open. Run inside. Head for stairs. Wave at Mayor. Find next staircase. Keep running. Butterfree was using sleep powder on anyone we encountered. Nobody was going stop us. Then there was a crashing noise, and two Spearow flew round the corner. I kept running. 'Confusion!'
Butterfree hit one, but the other dived for me. I turned a shoulder to it defesively. My shard shoulder. There was a faint crunch, and Spearow flapped backwards, dazed. I didn't stop to wonder, I just swatted at it, making it slam into a wall, and with Butterfree having finished with the other one, we made our way to the roof.

Rattata was munching on the berry, and looking happier. He jumped to his paws, pleased, as we came over. Then Chatot and Skarmory flew overhead. Chatot was yelling 'Kanto 3! Kanto 3!' but Skarmory went for Rattata. 'Rattata, use Flame wheel!' Rattata ran forward as a trail of fire curved up and over him to create a flamewheel. He caused Skarmory to dodge downwards, and Rattata leapt off the roof after it. We rushed forwards after him, hoping he was ok. He'd landed on Skarmory, but none of the fire attacks were doing enough damage. It was a high level, and I'm pretty sure it had been using Roost. Sammy and Oddish had used Sweet scent to stop the birds that were escaping. Onix peered at me, and touched his head to the side of the building, letting me run down it's back like stairs. Thanking it, I saw Chatot, out of range, flying off into the sky, and could just make out it yelling 'Rattata use flamewheel, rattata use flamewheel!'

Rattata was calling out to some of the other Pokémon. Charmeleon, nodding, touched it's tail to Flareons, who began to glow with a red aura. All the eevees, Jolteon, Vaporeon, and Glaceon were making a semicircle around them, and a clapping noise was coming from them. I scanned Skarmory as Rattata leapt forward. 'Ouch, level 45. None of our guys are up to that yet. And Charmeleon's out of ember. Flareon's only got a couple left.'
Rag was looking at the group, half puzzled, half smiling. 'But that's a LOT of helping hands....'
Rattata was bursting into flames, but, strangely, landed on Flareon's back instead of attacking Skarmory. He ran on the spot, the flamewheel spinning instead like a blazing hamster wheel, as Flareon glowed brighter.
I laughed, impressed. 'He's organized one big, super boosted attack. Wow, my rat is awesome. Go Rattata! Come on everyone, one last shot!'
Rag was looking intently at Rattata. 'Amazing. He's managing to convert his normally damaging attack into some sort of boost for Flareon. It reminds me of-'
'Pikachu and Misty's bike!' Cut in Sammy excitedly. 'You're right, that is one smart rat.'
'Aha! Gotcha!' Jonny had just caught one of the defeated birds, and turned to see what we were looking at. 'Wow. Cool.'
Don backed over to us, not taking his eyes off the charging attack. 'How are they going to make sure they hit?'
'Oddiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!'
A tendril of sweet scent made Skarmory drift in front of Flareon, who opened his mouth with a cry, unleashing a torrent of tiny flames. Skarmory only had time to turn and yell before the wave was upon it.

It was AWESOME.

So yeah they won. We've discovered that whatever it was that was that making them crazy seems to wear off once they recover and wake up, so we healed them a little and let them rest. They all just flew off afterwards, and are now fairly spread out and not causing trouble.

We've kept the sword, it's at the base. We figure it's easier than trying to return it to it's proper dimension.