Chapter 1:Sand in your eyes, Taming the Sandflash.

Post by **Static Pika** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:51 pm

Both of Mike and Sara's eyes followed along in the battle.

"Maybe we should help?"

"Fine... Get your Zubat, and we'll get workin'."

Sara sent out a sleepy looking Jigglypuff, and a Muk.

"Mike, what's taking so long?!?" Sara whispered to ehr brother.

"He's having his moments!"

"I don't care! Get that friggen Zubat out here!"

Post by **Device** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:21 am

(I think I'd like to join this...but not yet...but on a little note...Gengar has levitate, so earthquake can't touch him...trust me, I use one and for that, my friends hate me!! :D )

Post by **Josiah** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:52 am

*Josiah struggled to his feet and reached for another pok?ball.* "Sandslash, go with Vibrava and don't lose that sandflash!" *At last he could stand the constant ringing no longer.* "Yes?" *He grabbed the phone.* "What is it?"

Post by **Gebura** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:09 am

Device wrote: (I think I'd like to join this...but not yet...but on a little note...Gengar has levitate, so earthquake can't touch him...trust me, I use one and for that, my friends hate me!! :D )

(-OOC Well join when you are ready, though I prefer new add ons at the start or finish of a chapter...unless you make your entrance a smooth transition that doesn't require a glaring plot device. But as for your Gengar data: I prefer to RP with some logic and realism involved. If the Gengar got knocked to the ground and then cursed himself, he isn't levitated in the air, therefore levitate doesn't matter. Just because they can do it doesn't mean they always are doing it, so if someone places themself in a situation that would negate their advantage, then I will treat it accordingly. So if the slash is standing in a puddle, ground or not...there will be a bit of zap to deal with, or if steelix bit a power-line...it's gonna fry. There, all settled...now back to our RP already in progress. Hmm...is orange taken already...man stupid users of blue and everything else I want....I'll just recycle purple./OOC-)

 What was taking those stupid kids so long, didn't they know that his time was extremely valuable? Bah, he hadn't been able to get any work done since the death of that Mew...what a bunch of fools, cloning indeed, he was glad that their pet turned against them, he'd lost interest after the mother died anyway. Finally he got an answer...Hmm who was this kid? Punching up Josiah's trainer data through his database, Zephan picked out his name.

?Josiah! What is going on over there, I received notification that you have found the Sandflash, yet I got no report in?How are you kids fairing? I tried to send you against one of the weaker ones first, to allow you to figure out if the job is too tough or not. If you keep at it I?ll give you this info, all of my pokemon already have pokeballs fused with their DNA, so if you can?t bring them in peacefully, once rendered unable to continue battling, there is a good chance their original pokeball will activate and re-contain them. Do you have anything to report? Hmm? Spit it out boy, I?m very busy!?

If Josiah could sneak a word in there he was a either part ghost or ninja, Dr. D?arci spoke a mile a minute barely seeming to breathe between words and just plain talking over the other person if all else failed.

Bursting into the cave, the Sandflash took several leaping bounds before setting off a sandstorm and hiding itself behind a rock and curling into a ball with its tail tip curled to the inside to avoid giving itself away as it tried to catch a bit of rest. Diglette cave was not a small place, with a little luck, it would have some time to recover without them finding his hiding place. The storm would remove any footprints and mask his scent, not to mention blind his pursuers as they entered the cave. All was set, now it was just hopeful that his techniques were chosen properly and that luck was on his side?if all else failed, he still had another trick under his spines.

Post by **Silver** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:48 pm

*Silver had called Grovyle back as it had been KO'd by Destiny Bond, and was now just hoping that Vibrava or Sandslash had caught up with Sandflash*

"...Any one think we should go after it?"

"Let's just wait for Vibrava and Sandslash..."

"Well... but... ok... uh... Forget it! Good Bye!" *Hangs up phone* *Then something appeared to be digging its way out of the ground. Vibrava and Sandslash re-appeared; They had followed Sandflash into Diglett's Cave, but couldn't find it inside and decided to get their trainers to help*

"There they are!" *Sandslash motioned for the group to follow it, intending to lead them to Diglett's cave*

Post by **Josiah** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:17 pm

*The group followed sandslash and vibrava to the cave entrance.*

"What did the Dr. want?"

"Hmm? Not sure... Something about the pok?mon's original ball working if we weaken it enough. Of course, he didn't give us the original pok?balls so I don't see how that helps."

"So, sandflash is in here, huh?" *Silver studied the entrance to the cave.* "Let's go in an get it."

"Not so fast, look inside. Seems someone started up a sandstorm."

"Sandflash has taken a lot of damage but we don't know how strong it is. We need a plan. Hmm... Got it. Sandslash, sand storms are your thing so go inside and find sandflash, its probably in the middle of this storm, then lure it towards the entrance. I'll have venasuar waiting there. When it goes after venasuar I'll hit it with sleep and poison powder."

"And where do we fit into all this?"

"After venasuar makes its move you two will jump in with your strongest pok?mon and finish off sandflash. Got it?"

"I can handle that." *Silver grabbed a pok?ball.* "Sounds good."

*Shauni merely nodded.*

"Ok then, go sandslash!"

Post by **Gebura** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:47 pm

The Flash wokeup at the sound of something other than a diglet entering the cave and having sand bash into it. Great, he'd been able to recover some of his strength but they'd arrived fairly quickly...these humans were very eager to defeat him in battle were they? So be it then, he'd give them a battle to remeber for the rest of their boring lives!

Only one body had entered his sandstorm by the sound of it, so it was likely the one called Deno whom was the last one he recalled being battle worthy and capable of fighting in this environment. But how had it withstood the zapcannon? Well it wouldn't withstand what came next!

Listening to the sound of the sand striking his prey, the flash took aim from behind the rock, then lept atop the rock and then lept again, rolling into a ball midair to come surging forward in the form of a rollout attack.

Post by **Silver** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:17 am

*As soon as Sandslash saw the Sandflash about to attack it, it slid out of the way and used a Slash attack. But since the mutated ground/electric type was still curled up it did little damage...*

"Hurry up Sandslash!"

"Quiet!"

*Sandslash remembered all it had to do was get Snadflash to come out of the cave, so... it grabbed it by the tail and started dragging it out, Sandflash making a futile attempt to dig its claws into the ground and save itself. Unfortunately after a while it grabbed onto a rock and freed itself, performing another rollout attack...*

Post by **shauni** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:32 am

Gebura wrote: The Flash wokeup at the sound of something other than a diglet entering the cave and having sand bash into it. Great, he'd been able to recover some of his strength but they'd arrived fairly quickly...these humans were very eager to defeat him in battle were they? So be it then, he'd give them a battle to remeber for the rest of their boring lives!

Only one body had entered his sandstorm by the sound of it, so it was likely the one called Deno whom was the last one he recalled being battle worthy and capable of fighting in this environment. But how had it withstood the zapcannon? Well it wouldn't withstand what came next!

Listening to the sound of the sand striking his prey, the flash took aim from behind the rock, then lept atop the rock and then lept again, rolling into a ball midair to come surging forward in the form of a rollout attack.

Shauni ran in post the other
"DENO!" she yelled, the sandflsh had already taken care of him, and he lay on teh ground, KO'd

She recalled him quickly and decdended slowly
"Ive had enough of this, time to get medevil on you ass!"

Shauni, who was away from the others was ignored, she clenched her fist and her hand disapered under her long coat, a strange device was pulled out of it. ((Its that weird cage ball the pokemon hunter used in pokemon 4, just remeber shauni is a russler)0

She threw the device at Sandflsh, this device was not to capture, but to weaken. The device struck sandflash and began to spark an electriute it, but mearly distracting it

"Go mantis! teach this guy some manners! Use Slash attack!"
The scyther appered in a crimson red light and lunged straigh into atcion, striking the distracted pokemon

"Now! Everyone! while is distracted! Attack it!"

Post by **Josiah** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:22 am

((No one's following my plan. <_< ))

*Josiah groaned as the others let his perfect plan fall to pieces. At least sandslash had done it's job. He recalled it and watched as as sandflash was distracted by Shauni.* "Venasuar, solar beam!" *Sandflash was struck in the back and went sprawling. "Now poison powerder! Let's see if it can still get up now!"

Post by **shauni** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:33 am

Shauni was now so outraged at Deno's KO she was forgetting Josiah's perfect plan, and had Mantis attacking over and over again

Josiah's solar beam was striking again and again, as the poision power wor it down

"Timw to end this, Griffin, Tinder! Water Gun and Flamethrower!"

The two birds emerged from the balls, and follwed mantis with its slash, shauni also sent out Beauty and followed them,
"This things mine!"

(( If you dont want us to capture it just write I missed))

Post by **Silver** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:43 pm

((Shauni, Deno didn't go in, he's asleep, remember? And I followed the plan, you said to get Sandslash to 'lure' it to the entrance... I just did it in my own special way :P And uh... I don't think you can catch it. Well, I suppose if Gebura says its ok, but...))

"Uh... sure... you guys do all the work, fine with me... I'm still gettin' paid."

Post by **Gebura** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:18 pm

(-OOC Right..see this is why I hate having others control my characters...The flash gets off like no attacks while everyone else's attacks hit without fail despite it all? If you aren't even going to try and be two sided about this, wait until I reply and control my own character. Tired or not...he can still fight. Lemme try and clean up this hash... /OOC-)

It was amazing to the Sandflash to see that the slash managed to catch his tail from amidst his rolled form. Unrolling he dug his claws into the ground not to keep from being drug further but to ground himself properly before generating a blast of thunder directly inside Sandslash's mouth. Ground or not, internal lightning did nothing good to organs.

Freed from the hold he turned and prepared for another assault by surging back into rollout only to be struck uselessly by some electrical piece of junk that meant nothing as it discharged current into spines designed to channel and discharge such things.

What did have an effect was the collission between the rolling creature and the incoming scyther's blade/claw. The resulting shower of sparks threw the pair backwards from each other just in time for the Flash t o be struck in the back by a sneak solarbeam.

While his spines reflected part of the attack away like mirrors, it wasn't enough to keep him from being sent sprawling. Shaking it off he rose right into the descending spores of poison powder much to his chargin.

Curses...once again blind-sided by walking food! What an outrage! Watching as two more pokeballs flew out, he used his desperation technique, just as the pair of birds became free of the glare of energy, he unleashed all the energy he could muster into a brain searing flash attack. For a single instant it was as if the Sandflash had replaced the sun, burning far too bright to look upon. Then the pair of birds tried to make good on their orders, firing into the glare where they last had seen their target. They of course missed, finding instead that the flash blindness left the image of the Flash seemingly burned into their retinas.

Already he could feel the poison robbing him of his last bit of strength and so as his final defiant act, he veritably exploded in a storm of thunder, his tail lashing in different directions at the blinded attackers. He knew the lesser evolutions the girl sent out stood no chance, as for the rest he didn?t care, that is until he got caught in by a vicious stomp from a flaming horse that sent him tumbling back. He tried to rise once more but the poison would have none of it, leftovers or not, he just didn?t have the strength to continue and collapsed to the ground with one last strangled cry, his final thought that he should have used earthquake to cause a cave in and bury them all.

He?d not noticed that pokeballs had been tossed at him in battle and any connecting with him now sputtered and failed, but this hardly mattered for within seconds of his fall, cerulean energy began swirling around him. Twisting briefly into a vortex before surging away into the air to begin forming into the shape of a sphere. The more of the sphere that formed, the more the Sandflash seemed to fade and shrink into nothingness. Eventually there was only a floating pokeball with extended fins made in the shape of thunderbolts. The ball hovered mid air a few seconds longer before venting a cloud of steam, its fins sealing into the ebony surface seamlessly before the whole thing dropped unceremoniously to the ground. And so ended the battle for the Sandflash.

As a side note, the gear was ringing again.

Post by **Gebura** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:23 pm

(-OOC I read your post, that's why I wrote 'like no attacks' as opposed to none at all. But relax, it's just me venting my personal preferences, it's not like I quit or anything...just time to move on to the next chapter. But he wouldn't have rolled out of the cave...from what I've seen, they can steer very well during rollout, so he could aim quite well, it's not like he's out of control. /OOC-)

Post by **Silver** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:44 pm

((If you read my post you'd realize I DID let you get an attack in... I said Sandflash couldn't get a good grip in the ground, but it managed to grip on a rock and used Rollout again... although if it used rollout from the position it was in it probably would have just rolloed out of the cave... still...))

"Well... that was... interesting..."

"Where' the Pokeball thing come from, anyway?"

"No idea..."

"Should someone go get it?"

"Shouldn't someone answer their Pokegear phone?"

"I'm not doing it!"

"Well neither am I!"

"I had to talk to that guy last time, no way I'm doing it again!"

"Fine! Give it to me! I'll talk to him!"

"And you realize the Pokeball's still just sitting there, right?"

"...MINE!!!"