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Note: I use a dice roller for events like poisoning and freezing. If I roll high enough the status effect will land in the story.

Ver 1.0

Title: The Lost Pokémon Episodes.
By: Hakuzo NightFox

Episode 15: Safario

Narrator: Hakuzo and Andrew ride their newly acquired bikes down cycling road, a road that stretches from Celadon all the way down to Fuchsia city. The path was clear of other trainers and the ride was particularly boring to the two. The two trainers were happy to make it to Fuchsia city and their first goal is to visit the Safari Zone.<<<

It was getting late in the day as Hakuzo and Andrew arrived to the Safari zone. They heard that many rare Pokémon could be obtains here for a small entrance fee. The receptionist greeted them as soon as they entered the building.

“Greetings, Welcome to the Safari Zone. You made it at the perfect time as the Zone closes down after dark due to safety reasons.” The Receptionist then hands the two trainers a paper to sign. “This form tells us that you agree to the rules of the Safari zone and waiver any rights of getting hurt due to a Pokémon encounter. You will also be using our own Pokéballs as well for this and you will leave you Pokémon here at this station.”

The two trainers look over the paperwork and then sign it. “You can only enter one at a time. Once you run out of Safari Balls you must return here so the other can try. Which one of you will start first?”

Andrew steps forward, “I will.” Andrew leaves his Pokémon on the counter as requested and then he is lead through a door. Once Andrew leaves the threshold of the building a monitor to the right lights up showing Andrew as he walks through the Safari Zone.

“As you see, there are Video cameras all over to keep track of everyone that’s on their Safari Adventure. This will also help us look out for poachers as well.” The receptionist explains to Hakuzo as Andrew is seen stalking through the grass in search of a rare pokemon.

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Andrew stalks about the grass very slowly looking for one particular Pokémon that can be found here, A Scyther. He looks very closely through the grass for any movement. For a quick moment Andrew sees a flash of green and sprints forward, but he was only greeted by more tall grass.

This went on for some time, Hakuzo watches as Andrew just chases after more blades of grass. There’s no sign of Pokémon at all near where Andrew is, let alone any Scyther. Andrew continues to poke around for a while in the same area not really moving so far. After a while Andrew finally realize that no Pokémon are this near the entrance so he travel further into the safari zone.

An hour has gone by and Andrew has failed to find any Scyther at all. He sighs and continues even deeper into the Safari Zone. The sound of a Pokémon battle sounds off near by and Andrew rushes forward towards it.

A Tauros and a Scyther are locked in a battle in a small clearing. Tauros has its horns locked around the Scyther’s torso, trying to push it back. The Bug pokemon attempts to slash at the Bull pokemon using its scythe like claws but the Bull keeps his weight pressed against the tiny Bug Pokémon.

Upon seeing this, Andrew immediately throws a Safari Ball at the Tauros to try to get it away from Scyther. The Pokéball captures the Bull Pokémon and transfers it to Andrew’s PC storage system.

It takes the Scyther a few minutes to realize what’s happened and shakes his head. It looks up at Andrew and starts charging at him swing its scythe like claws in a fierce attack. Andrew falls backwards trying to escape. He throws a Safari Ball at the Scyther, but the Pokémon bats it away.

The Safari Ball distracted the Pokémon long enough for Andrew to get to his feet. He takes no time to throw another Pokéball, but once again the Pokémon slaps it away. These events continued on for several more minutes until finally Andrew makes the catch.

“I think I’m done now after that.” Andrew says to himself as he wipes the sweat from his forehead. He resigns from Safari zone and returns back inside.

Narrator: Once Andrew returns, Hakuzo sets out for his turn. His escapades were mostly uneventful. The whole time he only caught a Kangaskahn. Soon the two trainers make preparations for the upcoming gym battle and train their newly acquired pokemon. The trainers make a call to Professor Oak to get advice.<<<

“Koga is a master of poison type Pokémon. Andrew will have no problem using Larion.” Professor Oak pauses a moment in reflection. “Hakuzo is going to have a rough time. Ivysaur would be immune to the poison but weak to any bug type attacks. Whereas Miles would be very affective with his fire attacks. His added speed will also be an advantage.”

“I see, I’ll have to make a careful choice of who to use.” Hakuzo replies. Both trainer thank Oak for his advice, and have a quick meal before venturing to the Gym. Oak’s direction to the gym led them through a small mountain pass. The overall mountain range is shaped like a bowl where the inner ring is filled with trees.

Nestled against the mountain was a miniature Edo style castle. Hakuzo has a feeling like he’s being watched the whole time they enter the bowl shaped valley. Miles sudden telepathic message makes Hakuzo jump slightly. “Yes, we are being watched. There are several people hidden among the trees.”

Hakuzo keeps his guard up as the two trainers walk towards the entrance. Once they reach the door a rustling is heard and two people dressed like shinobi block the way. “You have to defeat us to proceed into the Gym.” Both shinobi say in unison.

Both shinobi releases out Venonats. Hakuzo and Andrew nod and both prepare for battle. Hakuzo has Miles move forward and Andrew calls out Elekid. Andrew doesn’t want to reveal his Steel type just yet and figures now would be a good time to train Elekid some in the process.

The first shinobi’s Venonat gathers up psychic energy into its forehead and Zen Headbutts Eleckid causing minimal damage. Miles charges forward at the second Venonat and unleashes a Super Effective Flamethrower attack. The second Venonat staggers back a bit as Eleckid strikes it with an Ice Punch landing a critical hit and causing the Venonat to be frozen in ice.

The second Shinobi growls, “How dare you use our own Ninja techniques against us!”

The first Shinobi place his had on the other. “Calm yourself Brother, Anger will only cloud your judgment.” The second shinobi falls silent as the first shinobi calls out his next attack.

The first Venonat shakes its body and unleashes Sleep Spore. The attack hits Miles squarely in the nose and the pokemon falls asleep due to Venonat’s Compound Eyes, allow it to see more of the area around it and gives the Pokémon greater accuracy.

With two of the combatants temporarily unable to battle Elekid rushes forward and unleashes a shockwave. The attack travels out striking both Venonats and Miles. The frozen Venonat takes the most damage due to the ice conducting the electricity. Miles takes the least amount of damage by the time the attack strikes him running out of energy by then.

The weakened Venonat unleashes more sleep powder straight at Elekid causing it to fall sleep now too. The Shinobi that owns the Venonat smiles as he orders his pokemon to attack the defenseless Elekid that caused so much damage to it. The Venonat saunters up to the Elekid taking it’s time preparing its attack. It places a well placed Zen Headbutt causing a critical hit to Elekid.

Miles soon wakes up and surveys the area. With a growl Miles rushes forward and unleashes a Flamethrower attack at the Venonat that’s awake. The attack hits the Bug hard for Super Effective damage but the Pokémon manages to hang on with a small bit to strength.

The Venonat counters with a latch ditch effort of using Poison Powder. The strike hits Miles causing him to become poisoned. At this time Elekid wakes up at the same time the second Venonat thaws out.

Miles quickly dashes forward and unleashes another fire attack direct at the Venonat that poisoned him causing it to faint. The poison slowly causes damage to Miles and he slumps down a bit in pain.

Elekid rushes forward towards the remaining Venonat and then launches another ice attack freezing the Bug pokemon again in place, and causing a large bit of damage. Mile follows up with another Flamethrower at the Venonat causing it thaw but still causing critical damage. Miles growls out again as the poison racks his body with pain.

The Venonat attempts to stun Elekid with stun powder but the Elekid easily dodges the attack and counters with another Ice Punch. For a second time the Pokémon is frozen in place and is critically low on health. Miles finishes off the Venonat with a final Flamethrower causing the Bug pokemon to faint. Elekid stops moving and starts to glow, a shower of sparks erupt from Elekid and he evolves into an Electabuzz

The Shinobi stand down defeated as Hakuzo rushes forward and administers an Antidote to Miles as the Fox Pokémon yelps out in pain. Once the Antidote takes effect Hakuzo also administers a Super Potion to Miles. Soon the Pokémon stops whimpering in pain and soon his breathing returns to normal.

“Thank… you, Hakuzo….” Miles replies. Andrew recalls Electabuzz when smoke suddenly fills the area and Koga appears.

“I watched your battle and you two fought well. But now the real test begins. Each of you will only be allowed two Pokémon each. Nor will either of you be allowed to used your own items. You can only use the items you find around inside the Gym.” Koga explains his rules to the two trainers. “Choose your Pokémon now, and my Shinobi will hold onto your items and Pokémon until either of us are defeated in battle!”

Andrew keeps Aaron and Dragonair. One of the Shinobi quickly takes his backpack and remaining Pokémon. Hakuzo carefully considers his options and considers letting Miles stay back.

“No Hakuzo, You’ll need my help to fight Koga you know this.” Miles project into Hakuzo’s mind.

‘But…I don’t want you to get hurt…’ Hakuzo thinks to himself.

“I won’t get hurt Hakuzo. You know it takes a lot to take me out.” Miles replies back into Hakuzo’s mind.

‘Wait, you can read my mind now?’ Hakuzo replies back in his own mind.

“Our link always allowed me to. It should have became apparent with that dream we shared…” Miles replies back to Hakuzo.

‘I see, that will make this battle easier then, Koga won’t be able to counter out attacks.’ Hakuzo thinks while giving a slight nod. He keeps Miles Pokéball and he decides to use Vinzith as well. The second Shinobi takes Hakuzo’s backpack and other Pokémon.

“This will test your wits and cunning. I will strike you two at any time and both of you will be taking separate paths as well. Observation will be your ally in this match.” Koga opens the door and the two trainers are faced with the entrance of the mini Edo castle.

Koga suddenly disappears with another smoke bomb and the trainers are left with in a room with several doors. Hakuzo take a door on the right, whereas Andrew takes the door straight ahead.

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Hakuzo walks down a very thin corridor. There only source of light was a single window near the door. Miles summons a ball of FoxFire to light the way through the small corridor. Hakuzo feels that if a fight were to break out in this small corridor things would be bad.

Hakuzo starts to run down the corridor with Miles in the lead. Both Pokémon and trainer hoping that they can make it to the end of the hallway before a battle breaks out but no luck, a panel slides back up ahead and smoke fills the corridor.

Once the smoke clears Koga stands in the hallway. He lets out a Muk to commence his attack. Miles being much faster than Muk unleashes a Flamethrower straight away at the goopy Pokémon. The attack was very mediocre as Muk only takes normal damage.

The Muk slams its fist down onto the ground sending out a Sludge wave at Miles. Miles does his best to block any of the poisonous sludge form hitting Hakuzo by spreading out his tails as much as he can, luckily the poison doesn’t take affect on Miles.

With a slight nod from Hakuzo, Miles’ eyes start glowing with a psychic energy and the Muk falls asleep due to hypnosis. Miles grins mischievously as he uses Nasty Plot to think of a way to improve his next attack then walks close to the Muk. Miles’ eyes glow again as he starts eating Muk’s dream. Miles’ strength is returned fully while Muk is shocked awake by the Super Effective damage dealt to it.

Koga quickly recalls Muk and throws another smoke bomb quickly disappearing. “Well played Hakuzo, I don’t know how you are communicating with your pokemon but you are a worthy opponent.” Koga’s voice echoes and fades away.

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Andrew Emerges into a very large room. The ground is made out of natural earth and it slopes up very steeply to another door. Andrew starts trudging up the hill, finding it very difficult to move very far. After what seems like 20 minutes, Andrew only made if half way up the slope. He arrives at a small flat area and notices that the rest of the hill is even stepper than the previous part.

Smoke suddenly appears and with a light thud, Koga appears from the ceiling landing near by. “So you found the steep slope. Do you have what it takes to battle on such uneven ground?” Koga summons out a Beedrill and it hovers above the slope.

Andrew sighs out a second knowing this is a very bad place for any of this pokemon to fight on. He goes with the best solution he can think of and brings out his Dragonair. Beedrill greater speed lets it strike first landing a solid hit with Poison jab, Dragonair becomes poisoned from the attack and recoils back slightly in pain.

Dragonair spins his body around rapidly whipping up a Twister and strikes the Beedrill with a powerful counter attack causing the bug Pokémon to flinch backwards losing its advantage. Andrew takes this time and commands his Pokémon to use Dragon Tail. The powerful attack hits the Beedrill and sends it backwards. Koga recalls the pokemon and disappears again.

“You have won this battle for now, But how long will your pokemon survive that poison?” Koga’s voice fades away with a laugh.

Andrew recalls Dragonair. “I may not be able to heal the poison right now, but Dragonair’s defense is now doubled due to its Marvel Scales.”

Narrator: Andrew’s Dragonair has unique scales that can only be found in a small percentage of Dratini and Dragonair. The scales absorb poisons and other effects making them stronger and more defensive. <<<

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After Koga left Hakuzo and Miles makes their way to through the small corridor and arrive at the door. Hakuzo slowly opens the door and reveals another room that’s filled with trees.

“Perfect, If Koga is distracted I can set up a plan.* Hakuzo summons out Vinzith. “Vinzith go hide among the trees and prepare for a surprise attack against Koga. He’s using this place to his advantage, lets see if we can set up a trap.”

Vinzith digs and buries himself into the ground up to the plant on his back. The plant Pokémon waits for further instructions from his master. Hakuzo looks around where he could hide away as well and try to anticipate where Koga will enter in from.

Miles crouches low to the ground concealing himself in the underbrush as well. Hakuzo presses himself against one of the trees on the outer rim of the tree line. Hakuzo waits and watches expecting Koga to show up somewhere in the middle of the room.

Several minute pass in slow silence as the three lie in wait, each one preparing for the incoming attack. Twenty minutes later a sound coming from the ceiling got Miles attention. A panel slides back and the room fills with smoke.

Once the smoke clears, Koga is visible now lightly crouching on the ground. He looks around and lets out a hmm. Hakuzo nods at miles and he jumps out at Koga from the underbrush.

“What! Where is your trainer at?” Koga demands instantly.

“I do not need my trainer to be near me for him to tell me what to do.” Miles responds to Koga sending the message into his mind.

“I see. Your trainer is more talented that I thought.” Koga smirks and summons out his Beedrill. Without delay Miles unleashes a flamethrower, the attack doing a good amount of damage causing the pokemon to recoil some. “Your speed won’t save you. Beedrill use agility now!” Koga commands.

“Miles, time to have Vinzith use sleep spore now.” Miles grins and nods. The Fox Pokémon passes the message on to the waiting ally. Sleep spores launch out from the underbrush striking the Beedrill by surprised. Miles calmly sits down and starts thinking up a Nasty Plot to boost his next attack.

“I see.” Koga responds. “Hakuzo, you are a worthy Opponent. You used your terrain to your advantage and you set up an ambush Very well done!” Koga commends Hakuzo as Miles unleashes a barrage of attack against the Beedrill. The fierce attacks cause the weakened Bug Pokémon to wake up before a final hit causes it to faint. “You won this round. But I will know to keep an eye out on you!” Koga throws another smoke bomb and disappears with his fainted pokemon.

Hakuzo gathers up his own pokemon and they progress to the next room. They plan to take this time to traverse as far as they possibly can and try to gain an upper hand. Both his Pokémon nod and they follow Hakuzo closely.

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After a long struggle Andrew finally made it to the top of the hill and through the door. They traverse a short hallway and come to a split path. “Hrm… I need to find these supplies that Koga mentioned. Where would that ninja hide something like that?” Andrew looks down both hallways and both appeared to be empty. Andrew was about ready to go down the right hallway but he caught a glint of something shimmering close to the ground.

“Koga set down tripwires down that hallway. So I don’t want to go that way.” Andrew states as he instead turns left carefully and slowly moving along the path. He arrives at a door without setting off any hidden traps. He arrives at a very small room that houses a shelf on it. A single Antidote and a Super Potion rest on the shelf. Andrew quietly takes them wondering if the other hallway would offer something better. Andrew takes the items with him and hold off using them quite yet.

Andrew exits through the small door and enters into another room. The design of the room looks very similar to the Pewter city gym. Rocks jut out of the ground and a crude arena is cut into the rocky ground.

Koga stood waiting for Andrew. “Your Trainer friend is a tricky one. I won’t give you the chance to ambush me like he did.” Koga sends out Muk to face off against Andrew.

“Very well, I don’t need to do anything trick to fight you.” Andrew reprimands as he sends out Dragonair again. With a burst of speed, Dragonair springs forward using Extreme speed. The Muk recoils back slightly from the medium hit.

“I see you have a few tricks as well, but lets see how long you Dragonair will last with that poison!” Muk counters attack using Sludge Wave, sending out a small flood of sludge at Dragonair giving back about the same amount of damage. Dragonair growls out a bit in pain as the poison courses through its body.

Dragonair twists its long snake like body rapidly causing a Twister to form and striking the Muk for a solid hit. The attack causes Muk to stagger back and loose its chance to attack. Dragonair follow up quickly with another Extreme Speed attack. The Muk takes the hit and backs up. It uses minimize starting to become smaller and harder to hit. Dragonair backs up taking more damage from the poison.

Taking no time Dragonair attacks for another fast attack with Extreme Speed causing a strong hit. The Muk takes the hit then starts glowing red; energy is released striking Dragonair causing it stop moving for a short moment and Dragonair’s Extreme Speed has been disabled.

Dragonair’s next attack missed and Muk send out another wave of sludge doing less damage since Dragonair’s defenses are still higher due to the poison. Dragonair growls out as he takes more damage from poison. He unleashes a strong attack against the Muk landing a critical hit causing the sludge Pokémon to faint.

“Very well played Andrew, but your final test is about to begin!” Koga announces as he throws another smoke bomb and disappears from sight. Andrew takes this time to use the antidote and super potion on Dragonair preparing for the final fight. He lets out a sigh and leaves out the door.

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Hakuzo makes it outside into a very wide open space outside of the mini Edo Castle. A much larger arena fills out the rest of the natural bowl shape of the mountainside. A few minutes later Andrew also emerges from a door and both trainers meet up at the base of the large battling arena.

Koga yells out to the trainers. “You two finally made it. Here we will have a final Ninja show down between Pokémon. Each of you has bested two of my best trained Pokémon but the real battle begins now!” A roar of sorts is heard as an Aerodactyl swoops down and lands in the middle of the arena. A Venomoth also floats closely to the ground. “Here we have the final showdown of Honor. The last stand will be a double battle. Show me if you can work like a true team of Shinobi!” Koga announces with a fiery passion.

Miles steps forward to size up the Aerodactyl, while Andrew releases Larion to fight as well. Aerodactyl flies past every very rapidly, causing Miles ducks down on instinct. Soon Aerodactyl is out of sight, and that leaves Miles with only a single target, Venomoth. Miles grins and unleashes his Flamethrower against the Bug Pokémon causing it to take a lot of damage.

The Venomoth flies in low over Miles’ emitting a loud buzz. The Bug Buzz attack causes Miles to cover his ears with his paws, causing his Special attacks to become weaker. Miles also takes a large amount of damage from the attack. Before the Venomoth could react Larion slams his Iron Head into the Bug Pokémon causing it to flutter backwards some.

Without warning Aerodactyl swoops down and slams into Miles using his Sky Attack. The massive attack staggers Miles as he yelps out in pain from the powerful attack. The Startled Fox Pokémon growls out and unleashes Hypnosis against the Fossil Pokémon putting it to sleep.

“Miles, are you ok?” Hakuzo asks telepathically to his Pokémon. There was a long moment pause before Hakuzo finally got a weak reply back.

“I…I’m fine… but… I can’t take another hit like that.” Miles replies back to his trainer.

“Pull back after Aerodactyl wakes up. Watch out for Venomoth as well.” Hakuzo commands his Pokémon.

“No… I can handle this… I know what to expect now….” Miles replies as he takes a moment to gather himself.

“I don’t want you to get hurt Miles!... Let Vinzith help fight…” Hakuzo pleads back to his pokemon.

“I have to do it… to prove I’m not weak!...” Miles replies back. Hakuzo lets it drop for now, He is determined not to let Miles get hurt again. The battle continues on with Larion keeping Venomoth distracted while Miles regains some of his strength back using Dream Eater to eat the dreams of the Aerodactyl restoring some of his lost energy while he can before the Dinosaur like Pokémon wakes back up.

Larion finishes off the Venomoth while Miles keep Aerodactyl busy. The Fossil Pokemon wakes up angry lets out a shriek. Miles pants heavily trying to catch his breath still, he wasn’t able to restore enough energy before Aerodactyl woke up.

Once again Aerodactyl takes to the sky disappearing from view again and Miles lets out a whimper. He keeps a close eye out tying to figure out where the Pokémon will strike from. A glint from the sky catches Miles’ attention and he closes his eyes waiting for another impact.

The impact never came, but instead a metallic clang rings in Miles’ ears. The Fox Pokémon slowly looks up to see that Larion took the hit, hardly taking any damage at all. “Thank… you…* Miles communicates to Andrew’s Larion. The Iron Pokémon simply nods and unleashes a counter-attack with its Iron head. The Super effective hit causes Aerodactyl to recoil backwards.

Aerodactyl tries to use a Super Sonic attack on Larion but the attack bounces harmlessly off of the Iron Pokémon’s hard shell. Miles keeps out of the way as Larion lands another strong blast against Aerodactyl knocking it out and finishing the battle. A few minutes later Larion starts to glow and grows bigger, Evolving into an Aggron.

Koga walks up to the trainers. “You both fought very well. Both of you have earned a Soul Badge and displayed great skills.”

Narrator: Koga pulls Hakuzo to the side and starts discussing a few things with him while Andrew looks on confused. After a long time Hakuzo returns back to Andrew. Koga’s two shinobi return their items and Pokémon back. Both Trainers return to Fuchsia city’s Pokémon Center to rest up and continue their journey.<<<