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Ver 1.0

Title: The Lost Pokémon Episodes.
By: Hakuzo NightFox

Episode 12: Shockingly Good Old Time!

Narrator: Greeting once again pokémon enthusiasts. Last episode Hakuzo and Andrew obtained new attacks to bring down the Spoiled Sabrina. As promised after obtaining the third badge, Hakuzo earned a fabled Fire Stone. What will come of this? Let’s find out!<<<

The Fire Stone starts to glow with a fiery red light. The room lights up with a red glow as the Fire Stone pulses with energy. The light envelops Vulpix casting its golden fur in a red sheen, making seem as if Miles’ fur is on fire.

Miles’ fur bristles and stands on edge. A static energy can be felt in the air, as it radiates around Miles. Everyone watches as Miles crouches down and starts to grow. Miles’ tails split and grow, nine large puffy fox tails remain. Their tips a dark blue in color, along with the fur taking on a slightly grayish blue color.

Once the red color dies down and Miles is left as a Nine Tales. Once the color in the room returns back to normal Professor Oak watches the whole process with his mouth agape.

“Um,.. Yes, well I thank you Hakuzo for helping me document such a rare event.” Oak finally says after composing himself. “I have seen many Vulpix evolve in the past, but I’ve never seen it happen to one that’s of a rare color. Today has been a day of Pokémon History!”

After a while Professor Oak finally stops talking and says his good-byes. Hakuzo sigh, and is glad that professor finally shut up. Miles slowly gets back up off of the ground gaining strength to move again. “Finally, I’d though he would never shut up.” A voice enters into Hakuzo mind, taking him by surprise despite this event happening several times already.

“Wait, who said that.” Hakuzo says out loud as he starts looking around. The voice seems different than the others he heard before, much friendlier and also seemingly young.

“Calm down Hakuzo, It’s only me.” The voice says as it appears to be closer to Hakuzo than before. Finally Hakuzo makes eye contact with Miles and fully understands now.

“Is… that you projecting into my mind?” Hakuzo asks Miles out loud.

“Yes it is, Seems… I retained a bit of psychic residue. Being exposed to the Abra genetics due to the Psychic poison, I’ve gained an increase in Psychic ability. I couldn’t talk to you before because… my mind wasn’t as advanced…..” Miles explains all of this while slowly getting up and stretching. Miles lets out a yawn and continues talking into Hakuzo mind. “I want to thank you properly Hakuzo, for saving me back in that forest. I don’t know what would have happened if it wasn’t for you I have no idea what would have happened to me……”

Miles hangs his head low and Hakuzo walks over to him and hugs him. “In just this short time I have known you… Things have been very exciting Miles…. You have become a very great friend to me…”

“I’m… Glad….” Was all Miles could say in reply. Soon the Trainers run in for the night, each one finally ready for a well deserved break.

Hakuzo fall asleep while watching as the moon light filters in through a window and illuminating Miles’ fur. It glows in a pale blue and seems to radiate calmness. Hakuzo’s eyes grow heavy and he finally enters into the land of sleep.

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Hakuzo dreams of the rare colored Poochyena he encountered previously. He follows the canine pokémon through dark ally-ways. Each step seems to bring a new darkness. The darkness had the same feel as that back in the cavern in Lavender Town.

The area started to develop a purple haze, and a dark laughing fills the space. The sound is almost deafening, as it echoes around in the darkness. A sudden scream perches through the darkness and the laughing increases in volume.

Hakuzo takes off running at full speed with the Poochyena leading the way. After what seems like running for hours, they reach a spot where a female trainer is getting assaulted by wild pokémon.

Beedrill and Scyther harass the female trainer, visible cuts and gashes line the frightened trainer. She’s trying her best to defend herself but failing to protect herself from the sharp claws and stingers. The trainer looks up and says “Serren is that you? “ The familiar voice asks and then she takes notice of Hakuzo. “Wait…. How are you here?”

“I don’t know… I fell asleep and started dreaming. Your Poochyena showed up and I followed it here.” Hakuzo explains while Serren attacks the Bug Pokémon giving them a moment to talk.

Serren lets out a yelp as a Scyther slashes it. The pokémon whimpers in pain from the wound it received. “No!” The female trainer yells out and rushes to her Pokémon’s side. She cradles Serren in her arms while the angry Bug pokémon continue to assault her.

Hakuzo only watches for a moment before he rushes forward and slams into a Scyther. The pokémon staggers a bit than backhand Hakuzo with one of its scythes. Hakuzo gets knocked back but continues to fight on. Hakuzo’s efforts are not enough to discourage the bug pokemon and they keep fighting back.

The situation looked hopeless but Miles suddenly appeared in a flash of fire. Miles strikes every Bug pokémon in one hit with his fire attacks. They all dissolve back into darkness.

Hakuzo hugs his sister and asks… “How is this possible?.... I thought I would never see you again….?” Ivy hugs back and shakes her head.

“I… don’t know… I fell asleep and I ended up here….” Ivy sighs out just as confused as to what happened.

“Simple, a very dark pokémon invaded ivy’s dreams. Somehow your connection allowed Hakuzo to enter into your dreams Ivy.” Miles telepathically tells both of them. “The pokémon fled away as soon as I showed up.”

Hakuzo continues to hug his sister, “I… hope you are ok?” Hakuzo asks hoping his sister didn’t get hurt.

“She will be fine; she will wake up and realize this all was just a dream.” Miles states to them, as he sits down on the ground. He is being ever watchful for any returning attacks.

“I… Don’t want this dream to end… I may not see you again…” Ivy starts crying before she could say any more.

Hakuzo is silent a moment before replying. “I’m sure this isn’t the last time we will see each other…. Look at what happened tonight…” Ivy continues to cry for a few minutes before slowly recovering.

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Hakuzo suddenly wakes up with sunlight filling the room, nearly blinding him. He looks over to Miles as he wakes up with a stretch, yawning as he does so. Miles looks over to Hakuzo and lightly wags his tails.

“Don’t worry Hakuzo, you will see her again.” Miles tells Hakuzo while lightly scratching at his own ears.

Hakuzo sighs and stretches himself. He prepares for the journey to Vermilion City. The city is a few hours south of Saffron city, so Hakuzo and Andrew want to arrive before mid-day. Once preparations were completed the duo leave for Vermilion City after a hearty meal.

The road to Vermilion City was deserted and quiet as the progressed. Not even a single wild Pokémon showed up the whole time. There seemed to be a silent tension as they approach Vermilion City.

“It’s to quiet… Even the Pokémon seem to be afraid of something.” Andrew notes as they continue to walk on.

Before Hakuzo could say anything, a man that appears to be in his thirties runs past with a Raichu following close behind. The man is wearing Military fatigues; he also has on rugged combat boots. He spots the two trainers and stops as soon as approached close enough.

“Good, just what I needed. Would you two do your country a service and help me with an important mission?” The man asks with a rugged voice.

“What’s the problem, sir?” Andrew asks taking on a more formal tone.

“A Pokémon is terrorizing the parameter of the Power plan north of Lavender Town. Orders are to stop these attacks by any means.” The man briefs the two trainers.

“Sounds easy enough, I guess we can help you.” Andrew says with a slight nod.

“Great, I’m Lieutenant Surge. I’ll be your commanding officer for this mission.” Lieutenant Surge replies, and goes on to say. “We will take Diglett Cave, there’s a hidden tunnel that leads outside of Lavender Town. It will save us a day’s march and get us there before the enemy does any real damage.”

The Gym Leader marches in front of Hakuzo and Andrew the whole way to the cave. His strict military training showing with ever stiff and mechanical movements.

Several Digletts roam around outside the cave. Most of them are head butting rocks back and forth in an odd game of catch. Hakuzo gets an idea and sends out Sandshrew. The Rock Pokémon watches for a moment and learns Rock Throw. After a few throws and a quick game with the Digletts, Sandshrew has a good understanding of the attack.

Lieutenant Surge chuckles. “So you have a Sandshrew, this shall be interesting.” Surge nods and leads the way again. He travels a feet into the cave then comes across what looks likes a caved in section of the tunnel. “Bah those Diglett they caused another cave in. Raichu Mega Punch this wall and clear us a path.” The Raichu nods and then punches the wall with a powerful attack. The rocks nearly explode from the impact, ricocheting off the walls. “Good job Raichu, that’s why I’m glad I rescued you during that war.”

The three humans and their Pokémon enter into the tunnel. “You were in a war?” Hakuzo asks Surge while they walk down the new tunnel.

Lieutenant Surge sighs. “It wasn’t a conventional war. A large group of scientists started doing genetic studies on pokemon. There was a whole skulk Eevee that was being experimented on. When exposed to different kinds of energies, the Pokémon mutates on a genetic level, causing one of 7 known possible forms. This Raichu was one of the unfortunate ones to be used as a battery.”

Lieutenant sighs again, before continuing. “Over time, the experiments started to become unethical. They were exposing the Pokémon to different substances like poisons and even radiation. Sadly…. Most of the subjected died.”

The group was interrupted as a small tremor rocks the tunnel. Some of the Diglett followed the trainers underground, causing small earthquakes. Surge motions for them to halt by holding up a fist. “Those dang Diglett causing earthquakes from their constant digging. It’s not safe to move while they do.”

After a few moments the rumblings stop and Lieutenant Surge waits a few minutes to make sure the caves will not collapse. He then nods and everyone continues down the tunnel heading towards Lavender Town.

Surge continues his story. “After a while, Pokémon sympathizers and activists caused uproar and the Military had to be called in to handle these disruptions. Once we learned of the situation my unit was deployed to sneak and shut down the facility. Getting in unnoticed was the easy part, but one we were inside, the place went to the pits. We had to fight off not only normal Pokémon that were forced to defend the place… but we also had to face abominations as well. Some of the Pokémon were deformed and severely mutated beyond recognition. Muks and Weezing; These pokemon never looked like that before and somehow survived these tortures.”

The Lieutenant pauses for a moment, having remembered the look on all of those Pokémon’s faces. The sheer amount of pain they experienced and the want of something better.

“I thought Muks and Weezing are fairly common around Kanto?” Andrew asks Surge to distract him from his memories.

“About that… This facility also had a Ditto. There were using that Ditto to breed more of these mutated Pokémon. Somehow the ones that survived mated with the Ditto when we found it, it had a clutch of eggs with it. Having no idea which Pokémon were to be born, we had to take all of those eggs with us. Once we found out that the mutations reproduced we did the only thing we could. We released them into the wild, though we never fully expected them to survive in the wild.”

“How did you rescue Raichu?” Hakuzo asks.

Lieutenant sighs again. “Ah yes how could I forget that part.” Surge lightly pats Raichu on his head. “At that time, I only had a military trained Arcanine. We never formed any sort of bond because of the military training it went through. After fighting all of those Pokémon the poor guy collapsed from pure exhaustion. At that point I made it all the way to the power production of the facility. Raichu was there being forced to generate power for the whole facility by himself.”

Raichu makes a bit of a sad sound, and Surge lightly pets him. “Once I seen this cruelty I shut down the machinery then once I freed Raichu, he overloaded the system. That caused a chain-reaction that caused dangerous chemicals to explode. Luckily all of the Pokémon that were in the facility was evacuated, and most of the building was empty.”

Lieutenant Surge takes off his military jacket and shows some of the scars he gotten. “I didn’t make it out of there untouched. I grabbed up Raichu and took off running. A support beam fell while I was running along and caused rubble to fall on me, pinning me to the ground. Raichu was sent flying and ended up skidding across the ground. Raichu got scraped up badly but he continued to push himself and he dug me out of the rubble.”

Surge closes his eyes a moment those memories still fresh inside of him. He could still smell the smoke, and feel the rubble pressing down on him. He can remember the look in Raichu’s eyes, a look of unending courage and undying gratitude. His memories of how Raichu dug him out with determination. All of these made Surge respect the Pokémon even deeper and at that moment a deep bond was shared between the two.

The lieutenant opens his eyes again and continues his story. “At that moment, we formed a very strong bond. Raichu bravely dug me out of that mess and thanks to him I was able to escape that place with my life. By the time I made it out, the facility was leveled from the explosions of all the unstable chemicals.”

Light filters into the tunnel as Surge finishes his story. The three exit the cave not too far from Mister Pokémon’s house. Hakuzo is surprised he never noticed the tunnel opening before.

The group passes by Lavender Tower, and Surge takes notice of the construction crew starting repairs to the structure. “What the devil happened here?” Hakuzo nervously chuckles, and the two trainers explained that Mole and his band of thugs did it with a drilling rig to look for lost treasure.

“That explains why all the Diglett were agitated near this part of mountain.” Surge comments as he leads the way towards the power plant. He seems to have regained his composure again and continues to lead the two trainers confidently.

After a few minutes of travel they reach fenced off area and the shriek of an angered Pokémon fills the skies. A flapping of winds is also heard followed by a loud clap of thunder. People shout out about fires and other problems as chaos ensues in the power plant. Another clap of thunder strikes and the sizzle of the electricity could also be heard.

“What the blazes? Listen up you two. We have to get close to the power plant and find out what’s going on. Stay out of sight as best as possible and stay low, that thunder has to be from an electric pokemon.” Surge quickly explains and leads them through an opening in the fence.

The shrieks of the Pokémon grow fiercer suddenly and the claps of thunder come on quickly with multiple Sonic Booms. Surge motions for everyone to get as low as possible as the approach a power transformer. Surge already carefully instructed Hakuzo and Andrew to not touch anything metal the whole time they are inside the Power plant area.

The three humans slowly creep forward using the Power Transformers as cover. Raichu scouts ahead letting them know it’s clear. The three make it closer to the building as the sound of flapping wings becomes more apparent. This close the Sonic Booms from the thunder claps are almost deafening.

Again Surge holds up his fist to motion the others to stop. Surge removes a tiny mirror from his and carefully holds it up. He sees the reflection of the Legendary bird Zapdos, though it was covered in a darkness. It was shades of purple and black instead of its normally yellow and black feathers.

“Just as I feared… The Pokémon causing trouble is a Zapdos… but something is odd about it.” Surge tells the other two while preparing a plan of attack. “That bird is madder than a hornet right now, we need to send out our Pokémon and try to knock out that Zapdos.” Surge explains for Hakuzo and Andrew to sneak around the other side of the Power Transformer and to launch out their pokemon and stay as close to the ground as they can.

Surge then burst around the corner drawing the attention of the Zapdos away for Hakuzo and Andrew, Raichu yelling taunts at the other Pokémon. Hakuzo and Andrew do as instructed and silently send out their pokemon. Hakuzo sends out Miles and Andrew sends out Combuskin.

Raichu curls into a ball raising his defenses with Defense Curl. Miles launches a stream of fire at Zapdos scoring a solid hit. Combuskin follows the attack up with an Ember attack of his own also scoring a solid hit.

Zapdos screeches out and swoops in to attack Miles with a Drill Peck doing a lot of damage. Miles cries out in pain from the attack and staggers back from the attack. Raichu starts spinning around on the ground using Roll Out and then launches into the air hitting the Zapdos with a Super Effective hit.

Combuskin then uses ember to on Miles powering up his next fire attack. Miles unleashes another Flamethrower attack at Zapdos landing a stronger hit. Zapdos shrieks out in response and unleashes a fierce Thunder attack at Miles. A loud Sonic Boom hits after the bright flash of Lightening and Miles is knocked out from the attack.

“Miles!” Hakuzo yells out and resists the urge to run out to get Miles. He holds up Miles’ Pokéball and recalls the Pokémon. Hakuzo sends out Sandshrew to battle next. Raichu spins around and strikes Zapdos again with another Super Effective hit with increased power due to the momentum Raichu gained.

Zapdos lets out another cry and Drill Pecks Combuskin causing the Pokémon to faint due to the Super Effective hit. Andrew grows and recalls Combuskin then sends Aron in his place. Raichu swings around and hits the Zapdos with yet an even stronger Super Effective hit than last time.

Sandshrew quickly digs up rocks from the ground and starts throwing them at Zapdos resulting in a strong Super Effective hit. Aron rushes at Zapdos using Takedown, scoring a massive hit. Thanks to the Aron’s natural defenses it takes no recoil damage. This caused Zapdos to stagger backwards. The Legendary Bird unleashes a Thunder attack in surprise and strikes on of the near-by Power Transformer, it Overloads and explodes in a show of sparks.

“Shoot, we have to end this quickly before that crazy bird causes a chain reaction.” Surge yells out as Raichu strikes it again with Roll Out causing the most damage this time before breaking out of the roll.

Zapdos flapping becomes erratic as it’s finally started to lose strength. Sandshrew attacks and lands the final hit with Rock Throw causing the Legendary Bird to fall to the ground exhausted. The purple color drains away from the Zapdos and its yellow coloring starts to show up again.

Zapdos slowly opens his eyes and looks around. It shakes it’s self off and staggers back to a standing position. At that point Alakazam appears in a flash. Hakuzo sighs a bit annoyed at the Alakazam’s random appearances.

Alakazam projects into everyone’s minds. “You have purified the first of the three Legendary Birds. The last two will reveal themselves over time.”

“Wait a moment, why did you show up AFTER the battle? Why didn’t you show up sooner?” Hakuzo asks.

The Alakazam chuckles, “I’m too old to fight anymore. Those days are long past.”

“That makes sense, but still what happens to Zapdos?” Andrew replies with his own question.

The Alakazam sighs, “Zapdos can now return to the wild, among it’s place in the order of the Legendary Triumvirate. Only then shall natural order be restored.”

The Zapdos shakes off all the dust and takes flight, flying off into the open skies. It lets out one single long cry as it flies off becoming a small speck of yellow in the distance. Lieutenant Surge assesses the situation. He takes a look at all the damage the Zapdos caused and knows that there’s going to be a power shortage for the Kanto Region for a while.

Alakazam teleports away again before anyone else can ask any more questions. Aron starts evolving now having gained enough battle experience. It starts to grow and it’s armor plating becomes harder. After all the changes finished Larion remains standing. The armored pokemon much more capable of taking a hit and keep going.

Surge talks with the plant operators to finish getting details and prepares the report for his own commanding officers. After a damage assessment, Surge finally makes it back to check on Hakuzo and Andrew. “I know that your Pokémon got knocked out, so here’s a couple Max Revives to wake them back up. It will also fully restore the Pokémon’s health as well.”

Hakuzo and Andrew proceeds to revive their Pokémon with the items Lieutenant Surge gave them. Within moments both Miles and Combuskin revive with full vigor.

Once everything was squared away at the Power Plant, Lieutenant Surge asks Hakuzo and Andrew to accompany him back to the Gym. They nod and follow Lieutenant Surge back to Vermilion City.

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Lieutenant Surge leads Hakuzo and Andrew back to his Gym in Vermilion city. Once inside the Gym he leads the two trainers back to his office. He removes a case from his desk and hands each trainer a Thunder Badge.

“You two earned these. You two demonstrated that you know how to safely handle the Electric element in battle. Us fighting now would be useless now.” Surge thanks the two trainers for listening to his war story. He even then goes on to say, “If you two ever want to join the Military, I’ll put in a good word for you two.”

“That’s ok… We’ll pass for now..” Hakuzo replies having no real desire for strict rules. Hakuzo and Andrew thanks Lieutenant Surge all the same and head out to explore Vermilion city a bit. The port town gets a lot of travel by sea. Pokémon trainers along with tourists wanting to take a vacation. In one of the Docks the construction of a new ship called the Saint Ann is being constructed. The aim of this ship is not only to make the fastest cruse ship of it’s kind, but also be able to withstand any kind of waters. Especially the attack of wild Tentacool and Tentacruel.

Hakuzo and Andrew relax near the waterfront allowing their Pokémon time to rest and spar some with each other. After a while the Pokémon are left to mingle about for a while and they devised a small tournament. Hakuzo’s Pokémon verses Andrew’s pokemon. They want to see who out of the group is the strongest, and the winner will hold a kind of bragging rights.

They divide the battles according to shared aspects to see who can come out on top. Miles and Combuskin will be fighting each other in the first round. Second round Eleckid and Vinzith will duke it out. Third battle will be between Sandshrew and Larion, The last battle will then be Pidgetto verses Dratini.

The Pokémon then draw up an arena in the sand. The winner wins by either Knock-out or Ring-Out. The pokemon not battling will referee the current fight and judge who wins.

Once the rules were in place Miles and Combuskin enter the ring. The move to their respective sides of the arena and Combuskin takes up a defensive stance. Miles calmly stands on his side of the Arena waiting to pounce.

Narrator: The Trainers Pokémon square off. Which one of these eight will claim bragging rights? Will team mate have to fight each other to claim the championship? Tune into next episode to see what unfurls in this battle of wits and prowess.<<<