"Not so fast!" The group turned around to see seven people pointing their Pokeballs at them.
"And who are you?" Vinyl asked.
"We are Team Chaos, and we'll be taking all of your Pokemon, starting with the Gym Leader's." The one in the middle pointed at Twilight, who was still holding Sapphire's Pokeballs.
"She won't be handing anything over, but YOU SEVEN on the other hand will be surrendering and telling us everything you know about what's happening or else." The seven criminals chuckled at Rarity's demands.
"Oh is that so?" The Middle girl twirled her red and yellow hair around one finger as she laughed at them.
"Twilight, run." Sapphire whispered, as Twilight ran away to find the Pokemon Centre while the red- headed girl saw her escaping.
"Deal with these guys." She said to all her grunts. "I'll follow the girl." They nodded as they got their Pokeballs ready.
"Go with her Tavi." Vinyl said to her friend who followed the red- head.
"Destroy them, Beedrill!"
"Shock 'em dead, Galvantula!"
"Release your spores, Parasect!"
"Sharpen your blades, Scyther!"
"Come on out, Ditto!"
"Annihilate them, Durant!"
Six very dangerous and dull- coloured Pokemon were threatening them, but they wouldn't give up. Sapphire was the first to get out her own Pokeball.
"Dazzle us, Cloyster!"
"Make some noise, Exploud!"
"Show your elegance, Purugly!"
"Come on out, Phanpy!"
"Speed through them, Tailow!"
"Have a good time, Shroomish!" They stood against the six grunts who looked very confident.
Twilight ran towards the Pokemon Centre. She would've stayed and fought with the others but her Pokemon needed to be healed at the Centre, as well as those of the Gym Leader. It also had to be quick as the leader needed her Pokemon healed. She was almost there as well, and got a large grin when it appeared in her line of sight. She was nearly there, then she could help and-
"Baltoy, Ice Beam!" She stopped when her path was blocked by a wall of ice. She looked behind her, and saw a girl with red and yellow hair in a leather jacket walking calmly towards her, a Baltoy on her left.
"Well aren’t you a golden girl?" She gave a fake smile. "I'll be taking those gym Pokemon now and, why not yours as well?" She had seen Twilight battle, so she knew that most of her Pokemon were knocked out so she used her weakest Pokemon to threaten Twilight.
"Well? I'm waiting."
"No." Twilight said with a look of defiance on her face.
"Fine, have fun thawing out. Baltoy, Ice Beam again." Baltoy was ready to fire, but was suddenly blasted away by a great gust of cold wind full of snow and ice. Twilight turned around to see a girl with long neat black hair, and was dresses like she was late to perform in an orchestra. She was riding an Aurorus.
"What the heck?" The redhead was extremely surprised, but she quickly composed herself. "And who are you?
"I am Octavia." She said simply. "Who are you?"
"Your best friend, if you don’t get in my way, now leave please."
"No I can't, you're threatening an innocent trainer and attempting to steal her Pokemon so you'll be coming with me."
"I'm afraid not, Baltoy, Psybeam!" Her Pokemon got up and shot the special attack at Aurorus, who was completely un- fazed.
"Ancient Power." A group of rocks formed around the fossil Pokemon and they all shot at Baltoy.
"Quick, dodge!" Her Pokemon avoided all of the stones being hurled towards it. "Now keep using Psybeam!" Baltoy obeyed and kept on using the same attack while still trying to dodge, as both the Pokemon and its trainer knew that just one or two attacks would make Baltoy faint, but she wasn't actually trying to beat the Aurorus.
"One more Psybeam!" Baltoy had been doing its best and it had shot several Psybeams, so far but it was doing them able frantically dodging all the attacks that the ice- type had launched. This Psybeam hit Aurorus straight in the face and unlike the others appeared to have some affect. Aurorus was suddenly dizzy and struggling to stand up.
"Aurorus is confused." Octavia thought. "Use Ancient Power!" Aurorus formed the rocks again and looked ready to fire, but the rocks shot towards the Pokemon that formed them. This girl was smart; she knew that she couldn't beat Octavia's Pokemon, so she was aiming to confuse it so it wouldn't be able to follow her when she went after Twilight. Speaking of which, she was currently running into the Pokemon Centre.
Twilight was very anxious. She was waiting for both the gym leader's Pokemon to heal and hers. All she could do was wait and hope that Octavia was holding the lady off. She had explained to nurse "Redheart" Joy the urgency of the situation, and she completely understood.
"Alright, here's the gym leader's Pokemon." She handed them to Twilight. "Now I just need to heal your Pokemon and you'll be good."
"And while you wait, you can give me the gym leaders Pokemon." Twilight whipped around and saw her assailant walking towards her. Twilight backed away, stopping at the counter while the redhead calmly advanced in on her.
"Fine. Baltoy, use Earth Power." Her Pokemon rose up into the air, and slammed down; making the ground crack with pure energy radiating from the small fissures that it was creating.
"Ummm, go Dewgong!" Thinking quickly, Twilight sent out Sapphires main Pokemon. It came out in all its shimmering beauty. "Sapphire isn't here right now. We need to beat this girl if we want to get to her." She said when Dewgong turned around and looked at her in confusion.
"Now use Aqua Tail to knock Baltoy out of the Centre!" The Water- types tail began to flow blue as it shot towards Baltoy and the ground- type shortly made contact with its tail and it flew out the centre and landed in a wall.
"Baltoy, return." The psychic’s owner ran out and returned her Pokemon before giving Twilight a grin. "Fine then. Go Rotom!"
The Pokeball erupted and what came out surprised Twilight. It was a red lawnmower with huge eyes and a sharp- toothed grin. The whole thing was surrounded by a green energy of some sort.
"I don't think that's what a Rotom looks like." Twilight didn't know much about Rotom, other than what it looked like and the fact that it's a very rare Pokemon. The Pokemon did look somewhat like a Rotom but there were too many differences.
"What, this is the best Celestia’s golden girl can do?" She laughed. "Looks like you've got a lot to learn about Rotom. Now Ominous Wind!" A great purple wind blew from Rotoms mouth towards the water- type, who stood strong against the ghost- type attack.
"Ice Beam!" Dewgong shot the sub- zero beams at Rotom, who sped to the right and avoided the attack. "Keep using it!" Rotom raced around Dewgong, who was constantly trying to fire Ice Beams at the opposing Pokemon, who was simultaneously laughing at it.
"Leaf Storm." Rotom stopped and opened its mouth, releasing a huge spiral of leaves headed straight for Dewgong, who attempted to slide away on the ice, but still got caught by a bit of the attack.
"Aqua Jet!" Twilight was analysing the ‘Rotom’ while the Pokemon she was borrowing battled. She knew nothing about this Pokemon, though little was known about Rotom anyway. She had no choice but to improvise while Dewgong shot forward and was close to Rotom.
"Thundershock." Rotom sent a small bolt of electricity towards Dewgong, who took double the damage much damage due to the Aqua Jet conducting the electricity such sent Dewgong crashing to the ground.
"Now Leaf Storm." It sent another barrage of leaves but this time, it was a direct hit. Twilight returned Dewgong before it got too hurt. She had to send out another Pokemon.
"Go, Gengar!" The ghost- type jumped out of the ball with its trademark large grin.
"Use Shadow Punch!" Instead of following its trainer’s orders, Gengar chose to make its hand glow purple, and flew forward to hit Rotom with a Poison Jab. Rotom was pushed back and was hit with another Poison Jab before it could retaliate.
"I didn't tell you to use that attack!" Twilight cried out, desperately trying to get her Pokemon to listen to her, while the redhead watched with a growing smile.
"What a joke. Ominous Wind!" Another gust of wind blew from Rotoms mouth and blew Gengar into a wall. With an angry look on its face, Gengar threw a Shadow Ball at the opposing Pokemon, who dodged.
"Thunder Wave." Rotom vibrated and the poison- type was surrounded by small electrical waves. It tried to move, but suddenly became stiff.
"Confuse Ray!" For once, Gengar used the attack and confused Rotom, but rolled its eyes before doing so, as if saying "Ugh, fine" and sent the Ray towards Rotom, who began to get dizzy and lose control of its wheels.
"Rotom!" The redhead cursed, gaining a furious look on her face as she saw Rotom constantly trying to stay in control of itself. "Ominous Wind, now!" Rotom could not hear its trainer while spinning aimlessly and hit a wall, which did some damage.
"Shadow Ball!" Instead of continuing to listen to its trainer, Gengar used Poison Jab again and decided to attack from above to do more damage while Rotom was just moving itself from the wall but was still struggling not to spin. Things didn’t seem good for the redhead, but she had a thought.
"Ominous Wind while spinning!!" Rotom obeyed and stopped resisting the confusion, when it began to let out the dark wind and spun around in place as if doing donuts while Gengar was still coming down. The wind spun with Rotom, which created a tornado around it and stopped the Shadow Pokemon in its tracks, which resulted in it battling against the attack, constantly trying to push through it but Rotom eventually won and the super- effective attack spun Gengar in the air and did huge damage to it. “Sorry, but Sunsets always come before Twilight.”
"She used the confusion to her advantage." Twilight thought. Her eyes were wide with surprise. "That was an incredibly clever move. Just who is this girl?"
Shroomish was blown back into the wall by a strong Fury Cutter from Parasect, who was already advancing on its opponent, not giving it time to recover. Purugly was enduring the Twineedle attack from a Beedrill, and began to use Slash, which Beedrill swiftly dodged by flying around Purugly. Exploud using Hyper Voice, it was struggling to overcome the same attack being performed by Ditto, who had transformed into a greyer version of Exploud.
"Protect!" That's what Cloyster was forced to keep doing to defend itself against the powerful and very quick electric attacks of Galvantula.
"Rollout!"
"Iron Head!" Phanpy clashed with Durant for the fifth time, but was beginning to tire out.
"Wing Attack!"
"Fury Cutter!" Wings and blades clashed in the air as Tailow and Scyther flew up in the air, constantly trying to hit each other with their attacks. Taillow went in for another Wing attack but Scyther moved to the left and hit Taillow in the back with a Slash attack and it looked like it was going to crash before it gained control of itself and flew over to Scyther at full speed, dodging the scythes and hit the bug- type with the flying attack, but Scyther had quickly recovered and used Slash to successfully knock Taillow down as if it was nothing.
"H- Heal Pulse on Taillow, Audino..." Fluttershy said. She was trying to hide from the grunts, but still tried to help by healing the Pokemon that were hurt.
"Argh!" Applejack grunted. "These gosh- darn Pokemon are too strong!”
"And they're all ugly shades of grey, it's hideous!" Rarity wailed.
"Another Fury Cutter!" Parasect tried to move forward, but felt a pain rushing through its body. Parasect was poisoned.
"What the?" The grunt was confused. "How did you get poisoned?"
"Idiot!" The grunt using Galvantula yelled. "That Shroomish has the ability effect spore!"
"Well how was I supposed to know that?"
"Argh, shut up! I've nearly broken through the defences of that stupid Cloyster!"
"Ice Beam!" Galvantula shot back by the ice attack into the wall.
"You stupid Galvantula!" The grunt berated her Pokemon. "Use Thunder!"
"Protect!" Cloyster tried to use the move again, but it failed and was hit by the powerful attack.
"Oh no." Fluttershy gasped. "Heal Pulse on Cloyster." Audino healed Cloyster from a distance.
"I can't keep beating these Pokemon if that Audino is going to heal them..." One thought. "Galvantula, use another Thunder on Audino!" Just as Audino was done healing Cloyster, it was too late to avoid the attack and took the devastating attack. The normal- type fell to the ground with bruises covering it's body. Fluttershy's eyes were wide with surprise and fear, until they shifted into pure rage.
"How... dare... you..." She seethed. "You invade the gym, harass and threaten everybody, try to steal Pokemon, and now you've severely injured one?! HOW DARE YOU?!" She yelled as she got out a Pokeball. "Bunnelby, go!" Her Pokemon was surprised at its trainer, but didn't complain.
"Ha, you really think that that pathetic little normal- type can beat my Galvantula?" She laughed. "Use Thunder!"
"Mud Shot!" Galvantula shot the Thunder, but it was blocked by the ground- type attack.
"Double Slap!" Bunnelby's ears glowed and it jumped towards Galvantula and hit it with its ears repeatedly.
"Slash!" The attack hit Bunnelby directly since it was so close and pushed it back. "Keep using it!"
"Use Quick Attack to avoid it!" Bunnelby avoided the physical attack and kept dodging while Galvantula kept slashing.
"Mud Shot!" Bunnelby hurled a blob of mud at Galvantula, which landed straight in its eyes and lowered its accuracy.
"I've had enough of this! Wild Charge!" The grunt snarled as Galvantula’s body became enveloped in electricity.
"Quick Attack to dodge again!" Bunnelby obeyed its trainer and ran in the direction of the pool, with Galvantula following.
"Jump and use Mud Shot one more time!" Bunnelby jumped up and threw the mud at Galvantula as it followed it into the air. The attack hit the big- type directly in the face and blinded it, causing it to miss Bunnelby and fall into the pool. Since Wild Charge was still active, Galvantula shocked itself with the increased electricity of the water. When it rose up from the water, it had already fainted.
"Alright Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash congratulated.
"Um... thanks..." Fluttershy quickly shifted back to being shy after the battle.
""Exploud, use Fire Fang!" The teeth of the loud noise Pokemon began to burn a bright crimson red as it bit the torso of the copy, who yelled out in pain. "Now send it flying!" Explore threw the transformed Ditto up into the air. "Hyper Voice again!" The sound attack hit the sound Pokemon directly, and transformed back into its original form when it fell to the ground and fainted. The two then easily helped the others take the remaining grunts down. Soon they were surrounded.
"You are all under arrest!" Sapphire exclaimed. "Put your hands behind your back and-" She was cut off as she jumped back, barely avoiding a Flamethrower.
"Where in the hay did that come from?" Applejack and the others looked around.
"Up there!" Rarity pointed up and saw a red Pokemon in the distance.
"W- What is that?" Fluttershy quivered.
"That's our way out." One of the grunts grinned before they all ran out the door. The seven tried to chase them, but were blocked by another Flamethrower.
Sunset grinned, her Rotom was easily beating the opposing Pokemon. That Gengar was stronger than she expected, but despite the power gap it was easy since it wouldn't even listen to its own trainer, so all Rotom had to do was rile it up so it would be angry and predictable.
"Even your own Pokemon know you’re not worth listening to… What a disgrace. Now Rotom use-" Before she could finish, her Rotom was hit with by a Blizzard from the Aurorus behind her. "What?" Sunset was very surprised. "It should have been confused longer than that!"
"True, and while it lasted far longer than expected, the fact of the matter is you're surrounded, and right now surrender is your only option." Sunset glared as Octavia set out the facts. All of them were true, she was surrounded and Rotom had barely withstood that attack. But she still had one more trick up her sleeve.
"Go Grumpig!" She threw the Pokeball and a Psychic- type came out with a grin on its face. "Use Flash!" It let out a huge blinding light from its eyes which forced everyone to look away. By the time the light cleared, Sunset was running away from the two.
"After her!" Octavia jumped on Aurorus's back and chased her after helping Twilight up jump on as well. Sunset was far away but Aurorus was slowly gaining. Sunset suddenly made a turn for awhile alleyway that was too narrow for the ice- type to go through so the two had to continue the chase by foot.
"There she is!" They saw Sunset turn a corner to the left and quickly followed her through the straight path. Suddenly, something jumped down in front of them. A large dark chestnut Pokemon with beige lower legs blocked their path, it growled at them as its red mane began to heat up and fire formed in its mouth.
"A Pyroar." Octavia whispered.
"Hey, there it is!" Twilight and Octavia turned around to see their friends, the gym leader and Vinyl.
"What are you all doing here?" Twilight asked.
"That Pyroar made us lose those grunts!" Rainbow pointed at the Pokemon standing in their way.
"Twilight, do you have my Pokemon?" Sapphire asked.
"Uuh yes, here you go." Twilight handed Sapphire her Pokeballs.
"Good, now Go Dewgong!" She threw the Pokeballs and sent out her strongest Pokemon. "Use Aqua Jet!" Dewgong became enveloped in water and shot straight towards the Pyroar, who began to glow yellow with sparks flying off of it, and it easily overpowered Dewgong with its Wild Charge.
"Go Exploud!" Vinyl threw her Pokeball and sent out her normal- type again. "Use Crunch!" Exploud ran over to the opposing Pyroar with its teeth ready to clamp down on the fire- type, but let loose a huge orange wind of unbearable heat. When the Heat Wave stopped, they found that the grunts, Sunset and the Pyroar were all gone.
"Where did they go?" Twilight looked around.
"I don't know." Sapphire said. "But I don't think that this is the last we will see of them, and then there was theat Pyroar, it was unbelievably strong. I'll alert the League."
"You shouldn't have interfered. Let them get thrown in jail like those idiots we sent after the professor.”
"Oh come now, while they weren't able get the gym leaders Pokemon, they did provide a good distraction for the biggest threat to our plans." The redheaded girl smiled, a hand on her hip.
"I suppose, but I would've let them rot; made sure that they paid for being so clumsy."
"Oh please, just demote them or something."
"Ugh, can you just interfere less? If you do it too much they'll begin to expect us."
"Well, there's always next time."