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Chapter 4 - Return the Locket!
"Where are we headed?" Asked Jessica. She was just following Friedrich, who seemed to know where he was going.
"I'm not sure. Let's try the Radio Tower! They could broadcast a missing locket for us."
"They'd do that?" Tammy asked him doubtfully.
"Sure! They report lost Pokemon, so why not objects?"
"Well," Liam said in a hopeful voice, "let's go!"
They sped up and turned a corner. They dashed down an alley. The sky was spotted with puffy clouds, and sunlight poured down on the sidewalks and streets. Shops with clothes and books displayed were wedged in between tailor's shops and apartment buildings. None of these buildings had less than two floors.
About ten blocks down the street a huge building burst up past the boundaries of others. It was made of pure beatiful crystals, and had a Nosepass on the top of it. This Nosepass was used as a satellite to send and pick up radio waves.
"Hurry, because that's gonna be a long walk if we don't speed up." Friedrich sighed. "Phew, I'm not looking forward to that."
"Thanks for helping us, but you don't have to stay now. We helped you already." Jessica nodded at him.
"Just returning the favor guys," he said with a smile, and saluted. Everyone laughed.
"Well then we better get going!" Liam was the first to move, and everyone followed.
In about fifteen minutes they had run the full distance to the tower and been searched before entering. Inside the tower was very high-tech. The first floor was simply black marble, this floor being the lobby with four black leather couches spread out. There were also a few tables scattered here and there, with news crews everywhere.
The four of them took the silver-colored elevator up to the 3rd floor, where a woman who went by the name of Phyllis Ghogans was supposedly going to report the locket. Tammy came out of the elevator first, curious about this lady.
While the others followed, she slowly approached a woman surrounded by technology. Speakers and microphones were everywhere. She was speaking loudly on a radio station.
"And that wraps it up listeners! Listen tommorow for news about the shiny Politoed sightings!" She turned her mic off, and turned around to see Tammy.
"Who the heck are you?" she inquired rather rudely.
"I'll tell you who the heck I am," Tammy retorted just as rudely, "I'm Tammy Petal. I have a locket that belongs to someone. Can you do a city-wide lost and found callout for whoever lost it?"
"Sure kid." She turned the microphone back on, and Phyllis tuned the radio to the right stations.
"Crystal City, there's been a report of a lost locket. Please come claim your item at the radio tower if you've lost it."
"Thanks," Tammy said cheerfully, and turned around just as everyone else caught up with her.
"Hold it. 5 bucks!"
"5-" she coughed. Tammy was speechless for a moment. "...I'm not paying you!"
"Brat!"
Tammy stormed off toward the elevator.
"I don't like her!" She poked her lip out in frustration.
"Me either," Friedrich admitted.
"Yeah, but at least she got the message out," Jessica encouraged. "Now whoever owns this might find it."
"We should wait here for them. There's an open area down by the entrance for training. Let's go there," Liam suggested.
"All right," Tammy agreed. "Come on guys!"
In about 2 minutes they were outside of the building and ready to train.
"I'll take you on," Jessica told Liam. "Shellder may not be used to me, but it seems to battle well on its own! So I'll give this a shot."
She tossed the Pokeball at the ground, and Jessica was temporarily blinded by the red flash that burst forth from the Pokeball.
Another of these flashes accompanied the arrival of Liam's Houndour. This Pokemon had black fur, and red, supple pawpads. There was also a whole area of red fur covering the lower part of its jaw and its stomach. Metal head, back, and leg gear served as great defense armor. Houndour barked angrily, showing its sharp teeth. The match was on!
Houndour zipped forward at a super-fast pace, ready to make quick work of Shellder.
"Shellder, water gun!"
Shellder didn't need to be told twice. It shrieked before withdrawing into its purple shell. A steady flow of water rushed out of the hole in the shell, dousing Houndour and leaving it in agonizing pain. That unexpected attack had been quite critical to the underestimating foe. Shaking the water off, Houndour ignored the damage from the move and ran around Shellder before it could aim another shot. Shellder targeted the water attack onto Houndour a second too late and just barely missed!
"Rawr!" It growled, pouncing onto the shell and scratching the surface viciously. This seemed to do minimal damage, because Shellder easily fired another water attack to hit the adversary's paw that was hanging over the rim of the shell.
"Hounnnnn!" It cried out, jumping back to avoid Shellder once again.
"Shellder!" It replied with an unrecognizable giggle.
"I'm...winning?" Jessica stared in amazement.
"Houndour, use Ember plan B!"
"Ember plan B?"
"Rawwwwrrr!" Houndour circled Shellder as it wasted ammo, and fired off multiple deformed flaming spheres. These impacted on the surface of the shell, doing a fair amount of damage. As expected, Shellder opened its eyes just as Houndour ran up to it. Burning Shellder (even on the inside of its shell) with a powerful burst of flames at close range, it backed up and circled around the foe again.
"Shellder!"
Houndour moved in again for the attack.
"Bite!"
Houndour did as it was told and clamped two of its top teeth onto Shellder's shell, which easily minimized the effectiveness of the move because of its high defense properties.
"Are you okay? Fight back!" Jessica called out in a pleading voice.
Suddenly, a low humming noise grew louder and drowned out all others. Shellder began to glow a light sparkling blue, and a spherical wall of water shot forth from it. This barrier grew so large that Houndour's last remaining strength was obliterated as it was knocked back by the forceful shield. It all happened so slowly. First Houndour was barely breathing inside the water sphere, eyes bulging. Then some invisible force thrust it off of Shellder with no energy left.
"Yes!" Jessica yelled triumphantly. "...Uh...what just happened?"
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And thus I conclude this chapster.
Did ya expect to see an upper class move like Water Pulse so soon? XD Well, I'm done!