Recently, the pokemon tower in Lavender Town has started to burn up due to Team Rocket.
Phoo and Acropomider got stuck inside after attending a funeral for Krabby. Icy then
rushed in to the tower, and the Squirtle Squad is trying to put out the fires. Larry is
also running towards the pokemon tower, and he doesn't know why.
Icy was running towards the pokemon tower. Channellers, pokemon
trainers, and mourning citizens poured out of the tower's one door. Falling embers started
to scatter around from the building. A circle of devoted Channellers was prarying in a
circle outside of the building, in a seance. The firefighting Squirtles were blasting at
the flames with Water Gun, and were making good progress. But Icy had to find out if Phoo
was okay, so he rushed past a swarm of gawkers, and entered the building.
There weren't many people inside the building, except for a few
stout Channellers and escaping trainers. Icy spent no time in running up the stairs,
calling out Phoo's name. A large wooden beam fell right behind him, smouldering.
"Good god..." Icy mumbled to himself.
*** To Larry ***
Larry was right up next to the pokemon tower. He thought it looked
lovely, and perfectly normal as it burned and rockets peered out of the windows, sneering.
Larry screeched, "MAMA!!!! I'm COMIN' TO get YA?!?!?!?! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EAT my
shoes, please." Larry threw one of his pokeballs, and Magnemite came out. Larry
hopped on top of Magnemite, and started to ascend the outside of the building.
*** To Phoo and Acropomider ***
Phoo was very angry. "Rockets... Team Rocket did this
disgrace! The tower is burning... the souls... Acropomider, let's stop this thing!"
he said aloud. Phoo and Acropomider joined their minds psychically, and started to run
downstairs, together, searching for anyone needing to escape. Phoo hid behind Acropomider,
so that no one would see him.
As they ran, the two of them saw horrible misfigurings. Graves
were shredded, and the torn carcasses of pokemon laid open on the ground. Flames licked
and burned everywhere, and pairs of eyes peered out of corners.
*** Somewhere on an empty floor of the pokemon tower ***
Rockets were congratulating themselves on their work. "We'll
douse the fire, and with all the people gone, this'll make an excellent base!" one
sneered. They started to guffaw and laugh, creating a horrible cacophony. But suddenly,
they heard a noise. The rockets hurriedly and haphazardly ducked behind some tombstones.
Icy was coming from the floor below. Phoo and Acropomider were
coming from the floor above. They unexpectantly met on that floor. Phoo started,
"Icy... you're here? Hmm... let's make things easier. We'll establish a mental link
amoungst the three of us. I... have no time to explain Acropomider... but let me just say
he... is one of my so called 'affiliates.'" With that, Phoo started glowing and
concentrating, and a flash of blue light entered the room. Icy felt a strange touch of
realization as their minds melded.
"Phoo... you are psychic?" Icy's thoughts asked.
"Yes... you obviously are, as well," Phoo thought back.
Phoo communicated the thoughts of Icy to Acropomider, who instantaneously understood. Phoo
continued, "Icy, is there anyone down there in trouble?"
"No... last I checked, they were all escaping."
"Excellent... then all we have to worry about are the rockets
running about... oh yeah, and these flames. Hmm..." Phoo thought, as he ducked a
stream of fire.
Just then, taking advantage of the moment, the rockets jumped out
from their hiding places, and ambushed Acropomider, Phoo, and Icy. They all had
pulled out semi-automatic machine guns.
"What now?" Icy frantically thought to the others.
Just then, a humming noise was heard out the window. The
noise got louder, and some of the rockets turned their heads toward one of the windows.
They saw an incredibly disturbing sight. A man was floating outside the
window, suspended on a Magnemite. He screamed, while spewing forth cytoplasm,
"YER NIT MY MOMMY!!!! Where did the POTTED PLANTS VIOLEN horse GO.
WHOWOWOWOWOWOWO..." And with that absurdity, the man jumped onto one of the
rocket's backs, pounding his fingernails into the rocket's head.
At the sight of the insanity, some of the rockets started
chuckling. Others tried to help the lone rocket. They managed to pry the crazy man
off, who prompty slammed himself into a tombstone, and fell unconscious. Acropomider,
Phoo, and Icy took the advantage and started running, but were promptly stopped by a
rocket with two guns stuck up to Acropomider's and Icy's backs. The rockets did not
notice Phoo.
The rocket sneered. "Who's the fellow in the green
cloak? And, hello Icy. Rumor is you've been causing us some trouble, ya
pipsqueak." But all of a sudden, the rocket froze solid, and turned white.
The guns dropped out of his hand, and fell to the floor. Acropomider and Icy
turned around to see what happened. A gray mist floated in the air, which appeared
to be a Gastly.
A swarm of disgruntled Gastlies and Haunters had formed a circle
around the rockets. The ghosts were very peeved at the fact that the rockets were
burning their tower down. The appiritions screamed and laughed as the rockets were
driven into fear, giving Icy, Phoo, and Acropomider the opportunity to escape.
"I'll try teleporting us outta here," Icy said.
But his teleportation skills were too weak to transport the group so they had to
make a run for it. As they neared the flaming entrance, two strong TR agents blocked
their path.
"You guys are gonna pay for messing with our plans!"
"Outta our way crooks!" Icy shouted. His words
were met with a fist in the face by one of the agents. Icy was throw halfway across
the room and would have been well-done if Phoo hadn't teleported him to saftey.
"Thanks," he said before collapsing. Phoo and Acropomider prepared to
battle the agents.
"Huh... A big bug. Better get out the bug
spray!" The agents laughed. Phoo used his telekinisis to throw them
against a wall, knocked them both out. Then he went back for Icy.
Phoo scurried back to where Icy was, in a corner of the room.
He called Acropomider over to him, and they dragged Icy towards the center of the
room. Some frumious Gastlies and Haunters were toying with the semiconscious
rockets. As Phoo turned his head to look at the fire situation, he noticed that some
sort of water was coming into the building, and dousing the flames. It turned out to
be a sprinkler system that detected heat.
But there was still the matter of escape. There seemed to be
no way out, as the Gastlies and Haunters tormenting the rockets could be dangerous.
Acropomider thought, to Phoo and Icy, "Well, I believe we are all psychics, so why
don't we combine our power and try to teleport out together? And," Acropomider
thought, pointing to Larry's unconscious body in another corner, "we should probably
drag that thing out too, for ethical reasons."
After a nod of mental agreement, Icy, Phoo, and Acropomider
started to concentrate in unison. Their bodies, along with Larry's, started to glow
a sparkling blue color. After a few seconds, there was a flash of light, and they
all disappeared.
*** Lavender Town Pokecenter ***
A corresponding flash of light was seen in the sky, and three
figures appeared, heaped in a pile. Icy was there, Phoo was there, and Larry was
there. Acropomider seemed to be gone. Phoo dusted himself off, and spoke,
"He seems to do that oftentimes... Acropomider does. Comes and goes... hmm...
like the wind."
Just then, Phoo took notice of Larry's unconscious body, heaped on
the ground. His Magnemite was lying next to him, shut down. Phoo picked up the
small Magnemite, and shook it. A bunch of developed photographs fell out, some of
which had pictures of Icy, Phoo, and Acropomider on them. "No one will be
seeing these... anytime soon," Phoo said, quietly.
Phoo picked up the pictures with his image on them, and
concentrated deeply on the photos. They started to glow orange, and sizzled with
heat. All of a sudden, they burst into flame, and instantly disintegrated. Phoo
smiled a little cockroachy smile to himself. He looked towards the west, and saw the
pokemon tower, its flames almost completely extinguished.
*** From the perspective of Icy ***
Icy was incredibly surprised. First Phoo seemed to have
teleporting abilities, then his friend disappeared without a trace, and then, most
stupendously, the cockroach had seemed to be able to make a handful of photographs burst
into flames. Being shocked, Icy asked, "Phoo, you are psychic, aren't you?
You seem to be different than I would have expected."
Phoo turned his head, and responded, aloud, "Yes... hmm... I
guess the word 'psychic' might apply. Mentally accelerated might fit...
better," Phoo took no other meaning to the question, and continued, "Hmm... all
is well now. What plans do you have in mind?"
They were right in front of the pokecenter, and could see
Insanellama, Tauras, and Nova inside, who had seemed to have taken little notice in the
recent events.
