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Chapter Two - Music’s Effects
(OzAndrew VS. Jarreddo VS. SilverMachop)
Suddenly, the battle’s sounds were drowned out by a mysterious singing voice. All of the Pokémon combatants stopped, and saw the sneaky Misdreavus singing “Relax” as loud as she could. Her necklace was glowing an eerie blue, and her eyes had an even bigger gleam of mischief than before. Her teammates looked excited, and it was obvious they knew that something would come from this. OzAndrew’s Pokémon and mine looked very confused, wondering what on earth Misdreavus would be doing.
“Mastar!” I called out. “Mimic that!”
She nodded, then studied OzMissy carefully. Her Pokémon genes allowed her mind to reserve a carbon copy of this special move. She smiled as she listened on, curious as to what this move would lead to. And then the singing was rudely interrupted.
“I HATE THAT STUPID SONG!! SHUT UP! SHUT UP, YOU FOOLISH MISDREAVUS!” Lord Helmet shoved through the crowd, and lunged at a surprised Misdreavus. The ghost Pokémon smirked as Cubone sailed through her and crashed to the ground. He quickly stood up and swung his bone club through OzMissy, shouting at her to shut up even though she had stopped when he attacked her.
The battle kicked back into action, with everyone going at each other once again. Fists, energy and bodies were projected at opponents, with the soul purpose of bashing the enemy into submission. The only reason to believe that this battle wasn’t as brutal as it would seem would be Lord Helmet swinging his bone through OzMissy again and again, with her laughing and whistling “Relax” to annoy him.
OzMime V. 2.0, now having lost his leek and Kengo the Farfetch’d flown away, set his sights on the nearest fighting Pokémon, who happened to be Jar-Jar Binks. Grinning, he used his psychic powers to create hypnotic rays directly at my Tyrogue’s eyes. Tyrogue became sleepy, his eyelids getting heavy...
Shaking his head wildly, Jar-Jar forced himself to snap out of it. Acting quickly, he kicked at the dirt under him, shooting mud and grass into OzMime’s face. The psychic mime cried out, and tried his best to wipe the debris from his eyes while running away. If Jar-Jar wasn’t sluggish from the Hypnosis, he might have followed him.
Taking advantage, OzBuzz suddenly snatched Jar-Jar with one hand and lifted him into the air! With a crackling fist, Binks received a Thunder Punch to the gut.
“Owtch!” he cried out. “Wha-sa yousa do dat for?” wailed Jar-Jar.
Electabuzz ignored him, and prepared for another punch. Then suddenly, a blast of cold energy hit his left side! Dropping Jar-Jar, OzBuzz tried to turn around, but a thick sheet of ice kept his left leg, not to mention most of his left side, to the ground. Turning his head as best as he could, the tiger Pokémon noticed a snarling Gyarados looking right back at him. OzBuzz would’ve snarled back, but a victorious laugh in front of him distracts him.
“Nyah nyah nyah!” taunted Jar-Jar Binks, sticking his tongue out at OzBuzz. “Now yousa dee one whosan caught!” Then he stomped on OzBuzz’s free foot and run off.
< OW!! > OzBuzz exclaimed, very uncomfortable with his only good foot now throbbing. < That’s the second time today, damn it! >
Meanwhile, the first one to injure OzBuzz’s foot was screaming at OzMissy to foolishly phase back to him and fight him. Giving up, he decided to attract OzMissy by using Focus Energy. He felt his strength coming back to him, wasted from all that blind swinging. He grinned under his mask, wondering if OzMissy was noticing him now. She wasn’t, and was pursuing Magby under her invisible cover.
OzKrow and Victoria were now in a wing-flapping contest, seeing who could overpower the other with their hurricane-causing flaps. Unfortunately for Murkrow, some dust irritated his eyes, and he lost concentration. Pidgeotto continued, knocking OzKrow out of the air and crashing to the wind beaten ground below him.
Victoria’s win doesn’t last long as Skanky Mankey, irate from all the damage he has been taking, leaps into the air at her. Clawing and punching, the bird Pokémon takes considerable damage. She managed to knock him off, but only after suffering a Thunder Punch to her back. She quickly flew away, not wanting the furious Mankey to jump on her again.
Ness tries to blast Talgeese the Scyther with his psychic powers but he disappears with a puff of bright green smoke. Raising his eyebrow, Abra turned around to see three Scythers grinning wickedly at him. “A clever use of Double Team,” muttered Ness, wondering what to do next.
Kengo noticed this battle, and used his Mirror Move to copy Ness’s Psychic attack. Then suddenly, a loud, furious cry is heard near him, and the bird Pokémon noticed the irate, scruffy Mankey charging right at him! Quickly using his Mirror Move attack, and squinting in determination from his stiff joints, Skanky Mankey was blasted back by a burst of psychic power! A little freaked out by the bird Pokémon’s glowing, blue eyes, Mankey decides to leave the suddenly-psychic bird alone.
Spirit the Dratini notices Mastar charging toward her, and quickly fires an Ice Beam at the fighting Pokémon. Yet Machop is far too focused and in charge to let this hurt her, so she quickly deploys a Light Screen. The beams of ice reflect off, and they connect with Hilde Garde in the air! The now stiff with ice and coldness Aerodactyl loses her balance, and plummets to the ground screaming! She just barely misses landing on Ness, who was concentrating hard on the three Scythers ahead of him.
Sailor Mercury, growing more and more exhausted from the poison, tries to concentrate, but finds it impossible. She suddenly realizes now in control Mastar is, and hopes that her friend won’t find her forward for this. Using Psych Up, she reaches deep into her unsuspecting friend’s mind, feeling the same, relaxing thoughts that she does. Feeling vitalized, Mercury is now energized! However, she suddenly feels vines and a light body attach to her back!
OzHoppy had caught Psyduck off guard, and started to sap her life away with Giga Drain! Panicking and losing all focus again, Mercury squawked out for help. Hearing her pleas, Groucho Magmarx quickly ran towards her! A good thing too, as OzMissy appeared from her invisible state to spit Toxic on him, and just missed him because of his sudden movement.
“Close your eyes, Mercury!” shouted Groucho. He held his hand in front of his mouth, and spat out a cigar-shaped cinder. Large and easy to hold, Magby clutched it as he ran towards his friend. Jumping over a collapsed Hilde Garde, dodging a wild Mankey thrashing about, and ducking under the legs of OzMime, Magby came within throwing range of his friend and the grass creature on her back. With a grunt, the baby fire Pokémon flung his cinder at the grass creature. Upon contact, it exploded with a burst of fire, sparks and ash!
Letting go immediately, OzHoppy shouted in surprise and rolled around on the grass desperately. Her leaves were now terribly singed, and her skin sooty. Magby quickly checked on Mercury, who hadn’t suffered any damage from the attack.
Suddenly, OzHoppy leapt to her feet! Groucho and Mercury prepared for an attack, and the grass Pokémon... danced?! Sure enough, the grass Pokémon was dancing and humming “Relax” to herself, not caring about anyone around her. Groucho thought she should have cared; she danced very strangely, in his opinion.
One by one, the Pokémon all burst into song and dance for no apparent reason! OzMissy appeared over an unsuspecting Cubone and burst into song again; Lord Helmet immediately started swinging at her and screaming for her to shut up. Mankey smiled for the first time this battle, as all angry thoughts left his head. Now dancing and humming “Relax,” Skanky Mankey forgot all of the hardships he had suffered throughout this match. OzMime started dancing, ad-libbing some mime routines; OzKrow did a little tap dance on his talons; OzBuzz swung his body about, fiercely breaking himself from the ice that once encased his left side!
Then Ness started to join in. Doing what looked like a version of the Robot, Ness moved in quick, jolting moves. Talgeese and his clones loved the idea, and started doing the Robot too! All confusion and hallucinations left Scyther’s mind as he danced. Spirit was spinning and bouncing near them.
Groucho and Mercury took each other in their arms and started dancing with each other. Mastar was near them, cheering them on. Clapping her hands, tapping her feet, and singing with all her heart, Mastar was really into the song. Above them, Pidgeotto swooped and dove, flying in a rhymic pattern.
The dancing had curing powers as well. Farfetch’d, who was marching and swinging his leek like a parader, felt his wings and legs loosen up! Gyarados, who was really furious at himself for swaying and growling to the song, had similar results! The paralyzation in both of them was now completely gone, and both had to admit that the humiliation of dancing at a time like this was covered up by this grand perk. Hilde Garde, who like Nonoshiru was hating every moment of her body forcing her to dance, was relieved as the solid frost and ice broke and shattered off her wings. She took to the sky, swaying to the music.
Even the humans broke into dance. As I, as much as I would like to deny it, was dancing to the music, I noticed OzAndrew and Jarreddo dancing along with our Pokémon. However, our ref Charizard04621 was nowhere to be seen! I hoped nothing bad happened to her!
Then everyone felt themselves slow down as the singing and dancing that came from nowhere stopped. The area was filled with heavy panting and the last dying hums of singers. I noticed a flushed Charizard04621 come from behind some trees, trying to act normal as if she hadn’t done anything awkward; I couldn’t blame her, I felt so silly at the moment. Groucho and Mercury blushed fervently as they parted from their dance, and Mastar giggled through her panting.
The only one to suffer no humiliation was Lord Helmet, who hadn’t danced or sung a single note. He had been swinging at Misdreavus the whole time, shouting and cursing her like crazy. In fact, he still was. Probably more exhausted than anyone else, Lord Helmet’s swings were not as strong as beforehand.
So now we all knew what that singing from Misdreavus would do. A very clever plot, now that three of her teammates were no longer paralyzed, and her opponents had been caught off guard. She looked very annoyed, however, when she saw Lord Helmet had not fallen under her spell and was still swinging at her.
“Shut up! Shut up, I can’t bear it!” he was screaming. “I will not relax! I will do it! Shut up, you foolish, female ghost! When I conquer the galaxy, that foolish song, along with foolish you, will be banished from the galaxy forever! Does foolish you hear me?! FOREVER!!”
OzMissy replied by spitting a wad of Toxic on top of him. Luckily for Helmet, the poison cannot seep through his solid bone helmet, and it harmlessly drips off. He snickers, and swings through her again.
Then all hell broke loose. The attacks flew, the roars of fury echoed around the mountains, and the Pokémon let loose on whoever was closest. OzAndrew and Jarreddo were shouting orders out to their Pokémon, who followed them precisely. However, my Pokémon were either too distracted to hear me, or chose not to obey me.
Lord Helmet was swinging at Misdreavus, who laughed evilly as he continued his pathetic attempts to hurt her. Ness starting blasting Talgeese’s clones and the mantis himself with his psychic powers, his eyes glowing a bright cyan. Mastar and Skanky Mankey were fist fighting, and both were blocking many of the others attacks, but Mastar landed a more considerable amount of punches than Mankey did. Mercury blasted out at Hilde Garde with Ice Beams, as the Aerodactyl darted to and fro to avoid them. Jar-Jar Binks was leaping up at OzKrow, trying to kick and punch the bird while in the air. Groucho Magmarx fought against Spirit, them both shooting elemental breath weapons at each other.
“Mastar!” I shouted, a trace of panic in my voice I wish I did not have. “Use that singing move that Misdreavus did! Hurry!”
She did not hear me, as Jarreddo’s Pidgeotto dive-bombed down at Mastar, and slapped Mastar across the face with her long wings. Mastar cried out, and her guard was dropped. Performing a flying jump kick, Skanky Mankey knocked her away. Mastar’s head was throbbing as she stood up, but she managed to keep herself calm; her strength-boosting moves were not just for hitting harder.
OzMissy had grown tired of Lord Helmet trying to hit her. With a blast of Psychic, she launched the bear cub Pokémon across the field, where the skull-helmeted head of Cubone connected with OzMime’s head.
< OW! > exclaimed OzMime, no longer able to concentrate on the Psychic he was using to hold OzBuzz in place; the electric tiger snarled as he was released, then chased after Kengo, who took flight when he saw the Electabuzz come after him.
OzMime, rubbing his sore head, looked down at the bear cub Pokémon, who growled up at him. “A mime!” grunts Lord Helmet, glaring at OzMime nastily. “I hate mimes! Go get caught in an invisible box or something, mime!”
OzAndrew’s Mr. Mime was not going to stand for this. With his broad and gloved hand, he lashed out with Double Slap. When he hit the front of Cubone’s helmet, the head gear swung around and snapped on backward. Lord Helmet was blinded, and was now shouting in rage.
“Oh, so that’s how you play, is it?” he snarled, muffled and now swinging his bone club around. “Foolishly blinding a poor, innocent Pokémon like me? I’ll get you for this, foolish Mime!”
The battle continued without order or direction, and I was fearing for my team; we were outweighed, unevolved, and not as experienced. I called out to Mastar again, and this time, she heard me.
Mastar started singing out one of her favorite Mandy Moore songs (I am unaware of the title), and the other Pokémon stopped fighting slowly but surely. They turned to watch Mastar, who was putting all her effort into the song. Even Lord Helmet was stopping his attempts to hit OzMime, as he readjusted calmly so he could see the source of that beautiful voice...
Suddenly, there was an earsplitting roar! Nonoshiru, Jarreddo’s Gyarados, was glaring at Mastar with intense hatred. He must know that Mastar was pulling off the same move that OzMissy humiliated him with!
The mighty sea serpent then powered up one of the most dangerous of all attacks: Hyper Beam! The Pokémon cried out in terror, and starting running from Nonoshiru. Mastar was trapped, though; Gyarados was aiming right at her.
“AUGH! Don’t blast me, foolish Gyarados!”
Lord Helmet’s voice carried above the screaming of Pokémon, and the powering of Nonoshiru’s Hyper Beam. Suddenly, the bear cub Pokémon lifted OzMime over his head, and chucked him towards Gyarados! “Blast him instead!”
Then the ultra-powerful beam was launched. OzMime saw it coming straight at him, but had no time to react; he received the full blast. Mastar performed a flying jump, which saved her from the Hyper Beam. All of the Pokémon were shaken by the huge explosion that rumbled the arena, the ones on the ground were thrown off of their feet.
“Talgeese, Hyper Beam that Mastar!” Jarreddo’s order was barely heard over the noise.
“No!” I shouted. “Mastar, look out!”
But it was too late. Scyther had zipped past a dazed Abra, powered up his own Hyper Beam, and shot it at Mastar. Although feeble-looking compared to Gyarados’s, Scyther’s Hyper Beam hit Mastar in the back, and sent her sprawling to the floor.
When the dust cleared, we could see that a huge crater had been burned into the field. All of the Pokémon seemed to be adjusting, still shaken by the attack. OzMime V. 2.0 lay in the middle of the crater, sprawled out and unconscious.
“OzMime V. 2.0 is unable to battle!” announces Charizard04621, looking at OzAndrew. The Aussie trainer sighed, and called his Mr. Mime back. He looked around as his remaining five Pokémon, who had all recovered by now.
Then a feeble roar echoed across the plains. Nonoshiru was straining to stay up, his large face contorted with exhaustion. The Toxic afflicting him and the exhaustion of all that had taken place were beating him down. Then, giving out a small growl, he fell down into the river, closing his eyes.
“And that Gyarados is unable to battle too,” adds our referee. Jarreddo shrugged, and called back his sea serpent Pokémon. I noticed he smiled at its Pokéball, as if to thank it for doing a good job. The rest of his Pokémon had all recovered as well.
My eyes darted around to see if mine were okay too. Lord Helmet was wiping the dirt from his skull cap, grumbling something that was too muffled to comprehend. Sailor Mercury was looking very beat-down, but still on her feet. Groucho Magmarx was wiping the dust from his eyes, and looked fine compared to some of the others. Ness seemed to be suffering terribly; he tried to sit down calmly as if to meditate, but he kept gasping for air. Jar-Jar Binks was stumbling around, looking as confused as ever.
Mastar was slowly pulling herself up to her feet, but the amount of effort she was putting into it made it look like she was going to faint any moment. Talgeese watched her closely, and then was surprised when Mastar straightened up and smirked at him.
“Nice try, honey,” she said to Scyther, “but it will take a little more to bring me down!”
< That’s it! I’ll bash every one of you! > roars OzBuzz, who charged at Jar-Jar. My Tyrogue ‘eeped’ in fear, and ran from him, weaving between Pokémon.
“Hilde, take care of that Electabuzz!” shouts Jarreddo. And before OzAndrew could warn his Electabuzz, the mammoth Aerodactyl swooped down and grabbed the electric tiger. He roared and snarled in protest, but she was oblivious to her prey’s struggle.
My Abra was looking so shaken that I had only one idea: “Ness, use Rest!” He looked over at me, and a smile etched over his face. He nodded, and then suddenly, his head drooped. The toxins in his body were destroyed, and his health slowly came back to him. He finally looked content as he slept.
A wailing roar could be heard from above, as Aerodactyl shot downward at a terrifying speed, and then threw OzBuzz to the ground. With a terribly loud ‘thud’ and a bounce, OzBuzz lay motionless on the ground. Then a small groaning could be heard from him, as he started grumbling while unconscious.
Charizard04621 noticed, and starts to say, “OzBuzz is unable to ba-” Then a terribly painful, extremely high-pitched sound burst out! Hands flew to ears as the sound continued to ring. OzAndrew covered one ear with one hand, and recalled his Electabuzz with the other hand.
The source of the sound was Spirit, as the Dratini was unaffected by the Supersonic ringing out. Jar-Jar, the closest, ran around in circles and screamed out incomprehensible sentences. Ness was also unaffected, as he was so deep in sleep, not even the terrible noise could wake him.
Everything went bad for my team when the Supersonic died down. Pidgeotto then shot down from the sky and slammed into Jar-Jar, knocking the dazed fighting Pokémon away. OzHoppy dove for Lord Helmet, and started sucking health from him with Giga Drain. Magby quickly used Sunny Day to part the clouds and bring hot sunshine, but this did not stop OzMissy from launching a Thunder at Sailor Mercury, who had her back turned to the ghost.
With a scream of surprise and pain, Psyduck quivers in the electric energy, then fell to the ground. The soft grass was inviting, as she felt her spirit to continue leave her. The last thing she saw before she fell unconscious was Groucho Magmarx, who was look down at her nervously.
“Psyduck is unable to battle!” announced Charizard04621. I regretfully called back Mercury, who had been doing such a good job during this battle. Groucho Magmarx then looked furious, and he rounded on OzMissy, who was smirking wickedly.
“I’ll get you for this!” he shouted, blowing fire at the Misdreavus. She was hit by the blast, looking taken aback by the sudden assault. Then she disappeared, and Groucho cursed under his breath. He then was shocked by OzMissy, as she reappeared behind him and used her powers to conjure up electric energy to blast him with. Both now were gritting their teeth, hoping to take down the other.
Talgeese and Mastar were staring each other down, both waiting for the other to attack. Mastar’s eyes seem to dart around the Scyther’s body, taking in every detail of the mantis. Jarreddo’s Scyther grinned, and then used Double Team to create three clones.
Mastar then ripped a collection of boulders from the ground, and looked around at her four opponents. Even though the clones were perfect copies, Mastar did not seem to look nervous about her situation.
< Can you pick the real one? > all four Scythers croon in unison.
Mastar nods, and replied simply, “Using Foresight does that.”
Talgeese’s eyes bulged in terror, as the rocks were thrown at him personally. Mastar had seen him highlighted in red when the clones were created, and she smiled in satisfaction when the rocks smacked into Talgeese’s body. The clones vanished, and the mantis Pokémon fainted before he hit the ground.
“Scyther is unable to battle!” calls out Charizard04621.
Talgeese called back his bug Pokémon, then looked over at Aerodactyl, who was resting on the ground. “Hilde, Flamethrower them!” he shouts, pointing at the crowd in particular.
She nodded, sneering at her trainer, then took in a breath of air. Then with a roar, the prehistoric Pokémon blew a stream of fire that hit Skanky Mankey and Ness, leaving them scorched black.
< OW! OW! > chatters Mankey, brushing the burnt fur off of him. He then glared at Ness (who had not awakened) as if it was his fault. He charged at him, and punched Abra in the head.
Mankey then prepared to punch him in the stomach, but then Abra started to glow a bright red. Using Sleep Talk, Ness then performed Counter, sending Mankey flying backward with twice the amount of force his punch had done. Ness continued to sleep peacefully, as though nothing had happened.
“GET OFF OF ME, YOU FOOLISH SHRUBBERY!” roars Lord Helmet, trying desperately to get OzHoppy off of him. Yet the Hoppip refuses to budge, smiling as she saps health from him.
Cubone’s yelling does not go unnoticed, however. Mastar, now done with Scyther, hurries over to him. Yanking off the Hoppip, she flung the plant off of her friend.
“Errr...,” grumbles Lord Helmet, “I was going to get her off just then.”
“You’re welcome,” says Mastar, smiling at him.
OzHoppy was now getting up, shaking off the pain. She then bounced towards Lord Helmet, preparing to sap his health again. Lord Helmet and Mastar prepared themselves, then...
“AYI-YI-YI-YEE-AH-HAAAAH!” Jar-Jar Binks’s war cry sounded from above, and the three looked up to see the fighting Pokémon come shooting down at OzHoppy.
POW!
The grass Pokémon was kicked down by Jar-Jar’s Hi Jump Kick. Rolling away, she groaned, and then passed out. Jar-Jar grinned at his friends, and chats with them briefly, “Moy moy, day was bombad! Woo!”
“You’re foolishly weird, my friend,” replies Lord Helmet, but you could see that he was smiling under his helmet.
OzAndrew calls back his Hoppip, after our referee announces the grass Pokémon’s defeat. The score is now five on my team, four on Jarreddo’s, and three on OzAndrew’s. We were doing better than them, something that surprised me. The Pokémon were now passing out, from exhaustion and damage. Pretty soon, more of mine were going to faint as well; Sailor Mercury was only the first.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Team Stats:
Jarreddo
Fighting - Hilde Garde (Aerodactyl), Kengo (Farfetch’d), Spirit (Dratini), Victoria (Pidgeotto)
Fainted - Talgeese (Scyther), Nonoshiru (Gyarados)
OzAndrew
Fighting - OzMissy (Misdreavus), OzKrow (Murkrow), Skanky Mankey (Mankey)
Fainted - OzBuzz (Electabuzz), OzMime V. 2.0 (Mr. Mime), OzHoppy (Hoppip)
My Team
Fighting - Groucho Magmarx (Magby), Lord Helmet (Cubone), Jar-Jar Binks (Tyrogue), Mastar (Machop), Ness (Abra)
Fainted - Sailor Mercury (Psyduck)