Pokemon The Wandering Scientist - Chapter 10 Chapter 10

“Hahahaha! Snorlax! Crush those Team Rocket scums! Defensive curl into Rollout!” A man with curly hair and a moustache shouted eagerly, his snorlax letting out a battlecry, then curled itself up and started rolling.

But just as it was about to hit a Team Rocket member, a faint purple cage surrounded it. It was then teleported right on top of its trainer, knocking the trainer out.

“Weepinbell, Razor Leaf in front of Snorlax.” Ester ordered calmly.

Weepinbell launched a few leaves towards the ground in front of the still rolling snorlax, rendering the floor fragile. As Snorlax rolled onto it, its weight crushed the floor, making it stuck in the hole.

“Gulpin, spit up on Snorlax.” Ester followed up.

A purple ball of energy formed in front of Gulpin’s mouth, which then becomes a beam and was fired towards Snorlax, knocking it into the air.

Estimated projectile motion landing site: On its trainer.

It slammed right on its fainted trainer. Leaving only his legs out.

“The Snorlax was strong.” Ester glanced at the Snorlax that fainted, though to be honest, fell asleep was more suiting. “Recycle it.”

A Team Rocket grunt walked towards it, but soon came back with an embarrassed face. “Its pokeball is stuck under it on the trainer’s hand, we can’t recycle it.”

“Tch…” Ester facepalmed, she then looked towards William, but soon, she gave up.

The issue with Team Rocket battling against these trainers is that, most Team Rocket members have only two pokemons, some even just one.

Even elites like Ester have a likely maximum of three, one that’s not suitable for this situation.

On the other hand, most trainers have four to six. This meant that on paper, Team Rocket may lead slightly thanks to proper tactics, but they are outnumbered 1:2, not to mention in terms of battle power, they are outnumbered 1:5 due to a lack of pokemon.

Not to mention as some Team Rocket grunts fainted, the trainers would break the machines apart and get back their pokeballs, which in turn recovered their strength.

Gardevoir was crucial to them sustaining so long, as she acted like a lever, maximising the effects of Team Rocket actions while minimising the results of the trainers’ pokemons without even attacking once.

Thanks to her inhuman calculating ability, she was able to sustain the battle. But even with her, Team Rocket’s battle forces were outnumbered, more than simply levering results could help.

To compensate for that, even Gardevoir had to start attacking to attract fire power.

In a scenario where battling was already difficult, don’t even mention recycling pokemons. There was just simply not enough calculative ability and energy to do that.

Suddenly, a Charizard rushed towards Gardevoir, one that William had his eyes on for quite a while due to it’s devastating effects on the other sections of the battle.

But before William could order Gardevoir to do a counter attack, a faint purple cage surrounded it. And within a blink of the eye, Charizard was missing.

It was sent to Alex’s side of the battlefield.

That caused her to frown a bit and glanced over to William, but nonetheless, she helped out.

“Gengar! Smog!”

As a sudden burst of gas surrounded Charizard, a loud thump came in the middle of the dense smog, likely indicating Charizard lost the ability to fight, or at least the ability to fly.

Meanwhile, Ester finally made a tactical move.

“Squad E enter battle, those that don’t have a pokemon use the suction machine.” Ester invested their back up team, but that only helped a bit.

Their defeat was just a matter of time, at least that was William’s analysis.

“Captain, we’re unable to sustain casualties any longer. If this continues to go on, we shall be unable to keep even a single pokemon.” Alex suggested, apparently also clear of the situation.

“The mission though…” Ester frowned a little as she watched the chaos in the Main Hall. But she was also wary that the scales have tipped. Team Rocket members are starting to lose moral and the Trainers were gaining moral.

Soon, she made her decision. “Squad E,C watch our rear, everyone else prepare to evacuate.”

“Then we’ll help with the evacuation, we still need to create evidence.” William went up and suggested, pointing at Alex and himself.

“Alright, watch out for yourselves.” Ester nodded. “Be careful.”

“Affirmative.” A smile grew on William’s face, despite not visible to Ester.

He then went to the first line of battle with Alex.

(Hypnosis.)

“Confuse Ray.”

Gardevoir launched waves of energy, while Gengar sent out spheres of energy, these soon started to effect the battling pokemons, creating chaos amongst them.

“Smoke! Now!” A Team Rocket member shouted, those that left behind threw a smoke bomb onto the ground, creating a large smokescreen.

Team Rocket agents then used the smoke as cover and jumped onto some jet boats they prepared earlier.

William on the other hand, dashed into the guests room zone with Alex, looking for a place to change back to their original clothings.

They quickly entered one, without even caring that they would see each other’s body, they quickly changed into their original clothings. Alex was standing beside the door next to a table for convenience.

While they were changing, Alex ordered Gengar to sneak outside and lock the door from outside.

When it came back inside, they were done changing and Alex kicked the door as hard as she could.

That soon attracted attention.

“Whose inside?” A voice that was actually familiar.

Instantly realising it was Ash, William and Alex turned towards Gardevoir, who was still blue.

They forgot that Gardevoir needed time to change colours.

Suddenly, the whole cruiser rocked, knocking everyone out of balance. William dropped to the floor. The lights in the room went out as well as the ship rocked, Dimming the room as the lamp on the table was the only source of illumination.

When William regained his balance, he looked towards Alex. She was lying on the ground unconsciously, by an angle that people outside won’t be able to notice.

William had to do something.

“Is it you? Ash?!” He shouted. “Can you help me open the door?”

“Will?! Are you stuck inside?” Ash quickly replied. “Wait a minute!”

After some clunking noise, he shouted, “I can’t… your door knob is broken!”

“In that case…” William stayed silence for a while, thinking of a solution.

He couldn’t use Gardevoir, as she is currently still in her blue form. Furthermore, he didn’t see signs of her turning green yet, meaning she hasn’t yet taken a normal pill yet. Probably because she believes that this state is better in dangerous situations.

As he was thinking, he took a quick glance at Gardevoir’s original location. Gardevoir was gone, she went into the toilet to conceal herself.

He turned his eyes towards Gengar, who due to not being able to show up, had merged into Alex’s shadow.

“I guess it can’t be helped then!” He shouted. He aimed for the door knob, and stomped the area around it, closest to the lock as heavy as he could.

After a few kicks and a loud bump sound, the door opened. Outside was Ash, Brock and Misty.

“What happened? I was just having a nap and I got locked inside?” William asked.

“It must’ve been Team Rocket’s doings!” Ash told William everything without a doubt. “Team Rocket wanted to steal our pokemon! But we’ve managed to send them away!”

“Is that so? Too bad Gardevoir was resting, otherwise we could’ve helped!” William said as if he regretted not going there.

“Oh yea! Speaking of which, I saw a blue coloured pokemon that looked almost identical to Gardevoir!” Ash quickly remembered. “It was very strong! You should’ve had seen it.”

“A shiny version? And a strong one? Dang I missed a lot!”

“Oh right!!!” Ash suddenly shouted. “I almost forgot! I needed to do something! I’ll see you later!”

He rushed off like an arrow, Misty and Brock following.

And just at this moment, the cruiser was rocked again, and people were screaming so loud that William could hear them.

“The ship is sinking!!!”

That was the most crucial thing he heard. He quickly turned towards Alex, who was still unconscious.

“Hey, Alex! Wake up!” He slapped Alex gently on her face. “The cruiser is about to sink!”

“Come on!” He mumbled as Alex had no signs of awakening.

He then placed his hand behind Alex’s head, trying to get her up.

He felt a little liquid substance on his hand, but without thinking much, he pushed her towards the table. Now that Alex was in a sitting stance, he knelt down in front of her and placed her hands over his shoulders.

And using a bit of force, he managed to carry Alex by squirming her over his shoulders.

The moment he went outside the door into the hallway, another wave rocked the ship, causing William to lose his balance, throwing him and Alex onto the ground.

Just as William was about to get up, he suddenly saw that his whole palm was red.

He suddenly looked over to Alex, whose beanie that was partially red already fallen off, and noticed that her blonde hair was half red, and that the carpet below her head was also soaked in a red liquid.
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