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Episode IX- Underground Melee
by WETWEB
Moonlight burst through the tunnel as two shadows dashed past it. Derrick's Team Rocket uniform blazed in the moonlight's glare as he slid down a hill on the inside of Mount Moon. Ron made the same moves, chasing his arch-rival. Derrick stopped in the shadows, hoping that Ron would pass him up. Ron went past, and Derrick began to climb back up the incline. Ron stood, looking and panting, trying to find his target. "Oh, man! I need some help! Sandshrew, go!" The white electricity lit up the cave as the armadillo creature got up out of its curling position. "Sandshrew, Dig! Go find some help!" "Shrew! Shandshrew!!" The Pokemon jumped up and hit the ground burrowing.
As the sound of his digging Pokemon faded, Ron thought he heard another noise. "Ahhhhh!!! Ow! Ow!" Derrick stopped his fall grabbing onto a nearby rock and swinging his leg onto the ledge.
Ron spun around, and saw a flash of white cloth in the moonlight. "Derrick! Stop right there and come down here!!" He started running up the slope.
Derrick scowled. "In your dreams, kid!" Then he saw his chance. "Yeah! Sure, I'll come down!" He dove down the slope towards Ron, feet in a kicking position.
The kick rammed into Ron head on, and sent him flying down the incline. "Ahhhhhh!!!!" He slammed into the ground, sending rocks and debris in every direction. "Oooofff!!"
Derrick skidded to a stop near Ron, who had the breath knocked out of him. He waved his finger in the darkness. "You tried to play with the big boys, kid." Derrick picked Ron up by the collar, and gave him another toss. "But the game's over." Derrick kicked Ron where he had fallen. "And you lost!" Ron tried to get his breath back, and Derrick began to head to the exit from the cave. He looked back at Ron, struggling to get up. "You're still trying to fight me? Give it up! The battle's over!!"
Ron slowly rose to his feet, still trying to catch his breath, and put his hand to his belt. "As long... as I... can stand... and lift... my fists,... the battle is... never over." He plucked a Pokeball from his belt. "Geodude, go!!" The rockball with arms growled at Derrick.
Derrick was intrigued. "Very well. If that's the way you want it, kid! Graveler, go!!" The evolved form of Ron's Geodude waved its four arms around. "Graveler, Rock Throw!!" The Graveler launched its hands at the Geodude, who rolled out of the way.
Ron was ready for action now. "Alright, Geodude, show him a real Rock Throw!!" The Geodude curled its arms around itself and slammed into the Graveler three times, knocking it backwards each time.
Derrick stomped his foot. "Stop that! Graveler! Explosion!!" The Graveler began to glow with a red light.
Ron saw what was coming. "Geodude, watch out!!" The Graveler blasted rocks in every direction, even shoving both Derrick and Ron to the floor. When the explosions ceased, he jumped to his feet. "Geodude!!" He ran to his wounded Pokemon, who was in bad shape. "Geodude, return!!!" He snapped up another Pokeball. "Onix, Go!!!" The huge rock serpent encircled the two trainers, roaring.
Derrick smiled cruelly. "Time for a rematch! Rhydon! Go!!!" The rhinocerous-like Pokemon raised on it hind legs, brandishing the sharp spike on the tip of it's nose. "Rhydon, Stomp!!"
The Rhydon raised a foot into the air and slammed it down, shaking the entire cave. Slowly, the sound echoed off. Ron waited for something to happen, but nothing did. He shrugged. "That was useless." Derrick smiled and shook his head. He pointed up. Suddenly, Ron heard a cracking noise as the stalactites on the ceiling began to break and fall. "Onix!" The huge snaked curled up around its owner, protecting him from the falling spikes. Soon the crashes stopped, and the Onix uncurled Ron.
Derrick had been safe where he was standing, but his Rhydon had run spike-first into a wall, getting the horn caught. "Rhydon! Don! Don! Don!" It kept trying to pull out, but the horn was in too deeply. Derrick had no choice. "Rhydon, return!" The Pokemon was aborbed in the blast of red light. "All right, I surrender! Just put that rock-snake away!"
Ron called his Onix back, and Derrick walked over to him, head down. He stood silent in front of Ron for a second, and then, in one swift movement, scooped the rest of the Pokeballs off of Ron's belt and tossed them into the darkness. Ron dove after them. "Hey!!" He got up and looked around. Derrrick had run!
Derrick ran down the corridors in the cave, disregarding the moonlight coming through the cracks in the roof. He dashed past open rooms, and dove down slopes. He looked behind him, and Ron was trying his hardest to keep up. Derrick slid to the side into the shadow as he rounded a corner, and stuck his foot out to trip Ron. Ron went skidding across the floor, but he was up and facing his enemy in the next moment. Ron dashed over to the door, not wanting his adversary to get out that way. Derrick looked around, just realizing that the room he was in had only one door, and Ron was standing in front of it. Derrick tried to charge him, but Ron lowed his head and rammed him directly in the stomach, sending him flying backwards. Ron got back in front of the door with a glare. "Just you try that again!"
Derrick got up from where he had fallen, and his hand slid into his pocket, and he drew a gun. "Oh, believe me, I will, but this time, you'll move." Ron looked down the barrel of the gun. "Now, get out of my way." Ron put his hands into the air and started to back a little to the right of the door. The two slowly edged around each other as Derrick started to get closer to the door. Suddenly, Ron looked up, as if startled by something. Derrick did the same, and in that second, Ron charged into Derrick, sending the gun flying. It went off as it hit the ground, echoing in the caves. The two wrestled for a second, and Derrick threw Ron against the wall, once again knocking the breath out of him. Derrick rushed over to follow up on his attack, but Ron used the wall to push himself into the running Derrick, flipping him over and slamming him on the ground. Ron spun around as his enemy jumped to his feet and swung his fists, connecting with Ron's face and sending him down to the floor, almost unconscious. Derrick began to walk over to the door, which was bright in the moonlight. He turned to Ron, who was laying on the floor, facing his enemy, but lacking the strength to get up. "Now," said Derrick, "the battle is over."
Ron put his hands down to the earth to try again to get up, and he saw something odd. The pebbles next to his hand started to jump around, and Ron began to hear a rumbling sound. He looked up at Derrick, who was noticing the same things. Derrick looked around, trying to find what was making the noise. Ron put his hands over his head and rolled against one of the walls. "Derrick, watch out!! It's an earthquake!!!" Suddenly, the ground seemed to split as huge amounts of Sandshrew poured into the room, encircling Derrick. " Ron sat up. "Sandshrew!!"
Derrick looked around in the moonlight at the hundreds of faces of the Sandshrew. They weren't about to let him go. "Awwww, man!! All right! All right already!!" The army of Sandshrew swarmed around their target lifting him up. "I surrender!!"
One Sandshrew came over to Ron. "Shrew! Sandshrew!! Shrew!" Ron put his hand on its head. "Good job, Sandshrew! I knew I could count on you! Come on!" The Sandshrew signaled to follow Ron, and they lead Derrick out of the cave, up to the blazing lights of the police cars.