The Legend Thief - Part 5: The Cure

Chapter 8: Battle at the Water Park

"Here!" Raichu said, and pointed.

"A water park?" Shelly said, skeptically.

Quinci cried, "Woohoo! Water parks are the best!" An explosive explosion exploded epically over a waterslide.

"Or not!" Rudia said.

A firework of red light flashed, and Tapu Koko was caught in a purple-black pokeball.

"What?! We're already too late?!" Quinci said, "We didn't even get our pancakes!"

"Not quite! Ash didn't feed it a razzberry yet. We can still get the pokeball and free Tapu Koko while Ash is still here," Pichu explained, "Ok guys. Let's get our pokemon!"

"Wait!" Shelly said, and then hypothesized, "If Ash plans to attack Tapu Koko, he'll probably use pokemon strong against it right? Ravisu, what type is Tapu Koko besides electric?"

"Fairy," Ravisu replied instantly, "Fairy is weak to steel and poison. Electric is weak to ground."

"So what's powerful against steel, poison, and ground?" Pichu asked.

"Ice, water, and grass are good against ground," Ravisu again said instantaneously, "Steel is weak to ground, fighting, and fire. Poison is weak to psychic and also ground. But poison is good against grass. Ground is good against fire. And steel is good against ice!"

"Wait, wut?" Quinci said, her head spinning.

"We need water, ground, fighting, and psychic types!" Shelly concluded.

Everyone took out their pokeballs, and shifting through them. In a few moments, bursts of light and color flew out. Rudia was using a monferno (fire and fighting). Ravisu had a swanna (water and flying), while Bell summoned her garchomp (ground and dragon). Shelly was using her starmie (psychic and water). As for the two Human siblings, Raichu was using his phanpy (ground), while Pichu used her chimecho (psychic). But Quinci hadn't swapped out her flareon yet.

"Nothing?" Pichu asked, and stared at Quinci.

Chimecho said, "Chimecho?"

"I don't have any of the types..." Quinci shrugged. Ravisu said, "Fine. Just use flareon and stay away from any of Ash's ground types. Same goes for everyone else. Remember to play by your statistics. Go for the pokemon that Ash's are weak against."

"Ok then!" Rudia said, "So, Raichu, where's Tapu Koko?" Raichu closed his eyes and waited for another lightning blast. He pointed in the direction of the ride Lava Tubes. And sure enough, at the top, Ash and his Pokemon were fighting Tapu Koko. Ash was struggling to give it a razzberry.

"Venusaur!" Ash shouted. "Use Vine Whip!" Vines wrapped around the legendary as it struggled to get out.

"Chimecho!" Pichu shouted back. "Use Light Screen!" Pichu's chimecho created a dazzling wall of light between Tapu Koko and venusaur, forcing him to call back his vines. As soon as the light ended, Ash looked around to see who fired the attack. Ash found Pichu Human, glaring up at him. And Ash returned the glare.

"You guys again," Ash Ketchup sighed.

"Yep," Pichu nodded. "Prepare for trouble!" 

"And make that double," Raichu continued, not even realizing that he just made an allusion. 

Ash took out his Steelix (steel and ground), Arbok (poison), and Sandslash (ground) and summoned his venusaur back inside a pokeball. Ash's pokemon leapt forward in battle, rushing towards the friends.

Shelly called out to her friends, "Bell and Raichu, take arbok. Rudia and Quinci, take steelix. Ravisu and I will take sandslash. Pichu, protect the legendary."

Bell with her garchomp and Raichu with his phanpy advanced on the arbok positioned on the top of the ride Lava Tubes. They carefully stepped up the stairs, one by one. The arbok hadn't spotted them yet.

At the top, there was a large platform and three slides protruding from it. Orange in the middle, with red and yellow at the sides. Arbok lay vigilantly coiled, waiting to spring.

Bell nodded at Raichu and suddenly shouted, "Garchomp! Use Earthquake!" The ground started to shake as a piece of the platform jabbed up at arbok. It screeched in surprise and its eyes fell of the attacker.

"Phanpy! Use Take Down!" Raichu shouted as his phanpy bolted at arbok.

"PHANPYYYYYY!!!" it cried, charging at arbok. The purple serpent opened its mouth, and hundreds of lavender needles flew at phanpy. Phanpy kept on running, and cut through the needles, with only a few minor scratches. The poison attack was nearly meaningless against a ground type.

"Hey!" Bell said, "How come arbok attacked on its own?"

"Uhm," Raichu thought about the predicament, "Well, if Ash has all the pokemon ever to exist, I bet he trained them to fight on their own!"

"Then we should be able to defeat this arbok easily!" Bell said, "After all, we're the two best mathematicians in the world!"

"Ok then! Phanpy, use mud-slap!" Raichu said, "12.2145 degrees to the right!" The pokemon looked around a little, before releasing a wave of wet mud. The attack landed directly onto arbok, slowing down its usually quick speed.

"Wait, look!" Raichu pointed behind arbok. The beginning of the green water tube waited just behind the pokemon, "Let's push arbok down! Then while it's out of control, we can hit it with all we've got!"