#006 - Team Rocket Touches Down
(Pokémon and related elements ™, ©1995-99 Creatures/GAME FREAK/Nintendo.)
Storyline, art by Robert H. Magnusson

"PREPARE FOR..." Ring... "Just a SCHECOND... yesch, bosch?"

"Percy, if you say what I think you're GOING to, I will personally KILL you DEAD."

"Don't be SCHILLY, bosch, I think I know what I'm doing..."

Percy hung up his personal communicator and faced our disbelieving heroes again. His angular warrior had just smashed through the wall of Club Thunder, putting a stop to Chue and Cyrus's battle in a hurry. "As I was SCHAYING, PREPARE FOR BATTLE! You'll NEVER DEFEAT GON!!"

"GON? What IS that thing?!" Cyrus, as well, just stared. "It looks like a highly advanced Porygon, but... something's wrong with its aura!"

Somewhere in the audience, Marrilyn and her friends were watching in just as much disbelief. "CHUE! Get OUT of there! Don't try to be a HERO!..."

Percy turned to Chue, indignant and sparking. "That'sch RIGHT - LISCHEN to your Pikablu friend."

"PI... KA... ?!" Lyn immediately became visibly angered, the bubble on her tail beginning to roll into a boil. She threw back her chair and would have rushed at the Persian if her friends hadn't grabbed onto her swimsuit to hold her back...

"I AM NOT A PIKABLU! I AM A MARRIL! THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS...!!!"

"Good GRIEF, Marrilyn, calm DOWN!" said Keri.

Percy could only stare at this spectacle. "GOODNESCH, what's HER prob..." Then he noticed a loud battle cry, rapidly approaching. "...lem?!" It was Chue, fully electrically charged, who rushed straight into Percy's chest, delivering, oh, enough voltage to charge a small building. Suffice it to say this counted as a knockout...

"Mommy."

Meanwhile, Gon had grabbed Chue by the tail and was preparing to hit him with his most powerful punch. "CY! DO SOMETHING!"

Cyrus was focusing all the psychic energy he had. "I'm TRYING! It doesn't seem to have a MIND to AFFECT!"

... KAPOW! In a flash, Chue was next to Marrilyn, dug partway into the ground by the force of the impact. "CHUE! Are you OKAY?!"

"Mmghffm." Yeah, he was okay.

An enraged Ray rushed up to Gon, who was busy holding off Cyrus's Scratches. "ALL RIGHT, I've had ENOUGH of you WRECKING MY CLUB!!" With that, Ray poked his tail into the ground to protect himself and attacked Gon with his most powerful Thunder attack. It had no effect.

"It - it CAN'T be! It's resisting all our ATTACKS!!"

"Well, if it's any consolation, I'M hurt..." answered Cyrus, caught up in the charge.

As Ray was still stunned, Gon charged a powerful Hyper Beam from his right hand, which barely missed as Ray ducked. The force blew one of the club's tables apart, happenening to be the one Lyn and now Chue were at. Although they got out of the way, the force of the blast caused Lyn to go airborne and fly across the club...

...until she landed, full force, into Gon's chest with a splash from her natural water abilities. As she slumped to the floor, she noticed Gon reeling, his shirt torn away from the water and several of his triangular panels fallen away to reveal his robotic understructure, sparking with electricity, showing severe damage.

"HEY! This thing's weak to WATER!"

Ray addressed the crowd again. "OKAY, you know what to DO!"

At that, fully one-fifth of the crowd stood up, all the Water types who had come to see the battle. "One, two..." Gon gave one final staticky shout...

On three, everybody combined their water attacks on Gon and Percy, who had just gotten to his feet, sweeping the two out of the hole they had created. As the Team Rocket member and the rapidly disintegrating Pokédroid vanished into the horizon, the crowd members let out a resounding cheer...

Percy finally woke up, looked over at the panels and soaked electronics that used to be Gon, then looked up to see his boss. "You're going to KILL me, aren't you, schir?"

The boss's water jets were steaming. "Oh, I have no INTENTION of letting you off THAT easy."