Episode 16:
Clan Caterpie and the Thunder Badge

Author(s): IcyPikachu, RandomTask, InsaneLlama, and BlackHole

They woke that morning to the cries of a Dodrio. Icy went to the front desk and asked the nurse to heal him. She gave Icy a nice apple and he finally got to eat it in peace for once. The others ate at the pokécenter restaurant. They had the nurse heal their pokémon while they ate.

Icy remembered his friend from his first visit to Vermilion City, Mike. He wondered what he’d say when he saw Icy in the form of a Pikachu. He clicked the translator on. “Can we go visit my friend Mike?”

“Sure Icy. Then, let’s go get ourselves some Thunder Badges!” Insanellama grinned at Icy, somehow knowing what Icy had in store for Lt. Surge. They followed Icy to Mike’s house.

Mike was just finishing breakfast when they arrived at the front door. “Hello? What are you doing here?” Only Icy was at the door, the others were warming up their pokémon for later. Mike looked at the Pikachu.

“Hello Mike. It’s me, Icy!” Mike just stared at the talking Pikachu. “It’s a long story.” Icy told Mike about the events that had taken place. Mike asked if he could come with Icy and his friends to watch them battle Surge and get some battle pointers. They agreed and set off the gym.

They reached the gym. Once again, Icy and Insane exchanged grins. Icy would challenge Lt. Surge as himself. As they entered the gym, two trainers greeted them. “If you want to fight Surge, you gotta beat us first.”

Icy walked toward one of the trainers. “All right then, let’s battle!” The trainer was dumbfounded, but remembered reading in the paper about a boy who was accidentally transformed into a Pikachu.

“Ok little Pikachu. You’ll never make it to Surge! Go Magneton!”

“Go Dugtrio!” Icy teleported Dugtrio’s pokéball into his hands and released it.

“Magneton, thunderbolt!” Magneton tried to fry Dugtrio but it attacks just bounced right off.

“Dugtrio, dig now!” Dugtrio disappeared into the ground, then popped up crashing into Magneton. It fell and fainted being weak against ground pokémon.

“All right, you may pass! Any of you other wimps think you beat us?”

Icy entered the main where Lt. Surge was training Raichu. When Icy saw the Raichu, he felt a strong hatred toward it. “Lt. Surge, I challenge you to a match!” Surge looked at Icy for a sec. He was in a cute little fighting pose that made Surge and Raichu both laugh. Insanellama was standing in back of Icy now. Surge looked at him.

“Alright, one on one battle. My Raichu verses your Pikachu.”

“Ok…” Insane just went along with it. Icy would be the one deciding on the attacks, not Insane. The battle began.

Surge started off with Raichu using Take Down on Icy. As Raichu leapt for Icy, Icy just grinned, making the Raichu very angry. As soon as Raichu was about to crush Icy, he used telekinesis to suspend Raichu in thin air. Surge was in shock. “I can’t lose,” he thought. “What’s going on. A Pikachu can’t use psychic attacks!”

“This ain’t no ordinary Pikachu!” Insane replied. Icy blasted Raichu with a super-charged thunderbolt. Raichu was stunned a little, but still able to fight. It started to charge at Icy again but was stopped once more by a field of psyonic energy Icy had set up around himself.

“How does he do that? Pikachus aren’t psychic! Snap out of it Raichu! It’s a Pikachu! It’s inferior to you! You’re the better and stronger evolution!” Icy became infuriated.

“PIIIIIII-KAAAAAAAAAA-CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!” Icy sent enormous amounts of electricity throughout the gym so the field was enclosed in lightning. “What are you doing Icy?” Insanellama wondered. Using his psychic powers, he directed all the lightning at Raichu. Raichu could only look in each direction as the lightning moved closer. “Rai… Chu…???” The lightning decimated Raichu and he fell hard to the ground, but Icy wasn’t finished yet. Still hurt by Surge’s comment, he prepared to attack again, but Insane stopped him.

“No Icy, don’t! You won. It’s over!”

“CHUUUUU… Pik-chukapi!” Icy tried to calm himself down. Surge was devastated.

“How??? How did you get him to be that strong?”

“Why don’t you ask him yourself. While you’re at it, apologize to him for calling him inferior.” Icy was very upset with Surge. Surge respectfully walked over to Icy and apologized to him. Icy felt a bit better.

“I don’t know why I’m asking a pokémon for battle tips but, here goes. How did you learn those psychic attacks?”

“I was born with them. Now, may I have my Thunder Badge please?” Surge looked at Icy with a strange expression.

“Pokémon don’t get badges, their masters do.” He extended the badge to Insanellama, be he refused it.

“This isn’t mine. I’m not his trainer.”

“What are you talking about…”

“Like I told you earlier, this ain’t your average every-day Pikachu. His name is Icy, a psychic pokémon trainer. He was accidentally changed into a Pikachu.” Surge still had a puzzled look on his face. “Just give him the badge, I want to get to beat you some time this millennium!” Surge hands the badge to Icy and heals Raichu. Icy runs off to Mike and the other members of Clan Caterpie. Insanellama gets ready for his chance at a Thunder Badge…

As the rest of Clan Caterpie was working on defeating Lt. Surge, Random took a trip with Bub… errr… Ivan, his pet Ivysaur. They went to see the Circus in Vermillion City that week. Random walked to a vendor and purchased some cotton candy, which he fed to Ivan. Ivan swallowed the sugary-candy whole.

As Ivan and Random watched the circus march by, a clown on a tiny bike carted past. Random cackled at the sight… “Nice bike cholo!” The clown reversed direction and returned to Random, first to insult him back. But the clown noticed Random’s prized Martin guitar along his back, and remarked…

“Nice guitar…” Random was deep in thought, the tiny bike would fit Icy perfectly, and because Icy being a pikachu was slowing down the Clan with his speed, a bike would suit him perfectly.

“Wanna have a Pokébattle? 2 each? If I win, I get your bike. If you win, you may have my Martin guitar!”

“Alright!!! Let’s do it.”

Random sent out Ivan, who was feeling a tad queasy from the cotton candy… The clown sent out Mr. Mime…

“Mr. Mime: use a confusion attack!!!” Mr. Mime juggled his balls around and flipped Ivan over mentally…

“Getup Ivan! Tackle the fruitcake!!!” Ivan stumbled up to Mr. Mime and pounced into the air.. vomiting half-way to the opponent. Mr. Mime was soiled… and furious.

“F$#@ This!! I quit… This was a stupid gig anyway…” Mr. Mime walked off… Random was roaring with laughter, and recalled Ivan…

The clown was mortified… yet sent out his Magikarp anyway… “Go Growlithe!!!” Random was giggling about the beat-down that it was about to ensue…

“Magikarp splash!!!” The fish complied but to no effect!

“Growlithe!!! Go step on Magikarp!!!” Growlithe stood atop of the lame fish and barked.

“Magikarp splash!!!” The fish again complied but to no effect!

“Growlithe: do a little dance!!!” He popped on two paws and rotated around, barking the whole way.

“Magikarp splash!!!” The fish complied but no effect!

“Ok OK.. Growlithe… do some… kinda ….move.” Growlithe performed the Stone Cold Stunner with surprising execution for a Pokémon, and Random had won the match.

“Here’s the bike…” The clown was no longer smiling.

“w00t!!!” Random somehow managed to pronounce the zeroes…He marched back to the Gym with the bike on his shoulders Meanwhile, Ivan was stumbling behind… Random managed to watch the end of Icy’s match with Lt. Surge… hilarious.

“Icy, gotcha a present.” Random handed the bike to Icy.

“Pika piii!” Icy exclaimed outside his translator. Insane Llama was about to battle Surge…

By this time, Insanellama is getting a mite impatient. “Ok SURGE, PICK A POKEMON.” Surge was trying to decide what pokémon to use against Insanellama. In the end he chose Raichu for a one on one. “Ok, I choose NIDOKING!”

“NIDOKING GO!”

“RAICHU GO!” RAICHU THUNDERBOLT NOW! Insanellama can’t help but laugh as the lightning ricochets harmlessly off of Nidoking.

NIDOKING HORN DRILL NOW!!!! A horn erupts from his forehead and hits Raichu spinning and drilling. “Too bad Surge, right in the left cheek, very weak electric now, not that it’s any good. Nidoking FINISH IT TACKLE!!” The Nidoking tackles the Raichu, and retrieves its horn to end the match. “Tough break man, be nicer to competitors.”

“WHATEVER,” said Surge, and throws the Badge well over Insanellama’s head, “FETCH DOG!”

“I don’t think so,” said Insanellama, since the badge never hit ground and was coming right at his hand. “Thanx Icy” said Insanellama.

“PIKA PI!” said Icy.

“Good job guys, it’s my turn now!” Random shouted preparing to launch his beloved Snorlax.

“I will use Pikachu.” Surge launched a ball containing a Pikachu. Icy’s eyes lit up.

The two Pokémon faced off, Snorlax was calm and docile, but the Pikachu was rabid with anger.

“Thunderwave Pikachu” A blast erupted from the cheeks of the mouse, but it barely scathed Snorlax.

“Snorrrr…..” Snorlax was slightly annoyed.

“Body Slam him Snorlax!” Random shouted from the sidelines. Snorlax fought to stand up; he wobbled towards Pikachu and thrust himself into the air, landing square on the opponent. Pikachu squealed and broke free, firing a Thunderbolt on his way. Snorlax reeled with the shock. Under impulse, Snorlax double-edged Pikachu, knocking the enemy out, but also crippling Snorlax.

“We win!!! Good job Snorlax!”

Lt. Surge handed Random the Thunder Badge. Random dropped it in his sack with a smile. He walked to the bleachers and sat next to Insanellama and Icy.

“Ok Surge, my turn” BH says as he steps into the arena.

“OK buddy, this time I’m gonna win! Just give me a second!” Surge yelled as he revived his Raichu. “OK 1 pokémon each! Raichu! Show him who’s boss!” Surge yelled as Raichu stepped forward.

“Scyther go,” BH said as he tossed out the pokéball revealing Scyther. “SCY… THER!” it yelled.

“Raiii…” Raichu looked at Scyther and grew pale. “Oh, crap! He’s still recovering from the shock that came from that punk kid with the Scyther! ARGH… could you please choose another pokémon? A Scyther traumatized my Raichu and he refuses to fight them.” Surge explained and BH grumbles and recalled Scyther.

“Dratini! Go!” BH yelled as he threw the pokéball out revealing the small Dragon. “Ni! Dratini!” it peeped while looking at Raichu. The Raichu scoffed and tried to Body Slam it.

Dratini moved out of the way and pounded on it. “Dratini! Dragon Rage!” BH yelled as Dratini glowed with energy and than suddenly released it in a burning rage of fury. Raichu blinked and got blasted, he than got back up and growled.

“Raichu! Thunderbolt!” Surge yelled. Raichu built up Lightning in his body and… “CHUUUU!” Raichu zapped the tiny dragon and it went back to BH and looked at him sadly.

“You still have to battle. I’ll tell you what, why don’t you do this…” BH whispered to Dratini and it grinned. It started hopping all over the place confusing the Raichu.

“Raichu! Crush it with your Thunderbolt!” Surge yelled and Raichu illuminated the arena with a thunderbolt.

BH coughed and when the dust settled Dratini was gone. Raichu looked around for the tiny dragon while Lt. Surge was screaming about it being a trick. Dratini dropped down off the rafters and pounded Raichu into the ground. Raichu fainted and BH got the Thunder badge from Lt. Surge!

X was ready to continue the Clan’s winning streak. “Ok surge MY TURN.”

“One pokémon, I choose RAICHU”

“ONIX GO!” said X

“RAICHU GO!”

“ONIX DRAGON RAGE NOW!!!!”

“RAICHU BODYSLAM NOW!!!”

Ouch, Raichu jumped right into the pat of Onix’s flame, better luck next time.

“Thanx for the badge man,” said X

“Grrr, when will it end,” said Surge.

X quickly took off his cap and sewed the badge into the bill, and then put his cap back on his head. As X made his way back to the group, they all cheered for their victories and left the gym sporting their new Thunder Badges.