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A fight has broke out on the Bicycle Path and the Celadon Police are no where to be found! The Fushia Police have chosen to just seal their gate and leave the path and those on it to fend for themselves. The path has now fallen into chaos as the Bridge Bike Gang and Team Rocket have instigated a turf war! All Snagems are asked to report to the Bicycle Path, Celadon City entrance. Before you leave HQ, pick up a Snag Bike at the entrance to HQ. You'll need it to get in.

[The Snag Bike is a futuristic type of small motorcycle, akin to a dirt bike. It also possesses mild hover capabilities like the Hoverboard and as such can initiate its hover mode to traverse rough terrain or briefly glide.]

"Look who it is, the wannabe bird and his no digit cat." Sub taunted as he zipped by on his own Snag Bike, driving it almost flawlessly, though to be fair he had much more practice with it. "Try and not get taken out by the first thug that attacks you. I know you might be a little rusty after your vacation, so it's okay if you site this one out and watch." He laughed as he sped through the gate and onto the Bicycle Path.

As the team leader arrived on the path he would instantly find himself in the middle of a battle. A biker and his Grimer would taking on a Rocket grunt and their Golbat. Unfortunately for Sub he got stuck right in the middle as he ran over a pile of sludge, a sitting duck as the Golbat launched a Shadow Ball, and the Grimer Flinging a motorcycle tire, the attacks aimed at one another but Sub was in the way.

A familiar, long-haired redhead would appear on the scene, sitting carefully on the Snag Bike that she had claimed. It had been a while since she had followed her teammates, and she was glad to get out after so long. Her long, thin legs rested against the bike gently. With Drao flying above her, and Tetra at her heels, Kairi rode over towards where her fellow Snagem members had gathered. As she neared her comrades, she could see the battle taking place. Her Houndour growled at the nearby Pokemon, and her Murkrow continued to fly overhead, cawing loudly.

The sheer thought of leaving into the light disgusting, Kain steps out of my silver new bike in hands. Kain had already been following his friend kairi to the scene, only to be stopped by a large problem. Kain didn't know how to ride a bike, none the less a motorized one. Sitting in the seat Kain revs the motor, the feeling of his prostirior slamming something hard. Walking the 20 feet which his bike had flew, he takes a second try. This time he had gained a headache and good bump, trying again still.

After a large amounts of tries Kain heads out to the route. Entering the scene extremely skilled and thinking to himself "I'm am a biking god". With everyone's eyes on the wobling, clumsy, and uncontrolled looking biker, Kain pulls up next to kairi. Well to be honest he face planted right next to kairi. With his face still to ground "my dear friend kairi what is all this commotion about?"

Hawk barely heard Sub's request for a warning, due to him having "driven" some distance away. Zero followed him as he made a beeline through the crowds. Pokemon, people and attacks narrowly missing them and changing their course like some kind of old-timey cartoon.

WHAM!

Hawk grunted a bit once he managed to stop the bike.... by ramming into another guy's bike.

"What the--?" The burly biker spun around, obviously confused. He looked at Hawk, then Hawk's bike. "Beat it, kid! I got Bikers to bash!" He shouted, kicking at Hawk's bike in an effort to get him away.

"Hey! HEY!! Watch the bike, it's new...ish." Hawk shouted, proceeding to kick at the Biker! The two of them kicked at each other, surrounded by chaos until Hawk managed to score a lucky shot. The heel of his boot left a long scuff mark on the side of this guy's bike, running straight through a large red R!

"AH!!! Nancy!!!" He wailed! A single tear rolled down his cheek as he revved his engine. In a display of true skill, he darted away and spun around, putting a chunk of distance between him and Hawk. "You're gonna pay, punk!" He exclaimed, drawing a pokeball from the side of his bike. "Take him out, Machop!!" He hurled the ball into the air, releasing the pokemon.

Hawk, after picking himself back up, rose an eyebrow at the pokemon. "Is that some kind of melted person?" He asked, looking at Zero for confirmation. "Regardless, kick its butt, Zero. Kick it haaaard." Zero stepped forward and growled, sparks jumping through its fur.

"Machop, use close combat!!" The Biker wailed!

"Zero, Counter with Crunch!"

The machop instantly disappeared, coming back into view right in front of Zero. The Luxray tried her best to bite the other pokemon, but in the few seconds it took for her to open her mouth, the assault began. It launched a flurry of blows, pummeling the darkness straight out of Zero's mouth, and ending in a devastating uppercut that sent her flying.

Hawk stared in disbelief. Man... maybe they were a bit rusty.... Hawk returned his Luxray and glared at the steaming, panting, blubbering machop. "Oh, I've got something for you. Let's see how you handle this! Twelve, make it eat dirt!" Hawk pulled a pokeball from his coat, then released His Samurott onto the battlefield!

"ROTTTTT!!!" Twelve yelled, drawing one of its blades and pointing it into the sky. It lowered the weapon until it was pointing straight at the biker and his pokemon.

"Yeaaah You're in trouble now! We're-"

"Close Combat!!"

Machop vanished again. Just like last time, it appeared extremely close to Hawk's pokemon. It lashed out, fists steaming and red!!

And it was promptly slapped across its face.

The machop stumbled backwards, surprised. That hadn't been a move. Twelve had just backhanded him with his free hand!

Twelve roared again, water erupting up around its body like a geyser. It threw itself forward, slamming into the machop and dragging it across the pavement. It was Twelve's aqua jet! Twelve pushed the machop back to its trainer before curving upwards so it could land back where he began, all the while letting out a roar.

"You don't go against my most feral pokemon and get away easy!" Hawk cheered... until the machop pulled itself onto its feet, that is. "What? Twelve! You were supposed to knock it out! Were you holding back or something??" Twelve shrugged, and growled dismissively.

The machop wiped its nose, then shrugged a bit. It even began to laugh a bit! This thing was obviously making fun of Twelve. Which... may not have been a good idea.

However, the pokemon's Swagger hit home. Twelve let out an even louder roar and flexed its muscles. Water erupted around it again, shooting high into the sky and spraying the nearby area with water. Twelve surged forward... then to the right.... then to the left! His Aqua jet was definitely more powerful, but the blind rage he was in caused him to forget who he was attacking! Twelve flew around, slamming into other pokemon on the bridge.

"Hey! Twelve!!!! The machop! Hit the machop!" Hawk shouted.

Twelve swerved over, spiraling around in the sky a bit before coming down straight ontop of the biker's pokemon. Twelved slammed onto it, water and steam exploding off of him.

Once the steam cleared, Hawk pumped his fist! A cross-eyed Twelve was standing over the doused and thoroughly KO'd machop. Of course, the Samurott looked like he'd fall over if the wind blew too hard, but hey! A victory is a victory.

"Now beat it!" Hawk cackled, putting his fists on his hips.

".....I... I'm not done yet!" The Biker replied, blushing a little. He pulled another pokeball out and released another pokemon! Standing proudly at 1'3", a red sash around its midsection, and a club in its hands.... was a cubone!"

"Hm? Isn't that thing a ground type?" Hawk shouted to the biker, who was obviously a team rocket member trying to disguise himself. Hawk hadn't noticed it before, but this guy had just opened his shirt, ripped the sleeves off and turned his hat around. There were team rocket emblems all over his clothes! "Twelve, just use Aqua jet again." Hawk chuckled.

Unfortunately, Twelve was still extremely confused. It heard the command, so he used the move, but instead of throwing himself at the cubone, he simple ran into a nearby wall, then laid there.

The cubone ran over and bonked Twelve on the butt with its club a few times for good measure, and when there wasn't a response, Hawk returned the pokemon.

"Ha! Ha! hahahaha!!!" The Rocket Biker began laughing.

Hawk frowned. This was quickly becoming unfavorable. Two of his strongest pokemon were just defeated! Four would be useless against a ground type, and Two was busy... doing whatever it was he was doing. Probably keeping people out of the way of battles or something. Which left Eight as the only alternative.

Hawk sent out the Chandelure, who immediately let out a flame burst! The ball of flame rocketed (hurrhurr) straight for the cubone, slammed into the ground at its feet and detonated. Flame shot into the sky, and rolled around the ground. It was like watching a grenade set off a box of molotovs..

Once the smoke cleared, The cubone pulled itself off the ground. It had appeared to have tried jumping away from the attack, only to have splash damage wash over it. It got up, then promptly hurled its bone! The weapon spun through the air, slapped Eight in the face, then returned to its owner- or rather sender. Who knows where the bone came from?

Eight, recoiled and screeched, the ground type bonemerang dealing heavy damage to it. Eight's wails shifted from pain to anger, as it began to gather up shadows from the area, then hurl them at the cubone in the form of tiny, baseball sized orbs.

Cubone gripped its bone, then began swatting the shadowballs away from itself with careful, precisely timed swipes. This thing was clearly confident in its abilities. With seemingly no effort it managed to-

Be hit in the chest by a flame burst. Eight, enraged by the fact that it was hit by a physical move, was done playing around. The Cubone was engulfed in flame, and even thrown to the ground! The shadow balls had been a diversion...

"Good thinking, Eight!" Hawk said, digging into his bag. His Snag activated, turning the Luxury ball Hawk had grabbed into a Luxurious Snag Ball!

Hawk hurled the ball! It flew through the air, and collided with the cubone!

"Hey! HEYYY!! Noooooo!" The Rocket member wailed, using his own pokeball to try and shoot the snagball with its return beam. "That's not fair! Only WE can steal pokemon! I mean-- only the rocket guys steal pokemon!"

The Ball wobbled around, sparkling fantastically as it did so. It wobbled once... twice... then stopped.

"Sweeeeet! Return!" Hawk said, holding out his hand. The Luxury ball flew into his hand, then was quickly shoved into his bag. "You should rethink your life choices, guy." Hawk said, revving his engine, and riding off... oh wait, no! Err.. Did I say riding off? I mean careening through the crowds, barely in control of his vehicle.

If it wasn't for it being kinda required, let alone Sol advising to stick by the rules before leaving, Amaranth wouldn't have cared too much about using a bike in any capacity. However, abide she did, and though she eventually made it, it wasn't without a very shaky ride.

Cera acting as a sort of brace for the back of the bike might've helped too, though even despite this, a Biker was able to easily catch up. He looked a little overweight compared to most, and baldness had long since gotten the better of him. He didn't do anything yet, though, instead eyeing the two and wondering when they might notice.

Startled by Thrashing of Kairi's bike next to his face, Kain arose from the ground. A stabbing pain can be felt in his eye, "fffff**k" he said to himself. A nice red eye was now turned pure red due to some rubble thrown under his eyelid, Not a pleasant feeling.

Sweeping the hair out of his face, he returned a once grounded top hat. a gleam from his eyes appears again, a snap of his jaws, and the flaying of his trench coat. Kain Sprints into battle head strong, his eyes keen for an open opponent.

A team rocket member, cheering on her friends, doesn't see Kain coming, With his long finger Kain taps on the girls shoulders, she turns around still pumped from battle. Her face turned frightened when the gleaming teeth and red eyes pear into he face, her face seemed as if she had seen of ghost. Only taking her a few seconds to calm down, the rocket tried to act superior and puff out her chest. in his sly voice "Now are you trying to intimidate me or give me a show? Your chest is not something to be poking out at the enemy." " how dare you! I am a proud member of Team Rocket! You should be on your knees kneeling to me". A twitch forms in Kains bloodied eye, "do you think that I will be so kind to Kneel to you? Your a little t**t who works for a broken, what you so called team. Your much to short to be a physical problem, so lets see how your Pokemon do." "you bast*rd your going to pay".

With a toss of his ball a Familiar blue Croc Pokemon lands in the scene, Cloven lets out an shearing roar. The girl has a smirk on her face which disturbs Kain quiet so, "Go MUK!", along with her words just as she said a Muk lands onto battle disgusting as ever. The Muk's body oozes all over the subjected area. "I'm going to ruin you" "Oh? are you now?... Cloven use Dig!". "Wait what! your Totodile is a water type?!?" "don't underestimate TM's". "MUK USE HARDEN!" she screamed hoping to save her Pokemon. Totodile burrowed deep in the ground creating a nice perfect hole in the ground. The rocket bite her fingers in trying to figure out where the Pokemon will rise, Muk After hardening his Sludge here's his trainers cry "Muk move out of the way!". The creature tries to slime away, to no avail he moves much to slow. A burst of sludge everywhere with Cloven a few feet above the Pokemon. A gaping hole is left in the MUK, "NOOOO MUK!... return". Kain smirks in delight. "YOU BAST*RD! HE IS PROBABLY IN SO MUCH PAIN!" "Then you rockets should of learned your place". "Sandshrew Go!" a ball bounces on the field, releasing a little SandShrew almost looking freshly hatched. "God I hate you so much you know that. You turned my favorite Pokemon to a pile of slop and now i have to use this little useless twerp. I hate it so much but its all i have left" "Wait how can you hate your Pokemon? there amazing things which we all need in our lives." "I do okay, he knowns nothing, and if you could beat my MUK that quickly then your Water type will ruin him". The little Sandshrew had tears in its eyes and hung its head in shame, bring its little hands to its face to sob. "Sandshrew use scratch" "Cloven Dodge". As Cloven took one step to the side the baby Sandshrew ran and tripped and landed at kains feet.

it looked up to kain and started crying again because it failed, Kain picked up the little Sandshrew and held it close to him at head height. The Little Shrew had large puffy eyes from crying. Kain whispered to it "hey do you like this person who caught you?", the tears only stopping for a second as it looked at Kain, It shook its head side to side. "I treat my Pokemon well and never due harm to them. Cloven will tell you all about it.". Placing the little guy on the ground Cloven starts Roarung away making gestures and signs which Kain can't pick up on, but understands him well enough. kneeling to the little guy Kain says "Would you like to come with me?". the Sand shrew leaped at his face and gave him a huge hug, "okay... okay. stay still for me then.". A red casts over the Sandshrew with intensity catching him tightly. after two shakes a click was heard and Kain held the ball close to him for a second before bring him out again.

"HOW DARE YOU!" The rocket runs at the bunch with horrible intentions, stopping in her tracks to a totodile with his jaws wide open facing her. "Cloven use Hydro Pump" a blast of shimmering water is powered towards her and causes her to be pushed onto her rear. Not whiling for a second blast she leaves on her bike.

"now then what shall we name him, Huh Cloven?", Cloven shrugs. the little Sandshrew starts bouncing up and down, "oh? you have a name?", the little guys points at Cloven, "no Buddy you can't be named Cloven, that name is already taken". "Ahh how about Vendil?", the guy dances back and foreword in enjoyment, only to stumble over. Vendil looks surprised, he didn't hit the ground, he lies in kains large hands caught. tears form in his eyes, and begins to hug Kain again. "how about we go find my friend?" Vendil and Cloven both nod and return to their balls.

Kain stands back up and walks towards Kairi who is looking very fulfilled in herself.

the bike spiraled out of control and landed near by Kairi. "well sh*t, i never even fully learned how to ride this thing yet.", Kain once noticed Kairi in trouble "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!" Sprinting in her direction. Not noticing Kairi already retaliating the rockets moves.