Sonic and the Pokemon Colosseum

Rosso: "Sorry to break it to you, but I'm not about to let you pass. Or do you have this idea you can take me in battle?"





Ah, my original character, Sweltering the Hedgehog



Anca: What have you done to all these pokemon?

Rosso: "We turn them into fighting machines by artificially closing the doors to their hearts. But knowing that's not gonna help you!"

If you ever play this game be prepared to see variations of the phrase "artificially closed the door to its heart" all the time.



Anca: "Well actually I know how to naturally open the door to a pokemon's heart, you just gotta battle with it. Alongside it, not against it!!!!"

Sonic lowered his fists, but asked, "But why would I want to open their heart if that's what makes them stronger?"

Anca: "You have to fight alongside them, if you don't, then you won't even get to make use of their strength."

"Well, if she says to fight alongside them, then I won't," thought Sonic, "that would be the rebellious thing to do."



Since there is nothing left to do in Phenac City, Sonic headed out west towards Pyrite Town. Except he had to go here first.
CONSTRUCTION LOT: The construction site for an immense tower, which will have a COLOSSEUM on the top floor.



This is the Construction Lot? Looks rather nice...



Oh, they are done, but still need to clean up.



PYRITE TOWN: A rough and dirty town full of thugs and scoundrels. It is said to be home to sinister POKEMON.











Cail: "Aww, Mr. Johnson, give a man a break! I don't know anything!"

Johnson: "Well alright, if you say so. But if you're trying to con me, I'll know it!"

Cail: "I wouldn't lie to you, Mr. Johnson!"

Johnson: "Well, okay. I'll let you off easy today."



Cail: "Haha, I tricked him."



Sonic and Anca barged into the first house they saw, searching for information. Apparently, this town is full of thugs and scoundrels, who get in fights, barge into houses, sabotage windmills, orchestrate prison breaks, lie to policemen, steal pokemon, conspire to steal pokemon, and commit murder. Last but not least, turn a blind eye and allow this to happen. And it looks like this "DUKING" guy is guilty of that last one!



Duking used to be the man in charge in Pyrite, but all that changed when Miror B. came. Now all Duking does is run the local Colosseum... or does the Colosseum run him?



Sonic, using his detective skills noticed that the bookshelf had been moved often. With his muscles, Sonic drug the bookshelf over, breaking the automatic button-activated mechanism in the process.



Kid 1: "There's nothing special behind this bookshelf!

Sonic: "Whatever you say, kid."



Sonic and Anca went through the doorway, discovering a cave... with children inside!

Kid 2: "That's why, Marcia. We've got to somehow snag those pokemon from the criminals... Whoa! Who are you? That's weird, my little brother is supposed to be on lookout..."



Marcia: "Are you Papa's kids? I'm Marcia. Pleased to meet you. We're busy right now, but we can play later."



Kid 3: "My sister's done nothing but chat all day! I'm bored!"

Sonic screamed "I'M BORED TOO!"

Anca: "Sonic, shush..."

"CHILDREN ARE BORING!" screamed Sonic as he stormed out.



Silva: "Duking! How much more are you going to take from Miror B. and his stooges?



Duking: "..."

Silva: "Well, I've had enough! I'm going to do something dangerous!"

Sonic: "I like your attitude!"

Silva: "I like yours too!"

Silva stormed out. Sonic stormed out after him, taking care to cast Duking's desk violently aside even though it wasn't in the way. But when Sonic got outside, Silva had dissappeared. "Who was that cool guy?" wondered Sonic.

"That was Silva, Duking's best friend," answered Anca.

Silva.... repeated Sonic. At last, Sonic knew a name.



Suddenly, Sonic found himself under attack!



Upon his defeat, the Chaser explained that in Pyrite town, battles are exchanged instead of greetings.



Chaser Calda: "Fufufu, looking in your eyes, I can see... You're just like us. It's easy to see."

Sonic could feel the pride welling up in his eyes. A fellow badass cool guy, from the town of thugs and scoundrels, calling Sonic one of their own. Sonic felt like he would fit in perfectly here in this rough, unpolished town.



Anca: "We should be careful, Sonic. It was here in this very circle that I saw that Makuhita and got kidnapped. Even at the best of times, there's nothing normal about this town."

Sonic: "What... what did you say? Normal? Conforming??? In MY town?"

Anca: "Okay first of all, this isn't your town, you just got here, second of all, i said there's nothing normal, meaning it is abnormal, non-conforming, the opposite of what you apparently thought I said, dangerous, not safe, "

Sonic: "How dare you call my town those words, this is like a home to me! This place is perfect..."



Chase Emok: "Hey cutie, how about you ditch that wallflower with you and be my sweetie?"

Sonic: "Sure!"

Anca: "Fucking hell."



Anca: "Sonic I swear to god if you ditch me I'll kick your ass."

Sonic: "Your anger is kinda hot but, this girl has a bare midriff, and didn't make fun of my town, so"



Sonic: "Holy shit, I can't believe you just threw her down into the chasm. That's the most badass thing I've seen in my whole life. Can you forgive me?"

Anca: "Sure, fucking whatever. Can I forgive myself? That's the question."



Glasses Man: "Ayiyiyi, that's scary. Take a look down there, it feels like it's going to suck you right in."

Sonic: "Maybe you should get your glasses adjusted because it did indeed suck someone in! Just now! Hahaha!"

Glasses Man: "Oh dear... they might still be falling. You can't see the bottom from here. Pyrite used to be a mining town and they dug so deep......"



Hunter: "I've heard rumours that if you win the challenges here at this Colosseum, you'll get an awesome pokemon like Cail did. Too bad the current challenge is going on right now so you can't participate yet!"

Sonic was pretty irritated that both of the Colosseums he had gone to so far he couldn't fight in because the current challenge was already underway. But Sonic needed some exercise anyway, so he could be faster, so he ran all the way back to steal Cail's pokemon to make up for the fact that Sonic couldn't just win one.



Cail: "Huh? You want to know if I have weird pokemon? Well, you're not a policeman, so I'll show you!"



Cail: "It's this one, the Furret."





Cail: "Ugh! That's so lame. Miror B. said these Shadow Pokemon were supposed to be awesome and then you just stole it anyway..."

Anca: "Well don't worry, I heard that scientists predict that in 5 years they'll have more than one shadow move and will deal super effective damage to everything except other shadow pokemon."

Sonic scoffed at Cail's weakness. His Shadow Pokemon was weak because he didn't know how to use it! As Anca had advised him... or not advised him? He forgot whether he was rebelling against her or not. But as he had concluded from what she had said, the best way to use a Shadow Pokemon is to not use it at all, allowing it to keep its potential for as long as possible!



MEANWHILE



Sephiroth Cosplayer: "I trust things are going according to plan, Miror B."

Miror B.: "They are, Nascour, we broke Duking's spirit, allowing us to freely distribute Shadow Pokemon to Colosseum winners to collect data, all according to plan."

Nascour: "Good. That is indeed according to plan."



Miror B.: "I feel like dancing!"

Nascour: "No, "

Nascour has disconnected.



Anca: "Well, looks like we're done with Cail."



Anca: "Now let's do a Colosseum challenge. Then while you receive your pokemon, I'll go, well, do something depending on how exactly they give you a pokemon. Grabbing the rest of the shadow pokemon would be the best case scenario, I think."



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Researcher: "The Chief's inside! Silva came and..."

"Silva beat you up :D ??? My hero~!!" Sonic sang, "Ohhh where is he now?"

Researcher: "He left...."



Researcher: "S-someone... There's trouble, h-help me..."

Sonic left this guy behind. Sonic probably wouldn't find Silva, but apparently the Chief of Police was in the windmill, which meant Sonic was free to fight the system and mess around in the police station.



"Jackpot!" says Sonic.



Chaser: "Wow, you're letting us loose? Cool! Take this TM as thanks!"

Sonic: "Anything for you, brother!"

Sonic hadn't realized that was not the same Chaser that Sonic fought and befriended earlier, but Sonic looked at the TM. It was TM46-Thief. Sonic chuckled joyfully to himself. How clever!



Folly: "Oh no not you guys again. Please don't tell anyone we're here."

Trudley: "Even if you begged us we wouldn't leave! We turned ourselves in- it's safer in jail than to face the consequences of failing our boss!"

"A noble reason to stay in jail!" cheered Sonic, "Have fun you two!" and Sonic left back to the Colosseum.



It seemed darker than before, but everything seemed to be in working order.

Attendant: "We have a power out! Something must be wrong with the windmill. We can't open the doors! And yes, the PC and healy-thingy are battery powered."

Anca: "Well, Sonic, looks like we have to check out the windmill after all."



Gear Chief: "Silva came in here and just ripped out one of the gears. The windmill can no longer function and this town is without power."

Sherles, the Police Chief: "I wonder why Silva would do this to shut down the Colosseum and betray his best friend Duking? "

Sonic: "Don't worry, fellow citizens! I'll find that Silva for you <3 ....and that gear too."



Sonic: "Duking, do you know where Silva could be, or at least where he put that metal gear from the windmill?"

Duking: "Silva took a gear from the windmill and cut the Colosseum power? Grrrrrr"



Sonic: "Joyous sons and daughters of Pyrite Town, do you know where Silva could be, or at least where he put that metal gear from the windmill?"

Little kid 3: "zzzz, I hope Plusle is okay, zzz"

Sonic: "If Plusle is a fellow citizen of Pyrite, then I too, wish with all my heart that they are okay!"



Sonic: "It was here the whole time, at the Construction Lot!"

Anca: "It's a good hiding spot. It's miles away from Pyrite. How are we gonna take this back to Pyrite?"

Sonic: "ohh, what I want to know is how did Silva carry it all the way here.... did he use his muscles? swoon...."

Construction Workers: "Would you like us to carry it for you? We have literally nothing else to do. We are in absolutely no hurry to finish this tower."

Sonic: "Thanks fellas, I owe you one! How long is that gonna take you?"

Construction Workers: "Without a vehicle, probably overnight. Unless you want to help?"

"No way!" shouted Sonic as he jumped onto his unicycle and sped off. Anca barely had time to scramble into the vehicle after him!



Sonic and Anca went to the Pyrite Super Grand Hotel.

Anca: "Why are we here, Sonic. There's a free pokemon healer in the Colosseum and it's battery powered."

Sonic: "I'm just supporting the local businesses! And we're not here for our pokemon to sleep. We're here for US to sleep! 2 rooms please!"

Anca: "Oh. I suppose it would be nice to sleep in a room then. Your unicycle sidecar is so uncomfortable and the engine is so noisy..."

Time to turn in for the night. Tomorrow, the windmill shall be repaired, and the Colosseum challenge, and the Shadow Pokemon prize, and possibly saving this delightful little town from Miror B.

Goodnight!