More Fossils

OToday the gang had come to Wales Island. Wales Island was crescent shaped and it was filled with forests for Pokemon to live in. Ash and May called Wales Island a great place for training their Pokemon. Once they docked on Wales Island May got out her Bulbasaur and Swablu; she wanted to train them today. Bulbasaur and Swablu had grown more than a bit over the last few months and they learned lots of new moves.

Bulbasaur knew Tackle, Vine Whip, Razor Leaf, Leech Seed, Sleep Powder, Poison Powder, Take Down, Sunny Day, Solar Beam, Energy Ball, Grass Knot, Sludge Bomb, Toxic, Sweet Scent and the egg move Petal Dance. Bulbasaur had learned lots of moves thanks to Ash's Venusaur. Ash had suggested to May sometime after the Fortree gym battle that she should send her Bulbasaur to Prof. Oak's lab and have his Venusaur help train Bulbasaur. May agreed to that idea; especially since Ash's Venusaur had a lot more battling experience that her Bulbasaur did. So May sent her Bulbasaur to Prof. Oak's lab and Bulbasaur learned well under Venusaur and now it was stronger than the last time May saw her. As for Swablu aside from knowing Sing, Peck, Mist, Safeguard, Fury Attack and the egg move Feather Dance, Swablu also knew Aerial Ace, Steel Wing, Air Cutter, Fly and Ice Beam. May was happy that her Bulbasaur and Swablu had become stronger and couldn't wait to use them in contests.

Tomo decided to train some of his Pokemon too; he was training his Totodile, Charmander, Elekid, Magby and Numel. Growlithe was helping out too. So while Ash, May and Tomo were training their Pokemon, Brock and Max were left alone to set up lunch. Max was in the forest collecting firewood. But then he suddenly heard rustling from some bushes.

"Who's there?" He asked, taking a Poke Ball out ready to fight.

Out of the bushes came a green Pokemon with yellow markings and it had pink flower petal-shaped tentacles around it's neck. Max screamed; this Pokemon was a Cradily, a rock/grass type Pokemon and it was a fossil Pokemon. Ash, Tomo, May and Brock heard Max's scream and ran over to see if he was okay. Max told them that he saw a Cradily, but they didn't believe him.

"Max that's impossible." Brock said. "Cradily are extinct and no one has ever seen one."

"Yeah Max, you must have seen a different grass type Pokemon." May added.

Max wasn't happy that they didn't believe him.

"I did see a Cradily and I will prove it to you!" He shouted and ran off.

Max ran further into the forest, hoping to find the Cradily he saw earlier.

"I'll show them." He said to himself. "I'll show them that I did see a Cradily."

At that moment he came to a big mansion in the middle of the forest.

"Wow I wonder who lives here." He took a look through one of the windows and saw a room filled with computers and other scientific equipment; this room seemed to be a lab of something. Just then Max saw a little pen and it had three Lileep in it; Lileep were purple, yellow and pink Pokemon and they were the pre-evolution of Cradily. Suddenly a man wearing a lab coat came up behind Max.

"Hey kid!" He shouted. "This is restricted property."

Max was startled.

Meanwhile Ash, Tomo, May and Brock were looking for Max.

"I can't believe Max ran off like that and all because he thought he saw a Cradily." May sighed.

"I still think he saw a different grass type Pokemon." Brock said, he still didn't believe Max's story.

"Wait, do you hear that?" Ash suddenly asked. He picked a noise up with his enhanced senses.

Then they saw Cradily by some bushes.

"What the!" Ash gasped.

"This is impossible!" Brock gasped.

They were amazed to see a Cradily and they realized that Max was telling the truth. Just then a pretty woman wearing a lab coat came up to Cradily.

"There you are Cradily." She said. "Come on, you need to come back to the lab now."

She noticed the gang.

"Hello there, what are you doing here in the forest?" May explained that her brother Max ran off into the forest.

"I haven't seen him, but he might be at the lab." The woman said.

The woman led the gang to the lab, which was the same building Max stumbled upon. Inside the lab the gang saw Max with the man. May apologized to Max for not believing him and Max accepted it eventually. The man introduced himself as Professor Proctor and the woman was his wife Annie Proctor. When Ash, Tomo, Brock and May saw the Lileep, they were amazed. Another amazing thing was that there were four Anorith in the lab. Anorith were bug/rock type fossil Pokemon and they nearly looked like brine shrimp.

"Excuse me but how did you get these Lileep, Anorith and the Cradily?" Brock asked. He thought this was impossible.

"We revived the Lileep from fossils." Annie said.

"What fossils do they come from?" Tomo asked.

Prof. Proctor explained that Lileep came from Root Fossils and he told them that Anorith came from Claw Fossils. He even showed them some Root and Claw Fossils that they were going to revive in a minute; there were five each.

"Wow these fossils sure look different than the Helix, Dome and Old Amber fossils." Ash said.

"You're right." Brock agreed.

"Huh?" Prof. Proctor blinked. "You two know about these fossils?"

Ash explained that he had an Omastar, Kabutops and Aerodactyl. Tomo explained that he had a Omanyte and Kabuto and Brock explained that he had a Omastar and Kabutops too. Both Professor Proctor and Annie were left speechless after hearing that. Max and May weren't because they already knew; they heard about Ash's, Tomo's and Brock's fossil Pokemon not long after they started traveling together.

Prof. Proctor thought the boys were lucky.

"My wife and I hope that we can find Helix, Dome and Old Amber fossils to revive Kabuto, Omanyte and Aerodactyl." He said. "You see, my dream is revive lots of fossil Pokemon and turn this island into a tourist attraction so people could come and see the ancient Pokemon."

May and Max thought that was a wonderful dream, but Ash, Tomo and Brock thought differently.

"That sounds wonderful professor." Ash said. "But I would advise against it."

He still remembered what happened with Aerodactyl prior to capturing it.

"Hey, what are you saying Ash?" May asked.

"He's right." Brock said. "You see, we got our fossil Pokemon from Grampa Canyon in Kanto. There people used to dig for fossils, but one day bad people tried to capture the fossil Pokemon for themselves as they had evil intentions. Because of that hunting for fossils there is prohibited."

"Yes and if you show Lileep, Cradily and Anorith to the public, bad people will go after them." Tomo said.

"Yeah they're right." May said.

"I forgot about that." Max admitted.

Ash, Tomo and Brock told May and Max about the incident at Grampa Canyon before. Professor Proctor and Annie started to think Ash, Tomo and Brock were and that maybe they should keep their fossil Pokemon a secret.

Just then one of the Anorith started crawling around it's pen all of a sudden.

"Hey, what's wrong with Anorith?" Max asked.

Annie checked out the Anorith's health on the computer.

"It's going to evolve." She said.

She was right; Anorith evolved into a big insect with a long tail and big claws.

"It evolved into Armaldo!" Prof. Proctor excitedly exclaimed.

Ash looked Armaldo up on his Pokedex.

"Armaldo, the Plate Pokemon and the evolved form of Anorith. Armaldo's tough armor makes all attacks bounce off. This Pokemon's two enormous can be freely extended or contracted. They have the power to punch right through a steel slab."

"Wow, what a Pokemon." Ash said, amazed.

Professor Proctor and Annie were happy to have another evolved fossil Pokemon.

Suddenly they was a crash and a big machine entered the lab.

"What's going on here?" Prof. Proctor asked.

"Sorry about the crash." A female voice said from the machine. "But we are here to pick up your fossil Pokemon."

"I know that voice." Ash said. "It's Team Rocket."

He was right; Jessie, James and Meowth had found out about the fossil Pokemon on Wales Island and they wanted them for themselves. The machine had strong mechanical arms and it grabbed Armaldo, the three Anorith, Cradily and the three Lileep and placed them inside the machine's container.

"Thanks for the Pokemon." Meowth said. "Bye."

The trio left in the machine.

"Come back here!" Prof. Proctor shouted, running after them.

Annie and the gang started to run after the machine too.

Jessie, James and Meowth were now laughing while escaping with their machine.

"I can't believe it." Meowth said. "We got an Armaldo, a Cradily, a few Anorith and a few Lileep and all in one place."

"Yeah but don't leave out the fossils we found too." James said.

(Flashback)

*Jessie, James and Meowth had come to Wales Island, hoping to find new Pokemon to get for Giovanni. But they didn't find any Pokemon worth taking to the boss; all they found were the normal Breloom and Shroomish, Wurmple, Taillow, Seedot, Pidgey, Caterpie and Weedle. And the sea was no better because it only had Magikarp and Corphish.*

*"This is absolutely ridiculous!" A irate Jessie shouted. "There aren't any valuable Pokemon here."*

*"Yeah and at this rate we won't receive our pay from the boss." James said. "We only get our monthly pay if we've done our job gathering Pokemon."*

*"You're right, but what can we do?" Meowth asked.*

*Suddenly they heard a crashing noise near the beach.*

*"What was that?" Jessie asked.*

*"Sounds like a Pokemon going on a rampage." James said.*

*"Let's see what it is; it might be a valuable Pokemon." Meowth said.*

*What the trio saw was a Grumpig and believe it or not it was using Rock Smash on some rocks. Normally Grumpig wouldn't know Rock Smash, but this one did.*

*"It looks like that Grumpig is working on Rock Smash." Meowth said.*

*Jessie watched Grumpig smash the rocks with interest.*

*"Hmm that Grumpig reminds me of myself." She said. "Especially when I'm angry and have the urge to punch something. You know what I'm going to catch it."*

*Jessie ran up to Grumpig and called out her Sneasel; she knew Sneasel would do well against Grumpig.*

*"Sneasel use Dark Pulse on Grumpig." Sneasel fired Dark Pulse at Grumpig which struck it.*

*Grumpig went in for a Rock Smash attack and Jessie told her Sneasel to use Ice Punch. The two punches collided with each other.*

*"Now use Ice Shard Sneasel." Sneasel sent shards of ice at Grumpig which left it with some cuts.*

*Then Jessie caught the Grumpig. Jessie was about to dance when she noticed something between the rocks that the Grumpig had smashed. She told James and Meowth to come over and they were in for the shock of their lives. Between the smashed rocks were some fossils.*

(End flashback)

"I can't believe that six Helix, Dome and Old Amber fossils were buried in those rocks, as well as three Root Fossils and three Claw Fossils." Meowth said.

"Well that is how scientists found them Meowth." James said.

"And with the Armaldo, Cradily, Anorith and Lileep, Team Rocket will have lots of fossil Pokemon." Jessie said. "And we will finally get our payment."

"We better make this thing go faster before we get caught by the twerps." James said.

So Meowth made the machine move faster.

Right now Prof. Proctor, Annie and the gang were having trouble catching up to Team Rocket.

"We'll never catch up to Team Rocket at this rate." Max said.

"Then we will have to make them stop, and I know how." Ash said.

He released his Flygon and told it to use Draco Meteor. Flygon fired a orange ball of energy into the air and then the ball exploded into small orange spheres and they rained down towards Team Rocket's machine. Team Rocket had trouble driving through the Draco Meteor without crashing and then they came to a sudden stop.

"Now Flygon use Dragon Claw on the machine to release the Pokemon." Ash said.

Flygon flew up to the machine, used Dragon Claw on the container where the Pokemon were being held, and after a few scratches Flygon released the Pokemon. Armaldo, Cradily, the three Anorith and the three Lileep were happy to be free again.

Team Rocket was not happy and they got off their machine.

"You will pay for that twerp!" Jessie shouted.

She sent out Seviper, Arbok, Cloyster, Loudred, Dustox and Granbull. James sent out Weezing, Victreebel, Cacnea, Roselia and Vileplume. Meowth went out too to attack. Ash told his Flygon to get ready to attack. Just then Armaldo and Cradily stood next to Flygon to get ready to fight as well. Ash was surprised that they decided to join in, but he wasn't complaining.

"Okay Flygon show Team Rocket your Hyper Beam." He said.

As Flygon was using Hyper Beam, Cradily used Solar Beam and Armaldo used Hyper Beam too. And it wasn't long before Jessie, James and their Pokemon were sent blasting off.

The machine was left unharmed and the gang went to check it out in case Team Rocket had stolen anything else. Max noticed the bag and saw it was filled with Helix, Dome, Root, Claw and Old Amber fossils. Max showed this to Prof. Proctor and Annie and the two professors were amazed.

"Now we can revive Kabuto, Omanyte and Aerodactyl!" Prof. Proctor cried.