Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Gringy City Power Problem
(On a dark and gloomy night, Mew and her friends have arrived in a desolate factory town known as Gringy City.)
(It's a depressing place where few people and Pokemon live, and even the ocean wind smells like sludge.)
(Mew looks around as she says.)
Mew: "This is a really weird city. Lots of factories, but no people! Not even any Pokemon!"
Misty: "This place is called Gringy City,"
(Misty says.)
Mew: "Gringy? Never heard of it,"
(Mew replies.)
(Misty explains.)
Misty: "It used to be a lively, busy place with all these factories here."
Brock: "Yeah, they kinda went overboard with factories. Pollution ruined the air and the water here,"
(Brock says.)
Mew: "I can tell. I don't think any Pokemon would want to live here,"
(Mew says.)
Eevee: "Eev. Eev." (Mew. Mew.)
(Eevee calls out.)
(Mew turns to Eevee.)
Mew: "What is it?"
Eevee: "Eevee Eevee," (Pikachu doesn't feel well.)
(Eevee says.)
(Mew kneels to Pikachu to see that Eevee is right.)
(Pikachu' face is turning a little red, and he's feeling very dizzy.)
(Mew takes out rubber gloves from her backpack and puts them on.)
(Mew picks up Pikachu and holds him in her arms.)
Mew: "Hey Pikachu, are you not feeling well."
Pikachu: "Pika Pi." (I don't feel well.)
(Pikachu weakly says.)
Misty: "We need to get him to the Pokemon Center, fast,"
(Misty says.)
(Mew and her friends hurry down the street of the city to find a Pokemon Center.)
(Unknown to them, they are being spied on by Team Rocket from the sewers.)
(Meowth spies on them to see them running inside the Pokemon Center.)
(Mew and her friends continue to run down the street to get to the Pokemon Center.)
Mew: "Hold on, Pikachu! We'll get you to the Pokemon Center as soon as we can!"
(Mew says.)
(Soon enough, Mew and her friends are arriving at the Pokemon Center.)
(unaware that Team Rocket notices them heading inside.)
Meowth: "That's them, and they're on their way to the Pokemon Center!"
(Meowth says.)
(And Jessie and James begin the motto.)
Jessie: To protect the world from devastation.
James: To unite all peoples within our nation.
(However, they are unable to finish the motto because of the sewer's smell.)
(They go 'blech,' and start to complain.)
James: "I can't take it anymore! This place stinks!"
(James whines.)
(Jessie coughs and says.)
Jessie: "Disgusting!"
(Meowth is in some small saucer that has a few controls.)
(Meowth says.)
Meowth: "Just chill out and put on the suits I brought ya."
(Jessie and James do so and put the suit on.)
Meowth: "This thing pumps in a mixture of oxygen and air freshener,"
(Meowth says, showing them the motor that is plugged in.)
(Once the suits are on, they sigh in relief.)
Jessie and James: "That smells good."
(Then James angrily turns to Meowth.)
James: "Why didn't you tell us about these suits before, Meowth?!"
Jessie: "We could've choked!"
(Jessie adds with the same expression.)
Meowth: "Quit complaining! I did come up with this ingenious scheme. Now get in the pipe and swim to the Pokemon Center! We're wasting time here!"
(Meowth says.)
(However, Jessie disagree with it.)
Jessie: "Your plan's stupid! I'm not going in that sewer!"
James: "I'm one-hundred percent with Jessie on this one! I want to get Pikachu and those other Pokemon as much as you do, but this is humiliating! It's degrading!"
(James adds.)
Jessie: "We won't go through with it, Meowth, so you'll have to so you'll have to go on this mission alone! I'm sorry if this shocks you,"
(Jessie says.)
Meowth: "So am I,"
(Meowth says, and presses a button in the sub.)
(Suddenly, Jessie and James are given an electric shock.)
Meowth: "I knew you'd see things my way,"
(Meowth says.)
(As a result, Jessie and James dive into the sewer water, against their will.)
Jessie: "You'll pay for this, Meowth,"
(Jessie says.)
(James asks in disgust.)
James: "Why do we always get the dirty work?"
(Inside the Pokemon Center, Mew hurries to the front desk and calls out.)
Mew: "Nurse Joy!"
(She rings the bell twice and calls out.)
Mew: "Nurse Joy!"
(Soon, Nurse Joy walks to the counter and lets out a yawn.)
(Nurse Joy says.)
Nurse Joy: "Do you all have any idea just what time it is? Don't you know that you should be sleeping now?"
Mew: "I'm sorry, but there's something really wrong with my Pikachu. I think he has caught himself a really bad cold,"
(Mew worriedly says.)
(Nurse Joy yawns and says.)
Nurse Joy: "It is a cold.
(Then points to Pikachu's cheeks.)
Nurse Joy: "Look. Sparks are coming from its cheeks, right? That's an early symptom of a cold in electric rodent Pokemon. If you leave it here overnight, I'm sure it'll be fine in the morning."
(Mew and her friends notice that this Nurse Joy is acting kind of well, different from the others.)
(Mew asks.)
Mew: "Excuse me, but are you, by any chance, the oddball in your family?"
Nurse Joy: "Oh, no. It's all my other relatives that are odd,"
(Nurse Joy says.)
(Outside in the polluted water, a large group of purple sludge Pokemon known as Grimer emerges from the water.)
(They soon begin to swarm around the water entrance As it turns out, the entrance actually is the water.)
(intake valve for the hydroelectric power plant that gives Gringy City electricity.)
(With the Grimer blocking the water intake, the generators lose power, as does the entire city.)
Plant Worker 1: "What's that?!"
(Plant Worker 1 asks.)
(Plant worker 2 looks at the controls.)
Plant worker 2: "Our generator's completely shut down! The water intake valve is totally jammed!"
Plant Worker 1: "It can't be!"
(Plant Worker 1 says, shocked.)
(Meanwhile in the sewer, the generator begins to lose power as well, and soon Meowth take notice.)
Meowth: "Hey! What's going on?! The power supply just went dead!"
(Meowth panics.)
(Then Meowth Looks at the water where Jessie and James are.)
Meowth: "If the pumps stop working, there's no air. They won't like that.
(Soon Meowth begins to panic.)
Meowth: "What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?"
(Down in the sewer water, Jessie and James are swimming to the Pokemon Center.)
(and it doesn't take long for them to run out of air.)
(Their face begins to turn blue.)
(Jessie gasp and panics.)
Jessie: "My air supply!"
(James begins to panic when the air runs out.)
(Back at the Pokemon Center, the power outage has even caused.)
(a shutdown in the care unit where multiple Pokemon are kept.)
(Nurse Joy, Mew and her friends rush inside to see the sick Pokemon.)
Mew: "What happened to these Pokemon?!"
(Mew asks, shocked.)
Nurse Joy: "They're in intensive care. If we don't get the power back soon, well, I just don't want to think about what would happen!"
(Nurse Joy says, worried.)
Mew: "Isn't there anything we can do to save them?"
(Mew asks.)
Nurse Joy: "I don't know what to do,"
(Nurse Joy says.)
Brock: "She's right. With the power out, there isn't much Nurse Joy can do."
(Brock says.)
(Nurse Joy says.)
Nurse Joy: "The city is powered by a hydroelectric power plant."
Mew: "Then that is where we need to go."
(Mew says.)
(Mew gives Nurse Joy Pikachu and says.)
Mew: "You stay here and rest, and we'll get the problem fixed up."
(But Pikachu reaches out to her.)
Pikachu: "Pika." (Mew.)
Mew: "Pikachu, we'll be back when the power's back on."
(Mew says.)
(Mew and her friends rush out of the center to fix the problem at the plant.)
Nurse Joy: "Good luck, everybody,"
(Nurse Joy says, worried.)
(Sometime later, Mew and her friends arrive at the police station where Officer Jenny tries to call the power plant.)
Officer Jenny: "I'm trying to find out, but there's no answer at the power plant!"
(Officer Jenny says.)
Mew: "We don't have much time! We'll have to go there ourselves!"
(Mew says.)
(Misty asks.)
Misty: "What does the power plant look like?"
Officer Jenny: "You can't miss it!"
(Jenny says.)
(Then points to the direction.)
Officer Jenny: "It's the big building with the smoke stacks, there."
Mew: "Alright, let's go!"
(Mew says.)
(Suddenly, they hear something in the bushes.)
(They look to see Pikachu coming out of the bushes.)
Mew: "Pikachu!"
(Mew says, surprised.)
(Mew runs up to Pikachu and kneels down to him.)
Mew: "Pikachu, you should be back at the Pokemon Center."
(Pikachu shakes his head.)
Pikachu: "Chu." (No.)
Mew: "You don't want to?"
(Mew asks, confused.)
(Misty then suggests.)
Misty: "Maybe Pikachu's afraid we'll leave and we won't come back."
(Pikachu nods her head.)
(Seeing there is no talking Pikachu out of it, Mew says.)
Mew: "Okay. You can come along. But, remember, you gotta take it easy. And you'll stay in my bag, okay?"
(Pikachu nods his head.)
(Mew picks up Pikachu and places Pikachu in her bag to rest.)
(Unknown to the group, they are being spied on by the same Pokemon.)
(Meanwhile, Jessie and James are able to get out of the sewers.)
(and are deeply breathing while Meowth holds a calm smile on his face.)
Jessie: "We could've suffocated,"
(Jessie says, still heavily breathing.)
Meowth: "The city has been plunged into darkness by a power failure,"
(Meowth confirms.)
James: "A power failure, is it? I can identify with failure,"
(James comments.)
(Soon, Meowth sees Mew and her friends running towards the Power Plant.)
(Meowth says.)
Meowth: "There they go! Now we're in luck! We got another chance!"
James: "For what?"
(James asks.)
Meowth: "For finally, once and for all, capturing that pesky Pikachu and Eevee!"
(Meowth says.)
(Then turns to his comrades.)
Meowth: "Come on, now! Jessie! James! Let's move it!"
(Jessie angrily scolds them.)
Jessie: "Give us time to rest, Meowth! We nearly drowned in the stinking sewer thanks to your ridiculous plan!"
James: "Meowth! You nearly killed us, you dimwit!"
(James adds with anger.)
Meowth: "Guys, don't worry. This time, we got a secret weapon that's Meowth proof,"
(Meowth says with a chuckle.)
[To Be Continued...]