From: Roland Le Good <roland@minuet.demon.co.uk> Subject: [PW!] Caleb, part 4 Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 11:30 AM part 4: The end of the whole mess... Caleb was scared, here he was facing a bomb, with seconds left and he had no idea what to do! His Raichu told him to cut the blue wire. " I hope you're right," Caleb leaned close, 5 seconds. He pulled the wire tight, 4 seconds, put his knife to the plastic, 3 seconds, and pulled hard on the wire *SNAP* .......................... A silence went through the air, unlike any Caleb had heard. " Phew," He breathed a sigh of relief. " Chuuu," His Raichu did the same. The phone he was next to began to ring. Caleb was puzzled but he lifted the reciever. " Hullo?" " Caleb! Carver! We found him, he's heading in your direction! We can't go after him, becasue of the damned Horrorgon, it's guarding the bomb in this Pokecentre and if we go after Horrorgon, Carver, or you it'll blow the bomb!" " OK, I'll be ready!" Caleb pulled out his Magnum and sent out Marowak and Doppel as well as Raichu, who was already out. " OK, Carver's on his way, let's be ready!" " Chu!" " Wak!" " Ditto!" " OK!" Sure enough, Carver arrived. There were four Rockets with him. Caleb had found a hiding place, with his Pokemon and they were plannin to ambush Carver. " Oh CAAAALLLEEEBBB! It's that time of your life! My favorite part...when you die! And I'm your host! Heeeerrrrreeee'sss Carver!" " You won't mind if I don't jump for joy?" " Well, no Caleb, you're easier to shoot standing still!" " Very funny," Caleb mutterred. " OK Marowak, when I signal throw your bone across the street, into the building over the road, Doppel, you hold on to the bone and morph into me. Jump up and say hi, then duck into cover, I'll shoot em and we get outta here ok?" " Ditto!" " Marowak!" " MAROOOWAKKK!" He threw the bone and Doppel held on for dear life. " WHAT?!" Carver yelled and shot at the bone, the bullet just skimmed past Doppel. Doppel jumoed down below the window ledge and morphed into Caleb. Doppel stood up and swore at Carver, and just before they shot him he ducked behind the wall again. The real Caleb pointed his gun out of the window and shot down a Rocket. " Missed me Caleb!" " No, I was actually liked it when you went away!" " Very....funny, I think. I can't wait around all day for you Caleb, come out and die!" " You can't win Carver!" " What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?" Caleb growled, he hated Carver and now was his chance to end his life. He leapt up shooting, taking his enemy by surprise he hit Carver in the arm and a Rocket was shot in the leg. Caleb returned his Pokemon before running down some stairs and kicking open the back door. " GET HIM!" Carver yelled. He ran after Caleb, clutching his arm, whilst the Rocket with a badly hurt leg screamed clutching his wounded limb. " Oh shut up!" Carver span around and shot the Rocket. Caleb gulped as the screams were silenced. He had reloaded his magnum before the first rocket rounded the corner. Caleb pushed the gun against his chest and pulled the trigger, the Rocket collapsed in front of Carver who yelled something. Carver fired his pistol at Caleb, and only the bottom of Caleb's coat. " I'll kill you with my bare hands if necessary, Caleb! After him!" Carver ran onwards, followed by a less enthusiastic Rocket. Caleb fired shots off behind him as he dived down another alley. He needed to get into the centre of town, but if he did Carver might kill alot more innocent people. Caleb looked back when he reached the end of the alley. Carver was gone. But why? He ducked around corners and made his way towards the town centre. As he got down the next alley he heard a car engine starting up. Oh no... The sound was getting closer and soon around the corner came Carver in the Team Rocket pickup truck. " BORN TO BE WIIILLLD! YEAH!" Carver was on the top screaming, whilst the Rocket drove the truck. caleb ran as fast as he could, but he knew he couldn't run faster than the truck. He reached the end of the alley and ducked to one side and jumped on the back of the truck, as it went past. Carver fired at him, but the shot missed and bounced off the floor. Caleb fired and also missed, his shot went throgh the glass, seperating the back of the truck to the front cab. The Rocket jumped and swerved to one side, nearly knocking Caleb and Carver off. Carver got his balance first and smacked Caleb backwards with the butt of his gun. Caleb struggled to his feet but was wrestled down by Carver, they were hanging off the back of the truck. Carver was pushing Caleb's head down to the ground where it would be mashed into a pulp. " You know? The first time we met, you were just a big fat, pay cheque on legs, but now? I've come to think of our relationship as much more personnel, HAHAHAHA! Nice knowing you Cale-!" Caleb kicked Carver in the stomach and launched him off the back of the truck. Carver grabbed onto the rear of the truck and swung around onto the back platform and began shooting. All his hsots missed Caleb, but one hit the driver in the back of the head. The truck swerved to one side and rolled over, Carver and Caleb ducked to avoid losing their heads. It smashed into the side of a building, sending charred metal and burning rubber all over the street. Caleb lay unconscious, but Carver had found his Laptop computer and had ordered Horrorgon to trigger the bomb. He turned off the laptop and prepared to kill Caleb. " FREEZE POLICE!" carver turned and saw a line of police cars behind him, each officer had a gun. Carver ducked down and threw Caleb towards them. Whilst they caught Caleb, Carver ran and escaped. Caleb awoke in the back of an ambulance. " Caleb! Tnank god! Hurry, the Horrorgon has set off that bomb, we need to to disarm it, like you did that last bomb!" " wha- huurrrr," They drove at top speed to the Pokecentre. " The timer had half an hour on it, but we couldn't switch it off, because we don't know how and the Horrorgon is guarding it! Good luck Caleb," Caleb walked into the room with the bomb, the bomb was next to a computer, there was several computers in the room, Horrorgon could be in any of them. He looked at the bomb and set about disarming it. He took of the fuse pannel and saw the familiar mix of wires. " Warning individual threat, target aquired," that voice belonged to Horrorgon. Caleb dived to one side as Horrorgon launched a Psybeam at him. He cam up shooting but remembered that bullets can't hurt the Horrorgon. Oh hell, he thought. here were five minutes on the timer now. Horrorgon fired an Ice Beam at Caleb, but it missed, Caleb looked around and saw the large patch of ice on the wall. Caleb ran over to the computer and took cover. Horrorgon flickered and disapeared, it then re-appeared behind Caleb. " Target aquired, brain matter translating," " Oh NO! It's gonna enter my head! YARGH!" He looked at the desk, there must be something to use! A disk! It was an old floppy disk, Caleb had an idea. " Transporting," Horrorgon shimmered at stretched out, thinner and longer. It flew at Caleb. Caleb held up the desk and stared in amazment as the Horrorgon was sucked into it. " YES!" Caleb threw the disk down an looked at the bomb. " RAICHU! GO!" " Chu?" " Another bomb, is it the same?" " CHU!" Raichu shook it's head. " Which wire then?" Caleb asked. " RAI! RU! CHA! RUUU!" Caleb shrugged. Raichu sighed and pointed to th big red button, which had the words: Disarm button! written on it. " I think that's a trap," Caleb said. " Rai?" " Yeah," " Ri," Raichu nodded. " Rai, RAA! Rici chuuu," Raichu pointed to the red wire. " OK, I trust you, but if it's the wrong wire and we get blown up I'm gonna kill ya!" " Chuuu," Caleb lifted the red wire and cut it. There had been one minute left, bu in the blink of an eye, it was only 50 seconds, then 40 seconds. " AUGH!" Caleb looked quickly and grabbed the green wire and cut it. the timer froze on 12 seconds. " phew," " Chuu," " Twice in one day! What are the chances of that!" Caleb returned with his pokemon to the Fuschia city police station. " Caleb, as a symbol of our gratitude, we present to you this Pinsir, for saving the Pokecentre," " Oh, it's ok, I don't really nee-" " Due to your heroic efforts, Horrorgon was defeated, and the bomb difused," " OK, Great, but I don't want ano-" " So, take this Pinsir, they can only be caught in the Safari zone!" " Thanks," Caleb said glumly. Another Pokemon...great, Caleb thought. Caleb was ready to leave Fuschia in the morning. Before he left the city he couldn't help but think about Carver and where he might be, and when they'd next meet. It came close this time, but he was lucky...next time, it might be a differant case...