I hope you enjoy this story! Criticism is much appreciated.
I do not own Pokémon though I do own the characters I create.
"Come on Kaylen, it'll be fun. Me, you, and whatever pokemon we have exploring Kanto. Imagine the sights we'll see, the things we'll do, the intense battles we'll have," my best friend pleaded over my Xtransceiver.
"For the last time the answer is no Andrew, you know how bad my fear of pokemon is," I said exasperated. He'd been trying to convince to join him on a journey the moment he was finally done with the Pokémon Academy his parents made him go to before they'd let him go. His parents were great like that.
"I know, I know, but it just wouldn't be the same without you with me. We'd even get to choose are starters together! Heck you even like exploring so it's not that different from what you do normally, and aren't you taking a walk at the edge of the Viridian Forest right now. Please dude, for me?" he begged.
"Andrew... I know that you've wanted this ever since you were young, but you know tha- " I stopped talking and froze in my tracks. I rubbed my eyes and looked again and saw the same thing, a leafeon bound in silk which almost certainly came from the caterpies crawling over it.
"Hey dude, what happened? Everything all right?" Andrew asked in concern after seeing my shocked face.
"I-i"ll call you back," I staggered, hanging up on him before he could say anything else to me.
The leafeon was looking right at me, tears in its eyes, I couldn't really see the rest of its face, probably because of the silk covering it. Its legs were bound in silk as well, connected to the ground and even a nearby tree. Even its tail and ears were bound.
I had already turned away.
I'm sure the leafeon would be fine, it was a pokémon and I'm sure it'd find a way out. It would be just fine.
Right?
I mean what could those caterpies do to it anyways, they're strictly herbivores so they wouldn't eat it, the leafeon probably had attacked them and they'd string shotted it in return. I mean it was a little strange they were crawling on it though, I mean its not like it had happened that recently as I would've heard the battle and it's not like they could eat it so why were they there, unless...
I stopped dead in my tracks at the realization that the caterpie were eating the leafeon, or at least the plant parts of it. That would be an insanely painful and slow way to die.
I turned around and headed back to where I saw the leafeon and found stuck in the same situation, the only difference were its closed eyes. Looking closer I could see the bite marks and a bit of blood where the caterpie had bit, mainly on its tail, ears, and whatever leafy parts it had. Why the fuck did I think it was going to be fine!
What could I do though, I wasn't a trainer nor did I want to be one. I didn't have anything on me unless you counted my green shirt, blue jeans, and my Xtransceiver, and it'd probably attack me the moment it was free. But even if it did attack me I just couldn't live with myself if I let this leafeon die in what was probably one lf the worst ways to go out.
Maybe run at them yelling to scare them away? No, they'd probably just string shot me the instant I did that. It'd have to be something so threatening to them they'd run the instant they heard it.
Wait, that's it! Andrew had me use my Xtransceiver to record pokemon cries to help him study for his final exam. And if I remember correctly one of them were one of the most scary pokemon around, especially to grass, bug, ice, and whatever else fire beat. Charizards.
After finding the recording of a charizard roar I set my Xtransceiver volume to max and after a little shudder, pressed play.
The effect it had on the caterpies, leafeon, and every pokémon in the area was immediate. The caterpie without even looking around scuttered away into the roots of trees and on them. The leafeons eyes shot wide open with panic. I heard a multitude of pokemon cries in the area, no doubt they were heading into any cover they could find.
Seeing that the caterpies had left I headed over to the leafeon. It was struggling against its bonds now but it only seemed like it was making it worse. "Hey, stop struggling, I'm going to get you out of here," I whispered.
It looked at me with disbelief in its eyes. I don't blame it, after all I had just walked away from it minutes earlier only to come back now. Reaching for the silk on it I was about to try and pull it off the leafeon until I realized that if I did that I'd probably just get my hand stuck as there was a lot of silk on it.
What could I do then, it's not like I had a knife on me. Then it hit me, the places where the silk was connected to the tree were much thinner than on it and I could just dig up the silk attatched the the ground. Though that did still leave it with the problem of all the silk on it just getting stuck to more things unless I... carried it.
Taking in a deep breath and doing my best to stop my shaking, I slowly started digging up the the closest silk and once I was done I got it wrapped around my left wrist, not enough to keep my left hand from moving but I could already feel how much harder it was to move it.
This process continued for a few minutes, dig up the dirt with my right hand(should've wrapped the first one around something else), get it stuck on my upper body, repeat. By the time I was done my left arm was covered in the stuff and I could barely move it anymore. And the whole time the leafeon was staring at me in shock that I was doing this for it and a few muffled noises came from it.
Finally finished with the all the silk on the ground, I carefully made my way to the last piece of silk as any movement too far pulled the leafeon and I did not want any more silk getting on the ground. Looking at the silk on the tree I pondered how I could get it off since it's not like I could just remove the bark. After some thinking I realized that since this was last strand of silk I could just pick up the leafeon and then move into it to try and dislodge.
I picked up the leafeon, making sure that I didn't get its nose in a place where it couldn't breathe any more. Afterwards I moved shoulderfirst into the silk attatched to the tree and after a lot of pushing it came off the tree and onto my shoulder.
Shaking I started heading back to Viridian City with a fidgeting leafeon, I mean even if this leafeon wanted to hurt me it was too bound up to do it, right? And even if I wanted to put the leafeon down I couldn't. We were stuck with each other, for better or for worse.