A MEOWTH'S LOVE
Chapter 1: ENTER THE KLUTZ
The alarm clock rang loudly in the Trueheart Household causing a 15 year old boy to groggily reach his hand over and haphazardly attempt to hit the snooze button only to knock it over with a loud clang.
The boy groaned loudly at this and threw the covers over his head in an attempt to drown out the racket when his mother's voice came from downstairs "Eric, get your ass out of bed now! You're going to be late once again to get your Pokémon license!"
Eric suddenly threw the covers off and began to run over to his drawer only to trip over an empty pokeball on the ground and hit the ground with a thud."Oh shit, I'm going to be late again!" Eric thought in a panicked tone to himself as he yanked his drawer open and threw on a pair of pants over his boxers and a shirt then ran down the stairs almost falling down them.
Eric's mother was busy doing dishes in the kitchen and gave a depressed sigh when Eric came dashing past her and out the kitchen back door.
Eric was unfortunately a notorious klutz which is why he had not gotten his Pokémon license yet. Last year he went to apply he had accidently commanded the Charmander to use flamethrower on the tester. The year before that stepped on a Pikachu's tail resulting in the Pokémon using it's thunder attack shocking everyone in the test room and blew the power for 3 straight hours.
But this year was going to be different he just knew it…he didn't know how but something told him he would become an official Pokémon trainer this year!
As Eric neared the Pokémon license building a man stood at the entrance tapping his foot looking rather annoyed."You know Eric, I have half a mind to fail you for being late and save me a lot of trouble later….fortunately for you I am a generous man." The man said just as Eric stopped in front of him panting heavily.
"I'm sorry professor Oak, I overslept." Eric said breathlessly.
Professor oak simply sighed at this and frowned."If you do ever become a Pokémon trainer, I feel sorry for the Pokémon you get…" Professor oak said motioning for Eric to follow.
As Eric and professor oak entered the building the nurse Joy who was sitting at the front desk gave a grim look when she saw Eric's face as they stood in front of the desk."We'll skip the written test as we all know you ace it every time and get on with the field test." Professor oak said ending his sentence in a morbid tone.
"Should I get the usual?" Nurse joy asks not letting up her grim look to which Professor oak nodded. Nurse joy then went to the back room and came back with a tray full of different medical items for humans then went back in and came back out with three pokeballs.
"Why do you need human healing items for this test? I thought they didn't work for Pokémon." Eric said confused to which professor oak cleared his throat.
"They are for us…choose a pokeball." Professor oak said striking his own grim look now as Eric picked one.
Eric then followed professor oak to the testing room. The testing room consisted of multiple dummy Pokémon, obstacle course equipment, a pool, and display board up top against the far wall that was used for Pokémon tournaments.
"Ok…release your Pokémon." Professor oak said plainly.
"Release the Pokémon? Ok." Eric said pressed the release button on the pokeball before professor oak released what he was actually doing and was too late to stop him letting out a very pissed off looking primape.
"I didn't mean actually release it Eric!" Professor oak said in a panicked tone just before the primape dash at them both knocking Eric and professor oak down and causing the now empty pokeball in Eric's hand to go flying out an open window in the testing room.
Professor oak ran to the intercom near the door in the room and pressed the talk button."Nurse Joy, bring me the empty pokeballs now! He did it again!" Professor said in a panicked tone just dodging the Primape's attack.
All Eric could do was watch knowing what was to come as professor battled the primape and re-caught it."I failed again…didn't I?" Eric said in a depressed tone.
Professor oak regained his composure and looked at Eric. "Well the good news no one was seriously injured this time…the bad news that you did fail again Eric…I'm sorry." Professor oak said as he walked over and patted him on the shoulder.
Eric walked out of the license building with a gloom look on his face as he dragged his feet down the sidewalk only to trip over something and land on his face. "What the fuck?" Eric said in an annoyed tone as he looked to see what he tripped over and saw a pokeball laying in the middle of the sidewalk.
"This must be the pokeball that flew out of my hand when the primape attacked us." Eric thought grimly remembering what had just happened."I might as well return it…." Eric said aloud as he picked up the pokeball and began to walk back towards the license building when he heard a scream and something that sounded like a woman calling for help. Eric immediately ran in the direction of the scream and ran into an alley blinked twice thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him. Lying on the ground in front of him was what looked at first like a teenage girl but only at first. The female's Ears, whiskers and the charm on her forehead puzzled Eric."Did Halloween come early this year?" Eric asked in a humorous tone to the female causing her to look up at Eric with a desperate look in her eyes. "Meeeowth…" She said weakly just as two men in black suits with red R's on them rounded the corner and stopped.
"There she is! Pokeball go!" The man yelled chucking a pokeball at the female.
Eric as if by instinct picked up a wooden board and batted the pokeball in the other direction knowing that these two were team rocket grunts. "What did you do to her? And why are you trying to catch her?!" Eric yelled in a demanding tone.
The rocket grunts simply cackled."None of your business…now go be a good boy and go play with your Gameboy." One of the grunts said in a taunting tone.
This answer if anything pissed Eric off more than anything but he knew he could not do anything against two rocket grunts probably armed with powerful Pokémon. Just as Eric began to walk away the female grabbed his pants leg."Help…..me…." The female said in plain English this time weakly.
"Shut your mouth, you freak show!" The grunt said angrily.
"I'm sorry…I can't do anything..I'm not even a Pokémon trainer…" Eric said in a depressed tone and continued to walk down the alley past the grunts.
"Smart choice boy…don't worry…She'll be well taken care of…"One of the grunts said and they both cackled evilly.
Eric continued to walk looking back once and continued walking.
"Now then…where were we." The grunt said with an evil smile when suddenly Eric's voice echoed from behind them.
"POKEBALL GO!!!" Eric yelled at the top of his lunged chucking the pokeball down the alley right in between the rocket grunts heads and connected with the female absorbing her in a red light and sailed back to Eric just as quickly landing in his palm and then run like a Crobat out of hell down the street before the grunts could figure out what actually happened.
"Get the boy!" Eric heard one of the grunts yell as he made a left turn down the street leading to his house and then without warning jumped over a wooden fence hoping they had not seen him.
Eric stood as still and quietly as he could against the fence as heard hurried footsteps run past then stop a short distance away."I think we lost him…" One of the grunts said in a annoyed tone.
"Damn!" The other grunt said hitting the wooden fence causing Eric's heart which was now thudding out of his chest to skip a beat."Giovanni is going to have our heads on a platter!" The grunt said and then he heard the footsteps running in the opposite direction away from him.
Eric then timidly looked over the fence and saw that the grunts we nowhere to be seen and let out a sigh of relief. Eric then jumped back over the fence and ran back to him house.
No sooner he entered he started to tell his mother what happened but was cut off by her squeal of delight."You finally did it! You became a Pokémon trainer!" She said gleefully.
Eric didn't have the heart to tell his mom what really happened now…he'd simply wait till later.
"ya, mom…"was all Eric could say as his mom hugged him tightly.
"Let's see which one you got then." She said with a smile causing Eric to gulp.
"Err…I don't think I should…this Pokémon is rather disobedient and it might wreck the house." Eric lied striking a sweat drop.
"Ohh…ok then...well I'm going to call our relatives and let them know that my son finally is a official trainer! " Eric mom said gleefully and ran off to dial on her phone before Eric could stop her.
"I think I'll just go to my room…" Eric said as a swelling guilt formed in his gut.
Eric got to his room and lies on his bed then let's out a long and depressed sigh. "Great…what do I do now?" Eric said aloud grimly.