Run. I have to get away from that Chandelure. I quickly glance back back, but can't see her. 'Did I lose her?'
I climb the tree further up and look around, heavily panting. 'Today isn't going well at all. First I don't find any food, then that insane ghost sees me and decides it might be fun to light me on fire. Reshiram guide me, today really isn't my lucky day. I'm some seriously unlucky Venipede.'
A small flame hovers toward me and I barely manage to evade without falling of the branch. 'Why do these guys never get caught? Stupid fire ghost.'
I leap to the next tree and struggle to find a hold on the ice-covered wood before continuing my escape. 'Stupid humans. Fooling around with powers they don't understand and almost freezing whole Unova in the process.'
A new stream of flames almost throws me off, but I grab onto a lower branch and try to ignore the water dripping on me as I leap to the next tree. 'You have to be one of these stupid fire or ice types to actually adept and live here. Everyone else simply tries to survive.'
The jump isn't going according to plan as I can't hold onto the ice and slam on a branch a few feet below me before hitting the ground. 'Ouch. Fu-... Funny how I always manage to land on my back, huh?'
I roll on my feet and dash up a tree, something extremely hot following me until I touch the wood. 'At least she isn't stupid enough to burn down the forest... maybe she fears to get punished by the guardian? Doesn't really matter anyway.' "Go to hell and leave me alone!"
My back hurts and I'm pretty sure I will get a cold running around wet, but the Chandelure's laugh convinces me to go on anyway. "Oh, you will experience hell first. And I won't go there without a detailed report of yours."
My lung aches and I notice gray spots in my vision. 'What is going to kill me, falling a few dozen feet or getting burned by a ghost out of pure boredom?'
I think I see some human and try to speed up and get to him. 'Maybe he does not care for bugs, but wants a strong Chandelure in his team...'
I get to a branch above the humans head, but slip as I try to hop to the next on and drop onto his head. I glance down and stare in her face for a moment. Only one visible eye, eye patch, shocked expression and obviously female. I grin. "Don't mind me, I just want to get away from that awesome Chandelure. Maybe you want to catch it?"
I don't wait for a response and try to get into the small opening of her clothes at her chest, it seems warm and safe, a perfect hideout, right?
The human grabs my tails just as I try to get comfortable and pulls me out again. I try to gain some sympathy and smile at her, but the trainer only glares at me. I shift my weight, but a stream of flames interrupts any possible ideas of killing me she might have. 'Almost forgot about the Chandelure. Not sure who I would like to face now though, the human doesn't seem too friendly either...'
The female cyclops clicks her fingers and two capsules on her belt open, releasing a Scrafty and a Gallade. Out of the corner of my eye I see how a Toxicroak points his paw at the fire ghost. I might have missed something, but without saying another word they leap up to the chandelier-like Pokemon which quickly gets thrown to the ground through a mix of poison jab, psychic cut and head smash. 'That certainly looked painful...'
I quickly start to struggle again, I really don't want to find out what that freak wants to do with me, I guess it wild be unpleasant, but the human throws me in between her Pokemon before I manage to escape.
I don't get any chance to react as psychic energy grabs me and pulls me into the air while the Gallade smirks. "I could let it burst."
'No! I like my exoskeleton where it is at the moment.'
The Scrafty pokes me. "No, let me squash it!"
'Out of the frying pan and into the fire, huh? Or out of the fire into a manic version of hell.'
The Toxicroak shakes his head. "Forget it! I will simply pull it apart!"
All three look to their trainer and I gulp as the same evil smirk appears on her face. "None of that, my lovely friends." She steps closer and I panic and try to get away, ignoring the fact I'm still hovering over the ground. "We will do something worse... the small one is coming with us and we're going to wait for a nice opportunity."
She raises another capsule and I manage to spin in the air, doesn't really help me though.
In a last desperate attempt I grasp at my core and fire a poison sting at the Gallade, but the evolved Pokemon does not even flinch in response. I groan and feign death, it's kinda my last resort, but I don't think it will work this time...
'But maybe...' I fire another very small sting at the capsule, most likely to small for her to even notice and hope it somehow affects the ball.
The trainer pushes the capsule against me and... nothing happens. I allow myself a tiny grin as she pushes the Pokeball against me again and still nothing happens. 'Can't believe that actually worked. Are they going to let me go now?'
It doesn't seem that way as the female throws the round object into the air. "Take a close look at that thing, Held."
The frog quickly grabs the capsule with his tongue and seems to munch on it for a while. 'Is he eating it? What are they doing?'
"A poison sting. He broke the mechanics."
The poison fighter hasn't even finished yet as the dark fighting type already growls at me. "You little stinking bug, how dare you don't want to come with our trainer?!"
The Scrafty strikes out and I guess I'm done as the Gallade still keeps me in the air. I close my eyes. 'A poison sting won't help me this time...'
After a moment or two I decide to open my eyes again and see the human stand on top of her Pokemon, his right paw still in her hand while his team mates chuckle.
She helps him up and pets his head with a grin. "Don't always be that way, Kiba, you didn't shatter anyone else without a second thought, right? Everything is fine."
My potential executor is still growling, but it seems to be directed into a general direction and not toward me. 'Who would want to travel with a bunch of freaks like that?'
The human glance to the psychic fighting type for the blink of an eye and he instantly hovers me closer to her, I'm not sure if I should be happy about that though. She grabs me out of the air and lets me sit in her arms while her glare seems to have softened up, but I don't buy it. "You're a smart, little Venipede, I like that. You seem brave as well, you lack fighting experience though. Come with us and you will grow stronger without having to worry about food or some predator trying to eat you. So, interested?"
'She just tries to catch me off guard. As soon as I let my guard down she will try some weird experiments or Arceus knows what else with me... But why does she not simply knock me out and make this quick? And where did she get the idea I'm brave? Maybe she mistakes bravery for desperation.' I slowly nod, I can't get away, might as well get some food before I dash off again. "And what exactly are you planning to do with me?"
"Feed you to my lovely team, stupid question."
I freeze in fear, if that was a joke it wasn't funny. 'I knew she was too friendly.'
After a moment she burst out laughing and I sigh. "Don't worry, I'm just joking. That won't happen. I told you we will help you grow stronger and live a good life. And I'm pretty sure your poison attacks will help my research."
She sets me down and pets my head. "Afflication, get him some food."
The psychic type bows before walking to her bag. "Whose share?"
"Take mine."
The Gallade hesitates for a moment before bringing her a small bowl which she sets down in front of me. My mouth starts watering and I grin, my luck finding food this week was pretty bad, so it's nice to finally get something. I glance to the human who smiles. "Eat up, it's all yours."
I almost choke on the berries and breed trying to shove them in my mouth as fast as possible, I can chew later, while my new team mates stare at her.
The Toxicroak gulps. "You can't be serious?! You didn't eat anything for three days. You're getting to weak, Gift."
The human waves aside with her hands. "It's not that bad. The small one here looks like he is almost starving, he deserves it more than I do."
I hesitate before spitting the last berry out. "You can have one if you feel hungry."
I climb up her chest until I lean against her chin and smile. "I feel a bit dozy, I hope you don't mind."
My eyes close and I feel how my grip loosening. It seems to get warmer, but sleep won't release me to see why it feels that way.

End of the 1. chapter. Yeah, I'm starting on something new, in more than one way as this story will be written in cooperation with another German writer (I will simply call her Shinyhuntress from now on for my own amusement as she does not have a fanfiction-account), it's funny how fast paced writing it turned out after a while. Still a lot of fun though. I hope you enjoyed this first glance, reviews are gladly accepted (like always, who doesn't like suggestions on how to improve or what you did good?).