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Hello, guys. Well, as i said to the summary, this a fic about what if Red lost Giovanni's bet and became a Rocket. Well, we start for the begging where Red went to Viridian city and after. Please, read it from the begining. There is not exactly the same as the manga. Thank you again and have fun.
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Viridian Forest
Today the forest was quiet. Really quiet. Everywhere was quiet. Even, the river was quiet. Not even a simple sound from the small waterfall at its very end was heard at this big forest. That's why every step of one young girl echoed in the forest. Tap, tap, tap.
The girl with the blonde hair was walking in this forest with her head up. Now and then, she turned it at random directions like she was searching for something. She walked at steady speed but always when she turned her head, she was walking a little faster.
At some point ,although ,she turned her head back and stopped. She held her hand at her chin and murmured to herself 'Oh, no...i am lost'.
This time a strange sound, a sound that she never heard, scared her. She turned around and saw a huge pokemon looking at her but not with friendly eyes. It appeared from some bushes and with its blue body came closer to the girl. Its purple eyes glowed and with a motion of its little wings in its head, attacked. The girl, paralyzed as she was, could only scream with agony.
She closed her eyes and then again a strange sound was heard. Some seconds later, she heard a painful pokemon's voice and then someone grabbing her. That person had grabbed her for her stomach and when she opened her eyes, she saw the grass as she was moving. When she turned around to see who was the one who saved her, she was welcomed with a big optimistic smile of a young boy with a cap.
"Are you ok? You are not hurt?" The boy said while looking between her and one large green pokemon, she assumed it was his.
He looked at his pokemon and shouted. "Okay Venusaur...vine"
Venusaur obeyed and used a huge vine to hit the blue pokemon. With one whip, it fell down. The boy again with the huge smile now turning to a concered face, turned and said to her
"You gotta be careful! Sure, you are ok?"
"Yeah...thanks." She told him, holding her hands. She turned to the large pokemon and asked him.
"Is that yours?"
"Yeah. Don't let it scared you. Venusaurs are gentle as they come." He said turning his face yet again to that optimistic smile.
"Wow, you are so lucky! I wish i had a friend like that too!"
The boy put his hand behind his head and asked her, suprised.
"You don't have any pokemon of your own?"
"No." She said and the boy looked around for something. When he saw a rattata, he turned and gave her a round object.
"Ahh...ok! Then take this pokeball...and throw it at that Rattata. Like i just did before."
She looked at the rattata and threw it. "...Like this?"
With a poof, a yellow pokemon appeared, ready to battle the other pokemon.
"I would like you to meet Pikachu...an electric pokemon. It's nickname is 'Pika'." The boy said and as she showed her a strange machine. "C'mon, try giving Pika a command. Like this f'instance..."
"Thundershock?"
"Yeah and hurry. Pika is waiting!"
Indeed the Pikachu was moving its tail very fast while looking at her. The Rattata was now looking her too.
"Ok...Pikachu...thundershock" She shouted to the Pikachu while it gave away a large wave of electricity at the Rattata.
The Rattata started moving around uncontrollably and the boy said to her.
"Ok...that last one we defeated. But this one we'll weaken...and then...now! Now...throw the pokeball at it."
With all the strenght she had, she threw it at the pokemon. The pokemon went inside and with 3 clicks, it stopped moving and the Rattata appeared at the red part of it. She took the pokeball and threw it again at the ground and then the pokemon appeared at her hands.
"You captured it! That means you are responsible for it. And it will do whatever you will say."
"Ohhh...nice to meet you Rattata!" She greeted the Rattata while it greeted her back with a happy sound.
The boy, now with his Pikachu on his shoulder, held the Pikachu's pokeball high and said to her with his optimistic smile.
"Doesn't matter how big a pokemon is, the pokeball will shrink it down...and it will fit on your pocket!"
At that moment, pokemon started to appeared behind them. Each one more angrier than the other and all of them started to growl between them but also to the two kids. When the girl looked at them she placed her hands in front of her and murmured to herself 'What's happening...?' The boy with one motion, placed his hand in front of the girl and told her.
"It is ok. Don't be afraid"
He looked around for more pokemon but he saw none. But when he felt something holding his hand, he turned saw the girl looking horrified. He looked at the direction the girl looked and then a large pokemon which looked like an orb attacked them. He took the girl by her hand and screamed to her to run away.
As they ran, more pokemon appeared each one more stronger than the other. The boy was taking her from the one side to the other because the pokemon ,which came to sight, were working together. They attacked in groups and each group was appearing in same distance. Like someone was controling them.
At some point, the boy stopped. They were standing in a place without trees above them. He got another pokeball from his belt and shouted to the pokemon to go away. When this didn't work, he threw it on the ground. Smokes went from the pokeball and then the girl didn't felt anything below her. When she opened her eyes again, she was looking at the peaks of the trees. She was flying! But, how? She looked behind her and saw a huge purple pokemon with wings looking at her. When it noticed her looking at it, it smiled.
"When things are coming to you from all directions...the only way to go is up!" The boy laughed and watched the trees go, too. "So, where do you live kid?"
"Viridian city."
"Then Viridian city, it is!" He announced and motioned the pokemon to move.
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"Where were you? I told you to stay out of the forest! Strange things have been happening there!" A man shouted to the blonde girl.
Red saw the girl looking down at her new pokemon but also nodding her head to the man. Since the arrived at the city, dozens of people came to see if the young girl was ok.
Red was suprised, too. Inside the forest were new pokemon that shouldn't be in there. Like the Dratini. But also pokemon which had evolved to their last evolution. Like the Golems. Something was going on. He wasn't sure but something was controling the pokemon to attacked the people who passed it.
"Do you know how worried we..."
"What do you mean 'strange things'?" He said cutting one woman off.
"Like dozens of pokemon suddenly appearing. Even kinds we have never seen before." One man answered his question and after that he continued scolding the girl.
Red was right. Something indeed was happening at the forest. He took out his pokedex and started looking for an answer. Maybe there were not wild but someone owned how about the Rattata? Maybe only the new and evolved pokemon? He was thinking so much that he didn't noticed the girl coming near him.
"What's that?"
Oh, of course she didn't know. That manchive was only given to him and Green. She had seen it before, too, when they captured the rattata. Of course, she wanted to know what that machine did and how it knew his pokemon moves.
"A pokedex." He showed it at her and continued with pride "I am on a quest to gather knowledge about pokemon into the pokedex. A gift from Professor Oak."
"You mean the Professor Oak? The famous expert of Pallet town." Two men asked.
"Yeeup. My name is Red. I am from Pallet town too. And i am heading to Indigo Plateua. I am looking for other trainers to battle along the way...so i can become the ultimate Pokemon Master!" He looked at them with pride and with burning passion eyes.
"Oh... Well, sorry but...this town doesn't have anyone who could match up to you." A boy replied.
"Why not?" Red asked looking puzzled. How is that? Every town has at least someone with some knowledge on how to battle with a pokemon.
"The gym's been closed for a long time. And the gym's leader nowhere to be found. Noone even knows who he really was. They said he was invicible at battle must have happened..." The same boy informed him.
"Invicible? Huh?" Maybe just maybe if sure he wasn't here, he could searched the gym and found some information about who truly was that person. A legend? Perhaps. If he was alive or at least if he was tryly an amazing battler. He head fulled with ideas and started moving around.
"Which way is this gym?"
"It's across the river but..." The boy started but was cut off.
"Across the river! Got it!" Red said fast and pulled out a pokeball.
He knew there must be a bridge somewhere to go across but his adrenaline stopped him for thinking. And also...he wanted to go across as fast as he could. So, he threw it down and Gyara came out.
Some kids gasped, others mumbled that it was huge. He looked at them and reasured them that it was ok. Gyara was a huge pokemon but a quiet and happy one. But before he went at the other side, he needed to say something to that blonde girl because maybe after he finished his search on that gym, he would leave and could not find her again. After all, that pokemon was her first. She needed to know about what pokemon can be.
"Listen to me...please." He pleaded and when the girl nodded, he continued. "Pokemon can be scary...but they are basically kind, loving creatures. If the owner is bad and train his pokemon to do bad things...then they will grow to be bad, too." He looked at her pokemon and smiled
"But if you care from them with a kind and gentle heart...they'll always be your friends. Do you understand?"
"I do!" She smiled at him.
"As long as you understand that, you're on the right side!" He blinked at him and turned towards his pokemon.
"Ok then...Let's go!" Red shouted and climbed at Gyara's head.
With one motion, the pokemon stretched and Red found himself to the other side. He did all that while the boy was announcing that the bridge (there was one) was on the other side. Well, he couldn't hold himself anymore so he did it more quickly. He told to his pokemon to return and when it reached his hand he waved back to the kids and disappeared. Meanwhile, the kids had stayed and looked at the river while one of them said that that was amazing.
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The gym was indeed big and now with the sun touching it , it looked more old of what it looked like. He remember ( he believed) that he had visited this place before. It was his first day of his journey. When he was looking for the Professor's pokemon and at the very end, obtaining the pokedex and his starter's pokemon. Saur. But now he was visiting it for clues. So, he looked at it and said to himself 'Is truly this place?'
"To reconnoiter a place like this..." He said pulling out a pokeball "Venusaur's vine is perfect."
He pulled him out and told him his command.
"First, let's take a look around the outside. Venusaur."
The venusaur obeyed.
He followed it and watched around for clues. After some time, his eyes fall at something. A sign.
'Viridian Gym.'
Then, indeed it was the place he remembered.
"Remember this place Saur? It was the place you had hide."
But under the sign there was written
'Closed'
"So it's been closed ever since then... The invincible missing leader's gym, eh!" He laughed "I've got to know what's going on! But there is not clue...to anything." Red looked around to find only grass.
"Guess we'd better go ins...huh?" He wondered when he saw Saur getting inside from an open door few steps away from the center door.
' So from here you got inside...huh?' He mumbled while running behind his pokemon and entered the door. Inside it was dark like the other time but more darker. He found Saur and while walking to it, something made a sound. He ran to his Venusaur and turned around towards the sound while shouting to his pokemon "Someone's there!"
There wasn't anyone there but the statue he had seen before. Under it was another sign. It was written 'Viridian gym leader' and under this probably his name but it was broken. The only thing strange with this statue was that more and more Red looked at it, more and more something remembered him of someone.
"But i have the feeling that i have seen the face somewhere before...But where?" He asked himself
Then Venusaur grabbed him from his arm towards him.
"Venusaur? What is it?" Wait? The noice! Venusaur was right! Something or someone is with them. He needed to be more care...
There was a strange sound and then something washed the room with light. Red heard some footsteps and then a deep manly voice.
"You came...as i though you would. Welcome to the Viridian city gym." The man spoke.
"Who are you?" Red asked searching from where that sound had come.
"I' ve waited for a long time for you... Red of Pallet town!" The man hissed when he said his name but with a quiet ton.
Red looked suprised and went behind his Venusaur and stuttered
"H-how does he know my name?"
The man smiled.
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Meanwhile
Green looked around. Everywhere water. His Golduck ,happy for being out of its pokeball, hummed in the water. It really liked taking his trainer everywhere from the water. And they bonded and had fun. Well, it though his trainer had fun. It was only specific times or he was really happy at something for it to see that smile appeared to his face. It often appeared when he was with his family or his 'friends'. But after some time being with him, it understood when he showed emotion and those times were its favourite.
Green had decided to travel by the Kanto shores than went from the ordinary road to Indigo Plateau. Also, he needed to train his pokemon a little farther. He was excited, he must angree with that, for the battles. He didn't want to become a champion but meeting more and experienced trainers made him want to become a more powerful trainer. Not more stronger but the strongest. At least, enough to protect his family. After, the Silph Co episode ,he knew that he needed to protect his family more than ever. Indeed, Grampa was strong but now he was focused into his research and often ingored the world around him. Also, his sister was strong but not expierenced enough.
A huge wave appeared and with a motion from his hand, his pokemon avoided. Maybe, he should have went from the Viridian forest. He could have met that boy. Red. Maybe, also challenged him to a battle. But when the battle ended, what he would do? Battle weedles and metapods? No. Even if the idea that his rival was there lured him to go, he needed to level up his pokemon. All of them. So, when he found out that there were more stronger pokemon in the shores, he hopped to his Golduck and traveled there.
And indeed, he had found some intersting pokemon to his way here. Very strong. Like someone had them before and let them go. But again, he didn't know if this was true. Maybe the pokemon's levels were indeed high from the other places. Yet, again, there was a huge gap in the levels of pokemon between the shores' and Kanto's. Like there were not supposed to be there.
His Golduck avoided a rock and when it touched the water the gem in its head glowed. Something was here. A pokemon. Green looked around for a sign for were the pokemon was but only saw the rock...wait. The rock!
A large pokemon appeared before his eyes and immetiately attacked him.
"Golduck, tail whip!" He shouted and his pokemon threw at the large pokemon, a wave of water.
"That lower its defence stats!...!" While golduck got closer at the pokemon and attacked with its tail, he saw an angry lapras ready to attacked back.
It moved back and Green understood why. It used a protection attack. It used specs of ice to cover it for any attack Green was going to used. But then, the specs of ice exploded and covered the pokemon everywhere. A camouflage. Green stood there and thought what to do.
But the pokemon had found him before he could react. But that was the point. Green was on a pile of water that his pokemon was getting out of its mouth.
"This is another way to use the hydro pump" He said to the now suprised lapras "And...there's one way through your mist barrier, Lapras..."
Before Green finished his sentence, lapras started hissing and opened his mouth. Golduck with its now stopped glowing gem turned to the lapras and shoot a purple beam in the water to it.
"Underwater...Hyper beam!" He shouted and pointed to the lapras.
While still in the pile of water, he threw a pokeball at the lapras. The thing that suprised Green though, was that the pokemon went directly to the direction of the pokeball. Like it wanted to get inside it. The pokeball captured it and with suprisingly speed, it returned to the thrower. Now, again on his pokemon's back, he took it in his hand and signed happily. He didn't have a lapras. When his pokemon arrived on the land Green hopped on it and opened his pokedex. All the data for the lapras had been registed on it. Closing it, he smiled happily but then he remembered.
How did the pokemon know how to cover itself so good? There were some who could do that like the physic pokemon but a water? He looked again at the lapras. Happy. Happy?
The pokemon which were captured resently didn't like their new environment in the pokeball. How did this lapras love being in the pokeball? There was only one answer. That lapras had a trainer. A very good one ,too. The speed that the lapras had was so high than an ordinary's one. So, his thoughs were correct. Someone was leaving pokemon here. Something was fishy here.
"Hey! That lapras is mine!" Someone shouted at him.
He turned and saw a young boy looking at him with his angry face already forming words that didn't sound. He was holding a pokeball, too. It was lapras'? Green held the pokeball closer. 'What?'
"Don't tell me this creature actually has a trainer?" 'And you to be precise."
"Yes! It is mine! I captured last week." The boy said looking at him again in the eyes.
"That's strange." Indeed, it was. If he had captured that pokemon last week, it would have actually got used of the environment's pokeball. But the mist trick should have got more than a week to be learnt. Impossible.
"If a pokemon is with a trainer, i shouldn't be able to capture it." Green said looking at lapras' pokeball.
"I have been tracking this lapras for months..." 'So,you are not his trainer' "and now that it had finally appeared again, you captured it. I was trying to captured it for weeks. I need that pokemon!" The boy yelled at him while holding up his hands.
"Oh...that kind of trainer. Well, so that's not my problem. I captured it first and now it is my pokemon." Green said in quiet tone and turned around motioning his pokemon to do the same.
"No, please i need that pokemon." The boy followed him.
"Why you need this pokemon so much that the others in this island?" Green turned towards the boy and stopped walking.
"That pokemon had disappeared, like i had said before an..."
"Disappeared?" That captured Green's attention.
"Yes, and had reappeared again more stronger that ever. And not only this pokemon but also some other new had appeared here. But all of them are really strong that the ones i was battling before. The lapras" He motioned the pokeball "was the more easiest pokemon to capture but also easiest to train. But one day, it disappeared and when i saw it again, it was shouting ice in the other weakest pokemon. Lapras are gentle and nice pokemon but this just... one day attacked the others one and... didn't care."
Green looked at the lapras, again. How that is possible? What if it was captured from someone else? And he would leave it again after he had trained it in the same place? No... and why captured in the first place. It was the same lapras,right?
"It is the same lapras you saw everyday or not?" Green asked and showed the pokeball to the boy.
The boy looked at him for a clue and when he didn't find what he was looking for, looked at the lapras.
"...yes! It has the same scratch as the one i was seeing everyday. In the shell but...more larger...no, larger that i would think."
Green looked at the pokemon and indeed, there it was scratch in lapras' shell. And again...large? It was starting from the end of the right part of its shell and ended at its back. It was enormous! Why? Did that trainer hit it? Was it hitten from a battle? That's why did he let it go? But when he captured it, he didn't see the scratch on its back? Something was happening in here. That's why it attacked him? From the pain or for revenge.
A pull from his sleeve pull him back to reality.
"Please...give me the lapras! Please!" The boy begged.
Green understood that that boy didn't acknowledge what pokemon trainer meaned so...
"Look..."
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'What's with this guy?' Red though while trying to find who he was in this light.
'Look at this face...you must be fairly experienced trainer by now... An expert, maybe?' Red asked himself.
The light got stronger and this time Red put his arms in his eyes to prevent it from blinding him.
"You' ve been in this mission to complete Oak's pokedex for a while now. You must have defeated quite a few gym leaders in the progress!" The man seemed to enjoy himself.
"Who are you?" Red barked.
"Was the last time the fossil hunt at diglett's cave...? No." He toned the last word with sarcasm. "When the Silph company headmasters was crumbling..."
Red remembered. All his memories showing this man appeared.
"It can't be...the fossil guy?"
The man smirked "Your 'can't be' is right! When i met you in Pewter city...i was the Viridian's gym leader!" He shouted the last part with pride.
The strong light disappeared and now the fossil guy looked at him with a emotionless face and a big smirk. When Red looked away from his smile, he continued.
"You' ve crashed Team Rocket...many times. Now you get to meet its leader! Hence, you can call me..." He stopped and opened up his smirk more showing him now some teeth "Giovanni!"
"So that time you were testing me?" Red asked while putting his hand to his belt to grab a pokeball.
"Something like that."
Red stopped 'Okay, stay cool... My opponent is the leader of the most evil organization in the world! I can't let my guard down for a second. Is it only us in this gym?... Naw. Can't be! He got to have underling somewhere around here! So do i strike first or is that suicude...?'
He must have showed a grimage at his last thought because Giovanni started smiling more widely.
"So you are wondering how many of your enemy are in the building... You are wondering how powerful i am... And you are wondering if it is wise to strike first." He said and Red growled.
"Don't worry. There is noone here but you and me. I ahve not reason to lie. And..." He stopped and pulled out his jacket getting all of his pokeballs in the ground. What was he doing? After that he wore it again and while he was turning around, he continued.
"Not only that...i am even unarmed. You have me at quite a disadvantage...now, come at me with all you've got!"
"You...wouldn't be making fun of me, would you?" Red called Poli out and motioned him to attack.
But when Poli punch hit his opponent...it somehow didn't touch him and flew behind Red. All in while Red looked confused. Poli was frozen.
"How...what just happen?" Red demanded to know what happen to his pokemon and a strange feeling started to show to his back. When he turned, he saw another pokemon. A Cloyster. But how?
"It took one second for you to grab a pokeball. By the time you throw it, another second had passed. Three seconds had elapsed by the time Poliwrath got out his pokeball and began its attack. More than enough time to reach the pokeballs in the floor and launch a counterback...for me at least." Giovanni smiled.
"Most people seem to think that the mark of good trainer is simply his command of pokemon. But the trainers own power, skill, speed...are just as essential." He tsked "It's shame Red. It really is."
"What are you calling a..." No, Red control yourself, don't let him see lose your cool.
"Don't misunderstand me." Giovanni started while Red kneeled next to his pokemon.
"There was nothing shameful about your attack. The shame ...is that you are not by my side. I could use a trainer with your stubborness, your explosive energy..." He pointed at him " you empathy for pokemon. I' ve heard abou all your battles with my captains. At first, i though nothing of them, but i keep hearing abou the same young man, scoring victory after victory..."
"You think i'd join?" Red exploded.
"No, actually...i don't. Your independence and honor is the triats that i admire in you. So, then... how about a bet?" Giovanni proposed.
"As you can see, my pokemon are on the floor and far from me. It will take six seconds for me to seize one and attack. On the other hand, have still five at your side." He turned serious "If you win under these conditions, i'll make no demands on you. I' ll accept whatever you decide. However, if i win... you will spend of your life battling for me at my side! Well, does your silence mean an assent? Or are you just afraid?" Giovanni finished.
Afraid? He was not afraid! But if he lose? No! He can't lose. He had fought against a more powerful opponent. Mewtwo. But, the feeling of losing was burning. What he would do? Well, thinking of losing at the very first seconds of the proposal, wasn't something that would help him. So, yes he would accepted it and he would win the bet. Maybe, when he won, he could say to Giovanni to stop his organization. He hoped, at least. But something was off...yes!
"Afraid? I don't think so...i will accept your bet." He said pulling out his remaining pokeball and putting them down. "But only in a fair fight!"
Giovanni smirked "That's what i am looking from a lieutentant!"
"Fair fight...my best against yours!" Giovanni said and at the same time, they moved to their pokemon.
"Let's go!"
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Tents. Tents! Tents, everywhere! Busy streets. So busy. ' Come get ur vegetables' 'Come by and check ur fruits' 'Buy some pokefood'
Buy, buy, buy. She was getting irriatated with this. She walked more faster and try to avoid the passengers went by. She needed to hide before someone found out what she did. After some time, when she was out of the hassle and bustle, she breathed again.
'Ha, nice city but so noisy.' She though while walking towards some trees so she could sit down, finally.
'97, 98, 99...100' She counted her money "Wow, i got more that before, ehmm, well,...there were easy to persuade them than the others on the Saffron City. Ha, nice though, i can buy something with them. Maybe a phone?"
Blue sighed and after she sat down with her back in front of the tree, looked up to the sky. Still morning. Long day. She got her Jigglypuff out and saw it play with the grass. Really long day. And a long journey. She had matured. Now that she thought about, she sold people more stuff that needed closer examination to find out what they actually did.
Like, when this powerful pokemon appeared, she needed to see how was it. Well, she didn't reach it to see how it looked like ( there was also the huge sandstrom that it had caused to protect itself) but she saw how was it's shadow. After that, she took some stuff and made a minature of it and put in pokeballs. Having the red part make it look like a actual pokemon and not some plasteline, was a bonus. She had got so much money at the first city that she decided to continued it. And as it showed she got more and more larger sum of money than the last city she had visited.
Blue looked up again and saw some clouds passed her. Suddedly, her Jigglypuff moved around on air then stopped and got down to the ground. Air? There was air? Where? She was basically sweating. Where was...
And poof. A paper was on her face. And now there was the air. She wrenched the paper and at the last second before she let the air take it, she saw something really useful.
'Pokemon league...the final station. Begin your journey, have your pokemon at high levels and come battle with us. Starting...'
Oh, no, she had forgot about the pokemon league. As, she remembered there was preliminaries and semi-finals and finals. She looked at the bottom for the date that you needed to be in it...one week! Thank god! She could make it. Well, she didn't have enough trained pokemon but...she could go to the finals with a few tricks she had in her sleeve. Just enough for everyone to see that...
She was from Pallet town, too. That those boys...who were in her age, have began their journeys with a pokedex. And they were given from Professor Oak. But she deserved one, too. She was from Pallet town...too.
She wanted one pokedex and a pokemon from him, too! That's why she stole Squrtle from him... She stared at her hand. She had somehow grabbed Squ...no, Blastoise's pokeball. The pokemon looked so happy. It looked up and smiled at her. Looking it being so happy, she smiled and thought that maybe, maybe the things should have been like this. Because if she didn't steal that pokemon, now she wouldn't meet Red or Green. Her only friends. Her friends that even when she had left them behind after the Silph Co. incident, they still tried to find her.
She sighed happily. Maybe, she could find them in the Pokemon League. Or they would already be there. Naw. But, it would be nice to see them again, though.
"Here she is!"
"Get her!"
Some voices got her out of her mind and looked at the direction they sounded. Oops! They have found it more faster that the previous ones. She waved at them but it's actually a trick. Jigglypuff saw her hand and sang, really loud and not nice. Blue had closed her ears before the attack began, resulting the croud fall down, screaming.
She ran ,with her Jigglupuff in her side, away to the closest town. She needed to go to the Pokemon League as fast as she can.
"Next station, Viridian City."
"I will beat you, Giovanni!" Red screamed at him while bringing out Snorlax.
"You're fast! All, right Red but a great trainer knows when to let when to strike first.." Giovanni observed and a hand appeared at Snorlax chin resulting him to fall into the wall.
A Nidoqueen!
"And why...in order to use the speed against him!" Giovanni shouted and Nidoqueen punched Snorlax again with so much power that it broke the wall and fell out.
"No!" Red said angrily but looking with sad eyes at what was happening to his Snorlax "I beat you with my speed before...now i'll beat you with my own."
"Pay attention!" Giovanni tsked and with a throw, bring out a Golem "Learn something!"
Golem didn't follow any orders. It just transformed into a ball and started attacked Red. Red moved to the right dodging the attack but the pokemon found the wall and with a huge impact, returned back to Red. Red, at the last second, dodged it but yet again it did the same. All in while Giovanni looked at him with huge intrest. The pokemon somehow didn't moved at Giovanni's location, even though it's direction went there.
Giovanni laughed "What's your next move, Red?"
'Shout' He thought and looked at his fainted Poliwrath 'Don't panic, Red! Think! Golem's like a projective ball! It's bounching like a pinball, trying to hone in on where my next pokemon's going to appear. Ok, then...what if i don't take out another pokemon.'
Red continued dodging Golem's attacks. At some point the Golem stopped. He must have been thinking for a really long time because Giovanni's eyes turned tired for just staring at Red and shouted.
"Golem, attack!" Golem moved and when it hit the ground it transformed again into a ball.
But this time, Red made the pokemon hit a corner and from the impact, it went directly to the hole that Snorlax had created.
"If i just let it keep bounching...Golem's bound to get tired of searching...and head for that hole in the wall! And at the second,it does... Snorlax!" He screamed with all his might and Snorlax's head appeared at the hole.
"Headbutt!" Snorlax hit Golem's head and with the huge impact of the hit, almost immediately Golem broke down to pieces and fall down.
"What's that for a hard head, ehm!?"
Giovanni smiled "How sad...Golem's crumbling too bad..." and with a gesture of his hand, Golem's pieces moved up to Snorlax's head "it's best attack invloves shattering."
"Snorlax!" Red screamed but it's too late "look out for the..."
"Rock throw!" Giovanni said and the pokemon fell into Snorlax's head causing it to lose its balance.
"And now..." Giovanni shouted "Explosion."
Golem unleashed an explosion, making Snorlax faint on the spot. Red gasped in shock but didn't have time to react when Giovanni's Beedrill pointed its drill to his throat.
"It's too late. It's over, Red. One move and Beedrill drills you!" Giovanni threatened "The moment you pick Snorlax, i choose explosion for my final attack. But exposion can't be used indoors. Which is why i let the fight go outdoors. I told you, you'd learn something."
He smirked "It is important to plan ahead as well. How about now? Will you succumb now that you're at Beedrill's mercy?"
Red backed himself against the wall. He couldn't go anywhere now. His pokemon were too far away and two were already fainted. Expect...the secretly pokeball under the heel of his shoe.
He glared at the man and stated " I will never give up!" and then a pair of grey and purple wings spreaded out behind him.
Aero poped out of the pokeball Red had positioned under his shoe, and instantly lifted its trainer up and away from the deadly pinned arm of Giovanni's Beedrill.
"The battle is not over! Hyperbeam!" Red ordered to his flyer.
The Beedrill fainted in one hit while Giovanni held up his arms to fend off the smoke that had been created by the blast. Red then landed and discovered that the man was gone.
"There is a hole..." Red said while looking down to see what was there.
But all of a sudden, the whole gym started to shake and crumble. Red bring his arm up and then noticed his Poli. Oh, no! He rushed as fast as he could to protect his fainted Poli. Just in time. But a falling boulder from the ceiling fell on his back and got smashed.
Weakly crawling out from the crumbled Viridian Gym, the boy gasped for air. When he was ok, he looked up to find a Nidoking looming over him. Then he realized
"That's what caused the eartquake?!"
Giovanni laughed and released his full party of ground pokemons "I am impressed Red. So far, i had been playing with pokemon from outside my speciality. Cloyster... Beedrill. But you're actually forcing me to use my best fighters!"
Red standed up and ordered his Aero
"Attack." But the rock flyer before it could react, got swatted down by a tailwhip from Giovanni's Rhyhorn.
"So much for your overhead escape. Now to trap the trainer himself!" He grined and ordered " Rhydon... Fissure!"
The attack made the ground cracked made Red fall down in an hole. But before he fell inside, he grabbed the edge and made him hanging on a split of earth.
Giovanni grined again and said.
"Destroy the opponent's footing...a good trick to remember. You know you have fought many specialities. All gymleaders specialize in specific pokemon types. Lt. Surge commands electric pokemons, Koga poison ones, Sabrina psychic ones, while i excel in using ground types. With my Nidoking, Nidoqueen, Rhyhorn, Rhydon and Dugtrio, as well as my invinsible skills, i have earned the name Giovanni of the Land."
Red stared at him with open mouth. The missing gym leader. The ,indeed, invicible leader. He stopped. No. It was not over yet. He looked around for his fallen pokeballs. When he found them he leaped to catch them. But Giovanni's Dugtrio leaped first and used dig. The attack broke the switches on the balls, rendering the pokemons inside unable to leave the devices.
Giovanni remarked.
"You have fought well, Red. You have traveled all around this land and survived challenges that noone you could but you never realized. The whole of Kanto falls under my command and noone stands a chance against me."
Giovanni explained.
"Every place you visited and fought was under my control. To you, they were unconnected incidents... But all of your battles were pieces of one great plain! All of the pokemon we collect for experimental purposes were brought to Celadon city labs for biosurgery...then put through battle training in the neighboring town of Saffron city. Next, followed a shipping to Cinnabar Island via the S.S. Anne in Vermillion due to the blocked pathways by land in the northern cities where 'good' gym leaders watched the cities. And finally, the altered pokemons are dispatched into the Viridian Forest to rebuild their wildness and aggressiveness, and since i am gone from Viridian and all strong trainers have left the city and nobody remains to interfere with my plan to make the forest my pokemon breeding ground. And all of that to develop an unstoppable army of pokemon."
Red was listening all of this with clenched fist.
'I'm the only one who knows! The only one who can stop him! I can't afford to lose!' He sweared.
Then suddedly, one of his pokeballs hopped up from the cracked ground. Red catched it and saw a determined look on Pika's face inside it. He smiled and slowly he stood up while holding his pokeball in his chest.
"This isn't just a battle between me and you, anymore!" Red declared "This is a battle to stop Team Rocket! And i'm gonna win.''
Then, he charged towards Giovanni and the man immediately springed to his feet as well.
Giovanni grined "You haven't changed a bit since the last time i saw you, Red. Well, let me tell you...how this will end up! Pikachu's strongest attack is thunderbolt and it takes 1 second for it to pop out of the pokeball, 2 for charging up enough electricity, and another 2 to fire off the attack, making it a total of 5 seconds, which my Nidoqueen would have finished them off with a poison sting by then."
Red yelled "Pika is quicker than that you believe!"
He tossed his pokeball forward. The pokeball poped open in the first second, and to Giovanni's surprise, Pika finished charging by the second second. The little electric rat unleashed the thunderbolt in the third second and Red looked at the Nidoqueen and its trainer... Something happened! The pokemon and Giovanni should have fainted and fall down by now. What was going on?
Giovanni put his hands inside his trousers and smiled widely. Pikachu touched the ground and also it was confused, too. It looked at its owner for an answer but the only thing Red did was looking at his opponent. Nidoqueen chanced its position for right to left and looked at the Pikachu.
Giovanni laughed "Red, Red, Red. Last lesson. You never trust or listen the opponent words."
Red became more confused 'What?'
"You believed that i will use poison sting, right?" He tsked "I never said that i will use...an attack move...first!" Giovanni screamed and moved his hand.
And then Red understood.
"Pika, dodge it!" But it was late.
Nidoqueen moved towards the rat and with its claws high up, hit it. The Pikachu screamed. Blood drooped from it and purple drops, all in while it hit furiously. Before Red could react, Nidoqueen grabbed Pika and threw it at the wall near Red. The pokemon fell down. Red ran towards it and hugged it. The pokemon barely breath but he could still fell its heartbeat.
He pulled up his hand and saw blood. Lots of blood. 'Don't move! You will hurt Pikachu. Stay still!' He stared at his hand unaware that Giovanni was approaching him.
"As you guessed, i didn't use an attack move but a defense one. A non-damaging one, too. Detect. A useful one. Moving from one side to the other is one way to understand this move." He looked at Red.
"You love your pokemon to the point you tried to protect one by hitting yourself. You would rather hurt yourself than see them being hurt."
Red looked up. Giovanni saw him full of blood, his clothes torn apart and his eyes now forming tears that didn't come down.
"As i believed, you lost the bet. Your pokemon are enable to fight. Resulting you, joining Team Rocket." Giovanni said and gave his hand to Red.
Red couldn't believe it. He had lost. He had lost to his greatest enemy. The one with whom had made a bet. A bet that he was afraid. A bet that would destroy his life. The thought of being a Rocket for the rest of his life made him want to throw up. No. No!
"No! I will not join a organization that destroy pokemon lives or human's. A organization that has fun by only making people die and get hurt. An organization that wanted the worst for everyone! No, i will not!" He screamed with all his might.
Giovanni turned around. He walked towards the river and turned again to him.
"I knew that you would not join Team Rocket even with or without a bet. So let me rephrase statement. As i am seeing, your pikachu needs medical treatment. And the only thing that can keep it alive for the trip to the hospital is its pokeball, which..." He hold up a pokeball "I got it. Your other pokemon are in the hole with their pokeballs destroyed. Which means that even if they wanted to come up or you... transforming them to others pokeball, would be impossible. Because if you don't join, my Nidoking can tear apart land but also merge it, too. So, i think you know what will happen. Last but not least, i have the control of this forest and only with a movement of my hand all the pokemon in the forest will attack the citizens of Viridian city."
Red looked lost, defeated. He couldn't do anything. He couldn't move, he couldn't yell. Nothing. For the first time, he felt empty. He looked at Giovanni and then Giovanni lifted his hand.
"The sake of your pokemon and the lives of the townpeople are your decision!" Giovanni pointed out and after he moved his hand down, Red heard shouts.
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Looking at her rattata was so amazing. She loved that little thing and it had only passed like one hour when she captured it with that boy. The girl looked around and when her eyes spotted the gym she wondered.
'Did the boy find something? Will he come back?'
She must have been thinking for a long time because someone shouted at her.
"Yellow! Leave from there and come in the square!" One of her babysitters shouted.
"Ok!" She shouted while moving with her new pokemon in the square.
The babysitters that uncle had hired were sometimes pushy but really nice people. They protected her, fed her and stayed with her while her uncle was away in the ships. She wanted to go with him but the captain always said she was too young to be in one yet. Well, she didn't complain. She liked Viridian city.
She looked at the entrance of the forest. She had never said why she truly been there. She was listening something, like thoughts. But only the feelings, like angry or sad. And only pokemon's feelings. She had felt someone... being hurt. But it wasn't the ones like she had felt. It felt...stronger. So, she had followed it and as a result, she was getting lost. But, when she met that large blue pokemon that feeling disappeared. It was more...angry but the same pokemon sent it. Maybe that pokemon was senting it.
She listened her pokemon's feelings. Happy. That's nice. When suddedly... there were more. Hungry. Sad. Angry. Alone. She found the feelings sounded from yet again, the forest. She turned around to see if her babysitters looked at her and when none looked, she entered the forest. She knew that she shouldn't get inside it. But she wanted to know, if the pokemon were ok.
With her rattata by her side, she moved inside.
Yellow felt the feelings getting stronger. And stronger. They were ,though, not really loud or tiring but only that they were close. She moved farther inside and then she heard someone shouted.
Then all the feelings chanced. Hungry. Angry. Punish. Punish!Yellow held her head. There were really strong and tiring now. She couldn't stop them. They got stronger and stronger that...she understood. They were getting close! She needed to move! But she couldn't. So strong. So powerful. She looked down and tried to imagine something happy. She couldn't! She panicked.
But then her rattata sent her stronger thoughts. Positive one's. She opened her eyes and saw her pokemon looking at her. She had fallen down in her kneels somehow. Her rattata jumped and moved. Yellow looked at it and understood. She couldn't see were she going. Not with all that feelings but could felt her rattata one's more clearly. Like there was a bond. She stood up and followed her rattata feelings.
After some time, they had got away from all the noise and when she opened her eyes, Yellow was standing in the same place that that boy's flying pokemon had left. It was more quiet, now. Why?... Oh, no. The pokemon were heading towards her town! That's why it was quiet here. There were really far from it.
But then some feelings stopped her moving. She, again, held her head in a way to stop the feelings but nothing happen. Revenge. Revenge. Punish.
Only negative feelings. Wait? Why negative feelings? It was only one's pokemon feelings! She opened her eyes and looked down. Her rattata was in her feet, fainted. But, there were traits that showed that the pokemon had fought elsewhere. And then was thrown back here. Then, Yellow stopped breathing.
She slowly lifted her eyes up and saw a pokemon looking at her with glowing, red eyes. When the pokemon understood that Yellow was looking at its eyes, it opened its mouth and fall down.
Yellow screamed.
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Giovanni smirked happily. The demands had started. Having all the pokemon out of their pokeballs, away from the environment they live and then smashing their habitans, was the most greatest plan he had. The pokemon felt vulnerable without their homes, without the thing they were used to be with. So, the only thing they could do was find the one who destroy their habitans. And in this case it was the Viridian city.
He laughed. Not only he could use his plan but also blackmail Red. The perfect startegy. He knew that he would met Red, here. He would battle with him and why not use a bet. He knew also that he would not accept that he lost the bet and join him, so he bring him were he wanted. Everything went exactly his plan.
Without his pokemon, Red was nothing. Without them, the thought only, was difficult for him. He loved them, respect them, made them his family. His weakness. The now deafeated boy was thinking. What he could think now? Nothing! He was at his mercy and he knew it. He held tight pikachu's pokeball. Nothing at all.
"I...accept." Something bring him to reality and looked back at Red.
Red now was looking at him with empty eyes, his optimistic smile, now replaced with a emotionless face and his eyes now forming tears. He had been defeated and he couldn't do anything now. Perfect. Giovanni smiled but before he could say anything, Red moved down his head.
"In one condition..." He stopped.
When he lifted it up, a single tear had fallen from his eyes.
"I..."
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Well, now what will happen. Is Yellow ok? What did Red ask?
Stay tuned!
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