Pokemon Emerald, Ruby, and Sapphire
Chapter 2: Being A Hero For A Day
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon. Still wish I did! ^_^
I pass through route 102 and finally arrive at Oldale town with the help of my Poke-Navi. I look at the sky again. It seems to be around four o'clock. I sigh. I had thought this journey would be a little more...interesting.
So far all that's happened is that I've saved a Professor from a trio of idiots who just happen to be territory tripping Pokemon, I've gotten lost, and had to meet people twice.
It would be nice if something cool could happen, like maybe some crazy group of bad guys attack Oldale and try to excavate some ruins and perhaps I might be able to save innocent civilians, rescue the Pokemon Center, then get a good reputation in the region.
I face palm. That'd never happen. I sigh again, and my shoulders sag. I know I said I wanted a relaxing journey, but this is just boring.
I reach into my bag to see what I have. I have 9999999 PokeDollars, and some candy bars. Mom could have been a little more considerate in the food department. I dig a little more and find my Poke-C-Card, with more money I had saved for this journey is all else fails.
I stash the three things in a secret pocket, just in case. Money, extra money, and most importantly, food. I smile. This is good. Running down a hill, I see the Pokemon Center up ahead. I'm too busy thinking about all the food I can eat when I crash into a stone pillar.
"KyAAA!" I screech, and jump back defensively. I realize it's only stone and not someone trying to hurt me. I let my arms fall to my sides. Walking forward, I reach out, and touch the stone.
Boom.
I feel some sort of mystical energy. My body seems like it expands and retracts with each boom, like a heartbeat. I pull my hand away with much difficulty. I look at it skeptically then glare at the stone.
"HIYA!" I yell, and kick the pillar for all it's worth, then I stomp away, steaming angrily. I reach the Pokemon Center and enter through the doors. Nurse Joy looks up.
"Ah, hello, what's your name? Do you need any help?" I shrug.
"Naw, I don't think so, do Pokemon Centers heal up Pokemon?" I ask.
"Yes they do, Miss..." Joy trails off.
"Sapphire." I say bluntly. "Just Sapphire."
Definitely not May-Sapphire for sure. I add in my head.
"Yes, Sapphire, we heal Pokemon. Would you like me to heal yours?" I shake my head.
"I haven't met them yet." I state.
"You haven't?" Joy asks, stumped. "Then you should meet them."
I pull out both Pokeballs and look at them.
"I have this Torchic and Mudkip. What should I do, talk with them? What foods do they like? How should I treat them? Are they nice?" I ask to myself.
Joy smiles at me gently.
"How about a simple introduction?" She suggests.
I look up, a lightbulb pops in my head.
"I know! I could introduce myself and then we could EAT!"
Joy falls over behind the front counter. I skip away, grinning, showing my teeth. The people around me shy away. I pick a booth and slide into it, putting my arms up on the backrest. I yawn loudly, and pull out my Pokeballs.
"Go Torchic and Mudkip!" I exclaim. The balls open and a glowing beam lands on the table.
"Mudkip!" Mudkip opens its mouth wide in a happy smile and jumps onto my head, chewing on it. I laugh ecstatically. Torchic appears and looks at Mudkip with distaste. Then it shoots out a bunch of small fires. Mudkip jumps away out of danger while I get the attack full in the face.
"Argh!" I exclaim. Mudkip begins chasing its tail and trying to chomp on it while Torchic yells at it.
"Tor tor!" I snaps. I laugh loudly, and sneeze because of the black dust on my face. I watch Torchic chase Mudkip around in a circle. Mudkip acts like a baby, who wants to chew on everything it sees, and Torchic seems to have little patience and will attack if provoked.
I kneel down on the ground and put a hand on both of their heads. They stop moving.
"Hey, you guys, how you you feel about eating something?" I ask, smiling softly. They look at me with admiration and jump up and down excitedly, forgetting their previous quarrel. I stand up and clench my fist.
"To the food! Huuah!" "Tor!" "Kip!"
After getting heaps of Spaghetti and Meatballs, I scarf down three plate fulls and lean back with a contented sigh. People around us stare in horror as plate upon plate makes a creaking stack. Once it seems like it's about to fall over I hold up my hand.
"Okay, I think we're good." Torchic, Mudkip and I each carry a stack of plats to the kitchen, showing the trainers around us we're not uncivilized. I stretch and return my Pokemon to their Pokeballs, because they seem like they're about to burst. I laugh.
"You guys eat real good!" I slip them onto my belt. I skip over to Nurse Joy.
"Here ya go! Heal em up!" I say, producing my Pokemon. She nods.
"Sure.." I lean my back against the desk, facing away from joy.
"So, what are those ruins up ahead?" I ask.
"Oh, those?" She asks, pointing out the doors.
"Those are the Oldale Ruins." Nurse Joy says.
"Wow." I say monotone. "What a catchy name." Joy frowns.
"What's wrong with it?"
"Aw, nothing," I say, "forget I said it."
I wave my hand back and forth.
"So,...is there anything..mystical about that place?" I inquire, raising my eyebrows. I look over my shoulder at her as she clicks away at a control panel.
"People have said that there are some things going on around Oldale's Ruins. Some have heard voices, others have seen ghost like beings, while others have gotten plain spooked from being near that place at night." She says. "I suggest you stay away from there for the time being..-"
I jump up and down.
"Woohoo! A mystery! I can't wait to solve it, time to figure out what's is wrong with this town!" I clench my fist, a fire in my eyes.
"What's wrong with this town...?" Joy asks, completely confused. I lean over the desk and grab her hands.
"Leave it to me!" I exclaim. I look around her. "Are my Pokemon done yet?" I point.
I yawn tiredly. It's already eleven o'clock and nothing cool has happened yet..
I stretch and look around. My Pokemon hadn't healed so I couldn't bring them along.
Deciding that hiding in the bushes is boring, I get to my feet and walk over to the pillar.
Hearing a noise, I stop, and look around. I withdraw back into the bushes, and peer out . Several shadowed figures run out from the other side of the ruins. My eyebrows narrow. They're up to something. I discreetly make my way around the outskirts, to see them more clearly.
I squint in the dim light, and see that they're wearing red uniforms of some sort, and the Pokemon that are with them are some nasty looking Mightyena. I move to the right and my hand brushes against something.
I look up. One of the red clad figures stands in the moonlight and my eyes widen.
Damn! How could I have not sensed him! I jump up and back away. I bump into another figure. Two more grab my arms. I yank hard and cause them to fall to the ground.
I take off sprinting and hear shouting behind me. I really need to stay out of these situations.
This reminds me when I blew up Farmer Hinata's barn. I had townspeople chasing me all day.
Good thing I've gotten practice from running away from them to get away from these freaks. I hear barking and take a detour to the left. I scale a tree and look around, huffing and puffing. In the moonlight, I see two different paths. One that looks like it's been tread upon more often and the other looks a little wild.
I grin, and bare my teeth. I'm going the way I feel more at home. I sense the group getting closer, and leap off the branch I'd been standing on and dash quickly through the brush. I push away tree limbs and crash through bushes.
A thorn grazes my cheek leaving a thin cut.
"Ermph." I grunt, and continue running. I stop, panting heavily, and hide behind a tree trunk. I look around it carefully, and survey the area. I put a hand to my cheek and cringe, the cut is stinging and I get some sticky blood on my glove.
I groan inwardly. I hope that comes out. I only got one pair of gloves, and I can't wear May's gloves.. I stop breathing when I hear footfalls. I clutch my hand to my heart, trying to calm down its beating.
My eyes widen, and instincts take over. I leap out and claw at the figures. They put up a good fight, and I knock them around a bit. I hear barking, and a Mightyena leaps upon me. I grapple with it, and it bites my arm.
I yell out, and knee it in the stomach, knocking it off. The figure jumps onto me, and pin me down.
I struggle for a minute, then tiredness takes over, and my eyes close.
…
I wake up and look around groggily. I blink several times, and see that I'm in the interior of the Pokemon Center. I see a couple of red clad figures talking quietly.
"That girl gave us a lot of trouble, but at least we caught her before she could warn anyone." One says. I hear beeping, and one takes something off their belt.
"Yes? You have successfully captured the professor?" I hear a woman's voice say.
Professor? I perk up.
"Good, make sure no one interferes and lock this girl up in the storage room with that Nurse." The woman instructs the other two. They salute, and I feign unconsciousness. They lift me up and none to carefully carry me to a room and toss me in with a hard thump. Once the door shuts I open my eyes.
"Sapphire!" I look up. Joy looks at me worriedly. I sit up and pull on my bonds. Joy's expression is full of fright and I sit up.
"It's okay." I say. "I can get out." I concentrate, like how I did back in Littleroot town with my Pokemon friends. I then focus on a points and yank hard.
"Uwaaaah!" I shout, and my rope bonds burst apart. Joy looks at me, eyes wide. She sweat drops. I grin and clench my fist.
"Don't worry Joy, I'll take care of this little problem." She looks at my arm.
"Your arm..!" I shake my head.
"Nah, don't worry, I have more important things to worry about." I look around. "Is there any way out? And why are the lights off?" She stands up.
"They destroyed the power. And I can't get to the emergency power from here." As she speaks, I see an air vent.
"I've got a plan, how do I turn on the power?" She digs in her pocket.
"With this key." She says. "It should fit in somewhere at the front desk." I nod and walk over to the vent.
"I'm really sorry about this." I say, and raise my leg, I kick the metal vent, causing it to break off and fly into the shaft.
I shrug. "Only way."
Joy watches as I crawl in and disappear. I sniff the air. Judging from the smell of cleanliness, the operation room should be to the left. I crawl in that direction and come to another vent. I turn around in the shaft, and back kick it with my heel.
It springs off and clatters onto the floor. I climb out and look around. I sniff the air again. To the left! I make a B-line for the front desk.
Never having had the grand tour, I follow my instincts to find the lobby. Finally arriving, I lean over the desk and inject the key into a slot, turning it. Lights flicker on, and I grin. Moments later, Joy runs up and starts working furiously on the control panel.
"Oi, Joy, where are my Pokemon? Have they all healed up yet?" I ask. She points her right hand over to a machine.
"Right in there." I nod. "Thanks." I push some buttons, and it opens the casket. I pull out the two balls and run from the Center.
"I'll take care of everything!" I exclaim, looking over my shoulder.
"I'll stop these bad guys!" I run up the hill towards the Oldale Ruins.
…
I reach the ruins, and see the group standing by a big stone structure. I see them holding a man down as he struggles, trying to stop them.
I let out a sigh of relief.
It's not Professor Beach ball.
I sneak up behind a team member, and do a diagonal karate chop on his neck. He collapses.
The Mightyena turn and I give them a stern, deathly glare. They don't move.
The leader of the group pushes a small, round jewel fragment around the size of a gumball into a circular slot. I'm about to give them a piece of my mind when a loud shaking occurs.
"Wow!" I yelp, and fall onto my back, getting the breath knocked out of me. I sit up as a door appears in the stone building.
"Hey! You wont get away with this that easily!" I shout, and pull out my Pokemon.
"Go Mudkip!" I throw the Pokeball. Mudkip appears in a flash of light and hops up and down, then chases it's tail.
"Mudkip attack!" I command, but Mudkip is too busy chasing is own tail to hear me. The group runs into the room. I face palm.
"Go Torchic!" I exclaim. "Take em out!" Torchic appears, and sees Mudkip then gets angry and chases it. I groan. I grab them by the scruffs of their necks.
"Our opponents are in there." I say tersely. I push them forward, and the three of us run into the ruins. I see the group pointing flashlights and taking data with small computers.
"Hey! Stop!" I shout.
"Torchic! Ember!" I command.
"Tor toooor!" It screams. The members jump out of the way.
"This is a dead end." One tells their leader. "It has nothing to do with our ancient Pokemon search."
"Then let's pull out." She says. They run past me before I can react.
"H-hey!" I exclaim, and chase after them.
"Mudkip! Water gun!" I shout.
"Mud mud KIIIP!" Mudkip shrieks and lets out a stream of water. The water blasts the group, and they all hit the ground.
"Yes!" I exclaim, and run over, just to be blasted by a huge wind. I hold up my arm and peer through the craziness. I look up and see the group holding onto a rope ladder that is attached to a helicopter.
"Hey!" I shout. "I defeated you!" The woman smirks. I shake my fist at her.
"Who are you anyway!" I screech above the wind.
"We're Team Magma." She says, and they disappear into the early morning light. I look over at the man who had been captured by Team Magma.
He runs into the ruins. I follow.
We look around.
"Looks like nothing." I state. Then sunlight pours into the room, flooding it in a bright light. There's another loud noise and the whole place shakes.
I keep myself upright this time, and see a staircase appear. I stare at it.
"Let's go down!" The man says. I nod and we rush down. My eyes widen. An underwater cavern greets us once we are below. My mouth opens slightly. I hear a splash, and see a brown Pokemon leap out of the water.
"Wow!" I exclaim.
"That is a Relicanth!" The man says. I stare at it.
"It's an ancient Pokemon that has been said to be extinct, but here it is, living here undisturbed for thousands of years!"
I nod.
"Yeah, Pokemon are cool that way." I state.
We exit the ruins and I run back to the Pokemon Center, with my Pokemon following close behind.
…
After saying goodbye to Joy, I leave with plenty of supplies I'd gotten for free from the PokeMart. People sure are nice to Pokemon trainers.
I walk proudly out of town. These people actually see me as a good guy.
I smile to myself.
I guess I was a hero for today.
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