Episode 2
Awaking to a cry of distress, we find our hero Blake, covered in blood at the bottom of a tree. His Bagon Akadra is looming over him expectantly.
"Aw man I did it again. Why do I always pass out before I stop the really bad nosebleeds? Now I'll be coughing up blood for the next week and everyone will avoid me like I have TB."
"Why are you giving me that look Akadra? I don't actually have TB."
"BAGON BAGON!"
"Oh yeah, cry of distress, I should probably check that out." he remarks casually, and then dashes off in the direction of the outcry, with Bagon close behind. They run into a small outcrop of trees and as they emerge on the other side they see the source the scream. A girl, about 14, like Blake, was shielding her Combusken from a swarm of Taillow. She had light brown hair that fell to her waist, and she was quite beautiful, even in the dire situation. She was obviously strong, with small but accentuated muscles. She wasn't short, but she also wasn't tall, and her curves were very average for her size. Blake watched as she threw kicks and punches with incredible fluidity. There was great power and form behind her attacks, showing she had trained hard to be a fighter, and her punches showed this training, knocking some unfortunate Taillow into the dirt. Luckily for the others, they were fast enough to dodge most of her punches, and the ones that did hit usually barely grazed them..
"Bagon" Akadra said accusingly.
"What is it with you?! I'm not staring! It's not even the same girl!" Blake yelled at Akadra, causing the Taillows to lose interest in the girl, in favor of bomb diving Blake.
"See, look what you did. You should just be glad I can tell what they're saying."
"Taillow tay tay taitaillow." replied the Taillow swarm, nearing Blake at breakneck speed.
Calmly and quickly, Blake removed his backpack, and produced a strange looking pokeball. He threw it into the air and a mass of oran berries spilled out of it. As the fruit fell through the air, the Taillow plucked them from the sky and then flew off into the trees. Only one oran berry even touched the ground. As the Taillow departed into the forest, Akadra grabbed the berry, and ran over to the injured Combusken, placing it at its feet.
The Combusken's trainer slumped to her knees, and promptly passed out, quickly followed by her Combusken, despite the oran berry it consumed.
"Hey Akadra, I just had a great idea, you see that flat rock with the indent in it where it probably hit a small boulder as it careened down this hillside? We should totally use it as a sled to get to Rustboro city."
Akadra was just about to headbutt Blake in the gut, when she recalled the unconscious heaps that they also had to lug to the pokemon center. She settled on bathing his head in a tsunami of flames.
"I'll take that as a no." Blake replied, not even fazed. "Remind me to help you practice your flamethrower when we get to Rustboro.
As the duo started trekking down the slope, the blacked out pokemon and trainer riding piggy back style, you could hardly hear the forest's peaceful serenity over the bickering of Blake and Akadra, much less the slow rumble of Team Aqua's submarine beaching along the shore.
They arrived in Rustboro with no further troubles, but it was now early evening, and Blake had accepted that he'd have to wait another week to see Roxanne. When they arrived at the Pokemon Center they didn't understand Nurse Joy's horrified expression, or their uncanny good luck that the center was empty.
"Dear god, what in Zapdos' thunder happened to you?" Nurse Joy exclaimed, losing her composure in light of the unconscious trainer and pokemon being carried by a Bagon and a flame broiled boy with blood covering his face. Unfortunately it did not occur to her that it was just a bad bloody nose from riding a slab of slate that suddenly ejected its passengers.
"Well first we fell off a rock into a tree and I woke up and ran and then we saw these Taillow and then Bagon used flame…" Blake began to say, until the exertion and anemia cause him to black out once again.
"Bagon bay bagon." Akadra said, which when translated meant, "Well I hope this doesn't become a trend."
Luckily she didn't pass out as well, but everyone was rushed to the intensive care unit. Nurse Joy and Chansey had a busy night, and Chansey's was much harder under the sarcastic berating of Akadra. But, everyone was alright, and they slept calmly and safely in the rooms above the Pokemon Center.
