Here is the second chapter. From this chapter onwards, it starts to sound more like what this story should be about, according to the summary. :D Again, sorry for the way-too-long, irrelevant first chapter.

Disclaimer: I did not create Pokemon.

Anyhow | With that said | I hope you like this second chapter.

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"Carnivine, use bullet - mmmffmnff!" James mumbled as Carnivine bit his head, "Okay, I know, I know, now go! Use Bullet Seed!"

"Carn!"

'No you don't~' Bayleef evaded the attack. Bullet Seed was a move easy to dodge on the first time. After a few in succession, it will hit almost for sure; the pokemon will be tired out of jumping around, and during all those bullet seeds, the other pokemon can't use any of their moves if they choose to evade it. Bayleef knew that. So she decided to take the second hit.

'Oof...' Bayleef muttered as the attack hit her. She has to admit, Team Rocket's pokemon were kind of strong; she felt bad that they had Jessie and James as trainers.

Now, she has her chance. Carnivine has to wait for James' order for his next attack. Bayleef stepped back and used Vine Whip. Carnivine, as a relatively slow pokemon, couldn't get away fast enough. As Team Rocket made their wide-eyed unbelieving face, she then fired Razor Leaf at Carnivine but missed.

'Shoot. Missed...' Bayleef sighed. Razor Leaf was one of those moves requiring precision. Once it comes out, it's going in that direction; there's no way of changing the direction, unlike Vine Whip. No matter. She'll try again. But in the meantime, Carnivine had advanced and used Leaf Tornado on her. Bayleef dodged, but the brink of the attack still hit her. Her eyes swirled a bit; the attack caused her accuracy to go down a bit. She felt something strange. Her health was pretty low... She perked up.

"Why aren't you doing anything, little twerpleef? Scared?" Jessie laughed an extremely high-pitched laugh.

'Hmph. I'll show you what Overgrow does,' Bayleef said.

"Go! Use Vine Whip!" James shouted.

As Carnivine threw Vine Whips towards her, the generally precise move missed quite a lot of times. And that was good. Now, she needed to get just a bit closer. She rammed her way near the spiky, green, uh, Victreebel-like thing she's never seen before and used Razor Leaf, once more.

'AAAAGHR!' Carnivine yelped.

'That,' Bayleef said, 'is an Overgrow grass type move.'

'Humph. There's no way that could hit me like that even with your ability.'

Bayleef looked down at him, 'Oh, and also, it was a critical hit.'

Carnivine fainted.

"Carnivine~!" James cried, or sobbed, or bawled, "You...*SNIFF* deserve a good *SOB* rest."

'I can't stand how every trainer always say that,' Bayleef frowned.

"Stop being pathetic. I'm gettin' kinda bored with all these old pokemon. Let's go and have a little chat with that little twerp and see what they've caught. Bet those pokemon are new to us," Meowth put his arms behind his back, "If we wanna impress the boss, we gotta catch 'em all. Big time. We're never gonna -"

"I hate that. Never. Talk. Like. That. Twerp. Again. Ever. I absolutely hate how he always says, 'Oh, we gotta catch 'em all~! Meh meh meh~!'" Jessie hit Meowth on the head growled, "What use, tell me, are magikarp or little caterpie or weedle gonna do to impress the boss? Huh? Hm. That twerp always says unbelievable things," She paused, "...Sinnoh... That sounds like a good region. I bet the twerp's already caught a lot of the pokemon there. I WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOW HIM TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN WE ARE!"

"...uh...jessie n-not to disap-point you b-b-but i think they've been m-more successful than w-we were i-i-i-in every sing-g-gle regi-gion," James said extremely quietly and quickly. And stuttery.

With that, Meowth joined Jessie who was dragging James by the ear and flashed into the meowthalloon and took off.

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As Bayleef watched the meowthalloon slowly drifting away, she began to feel something weird. No...it can't be Overgrow activating again, could it? The ability must have faded already by now. It must've. No way it'd come up again. So...

'Hey Bayleef!' Torkoal crawled at top speed towards her, which was, like, your average crawling speed.

'What happened?' Kingler asked.

'Did you see Team Rocket? Where are they?' Heracross started flying all around looking.

'Look, idiot!' Corphish pointed at the meowthalloon, 'they've already been defeated. By none other than our very own BAYLEEF, of course!' He patted, or... more like he hit her.

'Yo Bayleef! A Jumpluff said you were battling a new pokemon!' Totodile jumped excitedly up.

'Was... was it scaaaary~?' Cyndaquil trembled.

'Jumpluff said it was called... Carnivorne or something?' Swellow flew up.

'Hey guys... look at Bayleef...' Bulbasaur said.

'Hm?'

'Oh my...'

'Shush.'

Bayleef was glowing green. She closed her eyes. This felt familiar...

'Hey, what's happening?' She asked.

'You're evolving!' Glalie floated in joy, 'Maybe I'll use Ice -'

Corphish and Swellow knocked him out.

Bayleef's entire body transformed. She grew slightly bigger. The leaf on her head split and gradually became thinner, becoming two antennaes. Her body changed from light yellow to light green, turning back into the colour she had as a Chikorita. She opened her eyes. The light dimmed.

She had evolved into a Meganium.

'OH MY GOODNESS! This is a moment worth celebrating about. This is one of the most IMPORTANT things EVER in a pokemon's LIFETIME! OH MY GOODNESS!' Torkoal cried in joy.

'I swear if you do that again I'll use BUBBLE,' Kingler rubbed smoke out of his eyes.

'...Why not Hydro Pump?' Muk asked.

Kingler whispered, 'Because, I don't know that move yet.'

Muk sweat dropped... or... slime dropped.

Kingler continued whispering, 'Besides, BUBBLE sounds way more threatening, no?'

'...Uh huh. Of course.'

As everyone congratulated Meganium, she felt happy. Very happy. She knew that Torkoal was right. Evolution, expecially into a final stage, was one of the most important things to a pokemon. She remembered, as a Chikorita, how she'd looked up to all the adult Meganiums and thought, how elegant and powerful, at the same time.

She looked upwards at the sky. Some Jumpluff were so happy for her evolution that they spread powders all over the group of pokemon. While all the other pokemon either slept, or stood paralyzed, only Bulbasaur, Bayleef, and Sceptile remained unaffected. After all, they were immune to these moves. This is one of the times where Bulbasaur thinks, 'And other types thought that we were totally useless.'

Bayleef laughed and poked Cyndaquil. She looked up.

And froze.

Sceptile was standing there, away from the group, staring at her like she was Giratina. There was hatred... yes, there was definitely hatred in his eyes, but it was also covering another feeling... A feeling that he was desperate not to let anyone know. Could it be? Fear? In Sceptile's eyes? In the eyes of the pokemon who never... or rarely... feared anything?

Bayleef quickly turned around. Bulbasaur was busy zipping through all the sleeping and paralyzed pokemon, laughing and... drawing over their faces...

Well, Bayleef thought,at least Jigglupuff taught someone something.

She's glad Bulbasaur and any of the other pokemon didn't notice Sceptile's strange behaviour, though.

Sceptile slowly turned. And walked away. Calmly. Too calmly to be real.

And have a good morning's sleep, Noctowl.