Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or Harry Potter, I do not have any rights to Pokémon or Harry Potter and I do not make any money from writing these fics.

A/N: Written for Remi's The Alphabet Prompt Challenge. My Pokémon character is Gary Oak and my chosen plot is Gary trying to help Harry Potter find his chosen Pokémon partner...and everything that goes wrong in the process.

Prompt: Battalion.

Chapter 2

"Okay...so that attempt did not work out well but we have loads more Pokémon for you to met here," Gary said with a determined grin on his face, "We have Pokémon from all regions! Kecleon was from the Honnen region but this next Pokémon is from this region! I know you will get along just great with one of them!"

"One of them?" Harry asked stiffly as he carefully eyed Gary as if the young man was going insane, "What do you mean by one of them?"

"Well from what we know about them in the wild and from the group that my Grandpa has here at the lab they hang out together in a large tree with its two preevolved forms until their trainers call for them," Gary answered slowly as he careful chose his words, he did not want to jinx the meeting already, "The Pokémon hang around together in groups, much like a battalion, so you should be able to handle that sort of thing, what with your experience."

"And what are these Pokémon called?" Harry asked as warning signals suddenly started going off in his head.

"Beedrill, they look most like a bipedal wasp but they have only four legs compared to the normal six legs and lack the pigment pits that normal wasps do. Their heads are round with a slight point for the mouth, they have red eyes and their antennae is shaped like the number seven. It's front legs are long and tipped with conical shaped stingers which spells trouble for both human and Pokémon alike. It stands on its two other free legs which are long with segments and insectiod. Beedrill has two large rounded pairs of veined wings and another stinger on the striped abdomen," Gary said in his best lecture voice as he suddenly turned and began walking deeper into the grounds not looking back to see if Harry was following, "They are highly territorial and normally live in colonies, they will attack any Pokémon or human who come into their territory, on purpose or by accident. This is why we have had several trainers who have been attacked by them call the Beedrill's a battalion."

"They are starting to sound more and more like a group of bullies to me," Harry muttered under his breath before quickly jogging towards Gary to catch up.

"Just give the Beedrill a chance! You will never know if you like them or not if you do not meet one," Gary said as he tried his best to persuade Harry, "In fact a trainer I know told me about this girl who wants to catch all of the yellow and black stripped Pokémon there is and she really wanted a Beedrill!"

Harry simply nodded his head and followed Gary at a much slower pace, if the group of Beedrill was anything like the Kecleon that they had just 'met' then he would stand well back and allow Gary to handle things. By the description that Gary gave him Beedrill did not sound like a Pokémon he wanted to cross.

"The Beedrill here are all really strong, I bet that you will have fun battling and getting stronger with each other!" Gary said with a grin though only to gulp at the blank look he got from Harry, "Don't be like that, just give them a chance alright?"

"Alright but I do not want any more apples being thrown at me," Harry said simply causing Gary to give him a sheepish grin, "That was different! This time you are going to find the perfect partner in Beedrill!"

"I hope so but for some reason I do not think it is going to work out," Harry said only for his words to go flying over Gary's head.

"We should be coming up to the Beedrill's area soon," Gary said only to let out a startled cry of surprise when a scared Rattata ran towards him and jumped up into his arms causing him to stop in his tracks, "What's wrong?"

"Who is this little one?" Harry asked as he came to a stop next to Gary, "He looks like a purple mouse with big teeth.

"His a young male Rattata but something seems to of scared him pretty badly," Gary replied as he carefully looked the shaking Rattata over for any sign of injuries, "I wonder what could of scared him enough to find me out?"

As the pair looked around their surroundings trying to work out just what had scared the Rattata more and more Pokémon ran past them with fear obvious to them. Harry let out a silent groan as he began to look for cover, he had a strong feeling that something was about to go wrong and with how many times his gut feeling had saved his life in the war he was not about to ignore it.

"There!" Harry shouted out as a loud buzzing sound suddenly came to his ears, "Over there by the lake! We can hide inside that empty tree hollow!"

Without giving Gary time to react Harry grabbed his upper arm while being careful not to knock the Rattata in his arms. Together the duo ran the short distance to the tree while being careful not to step on or block any of the fleeing Pokémon.

'Oh no!' Gary thought in shock as the buzzing sound grew louder and a sea of black and yellow appeared on the horizon 'Something has upset the Beedrill causing them to attack!'

As the large group of Beedrill came closer the pair ducked into the tree hollow with Gary still keeping a protective hold on the terrified Rattata in his arms. Once inside the tree Harry grabbed the pile of leaves that various Pokémon had placed inside and used them to block part of the small gap in the tree that they had entered from, blocking them from the angry Beedrill's sight.

"That was close," Gary said a few seconds later as he caught his breath, the sound of buzzing grew louder and louder, "If how loud the sound is anything to go by I think there is a lot of Beedrill out there so we could be stuck in here for a long time until they calm down."

"What do you suggest we do until it is safe to go out then?" Harry asked as he gave Gary a pointed look, "Do you have a mobile phone on you that you can use to contact your Grandfather or someone who can help us?"

"I do have a mobile but I left it in the lab as I thought we would only be gone an hour or two and would not go far from the lab," Gary answered with a sheepish grin causing Harry to groan while the Rattata moved in his arms and sniffed Harry's hand, "Sorry Harry but I do have an idea on how we can spend the time."

"What is your idea?" Harry asked only to wince in pain as the Rattata sunk his teeth into Harry's fingers.

"We could see how well you get along with Rattata here, you never know where you might find your partner," Gary explained only to frown at the look of pain on Harry's face, "Is something wrong? Did you get hurt when we ran?"

"No...but I know that Rattata here is not my Pokémon Partner," Harry replied with a wince of pain as he looked at the Rattata, "It looks like the little guy does not like me one bit."

Following Harry's gaze Gary looked down only to let out a groan when he spotted the Rattata biting Harry's hand. Sighing and shaking his head Gary stroked the top of Ratttata's head causing the purple rodent Pokémon to slowly stop biting Harry. Once Harry's hand was free from the Rattata's bite Gary quickly put it down on the ground and watched as it scampered out of the tree hollow through a small gap.

"You know what?" Gary said dryly as the buzz sound slowly began to die away, "For some reason I do not think that finding a partner Pokémon for you is going to be an easy feat."

To Be Continued...