Quit Mankeying Around!
"Here we are Fireball." I said as we finally stepped off of Route 1. "This is Viridian City."
"Whoa!" Fireball said looking around. "This place is huge, and hey, I think I see a Pokemon Center!"
"Well then let's heal you!" I said.
"Are you sure, and I mean positively sure, that it's safe?" He asked sounding worried. To tell the truth, I wasn't but hey, It probably was. It's a hospital isn't it?
Nurse Joy walked out of the room with Fireball after making me wait around 15 minutes and having me fill out some paperwork. Apparently it was because I didn't have an I.D. "Your Charmander is back at perfect health!" She said smiling, "But why doesn't it stay in it's poke ball?"
"Are you kidding?" I asked. "I'd never put any of my pokemon in a poke ball unless they needed a safe refuge. They deserve to see the world as much as I do." See, I never got why the pokemon couldn't walk with you instead of stay cooped up. I feel like if they walk with me, they'll get healthier, and be more fit fore the tough battles we'll have.
"Yay!" Fireball said, putting his hands in the air.
"Hey Fireball, do you know what it's time for now?" I asked.
"Shopping Spree!" We both said in goofy voices, and we ran to the poke mart.
"Hey, kid with the Charmander, come here." The clerk said. So we walked up and he asked us this. "Could you go down to Pallet Town and deliver this package to Professor Oak?" I sighed and nodded, then I watched as the color of Fireball's face disappeared.
"P- p -p - Pallet Town?" He asked gulping. "P - p- p- Professor Oak?"
Going back to Pallet Town was a pain in the but. I had to drag Fireball by the tail, and Charmanders are a lot harder to carry around when all of there little claws are dug into the dirt. "I don't want to go back!" Fireball was screaming. "You promised!"
"Hey, I didn't know something like this would happen, besides, Professor Oak never gave us any Poke Balls." I reasoned.
By the time we reached the lab, Fireball was hugging my leg for comfort. I felt really bad for the poor guy, after all, he kind of was abused here. "What do you have there?" Professor Oak asked. Then he took the box from my hands. "Are you absolutely sure that no cops saw you with this package?" He asked. "This is no joke you need to be 100 percent sure."
"I- I'm sure." I said. "But what was even in that package?"
Professor adapted a look on his face that let me know he wasn't going to tell me the right answer. "A… Pokeball." He said, but not very convincingly. Then he spotted Fireball, hiding behind my leg. "My my, your pokemon certainly has taken a liking to you!" he said. "You must be a very talented young trainer."
I wasn't sure about Oak's sanity anymore. "He's just scared of you." I said. Then, once again, Gary came busting in.
"What did you call me here for?" Gary asked in an annoyed tone.
Professor Oak got a smile on his face. "Well," He said. "There is one thing you guys could do for me…"
"Okay Fireball," I said taking out the new Pokedex Prof. Oak gave me. "Let's learn a little about you." I pointed it at fireball and found out that the guy had a careful nature. That suddenly explained why he was so paranoid about the Pokemon Center earlier. "Alright." I said when it was finally over, "Time to meet our first new friend!"
As we scavenged through route 22, I couldn't help but think of the possible pokemon. All I knew was that Fireball would have to use only his scratch attack to put the pokemon to a nice state for capturing. Is a crawled through a patch of grass, I saw Fireball, still wadding behind me. "Stop Mankeying around and catch up." I said calmly. As if on cue, a Mankey came roaring out at Fireball.
"Help! Help!" Fire ball said.
"Use Scratch!" I yelled. Fireball did as we was told and the Mankey suddenly jumped back and started picking at the spot on it's body that Fireball hit. I saw this as my chance and threw a poke ball. It wiggled three times and then I heard a clicking noise. The pokedex started to glow and after reading how Mankey tempers flare all the time, Sort of like my sister Pearl. I nicknamed this male Mankey after one of my favorite attacks, Thrash. Then Gary appeared again.
"Battle Time!" He said holding out a poke ball.
"No!" I said.
"Too late!" He laughed as he sent out a Pidgey.
Fireball's Ember made short work of Pidgey. I made sure not to kill his pokemon though. I still didn't like the Nuzlocke rules. "Lucky shot." Gary said. "Go Squirtle."
I sent out Thrash and gave him a potion to heal him back to full health. I knew from my pokedex that his nature was serious. "Waiting for an order boss." He said. "Preferably today." I could tell he was getting impatient.
"Go for a Low Kick." I said. Thrash Low Kicked his butt off and I had to yell stop before he actually killed the Squirtle.
"Stop?" He asked. "Why would I stop? This is a Pokemon eat Pokemon world. Eat or be Eaten."
"Not while I'm in charge." I said. Thrash nodded to show he understood. He seemed to be a lot better than most Mankeys I'd heard of before.
"Fireball, Sorry Man." Thrash said to Fireball as we walked toward Viridian Forest. "I kind of lost it at the sight of your flame and thought there was a forest fire."
"It's Okay." Fireball said. "We're on the same team now, and that means we're friends."
"Friends till the end." Thrash said as he and Fireball shook hands.
"Well said guys." I said. "Now let's get through this Forest and get our first Gym Badge!"
"Yeah!" They both said. Fireball hopped on my head and Thrash started to piggy back ride me. We made our way into the Viridian forest, where the most unlikely friend was lying in wait.