I Suck At Titles Chp. 2
Author's Note: Hey guys, Constipated Waffle here! I'll be using this section to respond to my anonymous reviews, so just skip down to the story if you don't care about my mindless ramblings.
Pikachu0311: I think I had that in my original version, but I lost it all because of a power outage, so I had to rewrite the whole story. It's a male Nidoran at level 10 with Peck, Double Kick, Focus Energy, and Leer. Hope that helps.
Javen B: Like a blue Poochyena. Theodore's dream is based on the creepiest dream I ever had btw.
Now that that's over with, let's begin!
"No! Not Harden! Poison Sting! POISON STING!"
It was late in the afternoon when Theodore finally gave up on trying to train Larson. It was actually pretty powerful for its level and managed to start fighting opponents without Gary's help after a bit, but it simply wouldn't follow commands. This wasn't a problem when it was a Weedle, but it had evolved into a Kakuna by now and loved using Harden. Something about being inside a harder shell made him more self-confident.
Theodore returned Larson to his Poké Ball in defeat. "At least you can follow orders, right Gary?" he said to his faithful starter. Gary responded by easily taking out a nearby Machop with a quick Peck. Theodore nodded. "We'll just…go catch another, stronger Pokémon, and hopefully you two will be so good we won't even need Larson for the gym."
He quickly surveyed the surrounding route and decided not to catch any new Pokémon here. Pretty much everyone here had been knocked out by Gary, and Theodore certainly didn't want any bad blood on the team.
"Well, we have two options, Gary," he noted, looking at the map on his PokéDex while picking up his Nidoran. "We can either go back into Hearthome City and go on one of the routes there, or we can continue down this route into Mt. Coronet. Which one do you want?"
Gary stared blankly at his face for a moment, then pointed his horn towards Mt. Coronet. Theodore nodded. "All right, let's go in!"
They was walking over the bridge taking them to Mt. Coronet when they heard a trainer shout, "Hey, you! Wanna battle?"
Theodore turned around and found a boy looking to be about his age, with short, black hair and excitable blue eyes. "Me and my Pokémon have been training and I think we can beat you! C'mon, two-on-two?"
Theodore looked down at Gary, who shrugged as if to say, "Why not?"
"Okay, we'll take your challenge!" Theodore said excitedly.
"Great! Killer, I CHOOSE YOU!" the other boy said releasing a Magikarp.
Gary looked up as if to say, "Is this guy serious?" Theodore stifled laughter and sent out Larson. "Just do whatever, Larson, you can't lose!
Later…
Theodore stood in disbelief at his Kakuna, fainted at his left leg.
"How…do you…lose…TO A MAGIKARP?!" he said in disbelief. Gary sat with a deadpan look on his face at Theodore's other leg. "IT ONLY KNEW SPLASH!"
"Okay, second Pokémon time! Go, Bolt!" the other boy shouted, throwing his second Poké Ball. A small bug-like creature with leaf-like antennae and a whitish body emerged and immediately growled fiercely at Theodore, who knew from his favorite TV show Captain Tropius and the Avengers that the Pokémon was a Nincada.
Theodore looked down at Gary and nodded. "Okay, you ready for this, buddy?" he asked. Gary strutted out on the field in confidence. "Okay then! Gary, you're up!"
The two Pokémon stood and stared at each other for a few seconds, then Bolt shot back in a Sand-Attack. Gary jumped over it and delivered a Double Kick to Bolt's side, but to his surprise, the Bug/Ground type took the attack in stride and delivered a Leech Life to Gary. The Poison-type winced in pain, while Bolt looked to be virtually unharmed.
"C'mon Gary, you got this!" Theodore shouted as Gary shook his head and glared at the Nincada again. The bug Pokémon stood there in silence while Gary ran up with a Peck attack. Just as the attack made contact, Bolt got a much harder shell, causing Gary's horn to hit tough skin. Bolt then reached out in a Scratch attack, knocking Gary away from him.
Theodore realized he should be calling out commands to Gary, so he shouted, "Okay, Gary, Focus Energy!" The Nidoran looked back at him like he was insane, but complied anyway and surrounded himself with sparks of energy, pumping him up, before turning around and throwing himself forward in a Peck attack. Bolt easily healed himself with Leech Life the first few times. The sixth time, however, Peck landed a critical hit, breaking through Bolt's hardened skin and knocking the smaller Pokémon out.
The other boy looked down at his fainted bug before shrugging and returning it to its Poké Ball. "A tie, huh? Good enough for me! I'll beat you next time, though! Name's Reece, by the way!"
"Uh, yeah, my name's Theodore," Theodore said, shaking the other boy's hand before returning Gary and sticking his Poké Ball in his pocket.
"See ya later!" Reece shouted, running back towards Hearthome City. Theodore shook his head. That boy sure was excitable.
"Well, time to head on to Oreburgh City!" Theodore said happily, before realizing he was just talking to himself. He felt a bit lonely without any company, so he released Gary onto his shoulder before continuing into Mt. Coronet.
He was met by an entire swarm of Zubat, who flew over his head, forcing him to duck down and avoid their Bite. He saw a Clefairy while ducking, who playfully reached a hand out to him. Theodore reached his hand out to shake it, but the Clefairy clamped down on it and shook him hard before pickpocketing him and giving the money to a nearby clan of Bronzor and Meditite, who all Teleported away with the money.
"Why would Pokémon need money?" Theodore thought to himself, sitting down on a nearby rock to think. Unfortunately, the rock turned out to be a Nosepass, who shook him off indignantly. He landed on a Machop, who angrily started punching Theodore in the nose. Some more Machop were coming to attack when all of a sudden, a crushing sound came from behind.
All the Pokémon ran away while Theodore turned around to see what the noise was. A giant large snake, looking like it was made out of rocks, started making its way towards him. Theodore knew from his dad that the Pokémon was an Onix, a very dangerous Pokémon that would squash its prey to kill them before eating them, and who was perfectly happy to feast on humans.
Theodore picked himself up off the ground-a chore in itself, as he had become a bit chubby over the years-and tried to run, but tripped on his untied shoelaces, causing him to fall down and scrape his knee. The Onix picked him up and started to squeeze hard, and Theodore, wincing from all the pain, tried to kick the rock snake, to no avail. The Onix began to squeeze harder when suddenly, a hard chop to the back of the Onix's head caused him to drop his prey in pain.
The Onix turned around and found itself face-to-face with a Makuhita. The Onix roared and tried to attack, but the Makuhita easily dodged and cracked down on the rock snake's neck, sending it falling to the ground.
"Wow…" Theodore breathed, becoming aware of the fact he was crying in pain. He wiped the tears off his face while the Makuhita walked over and began checking Theodore for any serious injuries. When it found nothing, it nodded and turned around to leave when all of a sudden, Theodore shouted, "Hey! Do you wanna join my team?"
The Makuhita thought for a minute, then nodded slowly and walked over to where Theodore had a Poké Ball in his outstretched hand. With a beam of light, the Poké Ball sucked Makuhita into it, leaving Theodore with the required amount of Pokémon to take on a gym in Sinnoh. He grinned. Time to go get his first gym badge!
Chris joined the team!