Chapter 2 yay! Ok now if you're reading this also read the note at the bottom ok! Please! By the way I changed how the gyms work in this universe so don't be too surprised. Just go with it and have an open mind. I just didn't want to have to write two battle scenes for every gym.
Katyusha: Ukraine, Jack: Australia
Disclaimer: Look at chapter 1 if you actually wanna see this
Enemies and Allies
Our young hero in the making, Arthur Kirkland finally made it to Sandgem after hours of listening to Francis complain about practically everything.
"Finally we're here! Now let's get your Pokémon to the Pokémon Center. What is your Pokémon by the way?" Arthur asked looking over to his quiet new friend, Matthew.
"Oh my Pokémon is my best friend bidoof! He's actually stronger than you may think." Matthew said smiling quietly. The three of them (yes Francis was still there complaining in the background) walked into the Pokémon center. There weren't any other people in there besides a woman with very large breasts.
"Hi nurse Katyusha! Can you heal my bidoof for me please?" Matthew asked quietly.
"Oh hi little Matthew~! Sure I can! Blissey! Come take care of this bidoof!" Nurse Katyusha called as a large egg shaped pink Pokémon known as blissey came waddling in. She took Matthew's pokeball and then made her way into a back room.
"It'll only be a moment. Why don't you two wait over there?" Nurse Katyusha motioned to a small waiting area.
"Wait, two? Where'd that frog go?" Arthur asked looking around. He looked out the window and saw Francis flirting with two girls. Francis' snivy seemed to be flirting and showing off for the two girl's Pokémon, a plusle and a minun.
"Those two seem like a good match." Matthew said motioning towards Francis and snivy.
"Yeah, well at least he won't be bothering me anymore. Hopefully . . ." Arthur replied sitting down on a couch. Matthew sat next to him and started digging in his back pack. He pulled out two energy bars and handed one to Arthur.
"Thanks. I wonder if they have any rooms available here." Arthur questioned to no one in particular.
"You can stay at my house here in town if you want. My mom and stepdad are away for a few days. You can stay in my room and I'll just stay in their room if you want." Matthew offered.
"Sure that sounds great thanks so much. You know you're pretty cool Matthew I'd rather travel with someone like you than with frog face out there." Arthur replied munching away the last bit of his energy bar.
"Well my mom's kind of over protective and told us that neither me nor my brother is allowed to travel unless we're together and with someone to keep us from killing each other. So I probably won't be traveling soon." Matthew explained.
"Why don't you and your brother travel with me? I'm sure your brother can't be that bad. Plus it may give me an excuse to leave without Francis." Arthur suggested.
"Well, you see my brother is kind of . . ."
"Mattie! So this is where you've been! Dude I was looking all over for you! Why'd you run away before?" I heard some loud mouth yell from the entrance of the Pokémon Center. I turn my head to see a boy that looks almost exactly like Matthew walking over. Instead of the strange curl Matthew had he just had one piece of hair sticking up. He was wearing jeans, a tan t-shirt, and a brown bomber jacket. He also had glasses and a goofy grin that seemed plastered on his face. He sat down next to me and smiled some more.
"Yo who's this dude? He doesn't look familiar! What's your name? My name's Alfred F. Jones!" Alfred explained loudly. I shook his outstretched and rolled my eyes. Now I understood what Matthew was trying to say before. I was also confused how Matthew and this kid were only half brothers; they looked exactly the same!
"I see, my name's Arthur Kirkland and I'm from Twinleaf town. I suppose it's nice to meet you Alfred." Arthur said politely.
"Twinleaf town? That means you're here because you're a trainer right! I'm an awesome trainer so we should battle!" Alfred said bouncing up from the couch excitedly.
"Yes Matthew told me you were a pretty good trainer. That's why I'm not going to battle you. I only just got my Pokémon and I don't think it would be wise for my first battle to be against another trained that's obviously had more practice than me." Arthur explained calmly.
"Aw you're no fun. You're just a wimp." Alfred said crossing his arms and looking away.
"I am not! I'm just not an idiot like you!" Arthur yelled jumping up from the couch and clenching his fists at his sides.
"I'm not an idiot! I just like to battle. Let me guess you want to be a pretty little coordinator right?" Alfred taunted.
"Of course I don't! I want to challenge the Pokémon League!" Arthur yelled back.
"Dude, do you even know how the gyms around here work?" Alfred asked.
"Umm, sort of?" Arthur answered. Alfred laughed and then sighed.
"You really are lame aren't you? The eight gyms you need to defeat to challenge the Pokémon League are all tag team gyms! In other words it's always two against two. Even if you have two Pokémon every challenger must have a partner. You won't get anywhere by yourself and if you were thinking of my brother here you're out of luck. Matthew doesn't like battling do you Mattie?" Alfred asked.
"No, I want to be a Pokémon professor and travel around gaining more knowledge about Pokémon." Matthew confessed.
"Oh well then I should probably find a partner and start getting stronger. I just may have to deal with Francis as a partner . . ." Arthur trailed off thinking.
"Francis? Was that the perverted kid with the snivy? That dude got on my nerves and I only saw him for a few seconds! You know what! I'm feeling generous so I'll be your partner for the gym battles! That way Mattie and I can go on our own journeys and you get a partner! Plus I think I like you! You're easy to get angry and make fun of!" Alfred said grinning.
"I do not get angry easily! But I do need a partner that would preferably not be Francis. It does seem like a good idea . . . Ok fine." Arthur agreed.
"Matthew! Here's your bidoof back!" Nurse Katyusha said bringing Matthew's pokeball over.
"Thanks Nurse Katyusha!" Matthew said happily as the nurse skipped away; her boobs making some kind of bouncing noise.
"So let's see what kind of Pokémon you've got Arthur!" Alfred exclaimed happily.
"Okay then." Arthur replied opening his pokeball and piplup popped out.
"Cool a piplup! But it's still kind of weak right? No problem I'll help you train before we head out! That way we're super prepared for the first gym we face!" Alfred said enthusiastically. Piplup looked up at Arthur and Matthew questioningly.
"Piplup this is Matthew's brother Alfred. He's going to be my partner for my gym battles so you're going to have to learn to work well with his Pokémon ok? What Pokémon do you have anyway Alfred?" Arthur asked.
"Oh right! Meet my awesome partner!" Alfred opened his pokeball and a small yellow mouse like Pokémon popped out.
"This is my bestest buddy Pikachu! Pikachu meet Arthur and piplup they're gonna be our gym partners so we can finally challenge the Pokémon league! I'm sure you and piplup will work together well enough!" Alfred said to Pikachu as he placed the Pokémon on his shoulder. The Pokémon cried happily and looked down to piplup who also cried back happily.
"Well they seem to like each other, that's good. You're Pikachu seems really strong." Arthur said picking piplup up.
"Alfred and I both found our Pokémon injured when we were only five. So we've both had a lot of time to train them." Matthew explained.
"Yeah but don't worry about being a new trainer and all! We're still not nearly as strong as we could be since we can only battle the Pokémon here in town. Once we both get stronger we'll destroy any trainer that comes our way!" Alfred said punching the air.
"Plus Pikachu and piplup are a good match up! Since Pikachu's an electric type and piplup's a water type you'll have the advantage against most Pokémon." Matthew explained.
"Yea! So let's go and start training!" Alfred exclaimed.
"That sounds good to me. How about you piplup?" Arthur asked looking down at his small partner. The Pokémon cried happily and smiled. With that Arthur, Alfred, and Matthew walked back into town and headed back towards route 201 to do some training.
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They had been walking past some of the shops in town just talking about different Pokémon and about themselves in general when Arthur, Alfred and Matthew heard some kids start yelling from the nearby park.
"Let's go see what's going on!" Matthew said worried as they started running towards the park. There they saw three people wearing black trench coats with collars and hats that hid their faces. In front of the strange people wear three cages. One cage held a small puppy like Pokémon, lillipup, the second one held a small swallow like Pokémon, tailow, and the final one held a cherry looking Pokémon known as cherubi.
"Give us our Pokémon back you jerks!" a young boy yelled.
"Yeah you can't just go around taking people's Pokémon!" a girl next to the boy said.
"Who do you think you are anyway?" another little boy asked.
"Zat is none of your business little boy. All zat matters is zat zese are now our Pokémon and you'll just have to deal vith zat." The largest of the figures in the coats said in a German accent.
"Hey what's going on here?" Alfred yelled running in front of the three mysterious people. Arthur and Matthew were soon right next to him.
"Give these kids they're Pokémon back right now!" Matthew ordered.
"You've got some real nerve taking other's Pokémon!" Arthur yelled as piplup and Pikachu hopped to the ground and growled at the three thieves.
"Ret us show you how we handre pests who get in our way." The shortest man, who was obviously from somewhere in Asia, said pulling out a Pokeball.
"Nincada ret's go!" the short man said throwing a pokeball in the air to reveal a silver bug type Pokémon.
"Right, machop you too!" the tallest man said releasing a small blue human like Pokémon with quite large muscles. The tallest man glared at the third person as if saying don't move or do anything!
"Pikachu! Thundershock on nincada!" Alfred ordered.
"Piplup use bubble on machop!" Arthur ordered. Piplup let out a stream of bubbles that hit machop directly and sent him flying backwards. Pikachu hit nincada with a bolt of electricity that made it crash to the ground and struggle to get up.
"Bidoof come out!" Matthew said quietly. He released his small brown almost beaver like Pokémon from its pokeball.
"Use head butt on those cages and free the other Pokémon!" Matthew ordered. Bidoof started running towards the cage that held lillipup. The third person of the group saw this and gasped.
"Oh no! Meowth stop that bidoof!" the third person said in a high happy like voice that could've belonged to a girl. His pokeball opened to reveal and cat like Pokémon on two legs with a gold charm on his forehead.
"Scratch I guess . . ." the third person said unsure of what to do. The meowth scratched up bidoof and sent him flying backwards.
"Oh no Matthew! Piplup use bubble on meowth!" Arthur ordered while machop was knocked away.
"Machop low kick!" the tallest man ordered. Machop started running towards piplup.
"Pikachu, quick attack! Get nincada and machop!" Alfred ordered. Pikachu started running quickly hitting and knocking out nincada and as piplup sent a stream of bubbles towards meowth to stop his advances Pikachu jumped over the bubbles and as he came back down at a greater speed he hit machop who stumbled backwards and missed piplup.
"Thanks Alfred." Arthur said looking towards his new partner.
"No problem! You finish machop I'll help Mattie!" Alfred replied smiling. Arthur smiled back and turned his attention to machop.
"Piplup finish this with peck!" Arthur ordered. Piplup's small beak began to glow as it raced towards machop and hit him in the stomach and caused the other Pokémon to faint. Both the shortest and the taller man returned their Pokémon to their pokeballs and seemed to scowl. Arthur looked over to Pikachu who had managed to knock out meowth with a simple tackle and saw that bidoof had broken all of the cages and Matthew was giving the stolen Pokémon back to the kids.
"You kids messed vith ze wrong people. Zis won't be ze last time you see us!" the tallest man yelled as the three of them ran off into the woods. Arthur went to chase them only to find that they had somehow already disappeared.
"I wonder what that was all about." Arthur said curiously as he picked up his now slightly tired piplup.
"I don't know; I'm just happy we could save those kids Pokémon." Matthew said coming up behind Arthur holding his slightly injured bidoof.
"Will bidoof be ok?" Arthur asked.
"Yeah he'll be fine I have some medicine for him at home. You're piplup's a lot stronger than he looks!" Matthew said happily. Piplup smiled and cried happily.
"I'll say you guys were amazing for that being your first battle! Right Pikachu?" Alfred asked and the yellow Pokémon smiled and nodded his head.
"I studied up on battling before I even got piplup so I knew I'd be ready." Arthur explained.
"Still, you and piplup worked together like you've been doing it your whole life. It was pretty amazing to see you two work so well together for the first time!" Matthew replied smiling.
"Well I don't think we need to go train anymore! That was training enough! Let's head home! Are you gonna stay at our house Artie?" Alfred asked smiling.
"Artie? Who said you call me that? My name's Arthur and that's the only thing you're allowed to call me!" Arthur yelled.
"Fine, fine jeez don't get so upset!" Alfred said raising his hands in defense.
"Good, and to answer your questions yes Matthew invited me to stay." Arthur answered.
"Why don't you stay in my room! I have bunk beds in my room from when my brother jack and I shared a room!" Alfred offered putting his arm around Matthew and Arthur's shoulders and leading the both towards his house.
"Oh yeah I forgot that you still had bunk beds." Matthew said.
"Ok I guess that works." Arthur replied as they started walking into town.
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When they got to Alfred and Matthew's house Matthew start making dinner (Arthur couldn't cook for his life and unless it came in a box and had directions Alfred couldn't cook anything either). He made them pasta and they sat and ate at the dining table in the kitchen.
"So you mentioned a brother Matthew? What's he like?" Arthur asked.
"I only knew Jack for two years before he moved to another region to become a doctor so I didn't know him all that much. He was Alfred's real brother." Matthew answered.
"Yeah Jack was awesome! He was smart but super fun! Always out to have a wild time! We used to get into so much trouble! I miss him sometimes. What about you Artie? Do you have any siblings?" Alfred asked. It was hard to understand him at first since he had a mouth full of pasta.
"What did I say about calling me Artie?" Arthur asked but sighed in defeat, "I have three older brothers, Allistor, Connor, and Sean and I hate all of them. They all tortured me and made me miserable. Then when I could relax knowing one of them was starting his journey they would always have to rub it in my face that they were better and older than me and come back home and rub it in my face some more."
"Wow you're brothers sound terrible. I'm glad I have brothers like Jack and Matthew." Alfred said looking to Arthur who looked depressed.
"It must've been terrible." Matthew said quietly. Arthur started getting more depressed.
"Hey come on cheer up Artie! You won your first battle today easily! I bet you're already stronger than they were when they first started out! And eventually you'll be even stronger than them!" Alfred said happily smiling. Arthur smiled back and nodded.
"You're right Alfred thanks!" Arthur said happily. They continued to talk through dinner and after watching a little TV and all of them getting showers they went to bed.
Alfred and Arthur walked into Alfred's room that looked almost exactly like Arthur's except it was messy and had bunk beds and a second desk. They made their way to the bunk bed and Alfred crawled into the top bunk of the bed while Arthur slithered into the bottom bunk.
"Hey Artie?" Alfred asked. Arthur sighed at the annoying nickname and then smiled.
"Yes Alfred?" Arthur replied.
"I'm glad you and me are going to be partners. I think we can get really strong together!" Alfred said quietly.
"Me too Alfred." Arthur said smiling as he started to drift off to sleep.
"Night Artie."
"Night Alfred." And with that they both slipped into a pleasant slumber.
Yay happy ending to this chapter! ^^" Ok so I said to read this cuz I need opinions! Should the first gym be either Hungary and Austria as the rock type gym? Or Spain and Romano as the grass type gym? Pick one and review!
-Musical Nerd 29