" Smugleaf, Tackle!"
Accumula Town was a small town, but it was a small town bursting at the seams with rookie trainers.
Some random kid, looking about ten years old, had requested an impromptu battle at the town park, using his newly caught Patrat as a test subject.
The poor hideous rat-thing looked terrified, as it was sent out to do its trainer's bidding.
"Smugleaf? What kind of nickname is that?" The little brat scoffed.
"Hmm…that brat does have a point."
"Shut up and use Tackle, will you?"
Instead of performing a Tackle as I had ordered, two thin green ropes shot out from the green devil itself. The two vines wrapped tightly around the torso of the frightened Patrat, lifting it a good couple feet above the air.
"What the hell? Why did you use Vine Whip?" I yelled.
As if to taunt me even further, Smugleaf spun the brown rat around multiple times in rapid circles, vines still bound firmly around the disorientated creature.
"Drop it-NOW!" I commanded, sounding very much like a mother scolding her child who had just tried to put a pair of scissors into his mouth.
"As you wish."
Smugleaf promptly released the Patrat, dropping it onto the ground with a soft thud.
"That thing wasn't even worth my time." It said, nose held ridiculously high.
I sigh. "Just do me a favor and be quiet, will you?"
"Make me."
"Why, you little-" My threat was suddenly cut short by the young boy standing a couple meters away from us.
"Um…if I may ask, who are you exactly talking to?" He asked, visibly confused.
"Talking? Me?"
Now it was my turn to be confused.
He nodded.
"Ummm…..I'm talking to my Pokemon…..?" I answered, unsure of what to say.
The boy didn't seem convinced-and I didn't blame him one bit. After all, it wasn't exactly everyday that you got to see someone with a talking Pokemon (not to mention, an evil,talking Pokemon.)
He stares at me, as if I had suddenly grown an extra head or two.
"Wait...don't tell me that I'mthe only one that can hear you!" I exclaimed, shaking Smugleaf on the shoulders.
"Hmph. Maybe."
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" I moaned, burying my hands in my face.