Chapter 3: Overcoming Defeat
We had made it to Pewter City and my arm was still attached surprisingly.
"Lets go to the Pokémon center Red."
"Ok sure. My Pokémon do need healing."
When we got to the Pokémon center I saw Blue standing outside of it.
"Well look who it is, a prick."
"Nice to see you to Blue."
"Hello, my name is Green."
Green mumbled,
"Do you know Red?"
"Yeah he's a weak pathetic trainer who just started."
"Hey Red look at what I have."
I turned to look at Blue and saw a shiny object in his hand.
"It's the Pewter City gym badge."
"I bet you haven't even challenged the gym leader yet."
I looked down in embarrassment. Blue had already beaten me to getting the first badge.
"Well the gym leader uses rock types so my squirtle easily defeated him. Your puny little charmander will have a harder time beating him though cause you are weak."
Just then Green said,
"You take that back you fat cow! Red is a great trainer. He helped me catch my Pichu and everything! I bet he could beat you in a battle right now!"
"Oh really now?"
Blue exclaimed.
"Lets see about that."
We'll have a 3 on 3 battle."
"I accept Blue."
We lined up at the entrance of Pewter towards route 2 where we wouldn't hit anything while we battled.
"Go Bellsprout."
In a flash of light a green vine like Pokémon appeared. My pokedex told me Bellsprout was a grass type.
"Go charmander."
Charmander came out and was ready to fight. I checked my pokedex and noticed that charmander had learned 2 new moves, Ember and Metal Claw. Charmander had the type advantage over Bellsprout.
"Bellsprout use Vine Whip!"
Large Vines shot out at charmander.
"Dodge!"
Charmander rolled out of the way instantly.
"Now use ember."
Charmanders mouth let out small flares of fire and scorched the bell sprout immediately knocking it out.
"You got lucky knocking out Bellsprout that quick you little prick."
Green was excited to see charmander knock out Bellsprout so easily.
"Way to go Red! I knew charmander could knock out that punks Bellsprout."
Blue with a smirk on his face said the fights not over yet and threw out his next Pokémon.
"Go Squirtle!"
I looked at charmander and he was ready to fight but I wanted to save charmander in case I needed him.
"Charmander return."
He went back into his poke ball.
"Alright lets see, Go Caterpie."
Caterpie came out and looked at squirtle like he was afraid of it.
"Don't worry caterpie we can beat Squirtle. Caterpie use string shot."
Webs shot out at squirtle but squirtle moved out of the way.
"Squirtle use water gun."
The water shot out like it was coming out of a hose pipe and sprayed caterpie right in the face knocking him down. he commanded squirtle to do it again. Squirtle did it once more and kept caterpie on the ground. Caterpie looked like he had been threw hell and back and was about to black out when he started to glow. In a moment Caterpies appearance changed. I took out my pokedex and it said that it was now a Metapod. The evolve form of Caterpie.
"So your little bug decided to evolve. Oh well it wont help any. Squirtle use tackle."
It said Metapod had learned harden.
"Metapod use harden."
Metapods defense rose with harden but it wasn't enough as squirtle finished off Metapod with tackle.
"Good job Metapod."
I held out my next Pokémon.
"Go pidgey!"
Pidgey came out and was ready to fight Squirtle.
"Squirtle use Tackle again."
Squirtle kneeled down and charged at pidgey.
"Pidgey wait for Squirtle to get close then use wing attack."
Pidgey did just as I said and when squirtle got close his wing attack knocked squirtle back.
"Good move Red."
I heard Green say as she was watching to see what Blue and I would do next. Squirtle got back on his feet though and was ready for his next command.
"Alright Squirtle use Water Gun."
The water gun hit pidgey almost immediately and knocked him down.
"Pidgey use tackle."
"Squirtle you use tackle also."
Both Pokémon charged at one another and rammed into each other. Squirtles tackle was stronger then pidgey though and knocked pidgey down and out.
"Good job pidgey. You did your best."
All I had left was charmander and blue still had Squirtle and another Pokémon he hadn't used yet. Squirtle was panting though looked like it was about to faint. That tackle must of took a lot out of it.
"Go charmander."
Charmander came out and saw who he was facing and was ready to beat the squirtle this time around. Squirtle though had the type advantage over charmander. "Alright charmander use metal claw."
Charmander charged out and struck squirtle so hard it looked like it would knock it out with just it alone. Squirtle got back up and lowered his head.
"Squirtle use tackle."
Squirtle charged at charmander in a fury like he was going to kill him.
"Charmander step back a bit and wait."
Charmander just looked in confusion and did what I said. Squirtle charged closer.
"Alright charmander use ember."
Squirtle was right in front of charmander when he shot out sparks of ember directly into squirtle face knocking it down.
"Squirtle use water gun at that poor excuse of a Pokémon."
Squirtle sprayed out water at charmander and part of it hit charmander but not enough to knock him out luckily.
"Charmander use scratch."
Charmanders nails glowed bright and struck squirtle right in the forehead which knocked it out finally.
"Yay! Great job Charmander!"
Green shouted while jumping up and down. She seemed excited that charmander had finally knocked out squirtle.
"Impressive Red. You're a bit better then I thought. I didn't think you could knock out squirtle. It isn't over yet though we both still got one Pokémon left and mine has full health."
"Go Eevee."
In a flash of light a brown and white Pokémon stood out in front of me.
"Awwwww! . That things adorable! I hope you don't hurt it to bad Red."
Green seemed like she liked the Eevee a lot.
"Eevee use charm."
Eevee waved its tail out and Charmander looked like he was adoring the Eevee. Eevee had charmander dazed with its cute tail.
"Charmander use smoke screen."
Charmander shook off what Eevee was doing and smoke covered the battlefield. Eevee couldn't see where charmander was at all.
"Charmander use ember."
"Dodge it Eevee."
Eevee couldn't see where charmander was at all and before it knew sparks were engulfing it.
"Eevee charge forward with a quick attack."
Eevee ran towards where he thought charmander was for a quick attack but charmander wasn't there.
"Huh? Where is charmander?"
Just then Blue looked up.
"Charmander use scratch."
Charmander had jumped in the air when Eevee went for the quick attack so Eevee would miss. Charmander landed right on top of Eevee and scratched it right in the face.
"Now follow up with Metal Claw."
Still on top of Eevee Charmander hit it with Metal Claw then he jumped back into the air.
"Eevee use tackle this time instead."
Eevee had jumped up in hopes of tackling charmander directly head on but charmanders smokescreen hid his location so Eevee was in the air and had missed the tackle completely.
"Charmander use ember."
Charmander now on the ground shot out ember one more time into the air and it hit Eevee directly and knocked it out.
"We did it! Way to go Charmander!"
Blue mad that he lost said,
"Your lucky my Pokémon had already beaten that Gym Leader or else we would've won."
He stormed off in a mad rage out of Pewter City kicking things and throwing a fit.
"Yay! Way to go Red. You showed that punk that he isn't the best trainer out there. Even though it looked like you was going to lose to that cute little Eevee."
"Thanks Green. I am glad I finally beat Blue."
"Red where did you meet Blue at?"
She asked wonderingly.
"Me and Blue have known each other since we were children. He has always beaten me at everything even in school until today. I had finally beaten him."
"Well I'm Glad you finally beat him. Serves him right. Are you going to challenge the gym leader now?"
"I am. Are you going to challenge him?"
"Well I was going to but my Pokémon aren't nearly as strong enough as yours to face a gym leader. And he said it was rock type so my best bet is bulbasaur."
"I saw some grass near the entrance to Pewter. We can train your Pokémon there."
"Ok. Lets go for it."
We went to the grass and Green threw out her caterpie. A wild Rattatta was in the grass and Green commanded Caterpie to attack it.
"Caterpie use tackle on the wild Rattatta!"
Caterpie charged the Rattatta and hit it head on. The Rattatta retaliated though and knocked caterpie down. Caterpie looked like he was close to fainting when it started to glow and in a moment her caterpie had evolved into Metapod.
"Yay! Caterpie you evolved."
"Metapod finish off that Rattatta."
Metapod did just as she had said and knocked it out with a fierce tackle. She then saw a wild pidgey and had Metapod battle it.
"Metapod use string shot."
Metapod wrapped string around the pidgey and the pidgey couldn't move.
"Now use tackle."
Metapod tackled the pidgey and knocked it down. The pidgey freed itself from the string though and did a wing attack that nearly knocked Metapod out. Suddenly Metapod started to glow and his appearance changed. He had evolved again.
"Wow! Evolved already? Way to go Metapod! Lets see."
Green looked at her pokedex. It said Metapod had evolved into a Butterfree and that it had learned a psychic move called confusion.
"Butterfree is so cute! Its adorable!"
Green chimed and she commanded it to attack again.
"Ok Butterfree use your new move, use confusion!"
Butterfree unleashed large pulse waves at pidgey and the confusion knocked out the pidgey in one hit.
"Nice job Butterfree."
Green had pichu fight a wild caterpie and beat it then she had it fight a wild weedle. Not wasting any time Green had pichu attack the weedle.
"Pichu use volt tackle."
Pichu sparked up and her whole body had electricity around it and she charged the weedle head on and knocked it out in one hit.
"Wow! Impressive pichu."
Green excitedly stated.
"And here I thought you were just cute and adorable, hehehe."
Green then pulled out bulbasaur and bulbasaur beat a wild Rattatta and a wild weedle.
"Ok one more fight and then we can go to the Pokémon center to heal our Pokémon."
Green stated as she scanned the area in search of one more Pokémon. She finally spotted one she hadn't seen before.
"The pokedex says it's a kakuna. The evolve form of weedle."
I said to Green.
"This one might be tougher then a weedle was at fighting since its evolved."
She responded with,
"Ok! But were still going to win! Go Bulbasaur!"
She checked her pokedex and bulbasaur had learn a few new moves from the last 2 fights. It now knew tackle and leach seed and vine whip.
"Bulbasaur use leech seed."
Seeds shot out at the kakuna and sapped health from it. The kakuna retaliated by using harden then it tackled bulbasaur.
"Bulbasaur use vine whip."
Vines shot out of bulbasaurs side and hit the kakuna hard on the head but it didn't seem like it fazed it cause of the harden.
"Now use tackle to finish it off."
Bulbasaur ran out and hit the kakuna with his head and tackled it onto the ground and then the leech seed sapped more health from the kakuna knocking it out cold. "Yay! Great job today Bulbasaur."
"Ok lets go back to the Pokémon center. Sorry I took so long training Red."
"Its ok Green. Your Pokémon are a lot stronger then they were. Your ready now to face the gym leader."
We felt rain beginning to come out of the sky and we ran for the Pokémon center. We got in the Pokémon center before it started raining heavily and thundering. "Well damn it. I guess were not gonna get to challenge the gym leader today Red huh?"
"Guess not. We'll have to stay the night here then."
Green seemed fine with that as she saw the Pokémon center had a large screen television.
"Ok that's fine with me. Lets get our Pokémon healed up and ready for our gym fights tomorrow."
We handed the nurse our poke balls and sat down for a while watching the TV. The TV was playing one of Greens favorite shows from the way she was dancing around happily.
"Everything on this show is so cute and adorable the way they display them on here. I want all of these Pokémon! "
"Oh and Red, thanks again for letting me join you on your journey. My Pokémon and I wouldn't be as strong as they are if you hadn't of."
"Your welcome Green. Glad to have you along for the journey."
The nurse handed us back our Pokémon after a hour and it was night time.
"Are you gonna be spending the night here tonight. Its to dangerous to be outside with all that lightning going on?"
the nurse had asked.
"Yep if that's alright."
Green stated.
"Sure. We have 2 guest beds y'all can sleep on tonight."
We went into the room. It was kind of small with no windows. The room had a large desk we could sit our bags and stuff on and we did just that. Green seemed tired so she laid down to rest and I was pretty tired myself so I did as well on the other bed. Pichu climbed on top of Green.
"Nighty night Red. Wake up early tomorrow you sleepy head and we'll go challenge the gym leader."
She smiled and in a moment Green was out cold fast asleep. I looked over at my poke balls and said softly so I wouldn't wake up Green,
"Thank you guys for helping me finally beat Blue."
I looked over at Green for a moment and saw pichu had fallen asleep with its tail laying in Greens face cuddled up on her stomach. I laid back and closed my eyes and before I knew it I fell asleep also.