3. The problem with Abra
"You're Pokémon are ready to fight again, thanks for your visit to the Pokémon Centre." Nurse Joy said, while smiling against Danny. "It sure was a though battle, wasn't it?" 'Yeah, it was, my Weedle, eh, I mean my Kakuna had a close victory, and thanks to Kakuna, I now own an Abra." "Well, congratulations then." Nurse Joy started to laugh, which made her pink hair jump up and down, when she saw Danny's enthusiasm. "Thanks, I'll have to go know, my friend is waiting in the restaurant, battling sure makes up an appetite." Danny ran away, waving towards Nurse Joy.
"Are you finally there?" Richard sighed. Danny looked down at the table. "Haven't you ordered us something?" "It should be here already." Richard said, loud enough for the waiters to hear, and within seconds, two plates filled with food where brought.
"I sure am hungry." "Danny, you should learn not to talk with your mouth filled with food." Danny looked up. "Do you mind?" "To be honest, I do." Richard stayed calm, and looked around.
They sat on a terrace, in the middle of Viridian city, a huge city comparing to Pallet town. They had just finished Route 1, where Danny captured a Weedle and obtained Marcel's Abra.
"Did you heard the Viridian Gym leader is gone again?" Danny and Richard start listening to the voice, which came from behind Danny. "No, I didn't knew, he left once before, and now he left again?" "You know that it was the boss of team Rocket right? Well, now it is said that he left to add a real strong Pokémon to his collection." When Danny heard that, he couldn't resist, and he turned around. "Excuse me sir, what kind of strong Pokémon."
Danny could now take a good look at the two men, the first one, the man who started the conversation, was a tall, muscled man, with brown hair. He was wearing sunglasses, although the sun didn't shine, he wore a t-shirt with the picture of a Gengar, and blue-coloured shorts. The other men was the opposite, small, not muscled at all, with black hair, parted in the middle, he had normal glasses on, and he wore a blouse, mostly covered by a jacket, and long, silky jeans.
"Nobody knows, some say an Arcanine, others say a Dragonite, I personally believe it is a stronger one. One thing is for sure, if the leader gets that Pokémon, that gym is unbeatable." The man with the Gengar shirt said. "No trainer is too strong for me." Danny said full of self-esteem. "Getting cocky kid? Maybe I should show you that, if I can whip the floor with you, the gym leader will be surely able to kick your ass." Danny laughed. "Bring it on."
"It will be a two on two match." The other man announced, when everybody walked outside of town, where a grass field gave the opportunity to battle. "Both battlers ready?" Danny nodded. "I sure am." The other man said. "Doduo, come on out." "First see what I'm fighting"
Doduo, a Twin Bird Pokémon. Once its heads begin to fight each other, Doduo becomes incapacitated.
"Okay, Charmander, come on out. Use Scratch!" Charmander reacted quickly, and hit Doduo on one of its heads. "Doduo, Fury Attack." Danny looked up, the man didn't seemed to mind that Doduo just got hit, but when he thought about that, he forgot to move.
The Fury Attack did some damage on Charmander, but it didn't finished it off. "Charmander, use your Ember." "Doduo, run away." But then something happened, that made everyone laugh, except for the trainer of Doduo: The left head wanted to go to the left side, and the right head wanted to go to the right side, and while the two heads started arguing, Ember hit both, and knocked it out.
"Doduo, return." The man started to laugh as well. "You got lucky kid, but that won't happen this time, go Gastly!"
, a Ghost Pokémon. It is usually invisible. Its specialty is Hypnosis.
Danny looked at the Gastly in front of him. "On my pc they may look great, but in real life they are quit scary." "Charmander, use Ember." "Gastly, Night Shade." Even before Charmander could react, It felt down, all of a sudden. Danny looked down to his Pokémon flabbergasted.
"What, what just happened?" "That is Night Shade boy, not the best attack to fight." The man started to laugh again, this time harder. "Charmander return, you did it great."
"Now I can choose Kakuna, but Gastly won't take any damage of it. Or I choose Abra, which doesn't have any battle experience with me. What should I do?"
Danny looked towards Richard, who directly understood which dilemma Danny was fighting. "Danny, you better use Abra, otherwise you won't stand much of a change." Danny looked at Richard and nodded thankfully.
"Abra, it's your turn." "Now let's see which attacks Abra knows." Danny looked in the Pokédex, and came to an awful conclusion. "It only knows Teleport!?"
"Gastly, let's put a quick end to this battle, use Night Shade again." Abra didn't move, and Danny saw how is second Pokémon felt down, without any noise. "Abra, return, I'm sorry I put you into a battle you weren't ready for."
"That was a great battle kid, good luck with the gym leader." Both men started to laugh when they walked away. Richard walked over to Danny. "Why didn't you attacked that Gastly?" "Because the only move Abra knows is Teleport." Richard looked down at the Psi Pokémon. "We think about it later, first, we need to bring it to a Pokémon centre.
In the Pokémon Centre
"Back already?" Nurse Joy looked at Danny, and his earlier enthusiasm had turned into sadness. "What's wrong?" "There was this guy, his Doduo was a piece of cake, surely when it started an argument with itself." While saying that, a small grin formed at Danny's head, but it was gone as soon as Danny remembered the second part. "But then he had a Gastly, which defeated both Charmander and Abra, without even moving."
Nurse Joy started thinking, she had heard about this before, suddenly she remembered. "You must have battled Eric." "Eric?" "Yes, he has a weird, but effective battle style : First, he fights with a weaker Pokémon, which he hasn't trained yet, in your case Doduo, then he uses on of his stronger Pokémon, almost every time Gastly. That Night Shade is really strong, only a Psychic type can defeat it." "My Abra is a Psychic type, but it only knows Teleport." "Have you ever tried to use a TM before?"
Danny looked puzzled. "TM?" "A machine which contains a move, one of those TM's is Psychic." "Where can I get it?" "Well, you are just lucky, I heard the shop here in Viridian sells TM's and HM's, it is a weekly offer, normally they only sell those things in Celadon city. What makes you even more lucky, is that I heard there was also a special, never even made TM, one of a kind." "That's all nice and stuff, but how do I use it?" Nurse Joy started to laugh. "Place it on the head of the Pokémon, it should work." Danny nodded, and thanked Nurse Joy.
Outside
"So, there has to be a shop somewhere around here." Danny started wandering around, but couldn't find anything close to a shop, but he did find Richard.
"Lost your way? I thought you would wait for me in the Pokémon centre." Danny nodded. "But this is more important." Richard looked at him, and pulled one eyebrow up. "More important than your Pokémon?" "It is for my Pokémon, if I could just….. Why does this city has to be this huge?" Richard started to laugh. "It's Viridian city, the city of the last gym leader, and the last stop for trainers who are planning to go to the Indigo Plateau, what did you expect?" Danny looked puzzled. "How did you know this stuff?" "I read it in the Trainer Guide book, were are you looking for, maybe I can find it." "The Pokémon shop." While Danny said these words, Richard started to laugh. "What?" But Richard first had to succeed in stopping with laughing, which was quit the task. "Look behind you." Was the only thing Richard could bring out, and when Danny turned around, he found out that he stood right before the shop, the looks on his face made Richard laugh even harder.
When Richard finally stopped laughing he found out that Danny was already gone, only Abra was left. Richard kneeled down and petted the Psi Pokémon, but the last one was looking around for its trainer, and when it couldn't find it, it turned to Richard, and it looked at him with a sign that said one thing: 'Where is he?'
Richard sighed. "In there." He said while pointing at the shop. "But I don't know if they allow…. O, you're already gone." As soon as Abra knew where he had to go, he left immediately. "And know it is suddenly full of life, great."
Inside the shop.
"So, you want some of my TM, my special offer?" The man asked. He was balding, and it obviously wasn't a secret he loved eating. "Yes, one that fits my Abra." It was pure coincidence that Abra chose that moment to walk in. "You mean that Abra?" Danny turned around. 'How did you….. Where did you…..?" Abra looked confused, the shop owner nodded at that sight. "I would be confused if I had to end those sentences myself." He said to himself. "So that Abra, or another?" The man said with a smile. "This one." Danny said, while he lifted Abra up. "Well, I have TM29, which contains Psychic. I got it from a friend of me in Saffron city, interested?"
"Can I have that one please?" The man nodded. "Here you go." Danny paid for the TM, and putted it in his bag. While his fingers touched the doors of glass, which where is entrance outside, he thought of something, and walked back. "You are sure this will work, right?" The man started to laugh. "Sure it will." Danny nodded, and walked out.
Richard turned around when he heard the bell of the doors, and he saw Danny walking out with a CD in his hand, followed by the suddenly energetic Abra. "Did you get wat you wanted to?" Danny put the TM up as his answer. "Great, but how does it exactly work?" "Nurse Joy said to put it on Abra's head." Danny answered. "Abra, you need to sit still, don't move, otherwise it might drop from your head, and break." Richard started to laugh. "Don't bother, any time Abra could have been energetic, it had to be now." And Richard was right, Abra was moving as an enthusiastic dog waiting for food. "Okay, here goes." Danny tried to put the TM on Abra's head, but the last one kept moving around, and Danny couldn't get close.
"You know what, I will hold it for you." Richard said, grabbing Abra's hands, while Danny tried to put the TM on its head again. They didn't knew this was the worst thing they could do: Abra felt threatened, and used the only move it knew: Teleport. Suddenly Richard was grabbing air, and Danny almost dropped the TM on the ground. "Where did it go?" Danny looked around, expecting Abra to run somewhere, but no Pokémon to be seen, only a Pidgey, flying up in the sky. "let's try to find it, I will look at this side of the city, you on the other side." Danny nodded, and they both ran away.
Somewhere else in town
"I tell you, that kid didn't stand a change, although he had me worried with that Abra." The man Danny battled earlier, Eric, talked to one of his other friends. By any change, that Abra?" Eric turned around and saw an Abra walking around, quite confused. "That one indeed. But where is it's trainer?" Eric looked around, but he couldn't find the two boys anywhere. "Maybe he released it." The other man suggested. "You think so Niall?" The man called Niall answered. "Well, it did lose." Eric nodded.
"Abra! Where are you." Danny had walked through Viridian city for the past hour, and man, what was this city big! He just came through a kind of shopping street, that alone had taken him a hour to get through. "Danny!" Richard ran towards him. "Did you find Abra?" Danny shook his head sadly. "Where can it be? I looked everywhere." Danny suddenly looked up. "Maybe it went to Viridian Forest." Richard looked at him. "Well, we can give it a try I guess." And the two boys ran away.
Near Viridian City
"So, lets train you a little bit." Eric said, putting Abra on the battle field. "Gastly, come on out." The Ghost Pokémon looked at Abra with arrogance, which didn't go unnoticed by its trainer. "Yes, you help me train this Pokémon." Gastly sighed, and turned around, to face its opponent. "This is how we will do it, Gastly, you use Lick, then Abra, you will use an attack that comes up to you, but no Teleport." Abra looked at Eric with a strange look. "Well, Gastly, attack." Just when Gastly wanted to attack, Danny and Richard walked by the corner.
"Stop that!" Danny yelled, while he already ran towards Abra. Before Gastly could attack Abra, Danny had grabbed jumped, grabbed it, and fell a few seconds later on the ground.
"So you didn't released it?" Eric looked confused. "No, why should I?" "Well, it was wandering around Viridian, so I thought you released it. I just decided I would train it, so it could become stronger. How did it get away?"
"It used Teleport." Richard answered, who made it towards the small battlefield. "It still doesn't know any other attacks?" Danny crawled up. "It does." "Well, would you like a rematch?" "Of course I would like a rematch." Danny quickly turned around to Abra and laid the TM on his head. The TM started shining, and disappeared.
"This will be a one on one battle between Eric, the challenger from Viridian, and Danny from Pallet town." Niall announced.
"Gastly, go." "Okay Abra, lets show him how strong you have become." Danny felt sweat dripping from his forehead.
"I won't lose this time"
"Gastly, use Night Shade." "Abra, use Psychic." Now it will be the fastest Pokémon to land the first hit, which was Abra. Gastly backed down, but didn't give up. "Gastly, Night Shade again." Before Abra or Danny could react, Abra felt down, with the creepy silence of before.
Danny almost bit his nails of, but suddenly, Abra moved, and tried to stand. "Abra, you're still okay!" Abra nodded weakly. "Let's finish this with Night Shade!" "Abra, use Psychic." Both Danny and Eric stood still, and for seconds, there was a complete silence, then Gastly felt from its flying position, and laid on the ground: Abra was the winner.
This also came to Eric, who called Gastly back. "You did a great job." He said confused. Danny ran towards Abra, and hugged it. "You were great." Eric walked over to Danny, and stuck his hand out, which made Danny looked up. "You are really a trainer with potential, maybe you do stand a chance against that gym leader, but you will have to train more." Eric said with a smile. Danny shook Eric's hand.
"Training I will, to become really strong." Danny said, feeling more confident. "And we will become strong right Abra." Danny could have said it against a wall, because the only noise Abra made were snores. "If you want to become stronger, you will have to let him sleep first." Richard said, witch made Eric to laugh, and Danny as well, after a mean look towards Richard. Abra didn't mind at all, as long he could have his nap.