Castelia City 4:38 PM
Raian smiled smugly as he examined his opponents Pokémon which stood between the two in the open street, a few business men and women standing to the side to watch the battle.
"Well come on Peanut" the woman standing across Raian said smiling, "Let's get started"
Raian looked at her Herdier for a moment, the proud dog stood nearly three feet tall and made Raian laugh due to its muzzle fur reminding him of a moustache, Raian then glanced up at the woman who had agreed on the wager match, a short clerk named Ingrid, she wore a pink vest over a long sleeved white shirt, and a short pink skirt over dark stockings. After evaluating his opponent he looked at Lucario.
"Ready buddy?" Raian asked his partner. Lucario let out a small vocalization of its name and nodded while bringing its paws up to show excitement. "Alright then, let's do this Lucario!"
Mode Street, Castelia City 4:40 PM
"Does anyone here have money they want to lose to me in a wager Pokémon battle?!" Iian yelled out to the busy street, none of the business men and women batting an eye "LoOoOsers come on, you know you want to try your skills against me!" Iian walked up to the line in front of the ice cream stand looking at the customers
"Hey if you beat me I'll pay for your ice cream!" iian yelled to the line "Takers, anyone?" The men and women continued to ignore him as he walked across the street towards the studio and walked in. Iian took a moment to glance at the paintings of legendary Pokémon and random paintings such as 'Ideals and Truth' in the free section of the studio before deciding to continue his yelling
"Attention Artsy-Fartsy wankers!" Iian yelled "I am willing to put 9,940 on the line in a wager Pokémon battle, come on, I know anyone in here could use the money" Iian looked around to see everyone in the free section of the studio looking at him, including a very irate looking security guard. Iian began to slowly back away when he heard a very gruff voice speak up
"Alright" The gruff voice said, at which everyone turned "I'll take you on"
Iian looked to see the owner of the voice and he was quite surprised to see an elderly man, grey hair and grey mustache, in a green jumpsuit holding a mop.
"Excuse me?" Iian asked now shocked
"I said I reckon I can take you to school real quick so these fine folk can enjoy their art in peace" The elderly janitor responded
"I mean no disrespect…well sort of…but aren't you a little…seasoned?" Iian asked
"Well then, you shouldn't have a problem" The janitor responded walking past Iian into the street
"Oh you're on gramps" Iian said walking after him
Meanwhile Narrow Street, Castelia City
Josue stood next to a dumpster as Growlithe held its leg up to urinate on its side. Josue whistled as he looked up at the fancy looking café Sonata. Josue brushed his shaggy hair from his face as he tried to ignore his stomach growl.
"I'm starved" josue said to growlithe as the pup walked away from the dumpster, just as he finished the statement he turned to see a man in a rather nice suit holding a briefcase walk down the street.
"excuse me sir" Josue said as he walked up to the man, the man looked at josue with a mild smile 'My name is josue, you can call me Josh, or Joshy, or even Cobra…and this is my partner Growlithe, you can call him Growlithe" Josue continued gesturing towards Growlithe who yipped "We have recently begun our journey to become a Pokémon master and today has been rather rough on us, we traveled from the sinnoh region and we've already seen our friend lose a hand…anyway, we need money, and food…preferably food. So I was wondering if we could have a wager battle, if I win you buy me lunch at the café, if you win….I give you 500..What do you say?"
The business man smiled as Josue finished his spew
"You know" The man replied 'I was once a trainer like you, until I got married, so I settled down and moved here to work. You remind me a lot of myself when I was your age, so I'll tell you what. I only have one Pokémon with me right now, so if you beat me in a one on one battle I'll give you 5000 and buy you a nice meal"
"Deal" Josue slurred out quickly after hearing the addition of a meal.
Castelia City 4:41 PM
"This one on one Pokémon battle will now begin between clerk Ingrid's Herdier and Raians Lucario, the first trainer to have a Pokémon unable to battle loses and shall pay the winner 15,000" A man in a business suit said as he stood between Ingrid and Raian on their small section of the street, a small crowd of business men and women now gathered to watch.
"Alright Herdier lets kick this off right!" Ingrid yelled "This Lucario is no match for your speed, use tackle!"
"Herd!" The herdier barked as it took off like a furry lightning bolt. The creature tucked its head down low and the wind whistled past its fur as it ran full sprint towards the calm Lucario. Lucario stood calmly with his paws to his side as he stared at the charging Herdier. The Herdier growled as it came close, at the last second Lucario pushed off the ground with its strong hind legs, jumping clear over Herdier. The sudden dodge caught herdier quite off guard and as it turned it lost its footing and stumbled, rolling on the ground.
"Alright Lucario let's see a majestic display of a force palm!" Raian yelled to lucario. Lucario landed on one paw gracefully and spun around.
"Lu!" Lucario nodded as he outstretched his hands in a calm and fluid motion, spinning out his arms.
"Don't take that Herdier, rush him again and bite!" Ingrid yelled to Herdier as it regained its footing. Lucario held his eyes closed as he calmly collected his energy, his breathing slow and calm, his heart beat a slow beat as his internal energy focused into his left paw being accumulated in the small horn on it. The herdier snarled as he rushed forward, his legs outstretched as far as they could. The Herdier pounced as he reached the calm Lucario, Lucario opened his eyes as the dog leapt, he quickly shot forth his left arm, his paw open towards the dog. The herdier was inches from Lucarios paw as a wavelength shot forth shooting the dog backwards. The Herdier tumbled and flipped across the floor several feet. The canine laid on the ground twitching trying to roll over for a moment or two before going limp and collapsing onto the cold ground.
"Herdier is unable to battle, Lucario and Raian win" The temporary judge yelled out
"Nice" Raian said with a smile as he walked up to Lucario and patted him on the head "You did great, form was perfect, execution was beautiful, here have a poffin"
Mode Street, Castelia City 4:42 PM
Iian gritted his teeth as he returned the unconscious staravia to its pokeball. He looked up to see the hideous leathery beast grinning with its sharp small teeth, the Trubbish was quite a worthy foe and quite the sight, its leathery hide similar to the sight of a trash bag and its horrendous arms coated in dirt and rubbish.
"One down" The Janitor Geoff said mocking iian "Come on now, are you going easy on me or do you just suck at training Pokémon?"
Iians face almost began to turn red with anger as he plucked a pokeball from his belt
"I'll show you!" Iian yelled fiercely as he pulled his arm back to throw the next pokeball "Come on out Flaaffy!"
Out of the red beam formed a small bipedal sheep; the sheep was about two and a half feet tall and had pretty pink short fur across its body along with a thick wool main and a long black striped tail with a small orb on its end.
"This is your powerful Pokémon?" Geoff asked with a chuckle "It's a little girls sheep"
"Don't waste time Flaaffy!" Iian yelled "Charge!"
The pink sheep nodded its head and then tucked in its head and arms letting out a small non-intimidating roar, the small orb on its tail slowly beginning to light up.
"Hurry and use double slap!" Geoff yelled to the Trubbish.
"Trub" The trubbish lazy groaned as it began to run forward at Flaaffy. Flaafy kept its eyes closed, its head, and its arms tucked as it let out a small hum while charging. Trubbish quickly reached Flaafy and slapped it hard with its filthy arm, Flaaffys head shot to the side hard. As Trubbish pulled its second hand back to slap again it suddenly felt its muscles tighten up and it found itself unable to move.
"What you doing?!" Geoff yelled "Slap it!"
"Someone didn't do their homework" Iian said mockingly "Flaaffy conducts electricity in its wool, the rest of its fur is rubbery and non-conductive, by hitting it on the wool you allowed some of its electrical discharge to be released into trubbish which paralyzed it by violently tightening the muscles"
Trubbish, still unable to move, turned its eyes towards flaaffy whos tail was fully glowing now.
"Flaa-ffy" Flaaffy said loudly in a meek and rather endearing tone.
"Good and charged" Iian said "now quickly use tackle!"
"Flaa!" Flaafy vocalized as it tucked in its head and quickly jolted at the Trubbish. Flaaffy hit the trubbish hard, its wool adding a little bounce to the push back, and the trash beast tumbled back several steps. Flaaffy quickly pulled its head back and put its small paw up to its nose making an unhappy face at the Trubbishs horrid smell.
"trubbish get up quickly!" Geoff yelled.
The Trubbish rose to its feet and made an enraged face, bearing its small sharp teeth at the sheep. Flaaffy turned to iian, still covering its nose with an upset face
"I know it stinks" Iian said to the sheep "…Almost as much as Geoff"
Geoff gritted his teeth in anger before yelling out to his Trubbish "Hurry up and use Acid Spray!"
Trubbish nodded and pulled its head back a little, just as it began to come forward its muscles tensed up once more, stopping it from moving.
"Quickly Flaaffy use Thundershock!" Iian yelled
"Flaa!" Flaaffy responded cheerfully as it moved its paw from its nose. Flaafy quickly spun its tail in a circle as it itself quickly turned around, swinging its tail which let forth a small jolt of electricity through the air. The jolt of electricity buzzed in the air and flew forth and struck Trubbish shooting it back across the floor, the smell of burnt rubber filling the air. Geoff ran to his trubbish to examine it, it was unconscious and twitching.
"Good job buddy" Iian said with a smile to Flaaffy who waved its arms around happily.
"So," Iian continued at Geoff who returned his trubbish "Any more bags of trash I need to dispose of, or are you out of Pokémon?"
"You wish" Geoff said angrily as he pulled another pokeball from his pocket out. "You don't stand a chance against my next Pokémon! Go Minccino!"
Geoff threw the pokeball into the middle of the street and out of the red beam a small adorable mammalian creature formed. The creature appeared and smiled as it tucked its arms in and waved its tail, it was a small grey rodent with grey fur, huge ears, and a long fluffy tail, but it was remarkably petite and its large dark watery eyes looked charming.
"That?" Iian said slumping his arms and closing his eyes as a drop of sweat came from his head "That tiny cute….I mean...pansy…rodent is your secret weapon?"
"You're one to talk mister pink sheep" Geoff yelled back, the two looking angrily at each other, the intensity between them almost visible as sparks. Minccino stood on the ground looking wide eyed at Flaaffy who sat on the ground looking wide eyed at Minccino, the two almost looking as though they were trying to out-cute each other.
"Err Enough!" Iian growled "Flaaffy Charge!"
"Flaaf" Flaffy responded before tucking in its head and arms once more and beginning to charge
"Minccino use Encore!" Geoff yelled
Minccino began clapping its tiny paws together and vocalizing its name encouragingly to flaffy. Flaaffy looked up for a moment to see the small creature cheering it on, so it cheerfully continued charging, its tail already glowing.
"Flaafy use thundershock!" Iian yelled at which flaaffy ignored and continued charging "I said use thundershock!"
"Use tickle!" Geoff yelled.
"Ccino!" Minccino responded cheerfully as it ran up to Flaaffy. Flaaffy opened its eyes to look at the small furry creature, the Minccino looked at Flaaffy cheerfully with wide eyes before abruptly swishing its tail around Flaaffy. Flaaffy fell backwards as it began shaking its leg and letting out an adorable laughing sound
"Use Thundershock!" Iian yelled at the top of his lungs. Flaaffy heard Iian but couldn't help itself while being tickled, the cheerful Minccino having a blast tickling the sheep.
"Use F^cking Thundershock!" Iian yelled once more at the top of his lungs
"Minccino good job, now use double slap" Geoff said smiling
Minccino stopped tickling Flaaffy and crawled down it and sat in front of it looking the same way as Flaaffys view. Flaaffy sat upright and squinted its eyes trying to see what the Minccino was looking at, suddenly the minccinos tail swung violently whacking flaaffy in the face, the tail then came back hard, hitting it a second time, then again and again, ending after slapping Flaaffy five times. Flaaffy fell backwards dizzy and beaten, but still moving and capable of battle.
"That's it, return Flaaffy" Iian said calmly as he returned flaaffy to its pokeball
"Ohh whats a matter? Can't handle minccino?" Geoff asked as Minccino brushed off clouds of dirt from the ground
"Come out Combusken" Iian said gritting his teeth with pure frustration.
As the pokeball opened the feeling of the battle changed, out of the red formation materialized the proud bird Combusken, standing upright and serious. Minccino looked up with wide teary eyes at the red bird, feeling strongly outmatched.
"Minccino use double slap!" Geoff yelled
The Minccino jumped up and swung its tail quickly towards the Combucken, Combusken moved its head out of the way quickly and then jolted its sharply taloned foot into the minccino, sending it soaring across the street and tumbling feet in front of Geoff, unconscious.
Meanwhile Narrow Street, Castelia City
"Alright Josue let's see what you can do" The clerk, Clemens, said standing behind a small muscular grey humanoid creature with a large black nose, thick red muscle extensions across its body, holding a beam of wood "My Timburr is ready"
"Okay, I think it's about time we let Grotle get out and have some fun" Josue said to Growlithe who sat atop Josues bags which he had set down "come on out!"
Josue threw the pokeball down and the red beam formed into an odd large turtle. The peak of Grotiles back reached about three and a half feet, and its hard shell ran from the tip of its head to the end of its tail adorned with bright yellow looking almost golden, with three long brown marks, and two small shrubs growing out. The spotless green turtle looked quite serene, a nice echo of Josue.
"Alright lets go" Josue yelled "For food!"
"Timburr use rock throw!" Clemens yelled, the muscular humanoid picked up a handful of rocks on the ground and began throwing them at Grotle, each one hitting the turtle and merely seeming to pester it rather than hurt it.
"Razor leaf go!" Josue yelled
The Grotle began shaking from side to side, faster than one would expect, suddenly the leaves on its shrubs began to stand up, the internal energy of the Grotle being pushed into them, Grotle turned quickly and several leaves shot off of the turtle quickly. The leaves jolted timburr, taking it of its feet .
"Timburr get up and focus your energy" Clemens yelled, the timburr quickly jumping to its feet and calming itself down.
"Nows your chance" Josue yelled 'use absorb!"
Grotle quickly ran forth, rather slow, but much quicker than one would expect. Timburr continued to focus its energy as Grotle reached it, roots shot forth from Grotles back, sticking into Timburs skin and draining the nutrients from its blood.
'Quickly use low kick!" Clemens yelled. Gurdurr quickly ripped itself from the weak roots and threw itself from its plank of wood, launching its foot towards grotles head, but as it launched forward Grotle withdrew into its shell and the kick caused no true damage to Grotle.
"Grotle used withdraw without being told to do so" Clemens said to himself "It's so connected with its trainer it already knows what he wanted him to do"
"Wow that was smart of Grotle" Josue thought to himself "I never would have thought of that"
"Alright then, come out of your shell and use tackle!" Josue yelled
"Bide!"Clemens yelled back quickly
Timburr crossed its arms over its chest as Grotle sprung forth from its shell and kicked off the ground, launching itself into Timburr.
"Follow it up with another tackle!" Josue yelled, Grotle once more kicking itself from the ground, launching back into Timburr.
"Stay strong Timburr!" Clemens yelled
"Why fix what isn't broken, Tackle it once more!" Josue yelled, Grotle once again launching itself forward into timbur. Timbur was pushed back several feet huffing, the rage in its eyes growing as it grabbed its beam.
"One more should do it!" Josue yelled "Tackle!"
As Grotle leapt forward once more timburr crawled up its beam and pushed itself into the air, Grotle missed the tackle, Timburr swung its beam around and shot down with it with great intensity.
"Withdraw!" Josue yelled. As the Timburr swung its beam at Grotle, the turtle withdrew into its shell, the beam missing its head by seconds, smashing into the ground.
"Razor Leaf now!" Josue yelled.
The timbur turned its head towards Grotle just in time to be hit by an onslaught of leaves, sending it tumbling across the narrow street. Clemens watched as his timburr pulled itself to its knees before falling back to the ground, unable to continue battle.
"Woo we won!" Josue yelled as he ran up to Grotle "Good job girl!" he excitedly continued as he rubbed the turtles head
"Very well done" Clemens said as he returned his timburr to its pokeball "You fought valiantly and won, and I'm a man of my word"
"Woo, food!" Josue said interrupting Clemens.
Comfort Hotel, Castelia Street 6:46 PM
The interior of the hotel room was rather luxurious for the three trainers, designed with separate living and sleeping areas, lifestyle-enhancing accommodations including two double beds, beautiful furnishings, multiple telephones, refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers, hair dryers and plenty of space. The bags of the three were messily gathered on one side of the wall in the living room area where Josue sat with Growlithe watching television and eating a bag of chips in a t-shirt and a pair of boxers. Iian sat in the bed room on one of the twin beds looking at the messages on his phone, one from his little brother and one from his parents, he tried to hide his tearing up eyes as he looked up to see his flaaffy sleeping on the floor, his staravia perched atop the nightstand lamp, and his combusken leaning against the side of the bed. Iian rubbed his eyes as he got up and walked out of the bedroom, as he walked past the bathroom he could see steam coming from the bottom of the door and Lucario sitting outside leaning on the wall waiting for raian to get out. Iian walked into the living room to see the sluggish Josue watching some cartoon about digital monsters.
"You're eating again?" Iian asked as Josue crumpled up the bag and threw it onto the coffee table he had his feet on
"Just chips, why?" Josue asked as he licked his fingers
"Didn't you say that business guy bought you food, and that's why we had to wait so long for you to show up" Iian replied as combusken walked into the room
"Yeah" Josue replied "And it was good…I still don't see your point"
"My point is, you had to pay for this room because you brought back the least amount of money, if you keep eating this much you're going to run out of money"
Raian, wearing a towel wrapped around his hair and one wrapped around his waist, opened the door of the bathroom letting out a cloud of steam, he smiled as he walked out letting the cool air conditioning chill him.
"Go on in" Raian said to Lucario who rose to his feet holding a towel over his shoulder "The water is the perfect temperature, just make sure you dry off completely before you come on out, otherwise your fur will get frizzy"
"Lu" Lucario nodded as he walked into the bathroom.
Raian walked into the bedroom where on the small desk opposite the beds sat the coffee maker which let out a graceful smell of vanilla and ground coffee as it brewed. Raian shifted the towel around his head and threw it off, his wild black hair still wavy and curly even though it's wet. Raian looked on the bed to see a blue shirt and a pair of blue pajama pants next to his phone, his pokeball strap which had two pokeballs attached, and his pokedex. Raian picked up his phone to check for any calls from his grandmother, but all he had received was a picture message of several dozen gible from someone. Raian quickly dressed and moved his phone and dex to the nightstand, he plucked the two pokeballs from the strap and released Glaceon and Prinplup, both roughly the same height and roughly reaching raians mid-thigh. Raian could hear Iian and Josue bickering about something so he decided to go to them.
"All I'm saying is that all you have is two Pokémon" Iian continued from some statement "And you aren't going to last too many battles with a fire type and a grass type"
"Hey guys" Raian interrupted
"Oh look mister coordinator is finally out of the shower" Iian said as he sat down on a large cushioned chair.
"Arguing again?" Raian asked as Glaceon walked past his leg and jumped onto the couch next to josue and Growlithe
"Just telling Josue that he needs to catch a Pokémon so he can start winning serious money" Iian replied
"That's actually not a bad Idea" Raian replied "I checked the maps and we'll pass through pinwheel forest tomorrow if we get a move on, I think it could benefit us all to catch another Pokémon"
"Pssh" Iian puffed "I bet I'm the only one who will catch one"
"I'd like to see you put your money were your mouth is" Josue replied "If either of us catch a Pokémon (gesturing to Raian and himself) you have to pay for the next hotel we stay at"
"You're on hobknocker" Iian replied getting up from his chair and putting his hand out
Josue stood up and shook his hand, looking unusually serious.
"Alright well glad that's settled and what not" Raian interrupted looking back to see Lucario walk in the room, a towel wrapped around the top of his head "Everyone needs to recheck their bags and be ready to leave bright and early tomorrow, I want to be in Striaton city by sundown"
"Yeah yeah" Iian replied walking towards the exit of the room "Oh, and I get a whole bed to myself, you two can sleep in the same bed"
"What, why?" Raian asked
"He's your cousin, not mine" Iian replied heading off, his mind already set on catching a Pokémon. Raian let out a smirk at his confidence, even after such an eventful day, it was truly a journey now… To Be Continued.
New Pokémon Seen this episode
Herdier
Trubbish
Flaaffy
Minccino
Timburr
Grotle
