The Perils of Pokemon Hard Mode

by 16Doobop13

Hank was 8 when his family moved to kanto, but his journey never began when he was ten. it wasn't until he turned 15 that he realized that the kanto region was trapped in a Nuzlocke, a set of rules in which the amount of pokemon a trainer can have on them are limited and battles are to the death. Now, Hank must defeat Mewtwo to free Kanto, but that is far easier said than done...

4. Amazing Viridian Forest

A-Maze-Ing Viridian Forest

"Kakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase!" Fireball, my Charmander, kept singing as we walked deeper into the forest. We kept walking for hours, still not getting anywhere. Fireball was still full of energy from the song Lucky, my new Kakuna, sang to him. "Kakuna Matata!" He repeated. "Ain't no passing craze! It means no wor- oahh!"

Thrash, my Mankey yanked Fireballs tail and pulled him back. He was not happy. "Two hours. You have been singing that song for two whole hours! So either hum it quietly, or look for a way out like the rest of us."

"Go easy on him." Lucky said. "He's just a kid. I was a kid myself only a few months ago." Thrash folded his arms.

"…..Fine."

Fireball climbed back on top of my head. "When do we get our next friend?" He asked me eagerly. "What type do you think they'll be? Will they also be a boy? Do you think that they know the Kakuna Matata song, Master?"

I smiled at Fireball's comments. He was great at cheering me up whenever I remembered that one mistake resulted in death. "Not for a while, Fireball." I told him. "We won't be getting a new pokemon for a while."

"Hey Boss." Thrash said poking my shoulder. "Boss, look! Up ahead, I see a path, and it has people!" I turned and looked and sure enough there was a path.

"Nice going Thrash." I said.

"Let me see." Lucky said, who was sitting in my bag with his face sticking out. I turned around. "Oh that's Trainer's Trail!" He said. "The ideal battle grounds in all of the Viridian Forest."

"How do you know that?" Thrash asked. "You've never been anywhere outside your swarm's home before."

"It doesn't mean I don't have friends man. Have a little faith in me." Lucky replied.

"Yeah!" Fireball chimed in. "Kakuna Mata-"

"If you finish that word, your journey ends here." Thrash said giving Fireball a glare. "I like you kid, but I can't take anymore of that song. Now is not the time. We need to get to Pewter to heal."

"And get a gym badge." I added. "We also need to get a gym badge."

"Gym Badges are shiny." Fireball said, nodding in agreement with me. "But don't you think that you might need to train some more before challenging a gym? I mean, I'm your best pokemon and I'm only Level 11."

"Actually my goal is to train Thrash up." I said. Thrash, who was looking away, raised an eyebrow.

"Me?" He asked. "What's wrong with Level 8?"

"Nothing man." Lucky said from inside my bag.(He seemed to have decided to nap through the hike through the forest.) "He just want's to work on your skills. Learn some new moves, you know?"

"Can I train too?" Fireball asked. "I don't feel comfortable being at Level 11."

"Maybe you don't, but that's the level I'm getting Thrash to, but sure, you can train too. I'm sure Thrash won't mind that much."

Thrash grunted. "Fine. He can train. What good is one without a sparring partner anyway?"

The trainers on that trail were mostly bug catchers. But there was one pair of brothers who requested a double battle. I looked at Thrash, who was now Level 10, and Fireball, who was now Level 12. The both nodded to show that they were okay with it. They sent out two Beedrill.

"Lucky." I said, waking the Kakuna up. "You might want to watch this battle."

It was a fury of attacks on the field. Or rather, just the Beedrills using Fury Attack.

"Fireball use Ember one more time on the bigger Beedrill." The Beedrill caught fire and was burned to the ground. I felt a prick in my heart. I had just killed a pokemon. But this wasn't the time to grieve. Thrash was having some trouble with the other Beedrill. I looked at my pokedex for advice when I noticed something about Fireball's page. "Fireball use Metal Claw!" I said. The Charmander ran up and slashed the Beedrill with a metallic looking claw. It fell to the floor and thrash jumped up in the air a Karate Chopped it in half. I had just succeeded in my goal. Thrash had learned Karate Chop. "Sorry about your pokemon." I said to the boys feeling really bad.

"Don't feel bad!" The taller brother said. "They weren't actually our pokemon, they were wild."

"They were destroying our neighborhood for no reason so we had to catch them to calm them down and when that didn't work we knew that they had to go." The shorter brother said.

As we walked out of Viridian Forest into Pewter City, Lucky asked. "Why didn't they just release the Beedrills? They were probably looking for their hive, and aggravated that they couldn't find it."

"That's just they way things are." Thrash said. "You change yourself and you can change your tactics, but you can't change others. Were beggars." He said and walked in front of us. "So we can't afford to be choosers."