The Strength of an Eevee

chapter 4 The Great Escape

It had been about a weak since I ended up in this place. I've gotten used to things around here, how manectric would give us food everyday. I talked to Tip a lot but I did end up becoming friends with other pokemon. Every once in a while a trainer would pick up a pokemon. I would always take a nap when there was sun in my cage, it's too cold to sleep at night.

Don't worry, I still try to escape but it's really hard. They never let you out of your cage and the doors to the hallway are locked on the inside and out. They only open the cage to put food and water. I have no idea how to escape. The only plan I have so far is breaking out of the cage. I've been chewing on the cage bars and using hidden power on it, it hasn't done much but I'm not giving up.

It was in the middle of the night, I was in the middle of chewing on the cage bars when I heard a cry. I looked around while trying to see in the darkness. I noticed a new pokemon being carried by Manectric. It had to be new, I've never seen them before. It's cage was put right next to mine, Bunnleby got adopted a couple days ago so it would be nice to have a pokemon next to me again. Then Manectric left the room as the poor, little, pokemon kept crying.

All the other pokemon were asleep so I just looked at the poor thing. It was brown with a black back and a tan face. It had a small tail and good sized ears, It was kinda the shape like a dog type thing.

I felt so bad, I guess it was taken away from it's family or something. I wanted to say something but I didn't know what to say, I just felt really sad about the crying pokemon. "Are you ok" I asked but when I said it the pokemon screamed and ran to the other side of the cage. It reminded me of when I first showed up.

"Oh gosh I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scare you," I said. It looked at me still scared. "Uh I-I'm sorry, I really am.? Are you ok?" It looked at me with less fear now. It started to cry a little more but I managed to make out what he was saying, "I was trapped and taken here and I don't know what to do!" The pokemon yelled with tears in its eyes. "Well that's ok, I was taken away from my family too. Do you wanna tell me what happened?" I said. It looked at me and then stood up."what are you? I've never seen anything like you before" It said. "Oh well I'm an eevee, my name's Scout." I said with a smile on my face. "Ok, I'm Cooper and I'm a Lillipup." Cooper said as he started to look happier.

After that we talked for hours. We talked about our homes and our families. I told him all about this place and about the pokemon here. I told him about Tip and Zipper. After a while the sun started to rise and we realized we were up all night talking. Before trying to get to sleep again I decided to ask Cooper one more thing.

"Hey Cooper", I asked. He lifted his head up and looked at me. "Yeah scout" he said sounding tired. "How did you get captured. You told me about your family and friends but How did you get captured and taken?" I asked as he looked at me about to speak.

"Ok, I was training to hunt for my family like I do twice a weak. It took a while but I finally found some sitrus berries so I went to pick them. I got close to them but I was right by a rushing river so I had to be careful. I guess I looked tasty to a different pokemon because when I got close to the berries I was suddenly dragged into the water. I tried to swim for air but something had my leg. It let go suddenly so I swam for air. I could finally breath, I looked over and saw my mother and sisters trying to help me. My mom grabbed me by my neck and got me to shore but then something grabbed my foot. I turned to look at the pokemon, it was a lapras. Then I was dragged away from my mother to the bottom of the river. I passed out but when I woke up I was in a cage on a truck. And that's what happened."

I looked at him while feeling really bad for him. I turned and looked at the cage where I was trying to escape then back at Cooper. I felt anger and saddness for this lillipup. How could someone do that to him. I got up and suddenly used quick attack on the cage. Cooper looked at me and stood up. "What are you doing?" he asked. I looked at him, "I'm getting you out of here", I said while using swift on the cage. He looked at me with a big smile. I kept attacking the cage until it was really crooked and bent. It took at least half an hour of non stop moves to get it this bent.

I looked at the bent metal that I worked so hard on. Some parts of the cage were chewed off but most went unharmed. I was tired and in pain, I wanted to go to sleep like Cooper did but I wasn't giving up. I looked at the cage and decided to give it one more try. I used swift, bite, and hidden power for a while in a row. Cooper was asleep by now, if only I had a stronger move. I kept using moves on the cage until there was a small opening, it was too small for me to crawl through but it did give me an idea

I quickly went to the back of the cage to give myself more room. I got ready for the pain of hitting the cage but it might get me out. I sprung off the ground and used the fastest and strongest quick attack I could. The impact of hitting the cage flung the it off the shelf. There was a big crash and a lot of pain as I hit the ground from the third shelf.

I opened my eyes and looked around. I had scratches and cuts all over by body from the broken cage. I was losing blood from the cuts but I didn't care. I stood up and looked at my cage, it was all busted up.

"I'm free" I said quietly. I looked up at Cooper who was now awake and looking for me. "Coop, I'm free!" I said excitedly but still quietly. He looked down at me and then wagged his small tail. Ok next to do is to get Cooper out. I looked around for the key that's used for the cages. I found it by the door, I ran over to it and tried to get it. It was hanging by a nail in the wall too high for me to reach. I tried but it was impossible for me to get. I tried using hidden power but it just bent the nail and made it harder to get.

"no no no no No NO NO!" I yelled in frustration, we were so close to freedom. I thought we were doomed until I heard a voice.

"You know, I could get those for you." I turned around quickly to see who was awake. I saw a Happiny in it's cage looking at me. "How could you get it?" I asked. It just giggled and raised its arms in the air. Suddenly the keys raised of the nail and floated over to her own caged and unlocked it. "Awesome! Can you do that to Coopers cage, please." I asked. "First, come over here to my cage." I ran over to her cage and climbed up to it. "ok , now I need you to flip that thing and move it to your left." She said. I looked at it and thought for a moment. "Wait why can't you just do it yourself?" I asked as I started messing with the thing. "Because if I use psychic on it then an alarm will go off and alert the hunters." she said while pointing at a alarm on the ceiling. I finally got it to the left and the cage opened. She got out and walked over to the door.

"Wait, what about Cooper?" I asked desperately. "Huh, oh yeah the pup. Just hold on a moment." She said as she raised her arms in the air again but this time I was lifted in the air too. She lifted me in the air and put me where my cage was. She unlocked Coopers cage and I started messing with the thing on his cage. I eventually got it unhooked and opened it. Cooper was a bit scared about coming out of his cage because he might fall. I asked Happiny to get us down and she used psychic to help us down.

When we got to the ground Happiny pointed out an air vent we could crawl through to get out. She started to use psychic to take the cover thing off but I got impatient and used quick attack on it. After that we all ran through the air vent.

"We're almost free!" I said happily as we ran through the dark ran through them for a while, sometimes we heard people walking around us. I tried to use a small hidden power but not launch it so we could see. We stopped when we finally found an exit of the air vent. I was about to use quick attack again but was stopped.

"Shh, we need to be quiet" I didn't know why until I looked out of the vent and saw Manectric. "Not him again, why does he always show up?" I said quietly in frustration.

"What do we do" Cooper said while hiding behind me. Happiny looked at Manectric and back at us. "It's ok, we just need to sneak past him. There's a window over behind him, if I do it right I can prop it open for us with a stick," Happiny whispered while using psychic to move the vent cover so we could get out. She then used a stick from outside, opened the window, and proped it up so it wouldn't close on us.

"Ok, let's go," She said as she stepped out of the vent. Me and Cooper followed close behind her while trying to stay quiet.

We hopped up on a table and got to the window. Cooper crawled out first just in case Manectric woke up. I was about to crawl out the window when I heard something. The stick was about to snap! I tried to hold up the window for Happiny. She got out and hopped to the ground. I let go of the window and tried to get out but before I could the stick snapped in half and the window crashed down.

I slowly turned around only to see an awake and growling Manectric. I stood perfectly still and closed my eyes as if it would make me invisible.

"What are you doing out of your cage?" I heard him say. No no No No NO NO! I can't get captured again, I CAN'T!

I didn't say anything but I knew I had to do something. I really didn't want to fight him again so I tried to think of what else to do.

I jumped off the table and over Manectric and started to run to the air vent. "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR'E GOING!" I heard him yell behind me.I felt really angry at him and I was going to say what I was thinking. "I'M GOING HOME!" I yelled as I quickly stopped, turned around, and used quick attack on him. I started running back to the window, I could here him right behind me. "STOP RIGHT THERE!" He yelled as he used discharge. I kept running, I can't stop not now. I started going faster than ever. I jumped and crashed right through the window and kept running.

"HEY GET BACK HERE!" The whole in the window was too small for him so I had a head start. I have no idea where Cooper or Happiny are, I guess they went there own way. I was running into a very sandy place but I didn't stop. Sand was blowing everywhere and made it hard to see. I didn't care, I was free and I wasn't gonna stop running until I got home.