Author's Note: All I can say is enjoy the read.
Chapter 4:
Encounter with a Legend
It was only nine thirty once Rahul finished eating breakfast at his new friend's uncle's place, where he spent the night in Viridian City. Now he was about to say his farewells to Luna, her mother, and her uncle, before he goes to Pewter City.
"Thank you very much for letting me stay here." The dark haired Blaze said.
Her mother said happily, "It's no problem, Rahul."
Luna's uncle, the one with, brown hair, gray eyes, and a green shirt, and blue jeans, stated, "Yes you can always come here whenever you come back to Viridian City."
He scratched his head from embarrassment, "I'll be sure to keep that in mind."
"Hey Rahul, my family would like you to have this." The aqua green haired girl passed him a bowl with a foil wrapped around it.
Rahul took the foil plate from her, "Well thank you everyone."
They all say, "No problem."
Luna stuck her hand out, "By the way, good luck with your journey as a Pokemon Trainer, Rahul."
He gave her a handshake back, "Thanks Luna."
After that, Rahul left Viridian City and headed into The Viridian Forest for his next stop to Pewter City. It was important for him to get there because of Pewter Gym, a place where Rahul could get his first gym badge. That way he'd only need seven more badges in order to enter Indigo Plateau. His first obstacle before the Pewter Gym was the Viridian Forest itself.
"To think I was glad about getting away from the forest." an unhappy Rahul answered before he drew his pokeball out, "Wait a minute, I could use Caterpie again, but at the same time I don't wanna always rely on my pokemon for shortcuts."
He withdraw his pokeball back, and stepped into the forest. At the same time, he noticed a pink pokemon fly past him for a split second, before it disappeared. This left the poor trainer confused about something.
"What was that?" He asked himself before he heard a couple people somewhere within the Viridian Forest, "I wonder."
Rahul slowly walked through the forest, until he noticed a few people who wore black sweats, gray cloves, gray boots, and black shirt with a red R in the center. He overheard a communication they had with somebody through a laptop. At the same time, Rahul noticed the pink pokemon he saw earlier which was trapped in a sphere that prevented it from leaving. The conversation that Rahul heard was about the pink pokemon. Their mission was to capture it in order to create a copy of clones, and destroy the original.
A shocked Rahul repeated, "Destroy?"
One of them turned around as the kid ducked, "Did you hear something?"
The other nodded, "Yeah it must've come from the bushes."
"Now's my cue to hide." The dark haired blaze answered quietly and slowly climbed up.
That was until something grabbed him, "Where do you think you're going?"
He turned around as somebody kicks him out of the bushes. That's when the four other people turned around with aggravated expressions on their face. Rahul looked over at the person that kicked him out, and he also wore the same uniform as them.
"What's this?" one of them asked.
He mentioned, " I caught him spying on us while hiding in the bushes."
"How dare you?" The other one answered in an aggravated tone.
"No, I'm not gonna let you destroy any pokemon on my watch." The dark blaze said.
One of the other members laughed, "You're just a kid."
Rahul slowly got up, "So it's not like that's gonna stop me." He then drew both of his Pokeballs out, "Now I choose you, Charmander and Caterpie."
Both of his pokemon came out from the pokeballs.
"Charmander."
"Mph Mph."
The members stated with confidence, "Okay so you wanna play that game, then go Zubat."
They threw their pokeballs in the air as four blue bat like pokemon, with pointed ears with purple insides and a mouth with four fangs, appeared before them.
"A Zubat." Rahul said as he took out his Pokedex.
The Pokedex stated, "Zubat the bat Pokemon, it prefers dark places like caves, and uses it's ultrasonic waves to attack."
As he withdrew his Pokedex, "Alright Charmander use Ember, and Caterpie use String Shot."
"Mph Mph." Caterpie yelled as it released a chunk of web at Zubat.
"Char..." The orange reptilian lizard released a large scorch of intense flames instead of spicules like it did earlier.
Rahul looks surprised, "Charmander did you just learn, Flamethrower?"
Charmander nodded, "Charmander."
The members shouted, "Zubat use supersonic."
"Kekeke." The Zubat yelled as it releases loud sound waves from it's mouth.
This caused both Charmander and Caterpie's attack to backfire as they covered their ears. However, the ten year old kid also covered his ears due to the supersonic from Zubat. Right then and there, the four people had an advantage to tie Rahul and his pokemon. That is until the flame on Charmander's tail grows as he releases a massive amount of flame at both the people and Zubat, which disrupts their supersonic.
"Awesome that was great Charmander." The dark haired blaze said, "Alright now use ember and then follow it up with flamethrower."
Charmander nodded, "Charmander."
The orange reptilian lizard attacked the Zubat with ember and flame thrower. When the two moves made contact with the Zubat, they fell to the ground unconscious, which left an unsatisfied taste in the group's mouth.
"Why you little twit." The aggressive person said.
A grin appeared on Rahul's face, "Now Caterpie use string shot."
The green caterpillar used its string of web to tie up the four people with R's on their shirts. Due to this, each one of them collapsed on the ground, and to make sure they didn't talk, Rahul told Caterpie to web up their mouths tool.
"Well atleast we were able to stop them." The dark haired Blaze said.
Charmander nodded, "Char."
"Mph Mph." Caterpie also nodded as it started glow.
Charmander was surprised, "Charmander?"
"Is that what I think it is?" Rahul answered with a surprised look.
The glowing green caterpie changed into a green chrysalis, "Metapod."
a surprised Rahul opened his pokedex, "Metapod the bug pokemon, Metapod is the evolved form of Caterpie, and it's vulnerable to attack while its shell is soft, exposing its weak and tender body."
"Wow my caterpie just involved into a Metapod." An energetic Rahul cheered.
A happy Charmander cheered too, "Char."
"Alright Metapod return." Rahul said as he drew out the pokeballs.
"Metapod." The chrysalis Pokemon said as it returned to it's pokeball.
Rahul and Charmander looked back at the pink pokemon trapped inside the container. Then the two of them gave each other a nod as they unlocked the container that kept it trapped. Both looked closely at the pink pokemon, Its snout was short and wide and it had triangular ears and large, blue eyes. It had three-fingered paws, large feet with oval markings on the soles, and a long, thin tail ending in an ovoid tip. This pokemon was also levitating on air.
"I wonder what this pokemon is." A curious Rahul took out his pokedex again.
The pokedex opened, "Mew the psychic pokemon, It is so rare that many experts have claimed it as a mirage. However only a few people have ever seen it. Mew is also considered one of the legendary pokemons."
"A legendary pokemon?" a surprised The dark haired Blaze said.
"Char?" A surprised Charmander said.
One of the people stormed inside, "Hey you, stop right there."
"Mew." The pink pokemon touched Rahul and Charmander.
At the same time, Mew, Charmander, and Rahul appeared outside the forest. This came as a big surprise to Rahul and Charmander. The pink pokemon smiled, poked them in the forehead, and laughed playfully.
"Hey what was that for?" Rahul complained.
"Charmander." The orange reptilian lizard agreed.
Mew hovered around them as it's tail points to the sign behind Rahul and Charmander. It comes to his surprise when he looks at the name, Pewter City.
"No way we're in Pewter City already!" A surprised Rahul said.
Mew nodded, "Mew."
Rahul took out the special pokeball, "Alright Charmander get some rest."
"Char." Charmander answered happily as it returned to the pokeball.
The pink pokemon cutely said, "Mew."
Rahul looked up in the air as he place his pokeball back. He watched Mew fly there into the sky as it waved a goodbye with a smile on it's face.
A smile appeared on Rahul's face, "Thanks again for getting me to Pewter City, Mew."
One thing that some of you might agree on is that there is a very minuscule hint of dark storytelling when it came to the introduction of Team Rocket in this chapter, and looking back on the show I recall that Ash first saw Ho-Hoh when it came the beginning of the series, and I believe before he left for Hoenn. However, rather than just have Mew flying around I wanted to give him a purpose in the chapter as well as letting Caterpie evolve for obvious reasons. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter, and as always thanks for reading.