Hey people of the world! Please review my story! Nobody reviewed it last time, so I don't have anyone to thank! Oh well…
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon!
"Wake up!" Sara shouted as she rolled Derek and his sleeping bag over.
"What's going on?" Derek yelled as he jumped up, tangling himself up with his sleeping bag, and falling back down again.
"I thought you said you wanted to wake up early?"
"Yeah, but not at the crack of dawn!" Derek said as he managed to untangle himself and stand.
"Sunrise was an hour ago. To me, this is late. Now come on! Are we going to find cyndaquil, or are you going to sleep all day?"
"Fine," Derek said as he packed up his sleeping bag. "Let's go!"
The two trainers spent the rest of the morning searching high and low for Derek's cyndaquil, but to no avail.
"Let's take a quick break for lunch, shall we?" Sara suggested.
"I really want to find cyndaquil so I can apologize."
"Look, I'm really happy that you're finally starting to like pokemon, but we can cover much more ground if we take a break and have something to eat."
"Fine," Derek said, giving up.
After one of the quickest lunch breaks ever recorded, the two trainers were off again, searching for cyndaquil. When they headed deeper into the forest, they started to fell uneasy. For one thing, all the pokemon they encountered were all running in the opposite direction that they were headed.
"I've got a bad felling about this." Sara mumbled to herself as they continued on. "Why are all these pokemon running away?"
Sara's question was answered when a small earthquake shook the ground.
"Let's go!" Sara said as she started to run in the direction the tremor had just come from.
"Where are you going?" Derek yelled, trying to keep up.
"Look, I've experienced enough earthquakes in my life to know the difference between a natural earthquake, a man-made earthquake, and a pokemon-made earthquake."
"There's a difference?"
"Yep, and that was definitely a man-made quake."
The two trainers ran, and before they knew it, they were standing on the edge of a clearing. A large drill was stuck in the ground next to a small, white building. But the thing that Derek and Sara were looking at was the large shelves of large, clear spheres. Inside each sphere was a pokemon, but they were not shrunk as they would have been in a pokeball, but instead they were their normal size.
"There's cyndaquil!" Derek said pointing at one of the spheres.
"Wait," Sara said stopping him. "I think this is what all those pokemon were running from. This is definitely not good."
"But cyndaquil…"
"Right now, pokemon liking Derek is getting on my nerves. Almost to the point of me wishing for the old Derek back."
"Sorry,"
"Not now, someone's coming." Sara grabbed Derek and dragged him back into the cover of the forest. Two men appeared in the clearing, both wearing white pants, and a black shirt with a red "R" on it.
"Hey, it's those guys again!" Derek said a little too loudly.
"Shhhhh!" Sara said pulling him back down. "Do you want them to hear you?"
"Sorry, but what are we going to do?"
"First, stop saying sorry. Second, keep your voice down. And third, I'm going to distract them. You go and rescue cyndaquil."
"What about the other pokemon?"
"Leave that to me. We'll free them after we get cyndaquil back. Now go!"
Sara shoved Derek, and he ran off to the other side of the clearing, catching the attention of Team Rocket.
"Hey, kid!" One of the grunts shouted.
"Get back here!" The second one said.
"Oh no you don't." Sara mumbled to herself as she stepped out into the clearing "Eevee, use sand-attack!"
The brown fox pokemon appeared spraying sand all over the two grunts.
"There are two of them!" The first grunt shouted.
"You take this one, I'll get the boy." The second grunt said as he stepped out of the sand cloud.
"Eevee, use tackle! Don't let him go after Derek!"
Eevee ran up and slammed into the second grunt's chest, making him fall over.
"Fine, you want to do it that way? Gastly, use lick!" The second grunt shouted as a black ball pokemon appeared.
"Grimer, you use pound!" The first grunt said as he stepped out of the sand cloud. A purple glob with eyes appeared as it ran towards eevee.
Meanwhile, Derek had made it to the spheres without incident, and was now trying to break the lock on cyndaquil's cage with a rock.
"Cyndaquil, could you help me out with a tackle?"
Cyndaquil turned away from it's trainer in defiance.
"Look, I'm really sorry cyndaquil. I made a bunch of mistakes, but Sara's helping me too get over my past. Please believe me!"
Cyndaquil turned all the way around and sat with his back facing his trainer.
"Fine, if you won't do this for me, then do it for Sara and the other pokemon trapped here. You're the only one who can help them please cyndaquil!"
Cyndaquil sighed, turned, and rammed the door with his head, causing it to break open.
"Alright, let's go help Sara."
"Eevee, no!" Sara yelled as grimer once again struck eevee with his pound attack
"Let's finish this, use lick gastly!" The second grunt said.
"Grimer, use pound." The first grunt added.
The two pokemon charged at the defenseless eevee, who was still trying to stand up.
"Cyndaquil, use tackle!"
Cyndaquil launched itself right at gastly, but he passed right through the ghost pokemon and bounced harmlessly off of grimer.
"Hey, it's that kid again." The first grunt said.
"Both of you, go after that cyndaquil!" The second grunt shouted.
Grimer and gastly both turned and launched their attacks at cyndaquil. Cyndaquil went flying backwards where he came to a rest next to eevee.
"Derek…" Sara whispered
"Yeah, I know. These guys are tough."
"We've got to use ember. It's our most powerful attack."
"But you know cyndaquil has a hard time using it."
"Just leave that to me." Sara said with a smile.
"Fine, cyndaquil, use ember!"
"Eevee, use helping hand!"
Eevee's tail started to glow, and it released multiple yellow orbs that flew to cyndaquil. Cyndaquil absorbed the orbs, and his back instantly ignited. He opened his mouth, and a barrage of fireballs was launched at gastly and grimer. The two pokemon were instantly knocked out by the force of the attack, and sent the grunts scrambling away.
"We won't forget this!" One of the grunts yelled as they disappeared into the forest.
"Come on Derek." Sara said as she watched the two grunts disappear. "Let's go free those pokemon."
Me: Well, what do you think?
Derek: I think that it was about time that I rescued cyndaquil.
Me: I wasn't talking to you, and what are you doing here again?
Derek: I like it here.
Me: Well, too bad. You need to help Sara free those pokemon remember?
Derek: Okay, I'll go away.
Me: Good!
Derek: Please review!!!