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"Kyle sweetie please come out!" Martha repeatedly knocked on Kyle's door.
Kyle opens the door much to his mother's surprise.
"I'm going to school." Kyle says as he walks past his mother.
"Do you want breakfast since you didn't eat dinner last night?" Martha asks.
"I'm not hungry." Kyle stops to answer.
"Kyle… I'm worried about you." Martha clenches the bottom of her apron.
"There's no need for you to be worried. I'm perfectly fine." Kyle turns around and walks out the door.
Martha sheds a single tear as the door gently shuts.
Brandon out of sight with his arms crossed looks at the scene out the corner of his eye.
Kyle goes to his school as usual. Only a handful of people in his grade attend class so the day was relatively quite much to his enjoyment. Little did he know when was released for the day his father was waiting to pick him. He walks right past him without even noticing. Brandon decides to follow. Kyle heads for route 34.
"Alright let's just get this over with." Kyle walks slowly in the tall grass.
Instantly a small avian pokemon with cream feathers flies out.
"Go Machop!" Kyle takes a small step back.
Machop gets into a battle stance with an eager look.
"Okay. Start off with… with…" Kyle starts clenching his stomach as Machop just looks back with a confused look.
The bird pokemon starts fluttering its wings causing sand to fly around.
"Leer!" Kyle spits out the command with his knees shaking.
Machop begins to glare but sand gets in his eyes before they could glow red. He stumbles back trying to wipe the dirt from his eyes.
"What is he doing?" Brandon wonders from a distance.
"Machop stop joking around and use low kick!" Kyle clenches his stomach harder and begins to breath heavy .
Machop barks at Kyle before doing a jumping sidekick to try and reach the airborne opponent.
The bird easily dodges the attack by flying higher in the sky.
When Machop landed on the ground the bird fiercely began flapping its wings causing a small tornado that engulfed Machop.
Machop held his ground while blocking the attack with all his might but that didn't stop little scratches from appearing all over his body.
"Machop use…"
The bird pokemon gave Kyle no chance to give his hesitant order. It dove straight towards Machop causing Kyle's eyes to bulge.
Kyle drops Machop's pokeball turns around and runs as fast as he could. He leaves Machop behind and runs right past his father without even noticing.
Machop after taking the attack turns around in shock.
"I believe this battle is over." Brandon sighs and walks towards the injured Machop returning him to his pokeball.
The bird pokemon cawed before flying away.
Kyle had run all the way home dropping his backpack at the door then going straight to his room. Once inside he fell to the ground in a cold sweat using the door as support.
Brandon walks in the house soon after shutting the front door Kyle had left open.
"What's going on with Kyle he just ran in and slammed his door and now he won't even answer me." Martha almost started crying but Brandon gave her a hug.
"Don't worry i'll handle it." Brandon whispers.
After embracing his wife for a few minutes Brandon walks up to Kyle's door.
"You forgot Machop," Brandon puts Machop's pokeball in Kyle's backpack. "Not talking huh? You still mad about losing that battle yesterday?"
"That's not why i'm mad!" Kyle shouts.
"Looks like i hit a nerve," Brandon says.
"You don't understand what i'm going through so don't pretend like you do!" Kyle shouts.
"You're right I don't understand why you're acting the way you are or why you're still here. Do you even want to be a trainer or do you just want to play around Goldenrod and cry every time you lose a battle!" Brandon got louder with each word.
"I CAN'T BE IN THIS HOUSE WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!" Kyle runs out his room grabbing his backpack on the way out the house. He heads up to the north side of the city soon crossing the threshold to route 35.
Route 35 a long dirt road surrounded by a white picket fence. Beyond the left side of the fence is a forest and the right side has tall grass.
"Stupid dad! Yelling at me! Not apologizing or even trying to understand!" Kyle jumps the white picket fence and begins furiously kicking the tall grass. He accidently kicks a pokemon on his rampage.
"Oh shiii- Hot! Hot! Hot!" Kyle yelps running out the grass with his shoes on fire. He repeatedly stomps his feet on the ground slowly putting it out.
A canine pokemon with orange fur and black stripes along its back jumps out the grass with smoke coming out its mouth.
"Why you little! Machop use leer!" Kyle throws out his pokeball.
Machop dashes toward the canine cocking his right palm over his left shoulder.
"What are you doing I said use leer!" Kyle shouts.
The canine opens his mouth releasing multiple flame sparks.
Machop charges gritting his teeth as he withstood the attack that hit all over his body leaving black burn marks. He finally breaks through the attack hitting the pokemon with a point blank karate chop across the face. It flies away falling to its side but quickly gets back up and lunges towards Machop.
"Dodge and use focus energy!" Machop skips to the right and trips the canine with a low kick to its fronts legs. Its face slid in the grass leaving a dirt trail.
"Why aren't you listening to me!" Kyle shouts.
Machop just glares back at Kyle before chopping the canine pokemon trying to get up knocking him abruptly back down.
"Fine I don't even care! You're dad's pokemon anyway!" Kyle returns Machop and pulls out a pokeball from his backpack. He tightly grips it before finally throwing the ball at the canine's head sucking him inside with a bright blue light.
The ball shook a few times before beginning to crack. With a red light coming from each crack it finally shatters releasing the pokemon in a flash of light
Kyle covers his face before getting hit with shards of the broken ball. He quickly gets another pokeball from his bag and throws it not giving the pokemon time to run.
It easily gets sucked back in and the ball hits the ground. The ball begins to shake with a red light flashing each time eventually making a loud clicking sound.
"You're my new partner now." Kyle walks over to pick up the pokeball.
Kyle pulls out his license seeing the information on the pokemon.
"Growlithe come out," Kyle says.
Growlithe comes out growling and his teeth bared.
"Don't growl at me!" Kyle glares.
Growlithe opens his mouth an orange light could be seen coming up.
"Why won't anyone listen to me." Kyle sighs as he begins to walk back home.
When he arrives home his father was waiting at the door with his arms crossed.
"Welcome home," Brandon says.
Kyle just walks past him.
"We're going fishing tomorrow. I feel we have some things to talk about," Brandon says.
"Who says I want to." Kyle mutters.
"Well it doesn't matter if you want to or not i'm your father and i'm telling you!" Brandon shouts.
Kyle just smacks his lips.
"We're getting up pretty early so be ready." Brandon walks by Kyle who is gritting his teeth and clenching his fist.