A Wild Update Appeared! I had a lack of inspiration, so this is shorter than I had hoped. I'm going to have other Pokémon speaking as well as humans in this one, so just pay attention to who is talking. Let's get on with this. Vote in the poll on my profile. I need help with something.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Pokémon.

Chapter 6: The Journey

Day 1: Road to Viridian

The next morning we got up, not at all eager to be going on this journey. We walked in silence for a while, and it seemed like it was going to be a relatively uneventful day, until – A trainer came crashing through the bushes, and stopped short when he saw us.

"Wow, wild eevees, these are really rare!" The trainer exclaimed, to no one in particular. "This should be an exciting first battle!" After he said this, he drew a pokéball out of his bag, and released the Pokémon inside, shouting "Go charmander!"

At this point I said to Leah: "Well this could be a problem." She just shook her head, laughing.

The charmander, now released from its ball, was sleeping. The trainer groaned, sounding frustrated. Just as we were about to walk away, a snarky voice called out from behind the trainer; "What are you doing, dork?" The trainers face went pale.

"Leave me alone, Sam." He replied through gritted teeth. "Also, my name is James." After this the two trainers started shouting at each other. The charmander had not woken up.

"Oooh, did the little geek find some eevees? Hah. Like you could catch one of these if you tried. "Go squirtle." He said, lazily. Unlike the charmander, the squirtle was alert and ready to battle.

"I'll handle this." Leah said, sounding kind of bored. I, on the other hand, was interested. I had never been interested in Pokémon battles, but I had a tactical mind, and I was wondering how this would play out.

The squirtle, having taken in its surroundings, said "My master is going to have me battle you. You should just give up." I could tell already that the squirtle was overly confident. The trainer named Sam, having pushed the one named James to the ground, straightened up and called out: "Squirtle, use tackle!"

The squirtle started to rush at Leah, who quickly dodged and slammed into him with a quick attack, causing it to stumble. The trainer named Sam shouted at the squirtle in frustration, distracting it just in time for it to be hit again with another quick attack. "Gah! Why are you so useless!" The trainer named Sam shouted, along with a slew of verbal abuse.

Seeing that they were both distracted, we took the chance and ran away. By time he must have noticed, it was too late. "Well that was interesting. I just hope that first trainer is ok. I really can't stand bullies." I said, after we had out some distance between us and the two trainers.

"He should be fine. He looked like he had enough common sense to get out of there." Leah replied." We walked along in silence after this, contemplating the day's events.

We walked without event until we reached viridian forest, and decided to stop for the night once we reached the outskirts. We ended up sleeping in a large oak tree, and were able to get a good night's sleep.

AUTHORS NOTE: For the sake of not using every idea I can think of before they even make it out of Viridian forest, I'm not going to include every detail of every day.

Day 2

The next morning, I woke up, relatively comfortable for having slept on a tree branch. I really hoped that I would never have to repeat that experience. Once again, I wondered how the trainer from before was doing. I was not sure why I was thinking about it so much, there is no reason why it would be important.

After eating a few berries, we set off. It was still early in the morning, so all was quiet. The wild Pokémon would not wake up for another hour or so. Unlike before, we talked a bit while walking, which I appreciated because it kept my mind off of worrying about what awaited us at Mt. Moon.

After about an hour of walking, we heard something coming from some nearby trees, and instinctively ducked into a bush. As we hid there, we saw two people, one male, one female, wearing black uniforms with a distinctive red R on their chests. "Team Rocket, what are they doing here?" I muttered. "Who?" Leah asked. "Bad people, not anything we can deal with." I replied, and we waited for them to pass.

After a while we heard the sound of battle coming from ahead. We walked forward, and were met with the sight of the two team Rocket members from before, standing in the road, and facing off towards a kid holding a pokéball.

It took me a moment, but then I recognized him; he was the kid from before, James, I think it was. I shook my head and whispered to Leah, "He's going to get himself killed." Before she could respond, the trainer spoke.

"What do you want?" He asked of the two team rocket members.

"We are here to take all of your Pokémon!" The woman said, in such a cheery tone that it made me want to tackle a tree over and over again until I could get the stupidity of it out of my head.

"What makes you think you can do that?" The trainer snorted. The male team rocket member then said, "We're Team Rocket! We can do whatever we want!" The trainer just looked kind of bemused. "Do you guys even have Pokémon?" The two Team Rocket members looked over at each other. "Um…. No." They replied in unison.

The trainer burst out laughing. He seemed so much more confident than when we had last seen him. What had changed so much in one night? As I was thinking this, the trainer started to walk away. After he had rounded a bend in the path and the Team Rocket duo had went back the way they had entered, we hurried across the path and continued walking.

Eventually, Leah asked; "I thought you said that Team Rocket were too much for us to handle? They looked like they could not take on a fly if Arceus was backing them up. "

I shook my head at this. "It seems that these were trainees or something. Team Rocket has their hands in everything. If those had been actually experienced members, that trainer would have been lucky to get away with his life."

We kept walking for a while after this, eventually stopping for the night in a small burrow on the western edge of the forest.

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