"Seriously?" Butch shouted back into the forest.
"Yeah!" The voice shouted. "Come and see."
Butch smirked. "Well you got lucky kid. Scram now if you know what's good for you." Butch ran into the forest.
"Oh no you don't!" Jasper shouted as he ran after the thug. He wouldn't let these thugs get away after all the Pokémon they had injured. When Jasper caught up he found a group of five men.
"See what I tell you?" One of them said. "The same tree, same view of rock formation, this is it man."
Another one smirked. "Alright, it should be just behind these bushes." They walked behind the bushes and stopped. "What the heck is this?"
"It looks like a colony of Combee."
Jasper ran and hid in the bushes behind the thugs. He peered out and saw a lot of Combee flying in and out of a cave.
"Well I can see that, but what are they doing here?"
"My guess is that someone brought a Vespiquen over, she somehow got loose, and now she has started a colony in the cave."
"Whatever," A thug said as he walked towards the cave. "Let's just get the money and go. I'm getting tired of beating up these weak trainers." But just before he reached the mouth of the cave, all of the Combee connected together and formed a wall that blocked the thug's progress. "What the heck? Move you stupid bugs!"
"Combees tend to be very territorial when it comes to their queen. You're not getting into that cave without a fight."
"Leave it to me!" Butch said while throwing out a Pokéball and releasing his Magmar. "Magmar, use flamethrower and take these bugs out." Magmar inhaled, and exhaled a stream of fire at the wall of Combee.
Although they clearly seemed taking great pain from the fire, the Combee did not break their wall. More Combee flew out of the cave and came to their aid. They surrounded Magmar and used their wings to track up hard chunks of mud and pelt it with them.
Magmar staggered back. The mud had not only hurt it, but also got into its eyes as well. Some of the Combee flew up and bit Magmar. This caused it to cry out and shoot a flamethrower in clear direction.
"A little help hear guys?" Butch called out.
"I thought you said you got this." One of the thugs said while laughing.
"Ha-ha very funny. Now shut up and help me!"
"Fine don't get your panties in a bunch." Another one of the thugs sent out his Houndoom. "Use overheat!" Houndoom smirked and let loose an explosion of fire from its body. The fire hit and knocked back all of the Combee attacking Magmar, but left Magmar itself unaffected since it was a fire-type.
"We got to help those Combee!" Jasper gasped as he threw out Absol's Pokéball. "Use night slash on Magmar and Houndoom!" He shouted when Absol appeared. Absol took one look at the situation and obeyed. The blade on the side of its head glowed black as it slashed both Magmar and Houndoom. Magmar fell backwards from the damage; however Houndoom withstood the attack being a dark-type.
"I thought I told you to scram kid!" Butch growled when he saw Jasper.
"Leave those Combee alone!" Jasper shouted.
"No way kid. We have a lot of money stashed in that cave."
Absol pounced on Houndoom and the two of them engaged in a dog-like fight. More Combee charged at Magmar.
"Use fire punch!" Butch ordered. Magmar's fists blazed with fire and it delivered a powerful punch to the charging Combee, causing them to fly back and scatter in all different directions.
One of the Combee landed far away from the rest of its group. Butch smirked. "Magmar use fire blast and make an example of that one." Magmar faced the stray Combee with a smug look on its face. It inhaled and flames started to build up in its mouth.
"NO!" Jasper shouted as he ran in-between the downed Combee and Magmar. "STOP!"
Butch laughed. "If you don't move kid Magmar will burn you too!"
Jasper stood his ground. Absol saw Jasper in peril and tried to rush to his aid; however Houndoom bit its neck and prevented Absol from helping Jasper.
Just as Magmar was about to use its attack, the wall of Combee disbanded. Butch smirked. "Finally come to your senses I see." But in an instant a ball of yellow light shot out from the cave and hit Magmar so hard that it fainted. "WHAT THE?" Butch shouted as he returned Magmar to its Pokéball.
A loud buzzing noise came out of the cave. Everyone turned their attention towards it. The buzzing stopped for a second, and instantly a Vespiquen flew out.
"It's the queen!" One of the thugs shouted. The remaining three thugs threw out their Pokéballs and a Swellow, Piloswine, and Raichu appeared on the battlefield.
"Swellow use wing attack!"
"Raichu use volt tackle!"
"Houndoom use flame wheel!"
"Piloswine use ice beam!"
All of the thugs Pokémon (save for Piloswine, who's attack was fired at a range) charged at Vespiquen with their attacks at the ready.
Vespiquen flapped her wings rapidly and created a repulsive wind. It knocked out all of the foe Pokémon save for Houndoom, which Absol quickly finished off with a slash attack.
All of the thugs called back their Pokémon, panicked, and ran away as fast as they could. Right when they exited the Viridian forest, a group of police officers met them and arrested them.
"Well I don't think those thugs will ever bother you again." Jasper said to the Vespiquen. "But I'm sorry about what they did to your Combees."
Vespiquen turned to her injured Combee and sent mini Combee from her abdomen to heal them.
Jasper laughed. "Oh heal order. Nice." He returned Absol to its Pokéball and started to walk away from the cave. "Well we really got to get going. Take care now." But then a Combee flew in front of him. "Huh? What's up?" The Combee flew affectionately around him. "Oh, are you that Combee I saved from the fire blast?" It nodded. "Oh I see. Well you're welcome little guy. I couldn't just let you get scorched could I?" He tried to leave, but the Combee kept following him. "What are you doing? Do you want to come with me?" Combee buzzed excitedly. "Well sure, if that's what you want. But I think I need the ok from your queen first." He turned to Vespiquen, who nodded her head in approval. "Ok then."
Jasper pulled a Pokéball out of his backpack and threw it at Combee. Within a few seconds the ball was securely locked and Combee now belonged to him. Jasper put the Pokéball in his pocket and went on his way, waving goodbye to the colony.