I don't own Pokemon
Also in this chapter I have decided to let Taz speak normally from now on. I'm weary of finding ways to partially garble his speech. I'll garble her new Pokemon's speech for a little bit though.
I am going to use a line from a Starkid musical in this chapter, no plagerism is intented. It's just Fanfiction fun. LOL
Natalie and Taz were walking to Celadon in the late afternoon after their defeat at the Saffron Gym. Natalie had decided that they should catch another friend and Kick it up a notch before challenging another Gym and Taz agreed. Taz was growing irritated at losing at the last minute to anything but field traniers and he wanted to practice his new Firepunch anyway. The two of them wandered into the grasses between Saffron and Celadon and it wasn't long before they saw Pokemon frolicking about. They saw the standard Raticate and Meowth but one Pokemon in particular looked new to Natalie.
"Taz look!" Natalie said while pointing at a Pokemon that had ridges on it's back that were the shape and color of a bone. It's fur was red and black and when it spotted Natalie and Taz it gave a menacing snarl. Natalie was not deterred however, she wanted to find out what this Pokemon was. "Ok Taz lets get ready, we don't know what type it is so lets just use your strength to bring it down." Natalie said. Taz nodded and rushed up to the snarling Pokemon and charged up a Firepunch. Taz slugged the dog as hard as he could but the fire from his punch was absorbed by the Pokemon and Taz's fierce Firepunch turned into no more than a regular punch. "Hound, Houndour." The dog chuckled at Taz's bewildered look and gave a fierce Bite on Taz's arm. Taz yowled in pain and Natalie was shocked that Firepunch was ineffective, It must be a fire type too, well so much for catching it. Natalie thought, it has nasty temperment anyway. Taz's irritated and pained cry yanked her out of her thoughts, she snapped into action. "Taz use Dragon Rage!"
Taz did so and the Houndour was hit right on the side of the face and flung down. It jumped up and snarled and launched itself at Taz for another Bite attack, but Taz was having none of it, he lifted his arm and tried to channel power into it again. "No Taz don't do Firepunch again!" Natalie yelled frantically.
Taz's arm began to glow for a split second and he yelled " I have her Mistress!" he flung his glowing arm at the Houndour as he spoke but before he could connect the glow faded and Taz only slapped the Houndour with his forearm. The hound was irritated now and gave huge roar that sent Taz scampering away and Natalie was forced to follow him.
They finally came to a stop a little ways off as Natalie said "I've never seen that before, what happened to your Firepunch Taz?"
Taz shook his head "I don't know mistress, I felt as though the fire was sucked out of my blow, maybe it is an attribute of that kind of Pokemon?" Taz said with an unsure tone.
Natalie pondered this and vowed to remember this encounter with that Pokemon, others were sure to train it. "Well whatever it's pretty dark now so why don't we find a clearing to camp in?"
Taz nodded but before they could go far they saw a little blue-bodied Pokemon with leaves coming out of it's head walking leisurely across the field scattering seeds. Natalie got very excited. "Taz look! Leaves, I think it's a grass Pokemon which is what we need! Lets battle it!" Taz had a feral grin on his face as he charged forward and burned the Pokemon with an Ember before it had a chance to react. The Ember was super effective and the Pokemon pushed itself up and started yelling at Taz, it stopped however when it saw Natalie running up. The Pokemon gave a frustrated battle cry and a strange yellow powder burst from the top of it's head strait towards Taz! Natalie knew she couldn't let it hit, "Taz use a big Ember to burn away the powder!" Taz shot another Ember into the air that burned three quarters of the powder but some of it still landed on Taz, paralyzing him, but only a little. "Taz can you move?" Natalie called, Taz was wobbling around as the blue-bodied Pokemon laughed at Taz's wobbling.
Taz was pushing his fire energy into his arm, "I... I... I'm gonna kick it up a notch! I don't care about being paralyzed!" Taz crowed and slammed a firey clawed fist into the guffawing weed.
"Oddiiiiiish!" It cried as it fell forward.
Natalie saw the chance and dug a Pokeball out of her pocket, enlarged it and lobbed it at the Oddish. The ball hit it and turned the weed into red energy and began to wobbled on the ground... ... ... It was caught!
"Yes! We did it Taz! We caught a new friend!" Natalie cried triumphantly.
"Yes now we will settle the score with all those who beat us when it was just us." Taz growled as he stared down at the ground, he seemed almost forlorn.
Natalie nodded, she had honestly forgotten about those losses in the spur of this moment. She thought that it was interesting that he should mention that and when she turned to see Taz looking so serious. 'Taz I didn't know those losses were bothering you so much.." Natalie trailed off.
Taz nodded. "i just feel so powerful at the end of those battles and I don't see why I can't win for you."
"Taz... we have to win together, and we will. I know that there is a grass Gym in Kanto, I think its' close by too so we'll go there next." Natalie said getting steadyily more confident as she finished. Taz nodded, pleased and they settled down in the clearing for dinner. Natalie decided that this would be a good time to introdouce herself to the next grass Pokemon and it could even help set up.
"Pokemon I need you!" Natalie called as she released it. It came out of the ball in a bright white light and when it was free it gave a tired "Oddish, Odd."
"Oddish? Is that you species name?" Natalie inquired to the creature. When it gave a nod Natalie smiled and said, "well hello Oddish, I'm your new trainer and that is my friend Taz the Charmeleon, would you like a nickname too?" Oddish didn't answer right away but instead glanced curiously at Taz and walked slowly up to him, when he finally glanced the Oddish's way, he said to him, "Youdish rough, Odde nice." Taz gave a dry chuckle, started the fire and didn't anwser the Oddish. The Oddish harrumphed and tottered back to Natalie who had been watching both amusedly and with a little trepidation. Her training was going to be hard enough without personal rivalries, at least her Pokemon were getting along alright.
"Well," Natalie began. "About the nickname... how about Oddy the Oddish?"
The Oddish looked like it didn't want to make Natalie mad, but it still looked replused at being called that so Natalie threw that out. Taz had wandered over by this time and was looking curiously on and Natalie glanced at him and at the Oddish nervously, "Well what about uuh, Silly?" Natalie finished lamely. The Oddish and Taz giggled and seemed satisfied so that was that. "OK welcome Silly the Oddish, Taz and I believe in teamwork and working hard but... there are many types out there and we couldn't do it alone so... that's why we wanted a new friend." Natalie said, she didn't feel like she was good at giving speeches to her own Pokemon even, Silly giggled and Taz shot him a look. Well at least trainers don't have to do speeches. Natalie mused. Her Pokemon sat down and Taz's stomach rumbled so she set about making everyone's dinner. Eventually both her Pokemon helped and brought some Cheri and Oran berries to supplement their supper. Thus the first night with her new Pokemon passed.
The next morning was dewy and crisp. It was hard to crawl out of her bundle of blankets with both her Pokemon at heaters but she managed it well before the dew evaporated. She put out the fire and packed up and decided to keep both Pokemon out for company. As they walked it occured to her, "Hey Silly, what moves do you know?"
"Odd? Oddion Powder, Oddeet scedish, Absorb, Oddin Ishpore." Silly listed off quietly, but Natalie was concerned because there was no attack for all his weaknesses. They would have to fix that, but how? The question was stuck in her mind until they reached Celadon's limits. Once again she a her Pokemon were assualted with the smells and sights of the scrunched his muzzzle and Natalie patted him on the head, then Natalie glnced up at the billboards and one caption said "Come to the Game Corner it's safe, friendly fun!" The advertisment also stared that the glamourous prizes included rare Pokemon and... TM's! Natalie got really excited. That is how we'll beat Silly's weaknesses, we'll do the same kind of training like for Taz to resist water and ground, except with fire and flying and we'll teach him some neat moves to combat the types too! "Come on guys we need to go gt TM's!" Natalie gushed. As she rushed toward the direction the billboard had indicated with Taz and Silly following her, a man was standing not far off with a blue Pokemon that seemed to have a hyponosis wheel all over it's somach and it was practicing shooting glowing pale blue beams from it's... mouth? At targets in a plaza, the beams were very erractic though and one came flying strait at them! Silly stood rooted to the spot (no pun intented) as Taz yelled "Mistress look out!" and pushed Natalie out of the way. As Natalie fell her body pushed Silly away but the beam still connected with his tiny foot and leg and froze it to the ground. Silly cried in pain as even an indirect Ice Beam was painful for a grass type.
Natalie pushed herself up and patted a thanks to Taz and ran towards Silly. "Oh no Silly are you Okay? Taz can you do a small ember to melt the ice?" Taz nodded and did so as the man with the blue Pokemon came running up. "Oh my goodness I'm so sorry! Are you and your Pokemon hurt?" He asked frantically. Taz gave the man a snarl which the blue Pokemon replied with a nasty "Poli! Poliwhirl!" Natalie knew she had to stop him. "Taz be nice he didn't mean to do it, and you saved me and thawed Silly's leg so don't be so antagonistic!"
The man blinked at Natalie and Poliwhirl folded his arms and turned away. But the man recovered and said. "Oh it's alright I'm sure he's just mad that you were almost hurt, but maybe you should just keep your Charmeleon out, it isn't very safe to have more than one Pokemon out in the city limits anyway, you risk them getting lost." He said sagely.
Natalie nodded, that did make sense and she was going to mostly use Taz when they eventually travelled through the city to the Gym anyway. "Ok Silly return." she said as she zapped Silly into his Pokeball. "This way you can rest your leg." She explained calmly to the Pokeball. Natalie looked up at the man and Taz scooted closer to her, she patted his head and gave him an assuring smile and continued, "Well maybe that is better, maybe they wouldn't want to many Pokemon out in the Game Corner anyway."
The man cocked his head. "What did you say? You're going to the Game Corner?"
"Yeah they have TM's which is what I need for Silly." Natalie told him.
The man looked like he was having trouble understanding her but he pressed, "Well just so you know you have to have some coins to play but they cost loot, I'm not sure if you can or should play too much." he said with an air of caution.
Natalie froze, she had completely overlooked the fact of paying for the TM, she wasn't exactly rich to begin with, but how was she going to give Silly an edge?" Seeing her face the man felt badly for her, "Look little girl, there are a couple of cheap TMs there, maybe if you wanted you could try for those and make the best of it. But you should know that there are many TMs at the store too." Natalie did a double-take at the sound of a huge store. She would have to look there too. Thanking the man for the info she sped off with Taz at her heels to try the store first.
The Department store wasn't hard to find, it was easily the largest building in the city, in fact, she thought that it would be on par with the big skyscaper that she saw in the middle of Saffron. Grabbing Taz's arm she pulled the gazing frie lizard into the building without further ado. When they first came in she saw that some other people had Pokemon out as well. "Look Taz Pokemon can be out in the store, that makes me feel better knowing that you won't have to be returned." Taz nodded.
"Welcome to the Department store, can I help you?" said a pleasant voice on thier left. Next to the elevators was a service desk and the associate called out to Natalie. I must look lost, but it's no wonder-this building is huge! Natalie thought to herself as she walked up to her.
"Uh, yes its my first time in Celadon and I wanted a TM for my Oddish." Natalie said hopefully.
"Well you've come to the right place." The associate chirped. "We have a large selection of reasonable priced TMs for all Pokemon types! You can take the elevator to the fourth floor and see our selection."
"Oh thank you so much! I'll go do that now." Natalie said excitedly as Taz growled appreaciatively. When they were in the elevator Natalie said, "Taz this city is so much nicer than Saffron, the people are very helpful too!"
Taz nodded as they stepped off the elevator and growled, "Yes but it is still dirty, I say we do what we need to and then return to training, I want to perfect Brick Break."
Soon they were upon the counter where above them was a long list of TMs sold here, there were many expensive ones, Natalie noticed but a few in particular caught her eyes as being very cheap and useful! "Hello may I please buy a TM10? Hidden Power?" Natalie asked the sales person.
"Good choice! It is a mysterious move and can bring an edge to a trainer who knows how to use it. Would you like a move for any other Pokemon or is Charmeleon your only one?"
"No I have an Oddish which is what TM10 is for and we are still working on other moves for Taz here." Natalie said but Taz growled, "I want a new TM move. I can master it too!" Natalie glanced at Taz, unsure if he simply wanted to prove himself or was just being childish. The salesperson looked slightly confused but just stayed silent as Natalie tried to reason, "Taz you know I can't afford anything else, I don't have anything to barter either." She said as she looked into her bag for something but all she saw was that brace. Taz's face drooped so she asked, "Is this valuable?" pulling out the brace.
The salesperson's eyes widened for a bit. "That is not valuable monetary wise but if you were to give that to your Charmeleon and have it fight Pokemon with certain high stats, then your...Taz would recieve those stats as a bonus while leveling up, that is a valuable training item and you should give it to Taz."
Natalie was delighted to find out this simple objects' potential she went to put it on Taz but when he pulled away unsure she said reassuredly "Taz if we do this then you won't have to faint as much, we'll work on your Defense!" At this Taz made grabby claws for the item and Natalie and the salesperson laughed.
"Be warned though that during a battle this item cuts Speed, maybe you should try it with that Graveller collecter over there? Graveller are great for Defense." She said.
Natalie looked curiously at the woman. "How do you know all this? Not that I'm not happy and grateful to learn it mind you." Natalie finished.
"My brother is an Ace Trainer for the 8th Gym of Kanto. So he uses this stuff." She smiled.
"Okay, thank you I'm gonna go try this now!" Natalie left the woman and quickly used the TM10 on Silly, his eyes glowed for a moment as he learned the move and she went to challenge the Graveller guy. It wasn't hard to find the guy, he was bragging at the top of his lungs how great his Graveller were so she challenged him with Taz and Silly by her side.
"Is that all you have? My team will crush you!" The cocky punk followed Natalie down to in fron tof the store and they soon stood in the makeshift field.
"Go Graveller!" He sent out a gray lumpy Pokemon that didn't seem to care about the situation. Natalie decided to fight this lack of enthusiasm with her partner so it would end quickly. "Go Taz! Use Brick Break!" Taz immediaely charged up his arm with a white light and didn't give the lethargic rock creature a chance to react, BAM! A Super effective hit! The Graveller fainted and it's trainer stood there shocked. He shook his head and returned it "OK fine I'll send out my best!" Another rock came out and Taz jeered as Silly began laughing. "Graveller use Rock Throw!" Three glowing boulders appeared suddenly by the rock's body and were thrown strait at Taz!
"Taz use Dragon Rage to crumble the boulders!" Natalie was counting on it's power to dissolve the rocks. Taz charged up the potent Dragon attack and launched it forward- two of the boulders crumbled! "Yes!" said Natalie but then a thrid appeared from the left of the light and smashed right into Taz. "CHAAARR!" It was a roar of irritation more than pain and he pelted forward with his arm glowing befroe Natalie could even begin to order an attack, but she was used to this. "Taz give it all you've got!" "CHARUSH YOU!" A Critical Hit! The second Graveller fell.
"I won't lose Go Graveller!" the boy shouted.
"You're not just going to use two Pokemon? Wow what a surprise." Natalie said her voice dripping with disdain and sarcasm. "Taz get back, Silly it's your turn!" She pointed out to the battle. Silly had a blank look on his face and didn't look to happy to be fighting the angry rock golem. "It's no problem Silly, you have a heavy adavntage in type." Silly nodded reluctantly and tottered onto the 'field'
"Graveller, we'll show her type, use Magnitude!"
"What? But Silly is grass-" The reason for the ground type move was quickly established a Magnitude 4 rattled Silly and sent him into a faceplant (again no pun intented). "Silly you have to get up! Use Absorb!" Natalie called frantically. Silly rolled himself upwards and launched a green light at the Graveller.
"Graveller!" It cried in pain as its energy was sapped back to Silly. Silly stood upright again looking more confident and so was Natalie. "Silly use Hidden Power!" she trilled. She was taking a bit of a gamble bacuse as far as she was concerned this was a roulette wheel move regarding effectiveness but as Silly charged up the attack the energy bead were shimmering like cold snowflakes-
"Oh no you don't Graveller use Magnitude again!" Graveller did so, a Magnitude 5! It rattled Silly again but Silly had already launched the assault and it collided with the Graveller causing a KO! The other trainer stood there with a stunned look that quickly dissolvd into indignity. "Well now I'm serious! My Final Pokemon is a Pokemon that I wanted traded to me as a Graveller, but now it is my best non-Graveller Pokemon- Go GOLEM!"
Natalie didn't even have time to celebrate when he sent out a large boulder-like Pokemon with a black, cracked rock shell for a body and clawed limbs and a tiny turtle head. "GOLEM!" it cried while rollling itself up in a ball and charging at Silly! "Silly look out!" Natalie cried.
"You dumb Golem I didn't order you to attack!" the boy yelled indignantly, but the Golem ignored him. Silly used some previously uncharted Speed of his to jump out of the way of the crushing Rollout and Natalie was heartened.
"It doesn't listen to him." thought Natalie, "Time to kick it up a notch Silly use a strong Absorb!" Silly began to glow with the green light again and shot the beam at the Golem sapping it's power. It roared in rage like it's trainer.
"Use Magnitude!" he yelled and the Golem obeyed! It was a Magnitude 7! That power was too much for the still-weakened Oddish and Silly fainted...
"Return Silly! You did so well! I'm so proud of you. I'm going to work hard for you and Taz to win this." Natalie said to the Pokeball. "Now Taz come on out and do this!"
"Char! Victory will be mine!" Taz roared as he materialized. Natalie knew she was a a disadvantage but Taz's enthusiasm was contagious and she felt heartened once again. "Use Brick Break!" she ordered.
The boy sneered. "That won't work Golem use Magnitude again!" he sounded very cocky, but that got a hole punched in it when the Golem ignored him again and did another Rollout.
"Taz dodge that and then when it's close hit it with your Brick Break!" Natlalie ordered. Taz nodded and tried to jump out of the way, but the Brace hindered him and he still got grazed by the attack! "Dammit!" he snarled as he straitened himself out and slammed the Golem with the Brick Break that issued a cry of pain from the Golem and one of frustration from the boy.
"Use Magnitude!" but Golem couldn't stop Rollout even if he wanted to because it had hit Taz before.
Natalie wasn't going to take any chances with the Rollout, "Taz ddge that and hit i with Brick Break one more time!" Taz charged up the attack as the Golem rapidly approached fling huge piles of gravel and dust into the air in it's wake. As it got within feet of Taz, Taz jumped to the side and spun in a 270 degree circle and back-handed the Golem with Brick Break! Direct Hit! Taz landed as the Golem slowed down and stopped a few feet away-with dizzy circles in his eyes. Natalie and the boy stood their frozen as Taz walked back up to Natalie and demanded a pat on the muzzle, there were two instant reactions. The boy started to yell and Natalie began laughing hysterically. "C-come on Taz ha ha ha, lets... lets go get the two of you healed." With that they both walked off without saying good-bye to the cranky loser.
When they reached the Game Corner after healing up she observed that it was two buildings, she figured that she would start with the closer building but when they went in all they found were three counters with glass fronts but no games as far as she could tell, she left there and went into the next one and the sight that greeted them astonished even Taz. Rows upon rows of brightly lit games and dings from many machines assualted their senses, brightly lit signs hung upon the ceiling directing people to a bar and the exchange counter for coins in the back. Pulling her eyes away from the glamourous machines she knew she had to see what it would cost to get some coins. Taz was not so easily pulled away, it might've been easier to pull him if he still had the odd Brace on, but he wanted a break so he was sniffing a beer bottle pile on the ground with Natalie trying to pull him, until the gambler chucked another empty bottle where Taz was standing and hit him in the head. Taz flinched and rubbed his single horn and Natalie gave the man an extremely dirty look that he didn't even respond to. She pulled Taz away to the counter in back but before they could see the exchanger a man by a poster in a sinister black uniform was leering at them. Natalie gasped and when Taz saw what she was looking at he gave a snarl and launched himself toward the man.
"Taz no!-"
"What do you think you're doing here brat? Get away from this poster I'm guarding it!" the grunt barked with no small amount of malice.
"Scum! How dare you speak you my mistress that way!" Taz snarled. But the man just sneered and pulled out a single Pokeball and relased a Raticate.
Natalie's blood began to boil, she had had enough of being treated so poorly for most of the day and she snapped. "You DICK! I'm going to have Taz crush your miserable vermin! Use Firepunch!" Taz's rage was equal only to Natalie's at that point and his claw was englufed in a huge infero within seconds and he charged.
"Oh no you don't Raticate use Quick Attack!" the grunt said. The Raticate charged with a beam of white light behind it and slammed into Taz before he could attack, but hat didn;t deter Taz after fighting Rock types and he puffed up and slammed his firey clawed fist into the Raticate so hard that it sent it spiraling backward and colliding against the wall in an instant KO.
"What the heck? How did I lose to a brat? I gotta tell the boss!" the grunt jabbered as he pressed a switch and a set of stairs appeared about 10 feet away. He returned his Raticate and fled downward.
Natalie and Taz stared at each other, a Rocket grunt knowing about a secret staricase in a Game Corner? This was a Rocket hideout! "Taz I think we should check it out, but we have to be sneaky about this."
"Yes mistress, and I will protect you from these scum if we run into them." Taz growled.
Natalie rubbed under his jaw in gratitude and thye both set down the staircase wondering what hey would find.
I gotta face the fact, I'm a lousy updater. LOL I hope you enjoy the chapters though folks. btw I knwo that Natalie is young, but tell me that even kids don't swear, even if they don't know what it means, and you would be fibbing. LOL
