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"Talking"- a Pokedex or some other machine talking.

'Thoughts'- Person's thoughts.


Chapter 7: To the Mountain

Brett and his friends had just left the Pokémon Centre to continue their journey when a shout from behind drew their attention. They turned around to see Brock approaching them with an older man with greying hair and a lab coat following him.

"I'm glad I caught you all before you left town," Brock said as the two reached the four friends. "I'd like you to meet Dr Resurgere. He's the head of the Palaeontology department at the Pewter Museum and he'd like to talk to you all."

"It's nice to meet you all," Dr Resurgere said. "Do you mind if we have a seat?"

The four friends all agreed and the small group made its way to a bench in the nearby park. Once they were all seated the Doctor began to explain.

"As you may know at the Pewter Museum my team and I are studying the fossils of long extinct Pokémon and the possibility of resurrecting them with science. What most people don't know is that a team of researchers at the Cinnabar Lab led by my younger brother have managed to successfully use Pokémon fossils to resurrect some of these ancient Pokémon," Resurgere explained. "The reason this hasn't been announced to the public yet is that there is still work that needs to be done. For example they only seem to be able to resurrect those Pokémon that were in their basic form when they died and trying to resurrect an evolved fossil Pokémon doesn't work."

"Another reason is that we don't know the full extent and strength of the revived Pokémon and are getting certain trainers to look after the revived Pokémon and test any limits the resurrection process may leave them with. One of the jobs we asked Brock to do was to keep an eye out for trainers with great potential and strength. Essentially scouting talent for us," The Doctor continued.

"This brings me to the point of this meeting. We'd like you to take these," The Doctor said pulling for small orange coloured stones from his pocket. "These are what we call an Old Amber. Basically they're fossilised tree sap with genetic material from an ancient Pokémon trapped inside. If you're willing we'd like you to take these with you on your journey and when you reach Cinnabar Island take them to the Cinnabar Lab and have my brother revive them, then train the revived Pokémon."

The four huddled together and discussed things before asking a few questions after which all four happily agreed. The Doctor happily handed each of them an Old Amber and asked them to contact him if they had any troubles with the resurrected Pokémon before he and Brock departed for the museum.


A few hours later the group had gone their separate ways after making plans to meet up in Cerulean City for their second Gym battles and Brett was now travelling along Route 3 and currently in the midst of a battle against a young Bug catcher named Greg and hoping this trainer wasn't as weird as the young kid he'd battled an hour or so ago who liked to talk about shorts for some reason.

"Metapod use Harden," Brett called as his opponents Weedle fired a Poison Sting attack.

Metapod glowed white and went rigid as its cocoon hardened before the attack struck with Metapod looking relatively unscathed. Brett was about to call for another attack when Metapod began to emit a blue glow. Amidst the glow a crack could be seen forming along Metapod's back which soon opened up and a pair of wings emerged before unfolding and beginning to lightly flap before they were followed by a medium sized body with small feet before the glow faded to reveal a medium sized purple butterfly with white wings, small blue hands and feet and large red compound eyes.

"Butterfree the Butterfly Pokémon and the final evolutionary form of Caterpie. Butterfree is a dual Bug and Flying type Pokémon with the ability Compound Eyes. The wings of this Pokémon are protected by rain-repellent dust. As a result it can fly about even in rain. It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen. The Compound Eyes ability increases the accuracy of the Pokémon's moves."

"Congratulations Butterfree," Brett said happily. "Now use Confusion."

Butterfree's eyes glowed blue and Weedle's body was surrounded by a blue aura before it suddenly flew sideways into the rock wall nearby and fainted. Brett was impressed, he knew Psychic type attacks were super effective against Weedle but he thought he'd need at least two Confusion attacks to knock out Weedle. Greg returned his Weedle and sent out a Kakuna and Brett replied with his Pikachu.

During the next battle between Brett's Kakuna and Greg's Caterpie, Brett's Kakuna began to glow the same way as Metapod had. Soon out of Kakuna's back emerged a large yellow and black striped hornet standing 3 feet tall and with a large stinger on the end of its front legs.

"Beedrill, the Poison Bee Pokémon and the final evolutionary form of Weedle. Beedrill is a dual Bug and Poison type Pokémon with the ability Swarm. It has three poisonous stingers on its forelegs and tail. They are used to jab enemies repeatedly. Its best attack involves flying around at high speed, striking with poison needles, and then flying off. The Swarm ability boosts the power of the Pokémon's Bug type attacks when its health is low."

Brett called for Beedrill to use its new Fury Attack causing Beedrill's forearm stingers to glow white and it flew straight at Caterpie and began to jab at it rapidly. With its ability to fly and its greater speed Beedrill was able to make quick work of Caterpie and Charmander was able to take out Greg's Metapod with two quick Ember attacks and a Metal Claw.

Parting ways with Greg Brett continued along the Route until reaching a copse of trees along the side of the road. Brett decided to take a break and have lunch so he walked over and released his six Pokémon and laid out bowls of Pokémon food for them before sitting down against a tree and enjoying his lunch watching as his Pokémon ate. Brett laughed as he watched his Pokémon finish eating and start playing around with each other, he found it funny watching Rattata run around trying to catch Pidgey who kept flying higher whenever Rattata would jump to try and catch it. He was glad his Pokémon were enjoying themselves and getting along with each other. He laughed as he watched Charmander and Pikachu have a race which ended in both tripping over and crashing into the ground. Seeing how much fun his Pokémon were having he decided to let them enjoy themselves and stay there the night. With the mountains being so numerous and the path leading almost directly along the base of the range the sun began to set much earlier around here anyway so they wouldn't be able to travel much further anyway. Brett quickly set up his tent and was surprised to find when he turned around his Pokémon had been joined by a small pink Pokémon about the size of Mankey had he been here with large ears, buck teeth and a pointed horn on its head. Brett thought it looked similar to one of the Pokémon featured in the battle that had been televised the night before he started his journey only this Pokémon was smaller, interested Brett pulled out his Pokédex.

"Nidoran the Poison Pin Pokémon; a pure Poison type Pokémon with the ability Poison Point. It scans the surroundings by raising its ears out of the grass. Its toxic horn is for protection and is larger than that on a female. The Poison Point ability gives the Pokémon a chance of poisoning an opponent if it contacts Nidoran in battle."

Brett remembered now his father had told him about Nidoran and how the two genders were considered different species of Pokémon due to misconceptions when they'd first been discovered many years ago.

Seeing how well Nidoran was getting on with his Pokémon he figured it would make a welcome addition to his team. Walking slowly Brett approached were Nidoran and his Pokémon were playing, he didn't want to spook the little Pokémon. As he reached the group Nidoran noticed him and Brett could see its hackles raise as it tensed ready to run or fight. Brett slowly lowered himself down so he was near to Nidoran's height before speaking.

"Hey it's alright little guy, I'm not going to hurt you," Brett said softly and clearly. "You looked like you were having fun playing with my team. I was wondering if you'd like to come along with us."

The Nidoran looked at him clearly trying to decide before it nodded its agreement before running a short distance away and pawing the ground ready to fight.

"Pikachu, you're up," Brett said. "Thunder Shock."

Pikachu launched an arc of electricity out of its cheeks that flew towards Nidoran who was unable to dodge and was electrocuted. Nidoran threw off the mild shock before running up and spinning around on its front legs using its back legs to give a pair of swift kicks to Pikachu sending the mouse Pokémon skidding backwards. Brett called for a Quick Attack which sent Pikachu racing towards Nidoran before hitting it with its whole body behind the attack. The two Pokémon continued to trade attacks until Nidoran began to lag in its movements showing how tired it was.

"Pokéball go," Brett called throwing an empty Pokéball.

Nidoran was sucked into the ball which began to shake; after the third shake the button on the front of the ball flashed red signalling a catch before the ball disappeared.

Brett soon swapped Beedrill for Nidoran and called all his Pokémon together and releasing Nidoran. He then asked his Pokémon to help him look for firewood. A few hours later Brett and his Pokémon were sitting around a fire watching one of the meteor showers that were common around Mt Moon. After the meteor shower ended Brett and his team turned in for the night. Pidgey and Butterfree took up positions in the tree Brett's tent was under while Pikachu, Rattata, Nidoran and Charmander all curled up around the smouldering fire.


There we go. Brett's heading towards Mt Moon and has caught a Nidoran Male while his Metapod and Kakuna have evolved.

The surprise mentioned last chapter was them getting the Old Amber. I couldn't think of a reason to bring them back to get it so i gave it to them now.

Also for those interested Dr Resurgere's name is latin for 'to resurrect'.