Chapter 9
Last time, Team RWBY enter the Central Nature Park Pokemon Catching Competition just for the fun of it and to catch new Pokemon. What kind of Pokemon will they catch?
Song: Pokemon Theme (Version XY)
Artists: Ben Dixon and the Sad Truth, John Siegler, and John Loeffler
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all), it's you and me
(Pokémon!)
I know it's my destiny
(Pokémon!)
Yeah, you're my best friend
In a world we must defend
(Pokémon!)
(Gotta catch 'em all)
Gotta catch 'em all
Gotta catch 'em all!
Pokémon!
Ruby secretly uses her semblance to get a head start of the competition until she crash landed into a bunch of bushes.
"Ow!" she yelped, "I should be more careful!"
She looked around and notices some of the strange berries growing on the bushes. These are berries she is not familiar with.
"Huh?" she went as she picked a pink, peach shape berry. "What kind of berry is this?" She takes a bite out of the tender berry and a rush of sweetness has touched her tongue. "MMMMMM!" she went, "This is almost as good as strawberries!"
Ruby then starts gathering a few more berries until she comes across some blue, round ones.
"Wonder what these taste like." She took one and taste it. Ruby chews on it for a bit and taste a muddle of flavors. "Sweet. Spicy. Bitter. Sour. And a bit on the dry side. Not as good as the other berry but I think Chika might like them."
Ruby gathers some of these blue berries until she come across another type of berry. These berries are red with spikes on them.
"Okay, let's see what this berry is." She takes a bite out of one and starts to regret it.
Her face turns bright red right before she started spewing fire from her mouth, waterfall tears from her eyes, and steam coming out of her ears as she screams.
She runs around while screaming, "WATER! WATER!" until something comes flying down on her and smacks her in the head.
Something round and yellow colored just hit her as it fell to the ground. Ruby got up and sees the Pokemon that hit her while her lips are a little swollen from the spicy contents of the berry she tasted.
"What is that?" She pulls out her Megadex and finds out that it is a Hoothoot.
However, this Hoothoot is different from the one in the Megadex.
"Oh!" Ruby sounds excited, "Must be one of those shiny Pokemon I read about! Must be worth a lot of points!" She looks at the Hoothoot and realizes that it is unconscious. She pulls out her Sports Ball, "I should be able to capture it." Then throws her Sports Ball and hits Hoothoot, which gets sucked into the ball.
The Sports Ball moves around a little right before it stopped.
Ruby has caught a Hoothoot.
Ruby jumps up in the air, "Awesome! I caught my first Pokemon and I didn't have to fight." She picks up the Sports Ball, "Since you're a dude, I'm gonna name you...Aurum! Since you have pretty golden feathers, I'm naming you after gold." Before she can celebrate further, she hears some rustling in the grass.
She turns around and see a bug-type Pokemon that has a rather large brown body, six stubby tan legs, a tan colored bug head with reddish antennae, small compound eyes; and a long, tan stinger-like tail with two reddish stingers.
"What is that?" Ruby pulls up her Megadex.
Larvabidae. The larval Pokemon. Bug-type. Larvabidae follows orders given to it by fully evolved members of the swarm. Its evolution is determined by which role it is most successful in.
Trivia: Larvabidae is from Pokemon Sage. Check Capx Wiki for more details.
"Which role it is successful in?" Ruby checks her Megadex. "Oh. It has three evolutionary forms depending on its attack and defense stats. Poison for higher attack, electric for equal stats, and ground for higher defense." She then reaches for her green Pokeball, "It may be a but-type but worth the shot." She then tosses it, "Go, Chika!"
Chika comes out and is ready to battle.
Larvabidae charges at Chika with a tackle.
"Chika, use vine whip and throw it!"
Chika grabs the charging Larvabidae with her vine whip and throws the little bug-type Pokemon right on one of the berry bushes. However, Larvabidae eats one of the oran berries to heal and comes out and tries to use poison sting from its stinger.
"Dodge it!" Ruby ordered.
Chika dodges the purple needle projectiles by jumping out of the way. Then Larvabidae uses string shot which wraps Chika in a sticky coccoon.
"Quick! Use vine whip to get out!"
Chika struggles to use her vine whip to escape as Larvabidae tries to use poison sting again. But Chika manages to get free and uses the ball of sticky string and deflect it right at the poison sting. Larvabidae uses poison sting again and did hit Chika which poisons her. Chika's cheeks have a purple blush as poison bubbles started to appear.
"Oh no!" Ruby starts to worry.
However, Chika grabs an oran berry and a pecha berry and eats them. She uses both berries to heal and cures herself of her poison, which amazes Ruby.
"Huh." Ruby is astonish, "I didn't know that those berries can cure and heal. Wait." Ruby looks a the tamato berries and gets an idea. "Chika!" Ruby points at the tamato berries, "Use one of those berries!"
Chika looks at the bush and understands what she has to do. Larvabidae then uses tackle.
"Use vine whip!"
Chika uses her vine whip and grabs a tamato berry and throws it at the charging Larvabidae right before she jumps out of the way as the berry hits the Pokemon's face. The spice from the tamato berry stings it's eyes from the juices. Larvabidae hits one of the berry bushes and hit its head.
"Now use tackle!"
Chika charges at Larvabidae and does a direct blow. Ruby then throws her second Sports Ball to catch Larvabidae. The ball jiggles around a little right before it stops.
Ruby has caught a Larvabidae.
"Waa-hoo!" Ruby jumps up for joy. "I caught another Pokemon." Chika rushes up and jumps on Ruby as she snuggles her. "We did it! We caught a Larvabidae!" Then she proceeds to pick-up the Sports Ball, "I think I'm gonna nickname you...Brownie! Because you have a brownie colored body. But which one of those three evolutionary forms are you gonna be? Oh well." Ruby puts her ball away, "I'll figure it out later." She then looks at Chika, "Come on Chika. Let's head back."
Over where Blake is at, she is using her super rod on a pound where she meets another old man that is dressed as a fisherman. She sits there while thinking of the type of fishy Pokemon she hopes to catch and eat. She smiles with her eyes sparkling on what kind of dish she could make...and probably forgotten about the competition. She waits patiently for a bite as the lure just bobbles, waiting for the first catch of the day. Yet her patience have paid off as a big tug was felt and she reels it in. Turns out, it is a Magikarp. Instead of battling it, she opens her mouth wide and tries to take a bite. However, she lets go of it as her mouth is in great pain that she places both her hands on her mouth and flails around on the ground with the Magikarp jumping back to the pond. Blake is in tears because of the pain in her mouth.
The old fisherman laughs, "You can't eat a Magikarp. It is made of bones and scales. Impossible to eat. Anyway, shouldn't you be catching Pokemon for the competition?"
He's right. Blake gets back up and tries to fish again yet still feels the pain in her mouth.
Over where Weiss is at, she comes across a flowery meadow that are filled with Cutieflies, Flabebes, Cottonee, Petilils, Caterpies, Hoppips, Sunkerns, and all sorts of Pokemon that are enjoying the midday sun and the scent of flowers. Weiss finds many of them adorable and unable to decide which Pokemon to capture.
"Okay." she says to herself, "Maybe that one. No that one. No wait, that one. I mean..." Weiss is getting frustrated, "I can't decide! They're all super cute!" Weiss takes some deep breaths, "Okay. Okay. I just need to figure out if I want to have a bug-type or a grass-type." Then she notices a Petilil approaching her and starts snuggling Weiss' right leg. She puts on a dopey smile, "Well... You'll have to do."
Petilil and Weiss take position as they are ready to battle. Petilil looks serious as she (all Petilils are female) jumps around and ready to fight.
Weiss pulls out her Cherish Ball and strategies, 'Let's see here. Petilil is a grass-type and they are resilient to lighting and water-types. So, I have to have Nicolas as a Flareon.' Weiss throws her Cherish Ball, "Go, Nicolas!"
Nicolas pops out and is ready for battle. Then Weiss pulls out her Tetra Elemental and transform Nicolas to Flareon.
"Ready!"
Petilil jumps up in the air and is surrounded by green beams that gets absorb into her body and glows green for a few seconds before landing on the ground. That move was growth.
"Use quick-attack!"
Nicolas dashes left and right to confuse Petilil right before smacking her in the head. Petilil rolls in the air before does a perfect landing and uses absorb.
"Use quick-attack again!" Weiss ordered.
Nicolas uses quick-attack again yet runs in circles to confuse Petilil and...Petilil is now confuse. Then Nicolas smacks her from behind.
"Now use Ember!"
Nicolas spews fiery sparks from his mouth and manage to damage Petilil.
Weiss then throws her Sports Ball and catches Petilil...after it jiggles around before stopping.
Weiss caught a Petilil.
She squeals as she picks it up, "I got another cutie friend!" She rubs her cheek on her Sports Ball, "We're gonna be best friends forever! Yes we will!" Then snuggles Nicolas, "And you did a good job, too." Nicolas reverts back to Eevee and appreciates Weiss' praise. "Now what should we name our new friend? How about...Vert!"
Then she notices a Hoppip flying by and chases after it, "Wait! I want to catch you and your adorableness!"
Yang is in a more foresty area and looks around for any Pokemon. She keeps on searching until she hears a slurping sound coming from somewhere.
"What is that?" Yang says as she looks around. She looks up and notices something big on a maple tree.
It is like a gigantic rhino beetle on the tree. Sucking out some of the maple syrup from it. It joyfully enjoys its meal as it continues to make slurping sounds.
"That is one big rhinoceros beetle." Yang is amazed by the size of the new creature before her up in the tree. She pulls out her Megadex and learns that it is a Heracross. "So that's a Heracross." she puts her Megadex away, "A bug and fighting-type. Just my style." She pulls up her Pokeball and throws, "Go, Blazerina!"
Blazerina pops out and is ready for battle as she looks like she is doing some boxing.
"Blazerina, use scratch on that Heracross!" Yang ordered.
Blazerina jumps up through the trees and and starts to swipping Heracross. Heracross gets knocked down from the tree yet manages to fly carefully onto the ground and looks angry.
Heracross then uses tackle as it charges right at Blazerina.
"Dodge and use ember!"
Blazerina dodges Heracross' tackle and then shoots embers at Heracross, which is super effective. Heracross then uses arm thrust and smacks Chimchar right at a tree.
But Blazerina quickly recovers as Yang orders, "Use leer!"
Blazerina runs right at Heracross and uses leer. Heracross seems to know leer as well as it is now a staring contest between the two Pokemon.
"That's right!" Yang says, "Blazerina and I have our eyes on you."
Both of them stop and look at Yang with awkward looks.
Yang just giggles a little, "Get it? Because of the whole leer thing and you guys were staring each other and... Just use scratch!"
Blazerina uses scratch on Heracross while Heracross uses horn attack to counter.
"Now that's using...you're horn. Eh?"
Both of them stop and are not impressed with Yang's awful puns. Heracross just sighs as it takes the Sports Ball from Yang's belt and gets itself caught. Yang and Blazerina are confuse on what just happened.
Yang points at the Sports Ball and looks at Blazerina, "Does this count?"
Blazerina just shrugs as she has no idea.
Yang caught a Heracross...sorta.
"Oh well." Yang decides to go with the flow as she picks up her Sports Ball. "Since you have a bluish coloring, I'm gonna name you...Azul."
Blake continues to fish at the fishing spot with very little luck with any catching. But right before she is about to call it quits and try to catch Pokemon somewhere else, her line tugs. Blake quickly pulls on her super rod and catches...another Magikarp. But this Magikarp is different. The coloring of this Magikarp looks more like a koi fish and its top fin has longer, wavier strands. She pulls out her Megadex to figure out.
Magikarp. Altaran form. Water and dragon-type. It seems much stronger than its close relatives in other regions. Scientists theorize that this is because its environment in Altaris is much more hostile, demanding better survival skills.
Trivia: This kind of Magikarp is from Pokemon Sardonyx.
"Well all be!" says the old fisherman. "Looks like you caught yourself an Altaran Magikarp! That little fella' has a much bigger moveset then the regular ones! It's you're lucky day! That thing there is worth a lot of points."
"You sure?" Blake says as the Magikarp keeps on dangling on the line.
"Of all my years finishing in this city, you bet."
"Okay then." Blake pulls out her Pokeball and calls forth Froakie.
Froakie comes out while doing a ninja pose and having a very serious look to his eyes. The Magikarp is splashing around on the concrete sidewalk like a fish out of water.
"Use pound!" Blake ordered.
Froakie's right hand started to glow white as he charges at the Altaran Magikarp. But the Altaran Magikarp started to look serious and uses water gun. Yes, this version of Magikarp can use water gun but evolves into Gyarados at level 30 instead of 20. The Magikarp's water gun makes contact with Froakie's pound yet Froakie stays strong as he tries to fight against the water pressure. Then Froakie jumps up and let the water gun go. Then pounds the Altaran Magikarp, and a direct hit at that.
"Now use bubble!"
Froakie uses bubble on the Altaran Magikarp, but the Altaran Magikarp uses splash to dodge the bubble attack. Splash ain't useless after all when done right.
"Now use pound again!"
Froakie pounds Altaran Magikarp right in the face and lands on the ground. Blake throws her Sports Ball and catches the Altaran Magikarp, after a little jiggling of course. Blake picks it up and puts it away.
Blake caught an Altaran Magikarp.
She looks at Froakie, "Good job." and smiles at him.
Froakie starts to blush a little and looks away while maintaining a straight face.
An hour and thirty minutes have passed now and Weiss is battling against a Cutiefly. She uses Nicolas as Flareon again since Cutiefly is part bug-type and fire-types are super effective against bug-types.
'Alright.' Weiss thought to herself. 'I need to be careful when catching are small and delicate along with a weakness to fire. But since they are small, they are harder to hit when moving fast. So I just have to be careful.' Weiss orders Nicolas, "Use quick-attack!"
Nicolas charges at Cutiefly at blinding speed and hits Cutiefly. Cutiefly recovers and use absorb.
'Perfect!' Weiss smiles. "Now use tackle!"
Nicolas tackles on Cutiefly as Cutiefly uses fairy wind. It does some damage yet Nicolas is determine to keep fight.
"Use tackle again!"
Nicolas uses tackle on Cutiefly as Cutiefly uses absorb.
Weiss then throws her Sports Ball, "Now I got you where I want you!"
The Sports Ball hits Cutiefly and Cutiefly gets caught. The Sports Ball jiggles a little right before stopping.
Weiss has caught a Cutiefly.
"Yes!" Weiss jumps for joy and out of character again. She then grabs her Sports Ball that has her new Pokemon. "I caught ya' Cutsie!" Yes, she nickname it Cutsie. Nicolas transforms back into Eevee as Weiss gives her a hug, "Way to go Nicolas!" Nicolas snuggles Weiss and loves her praise. "We caught two Pokemon now. So let's head back and see how the others are doing."
Over where Blake is at, she does from tree to tree like a ninja to find another Pokemon to catch. She hopes to find something up in the trees like a rare flying-type or some amazing bug-type that will give her some extra points. One reason is because she almost used up all her money at the clothing store. So she hopes to find something unique while ninja-ing her way through the trees. But then, she found something. She hears a strange chirping sound. It sounds more like some beautiful flute playing by a very musical bird. She looks around and sees the Pokemon. It is some bird Pokemon that is small and round that has dark blue feathers covering its body, yellow tail feathers, and two cyan feet. Two long antenna-like yellow feathers extend from its forehead. Just below its beak, it has a bright cyan crest that curves upward and resembles a large smiling mouth along with having large eyes that makes it appear larger than it is.
She pulls out her Megadex to find out more.
Birbie. The eden bird Pokemon. Normal and flying-type. It defends itself by dazzling opponents by flashing its brightly colored plumage. They are known for their elaborate mating dances.
Trivia: This Pokemon is from Pokemon Uranium. Although they may have change it. Because last I check, it was called the bliss bird Pokemon, not eden.
"Got one." Blake says as she prepares her Pokeball. She throws it and Froakie comes out. "Use bubble on Birbie!" she ordered.
Froakie blows bubbles at the Birbie yet Birbie took flight to avoid getting hit. It flies a round and spread its wings and shows its cyan crest and uses flash on them. They were temporarily blinded by the little blue bird and it then uses growl on the blinded Froakie to lower his attack.
Blake finally sees again and orders, "Move fast in the trees!"
Froakie understands what Blake is planning and move as fast as he can with Birbie trying to keep up with Froakie's movements. Froakie keeps on getting faster and faster as Birbie starts to freak out, unable to keep up.
"Use growl!"
Froakie sneaks up on Birbie and growls which scares Birbie. Birbie quickly gets away from Froakie and uses gust.
"Get back in the trees and prepare to use bubble!"
Froakie does the same maneuver again to confuse. But Birbie is prepared this time and uses gust on a shadow of Froakie. However, it wasn't Froakie. It was a decoy made of Froakie's ruffles.
Blake smiles at what Froakie just did and says, "Perfect."
Froakie uses bubbles on Birbie and did manage to hit it. Birbie almost fell down yet recovers.
"Now use pound!"
Froakie uses pound a few seconds after Birbie recovers and hit it. Birbie then gets knocked onto a tree as Blake throws her Sports Ball. The Sports Ball hits Birbie and lands on the ground and started jiggling. Blake and Froakie get back on the ground and wait for it to stop. After a few seconds, the Sports Ball stops moving.
Blake moves up to pick-up the ball. Then the looks at Froakie, "Thank you, Froakie."
Froakie starts to blush a little and looks away while maintaining a straight face...again.
"Come on now." Blake says while walking. "Let's see how the others are fairing."
Froakie nods and jumps on Blake's right shoulder.
"Although I have to admit, making a decoy like that is great. Having you for a partner is the right choice. Plus, I love ninjas." Blake gives Froakie a kiss on the cheek which turns Froakie's face red with steam coming out of his ruffles.
As for Yang, she continues to search for another Pokemon. Hopefully not another bug-type.
'Now let's see.' she thought to herself. 'What kind of Pokemon do I want to catch next? I already got a Heracross which is a bug and fighting-type so the bug-type part is capable of resisting psychic-type moves. I've got my Blazerina, a Chimchar, which she is a fire-type but will evolve into part fighting-type along the road. But what if I encounter a ghost-type? Then my whole team will get wiped. So...maybe something along the normal-type? Perhaps a flying-type Pokemon that is also part normal-type might work. Yet maybe catching another bug-type would be cool.' She smiles, 'I would like to see Ruby's face when I scare her with with some of my buggy Pokemon on her face.'
As she is deep in thought, Yang stumbles upon another Pokemon. This Pokemon looks like a brown beetle that has two large eyes and a sapling branching out of their head. Like most beetles, they have a hard shell on their back, typically used to protect their wings and four legs instead of six.
"What is that?" Yang then pulls out her Megadex.
Stickit. The beetle Pokemon. Grass and bug-type. It will burrow itself underground in order to sleep. Its tough back also assists it in defending against against predators.
Trivia: This Pokemon is from Pokemon Solar Light & Lunar Dark.
Yang then puts her Megadex away as she says to herself, "Well... I am running short on time but any Pokemon will do in this late of the game. Guess this guy is gonna be Stickit-ing with me." She pulls out her Pokeball, "Go Blazerina!" and throws it.
Blazerina pops out and is ready for battle.
"Blazerina, use scratch!"
Blazerina charges at Stickit as Stickit uses harden. Blazerina uses scratch and does a fair bit of damage.
"Use scratch again!" Yang ordered.
Blazerina then uses scratch again while Stickit uses harden again.
"I've got it!" Yang throws a Sports Ball, "Go Sports Ball!" Yang tosses it like an ace pitcher and hits the little bug with it.
The ball jiggles around a little for a few seconds. After that, the ball gets destroyed as Stickit pops back out.
"WHAT!?" Yang is shocked. "AW MAN! THAT WAS MY LAST SPORTS BALL!"
Then Stickit scurries as fast as it can deeper into the forest.
Yang gets on her knees and slams the ground with her right fist repeatedly as she goes, "Dang it dang it dang it!"
Blazerina imitates Yang as she slams her fist into the ground repeatedly.
Yang stops and shouts into the air, "Why did we only get two Sports Balls instead of like twenty!? This makes no sense!" She then stomps her way back to the competition grounds, "Come on, Blazerina. Let's have a word with the old fart!"
Blazerina agrees as she stomps alongside with Yang. Once they head back...there is gonna be a cliffhanger right here and now. XD
To be continue...
AN: Now for Q&A.
Guest - Not exactly true. Keep in mind at this point in time, Red only knew about the Pokemon from the Kanto Region. Red is unaware about Pokemon from other regions before he met Franklin (or in the original series, he went out and found Johto).
