Leaving for a new life

by Thunderluigi

Hoping to escape both his brother's shadow as a pokemon legend and the bullies remarks in his youth, Jake sets out on a journey through the Sinnoh region, with the goal of being able to battle with the best the region can throw at him, but with Team Galactic around and an interesting relationship with his starter pokemon; the journey is going to be anything but normal.

10. Chapter 9

Chapter 9: A shocking turn of events

Wild chapter 9 appeared. (I waited long enough to use this joke :D)

"Spoken text" = normal talking

'Speech' = thoughts

-Speech- = translated Pokemon text

(Speech) = Author's comment (on a part of the story that may be obvious or hard to understand)

*Words* = sound effect

Pokemon team levels and moves:

Clarity/Clair (Ralts, level 15) Moves: Growl, Confusion, Double team and Teleport. (Confusion is upgraded to Psychic in dire battles)

Sparky (Shinx, Level 13) Moves: Tackle, Leer, Charge and Bite

James (Piplup, level 13) Moves Pound, Growl, Bubble and Water Sport.

Angela (Absol, Level 25) Moves:Quick Attack, Pursuit, Swords Dance and Leer.

Disclaimer;- Pokémon belongs to Gamefreak and Nintendo, my OC (Jake) belongs to me. (its' me :)) And the Idea of Angela is from Baby Mama Valkyria, the written form of her is mine.

Route 204 (After the Ravaged Path since there's nothing of importance in the small cave, story related anyway):
Jake stepped out of the Ravaged Path and into the 11am sunshine, looking around. As he set out to Floaroma Town, Jake was stopped by a shout, which sounded like a female trainer. Looking to the source of the call, which was to Jake's left, he found an Aroma Lady called Taylor . She looked ready to battle, Jake smiled as he stood, ready to battle himself.
"Go Budew." She shouted as she threw her pokeball containing the pokemon, the little grass and poison type landed in front of her, ready to win, or so they thought. "Go Sparky." Jake said, throwing his pokeball releasing his shinx, who stood proudly. (His help in the gym battle had soothed his nerves) The aroma lady called first, "Budew, use absorb" The walking sprouting opened it's bulb-like head and it glowed green. Sparky looked on, confused, before he felt pain as his strength was being drained from him. Jake reacted and shouted, "Sparky, try and use a hard hitting tackle, that should break the draining." Sparky nodded, one eye squeezed shut in pain. Forcing himself to move, Sparky ran at the budew, ramming into it. The attack worked, breaking the connection that allowed budew to drain Sparky's energy, but Sparky was weakened from it. Budew rolled onto its feet and looked like it was going to try draining Sparky again. "Sparky, use Bite quickly!" Sparky jumped forward, ignoring the flash of pain as budew connected with its attack again. It didn't last, as Sparky sunk his small fangs into budew's side, and using the leverage, threw the little plant backwards, leaving a bite mark where he'd made contact. The little green plant was beaten, but Taylor wasn't done, she had a second pokemon for her to use. She sent out her Cherubi, and wasted no time getting to to use Leech seed on Sparky. The little shinx looked surprised as the seed wrapped vines around him. That didn't last as flaring pain surged through Sparky a few seconds later, the seed sucking his energy from him. Sparky yelped in pain, but forced himself to stay standing. "Sparky, You ok?" Jake asked, ready to recall him and to let another of his team finish the battle. Sparky grunted and shakily nodded in response, "Then use bite again." Jake shouted. Sparky did so, trying to ignore the sharp pain pulsing through him. He ran forward, somewhat dizzily, and tried to bite at Cherubi. He caught one of the leaves on the plants head, and pulling back, tugged the pokemon backwards towards him and rammed forward, combining Bite together with tackle. Cherubi landed on the floor after hitting a tree, beaten. The vines fell off of Sparky, who could barely stand himself. Taylor gave Jake his prize money then went to Floaroma Town to heal. Jake used one of his 3 remaining potions to heal Sparky up and returned him to his pokeball to rest.

Further up the route came a Bug catcher named Brandon, who wanted to battle Jake too. He sent out his Wurmple, which crawled forward. Jake sent out James, who landed and stood ready to win. "Wurmple, use string shot on that Piplup." Wurmple shot out the gooey silk, which landed on James' feet, sticking them to the floor. Wurmple followed up with a tackle, knocking James to the floor and freeing his feet from the bug based glue. Brandon called for a posion string, but Jake guessed this, since from what his brother told him ages ago, bug catchers always went for status effects to weaken opponents. "James, counter with bubble, above you." the little penguin saw wurmple and shot fast flying bubbles at the falling pokemon. Wurmple was pelted with the watery projectiles, and was sent spinning off to the side of James, landing with a thud. Wurmple was down (bug pokemon can't take much damage) and was recalled into its pokeball. Brandon sent out his Kricketot and called for a bide. Jake shouted for James to rain bubbles down on the little cricket. James did so, but when he landed, Kricketot flew from the area where it'd been standing and slammed into James with a lot of force. The little piplup was sent flipping backwards into a tree, leaving a dent when he fell from it. Getting up a bit staggery, James shook his head to clear it of stars. He turned to Kricketot to see it charging him again, still having some energy last from the last attack. "James, dodge and hit with bubble from behind." Jake yelled. James leapt to the side and landed on his front, rolling over to get a clear shot with bubble. He fired. Kricketot turned and was greeted by the bubbles, which slammed into it. The little bug couldn't take two bombardments and passed out. Brandon cursed under his breath quietly, but admitted that Jake was a good trainer and handed him his won money.

In Floaroma Town:
Jake walked into town and looked around, seeing a couple locals going about their business. Jake went to the pokemon center and healed his pokemon up and headed out towards route 205, since the second gym was in Eterna City.

Route 205:
Jake headed out to Route 205, planning to head north, up to Eterna city, but he was stopped by a little girl who looked very worried. "Whoa, what's wrong little girl?" Jake asked. "Big...Big trainer, a strange group of people have taken my daddy to the valley windworks." she said. "Ok, stay here, i'll take a look." Jake assured her, being the good person he was. As he walked up to the valley wind-works, he saw one of the 'strange' people blocking the door. It was a team Galactic Grunt. "Hey, what are you doing here?" Shouted the grunt as he saw Jake coming toward him. "Beating you down and whoever is in the Windworks also on your team. The grunt snorted and chuckled, "Oh that's a laugh, you can't beat me." he said, looking smug. Jake smiled and said "Well, let's see if you can back your cockyness up." Clair jumped down from Jake's shoulder, ready for battle. "Oh, you're going to battle with a little girly pokemon." The grunt mocked, sending out a zubat. Clair was plainly annoyed by that comment and Jake could tell them right away. "Zubat, use supersonic." The bat did so, screeching very loudly, Clair lost focus almost at once as her vision became blurry and she found it hard to think clearly, with the loud ear splatting noise echoing through her head. Zubat was told to go for a leech life, but Jake reacted quickly in giving Clair the shout to dodge to the side, Clair did so, but by falling over to the side, since she felt dizzy. The grunt burst out laughing at the display in front of him. Clair tried to focus when she got to her feet, only managing to see blurry images as her vision was still hit. Zubat flew in for a another try with leech life, and Jake called for Clair to close her eyes and try to sense Zubat instead. It was a long shot since Jake knew psychic types could sense other pokemon when they focused hard enough, and he hoped Clair was strong enough to do so. Clair heard him, and did so. Cutting off her senses besides her minds eye, she looked around for the bat. She found him, and Jake shouted "Confusion, quickly." Clair shot out with her psychic power, which clipped zubat's wing and numbed it, sending the bat down to the floor. Zubat crashed and made a face plant mark in the shape of its face in the dirt. Clair got up, her senses clear, and looked over at zubat. She was mentally spent after that, and hoped zubat was defeated. No such luck as the pokemon in question went back into flying weakly. Clair grabbed the zubat with confusion and flung him back into the floor, making a small dent and knocking the bat out cold.
The grunt grumbled and backed up, after recalling his pokemon. Thinking quickly, dashed into the wind-works and locked the door, opening the window nearby the door to tell Jake this, but he also said that the other key was in the back of Floaroma Town, in the field. Jake sighed and headed back to Floaroma Town, carrying Clair, planning to get the key, storm the wind-works, and kick Team Galactic out of there. He also thought about Angela, thinking 'If they have a boss here, Angela have the role of beating them down.

Author note time.

Chapter 9 has the first major run in with Team Galactic. Next chapter, Angela finally gets her chance at the team that her family's kidnappers are part of.
Oh and serious note here guys, when i started this story, i thought it would get some notice, but not the amount it has so far. You guys are the ones who drive me to keep going here, it sounds cheesy i know, but its true. Anyway, Read and review as always guys, and stay cool ;)
The wild Chapter 9 fled