Heres the next chapter! I'm very proud of myself, two chapters in two days. Oh, and a late apology if I messed up my football last chapter. I honestly don't get the game.
"Fido, use Tackle!" the trainer yelled. I couldn't help it; I burst out laughing. Jolene growled.
"He named you- Fido?!" I laughed. Jolene barked and Tackled me, knocking me back and causing pain. That wasn't a tackle like Kalle did; this one was meant to hurt me. I abruptly stopped laughing, realizing the seriousness of the situation, though the trainer's idiocy still amazed me. I got up and assumed a defensive position, but I was secretly worried. I hadn't actually had too many real battles yet, and I would probably fail. I held my head up high anyways.
"No Manectric named Fido is going to get the best of me." I taunted. Not my smartest idea, I will admit. But if my goal was to taunt, it worked. Jolene howled and tackled me again, the attack stronger. When she touched me I used Spark. It didn't do much, but it allowed me enough time to use Quick Attack to get out from her direct range. She stalked towards me, smiling evilly.
"You know you can't win, Trinexx." She said, trying to intimidate me. I wouldn't show her that it sort of did. "You've seen how we're trained; only the very best can beat us." I swallowed nervously.
"Then how'd he catch you?" I asked. She grimaced; we both knew he was an incompetent trainer. I could hear him ordering Jolene to attack, but she was ignoring him, preferring to beat me up her own way.
"It was a slip up on my part. Nothing that could ever happen again." She responded, but I could see that passed her cool exterior I had hit something. While she was distracted I howled to try and raise my measly attack and used Quick Attack on her, only bumping her. Her eyes blazed.
"What did I tell you, Trinexx? There's absolutely-" she let out a Thunder that blazed to my right, "no-" she let out another that barely missed my left side. "Way that you can beat me." She said as a Thunder hit me head on, throwing me backwards. I moaned; that really hurt. I heard the trainer praise her before pulling out a Pokeball. I opened my eyes a bit to see him take aim and then shut them tight, waiting for the thing to hit me, but it never did.
I heard a high pitched enraged bark from behind me, and then I felt the air over my head move. I opened my eyes, terrified, to see an Electrike's shape disappear into the red light of the Pokeball. I howled, unable to stop Kalle's capture. The ball wiggled three times before a quiet ping disturbed the silent meadow. The trainer grimaced.
"Dammit! I was trying to get the shiny!" he yelled before grabbing the Pokeball and recalling Jolene, who looked like she wanted to kill me. Hey, it wasn't my fault Kalle made herself be caught. If it were up to me it'd be me in that ball. The little Grass type, who had been watching this all, looked at me sympathetically as the trainer stomped angrily out of the clearing, her following. I might have cried if I hadn't passed out.
Kalle POV
I had listened to the fight and the discussion soundlessly, knowing that waking up could have just made it worse. It hurt me when Jolene had shocked Trinexx, as if it had been me instead. And when I heard Trinexx go down, I didn't think, I just acted. I couldn't let Trinexx get caught if at all possible.
Who knows? I thought. Maybe the trainer will catch him too. But then at least we'd be caught together.
The last sound I heard before I was enveloped in the darkness of the Pokeball was Trinexx's pained howl.
A Pokeball is a strange thing. It's sort of like flying; not that I would know. You're just floating around in empty space. I'd heard that time doesn't pass in a Pokeball, but whoever told me that was wrong. It's just faster.
I looked around, but was surrounded by a purple sky in every direction. It was odd, because as far as I know skies aren't purple. I cautiously pushed myself forward, and I flew forward a bit. I dove down, but when I stopped pushing myself I slowed down like I was running. It was more like swimming than flying, I think, but I've never flown, so therein lays my decision.
Then I felt a tugging sensation, dragging me what was currently forward, but floating in space there aren't really directions. I didn't really try to fight the pull because I didn't know what it was and I could think of nothing too terribly horrible it could be.
Before I knew it I was outside. Or I guess inside, inside a building. Not used to having to support my weight, I collapsed on the hard floor. A green Pokemon with a leaf on her head stuck her face down to my level. She was about as big as me.
"Hi!" she said excitedly. "My name's Flora, what's yours? Actually, my name is Jacqueline, but Shawn calls me Flora. So I guess you could call me either one." I moaned in response; how did Pokemon go in and out of their Pokeballs so easily? Every bone in my body ached from having to support weight. I looked out the window and it was light outside; probably the day after I was captured. Then I looked at the spastic thing. She was smiling at me, a huge, idiotic smile. I could tell that she was always like this, despite my desperate prayers that she wasn't.
The Pokemon was still smiling. "I haven't seen a Pokemon like you before. I saw a Poochyena, but he didn't look quite the same. You're green and you have a big head. He was just gold." I perked up a bit; she had seen a shiny Poochyena? At least I assumed it was shiny; I didn't think that the dogs were usually gold. But she continued; she was too absorbed in what she was saying to notice my interest.
"Anyways, what are you? I'm a Chikorita. I think I heard Shawn say something about Electric; is that what you are? An Electric? I always thought that electricity was invisible, and now that I think about it, it's not quite the same word." This little Chiko-whatever truly amazed me; she said all that in one breath. She might have taken a breath in between; I wasn't paying attention. But let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
"I'm not an Electric, you idiot, I'm an Electrike. There's no such thing as an Electric." I snapped. I would have been surprised (I didn't strike myself as the snappish type), but considering what I'd been through, I think I'm entitled to a bit of annoyance. Especially this little plant thing. I swear that thing was put on the Earth to annoy.
She smiled. "Idiot? Oshus called me an idiot once. Does that mean you're my friend?" she asked and, without waiting for an answer, her smile got wider. "Yay! I got another friend! You may not believe this, but I don't have that many friends. I don't know why." She finished, again in one breath. I sighed.
Nope. I can't believe that at all. It's not like you are the most annoying thing I've ever met. Nope, definitely not that.
"What happened?" I asked groggily, succeeding in getting Jacqueline off the topic of friends.
"Shawn captured you! He was actually trying to catch that blue Electrike," she pronounced the word carefully, and I sighed, "But then you jumped in front and now he's caught you instead! Isn't that great?" I assumed that Shawn was the human, who was sitting behind me, watching the two of us 'get to know each other'. I cursed him for sticking me with this insane Chikorita. And for taking me away from Trinexx. But I sucked it up and put on a faux smile to placate the little Pokemon.
"That's wonderful, Jacqueline." Just wonderful. I thought in my head.