Kris: Hi! Hi! Everyone! SUPER SURPRISE…uh…NUMBER TWO!
AJ: Uh…the apocalypse is uh…back!
Mikey: Yeah so…run!
Kris: Very enthusiastic guys, very.
AJ&Mikey: Shut up!
Kris: Testy much? Well, I'm surprising you again with another chapter of this story.
May: Hey! I'm in this story too! I'm a star!
AJ: No fair! She's in all of your stories!
May: Nuh uh!
AJ: Name one that you're not in.
May: Kris's Naruto storyWhat I Never Heardso ha!
AJ: -grumbles-
Kris: Stop arguing! I am not the owner of pokémon! Lots of exclamation points! Enjoy!
Chapter 11
One Weird Day
"Let's eat, I'm starving." I rubbed my abdomen.
"What else is new…" Torchic rolled her eyes being perched on my shoulder.
"Again, I resent that." I glared at my starter.
"We still have food left over from what you found in the forest. If we eat on the way to the training ground, we'll save time." Ash said searching through his backpack.
"Oh all right." I grumbled…or was that my stomach. "So…how do you train exactly?" I asked.
"First you have to see where you're at as a trainer. After you know where you stand, you need to work out the kinks in your battling style. Next is trying to find new ways to make it better as well." He finished…I think. "But today we'll just work on seeing where you are, but judging by the way you battled that kid you're pretty good." I smiled proudly.
"Why thank you." Torchic rolled her eyes again.
"I don't know why you're getting all the props, I did most of the work." She smirked at me.
"You might think that, but from now on we're a team. Okay?" I said.
"Yeah!" she perked up.
"I should probably train that Wurmple I have huh?" I pondered.
"Yeah you should." Torchic said.
"Come out Wurmple!" I threw the ball and it released my worm pokémon.
"Hiya!" he said sliding back and forth.
"I can understand you too?" I asked.
"If you can understand me, then you can understand any pokémon that you catch." Torchic explained jumping off my shoulder to talk to Wurmple. "You should've seen the way she acting when she found out that I could talk. She went ballistic!" Torchic said.
"Really? Darn I missed it." He would've snapped his fingers if he had any.
"Ha ha, laugh it up you guys." I said sarcastically. "Eat up and then we'll start training. Okay?" I explained giving both of them two bowls of pokémon food.
"Why does pokémon food look like rat pellets?" Torchic asked.
"What's a rat?" Wurmple responded.
"You guys are nuts." I laughed switching my gaze to Ash and his pokémon. He was happily feeding his new acquired Treecko who seemed to have a bit of an attitude problem, to say the least. But he ate the pokémon food just like Tailow and Pikachu.
"Enjoy it guys." He smiled.
"He really loves his pokémon." I muttered under my breath.
"You know only weirdos stare May." Torchic smirked.
"Are you a weirdo May?" Wurmple asked innocently.
"No! I am not a weirdo! And I was not staring, just…taking a quick glance, that's all." Who knew you'd have to defend yourself against pokémon.
"Yeah, right…" Torchic stifled a laugh.
"Whatever." I rolled my eyes in defeat.
"Are you ready May?" Ash asked me, dusting off his pants.
"Sure." We walked over to an open area nearby where we set up our little lunch.
"Okay, go Tailow." He called for his swallow pokémon.
"Tailow's going to have an advantage over Wurmple, but never the less…I guess. Go Wurmple!" I called for my red worm-like pokémon.
"What?" he said absentmindedly.
"It's time to battle, come on." I called again. He slowly squirmed his way over to in front of me.
"You're using Wurmple?" Ash asked from the other side of the field.
"Yep. I might have a slight disadvantage but I only used Wurmple once ever since I caught him so…" I explained.
"Okay it's your choice." He said. "Let's start things off with quick attack Tailow!" he yelled the first attack.
"Use string shot!" I called out. Tailow was coming closer at a fast pace, but Wurmple fired a gooey string-like substance that wrapped around Tailow's midsection, stopping it in mid-flight.
"Take this opportunity and use Tackle!" He wiggled over to the fallen Tailow and charged at it, knocking it back a few feet.
"Focus your energy Tailow!" Tailow closed its eyes and focused.
"Try a poison sting Wurmple!" I tried to use this time to the best of my abilities while Tailow was out for the moment. And Wurmple fired little purple lines at Tailow creating a small cloud.
"Break through and use peck!" Ash called out and it attacked. With ease, it broke through the string shot and was aiming its beak and Wurmple and hit it head on. It tumbled back and few feet and cried out.
"You okay Wurmple?" I asked. He nodded and got back in a battle stance.
"String shot again!" Please work!
"Dodge and use quick attack!" Tailow flew to the left and dive bombed Wurmple.
"Wurmple!" I cried out as it tumbled back again. It looked very fatigued but still battle ready.
"You're doing good May!" Ash yelled.
"Come on Wurmple, you can do it." I encouraged it as he stood once more.
"Alright! Use poison sting then go into string shot!" I commanded. Again, he fired the purple lines, which Tailow dodged, but by doing that he ran right into the string shot. "Tackle!" I said with a flash of confidence in my eyes.
"Try to break through!" Ash yelled. Tailow struggled in the wrap and got out a little too late. Wurmple hit its target and sent it tumbling backwards. "Are you okay Tailow?" Ash asked. It got back up and chirped. "Let's finish this off with another peck attack!" Tailow dive bombed Wurmple again and fell on its side with swirls in its eyes.
"Oh no, Wurmple…" I bent down and picked him up in my arms.
"Sorry May…" he muttered.
"It's okay, I'm just glad you did your best." I answered back.
"I'm proud of you. You did great." I stood up and Ash was making way over to me with Tailow flying around his head.
"Great battle May, you almost beat me. One more tackle and it would've been over." He smiled.
"Thanks Ash. Now what?" I asked as we walked back over to where Pikachu and the other pokémon were.
"Now, let's talk strategy. Using string shot to trap Tailow and then using tackle was really smart. You just need to use defensive attacks, especially when you have a type disadvantage." He explained.
"Okay, so where am I as a trainer?" he pondered and moment before answering.
"I'd say you're past the rookie level and now you're intermediate. Not the greatest but you're not the worst. That's pretty good considering that you just started." I smiled.
"Wow. I'm an intermediate trainer!" I cheered.
"Come on we should go to the pokémon center and get Wurmple healed. Treecko! Tailow! Return!" he recalled them.
"You too Wurmple, take a nice rest. Hop on Torchic." She jumped onto my shoulder.
"How'd the battle go?" she asked me.
"It went just fine. Even though I lost." She looked at me sadly.
"How's the worm guy?" she asked.
"Worm guy? He's okay, a rest at the pokémon center is all he needs right now." I answered.
"That's good…now what are we going to do?" she's just full of questions today.
"I don't know. Hey Ash? What are we going to do for the rest of the day?" I asked him.
"How about we visit the Devon Corp.? I read in the guide books that that's the place they make the coolest gadgets and stuff." He suggested.
"Sounds good to me. But let's go to the pokémon center first." He nodded as we walked in.
"Nurse Joy, could heal my Wurmple?" I set his pokéball on the counter.
"And my Tailow too?" he followed suit.
"Sure, come back for them later." She gave her famous smiled as we thanked her and walked out.
"Where is it?" he pulled out the guidebook and started flipping through the book.
"Hmm…hold on a sec." I peered from behind his shoulder to take a look.
"Do you see it?" he turned to ask me. I shook my head and kept looking.
"There!" I pointed and a yellow dot on the map with my right hand on his shoulder.
"Let's go!" he ran ahead.
"What is with this guy and running?" I asked Torchic while chasing after Ash. She shrugged and clinged tightly to my shirt.
"Help! Someone help me!" I heard a manly voice.
"Huh? I turned and saw a guy in a green suit sweating and biting his nails.
"Hey mister? Is something wrong?" I asked walking up to him.
"Are you a trainer?" he asked frantically.
"Um, yeah?" I answered nervously.
"Please help me! A guy in a pirate costume stole some very important information from me and I need it." He shook my shoulders.
"Okay, okay! I'll help you. Which way did he go?" I asked him.
"He went that way. Thank you so much." He bowed.
"Sure…weirdo." I muttered under my breath. The guy pointed to the north exit of the city and went running in that direction. On my way I saw Ash walking while a disappointed look on his face.
"Ash!" I called out to him he looked up and ran over to me.
"What's up May?" he asked.
"This man asked me to help him get some papers back that were stolen from him. You want to help?" I asked him.
"Sure." He said in a sad tone.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked.
"They won't let anyone in without an ID." He said in an angry tone.
"I'm sorry Ash. Now come on!"
Kris: Cliffhanger!
AJ: Oh!
Kris: …
AJ: What?
Mikey: Humpty Dumpty sat on a way, humpty dumpty had a great fall. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!
Kris&AJ:?
Mikey: Cake & Fries!
Kris: That explains it. Okay, you read about May and Ash's practice, Wurmple can talk too, and now when introduce the guy in the green suit and the pirate that robbed him.
AJ: Argh!
Mikey: Pirates of the Caribbean!
Kris: Idiot, anyway…yeah. OH! I uploaded a new video on YouTube. You guys have to check it out! Advanceshipping of course!
AJ: Check it out if you haven't already!
Kris: See you!
All: Thanks for reading!
R&R