Nov 3rd 20XX

I had to hurry to catch up to Phoenix and the rapidly fleeing Pikachu. I was berating myself mentally as I ran for doing something as stupid as leaving something as important as Phoenix's pokeball lying around. I caught sight of her flying around trees to try and catch up to him fast as possible, her fear apparently forgotten in her rage. I wasn't sure I could catch up with them, but I was surprised by my new body's speed and endurance. I had not been the most agile or speedy person in my original form so this was new, not to mention just plain awesome.

I followed Phoenix carefully, weaving my way through the trees and over roots; I even had to jump over a fallen log and nearly took a header into a bush with the speed I was going. I heard Phoenix cursing and I managed to catch up with her and the Pikachu at the base of a tall tree. He had climbed up to the tippy top branches higher than Phoenix was willing to climb herself or fly, apparently even as pissed off as she was, the tree was high enough for her to take pause.

She stood on the ground cursing him "Come down here you pathetic, yellow excuse for a static filled dust bunny, so I can strangle you with my tail or whatever else happens to be handy!"

The Pikachu mockingly chittered back at her and Phoenix froze her fur bristling in what quickly surpassed anger and spiraled into outright, homicidal fury. "What the hell did you just say to me you, little bastard!?"

She turned to me and I could practically see the fires burning in her blue eyes and steam coming off her little Mew body. She was oh so beyond pissed. "Did you hear what he just said to me, Tori!?

I shook my head simply and was rewarded by Phoenix responding with a sharp bark, "He said maybe he'd be nice if I made some Poké eggs with him! I'm going to skin his kleptomaniac ass alive and beat him to death with the still bloody hide before I give it to you to wear as a fashionable hat!"

She turned looking back up the tree and snarled "You hear me, you damn rat?! I'm gonna draw and quarter you while beating you with a piece of razor wire! You are dead! Do you understand me?! Dead!"

I looked up at the Pikachu as he taunted Phoenix some more sticking his tongue out at us and said some more things that I couldn't understand. "Wait, Nix, can you understand what he's saying?" I distracted her a moment from her cursing at the Pikachu and telling him something extremely disturbing about exactly what she planned to do with his entrails when she got a hold of him.

"Yes, and he's going to pay dearly for it! With pain. Massively excruciating amounts of pain!"

He said something at Phoenix in Pokémon and she threw a rock at him. I heard the Pikachu chitter at Phoenix again and whatever he said while waving her pokeball at her make her screech with anger.

Calmly I said "Funny that you can understand him and I can't."

"Wanna trade?" She snarled before snapping her attention back to the Pikachu and picking up her threats (this time something about honey, fire ants, dull nails, and hot coals) without missing a beat.

"Well, he can't stay up there forever, right? Any ideas on getting him down?" I asked the fuming and rather mentally unstable Mew.

"Five gallons of gasoline and a match." She growled, before pausing and seriously considering the question I asked her. Her eyes widened and she grinned maliciously, when she spoke next, her voice was very quiet, like she didn't want the Pikachu to hear what she had to say. "Here's what we're going to do, I'll climb slash fly up as far as I can without freaking out and distract him, you reach into your bag of awesome and pull out a slingshot and a free pokeball. While his focus is on me, you use the slingshot to fire the empty pokeball at him. Best case scenario, it temporarily catches him and knocks his ass to ground level and frees my pokeball from his possession, worst case scenario, it actually catches the little fucker... Then again, if it does catch him, it'll be fairly easy for me to maim and then murder him."

I looked at Phoenix, then I looked up at the smug Pikachu and thought to myself that maybe we could use another Pokémon added to our party. After all, Phoenix would get tired if she was the only one participating in battles

"Hey Nix? I say catching him is a good idea, but what if we let him live? Seriously all he did was be an insulting jerk and we could use more Pokémon to help us out."

"Insulting jerk? Insulting jerk?! He suggested I jump him! Screw more Pokémon for the team, the rat dies!"

I quickly changed my thought process and went about appealing to Phoenix's current homicidal rage. "You could make him pay on a regular basis if we catch him."

Phoenix seemed to consider the idea a moment as she stared up at the mocking Pikachu. "But I really want to kill him..." she pouted, her voice tinged with a slight whine that I knew meant she was caving.

I tried to sweeten the deal, "Maybe once you've broken him in, he'll be your minion, Nix. You've always wanted a minion to do your bidding, right? Please spare him, for me?"

I paused, waiting for her answer. She sighed heavily and replied "Fine! But I reserve the right to maim him after he's caught. And he shall be made aware that his continued existence is dependent upon your benevolence, cause gods know the only reason I'm sparing him is because you want me to so badly."

I nodded and went quickly back to camp and grabbed what I needed before heading back to the clearing with my friend and her would be victim.