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Chapter 12

Venipede


Completing my trip across the Skyarrow Bridge, coming to Castelia City from Pinwheel Forest. This was the sight of my third Pokémon Gym battle, with the Gym Leader of Castelia City's Gym, Burgh of the Bug Pokémon.

"Finally I made it," I said as I stretched walking pass the Castelia's City Pokémon Center. I looked around, the city is pretty big. Looking down at the guide tour map, it said I should get some of Castelia's Famous Casteliacone. Casteliacone is a popular ice cream stand in Castelia City, which sells ice creams with the same name as the store. I looked at the map and saw there was a short cut right through Central Plaza to where the Gym was.

"Ready for your gym battle Luna," Snivy asked as he walked along side me. I picked him up after I put the tour guide back in my bag and nodded. "Yes, I hope so."

I looked at the tree when I head some restyling noises as the branches moved around, I heard Snivy mutter, "It's the Bug Pokémon; they must be picked up something like I have. You've felt it too, right Luna?"

I nodded, looking up at the tree, "I have felt something weird too."

"You know how Bug-type Pokémon can become restless when something big is going to happen."

"It has been scientifically proven that Bug-type have an ability, Snivy. They can sense electromagnetic waves."

"Well ye- Huh?" Snivy began but suddenly turned to the sewers, "I hear some weird sounds coming from the sewers Luna."

"You do?"

"Yes, can we go and investigate?"

"Don't really see why not," I thought out loud, nodding, Snivy jumped out of my arms; I lifted the man-hole cover with trouble and Snivy helped out in the end. I climbed down the latter and stood next to the sewer waters, Snivy in my arms once more. "Now, let's go."

I walked but found nothing out of the ordinary until an insectoid, larva-like Pokémon wiggled in a pipe, its head stuck. Taking out my pokedex, it said, Venipede, the Centipede Pokémon. Venipede explores its surroundings by sensing vibrations in the air with feelers on its head and tail.

"Wow, those are some amazing antennas."

"We really need to stop meeting like this Luna," someone said as I looked up to see Ash with Pikachu on his shoulder, Cilan, Iris with Axew and Burgh.

"Oh hello everyone. I'm guessing you heard strange sounds down here and decided to investigate as well?"

"Yes we are," Burgh as everyone surrounded the stuck Venipede, "Now we need to get this Venipede out."

"But what's it doing?"

"It looks like it got stuck somehow," Cilan answered Iris's question.

"Okay, I'll get you out!" Ash stated, moving to the stuck Pokémon when Burgh stopped him on the shoulder, "Wait! Poison Point is Venipede's ability. Be careful or you'll be poisoned."

"But... It's so wake; poor thing," Ash said sympathetically to the Venipede. Ash was about to move when Snivy used his vines to circle around and tug and pull at the Pokémon until it became unstuck. The Venipede fell to the floor; Snivy tucked back his vines as he stood in front of me in attack mode so that Venipede won't be able to get out of control. Pikachu looked at the hurt Pokémon with a curious gave.

"Who are you," asked the Venipede, backing to the sewer wall using Screech on all of us. I covered my ears, trying to stop the high-pitch sequel that was splitting my head in half.

"Venipede stop!" I shouted, Venipede did indeed stop but was in pain. I knelt down in front of the hurt Pokémon, who was glaring at me. "I just want to help you please; you need to take it easy."

"Stay away from me," it hissed at me.

"Watch out Luna, it'll attack," Cilan said.

"Luna, you need to stop, please," Iris begged.

"It's alright, you can trust me," I said, not letting Cilan or Iris please stop me. Snivy watched intently from behind me, peaking at the hurt Pokémon who hissed at me again, the Venipede lunged at surprising everyone as I caught it when it bumped heads with me. I smiled, "See I'm not going to hurt you. Everything's going to be alright."

Venipede looked at Snivy when he spoke softly, "She right, she won't hurt you."

"So we're cool?"

"Yes," Venipede finally answered with a nod.

"Wait, why aren't you poisoned Luna?" Ash asked me from behind.

I crooked my head upwards to see him upside down, "Because I know how to where to touch Pokémon like Venipede so I won't get poisoned. Mama taught it to me when I was little."

"Fascinating," Burgh said as he bandaged up Venipede. "That should do it."

"That's great thank you Burgh," I said with a smile as well did the others.

"Well it was nothing but you Luna; you have awed my pure heart. Incredible!" Burgh smiled back with a wink.

A sweat drop was formed; I turned my head to Iris, "Is he always like it?"

She nodded, "Yeah..." She handed an Oran Berry to Venipede, "Here eat this."

Venipede sucked the juices from the berry happily and said thanks to the Dragon Master in training. Until a loud sound came from somewhere, a huge swarm of Venipede marched they're way through the sewers. Everyone one shocked to the least, Burgh was the first to speak, "Venipede live on the lands just outside of Castelia City. So what are they doing here?"

Some of the Venipede stood in front of us and used Screech; we covered out ears with all out might's.

"It's using Screech again," muttered though tightly closed teeth.

"They're angry about something," Burgh said in the same way but louder. Two other Venipede used Sludge Bombs to assault at us that we narrowly avoid. The swarm of Venipede start chasing after them as the bandaged Venipede decides to stay behind in the sewers. They started to gain on us as we turned to run, Ash worried about the Venipede we helped out but there was no time as Cilan pulled him along, all of us made it back through the man-hole cover that Ash and friends went through.

When everyone gets out, we all realized the Venipede were invading the city and attacking the buildings along with the people.

My eyes widen, watching all the Venipede invading the city. When all of us were on the sidewalk, Officer Jenny appears on her motorcycle with Herdier and explains that the Venipede came out from the sewers, "You all have to flee here, and it's too dangerous."

"But Officer can you tell us what's happening?" Burgh asked Officer Jenny.

"Only that a Venipede colony is swarming the city," was her answer.

"Yes, but why?" Cilan asked this time.

"We've got Professor Juniper working on that," was Officer Jenny's answer. When Ash was about to say something, we suddenly hear an explosion coming from downtown to which we immediately run to as see a group of Trainers attacking the Venipede with their Fire-type Pokémon.

"They're everywhere," Iris exclaimed. One of the Trainers was Trip as he saw eyes with surprise; he called out a Pokémon called Lampent to take on the Venipede.

"Who's that Pokémon?" I wondered. The pokedex and on said, Lampent, the Lamp Pokémon. Lampent moves around by floating through the air. Most often found in the deep forest, they now can be seen living in cities as well.

"Listen everyone let's use Flamethrower," Trip called out to the other trainers. One used Darmanitan, another one used a Tepig and the third one used a Pansear, all using Flamethrower. The fire move damaged some but others grew angry and assault them with Sludge Bombs. Trip tells the other trainer, "Stay strong, use Flamethrower again!"

My eyes widen as I saw all the hurt Pokémon, their plea shaking in air around me, I fell to my knees and covered my ears. "Make them stop, make them stop hurting them. Please..." I whimpered out, Ash laid a hand on my shoulder, looking up at his determined look and nodded.

"Stop it!" Ash yelled out, gaining the trainer's attention, "You can't do that?"

"Ugh, out of my way. I don't have time to deal with you now," Trip said back to Ash,

"Why are you attacking the Venipede Trip?"

"Because they're attacking us for no reason at all; the only thing we can do is stop them," Trip argued back.

"Look, right now Professor Juniper is trying to figure out what's really happening. So knock it off!"

"So naïve, Ash, for your information this is not the Kanto Region boonies, see."

"What was that!?" Ash yelled, putting up a fist.

"What did you just say!?" Pikachu growled angrily.

"Now look, it's imperative to act quickly," said a man in a gray button down suit walk in.

"They mayor," said Officer Jenny stunned

"Or otherwise the Venipede will bring our fair city down to our knees," he continued.

"But-" Ash started.

The mayor said before Ash could finish, "Their poison also poses a great threat. Citizen Safety is my prime concern, Venipede must all be removed."

I looked up at the mayor, "But sir if you try to remove them, it'll only anger them more the fight could only grow and battling between both sides would surly end up hurting both."

"Well, do you have a better idea?"

"We could gathered the Venipede in the Central Plaza and keep them there, so we can find out why the Venipede are in the city," Burgh said when he came up with the idea. The mayor thought of the idea...

"Your Honor, Professor Juniper is exactly working on that as we speak," Officer Jenny explained.

"Mr. Mayor won't you please," Ash, Cilan and Iris said together, determined eyes staring at the mayor.

"But who would we get the Venipede to go to Central Plaza?" The man asked everyone.

"We can find the Venipede leader; they'll sure follow their leader anywhere. Trust me," Burgh said as he help me off of the ground, Snivy snuggled lightly in my arms

"I see... All right than, let's give your plan a shot." The mayor said to Burgh, nodding. Everyone grinned but the mayor continued with a serious look to the others, "However, if you are not able to get them into Central Plaza I'll be forced to remove them. So agreed?"

"Agreed. We'll search for their leader immediately. Would you please get Nurse Joy Cilan? We'll need the help of Audino" Burgh asked. Cilan said he would stay at the Pokémon Center to go get Nurse Joy and her Audino. Everyone nodded; Burgh, Ash and Iris head off to find the Venipede leader as Trip ponders about the Venipede's leader. I looked down at Snivy, nodded and took off in a different direction to look for the leader of the Venipede.

As I ran through the streets, Snivy asked how they'll find the leader of the Venipede.

I rounded a corner and explained, "Since wild Pokémon stand side by side in times of danger, we'll find a lot of Venipede crowded around one Venipede that's the leader; also the leader will be at a certain place where they can monitor the swarm, like a lookout for any danger that may come and will come down and battle anyone who approaches." Snivy nodded, looking around for the leader as well.

"Just like that," Snivy pointed out as a Venipede used Sludge Bomb at Ash and the other who dodge, I turned my head to see Trip appear on the scene and tell his Lampent to attack the Venipede leader with Flamethrower. Ash tells Trip to stop, but Trip says that if the leader were to be defeated, the swarm would fall apart. Trip has his Lampent use Shadow Ball on the leader and didn't know what happened next as I was suddenly in front of the leader, taking the Shadow Ball for him and falling behind him. I could head Ash, Iris and Burgh run to my side.

"Trip stop this now," I could hear Burgh say, Iris helped me up slowly with Ash's help, both of them on either of my side. Suddenly, he Venipede that was stuck in the sewer pipe from before appears and crawls towards Ash, "I know you."

Than to me with a sorrowful look, "Are you okay?"

I smiled, "Yes, I'm alright."

Ash glared at Trip, "You see Trip, and these Venipede are really nice Pokémon. Than that means there has to be a reason for them to be so angry," Ash looked at the Venipede who all stared back at us.

"I couldn't care less about your reason, the result is what counts," Trip said. Oh Trip, how could you say something like that?

"You don't have the right to stop them! The honesty from out pure hearts has been fully realized yet," Burgh said his hand over his heart.

"He's right," Iris agreed, helping me upward as Snivy ran to me asking if I was okay, I nodded with a smile.

"Give them a chance," Ash did as well.

"Burgh, I found Nurse Joy and her Audino and brought them with me." Cilan returns along with Nurse Joy and her Audino.

Trip calls back his Lampent, agreeing to stay out of our way in the plan and walks off. Burgh turns to Nurse Joy, "Nurse Joy, may we please use Audino's Heal Pulse to calm the Venipede down?"

"Of course," Nurse Joy agreed, clapping her hand together and turning to Audino she said, "Audino use Heal Pulse."

"Yes ma'am," Audio said cheerily, using Heal Pulse to calm the Venipede successfully.

Burgh pulls out a Bug Flute and plays it as all the Venipede start to follow him. We all stared in aw by this, Burgh says to us, "I'll lead them to Central Plaza; in the meantime, you get the rest of the remaining separated Venipede."

"Right," the trio said as Nurse Joy said they would help out as well, all watching Burgh lead the Venipede away. Ash runs towards an alley and calls out Pidove, making her use Gust to get the individual Venipede with the others. Iris heads towards some Venipede on the roof of a building and tells Axew to use Dragon Rage; though watching Axew fail at the move was comical it did scare the Venipede into joining the herd. Cilan had Pansage help with Bullet Seed, lightly, as well.

I asked Snivy to use Vine Whip to gather some on the wall and set them on the ground, watching them walk back to the heard Burgh was leading. Audino and Nurse Joy used Heal Pulse to break up some fighting ones, making them clam and happy as they walked back to the herd. I watched as Trip has his Tranquill save Ash's Pidove from the attacking Venipede as he decides to help as well. Through these series of events, Ash's Pidove starts to evolve! Ash's newly evolved Tranquill works with Trip's Tranquill to get the last of the Venipede reunited with the swarm.

Then I felt something in the air that came swiftly and leave as quick. Frowning, I pondered on what that was. It felt like the same strange energy signal but heavier. What was it and where was it coming from?

Night has now fallen on Castelia City, as all the Venipede have gathered in the central plaza.

"All of the Venipede have been secured in Central Plaza," Officer Jenny announced to everyone.

"That great," Ash said as he smiled at the Venipede from sewer.

"Yes," Venipede said happily.

"Yeah," Pikachu agreed.

"Yes now we can rest easy for now. Burgh, thank you and good work," The Mayor of Castelia City said.

"Thanks but they're the ones who deserved to be praised," Burgh pointed us out.

"No you do. We just did what you told us to do," Ash said, smiling at the Castelia Gym Leader.

"We knew it was the right thing to do," Cilan said after.

"It sure was," Iris agreed.

"Thank you, you all did great. I'm truly grateful," the Mayor thanked all of us. Trip starts to walk off saying that his Gym challenge probably won't come any time soon, and that he's headed to the next city for his Badge.

"Oh boy," Iris said, glancing at Trip.

"I sense a bitter after taste. You could say that's in Trip's recipe," Cilan said, chuckling.

"Hey Trip, next time we see each other let's have a Pokémon battle," Ash called out after Trip.

"We'll have to see if you're worth battling," Trip said back, walking away, "See you later Luna."