Pikatwig: Well, it's Neo time.
KKD: Yep, and we are just raking in the number of chapters in this one, unlike some other stories I write.
Pikatwig: Let's do it to it!
DISCLAIMERS: KKD & Pikatwig only own Takeshi, Hana, Daisuke, Xion, Ino, Koyomi, and Kaito. The rest belong to Nintendo, Game Freak, the Pokemon Company, and their respective owners.
KKD Studios Presents
In association with Pikatwig Entertainment
(Cue V (Volt))
*Intro begins with Shocker examining a PokeBall before pushing it aside and waving at the camera before hearing something and jumping on Takeshi's shoulder.*
DRAGON GHOST jimen hikou doku mushi mizu denki iwa kusa aku kouri NORMAL honou kakutou hagane ESPER FAIRY (Dragon, Ghost, Ground, Flying, Poison, Bug, Water, Electric, Rock, Grass, Dark, Ice Normal, Fire, Fighting, Steel, Psychic, Fairy) *We get scenes from all over the Kanto Region, getting a glimpse of the many Pokemon while Takeshi & his friends run around on their journey.*
Saa kokokara bouken da hikari no saki no hatemade (Let's go, my adventure starts from here to the horizon and beyond) *Show a picture of the entire Kanto Region, and then zoom in on Pallet Town to show our main heroes, zooming in on Takeshi and Shocker hanging out.*
Sora kara niboreta namida no ame kaki wakete (The sky overflows with rainy tears but we push our way through) *Hana and Cinnamon were followed up showing the two preparing for a Pokemon Contest, even showing Cinnamon as an Eevee before she evolved into Flareon. She then looks at her reflection in a lake and sees herself in her Rocket Admin Attire, and then she swats the image away.*
Saa yuuki dashita ikou ka kinou boku ni katsutame (Let's go, use our courage to be better than yesterday) *Daisuke and Striker were finally followed up, preparing for the day when Shigeru would be fought, with Striker, like Cinnamon, being seen as an Eevee before evolving into his Vaporeon stage.*
Donna deai no takara da (Treasure every encounter) *We then shift views nearby to see Koyomi, Kaito, and Electabuzz spying on the kids before turning to see Misty and the silhouettes of the other Kanto Gym Leaders in Team Rocket.*
Doki doki doki CHALLENGER (Heart-pounding Challenger!) *Misty then slaps the trio before her, leaving them with red marks on their cheeks.*
Itsuka kanarazu kanaeru yuma ga aru (One day, my dream will be fulfilled) *Takeshi, with Shocker on his shoulder, is seen running down a path filled with tall grass before stopping before a plateau, showing all the gym leaders' silhouettes and those of the Elite Four*
Kimi ga oshiete kuretanosa sou dakarakoso tabi ni deru (So that's why I'll go on my journey) *Takeshi is then joined by Hana with Cinnamon and Daisuke before looking ahead to see Shigeru amidst the silhouettes, and then our main group smirked before charging forward.*
Akai kizuna no wa ga dekaku hirogattara (Bonding's red rings spread far and wide) *Takeshi is then seen commanding five of his Pokemon, Shocker, Deku, Gaim, Mega, Bubbles, and a sixth Pokemon's silhouette into battles one at a time.*
Tashina no koto genki mo sugu minna ni todoku no sa (Its energy reaches everybody) *They then all turn to see Mew smiling nearby as they turn and attack the leader of Team Rocket's Pokemon on Takeshi's orders.*
Aoi bokura no hoshi no kibou ha kagayaite (This blue planet shines with hope) *The team's main Pokemon, in their last evolutionary stage by the end of this arc, are then seen showing off their signature moves*
Kiiroi hana ga saku (While the yellow flowers bloom) *Shocker finishes this with his own Electro Ball before a symbol appears and several Pokemon that are in their final evolutionary stage go through Mega Evolution!*
DRAGON GHOST jimen hikou doku mushi mizu denki iwa kusa aku kouri NORMAL honou kakutou hagane ESPER FAIRY (Dragon, Ghost, Ground, Flying, Poison, Bug, Water, Electric, Rock, Grass, Dark, Ice Normal, Fire, Fighting, Steel, Psychic, Fairy) *The legendary birds appear in the background before Mewtwo & Mew fly in front of them, and with a flash, the title appears with our heroes behind it.*
Pokemon Neo Yellow Version
Hana: Well last time was… unexpected. We decided to go down Cycling Road to get closer to Fuschia City, but on the way, Daisuke and I bumped into each other, forcing us to drop our PokeBalls.
Daisuke: It the caused a Trade Shinka!
Hana: And by that, he means we accidentally traded Shadow & Wrecker, causing them to evolve into Gengar and… whatever Rhydon became, in our next battle against some weird biker gang. Anyway, I think it's time we get things going in this next city.
Chapter 26: Safari Adventure! Rarer than Rare!
"A safari?" Hana asked.
"Safari Zone to be specific," Daisuke noted.
"Why would they need a place like this?" Takeshi asked.
"Dunno," Daisuke shrugged.
"So… should we check it out?" Takeshi asked.
"Yeah," they nodded as they walked up to the office of the Safari Zone, and they saw a bin with some strange looking PokeBalls; whereas the normal one was red and white, this PokeBall had a camo pattern where the red should've been.
"Wow," Daisuke said.
"What kind of PokeBalls are these?" Hana wondered.
"Safari Balls," a new voice said.
"Huh?" the trio gawked before turning to see the source of the voice.
"These are Safari Balls, you use them to catch wild Pokemon in the Safari Zone," the person repeated, revealing himself to be wearing a green apron, his skin was a fair white shade, and he had a red hat over his head.
"And, uh, who are you exactly?" Takeshi asked.
"I'm Tor, pleased to meet you all," he answered.
"Well, I'm Takeshi, and this is my sister Hana and our friends Daisuke, Cinnamon, & Shocker," Takeshi listed.
"So, have you three came to go into the Safari?" Tor asked.
"Yep," they all answered.
"Alright, each of you will be given thirty Safari Balls, and you have an hour to be in there, okay?" Tor told them.
"Gotcha," they nodded as they were given the Safari Balls.
"But there's a catch; you can't execute Pokemon battles in the Safari Zone," Tor added.
"Why?" Takeshi asked.
"Let's say the Pokemon here are more endangered than you'd expect. But to make it easier to catch them, you'll be given some rocks and bait; the rocks are what you use to weaken them, and the bait is like a stall them until you can catch them with a Safari Ball," Tor explained.
"Okay," Takeshi sighed, and then after taking what he needed, he pulled out his PokeBalls and then put Shocker down. "Can you watch our Pokemon til we get back?"
"Yeah, but those Pokemon who are out of their PokeBalls, they can go with you," Tor added.
"I guess that's a relief," Takeshi shrugged as Shocker hopped onto Takeshi's shoulder.
"See you later sir," Hana said as they walked in.
They walked into what looked like a vast grassland.
"Now this is impressive," Takeshi noted.
"See ya guys later," Hana said walking off with Cinnamon.
"I guess we'll meet up later," Daisuke shrugged walking off himself.
"Well, I guess it's just you and me, Shocker," Takeshi figured as he dashed off in a different direction.
The first Pokemon they come across is a pink Pokemon with an egg in a pouch like a kangaroo.
"Wow, a Chansey!" Takeshi gawked. "Okay, Shocker, use…"
"Pika-Pika! Pi-Pikachu!" Shocker responded, reminding Takeshi he couldn't battle.
"Oh that's right, you can't battle here," Takeshi remembered.
He tossed a Safari Ball, and the Pokemon then ran off. "Oh come on!"
"Pika!" Shocker snapped, pointing to the rocks and bait provided for him, reminding Takeshi he could just lure the Pokemon with the bait or weaken them with a rock.
They then ran after the Pokemon and tossed a rock at it, but Takeshi missed, hitting a different Pokemon. They saw it was some kind of bird, but it had a black and cream body, peach beak and talons, pale red wings, and brownish-orange tail plumage and head feathers.
"Oops…" he said as the Pokemon began to peck him, and then flew away. "Dumb bird!"
"SPEAROW!" it squawked at the two, still trying to peck them, but another Pokemon told it to go away, this Pokemon was some kind of red crab with large eyes and two red and yellow mushrooms sprouting from its back.
"Ok, let's try this then," Takeshi muttered as the Spearow flew off, and Takeshi actually placed down some bait before the Paras, who walked over and began to nibble it, but then it was quickly caught in a Safari Ball, which wobbled a bit before… ding!
"YES! We finally caught a Pokemon in the Safari Zone!" Takeshi cheered.
Back with Daisuke, he was just sitting at the water's edge, with his pole out, fishing. He eventually got something on the line.
"Whoa! I got a bite!" he gawked before reeling in some strange four-legged pink Pokemon with a cream-colored muzzle, and a long tail with a pink tip.
Daisuke quickly used his Safari Ball and caught this Pokemon. Later, he walked off and found a brown bug-type Pokemon with silver mandibles and pincers on the top of its head. It didn't take much for Daisuke to catch this Pokemon either, knocking it down with only a rock before throwing his Safari Ball. As he picked up his new Pokemon, he turned and saw Shigeru walking up to a set of six pink eggs, one of them missing a piece of the shell, he caught it, and then walked away.
"Sometimes I will never understand him," Daisuke said as he saw a Pokemon near a river bank getting a sip of water, it was a bull Pokemon.
"Oh my… it's a Tauros! I've always wanted one!" Daisuke said, pulling out a cowboy hat and putting on his head.
After laying some bait down, Daisuke was able to catch the Tauros with ease.
"YEEHAW!" he screamed in joy before picking up the Safari Ball.
Meanwhile, with Hana, she walks over and sees a small pinkish-purple pokemon that looked like it had the ears of a rabbit, buck-teeth, with a small horn on its head and spines on its back.
"Looks like a male Nidoran. Time to catch this bad boy," she smirked, throwing a rock and a Safari Ball; the rock hit first, followed by the Safari Ball, thus, making the Nidoran go inside the ball.
"Did we get it?" Hana wondered as she and Flareon got closer before… ding! "Yep, we got a male Nidoran."
After this, she looked over by a lake and saw a strange-looking water-type Pokemon jump in. She then rushed to the lake to get a good look at it.
"Flare?" Cinnamon asked, wondering if Hana could see it.
"Yeah, what was it?" she asked herself.
Without even knowing it, though, a Tauros came up from behind, and accidentally knocked Hana into the lake.
"FLAREON!" Cinnamon gasped, knowing well that Hana couldn't swim.
Hana was struggling to hold her breath, when she reached for Spiral's PokeBall, and then she remembered she left it with Tor. And so, she just panicked, trying to get to the surface, but with no luck whatever.
Just as she was about to drown a Pokemon took her and swam her to the surface, Cinnamon saw this Pokemon and chased after her, following it on shore until the Pokemon brought Hana to the surface and back onto shore, making her cough as she struggled to breathe.
An hour later, Takeshi, Shocker, and Daisuke met back at the entrance.
"Any sign of Hana?" Takeshi asked Daisuke.
"Nope," Daisuke answered, and so they waited ten minutes… but still no Hana.
"Okay, now I'm getting worried," Takeshi admitted.
"...Let's go tell Tor," Daisuke suggested.
Later, Hana soon awoke with Cinnamon right next to her, but then she noticed something else, a tribe of the water type Pokemon she saw before, but what she saw was just the small yellow-orange monkeys with blue tail tips, shoulders, neck, ears, and head with the top looking like the top of a geyser. She also saw some older Pokemon, looking like evolved forms of the little monkeys, except these had blue and white pieces easily mistaken for dresses, and the head fur now looked like waterfalls.
"What the?" Hana groaned.
"Pan! Pour, Pan!" one said.
"Simi, simi, pour," another said, and then it turned to Hana. "Pour, Pour, Simi, Pour! Simipour!"
"What?" Hana gawked, unable to understand what the monkeys said. "Are you saying to not let anyone know I saw you?"
"Pour!" the Simipour said.
"Okay then," Hana sighed, as she slowly got to her feet, but then, one of the smaller monkeys, or Panpour, grabbed her foot. "Now what?"
It pointed to a Safari Ball, being the only one that was brought to the surface after Hana drowned, while the other ones were broken and around the small campfire. "You wanna come with me?" she asked.
"Pour!" the monkey nodded as Hana picked up the Safari Ball.
"Alrighty then," she said catching it, and then the small tribe of Panpour and Simipour pointed to the quickest route for Hana to leave.
Sometime later, Hana and Cinnamon finally return to the entrance with the only two Pokemon she caught in their Safari Balls. And it wasn't long after that she saw Takeshi and Daisuke, the former pulling her into a tight hug.
"Oh my goodness, Hana, I was so worried about you! You were gone for like five hours!" Takeshi responded, tears close to falling from his eyes.
"Sorry about worrying you," she said.
"It's okay," Takeshi sighed, calming down.
"Hey, know that we're back together, why don't we check our Pokedexs?" Daisuke suggested.
"Good idea," Hana nodded, deciding not to tell them right away about Panpour, and scanned her Pokedex until it came up to Nidoran Male's entry.
-Nidoran Male, the Poison Pin Pokemon. Its large ears are always kept upright. If it senses danger, it will attack with a poisonous sting.-
"Neat," Hana said.
"I'll say," Daisuke agreed.
"Yea. Well, guess it's my turn," Takeshi figured, seeing as Hana already closed her Pokedex and Takeshi opened his.
-Paras, the Mushroom Pokemon. Burrows under the ground to gnaw on tree roots. The mushrooms on its back absorb most of the nutrition.-
"So how about… Mario for a nickname?" Takeshi said.
"I guess it works," Daisuke shrugged.
-Kangaskhan, the Parent Pokemon. Raises its young in its belly pouch. Won't run from any fight to keep its young protected.-
"Now that's sweet," Hana smiled.
"Well, that's all I got, and I like… Guardian," Takeshi sighed, pocketing his dex.
"Man, I got more than you both combined," Daisuke chuckled as he opened his next.
-Nidoqueen, the Drill Pokemon. Tough scales cover the sturdy body of this Pokemon. It appears that the scales grow in cycles.-
"Wow!" Hana said.
"Eh," Takeshi said.
-Weepinbell, the Flycatcher Pokemon. When hungry, it swallows anything that moves. Its hapless prey is melted inside by strong acid.-
"Um… okay?" Hana muttered.
"Looks like the Gengar family line isn't the only one with freaky Pokedex entries," Takeshi noted.
-Slowpoke, the Dopey Pokemon. Incredibly slow and sluggish. It is quite content to loll about without worrying about the time.-
"... slowmo?" Hana asked.
"It's Slowpoke nee-chan," Takeshi corrected before chuckling at the labeled name. "Dopey."
-Grimer, the Sludge Pokemon. Made of hardened sludge. It smells too putrid to touch. Even weeds won't grow in its path.-
"Eww!" Hana responded.
"Gross!" Takeshi agreed.
-Krabby, the River Crab Pokemon. Its pincers are superb weapons. They sometimes break off during battle, but they grow back fast.-
"So, they can die, and then come back?" Takeshi asked.
"I think it's only talking about the claws, Nii-chan; the claws break off, but they are able to grow them back," Hana corrected.
"You're right Hana, you're not as dumb as I thought you always were," Daisuke said.
"Ignoring that," Hana responded.
-Voltorb, the Ball Pokemon. It is said to camouflage itself as a PokeBall. It will self-destruct with very little stimulus.-
"Well that's odd," Takeshi said.
"I heard a rumor that there's another Pokemon like that," Hana noted.
"Yep. Electrode," Daisuke told Hana.
"No, a grass type Pokemon," Hana told him.
"Really? I don't remember a grass type like that," he added.
"It's a rumor anyway," Hana said.
-Chansey, the Egg Pokemon. A gentle and knidhearted Pokemon that shares its nutritious eggs if it sees an injured Pokemon.-
"Guess that explains why the Pokemon Centers use them to help out," Hana noted.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I chased that dumb thing for nearly half my time in there, and THAT'S where it went?!" Takeshi exclaimed.
"Hey, chill dude," Daisuke responded.
-Pinsir, the Stag Beetle Pokemon. Grips its prey in its pincers and squeezes hard! It can't move if it's cold, so it lives in warms places.-
"Hmm, cool," Takeshi said.
"I think that a good nickname would be Arata," Hana said.
"This one I wanted for the longest!" Daisuke said happily.
-Tauros, the Wild Bull Pokemon. A rowdy Pokemon with a lot of stamina. Once running, it won't stop until it hits something.-
"A literal unstoppable object," Takeshi noted.
-Ditto, the Transform Pokemon. When it spots an enemy, its body transfigures into an almost perfect copy of its opponent.
"Wow…" Hana said kinda shocked.
-Dratini, the Dragon Pokemon. The existence of this mythical Pokemon was only recently confirmed by a fisherman who caught one.-
"OH MY!" Takeshi said, seeing from the top of the Safari Ball was Pink not Blue! "You caught a shiny of a Pokemon thought to be a myth?! You lucky baka-yaro!"
"I'll ignore that for now. Anyway, it's getting late; let's rest up before your gym battle tomorrow, Takeshi," Daisuke answered.
"Hey Hana, since you only got one Pokemon, how about you take one," Daisuke said, handing her the PokeBall with Dratini in it!
"WOW… thanks," Hana smiled, still hiding her PokeBall with the Panpour.
"... grr!" Takeshi growled as they walked off to send the Pokemon to Professor Oak.
"Takeshi? ...Can I speak with you alone please?" Hana asked after sending the Pokemon out.
"Okay…?" he nodded as they walked outside and found a place to talk.
"Okay, I should probably let you know of something I learned while in Team Rocket," Hana whispered. "Half of the eight gym leaders in Kanto are in Team Rocket."
"EH?!" he gawked.
"No joke, and we already know Misty is an admin, but so are the next two gym leaders, who were codenamed Assassin and Doctor. But whatever you do in the gym battle tomorrow… don't mention this to the gym leader, who happens to be Assassin, a master of Poison types," Hana added.
Takeshi sighed, and then looked down to Shocker.
Takeshi: Man, another Rocket gym is next… I'm not feeling too good about this one, and the poison typing makes me feel worse.
Hana: Eh… I'm not feeling too good about this either. I actually… ah… ah… ACHOO!
Takeshi: Gesundheit. Wait, what? Uh oh, this can't be good.
Hana: Think I'm sick… ACHOO!
Takeshi: How'd you catch a cold?
Hana: Dunno…
Takeshi: Jikai, Pokemon Neo Yellow Version: Ill Day! Poison Gym
KKD: Hooo boy! Looks like our group is getting closer to filling the Pokedex, and Hana found yet ANOTHER Gen V Pokemon. ...Wonder if Koga knows anything about this?
Pikatwig: Dunno.
KKD: So quick thing I need to ask, why'd you decide to intro Panpour and Simipour in this chapter?
Pikatwig: Something in my mind kinda came up with the idea.
KKD: I see… so what was your favorite part of the chapter?
Pikatwig: Dunno. Anyway I've got a PokeTale to share of a Safari Zone, or rather Great Marsh experience of mine in Diamond version, I was walking around and I found a Noctowl, there's only a 9% chance of that! And I caught it with the first PokeBall to this day, it's on my main team.
KKD: Very impressive note. Anything else?
Pikatwig: Nah.
KKD: Well then, readers, be sure to check out our others stories on both our profiles, and if you don't know 'em… you will.
KKD & Pikatwig: Jaa ne!