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Chapter 29

The next day, we went on our way again, though I let Leila sleep in a little. We had evolved Foxy and Pups into Ninetales and Arcanine respectively, though I had sent Pups back to professor Oak already in favor of Punchy, my Hitmonchan, while Leila had made some changes to her team as well. We didn't run into any trouble that day or the day after, but on the third day, we saw some familiar faces. Unfriendly familiar faces.

"You kids again?" Scythe growled as he saw us approaching. The three people around him turned to look at us.

"You know these punks?" a muscular man with beige spiky hair asked him.

"Gee, Quake, what gave you that idea?" a woman with light-purplish hair shaped like a the upper half of a Skarmory's head shot back.

"Glide, behave yourself." A muscular man with silverish-gray hair and a moustache told her.

"Just call out your Pokemon, Metallo, we've got a battle on our hands." Scythe sighed as he called out his Scyther.

"Krookodile, teach these punks a lesson." Quake called out a big, bipedal red crocodile.

"Skarmory, slice them down." Glide called out a metallic bird.

"Aggron, go." Metallo called out a huge bipedal metallic beast.

"Electron, you'll sit this one out. Eevolver, Glaceon. Flametail, go time". I called out my Charizard as my Eevee jumped of my shoulder and evolved into his Ice Type form.

"Shocker, Magnetron, let's go." Leila called out her Magneton as her Raichu ran forward.

"Scyther, X-Scissor." Scythe commanded.

"Krookodile, Crunch." Quake ordered.

"Skarmory, Drill Peck." Glide instructed.

"Aggron, Iron Head." Metallo commanded.

"Eevolver, Blizzard. Flametail, Fire Blast." I ordered.

"Shocker, Focus Blast. Magnetron, Thunderbolt." Leila instructed. Scyther charged forward with his blades crossed, straight toward the fiery stick figure Flametail shot out. Scyther flew right through it, badly scorching himself, before slashing his glowing purple blades across Flametail's chest in an X-shape.

Krookodile in the meantime prepared to bite down on Eevolver, who opened his mouth and fired a blast of cold wind and snow at Krookodile, knocking him back. Skarmory, who had flown up, dove down with his beak spinning like a drill while Magnetron's magnets started glowing yellow before releasing a bolt of yellow electricity at Skarmory, who withstood the attack long enough to hit Magnetron.

The top of Aggron's head started glowing white as it charged towards Shocker, who formed a light-blue ball of energy between his hands and threw it at Aggron, who took the hit head on and rammed Shocker.

"Shocker, no!" Leila screamed as she saw her Raichu being crushed by the big metal behemoth.

"Aggron, Body Slam." Metallo grinned.

"Scyther, Razor Wind." Scythe ordered.

"Krookodile, Double-Edge." Quake instructed.

"Skarmory, Sky Attack." Glide commanded.

"Eevolver, another Blizzard. Flametail, Heat Wave." I instructed.

"Magnetron, Thunder. Shocker, Hyper Beam." Leila ordered. Aggron let himself fall over on top of Shocker, who fired an orange beam from his mouth just as he was about to be crushed, sending Aggron flying backwards. Scythe crossed his blades again, this time making them glow white as Flametail opened his mouth, releasing a wind of flames at Scythe, knocking the Bug Type out before he could finish his attack.

Krookodile rushed at Eevolver with a yellow streak of energy following behind him. Eevolver, however, fired another Blizzard from his mouth, freezing Krookodile, but not stopping him from crashing into Eevolver. When the ice shattered, Krookodile was revealed to have fainted. Skarmory flew up and became surrounded by a white aura as Magnetron's magnets became surrounded in yellow static and it fired a massive blast of electricity at Skarmory, but Skarmory had already flown out of range.

"Well, with only Aggron and Skarmory left, it seems like a good time for this. Aggron, Earthquake." Metallo grinned after Scythe and Quake had recalled their Pokemon and his Aggron had risen back to its feet.

"Flametail, get the others in the air! Eevolver, Protect!" I quickly called out, as Flametail was the only one immune to Ground Type attacks. Aggron stomped the ground hard, making it quake and crack and making rocks fly up. Flametail had charged straight toward Shocker and Magnetron and gotten them out in time. Once the Earthquake ended, a large area of the ground had been reduced to rubble with several large rocks spiking up on the sides of the area and Eevolver stood between the rubble unharmed. But then Skarmory came diving down, surrounded in its white aura.

"Shocker, Magnetron, Discharge." Leila called out. Both Electric Types jumped out of Flametail's arms and unleashed multiple beams of blue electricity, most of them hitting Skarmory but several stray ones hit the stone spikes sticking out all around. Skarmory's aura quickly disappeared and Skarmory crashed into the ground. The pure amounts of electricity had also slightly charged up the stone spikes, creating an electromagnetic effect and Magnetron started glowing white and growing slightly bigger as well as the three orbs merging into a more unified saucer-shape.

"He evolved into Magnezone." Leila exclaimed.

"Not that it'll do you any good. Aggron, Head Smash." Metallo growled.

"Flametail, Focus Blast. Eevolver, Dig." I commanded.

"Shocker, Focus Blast as well. Magnetron, Thunder." Leila ordered. Aggron became surrounded in a whitish-blue aura as Eevolver dug underground, Magnetron charged up electricity and Flametail and Shocker formed a light-blue ball of energy in between their hands. As Aggron charged forward Eevolver burst out of the ground and hit him in the chin before the others launched their attacks at him, knocking Aggron out as well.

"Damn. Aggron, return." Metallo recalled his Pokemon angrily.

"Why don't we beat up these punks ourselves?" Quake suggested as he punched one fist into his other palm.

"What about their twelve Pokemon, idiot?" Glide snapped back.

"We're getting out of here now. Abra, Teleport." Scythe stated as he called out the Abra they use to escape every time.

"Ugh, they got away again." Leila groaned.

"Don't worry, we'll get them one day." I smiled as I looked at the spot where they had vanished.


After the encounter with the Legend Hunters everything went quiet again. The next day we were still walking towards Fuchsia city.

"Hey, what's that over there?" Leila suddenly pointed ahead. Up ahead there was a purple ball of fuzz visible between the bushes.

"Looks like a Venonat." I replied.

"I'm going to catch it. Spearbeak, let's go." Leila quickly called out her fearow.

"Spearbeak, use Steel Wing to knock it out into the open and hit it with Aerial Ace." Leila commanded. Spearbeak charged forward, his wings glowing white as he slapped the purple fuzz ball. The Venonat was catapulted onto the path we were walking on as Spearbeak flew up and then charged at Venonat surrounded in streaks of white light. Venonat, however, shook his fur and released an orange mist, which Spearbeak flew straight through. Spearbeak finished his attack and plowed into Venonat, but he was obviously moving more sluggish.

"Okay, Spearbeak, time to go all out. Giga Impact." Leila ordered. Spearbeak flew up and surrounded itself in a purple orb of energy with spiraling orange streaks around it and dove towards Venonat, who fired a multicolored beam from his eyes, missing Spearbeak by an inch as the Flying Type dodged the attack and slammed into the Bug Type, knocking it over.

"That should do it." Leila said as she took a Great Ball from het backpack and threw it at Venonat, who had gotten back up, but was pre-occupied with keeping an eye on Spearbeak. The Great Ball hit him in the back of the head and pulled him inside. After wobbling a few moments it clicked shut and teleported away.

"So, another Pokemon caught, huh?" I grinned as I stood next to her, Spearbeak landing in front of her.

"Yup, those Psychic attacks could come in handy against Koga." Leila nodded sagely as she recalled Spearbeak.


We were getting close to Fuchsia City now. With less than one day of walking left until we reached our destination. Up ahead we saw a group of people just standing around. As we got closer we noticed it was a woman with a bunch of kids with her.

"Oh, hello." The woman said when she noticed us.

"Hello." Me and Leila greeted back as we stopped by the group.

"I'm Hillary, and these are my students. Say, you wouldn't by any chance be Pokemon Trainers, would you?" Hillary introduced herself.

"What gave it away? The Eevee on my shoulder, the Electabuzz by my side or the Raichu by Leila's side? I'm Big B by the way, and as you can guess, this is Leila." I joked as I introduced ourselves.

"You know, we're on a field trip to learn about Pokemon today. Would you mind giving a battle demonstration? I'll be your opponent then." Hillary suggested.

"Okay, sure. What are the rules." I accepted.

"Three Pokemon each, substitutions are allowed." Hillary proposed.

"Very well. I'll be starting off with Electron, since he had to sit out the last battle." I nodded. Electron flexed his arms and stepped forward, sparking slightly as we all backed up a little to create an impromptu battlefield.

"Okay, then, Roselia, come on out." Hillary called out her Grass Type.

"And I'll be referee. Battle begin!" Leila announced as she swung her arms down.

"Roselia, Sunny Day and follow up with SolarBeam." Hillary commanded.

"Electron, Light Screen and counter Solar Beam with Protect." I ordered. White orbs appeared in front of Roselia's flowers and she twin beams up into the sky, intensifying the sunlight as Electron created a translucent yellow box around himself. Roselia then gathered an orb of whitish-gold energy between her flowers and launched a same colored beam at Electron, who formed a bluish-green sphere around himself to block the attack. The kids were obviously liking the battle as they started cheering for our Pokemon.

"Okay, Electron, now's the moment: Fire Punch." I instructed.

"Roselia, Seed Bomb." Hillary called out. Electron dashed forward with his fist ablaze and punched the Thorn Pokemon hard, sending her skidding across the field. Roselia was not out yet though and fired back with multiple glowing white seeds from her flowers, which exploded on contact with Electron.

"Okay, Electron, she's weakened, finish it with Quick Attack." I commanded.

"Roselia, Synthesis." Hillary ordered. Roselia raised her arms up and white sparkles started to surround her body, but Electron soon plowed into her at a high speed, knocking her out.

"Roselia is unable to battle, Electron wins." Leila announced.

"Roselia, return. Aipom, you try this." Hillary switched Pokemon.

"I'll be sticking with Electron." I grinned.

"Battle begin!" Leila swung her arms down again.

"Aipom, let's start off with Swift." Hillary instructed.

"Electron, take it and use Cross Chop." I ordered. Aipom's tail glowed white as he swung it and shot a barrage of golden stars at Electron. Electron's Light Screen stopped most of the attack so he could easily shrug it off and charge forward with his hands glowing white and in a crossed position and ramming into the Long Tail Pokemon sending it flying backwards.

"Aipom, use Slam." Hillary commanded.

"Electron, don't hold back, Focus Blast." I called out as the effects of Sunny Day started fading and Electron's Light Screen shimmered out of existence. Aipom raced forward, jumped up and came down tail first with his tail-hand in a fist at Electron, who formed a light blue ball of energy between his hands before throwing it at the descending Aipom. The smoke of the blast completely obscured Aipom for a moment, but soon the unconscious Normal Type fell out of the smoke.

"Aipom is unable to battle, Electron wins again." Leila announced. Just then, Electron started glowing white and grew quite large as well as growing a second tail. When the glowing stopped he was revealed to have evolved into Electivire. The kids were awestruck because they had never seen an evolution before.

"Good job, Electron. You evolved into your final form." I gave him a thumbs up.

"Guess, I'm down to my last Pokemon, and I don't think he'll do that good, but I have to teach my pupils to never give up. Chatot, Go." Hillary called out her final Pokemon.

"Well, Electron, looks like you won't even need to break a sweat on this one." I smiled at my Pokemon.

"Chatot, show them we won't just give up, Steel Wing." Hillary commanded.

"Electron, ThunderPunch and Ice Punch." I ordered. Chatot flew at Electron with his wings glowing white, while Electron engulfed one fist in electricity and the other in cold swirling air as he prepared to take the hit. Once Chatot was near enough though, Electron hit him with both fists, sending the bird back to Hillary.

"Okay, that's it. No need to continue, one more hit and Chatot's down." Hillary waved her arms as Chatot tried to get back up.

"Chatot has given up. Hillary is out of Pokemon. Big B wins." Leila Announced.

"Good job, Electron." I hugged my new Electivire while Hillary recalled her Chatot.

"Hey, it's almost noon. We are having a picnic and we have plenty of food, so you're welcome to join us." Hillary stated as she looked at her watch.

"I don't see any harm in that." I shrugged, looking over at Leila.

"Sounds like fun." Leila smiled as she picked up her backpack. We moved to a big nearby tree and started setting things up underneath it.

"Hey, mister, do you have any other Pokemon?" One of the kids came asking.

"Sure, if your teacher is okay with it we could call them out." I looked over at Hillary.

"Oh, I don't know if that would be such a good idea." Hillary pretended to have doubts and the kids started pleading with her.

"Off course you can see their other Pokemon." Hillary laughed after a couple of moments.

"Now, before we call out our Pokemon, you have to promise to play nice with them." I explained as Leila took two Pokeballs and stood next to me.

"We promise." The kids said in unison.

"Okay then, here goes. Flametail, Brutasaur, Shellshock, Punchy, come on out." I threw my remaining four Pokeballs in the air. My Charizard, Wartortle and Hitmonchan all appeared in the kneeling pose again but my Ivysaur was unable to do that pose.

"Saury, Magnetron, Spearbeak, Mimey, Kicker, show yourselves." Leila first threw the two Pokeballs in her hand and then the other three. Leila's Venusaur, Magnezone, Fearow, Mr. Mime and Hitmonlee all appeared before her.

"Okay, everyone, lunch is served." Hillary announced. We all gathered on the blanket underneath the tree.

"Hey, mister, will you show us how to catch a Pokemon?" Another one of the kids asked.

"Well, that depends, what kind of Pokemon can be found around here?" I asked in return.

"Nidorino and Ditto are popular choices around here." Hillary answered.

"Well, I already have a Nidoking, but a Ditto could come in handy. Okay then, after lunch, we search for a Ditto." I nodded.


Almost in Fuchsia city. Will Big B find a Ditto? Will Electron ever get over his fear of Pokeballs? To find out, keep reading "Big B's Kanto Journey".


End Note: So, yeah, here's this month's update. Three more Legend Hunters are introduced. Originally, Metallo was going to have a Steelix, but I figured I could do better than that for him. Also, Quake originally had a Gible/Gabite, but I wanted to add in some Gen V Pokemon in their group and with Krookodile looking so evil, I just had to put him in there. Also, Leila catches a Venonat. I don't know if it'll be used a lot or not, but as the series will now near the end rather quickly (I'm estimating the story will reach 45 chapters by the end). I also forgot to mention this earlier, but if I build up enough of a buffer, I'll do a month of weekly updates. And yes, I know that Magneton can only evolve at Mt. Coronet or Chargestone Cave in the games, but since Chargestone Cave is made up of electrically charged rocks, I figured that a Magneton could essentially evolve by being surrounded by electrically charged rocks. And as I mentioned before, I'm not really fond of the trade evolution idea, so I just had Electabuzz evolve when he was around level 50 (now you know about what level most of the Pokemon are at this point in the story). So, yeah, I guess that's it. I'll see you guys on the first of december, I guess.

Also, I had my doubts about uploading it today or if I should wait until tomorrow. In case you didn't know, today is All Saints Day. In Belgium that's big deal, I don't really know how other countries treat it. But to me, the 1st of November has an extra sad note. It was on this day, 10 years ago, that my father passed away. So many things I never got to do with my dad. So I'm dedicating this chapter to my dad (not that he knew anything about Pokemon other than the name Pikachu).