Chapter 24: Training and hatching

For the next few hours, I tought Silver the basics of battle. He didn't need much time to figure out his moves and he soon took advantage of his amazing speed. He wasn't as strong as me, as he lacked all the training I had, but he was definitely faster, and he managed to land some hits on me. He could easily dodge my Water Pulse moves, so I had to use my other moves to hit him, although I avoided using X-Scissor or Revenge because those moves would instantly knock him out because of his weaknesses to those attacks. But that left me with only Razor Shell to fight him. He seemed to enjoy this training, testing out everything he could do with his new body, while I enjoyed fighting someone else than Kathie or Travis for once, especially because I knew every of their moves by heart now. When Silver was exhausted, we decided to make a break and let Travis and Kathie continue their training.

Wow, that was great, I never thought that fighting is so much fun.

I told you. By the way, you were pretty good for your first fight, you just need to keep up that training and you'll be as strong as the rest of us.

You think so? I could barely damage you, the few hits I landed didn't do that much, while your moves are really powerful.

Don't worry, you'll grow stronger as you keep on training, You also just hatched from an egg, so you're technically a baby.

Doesn't the same go for you? I mean you're just a few weeks old then.

A few weeks of intensive training, and as you can see, I've grown stronger from that. If you train hard, I soon won't have to hold back in training.

So you really held back then...I already thought so

Training wouldn't make that much sense if I just knocked you unconcious after the first move. And I know some moves that'd hit you super effectively.

I see, that makes sense...I thought about your question...I think I could actually enjoy being a Pokémon. But that doesn't mean we can let Team Rocket do whatever they want...I want to become stronger and stop them. I can't force you to help me, but could you at least train me until I'm strong enough?

Don't be silly, I want to stop them, too. So I'll help you. They may have turned us into Pokémon but that only made us stronger. And as far as I can tell, we might even be stronger than usual Pokémon. At least everyone I met when I travelled with Jess said that I was really strong.

Who knows what that thing that Team Rocket invented actually does? Maybe that's a positive side effect?

Either that, or they wanted this to happen. Who knows what they're up to.

That's the problem, we don't even know what they're planning.

Before we can do anything, we have to wait until the other two eggs have hatched.

We can't rush things anyway. We're too weak to take them on now. We need more training, and a good plan.

Our conversation was interrupted by a cracking noise. We turned around and saw that one of the eggs next to us had a crack.

It's hatching!

Whose egg was that?

I don't know anymore, call the others. If it's our friend from Team Rocket, I don't want him to get away, we need answers.

Silver dashed towards Travis and Kathie. I was still amazed of how fast he could run. The egg got more and more cracks. I grabbed one of my shells, just in case it was necessary. I still didn't know whose egg this was, but I wanted to be prepared. Silver came back to me, Travis and Kathie behind him, unable to keep up with his speed. The cracks on the egg still continued to spread. Soon the first hole appeared in between the cracks. It got bigger and soon a black paw broke through the eggshell and started to expand it even further. As I saw the black paw, I knew this was the Rocket guy. He fused with his Houndoom, so he must be hatching as a Houndour.

Guys, get ready, he mustn't escape, surround the egg, so he has nowhere to run.

Everyone got into position. I still had my shell in my hand, ready for everything.

The hole in the egg was now big enough for him to come through. He had his eyes closed because his eyes were probably not used to the sunlight after being in the egg for so long. He was smaller than anyone of us, being only 2'0'' (60cm)

tall. I quickly jumped on him, pushing his head to the ground, holding my scalchop against his throat.

Don't move or I'll hurt you. I said.

He opened his eyes and looked at me. He seemed to recognize me, as his facial expression slightly changed when he saw me.

So it's you...and it seems I've been captured by those kids...what a shame for the great scientist Gavin of the glorious Team Rocket.

So your name is Gavin? Well, that's at least better than calling him Rocket guy all the time. Listen Gavin, you can't escape here, so you better don't even try to.

Alright I get it, it's not like I have any choice. So what are you planning to do with me now?

Kathie, can you bring me that Rope that's inside Jess' bag? Well, at first I'd like to ask some questions, and since I don't like sitting here like this all the time, I think it's best to tie you on a tree, so you won't do anything stupid.

Kathie returned with the rope. Together we tied him to the next tree. He couldn't move any of his legs and we only left his head free, but we also payed attention so ce couldn't reach the rope with his mouth. So, that's done, Kathie and Travis, you can go back to training if you like. Silver and I have some questions to ask...