"A Group of Misfits" By Luke's Dragon
"Different Eyes"
Raichu's Story
Lots of things can fly, for example airships at least that's how the theory goes. The airship 'The Wyvern' that my master owned flew for nearly forty-five minutes of it's last ever voyage. It stopped flying for some reason I never knew and started falling out of the sky. Everyone was told to evacuate the airship and escape into the sea. I thought my master would come and find me, we had been separated because he was the pilot and I wasn't allowed in the cockpit when we were airborne. He never came, I told everyone that he abandoned me to my fate and strange as it may sound I hope that is the case, because the only other reason he would have left me is if whatever stopped the airship flying stopped him too.
Lots of Pokemon can fly, for example Pidgeotto. Raichus cannot fly. Raichus just fall.
I fell quickly, discharging electricity from my cheeks in the same way a dragon would breathe out flames to help it descend didn't work although I did cause a mini thunder storm as I plummeted downwards. I crashed through trees and bushes, smashing into the ground with tremendous force. I wasn't knocked out, but I couldn't move a muscle due to the pain that wracked my body. At times like this people will tell you that being able to feel your limbs is good, since it means you are not paralyzed. This was scant consolation when it felt like every single bone in my body was broken.
I don't know how long I lay there , or why nothing decided to make me into a meal, probably because I still had enough electricity stored up to make warning bolts of lightning if anything hungry showed up.
I lay there on the forest floor for what felt like a few hours until a young trainer found me. He didn't have to help me, but he did. He used one of those 'Hyper Potions' that are supposed to cure anyone. I must say I'm impressed because I felt able to move again in no time at all.
I don't know why but I felt as if I had to go with him, there was just something about him that made me feel as if it was fate we had met. And then there were those strange eyes. Maybe they reminded me of my own eyes, mine are two colors, one blue and one grey from an injury that damage the color of it when I was just a Pikachu. His eyes though were naturally, if that is the right word different colors. One was ice blue and the other was a deep shade of green. Perhaps it was just concussion or the fact I am naturally in tune with thunderstorms but I would have sworn that there was a storm brewing in the iris of his green eye as he looked at me, trying to reach a decision. After a little while he said that we should join forces and become a team. It was then I knew that whatever my masters fate, I would never see him again.
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We journeyed to Fuchsia City looking for some girl he had known a long time ago. Although I didn't think it was that likely that we would ever find her my new trainer seemed convinced that she would be there waiting for him. One the way through I caught a glimpse of 'The Wyvern' on the front page of a newspaper. Reading it to me my trainer told me that apparently it had been 'sabotaged' in an 'assassination' attempt on some guy who was the 'chairman' of something. Apparently 'Team Rocket' was responsible.
I didn't understand what had happened, or how the burnt metal that was on the front page was my airship. What I did know was that if I ever met a 'Chairman' or a 'Team Rocket' I was going to give them a taste of my thunder it was all their fault. I wouldn't have to wait too long to meet Team Rocket.
We had to go a long way around to reach Fuchsia since my trainer did not want to go via Lavender Town. On the way we took the opportunity to give me some battle experience and help me to grow into a stronger fighter since I'd never been in a Pokemon battle before this was a new experience, but I took to it well.
As I expected she was not there we reached Fuchsia City, apparently she had left to seek her fortune some six months previously with her head filled with dreams of becoming a member of Team Rocket. I was furious why would anyone want to join them when all I heard about them was that they were evil. Apparently she had always loved shiny objects though and would have loved to join a criminal gang. That wasn't it though crime I could stand, crime didn't 'sabotage' airships or mistreat Pokemon. We both agreed that we should find her, and save her from herself, and Team Rocket.
Before leaving we went to the Pokemon gym and tested ourselves against the leader there. It was a tough battle but I managed to win through in the end. Luckily the trainer was as inexperienced as we were since she had only recently taken over the gym from her father. My trainer talked at length with her about how hard it was to live up to your parent's expectations. Apparently his father was a famous Pokemon trainer in his youth and that was why he had never really wanted to do it. It was the first time I had ever heard him talk about his family.
It was with a heavy heart that we left Fuchsia, Nikki could be absolutely anywhere, so we decided that it would be useless wandering all over the world aimlessly. We formed a plan to visit all the Pokemon gyms and win the badges so we could enter Pokemon league. Maybe we could meet Nikki on the way, and if we didn't we'd just become the league champion. That way we'd be famous and we could make an announcement on TV or something like that. As for me I was happy to be with my new friend, and Pokemon battles had given me a new lease of life. We decided to head for Vermilion City, where we could get a boat, and test my powers against the gym master of electric Pokemon.