Author's Note: I would like to say a couple of words before I write this chapter. If you are a fan of Invader Zim, you would probably already know that Invader Zim has been cancelled. I was sad and angry at the same time. But I kind-of knew that Nick would pull something stupid like that. Many fans, including myself, have written to Nick and been writing petitions for the show to be back on. While it would be a long shot to get the show back on, we are still trying.
I would like to dedicate this chapter to all the Invader Zim fans out there. Even if some of them don't like pokemon.
Disclaimer: I forgot to put a disclaimer in the other chapters. I haven't been sued yet, but I won't test my luck. Well, here it goes:
I don't own pokemon. I don't even know if I own Crystal. Probably not, because she's based off the girl in Pokemon Crystal.
Well, I'll shut up now and let you read the chapter. ^_^
Chapter Three: Lost in the middle of nowhere and the meeting of Max: A.K.A: Golden Boy!
It was now four o' clock in the afternoon.
Crystal has now been walking around for four hours. Totodile, who has been jumping up and down earlier that day, was now dragging her feet. Her low HP was getting to her now and she felt very tired. Crystal wasn't feeling much better either. She hasn't ate since she left her parents house and each step she took made her wish that she could fly.
She took out her Pokedex, for the thirtieth time, and clicked it to the map part. Stopping for a moment, she calculated how long it would have taken to get to Violet City. When she finally figured it out, her face grew red with anger and frustration.
"Jeeze!" She yelled, nearly collapsing on the soft, grassy ground. Totodile slowly walked towards, chanting her name. Crystal sat up and looked at Totodile.
"It would have only took two hours getting there." She said, with a worried look on her face. Totodile sat on the ground beside her. Both just stared at the grass in silence.
"Looks like we will have to stay here for tonight." Crystal said, breaking the silence. "I can't go on. My feet are killing me."
Totodile nodded agreeing what Crystal just said. Crystal looked down on Totodile and made a tired smile.
"I'll find some berries for us to eat. You stay here and rest."
Slowly getting up, Crystal walked away towards a couple of bushes that was hundred feet away. Instinctually, Totodile watched protectively, as Crystal was getting nearer to the bushes. She had an urge to follow Crystal to the bushes, but being a loyal pokemon, she stay put.
As Crystal reached the bushes, she took off her backpack and opened one of her biggest pockets. One by one, she put the berries into the pocket. As she was doing this, she failed to notice that there were eyes watching her.
Closing the pocket full of berries, she lifted the backpack back over her shoulders and onto her back. Turning her heels back to Totodile's direction, she suddenly heard a noise in the bushes.
Turning her head to see the noise, she saw for a spilt second what it was.
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Knocking the girl down, the pokemon flew a U-turn and headed straight for her. The girl was still recovering from its first attack. It was perfect moment to attack her again. Gaining speed, it was flying closer and closer to her. As it was about to hit her, something tackled it, causing it to slam into the ground hard.
"Totodile!" Yelled a screeching voice.
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Crystal closed her eyes, preparing for the pokemon to strike. Suddenly, she heard something slamming into the pokemon. Opening her eyes, she saw Totodile standing in front of her, panting.
"Totodile!" She screeched loudly.
Totodile saved her.
"Totodile!" She cried, as she leaped and hugged the pokemon. As she hugged her, she felt her body go limp. Letting go, she discovered that Totodile was unconscious.
"Totodile…." She said, with a worried tone in her voice. Suddenly, in the corner of her eye, she saw moment. Getting up, she stood where she could see the pokemon.
It was a Pidgey.
But not a normal size Pidgey. This Pidgey was about twice the size of a normal Pidgey. And about five times the weight of one too. A average Pidgey would be around a foot tall and weighted about four pounds. This Pidgey looked about 2'3" and looked by the weight of twenty pounds.
This was one big Pidgey.
But Crystal didn't care about the size or the weight of it. That Pidgey hurt Totodile and nearly hurt her. It wasn't getting away with it.
Pulling out a pokeball, she clicked on the button to make it bigger. Quickly as she could, she threw the pokeball at the Pidgey. The Pidgey looked up, just in time to see the pokeball coming, but it didn't have the time to dodge it. It was quickly sucked into the ball.
"Got ya." She said, coldly.
Right after she said that, the pokeball suddenly bounced up. The pokeball opened up and a red beam shot out. The recoil of the beam hit the pokeball and it flew towards Crystal. Not being quick enough to dodge the pokeball, she was hit in the head with it. The force of the pokeball caused her to fall down.
"Owww!" She yelled, rubbing where the pokeball hit her. Rubbing her head, she watched as the Pidgey got up on its two feet and faced her. This took her by surprise. Normally, Pidgeys were not violent, like this one. They usually avoid battles and run away most of the time. If they were caught in a corner, they would use their Sand-Attack to create a diversion, so they can escape. This one was very different.
Crystal grabbed a pokeball from her belt. It was Rattata's pokeball. She knew that Rattata was pretty weak, but she had to give it a try. Throwing the pokeball, she cried out, "Rattata! Come out!"
A bright red flash appeared. In the light, there was an image. As the light faded away, Rattata could be seen, standing on all fours, facing Pidgey.
Not sure what Rattata's moves are, Crystal took out her Pokedex and pointed it to Rattata. It made a beeping noise before talking.
'Rattata, the rat pokemon.
'Living wherever….'
"No! I don't want that!" Crystal yelled, as she pushed a couple of buttons. A picture appeared, showing Rattata and Totodile. Crystal clicked on Rattata.
'Rattata: Number 63528.
Level: Seven
Gender: Male
Attacks: Tackle, Growl, and Quick Attack.
Points to level eight: 191
"Wow." Crystal said, wide eyed. "Rattata has a pretty high level for a pokemon around here."
Looking back up, she was even more surprise to see that Rattata and the Pidgey hasn't started to fight yet. Rattata was looking back at her, as though he was waiting for her command. Crystal was beginning to wonder if that Pidgey was not a wild pokemon, but a trained one. Usually, wild pokemon attack, even if the trained pokemon is not ready. But then, this isn't a normal Pidgey either.
"Rattata! Use your Quick Attack!" She said, looking towards Totodile. She took out a pokeball and aimed it at her. "Totodile! Return!" She said, as a red beam came out. The beam hit her and turned her into light. Then the light return into the pokeball. Crystal looked at the pokeball with sadness and anger.
Don't worry Totodile! I'll get my revenge for you.
While that was going on, Rattata was using his attack. Pidgey dodged most of his attack, but two. But those two hits did cause quite a bit of damage. Plus, Pidgey was already hurt from being tackled by Totodile. Pidgey used its Gust attack, which Rattata gracefully dodged.
"Rattata, use your Tackle Attack." Crystal said, still staring at Totodile's pokeball. She hope that she was alright. It was going to be a long way to Violet City.
Rattata, with amazing speed for his level, tackled Pidgey right in its chest. The force of his speed cause the hit become a critical hit. The force also caused Pidgey to tumble into a bush.
Crystal quickly used the same pokeball that she thrown at Pidgey earlier and threw it at it. The pokeball opened and sucked Pidgey into it. It trembled a couple of times before the red button became white.
Sighing with relief, Crystal walked to the pokeball and picked it up.
"What a awesome pokemon." She said to herself, as she put it on her belt. After doing this, she turn to Rattata.
What a very strong pokemon he is. She thought to herself. Even on level seven, he's still pretty strong! And he lost as many HP as Totodile did and he still beat that big Pidgey. He will become useful when I get my whole team.
She walked up to Rattata and tried to pet him. He moved away a couple of feet and sat right back down. Crystal just smirked.
He doesn't trust me yet. But he will. He just going to have to get use to me, that's all.
"I'll leave you out of your pokeball for a while." She said, to Rattata. He just looked up at her.
At least he's listening to me.
"Come on, Rattata," she said, taking out her Pokedex and turned away, "we have to find Violet City, so we can heal Totodile."
Rattata got up, but kept his distant to her. She turned around once in a while, just to see that he is still following her and not have run away. She missed Totodile.
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At this time, it's about 6:30.
The sun was going down; showing its beautiful colors of purple, orange, and pink. Crystal never really like the color pink, but the pink in the clouds made her change her mind for that moment. She always loved sunsets; they were the best things in the evening, even better than the Moon and the stars. She loved how the colors mixed together to made a beautiful color even she couldn't describe. And she loved how the sun changed from being a bright yellow color, to a beautifully, dull red-orange.
Finally looking away from the sunset, she spotted Rattata looking at it with awe. But Rattata caught her looking at him and turned away. Crystal giggled, as she began to walk again.
Keeping the Pokedex in her hand, Crystal continued to walk. It was dark now, but the Moon was almost full, so it wasn't completely dark. She could hear Rattata's footsteps quite clearly, so she didn't have to turn around to check on him. Clicking the map picture in the Pokedex, she figured out where they were, by activating the position code. They were ten miles west of Violet City.
"Oh no…." Crystal murmured. "We're going too far west! It's going to take all day tomorrow just to get back in the right path!"
She looked down at Rattata. He was giving her a expressionless look. He didn't seem to care if they made it to Violet City or not.
"Looks like we're spending the night here." She said to him, looking around the area. He just scratched his ear.
Finding a tree that she can lend against, she watched as Rattata found some over-grown weeds and laid right in the middle of them.
He may not like me but at least he's company. She thought sadly. She really did miss Totodile. She missed how she jumps up and down often and how she said her name. She was really good company.
Sighing, Crystal looked down at Totodile's pokeball. She had to get to a Pokemon Center real soon. Rattata and that Pidgey's HP was real low also, so she can't afford to get into another pokemon battle.
Closing her eyes, she fell asleep in a matter of minutes.
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A noise woke Crystal up. Getting up, she looked at her watch. It was too dark to tell what time it was.
"Rattata." She whispered loudly. "Rattata, getting up!"
After she said that, another noise could be heard. It sounded like a pokemon battle was going on. Feeling something by her leg, she jumped sideways. Rattata was right beside her.
"Oh, Rattata, it was you." She sigh with relief. Another noise could be heard, this time it sounded closer. Crystal looked down at Rattata.
"I'm going to check it out," she told him, "do you want to come with me?"
She could see Rattata's outline nodding.
"Good. Let's go."
Together, they went towards the noise. It didn't take them long to find where the noise was coming from. Out in a open field, they saw two pokemon fighting. One of them was a fire-type. They could tell by the attack the pokemon did. The other one was a little harder to see. They carefully walked towards the fighting pokemon. As they came closer, Crystal could see a human watching the fight in the sideline. It must be their trainer.
Relaxing, Crystal looked down at Rattata. "It's just a trainer training his pokemon. Maybe he can help us with our problem." Rattata didn't seem to like the idea of going near the trainer. He stay where he was when Crystal walked towards the trainer.
As she was getting closer, she could see that the trainer was a young male. Not only that, but he looked around her age. She could barely hear him call out; "Vulpix! Use your ember attack again!"
The pokemon nodded and shot out a small flame towards the other pokemon. The other pokemon, which it was a grass pokemon, dodge the flame.
"Chikorita! Use your Vine Wipe on Vulpix!"
The grass pokemon suddenly had vine coming off of its leaf and strike Vulpix. Even being hit full force by the vine, Vulpix didn't seem to be fazed by the attack.
Wow! Those are some strong pokemon. I wonder what level they are on?
She kept walking towards the boy. He was now in hearing range.
"Hey!" She yelled at the boy. He turned to face her.
"Hey! Can you help me with something?" She asked, suddenly feeling stupid.
"Um…yeah, sure. Was is it?" He asked, running towards her. The pokemon that were fighting, stopped and was looking at them.
"Do you know where the path to Violet City is?" She said, taking out a Pokedex. When boy saw the Pokedex, his eyes grew wide.
"You're a trainer?!" He said, more of a statement than a question. Crystal glared at him.
"What else should I be?" She said coldly, daring him to insulted her.
The boy caught the tone of her voice and didn't speak. Crystal grew impatient.
"I need to know where the path to Violet City is." She said again. "My pokemon are weak and one of them has fainted. I need to heal them as fast as I can."
The boy nodded. "I understand. But I have some potions and some revive. I can heal them for you."
Crystal felt her anger for the boy fading and wanted to hug him, but she wanted to prove to him that girls are not all hugs and kisses.
"Thank you." She said, smiling. She looked back and called for Rattata to come. It took a moment, but Rattata did finally came to her. The boy looked at her, curiously.
"You let your pokemon out of their pokeballs like that?" He asked. Crystal turned to him.
"Is that a bad thing?" She asked, nicely. She didn't really know if it was against anything to let them walk freely.
"No…it's just…aren't you afraid of your pokemon running away from you?"
Crystal just stared at him. Of course she was afraid of her pokemon running away from her. But she didn't want to tell him that.
"I trust my pokemon." She said, simply. The boy smiled.
"That's really cool. I don't trust all of my pokemon. Mostly, the ones I just caught. They don't really like you catching them, but they usually get used to you."
Crystal just smiled and nodded. No wonder Rattata doesn't like me every much. I caught him when he was eating with his friend! Ugh! I feel like a heel.
The boy turned away from her and started to walk towards his backpack he left. Crystal and Rattata followed him. Crystal took two of her pokeball off of her belt and held them in her hand.
When the boy reached his backpack, he took out a couple of small spray bottles with light pink liquid in it and a other small spray bottle with a dark blue color in it.
"Let me do your Rattata first." He said, putting one of the pink bottles and the dark blue bottle down. He held the other pink bottle in his right hand. Crystal looked down at Rattata. He looked nervous.
"It's alright, Rattata." She said, kindly. Rattata looked up at her, before he went towards the boy.
The boy gently picked up Rattata and put him on his lap.
"This is going to sting a bit." He warned Rattata. Rattata simply nodded and embraced himself. The boy sprayed the liquid all over him. Crystal watched as Rattata filched with pain every so often.
"It's alright, Rattata. You'll feel much better after this is done, I promise you that." She said, trying to comfort him.
Rattata opened his eyes, painfully, and stared at her. His feeling towards her was changing. He could tell that she wasn't like all the humans his mother told him about. She was nice and she seemed to care about him.
"All done!" The boy said, giving Rattata a gentle shove off his lap. The pokemon seemed to be full of energy now. He was hopping up and down and running in circles around Crystal. She giggled, as this reminded her of Totodile.
"Next!" The boy said, grabbing the dark colored revive. Crystal handed him Totodile's pokeball.
The boy dropped the pokeball on the ground, causing it to open. As the red flash disappeared, Totodile's limp body could be seen on the ground. Crystal stared, sadly as the boy picked up Totodile and began spraying the liquid on her.
A couple of minutes later, Totodile opened her eyes. Crystal couldn't hold her excitement, as she picked up Totodile and hugged her tightly. Totodile hugged back and started to chant her name.
"I missed you." Was all she could say at the moment.
"Totodileee!" Totodile replied.
The boy watched patiently, as Crystal put Totodile down and handed him the third pokemon.
"This is the pokemon that cause all of this trouble." She said coldly.
The boy nodded and opened the pokeball. Out came the big Pidgey. By the look on his face, she could tell that he never seen a Pidgey of that size either.
"Oh…my…God!" He said, with his mouth open. He quickly took out his Pokedex and pointed it at the Pidgey. It beeped before speaking.
'Pidgey, the tiny bird pokemon.
'Common in grassy areas…."
"So it is a Pidgey." The boy said, putting the Pokedex away. "That is no tiny bird!"
Crystal giggled. "I know. It attacked me went I was getting some berries. Totodile saved me from it but fainted. I sent out Rattata to attack it and I caught it."
The boy nodded, still in shock. Crystal command the Pidgey to get on his lap, which it did. Nervous of how the Pidgey will react with the potion, he slowly sprayed it on the Pidgey. Both trainers were surprised that the Pidgey didn't even filched with pain. After he was done with healing the Pidgey, Crystal checked what level it was on.
Pokemon: Pidgey
Level: Six
Gender: Female
Attacks: Gust and Sand-Attack
Points to level seven: 100
"Level six." Crystal said to herself. Pidgey sure didn't look like a level six, but if the Pokedex said so….
"Looks like we got another female pokemon." She said happily to Totodile. Totodile smiled and began to jump up and down again. The boy went over to his pokemon and put them into their pokeballs. He walked over to Crystal and stretched out his hand.
"I'm sorry I did get to introduce myself. My name is Max. My friends call me 'Golden boy'." Crystal smiled and shook his hand.
"My name is Crystal." She said, letting go of his hand. "Why do they call you the 'Golden boy'?"
Max smiled. "It's a long story and it ends up with me being in a bucket of gold paint."
Crystal couldn't help but laugh. Max, himself, chuckled a bit, before laying down.
"I was heading towards Violet City myself. You can join me if you want." He said, not looking at her. Crystal laid down by Totodile, Pidgey, and Rattata, who were chatting to each other.
"Sure, I'll join you." She said, closing her eyes. Max nodded his head, before going to sleep himself.
All was quiet, expect the three pokemon that were talking.
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The end of chapter three.