Author's Note: I'll keep this short. Sorry this took so long getting posted. I had schoolwork and chores and other stuff like that.
I like to thank you people that reviewed. I'm happy you guys like the story and I will continue with it to the very end. And this is going to be a long story too.
In this chapter, Pidgey is going to tell Totodile and Rattata about her life before she ambushed Crystal. I hope you guys like it!!! ^_^
Chapter Four: The life story of PidgeyBy: Junebug_182
Totodile sat in a circle with Rattata and Pidgey. Even though Pidgey attacked her master and her for reason at all, she still wanted to get to know her. Rattata had already told his life story, which was actually pretty interesting. He was one of five in his litter, the middle one. His mother was one of the best fighters of Rattatas around. She taught him and his brothers and sisters how to fight and defend themselves. And she taught them well. They could beat any Rattatas on their level or any pokemon on their level, for that matter. He was the strongest of the five. He told them how he had beaten pokemon twice his level, which, by the way, was three.
Then, he told them about what had happened to his mother and brothers and sisters.
A trainer and a couple of his friends suddenly appeared one day, out of the blue. His mother told everyone to run away, while she fought with the trainer's pokemon. His brothers and sisters tried to do this, but the trainer's friends blocked their way with their pokemon. Only one of his brothers and him escaped. It was a couple of days later, when Crystal showed up and captured him.
"And here I am today." He said. There was a certain pitch of cockiness in his voice when he talks. Totodile held her head sideways, in deep thought, while Pidgey just stared at him.
"That was interesting." She said. Totodile also noticed that there was a cold tone to her voice when she talks. Her voice was also lower than most female pokemon's voices. It had a rich, deep sound that made you listen to the voice instead of listening of what she is actually saying. But you could still tell that she is a female by the sound of her voice. Females of all species had a squeaky kind of voice that males do not have. She had this squeak.
Rattata looked over at Pidgey when she said this. "I don't mean to be mean or anything, but you are the biggest Pidgey I have ever seen."
Pidgey glared at him. "If you don't want to be mean, then don't say it."
Pidgey and Rattata began their glaring contest, while Totodile looked back and forward at them nervously. She didn't want them to fight.
"Um…Pidgey," Totodile said, a couple of minutes later, "why don't you tell us about your life?
Pidgey turned away from the glaring Rattata and glanced at her. "Why do you want to know?"
Totodile gave her a kind smile. "I'm just curious of what your life was like."
"Yeah. Tell us, Pidgey." Rattata said coolly, as he lay down with his head lying on his front feet. Pidgey seem to take that as a challenge, as she glared at Rattata and began her story.
"…I am not from this land," she began, lying down with her feet tucked beneath her. "I come from what the humans call 'Kanto'. I used to live near a human village call 'Celadon City'. It wasn't a small village, but a big one. Every day, humans come through my land and pollute it. At one point of time, my land was beautiful. Pokemon of all species, used to roam the land, carefree. They didn't use to hide because of humans or get ill and die from their pollution. But that was a long time ago. Now, humans rule the land, killing each other without even knowing it with their pollution."
"But," Totodile interrupted, "not all humans cause this pollution, did they?"
"I don't really know. But I do know that all the humans in 'Celadon City' did. In fact, many pokemon that lived there became mutated."
"What is mutated?" Totodile asked with a curious look on her face. Rattata seem to have wondered the same thing, for he had a question look on his face. They must have never have seen a mutated pokemon looked like, much less experience it.
"Mutated is where something becomes deform."
Totodile and Rattata looked at each other. They seemed to figure out why Pidgey was so big. Rattata seem to have a sorry look on his face, but Pidgey ignored it and continue.
"I was one of the lucky ones. Many pokemon began to grow an extra arm or leg. Some even die from the mutation. One of my children have died from it."
Totodile lowered her head with pity and Rattata just stared at her. "You have children? I thought that you were around our ages."
Pidgey shook her head. "No, I'm not a child, but I'm not really that old either."
Rattata nodded his head, his eyes asking her to continue.
"My land is nothing but a waste land now. Human trash and filth is everywhere and a smog surround the big village now. Loud, metal-moving objects run on this solid, black river. Humans are everywhere, capturing my friends and family. It was horrible."
"Why didn't you go away?" Totodile asked. She was full of questions, but that was the only that came out. Pidgey looked at her, sadly.
"Because the air was too dirty to breath, much less fly into it. You don't understand, until you live in it. Both, animal birds and pokemon birds do not fly in the air anymore. I have seen it too many times. Animal birds try to fly, but they ends up dying when they do. The air is that poisonous."
Rattata and Totodile looked shock. Totodile could not believe that humans would do such a thing, while Rattata hated humans, but didn't think humans would sink to that level. Destroying their land was one thing, but to kill themselves was just sick. Pokemon never killed one another. They may battle each other, but never ever kill another of their kind. It was sad that humans kill each other like that.
Humans also didn't seem to care about other species. They make pollution for no reason at all and then spreading it to others. Killing their own species was one thing but killing others was just wrong. Pokemon do not hate humans just because they capture them. They hate them because humans were a selfish, greedy, murdering species.
"How do the humans take the pollution?" Totodile asked, a bit shaken. Rattata glanced towards her. She seems to take a liking to humans. The human she called master wasn't too bad. He seemed nice and didn't act like most humans act. He even looks different from the humans he use to seeing. He was beginning to like him.
Before Pidgey could answer her question, Rattata butted in. "I'm beginning to wonder if he's a human." He said, looking at Crystal.
Pidgey and Totodile just stared at him strange. He didn't seem to know the difference between a female human and a male human.
"Rattata, master is a female human." Totodile said, still staring strangely at him. Rattata turned to face her. Pidgey started to laugh at him.
Maybe being capture and being stuck with these two isn't going to be so bad. She thought to herself, as she was laughing. Rattata looked embarrassed, as he lowered his head to his front paws again.
"It's not my fault if I have never seen a female human before." He murmured to himself, but the two female pokemon heard what he said.
"It isn't your fault." Pidgey said. "I rarely see any female humans myself. Maybe they are rare."
Rattata seemed to agree, but Totodile just looked at the ground.
"To answer your question, Totodile, the humans don't take it very well. They, also, get mutated. But I guess their bodies don't take it as well as we do, so they often die from it."
"Then why do they create this pollution?" Rattata asked.
"I don't really know. Maybe they are stupid."
The three became silence. In the distance, they could hear crickets chipping and they could also hear there master breathing deeply. She was fully asleep.
"One day," Pidgey said, breaking the silence, "a strange human came into our land. What made this human strange is that he was wearing all black with a human sign on his shirt."
"Do you remember the sign?" Totodile asked.
"Yes, I can remember it quite clearly."
"Do you mind writing it in the dirt, I wanna what it looks like."
Pidgey nodded her head and began to scratch two letters in the dirt. They form TR. Totodile and Rattata looked at the letter with a puzzled look on their face.
"I wonder why humans make these weird signs." Rattata said, still staring at the letters.
"Who knows. Humans are just weird. Anyways, this strange man came after me went he saw me. I told my children to run away, before the human threw the prison ball on the ground. A Geodude came out of the ball. The human told the Geodude to do an rock attack against me. I tried to dodge it, but the Geodude was too fast and powerful. With one attack, I was too weak to move. Then the human threw a prison ball at me and that is all I know of it."
Pidgey stopped and stared at the ground. Totodile and Rattata were nodding their heads for her to continue.
"When I woke up, I was in a metal cage. All around me were pokemon in cages just like mine. Right beside me was a Spearow. I asked him where was I and he told me that I was in a building called 'Team Rocket Headquarters'. Right after he said that, the human that captured me came in. He put me in a prison ball and after he took me out, I had to battle. It was like that for five months. But I made my escape when he wasn't looking. He sent out all of his flying pokemon to go after me, but I flew my fastest and they never caught up with me.
"At that time, I only stopped flying for food, water, and sleep. I across the ocean, which took me two days to do, and I made it here. At that point, I hated everything. I would attack anything that moved or crossed my path. About a week later, I ran into your master." Pidgey stared at Totodile, "And that's how I ended up here."
Totodile and Rattata were silence. Both were speechless. None of them had experience the pollution and mutation she went through. Pidgey noticed the shocked looks and slowly closed her eyes.
"Don't worry," she said, "I'm sure you two wouldn't go through what I gone through. Our…master isn't like that. I can tell. She will treat us right."
Rattata looked relieved, but Totodile knew that Crystal wouldn't harm them in any way. She has been with Crystal the longest and even if she was with her only for 24 hours, she could tell that Crystal was a good human. She wouldn't have caused that pollution Pidgey was talking about and she wouldn't capture pokemon just for pokemon battles. Watching Rattata fall asleep, Totodile got up from her place in the circle and walked towards Crystal. A couple of feet away from her was the boy that help heal her and her new friends. The boy was also in a deep sleep. Totodile crawled right beside Crystal and snuggle against her for warmth. Getting the last look of the night, Totodile slowly closed her eyes, hoping that they would never go to that place Pidgey once lived.