Traveling the Same Path 103: Eric's Hidden Fear
It was a beautiful day out. The sun, the sky, the trees, and lastly, the bug Pokemon. For Ryan, it was a dream come true, for Eric, it was his worst nightmare. Eric hated bugs, mostly because he was psychic, and the Viridian Forest was crawling with bugs. But, Ryan mostly put Eric's cries for help at every Caterpie or Weedle he saw, and tried to enjoy the forest.
I hate bugs, I hate bugs, I hate bugs…Eric silently chanted.
"AAAGH, what's that!?" Eric cried.
"That's a shadow of a tree branch," Ryan calmly said.
"Oh, WHAT WAS THAT!!??"
"What was what?"
"I thought I saw something rustling in the bushes."
Then, a Pidgeotto jumped from the bushes.
"Eric, it's just a Pidgeotto," said Ryan.
"Okay, this should be a piece of cake," Eric, returning to his normal, fearless self, pushed Ryan aside.
Eric threw a Pokeball, out came Charmander.
"Charmander, Ember now!"
"Char, Char," a ball of fire grew from Charmander's tail, hit the Pidgeotto, spread over Pidgeotto's body, and burned it, causing it to faint, miraculously.
"Ding, Charmander learned Leer," the Pokedex said.
"Wow, level 15," Eric said, "You'll evolve into Charmeleon soon!"
"Char!" Charmander said as it was sucked back into the ball.
"Okay, what now…AAAH! Caterpie!"
True enough, a Caterpie was racing toward their general direction, chased by another Pidgeotto.
"All right! I always wanted one," he thought of something. "Caterpie, get in the Pokeball!" he said, pulling out a blue lined Pokeball.
The Caterpie obviously valued capture over being lunch, so he quickly got in the Pokeball, and the Pidgeotto flew by, blasting at high speed, noted that Ryan had four Pokemon, and left, trying to find another delicacy.
"Whew, I caught Caterpie!" Ryan yelled.
Meanwhile, Eric had scrambled up a tall tree. Unfortunately, the branch he was on was very fragile and it broke.
"DANG IT!!!" Eric yelled as he quickly grabbed another branch.
Unfortunately again, a rather large, rather hairy, rather slimy Weedle was living on that branch. It crawled up to Eric, slimed its way over his fingers, and plopped itself onto Eric's head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Eric yelled as he fell from the branch, to absorbed in getting the Weedle off his head than holding onto the branch.
CRASH! They landed in the foliage.
"Get offa me!" Eric threw a Pokeball at it to shoo it. Another unfortunately, Weedle was caught.
"Oh, great. I caught this ugly, slimy, hairy bug."
"Oh, yeah," Ryan said, "You get all the luck."
Eric responded by knocking him over the head.
Eric summoned Weedle. Weedle started to eat some of the grass.
"Well, go! You're free! Free as a bird!," as Eric said this Weedle ducked his tiny little head under his suction cup like feet in fear, terrified of an aerial attack from anything larger than a twig, "Well I didn't mean it like that! I'm releasing you! Now go on. Git!"
Unfortunately, the Weedle didn't want to leave and it nuzzled Eric's leg to show it.
"Gee Eric. He seems to like you a lot." Ryan said.
Ryan was once again clonked on the head with a blunt object.
"Will you stop doing that!" Ryan yelled.
"Let me see…" Eric concentrated hard, "I foresee that I shall once again do this in the distant future."
"Yeah right. Now tell me the one about the three bears."
Eric once again whacked Ryan on the head with the same blunt object.
Eric, trying to be nice, picked Weedle up and said, "How are you feeling about your new Master?"
Weedle string shot Eric's entire head.
"I see," Eric said in a muffled voice as Weedle jumped out of his hands to continue eating some grass.
Ryan removed the string from Eric's head with a spatula, as Eric recalled Weedle.
"Great, it's smart, so it's staying with me to torture me forevermore!"
"Quoth the Weedle, nevermore," Ryan commented.
"NO MORE EDGAR ALLAN POE REFERENCES!!!!"
"Okay…While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a…zapping?" Ryan saw a flash of light, "as if a… Pikachu!"
Ryan had flushed out a Pikachu.
"All right, a Pikachu, I'll capture it! Seel, I choose you!"
The Seel appeared.
"No!" Eric cried.
"What, it's a water type. Water's good against electric, right?"
Eric facefaulted.
"Seel, headbutt!"
Seel headbutted. Pikachu reacted with a growl.
"Headbutt again!"
This time, Pikachu countered with a Thundershock.
"One last headbutt!"
Pikachu's health dropped to nearly zero.
"Pokeball, go!"
In a matter of seconds, Pikachu was caught.
"All right! Two Pokemon in one day!"
"Bravo, bravo," two trainers from behind them said.
"Huh?" Ryan asked.
Two trainers, unbelievably dressed as Samurais, one wearing red armor, one wearing blue, came out.
"We challenge you," Red said.
"Fine," Eric said. "It's your funeral."
"I take the blue freak, you take the red freak," Ryan said.
"Hey!" the Samurais said.
"Well, I don't know who else in the year 1999 would dress as a samurai!"
"It's a distinctive look."
"Some fashion statement," Eric said.
Eric's battle went first. "Charmander, go!"
"Char!"
"Scyther, I choose you!" The Samurai cried.
"Scyther!"
"Charmander, Ember!"
"Scyther, Quick Attack!"
Before Charmander could throw the fireball at Scyther, Scyther ran up to it and hit Charmander with its sharp blade like arms. The hit made Charmander recoil about a foot away. Then, goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! Scyther was embered. Scyther was too strong though. He was barely damaged.
"Now use Slash," the Samurai ordered.
Scyther, with his blade like arms, cut Charmander really bad that it cried before it fainted.
"Yes!" the Samurai said, "One hit KO! I am the champion! I am the champion! No time for losers 'cause I am the champion!"
"Ugh! He reminds me of Craig," Ryan said out loud.
"Oh him," the other Samurai said, "You're referring to the traitor whose ass got whooped."
"By who?" Ryan asked.
"Me!" the red Samurai said.
"Good. At least you're useful for something." Ryan responded.
"I can't believe that you can be so cruel. I can't believe that you care more about winning than the health of another Pokemon." Eric inherited a strong sense of compassion from his mother.
"Hey! Winning is all that matters! Who cares about your weak and dumb Charmander!" the Samurai started to laugh.
Eric used a Revive to bring Charmander back, but it wasn't working.
"Why won't this thing work! Work dang you! Work! Huh? 'Do not use if plastic seal is broken.' Doh! Charmander! Stay away from the light! Don't you die on me! Don't you leave me!"
Suddenly, Charmander started to evolve! It got up, ready to battle. Unfortunately, it forgot that it was bleeding.
"Charmeleon! You're in no condition to fight! Take this," Eric handed a Super Potion to Charmeleon.
Charmeleon looked at the concoction strangely.
"You drink it!" everyone yelled.
"Char!" Charmeleon started to drink the Super Potion.
Charmeleon was back in action.
Scyther used Double Team.
Charmeleon used Ember.
Scyther used Swords Dance.
Charmeleon used Ember.
Scyther used Slash.
Both Pokemon were badly damaged, but none of them would let the other win. Suddenly, there was a flash storm. It started to come down hard. Charmeleon's tail was nearly doused, his power was depleting, and he was becoming weaker by the second.
"Charmeleon, return!"
Charmeleon jumped away from the red beam. He wanted to finish this battle. With his last once of strength he used Flamethrower on Scyther. Somehow Charmeleon used an attack beyond his level. Scyther fainted and so did Charmeleon. Eric then recalled Charmeleon into its Pokeball.
The next Pokemon was called out for both sides. Eric summoned Weedle as the red Samurai summoned Kakuna.
Kakuna used Harden when he was told.
"Weedle use Poison Sting," Eric commanded.
Weedle just loafed around.
"Ha!" both Samurais laughed, "Looks like you need to improve as a trainer. Even your own Pokemon thinks you're lousy."
"Weedle," Eric pleaded, "Please beat this Kakuna."
The Weedle turned it's head away from Eric.
"Please, Weedle. I'll let you eat all the grass you want if you would just beat Kakuna."
"Wee!" the hairy bug exclaimed.
It charged at the cocoon at such a high speed that the Pokemon was hurtled into the trainer's face. Kakuna was poisoned, but not beat. It used Harden once again. Unfortunately, it was at 1 life and it fainted from the poison.
"Yes," Eric exclaimed, "One hit KO! Now you know how it feels! Oh yeah, here."
Eric tossed two Revives to the red Samurai.
"Okay, Okay," Ryan said. "It's my turn now."
"Pinsir, go!" the blue Samurai yelled.
The stag beetle Pokemon groaned in anticipation.
"Oh, I get it, Pinsir is a blue Pokemon, and Scyther is its red equivalent. That's why you wear blue and he wears red. Since he had a Kakuna, a red Pokemon, I'm guessing you also have a Metapod," Ryan thoughtfully said.
"Oh, bravo, Mr. Big-Giant-Convoluted-Theory," Everyone else said. Even the Pinsir seemed to groan in unison.
Ryan debated which Pokemon to use. Pikachu's to weak from my capturing it, Ryan thought, sending Caterpie would be suicide, Bulbasaur's weak against the Pinsir's bug attacks, I'll leave Seel as backup, but my first line of defense should be my level 17, freakishly powerful, flying-type, strong-against-bug-types…
"Pidgey! I choose you!" Ryan called out his Pidgey, a pigeon/hawk with a determined look on its face.
"Brrrrrrrrrr-dgey!" It called.
"Pidgey, Gust!"
"Pinsir, ViceGrip!"
A long, hard battle erupted between the giant beetle, and Ryan's Pidgey, who bore a rage similar to that of Eric's Charmeleon, but, during the fight, Pidgey fell to the ground, its HP at a low.
"Pidgey!" Ryan yelled as he dove to protect the bird.
"Dgey!" It cried, trying to get back in the fight.
"Pidgey, you're to weak to take on that Pinsir alone. Come on, I'll use Seel for this one, you'll be fine.
"Brrr! Dgey!" It said, obviously translated as "No! Way!"
"Come on, you'd have to at least be a Pidgeotto to-"
As soon as Ryan said "Pidgeotto," Pidgey turned to the Pinsir and started to glow. It grew to twice his size. Its crest grew larger. It grew an extra claw on each talon. The glowing stopped.
Pidgey evolved into Pidgeotto.
"Pidgey!" Ryan cried, "you evolved!"
At that, Pidgeotto proceeded to Quick Attack the Pinsir until it was clinically dead.
"Pinsir, return," the Samurai cried. When the dead bug did not recall, he freaked. "AAAH! #@&%! You killed my Pinsir!"
"My Pidgeotto didn't do that under my commands," Ryan said. "He was just angry. The adrenaline just forced him to kill it. Same reason Eric's Charmeleon used Flamethrower. The adrenaline tweaked his brain into using an attack it didn't know. My Pidgeotto just evolved, so-"
"I don't need your scientific mumbo-jumbo, I just want my fine money for the life of my Pinsir!"
"Oh, yes, there's a fine for that sort of thing. Okay, according to my Pokedex here, I owe you…hmmm…got change for a dime?"
"*Sigh!* Yes," the Samurai said, unearthing a nickel and muttering something about upping the fine on killing of Pokemon in a battle. "Metapod, go," He said, dramatically less enthusiastic manner.
Pidgeotto just Quick Attacked the Metapod, KOing it in one fell swoop.
The depressed Samurais drudged their way into the forest.
"That was easy," Ryan said, recalling Pidgeotto.
Suddenly, an annoyingly loud and strangely familiar feminine cackle rang through the forest.
"Hah, hah, hah! This kid's definitely worth our trouble," the voice said.
"He'll make an excellent addition to Team Rocket," a masculine voice said.
"And the Boss'll really be pleased with us!" a strange voice with a New Jersey accent said.
"Oh great," Ryan said, "It's the Three Stooges."
A Meowth jumped from the bushes and proceeded to scratch Ryan's face.
"Never, never, never refer us ta dose guys, EVER!"
"Anyway, to protect the world from devastation!" the female yelled.
"To unite all peoples within our nation!" the male yelled.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love."
"To extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jessie!"
Jessie smacked Ryan upside the head for the Stooges comment.
"James!"
James mimicked his partner's actions.
"What is it? 'Pick-On-Ryan Day?" Ryan asked, rubbing his head.
"Hey, pick on someone your own size!" Eric yelled.
Team Rocket rolled over in laughter.
"I would've said 'brain equivalent,' but that would be like swatting a fly with a Buick," Eric said in his own defense.
"Shut up. Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth! That's right!"
Ryan sighed.
"If you're quite done, Bulbasaur, I choose you!"
Ryan's Bulbasaur appeared.
"Vine Whip 'em away!"
"Bulba!" The flower frog's vines were about to hit, when a net dropped on it.
"Saur!" as Bulbasaur tried to escape, the ropes let off a burning sensation.
"Bulbasaur! No! Pikachu, gnaw Bulbasaur out of that net!" Ryan's Pikachu came out.
"Chuuuu," it cried.
"Oh, I almost forgot, here!" Ryan threw Pikachu a Hyper Potion. It drank the concoction, and set to work on the net.
"Ya won't get away dat easy!" Meowth Mega Kicked the Pikachu, sending it flying into a concealed hole in the ground. James fished Ryan's Pikachu out in a net.
"Pidgeotto, get Pikachu and Bulbasaur!" Ryan's Pidgeotto appeared and was able to catch Pikachu in its talons..
"Ekans, Poison Sting!" Jesse called out her Ekans, which Poison Stinged not Pidgeotto, but Pikachu. In a reaction, Pikachu let out a Thundershock, but it turned out the net was made of metal, so the electricity shocked Pidgeotto, not Ekans. The two Pokemon were caught in a larger net.
"Hey!" Eric exclaimed, "Don't I get a say in this?"
"No! Where not after you we're after this kid," Team Rocket shouted back.
Eric in a furious rage punched James square in the face.
"Ouch!" James said, "That almost hurt."
James retaliated by punching Eric 10 times harder in the stomach.
"Now that's got to hurt!" Ryan wisecracked.
Eric slunk to the ground, spitting blood.
"Medic! Medic! Is there a doctor in the forest?" Eric joked knowing the end may be near.
"I'm a doctor," said a strange bearded man.
"Oh, Hi Dr. Kevorkian!" said everyone.
"Okay I'm pissed now!" yelled Ryan, "Seel, Caterpie, I choose you!"
The bug and seal were caught in another net.
"Crikey, what is WITH you and the nets?" Ryan asked.
Eric somehow got up and he was glowing. His eyes were glowing red and it looked as if he was possessed. Jessie in fear ordered Ekans to use Poison Sting on Eric. The Pokemon did so. The pins tipped with poison stopped a millimeter from Eric's face. He redirected them towards Ekans. Then Eric's hand started to glow. A large glowing ball covered his hand. Then Eric pointed his hand towards Team Rocket. The ball soon turned into a beam and hit a tree near them. It soon exploded, sending Jessie, James, Meowth, and their Pokemon to the next county. Unfortunately, the stooges let go of Ryan's Pokemon while being blasted.
"Team Rocket is blasting off!"
"Hey! That's my line!" Ryan yelled, "Oh well. Hey, Eric thanks for opening a can a Whoop Ass on them."
"A can of Whoop Ass?" Eric said, "You watch too many late night cartoons."
"Huh? Don't you remember anything?"
"Not really. Wait it's coming back to me… YES!"
"What, what?!"
"Medic! Medic!"
With that Ryan dragged his fallen friend to Pewter City, hoping to find a hospital.
But…all was not well.
"Aaaah! Snake!"
"No, Eric, that's a branch."
"Oh, Aaaah! Snake!"
"No, that's the same branch again."
"Oh, Aaaah! Snake!"
"Eric, THAT'S. THE. SAME. @#$%ING. BRANCH. AGAIN!"
"Oh, sorry. Aaaah! Snake!"
"I'm not even going to bother."
"Aaaah! Snake!"
"Are you going to do this all the way to Pewter City?"
Eric responded by yelling "Aaaah! Snake!"
Traveling the Same Path 103: Eric's Hidden Fear
It was a beautiful day out. The sun, the sky, the trees, and lastly, the bug Pokemon. For Ryan, it was a dream come true, for Eric, it was his worst nightmare. Eric hated bugs, mostly because he was psychic, and the Viridian Forest was crawling with bugs. But, Ryan mostly put Eric's cries for help at every Caterpie or Weedle he saw, and tried to enjoy the forest.
I hate bugs, I hate bugs, I hate bugs…Eric silently chanted.
"AAAGH, what's that!?" Eric cried.
"That's a shadow of a tree branch," Ryan calmly said.
"Oh, WHAT WAS THAT!!??"
"What was what?"
"I thought I saw something rustling in the bushes."
Then, a Pidgeotto jumped from the bushes.
"Eric, it's just a Pidgeotto," said Ryan.
"Okay, this should be a piece of cake," Eric, returning to his normal, fearless self, pushed Ryan aside.
Eric threw a Pokeball, out came Charmander.
"Charmander, Ember now!"
"Char, Char," a ball of fire grew from Charmander's tail, hit the Pidgeotto, spread over Pidgeotto's body, and burned it, causing it to faint, miraculously.
"Ding, Charmander learned Leer," the Pokedex said.
"Wow, level 15," Eric said, "You'll evolve into Charmeleon soon!"
"Char!" Charmander said as it was sucked back into the ball.
"Okay, what now…AAAH! Caterpie!"
True enough, a Caterpie was racing toward their general direction, chased by another Pidgeotto.
"All right! I always wanted one," he thought of something. "Caterpie, get in the Pokeball!" he said, pulling out a blue lined Pokeball.
The Caterpie obviously valued capture over being lunch, so he quickly got in the Pokeball, and the Pidgeotto flew by, blasting at high speed, noted that Ryan had four Pokemon, and left, trying to find another delicacy.
"Whew, I caught Caterpie!" Ryan yelled.
Meanwhile, Eric had scrambled up a tall tree. Unfortunately, the branch he was on was very fragile and it broke.
"DANG IT!!!" Eric yelled as he quickly grabbed another branch.
Unfortunately again, a rather large, rather hairy, rather slimy Weedle was living on that branch. It crawled up to Eric, slimed its way over his fingers, and plopped itself onto Eric's head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Eric yelled as he fell from the branch, to absorbed in getting the Weedle off his head than holding onto the branch.
CRASH! They landed in the foliage.
"Get offa me!" Eric threw a Pokeball at it to shoo it. Another unfortunately, Weedle was caught.
"Oh, great. I caught this ugly, slimy, hairy bug."
"Oh, yeah," Ryan said, "You get all the luck."
Eric responded by knocking him over the head.
Eric summoned Weedle. Weedle started to eat some of the grass.
"Well, go! You're free! Free as a bird!," as Eric said this Weedle ducked his tiny little head under his suction cup like feet in fear, terrified of an aerial attack from anything larger than a twig, "Well I didn't mean it like that! I'm releasing you! Now go on. Git!"
Unfortunately, the Weedle didn't want to leave and it nuzzled Eric's leg to show it.
"Gee Eric. He seems to like you a lot." Ryan said.
Ryan was once again clonked on the head with a blunt object.
"Will you stop doing that!" Ryan yelled.
"Let me see…" Eric concentrated hard, "I foresee that I shall once again do this in the distant future."
"Yeah right. Now tell me the one about the three bears."
Eric once again whacked Ryan on the head with the same blunt object.
Eric, trying to be nice, picked Weedle up and said, "How are you feeling about your new Master?"
Weedle string shot Eric's entire head.
"I see," Eric said in a muffled voice as Weedle jumped out of his hands to continue eating some grass.
Ryan removed the string from Eric's head with a spatula, as Eric recalled Weedle.
"Great, it's smart, so it's staying with me to torture me forevermore!"
"Quoth the Weedle, nevermore," Ryan commented.
"NO MORE EDGAR ALLAN POE REFERENCES!!!!"
"Okay…While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a…zapping?" Ryan saw a flash of light, "as if a… Pikachu!"
Ryan had flushed out a Pikachu.
"All right, a Pikachu, I'll capture it! Seel, I choose you!"
The Seel appeared.
"No!" Eric cried.
"What, it's a water type. Water's good against electric, right?"
Eric facefaulted.
"Seel, headbutt!"
Seel headbutted. Pikachu reacted with a growl.
"Headbutt again!"
This time, Pikachu countered with a Thundershock.
"One last headbutt!"
Pikachu's health dropped to nearly zero.
"Pokeball, go!"
In a matter of seconds, Pikachu was caught.
"All right! Two Pokemon in one day!"
"Bravo, bravo," two trainers from behind them said.
"Huh?" Ryan asked.
Two trainers, unbelievably dressed as Samurais, one wearing red armor, one wearing blue, came out.
"We challenge you," Red said.
"Fine," Eric said. "It's your funeral."
"I take the blue freak, you take the red freak," Ryan said.
"Hey!" the Samurais said.
"Well, I don't know who else in the year 1999 would dress as a samurai!"
"It's a distinctive look."
"Some fashion statement," Eric said.
Eric's battle went first. "Charmander, go!"
"Char!"
"Scyther, I choose you!" The Samurai cried.
"Scyther!"
"Charmander, Ember!"
"Scyther, Quick Attack!"
Before Charmander could throw the fireball at Scyther, Scyther ran up to it and hit Charmander with its sharp blade like arms. The hit made Charmander recoil about a foot away. Then, goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! Scyther was embered. Scyther was too strong though. He was barely damaged.
"Now use Slash," the Samurai ordered.
Scyther, with his blade like arms, cut Charmander really bad that it cried before it fainted.
"Yes!" the Samurai said, "One hit KO! I am the champion! I am the champion! No time for losers 'cause I am the champion!"
"Ugh! He reminds me of Craig," Ryan said out loud.
"Oh him," the other Samurai said, "You're referring to the traitor whose ass got whooped."
"By who?" Ryan asked.
"Me!" the red Samurai said.
"Good. At least you're useful for something." Ryan responded.
"I can't believe that you can be so cruel. I can't believe that you care more about winning than the health of another Pokemon." Eric inherited a strong sense of compassion from his mother.
"Hey! Winning is all that matters! Who cares about your weak and dumb Charmander!" the Samurai started to laugh.
Eric used a Revive to bring Charmander back, but it wasn't working.
"Why won't this thing work! Work dang you! Work! Huh? 'Do not use if plastic seal is broken.' Doh! Charmander! Stay away from the light! Don't you die on me! Don't you leave me!"
Suddenly, Charmander started to evolve! It got up, ready to battle. Unfortunately, it forgot that it was bleeding.
"Charmeleon! You're in no condition to fight! Take this," Eric handed a Super Potion to Charmeleon.
Charmeleon looked at the concoction strangely.
"You drink it!" everyone yelled.
"Char!" Charmeleon started to drink the Super Potion.
Charmeleon was back in action.
Scyther used Double Team.
Charmeleon used Ember.
Scyther used Swords Dance.
Charmeleon used Ember.
Scyther used Slash.
Both Pokemon were badly damaged, but none of them would let the other win. Suddenly, there was a flash storm. It started to come down hard. Charmeleon's tail was nearly doused, his power was depleting, and he was becoming weaker by the second.
"Charmeleon, return!"
Charmeleon jumped away from the red beam. He wanted to finish this battle. With his last once of strength he used Flamethrower on Scyther. Somehow Charmeleon used an attack beyond his level. Scyther fainted and so did Charmeleon. Eric then recalled Charmeleon into its Pokeball.
The next Pokemon was called out for both sides. Eric summoned Weedle as the red Samurai summoned Kakuna.
Kakuna used Harden when he was told.
"Weedle use Poison Sting," Eric commanded.
Weedle just loafed around.
"Ha!" both Samurais laughed, "Looks like you need to improve as a trainer. Even your own Pokemon thinks you're lousy."
"Weedle," Eric pleaded, "Please beat this Kakuna."
The Weedle turned it's head away from Eric.
"Please, Weedle. I'll let you eat all the grass you want if you would just beat Kakuna."
"Wee!" the hairy bug exclaimed.
It charged at the cocoon at such a high speed that the Pokemon was hurtled into the trainer's face. Kakuna was poisoned, but not beat. It used Harden once again. Unfortunately, it was at 1 life and it fainted from the poison.
"Yes," Eric exclaimed, "One hit KO! Now you know how it feels! Oh yeah, here."
Eric tossed two Revives to the red Samurai.
"Okay, Okay," Ryan said. "It's my turn now."
"Pinsir, go!" the blue Samurai yelled.
The stag beetle Pokemon groaned in anticipation.
"Oh, I get it, Pinsir is a blue Pokemon, and Scyther is its red equivalent. That's why you wear blue and he wears red. Since he had a Kakuna, a red Pokemon, I'm guessing you also have a Metapod," Ryan thoughtfully said.
"Oh, bravo, Mr. Big-Giant-Convoluted-Theory," Everyone else said. Even the Pinsir seemed to groan in unison.
Ryan debated which Pokemon to use. Pikachu's to weak from my capturing it, Ryan thought, sending Caterpie would be suicide, Bulbasaur's weak against the Pinsir's bug attacks, I'll leave Seel as backup, but my first line of defense should be my level 17, freakishly powerful, flying-type, strong-against-bug-types…
"Pidgey! I choose you!" Ryan called out his Pidgey, a pigeon/hawk with a determined look on its face.
"Brrrrrrrrrr-dgey!" It called.
"Pidgey, Gust!"
"Pinsir, ViceGrip!"
A long, hard battle erupted between the giant beetle, and Ryan's Pidgey, who bore a rage similar to that of Eric's Charmeleon, but, during the fight, Pidgey fell to the ground, its HP at a low.
"Pidgey!" Ryan yelled as he dove to protect the bird.
"Dgey!" It cried, trying to get back in the fight.
"Pidgey, you're to weak to take on that Pinsir alone. Come on, I'll use Seel for this one, you'll be fine.
"Brrr! Dgey!" It said, obviously translated as "No! Way!"
"Come on, you'd have to at least be a Pidgeotto to-"
As soon as Ryan said "Pidgeotto," Pidgey turned to the Pinsir and started to glow. It grew to twice his size. Its crest grew larger. It grew an extra claw on each talon. The glowing stopped.
Pidgey evolved into Pidgeotto.
"Pidgey!" Ryan cried, "you evolved!"
At that, Pidgeotto proceeded to Quick Attack the Pinsir until it was clinically dead.
"Pinsir, return," the Samurai cried. When the dead bug did not recall, he freaked. "AAAH! #@&%! You killed my Pinsir!"
"My Pidgeotto didn't do that under my commands," Ryan said. "He was just angry. The adrenaline just forced him to kill it. Same reason Eric's Charmeleon used Flamethrower. The adrenaline tweaked his brain into using an attack it didn't know. My Pidgeotto just evolved, so-"
"I don't need your scientific mumbo-jumbo, I just want my fine money for the life of my Pinsir!"
"Oh, yes, there's a fine for that sort of thing. Okay, according to my Pokedex here, I owe you…hmmm…got change for a dime?"
"*Sigh!* Yes," the Samurai said, unearthing a nickel and muttering something about upping the fine on killing of Pokemon in a battle. "Metapod, go," He said, dramatically less enthusiastic manner.
Pidgeotto just Quick Attacked the Metapod, KOing it in one fell swoop.
The depressed Samurais drudged their way into the forest.
"That was easy," Ryan said, recalling Pidgeotto.
Suddenly, an annoyingly loud and strangely familiar feminine cackle rang through the forest.
"Hah, hah, hah! This kid's definitely worth our trouble," the voice said.
"He'll make an excellent addition to Team Rocket," a masculine voice said.
"And the Boss'll really be pleased with us!" a strange voice with a New Jersey accent said.
"Oh great," Ryan said, "It's the Three Stooges."
A Meowth jumped from the bushes and proceeded to scratch Ryan's face.
"Never, never, never refer us ta dose guys, EVER!"
"Anyway, to protect the world from devastation!" the female yelled.
"To unite all peoples within our nation!" the male yelled.
"To denounce the evils of truth and love."
"To extend our reach to the stars above."
"Jessie!"
Jessie smacked Ryan upside the head for the Stooges comment.
"James!"
James mimicked his partner's actions.
"What is it? 'Pick-On-Ryan Day?" Ryan asked, rubbing his head.
"Hey, pick on someone your own size!" Eric yelled.
Team Rocket rolled over in laughter.
"I would've said 'brain equivalent,' but that would be like swatting a fly with a Buick," Eric said in his own defense.
"Shut up. Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now or prepare to fight!"
"Meowth! That's right!"
Ryan sighed.
"If you're quite done, Bulbasaur, I choose you!"
Ryan's Bulbasaur appeared.
"Vine Whip 'em away!"
"Bulba!" The flower frog's vines were about to hit, when a net dropped on it.
"Saur!" as Bulbasaur tried to escape, the ropes let off a burning sensation.
"Bulbasaur! No! Pikachu, gnaw Bulbasaur out of that net!" Ryan's Pikachu came out.
"Chuuuu," it cried.
"Oh, I almost forgot, here!" Ryan threw Pikachu a Hyper Potion. It drank the concoction, and set to work on the net.
"Ya won't get away dat easy!" Meowth Mega Kicked the Pikachu, sending it flying into a concealed hole in the ground. James fished Ryan's Pikachu out in a net.
"Pidgeotto, get Pikachu and Bulbasaur!" Ryan's Pidgeotto appeared and was able to catch Pikachu in its talons..
"Ekans, Poison Sting!" Jesse called out her Ekans, which Poison Stinged not Pidgeotto, but Pikachu. In a reaction, Pikachu let out a Thundershock, but it turned out the net was made of metal, so the electricity shocked Pidgeotto, not Ekans. The two Pokemon were caught in a larger net.
"Hey!" Eric exclaimed, "Don't I get a say in this?"
"No! Where not after you we're after this kid," Team Rocket shouted back.
Eric in a furious rage punched James square in the face.
"Ouch!" James said, "That almost hurt."
James retaliated by punching Eric 10 times harder in the stomach.
"Now that's got to hurt!" Ryan wisecracked.
Eric slunk to the ground, spitting blood.
"Medic! Medic! Is there a doctor in the forest?" Eric joked knowing the end may be near.
"I'm a doctor," said a strange bearded man.
"Oh, Hi Dr. Kevorkian!" said everyone.
"Okay I'm pissed now!" yelled Ryan, "Seel, Caterpie, I choose you!"
The bug and seal were caught in another net.
"Crikey, what is WITH you and the nets?" Ryan asked.
Eric somehow got up and he was glowing. His eyes were glowing red and it looked as if he was possessed. Jessie in fear ordered Ekans to use Poison Sting on Eric. The Pokemon did so. The pins tipped with poison stopped a millimeter from Eric's face. He redirected them towards Ekans. Then Eric's hand started to glow. A large glowing ball covered his hand. Then Eric pointed his hand towards Team Rocket. The ball soon turned into a beam and hit a tree near them. It soon exploded, sending Jessie, James, Meowth, and their Pokemon to the next county. Unfortunately, the stooges let go of Ryan's Pokemon while being blasted.
"Team Rocket is blasting off!"
"Hey! That's my line!" Ryan yelled, "Oh well. Hey, Eric thanks for opening a can a Whoop Ass on them."
"A can of Whoop Ass?" Eric said, "You watch too many late night cartoons."
"Huh? Don't you remember anything?"
"Not really. Wait it's coming back to me… YES!"
"What, what?!"
"Medic! Medic!"
With that Ryan dragged his fallen friend to Pewter City, hoping to find a hospital.
But…all was not well.
"Aaaah! Snake!"
"No, Eric, that's a branch."
"Oh, Aaaah! Snake!"
"No, that's the same branch again."
"Oh, Aaaah! Snake!"
"Eric, THAT'S. THE. SAME. @#$%ING. BRANCH. AGAIN!"
"Oh, sorry. Aaaah! Snake!"
"I'm not even going to bother."
"Aaaah! Snake!"
"Are you going to do this all the way to Pewter City?"
Eric responded by yelling "Aaaah! Snake!"