How Freakachu Came to Be (Lilja a Trainer?!) Part 6
Authors note: The point of view for this story has been changed from the 'First Person' Narartive to the 'Third person' narrative. I hope this change is for the better, because, I needed the option to switch scenes, and stuff like that. So, enjoy!
The sun beat down on the slim figure, sunning herself on the beach. Suddenly, the beeping of a celular phone was heard. Flipping open the phone, the brunette lifted her eyes from the magazine in her hand.
"Hello?" She muttered, gazing up at the sky.
"Vera. What do you happen to be doing at this moment? I have an assignment for you" The voice on the other end replied.
"I ... uh.. well, working, yeah, I'm working."
"I see, well one of the other Rocket members has disappeared. So, your assignment is to find them, and rare pokémon while you're at it." The line went dead.
"Ugh, Giovanni is such a jerk." Vera sighed, as she shoved her phone back in her bag. Tugging her black Rocket uniform on over her swimsuit, she shouldered her bag and left the beach.
"Excuse me, uh.. what's going on here?" A woman asked.
"It's the strangest thing I've ever seen!" Said another.
Lilja walked through the streets of Cerulean City, with little rainbow heads popping in and out of her backpack.
"Freaka! Chu, Freak!"
"Oh.. aren't they adorable? Where did you get them?" Someone asked her.
A whole crowd of people had gathered out in the street to watch Lilja walk by with her Freakachu in her backpack. Since she didn't have enough Pokeballs, and no pokedex, she could not transfer them back to Cinnabar and they were making a spectacle of themselves.
"Can you tell me where the gym is?" She yelled above the noise.
"Back here kid!" A guy whispered from an alleyway.
Lilja thought about it. She'd heard about people luring kids into alleyways and them never being seen again. But she felt safe. The guy wasn't much older than she was, and he seemed nice enough. Her birthday had only been about a week before and she was now nine. But everyone thought her to be 10, she had to tell people that, or she'd get her trainers license taken away.
She followed the boy into the alley, Nyarthashi at her heels. Funny though, the people didn't see her slip away. Now that she thought about it, there really wasn't that many people, but it had seemed like alot when they were following her and making a commotion.
After stopping a couple times to stuff the freakachu back into her backpack because they kept hanging out, Lilja found herself standing in front of the Cerulean gym. Nyarthashi by now could speak english almost as well as she could, with the odd mispronounciation.
The boy saluted her, then walked away. Lilja raised her eyebrow, took Nyarthashi's hand and entered the gym.
"Why am I stuck with this stupid job? Why am I always stuck with the boring, stupid jobs? At least it's easy." Vera sat in a coffeshop and admired a pokeball. She had swiped it from some unsuspecting, dimwitted trainer, and now she had a Chansey to give to the boss. Better than most other Rockets had done. She was proud to be one of the best. Giovanni had no complaints for her, and for that she was glad.
The door of the small shop opened, and a young girl, who either had to be small for her age, or illegally training, came in with another small child and a very large backpack.
"A piece of cherry pie, please," the girl ordered, then turned to the younger one. "Do you want cherry, or some other kind?"
"Apple." The small child simply replied.
"And a piece of apple pie too, oh and two small glasses of milk." While the young (too young, it seemed to Vera) trainer was ordering, a small head peeked out of the backpack. Vera's eyes widened, and she leaned forward to see what it was. Another head stuck out beside it, and an arm reached up and pulled the other ones ear out of the way so it could see.
"What the..." Vera muttered under her breath. The door opened again, the dingling of the bell startling Vera but she didn't bother to look up to see who had entered. She wasn't really worried, dressed in a long floral print spring dress, no one could suspect her of being a Rocket.
The person who had entered, sat down at the table with her. She didn't notice, paying to much attention to the mysterious pokemon in the girls backpack. That is, she didn't notice him until he got in the way of her view. He then had to snap his fingers in her face to get her attention.
Finally looking up, Vera noticed who it was and smiled. The black haired guy who had just invited himself to join her was her partner Sergio.
He grinned at her.
"Find anything interesting?" He asked, poking her in the arm.
She held up a pokeball for him to see and smirked.
"Got something for the boss."
"What is it?" Sergio asked her.
"A chansey."
Sergio widened his eyes and plastered a dopey grin on his face. Reaching across the table with both hands, he swiped at it.
"Can I have it? Please?!"
Vera put the pokeball back in her purse, and slapped his hand.
"I said, it's for the boss. Did he call you, by any chance?"
"Yeah, he wanted me to help you find that other rocket that dissapeared. And he..." Here he trailed off, and stared at something behind Vera.
Vera looked around, thinking he was staring at her. 'Is there something on my face?' She wiped her mouth on a napkin, and set her coffee cup down.
"What are you staring at? Honestly, anyone would think you were 9 instead of 19." She scowled at him. If he kept staring at whatever had caught his attention, he'd start drooling soon.
She turned around to see what Sergio was looking at, and sucked in a deep breath. The two young girls, with the very large backpack was sitting at the table behind them enjoying their pie. The backpack was on the floor, and one of the creatures was trying to climb out.
"What is that?" Sergio whispered, picking lint off his red t-shirt.
"How would I know? I was trying to figure out what they were before you came in and blocked my view!" She hissed back. "It must be a new type of pokemon! Maybe we should swipe one for Giovanni. That'd make him pretty happy."
"Lil, I'm hungry!" Nyarthashi wailed.
Lilja sighed. They had just left the coffeshop, where Nyarthy had eaten her own piece of apple pie and half of Lilja's cherry pie. That girl never stopped eating.
"We'll be stopping soon, I promise." She usualy told her this to keep her quiet, knowing that the next town was quite far from where they were. She admired her Cascade badge. A girl about a year older than her had been watching the
"I'm tired! I want to sit down!"
They were somewheres beteween Cerulean and Mount Moon. Lilja had wanted to get to Mount Moon in case it rained, but it was already getting dark, and Nyarthy was tired. They'd have to spend the night under this big tree. She let the Freakachu, Taichu, and her other pokemon out to play while she set up the tent.
A rustling in the bushes startled Nyarthashi and her ears perked up. Lilja hadn't heard a thing, since her ears weren't as sensitive.
"It was just a pokemon, Nyarthy. There's nothing to worry about."
Glaring at Sergio for making noise, Vera threatened to break a stick over his head.
"Shush, ok? We won't be able to grab one of those things with you making a racket!" She whispered in his ear.
"Okay, okay, sheesh." He whispered as he reached around behind her and took the Chansey's pokeball off her belt.
'Mine!' He giggled in his mind. Sergio didn't seem like the kind of guy to have an attatchment to cute pink pokemon, being the six-foot tall guy he was, he seemed to be the type who liked the bigger, meaner ones, like Machamp.
Vera snapped her arm out and whipped it out of his hands, setting it back on her belt.
"Don't even think about it." She growled.
Sergio looked at his feet. Vera seemed to be waiting for the kids to fall asleep.
By the time they had, both of them were getting restless, even though you wouldn't know by looking at Vera. She sat very still like a cat ready to pounce. Sergio on the other hand, was uncomfortable, tired, irritated, and repeatedly kept sighing, yawning, and picking at his uniform.
"Aaachooo!" Vera then slapped his arm.
"Be quiet!"
One of the small colorful pokemon came over to the bushes to investigate the sound. It poked its head into the foliage where the two sat. It was dark, and they couldn't see what exactly it looked like, but Vera reached out and picked it up.
"Hi cutie." She smiled at it, petting it's little blue head.
A look which was a cross between panic and anger came across it's face, and savagely, it bit her arm, little pink wings flapping viciously.
"Ouch!" Vera cursed some vulgar obscenities, and shoved the thing at Sergio, but he wasn't watching.
Serigo was watching the clearing where the tent sat. The younger girl had heard te commotion, and had come out to investigate. But what Sergio saw, shocked him.
The girl wasn't wearing overalls and a hat anymore, in her nightclothes, a long curling tail and two meowth ears were revealed!
Vera had the colorful pikachu thing stuffed into a burlap sack. Being only young, it didn't know what attacks to use to defend itself. It needed someone to tell it what to do before it could.
"Freaka, freaka, chuuuu!" It's wails were muffled from the sack.
Serigo nudged Vera, who was nursing her arm, and pouting, to get her attention. He pointed toward the meowth girl.
"Look! We can take her too!" He had Vera by the shoulders and was shaking her.
"Isn't that kidnapping?" She mumbled, as her brains got scrambled and she became 'sea sick'.
Serigo shrugged.
"The boss would love to have her! Oh, wait, do you remember what happened about a year ago on Cinnabar?"
Finally out of his killer grasp, she recalled that a while back, the boss was upset over the disruption of an experiment he was heading on Cinnabar. Giovanni had heard that some lab in another town had exploded. They had been practicing and creating human/pokemon hybrids. Giovanni thought that it would make him alot of money if he sent a team of his own to try the same thing. He had gotten scientists on Cinnabar to start, and he had been rewarded a while later with a phone call telling him that a meowth/human child had been created. But then she had somehow disappeared, along with a pikachu that the lab had been feeding a special diet to make it able to use different stones. They were trying to make a different element type pikachu.
"That girl must have taken the meowth child Giovanni was talking about, and the special Pikachu too! I bet Giovanni wants them back!"