Ryan's Pokemon Adventure

Ryan's Pokémon Adventure
Ch.3: Injured and Healed
By BlastSage

Ryan burst through the Pokémon Center's glass doors and slammed into the front desk. " Someone! Someone, please help this Charmander!" he yelled.

"Coming," said a soft, warm voice. A woman with two loops in her red hair and in a nurse's clothes appeared from a door to the right. " Hello. I am Nurse Joy of the Viridian City Pokémon Center. May I help you?"

" Nurse Joy, we found this Charmander being attacked on Route 1 by Fearows and Rattatas. It is badly injured. And its flame on its tail is almost out. Can you help it?"

"Yes, right away." Nurse Joy turned on a microphone. "Attention. We need a stretcher for a small fire pokémon. Report to the Intensive Care Unit stat!" Right away a team of Chansey came in the room with a fireproof stretcher and carried Charmander away.

"Excuse me Nurse Joy, but what happened to the outside of the Pokémon Center?" asked Karen.

"During an attack by Team Rocket, a boy's Pikachu managed to beat them, but unfortunately the Center was destroyed by the Pikachu's attack. It happened about a month ago. I think his name was Ash Ketchum. Oh my, what happened to your arm?" the nurse said.

"Oh. One of the Fearows that attacked Charmander attacked me when I was saving it." Ryan looked at his shoulder. The bleeding had gotten worse due to carrying Charmander for a couple of miles.

"Well, that was a very foolish thing to do. Go down that hallway to the Trainer Ward to get it treated." And with that, the nurse hurried into the Intensive Care Unit. A light when on above it.

As Ryan was walking down the hallway, Karen asked who Ash Ketchum was.

"Ash is a friend of mine from Pallet town, like me. Trainers were supposed to get their pokémon and Trainer's Licensee about a month ago. I was 9 at the time, but I was going to turn 10 the next month with 2 other kids, so we got to start late." As he explained, they heard screaming down the hall. They both decided to listen in on what was being said.

"Yes sirbut we need more timetomorrow is a little earlyNO, not yetkill themyes sirright away." Then they heard a beep and footsteps coming toward the door.

"Hide" Karen whispered, at the same time headed toward the ventilation system. They left a crack in the door and saw the door swing open as a huge guy with green and purple hair step out into the hallway and disappear around another corridor.

"Let's follow them", Ryan said. Karen pulled him back down.

"Later, but first you have to go and get your shoulder fixed. She pointed to the injury, which and gotten slightly bigger. With a nod the two kids went down the hallway to the Trainer Ward. It was practically empty except for a girl that looked like she was fourteen and a guy leaning over her. The girl looked like she was pretty mad.

"C'mon, Jessica," the guy said,"you know you want to go out with me. How about Friday night." Then he tried to kiss her.

"NO!" And with that Jessica smacked the guy." Leave me alone Richard! I don't go out with snobs like you."

"Fine than. I'll go out with another girl. Then you will be sorry you ever dumped me." And he left.

"The nerve of some people." Then she noticed the two trainers in the room staring at her. " Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Jessica. I am the nurse of the Trainer's Ward."

"Uhhi. I'm Ryan and this is Karen."

"Welcome Ryan and Karen." She said. She looked at Ryan's injury."Oh my, you need immediate medical attention." She examined the wound. You need surgery right away to heal that.

Gulp."Surgery? Isn't that a little intense?" Ryan shakily said.

"Don't worry. Surgery is not that bad. Besides, you'll be asleep when we do it. But you have to go right away." The nurse whistled as a team of Chanseys and a Kadabra came with a stretcher. Kadabra used his telekinetic abilities to lift Ryan onto the stretcher.

"AAHHHHH" he screamed. Kadabra used his psychic abilities to calm Ryan.Soon he was nearly asleep as he was headed toward the doors which lead to the surgery room. " See you in a few hours Karen." The doors closed behind them.

"OK," she said," now where did that green and purple haired guy go?" She left the Trainer Ward and headed down the same corridor the guy went. But all she could see in the darkness were shadows of old equipment that had the effects from years of being left alone, not used. Karen felt scared, but also felt an eerie sense of being followed. Just as she felt that no one was following her, a hand clamped down on her shoulder with a firm grip. Another hand covered her mouth with a handkerchief before she could scream. She breathed in deeply with the little air she squeezed in, but there was something strange about that air. Her stranger turned her around to face her, and the last thing she saw was the green and purple hair. Then she fell into the grip of unconsciousness.

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Meanwhile

Ryan awoke in a bed in the Trainer Ward next to a window. It was raining, and he could hear heavy thumps banging on the window. He rested for several more moments before Jessica came to see him.

"The operation was a success. You should be able to leave in about three days."

"That's great!" he replied.

"There is also someone who wants to say hi to you." She stepped to the side to reveal and orange-red glow. "Char, Charmander!"

"Charmander" Ryan said as the fire Pokémon climbed up to the bed.

"He nearly didn't make it TWICE. But our teams of doctors are one of the best. You got it here just in time."

"Charmander char char charman char charmander!" Ryan took out his Abra to translate.

"Charmander wishes to thank you for saving his life." Abra translated.

"Your welcome Charmander" he said with a smile. "Charmander, why were those Rattata and Fearows attacking you?"

The small pokémon replied "Char charman charman charmander. Charman man der charmander."

"He says that they were attacking him because he was not a pokémon that lived in Route 1. They attacked him because they thought he was of danger to them since they have never seen a Charmander." Abra said.

"Oh, well now he is safe." Ryan turned to Charmander."Charmander, would you like to be my pokémon?"

"Char!" Ryan felt that that was a yes and set a pokéball down on the ground. Charmander tapped the button on front and zapped into the pokéball with no struggle.

"All right, I got Charmander!" he exclaimed.

Jessica came over." Ryan, do you know where your friend is?"

"Karen? I haven't seen her since before the operation. Why?" he asked.

"Well," Jessica started,"you've been asleep for a day now and I haven't seen her in all that time."

"What?! She's MISSING?!" Ryan jumped out of bed. We have to go and find her.

"Get back into bed Ryan!" The nurse said in a very stern voice. We'll find her later. At that moment that Richard guy came in again. While the two started arguing about a date, Ryan thought about where Karen could have gone. In the middle of his thoughts he fell asleep.

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Karen had awakened in a small, damp room. All lined up against the walls were tons of computers and cables. The green and purple haired guy was sitting at one computer console, eating a sandwich and typing something up. Karen moved, and the guy detected it. He turned around to face her.

"Well hello there dear." The guy said. "I see that you have awakened from your sleep. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Aftran. I work forwell I shouldn't really tell you since we are a secret organization. And when something is secret, we don't need anybody nosing in our business!"

"Let me go you big bully!" Karen screamed. Aftran just laughed.

"I'm afraid I can't let you go now," Aftran said with deep hatred in his voice. "You have seen to much, and if you did manage to escape, our whole organization and our operations would be in jeopardy. So I give you two choices: you join us or you die. Simple as that."

"I choose this." Karen spit in Aftran's face. Aftran glared at her.

"Your gonna pay for that." Then Aftran left out the door, leaving Karen alone in the room.