Ryan's Pokemon Adventure

Ryan's Pokémon Adventure
Ch. 5 Pain with a Vengeance
By BlastSage

"Ratatta, finish it off with with Hyper Fang." Ryan commanded. Ratatta charged at the Metapod and bit it hard, causing a few cracks to appear, depleting the last bit of energy that Metapod had saved.

"Awdrats." Said the bug catcher as he paid Ryan ¥50. "You have trained your pokemon very well." He said.

"Yeah, I know." Ryan beamed. He and Karen had been going through the forest raising their Pokémon's levels. Their pokémon had each gained a level, plus developed new skills and strategy.

It was about noon, so the two trainers decided to have a picnic lunch. Not far off, their pokemon were eating a special mix of pokémon food, and playing near the lake. The sky was a wonderful shade of light blue, with little wisps of clouds and the sun shining down on them. Just as they were getting used to the beautiful day, a sharp object came slamming down on the blanket they were sitting on. It nearly grazed Ryan's face.

Ryan and Karen screamed in horror. Their pokémon heard this and rushed to see what was going on. When they reached the picnic area, they observed a boy a little older than Ryan who was wearing a samurai costume. In his hand was a long, curved sword.

"Are any of you a pokémon trainer from Pallet?" they guy said, in a real strait forward voice.

"I am. Why?" Ryan demanded, an angry look on his face.

The samurai put his sword away. "I challenge you to a pokémon battle. Two on two."

"Then I accept." Ryan said. The two boys took their place in a large field. Both of them had serious looks on their faces, almost as if they were trying to drill into each other's minds to see what pokémon they would first choose. Nothing happened for a few moments. The only sound was that of the wind blowing through the grass. Finally, Ryan broke the silence. "Rattata, goo!" Rattata jumped into stance from the side.

"Then I choose Pinser. Squash that novice and his rat." A giant beetle zapped into existence, snapping the pincers on his head. "Use your Guillotine attack!" Pinser got ready for the attack.

"Oh crap," Ryan mumbled, "Rattata, dodge the attack and give it a Hyper Fang."

Just as the Pincer came within a few inches, Rattata jumped up into the air, did a half somersault, than landed on Pincer, sinking his fangs in deep. The bug tried to use its pincers to shake him off, but it was useless. The odds were looking good for Ryan. Then, they got much better. For no reason at all, Rattata did the strangest thing at that moment. First, it jumped off of Pincer. The second he hit the ground, he started to glow white, engulfed in energy.

"What's happening to my pokémon?" Ryan asked, mainly to himself. Then it hit him. "My pokémon is evolving!"

The flash of light only lasted a few seconds. Out of the now dimming light emerged an evolved pokémon, Raticate.

"Rat rati rati raticate." He said.

"Alright! Raticate, use your Quick Attack!" Raticate instantly obeyed and started to dash at the Pincer.

"Pincer, return quickly." He let the pokéball take charge as the beam raced toward his bug. It became a two-way race to get to Pincer. Even though the beam was traveling faster than the Raticate, the Raticate was much closer. A few seconds later, a pretty confused and dazed pokémon was recalled to their pokéball.

"Very good, beating my Pincer. But lets see how you do against my Butterfree." And with that remark, he released his Butterfree, which had just evolved the day before. "Butterfree, use your Stun Spore attack.

"Freeee, free fre freeeee!" screeched the flying insect, as it delivered a huge cloud of yellow dust. The Stun Spore moved swiftly toward Ryan's side.

"Raticate, return!" Raticate just moved to the side to watch the rest of the battle. "Go Charmander! Use your Ember attack, Quick!" Charmander waved his tail very rapidly as he flung rapid balls of fire at the dust cloud.

KAAABOOM!

The cloud and fireballs exploded on impact, sending Ryan and the Samurai back a couple of feet. Meanwhile, the two pokémon were really brawling it out in the field. Butterfree was delivering packed tackles, once in a while knocking Charmander down. Just as Butterfree was about to make the final move, Charmander released his Leer attack. Butterfree stopped in its tracks. While it was dazed, Charmander used his Scratch attack repeatedly, raking Butterfree to the point where it could handle it no more.

"Butterfree, return." Butterfree entered its ball. "You win." The samurai gave Ryan his money and walked away.

"Yess, I wi-." Ryan stopped in the middle of his sentence. His Charmander was at the base of his feet, lying there unconscious. "Charmander, return." After Charmander went into the pokéball, Ryan searched to see who had knocked out Charmander. When Ryan looked up, he saw a figure with green and purple hair, staring down at him. Aftran.

"Pretty good match kid," he complemented. He placed a hand on his shoulder. "But I believe you have something that belongs to me. I don't want to cause trouble, so just hand it over." He squeezed on Ryan's neck hard, then shoved him to the ground.

"Oooff!" Ryan fell to the ground with a thump.

"Raticate!" Raticate took his turn and tried to use Hyper Fang on his arm, but Aftran just swatted him away, and Raticate crashed in to a tree.

"Dumb rat" He muttered, rubbing his arm. He then turned around and noticed Karen glaring at him with angry eyes. He couldn't help but give a little laugh. "Well, if it isn't my dear friend, Karen." He cracked an evil smile.

"We Aren't FRIENDS!" Karen growled, with such force it caused Aftran to stagger backwards a bit. Karen went over to help Ryan up. "Stay away from us!" She turned back to Ryan. "Are you ok?"

"I think so," Ryan wearily said. He got up, then grabbed at his neck. "My neck. It really hurts"

Aftran looked at them, then reached for a pokéball. "Let me introduce you to a new friend of mine. Go pokéball!" The ball touched the ground, and out zapped a bell shaped plant with two leaves on each side. Ryan's Pokédex scanned it, made a hologram of the creature, and then provided information.

"Weepinbell: A Grass Pokémon: The Weepinbell spits out poison powder to immobilize the enemy, then finishes it with a spray of acid."

"Weepinbell, use Sleep Powder on those kids." The next minute, Karen and Ryan were hit by a blue dust, and fell instantly asleep.

"Weepinbell, Vine Whip those two." Weepinbell gave its response and extended its two leaf "arms" into a very long vine. The vines went up, then slammed down. But the vine whip did not reach Ryan or Karen. Instead, Raticate took the damage, as it was thrown into the ground, hurt. "Ughnot you again! Weepinbell, use Poison Powder, then Vine Whip his whiskers off!"

"Raticate" moaned Raticate. Weepinbell scrunched up, then fired a ball of green powder at Raticate, who was hit by the powder of poison. Energy was being zapped out of Raticate as it grew weaker from inside. It had been poisoned.

"Weep weep weep weep weepinbell!" Weepinbell's vines grew sharp as they flew downward at the pokémon weakening on the ground. Raticate prepared for impact. Suddenly, Weepinbell was blasted off into the air, and was damaged on impact with a tree. "Weeeeeeeeeeeeep." It fainted.

Raticate looked around to see what happened. He looked to his right. The last image he saw before he collapsed was Abra's eyes glowing above him. "Raticate". Then he fell to the ground.

"Now, the disk. Move it, Abra." He took a capsule of the same material that Caterpie use in String Shot, and shot a spray at Abra. The Abra was temporarily disabled, as it could not escape the String Shot cocoon now encased on it. Aftran moved to Karen's backpack and searched it. He found nothing useful except a couple of Potions. "I'll use it on Weepinbell later." He said to himself as he put the Potions in his duffel bag. He then searched Ryan's backpack. There he discovered the laptop, but only took the disk stolen from him by Karen. "The boss will be happy now." He muttered as he recalled Weepinbell, then took the path out of the forest.

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An hour later

Ryan and Karen woke up with a start.

"Owwmy neck." Those words triggered his memory, and he remembered what had happened earlier. "Where did Aftran go?"

"I don't know" said Karen. That's when she noticed Raticate lying there on the ground, Abra next to it in a cocoon. "Ryan, your pokémon!"

"Abra, Raticate." He went to both of them. Ryan tore the cocoon off of Abra.

"Thank you, Ryan," Abra paused, " but I'm afraid there is something I have to tell you"

"Not now." Ryan responded. He went over to Raticate, who wasn't breathing at all. "Whawhat happened?" Tears started to well up in his eyes when he saw Raticate wasn't breathing.

"Ryan I'm afraid Raticate couldn't make it the poison attack was to much for him. Especially while he was poisoned for an hour."

"Oh no." Karen said.

"No." Ryan said, quietly at first. "He had to make it." But he knew the truth in his heart.

Karen tried to put a hand on his shoulder, but he shook her off. "Ryan, I'm sorry."

"No!" Ryan started screaming. "Nooooo!"

It began to rain.