Pokemon: Expedition
Part 14: Don't Eat the Berries!
The Expedition was already three weeks strong. The convoy was about
to enter the jungle area of the Outer Territories.
The jungle was thick and dense and various green plumage decorated the
enviorment. The sunlight broke through every sliver of space between the
leaves. In some parts of the jungle the sunlight and the shade of the leaves
made an errie green glow throughout the forest.
The HQ came to a slow crawl, Gary had it on auto pilot all day.
While the crew got ready to venture out Kal adressed them;
"The Jungle here is both beautiful and dangerous. Be wary, do not stray too
far from your companions. And by all means come back before dark. This not a
place to be at night alone".
Ryer nudged Dr. Oak. "How is it Kal know so much about this place?"
Gary retorted. "Kal spent five years here exploring this place. He knows it
pretty well, that's why I chose him to giude us. That and the fact he's saved
my life numerous times in the past."
Ryer looked at him "You too?"
The teams split into groups, already the
Expedition had caught and recorded over 15 new species of pokemon.
They all got ready to leave as Kal nudged Kia. "We'll train after we get
back, I want you to stretch out and use the Force when you are out
remember the exersices I taught you!"
Kia nodded. Kal watched the others leave. It was his turn to stay at camp in
case anything happened. Kal took a seat at the outside table and prepared a
hot kettle for tea, all the while reading his favriote romace novel, Crystal
Roses by Tenel Ka Solo.
"Man this place is stuffy!" Briss complained,
Already the 13 year old's shirt was soaked with sweat.
"Rainforest are naturally humid, you should be here in a month when summer
kicks in!" Graydon commented.
"Oh God! I'm so hungry!!" Ruka lamented as the three
trudged up the trail in search of the new pokemon that Ruka's pokedex had
detected an hour or so ago. She pulled out her pokedex she so affectiontly
referred to as 'Rodney'. "Rodney are you sure it's nearby?"
Her pokedex spoke. "Man, I tell ya! I get no respect no respect! I told ya
it's just up ahead!"
"That was an hour ago you poor excuse for a caculator!!" Ruka shouted.
Rodney bleeped. "Well I mean it this time!"
Then Briss's pokedex spoke. "Rodney you have the mindspan of a toaster!" It
spoke in a british accent. "Kiddos, I'm picking up a transmission from Gary
back at HQ you'd better switch on your communicators!"
"Right!" Briss said, They all spoke "Transmitters on!"
The headset transmitter then morphed into a heatset with an earpice
and a mike.
"Alpha team here! "Ruka said. "What's up HQ?"
"All the other teams are back, you're the only ones left, whatever it is your
looking for it's probably gone!" Gary said.
Graydon scanned his pokedex "Gary I really think were close!"
Gary sighed "Ok 20 more minuets after that come back to base!"
Briss took a swag of water and ran the cold fluid over her shirt.
"Ok you heard the man let's move out!"
Ruka's stomach growled even louder. She looked at her watch. 10 am.
"Three more hours till lunch! I'm starving!" She groaned.
"Hey Briss, Gray you got any food ration packs left?"
"Nope......"
"Nada!"
"You guy's are mean!" Ruka complained. "Eating all your food rations and not
saving any for me!"
"Well Haruka maybe you should have eaten breakfast!" Graydon scolded
"BUT I WASN'T HUNGRY BACK THEN!" She whined louder.
Ruka trudged along whining when something caught her eye. She looked and saw
the most delicous looking berries sprouting from a vine. She plucked a vine
that was filled with the juicy red berries
"These look delicous!" Ruka said licking her lips.
Sweatdropping Graydon glared at her. "Ruka I don't think it's a good idea to
eat those!"
"Why not? They look ok.." Ruka said hungrily.
"I gotta agree with the brainiac." Briss said "They might be poisonous!"
"It's ok. I'm not worried if they are bad I've got..." She pulled something
out of her backpack. "I've got my super duper deluxe laxative Milk of
Koffesia!" She held the bottle high as Briss and Graydon collapsed.
Ruka took a berrie and squished it, she sniffed it and and then tasted it a
bit.
"Mmmmmmmm they smell like rasperries but taste like grapes!!"
She took a handful and popped them in her mouth.
"Want some?" She munched. Both Graydon and Briss shook their heads.
"Fine! More for me!" Ruka said. She took a couple more vines and the
three continued their way.
The 20 minutes were almost up when Graydon's Pokedex spoke up.
"Hey Hey Hey! Guys, pokemon dead ahead!!"
Graydon and Briss spyed on the blueish looking pokemon that resembled a
salamander.
It sat by the water bank licking it's tail . Graydon immediately laid out a
plan.
"Looks like a water Pokemon! I'll use my Raichu, Briss how bout you
use your Bulbasaur. And Ruka we need your Charazard!"
"Ruka?...........Ruka?" He asked looking for her.
Ruka was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is she??" Briss asked while walking backwards. She tripped and
fell back in the high plummage "What the?!?!" She yelled.
She looked and saw she had tripped over Ruka. The blue haired rocket girl was
lying face down in the ground and wheezeing heavily.
"R-Ruka! Graydon! I found her! Get over here!!!" She yelled.
Briss knelt by her and turned her over "Graydon! She's burning up!"
Ruka was beginning to foam at the mouth a bit .
"It's the berries! I gotta make her throw em up!"
Graydon slapped her hand away. "No Briss! Don't shove your fingers in her
mouth! You might trigger a gag reflex and she could bite your fingers clean
off!"
He called HQ. "Alpha Team to HQ! Come in!" He called.
Gary answered "Graydon what's wrong Ruka's heart monitor has skyrocketed!"
"She ate some kind of berries and she collapesed, she's burning up and
foaming at the mouth!"
"Come back to base and bring those berries!" Gary ordered. "Bravo team will
meet you halfway!"
Briss slung the incoherant Ruka over her back "Maaaannnnn she weighs a ton!"
She grunted.
They met Jett, Ryer and Kia just outside camp.
"Ruka!!! "Ryer screamed, as he took her from Briss's back into his arms.
"Aw'no! Don't die! Mom and Dad will kill me!" He shouted, half crying.
They raced toward the campsite where they were met by the others.
"Get her inside now!" Joy yelled "And bring the berries!"
She took charged of the situation.
"Kal, Dr.Oak and Dr.Trudie inside. Everyone else stay out here!" She barked
as Kal carried Ruka into the HQ infirmary and placed her on the examining
table.
He probed her mind using the force. It was a mess of confusion, fear and
utter despair. "Shhhhhh.......we will help you." He said quietly as he sent
thoughts of reassurance and peace to Ruka's mind.
Her eyes were rolled back and she was making a nasty gurgling noise.
Nina was helping Dr. Joy that day and had prepared everything in the room,
but nothing prepared her for her friend's limp body.
"Ruka-chan......."She whispered.
Dr.Joy went to work.
"Dr.Trudie ready me a stomach pump and an ice bath and 40ml of Therapazine!
Dr. Oak and Kal examine those berries and tell me what you find. Find out if
their deadly! Nina I need you to help me undress her!"
Nina paused.
"NINA! wake up!" Joy snapped. As everyone scrambled Nina helped
Dr. Joy remove Ruka's clothes. Within seconds they striped her down and
laid a thin cloth over her.
"Get a tempurature for me while I check her nural senses!" Joy snapped.
Nina leaned over Ruka's head as Joy checked her.
"Not that end Nina!" Joy said.
Nina gulped. She only learned that day and that was using the training
program on the computer . She held the electric thermometer in her trembling
hand. "Nina I need that Temp!" Joy said as she ran a stehascope over Ruka's
chest. "C'mon Ruka! Give me a sign!!"
Nina touched her thigh, it was hot and wet to the touch, even through the
cloth. She took a deep breath and took the temp. Within a second it' beeped.
"103.4 !" She yelled out.
"We gotta get that fever down. Help me put her in the tub." Joy ordered
Together with Nina and Trudie the carried her to the tub and put her in.
The stinging cold felt like a thousand knives stabbing over Ruka's body.
She opened her eyes and screamed and thrashed. Getting everyone wet as they
struggled to keep her in till her fever broke. "Ruka! Calm down! Calm down!!"
Joy yelled. "I know it's cold but we gotta get your fever down!"
Ruka began crying.
Everyone outside heard Ruka scream, especially Ryer:
"Ruka!!!!Haruka!!!!!" He shouted pounding on the door. "Onee-chan!!! Ruka!!!"
Kia restrained him.
"No! Ryer-kun! Let them do their work. Let Joy help her! Please!"
Ryer held on to her and cried Kia held him and rubbed his back.
"It will be ok, it will be ok. Shhh. It's alright." She soothed.
10 minutes in the ice bath was enough to bring Ruka's tempurature down to
98.6. It also caused her to throw up violently.
"Good! That'll get the berries out of your system." Joy said as she injected
her with more therapazine to help her vomit.
Kal emerged from the back with Gary.
"We finished our analasis on this berry. It's poisionous but not fatal. You
do, however, need to purge her system."
Joy nodded.
"All right get her out of the tub and onto the table."
She glared at Gary and Kal.
"Gentlemen do you mind." They both coughed and cleared their throat as they
skittered out. Ruka was placed on the table shivering
"W-w-w-ha-a-ares m-m-my c-c-c-c-lo-o-o-thes?" She shivered.
Joy smiled as thew threw a blanket over her.
"Hey you gave us a scare but you'll be ok now! Just don't eat anymore stuff
with out approval ok?"
Ruka nodded weakly.
"I'm going to have to put a tube down your throat and pump your stomach out!"
Ruka began crying "M-m-m-m-m-mo-o-m-m-m, d-d-d-d-da-a-a-ad-d-d-!
r-r-r-ry-y-y-e-e-r--r-!!!!" She shivered.
Joy signaled to Nina to go get Ryer.
"Nina?" Joy said. Nina looked at her. "Good job! Thank you for your help!"
Joy smiled. Nina smiled back and went outside.
"She's going to be ok." She announced to a sigh of relief.
"Ryer she wants you."
Ryer jumped up from Kia's arms and went in to see his sister.
He smiled through tears as he held her hand and stroked her hair.
Ruka only whimpered "I love you ry-chan."
Ryer smiled too. "Love you two lil sis!"
"O-o-only by f-f-five minutes!" she muttered
The next few hours were not fun for Ruka, she had her stomach pumped
out and it earned her a night in the infirmary, Ryer was allowed to bring in
a cot and sleep by her.
He tried to get her to eat. "C'mon eat!" He said as he held a spoonful of
jello. "Kal made it. You like everything Kal makes!"
"No." She said through a scratchy voice
"My throat's sore!"
"I know. That's why I'm not feeding you anything with corners!"
He later got her take some sips of juice and some jello, she made him
swear not to tell their parents she had been so stupid and they both went to
sleep in the same fashion they did when they were infants. Hand in hand.
Outside by the campfire everyone slept too.
Gary had hardly touched his meal, he was still racked with guilt over Ruka.
"It's my fault I should have warned them better!" He lamented.
"Gary accidents happen. It's not your fault." Kal said.
Nina jumped in to console him too...
"Hey, Ruka always was the dense one in her family. It's like my Popa says,
'She's dumber than her Dad.' She would have eaten the stupid berries no
matter what you said. Hunger clouds her judgement. Now quit whining so I can
get some sleep." Nina pulled her blankets over her head.
"The first rule of leadership everything's your fault." Gary said.
"Maybe so," Kal said. "But we need to make mistake so we can learn from them.
We are, afterall, only human. You've made mistakes Gary and you've learned
from them, you have come a long way from the Gary I first met, and I am proud
to call you my friend." Kal said.
Gary smiled "Thanks Kal."
He slid into his sleeping bag. "Night Kal! "
Kal leaned back against a log and stared at the sky.
"Good night Kessa, my love." He whispered, and drempt of his lost fiancee.
Part 14: Don't Eat the Berries!
The Expedition was already three weeks strong. The convoy was about
to enter the jungle area of the Outer Territories.
The jungle was thick and dense and various green plumage decorated the
enviorment. The sunlight broke through every sliver of space between the
leaves. In some parts of the jungle the sunlight and the shade of the leaves
made an errie green glow throughout the forest.
The HQ came to a slow crawl, Gary had it on auto pilot all day.
While the crew got ready to venture out Kal adressed them;
"The Jungle here is both beautiful and dangerous. Be wary, do not stray too
far from your companions. And by all means come back before dark. This not a
place to be at night alone".
Ryer nudged Dr. Oak. "How is it Kal know so much about this place?"
Gary retorted. "Kal spent five years here exploring this place. He knows it
pretty well, that's why I chose him to giude us. That and the fact he's saved
my life numerous times in the past."
Ryer looked at him "You too?"
The teams split into groups, already the
Expedition had caught and recorded over 15 new species of pokemon.
They all got ready to leave as Kal nudged Kia. "We'll train after we get
back, I want you to stretch out and use the Force when you are out
remember the exersices I taught you!"
Kia nodded. Kal watched the others leave. It was his turn to stay at camp in
case anything happened. Kal took a seat at the outside table and prepared a
hot kettle for tea, all the while reading his favriote romace novel, Crystal
Roses by Tenel Ka Solo.
"Man this place is stuffy!" Briss complained,
Already the 13 year old's shirt was soaked with sweat.
"Rainforest are naturally humid, you should be here in a month when summer
kicks in!" Graydon commented.
"Oh God! I'm so hungry!!" Ruka lamented as the three
trudged up the trail in search of the new pokemon that Ruka's pokedex had
detected an hour or so ago. She pulled out her pokedex she so affectiontly
referred to as 'Rodney'. "Rodney are you sure it's nearby?"
Her pokedex spoke. "Man, I tell ya! I get no respect no respect! I told ya
it's just up ahead!"
"That was an hour ago you poor excuse for a caculator!!" Ruka shouted.
Rodney bleeped. "Well I mean it this time!"
Then Briss's pokedex spoke. "Rodney you have the mindspan of a toaster!" It
spoke in a british accent. "Kiddos, I'm picking up a transmission from Gary
back at HQ you'd better switch on your communicators!"
"Right!" Briss said, They all spoke "Transmitters on!"
The headset transmitter then morphed into a heatset with an earpice
and a mike.
"Alpha team here! "Ruka said. "What's up HQ?"
"All the other teams are back, you're the only ones left, whatever it is your
looking for it's probably gone!" Gary said.
Graydon scanned his pokedex "Gary I really think were close!"
Gary sighed "Ok 20 more minuets after that come back to base!"
Briss took a swag of water and ran the cold fluid over her shirt.
"Ok you heard the man let's move out!"
Ruka's stomach growled even louder. She looked at her watch. 10 am.
"Three more hours till lunch! I'm starving!" She groaned.
"Hey Briss, Gray you got any food ration packs left?"
"Nope......"
"Nada!"
"You guy's are mean!" Ruka complained. "Eating all your food rations and not
saving any for me!"
"Well Haruka maybe you should have eaten breakfast!" Graydon scolded
"BUT I WASN'T HUNGRY BACK THEN!" She whined louder.
Ruka trudged along whining when something caught her eye. She looked and saw
the most delicous looking berries sprouting from a vine. She plucked a vine
that was filled with the juicy red berries
"These look delicous!" Ruka said licking her lips.
Sweatdropping Graydon glared at her. "Ruka I don't think it's a good idea to
eat those!"
"Why not? They look ok.." Ruka said hungrily.
"I gotta agree with the brainiac." Briss said "They might be poisonous!"
"It's ok. I'm not worried if they are bad I've got..." She pulled something
out of her backpack. "I've got my super duper deluxe laxative Milk of
Koffesia!" She held the bottle high as Briss and Graydon collapsed.
Ruka took a berrie and squished it, she sniffed it and and then tasted it a
bit.
"Mmmmmmmm they smell like rasperries but taste like grapes!!"
She took a handful and popped them in her mouth.
"Want some?" She munched. Both Graydon and Briss shook their heads.
"Fine! More for me!" Ruka said. She took a couple more vines and the
three continued their way.
The 20 minutes were almost up when Graydon's Pokedex spoke up.
"Hey Hey Hey! Guys, pokemon dead ahead!!"
Graydon and Briss spyed on the blueish looking pokemon that resembled a
salamander.
It sat by the water bank licking it's tail . Graydon immediately laid out a
plan.
"Looks like a water Pokemon! I'll use my Raichu, Briss how bout you
use your Bulbasaur. And Ruka we need your Charazard!"
"Ruka?...........Ruka?" He asked looking for her.
Ruka was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is she??" Briss asked while walking backwards. She tripped and
fell back in the high plummage "What the?!?!" She yelled.
She looked and saw she had tripped over Ruka. The blue haired rocket girl was
lying face down in the ground and wheezeing heavily.
"R-Ruka! Graydon! I found her! Get over here!!!" She yelled.
Briss knelt by her and turned her over "Graydon! She's burning up!"
Ruka was beginning to foam at the mouth a bit .
"It's the berries! I gotta make her throw em up!"
Graydon slapped her hand away. "No Briss! Don't shove your fingers in her
mouth! You might trigger a gag reflex and she could bite your fingers clean
off!"
He called HQ. "Alpha Team to HQ! Come in!" He called.
Gary answered "Graydon what's wrong Ruka's heart monitor has skyrocketed!"
"She ate some kind of berries and she collapesed, she's burning up and
foaming at the mouth!"
"Come back to base and bring those berries!" Gary ordered. "Bravo team will
meet you halfway!"
Briss slung the incoherant Ruka over her back "Maaaannnnn she weighs a ton!"
She grunted.
They met Jett, Ryer and Kia just outside camp.
"Ruka!!! "Ryer screamed, as he took her from Briss's back into his arms.
"Aw'no! Don't die! Mom and Dad will kill me!" He shouted, half crying.
They raced toward the campsite where they were met by the others.
"Get her inside now!" Joy yelled "And bring the berries!"
She took charged of the situation.
"Kal, Dr.Oak and Dr.Trudie inside. Everyone else stay out here!" She barked
as Kal carried Ruka into the HQ infirmary and placed her on the examining
table.
He probed her mind using the force. It was a mess of confusion, fear and
utter despair. "Shhhhhh.......we will help you." He said quietly as he sent
thoughts of reassurance and peace to Ruka's mind.
Her eyes were rolled back and she was making a nasty gurgling noise.
Nina was helping Dr. Joy that day and had prepared everything in the room,
but nothing prepared her for her friend's limp body.
"Ruka-chan......."She whispered.
Dr.Joy went to work.
"Dr.Trudie ready me a stomach pump and an ice bath and 40ml of Therapazine!
Dr. Oak and Kal examine those berries and tell me what you find. Find out if
their deadly! Nina I need you to help me undress her!"
Nina paused.
"NINA! wake up!" Joy snapped. As everyone scrambled Nina helped
Dr. Joy remove Ruka's clothes. Within seconds they striped her down and
laid a thin cloth over her.
"Get a tempurature for me while I check her nural senses!" Joy snapped.
Nina leaned over Ruka's head as Joy checked her.
"Not that end Nina!" Joy said.
Nina gulped. She only learned that day and that was using the training
program on the computer . She held the electric thermometer in her trembling
hand. "Nina I need that Temp!" Joy said as she ran a stehascope over Ruka's
chest. "C'mon Ruka! Give me a sign!!"
Nina touched her thigh, it was hot and wet to the touch, even through the
cloth. She took a deep breath and took the temp. Within a second it' beeped.
"103.4 !" She yelled out.
"We gotta get that fever down. Help me put her in the tub." Joy ordered
Together with Nina and Trudie the carried her to the tub and put her in.
The stinging cold felt like a thousand knives stabbing over Ruka's body.
She opened her eyes and screamed and thrashed. Getting everyone wet as they
struggled to keep her in till her fever broke. "Ruka! Calm down! Calm down!!"
Joy yelled. "I know it's cold but we gotta get your fever down!"
Ruka began crying.
Everyone outside heard Ruka scream, especially Ryer:
"Ruka!!!!Haruka!!!!!" He shouted pounding on the door. "Onee-chan!!! Ruka!!!"
Kia restrained him.
"No! Ryer-kun! Let them do their work. Let Joy help her! Please!"
Ryer held on to her and cried Kia held him and rubbed his back.
"It will be ok, it will be ok. Shhh. It's alright." She soothed.
10 minutes in the ice bath was enough to bring Ruka's tempurature down to
98.6. It also caused her to throw up violently.
"Good! That'll get the berries out of your system." Joy said as she injected
her with more therapazine to help her vomit.
Kal emerged from the back with Gary.
"We finished our analasis on this berry. It's poisionous but not fatal. You
do, however, need to purge her system."
Joy nodded.
"All right get her out of the tub and onto the table."
She glared at Gary and Kal.
"Gentlemen do you mind." They both coughed and cleared their throat as they
skittered out. Ruka was placed on the table shivering
"W-w-w-ha-a-ares m-m-my c-c-c-c-lo-o-o-thes?" She shivered.
Joy smiled as thew threw a blanket over her.
"Hey you gave us a scare but you'll be ok now! Just don't eat anymore stuff
with out approval ok?"
Ruka nodded weakly.
"I'm going to have to put a tube down your throat and pump your stomach out!"
Ruka began crying "M-m-m-m-m-mo-o-m-m-m, d-d-d-d-da-a-a-ad-d-d-!
r-r-r-ry-y-y-e-e-r--r-!!!!" She shivered.
Joy signaled to Nina to go get Ryer.
"Nina?" Joy said. Nina looked at her. "Good job! Thank you for your help!"
Joy smiled. Nina smiled back and went outside.
"She's going to be ok." She announced to a sigh of relief.
"Ryer she wants you."
Ryer jumped up from Kia's arms and went in to see his sister.
He smiled through tears as he held her hand and stroked her hair.
Ruka only whimpered "I love you ry-chan."
Ryer smiled too. "Love you two lil sis!"
"O-o-only by f-f-five minutes!" she muttered
The next few hours were not fun for Ruka, she had her stomach pumped
out and it earned her a night in the infirmary, Ryer was allowed to bring in
a cot and sleep by her.
He tried to get her to eat. "C'mon eat!" He said as he held a spoonful of
jello. "Kal made it. You like everything Kal makes!"
"No." She said through a scratchy voice
"My throat's sore!"
"I know. That's why I'm not feeding you anything with corners!"
He later got her take some sips of juice and some jello, she made him
swear not to tell their parents she had been so stupid and they both went to
sleep in the same fashion they did when they were infants. Hand in hand.
Outside by the campfire everyone slept too.
Gary had hardly touched his meal, he was still racked with guilt over Ruka.
"It's my fault I should have warned them better!" He lamented.
"Gary accidents happen. It's not your fault." Kal said.
Nina jumped in to console him too...
"Hey, Ruka always was the dense one in her family. It's like my Popa says,
'She's dumber than her Dad.' She would have eaten the stupid berries no
matter what you said. Hunger clouds her judgement. Now quit whining so I can
get some sleep." Nina pulled her blankets over her head.
"The first rule of leadership everything's your fault." Gary said.
"Maybe so," Kal said. "But we need to make mistake so we can learn from them.
We are, afterall, only human. You've made mistakes Gary and you've learned
from them, you have come a long way from the Gary I first met, and I am proud
to call you my friend." Kal said.
Gary smiled "Thanks Kal."
He slid into his sleeping bag. "Night Kal! "
Kal leaned back against a log and stared at the sky.
"Good night Kessa, my love." He whispered, and drempt of his lost fiancee.