Ch 4 Battle

At the restaurant. The group sat with their food. 2-D and Crystal sat at one table talking. Noodle and Murdoc at another. Close to them was Rachel with her pokemon feeding them. Noodle pulled of bits of her sandwich and fed them to her Rattata The Houndour that adopted Murdoc sitting with its head on his lap, begging.

"What do you want?" Murdoc asked looking down at the pup. It whined and put one of its paws up by his snout whimpering more.

"What? What the fuck are you any way?" Murdoc growled.

"It's a Houndour. It seems to have adopted you. I caught one before." Rachel said releasing her Houndour out of its poke' ball to eat. "It's probably wanting food. Or for you to pet it." She stated.

"What do I look like its owner!?" Murdoc yelled.

"Well, yeah. To him you are a trainer and friend." Rachel said.

"Think of a dog, Murdoc!" Crystal called over.

Murdoc gave the pup a boy-like smile and laid his hand on its head and petted him. Houndour closed its eyes contently and wagged its short tail.

"What ones do you have?" Noodle asked Rachel.

"Well uhh…" Rachel pointed to her 6 while naming them. "Raichu, Houndour, Ponyta Ivysaur, and Persian."

2-D and Crystal watched them. "Don't you wish you had one of those?" 2-D asked in almost a sigh. "I dunno. But it sounds as if you do." Crystal said teasingly. 2-D didn't answer so Crystal turned her attention back to the others.

"Murdoc! Battle Me!!!!" Noodle burst out suddenly, to Murdoc while he handed a bite of food to his Houndour

"What!?" He said surprised almost falling from his seat.

"Battle me" She repeated, calmer this time.

"She means have your have your Houndour fight her Rattata…I think." Rachel said looking to Noodle, who nodded.

"No, Battle her." He said pointing to Rachel with a crooked finger.

Noodle grabbed and hugged his leg "Please." she begged looking up at him.

"No, I don't know how." he said making excuses.

"I'll show you!" Rachel yelled jumping from her chair.

"Then you fight her! I'll watch. And might latter." Murdoc said trying to get Noodle detached from his leg.
"That wouldn't be fare." Rachel said

"Why!?" Murdoc snapped.

"My pokemon are a lot stronger and have more experience." She explained.

Murdoc lowered his head, looked at Noodle then to the Houndour. He let out a deep sigh and groaned "Fine."

"Yeah!" Noodle exclaimed moving from holding Murdoc's leg to hugging him around the belly, knocking the wind out of him.

Rachel showed them the battle positions. And by this time 2-D was standing by Rachel watching. Crystal sat back at the table with her head down.

"Alright how do we do this?" Murdoc asked.

"Tell Houndour what attacks to use" Murdoc looked confused. "…you don't know any do you?" Rachel said. Murdoc looked at her blankly. "All right, Houndour still looks pretty low leveled," She started, "Low Level! What? He's fine how he is" Murdoc growled. Rachel stepped back a bit. "Murdoc is getting pretty attached to his mutt. Right Murdoc!" Crystal yelled with a chuckle getting to her feet and moved to stand by 2-D.

"Shut up, Wench!" He growled. Crystal rolled her eyes. "Um, What I meant by 'low-level' is that it hasn't been trained yet," Rachel said standing between Murdoc and Crystal to keep them from fighting. Murdoc grunted with a 'fine.' "All right Houndour's basic moves are Leer, Ember-" "Yeah I felt that this morning," Murdoc said with a frown. "Uh, any way leer, ember, and roar. What you do is tell your Pokemon what move to use, and it will attack your aponits," "What? You're not making any sense girly!" Murdoc sneered at Rachel. Rachel sighed and noticed Noodle was getting pretty antsy to battle. "Just tell your Houndour the attacks I named. You'll get it from there, I hope." Rachel said, "Are you saying I'm stupid?" Murdoc said. "Murdoc. Just battle, and face it, you're not the brightest crayon in the box." Crystal said head falling back. Murdoc glared at her "Alright...Let's get this over with." Murdoc said glancing at his Houndour, who was in battle stands facing Noodle and her Rattata.

"Korata, Tackle!" Noodle yelled. Rattata leapt to tackle Houndour who jumped into the air landing on Rattata biting it. Murdoc watched wondering what to do. "Uh Hound…dog! Fire it!" He yelled. The Houndour let go of the purple rodent and looked up at him opening its mouth shooting flames at Murdoc. "Ahh!" he exclaimed getting blasted. "Stupid mutt the RAT not ME!! Growl at it…roar!" Murdoc ordered. Houndour did so. Its attack didn't affect Rattata. "Korata, Quick attack!" Noodle yelled. Rattata started charging hound our. Houndour yelped and ran behind Murdoc. "What the hell?!" Murdoc yelled. Rattata rammed into Murdoc's upper chest and neck knocking him out.

"Murdoc-san?" Noodle asked. "Looks like Noodle won." Crystal said with a chuckle. Rachel was wide eyed. "Uh…" was all she could say.

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Fixed this up a bit for you guys. Hope you like it. ^_^.