Accident ~Evolution the First (Oh, a slight note. In other pasts I mentioned that Accident was still a squirtle...the ones after Callima. Technically, he should be a Wartortle. My mistake.)

Radic wandered through the depths of Mt. Moon. He had no idea where the exit was and he was lost. All he had with him were his three Pokémon...Nova, Accident, and Callima. Other then that he was alone.
He found his mind wandering to whether or not Red had gotten lost in the mountain. He probably didn't...he thought bitterly. He probably zipped right out of there without any trouble. But he, being Radic, had, of course, gotten lost in the stupid mountain. He wondered where and what Red was doing now. He was convinced that he must be laughing at him.
His three Pokémon were walking along next to him, keeping their trainer company. They all knew at some instinctual level that their trainer was getting more and more distraught and frustrated as they wandered through what seemed like endless tunnels and he needed their company as reassurance.
As it was, the constant attacks by other Pokémon was becoming annoying and Nova, Callima, and Accident were all in bad shape. Radic began to wonder what would happen if all his Pokémon fainted under the ground. Would he be attacked next? What would happen?
He wished he had some kind of healing item with him, but he had used all that he had. All he could do was hope that eventually he would reach the exit before any more damage was done to his Pokémon.
"Geo!"
As usual, Radic had tripped over yet another sleeping Geodude, which rose up angrily. Radic hoped that the Geodude would have attacked him anyway if he hadn't tripped over it and it wasn't directly his fault that it was attacking them. He wasn't sure who to send out at first, so he pointed at it.
"Attack it!" he hoped one of his Pokémon was listening. They all were.
Nova knew instinctually that trying to attack the Geodude with electricity would be absolutely useless, so instead lept on it's back. He tried to bite the hard stony skin, but could barely scratch it. "Pikaaa!"
Callima latched onto the bicep of the Geodude, hoping that her Leech Life would do some damage. She could feel the resistance of the energy going into her and knew she wasn't doing much. She kept pulling at the energy, trying to withdraw more of it, but it resisted her. "Parrras!"
Accident knew this was usually his kind of fight, but as it was, he was feeling dried out and weary. He had taken the most damage of them all, considering the many ground and rock type Pokémon lived beneath Mt. Moon, and felt exhausted. He tried to draw from the water he kept stored in his body, but found there was little left. Not sure of what else to do, he drew on his weak reserves and blew a thick stream of bubbles towards the Geodude. "SQUIRTLE!"
The Geodude was hurt badly by this, but managed to keep conciousness. Shaking itself, it threw Nova off to one side. He slid across the gravelly ground and hit a wall. Then reaching with it's arm, the Geodude plucked Callima off and slammed her into the ground, which she hit with a shrill cry.
"Nova! Callima!" Radic was concerned, but knew there was nothing he could do against a Geodude. He could only hope that Accident would be able to take care of it. He was his last chance.
Accident felt rage surging through him at the injuries his team-mates had sustained. He rushed forward and lept at the Geodude, dragging it to the ground. He had run out of water, he could no longer do any more of those attacks. But he was still strong, and he would show the Geodude that.
The Geodude was shocked and fell to the ground, it's momentary levitating powers gone. It grabbed Accident's arms and threw him towards a wall, near where Nova had fallen.
Accident tucked himself into his shell, hitting the wall sharply. It hurt, but it could have been worse. Accident lay on the ground, the breath knocked out of him for a moment. The Geodude seemed satisfied at this.
"Pikaaa..." Nova whimpered and tried to push himself upwards. The Geodude swooped over Nova easily and grabbed it's tail, pulling him upwards. Nova was too weak to resist. Holding him upwards, the Geodude drew back a fist as if about to punch the Pikachu.
"Squirtle!" Accident threw himself at the Geodude, knocking Nova free. This time, Accident tried to claw it's eyes, trying to find some kind of weak point. Radic managed to catch Nova before he hit the ground.
"Come on, Accident! You can do it!" Radic shouted encouragingly. Accident was strengthened by this support and refused to remove his paws from the Geodude's eyes. The Geodude was shrieking in pain, flailing it's arms about. Accident managed to gain some leverage and then threw the Geodude into a wall. It lay on the ground, stunned for a moment. Accident panted, trying to regain some strength. The Geodude abruptly reached forward and grabbed Accident, slamming him into the wall. Accident gave a short cry of pain, but this went unheeded. The Geodude looked furious. Accident could see the pain it was in...it was close to being knocked unconcious. But he was trapped. He had to hurt it somehow.
Accident slammed his head into the Geodude's face in a headbutt, and the Geodude let go. Finally, it sank to the ground, unconcious.
"Accident!" Radic was at his side instantly. Accident could feel blood running down his face from what was undoubtedly a deep gash on his forehead. He could hear Callima near Radic...no doubt he had picked her up when he had gotten the chance.
"Parrras parrrrass...." Callima sounded worried. Nova was near him as well, looking concerned.
"Pika? Pika pika?"
"Accident, are you okay? I'll return you, if you want. I can't believe you managed to do it, Accident. I'm so proud of you."
Accident was about to say something when a strange tingling feeling near his foot paws stopped him. The tingling was strange at first, then grew into the feeling of pins and needles jabbing him. He gasped in pain, closing his eyes.
"Accident? What's going on? What's happening?" Radic touched Accident's shoulder, and to Accident it felt like fire. Pain was shooting through his body, causing his vision to dim. He wasn't sure what was happening. What was going on?
He felt pressure near his head, then felt something rip through his skin. Accident was too weak to cry out, but it felt as if something had escaped him. He looked at his claws and found them getting longer, and felt fangs growing painfully from his mouth. His tail seemed to grow, the bones snapping and reassembling themselves.
"Accident...you...you...you evolved!" Radic looked concerned. Accident could feel a constant ache between his shoulderblades, but other then that the pain quickly faded. His whole body felt foreign to him. It felt stronger, but strange.
"War..." he managed to say weakly. Accident picked up the new Wartortle in his arms. Nova and Callima stayed by his side.
"We need to get you to a Pokécenter...but how do I get out of here?"
"Pika pika!" Nova pointed to a Clefairy that was hopping by. Radic noticed that the Clefairy seemed to be in a hurry to get somewhere...perhaps it knew the way out!
Nova attached himself to Radic's pantleg, Callima climbed on Radic's shoulder, and Accident slept fitfully as Radic followed the Clefairy.
Nova was right. It did led to a way out. But it wasn't where he had entered. It was somewhere different. Regardless, Radic rushed to the Pokécenter, hoping that Accident would be okay.

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After Accident had healed, he ate voraciously. Radic watched him with concern. He had a small scar on his forehead that Nurse Joy said would eventually fade, and the other injuries he had sustained had dissapeared, except that Accident always was rolling his shoulders, as if there was some kind of pain or thing on his back he could not get rid of. When he asked Accident about it, he just said there was a kind of pain there. When Radic asked whether or not Accident wanted Nurse Joy to heal it, Accident said that she couldn't. When he asked for a explanation, Accident just kept eating.
Nova and Callima were fine, as it turned out, except that Nova's pride was hurt slightly. But they were more concerned with Accident, who didn't understand why so much attention was being payed to him.
"Accident..." Radic managed to interrupt Accident's eating. Accident looked at him. "Where did you learn to do a headbutt like that?"
"War? Wartortle?"
"The headbutt. Remember? You hit the Geodude and it fainted."
"War war..." Accident scratched his head. "Tortle tortwar..."
"You don't remember? That's odd..."
"Pika..." Nova tapped Accident. He held up his paw and extended two digits. "Pika pi pi?"
"War..." Accident studied it carefully, as if thinking hard. Then he smiled. "Tortle!"
Nova blinked, then sighed. "Pika pi pi?" it asked again. Accident seemed dissapointed this was the wrong answer. He tried again.
"Tortle war?"
Nova shook his head again. He beckoned to Radic to bring a piece of paper, which Radic did. Taking a small pencil, Nova wrote in jagged strokes.
"2 + 2 = ?"
He pushed the paper towards Accident. Accident picked it up and studied it for what seemed like quite a while.
"Come on, Accident. Two plus two. It's not that hard." Radic smiled. Accident looked at Radic, then at Nova. Then he also smiled.
"Tortle tortle!" He slapped the paper back on the table. Callima looked at Accident with pity on her eyes as Radic gaped.
"Sixteen? Accident, you know better then that..."
"Pika pi..." Nova looked at the paper, then at Accident, then at the paper again. "Pika..pika pi..." Nova looked at Accident again, who seemed confused. "Chu...chu pika pi..." Incredible sadness crossed Nova's face and a small tear formed in the corner of his eye, rolling past his red cheeks. Accident could not understand what was going on. Callima shook her head.
"Accident, say the right answer...you know this!"
Accident seemed to think hard, then shrugged.
"Tortle tortle WAR tortle tortle."
"Sixteen isn't the right answer, Accident..." Radic seemed hurt himself. "Excuse me for a second." He rushed from the table towards Nurse Joy. Accident was more confused then ever.
"Nurse Joy..." the woman turned towards Radic.
"Yes?"
"About Accident..."
"Oh, I was afraid this would happen. Is he..."
"He's acting strange! It's like he can't remember things, and he can't do math anymore...what's wrong with him?"
"Radic...something happened to Accident. Did he fall on his head or something before you came here?" Nurse Joy had picked up a clipboard and was flipping through it distractedly. Radic blinked.
"He...in a battle against a Geodude, he headbutted it. He saved us all."
"Headbutting a Geodude...that would account for it." Nurse Joy sighed and handed the clipboard to Radic. If she expected him to be able to understand it, she was mistaken. She pointed to some complicated words that Radic couldn't understand.
"Account for what?!" Radic was near hysteria. "What's wrong with my Accident?!"
"Radic...I'm afraid that collision with the Geodude has given Accident...given...Radic, Accident has brain damage." She said as quickly as possible. "I'm sorry, but there was nothing we could do. I'm afraid he will always be like that."
"Brain...? What, you mean he's stupid now or something?" Radic furiously slapped the clipboard on the counter. He ignored the stares from other trainers. Nurse Joy looked sad.
"Radic, there's nothing you can do. Accident is now mentally retarded and there is no cure."
"Why..." Radic looked down, tears flooding into his eyes. "Why did this happen to him..."
"I don't know. It's hard for a trainer when something like this happens." Nurse Joy gently removed the clipboard from his hand. "He'll still be loyal to you...he still trusts you. He's just..."
Radic walked away from the counter, refusing to hear anymore. He walked back to his table, where this three Pokémon awaited him. Accident smiled brightly at him, but both Callima and Nova had more serious expressions. Radic sat down quickly, staring at the Wartortle. He felt guilt surge over him. It was his fault that this had happened to Accident...he had let Accident fight the Geodude...he hadn't packed enough supplies. He had ruined Accident's whole life...
He felt Accident on his lap, brushing away his tears. He stared down at this smiling Wartortle. He looked at Nova and Callima, who were also crying. Radic grabbed Accident and hugged him fiercely, letting his tears free.
"Oh Accident, I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry...this is all my fault...I ruined everything for you...please forgive me...I'm so sorry..."
Accident couldn't understand why Radic was acting like this, but let him hold him. He wondered why everyone was acting so strangely, then decided just to stop thinking about it.