When Hiro bumped into Satoshi last chapter, you may have noticed something missing. Well, that something missing appears in this chapter, and I also poke a bit of fun at the weakness of the something missing, LOL!
chapter 9: ANNOYING ENCOUNTERS
Hiro and Ibui are seen walking through a forest, which the narration box states as being the Ubame no Mori. They walk peacefully for a bit until Ibui's face gets smashed into the ground unexpectedly?
"Huh!? What happened Ibui?" Hiro quickly notices as something unseen strikes his cheek. Hiro holds his cheek throbbing in pain a bit, Ibui gets back up dazed, and a Ledyba instantly appears in front of them. Hiro looks at it.
"What? How'd it just suddenly appear like that? That speed, it must be the bastard who hit us. Ibui, attack!" Hiro commands but Ibui's still a bit dizzy from the surprise attack earlier.
"Dammit! I'll use Mokoko then..." Hiro is about to reach for Mokoko's Monster Ball when the Ledyba suddenly disappears in an instant and Hiro gets a few more invisible strikes across his face before he falls backwards. The Ledyba stops in its place hovering in front of Hiro and Ibui, who's just now regaining its senses. Ledyba snickers for a second, then flies away.
Hiro gets up, runs forward and shouts "HEY!!!! Get back here! You bastard!" But it was all in vain because the Ledyba seemed to be long gone.
Hiro and Ibui are now seen at a river. Hiro takes out a cloth he was soaking in the water and puts it up to his face, and Ibui's beside him with another wet cloth sitting on top of its head. Hiro dabs his swollen cheek as he hears a voice from the distance, "We've been looking all over the forest for you, boy!" Hiro looks back and sees a woman with long red hair, a man with short blue hair, both wearing white uniforms with red Rs on them, and a Nyaasu that can stand on two legs.
"Who are you?" Hiro asks.
"Nanda kanda to kikare.... eh? You're not the boy," the woman sounded like she was reciting something before she noticed something about Hiro.
"Um... what boy?"
"Sorry. From the bushes, we only saw the figure of your Pokemon. With the long ears, we thought it was Pikachu," says the man.
"Pikachu? Do you mean Satoshi?" The man nods in reply, and then Hiro looks down at their shirts. "A red R emblem, that means you're with Rocket Dan! You're trying to steal his Pikachu, aren't you?!" Hiro both exclaims and questions.
"Exactly, nya!" says the Nyaasu.
Hiro looks down at the Nyaasu in surprise, "Another talking one?"
"Ah, I see you must've met one of my pupils, nya. You can tell me all about it after we recite our motto, nya!" says the now intrigued Nyaasu.
"Motto?" Hiro asks.
"Yes, we always say it when we introduce ourselves," says the woman.
"What kind of villians are you?" Hiro has beady, half-close eyes, a sweatdrop, and his head lowering a bit.
"Nanda kanda to kikare tara!" recites the woman.
"Kotaeta ageru ga yo no nasake!" recites the man.
"Seika no hakai wo fusegu tame!"
"Seika no heiwa wo mamoru tame!"
"Ai to shinjitsu no aku wo tsuranuku!"
"Lovely charming na kataki yaku!"
"Musashi!" the woman states her name.
"Koujiro!" the man states his name.
"Ginga wo kakeru Rocket Dan no futari niwa!"
"White hole, shiroi ashita ga matteruze!"
The Nyaasu jumps down and shouts "Nyante nya!"
The Nyaasu then runs up to Hiro and asks, "So which one of my pupils did you meet, nya?"
"Nyaasu, you never told us you were a teacher," Koujiro says.
"I taught some Pokemon at the base some human language before I left with you guys to Tokiwa City, nya," Nyaasu says to her.
"The talking Pokemon I met before was a Kimori. Unlike you, he gave himself a name, Kiryuu," Hiro answers.
"Oh, I remember him, nya. He seemed very enthusiastic, wanted to learn alot about humans, nya. Hmm... so he gave himself a name, nya?" Nyaasu replies.
"But, I thought he hated humans."
"The intentions of living beings are very mysterious, nyaaa."
"Nyaasu, are you done conversing with the enemy yet?" Musashi's getting impatient.
"Enemy, nya? This isn't the boy with Pikachu, nya? Why should we bother, nya?" Nyaasu asks.
"Even though he doesn't have Pikachu, he has an Ibui, and that's a pretty rare Pokemon. He also has other Pokemon inside his Monster Balls that could very well be worth something," Musashi answers.
"nyaaaaa....." Nyaasu lets out a long, grieving sigh and runs over to them. Musashi and Koujiro then let out 2 Pokemon each. Musashi's Monster Balls contained an Arbok and a Beroringa. Koujiro's Monster Balls contained a Matadogasu and an Utsubotto, which almost immediately bites Koujiro's head, resulting in a big sweatdrop on Hiro's head. Koujiro eventually pulls it off and the Utsubotto gets in a battle stance next to Matadogasu.
"So it's going to be a 5-on-5 battle, eh?" remarks Hiro.
"4-on-4, nya!" Nyaasu corrects him, not wanting to participate.
"We don't play by rules, so numbers in this battle don't matter either way," Koujiro remarks.
Hiro's about to take out some of his Monster Balls, but just before he does that, Ibui simply dashes up to Beroringa without being issued an order yet, rams into it, and Beroringa is flown backwards, slamming into Arbok with its back and whipping out its tongue as it faints, and the tongue gets rid of Matadogasu and Utsubotto as well. All the fainted Pokemon fall on top of their respective owners, and Hiro now has multiple sweatdrops cluttering his head.
"I was expecting more. Fully evolved Pokemon, members of a mass evil organization, and persistant enough to always go after someone who got 16th place in the Kanto tournament. Despite all this, you are pathetically weak," Hiro states.
"gururu..... SHUT UP!!! What we lack in physical strength we make up for in technology!" Musashi shouts as she takes out a bazooka and Koujiro takes out a pair of extendable tweezers, which he tries grabbing Ibui with, but Ibui simply jumps over them, and both it and Hiro run backwards from the blast resulting from the bazooka shot hitting the ground. When the smoke clears, Hiro's revealed to have his Lapras out, which he immediately orders to use Reitou Beam, which freezes all of Rocket Dan except Nyaasu in one giant block of ice.
Hiro takes this opportunity to walk away. As he does so, he waves to Nyaasu and says "It's been nice chatting with you Nyaasu. Jaa ne!"
Nyaasu waves back and looks over to his companions in the block of ice. Koujiro, despite being frozen and in the middle of a very thick chunk of solid ice, manages to move his lips and say "I don't understand. With Pikachu, we at least manage to get past the tweezers part." Nyaasu simply sits on the ground and waits for the ice to thaw, humming "nya nya nya...." as he waits.
Hiro now walks along with Ibui saying "Gee, I pity Satoshi for having to put up with those weaklings. What a nuisance they are." He suddenly gets more invisible hits on his face again, and looks up at the Ledyba, hovering in front of him again.
"Speaking of nuisances. I'm not letting you get away this time. Ibui, Suna Kake!" Ibui starts kicking up sand. The sand is about to rise up to where Ledyba is, but Ledyba zips away at the last second. Ibui then gets knocked out by a ton of invisible punches.
"Dammit! Everyone, attack it together!" Hiro says as he lets out all of his other Pokemon. Kakureon does nothing but scribble on Lapras's neck, and unfortunately for it, Mokoko saw Ledyba fly by in front of its path, so it let out a Juuman Bolt that ended up hitting Kakureon and making it collapse from the shock. Booby, Mokoko, Lapras, and Tattsuu all try shooting their projectile attacks at Ledyba, but Lapras ends up freezing Mokoko, Mokoko electrocuted Tattsuu at the last second before freezing, Tattsuu shoots water at Booby at that last second, and Booby burnt Lapras.
"Kiiii.... DAMMIT!!!! HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO CATCH THIS ANNOYING BUG!!!!" Hiro flailed his arms out in an insane rage, and in some stroke of luck, one of his flailing arms snatched Ledyba by the foot. Hiro looks at his hand and the Ledyba trying to vainly beat its wings faster and faster to fly out. Hiro has beady eyes and a mouth gaping wide open as he's surprised by what just happened. Hiro pulls out the Speed Ball he got from Gantetsu, bops the front part of it against Ledyba's forehead, and Ledyba gets absorbed into the ball. Ledyba struggles a bit, and then the ball stops. After the ball stops wobbling, it disappears in a flash.
After the ball disappeared, Hiro starts to hear clapping. He looks around, and sees someone walking out from between trees clapping his hands. Hiro recognizes the person and shouts "Chris-kun!"
"Hello, Hiro-kun. Nice catch," says Chris.
"Thanks. Hey, do you know if that ball suddenly disappearing resulted from me having over 6 Pokemon?"
"Yes, it does. Don't worry about it, Monster Balls were built with a teleportation mechanism and a computer to tell if a registered trainer has 6 Pokemon with it. Your Ledyba was just sent back to Utsugi-hakase's lab."
"That's relieving to know. Maybe now, Hanekko could have a playmate. So, how has your quest been going?"
"Well, I lost miserably to Enju's gym leader, Matsuba, so I simply set out to train and fill up my party before I face another gym. I never realized all the training I've been doing would lead me this far down south, but I think while I'm here, I should take on Hiwada Town Gym, which I hear is much easier than our gym. So how has your journey been?"
"Utsugi-hakase decided to fly me down to his lab after that incident with the statues. I started my journey way over there. Hey, before we parted, I never really saw how powerful your Airmudo was. Do you want to battle?"
"I would, but...." Chris points to the fainted Ibui and all his other Pokemon who're both fainted and shocked, burnt, or frozen. The scene shifts ahead and we see Ibui, now fully rejuvenated as Hiro sprays a canister of some kind of liquid, likely a healing solution, onto it. Hiro then gets up and stands to the side as Ibui looks ready in a battle stance. Chris lets Airmudo out of its Monster Ball, and the two Pokemon rush towards eachother.
END OF CHAPTER
POKEMON NAME CHART
Musashi=Jessie
Koujiro=James
Tokiwa City=Viridian City
Beroringa=Lickitung
Matadogasu=Weezing
Utsubotto=Victreebel
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-In the Japanese version, Nyaasu finishes most of his sentences with 'nya'. Not only is 'nya' a part of his name (and we all know most Pokemon say their names), but it's also a Japanese sound FX for the calls a cat makes. Either way, though, it seems that Nyaasu couldn't let go a part of his wild side when he started speaking like a human. Kiryuu, on the other hand, speaks proper sentences, which is really something to note.
-'gururu' is Japanese sound FX for 'grrrr...' or other types of growling.
chapter 9: ANNOYING ENCOUNTERS
Hiro and Ibui are seen walking through a forest, which the narration box states as being the Ubame no Mori. They walk peacefully for a bit until Ibui's face gets smashed into the ground unexpectedly?
"Huh!? What happened Ibui?" Hiro quickly notices as something unseen strikes his cheek. Hiro holds his cheek throbbing in pain a bit, Ibui gets back up dazed, and a Ledyba instantly appears in front of them. Hiro looks at it.
"What? How'd it just suddenly appear like that? That speed, it must be the bastard who hit us. Ibui, attack!" Hiro commands but Ibui's still a bit dizzy from the surprise attack earlier.
"Dammit! I'll use Mokoko then..." Hiro is about to reach for Mokoko's Monster Ball when the Ledyba suddenly disappears in an instant and Hiro gets a few more invisible strikes across his face before he falls backwards. The Ledyba stops in its place hovering in front of Hiro and Ibui, who's just now regaining its senses. Ledyba snickers for a second, then flies away.
Hiro gets up, runs forward and shouts "HEY!!!! Get back here! You bastard!" But it was all in vain because the Ledyba seemed to be long gone.
Hiro and Ibui are now seen at a river. Hiro takes out a cloth he was soaking in the water and puts it up to his face, and Ibui's beside him with another wet cloth sitting on top of its head. Hiro dabs his swollen cheek as he hears a voice from the distance, "We've been looking all over the forest for you, boy!" Hiro looks back and sees a woman with long red hair, a man with short blue hair, both wearing white uniforms with red Rs on them, and a Nyaasu that can stand on two legs.
"Who are you?" Hiro asks.
"Nanda kanda to kikare.... eh? You're not the boy," the woman sounded like she was reciting something before she noticed something about Hiro.
"Um... what boy?"
"Sorry. From the bushes, we only saw the figure of your Pokemon. With the long ears, we thought it was Pikachu," says the man.
"Pikachu? Do you mean Satoshi?" The man nods in reply, and then Hiro looks down at their shirts. "A red R emblem, that means you're with Rocket Dan! You're trying to steal his Pikachu, aren't you?!" Hiro both exclaims and questions.
"Exactly, nya!" says the Nyaasu.
Hiro looks down at the Nyaasu in surprise, "Another talking one?"
"Ah, I see you must've met one of my pupils, nya. You can tell me all about it after we recite our motto, nya!" says the now intrigued Nyaasu.
"Motto?" Hiro asks.
"Yes, we always say it when we introduce ourselves," says the woman.
"What kind of villians are you?" Hiro has beady, half-close eyes, a sweatdrop, and his head lowering a bit.
"Nanda kanda to kikare tara!" recites the woman.
"Kotaeta ageru ga yo no nasake!" recites the man.
"Seika no hakai wo fusegu tame!"
"Seika no heiwa wo mamoru tame!"
"Ai to shinjitsu no aku wo tsuranuku!"
"Lovely charming na kataki yaku!"
"Musashi!" the woman states her name.
"Koujiro!" the man states his name.
"Ginga wo kakeru Rocket Dan no futari niwa!"
"White hole, shiroi ashita ga matteruze!"
The Nyaasu jumps down and shouts "Nyante nya!"
The Nyaasu then runs up to Hiro and asks, "So which one of my pupils did you meet, nya?"
"Nyaasu, you never told us you were a teacher," Koujiro says.
"I taught some Pokemon at the base some human language before I left with you guys to Tokiwa City, nya," Nyaasu says to her.
"The talking Pokemon I met before was a Kimori. Unlike you, he gave himself a name, Kiryuu," Hiro answers.
"Oh, I remember him, nya. He seemed very enthusiastic, wanted to learn alot about humans, nya. Hmm... so he gave himself a name, nya?" Nyaasu replies.
"But, I thought he hated humans."
"The intentions of living beings are very mysterious, nyaaa."
"Nyaasu, are you done conversing with the enemy yet?" Musashi's getting impatient.
"Enemy, nya? This isn't the boy with Pikachu, nya? Why should we bother, nya?" Nyaasu asks.
"Even though he doesn't have Pikachu, he has an Ibui, and that's a pretty rare Pokemon. He also has other Pokemon inside his Monster Balls that could very well be worth something," Musashi answers.
"nyaaaaa....." Nyaasu lets out a long, grieving sigh and runs over to them. Musashi and Koujiro then let out 2 Pokemon each. Musashi's Monster Balls contained an Arbok and a Beroringa. Koujiro's Monster Balls contained a Matadogasu and an Utsubotto, which almost immediately bites Koujiro's head, resulting in a big sweatdrop on Hiro's head. Koujiro eventually pulls it off and the Utsubotto gets in a battle stance next to Matadogasu.
"So it's going to be a 5-on-5 battle, eh?" remarks Hiro.
"4-on-4, nya!" Nyaasu corrects him, not wanting to participate.
"We don't play by rules, so numbers in this battle don't matter either way," Koujiro remarks.
Hiro's about to take out some of his Monster Balls, but just before he does that, Ibui simply dashes up to Beroringa without being issued an order yet, rams into it, and Beroringa is flown backwards, slamming into Arbok with its back and whipping out its tongue as it faints, and the tongue gets rid of Matadogasu and Utsubotto as well. All the fainted Pokemon fall on top of their respective owners, and Hiro now has multiple sweatdrops cluttering his head.
"I was expecting more. Fully evolved Pokemon, members of a mass evil organization, and persistant enough to always go after someone who got 16th place in the Kanto tournament. Despite all this, you are pathetically weak," Hiro states.
"gururu..... SHUT UP!!! What we lack in physical strength we make up for in technology!" Musashi shouts as she takes out a bazooka and Koujiro takes out a pair of extendable tweezers, which he tries grabbing Ibui with, but Ibui simply jumps over them, and both it and Hiro run backwards from the blast resulting from the bazooka shot hitting the ground. When the smoke clears, Hiro's revealed to have his Lapras out, which he immediately orders to use Reitou Beam, which freezes all of Rocket Dan except Nyaasu in one giant block of ice.
Hiro takes this opportunity to walk away. As he does so, he waves to Nyaasu and says "It's been nice chatting with you Nyaasu. Jaa ne!"
Nyaasu waves back and looks over to his companions in the block of ice. Koujiro, despite being frozen and in the middle of a very thick chunk of solid ice, manages to move his lips and say "I don't understand. With Pikachu, we at least manage to get past the tweezers part." Nyaasu simply sits on the ground and waits for the ice to thaw, humming "nya nya nya...." as he waits.
Hiro now walks along with Ibui saying "Gee, I pity Satoshi for having to put up with those weaklings. What a nuisance they are." He suddenly gets more invisible hits on his face again, and looks up at the Ledyba, hovering in front of him again.
"Speaking of nuisances. I'm not letting you get away this time. Ibui, Suna Kake!" Ibui starts kicking up sand. The sand is about to rise up to where Ledyba is, but Ledyba zips away at the last second. Ibui then gets knocked out by a ton of invisible punches.
"Dammit! Everyone, attack it together!" Hiro says as he lets out all of his other Pokemon. Kakureon does nothing but scribble on Lapras's neck, and unfortunately for it, Mokoko saw Ledyba fly by in front of its path, so it let out a Juuman Bolt that ended up hitting Kakureon and making it collapse from the shock. Booby, Mokoko, Lapras, and Tattsuu all try shooting their projectile attacks at Ledyba, but Lapras ends up freezing Mokoko, Mokoko electrocuted Tattsuu at the last second before freezing, Tattsuu shoots water at Booby at that last second, and Booby burnt Lapras.
"Kiiii.... DAMMIT!!!! HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO CATCH THIS ANNOYING BUG!!!!" Hiro flailed his arms out in an insane rage, and in some stroke of luck, one of his flailing arms snatched Ledyba by the foot. Hiro looks at his hand and the Ledyba trying to vainly beat its wings faster and faster to fly out. Hiro has beady eyes and a mouth gaping wide open as he's surprised by what just happened. Hiro pulls out the Speed Ball he got from Gantetsu, bops the front part of it against Ledyba's forehead, and Ledyba gets absorbed into the ball. Ledyba struggles a bit, and then the ball stops. After the ball stops wobbling, it disappears in a flash.
After the ball disappeared, Hiro starts to hear clapping. He looks around, and sees someone walking out from between trees clapping his hands. Hiro recognizes the person and shouts "Chris-kun!"
"Hello, Hiro-kun. Nice catch," says Chris.
"Thanks. Hey, do you know if that ball suddenly disappearing resulted from me having over 6 Pokemon?"
"Yes, it does. Don't worry about it, Monster Balls were built with a teleportation mechanism and a computer to tell if a registered trainer has 6 Pokemon with it. Your Ledyba was just sent back to Utsugi-hakase's lab."
"That's relieving to know. Maybe now, Hanekko could have a playmate. So, how has your quest been going?"
"Well, I lost miserably to Enju's gym leader, Matsuba, so I simply set out to train and fill up my party before I face another gym. I never realized all the training I've been doing would lead me this far down south, but I think while I'm here, I should take on Hiwada Town Gym, which I hear is much easier than our gym. So how has your journey been?"
"Utsugi-hakase decided to fly me down to his lab after that incident with the statues. I started my journey way over there. Hey, before we parted, I never really saw how powerful your Airmudo was. Do you want to battle?"
"I would, but...." Chris points to the fainted Ibui and all his other Pokemon who're both fainted and shocked, burnt, or frozen. The scene shifts ahead and we see Ibui, now fully rejuvenated as Hiro sprays a canister of some kind of liquid, likely a healing solution, onto it. Hiro then gets up and stands to the side as Ibui looks ready in a battle stance. Chris lets Airmudo out of its Monster Ball, and the two Pokemon rush towards eachother.
END OF CHAPTER
POKEMON NAME CHART
Musashi=Jessie
Koujiro=James
Tokiwa City=Viridian City
Beroringa=Lickitung
Matadogasu=Weezing
Utsubotto=Victreebel
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-In the Japanese version, Nyaasu finishes most of his sentences with 'nya'. Not only is 'nya' a part of his name (and we all know most Pokemon say their names), but it's also a Japanese sound FX for the calls a cat makes. Either way, though, it seems that Nyaasu couldn't let go a part of his wild side when he started speaking like a human. Kiryuu, on the other hand, speaks proper sentences, which is really something to note.
-'gururu' is Japanese sound FX for 'grrrr...' or other types of growling.