Chapter Five: Trade Time for Joshua
The next morning in the Girl's Room...
"Come on, sleepyhead!" Said an impatient Gloria. "You can't sleep all day!"
"Okay! I'm up! Sheesh. For one who was hurt like that, you sure got your spunk back quick!" Julie said still sleepy.
"Can we go now?"
"Where's Charmander?"
"I don't know."
"Not again!" Julie darted off in search of her runaway Pokémon. She found it, right next to Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Squirtle in the waiting room. Squirtle was under a chair, Bulbasaur was on top of the chair, and Pikachu was on top of a table, Charmander under it.
"At least it didn't cause a fire again." Said Gloria.
"I don't want to remember that." Julie grumbled looking a bit embarrassed at the comment.
The girls made their way to where Joshua sat. His hat was pulled over his eyes; he was fast asleep.
"Wake up, Joshua! Time to go!" Julie said.
"…Not now mom…" He grumbled, waving his arm at Julie half-heartedly.
"Squirtle!" Squirtle had sprayed Joshua in the face with its Water Gun.
"What the?!" Joshua picked up the turtle Pokémon. "Oh, it's you ya' little rascal!" the Squirtle sprayed him again. "Okay, okay!"
The girls giggled amongst themselves.
"Let's…go…before…Sleepyhead…falls…asleep…again!" Julie said between fits of laughter.
Joshua rolled his eyes and followed the girls out of the door.
Somewhere…
"YOU IDIOTIC FOOL!" Janett screamed in her partner's face. "You forgot to set the bomb!"
"Who's the idiot? I did set the bomb you made!" Daniel snorted. "Besides who's the one who buried it too far?"
"Never mind who's fault it is, we still have the net, right?"
In the Viridian Forest…
"OW!" Joshua bumped into someone else. "Oh no!" A Pokéball fell off of his belt and it revealed a…
"Meta?" said the Metapod.
The trainer's eyes grew wide. She raced to Joshua and helped him up. "A Metapod!?!? I've looked all over this forest, but I only found Caterpies, Kakunas, and Weedles! I'll trade you my Farfetch'd for your Metapod!"
"Well…" Joshua said brushing himself off.
"Oh. You wish to see my Farfetch'd. Okay, you showed me your Metapod, so it's only fair!" the lass took a Pokéball out of her pocket. Out of it came an odd duck-like Pokémon holding a plant stalk.
"Farfetch'd?" it squawked, cocking its head at Joshua in query.
"Well, how about it?" the lass said excitedly. "My Farfetch'd's level is forty-five!"
"Oh? My Metapod is level thirty-six." Joshua blushed. "It refused to evolve I gotta' warn you."
"I don't care. Well?"
Joshua didn't say anything for a minute. He finally replied, "Okay, I guess I will. I have a Caterpie in storage that will evolve soon anyway…"
"Gee thanks, thanks a lot! Here's the ball! See ya'!" the lass raced off, giving Joshua the Pokéball she had her Farfetch'd in, grabbing the Metapod and its ball, recalling it as she skipped down the path.
"My, my! She certainly was excited over a Metapod!" said Gloria with a smile.
"Must have liked bug-types." Joshua replied.